Friday 05 December 2008
Clonezilla, based on DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, and udpcast, allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (server edition). Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While Clonezilla SE is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone efficiency.
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Visual Subst is a small tool that allows you to associate the most accessed directories with virtual drives.
Generally, a virtual drive is just a symbolic link in the Local MS-DOS Device namespace. It is just one more Windows feature added for backward compatibility with old programs.
Virtual drives are therefore objects of the operating system, ...0 comments
picasa2flickr: A simple "plugin" that allows picasa users to upload their photos to flickr.
Based on the proof of concept provided by Tabblo and using the nice flickj api, picasa2flickr provides a kind of plugin to picasa that allows users to upload their photos to flickr.
The mechanism:
Using a custom "BlogThis" Button, picasa posts XML data (photos URL and titles) to a custom URL;
On this URL, a CGI script parses the XML and provides photos URL and titles to a dedicated Java applet;
The Applet retrieves the photos and upload them to a flickr account.
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Internet RadioFan allows you to listen to radio and watch TV broadcasts on the internet. All radio and TV stations are grouped by country. The description of each channel contains:
1) The name of the city from which the broadcast originates.
2) The style or genre of the given station.
The channel list is constantly updated and is always accessible for manual or auto-updating. A special button can be set for quick connection to a given channel.
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BitComet is a BitTorrent/HTTP/FTP download management software, which is powerful, fast, very easy-to-use, and completely free.
It contains many advanced features for BitTorrent download and extends its leading BitTorrent technology to HTTP/FTP to accelerate downloading up to 5 - 10 times faster, or more.
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