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NetToolset Offers DNS, WHOIS Lookup & Other Network Admin Tasks In One Place

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There are many types of network tools available for Windows. Some allow you to sniff DNS queries sent to and from your system, while others present WHOIS information about certain host right on your desktop. But how about an app that could, besides letting you view WHOIS information about any domain or IP, also put a wide array of useful network related information at your disposal? NetToolset is a powerful freeware Windows app that does just that. The application contains a set of tools including Ping, Traceroute, DNS Lookup, Reverse DNS, IP Whois, Domain Whois and Port Scan. Read More

Easily Search For Files Or Folders On The Network With LanHunt

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Local networks allow easy sharing of files between multiple computers but if there is a large number of files and folders shared on a network, managing all of them can be a bit difficult. If you are looking for a particular file or folder and don’t remember the computer it was on or its path on that computer, things can get a little frustrating. The Windows search option works great to look for files onyour local storage, but not quite so for network files. Today, we have an open source application for you called LanHunt that allows you to search for shared files and folders on the network. You can quickly search for network content and narrow down the results using file-type filters. In addition, the Open Location feature allows you to directly access the parent folder of a required file. Read More

Colasoft MAC Scanner: View IP & MAC Addresses of All Computers On A Network

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The Media Access Control address (assigned to Network Interface Card) is a physical address of the system on the network. It is commonly referred to as MAC address, or simply MAC, and can be used to check if any specific device is connected to the network or not. To perform basic remote operations, often only the IP address is required, however, actions such as Wake-on-LAN and other sophisticated tasks, require you to specify the MAC address to remotely control the connected computers. Finding the MAC address of your own PC is quite simple. You can go to your LAN adapter settings and note it down from there. But if you want to view the MAC addresses of all the computers connected to the network, then noting down the MAC address of each PC manually can become quite a time wasting and tedious task. To cope with this nuisance, today, we have an application from Colasoft, called MAC Scanner Free, which allows you to quickly find out the MAC addresses of all the devices connected to your network. Read on to find more details. Read More

WirelessKeyView Updated; Now Lets You Import & Export Wireless Keys

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Back in 2009, we featured WirelessKeyView, an application with the purpose of recovering Wireless Network Keys from Windows or from the data left behind after Windows is uninstalled. Since our last review, WirelessKeyView had many of its minor bugs fixed. The method of displaying data has also been improved to incorporate grid view and to mark odd and even rows in order to make it easier to keep track of the fields. However the most important update added recently was the Import and Export of Wireless Keys. So now, you can backup and migrate your wireless keys anywhere you want.

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ContactSync: Sync Specific Outlook Contacts Groups With Network Users

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Want to share specific Outlook Contacts group across the network users, but don’t want the fuss of having to manually pick and send contact cards from Address Book and send them to connected users? Meet ContactSync, an ingeniously simple, yet powerful Outlook 2010 add-on that lets you effortlessly share a specific contact group with anyone connected to your network. It is basically developed to let users easily share their business contacts with their co-workers and keep their shared contact groups synced all the time. It allows you to change the shared contact group, add, remove and edit contacts and replace the currently synced shared contact category with any contact group of your choice. In addition, ContactSync implements duplicate conflict resolution technique for de-duplication of shared contacts. When you share a contact, it immediately looks for contact with similar name and email address to prevent saving duplicate entries in shared contact group. It also uses FileAs and Email fields identify the same contact. Read past the jump for details. Read More

Colasoft Ping Tool: Ping IP Addresses & Graphically Compare Response Times

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Ping is a computer network administration tool used to test if a certain host is reachable or not. It is also used to measure the round-trip time for messages sent from one host location to a destination computer. Previously, we have covered some network administrator utilities to ping local and remote locations, such as GPING (a portable utility that pings hosts and generates graphs for multiple host responses simultaneously), and FreePing Tool (a GUI-based application which allows you to ping host addresses to track the overall server time). Today, we have another similar tool for you, Colasoft Ping Tool, which allows you to ping multiple IP addresses at a time and plot the response times on a graph. The application allows you to save ping charts in a BMP file. More on Colasoft Ping Tool after the break. Read More

How To Create Wireless Ad Hoc Internet Connection In Windows 8 [Tip]

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Apart from Start Orb and classic Start Menu, what most Windows 7 users, who decided to take Windows 8 for a spin, miss in Windows 8 is ability to create ad-hoc network. If you’re a power users, you might’ve noticed that Windows 8 doesn’t include an option to create and setup ad hoc network connection to share files and internet with Wi-Fi enabled computers and devices. Windows 7 ad hoc connection feature does nothing except creating a shared connection with separate IP address to register the device on the virtual network. This allows users to use router’s default or specified DNS server address to easily connect to internet. Even though Windows 8 comes with ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) feature to allow devices  to connect to yours PC internet connection, it doesn’t allow creating a wireless network connection to share the internet. In this post, we will look at some tools that let you easily create and manage ad-hoc connections in Windows 8. Read More

Z-DBackup: Modular File Backup Solution With Advance Directory Sync Options

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Looking for a data backup utility that can do a lot more than just copying all the files or just newly created files from source to target locations? An application that supports numerous types of target mediums, while allowing you to create and configure file backup schemes, design synchronization jobs, set automated backup tasks, perform post-backup operations, burn files to optical discs, and compress backed up data? Z-DBackup is a modular backup system that offers a comprehensive set of features that may help you customize backup jobs as per your data backup and synchronization needs. Although it comes packed with an exhaustive list of backup features and tools, it doesn’t make it difficult for users to select the required tools that they want to use while backing up their files. Some of the noteworthy tools included in the application are backup data at network location, burn CD/DVD with backed up data, auto-shutdown after specified job finishes, create ZIP archive containers, virus self test,  run pre and post backup operations, and backup active and locked files. Read past the jump for details. Read More

Airplane Mode & Metered Connections In Windows 8 Network Settings

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Among all the other UI changes of Windows 8, the way Network settings are accessed and manipulated has also been changed. Instead of the small box listing the available networks in Windows 7, there is now a Metro Style bar on the right side that deals with everything related to the Network settings. Windows 8 has been released as a single operating system for both PC’s and tablets. Although most of the features work on both PC’s and tablets, there are some options which currently can only be fully utilized on a specific device. Options such as the Airplane Mode and Metered Network are something totally new to the Network menu of Windows. In this article, we will be covering how to access and change Network Settings in Windows 8. Read More

Clipboardic: Save Clipboard Items In Files & Share Text Clippings Across Network

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Clipboard managers offer an easy way to keep track of items you move to Windows clipboard during a session, and help you use selected clipboard items in required applications. Since clipboard tools allow saving only a limited number of items in the list, you may want to save the entire clipboard items stack separately to restore the clipboard data anytime you want, but wouldn't it be better if the clipboard manager could automatically move the saved clipboard items to Windows clipboard to let you easily use the paste the items. Nirsoft’s Clipboardic has been designed keeping this very idea in mind. It’s lightweight, portable clipboard manager that lets you save clipboard items in a file (CLP). You can use clipboard files to move the saved clipboard items to Windows clipboard by simply selecting the file from the application. Read More

Network Sorcerer Is One-Stop Client PC Control Utility For Small Networks

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Network administrators of small scale networks, ranging from 10-50 systems connected to one server, often require a standalone network suite that can automatically administer all the connected systems. There are many network tools available to control the client operations such as system shutdown, restart, hibernate, wake-on-LAN, send critical messages and more, but what if you don’t want to switch between network utilities to perform required network tasks. If you’re using a variety of tools to control each aspect of the deployed network, check out Network Sorcerer. It’s a comprehensive application that has been specifically designed to handle small networks. Providing a unified administration console, it lets you perform client PC-related tasks right from system tray, including ping hosts, shutdown, suspend, restart, and hibernate, and send direct messages. Moreover, these options are highly configurable; you can select the options you want to access from system tray. Details to follow after the jump. Read More

eToolz Brings The Most Useful Network & Web Tools Under One Hood

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Do you hate using multiple network tools for performing required tasks, including domain lookup, resolve DNS, ping domain, trace route and more? eToolz is a light-weight, portable application suite that includes a total of 10 most useful network utilities, enabling you to perform numerous network-specific operations from one window. The application has been specifically built to help network administrators diagnose and resolve a wide range of network-related issues. While the application comes packed with superior-alternatives to various Windows command line utilities, including Tracert, Ping etc, it hosts a number of web-related tools as well, that allow you to view page rank of any website, view domain whois information, verify email address, extract and view HTTP header info from given URL, and connect to internet time servers. Read More

Deploy Event-Based Network Monitoring Solution With IT Service View

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Amongst the list of network administration tasks, monitoring each connected device, including hubs, routers, switches, clients, member and main servers is probably the most complicated task, as it requires system administrators to manually check each devices in a deployed network architecture. There are certainly a wide range of network-related tools available for server editions of Windows that allow monitoring a set of network devices like hubs, switches and routers, but If you don’t want to install multiple network monitoring applications to keep an eye on all connected devices, have a look at IT Service View. It’s a simple, yet robust, Network Devices monitoring utility that supports client and server editions of Windows, allowing system administrators to monitor both small scale and large-scale network architecture without having to deploy a complex monitoring solution. Details to follow after the jump. Read More

ST Proxy Switcher: Switch Between Proxies From Several Countries

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ST Proxy Switcher is a free application that provides a wide range of free proxy servers and allows switching between them in a click. This enables surfing the web anonymously by switching between servers of different proxy services from around the world, thereby disguising your real IP address and location. ST Proxy Switcher comes with an integrated download tool, which helps you obtain proxy servers from all over the world. You can mark selected servers as favorites for instant access from the system tray, and customize the list by adding or removing proxy servers from numerous countries around the world. Read More

HardwareGrowler: Hardware & Network Change Notifications On Mac [Paid]

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If you’ve been a Mac user, even for a while, chances are good that you know what Growl notifications are. Growl is a third party unified notification system for all apps that support it. It’s sole purpose is to give you notifications, but instead of receiving them from each app individually, this notification app routes them all, so that you receive notification through it only. In short, it is the one notification app to rule them all. HardwareGrowler is a Mac app available for $1.99 in the Mac app store, and it does for hardware and network changes what Growl does for apps. The app gives you notifications for any and all changes in hardware, and changes to your network. Read More

RemoteRebootX: Shutdown, Wake & Perform Other System Actions Remotely

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There are a number of application (e.g., WakeMeOn LAN), which are meant to remotely wake up computers via command sent out through the Local Area Network (LAN). Being able to remotely wakeup, shutdown or reboot computers can allow easy management of data center servers, as well as other LAN computers that may be located all over the office. RemoteRebootX is a portable application that not only provides remote wake on LAN functionality, but also enables users to remotely reboot, shutdown, ping, retrieve the last boot time and MAC address, and obtain the list of services that are set to “Automatic” on remote computers. Read More

How To Create Backup At Remote Location When PC Stops Booting [Beginner's Guide]

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Earlier we discussed a few ways to diagnose Windows problems and fix the issues when PC fails to boot up using Ubuntu Live USB, including reset Windows 7 admin and standard account password, perform disk wipe operation, repair lost partitions and recover hard disk data, and run anti-virus scan over entire hard disk to fix booting issues. If you've persistent Ubuntu USB, you could fix various kind of issues which are generally hard to identify on Windows, such as removing virus-infected read-only system files and services, but before you start repairing your PC using Ubuntu Live USB, it’s recommended to backup all the important data at remote location, so that you can fearlessly perform the system repair operations. In the past, we showed you how to clone an entire hard disk and make IMG (image file) of hard disk partition and then restore at defined location. This time around, we bring you a step-by-step guide on backing up important files and folders on network when PC fails to boot up. Read More

Record Time-Based Network Bandwidth Utilization Stats With NetTraffic

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Bandwidth utilization stats are sometimes required to analyze the upload/download rate of each network interface, in order to access areas where bandwidth may be getting wasted. For example, many corporate internet packages are restricted by a data cap, and exceeding the data cap can result in hefty costs for the business. In such a case, the network administrator may be required to submit a report regarding bandwidth usage. While such stats are nearly impossible to accurately gather by conventional methods, you can, however, use applications like NetTraffic to record such stats over a period of time. NetTraffic is a network monitoring tool for keeping an eye on the network data rate. It provides information about the downloaded and uploaded data, as well as delivers numerical and graphical charts to provide details about network usage by hour, day, month and year. Other than real time graphs from the main interface, NetTraffic also provides bandwidth utilization stats right from the system tray menu, in the form of a small pop-up window. Other features of this application include the ability to import/export statistics, customizable charts and support for multiple network interfaces. Read More

Take Screenshots & Share Them Across The Network Using Kidsnapper

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There are many famous screenshot taking tools like GreenShot and Shotty, which enable grabbing and editing screenshots. However, sometimes one requires capturing screenshots from not just the current system, but also from remote computers (e.g., servers) to check whether required processes are running or not. Moreover, it can also be necessary to share your screen with other users across a network which may have various operating system like Windows, Mac or Linux. Kidsnapper is a portable screenshot taking and sharing tool that not only allows grabbing screenshots from your current desktop, but also makes it possible to share screenshots with remote computers via local web server.  This can help people using various operating system platforms to get screenshots from Windows-based computers. For example, a system administrator using a Linux operating system can get screenshots from Windows-based clients' PCs on the network by simply entering their IP address and port (2000 by default) in a browser. Read More

NppDocShare: Real-Time Document Editing On Multiple PCs In Notepad++

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Simple text editing can be performed using any text editor, such as the Windows Notepad, or the WordPad, if you need some more options for editing text. However, when you are editing something other than plain text, such as a code for a program you are writing, your editing needs are not met by the default programs for handling text included in Windows. Writing and editing programming languages without any extra tools can make the process very hard on the coder. Notepad++ is an open source text editor that allows users to perform both basic, as well as advanced text editing. The software allows users to install various plugins that enhance its capability even more. New plugins are coming out for Notepad++ every day, making it one the most powerful text editors out there. NppDocShare is one such plugin that increases the document editing capabilities of Notepad++ by allowing users to edit the same document from two different computers at the same time. You just need to connect the computers through a network connection, and you will be able to edit the document in real time. All the actions performed by each party will be instantly available to the other, without any lag or delay. Read More