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Diigo Bookmarks 12/04/2009
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Talks about the need for log-based user activity monitoring (rather than just network traffic monitoring). A useful reminder that RBAC systems need monitoring and enforcing. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/IdM'>IdM</a> </p>
Diigo Bookmarks 12/02/2009
<p class=‘diigo-description’> “The jQuery Cycle Plugin is a lightweight slideshow plugin. Its implementation is based on the InnerFade Plugin by Torsten Baldes, the Slideshow Plugin by Matt Oakes, and the jqShuffle Plugin by Benjamin Sterling. It supports pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and many transition effects. It also supports, but does not require, the Metadata Plugin and the Easing Plugin.”<br /> This is one that really works and is genuinely easy to set up – no complex CSS like so many of these things.
Diigo Bookmarks 11/29/2009
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Vista/Windows 7 compatible wireless (Wi-Fi) network scanner. Use it to identify clashing Wi-Fi network channels. This really is the business, it shows useful graphical views of channel overlap as well as signal strength. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/windows'>windows</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/network'>network</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/wifi'>wifi</a> </p> <p class=‘diigo-description’> Vista/Windows 7 compatible wireless (Wi-Fi) network scanner. Use it to identify clashing Wi-Fi network channels. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !
Diigo Bookmarks 11/27/2009
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Online diagram tool. Flowcharts, Network Diagrams, Org Charts, UML, Sitemaps, SWOT Templates, Wireframes, UI Mockups, etc.<br /> Free and paid versions. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/development'>development</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/diagrams'>diagrams</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/collaboration'>collaboration</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/web'>web</a> </p>
Diigo Bookmarks 11/26/2009
<p class=‘diigo-description’> A possibly interesting application that enables easier access to external data. Create dashboards. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/development'>development</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/database'>database</a> </p>
Diigo Bookmarks 11/24/2009
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Quick reference guides for Office, Windows, Adobe, Mac, Lotus Notes, ECDL, Quickbooks, Firefox </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/reference'>reference</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/office'>office</a> </p>
Diigo Bookmarks 11/23/2009
<p class=‘diigo-description’> A partition and disk cloning tools (similar to Ghost but free). Works with MANY file systems. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/freeware'>freeware</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/software'>software</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/windows'>windows</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/linux'>linux</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/macintosh'>macintosh</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/backup'>backup</a> </p>
Diigo Bookmarks 11/21/2009
<p class=‘diigo-description’> A method for calculating approximate effort in software engineering based on function point analysis. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/development'>development</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/reference'>reference</a> </p> <p class=‘diigo-description’> Useful list of UML modelling tools. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/development'>development</a> </p> <p class=‘diigo-description’> Online Javascript-based games of Solitaire. Nice! Includes my favourite Tri-Peaks. Don’t know which browsers this works with but it certainly works with Google Chrome.
Diigo Bookmarks 11/19/2009
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Low cost ASP/SharePoint hosting from USD4.99 per month. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/web'>web</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/hosting'>hosting</a> </p>
Diigo Bookmarks 11/18/2009
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Clean the registry, tweak settings, check for some forms of malware. Good all-round cleanup and tweak tool. Free and advanced payware versions. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/software'>software</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/windows'>windows</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/security'>security</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/freeware'>freeware</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/payware'>payware</a> </p> <p class=‘diigo-description’> Free for home use. Loads of features and well reviewed. Portable version also available </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/software'>software</a>, <a href=‘http://www.
Diigo Bookmarks 11/16/2009
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Interesting, online noticeboard that you can post sticky notes on. Tagable and dateable. Can be used for collaborative ideas generation and planning.. Free and paid versions available. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/web'>web</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/collaboration'>collaboration</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/project-management'>project-management</a> </p>
Diigo Bookmarks 11/13/2009
<p class=‘diigo-description’> How-to develop new or changed Excel 2007 ribbon bars. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/development'>development</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/excel'>excel</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/vbs'>vbs</a> </p> <p class=‘diigo-description’> “simulates human vision during the first 5 seconds of exposure to visuals” </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/web'>web</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/development'>development</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/html'>html</a> </p> <ul class=‘diigo-comments’> <li> <span class=‘diigo-post-by’> – post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/pierro">pierro</a></span> </li> </ul> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !
Diigo Bookmarks 11/11/2009
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Low cost SSL certificates </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/security'>security</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/web'>web</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/development'>development</a> </p> <p class=‘diigo-description’> Create am SSL based VPN – similar to Hamachi (the free version of LogMeIn). Windows only. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/software'>software</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/windows'>windows</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/freeware'>freeware</a> </p> <p class=‘diigo-description’> USD20 </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/software'>software</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/windows'>windows</a>, <a href=‘http://www.
Diigo Bookmarks 11/10/2009
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Online checker for web-page headers. You can also download the code and use locally.<br /> It highlights common issues and suggests improvements.<br /> There is also a bookmarklet to make things easier. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/development'>development</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/web'>web</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/html'>html</a> </p> <p class=‘diigo-description’> How to use JQuery (or other libraries) in a bookmarklet! With an example of making textarea’s resizeable.<br /> Chris Adams provides a template for creating your own bookmarklet and explains some of the reasons you might want to use this technique for development and testing.
Diigo Bookmarks 11/09/2009
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Ensemble is used by CSC and various NHS Trusts to link information systems together. Ensemble TIE is the service offered via CSC. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/work'>work</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/nhs'>nhs</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/development'>development</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/database'>database</a> </p>
