Portable Apps

I have been using portable apps for quite sometime now ever since i discovered www.portableapps.com. I have been using Portableapps'  Firefox 4 portable for quite sometime now. Aside from firefox here are some of the applications i use:

Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition - the award-winning web browser that's safe and secure
Notepad++ Portable - A full-featured text editor with syntax highlighting
FileZilla Portable - the full-featured FTP client
Skype Portable (Freeware) - instant messaging, video chat and phone calls
µTorrent Portable (Freeware) - lightweight bittorrent client
VLC Media Player Portable - Aeasy to use media player that plays many formats
LibreOffice Portable - word processor, spreadsheet, presentations with excellent compatibility
PeaZip Portable - Easy to use file archiver and compressor

An alterntive to Portableapps.com is Portablefreeware.com. Couple of days ago i discovered that there is also a linux version of Portableapps.com and its call Portablelinuxapps.org. Currently using Portablelinuxapps' Portable SMPlayer thats the only application i'm using right now. Using portable apps in linux reminds me of Klik when i was still using Knoppix.

Feeling Dumb

I just feel like a dumbass today. A customer bought a Logitech Quickcam Chat for Skype a couple of days ago and she complained that the webcam/quickcam doesnt work. So we had our foot soldier retrieve the said item. Before sending the item to our supplier i tried to check first if she's telling the truth. I hooked it up to my laptop installed the driver which i have to download it first because she forgot to put the cd inside box. Once the driver was installed and the quickcam applications running all you can see was a blurred image. I messed around with the setting with no luck. I thought maybe i need to update the drivers so i did that and still no luck. But i wasn't giving up yet, i figured maybe my laptop is the problem(i know thats why i'm feeling dumb) so i installed the driver to another computer updated drivers and it still blurry. Then i got another stupid idea maybe it will run if i installed Skype, maybe it was meant to run on Skype only. So i Downloaded Skype installed it and still with the same result, blurry images.

This time i totally given-up. I figured it must be a lens problem. So i went to our supplier gave him the quickcam. He set it up on his computer to check on it and like before its still blurry. Then he ask me if i tried adjusting the focus ring... then it hit me like a train.. FOCUS RING!!!! WTF why didn't i thought of that!!! it was just out of focus thats why it's blurry.

The good news is our customer was happy because it wasn't really broken cause all the while she thought that she might have broken it in her haste to use it.

Apps on My PC: µTorrent

For me this is the best torrent client ever! Why do i like so much well for starters its small like its only 220kb and its not a resource hog like some other torrent clients. I can go on on on how great this little app is but really you should try it.



Download µTorrent 1.7.7


µTorrent[www.utorrent.com]

Apps on My PC: VirtuaWin

I'm a linux user since wayback. One of the things i like to use in linux is the virtual desktop because i like switching from one desktop to another basically to hide NSFW stuff. :D

A couple of weeks ago my boss showed me is his brand new os x leopard and all its features and the one thing that caught me is "spaces" which kinda look familiar oh wait i know its the same as virtual desktop on linux except it has a better name. So i figured i want one on my office laptop which sad to say is running windows xp. I googled for some virtual desktop software for windows and i found this wonderful piece of an open-source software named VirtuaWin. its just a simple program that sit on your systray and does its job pretty well. But what does its really do? well here's a quote from the official site of VirtuaWin:

A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called 'workspaces'). Virtual desktops are very common in Unix/Linux, and once you get accustomed to using them, they become an essential part of a productive workflow.

nuff reading start downloading!

Screenshots:

VirtuaWin[virtuawin.sourceforge.net]