January 18, 2010
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USB drives are ubiquitous these days. Almost everyone has one but what do you use them for? Storage? Is that all? We recognize this and we have covered a plenty of tools and applications that you can use with USB drives. There is also an excellent post which lists some tools that make things easier [...]
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January 14, 2010
Will you agree with me if I said, “Being popular isn’t always better.”? However, popularity does provide some privileges like a wider choice of options and more freedom to choose. That might be the case of Mac OS X choice of applications. Even though most Windows applications today already have their comparable – or better [...]
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January 13, 2010
I wish that the earth would revolve around its axis a bit more slowly and we all would have longer days. But alas, we have to make do and save from what we have. For us net workers, the straightforward way would be to just type faster. Some of us though find it difficult to [...]
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January 6, 2010
Usually, when we hunt for a kind of software, there are various alternatives available. When I went hunting for a portable recycle bin for my USB Flash drive, all I got was the iBin. Perhaps there are more there, but for now it seems that the iBin is one of its kind. Let me come [...]
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January 4, 2010
Coffee is just a name but what’s in a name? Sometimes nothing”¦just as Shakespeare meant to say. But the whole point is in the function that this free software performs. Coffee has nothing to do with the brew; it is a small utility that enables us to change the default program used to launch a [...]
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December 30, 2009
WinPatrol has always been one of my favourite pieces of free software. It was one of the first things I wrote about when I joined MakeUseOf back in 2007 and it also made my Mark Pack exactly one year ago today. It’s one of those security apps that you can always depend on [...]
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December 19, 2009
I have multiple offices with lots and lots of printers. Some networks are on Active Directory and some are not. Some are configured with print servers and some are not. Now when I am asked for a printer status report for a specific office or warehouse I have a lot of digging to do. There [...]
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December 15, 2009
Last week we talked about the advantages of carrying your music with you on the go – not on an MP3 player, but on an ordinary USB stick. Accompanied with a portable audio application, you would be able to play your music anywhere, anytime; be it at home, at work, or even at your grandmother’s [...]
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December 13, 2009
A lot of people use USB MP3 players these days, but why not the other way around? Using a standard USB stick (often way cheaper), we can have our music on the go as well. With the lack of headphone support, you won’t be able to use it on the bus, or in the queue [...]
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November 23, 2009
Just a few days ago, Google announced the release of the Chrome OS source code. Within less than 24 hours, the web was littered with disk images for running the new OS on virtual machines such as VMWare and VirtualBox. I even managed to put together my own Google Chrome OS download in the form [...]
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November 4, 2009
Do you remember the last time you ventured into the deep dark depths of your bookmarks folder and took along your broom? Tell someone that you regularly check the health of your bookmarks, and you will be labeled as a freak with a compulsive disorder. But here’s where you need to look them in the [...]
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November 4, 2009
I have a hard drive in my system over here that holds confidential information. Occasionally, I have designers and programmers connected to my machine via various methods (most of the time we use the free UltraVNC) and I wouldn’t want them pulling up my, uhh umm, “not safe for work” content by accident. Come on [...]
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October 31, 2009
Wordsmiths require words and their meanings. Sometimes, those of other languages too. I am a guy who dabbles around with words, some I carry in my head and some I need to carry with me. But where? Thanks to my flash drive accessory, I can literally carry a computer in my pocket. Among a lot [...]
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October 29, 2009
Do you know what is on your system? I mean do you really really know what is occupying your hard drive’s space? Do you know where your 200GB is on free space? What’s that? You only have 72MB free? What is using all that lost hard drive space? What do you mean you don’t know? [...]
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October 19, 2009
What happens when you mix the idea of having portable applications and the awesome utilities available at NirSoft? You get NirLauncher, an uber cool toolbox of portable tools and utilities that are always handy to have on a USB flash drive. Here are the details: NirLauncher can be downloaded here. It is approximately a 7MB [...]
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