Adobe updates their products in relatively frequent and regular intervals. Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader is no stranger to this practice. Since the launch of Adobe Reader 9.0 in 2008 and as of this writing, there has been 15 updates to that product alone. For some users, the automatic update feature is sufficient. If you are in an environment where…
Read More »When it comes to the removal of a virus, Trojan, pest, or some other malicious application, it has been my practice to isolate the problem by removing it from the equation. What is meant by that is that there are cases where the system is inoperable or where several applications have been hijacked like Task Manager, Registry Editor, and other…
Read More »AVS DVD Player is a compact and easy-to-use program that has a simple user-friendly interface allowing you to start watching DVD movies with no additional software. It is offered for FREE by Online Media Technologies Ltd. In many ways it is comparable to the more popular commercial products offered by Cyberlink PowerDVD or Corel’s WinDVD. This FREE download and application…
Read More »Beyond Compare® is the ideal tool for comparing files and folders on your Windows or Linux system. Visualize changes in your code and carefully reconcile them. Beyond Compare is available at Scooter Software. A license was purchased to support a large user community. I wanted a means to simplify the distribution of this application with the license file. I chose…
Read More »A group of users needed to change from one FTP client application to another. There was no conversion available for the original FTP application, only a spreadsheet that had been maintained. There was a need to bulk add a couple of hundred ftp accounts into a new FTP client. The selected FTP client is FileZilla. A little known tidbit about…
Read More »Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is remote control software to allow computers interact with one another as a server and client. It is developed to ease the administration of remote machines without using the console. For Windows users, there may be a a familiar feel similar to that of Windows Terminal Services (RDP). VNCServer is standard on a Red Hat Enterprise…
Read More »INNO Setup is a free installer for Windows programs available at JRSoftware. There is no official unpacker – the only method of getting the files out of the self-extracting executable is to run it. An open source utility called innounp.exe is maintained at Sourceforge. Sourceforge has maintained version 0.19 online for over a year, however, 0.20 also exists from Sourceforge,…
Read More »INNO Setup is a free installer for Windows programs available at JRSoftware. There is no official unpacker – the only method of getting the files out of the self-extracting executable is to run it. An open source utility called innounp.exe is maintained at Sourceforge. Sourceforge has maintained version 0.19 online for over a year, however, 0.20 also exists from Sourceforge,…
Read More »ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. However, to use this application in a commercial environment a license key is required for a nominal fee. I wanted to get this application and license key out to the registered user community as quickly as possible and with little intervention on the…
Read More »Beyond Compare® is the ideal tool for comparing files and folders on your Windows or Linux system. Visualize changes in your code and carefully reconcile them. Beyond Compare is available at Scooter Software. A license was purchased to support a large user community. I wanted a means to simplify the distribution of this application with the license file. I chose…
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