Here’s a brief list of what I’ve found comparing some of the most popular multi-protocol IM clients.  I’ll try to update this here and there when I have time! Read more

I started this post thinking that I had found the latest and greatest of Multi-Network Messengers but after a little research I’ve found so many new ones that I haven’t even heard of. Even though it doesn’t have a linux version yet, my new favorite is Digsby. Remember back when Trillian came out, back when it was free and that was still all we had if we didn’t want to run 3 or 4 different messengers side by side? To be fair, I’ve only used Trillian, Pidgin, Empathy, Nimbuzz, and now Digsby. Read more

Remember all those iPhone tethering apps that were on Cydia/Icy?  Forget ‘em!  I know most of my posts aren’t necessarily ground-breaking material but I couldn’t find one forum post or blog that had both information about tethering your iPhone and linking it to Ubuntu 9.10 so here goes. Read more

Advanced Archive Password Recovery

I started the search for a zip password recovery program after I found a curious little zip file, password protected, that had some videos in it. What those videos are of I can not certain but they better be good after all the trouble I’ve gone through to get them now. I found some free (?), dated tools for password cracking (recovery) but that wasn’t going to work on this file, apparently it was encrypted using the best method possible for WinZip®. I had also tried an older version of Advanced Archive Password Recovery (ARCHPR), this was created back when it was called Advanced Zip Password Recovery. A number of things were missing from that, namely support for enhanced AES encryption which I must have used to protect this file. At only $99 for most recent ARCHPR Professional, which supports enhanced AES encryption and after reading a lot of positive reviews I gave it a shot. Read more