Bring Your Favorite Software, Files, and Settings with You on a USB Drive
GOAL: Provide a list of Portable Applications that you can run on any PC and feel like you never left home.
Do you use multiple computers on a regular basis? Do you go from home, to work, to friends, and relative’s houses where you can never guarantee that the applications that you need are available? Well, you need a USB flash drive loaded with Portable Applications.
You can load numerous free and useful applications onto a USB drive and take a solid computing environment that can be used on any PC on the road. I used to get frustrated when I visited my parents or in-laws houses, because their computers were not set up with what I needed to waste time get things done. Now, I just pull out my portable computing environment get to work.
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Software, Tutorials
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Keep the PDFs, Lose the AcroCrap
Goal: Provide a list of FREE applications that will allow you to do everything you want with PDFs while avoiding the annoying, expensive problems of Adobe Acrobat.
The Portable Document Format (PDF) is great for a number of reasons however; Adobe Acrobat (the de facto standard application) is a horrendous piece of garbage. The Acrobat Reader (Free) is painfully slow to open, has more bugs than a porch light, and love to crash browsers. The Acrobat Writer (Standard $299 or Professional $449) applications are ridiculously expensive.
Here is a list of applications that will let you get the most out of the PDF format with none of the issues:
You can use this combination of free applications to do just about everything that you would ever want from Adobe Acrobat.
- Open and Read PDF files
- Create PDF files from any document or application on your computer
- Edit PDFs by converting them into Microsoft Word documents
- Merge Multiple PFDs into a single file
- Stop PDFs from crashing your browser
- Not spend hundreds of dollars
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Adobe Acrobat, converter, diy, Foxit, how-to, PDF, Tutorials, word
Automagically Find, and Correct the Tags Missing from your MP3 Collection
Goal: Show you how to easily fix the missing tags in your MP3 collection using free software.
The tags on an MP3 file identify things like the Song Title, Recording Artist, Album Name, Genre, Track Number, etc. When you buy songs from places like the iTunes Music Store or MP3.com these tags are complete.
Some of the songs in your iTunes library may have incomplete tags. This typically happens when you get your songs from peer-to-peer networks sources that are “slightly less than legal”. Now, I know none of you would do that, but maybe a “friend” might.
The songs below have the Song Name, Artist, and Album tags, but are missing the Genre, Year, Track Number, and Album Art.
Here’s how we fix this problem.
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Music, Software, Tutorials
FixTunes, how-to, iTunes, mp3, Music, tags, Tutorials, Video
Must See I.P.
These are the latest pages that I have found interesting on Digg.com, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, and Google Reader. If you have any interesting stuff, add me as a friend on any of these services.
Del.icio.us | Digg | StumbleUpon | Google Reader
Four different applications for setting up a virtual desktop running windows on a Linux machine. Good for Linux users who need to run a few “Windows Only” applications. ;
Open Source video editing software. four good alternatives to Windows Movie Maker. ;
This is a mashup of the incredible “Planet Earth” video series. The animals are all saying the F word as they are being eaten or bad things are happening to them.Brilliant and Hillarious. ;
Outlook addon that pulls facebook profile pictures into outlook contact files.
full browser for Windows Mobile phones.
Yay, Mobile Internet Explorer is horrible.
Reusing anReusing an Old PC as a Server
Using Free Software and Equipment that you Already Own
So letâÂs say you hit the technology jackpot and score yourself a shiny new super computer. (OK, maybe just a plain old new computer.) Congratulations! Now, after you get over the initial euphoria of setting up your new workhorse, you might start wondering what to do with your faithful old friend.
online spreadsheet collaboration
The Significance of the MyBlogLog API
Soon to be realeased MyBlogLog API will be a boon for SEO and markting types.
Are you tired of being a nerdy digger? Can’t understand what all this hip hop music is about? Here are charts and graphs for people like you.
“Every now and again I give readers an update on how I’ve been making money through blogging over the last few months.”Some nice tips about ad services !
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bookmarks, delicious, digg, favorites, google_reader, stumbleupon
Here are the 10 latest items that I thought were interesting in Google Reader. I subscribe to about 200 Feeds and read a ton of articles every day. I’ve been trying to come up with an effective way of posting links to articles that I think might interest people. I’m also trying to get something like this for my Del.ici.ous favorites. I think that ulimately would be better, since I enter notes on all of my bookmarked items. If anyone knows how to easily do this, contact me via email.
If you have some interesting things to share, add me to your list. (christopher.masiello)
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Putting Your New Server to Work
Goal: Use the server that you set up in the previous article to perform helpful tasks such as backing up computers on your network, storing media files in a central location, share one printer with every computers computer in the house.
In the previous article you learned you to set up the VNC software to remote control your server from another computer. Now that you have your basic server up and running, here are some of the fun things that we’re going to learn how to do:
- Share files between computers
- Run backups of the computers on your network
- Function as a print server so that all of your computers can share one computer
- Operate as a dedicated BitTorrent server to download and upload files
- Configure a Professional Testing Server for Web Development
- And a few other ideas
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Software, Tutorials
how-to, network, server, Software, Tutorials
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