Friday, 27 March 2009

More Free Tools

 

 

Launchy 

 

This tool originally I had a bit of trouble finding a use for but the more I used it the better I thought it was. This is basically a dialogue box that pops up when you press alt-space and you tap in the name of the application you want to launch and it will start. Now normally you would think that the vista search bar would be the same thing but launchy is quicker and seems to find alot more of your applications than the search bar does, and obviously in XP you don't have that option anyway.

 

Lansurveyor Express Limited Free Edition

Well this is not normally free but solarwinds the people behind lansurveyor have opted to give away its express version absolutely free for a limited time only. This scans and creates a visio document of your live network. So its a great quick way of actually creating a network map which should save a good few hours of messing about with visio. Normally this tool retails for $499 so even if you don't think you need it now I would urge you to get it because one day you will be asked for a network layout. CLICK ME for a quick demo of lansurveyor

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