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Technology for Small Business Success

May 12th, 2008

12 Tools that Rule

12 tools

Acuity Scheduling - easy to use online appointment scheduling

DimDim - free shared desktop web meetings

Yugma - An easy-to-use, affordable shared desktop web collaboration service that works on Windows, Mac and Linux

Dropsend - Easy file transfer; Send large files of up to 1GB; free plan available

Wrike - An integrated online project management solution that helps you manage projects, teams and businesses

SpringNote - online notebook and mini-Wiki

Sky-Click - Setup your Free Click to Call Center

iHound - track devices by alerting you when your USB digital device is connected to another computer

Doodlekit - an online FREE website builder that helps you build a personal or business website.

NanoScan - Scan your PC for viruses, spyware, Trojans, etc. right from your homepage.

Web Album Generator - a software program that creates all the HTML, JPEG thumbnails, and CSS for your online photo albums

Linkrr - a tool that changes your non-clickable multiple links to clickables

February 28th, 2008

Systems Management Using Splunk

Here is a tool I find invaluable if you are overloaded with tons of data about your IT systems but can’t get any real information. Splunk allows you to centrally collect and index all text-based data such as syslog and windows event logs, router config files, security data (firewall & IDS), and network management events. You can then search, group, and consolidate that data to make it easier to find out what’s really going on.

In their own words:
Splunk is “the IT Search Engine that indexes and lets you search, navigate, alert, and report on IT data from any application, server, or network device. Securely access logs, configurations, scripts and code, message, traps and alerts, activity reports, stack traces and metrics across thousands of components, from one place, all in real time.”

With a free Splunk license you can index up to 500 MB/day. The commercial version allows distributed searching which I find really useful but if you only need one Splunk server than that shouldn’t matter.

Splunk - funny name; great open source tool…

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