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Add these apps to your portable toolkit for network troubleshooting, monitoring, and management.

Having all your tools in one place certainly makes your job easier. This is especially true when you need networking tools. These tools can be anything from simple monitoring tools to full-blown portable servers. Regardless of what you need and why you need it, there are plenty of networking tools that require zero installation and can fit on a USB flash drive.
There are quite a lot of portable apps out there–even within the narrowed scope of networking tools. Here are five handy portable network tools that you can add to your on-the-go toolkit.
Note: This list is also available as a photo gallery.

1: ConnectionMonitoring

ConnectionMonitoring (Figure A) is a simple tool that allows you to monitor incoming and outgoing socket connections. With this connection information at hand, you can see whether any unwanted traffic is coming into a machine. And because this app is portable, you don’t have to bother with installing the tool — you’ll always have what you need right there. ConnectionMonitoring scans current connections and then displays the following: Local address/port, remote address/port, TCP UDP protocol/status of those connections.

Figure A

ConnectionMonitoring

2: TCPView

TCPView (Figure B) is like Netstat with a power boost. With this portable tool, you can view a detailed listing and the current state of all TCP and UDP endpoint connections, as well as the process name running each endpoint. This tool also contains a command-line version, Tcpvcon, which offers the same features as Netstat.

Figure B

TCPView

3: DNS Benchmark

DNS Benchmark (Figure C) allows you to do exactly what the name implies — benchmark your DNS servers. You can easily determine whether your nameservers are the cause of your networking problems. DNS Benchmark can monitor up to 200 DNS servers and report on their status. You can use a simple configuration file to configure the specific DNS servers you want checked.

Figure C

DNS Benchmark

4: Pale Moon Portable

Pale Moon Portable (Figure D) is based on the minimalist version of Firefox but is far lighter in weight and far faster in performance. Pale Moon (the creators of the browser) claims a 25% speed increase over Firefox. However, you will find that some Firefox features aren’t in Pale Moon. The major missing features are accessibility and parental control. Otherwise, you can expect a full-featured browsing experience in a very mobile package.

Figure D

Pale Moon Portable

5: EasyPHP

EasyPHP (Figure E) allows you to carry around a complete portable WAMP stack on a stick. This tool is mostly useful for developers, but anyone who needs a portable Web server can benefit from having this available. EasyPHP bundles all the usual WAMP tools (Apache, MySQL, PHP) as well as the PhpMyAdmin tool for managing the databases on the server. You will also find Xdebug to aid in your debugging process.

Figure E

EasyPHP

Other good portable networking tools?

Portable tools don’t need to be useless. In fact, they can be some of the most valuable tricks up your sleeve. With this short list of portable networking tools, you can enjoy some serious power and manageability — at your fingertips.
What other on-the-go apps would you add to this list?

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Never Miss An Important Mail from your Outlook with Important Mail Alert add-in

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Never Miss An Important Mail from your Outlook with Important Mail Alert add-in

Emails labeled as Important are supposed to be meant important. But the thing is everyone can label it and the definition of importance is different from one person to another. Sometimes, even the same person has the difficulty keeping up the same and label things are differently depending on the day, mode, or even the food.
So the built-in Important emails in Outlook never worked well but here is a solution that might work out much better.
Instead of based on the label on individual emails, what about you put some your own rules to measure the importance automatically based on them?
Important Mail Alert is an Outlook add-in that marks and notifies you when an important email arrived based on the rules you have set up.
Once you installed this add-in, you need to re-open your Outlook to have it loaded properly. You will see a gray bar/box down at the bottom of your Inbox message panel, once it’s loaded. It turns to a bright yellow when it detects an important message arrived.

You will also get a popup notifying you the same, to get more your attention.

Because it stands out so much that it hardly can get missed or lost.
The rules are a bunch of text you type in. If an email contains one of these texts it will be labeled as important. And then a yellow popup like above pops up while the alert windows turns to yellow the same time.
Important Mail Alert works seamlessly with Microsoft Exchange Server. It even supports the public folder as well.

Important Mail Alert is compatible with Outlook 2003 and above. It is the second Microsoft Office add-ins by AbleBits we covered here. The other one is a Note&Todo, which is also a fabulous add-in you might like. Both add-ins are completely free for both commercial and non-commercial use.

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