Archive for the 'Reviews' Category

Upgraded to Vista Business SP1

I decided to upgrade to Vista Business SP1 about two weeks ago.  My first impressions are that I like it.  Comparing it to XP SP3 I like the enhancements made.  Since when I did my install of Vista Business it started downloading updates so I wasn’t able to experience the full blown hell of Vista [...]

PC fully loaded with crap saved by PC Decrapifier!

This weekend I had to restore my home office desktop to the factory original image since I lost my most recent recovery disks. I forgot how much crap software they load on new machines. I was already depressed that I couldn’t find my XP Professional media. Going back to XP Home was hard enough. But [...]

Joined Plurk yesterday…

I setup a Plurk account yesterday and first impressions are good.  I have had a Twitter account for a while but I wanted to check out Plurk.  I have been seeing it a lot in the Blogshere and decided to investigate.  It’s another microblogger like Twitter but with a different UI.  I use microblogger to [...]

Free Security Tool - Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI)

I found an oldie but goodie today.  Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) which is a program you can download and install that will scan your local disk for programs.  After it catalogs your programs it will do a check to see if any patches exist or of the program is end-of-life meaning no longer supported.  [...]

Sensitive Number Finder

Last month I recieved and email from the corporate security office at work requesting that I run a script on my work laptop.  The script was home grown and searched for Sensitive & Personal Information that might be on my computer.  I wasn’t expecting to have it find anything but I ran the script to [...]