Nirsoft released an utility to search for files  in Windows. The tools is very powerful as it offers many options as shown on the screenshot below:  Alternative to Windows Search For Files   Duplicates Search via kwout Here is an extract from the description:  SearchMyFiles is an alternative to the standard “Search For Files And [...]

I just came accross ScribeFire a Firefox extension that allows to blog when browsing a web Page. This is very convenient. For instance, now i’m browsing the Getting Starting Page while I’m writing this post. ScribeFire: Fire up your blogging via kwout Powered by ScribeFire.

There are several ways to debug and analyze web applications. The first approach is to use network sniffers like wireshark. The problem with sniffers is that they are not so easy to use, and by default they capture all the network traffic. If the interest is only HTTP streams, it is required to add filters [...]

On windows XP, the process SVCHOST.EXE is a mystery for most people. If you check your task manager, you may have several instances of this process running. On my XP home edition I have actually 7 of this processes. Microsoft describes SVCHOST.EXE on this document by the following sentences: “At startup, Svchost.exe checks the services part of [...]