

Safari books online is like having your own technical reference library available 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
You are not only able to view books and video’s online but also download chapters via pdf download and get discounts off the print version of the books.
To see a demo of Safari books online click the link below
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To sign up, starting with a ten day free trial click the link below
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The main Safari web page can be found here
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Costs
There are two different types of subscription
Safari Bookshelf
This allows you to access ten titles per month
£11.99/€14.99/$22.99
Safari Library
This allows you unlimited access to the books
£22.10/€27.99/$42.99
May 14, 2008
Posted by
shawz |
PC Information, Training |
Addison-Wesley, Adobe Press, £, books, cisco, Cisco Press, Course Technology, IBM Press, John Wiley & Sons, lynda.com, Macromedia, microsoft, Microsoft Press, New Riders Publishing, O'Reilly, oreily, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall, Que, reference, Sams, technical, Training |
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Nice little utility that will, after your pc has rebooted, display how many seconds it took to boot.
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May 7, 2008
Posted by
shawz |
PC Information, Utilities |
boot time, boottimer, free, pc |
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Autoruns is a great program from Sysinternals (Now Microsoft) which displays what programs run at startup. Very useful
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April 29, 2008
Posted by
shawz |
PC Diags & Troubleshooting, PC Information, PC Optimization, Utilities |
autoruns, free, microsoft, sysinternals |
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Handy utility that allows you to view and save the wireless network keys stored on your pc
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April 6, 2008
Posted by
shawz |
Internet Utilities & Wifi, PC Information |
free, Key, network, pc, recover, wep, wireless, wirelesskeyview, wpa |
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What do the individual windows services actually do?
Which ones can I safely disable?
This site is superb and covers everything you need to know (covers Windows 2000/XP/Vista)
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March 8, 2008
Posted by
shawz |
PC Information, PC Optimization |
2000, black viper, disable services, free, service configuration, services, vista, windows, xp |
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Handy on-line utility to shows what portable devices have been connected or are connected to your pc or pc’s on your network
link
March 4, 2008
Posted by
shawz |
Network Utilities, PC Information |
applications, device usage, free, freeware, ipod, portable, scanner, Security, shareware, Software, U3, USB |
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CPU-Z is a great little free program that will give you loads of useful information about your pc.
It gives you detailed information about your
- Processor
- Motherboard
- Memory
- System
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November 25, 2007
Posted by
shawz |
PC Information |
cpu-z, free, information, pc, system, utility |
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Belarc Advisor is a essential utility.
Once it has run it will display a detailed profile of your pc, not only the hardware but also software, including what Microsoft patches are installed and what one’s need to be installed, your anti-virus status, what software is installed and any software installation keys associated with them
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November 25, 2007
Posted by
shawz |
PC Information |
belarc, belarc advisor, free, Hardware, hotfixes, id, installation, keys, microsoft, patches, Software, system management |
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Security Task Manager displays all information about running tasks including a security risk rating
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November 25, 2007
Posted by
shawz |
PC Information |
£, neuber, security task manager, spyprotector, task manager |
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