My old tech scribbles - Charvin

Web browsers include predefined lists of search engines, but you can easily add your own favorites. Even search engines that don’t offer search plugins can be added with a few tricks, whether you’re using Firefox, Google Chrome, or Internet Explorer. Mozilla Firefox has an easy-to-use extension that can add any search box on the web, while Chrome has some built-in tools. Internet Explorer users have it the hardest, and need to rely on a third-party web form. Mozilla Firefox Here’s how it’s supposed to work on Firefox: You visit a search engine, and use the search box’s menu to add the search engine. However, this only works if the website exposes a search provider. Some search engines don’t. The easiest way to add a custom search engine is with the Add to Search Bar add-on . After installing the add-on and restarting Firefox, you can right-click inside a search form on any page and select Add to Search Bar. Your custom search engine will appear i...

Large capacity, small-sized, affordable USB flash drives provide us with the ability to easily carry around gigs of data in our pockets. Why not take our favorite programs with us as well so we can work on any computer? We have collected links to many useful portable programs you can easily install on a USB flash drive and create a portable version of your desktop PC. Portable Applications Suites and Collections There are several portable application suites that provide an way to collect a lot of portable programs and easily access them using a menu system. PortableApps.com , Lupo PenSuite , CodySafe , and LiberKey are some of the more popular ones. Geek.menu is an enhanced menu based on the PortableApps.com menu. It has some additional enhanced features such as TrueCrypt support, categories on the menu, and the ability to customize the menu. Productivity If you need to view and edit Microsoft Office documents on the go, LibreOffice Portable is the way to ...

  What You’ll Need Accept for a quick download, you should have everything you need on hand already. For this tutorial you’ll need the following items: Your Android Phone Your laptop, netbook, or desktop computer A USB sync cable for your Android phone A copy of Clockwork Mod Tether Alpha (Available for Windows/Mac/Linux) Once you’ve downloaded the appropriate copy for your OS, you’re ready to rock. Let’s get started! Installing Tether   After downloading the installation app, launch it. Although you won’t have to do anything too fancy to install tether you will need to approve a variety of system changes—the warnings look serious but that’s just because Windows Vista/7 is particularly aggressive about warning users. Click through the installation process, about halfway through a command prompt window will pop up and the installation process will prompt you to approve the installation of an unsigned driver. Approve it. At the end of the install...