Everyday Nerd

I cannot tell you how many times the software from Sysinternals has come in soooo handy!

I literally use at least one tool of this every day at work. Download it, unzip, and go through each one - very powerful, very handy. Some are command line only, but others, like Process Explorer, Autologon tool and RootkitRevealer (the very one that discovered Sony’s rootkit last year) have a GUI.

Mark Russinovich from Sysinternals created all these tools some years ago, and recently was aquired by Microsoft for his great work!

Once you get familiar with the tools, you may want to copy them to your system32 folder, so you can run them from a command prompt without having to change directories to the actual location of the tools.

Have fun with them!

I posted before how to block ads with Firefox. Adblock Plus is a great tool, and it just got better!!!! Install the Element Hiding Helper, to select an element on the page (like text ads) and presto, they’re gone!

Go get it here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4364/

Of course, don’t block the ads here on Tech Coach - It’s my bread and butter

Anyone that knows me knows that I am a HUGE Firefox fan. I do quite a bit of browsing, and I absolutely hate ads. Especially the really big ones that take up so much space that it’s difficulty to read the article on the page!

From the Author:

Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them. Right-click on a banner and choose “Adblock” from the context menu - the banner won’t be downloaded again. Or click Adblock Plus icon in the toolbar to see all elements of the page and block the banners. You can use filters with wildcards or even regular expressions to block complete banner factories

Get it here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1865/

Install now (215 KB)

The Greatest feature to me is that you can subscribe to Adblock lists, as well as add your own blocked adds. The subscription service works well, and have had very little ads since using this Firefox Extension.

IE lover? Not near as good as Adblock Plus, but Quero Toolbar does an OK job at blocking ads.