Ezine 185 Joongel - A New Search Engine
My first reaction to a new Search Engine (or browser) is that we have
enough of them already. My second thought is competition is good.
The main reason that I gave Joongel a second look was that it was
recommended by Paul DeBrino. The 'killer' use for Joongel is when you
are
looking for the best deal before buying an expensive item.
It amuses that every new application claims to be easy to
use. It's not that Joongel is particularly hard to navigate, just that I paused for a
few seconds before I found the home page, and hesitated before I could see
where and what to type in the search boxes. Is this my senility?
Or me expecting that every application will be easier than the application
that I use now. The truth is that even the world's best application
will need 'play' time before we understand all its features. Thus the
real trick of Joongel, or any application, is make it easy to get started,
yet have enough depth to satisfy all our needs.
Summary: Guy agrees with Paul DeBrino,
Joongel is worth
a look. http://www.joongel.com/tour.php
What I like about SolarWinds is their mantra of 'built by network
engineers for network engineers'. If you get a chance look around their
site and seek out the head geek videos. Josh Stephens is that rare geek,
someone with network skills, who can also explain lucidly on camera what
is going and how to configure the settings. Now I must confess to an
impure thought, Josh is so slick on the videos that I wondered if he was
in fact an actor, but no, Josh is the real deal, a techie who talks the
talk AND walks the walk.
As my website indicates, over the years I have dabbled with tweaking
computer
performance. However, I regard Orion Network Performance Monitor
(NPM) as the 'big tackle'. Big in the sense that has the power to
zoom into network trouble spots, and big in the comprehensive range of
checks that it manages. If you are reviewing performance monitors,
then take advantage of Solarwinds offer to
download a free trial of Orion NPM 9.5.
The Remaining 4 Readers Recommendations
Here are the other 4 winners of the 'ripper' competition that I ran 3 editions
ago. The reason that I only give first names is that in
Guy's rough and ready guide to competitions, I don't collect
details such as lastname, and 'do you want anonymity'.
However, I want to scotch rumours that all the winners were
personal friends of mine!
Naturally, my main purpose in publishing these links to
utilities is to help you the reader. However, my other
reason is to encourage at least some of you to create new tools.
It seems to me that what happens is that someone discovers a gap
where there is no tool, so they make one. Most of these
creations are pretty basic, and many probably don't make further
than their inventor's own machine. However, some develop a
life of their own and evolve into a medium size enterprise.
In addition to being readers' recommendations, these 4 utilities
neatly illustrate the stages people go through in developing tools for the
rest of us.
1)
PowerOff by Jorgen Bosman - Recommended by Jim
http://users.telenet.be/jbosman/applications.html
2)
Rdtabs by Timothy Carroll - Recommended by Harold
http://www.avianwaves.com/Tech/Tools/RDTabs/
3) PowerGui by Quest Software - Recommended by David
Here is a specialist add-on to help PowerShell scripters,
particularly with Active Directory queries. Incidentally,
these last two got my vote because I felt it was useful in
reminding me, and some readers, of utilities that are old
friends. http://www.powergui.org/index.jspa
4)
Sysinternals by Mark Russinovich and Bryce
Cogswell - Recommended by Kevin
Genius may be too strong a word to use about Mark Russinovich,
however he is that rare person that understands all the computer theory,
is able to empathise with what ordinary users need, and most
importantly explains, complex concepts in simple terms.
It's no surprise that all his Sysinternals tools deliver the
goods.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx
Network Utilities from
Tools4Ever
Tools4Ever provide not one but a host of handy network utilities. They
have a professional stable of products for example, SpaceGuard Disk quota
manager, Self Service Password Reset, and my favourite FreePing.
Tools4Ever use the popular internet utility model where we download a trial
version, and if we like it, we return and buy the full version.
Check out the network utilities from
Tools4Ever.
Funny Safety Signs
Do you know how an electrician tells if he's working with AC or DC power?
If
it's AC, his teeth chatter when he grabs the conductors.
If it's DC, they just
clamp together.
See our collection of funny warning, safety, electrical and fire safety
signs.
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