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ReRun Check: Find Out if Your Favorite Show is a Repeat

T.J. Mininday — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:23:56 +0000

Nothing can drive a TV fan more nuts then really getting involved in a show for several weeks, only to have it come up with a rerun the next week. Especially when it catches you be surprise. It would at least be nice to know if the upcoming episode was in face a repeat or not. Well, there’s a simple website that will give you the quick answer.

One my fellow MakeUseOf writers Jorge, recently came up with a very simple and easy to use website to tell whether or not your show is in fact going to be a duplicate in their upcoming episde. It’s called RerunCheck.

RerunCheck takes the pain of scraping through tough to read tv listings, and simply displays whether or not your favorite upcoming show is going to be a repeat or not. Simply enter the search for the name of your show and a Yes or No will pop-up on your screens.

There are also RSS updates to get continuous and regular updates on a show you’d like and you may finally create your own account to manage several shows and display what their upcoming show will be.

RerunCheck

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Ammyy Admin – Remote Access with No Steps in Between

T.J. Mininday — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:16:36 +0000

There are plenty of options out there today for remote access. Most people these days use products such as GoToMyPC or LogMeIn for simple and easy access to their home or work PC. These work great for when you need to access the same PC over and over again, but what about when you are simply trying to help out your parents or friends with a quick fix. There are a few options out there like CrossLoop, GoToAssist and Teamviewer, but all require some type of installation and their biggest benefits are the paid versions of their products. Ammyy Admin is the simplest no nonsense product that will get you connected to who ever you want, when ever you want.

Ammyy Admin is one single executable file that is downloaded and ran from both the client and the operator PC. After each of the users fires up the program they are prompted with the following screen.

On the client side, the user simply click the connect button and it connects through the firewall to an available router. During this connection period, an extremely small zip file is downloaded and installed to the proper location on the PC.

Once the client is connected, the operator needs the correct ID number in the box. The operator enters that ID, and clicks connect a small Ammy ‘viewer’ app is downloaded to that PC and installed again to it’s proper location.

Once the operator attempts to connect the remote PC, the client is prompted with box to accept with a few additional options to allow for additional access.

Which is finally followed by the actual connection and the operator receiving a viewable window of the client machine.

In addition to the above instructions, there a few more options and security measures that you can put in place.

Only allow specific PCs to connect to your client machine.
File transferring.
Run the application as a service. Allowing you to run it without any user intervention.
All sessions use AES encryption, with a different key for each. For maximum security.

I have been looking for a free solution like this for quite a while. Most other products require some type of registration and client installation. Ammyy Admin gets the job done with some added benefits such as file transfers and computer permissions. The product is compatible with all versions of Windows 2000 and above, and is a perfect solution for simple remote administration at home and at work.

Are there any other free solutions as simple as Ammyy Admin? Do you see any security flaws with this app? What are some remote admin applications that you use?

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Screenshot a Website and Archive It with BackUpURL

T.J. Mininday — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:06:55 +0000

Have you ever wanted to simply archive a particular website instantly? How often do you use the internet archive to look back at the internet in the past? Want to share a website that you know will be removed due to legal reasons? Well, then BackupURL is for you.

BackupURL is self proclaimed as ” The First Instant URL Caching Website!”. It takes any URL and caches it’s current page instantly. Once it’s created, a random permanent URL is created and can be shared for everyone’s use.

It works different then services such as Google or other automated cache, in that it’s instantaneous. Once you enter the URL, it automatically stores the page and generates the URL for you.

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Sunday Links 10.26.08 – The Windows Fix Weekly Link Finds

T.J. Mininday — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:00:36 +0000

So, these don’t seem to be as popular anymore, but I think it’s a good way to get great finds of the week from fellow friends and bloggers. Each Sunday, I’ll bring great reads/finds that I’ve discovered via the many blogs that I read on a daily basis. Here is the list for the week of 10/19/2007.

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HearWho.com – Alfred’s Tech Blog – An online application for simply converting text to audio by copying and pasting.

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