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Geek lists: Free Portable Applications

Darko on March 12th, 2008

Since the moment i got my 1 GB Flash Memory stick, i began to gather all the portable applications i can find. Usually these applications are not marketed as portable, but you can easily figure it out by renaming the installation directory and running the application, if it run properly then it’s a portable application.

Here’s a list of free portable applications that every IT guy should have on his flash memory at all time.

PortableApps.com’s has a very nice list of portable application, here’s my favorite:

• 7-Zip - Compression/decompression Software
• FileZilla - FTP Client
• Mozilla Firefox - Web Browser
• Miranda IM - IM application
• VLC Media Player - Media player capable of playing almost any file
• Sumatra PDF - PDF reader
• AbiWord - Rich Text editor
• ClamWin - AntiVirus application, constantly updated

DesktopApps’s Simple and portable applications:

• menuApp - a menu based application launcher.
• audioApp - for all your one-click muting needs.
• monitorApp - a small system resource monitor.
• imageApp - a digital image viewer.

Windows Sysinternals’s (formerly Sysinternals) portable system monitoring software:

• Process Monitor - real-time monitoring of file system, Registry and process/thread activity

• RegMon - Sysinternals.com - Monitors all modifications on the registry
• DiskMon - Monitors all modifications and traffic on the hard drives
• FileMon - Monitors all modifications and traffic on files
• TcpView - Monitors all traffic incoming and outcoming from the system

All of the following application are 100% portable:

• GreatNews - Curiostudio.com - RSS Aggregator
• Notepad++ - SourceForge - Advanced Text Editor
• eMule - eMule-project.net - P2P client
• Free Download Manager - Freedownloadmanager.org - Download manager with support to Bittorent protocol and Preview options
  
• µtorrent - Utorrent.com - Torrent client
• Angry IP scanner - Angryziber.com - IP scanner capable of scanning big ranges of IPs and checking for specific open ports.
• SIW System Auditor - Gtopala.com - Gathers ALL available information about the system and dumps into a file.
• CPU-Z - Cpuid.com - Gathers information on some of the main devices of your system and dumps it into a file.
• LCleaner - 585Soft.com - Cleans the system from unwanted files
• XP Security Console - DougKnox.com - This application offers hidden options in XP and can help you override modification implemented by Trojans and other malwares
• TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt Foundation- On the Fly-Encryption
  
• XAMPP Lite - Apachefriends.com - a portable Apache/PHP/MySQL server
• The File Splitter - Dekabyte.com - This is a program that will split any file into pieces of any size and later combine the pieces to form the original file
• Qumana - Qumana.com - A blogging tool, witch enables you to blog directly from your desktop

i will keep updating this list, every time i find a new portable application

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Blogging To WordPress From a Mobile Cell Phone

Darko on January 24th, 2008

This is a follow up story to the previous article.
After my normal internet connection was lost due to a malfunctioning Ethernet adapter (Damn you SMC), I had to resort to other means in order to stay plugged in. So I turned to WAP.
For those of you unfamiliar with WAP…what the hell are you doing on a tech blog, just kidding!

WAP is “Wireless Application Protocol”, an emerging standard to allow cellular/wireless devices to access the Internet. In plain English, it’s internet for cell phones.

One of the important things that I gained from this experience is that i had the chance to use WP.com’s mobile website m.wordpress.com designed specifically to offer mobile users easier access and better blogging experience.
Of course, this page cannot replace the WP Dashboard, but nonetheless it offers key elements of it. From there, you can get a quick Stats summary, Add new articles and Add new bookmarks to your blogroll.

One of the problems that I had with posting articles is the absence of the conformity offered by WP rich text editor; witch meant that I had to add my own html tags. So here’s what I did. I have Qumana a blogging tool, installed on my computers. What Qumana offers, is the ability to see the source of the text you wrote in the WYSIWIG panel, just like the Visual and Code panels in the WordPress dashboard. Of course there are a number of programs that has this feature like Dreamweaver and FrontPage. So what I did was that I wrote the text and copy/pasted the code and saved it to file, then I sent the file to my Cell phone witch luckily support copy/pasting, witch enabled me to post the formatted article.

And here’s some more good news, m.wordpress.com can accessed from any normal web browser. At the moment I’m writing this article from it using Mozilla Firefox. This can enable a hell of a lot faster posting then using the real dashboard.
Try it yourself

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Mobile Blogging test

Darko on January 18th, 2008

I logged into WordPress.com mobile dashboard using my mobile phone, and I’m trying to test if i can blog from here. This way i can write my articles on a pc and copy/paste them here.

Update: it worked, this is great news, i can be more active now from my cell phone, i’ll write a small report about this feature later on

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How to verify your Wordpress.com Blog for Google’s Webmaster Tools?

Darko on January 2nd, 2008

Google webmaster tools, is a service provided by Google to give webmasters more information about Google Bot’s behavior towards their website/blogs, how they rank up within the search engine and alert them about the errors that faces the crawler when trying to crawl their pages.

Webmaster Tool requires each user to verify his ownership to each website added to his account.
Google offer two methods of verification:

1-Adding a meta tag to the source of your index page.
2-Uploading an html page to website’s root, with a specific name provided by Google.

Any Wordpress.com user will quickly realize that WP.com does not allow editing source files, or uploading any pages to your blog.
What do you do? How do you verify your blog?

The answer is very simple:

1-Open your Webmaster Tools Dashboard.
2-Select the Wordpress.com blog and click on the Verify option.
3-In the verification list, chose the “Upload an HTML file”, You’ll be asked to upload a page with specific name (ex: googlee09df14b32e62ffc.html) copy the file name.
4-Open your Wordpress.com Blog Dashboard and click the Write button.
5-Select the Page option to create a new page.
6-In the title paste the file name you copied in step 3.
7-Go back to your Webmaster Tools Dashboard again and try to verify your blog again….TATA

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