StartSSL

StartSSL offers free digital certificates for testing in a lab environment.

http://www.startssl.com/

PentesterLab

PentesterLab is a web site that offers exercises on various penetration testing topics.  Each course includes documentation and a .ISO file to use.

https://pentesterlab.com/

How to delete your Windows 8 synced personal settings

With Windows 8 and Windows RT, Microsoft enabled the ability for users to synchronize their personal settings such as desktop themes, lock screen and backgrounds, saved passwords, IE history and favorites, etc. with SkyDrive.  If you wish to purge the data stored in SkyDrive, access http://skydrive.live.com/win8personalsettingsprivacy and use the Remove button.

RefurbMe

RefurbMe offers a service to check on refurbished products from the Apple Store.

http://www.refurb.me/us/

TouchFreeze

TouchFreeze is an application for Windows that automatically disables touchpad while you are typing text.

 http://code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/

vCLIDROID

vCLIDROID is an Android application that is a command line interface reference for VMware ESXi.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vminfo.dashboardexample&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS52bWluZm8uZGFzaGJvYXJkZXhhbXBsZSJd

Open Source VMFS Driver

This driver enabled read-only access to folders and files on partitions formatted with VMFS.  A local Java plug-in is required.

http://code.google.com/p/vmfs/

Corefig

Corefig is a PowerShell-based GUI tool to configure the 2012 releases of Server Core and Hyper-V Server.

http://corefig.codeplex.com/

Swiss File Knife

Swiss File Knife is a single executable that is available for Windows and Linux that offers options such as search and convert text files, instant simple FTP/HTTP server, find duplicate files, compare folders, directory sizes, etc.

Below is an example of the web server option.

http://stahlworks.com/dev/swiss-file-knife.html

http://sourceforge.net/projects/swissfileknife

Creating a shortcut for a PowerShell script

By default, Notepad is used when double-clicking on a .ps1 PowerShell script.  To get around this issue, create a new shortcut and use the following parameters.  This method does not require the modification of the execution policy.

%SystemRoot%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "C:\users\username\desktop\script.ps1"