Church IT Roundtable

Customize Default Windows 8. Start Screen for all Machine Users. Allows user to change default screen and doesn't require use of group policy.

Non-Profit 4g service for $10/mo

"Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient NSIS installer that installs over 100 extremely useful open source UNIX applications compiled as native win32 binaries. It is designed to be as small as possible, about 18 MB, as opposed to Cygwin which can run well over 100 MB depending upon options."

Free app to let you copy and paste like a normal Windows app and use Bash's readline completion and history to Windows' cmd.exe.

"Airconsole is a portable, battery powered, RS232 Serial and Ethernet over WIFI Adaptor. Designed to be used with Get Console, RapidSSH on iOS, SerialBot on Android and also on PC, MAC OSX with any other standards (RFC2217) based terminal application, Airconsole provides flexible and convienient access to physical Serial and Ethernet ports from devices (such as iPads and iPhones) that have only WIFI network interfaces."

" Recipe: Mac Attack Burger Bill Dec, Rockit Ranch Ingredients Mac and cheese bun 4 cups heavy whipping cream 4 sheets of gelatin 2/3 cups parmesan, finely grated 1 cup cheddar jack, shredded 1 tablespoon Gorgonzola, crumbled 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper 3/4 cup cheddar, 1/4" cubed 8 cups cooked cavatappi pasta 2 13x9" baking pan Parchment paper Non stick spray 3.25" round biscuit cutter 1 cup all-purpose flour 2 eggs, beaten 1 cup coarse panko bread crumbs 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon black pepper 1/2 cup vegetable oil For assembly 3 4-oz beef burger patties (thin) Kosher salt Ground black pepper 3 each pieces of lettuce 3 slices tomato 2 scallions, thinly sliced 1.5 teaspoons sriracha sauce 1.5 teaspoons ketchup Preparation For mac and cheese bun: Heat cream in a large sauce pan and simmer until reduced about a third and it lightly coats the back of a spoon. Whisk in gelatin sheets until dissolved. Whisk in Parmesan, cheddar jack, gorgonzola and salt and pepper. Place the pasta in a large mixing bowl and pour the cheese sauce over the pasta. Mix until well combined. Allow to cool to room temperature and then fold in the cheddar cubes. Line 13x9 baking sheet with parchment paper, spray bottom and sides of pan with non stick spray. Pour mac and cheese into pan and spread out evenly. Lightly spread an additional sheet of parchment paper and place on top of the mac. Set the second pan on top to press down the mac, place a few cans to weigh down the top pan to press the mac. Chill for at least 3 hours, until fully chilled and set. Season flour with 1/4 teaspoon of each salt and pepper. Season bread crumbs with 1/4 teaspoon of each salt and pepper. Using the biscuit cutter, cut out 6 each mac discs. Dredge in flour, dip in egg and then in the bread crumbs. Heat a large frying pan or skillet on high, add in vegetable oil and lightly pan fry breaded mac discs until golden on both sides. Drain on paper towel lined plate. For assembly: Lightly

EasyFind tool for OSX to better search within files between hard drives, network drives, etc.  Pastors, for example, would appreciate the ability to search within all of the sermons they have ever written.  Just make sure you change the settings to include all files.  It does not index, but searches within all files each time you search.

"A faster way to delete millions of files in a directory "

"Zap is a wireless throughput test tool which can be used to fully characterise the statistical performance of a wireless link. "

"Do you need to determine whether your wireless link would work given the specific locations you are trying to connect? How about knowing that without purchasing the equipment or climbing the tower? The Point-To-Point Estimator is a free web based tool that will enable you to compare manufacturers, simply and accurately, while taking into account the terrain of your area, products' performance and more."

"A Free Standalone GUI utility to Set Permissions for any Windows Service Easily allow (or deny) a user the ability to start, stop, pause or modify any Windows Service with just a few clicks of your mouse! Service Security Editor will help you to configure who can access your important Windows Services. It is an easy-to-use GUI alternative to Microsoft's powerful SC and SubInACL.exe command line programs. However, as with any other administrative tool, please use it with caution"

"I recently learned something about NASes that buyers looking to use these products for database and other simultaneous-file-access applications should know about. The issue is how Opportunistic Locking ("oplocks") are handled." "Opportunistic locks (oplocks) are a characteristic of theLAN Manager networking protocol implemented in the 32-Bit Windows family of operating system environments. Bascially, oplocks are guarantees made by a server for a shared logical volume to its clients. These guarantees inform the Client that a file's content will not be allowed to be changed by the server, or if some change is imminent, the client will be notified before the change is allowed to proceed."

Free Windows utility to share multiple computers with one mouse and keyboard. Similar to Synergy or Input Director. Also allows copy/paste, simultaneous lock/logon across systems, and screenshots sent from one computer to another.

"High-Density Wi-Fi Design Part 1 - Forecasting AP Capacity "

"The OSX Missing Window Manager"