NEW Utility From NirSoft – TurnedOnTimesView

I happened to notice a NEW utility from NirSoft has been developed, called TurnedOnTimesView. If you are not familiar with NirSoft you will discover that it is actually a person (Nir Sofer) who has developed a wide range of system utilities that have become very popular. To see all of the utilities that Nir Sofer has developed [ CLICK HERE ] .  If you are a Computer Tech or and IT Professional, I am sure you will find something at NirSoft that you will want to stash into your tech toolbox..

Getting back to TurnedOnTimvesView… It is a system utility that analyses the event log of Windows operating system, and detects the time ranges that your computer was turned on. As a result, with this utility you can determine the following:

Startup Time
Shutdown Time
Duration
Shutdown Reason
Shutdown Type
Shutdown Process
Shutdown Code

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Help Protect Your Kids On The Internet With DNS Angel

Keeping our kids from being exposed to the bad sites on the internet, such as pornography, is a real challenge. There are numerous software options that a parent can install to protect their kids, but knowing what I know about software, computers and parenting; the software option often falls through the cracks. Besides, most people today are app oriented and only want to install something that has a very quick (minimal) learning curve. This is why today apps are so popular on our smartphones and tablets.

To help you through this dilemma of protecting your kids on the internet and at the same time keeping it simple, I found a software option, called DNS Angel, that is an app in a sense. You simply download it and run it (no install – portable app).

When you open DNS Angel you will see buttons, as illustrated above, where you can select Norton Connect Safe 1, Norton Connect Safe 2, Open DNS Family and MetaCert DNS.

If you click on any of these buttons, it will change the DNS settings on your computer. Do not worry if concerned. You can click on the Default DNS button to return your computer to its’ default DNS settings. Each of these Domain Name Systems (DNS) are services that specialize in blocking  —  known adult websites (porn sites),  malicious sites, phishing sites, and malware sites.

I cannot really attest as to which one of these DNS services are better at protecting your kids (and your computer) from bad sites, but from what testing I did perform, I was quite impressed.

In the end, I found DNS Angel to be an easy install, one click software application, that changes the DNS settings on your computer to a DNS service that specializes in blocking bad content that will (at least) give you some peace of mind (and is better than nothing).

For matter of educating the visitor’s to the blog, DNS is this:

Domain Name System (or Service or Server), an Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses. Because domain names are alphabetic, they’re easier to remember. The Internet however, is really based on IP addresses. Every time you use a domain name, therefore, a DNS service must translate the name into the corresponding IP address. For example, the domain name http://www.example.com might translate to198.105.232.4. [Source: Webopedia]

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Hide Your Serial Numbers, Passwords, Phone Numbers and Everyday Notes In A Safe Place

A program that I use on a regular basis to protect and hide my personal text based notes is called Steganos LockNote.  In a sense it is like notepad with an encryption option.

Store your most valuable notes as a LockNote
Hide your serial numbers, passwords, phone numbers and everyday notes in a safe place. Your informations will be encrypted using a password and most modern AES 256bit encryption technology.

Secure, yet simple
Just double-click a LockNote and enter your password to access your text files as usual.

No installation required
Move LockNotes wherever you want, as often as you want. A LockNote document does not require much more hard drive space than an unencrypted document.

Encrypt existing text files in no time at all
Simply drag and drop existing text files on a LockNote window: they will be encrypted automatically.

Open and free
LockNote is open source and is based upon open source technologies, e.g. the certified CryptoPP program library for strong encryption.

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A Portable Math Tool That Includes Many Calculators And Converters

Today’s post is not a lengthy one, due it explains itself. What I am talking about is a small portable math tool, that includes many calculators and converters, called Calculatormatik .  Simply download, run and calculate away!

Calculate/Convert everything with Calculatormatik.  Nothing fancy, but does what it is suppose to…  Definitely a keeper!

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Angle Converter

Area Calculator

Area Converter

Arithmetic Progression Calculator

Astronomical Time Converter

Auto Loan Calculator

Basal Metabolic Rate Calculator

Base64 to String

Bass Fishing Boat Speed Calculator

Binary to Number

Birthday Calculator

Body Mass Index Calculator

Body Surface Area Calculator

Byte Converter

Calculator (Windows)

Character Number Calculator

Combination & Permutation Calculator

Compound Interest Calculator

Coordinate Draw

Creatinine Calculator

Date Calculator

Depreciation Calculator

Divisibility Calculator

Division Operation

DLL-OCX Registration

Earth Year on Other Planets

Electric Current Converter

Electrical Calculators

Electricity Consumption Calculator

Energy-Power Converter

Equation Solver

Factorial Calculator

Fibonacci Calculator

Financial Lease Calculator

Fraction Calculator

Fraction Equation Solver

Fuel Consumption Calculator

Geometric Progression Calculator

Greatest Common Factor Calculator

Growth Rate Calculator

Heat Index Calculator

Hex to ASCII

Hexadecimal to Decimal

Hijri to Gregorian

Hypotenuse Calculator

Least Common Multiple Calculator

LED Resistor Calculator

Length Converter

Map Scale Calculator

Maximum Heart Rate Calculator

MD5 Hash Calculator

Mortgage Calculator

Multiplication Table

Natural Gas Consumption Calculator

nth Root Calculator

Numbers Converter

Numbers to Roman

Numbers to String

Ohm’s Law Calculator

Painting Calculator

Pascal’s Triangle Calculator

Percentage % Calculator

Perimeter Calculator

Prefix Converter

Pressure Converter

Prime Factor Calculator

Prime, Non-Prime Numbers

Product of Numbers N to N

Profit Calculator

Proportion Calculator

Quadratic Equation Solver

Random Lottery Numbers Generator

Random Password Generator

Relative Atomic Mass Calculator

Resistor Color Code Calculator

Restaurant Bill Calculator

Reverse the String

RGB to Hexadecimal

Seconds to Minutes to Hours

SHA256 Hash Calculator

Simple Interest Calculator

Simplifying Fractions Calculator

Simultaneous Equation Solver

Sine,Cosine,Tangent,Arctangent,Cotangent

Speed Converter

Square Root, Cube Root Calculator

Stair Calculator

Stopwatch

Sum of Numbers N to N

Sum or Difference of Cubes

Temperature Converter

Voltage Converter

Volume Calculator

Volume Converter

Water Consumption Calculator

Weight Converter

Weight on Other Planets

Wind Chill Index Calculator

Zodiac Calculator

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Windows Repair (All In One) – A GREAT Utility For The Tech Toolbox

When it comes to computers we can find ourselves getting into all sorts of situations where it is very difficult to assess and fix the problem.  For example, a couple of friends of mine recently ran into a situation where the windows updates service was broken on a computer they were working on and they had to resort to researching the matter on the internet in order to get a fix. The fix in this situation was not a fix that everyday computer user would want to attempt, due to edits to the registry being required.

I applaud my friends for finding the fix and making the fix work. As a result of this specific situation I started to explore around for an easier solution; and, just by chance happened across a utility called Windows Repair (All In One) , that not only will fix the Windows Update service, but a whole host of Windows OS based problems.

What I want you to keep in mind with this utility is that this utility is geared toward someone that has knowledge of the Windows operating system; however, if your back is against the wall and you know you are in deep doo doo, then what the heck, give the Windows Repair (All In One) a try.

Tweaking.com – Windows Repair can do the following:

Reset Registry Permissions
Reset File Permissions
Register System Files
Repair WMI
Repair Windows Firewall
Repair Internet Explorer
Repair MDAC & MS Jet
Repair Hosts File
Remove Policies Set By Infections
Repair Icons
Repair Winsock & DNS Cache
Remove Temp Files
Repair Proxy Settings
Unhide Non System Files
Repair Windows Updates
Repair CD/DVD Missing/Not Working
and more…

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A Self Contained Web Browser For Your Flash Drive

When I am on the internet on a public computer, it worries me that I may leave traces (or a digital footprint) behind that could potentially compromise my privacy and the access to my online accounts. To remedy this problem I resort to running my own web browser from my flash drive in the form of a portable app. I have tried numerous variations of these portable browser types and have found that there is still a potential for data leakage on the host machine and have found that these browsers have a tendency to slow down after a period of time.

Recently I came across another portable browser variation that is based on the Firefox platform, called Pale Moon, that is currently on my plate for testing.

The portable version of  Pale Moon is supposed to be completely self contained where nothing is stored on the host computer (such as your bookmarks, passwords, downloads, etc). Pale Moon portable has been specifically designed to run on removable media (such as a flash drive) where high wear and slow read/write access is the nature of the beast. With Pale Moon portable there appears to be no active disk caching going on to keep this wear and tear to a minimum. This may slow actual web page loads, but I found it to be actually quite responsive.

The really good part about Pale Moon is that the Pale Moon project is really a custom-built and optimized Firefox-based browser for Windows. It has been optimized to make sure to get the most speed and efficiency out of your browser!  So, if you use Firefox, you will surely like Pale Moon.

This means that this browser, however extremely close to Firefox in the way it works, does not have all the functions that Firefox has. A few, carefully selected, features have been disabled that are not in high demand, and that do not interfere with the way web pages are displayed or function; all to maximize speed and efficiency of the browser. Please see the page with technical details to learn exactly what the browser supports, and what it doesn’t support. In short, if you need accessibility features or parental controls, then please visit the firefox homepage and get the official, non-optimized build.

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Glary Utilities Beta 3 – NEW Design, Faster Scanning Engine, Over 20 System Utility Tools

Today’s post is an announcement of sorts! I am an advocate (and user) of the popular Glary Utilites system optimization software.  As such, I recently received notice that version 3 of Glary Utilities is currently in beta and is available for download.

The beta is touting a new design with over 20 plus system utility tools to maintain your PC and according to their site, the scanning engine, designed to scan for issues, is over 800 percent faster.

• Provides a one-stop solution for PC performance optimization
• Boost PC speed and fixes frustrating errors, crashes and freezes
• Features one-click functionality and easy, automated options
• Protects your privacy and makes your computer faster and cleaner

I have tried and tested numerous system maintenance and optimization tools and I always come back to Glary Utilities to keep my computers tuned up. Glary Utilities is also available as a portable app.

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