Looking for free defragmentation tool? Then try Defraggler. I’m not sure what’s the advantage compared to the defragmentation tool from Windows, maybe there is one – who knows. Defraggler allows defrag of individual files and comes with Vista support.
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Looking for a free CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD burning application? Try StarBurn, it comes with many features and is easy to use:
The professional version is available for $9 and the enterprise version for $49. Real nice price!
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Speed Test is a native iPhone application without advertising and allows you to measure the network speed of your iPhone or iPod Touch. The application come from speedtest.net which is a well known site for measuring your speed of your network connection.
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There are not so many network tools for admins available on the iPhone but a few are available like the “Network Utility“. It provides some terminal-like network tools on your iPhone. The standard edition is free and comes with some advertisements whereas the pro version does not contain any advertisement.
It comes with the main features:
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Another nice and free network tool for administrators: ChkWebSpeed. It measures the download speed of any website via WiFi or Cellular network. You can add your own websites and check the min, max & avg download speed over 10 iterations.
So you can easily compare several the speed of several the web sites to see if the site is slow or your current network connection.
It sounds quite strange, a VNC client for the iPhone. But incredible it works! I’ve used the Mocha VNC client because it is compatible with all known VNC server solutions. There are also other VNC clients available, but as far as I know they are not working together with all VNC server solutions.
I’ve tested the VNC client in a WiFi via a VPN connection to a Linux Red Hat Enterprise 3 server with the VNC server that comes with the Red Hat Enterprise distribution. After creating a profile and starting the remote connection a small surprise: a warning the my iPhone is low on memory. Funny, never seen such a warning before on my iPhone. But nevertheless the connection works.
The client supports landscape mode as well. And it’s possible to change the zoom of the remote display. Mouse handling is maybe not perfect but basically it works to remote control your server. I’ve not yet checked it over a G3 connection, it maybe a little bit slow. But for emergency cases it can be useful.
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Another nice free admin tool “Network Ping Lite” with useful features:
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“Domain Scout” is maybe not a power tool but it’s free and useful for IT and network administrators. It’s helpful for easy whois queries to check if a domain is available, have a look at the DNS and registrar details.
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For Windows there is a cute little tool from Microsoft available which can be used to synchronize folders. It is part of the Windows Server 2003 Resource Tool Kit and called “Robocopy”. It is a command line tool which supports UNC path names. So it’s a useful tool to sync folders e.g. to a network storage (NAS).
A simple call to sync a folder to a second local hard disc looks like:
robocopy c:\temp\Privat "e:\backup" /MIR
/MIR mirror a directory tree
If you want to sync to a NAS storage which is not based on a Microsoft Operating System you need to add some further flags:
robocopy c:\temp\Privat "\\ts-101\USB Disk 1\Test" /MIR /Z /A /M
/Z copy files in restartable mode (useful when sync e.g. over DSL connection which may sometimes terminate)
/M copy only files with the Archive attribute set and reset it (needed if you want to sync to a NAS storage which is not based on Microsoft)
/A copy only files with the Archive attribute set (needed if you want to sync to a NAS storage which is not based on Microsoft)
Obtaining Robocopy
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For personal use there is a simple free setup builder GkSetup available. It’s suitable for standard setups. So if you are looking for one give this one a try.
The FREE Edition offers:
Useful tips regarding technical stuff for things like Linux, MySQL, apache, PHP, linux server, iPhone and more.