I was thinking of writing this for a long time but Chris Gomeler did the work, and did it pretty good. Chris has compiled a list of portable apps for people who hop from one public computer to another cribbing about lack of personal settings and preferred applications. Firefox, Thunderbird, Winamp, Gaim and several other freeware apps have released their opensource portable applications that can be used off an usb drive. I would have recommended Torpark instead of Firefox on public computers, but that’s just my personal paranoid opion. Read the detailed article here
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Finally after couple of protests, few thousand lost members and coverage on CNN, Facebook Privacy policy is back to where it was. Not that the earlier one was any good – but better than “Facebook owns all your data” statement.
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WizMouse is a mouse enhancement utility that makes your mouse wheel work on the window currently under the mouse pointer, instead of the currently focused window. Have been looking for this from the day I moved to Windows full time from Mac.
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