- Start Using Mesh Now - Microsoft Live Mesh is a fantastic tool for sharing data and connecting to remote computers with an Internet connection being the only requirement. Mesh will allow you to easily manage and share up to 5gb of data as well as providing reliable remote desktop connection to … [Read more...]
Setting Up Your Own WordPress.org Site
As most of my readers know, Pelokee has always been an online development persona that I've used to separate professional and personal experimentation and education. This site has gone through countless permeations including being hosted on an IIS server on my floor running .Net Nuke, DreamWeaver, … [Read more...]
AVG Antivirus Free 8.5 Released
A new version of the popular AVG Free antivirus was recently released. Version 8.5 build 283 hit the market this month and is now available for download. I think the major improvements to AVG 8.5 are personal identity protection elements that are not part of the free version. So for us cheapskates, … [Read more...]
March Madness has started!
March Madness is underway! Watch Games Now! … [Read more...]
Heur.Pck.MEW (UPDATE)- Comodo Internet Security Updated Today
Comodo released an update today. Per their release notes, the areas addressed are as follows: Comodo Internet Security - Release Notes Version 3.8.65951.477 : 26th Feb, 2009 FIXED! Applications do not run when CIS is installed in Vista 64 FIXED! BSOD in Windows XP 64 when NWLink protocol is … [Read more...]
Free Antivirus Application Roundup
With so many free AntiVirus applications available today, it has become a difficult task to determine which one is "the best". Designating one over another as the best is further complicated because AV needs vary from user to user. For example, industry best practices state that you should never run … [Read more...]
Testing Your Firewall For Outbound Connections, and Why You Should Do It
As part of my ongoing paranoia that my PC's are compromised, I found a free simple little utility to help test the mettle of my current software firewall of choice (Comodo Internet Security). Steve Gibson (GRC.COM) is a well known and respected source of data and security information and he has … [Read more...]
REVIEW: AusLogics Disk Defrag
(click the picture above to download) Its not that I don't believe when Vista tells me the it is routinely defragmenting my hard disk drive, but I am a visual person and have grown up watching the defrag process occur before my eyes. I found a free utility, AusLogics Disk Defrag that gives you a … [Read more...]
GoToMyPC – Discounts on the monthly fee!
I absolutely love GoToMyPC. I have been searching for a RELIABLE method for connecting to remote systems and GoToMyPC is in my experience the best. I installed it on a laptop that I sent to France and once the guys over there turned it on and got it on the network, I used it for 30 days and never … [Read more...]
Free VMware Products
Virtualization technologies have been around for a very long time - the 1960's era seems to be the consensus as to early implementations. Within the past 10 years, x86 systems have been targeted for virtualization as that is probably the most widely used platform on this planet. Whether you are a … [Read more...]