When your business model is try before you buy.
It’s in your best interest to make sure the ‘try’ part works.
We’re re-evaluating centralized Anti-virus and would really like to evaluate AVG’s Network offerings, but it’s proving to be harder than it should be.
We’ve used Trend for the past couple years and it’s been OK. Recently we’ve had a few things get by Trend and AVG Free has picked it up and dealt with it. So we’re anxious to give it a look.
I’ve been struggling a bit with the response time and general availability of my new host. It seems to be a problem more with the admin tools (and ftp) than the general web services.
Of course they say; “The server is fine”. So I’m looking for some good tools to prove them wrong when I can’tget to it.
I stumbled on host-tracker.com tonight and it’s pretty sweet.
It’s not fast, but the data they give you for free is pretty cool.
So yeah, currently, as in right now, the server is doing just fine.
Give it a look…
I guess it’s kind of slow if you’re viewing this from Iran or Germany, but that’s not our biggest target audience…
If you know of other good testing tools please post them in the comments.
Much to my dismay, the love affair I’ve had with X1, my all-out favorite for desktop search, has come to an end.
Why? It’s certainly not because I’ve found something better, no.
It’s because it’s simply stopped working. Others have given up on it a long time ago, but it has stayed and remained my favorite.
Nothing else give you the speed and flexibility. Results as you type, etc.
Crashes with the products have become more prevalent, though usually work-around able, they were becoming more than I could stand. I checked for an update, and there was a ‘minor’ release. I tried to upgrade to that. Tried simple upgrade, and full-reinstalls. It works, it indexes my files, and my Mozilla email but for some reason it won’t touch my Outlook anymore. The prior version had stopped updating per the schedule, but I could still manually update the index from time to time, which I had done.
But now, nadda, nothing, zilch. No Outlook/Exchange indexing to be had. Spending more than an hour screwing with it negates all benefit, so it’s now gone.
I’m now on the hunt for the best tool for my needs. No, Windows desktop search isn’t it. While it works, it’s slow and clunky.
I’ve just re-installed Google Desktop. It’s claming it will take another 10 hours of idle time to finish the initial index. We’ll see how that goes.
My biggest need is searching emails. I get too damn many. When it’s time to fill out an expense report I want to be able to search for $49.95 to find the email receipt for that software I purchased a month ago. I want to be able to easily pull up all emails from *@domain.com fast and easy. X1 used to give me that.
Outlook search folders work fine if you’re in no hurry but I usually am.
If you have tip for a good email indexing product, post it in the comments.
Sick and tired of giving up your email address to evaluate some software only to be put on mailing lists after you explicitly do NOT check the “I wish to be contacted” checkbox?
Guerrilla Mail is your solution, and it works quite well.
Simply visit: http://www.guerrillamail.com/
Generate an unique, yet expiring email address and you’re good to go.
Simply Brilliant!
Darik’s Boot and Nuke (“DBAN”) is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.