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Useful Websites and Products
March 2009
Web Tour is a monthly feature where we travel the internet to find interesting sites and programs. Web Tour appears in the group's newsletter as well as here on our website. Just click the links below to visit the sites.
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Free for Personal Use
Whether you are on a budget or not, these are excellent programs that will help you with many functions not originally on your PC. These are all free for personal use. ◊
SiteAdvisor
SiteAdvisor from McAfee.
For IE and Firefox.
Warns users of bad, fair, or good websites.
Absolutely a must for every user.
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Belarc
Belarc does an "audit" of your PC's hardware, software, installation key codes (for example MS Office and Windows XP and Vista).
Save and print these out as you add and remove programs, devices, etc.
Even finds your motherboard's manufacturer and serial number.
Very helpful when you call tech support.
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SyncBack
Easily configured, does auto backup, synchronizing one directory to another, or bi-directional (be careful in how you choose overwrite options).
Configs can backup by date and time, even several per day, week, etc.
Not a mirror full drive backup -
only directories.
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CamStudio
Records video, screen shots, audio.
If you have trouble or want to document what happens on your PC, this is excellent.
The avi files can be sent to tech support to show what happened,
or used for training purposes.
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Atomic Clock - Time Sync
Helpful if your PC is drifting in time,
before you replace your clock battery
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Audacity
Powerful audio recorder, editor, amplifier, noise reduction.
Great for recording support calls, doing audio note taking, music editing, etc.
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Woot
One deal of the day.
Some excellent, some goofy.
Hard drives, PC's, audio,
camcorders, ...
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Giveaway of the Day
Free daily programs, not restricted for personal use, but no support.
Utilities, small programs, often useful, etc.
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LogMeIn
Remote support for your computer or to help others.
Free version will support several PCs.
Can be toggled on/off as needed.
Excellent support tool to demo
remotely to others
what you are doing.
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Remember
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