Adobe Reader’s the most common and known PDF reader but it’s 335 MB and the new versions tend to eat RAM to support intensive overloaded graphic interface. I recently discovered a small open source PDF reader for Windows. It’s amazingly small (1.4 MB) and does nothing more than reading PDFs. I personally use it as my main PDF previewer, and use Adobe Acrobat for editing and other manipulations. You can get it on its official site Sumatra PDF viewer.
I had a laptop with no optical media drive and needed to install Windows XP. Windows Vista and 7 are built in with handy features to create bootable USB drive installations, but not Windows XP. I found this great tool Win Setup from USB (4.4 mb direct download .exe) to do so. Read the rest of this entry »
I have seen more infected computers during the holidays than all year long. People are on the Internet clicking everywhere and downloading malware. The most popular kind of malware seems to be the fake antiviruses: Windows Defender Suite, Antivirus Live, etc. Fortunatly, a lot of people face the same problem and post solutions on how to get rid of them. Let me give you a hint on what to download and run if it happens to you.
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Versions
- Sun VirtualBox Graphical User Interface
Version 3.0.12 r54655
- CentOS 5.4 i386
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Later this week, some websites announced a Firefox plugin to give Facebook users the ability to dislike posts. As Facebook users know, the “Like” button is working since about a year and has really been useful in case a user wants to “Like” a post, but without commenting it. I gave the Firefox plugin a chance, knowing there were great chances it was crap, poorly secured, and sending confidential data to a third-party server, like most of the Facebook apps, but unlike most of the plugins from Mozilla.
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RSS Bandit gives you the opportunity to read your favourite RSS feeds in an Outlook-like software. You can read the latest news as if they were emails. The best part of it is that you can synchronize RSS Bandit with your online RSS aggregator (NewsGator or Google Reader). These online applications are quite useful if you want to read your news from one computer to another. Read the rest of this entry »
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LaTeX is a document markup language aimed to provide an highly efficient document production system. It’s often used as an intermediate language between publication format and hard code. Have you ever found yourself working on a more than 50 pages long Microsoft Word document? I did, and it hurts.. The scrolling is too fast, you can’t easily decompose your document, as soon as you move an image some page breaks appear, even though you carefully added manual page breaks to avoid this particular problem. LaTeX gives you the opportunity to write a book, a thesis or any publication with maths support and vector-based images support.
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Keepass is an open-source password manager that supports AES and Twofish encryption algorithms. Even if you would use all the computers in the world to attack one database, it would take longer than the age of the universe to decrypt it. SHA-256 is used to protect your password. No attacks have been known yet against it. No installation is required, you can export your passwords to files to print them, you can keep history of passwords, generate passwords, search for them, and much more.
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