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In search of: Tool to show multiple (hard drive) temperatures in the system tray

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I'm looking for a utility to show multiple hard drive temperatures in the system tray so i can tell at a glance the temperatures.

  • My number 1 request is to have multiple system tray icons, one for each hard disk temperature.

Other features that would be nice would be:
  • Monitoring other temperatures (motherboard, gpu, etc.)
  • Color changes in temp according to my preset ranges
  • Small (and preferably free or at least very cheap)
  • NOT a big full featured suite of tools to do everything under the sun

Anyone have any recommendations?

UPDATE: Based on suggestions I have settled on CrystalDiskInfo which is free and shows a separate (attractive) tray icon for each hard disk temperature.  Note that it only monitors hard disk health, not system temperatures.

Is Antivirus Software a Waste of Money?

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Interesting points here -- nothing really new just confirmation that an antivirus program is not going to catch the newest attacks:

The problem is that most criminals are smart enough to test their attacks against popular antivirus products. There’s even a free website called Virus Total that lets you see whether any of the most popular malware scanning engines will spot your Trojan program or virus. So when new attacks pop up on the internet, it’s common for them to completely evade antivirus detection.

http://www.wired.com...e/2012/03/antivirus/



Web Link Captor - PC World Review

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Very nice long writeup at PC World today about my unique and underappreciated jewel of a program, Web Link Captor, which has a userbase you can count on one hand:

http://www.pcworld.c...r,4/description.html

Web Link Captor would be a cherry pitter, something I would need maybe once every few months for a very specific task--but does its job like no other tool can.


Are Creative Commons Licenses Even Enforceable?

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A very well written article that raises a lot of questions about the enforceability of Creative Commons licenses. A good read and a lot to think about if you release works with a CC license or use CC licensed content.

http://c4sif.org/201...es-even-enforceable/



The problem with online ads

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Some very wise words from Clive Thompson over at Wired magazine on the subject of charging for your software or service.  It's a very blunt assessment of the whole problem with the notion of "monetizing" as opposed to selling something.

This very short article is called: Clive Thompson on the Problem With Online Ads. And it should be required reading for anybody who is considering some of the nonsense passing for common wisdom about online revenue opportunities. (except follows)

I predict that in 2050, we’ll look back at the first 20 years of the web and shake our heads. The craptacular design! The hallucinogenic business models! The privacy nightmares! All because entrepreneurs convinced themselves that they couldn’t do what inventors have done for centuries: Charge people a fair price for things they want.



Today is Your Last Chance to Remove your Search History from Google's New Policy

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From ITWorld:

Google announced in January it would unify most of its services under a single privacy policy and a single set of data-gathering tools that will arrange all Google's useful data on each of its customers in an efficient database, from which it is much simpler to sell that customer as a commodity to advertisers looking for specific patterns of behavior.

... if you're cautious at all about the amount of information Google has about you, uncertain at all how little evil Google will do with all the consolidated information or just a little woogy about anyone having big chunks of surveillance on you with a yen to sell it: go erase your Google history now.

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Tomorrow, after all your odd searches, secret obsessions and kinky lunch reading is ensconced inside a special database, you won't be able to get to the data any more...

The history you have to delete is on Google.com. When you're signed in, Google keeps track of where you're going and what you're looking at, and stores that history on its server files.

Today only you can still delete that data, by following the instructions provided by EFF.





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