Bob Helmer

Pandora We love this one. According to the site, "Pandora is a music discovery service designed to help you find and enjoy music that you'll love. It's powered by the Music Genome Project, the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken. ... Just tell us one of your favorite songs or artists and we'll launch a streaming station to explore that part of the music universe. We take your input (artists, songs) and feedback ("I like this", "I don't like this") and use the Music Genome Project to create stations that play songs that are musically similar to what you've ... (view more)

Run Ie 7 Without Installing It If you want to test IE7 without the risk of installing a beta software, here is a simple way to do it. This method does not install IE 7 the usual way -- instead you just run it from the installer package and hence ... your system does not get littered with beta DLLs all over the place. http://jaganath.blogspot.com Ss64.Com SS64 is an incredible command line reference for Windows, Linux, OS X, and Oracle. http://www.ss64.com/ (view more)

Snort Open source network intrusion prevention system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks ... and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, and much more. http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/snortnews.cgi Who In The World Given an IP address or host name, this software will do a WhoIs lookup and displays the originating country of the address. Will also display the WhoIs query details ... (view more)

Desktop Lite Desktop Lite is a light weight shell to replace Windows Explorer and the traditional desktop. http://www.nymtec.com/ Alt-Tab Thingy If you are not familiar with the Alt-Tab task switcher in Windows, it's a keyboard short-cut (hot-key) ... to enable fast switching between applications/windows. This feature has been in Windows since Windows 3.0 and is largely unchanged since Windows '95! Alt-Tab Thingy is a replacement to add brand new features to help you switch tasks faster and more efficiently than ever before. http://www.nymtec.com/ (view more)

Brute Force Uninstaller Program to help forcibly remove unwanted software and the likes from a system. BFU is a scripting program that can execute a series of preset commands like a Windows batch file, aimed at uninstalled programs that are hard to ... remove, uninstall improperly or simply unwanted. Scripts are plaintext and can be written with Notepad, and the command syntax is very transparent. BFU is very complete and powerful, has a small memory footprint and has no uninstaller. http://merijn.org/downloads.html Network Notepad Program for creating interactive network diagrams. User-definable ... (view more)

Bus Runner AutoRun USB Software. The Ultimate tool for any USB Drive-Carrying computer professional. Ever wish that your computer would allow you to AutoRun USB devices? Installing Busrunner on computers you use frequently allows you to have any ... program, on your USB drive or the machine itself, execute upon insertion of your USB Drive. Supports Windows XP and multiple USB drives at one time. http://www.kmgsoftware.com/Products.aspx?start=busrunner Kl-Detector Detect keylogging activity on your computer. http://dewasoft.com/privacy/kldetector.htm (view more)

Icolorfolder Customize the color of each Windows XP folder. http://icolorfolder.sourceforge.net/ Fajo Xp File Security Extension Allows a user of Windows XP Home to view and change the access rights on file system objects of NTFS file systems. The ... extension provides the security tab known from Windows NT4, Windows 2000 and Windows XP Pro at the property page of file system objects. For faster access it adds an additional menu item to the context menu of such objects (optional). http://www.fajo.de/portal/index.php (view more)

Gimpshop GIMPShop is a free graphics editor for Mac, Linux, and Windows. It's easy to pick up and learn, especially if you already know Photoshop. http://www.gimpshop.net Bug Me Not Allows you to bypass compulsory web registration for sites that ... seem to require it. Protect your privacy. http://www.bugmenot.com (view more)

Dos Box DOSBox emulates an Intel x86 PC, complete with sound, graphics, mouse, modem, etc., necessary for running many old DOS games that simply cannot be run on modern PCs and operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux and ... FreeBSD. However, it is not restricted to running only games. In theory, any DOS application should run in DOSBox, but the emphasis has been on getting DOS games to run smoothly, which means that communication, networking and printer support are still in early development. http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1 Aiglon Process Killer ... (view more)

Bootloader Boot Windows XP on an Intel Macintosh. http://onmac.net/ Keyboard Shortcuts This article lists keyboard shortcuts you can use with Windows. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q126449 (view more)