Reviews of technology related products
In this area we will post our opinions of various hardware and software, networking, PC, and web site related products.
This includes DNS, HTTP servers, SEO tools, web site creation and analysis tools, protocol analyzers, and more.
Rating: A must have tool for any Network Administrator or Analyst
Evaluation of the Wireshark Network Protocol Analyzer is underway.
We have been using it for 5 months.
So far a very good network analysis tool.
Also an added plus, It is free and updated regularly.
Multiplatform - Runs on Linux, Unix and Windows.
The Wireshark sniffer provides detailed packet information and has translation options for the link, network, and transport layers.
You can apply predefined or user defined filters at the point of capture or at the display level.
It also has many analysis tools and statistical tools to help you plot and analyze captured traffic.
You can save your captured data as well as import capture files even from other sniffers.
Here is a link to their site:
Wireshark Sniffer/Protocol Analyzer
Date of this entry is 04/01/07
Rating: Highly Recommended, a real timesaver for Webmasters
Evaluation of the GSite Crawler is underway and began on 04/02/07.
This Free tool is used to spider your website and allows you to create sitemaps for Google, Yahoo and more.
It also has a number of tools to analyze your internal links and pages and check for duplication.
Runs on Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP,Server 2003.
Requires IE version 5.5 and above.
Also requires Visual Basic (Included)
Very easy to use. Clear GUI interface.
Creates xml and txt sitemaps as well as compressed versions.
GSiteCrawler can automatically upload the sitemaps and ping
Google maknig updating your sitemap an easy one stop task.
GSiteCrawler also has extra added tools useful to webmasters.
It can check for duplicate content and automatically exclude that
URL if you wish. There are statistics generation tools that analyze
your access and download times and includes page size comparison.
There is also a handy robots.txt view function!
More details to come so stay tuned.
Here is a link to their site:
GSite Crawler Sitemap Generator and Webmaster Tool
Date of this entry is 05/05/07
