Dr. Bill: The Computer Curmudgeon » Geek Website of the Week http://www.DrBill.CC Dr. Bill Bailey ruminates on computers, the web, life, the universe... and everything! Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:43:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Tech Tips, Tech News, the Web and other various musings from Dr. Bill Bailey at Dr. Bill Bailey.NET. Join Dr. Bill as he makes pointed, funny, and sometimes, controversial observations on Tech Life. Dr. Bill Bailey clean Dr. Bill Bailey DrBill@DrBill.CC DrBill@DrBill.CC (Dr. Bill Bailey) Dr. Bill Bailey Tech Tips, Tech News, the Web and other various musings from Dr. Bill Bailey at Dr. Bill Bailey.NET. Join Dr. Bill as he makes pointed, funny, and sometimes, controversial observations on Tech Life. computers, systems, open source, linux, windows, web, internet, tech, technology Dr. Bill: The Computer Curmudgeon » Geek Website of the Week http://www.drbill.tv/images/DrBillTVimage300.png http://www.DrBill.CC/category/geek-website-of-the-week/ TV-Y High Point, NC Weekly Geek Website of the Week: Online-Convert.com http://www.DrBill.CC/2011/12/10/geek-website-of-the-week-online-convert-com/ http://www.DrBill.CC/2011/12/10/geek-website-of-the-week-online-convert-com/#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:02:19 +0000 DrBill http://www.DrBill.CC/?p=3788 Convert videos, e-books, documents, audio, hashs, all kinds of formats of all kinds of things from one to another! How cool is that?!?!

Geek Website of the Week: Online-Convert.com

“This free online file converter lets you convert media easy and fast from one format to another. We support a lot of different source formats, just try.

Convert media free, fast and online. No software installation needed.”

]]> http://www.DrBill.CC/2011/12/10/geek-website-of-the-week-online-convert-com/feed/ 0 Geek Web Site of the Week: Join.Me! http://www.DrBill.CC/2011/07/13/geek-web-site-of-the-week-join-me/ http://www.DrBill.CC/2011/07/13/geek-web-site-of-the-week-join-me/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:08:01 +0000 DrBill http://www.DrBill.CC/?p=3219 Join.MeDo you ever have a need to “take over” someone’s computer, say to demo something to them, or fix a problem? Well, Join.Me is a cool way to do it! Made by the same folks that do LogMeIn.com, Join.Me is easy, straightforward, and very cool to use. Check it out!

Join.Me Web Site

It is great for working with those folks that “just don’t get it” when it comes to the typical “take over my PC” scenario!

]]> http://www.DrBill.CC/2011/07/13/geek-web-site-of-the-week-join-me/feed/ 0 Geek Software of the Week: HWiNFO! http://www.DrBill.CC/2011/07/08/geek-software-of-the-week-hwinfo/ http://www.DrBill.CC/2011/07/08/geek-software-of-the-week-hwinfo/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:34:07 +0000 DrBill http://www.DrBill.CC/?p=3201 HWiNFOThis is a Geek Software of the Week, and a Geek Web Site of the Week! Check out these great freeware utilities:

HWiNFO/32/64 Tools

“HWiNFO, HWiNFO32 and HWiNFO64 are professional hardware information and diagnostic tools supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards. These tools are designed to collect and present the maximum amount of information possible about computer’s hardware which makes them suitable for users searching for driver updates, computer manufacturers, system integrators and technical experts as well. Retrieved information is presented in a logical and easily understandable form and can be exported into various types of reports.”

These are AWESOME tools, and they keep them up-to-date! It allows you to determine EXACTLY what hardware that you have installed, which is handy if you are doing updates, checking for conflicts, etc.!

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Passmark Software’s OSFMount Utility

“OSFMount allows you to mount local disk image files (bit-for-bit copies of a disk partition) in Windows with a drive letter. You can then analyze the disk image file with PassMark OSForensics™ by using the mounted volume’s drive letter. By default, the image files are mounted as read only so that the original image files are not altered.

OSFMount also supports the creation of RAM disks, basically a disk mounted into RAM. This generally has a large speed benefit over using a hard disk. As such this is useful with applications requiring high speed disk access, such a database applications, games (such as game cache files) and browsers (cache files). A second benefit is security, as the disk contents are not stored on a physical hard disk (but rather in RAM) and on system shutdown the disk contents are not persistent.

OSFMount supports mounting images of CDs, which can be useful when a particular CD is used often and the speed of access is important.”

]]> http://www.DrBill.CC/2011/04/15/geek-software-of-the-week-passmark-osfmount/feed/ 0 Geek Website of the Week: Instantwatcher.com! http://www.DrBill.CC/2011/01/21/geek-website-of-the-week-instantwatcher-com/ http://www.DrBill.CC/2011/01/21/geek-website-of-the-week-instantwatcher-com/#comments Sat, 22 Jan 2011 01:45:46 +0000 DrBill http://www.DrBill.CC/?p=1946 So, you are a Netflix user (like I am) and want to search Netflix, (with your shiny, new Roku, like me!) But, the clunky Netflix interface has you frustrated! Is that your problem, dewd?!? Well, this guy wrote a search site using the Netflix API! The trick is to log into your Netflix account FIRST… THEN go to this site:

http://instantwatcher.com/

Search by most popular, search by genre, or, check out the “Worst of” list! (Weird!) Anyway, free, cool, and very helpful!

]]> http://www.DrBill.CC/2011/01/21/geek-website-of-the-week-instantwatcher-com/feed/ 0 Combo: Geek Software AND Website of the Week: AVS4you.com! http://www.DrBill.CC/2010/11/04/combo-geek-software-and-website-of-the-week-avs4you-com/ http://www.DrBill.CC/2010/11/04/combo-geek-software-and-website-of-the-week-avs4you-com/#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:38:11 +0000 DrBill http://www.DrBill.CC/?p=1718 So, as you know, I like the FREE! But, sometimes, very rarely… I find something that is so worth the money, I STILL recommend it! AVS4you.com offers a LOT of great software, and they have a deal going on that REALLY makes it worthwhile! If you but buy ONE unlimited license of ONE of their software packages, you get a license to use ALL of their software! Very cool! I bought an unlimited license to their audio file converter, then I downloaded and tried their Video Editor. NICE! This editor has features found in very expensive, high end packages, and works great!

AVS4you.com

Very nice, folks! Check it out!

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Koyote Soft Website

If you are a geek like me, you will find this stuff amazing and totally useful!

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