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February 2008
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Carry A Computer in your Pocket
Bring Your Favorite Software, Files, and Settings with You
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.
Awesome Adobe Acrobat Alternatives that Will Make Love to your Computer
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
Fix the Missing Tags in your MP3 Files
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.
Some of the songs in your iTunes library may have incomplete tags. Here’s how we fix this problem.
What I'm Reading
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.
What I'm Reading
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.