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10 Top Free iPhone Apps For Techies

Renjith — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:50:33 +0000

We know there are thousands of iPhone apps are available today on the App store. But by person to person or by profession the usage of the apps varies. Today I am writing about free iPhone apps which are my favorite or a must have tools for a techie. Introducing 10 essential apps for your daily tech life.

Documents 2 – It is a Wi-Fi hard Disk; you can use your iPhone’s hard disk as data storage for your document files. It supports access via FTP and Wi-Fi and on the fly editing of your office documents. Using this app you can link this to your Google Docs online and download or edit it online or offline. It can be a Text editor Photo album, Sound recorder and also supports direct emailing from the app itself.

Teamviewer – is the most popular remote desktop support tool’s iPhone version. It gives a seamless support for the remote desktop support from your iPhone. It is available for free for home use or support your friends or family’s computers. It provides all most all the features of the desktop version of Teamviewer with 256 bit AES Session Encoding and 1024 bit RSA Key exchange.

ezDesktop – It is a free RDP and VNC viewer. It can be used to access and control your MAC, Windows, Linux computers on the network. ezDesktop can discover the active computers on a network and give report on the same. The tool supports SSH tunnel and while using VNC it provides extra layer security. Like the native RDP ezDesktop support Audio redirection, system sounds and other sounds send to your iPhone speakers and copy and paste from remote pc to iPhone is available.

Network Ping – Network Ping is a tool for maintaining and debugging network problems on a local network. You can scan a subnet and it will show the full available ip address on that subnet. Using network ping you can ping a single IP address, ping a subnet given an over view of 253 IP address, Traceroute to determine the route taken by the packets and finally a telnet to access the Router or a UNIX server.

WordPress – Wordress for iPhone is good tool for bloggers who can moderate comments edit or write articles on the blog. It supports WordPress version 2.9 .2 or higher. Only you need to have a self hosted WordPress blog. This app is very helpful to administer your blog while you travel. Also its capable of saving your contents as drafts when you exit from the app.

Dropbox – Dropbox is the easiest way to Sync and share files online across many computers. The Dropbox designed for iPhone have features to save and preview photos, videos, documents and presentation on the go. It can save photos videos which captured on your phone to the dropbox at the same time you can share the files via email. To access your dropbox you need to have an account even you use the same account which you use on your desktop client and sync files between.

Cisco Global Internet Speed Test (GIST) – Cisco GIST Allows you to measure your connection speed over a WI-FI and your cellular provider based on your location and network speed at the time of the test. This app will help you to compare your cellular speed and Wi-Fi speed with other iPhone users around the world. It can complete the test with in 25 seconds to scan and provide you the result of the scan.

Downloads Lite – Downloads Lite is a fully featured download manager for your iPhone that allows you to download files directly to your phone. You can then view/play the downloaded files right on your iPhone, or transfer them to your computer. It supports resume download extracting or unzipping of zipped or rared files. It support direct download from Rapidshare, Mozilla Firefox app, Safari. The Full screen document viewer that supports .pdf, .doc, .xls, .ppt, .txt, .html and .rtf file formats

Symantec -Symantec app delivers updates and alerts about new threats and security holes discovered also latest updates from Symantec Security Response team. Threatcon level is integrated in to the app in order ro deliver the live Threatcon status for the app users. The application also includes the Infosecurity Europe 2010 event itinerary, including a local area guide and special offers and discounts.

Google Mobile Apps – Google Mobile apps includes many features such as Search by voice, Gmail, Docs, Talk, Tasks, Reader

Norton DNS for a safe and secure web surfing

Renjith — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:39:50 +0000

One more free service from Symantec for a safer internet browsing Norton DNS. It offers Protection and faster internet surfing experience for any Internet connected device

We already know that there are services OpenDns and Google Public DNS are available in market but what makes this NortonDNS special?
The Symantec spokesperson explained “The Norton DNS service works by filtering the DNS requests that are automatically created when you visit a Web page to determine if they are associated with fraud, spyware, malware or objectionable content such as pornography or violence.”

NortonDNS will help you from DNS cache poisoning attacks; means a hacker or attacker can redirect your web surfing to any site he wants for instance you are trying to access www.hackstacks.com but you will be reaching to a malware website. The hacker will change the DNS records in any vulnerable DNS servers that will redirect all your traffic according to the hacker’s DNS servers.There are two ways you can change the DNS settings for your device either using the manual method or using a setup file. The setup file is likely to be announced in June.

Dns configuration

To configure the Norton DNS in your network change your DNS settings to: 198.153.192.1 & 198.153.194.1

In a home network it is best to configure it on the Internet router

One more free service from Symantec for a safer internet browsing Norton DNS

It offers Protection and faster internet surfing experience for any Internet connected device

We already know that there are services OpenDns and Google Public DNS are available in market but what makes this NortonDNS special?

The Symantec spokesperson explained “The Norton DNS service works by filtering the DNS requests that are automatically created when you visit a Web page to determine if they are associated with fraud, spyware, malware or objectionable content such as pornography or violence.”

NortonDNS will help you from DNS cache poisoning attacks means a hacker or attacker can redirect your web surfing to any site he want for example why you are trying to access www.hackstacks.com but you will be reaching to a malware website. The hacker will change the DNS records in any vulnerable DNS servers it will redirect all your traffic according to the hacker’s DNS servers.

There are two ways you can change the DNS settings for your device either using the manual method or using a setup file. The setup file is likely to be announced in June.

Hasle Free Antivirus Removal

Renjith — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:00:05 +0000

Uninstalling anti virus software on a computer system is sometimes not a trivial task as they tend to add their components deep into the system to provide protection from various threats PC users face these days. The need for anti virus software removal tools arises if the default uninstallation fails. This usually leads to a messed up computer system that could throw all kinds of errors at the user. It could also break other anti virus software either during installation or usage.

So called anti virus removal tools have been created to effectively remove traces of anti virus software from the computer system. They usually run a series of processes that delete files, Registry settings and other parameters or options that have been installed by the antivirus software during installation.

Below is a collection of anti virus software removal tools that have been created by the developers of the programs to aid their users if they encounter difficulties uninstalling it.