IT Notes for Reference

I was recently reading an article by Rick Vanover from Techrepublic.com on resolving the physical location from an IP address. Nice and useful tool when needed. This of course would not give you the exact location, but basically the relative location based on Country, State, City and ISP. IP2Location

This is small utility used for finding one's Internal and External IP in one application. No install needed, just execute after unzipping. Yeah, I know you can also log onto your router to get the same info....but I found this a little bit faster and lazier ! IP2 Thanks to http://www.ezlan.net/ip_mac.html for the link!

Have you ever wondered how many Mega Bytes per Second your download serial bandwidth stream is when rated at 12.53 Mega Bits per second? Very easy conversion can be done quickly with multiple results with this helpful tool! iCal IBeast Bandwidth Calculator

Looks like another innovative and unique application was unveiled today by Google. Google Chrome OS would most likely be coming out, pre-installed on some netbooks sometime during the 2010 holiday season. The Operating System will be relying on an internet connection continuously to access applications and data online. It seems that there may be a good size group of users who might get by using Chrome OS for day to day function. Can't wait to see how this one turns out in the years to come. I've been a fan of Google for about 3 years now, and they continue to surprise and bring innovation. Chrome OS

I recently moved to Microsoft Security Essentials from Avira for my personal choice for Free based Anti-Virus software. The main issue I had with Avira was the random pop-up's I would get random times that would interfere with some important activities, mainly my Lord of the Rings Online time......during those pop-ups, my game would see a noticable slow down, so I thought it was time to move on from Avira. Other than that small issue, Avira has proved to be good Free based Anti-Virus choice in the past. It's been about 1 week so far with Microsoft Security Essentials, and it certainly looks I will be keeping this install and letting it continue to run in the background. No unwanted pop-up's or any other type of interferece besides the required memory resources needed to run in the background. So far so good with this one from Microsoft. Definetly a great addition to the line up of available Free Anti-Virus software for Windows based systems. http://www.microsoft.com/Securit...