December 2006 Archives
Okay so they're not located in the parking lot anymore. Mobile1 Rockwell has moved right beside Datablitz which is at the top floor near the movie theatre. Hmmm, this gives the Power Mac store near the bowling alley some new competition, eh?
This is just a heads up for you people who are looking for store in the old location, which quite frankly is a disaster to find. Early this year, our EIC Adel Gabot was the special guest of honor who helped with the ribbon cutting of the old branch.
Oh and if you do walk into the store, don't forget to buy the latest issue of our magazine which they have generously placed beside the door :)
My group at the office had a rather early Christmas Party last weekend and I was able to snag a 128 MB thumb drive as a gift (the limit on the amount on the exchange gift prevented the giver of the gift from giving me one with a larger capacity) . Anyway, since I don't usually store my files outside of my notebook, I decided to just create my own "mobile toolkit" on that thumb drive.
So, the first thing I did was to download John T. Haller's PortableApps Suite Base Edition to give me some leeway on what to install on the drive. Then with the Suite in place, I installed the following apps on the thumbdrive:

7-Zip Portable -- an open source file compressor decompressor
Angry IP Scanner -- an IP address scanner
ClamWin Portable -- an open source virus scanning utility
GIMP Portable -- the open source equivalent of Adobe Photoshop (only better)
HoverSnap -- a screen capture software
PIN -- a password manager
Portable Firefox -- best web browser bar none
Portable VLC -- open source media player
TrueCrypt -- open source encryption software extraordinaire
All the programs I have on my thumb drive are either freeware or free and open source (FOSS) and they allow me to work wherever I need to go. Most of them are available free at PortableApps.com
How about the m-ph.com readers... I wonder what they have on their thumb drives?
note: this piece was originally posted at my blog Talkin' Tech.
