Blog for portability

Gmail Storage to 13 GB by the End of 2007

2007-10-19T11:05:00.001+08:00

Regarding the post on the Gmail Official Blog, I made a simple calculation.
Based on my calculation Gmail will reach 13 gigabytes at the end of the 2007.

The formula/steps I used in calculation is
1. I get the increase value of the Gmail storage counter (I get the average out of the values I got)
2. I get the seconds per day
3. I get the total number of days up to the December 31, 2007 from now
4. I multiply the results of the step 1 and step 2, I got the total increased storage per day
5. I multiply the result of the step 4 by the result of step 3; I got the total increased storage up to December 31, 2007
6. I add the result of the step 5 by the current storage capacity

Ex.
1. 0.001508, 0.001507, 0.001509 (unit in megabytes)
So I summed it up and divided by 3, I got 0.001508 megabytes
2. 60 seconds * 60 minutes * 24 hours
So I got 86400 seconds in a day
3. I count the total number of day from October 19, 2007 up to December 31, 2007
I got 73 days
4. I multiply 0.001508 megabytes by 86400 seconds
I got 130.2912 megabytes
5. I multiply 130.2912 megabytes by 73 days
I got 9511.2576 megabytes
6. I add 9511.258 megabytes by 3783.346605 megabytes
I got 13294.604205 megabytes

PS. this is only my estimation

Vixta.org -- Windows Vista Clone

2007-10-17T11:51:00.001+08:00

Do you believe it’s Linux?

Vixta.org is a Fedora-based Linux distribution designed to be

Absolutely free, in every sense

spread linux to the "masses".

ABN - AbsolutelyNo Config.

User-Friendly.

Eye-catching.

Familiar look and Feel

More Screenshots here

Official Website: Vista.org

Internet Explorer 7 now WGA-free

2007-10-05T09:43:00.001+08:00

For those with non-legitimate or pirated copies of Windows
can now get IE 7 from Microsoft’s official website.

Download: Internet Explorer 7

Keep Your Computer Free From Viruses

2007-09-27T17:08:00.001+08:00

Some useful free antivirus packages for Windows free to download and install for personal use.
There is also some free online virus scanners available. It is not a permanent solution but offers help in those emergencies.

Antivirus Packages

Avira AntiVir® PersonalEdition Classic

avast! 4 Home Edition

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition

ClamWin Free Antivirus

BitDefender 10 Free Edition

Online Virus Scanners

Trend Micro™ HouseCall

McAfee FreeScan

F-Secure Online Scanner

Kaspersky Free Virus Scan

BitDefender Online Scanner

MS Excel 2007 can't multiply correctly

2007-09-26T10:34:00.001+08:00

Simply when you try to multiply the following numbers in MS Excel 2007!!!

=5.1*12850
=10.2*6425
=20.4*3212.5
=40.8*1606.25
=77.1*850
=154.2*425
=212.5*308.4
=308.4*212.5
=425*154.2
etc...

the answer in Excel 2007 is 10000
but the right answer is 65535

Source: microsoft.public.excel newsgroup

Online Services to Send Large Files via Email

2007-09-21T00:19:00.001+08:00

Modern free email services only allow to send an attachment upto 10Mb or 20Mb.
With the following free services we can send an attachment upto 100Mb or 300Mb depends on their offer.

YouSendIt
MailBigFile
ShareBig
SendSpace
SendThisFile

Google Shared Stuff

2007-09-20T23:35:00.001+08:00

What is Google Shared Stuff?
It is basically a bookmarklet that you add to your browser's toolbar, which enables you to share or email a web page to your friends.

Read more on Google Shared Stuff help page.
Shared Stuff from People You Know.

IBM Lotus Symphony

2007-09-19T12:52:00.001+08:00

IBM has released a free download of its office suite, called Lotus Symphony. The package includes a word processor, a spreadsheet program and a presentation builder that can be downloaded on IBM's website.

What can I do with IBM Lotus Symphony Documents?
Write a novel, write a business plan, keep a personal journal or just create a simple memo or letter. IBM
Lotus Symphony Documents allows end users to create, edit, share, and save word
processing documents. Users can start with a blank document, import an
existing document, or choose from a set of document templates.
Standard navigational elements include toolbars, an editing window, and
a status bar.

Documents screenshots: here

What can I do with IBM Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets?
Calculate a mortgage, create an income statement, or calculate
your GPA. IBM Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets allows end users to
create, edit, share, and save a variety of spreadsheets. Users can
create blank documents, import existing documents, or choose
from a set of document templates. Standard navigational elements
include toolbars, an editing window, and a status bar.

Spreadsheets screenshots: here

What can I do with IBM Lotus Symphony Presentations?
Close a sale, tell a story, or defend your dissertation. IBM Lotus
Symphony Presentations allows end users to create graphic
presentations that can be shared with audiences via a slide show
mode. The presentations created by Lotus Symphony Presentation software
can be created from scratch or using the included presentation
templates for a variety of looks.

Presentations screenshots: here

Download: IBM Lotus Symphony

Office 2003 Service Pack 3 Now Available

2007-09-19T11:29:00.001+08:00

Microsoft® Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3) represents a major evolution in security for Office 2003. It further hardens the Office suite against potential attacks and other security threats. This service pack also includes fixes that have been previously released as separate updates for Office 2003.

You can get specific information about this update in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article (923618): Description of Office 2003 Service Pack 3.

Download: Office 2003 Service Pack 3
Download: Project 2003 Service Pack 3

Google Docs Adds Presentations

2007-09-18T14:47:00.001+08:00

Google finally rounds out their web-based office suite with the addition of a Presentations to Google Docs. Create a whole new slideshow in Presentations or upload an existing .PPT (PowerPoint) file to get started. Kick your web-based presentation file view into slideshow mode and invite others to see it real-time as you move through slides—with chat built right into the sidebar. Make the slideshow public or invite specific collaborators to edit and/or view. Here's my test Life Hacks 101 presentation (imported into Google Docs) which I used at a talk this summer. While I wouldn't use a browser-based slideshow to give a real-time, in-person presentation, for collaborating on a set of slides remotely, this looks ace. Of course, web-based presentation-makers aren't new; Zoho Show and Preezo have been around for some time now.

Google Docs (now with Presentations)

Source: Life Hacker

Firefox Campus Edition

2007-09-18T10:04:00.001+08:00

What is Firefox Campus Edition?

Firefox Campus Edition combines the Firefox web browser with special extras that give you streamlined access to music, cool sites and useful research tools. It's a way to get the most out of the web that's been created just for students. And it's free!

What extras are included?

FoxyTunes lets you control almost any media player and find lyrics, covers, videos, bios and much more with a click right from your browser.

StumbleUpon lets you channel surf the Internet to find great websites, videos, photos and more based on your interests.

Zotero helps you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work - in the web browser itself.

mogad

2007-09-17T23:53:00.001+08:00

Discover what your friends are discovering on the internet with mogad.

Mogad rely on your friends to discover new things:

media: funny youtube vids, hot pics
products: music, books, restaurants
articles: latest celeb gossip, current events

sharing recommendations is now effortless:

automagically let your friends know your latest find
have your friends' recommendations at your fingertips
mogad learns and gives you more of what you like

Note: Mogad requires a browser plug-in that learns what you like based on
what you and your friends do on the web. Mogad then gives you only
the most relevant recommendations discovered by your friends.

Technorati Tags: social bookmarking, firefox extension

Microsoft Office 97, 2000, XP, 2003 & 2007 Viewer & Converter Packs

2007-09-17T16:50:00.001+08:00

With the help of converters and viewers from Office Online, you can share your Microsoft Office files with people who have different versions of Office programs, or even with people who don't have Office installed.

Converters allow you to open files created by people using different versions of your Office programs.

Viewers provide a means for people who don't have Office programs to see your work. You can provide them with the appropriate viewer along with your Office files.

Office Online File Converters and Viewers

Source: Microsoft® Office Online

iCopy v1.2.0.15

2007-08-11T00:23:00.000+08:00

iCopy is a free and open source software that lets you combine your scanner and printer into a powerful, yet easy to use photocopier by only pressing a button.

Its simple user interface let you manage scanner and printer options, like brightness, contrast, number of copies in a couple of seconds.

As it's small and no installation is required, iCopy is perfect for USB pen drives.

Features
- Simple interface
- Scanning mode selection
- Brightness and contrast settings
- Scanner quality setting
- No installation needed
- Little hard disk space required
- Compatible with all TWAIN scanners and all printers

Download
iCopy v1.2.0.15

Event Manager 2.0.0.110

2006-12-07T10:37:00.000+08:00

Event Manager is a light weight reminder program. It supports many options for repeatable alarms and allows the user to specify a .wav file as audio notification.

Download

Event Manager 2.0.0.110

ubSpawn 0.5.5

2006-12-07T10:23:00.000+08:00

ubSpawn is a small and simple application to manage an unlimited number of files and folders for quick access. It's especially suited for portable applications on USB drives or mobile mediums.

Download

ubSpawn 0.5.5

Foxit Reader 2.0

2006-12-07T10:18:00.000+08:00

Foxit Reader 2.0 is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only 1.5 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and amazingly rich feature set.

Download

Foxit Reader 2.0

AbiWord Portable 2.4.5

2006-12-07T10:14:00.000+08:00

AbiWord Portable is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for a variety of word processing activities and has the ability to read and write a number of document types including Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, Open Document (pre-installed), RTF, HTML, Palm and more. It includes both grammar and spelling checkers as well as an array of other handy features including mail merge capabilities.

Download

AbiWord Portable 2.4.5

cPicture 1.6.6.2

2006-12-07T10:10:00.000+08:00

cPicture - the Windows-Software for your digital camera cPicture is an image viewer that supports both images (JPEG, PNG, TIFF, RAW) and other media files (AVI, QT, MOV, MPEG, MP3, WMV).

Download

cPicture 1.6.6.2

KeePass 1.05

2006-12-07T10:06:00.000+08:00

KeePass is a password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish).

Download

KeePass 1.05

Torpark 1.5.0.7

2006-12-07T09:58:00.000+08:00

Download Torpark and put it on a USB Flash keychain. Plug it into any internet terminal whether at home, school, or public. Run Torpark.exe and it will launch a Tor circuit connection, which creates an encrypted tunnel from your computer indirectly to a Tor exit computer, allowing you to surf the internet anonymously. How much does Torpark cost? IT'S FREE.

You may have heard about those heavily advertised second-rate software packages like Anonymizer, SafeSharing, InvisibleIP, SecretSurfer, etc. Well, not only do they charge you money and/or a subscription fee, but they are bloated and full of useless components. They also require an installation which leaves tracks on your computer. How is that anonymous? Try Torpark; its small, portable, clean, open-source, free of spyware/adware, and free.

Download

Torpark 1.5.0.7

Firefox Portable 1.5.0.7

2006-12-07T09:39:00.000+08:00

Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured web browser that's easy to use. It has lots of great features including popup-blocking, tabbed-browsing, integrated search, improved privacy features, automatic updating and more. Plus it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your favorite browser along with all your favorite bookmarks and extensions with you wherever you go.

Download

Firefox Portable 1.5.0.7

utorrent 1.6

2006-12-07T09:19:00.000+08:00

uTorrent is a powerful and efficient BitTorrent client for Windows. Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in uTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading, and Mainline DHT. Additionally, uTorrent supports the protocol encryption joint specification and peer exchange.

Unlike many torrent clients, it does not hog valuable system resources - typically using less than 6MB of memory, allowing you to use the computer as if it weren't there at all. Additionally, the program itself is contained within a single executable with 170 KB in size.

Download
uTorrent 1.6

OperaUSB 9.02

2006-12-07T09:08:00.000+08:00

Opera is an Internet suite which handles common internet-related tasks, including visiting web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, and online chat. Opera is developed by Opera Software, based in Oslo, Norway. It runs on a variety of operating systems, including MS Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD and Linux systems. It is also used in mobile phones, smartphones, Personal Digital Assistants, game consoles and interactive televisions. Technology from Opera is also licensed by other companies for use in such products as Adobe Creative Suite.

Download OperaUSB 9.02