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iStat Pro is an Awesome Free System Monitoring Widget

Freeware/donationware iStat pro offers detailed system information, such as Temps, Uptime, plus CPU/Memory/Network information, all within a customizable Dashboard widget [...]

TipsFor.us Giveaway – Win an iPod Touch 8 GB

Important: this contest is valid for USA residents only. Our apologies to our readers outside the US.

TipsFor.us is giving away a brand new iPod Touch! It’s beautiful.

This lovely gadget has 8 GB of storage – enough for roughly 1,750 songs, 10,000 photos, or 10 hours of video. It has a glorious 3.5-inch widescreen multi-touch display [...]

WinCDEmu Integrates Disk Image Mounting in Windows Explorer

We’ve written before about Virtual CloneDrive, software that can mount and run disk images as if they are physical disks. A similar free program is WinCDEmu.

WinCDEmu – Main site

WinCDEmu – SourceForge page

WinCDEmu is free and open-source, and makes mounting a disk image (*.ISO, *.CUE, *.BIN, *.RAW, and *.IMG) as easy as double-clicking.

In case you [...]

Disable the “Install Updates and Shut Down” Option in Windows

Have you ever been annoyed at the Install Updates and Shut Down message that displays after Windows Update runs in the background?

It’s easy to avoid this message entirely and force any pending updates to stay associated with the yellow shield in the system tray. This is one setting that I always configure for any machine [...]

Do You Know What a Browser Is?

Well, this video explains why we have to bleed out our anus to make CSS sites and HTML emails work with IE and AOL.

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Securing a Linux Server: SSH and Brute-Force Attacks

If you have a web server, then you are the target of many possible attacks. *ANY* port you have open on that server can be exploited, so you if you value your uptime and your data, you need to secure it. This article focuses on locking down your SSH configuration and user permissions.

If [...]

Create a Bootable Linux USB Flash Drive with UNetbootin

With the rise of the Netbook, optical media (CDs/DVDs) may be marching toward eventual obsolescence. Even if optical media doesn’t disappear anytime soon, certain tasks such as creating a Linux-based boot disc are faster and more convenient when using a USB flash disk rather than a CD.

Let’s work on creating a Linux-based bootable flash disk. [...]