First Look Review:RapidSSL

Reviews 1st September

RapidSSL specializes in selling SSL certificates to businesses and non profit organisations. In The Hypervisor labs tests we found the thing that sets it apart from many of its competitors is the quick purchase process and excellent support documentation. For example, some SSL certificate suppliers require you to send them documentary proof of your business […]

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More free software from the Hypervisor Lab

Lab Notes 6th August

Following our release of the popular Hping2 software for Linux based hand-held devices, The Hypervisor Lab team has developed a plugin for the open-source WordPress content management software to make it easy for users to login and logout of WordPress powered websites. Although WordPress comes with a similar feature, called the “Meta” widget, the built […]

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I’m OnCall remote support – exclusive hands-on review

Reviews 15th June

Launched in May, I’m OnCall 1.1 is a web based remote control system designed for help desks and technical support organisations. New in this release is support for Macs and 64-bit Windows, plus enhanced multi-monitor support. The suite is hosted by 01 Communique and in our tests it worked well with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 […]

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Free tool keeps mail safe from spyware

Reviews 10th February

You only need to look at a few spam messages to see it’s surprisingly easy to make email look like it came from someone else. Likewise, most email is transported over the Internet in plain text, so anyone with network monitoring tools could read your mail — even before you do. These tools are extremely […]

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Microsoft Office Communications Server

Comment 18th August

By Roger Howorth Late last year Microsoft launched Office Communications Server (OCS) 2008 and Office Communicator 2007, the complementary desktop client for the new server suite. If nothing else, the pair could be used as a bargaining tool to help reduce the costs of office telecoms. If you haven’t seen them yet, they’re well worth […]

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Review: Vizioncore vReplicator 2.1

Reviews 15th August

Launched on September 4th, vReplicator 2.1 is the latest version of Vizioncore’s virtual machine replication suite. Previously called esxReplicator 2.0, the update is a good choice for firms that want to create and maintain replicas of their virtual machines (VMs) that are ready to run on secondary servers just in case something goes wrong with […]

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Printing Google maps

Lab Notes 2nd May

You may have noticed that printing full page Google maps in portrait mode is often impossible. With most PCs the best you can hope for is to be able to print around half a “letter” or “A4” sized page (see image). Well, Hypervisor Lab technicians have been hard at work on the problem and have […]

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