Until now I fully relied on Gibson Research's online port scanning tool to check all of the firewalls's inbound abilities, which have at some point been installed on my computers ranging from checkpoint and to less known firewalls such as GhostWall. It might sound unnecessary to check firewall's inbound protection as we all assume it is basically powerful enough in most cases, but since my ISP supplied me with hardware firewall Vigor 2700 series with fully and (ir)reversibly opened port 80 and 8080, port scanning tool has become indispensable.
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Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Beta 4 ready for download
Mozilla has just released the fourth beta version of Thunderbird 3 based on new Gecko 1.9.1.3 platform. New beta is bringing over 200 changes prior to previous beta version making Thunderbird faster, more stable and feature-reach. Some of the most notable features include advanced filtering tool, tabbed email messages, smart folder and even activity manager so you can always monitor what is Thunderbird doing in the background.
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Free StarWind iSCSI Service Review
Have you ever used Windows home group function! You know, all these fancy printer and document sharing functions built into Windows operating system. It is an awesome opportunity to extend the practical use of computers and connect several machines into a net where each can get files from others connected to such network. But have you ever imagined what it would be like to use not just shared files and printers among all these computers but rather entire hard drive with all installed applications. It can be done and the solution hears for the name StarWind.
Advanced System Optimizer with Free Activation key
Today giveawayoftheday managed to make a good deal with Systweak Inc. as they bargained us Advanced System Optimizer, you probably have heard of before. It is basically quite a deal as instead of paying just below $40 US you get it free for 12 months. Anyway I shall not gaze deep into Advanced System Optimizer as I do not really have much time today, but my initial thoughts about ASO are positive and recommending. Powerful users usually do not need such tools anyway but novice and moderate users shall most probably find it very helpful.
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How to Change Mouse Cursor in Windows 7
Windows 7 by default offers a simple way of changing mouse cursor via control panel as its predecessor Vista, but as you may have noticed the variety of available cursors is pretty monotonic and limited to only simple objects such as hand, sand watch and various arrows. Personally I am kind a tired of looking at the same mouse pointer in Windows from the very beginning and if you feel the same here is a good way to start.
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