Portable Mac apps on a PC formated USB flash drive How-to...
For those who use both Mac and PC. There is a way to run both PC and Mac portable apps on a USB flash drive seemlessly by creating a HFS+ formatted sparse disk image directly on the FAT formated USB flash drive. First there is a website for portable apps for Mac at where you should download Portable Firefox, Portable Adium, Portable Thunderbird, etc. And of course for PC users. Second, format your USB flash drive as FAT (MS-DOS) if it isn't already.
PStart
PStart is just like you need it. There are many useful settings, which are stored in a small xml file on your USB drive (or in your settings folder when PStart is installed locally). If you make this file read-only (or burn a portable copy of PStart to a CD), you have a fix start menu noone can change by accident.
101 Amazing PC / Internet Tricks no one told you before
Below is a list of one of the best hidden 101 Computer tips and tricks to impress your friends which you have been unaware of so far in life. Here you go. You can search Google timer in Google for a timer with alarm Search This in Google for Direct Mp3 Links intitle:index.of?mp3 Your song name here
42 Useful Portable Apps For Mac
A while back I posted 10 Useful Portable Applications to Run On Your USB Drive. I thought it was time to do the same type of post for all of the Mac folks. If you do not find something in this list to suit your needs, with a few Google searches you are likely to find something to work for you. Opensource Mac FTP client. If you aren’t using Cyberduck, here is a basic run through. The play anything media player.
Pendrive Linux USB Installer
Universal USB Installer aka UUI is a Live Linux Bootable USB Creator that allows you to choose from a selection of Linux Distributions to put on your USB Flash Drive. The Universal USB Installer is easy to use. Simply choose a Live Linux Distribution, the ISO file, your Flash Drive and, Click Install.
70+ Best Free Alternatives to Paid Software - The Unlearner
Image Editing Pixlr – Fully functional alternative to Adobe Photoshop. (Web, Windows, Mac)GIMP – Another Photoshop alternative.
Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts
To use a keyboard shortcut you press a modifier key with a character key. For example, pressing the Command key (it has a symbol) and then the "c" key copies whatever is currently selected (text, graphics, and so forth) into the Clipboard. This is also known as the Command-C keyboard shortcut. A modifier key is a part of many keyboard shortcuts.
The 13 best Google Chrome hacks
Flickr/Isaac Bowen Since it debuted in 2008, Google Chrome has quickly risen to be the most popular web browser in the world, beating out Firefox and Internet Explorer. But that doesn't mean you can't make it better. There are many extensions and programs that innovative developers have built to make using Chrome more productive and more fun. With them, you can save articles to read anywhere, learn a new language, save money while shopping, and even improve your writing. And the beauty is that they don't actually require you to put in any extra work.
Nine Things You Should Do After Installing OS X Lion
Lion is here — and as MG summed up in just 3,000 words, it’s great. No operating system is perfect, though. At least, not for everyone, and especially not right out of the (non-existent) box. Looking to make your Lion experience that much better, we’ve bundled together a bevy of tips and tricks that you really ought to have ready on your first trip into the new OS. Now, something to keep in mind: these tips aren’t one-size-fits-all.
5 Chrome tricks for power users
If you're using Chrome as your primary Web browser, then you probably know about a few of the shortcuts that you can use. The Digital Inspiration blog created a list of 15 Chrome tricks to boost your browsing experience. Check out the full list on its site, but here are five of the best ones to get you started: Note: The instructions for these tricks are written from a Chrome for Windows perspective and may vary slightly for Mac users. Pick your geolocation Not interested in sharing your current location with the websites you're visiting?
OS X Lion: Fourteen Lion-taming Tips
OS X Lion (read our OS X Lion review here) is supposed to include 250 new features, but in reality, that's probably an understatement. No matter where you click in Apple's latest OS you'll encounter tricks and options that Apple doesn't necessarily advertise, but which advanced users will want to know about. This story includes fourteen tips that will take you from creating your own bootable USB key to customizing your dock to, heaven forbid, creating a restore partition with OS X Snow Leopard. The various panes in System Preferences offer the best way to explore the hidden features of OS X. You may find yourself saying, "I didn't know I could do that" when you find the option in the General pane that lets you minimize an application window by double-clicking its title bar (a feature left over from ancient Macs), or, in the Dock pane, the option to automatically hide the Dock and display it again when you move the cursor to the lower edge of the screen.
7 Chrome shortcuts you should start using right away
Whether you've been using Google Chrome for years or you just switched from, say, Firefox or Internet Explorer, there are some shortcuts you should know. Many involve using the keyboard to navigate faster; others put you a mouse-click away from useful features. And no list would be complete without at least one extension -- in this case my favorite extension of all time.
35 Absolutely Essential Mac Apps
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published at FreelanceSwitch, but has been moved here since it makes more sense on AppStorm! For one reason or another, a lot of freelancers use Macs. It may be the raw power, the stability or they may just look rather – cool? Well, both of us know why that really is. It’s the apps!
30 Cool Open Source Software I Discovered in 2013
These are full-featured open source software products, free as in beer and speech that I started to use recently. Vivek Gite picks his best open source software of 2013. Adblock detected 😱
