To everyone who reads this, I apologize for the lack of updates as of recent. I am going to attempt a new updating schedule that will hopefully solve this issue. Instead of updating on a fixed schedule with three programs per entry, I will update with one program per entry as I find them. This will hopefully help since my free time to update this blog is in no way fixed or scheduled.
Everyone, thank you for hanging in there. This is definitely a work in progress!
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
5.23.11
For all 3 people that actually read this, sorry about the lack of updates. Life catches up quick and I'm still trying to figure out a schedule. Anyway, onward with the programs!
1) Fellowup.com
Are you a social networking fiend? I'm not talking "Oh, I have a Facebook", I mean are you up all night looking for people to add to your "Friends List" when the only real friends you have on there are your mom and the weird homeless guy from the corner (who you're still not sure about how he has a Facebook in the first place)? Or maybe you are a band with aspirations of snorting brown M&M's that you thought was cocaine off of a halibut that you thought was a stripper's ass, so you have 17 different social media sites to showcase your terrible 3 1/2 chord songs about cookie cutter emotions using forced rhymes and stupid metaphors that makes Chris Brown's new song sound like the best songwriters in the world had a word-baby.
"I just wrote a song about that."
If you're something like that (God help you) then Fellowup.com can probably help. It is a webapp that will collect all of your friends lists and other information from your social media, networking and email sites and put it all into one dashboard for you. You can use it to comment on multiple platforms without having to jump back and forth between sites, and the more you use it the more it learns from you, giving you relevant updates.
The Dirty:
-FREE account
-Fairly easy to use
-iPod version released, with an Android app on the way.
2) Malwarebytes.org
Let me guess: you have no idea how all of the viruses got on your computer. You also have no idea why all of the popups have to deal with "sexy ladies." I'm sure it has absolutely no correlation to the extensive bookmark collection you have of questionable sites. Whatever the reason is, you are infected and you need it gone.
If you know what this is, it is either your job to know or
you are gross. Stay away from me either way.
Malwarebytes is an anti-malware program that is really good at removing most of your standard grade (and some more serious) infections, including a lot of the fake anti-virus infections. Based on the way it searches and removes infections, it is actually more effective if it is run in standard mode if possible (as opposed to safe mode.) All in all, a very effective program.
The Dirty:
-Free
-Paid version available with extra abilities
-Simple to use, and very powerful.
3) LogMeIn.com
For any of you that have parents/family/clients who look up to you to fix their computers, this is the tool for you.
"P-P-P-Parents?!"
After a user installs the client on their computer, you can access it through the website with the user's username and password. This allows you to take complete control of the client computer, using the client's resources. The only resources your computer uses are for input and video. Using the free version, you can add as many computers as you want to your account. The paid version allows you to move files between the host and the client computer through LogMeIn, along with other gizmos and extras. In my career, no other program has been as helpful as this one.
The Dirty:
- Free version, along with a stronger paid version.
- Ability to control remote computers.
1) Fellowup.com
Are you a social networking fiend? I'm not talking "Oh, I have a Facebook", I mean are you up all night looking for people to add to your "Friends List" when the only real friends you have on there are your mom and the weird homeless guy from the corner (who you're still not sure about how he has a Facebook in the first place)? Or maybe you are a band with aspirations of snorting brown M&M's that you thought was cocaine off of a halibut that you thought was a stripper's ass, so you have 17 different social media sites to showcase your terrible 3 1/2 chord songs about cookie cutter emotions using forced rhymes and stupid metaphors that makes Chris Brown's new song sound like the best songwriters in the world had a word-baby.
"I just wrote a song about that."
If you're something like that (God help you) then Fellowup.com can probably help. It is a webapp that will collect all of your friends lists and other information from your social media, networking and email sites and put it all into one dashboard for you. You can use it to comment on multiple platforms without having to jump back and forth between sites, and the more you use it the more it learns from you, giving you relevant updates.
The Dirty:
-FREE account
-Fairly easy to use
-iPod version released, with an Android app on the way.
2) Malwarebytes.org
Let me guess: you have no idea how all of the viruses got on your computer. You also have no idea why all of the popups have to deal with "sexy ladies." I'm sure it has absolutely no correlation to the extensive bookmark collection you have of questionable sites. Whatever the reason is, you are infected and you need it gone.
If you know what this is, it is either your job to know or
you are gross. Stay away from me either way.
Malwarebytes is an anti-malware program that is really good at removing most of your standard grade (and some more serious) infections, including a lot of the fake anti-virus infections. Based on the way it searches and removes infections, it is actually more effective if it is run in standard mode if possible (as opposed to safe mode.) All in all, a very effective program.
The Dirty:
-Free
-Paid version available with extra abilities
-Simple to use, and very powerful.
3) LogMeIn.com
For any of you that have parents/family/clients who look up to you to fix their computers, this is the tool for you.
"P-P-P-Parents?!"
After a user installs the client on their computer, you can access it through the website with the user's username and password. This allows you to take complete control of the client computer, using the client's resources. The only resources your computer uses are for input and video. Using the free version, you can add as many computers as you want to your account. The paid version allows you to move files between the host and the client computer through LogMeIn, along with other gizmos and extras. In my career, no other program has been as helpful as this one.
The Dirty:
- Free version, along with a stronger paid version.
- Ability to control remote computers.
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