Technobits — the Blog

well in all my efforts to email the app that was shown of fin class on wensday october 3rd i failed due to the fact that all of my email address i have now and all the ones i could posibly get were filtering out any emails with archive files or executable files for “security” but in the process i found the newest updated version of the app which can be found here. I have personally tested it out on xp and it should work on vista but i have no way of knowing about stability on anything younger than windows NT. Have fun
-John

I was looking around for a way to do this for the first 1302 assignment, and found this tutorial on the Sun website.  It was confusing for me at first, so if you have questions about how I used it email me

How to Use File Choosers

Hey Micro Center has 8 gig thumb drives on sale for $17.99. The store is located off of highway 85 on Pleasant Hill headed west. Check out the link below to print the coupon.

Micro Center Coupon

Hey everyone if you ever want to have a distro of linux on your thumb drive here is a great website that will walk you through all the different ones and how to install them to your thumb drive and boot and run from USB

www.pendrivelinux.com

Those of you that are unhappy with the software provided on the college computers (outdated stuff like IE 6 and Mozilla 1.5 web browsers) may want to set up a USB drive with the Portable Applications software suite so that you can run other programs.

It’s easy to do this — visit the PortableApps.com web site and download either the Suite (easiest) or the PortableApps tool plus the specific applications you want and install them to your USB drive.

Now when you insert your USB drive, you’ll have a new option in that dialog box — Start PortableApps.  Click that and it’ll bring up the PA menu; choose your application from the list and you’re ready to work!

I recommend making sure you get Firefox, Pidgin, ClamWin, Sumatra, and either OpenOffice Writer or AbiWord at a minimum.  On my own USB drive, I put the Suite and then added FileZilla, 7- Zip, and Notepad++ for the web development work I often do.  I’ll probably add Thunderbird and the GIMP eventually, once I clean off some of the junk (I do have a 2GB drive, but still…).

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/14/microsoft.xp.ap/index.html

Go to the link here to find out the story! (Sorry, can’t post the entire story here, I’d get in trouble)

before buying any electronics, check the reviews of that product in WWW.CNET.COM

These are pages i have found that are useful for web design (they can also be used even if you aren’t doing a project):

1) W3C: HTML/XHTML Validation. This is useful for finding errors in your sites code. (I have set this up to default to Validate by File Upload. If your site is online, you can also do it that way.)

2) W3C: CSS Validation. Again, this is useful for finding errors in your css page. (I have set this up to default to Validate by File Upload. If your site is online, you can also do it that way.)

3) W3C Schools: XHTML/HTML 4.01 tag listing with links to parameters you can use, and how to use.

4) W3C Schools: CSS2 Property listing (Same as above, except for CSS).

5) Online Color Picker. This is useful for determining the colors for your site. It will translate whatever you pick into the code you need. IE: If i selected white, it would give #FFFFFF.

If i find any more, i’ll post in a comment or try to update this post (if i can).

Hope this helps!

The viruses essay says to look up pages 519-520 in the textbook, disregard that! Those are not the correct pages. Check out page 470-471 for the information! (Ch.14)

I think there is one other book reference correction for the essays… I believe it is privacy. So, Check out page 469 for the Privacy essay book reference (chapter 14)

Your welcome!

Justin

Compusa is selling a 1 gb usb drive for $4.99 while supplies last.