The February 2013 issue of the Boca Raton Computer Society Boca Bits newsletter has been posted at http://brcs.org/bocabits/bb02_13.pdf
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
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.
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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?
In the course of going through the more than 200 news feeds, I often run across things that I think might be of interest to other user group members.
The following are some items I found interesting during the months of November and December 2012.
(Long URLs shortened with the Google URL shortener
First appeared in the January 2013 issue of Boca Bits.
Shockwave keeps crashing. What can I do to fix it?
http://goo.gl/8ZVzs
I’m drowning in spam. What can I do?
http://goo.gl/a133b
How to back up your Samsung Android phone to PC
http://goo.gl/aYaVX
The Assumptions You Make About Your Slow PC (and Why They’re Probably Wrong)
http://goo.gl/Th9aw
HTG Explains: What’s the Difference Between CC and BCC When Sending an Email?
http://goo.gl/2nFTx
15 WordPress User Errors That Make You Look Silly [Infographic]
http://goo.gl/mFI8i
3 changes you should make in the Options dialog box of PowerPoint
http://goo.gl/Z5Wb3
HTG Explains: What You Can (and Can’t) Do on the Desktop in Windows RT
http://goo.gl/Dbf3o
Rid Your PC Of Outdated Bookmarks, Duplicate Files, Broken Shortcuts & Empty Folders [Windows]
http://goo.gl/BNNUG