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ReviewsTestimonialswikidPad: "Bryce Yehl

http://www.ntwizards.net/2004/03/08/wikidpad

I am constantly looking for the ultimate Personal Knowledge Management tool. Most of my work-related KM happens in Outlook Notes. Those little yellow windows suck in so many ways, especially organization, but they have one strong point that is tough to match: the create-edit-save cycle is blazingly fast (Alt-Tab, Ctrl-Shift-N, Paste / Type, Esc).

After using wikidPad for a few weeks, I'm ready to say that Outlook Notes have finally met their match. wikidPad is basically a graphical single-user wiki. If you've heard of VoodooPad? for Mac OS X, this is roughly the Windows equivalent.

With no web server or browser involved, wikidPad is pretty quick. WikiPages? are listed using a treeview control on the left, expanding an item shows each of the WikiWords within that page. On the right is the page editor, a semi-WYSIWYG control (wiki formatting is not hidden). To create a new page you simply select an existing page, type in a WikiWord and double-click on it.

wikidPad comes with a seemingly comprehensive wiki that explains all of the usual wiki features that I've barely looked at. There are keywords and attributes, with automatically generated views. There's search, of course, and special views to find orphaned and modified pages.

When my 30-day trial expired I didn't think twice about pay the $12 that the author requests, and for the right set of features I would happily pay several times that. Give me revision tracking and integration with a collaborative tool that supports authorization, such as a traditional web-based wiki or something like Groove, and I'll be in KM heaven. Bonus points if it can sync with a PDA or smartphone."
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jjLanga is supposedly smart: well, here's to the LMITS of what one person can know-- and glaring oversights...

Flurl; free (ad-supported); allows wmv, asf, mpeg, mpg, avi, swf, jpg, gif, mp3, wav (max size 10-Mbyte each) file types; "Porn and illegal content is not allowed," but this restriction apparently is only loosely enforced; also has "mature" upload/search to segregate some of the more potentially offensive content.

The Good, The Bad....
All the above just scratches the surface of this burgeoning field, as this Google search suggests. There are many, many other services -- but many of those include content that only the most desensitized person would find inoffensive; many are not safe for work, and are definitely not "family-friendly."

EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE such an alter-reality EXISTS. shabby is my immediate conclusion, oops>
Examples

PBase (see above, as well); by subscription, starting at $23 per year for 300-Mbytes of storage; supports jpg, gif, and png file types, and Zip or TAR compressed collections of jpg, gif and png files. Allows direct hotlinking to your images, so your users don't have to go through Pbase pages to see your photos. No ads appear on the Pbase site pages. The TOS ("terms of service") specifies no porn or offensive content, and appears to be well enforced.

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oversold drivel: and yes i hate dumb people, and yes they do permit, foster and assuage most of the evil in the world> http://www.informationweek.com/windows/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=EHDFEZ5550SMGQSNDBGCKH0CJUMEKJVN?articleID=163105444&pgno=2

Plus, the vendor had two hidden partitions on the hard drive, which combined to eat almost a third of the disk space I'd paid for. This isn't unusual: Many vendors now ship PCs with a special hidden partition on it that contains the recovery data, diagnostic software, and perhaps a kind of disk image of the as-delivered, factory-fresh software setup. The idea is that when you get into trouble, you can restore this pristine image, and get things back exactly the way they were on day one, when the PC rolled off the assembly line.

Vendors love this because it reduces their support costs: They can undo any user- or software-caused problems simply by having you roll your system back to a controlled, known-good, factory-perfect state.

Trouble is, the hidden partition cannot be used for anything else; it can eat up a truly huge chunk of your total hard-drive space, even if the recovery files are of no use or interest to you.
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http://www.informationweek.com/LP/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=W23CVNSCY0MYOQSNDBGCKH0CJUMEKJVN?articleID=171203805&pgno=2

My Choice, Then Yours From the above, I think that EasyCleaner is the best free tool currently available; and JV16 PowerTools 2005 is the current best commercial tool available.

Because JV16PowerTools offers a full, free, uncrippled trial version, you might want to try this approach: First download and run EasyCleaner. See what it does on your system. Next, download and run JV16 PowerTools 2005. See what additional cleaning it offers you, above and beyond what EasyCleaner did. If there seems to be enough extra cleaning to make it worthwhile, register your copy. If not, then stick with EasyCleaner -- but use the "donate" button to send the author at least a few bucks for his time and trouble.

As for the others, it's up to you. Perhaps your system is different enough from my informal test setup so that you get very different results from the above. Or perhaps you use other Registry cleaning software, not included among the 10 tools I tested. If so, please join the discussion and share your experiences!

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http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=ZKY0JVS41KOAYQSNDBGCKH0CJUMEKJVN?articleID=167100904

The name "Bart Lagerweij" is well-known //newest version of his latest, greatest free tool deserves special attention: It's a self-contained, CD-based "live" copy of Windows XP. // "BartPE" (Bart's Preinstalled Environment)

The CD-based version is self-contained--you can think of it as a zero-footprint installation of XP--and yet is, as Bart says, "...a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600), and FAT/NTFS/CDFS file system support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no operating system, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan, and so on. This will replace any DOS bootdisk in no time!"

This means that if your PC won't boot from its hard drive for some reason, you can use a BartPE CD to start the system, grab files off the hard drive (even if the drive is formatted in NTFS), ship the files to another PC on the network for safekeeping, and then use the tools either on the CD or on the hard drive to affect recovery or repair of the damaged system.

BartPE lets you start or stop file sharing on the PC you're working on; set or reset the Admin password; or even invoke XP's powerful "Remote Desktop Connection" facility. Combined, these abilities facilitate moving files to or from a distant PC, or using repair and recovery tools located on another system.And did I mention that BartPE is free?

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Building Your Copy Of BartPE
"Bart's PE Builder" is a wizard-type of tool that runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003 that largely automates the creation of your own bootable copy of "BartPE" (Bart Preinstalled Environment) on a CD-Rom or DVD. Bart's PE Builder provides the scripted intelligence to assemble the correct files and settings; you provide your original Windows XP (Home or Pro; SP1 or later) or Windows Server 2003 (Web/Standard/Enterprise) installation/setup CD; and the operating system files are copied from there. Bart says you also even can use a preinstalled Windows XP version (without a CD) as a source for building a copy of BartPE.

Bart has full step-by-step info on his site, along with download links and other useful tools. So if you've read this far, it's probably time for me to stop talking and to send you directly to his site: nu2.

And did I mention that BartPE, like all Bart's tools, is free?

A final thought: It's worth mentioning, as an aside, that BartPE and PE Builder are wholly separate from Microsoft's Windows Preinstallation Environment ("WinPE"). The latter is mainly a command-line-driven installation tool; Bart'sPE is mainly a graphical-interface repair/diagnostic tool.

In a way, the use of "PE" in both names is a little unfortunate because it may engender confusion in people who aren't paying attention; but the two tools are clearly different and aimed at different uses. Bart drives the point home on his site: "Using PE Builder does not grant you a license to Microsoft WinPE or to use the Windows XP or Server 2003 binaries in a manner other than stated in the End-User License Agreement included in your version of Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. Microsoft has not reviewed or tested PE Builder and does not endorse its use. Please do not contact Microsoft for support on the preinstallation environment that has been created by PE Builder! Microsoft does not provide support for PE Builder or for the preinstallation environment created by PE Builder...."