Turn your flash drive into a portable PC survival kit If you're using your flash drive as a vehicle for simple file transfers, you’re missing out on one of the single-best roles one of these wee data buckets can fulfill. Indeed, hardcore enthusiasts know that simple flash drives are perfect portable repositories for all the software that can breathe life into an otherwise ailing PC. All the web apps in the world won’t help you when your PC breaks down or falls prey to a particularly nasty piece of malware and refuses connect to the Internet. A properly loaded USB drive, on the other hand, can be a machine saver. In this article we’ll show you how to load out a USB drive with everything you need in case of a PC emergency. PortableApps The first thing you’ll want to install on your drive is PortableApps—a free, open source platform for installing desktop applications on removable media, like a USB drive. PortableApps maintains a list of hundreds “portable” versions of popular free programs, designed to work without installation. Malwarebytes
Google Guide Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet) The following table lists the search operators that work with each Google search service. Click on an operator to jump to its description — or, to read about all of the operators, simply scroll down and read all of this page. The following is an alphabetical list of the search operators. This list includes operators that are not officially supported by Google and not listed in Google’s online help. Each entry typically includes the syntax, the capabilities, and an example. allinanchor: If you start your query with allinanchor:, Google restricts results to pages containing all query terms you specify in the anchor text on links to the page. Anchor text is the text on a page that is linked to another web page or a different place on the current page. allintext: If you start your query with allintext:, Google restricts results to those containing all the query terms you specify in the text of the page. allintitle: allinurl: In URLs, words are often run together. author: cache: define: ext: group:
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Turn Your Home Router Into a Super-Powered Router with DD-WRT Wireless is everywhere and routers are the force that makes it happen, so why not supercharge yours to take proper advantage of it? DD-WRT will let you boost your router’s range, add features, and more. DD-WRT has a ton of features—more than we can cover in this guide, which is focused on helping you get your router upgraded. What Is DD-WRT? Here’s our router. DD-WRT is an open-source alternative firmware for routers. Router Support Turning your home router into an almost professional-level tool is a great project that has one major caveat: support. For our purposes, the important spec to consider is NVROM, or ROM. Preparation The most important thing in any project is research. DISCLAIMER: Changing your router’s firmware can result in unintentional consequences, such as “bricking.” As mentioned above, start with the Supported Devices page to see if you’ve got a DD-WRT-friendly router. The friendly forum gave us some useful info for our particular model. The Process
How To Easily Create Stunning Infographics Using Infogr.am Infographics have become an incredibly popular way to display bite-sized bits of information in easy to consume forms of charts, graphics and more. It usually takes quite a bit of designer know-how, patience and some pretty pricey software to get the job done, but thankfully there are quite a few services that aim to make that process a little easier. We've already covered Ease.ly, and introduced you to Visual.ly, as well as some great tools if you're looking for something more flexible. Now we're adding Infogr.am to the mix. After signing up for a free account, you'll be presented with three options - create an infographic, a chart, or you can head to your library. Diving right in to creating an infographic, you can choose from several different templates with varied colour schemes: You'll then be presented with an infographic containing dummy text, charts and more that you can edit. It would also seem that Infogr.am plans to bring with it certain elements of the social network.
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