Jason Slater Weblog

I’ve often expounded on the virtues of keeping a memory stick loaded with useful applications handy. But a recent Blog post by David Bradley of the Significant Figures Blogs is well worth a read ‘Running Applications on Your USB Drive” - article here.
The article points to http://portableapps.com/ as being a platform where “… you can [...]

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Monk wanted to let you all know that he has just started his own Blog over at http://www.monkandhisitjunk.com/. This will allow him to be able to expound upon his own adventures and those of the other boys at the Abbey and hopefully be a two-way communication tool with Monk readers.

Drop by and say [...]

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It seems to be a day of finding useful nuggets on the Web today. Here is another one, FloorPlanner found here. This is a floor design planner that operates online allowing you to plan out your rooms, fill them with furniture. Once done you can print them out, save them as images or share them [...]

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I find myself using regular commands to gain system information, some of these include:

Start->Control Panel->System
IPCONFIG
ROUTE PRINT
TASK MANAGER
PRINT MANAGER
DEVICES
SERVICES.MSC

They are all really useful but wouldn’t it be great to have all that info in just one place?

Searching through Google trying to find a program that gives me this information I found a product called Windows Inspection [...]

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If like me you often need to copy whats in the Internet Explorer window for use in another application - you may do what I do - that is press the PRT SCN button then paste it into a paint program, crop it about to get rid of the title bars, status bars, etc then [...]

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