Dia is an open-source program that allows one to easily create diagrams and flowcharts. Rivaling Microsoft Visio, it's free and easy to work with. It has more than a dozen templates that allow you to grab some pre-made shapes including computers, electrical, logic, CISCO, isometric maps, and flowchart icons. It's a light-weight application that's just nice to keep handy. You … [Read more...]
Gary Strawn’s Location Changer
To install Gary Strawn's location changer: 1. Copy the Oracle ODBC driver setup (060621CARLIOrclInstall.exe) locally and run through the install as an admin following the instructions located in the Oracle directory. 2. Once the install completes, change the service SID to the current SID instead of VGER under Oracle OraHome92 Net Manager and save. 3. Install and … [Read more...]
Tunebite
I first found Tunebite a few years ago and it was an impressive application back then with a cool function. I only had it installed on my laptop because my desktop had a weak sound card that wouldn't let it actually work. Essentially what Tunebite does is to convert audio files and circumvent DRM. The legal ramifications are probably on the negative side, but it seems 2008 will … [Read more...]
DirectShow Filter Manager
In addressing an issue for my parents' laptop, I stumbled upon this handy little app. It's a small (single exe) program that allows you to peruse the list of codecs that are installed on your machine. With the DirectShow Filter manager, you can then adjust the 'priority' of the codec so that it is the preferred or non-preferred codec of choice for certain videos. Plus, it's … [Read more...]
Print Migrator
Ever wish you could copy/paste printers from one computer to another? Well, this is about as close as you're going to get. Using Microsoft's Print Migrator 3.1 tool, you can grab a snapshot of printers installed, their names, their ports, and (most of) their drivers. The tool will save a .cab file to whereever you specify and you can then use this .cab file to restore the … [Read more...]