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GOOG-411

Aug 042008

If you have not heard about GOOG-411 you are missing out. This is a free service you can use from your cell phone or home phone in the US to find out what a business phone number is. It beats paying one or two dollars for the traditional services offered by the phone companies. When you call up you say where you are and what you are looking for. GOOG-411 will then connect you with the business. You can also opt to have a text message sent to you or to have a map sent to you with the location. Once you get used to using it you will wonder how you ever lived without it!

GOOG-411 Website
http://www.google.com/goog411/about.html

GOOG-411 You Tube Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN0q8SvlQAk

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Process Explorer – Task Manager On Steroids

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Aug 022008

Another one of the tools that I have become very used to using is Process Explorer. You can get detailed information on what exactly is going on with your system. The display mainly consists of two windows. The top window displays what processes are currently active. The bottom window can run in a couple different modes. If you are running process exporer in handle mode you well see the handles that have been opened by the processes in the top window. You can also run process explorer in dll mode. The bottom window will then disaplay the memory mapped files that the process in the top window have loaded.

I highly recommend that you get used to using this program. It will give you detailed information that task manager just can not give you. I guarantee that knowing how to use this program will separate you from just being another server administrator.

Current Version – v11.20

Process Explorer Website

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

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