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Lifehacker has named DCoT’s PC Repair System as one of it’s top ten free system computer recovery tools!  This is a great honor as these people go through a lot of tools and technologies to to be recognized by them is huge!

I just need to point out that this tool is more of a compilation than it is something that I wrote.  There are a lot of tools available on that system which represents a lot of work and effort of other people.  A HUGE thanks to all of these people for their contribution to the computer culture.

Lifehacker writes:

Top 10 Free System Recovery Tools, #8: Access a menu of 37 Windows repair and recovery utilities from a 32MB USB drive with the all-in-one PC Repair Kit. The program list ranges from CCleaner, to Eraser, to ProcessExplorer and ProduKey and TweakUI.

If you haven’t tried out this system, feel free to jump in and download it for yourself.

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Your Internet connection’s IP address is like your home mailing address. It is the key to getting access to the contents of the remote computer. If you know your home IP address, it gives you the ability to connect to that IP address from any other computer on the Internet and access resources that you have made available.

One of the problems that many people run across is that their IP address changes so even if they memorize their IP address, it may be different when they go to access it remotely. This is the problem that DCoT reader Shep was having:

Dear Tim,

First of all, I’m a big fan. I check in every day. I think the kid rescue story at Disney is great!

Here’s my tech help question. I realize it’s a bit obscure. Okay, it’s very obscure.

I use TightVNC (which I run off my Cruzer using DCoTMenu) to access my networks at home and at my office. My office network has a static IP but my home network does not. If I am away and the dynamic IP at home changes I can’t access the network (as it did last week while we were on vacation).

I realize that the solution to my problem is to get a static IP, or use one of those web services which assigns a “static” IP, or use Himachi, GoToMyPC, or a similar program.

For the sake of argument, let’s say that I’m not going to do any of those things.

My question is this: Is there a way for my home network to broadcast it’s IP on a regular basis (every 6 hours) to an email account or, preferably, upload the IP via FTP to my personal webspace (which is not hosted on my home or office network)?

Thanks.
Shep

Well, Shep, this has proven to be a worthy challenge but I have come up with a solution. I have written an application called External IP that will e-mail you or upload an HTML file to a web server with your IP address information on whatever schedule you like. This way, you will always know your home IP address.

Please be aware that this is a work in progress and there may still be the odd bug lurking in the code.

External IP is a freeware application and everyone is free to use and download the application as they see fit. But, if you find it useful, a donation would be greatly appreciated!

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Daily Cup of Tech has been awarded a Bloggy Award!  I’m not certain how prestigious it is but it’s kind of cool to get the recognition.  Here is what they say about DCoT:

Visit the Daily Cup of Tech for your daily dose of anything and everything technology related. Read a wide variety of articles about Windows, Ubuntu, USB drives, other featured tech blogs, and much more.

Visual Aesthetics - 9

Simple. With enough images for visual relief from all the text. Nice header and divider. With a few ads though not too much to be really irritating.

User Friendliness - 10

Simple straightforward navigation. Uncluttered and pretty much organized sidebar. Fast enough loading time. Readable fonts. Distinct links. First few paragraphs shown only for longer posts so you won’t need to scroll down again and again just to skip posts that are not of interest to you.

Reading Enjoyment - 9

Some very enjoyable reads here but with a few rather boring posts too as you can expect from a tech blog. The “boring posts” are undoubtedly not boring though for those that find the entries relevant. The entries do not always spark a lively discussion in the comment but when it does make sure you read the comments as they add to the enjoyment AND the information you can get from the posts. BTW I really enjoyed the entry on Digg Results. I also dugg it. ^_^

Useful Info - 10

Useful as useful can be. Each and every single entry offer relevant information to at least some if not most of his readers. No need to recap all the stuff you will find here since there are just way to many topics. All you need to know is that if you want tech, here is where you’ll find it.

Overall Experience - 10

Very good tech blog. A daily dose of this blog would certainly suit me. Another blog to add to my subscriptions.

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A quick apology to those reading things in the feeds.  I made a change that would allow full text to be available in the feeds but use the more tag on the main page.  I then upgraded Wordpress and promptly deleted my changes!  I will be reposting today’s post so that it shows up in full in the feeds and with more on the main page.

Thanks for your patience.

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Just a quick note to let everyone know that I am doing some experimenting on the website so you may see some odd things in your RSS feeds and on the website from time to time. Read the rest of the story…

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