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Freewares / Free Softwares 25 Feb 10

Wireless Key View When the password details to the wireless network are forgotten or misplaced, it can be quite frustrating to recall them. Ferreting it out is out of question as Windows won't reveal where they are stored. No more fretting now onwards as NirSoft's smart little tool Wireless Key View can expose saved Wireless Passwords. This utility reveals in plain text all the wireless passwords that have been stored by Windows' Wireless Zero Configuration and WLAN AutoConfig service. Once run, its pop-up window shows all the stored passwords on your computer – both WEP and WPA. Please note that revealation is restricted to passwords that have been stored by the Windows network management utility, and not any other. Another feature provided helps to delete pass phrases that are no longer required. Wireless Key View, a portable software, runs without any installation whatsoever - just download it and run. Wireless Key View, a freeware, works on any version of Wind...

Some debugging tips

1 Q) I have a HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop with Windows Vista (32 bit). I have a Nokia phone N 73 which I could earlier connect using Bluetooth wireless. I am now getting a message that Windows was unable to locate the driver file for the Bluetooth Peripheral Device. Windows search stated that I should download the file from the Nokia web site. I tried to find out the file from the website but failed. I tried to use the original CD which I received with the phone. It did not work. I am able to connect using the cable. When I try to activate the Bluetooth, it starts searching for the file. Can anyone help please.   A) You have to download the Bluetooth driver for your laptop - click on the following link - select the model of your laptop - select the correct operating system - download and install the Bluetooth driver. Now your laptop should start communicating with the phone.   http://h20180.www2.hp.com/apps/Lookup?h_lang=en&h_cc=in&cc=in&h_page=hpcom&l...

Data Loss RAM

The computer RAM is designed to be a temporary storage that has very small access time. Even cell phones/digital cameras use a RAM of some form, but save the images and other data to permanent memory (usually a flash drive) Even cell phones cannot retain the message you were typing if you remove the battery suddenly. Each program stores its data in RAM in its own format and hence there cannot be any program that can 'save' any data being input. ============================================ the new landline phones from bsnl retain data even after the battery is removed.as we know , the landline phone is so out of fashion now.Even then, some company decided to provide this feature as a standard feature. ====================================================== this is more to the point. can there be some similar flash drive or whatever and a transfer mechanism from ram to slash drive ? The camera stores so many images , so many Mb, without any problem, without any batterie...

Free Softwares / Freewares 18 Feb 10

Checkout your ISP ICSI Netalyzr is a service maintained by the Networking Group at the International Computer Science Institute, an affiliate with the University of California , Berkeley . It's a free service that lets you test and find out more information about the Internet connection you're subscribed to. Netalyzr can provide you with the inside scoop about your connection and its capabilities by analyzing various properties of your Internet connection that you should really care about - blocking of important services, HTTP caching behavior and proxy correctness, your DNS server's resilience to abuse, NAT detection, as well as latency & bandwidth measurements — all the data in a detailed report. The simple 3-step process requires that you have Java installed and takes only a few minutes to complete. I tried it out and the report I got indicates a serious vulnerability - DNS cache poisoning - enables an attacker to intercept and modify effectively all commu...

Freewares / Free Softwares 11 Feb 10

CodySafe CodySafe lets you use any portable drive as a computer-on- stick. It can help carry your computer programs with you, manage your portable applications, launch them on any PC, and also leave no footprint behind. The current version of CodySafe includes a set of very useful features. With CodySafe you can add and remove portable applications, manage auto-run applications, keep your drive healthy with Drive Doctor - prevent and detect autorun viruses infection, set custom command line parameters, easily organize all your portable applications into a menu and access them quickly and easily, manage documents and pictures, music and video on your removable media, always be aware of the amount of used and free space on your portable drive, and automatic application ranking based on frequency of its usage. Another useful feature is that CodySafe can create and save your identity information onto the USB drive as a readme.txt file. CodySafe for Windows® XP or later can b...

Freewares / Free Softwares 04 Feb 10

Smereka Smereka is a personal freeform database and a Personal information manager. It can help organize data in an hierarchical and searchable database. Yes, we could use "Word" to store data, but, we all know how cumbersome it can be to launch the massive "Office" software to view just a paragraph or two of the text. Smereka stores files and notes in a single file - Smereka database. The details get indexed on the fly, yes, you can search for them immediately after adding them to the database. The hierarchical system of item storage of "Smereka" facilitates sorting out the items in a tree-like structure. The items can be moved, copied from branch to branch, or icons assigned. As soon as a tree item is clicked the stored info is displayed on the screen, and in most of the cases you would not need an external program. And, more importantly, you can share the Smereka database too - your peers can receive it a single file and instantly browse all t...