Category: Tools
VMWare’s Open Virtual Machine Tools
Nice! VMWare recently released an open source version of its very popular virtual machine tools. It’s currently housed on Sourceforge, known as Open Virtual Machine Tools. The Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) are the open source implementation of VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user…
Import your OS X address book contacts into Gmail
Have you ever wondered how to do this, well…look no further as I’ll show you. It’s simple really. All you have to do is download AddressBook2CSV Exporter from Antonio Lore‘s website. After installing it, simply do the export, and then import into Gmail, which basically needs a CSV file; however, be forewarned…if some fields are…
Note taking the mind mapping way in meetings
Here’s a great article on mind maps, specifically, how you can make use of it in meetings. Enjoy!
VMWare Fusion
I’ve been using Parallels Desktop for Mac since it’s beta days, and have been pretty happy with it until now. The biggest qualm I have (with the version I currently have: version 2) is the lack of an appropriate video card driver; playing as well as using it for graphically-intensive games and applications is not…
Microsoft’s Web Application Stress tool
It’s a tool that provides you an easy way to simulate large numbers of users against your web app, which makes it possible for one to make intelligent decisions about hardware and software load incurred by your application and how much traffic a given machine or group of machines can handle. In case you need…
IntelliAdmin Network Administrator
Network Administrator is a nifty little tool for IT Administrators in small to medium-sized environments. So, what can it do you ask? Well, according to the publisher of this tool, it can: Validate installation of 2007 Daylight Saving Patch. It can detect ours, and Microsoft’s patch Push out and apply 2007 Daylight Saving patch to…