There are lots of good text editors for Unix OS's, but how about Windows?

If you want a good text editor for Windows you may want to look at "Dark Room". It's a no frills text editor that has the look and feel of a good old fashioned linux terminal screen. It removes all of the distractions and keeps you focused on the important things like actually writing good content.

Does your business want to use gmail, or other google hosted web services but don't want the @gmail.com or google.com domain suffix. Well a useful service from google allows you to use your business domain for google hosted services.

As many of you know VMware finally released Fusion for the Mac. Fusion allows you to run Windows within a MacOS. It is by far the most seamless way to run Windows within a Mac.

Fusion has all of the nice features that VMware Workstation for the PC has with some additional features. One of the nicest features on Fusion is the "Unity" feature which allows users to interact with Windows applications on Mac OS as if they were Mac applications.

Here is a video demonstrating its functionality.

Here is an innovative way of using your web browser to run a fully functional unix shell. If you go to http://cb.vu you will actually be logging in to a shell terminal on a web server. You can define which commands "www" users will have access to run. For those of you from the Windows world this is like having your windows desktop available over a web browser without the need of any special clients

I believe this site actually launches a shell within a bunch of java scripts. A very nice use of a web browsers capabilities. This type of utility may have some good practical uses.

Being able to monitor web traffic to your sites is very important. You want to be able to gather metrics like where are users are being referred from, how long users stay on your site, what ads are working or not. Being able to gather statistics helps you find out what types of things are working and helps you adapt and build content users enjoy.

There are several very expensive web statistics packages that do a great job, but there are also plenty of free tools out there that do very well.

Here we've compiled a list of some of favorites:

Microblogging seems to be all the rage nowadays. We recently wrote about a popular microblogging platform called twitter.

Wouldn't it be nice to send a twitter post from your Linux command line. It seems to be the perfect application for command line folks.

Here are some instructions on how to create your own twitter script.

Step 1)
Make sure you have curl installed. If not download it and install.

Step 2)
Create a file

Example:

vi /home/bin/twitter

#Add the following lines

Cfengine is an open source tool that allows system administrators to maintain 1 to thousands of unix based systems. It automates almost every aspect of system administration. Cfengine is a direct competitor to commercial software from Blade Logic and OPsware. Both of these commercial packages come with fancy GUIs and nice features, but they also come with hefty licensing fees (can get close to $1K per server managed + maintenance fees).

BitTorrent has been getting a lot of press recently with regards to the amount of illegal activity that is associated with this tool. Many companies and universities have banned it from their organizations to limit liability.