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The beginner’s guide for portable applications - part 1

Although I’m a very big fan of Jeff Dunham, this is not an article dedicated to Jose Jalapeno. Its purpose is a bit, let’s say, dorkier, but very useful. Using your actually means using applications installed on that : browsers, messengers, suites, audio/video players, graphic viewers etc. But what happens when you go to another ? You have another person’s applications personalized by that person. What happens when you have to your ? All those applications must be reinstalled and customized again. How can you go from any to another and still have your same applications customized as you like? avoid reinstalling when working on a brand-new ? Easy: Use applications! All you need is a stick; I’ll provide all the information you need in this article.

The majority of applications will run from any type of stick (even from an iPod or MP3 player), but some of them are specially created for a specific type of : an U3. Nowadays they’re really easy to find and buy, so if you decide to use that specifically requires an , don’t hesitate to go to your nearest IT shop or buy one online.

Installing applications is so easy, even a kid can do it. In most cases all you have to do is extract the files from an archive to your stick and you’re ready to go. Some applications use installers that only ask for a location where to extract the files. That’s all! You don’t have to worry about shortcuts, services, toolbars, entries or any other useless crap.

Let’s start with the basics: Since we’re on the , you’ll need a . If you’re a fan of ’s you can choose from a variety of much more advanced browsers, such as Maxthon, GreenBrowser and Avant. But of course, world-renown browsers like and Opera are also .

Chatting with your online friends is easier than ever: there really is no need to Yahoo! Messenger, Messenger, ICQ and who knows how many other instant messaging . You can use only one that will replace all of them and you even have a choice. You can either use 100% and clean like Pidgin or Miranda, or you can use Trillian, which is for non-commercial use only.

Checking your e-mail using or Express may be very handy, but it also forces you to run those only from the they’re installed on. Using a e-mail client, this will no longer be a . Here are some of our suggestions that really deserve a try: Thunderbird, Voyager and DreamMail.

When you’re on another person’s , you’ll be able to listen to your music from your playlist in your favorite music player, without changing a thing in that person’s audio player. All you need is a audio player: you can use one of the ‘classics’, Winamp or Foobar, or you can give Xion, Spider Player or TPlayer a try. Of course that’s also true in the case of video players; pctipsbox provides versions of players like VLC, Mplayer or MV2 Player. You can even record videos with CamStudio and AviScreen or process them with VirtaulDub, MediaCoder or Avidemux.

If you’ll need an image viewer or processor, we’ll give you a wide variety of from where to choose. Graphic viewers like FastStone Image Viewer, FastStone MaxView, IrfanView or Xnview are to use, but also , so you can view pictures with your favorite , no matter where you are. If you wish to process them, feel to choose from the versions of Gimp, PhotoFiltre, PhotoScape, PaintStar, i.Mage, PhotoBackPack.

is far from or , but here are some alternatives that can be easily installed on a . If all you need is to edit a document or text file, you should try a smaller , like Abiword, Scribus, EditPad Lite, AkelPad, GVim, ++ or the trial version of Atlantis Word Processor. But if you’re searching for an suite, OpenOffice is the answer or maybe even the trial version of ThinkFree .

Viewing a PDF file is now easier than ever. Until now you had to , and wait until Adobe Reader started. Not anymore! Here are some PDF viewers that will surely make you forget all about Adobe: PDF-XChange Viewer, Foxit Reader for U3 and Sumatra PDF. Moreover, now you’ll be able to create or edit PDF on the fly with small like Swift PDF and PDFTK Builder.

Like all computers and drives, your stick will need some kind of protection against . So, the safest way to ensure your protection is, of course, using an antivirus. You can try products like Antivirus or Clamwin or you can give a try to Avast (60 days trial) and McAfee VirusScan USB (30 days trial).

These are the must-have applications for any PC user and, if you didn’t notice yet, most of them are and do not require an U3 . In part two of this article, we’ll go through other types of , not necessarily needed by all users.

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Written by Jason on June 5th, 2008 with no comments.
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How to block unwanted sites on your PC?

There are hundreds if not thousands of programs that are available to block unwanted sites on your . some straightforward commands and a text editing program like ( on every since windows3.1) and you not simply stop someone one(kids, husbands, brother in-laws) from visiting sites that might put at risk, or expose them to thing you don’t want them to know about.

1. Know the list of sites you want to block make sure your has an .

2. Standard look of Window Open a window (), and in

3. Jot down this for future reference in the name of the site you want to send them to when they visit one of the sites you don’t want them to go to. . www..com etc…

4. Found on XP Find the “” file on your . HINT: on (Pre XP ) it will be located under C:\WINNT\\Drivers\etc On WindowXP machines it will be located under C:\\\Drivers\etc

5. Double Click on the file named “”, there is no extension for this file.

6. Select to open and edit this file with Your should ask what program you want to open this file with. Select “Browse” and the select as the program you want to use.

7. Basic HOST file setup there is some basic instructions on how to enter things in here. 127.0.0.1 is the universal for the “loop back address” on every in the world. By using this entry, any request to a certain address will send the request back to your .

8. Don’t just block them, send them somewhere useful Start by entering the you jotted down earlier. Followed by the name of the site you want to block

9. One drawback to this is that you will need to enter the twice Once as the , and once with WWW in it.

10. Save the file.

11. Open and try to visit the site, you should be redirected back to where you wanted them to go. if you use 127.0.0.1 and are not running a server on your then your should return the standard ( 404 page not found error )

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Written by Jason on May 10th, 2008 with no comments.
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Create A Batch File To Open Multiple Programs At Once

Ever have the need to open more than one program or at the same time?

Say it’s the beginning of the month and time to pay those dreaded bills. You know you need , and or Explorer open. Instead of opening them up one by one, you can easily create a batch file that will open all three programs at once.

And while your at it, why not have open the spreadsheet file you use for tracking your budget and the open to your Bank’s home page. Here’s how to do it…

First let’s take a look at a batch file I created that will just open , and :

NOTE: Examples and file paths are from Vista. XP paths will probably be different for some programs as well as for MS ( 2007 is used in the example).

start /d C:\\\calc.exe
start /d “C:\\ ” .exe
start /d “C:\\ \Office12″ .EXE

Pretty simple.

The above , start tells to open a separate window to run the specified program.

The /d switch tells start the path of the program. For starting and , notice that the paths are in quotes, which is needed when there is a space in the file path.

Now it’s great that all three programs open, but since it’s time to pay your bills, you need to have open that budget spreadsheet and open to your Bank home page so you can log on and access you checking .

Here’s how the commands look in the batch file to do this:

start /d C:\\\ calc.exe
start /d “C:\\ ” .exe https://www.bankofamerica.com
start /d C:\\spreadsheets budget.xls

To open Bank Of America home page with , just add the URL to end of the as shown above using https://www.bankofamerica.com.

To open the spreadsheet, budget.xls you don’t need to first open . budget.xls can be opened directly using the start , as long as the extension or file type is associated to the program.

If you need to open more than one URL, say to , just add the URL like this (make sure you use a space in between URL’s):

start /d “C:\\ ” .exe https://www.bankofamerica.com www..com

Now you’re probably saying “that’s great, but how do I create a batch file?”.

That’s the easy part.

* Just open up or your favorite text editor.
* Copy the commands from above and modify them to use which ever program or files you want open. Make sure when you copy file and folder paths that have spaces, to use quotes.
* Then save the file with any name and a .bat extension (make sure it’s not saved using .txt as the file type extension)

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Written by Jason on May 9th, 2008 with no comments.
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Make your my computer open faster by disconnecting the network drives

I have already published one post on How to fix slow opening of my and delayed contents display here.

There are still some issues like connected drives when you use at your work place.

Like in my when I login at my at my work place, according to the user policy every user is connected to the drives at the location.

These to the drives make my more slow at the time of opening.

Let see how can you disconnect drives. (more…)

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Written by Jason on March 14th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Microsoft word tricks

Here are some trick you can play with your microsoft word and window folder. Just for fun let try and you can see something…

Lets start first trick:

* Go to start and open an empty notepad file
* Ok now you type “Bush hid the facts” (without the quotes)
* Save notepad as whatever name you want and now close it.
* Now open it again..LoL what you can see there? (more…)

Written by Jason on January 4th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Notepad time and date trick

Easy and fun trick with your notepad. Lets try, now open a blank notepad file:

- Write .LOG as the first line of the file and press enter.

- Save your notepad file name and close it.

- Double-click again your notepad file to open notepad and opinion added that the date and time at the end of the file..WOOT !! And place the cursor on the next line. (more…)

Written by Jason on January 3rd, 2008 with comments disabled.
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