Whiteboard Collaboration Tool from GE

This is a fascinating little “freebie” tool from General Electric – virtual whiteboard tool for online collaborations. Simply to use. E-mail drawings, concepts, and ideas to friends. Check it out by clicking here.

Attention: Partition Magic Users!

For users that resize their hard drive partitions, mirror disk images (great backup tool!), etc. and who are tired of paying guys like Symantec $50 bucks everytime they decide to upgrade the current edition of the software. Users should try a free opensource solution called GParted – GNOME Partition Editor. All you have to do is download the ISO image for the software (30 Megs) from this site and burn it to a CD using your favourite CD making software. To use the software, just pop the disc into the drive and boot up your computer and follow the instructions on the screen.

~Geekboy.

How long will it take to crack your passwords?

Here is an interesting little article that documents how fast it would take computer or cluster of computers to recover your password based on how long your password is and the types of characters or numbers you decide to incorporate into your password. Click here for the article.

Courtesy: Lockdown – The Home Computer Security Centre

“Just a nice thing to do”

Toshiba Canada will now recycle notebooks (functioning or non-functioning), LCD monitors, and Pocket PCs through their Toshiba Environmental Recovery and Recycling Effort (TERRE). The service is free of charge and as an added bonus, Toshiba will mail out a complimentary 128 Megabyte USB thumb drive to all participants of the program. All you need to do click here and follow the step-by-step instructions to recycle your computer equipment. If only all the other electronic manufacturers would follow, the world would be a much better place! If you want more information about the program, you can click here or you can e-mail them by clicking here.

~Geekboy

Windows Vista: Not Available?

Consumers waiting to buy the next version of Windows will have to wait just a little while longer. Microsoft has announced that Windows Vista for consumers will be delayed until sometime in 2007. However, business customers/computer manufacturers should be getting their copies sometime in November 2006. This good be very bad news for many computer manufacturers looking to capitalize on this season's Christmas rush. Well, bad news for some, usually means good news to others, mainly, Microsoft competitor Apple Computers. Apple Computers has promised to ship their next version of OS X – Leopard, sometime in the first half of 2007. Microsoft vs. Apple: redux. This is definitely a must see, so let the good times roll!

Windows XP on MacTels? Finally…

As reported earlier here on this blog as well as news sources around the world, one could not install Windows XP on their new MacTel machines. Since then, a couple of ingenious "hackers" have successfully loaded and ran Windows XP on the new Intel based Macs. So, if you have one of these new Macs and a licensed copy of Windows XP, you can download the boot loader software from here and checkout this fantastic wiki that was written for the very purpose of booting Windows XP and OS X on a Mac.~Geekboy.

Can’t log onto certain websites?

For some reason or another, some users are not able to log onto websites that they want to, and when they need to. If you find yourself on a public computer (i.e. computer lab at Collingwood) or work, and you cannot log on to a particular website or downloading file attachments, you may want to give this site a try: Vtunnel.

~Geekboy.

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Available to the Public

For those of you who are curious and a bit adventurous, you can download a pre-release version of Internet Explorer 7 (next edition of IE) and take it for a test drive. You can do so by clicking here and following the instructions.

~Geekboy.

Wireless Networking for Newbies!

For those that are planning on building a wireless (WiFi) network in your home or small business for the very first time! I, recently, came across a simple little article to hep you decipher all the technology gibberish. If you are interested in reading the article, you can check it out by clicking here.

~Geekboy.

FYI: Top 10 Tips to keep that new computer spyware free

For those of you lucky enough to get a new computer for Christmas this year, you will definitely want to read this blog by Suzi Turner over at ZDNET. The article gives a handful of useful tips for protecting your new computer, so make sure you check it out!

Geekboy.