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BPCA PortableApps Presentation

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On Tuesday, January 29, 2013, I gave a presentation to the Broward Personal Computer Association, about Portable applications for the Windows OS.

Portable Applications for MS Windows from Steve Costello

License

The presentation is under a Creative Commons License shown on the next to last slide.

If you are with another computer user group and wish to use this as a basis of a similar presentation, go to the contact page of this blog, and request that I send you the notes.

Please include your name, title, the club’s site address, and any other information that I can verify.

Summary of Presentation

  • What a portable app is.
  • Why to use a portable app.
  • Where to get portable apps.
  • What I consider essential portable apps.
  • A practical demonstration of installing the PortableApps.com Platform, and adding portable apps, to a blank USB drive.

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Note: Updated March 20, 2013 to replace PDF copy, with a link to the Slideshare presentation.

Do you use portable apps?
What are your favorites, or what you consider essential?

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WordPress: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald

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WordPress: The Missing Manual

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I received this from the O’Reilly User Groups program for the Boca Raton Computer Society and as I have started blogs at WordPress.com and at WordPress.org, I went through it myself. I learned a lot of things for both platforms, which I had not previously considered.

Prior to reading this, I would explore the great help sections of WordPress itself, for things to enhance my sites. Now I can easily refer back to this missing manual and find things that I have marked to be done later.

This is one of the most useful non-fiction works I have ever read.

The missing manual series is great!

I recommend this to all WordPress bloggers, who want to have the best blog possible.

Java – Security Alert from Windows Secrets

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In today’s Windows Secrets Newsletter (Comp Version), Woody Leonhard has a security alert “Remove Java from your browsers”.

In this alert he explains:

  • Why everyone should be concerned about Java
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