Showing posts with label portable. Show all posts
Showing posts with label portable. Show all posts

2011/12/24

Get Yourself a nice Free Desktop Alarm Clock !

Hello, today I want to introduce to you a collection of very beautiful clock for your desktop. Windows already has its own system clock, right there on the bottom right corner of your interface.

So, why would you want another clock ?

The answer is that Vector Clock is not just any clock. It's a fully scalable desktop alarm clock
that can be placed anywhere on your screen, rotated with total freedom, resized to any scale and
set in 3D perspective view without losing any quality. Plus, it doesn't require installation and it's FREE.



Vector Clock is customizable. There are detailed Clock Options in the
settings. It also nicely integrates with Your desktop - You can choose to pin the clock
to desktop, use it as a normal window, keep it on top or even force it to foreground
(when in click-through mode). Plus some other options, such as "hide on mouse over",
"start with Windows" and "clock transparency" configuration.

Alarm function let You set up message and sound to play on due time (wav, mp3, midi).
You can use it also as a simple countdown timer - after checking on the "Now plus" option, clock
will compute a future alarm time based on delay you define (eg. after 5 minutes).

Time Zones allows You to set each clock into the different Time Zone (eg. New York, Paris, Tokyo).
This way, You can have a handy World Clock on Your desktop.
Date on each clock indicates, if there is yesterday, today or tomorrow. Clock in time zone automatically
computes shift of Daylight Time Saving (DST). Time zone labels can be customized.

It is portable - each clock is just 1MB single EXE and you can put it on the
USB stick to carry it around. No installation is required - just put it wherever You want
(eg. on desktop) - and run it. For bundle of more than one clocks, a convenient installer and uninstaller
is included, which lets you choose whether to install clocks as a native Windows App or as a
Portable App (on external drive for example).

2011/12/06

EncryptOnClick - A Safe and Easy Way to Keep Your Data Under Lock and Key

I have to question the safety of my file data when I save that data to an online file service. I know that these online services tell us that they would never do anything to compromise our data and that our data is safe in their hands. If you are like me, when it comes to any sensitive files that I store online, I will take a few moments to encrypt those sensitive files to practically eliminate any possibility of those files from ever being compromised.  This gives me some sense of satisfaction that my files are safe; plus, I am taking advantage of backing up those files off site (away from my main computer).
The encryption utility that I use, that can be installed on your PC or used as a portable application is called EncryptOnClick.
EncryptOnClick
EncryptOnClick is like hiring your own highly experienced data security guard who ensures the files you want to keep safe and out of view from others, stay that way.
I think what sells me on this application is its’ simplicity, that it uses a very secure encryption and decryption method (256-bit AES encryption), that it can encrypt multiple files in a batch, that it has file compression built in to reduce the file size during the encryption, that I can carry it around on my flash drive and that it is FREE!

DesktopSnowOK

Add A Touch of Snow to Your Computer’s Desktop

 With winter at our doorstep snow will be on the way (which it already has in my region) you need to prepare yourself and get into the mood.  To help you along with this, I found a very small software application called DesktopSnowOK .
DesktopSnowOk
Simply download, unzip, run, adjust for how much snow you want falling and your desktop will become a winter wonderland.
DesktopSnowOK is a lightweight portable Windows program for 5 or more snow flakes on your windows desktop.
Installation!
“DesktopSnowOK” does not have to be installed and can be executed easily from the desktop, and can be carried on a small usb-stick or other memory device. It’s a small fun program for all Windows-NT systems.
Features:

  • Very Small
  • Low CPU usage
  • 5-64 snow flakes
  • Adjustable speed
  • Several flakes textures (bitmaps)
  • Optional transparency
  • Optional deactivation by mouse movement or keyboard input
  • Optional translation feature
  • Portable

PC On/Off Time

FREE Time Tracking Tool Shows Times Your PC Has Been Active (for the past 3 weeks)

An easy way to tap into this information is to use the small portable application called PC On/Off Time. No installation is required and no running in the background is required.  Simply download and run.
PC On/Off Time graphically displays the usage time for your computer for the last 3 weeks without having to start any logging (uses Win 7/Vista/XP/2000/2008 built-in feature). It displays the hours of operation, in a simple overview, so you can see at what times the computer was on or off. You can also connect to a network PC and create the report.
PC On/Off
What this graphic display will tell you is this:
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A grey fade-out indicates that the computer switches into standby mode. (Windows 7/Vista or higher)
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A red bar indicates that the computer was shut down unexpectedly (Windows event ID: 6008) with a following reboot.
In answer to the second part of the question; “What could you use this information for?
PC On/Off  Time could be used as a troubleshooting tool.  For example, I recently experienced an issue where my PC would abruptly shut down. This tool would have been helpful to determine the number of times this occurred and the date/time.
PC On/Off Time could be used to monitor the usage time that your children are on the the computer.
PC On/Off Time could be used to monitor computers on a network you are managing.  For example, you may have a rogue user who is showing up at work after hours to use a PC for personal gain.
PC On/Off Time could be used a a timesheet tool to document time spent on a special project.
PC On/Off Time could be used as a forensics tool to generate a graphical report, as supporting documentation in a criminal case.
Can you think of any other uses for this tool?  I would love to hear your comments.

PointerStick - A Virtual Pointer Stick To Help You Make Presentations

When conducting projector based training presentations there are several ways to point out an object on the screen.  Some presenters will use a laser pointer; whereas others will simply use the mouse pointer or a pointer function that is built into the software (such as Powerpoint).
In the days prior to computers it was not uncommon for a presenter to use an actual stick, called a pointer stick, to point out the specifics. If you are still stuck in the old days of the pointer stick, it is now time for you to advance to the virtual pointer stick.  Yes, virtual in the sense that you can call it up on the screen when you need it or make it disappear. It is a portable app called PointerStick and it actually looks like a pointer stick.  It will definitely make your class taken notice.
PointerStick is a portable tool that presents on the Windows Desktop a virtual pointer stick, for example for Presentations to highlight the current mouse position and the emphasis on presenting will be better. The use of the virtual pointer stick is ideal for projectors (Beamer) and larger LED/LCD screens.
Features:
Very Small Program
Low CPU usage
Adjustable size of Pointer Stick
Several Pointing-Stick textures (bitmaps)
Optional alpha transparency
Optional deactivation by mouse or keyboard input
Optional translation feature
Portable