If your using Windows Live Writer, and you copy and paste images [for like taking screenshots], you may be unaware that Windows Live Writer is doing you a disservice by not using an optimized image. Or by not offering a choice when posting images.

When images are pasted in to Windows Live Writer the program inserts them as a PNG file. PNG’s are not as compressed as JPG and therefore resulting in larger images, more storage requirements and more bandwidth; resulting in a slower website.

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In the business world of a everyday sucky tasks and ta-do’s, it’s really hard to keep track of everything, and its even worse even you don’t have the right tools. If you’ve ever tried to open a can of chili with a dull spoon; these are the tools of the cubical-land office I’m talking about.

The depressing and mundane cubical landscape says you can’t have anything of your own and if you have to click twenty times to do something simple; if there’s not other way you have to click 20 times because all the other 17 clicks are not used or don’t mean anything and the application your using is designed for so many other things you don’t use it for.

Some businesses or environments have policies about installing software on your work PC, some prohibit the connection of USB devices, but others recognize that USB devices are required and that software that is freeware is allowed. So, the only recourse to these bastard-like applications is to work around/with them. Tame and bind them to your will with these useful tools.

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Periodically, you may have a friend that’s getting a new PC or that ever popular reloading your OS to get ‘some’ speed back to the system. When this happens I always have a baseline of applications that must be loaded. All of the applications I recommend are listed as freeware and are/or can be portable, which makes them ever more life attractive.

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PaperPort is an application that allows the average user to try to organize their electronic documents.  Whether that the pictures are imported or scanning documents, the program facilitates the function of trying to organize all this information with the efforts of trying to give the user a usable interface to do certain things with those documents, such as send e-mail and post to the web.

Pretty much anyone can use it. Only those who really want organize their stuff or make the effort to are going to try to use it. This application is not focused on business customers because the program offers no notable security options of it’s own; it only offers the security of the Windows Operating System. There is a mention of PDF security, but you can get that with most freeware programs that handle PDF. There is no internal user security in the program. Read more…

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OMG!! It’s Friday night you chillin out from a long week of a whatever-hell you have to go through and loh-and-behold there’s a phone call, it’s your friend, you mom, your dad, a person that only calls you when their computer breaks.

So normally you might be there, you might be within driving distance, but what if yer not; what if they are here and you are there and there are hundreds of miles of asphalt between the two of you. Enter TeamViewer.

Well, if they have HS Inet service and you have HS Inet service this is the program for you. Before you try to teach the person on the other line what a mouse is really for, and the start button really can shutdown the PC, try this service. It will save you some frustration, gray hairs and a couple of valuable relationships.

What I love about this program is it’s simple and it’s a server and a client in one. It works flawlessly.

You download the program; they download the program. It gives you a client ID and PW and the other person has ID and PW. Who ever is going to connect to whom, that person gives the other the ID and PW and boom, yer in. Easy as hell.

You can remotely control their PC transfer files and so on. The service is free for personal use, but they seem to have very reasonable fee based programs as well.

TeamViewer

TeamViewer Screenshots.

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