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7 Operating System Can be Run from USB

hardono — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:32:46 +0000

Running operating system is not only can be done from CD but now also can be done from USB. It also call USB Operating system or portable operating system. USB Operating system is a system that allows you install software packages back onto USB device and fully operates from there. The benefit of these types of operating systems lies in locations where more than one person has to use the same computer. In such an instance users can effectively utilize the system using their own USB operating systems without having to fuss about the default OS installed in that system.

This kinds of operating system is useful if you sometimes use different computer to work and you feel better using your favorite operating system. All you have to do is connect the USB memory device holding the OS and you are ready to go. Using this method you can bring your operating system, applications, files, email, bookmarked favorites, games and more with you. It’s your very own portable operating system you can carry in your pocket.

Below 7 Operating System that can be used from USB

1. Damn Small Linux
Damn Small Linux is a very versatile 50MB mini desktop oriented Linux distribution and can be run from USB flash drive. It has a nearly complete desktop, and a tiny core of command line tools. All applications are chosen with the best balance of functionality, size and speed.

2. MojoPac
MojoPac free operating system that offers full functionality of a USB OS like instant installation and automatic saving of files on USB flash drive. It does not consume much space during the download and installation of the module. The number of applications to install on the MojoPac USB OS is what will determine the storage capacity of your flash drive. MojoPac can be installed in an iPod too.

Please note according to the website, on March 1, 2012, MojoPac will no longer be available for download

3. Puppy Linux
Puppy Linux is Linus Operating System that has fast on startup even in old PCs and it does not require antivirus software. Administering Puppy is quick and minimal. Puppy Linux can be run from CD, DVD or USB flash drive

4. Slax
Slax USB operating system is Linux OS based operating system that can be run from USB flash drive. Slax offers a simple UI. Slax has been incorporated with some unbeatable modules as well as applications designed to make your work easier. This makes it easy for anyone to install and utilize the application.

5. Ubuntu
Every Linux user know about Ubuntu. The developers also release USB version of this operating system. Some of the apps included in the Ubuntu USB OS are open office, instant messaging client, picture editor, web browser and so much more.

6. Ylmf OS
Ylmf OS is a a Linux OS based USB operating system which looks like Windows operating system. It make a lot easier for Windows users to start moving toward Linux-based operating systems especially performing on portable operating system. Ylmf OS requires around 2 GB of the USB flash drive space to be installed.

7. Windows To Go
Windows To Go is a feature in Windows 8 that allows the entire system to run from USB mass storage devices such as flash drives and external hard drives. However, Windows To Go is intended to allow enterprise administrators to provide users with an imaged version of Windows 8 that reflects the corporate desktop.

Please share if you know another operating system that can be run from USB

Use Calculator in Firefox Status Bar

hardono — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:38:01 +0000

You can use your Firefox as calculator too, beside for browsing. It’s not default feature on Mozilla Firefox but you should install addition add-on to active this feature. This add-on is Status-bar Scientific Calculator. It will install calculator on Firefox status bar. It means you can use calculator from Firefox status bar. Using this add-on, you don’t need to open Calculator program anymore. The beautiful thing that this add-on offers scientific calculator not only simple calculator.

Using this is simple. Just type in the values like in a normal calculator, and keep in mind that you need to use brackets to change the processing order. The calculator supports all basic operations plus a lot of advanced operations that involve complex numbers. Among those are switching from decimal and hexadecimal to all other bases from 2 to 24

The add-on supports up to ten digits after the decimal point, with options to increase or decrease that number in the settings.

Visit Status-bar Scientific Calculator

Manage Your Password Using Dashlane

hardono — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:15:00 +0000

If you are tired to remember your password on each site then you can use Password Manager software like Dashlane. Dashlane is free password manager software for Windows or Macintosh operating system. It offers a comprehensive feature set to facilitate your life on the Internet. You can store addresses, phone numbers, passport numbers, credit card info and more in a secure vault and sync them between multiple computers.

You need to register first before download the software. When you install the software you can choose to connect Dashlane with one, multiple, or all of the supported browsers. Dashlane currently connects with the Chrome and Firefox web browser only. The program ships with a desktop program that you can use for all management purposes, and a browser extension that handles input and detection in the web browser.

It can fill out login information automatically for you if you have configured it that way, and will automatically ask you if you want to send new login to the password manager for safe keeping. It is furthermore possible to click into a login form directly to select one of the available accounts for the site. You can also configure the program to generate strong passwords for you when you register new accounts.

Dashlane can do all the form filling for you, if identity related information have been saved into the program’s database previously. One interesting feature of the desktop application is the security dashboard, which lists password strength ratings for all accounts.

Dashlane Features

Express Login and Express Checkout
Smart Form Filling
Secure Auto Registration
Secure Dashboard Program

Visit Dashlane – Password Manager Software for Windows and Macintosh

Ups, I forgot the url address, What Should I do?

hardono — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:44:44 +0000

Sometime you found good website and you spent much time to browser that site. But, unfortunately you forgot the url. You also forgot how can you found the site. What should you do to resolve the problem?

The only and easiest way to solve your problem is by accessing your web browser history. You can access history by clicking Crtl + H on major web browser. Then you just need to check when you open the site, today, yesterday, or another day. By seeing the title, I believe you will remember that this is the site that I’ve visited. Click the title to open the site. Don’t forget to bookmark or write the address so you will remember if another time you want to open the site again.

This method will work if you open on same computer using same web browser but how if you open on another computer? You can still access your history as long you’re using same web browser. You need to synchronize your browser first.

Now, many web browsers offer synchronize feature. This is very useful to keep your web browser data then you can access again on different computer or mobile phone (if your browser has mobile phone version)

First you need to register to get sync account and active the sync feature on the web browser that you’re using.

Below how can access sync on some web browser
Firefox: Tools > Option > Choose Sync Tab.
Chrome: Control Menu at right after sidebar > Sign in to Chrome (using your google account)
Opera > Menu > Synchronize Opera > Enable Synchronization

Let your sync always active. It will store all web browser data into the server so you can access again on another computer. You can choose which data (bookmark, history, web preference, etc) that you want to store to the server.

If you want to access from another computer then you need to active sync feature on the computer and let the web browser sync the data. After finish then you can access the data that is stored on the server.

Remember to deactivate sync feature if you are using public computer. Just do sync if you’re really need it.

Alternate Web Browser: Sleipnir 3

hardono — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:24:13 +0000

If you’re finding alternate web browser except popular web browser like Chrome, Firefox, IE, Opera, or Safari then you can try Sleipnir 3 web browser. Sleipnir 3 is a web browser that offers rich full screen mode, speedy tab performance, and sync with all Sleipnir web browser. It’s light and fast.

With speedy tab performance feature, you can open many tabs as you want. Sleipnir 3 can handle hundreds tabs without make Sleipnir 3 hang. You can also organize your tabs into tabgroups. Tabs with the same domain name can be easily inserted into a new tab group

Sleipnir can be used on the PC, iPhone, iPad, Android and Mac as well. It is also possible to have your bookmarks synchronized automatically for free. It’s Opera for PC and Operamini for mobile.

Sleipnir also has Mouse gestures feature. With this feature, it is possible to perform many different functions by moving the mouse while holding down the right click button.

Basically, Sleipnir web browser is like any other popular web browser. But if you want try new web browser the you can install and try Sleipnir web browser.

Visit Sleipnir Web Browser

Convert Video in Mac or Windows with WonTube Free Video Converter

hardono — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:01:37 +0000

You have some videos and you want to burn on cd or dvd, play on your cellular, or just want to small the video size. To do that you need video converter like WonTube Free Video Converter. WonTube Free Video Converter is Free Video Converter that will helps you to convert videos for your portable device or mobile for Mac or Windows users.

You can convert any videos format and use it in your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Sony PSP, PS2, PS3, BlackBerry, Nokia, Samsung, Xbox, Apple TV, Android mobile devices and smart phones. If you don’t find your device then you just choose the omnipotent MP4 formats to play on any device.

Features

Free for Mac and Windows
Clean interface that make you can convert simple and fast.
High quality on result
Support many video formats like AVI, WMV, MP4, MKV, FLV, 3GP, MPG and so on to meet the need of iPhone/iPad/iPod/PSP/HTC and other popular devices and apps.
Convert video to sound like MP3
Can be used to download videos from YouTube, Google, Yahoo, Myspace, CNN and other video-sharing sites

Visit WonTube Free Video Converter

Capture, Annotate and Share using Awesome Screenshot

hardono — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:13:33 +0000

Awesome Screenshot is a web browser add-ons to capture, annotate, and share web page that you are opening on the web browser. It support for Chrome, Firefox, or Safari. Awesome Screenshot can capture the whole page or any portion, annotate it with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines and text, one-click upload to share.

Capture webpage using Awesome Screenshot is more simple then using Print Screen button on Windows computer. You just need to install this add-ons, open website, and click capture button. The interesting thing is you can capture the whole page or crop any portion. You can also edit the screen shot without opening image program.

Beside capture the page you can also annotate the page. You can annotate it with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines and text or erase the sensitive information with blur tool.

Finally you can share your screenshot with your friend. First you need to upload the screenshot to awesomescreenshot.com and get a sharable link. Then you can share the link to twitter, Facebook, email etc. Remember you don’t need open any website to do that, this this add-ons can handle that.

Install Awesome Screenshot for Chrome, Firefox, or Safari

Visit Awesome Screenshot website

How to Download Facebook Video without Install Software?

hardono — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:30:48 +0000

Facebook allows its members to share videos. Some of the videos are embedded via YouTube while others are native Facebook videos. You can check how to download YouTube video here. We also have already shared about how to download Facebook video using Firefox add-ons. Now, how about download Facebook video without install any software or browser add-ons?

The best way to do that is by using website that offers service to download Facebook video into your PC. There are two sites that you can try to download your favorite Facebook video into your local hard drive. These sites are:

Down Facebook

Down Facebook offers simple way to download Facebook Video. It can be used by add Facebook Video link into their download form or adding the word down in Facebook Video url. For example if Facebook Video url is

facebook.com/video/video.php?v=123456789

then you can download the video by change the url to

downfacebook.com/video/video.php?v=123456789

It’s pretty simple.

Facebook Video Down

Facebook Video Down is like any other site that offers download video service. You just need to paste Facebook Video url into their form and click download. Then Facebook Video Down will process the download file and you can save into your PC. Nothing new here except this service is for downloading Facebook Video only.

I believe there are another sites that offer service to download Facebook Video. If you know about it, please share with us.

New Facebook Profile Interface with Facebook Timeline

hardono — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:11:05 +0000

Facebook has introduce new Facebook Profile interface that is called Facebook Timeline. After some experience, now this feature can be used start from December 15, 2011. Facebook will send invitation to all member to change their profile interface to Facebook Timeline. If don’t get the invitation then you can visit this site to switch your Facebook Profile into Timeline.

Facebook Timeline is a way to document your entire life, from birth to present. It also shows your photo, your wall, friend, group and anything that you’ve done with Facebook. Actually the interface is more nice then standard Facebook profile interface. You can also give photo as your profile cover and set your status as featured status; something like featured stories on news blog or website.

The most important thing about this new interface is about privacy. Using Timeline, your friend will know about all your activity on Facebook. You should control your Timeline and decide what should your friend see and do not see about your Facebook life.

Mashable.com has written a post about Facebook Timeline Guide.

Chat on Facebook using Chit Chat for Facebook

hardono — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:53:34 +0000

Since its launch in April 2008, Facebook Chat is rapidly gaining market share in the Instant Messaging market besides Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. Unlike traditional desktop instant messengers, however, Facebook Chat is restrictive to its use in your web-browser. You need third party instant messengers Facebook Chat software. One of them is Chit Chat for Facebook

Chit Chat for Facebook is a free Facebook chat instant messenger (IM) that allows you to chat with your Facebook friends from your desktop. Chit Chat boasts a clean and easy to use buddy list, instant message notifications, status alerts and a tabbed message window. It also lets you update your status, send private messages, and tells you when your buddies log on and off.

Credit: chitchat.org.uk

Some advantage using Chit Chat for Facebook

Notifications of friends online or offline.
Tabbed chat window.
Allows you to use Facebook’s lists in the buddy list
Lets you change font and text size.
Saves previous chats (chat history).