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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b
style="">OPLIN 4Cast #165: What’s in your pocket?<br>
</b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">February 18, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1 style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span class="grame"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">4casting technologies that could have an
impact on
public libraries.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></h1>
<p>It's great that the applications we use are so portable. In fact,
some
of the apps OPLIN techs use can fit on a thumb drive. Here are some of
their favorites.</p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://portableapps.com/suite"
target="_blank">PortableApps.com Suite</a>™ is a complete collection
of portable apps including a web browser, email client, office suite,
calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, anti-virus, audio player,
Sudoku game, password manager, PDF reader, minesweeper clone, backup
utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably. Just
drop it on your portable device and you're ready to go.</li>
</ul>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://download.cnet.com/WinPatrol/3000-8022_4-10129149.html"
target="_blank">Win Patrol</a> allows you to monitor start-up apps and
stuff running in the background (such as spyware). Read more about it
and download it here.</li>
</ul>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/" target="_blank">Magical
Jelly Bean Keyfinder</a> is a freeware open source utility that
retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install Windows from your
registry. It allows you to print or save your keys for safekeeping. It
works on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, Server 2003, Server
2008, Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007 family of products. It
also has a community-updated configuration file that retrieves product
keys for many other applications. Another feature is the ability to
retrieve product keys from unbootable Windows installations.</li>
</ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="">Sometimes it's a bit difficult to boot
from a USB flash drive, but if you can, a great way to get a small,
quick Linux install completed is by downloading a <a
href="http://www.knoppix.net/" target="_blank">Nopix CD</a>. The
latest version includes recent Linux software and desktop environments.
The DVD includes programs such as OpenOffice.org, Abiword, The Gimp,
Konqueror, Mozilla, Apache, PHP, MySQL and hundreds of other quality
open source programs.</li>
</ul>
<p>Keep those small applications handy for those moments when you least
think
you'll need them.</p>
<p><b><i>Cool fact:</i></b><br>
There were just too many apps to include in the OPLIN 4Cast. For
further
reading:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><a href="http://www.deepburner.com/?r=download" target="_blank"
mce_href="http://www.deepburner.com/?r=download">Deep Burner</a> -
Free CD
burning software for any machine - MAC, Windows or Lynix/Ubuntu<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><a href="http://www.crimsoneditor.com/" target="_blank">Crimson
Editor</a> -
Text editor so you can color-code text as you are editing config files
(or XML,
PHP, HTML), some of its bigger features include easy syntax
highlighting, macro recording, and column editing mode.</p>
<p><a
href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Esgtatham/putty/download.html"
target="_blank">PuTTY</a> is a free, open source Telnet and SSH client
and <a href="http://winscp.net/eng/download.php" target="_blank"
mce_href="http://winscp.net/eng/download.php">WinSCP </a>free
FTP/SFTP client
(both for Windows since SSH and SFTP don't come naturally to Windows).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><i>Feel free to add your favorites!</i><o:p></o:p><span class="grame"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p>
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<p>The <em><b>OPLIN 4cast</b></em> is a weekly compilation of
recent headlines, topics, and trends that could impact public
libraries. You can subscribe to it in a variety of ways, such as:</p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><strong>RSS feed</strong>. You
can receive the <em>OPLIN 4cast</em> via RSS feed by subscribing to
the following URL: <a
href="http://www.oplin.org/4cast/index.php/?feed=rss2" target="_blank">http://www.oplin.org/4cast/index.php/?feed=rss2</a>.</li>
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web browser, you can go to the <em>4cast</em> website (<a
href="http://www.oplin.org/4cast/" target="_blank">http://www.oplin.org/4cast/</a>)
and click on the orange "radio wave" icon on the right side of the
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target="_blank">Internet Explorer 7</a>, click on the same icon to
view or subscribe to the <em>4cast</em> RSS feed. </li>
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OPLINtech) by subscribing to the <em>4cast</em> mailing list at <a
href="http://mail.oplin.org/mailman/listinfo/OPLIN4cast"
target="_blank">http://mail.oplin.org/mailman/listinfo/OPLIN4cast</a>.</li>
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<pre>--
Bobbi Galvin
OPLIN Customer Relations & Support
P: 1-888-966-7546
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.oplin.org">www.oplin.org</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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