Microsoft Desktop Player is a Silverlight application that lets you find Webcasts, Podcasts and White Papers from the Microsoft site, matching your search query. And, of course, it can play Webcasts and Podcasts and also download the content locally if you need. You just need to select the appropriate radio button (IT Pro, or Developer), select a topic from the dropdown and click Search. You’ll see the list of resources available for the particular topic area.

Open the Microsoft Desktop Player page at Microsoft site.

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Piriform, the creators of the useful CCleaner tool, have released a light-weight system information utility named Speccy. Ever wondered what type of memory is installed in your computer (size, specification and speed)? The System Information Tool in Windows (msinfo32) doesn’t give you that much details.

Speccy gives details about the Operating System installed, specifications of the Processor, Memory, Motherboard, Audio, Video, Optical Drives etc, installed in your PC. It also shows the CPU and Hard disk temperature. (more…)

Not so long ago we covered MOSDAL, a data collection and diagnostic utility from Microsoft. There is another data collection utility available and that one is from Microsoft as well. The Microsoft Product Support Reporting Tool (MPS-Reports) facilitates the gathering of critical system and logging information used in troubleshooting support issues. The tool offers the ability to select the particular scenarios for which system configuration data will be collected: General, Internet and Networking, Business Networks, Server Components, Windows Update Services, Exchange Servers and SQL and other Data Stores (MDAC) . (more…)