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I'm Jan Polzer. I write about the web, content management systems and the tools I actually use. New articles appear when there's something worth sharing.

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WSCC: A Graphical Interface for the Sysinternals Tools

Do you know the programs in the software package Sysinternals Suite? It is a set of tools for administrators of the Windows operating system. The once well-known company Sysinternals was bought by Microsoft, but all their programs are still available free for download; either alone, or in one big package. The disadvantage of the programs is the lack of any graphical interface, which introduce problems when trying to find the wanted application.

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Software, websites

iSpring Free: easy conversion from PowerPoint to Flash

Have you ever had the need for converting a PowerPoint presentation to Flash? From time to time, when you need to pass your presentation to a computer that’s not got PowerPoint installed – and PowerPoint Viewer is not an option – then converting it to Flash is a possible solution. Nowadays when the Flash plug-in can be found on more or less every computer, transferring your PowerPoint presentation to Flash will let you reach a broader audience. If you use Linux, you can convert your presentations on a web site.

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VHD, Virtual Hard Disks in Windows 7

The new operating system from Microsoft offers a number of innovations and one of them is the support of virtual disks created with Virtual PC or tools like Hyper-V. With the VHD virtual disk, you may experience connections with Windows Server 2008. In Windows 7, VHD is used to connect as another disk drive and access them the same way if it was a physical disk.

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QR Code, Microsoft Tag: say goodbye to the bar code

For some time we have been able to meet a new type of identifying mark that appear alongside the barcode, but also where the bar code never was to be repealed. Unless it is for demonstrating there’s more information that you can easily see with, for example, a special reader on your mobile phone if it’s equipped with a camera.

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Compass Universal Mail Client for Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo

Since I prefer the webmail user interface to my mailboxes I’m looking for the simple applications which offer only the basic window and display the webmail page using the integrated web browser rendering area. There is a few applications able to do this (and you can easily prepare your own with free Visual Studio Express), however I would like to show you the Compass Universal Mail Client.

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Taskbar Shuffle: change the order of taskbar buttons

Do you think about how the changing of the taskbar button’s order could be useful for you? If you are using the Windows XP or Windows Vista you can’t change this order any way. You have one chance - install the special freeware utility Taskbar Shuffle.

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