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Citrix and VMware virtualization news and support site! DABCC.com is one of the web's oldest Citrix support, VMware, virtualization, Terminal Services, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 news and support sites around. Here you will find info on Citrix printing, VMware, VDI, virtualization, virtual PC, ESX, Citrix security, and current computer news. - Rick Passero

The leading independent resource for enterprise IT virtualization tips, how-to, news and more. - Rick Passero

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Whether you are having problems yourself getting something to work correctly on your computer and are working with tech support, or you're trying to help someone else solve such problems, you have probably spent hours describing or explaining events over and over again because one party can’t actually see what is going on. Burak Uysaler’s Screenrecorder utility can help. This free and very easy-to-use screen-to-video capture program lets users easily record onscreen events to a small video file that can be shared with others, making it easy to record instructions or reproduce problems for more effective troubleshooting or teaching. - Rick Passero

Attack Surface Analyzer is developed by the Security Engineering group, building on the work of our Security Science team. It is the same tool used by Microsoft's internal product groups to catalogue changes made to operating system attack surface by the installation of new software. - Rick Passero

WSCC is a free, portable program that allows you to install, update, execute and organize the utilities from various system utility suites. WSCC can install and update the supported utilities automatically. Alternatively, WSCC can use the http protocol to download and run the programs. WSCC is portable, installation is not required. - Rick Passero

Hire, manage, and pay a distributed team as if everyone were in your office. - Rick Passero

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere.  Despite being the work of one man, Salman Khan, this 2100+ video library is the most-used educational video resource as measured by YouTube video views per day and unique users per month. - Rick Passero

Citrix Success Accelerator for XenDesktop 5 is a FREE service for XenDesktop customers that simplifies desktop transformation projects with step-by-step technical implementation guidance from Citrix Consulting, Technical Support, and Education experts. With reference architectures, planning guides, how-to videos, and system health check tools, Success Accelerator matches each resource to your project phase and technical scope. - Rick Passero

everRun VM integrates Citrix XenServer's "bare-metal" performance with everRun's innovative ComputeThru™ technology. everRun for XenServer high availability proactively prevents downtime through redundant systems and monitoring while creating a single, always available application instance in virtual server environments. - Rick Passero

Free, cross platform, and open source, Brain Workshop is founded upon the "dual n-back," a tricky sort of memory game where the objective is to keep track of two unrelated sequences of events at once. - Rick Passero

Jason Bloomberg is Managing Partner and Senior Analyst at Enterprise Architecture advisory firm ZapThink LLC. He is a thought leader in the areas of Enterprise Architecture and Service-Oriented Architecture, and helps organizations around the world better leverage their IT resources to meet changing business needs. He is a frequent speaker, prolific writer, and pundit. - Rick Passero

Chris Fleck is Vice President of Solutions Development at Citrix Systems. At Citrix Chris is responsible for the Developer Network, solutions development, and growing the technical community around Citrix. As part of the Citrix CTO Office he is also involved with or leading multiple strategic initiatives at the company. Currently his hot topics include Mobility, VDI and Cloud Computing. - Rick Passero

ConnectWise offers IT organizations hosted business automation software to sell, manage, implement, deliver and bill IT products and services to lower costs and increase revenue. - Rick Passero

Use License Advisor to research Microsoft Volume Licensing products, programs and pricing. Get a full quote that you can share with colleagues or your reseller. - Rick Passero

Get through to a real person! GetHuman is the ultimate consumer tool with phone numbers, shortcuts, reviews, tips, and more for companies worldwide. - Rick Passero

Wakerupper is a simple site with a profound service. Type in your phone number, assign a date and time, add a message that will be read via computer voice, and presto: Your phone will ring right on queue. - Rick Passero

If it seems like Pogo has been around as long as the Internet, that's because it has. The site's now 15 years old, but this latest iteration is one of its best. Owned by gaming giant Electronic Arts, Pogo is the place on the Web to play some of your childhood offline favorites — Scrabble, Monopoly and Risk have all been ported to the Web and are freely available on Pogo. There are cash prizes for frequent players. Being paid to game? Sounds good indeed. - Rick Passero

Think of Wikinvest as Mint for your investment portfolio. The site synchronizes with brokerage houses to import real-time data so users can monitor their performance relative to the market as well as find research on companies. Think of it as a place where user-generated information meets official stats, sort of like Wikipedia plus Yahoo! Finance. - Rick Passero

Invites users to paint to music. For "Soy Tu Aire," the first single from Spanish band Labuat's debut album, Web designers matched a unique interactive paintbrush to the song; those manning the mouse can drive the graphics, swirling at will. Try it out and then hit Replay for a mesmerizing Web experience, or hit Record and send your motion painting to a friend. It's too captivating to ignore. - Rick Passero