What’s This All About?
ShowIP is a handy utility that will show you your Local Area Network (LAN) and Internet (WAN or Wide Area Network) IP address. It will also monitor these IP addresses for change and warn you if this occurs.
Why Would You Want It?
Your IP address is used by remote computers and servers to find your computer. There are times when you need to know this information. For instance for remote login applications and setting up games consoles for multi player use over the Internet. Sometimes it is useful to know your Internet IP address to when looking at access by programs and “Web 2” applications. Most IP addresses assigned locally or by your ISP are dynamic and can change, so it may be useful for you to be aware of this.
(Note – Static addresses can be assigned if required. This is relatively easy for LAN addresses but will probably involve additional costs with an ISP for your WAN)
What Does It Do – The Essentials?
Summary:
- Looks up LAN & WAN IP addresses
- Monitors addresses for changes
- Copies addresses to the clipboard
- Allows release/refresh of LAN dynamic addresses
- Logs Information
Pros: What’s Good?
Features & Benefits
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What’s This All About?
Laptops are getting every cheaper, a good quality refurbished or secondhand laptop can be purchased over the Internet from eBay or other reliable websites for very reasonable prices. Loaded with Windows Media Center or Vista they provide an ideal platform having all the basic essentials for your “media playback over TV” needs.
In writing this post I checked on eBay and found that a Laptop with HDMI output can be bought for $500 US or £400 (why do we always pay more in the UK than the same product in the USA?). The fact is you don’t need HDMI and a suitable laptop with a Video, S-Video output will do. If you have a TV that will accept VGA or DVI input even better. A quick search shows suitable secondhand laptops with Video/VGA output connectors are available on eBay today for less than £200 or $250 US.
In the picture above the Laptop is sitting just below the top shelf on top of the Hard Drive recorder box, this setup in my lounge includes Logitech surround sound with remote control and a wireless keyboard with touchpad. The laptop connects to my home network and provides access to videos, music and pictures as well as Internet access. It is all connected to a 42” Panasonic Plasma screen.
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What Is It?
iRotate is a small utility which does a great job in its sole purpose is to rotate the image on your monitor. It works with most current graphics cards and is a useful utility if you want to change the view from landscape to portrait.
Why Would You Want It?
It is sometimes very useful to be able to view a program window in portrait mode, particularly when writing documents or creating images which naturally appear that way. Generally you would want a pivoting monitor, but in a multimonitor setup an ordinary monitor could be stood on its end without too much difficulty.
What Does It Do – The Essentials?
Summary:
- Rotates the on-screen image
- Provides access to Display Properties dialog
Pros: What’s Good?
Features & Benefits
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What Is It?
A Firefox Add-on that allows you to save and view web pages in a handy single file often known as web archive or “mht” files (from the .mht extension which is for MIME HTML)).
Why Would You Want It?
Firefox doesn’t natively handle the web archive single file format. The advantage is that using this format saves all the elements of the web page as a single file containing graphics, text, etc. This is particularly useful if you want to save web pages to archive, send by email or transport on removable media, flashdrives, etc. As the screenshots below show , where I saved the ProReviewer Homepage, it is a far more simple and tidy solution:
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as the statusbar shows there are a total of 74 files saved in the folder with a standard page save.
This is now all contained in a single file using UnMHT
See below for more details about the mht/web archive file
What Does It Do – The Essentials?
Summary:
- Saves web pages as web archive files
- Views mht files in Firefox
- Allows all current tabs to be saved to mht files
Pros: What’s Good?
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Popularity: 38% [?]
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