Thursday, September 08, 2011

Three Great Freebies and Some Good Info

No time to chat today. It’s time for football. But here is some good reading and some great software for you after the game. - JRC

A decade later, public safety still lacks national network

Ten years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. is still without a nationwide network that would let first responders from different agencies and jurisdictions communicate with each other over emergency radios. In late August, the National Security Preparedness Group pointed to the lack of the national interoperable radio network recommended by the 9/11 Commission. And the commission itself recently issued a report card that expressed concern over communications capabilities.

GoDaddy still violates ICANN policy--and still sleazy

It’s no secret that GoDaddy is a domain registrar and web hosting provider that uses sleazy marketing. It’s also no secret that they have come under attack for business practices that have angered many of their customers–myself included.

Certificate cleanup for most personal computers

A little Dutch company potentially lets a flood of problems into our Windows machines. The company manages digital certificates; after its recent break-in by hackers, security certificates for Mozilla, Yahoo, WordPress, and other sites are now suspect.

Yahoo's post Bartz ledger: What the new CEO will inherit

The negatives are well known. Yahoo’s board of directors is a joke – who can forget the idiotic move to turn down Microsoft’s bid? — email is on the decline, and the company’s search deal with Microsoft hasn’t quite delivered. Meanwhile, Yahoo’s ad sales are hurting amid turnover and falling rates as marketers use networks to aggregate audience. Here’s a look at the good, the bad and the wild-cards that face a new leader at Yahoo.

Purging Your Computer of Gunk (Part 1)

When you decide to take the plunge and set about turning your computer into a mean clean machine you need go further than Windows 7 itself. Here you will find two useful tools, Disk Cleanup and Defragmenter. Both reside in System Tools, a sub-folder of Accessories. These tools go a long way to cleaning up the mess on your computer.

Clean up your Windows hard drive with WinDirStat

Unfortunately, it's much easier to fill up your hard drive than it is to clean it. With so many folders and directories, how do you pinpoint what's taking up space? WinDirStat, a freeware program for Windows, helps you do just that. The program scans your hard drives and shows you a detailed summary of what's taking up space on your disk in the form of a colorful graphic.

21 Chrome Web apps for serious work

The Chrome browser is rapidly gaining fans and developers are responding by creating apps that will help keep you productive in Google's browser. Add these 21 apps to a Chromebook, and you'll have great tools for working anywhere.

Free - SRS Audio Essentials

If you've never heard SRS's sound enhancements, you're missing out. They add bass, depth, spaciousness, and clarity to just about any piece of music or video. Bass-enriching TruBass and space-enhancing Focus and Definition (as WOW) are actually included with Windows Media Player, but if you use another player, you need SRS Audio Essentials, a free version of which is available that adds WOW and TruBass to any player and works with virtually any audio or video player.

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