Digging into the incredibly useful NirSoft freeware utilities, today we take a look at SmartSniff Packet Sniffer. SmartSniff is a network monitoring utility that allows you to capture TCP/IP packets that pass through your network adapter, and view the captured data as sequence of conversations between clients and servers. You can view the TCP/IP conversations in...

A recent report published by the security experts at Secunia finds that Apple, Oracle and Microsoft are 1, 2 and 3, respectively, in known software vulnerabilities across all their non-OS products. If you don’t want to read the full article, The Windows Club has a good write-up about it where they make a good point: The report shows an alarming development...

It is common knowledge that inactivity is bad for your health. However a new study shows that there may be more this than just the inactivity factor. An article on the New York Times points out: In a study published in May in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, they reported that, to no one’s surprise, the men who sat the most had the...

One of the longest running and successful RPG games is the Ultima series which spanned both consoles and computer platforms. If you are a fan of these very difficult games, then you might be interested in the The Ultima 6 Project: The Ultima 6 Project [is] a remake of Origin Systems’ classic game Ultima VI: The False Prophet  with newer graphics and a...

Once a month on “Patch Tuesday“, Microsoft releases patches and updates for their operating systems. However, due to potential problems introduced by updating system files, there are many different opinions on when you should actually install these updates. Ask 5 people and you might get 5 different answers. The benefit to installing the updates is...

The title of this post is taken from the tag line of Microsoft’s free WebMatrix offering: It includes IIS Developer Express (a development Web server), ASP.NET (a Web framework), and SQL Server Compact (an embedded database). It streamlines Web site development and makes it easy to start Web sites from popular open-source apps. The skills and code you...

Time Magazine has been around for over 85 years and is still alive and kicking today. While not as prestigious as their signature “Person of the Year” title, they also publish their opinions on the best blogs of the year. In the Best Blogs of 2010, several sites you may have heard of may the list:Tech Crunch (Essential Blogs) Engadget Mashable...

If you ever have the need to convert a video file from one format (for example an MOV) to another format (for example an AVI), then a tool for the job is the free utility: iWisoft Free Video Converter. iWisoft Free Video Converter can fast convert videos between all popular formats like AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, XviD, MP4, H.264/AVC, AVCHD, FLV, MKV, RM, MOV, 3GP,...

If you are wrapped up in the World Cup and are currently motivated to play some soccer (digitally at least), then give the open source game Slam Soccer 2006 a whirl. Slam Soccer take a comedic approach to to the game with it’s “weebles” with feet style graphics. Regardless, the screenshots are impressive and the game play allows you to play...

You may have seen the news circling around the tech world that Firefox 4 Beta 1 is now available for download. While I certainly understand and appreciate the need for a beta process, it got me thinking… do a lot of people use beta releases of browsers as their primary browser? As a general rule of thumb I always opt for the stable release of any product...