Mar 19

Website Helps Find Your Cellphone By Calling It

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This article was written on September 13, 2011 by CyberNet.

Find my cellphone

Some of the smartphones these days have really nice features to help you find your phone if it gets lost. With the iPhone, for example, you can use Apple’s Find My iPhone to not only get a GPS location of the device, but you can also have it chime to help you realize that it is just sandwiched between your couch cushions.

People who are still using feature phones may not have the same variety of options, but you can still call your phone without needing someone else to do it for you. The site WheresMyCellphone.com lets you put in your phone number and they will call it immediately. Alternatively you can have it called after a delayed amount of time (30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes, or 5 minutes). This service obviously won’t help if you have your phone set to a completely silent mode.

Since you can delay the calls it may also be helpful if you need an excuse to get out of something that is coming up, but unfortunately you can’t specify a delay past 5 minutes so it is only minimally useful in those situations.

WheresMyCellphone.com Homepage

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Nov 19

Search for Text in Files

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This article was written on October 05, 2010 by CyberNet.

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One of my favorite features in Vista/Windows 7 is the built-in search utility. It makes finding things a lot faster, and in some cases it can even search the content of a file. By default, however, it supports a limited number of file types when it comes to searching a file’s content, but that is where the MariusSoft File Searcher comes in.

This application doesn’t require that you index the files on your computer before hand, and it is surprisingly fast. For example, I was searching for some code in ASPX files and it took just a few seconds to sift through a few thousand files spread out across hundreds of different directories. Granted only about 30% of them were actually ASPX files, but it was impressive nonetheless.

Here are a list of features for File Searcher:

  • Search multiple locations at once
  • Filter file by name/extenstion using simple text or regular expressions
  • Filter file creation/access/modify dates within date range
  • Search files for multiple content criteria
  • Search for simple text or regular expressions
  • Support for popular formats including PDF, Office, HTML, RTF, TXT, and many more
  • View results in notepad, open containing folder, or open file in native program
  • All results are sortable
  • Multi threaded to take advantage of multi core CPUs

If you’re simply looking to search filenames I’d stick with the built-in searching capabilities of Windows 7, but between the speed and file compatibility I’d say this blows away all of the native content search capabilities. Take it for a spin if you find yourself looking for some text inside of files.

MariusSoft File Searcher (Windows only; Freeware)

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Sep 08

Look Up an IP’s Geolocation

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This article was written on December 07, 2011 by CyberNet.

Ip geo lookup

Looking up the geolocation of an IP address is something that’s simple to do because there are so many sites out there providing the service for free. One downside is that many services cap you at how many requests you can make each day to try and avoid having people abuse their systems. You may think that you’ll never make more than a handful of requests in a day, but I’ve run into situations where that limitation was a problem. One example is when trying to figure out if a set of IPs performing a DOS attack on a site is in the same geographic area. In that situation you may be checking dozens of IPs all within a few minutes.

In those kinds of situations you can use a service like utrace or ip:2:loc. Both of the services have a similar interface where you can enter in an IP address and the resulting region will be displayed on a Google map. Nothing extravagant, but they’re extremely straightforward and I have yet to see any sort of limit on them.

If you’ve got your own services you use for looking up the geolocation of an IP address please share them in the comments below.

utrace Homepage
ip:2:loc Homepage

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