These are the networking security tools I have used:

• nmap – A very powerful tool to check what ports are open on what machines and tells what machines are on your network.
• wireshark – Packet sniffing tool that reads and tells were the internal network packet attack might be coming from.

We were honored this week to have David Rose talking about the direction that companies are going.

I took a few notes on what he had mentioned.

First he mention some great outsourcing resources:

• crowdspring
• elance
• guru
• odesk
• getafreelancer
• qurky

David also mentioned that we should take a look at the books Wikinomic sand Three Moves Ahead a book by Bob Rice.

DVD to AVI tools:

• bitripper

More tools for this here: SuperUser answers.

The three that I prefer are:

• Viddler
• Vimeo
• Youtube
• Facebook

I will be trying these out at some point:

1. Veoh
2. metacafe
3. revver

Recommend any others?

Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky got together a little over a year ago to create I think the best online tech communities around. Somehow they where able pull it off which I commend them on their great feat, getting developers to work together!…if you have never heard of these sites, I highly urge you to go and start using these sites!

Online development communities:

• Stackoverflow.com
• Serverfault.com
• Superuser.com

My accounts on these sites:

• Stackoverflow.com
• Serverfault.com
• Superuser.com

Joel and Jeff have a great podcast as well that I am an avid listener too.

As well the Stack Overflow iPhone app is here!

A listing of some great videos of inspirational artists

If you haven’t seen it check out the movie Pollock:

Some work, by a great artist from nyc Liz Marotti:

Some of my favorate pluggins are listed below:

ToolTips

• tipsy

This is the best bike map of NYC.

Always always always use this link when going to get biz cards though vistaprint:
http://www.retailmenot.com/view/vistaprint.com

A great talk on education and revolution by Ken Robinson: