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Timewaster: Bongcheon-Dong Ghost

TatoSgr — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:30:41 +0000

There comes a time in the life of any user that we face our fears by going into sites that violates our principles or beliefs. Sites that may scare us, but leave us with a teaching. Sites that we don’t know why they are there, but they are, and we must face them.

This is not one of those sites, this is a site that I know that will scare the crap out of you. Without the use of videos, music or anything, just images, flash, and of course, a little sound. Is a very simplistic history that you will read and find quite amusing, and even funny at the end.

It has nothing to do with technology, is only something that you should show your friends and share on Facebook (recommended). Just see it, and enjoy.

Link | Bongcheon-Dong Ghost

This Is Why I’m Broke: A collection of not-so-necessary things that you need to have

TatoSgr — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:29:56 +0000

This is why I’m broke is an awesome site that list all of those amazing and creative inventions that, although we can live without them, we just don’t want to. It lists over 200 products that we can buy via Amazon, Etsy, ebay, and others, so you know that your money is safe.

Most (if not all) of this products are vanity products that any person would like to have to impress some friends or because it just look great. Like IronMan’s Perpetual Energy Sculpture or the Convertible Futon/Bed. In any way, these are awesome things that since the first time you put your eyes on them, you know you want them, even if you don’t need them, you need them.

But not everything are geeky stuff, there is something for everyone, fish fans, smokers, drinkers and drinkers, motorbikes fans and more. I recommend you to take a look and I know that you’ll find something you’ll love.

Link | This is why I’m broke

Where to download Chrome standalone version?

TatoSgr — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:45:37 +0000

This is a question that people keep asking me. Although the online version will never get updated since it will download the latest version automatically, for some people, which bandwidth is limited, downloading the standalone and carrying around in a flash drive is easier and faster than downloading every single time.

I always recommend people to go into Old Apps since is one of the better sites I’ve found. This time we’ll use it to download the latest Chrome installer.

The best part is that the version you install will update automatically when a newer version comes out. And also, the installation (depending on the speed of you PC) will take no longer than a few seconds, so, it’s worth it.

Link | Old Apps

How to hide the Office 2010 splash screen

TatoSgr — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:23:32 +0000

Although is not that annoying, the splash screen, the one we see when launching any office product, can be very annoying when actually thinking of it. Good thing, there is a safe way to remove it, and it’s pretty easy and it won’t affect in any way the product.

First, you need to create new shortcuts for each one. Right click in your desktop (usually) and select New > Shortcut.

You’ll create a new shortcut with the target being:

For 64 bits: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\WINWORD.EXE” /q

For 32 bits: “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\WINWORD.EXE” /q

Click on next and put a name for the shortcut, whatever you want.

It should look like this.

Now, this trick only works for Word, Excel and Powerpoint. You’ll need to create the shortcuts for each one:

For 64 bits: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\WINWORD.EXE” /q

“C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE” /e

“C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\POWERPOINT.EXE” /s

For 32 bits: “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\WINWORD.EXE” /q

“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE” /e

“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\POWERPOINT.EXE” /s

Via | Into Windows

How to use Chrome apps as a standalone window

TatoSgr — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:19:37 +0000

Chrome Apps are awesome, and many of them offer unique capabilities since they can run in a tab by themselves without the need of a website or services running with it. In case you want to, let’s say, play Angry Birds without the need of opening the browser, you can do that. The problem is that most people are not aware of it. Here’s how.

First of all, Install the app and open it in a new tab. Then, go to Menu > Tools > “Create application shortcuts…”.

Select where you want them to be, in my case, just the desktop. Click on Create.

Immediately a window pops up with the app already in it. You can close the Chrome window you left behind if you want to.

From now on, that shortcut will open Angry Birds in a new windows, but the shortcut within Chrome won’t, this will will open in a new tab. Again, this will work on any app that works alone, as TweetDeck.

How to create profiles on Chrome – The new way

TatoSgr — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:53:38 +0000

Chrome updated a few days ago with a new way to create profiles. Last time, it was a mess creating one (you couldn’t separate them, there was no direct link to each one…). But know, finally we see a light at the end of the tunnel. Here’s how to do it in the latest Dev and Canary release (not yet stable).

Go to Settings. Look for New User in the new settings page.

Click it. You’ll see that immediately a new window of the new profile open. The name of the profile will be one that you can change and it’s named that way by default.

To change de name and/or icon, you just need to select the profile you want and click “Edit…”.

In case you’re wondering, a shortcut to that profile will be placed on the desktop at the moment of it’s creation. Although there is no password protection so far.

Defraggler 2.09: Now with Windows 8 support

TatoSgr — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:30:58 +0000

Also more than a month ago waiting for a new release, and the surprise is that Defraggler has now compatibility and full support with Windows 8, Microsoft new product that will be release (hopefully) later this year.

Another nice feature with this version is that now it shows the remaining time of the defragmentation, making the job for technicians a lot easier.

Between the other feature we have:

Improved formatting of Smart data.
Smart data can now be copied.
Updated support for McAfee Endpoint Encryption.
Improved accuracy of SSD detection.
Improved unicode support for export file list.
Fixed issued that caused the Benchmark button to disappear.
Benchmarking info is now included in the export file list.
Improved usability in Options dialog.
Added Latvian language.

You can download it from here.

Link | Download

Via | Piriform Blog

CCleaner 3.15: New version of the popular cleaner

TatoSgr — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:59:24 +0000

Finally, after a month waiting for a new release, Piriform released a few days ago the new version of the most used cleaner there is. We all now how powerful this cleaner is, and how it’s compatibility with many programs is added with each release. In this last one, the main feature is the compatibility with Chrome Canary, which as you know is a second Chrome installation that you can have in your PC and it won’t affect any other you have.

Between the other features we find:

Added Chrome Canary Omnibox search shortcut cleaning, Saved Form Information cleaning and Saved Passwords cleaning.
Added option to only clean Recycle Bin files deleted more than 24 hours ago.
Improved Firefox History cleaning.
Improved Analysis results for Firefox and Chrome cookies and cache.
Improved Driver Wiper feedback for successful operations.
Improved thread synchronization algorithm to avoid possible deadlocks.
Updated Aurora History cleaning.
Added cleaning for Camtasia Studio 7.0, CoffeeCup HTML Editor, Ashampoo Burning Studio 11, Any Video Converter Ultimate, ConvertXToDVD, Freemake Video Downloader, Audio Converter and Video Converter.
Improved cleaning for Windows Log Files and MS Search.
Improved file size detection algorithm for Recycle Bin.

As always, you can download it from here.

Link | Download

Via | Piriform Blog

Chat with Facebook friends: FTALK (Windows software)

Kervin Vergara — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:03:00 +0000

FTALK is a freeware program for Windows 7, Vista, XP, etc.. that allows anyone to communicate through Facebook with friends. As you can see in the screenshot above to use this program is pretty easy. First, you need to log in with your data, so that later you accept to associate the application to your Facebook account.

Although available only in English, no problem, I worked well and the look is similar to an instant messaging client, and even alerts you when someone logs on, or when you send a message leaves an indication interesting observation.

On the main screen shows you all the connected users, and not well. The program can share your status on the wall account as if you were connected to the same. It is a comprehensive software, which is part of an interesting alternative. And likewise, you can enter directly into the profiles of your friends and see your information.

Definitely, it’s a free program that will be part of my day to day, then, so I can talk with my friends every day. I hope you will find it quite good.

Web Link | FTALK

Anti-Twin: Search for duplicate files on Windows – Freeware

Kervin Vergara — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 05:03:00 +0000

Duplicate files in a computer are a double-edged sword: on one hand take up space that could be used for other purposes, and otherwise make our computer slow. Therefore it is highly recommended that we be careful with it, so it is advisable to use software such as Anti-Twin, software that is suggested yesterday, a user whose ID is zonavip10.

Anti-Twin, a free program available for Windows 7, Vista, XP, etc.. available in Spanish and other languages as well. Your installation file weighs only about 900 Kb, in less than two clicks you can have the application installed ready for use.

There are certain characteristics that make him a pretty special software unique in its kind. Your environment is easy to use, intuitive.

What actually does is to compare folder to folder (to be selected), based on different parameters chosen by the user performs the analysis of our computer. You can perform searches including subfolders, for example, select which file types are compared, or search for specific files. Anti-Twin is very comprehensive in this regard.

And other options are "comparative methods" which can be set to search for names with different extensions or file size to be exact. You can also compare the contents of the file is compared byte by byte or images for the content of each pixel.

Something that strikes me is that the margin of error can be set to the "minimum match". If you put 100% have to be exact, really, is what you want.

Finally, before you start looking, you can select the file limit to show.

Web Link | Anti-Twin