Grafana open source analytics and monitoring software

Grafana is an open source, feature rich, powerful, elegant and highly-extensible analytics and monitoring software that runs on Linux, Windows and MacOS. It is a de facto software for data analytics, being used at Stack Overflow, eBay, PayPal, Uber and Digital Ocean – just to mention but a few. It supports 30+ open source as well as commercial databases/data sources including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Graphite, Elasticsearch, OpenTSDB, Prometheus and InfluxDB. It allows you to dig deeply into large […]

How To Backup Data Without Booting Into Windows

How To Backup Data Without Booting Into Windows If your computer won’t boot and your getting some sort of BSOD error due to a corrupt windows or registry then you may be wondering is there a quick and easy way to backup some files from that computer without booting into the windows operating system? Well […]

How to Monitor Your Computer’s CPU Temperature in Windows 

There are two groups of users worried about the temperature of their computer: overclockers… and pretty much anybody with a powerful laptop. Those things just cook you! So have you ever wondered exactly what temperature your CPU is running at? There are quite a few Windows programs that you can use to monitor the temperature. Here […]

How to Force Windows to Show All Your Drives in File Explorer

By default, Windows hides empty drives from your File Explorer view. Here’s how to display all of them instead. Empty drives mostly refers to drives with removable media–such as card readers–that are permanently connected to your computer but may or may not have actual media plugged in. Windows assigns those drives a permanent drive letter, […]

How to Connect to FTP Servers in Windows (Without Extra Software)

If you need to access an FTP server, you can install dedicated FTP clients with lots of features –but you don’t necessarily have to. Windows itself offers several ways for connecting to an FTP server, allowing you to download and upload files in a pinch. How to Access FTP Servers in Windows’ File Explorer The Windows file manager–known as […]

Easily Share Files Between Windows / Linux / Macs Over Network Using NitroShare [Updated]

NitroShare is very handy application to send files from remote computer to any connected computer in the same network. Most of the time no necessary configuration required to send/receive files between computers using NitroShare. It is cross-platform available for Linux, Windows and Mac, which mean you can easily transfer files between two machines doesn’t matter […]