Archive for December, 2008
Using prism to make a web page into an application.
Dec 10th
AtA’s good friend and productivity guru, Daniel Pataki over at hack your day posted an article on making a web application into a standalone app.
Yes now you can have a browser independent program that normally requires a distracting browser window to run. We are talking about your Google Docs, Analytics or… Well, anything actually.
You see we DO get easily distracted and run off on side quests from whatever we were doing (2 hours of reading and replying to email anyone – DAILY?? )
This seems like a great place for us to run our gMai, gCall or anything else we don’t want to get distracted from. Web links from the same domain are opened in prism – anything else goes to your default browser – dig?
Now you have a shortcut on your desktop that can open directly to your web shortcut.
From Prism’s website:
Personal computing is currently in a state of transition. While traditionally users have interacted mostly with desktop applications, more and more of them are using web applications. But the latter often fit awkwardly into the document-centric interface of web browsers. And they are surrounded with controls–like back and forward buttons and a location bar–that have nothing to do with interacting with the application itself.
Can you think of some good ways to make use of this? Would this make you more productive or do you feel it would be strange? [Prism Download]
VundoFix – Fixes or Fails?
Dec 3rd
There will always be a Vundo epidemic lurking in the midst as long as there is Java. Basically, what keeps getting people bits and pieces and various version of the Vundo virus, is outdated Java. What it does, is start up Internet Explorer, and uses it to pop up little windows and adds on your desktop; this eats memory, and causes a vast number of other operating issues. The old versions pile up fast, you’d be surprised how fast, actually. Checking is pretty easy. For Windows users:
Start-;Control Panel-;Add Or Remove Programs
Wait for the list to populate with all the various junk you have. The majority of the time, you’ll see more than one version of Java, and a good 30% of the time, you might even see over five different versions.
A good way to prevent Vundo is to keep only one version in there. So go ahead and get rid of everything but the latest version of Java.
If you have Vundo, or a version, or generic attempt at Vundo, or suspect that you do, you’ll need to do a lot more. First, download the free version of SuperAntiSpyware, then go ahead and run it, to see what’s in there. Use it to do a superficial scrub, after it’s finished. If Vundo was located, this more than likely won’t get everything.
Next, fetch VundoFix, it’s free. Restart in Safe Mode, and run VundoFix. Allow it to do its job, and then start back up in normal mode. Just to be sure, allow your computer to fully boot up, then wait about twenty minutes. Run VundoFix again, and see if it catches anything. If not, then you’re clear! VundoFix is free, and the best program I’ve come across that fixes Vundo; however, running the free version of SuperAntiSpyware works wonders for cleaning out spyware, and whatever else might be lingering in your system.
Written for AskTheAdmin by Vernon Southward of Devicepedia.
