Jing is a free screen capture utility put out by the makers of Snagit. I’m a big fan of Snagit and it’s feature rich screen capture capabilities. Jing is like it’s little brother, it doesn’t have all the features and power of Snagit, but I think it more than makes up for it in ease of use and the ability to upload and share your content directly to FTP site,  Flicker, YouTube and Screencast.com (Screencast.com is TechSmiths own content management system) as well as a local folder or network drive.

One cool …

Here is a tip that may seem obvious but I just haven’t fully appreciated until recently. Do you want more screen real estate, why not hide your windows taskbar. If you’re like me and have increased your taskbar double fold then hiding it  adds about an inch more to your screen real estate after it’s hidden. Now It really feels like I have a 19 inch monitor Give it a try and let me know what you think.
Here’s how to turn on the Auto-hide option:

 1. Right-click on the taskbar …

If your like me and are constantly plugging your USB drive in and out, then you’ll appreciate this hack to add a shortcut to your desktop that will facilitate the removing of your USB drive.
1. Right click on your desktop and choose New -> Shortcut.
2. Type “RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll” for the location. After that, change the name of the shortcut. I had renamed it to “Remove USB Drive“.

3. You should have a USB icon on your desktop. You can click it and now choose which device to remove.

 I discovered this useful utility that allows you to map a drive letter to your FTP site. For those of you who don’t know, FTP stands for File Transfer protocol. An FTP site usually resides on your website host providers computer. For example if I want to upload files to my site at gnetsolutions.info I would connect using FTP and upload or download files. If I wasn’t’ using NetDrive I would have to use a program like Filezilla which allows me to connect to an FTP site. NetDrive now allows …

Final Thoughts
So far I’m loving my WHS. I don’t have to worry about manually backing up my PC’s. WHS will backup my PC’s during a predetermined schedule and if the PC is sleeping or in hibernation mode it will wake them up.
The temp has been averaging around 23.C. and benchmark test conclude that it’s respectable to other similar systems. (will post tests soon)
Hardware additions
Since the putting the system together, I added two additional hard drives. One internal SATA drive to add to the storage pool and one External ESATA drive …