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We all have favorite applications that we use all the time. The question is, what should we do when we use another computer where those applications are not installed? The choices are to either use the available alternatives, install our favorite apps (if possible), or wait until we can use our own computer at home. [...]
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Portable Apps for Windows and Mac have been around for a long time, but are less common in the Linux world. Due to the complexity of Linux dependencies, and the different way different distributions locate these dependencies, the portable Linux application long seemed like a pipe dream. Until now. New website PortableLinuxApps features a number [...]
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One of the main disadvantages to using a desktop email client such as Mozilla Thunderbird is that you can only access it on one computer. Although you can access your emails through a web-based interface from your email provider, it is not the same. But now, this is no longer an issue with this simple [...]
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As computers have become such a big part of our everyday lives, we have grown to expect faster and faster desktops and laptops for our daily activities. One of the problems with those fast processors and hard drives is that since they have to fit more power into increasingly smaller spaces, they end up reaching [...]
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I just found a little program called CintaNotes via LifeHacker. I have been using my notes application on my Windows Mobile device as well as in Outlook for some close to 10 years now. My life has changed drastically over this time period and now I have the need to sync and share my notes with [...]
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Most of an average user’s time on the computer is spent browsing the web. Next in line perhaps, is file management (if you do not do other specialized work on the computer). Naturally, having the right tools for the job can make it much easier and faster. The default Windows file manager – Windows Explorer [...]
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I have loads of portable software not only on my USB drive, but also on my PC. There’s something uncomplicated about them. While video and mp3 takes over our senses, we forget that the listening experience of radio is still a part of the airwaves; or the digital waves that makes up the internet. As [...]
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There’s an old adage that you cannot have enough disk space. It’s true, but a much cheaper option to purchasing more is to make more sense of the space you already have. Windows doesn’t make that terribly easy, though. While you can get a decent view of the clutter in a single folder, expanding the [...]
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Keeping track of how things are going, whom to contact, who your friends are, not forgetting important dates, all of this is part of modern life. Naturally managing such personal information is critical and having a helping hand doesn’t hurt. Personal Information Managers or PIMs (as they are frequently known as) help you manage everything [...]
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One of the things that bothers me the most about large, full-featured desktop web browsers is that you know that no matter how much you try to delete the browsing history, the cache, the cookies and everything else – there’s always going to be a trace of something that tells people what sites you’ve visited, [...]
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Working in the online industry, I find myself taking lots and lots of screenshots. These screenshots may or may not be the right image size for the specific website they are destined for. Then resizing images adds another step to my web checklist. So if I could specify an entire folder or even be able to [...]
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It’s time once again for our featured Movers and Shakers post. Each week we are taking one software category and listing the top ten most downloaded apps in it. This week we are looking at portable applications. These are the apps that can be carried on a USB thumb drive and can be used on [...]
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Over the past few years, USB thumb drives have become very popular. They transfer files relatively fast (compared to CD’s), happen to be extremely small and unobtrusive, and plug into almost any computer with a USB port. Personally, I have two flash drives on my keychain right now, and I can’t imagine how I ever [...]
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As you might be aware, flashcards are a set of cards which generally have a question on one side and the answer on the reverse. You read the question, try to remember the answer and then flip sides to reveal the answer. Repeating the same process over and over again helps in memorizing. Flash cards [...]
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With ample hard disk capacities at disposal, its only natural if one gets complacent about deleting older documents. However, such a habit requires efficient management so that you can find the file you are looking for quickly and don’t have to go through pile of unneeded files to find out what you were looking for. [...]
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