With a simple application like ZenKEY you can assign any keystroke to perform these tasks, and create pop-up menus with often used commands that appear at the press of a button. It is also interesting to note that you won’t be paying a dime to download and use this program with all its features.

What’s ZenKEY?

Using keystrokes, you can use ZenKEY to launch a program or bring it back into focus, open a document or Internet resource, resize or move a window, access utilities, control media players, issue system commands and simulate keystokes. You can assign any keystroke to perform these tasks, and create pop-up menus with often used commands that appear at the press of a button.

ZenKEY has a lot of newly updated changes and features that include the following: Iconizing a window now returns the focus to the previously active application; added a “Display Hotkeys” function to the “Backup/Restore” section (where else?) in the Configuration Utility; and fixed a bug in the Infinite Desktop Autofocus setting that prevented it from working as desired.

Any downside?

ZenKEY is a nice program with basic hotkey features that won’t pose any problem to any user. However, advanced users may require some more advanced programs with advanced features.

Want to check it out? Visit Zenkey at SourceForge.

Did you know you can examine data from a live network or simply from a capture file on disk? Yes you can with Wireshark. It not only lets you examine data from a live network; but also do a lot of other things especially if you an experienced user.

What’s Wireshark?

Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. It allows you to examine data from a live network or from a capture file on disk. You can interactively browse the capture data, viewing summary and detail information for each packet. Has several powerful features, including a rich display filter language and the ability to view the reconstructed stream of a TCP session.

Wireshark is an excellent program that does what the publisher say it does; and also comes preloaded with loads of very useful features. It is highly useful if you are always having connection issues with your network. It simply resolves such issues by examining where there is a problem. In terms of security too; this program is not a bad idea if that is what you are worried about.

Wireshark is without a doubt one of the best programs for fixing network issues; but inexperienced users may have a little bit of challenge trying to get used to it for the first time.

Want to check it out? Visit WireShark.