I ran into a problem in one of our labs recently regarding our good friend QuickTime. Now, I'm no fan of QuickTime and curse the .mov format under my breath every time I have no alternative formats available. Pressed for time, I tried to solve this problem using QuickTime Alternative but my users specifically wanted to use QTVR, which QuickTime Alternative does not support, at … [Read more...]
VMWare Server: free Virtual Machine Infrastructure, step-by-step
Another Frewaregenius article is up under my name, this time I discuss VMWare Server in length. I've been looking for a replacement for Microsoft's Hyper-V that came with Windows Server 2008 after it consumed a lot of resources, slowed down startup and shutdown times, and caused performance glitches related to video and audio. VMWare Server seems to be the one I was looking for … [Read more...]
NTFSDOS – See NTFS drives in DOS
NTFSDOS is a utility by my favorite company, Sysinternals. This tool allows you to interact with NTFS formatted hard drives in DOS. There are actually two tools that I'm referring to: NTFSDOS and NTFSDOS Professional. NTFSDOS (3.0.2) allowed read-only access and was available for free. NTFSDOS Professional (4.0.3) allowed read/write access and required a license. After … [Read more...]
Marxio Timer – A Versatile Way of Scheduling
Marxio Timer is an interesting little tool that can offer more flexibility than the typical Windows scheduled task. You can use it to schedule actions like turning off the computer, logging out, restarting, suspending, displaying a message, playing a sound, starting or ending a program, taking a screenshot, and a few more. This actions can be triggered based on a set time, idle … [Read more...]
Get the Skinny on your Phat Hardware, Benchmarking
Benchmarking is a time-honored tradition among computer enthusiasts. It is supposed to allow a fair, unbiased means of comparing a piece of hardware or a system of hardware components to determine which one is the best in real-world applications. This can also be important if you're trying to improve your system and you want to compare one component to another and judge if an … [Read more...]