I thought this tool was very useful for resizing large images. It allows you the option of choosing different sizes that will best fit your needs. After installing the program just right click on the image you want to resize and you will see an option to resize the selected image. If you want to resize multiple pictures at once then just select all the pictures you wish to resize and right click on pictures and it will resize them all to your desired resolution. Check it out and let me know what you think.

• ImageResizer for Windows XP – 32 bit
• ImageResizer for Windows Vista/Windows 7 – 32 bit
• ImageResizer for Windows Vista/Windows 7 – 64 bit

Thanks – Aviraj Ajgekar

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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 feature of Jing is the so called Sun Launcher that resides on the edge of your desktop.

When you hover over the Sun Launcher it expands and presents you with the option to capture a screen image.

Jing also allows basic annotes features such as text box, arrow, highlight, or rectangle.

 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 me to facilitate connecting to my FTP site and treat that connection like a drive letter on my local PC.  Now when I start my PC NetDrive auto maps to my FTP site which I can access through Windows Explorer. Try it out and let me know what you think.

 If your in IT and haven’t read Mark Russinovich’s technical blog then you’re missing out. This guy knows his stuff and in this particular article “The Case of the Slooooow System” he takes you through high level troubleshooting techniques using Process Explorer.

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Did you know – you can find out who is logged on to a particular PC on your network with the whoison.exe utility.

To use the utility, save it to your local hard drive or your network drive. I have it saved to the root of my C: drive for ease of access.  Run it from a DOS command prompt, (see example below): Type C:\whoison \\computername

Use the /h switch to get a history of users on the PC:
whoison /h \\nameofcomputer
Use the pipe command to send the results to a text file:
whoison /h \\nameofcomputer > filename .txt
or
whoison /h \\nameofcomputer > filename.csv (to import into a spreadsheet, useful when trying to determine last logged on)
When using the pipe switch, > creates a new file or overwrites an existing file, >> creates an new file or appends to an existing one.

You can download the Whoison tool here

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How many times have you wanted to convert your document into a PDF version? Well now you can with PDFCreator. This free open source software will easily convert any document into a read only PDF file format. This software WILL NOT allow you to edit the PDF file. It will only convert the file into PDF format. You will need Adobe Acrobat Professional if you want to edit PDF files. The PDF format is widely used and is an ideal format to store and share information.

Visit this link for a tutorial on how to use PDF Creator.

Advantages of using PDF format

1. No need to purchase separate software to view PDF files. The software you need to view PDF documents is freely available, here 
2. PDF documents are highly compressed, so converting your word documents or inserting images will be reduced in size once saved to PDF format.
3. It’s a highly portable format, widely used by government and state agencies.

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Ever wonder “where has all my hard drive space gone to”? Well, wonder no more, JDiskReports will help you uncover what files are taking up your hard drive space. JDiskReports analyzes every file and reports back on how much space each file is taking up on your hard drive. I have found this to be a very useful free tool to track down large files that are hogging my hard drive, doing so has saved me a tone of time and space. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

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