Unhandled Perception

GoodSync is an easy and reliable file backup and file synchronization software. It automatically analyzes, synchronizes, and backs up your emails, precious family photos, music, contacts, financial documents, and other important files locally – between desktops, laptops, servers, external drives, and Windows Mobile devices, as well as remotely through FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, and more.

They even provide tutorials for backing up applications where the locations of the data storage is not always obvious (Outlook, Roboform, Quicken, OE …)

Link: http://www.goodsync.com/

What’s new in Safari 5:

• Safari Reader: Read online articles in a continuous, clutter-free view.
• Greater HTML5 Support: Safari now offers even more support for HTML5 features.
• Better Performance: An enhanced Nitro Engine lets you browse the web at blazing speeds. DNS prefetching and improved caching.
• Bing Search: Safari gives you another search option with built-in Bing search.
• Safari Developer Program: Customize Safari with extensions you create using web standards.

Big week for Apple.

Link: http://www.apple.com/safari/whats-new.html

RESTClient is a Java application to test RESTful webservices. It can be used to test variety of HTTP communications.

Link: http://code.google.com/p/rest-client/

Burnaware Free:
http://www.burnaware.com

ImgBurn:
http://www.imgburn.com/

CDBurnerXP
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/en/

Starburn (download the free version):
http://www.starburnsoftware.com/products/starburn/download

We feature hundreds of different downloads every year at Lifehacker. If all you want is the best of the best, look no further than our annual Lifehacker Pack: One download that installs only our favorite, must-have Windows applications in a few clicks.

As with last year’s Lifehacker Pack (and its much older predecessor), the Lifehacker Pack is intended as both an up-to-date compilation of our favorite Windows apps and utilities, and an actual bundle of software you can easily install.

Link: http://lifehacker.com/…

ChromeCacheView is a small utility that reads the cache folder of Google Chrome Web browser, and displays the list of all files currently stored in the cache. For each cache file, the following information is displayed: URL, Content type, File size, Last accessed time, Expiration time, Server name, Server response, and more.

Link: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/chrome_cache_view.html

Problems like broken links, spelling errors and usability problems drive visitors away. Search engine issues stop visitors before they arrive. Find and fix problems before your customers or C-level executives find them.

Great tool for running comprehensive reports on your, or your clients, website.  SortSite gives you all the information about problems and issues with the website before your visitors find them.

If you’re looking for a sample, for a single client, check out Veign’s Website Check.

Link: http://www.powermapper.com/products/sortsite/

Not the best name but it is a handy little application if you’re looking for the simplest Twitter client available.

Leave comment on what you think.  Would you use this over TweetDeck?

Link: http://renegademinds.com/Products/…

Microsoft OneApp is a new software application that enables feature phones—commonly found in emerging markets—to access mobile apps like Facebook, Twitter, Windows Live Messenger, and other popular apps and games. Now, people around the world who own feature phones will be able to do more and enjoy a better mobile experience with their existing phones. Microsoft OneApp will be offered initially through partners in emerging markets worldwide.

The have an interactive demo that allows you to play, and see, OneApp in action.  Not sure if it was a SilverLight incompatibility or what but the interactive demo would not work for me.  Not too worried as I recently purchased an iPhone, which by the way is excellent.

Anyone with hands on experience with OneApp leave a comment.  Let me know what you think.

Link: http://www.microsoft.com/oneapp/

If you’re considering an Office 2010 upgrade, be sure you learn the lesson of Windows 7. Microsoft offers its best prices to early adopters. Those who wait pay more.

Blog post contains ways to save from 30% to 50%…

Link: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/…

Navicat™ is a fast, reliable and affordable Database Administration tool purpose-built for simplifying database management and reducing administration costs. Designed to meet the needs of database administrators, developers, and small and medium businesses, Navicat is built with an intuitive GUI which lets you create, organize, access and share information in a secure and easy way.

What’s new in v9:

• Code/Word Completion
• Code Folding
• Matched Brace/Bracket Highlighting
• SQL Beautifier
• Favorites
• Object Filter
• New Backup Tool

Navicat has been my MySQL manager ever since being introduced to it by DonationCoder and I’ve never looked back.  Tried a few others, for testing, over the years but Navicat has always proved to be superior.

It’s not mentioned in the upgrade information but for me v9 seems to be faster when dealing with larger databases.

Compare Navicat for yourself with their free demo…

Link:  http://www.navicat.com/

Who said Excel takes lot of time / steps do something? Here is a list of 15 incredibly fun things you can do to your spreadsheets and each takes no more than 5 seconds to do.

Link:
http://chandoo.org/wp/2008/08/01/…

Thoughts, leave a comment…

Freeware application WirelessKeyView recovers the wireless network keys saved to your computer by the Windows Wireless Zero Configuration service of XP or the WLAN AutoConfig service in Vista. As with any password-finding tool…

Link:
http://lifehacker.com/366649/…

Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. The unique capabilities of Process Explorer make it useful for tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks, and provide insight into the way Windows and applications work.

What’s New:

This Process Explorer release includes several significant new features, including the showing the web hosted in IE8 processes in the process tooltip, display of a svchost’s service host category in its tooltip, mapping of service names to threads on the threads tab and TCP/IP tabs of the process properties dialog on Windows Vista and higher (thanks to Windows Internals 5th Ed. coauthor Alex Ionescu), a new.NET assembly information tab in the process properties dialog (thanks to Pete Sheill), as well as other improvements and bug fixes.

Link:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/…