17 Aug 10 Two websites that offer custom installers for freeware that you select

Reformatting a computer? Contemplating on all the time that you’re going to have to sit and download applications? Here are two great sites that offer free software for you and they create the installer so all you need to do is run one executable file (per website) and it will install the software that you selected.

The first one is Ninite (www.ninite.com).

This site includes freeware software as follows:

Browsers » Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox

Messaging » Skype, Digsby, Messenger, Pidgin, Google Talk, Yahoo

Media » Itunes, Songbird, Hulu, VLC, KMPlayer, AIMP, Foobar2000, Winamp, Audacity, K-Lite Codecs, GOM, Spotify

Imaging » Paint.NET, Picasa, GIMP, Irfanview, XNView, Inkscape, Faststone

Documents » MS Office (Trial), Open Office, Adobe Reader, SumatraPDF, FoxitReader, CutePDF

Antivirus » MS Essentials, Avast, AVG, Malwarebytes, Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D,

Runtimes » Flash, Flash (IE), Java, .NET, Silverlight

Filesharing » Utorrent, Emule

Other » Dropbox, Evernote, Google Earth, Steam, KeePass, Everything

Utilities » Teamviewer, Imgburn, Ccleaner, Auslogics, Defraggler, RealVNC, Teracopy, CDBurnerXP, Recuva, Truecrypt, Revo, Launchy

Compression » 7-Zip, Winrar

Developer Tools » Python, FileZilla, Notepad ++, JDK, WinSCP, Putty, Eclipse

This site will work with 32 and 64bit Windows operating systems. This site will also create an installer that will bypass the toolbars that some software development companies include with the executable files that they offer.

The Second Site is Freenew (www.freenew.net)

This site offers the same type of options as the above site. This site, however, has many more applications to offer.

Both of these sites collectively will help save you the headache of having to download each application after a format/clean install/new computer. It saves time, letting you accomplish other things.

Tags: easy install software, freeware, installers, timesavers

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11 Aug 10 How to change serial number in Adobe CS3

Sometimes there might be a time when you have to change your serial number in Adobe CS3. Most sites that you go to will tell you to go to the Tools menu and select deactivate. This is a great idea however what if that option is grayed out? What if you want it to show the “Enter your serial number” form as it did when you first installed the application? There are 2 files that you need to delete in order to make this happen.

This will allow you to start the activation from beginning, with Activation Type: normal, not: Activation Type: Repair.

The 2 files that need to be deleted are:c:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe PCD\cache\cache.db c:\ProgramData\FLEXnet\adobe_00080000_tsf.data

The above listed is for a Vista machine. You may have to select hidden folders to see the “ProgramData” folder. The equivalent on XP would be “Application Data”

Tags: activation, adobe, bypass, cs3, serial

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11 Aug 10 How to use torrents (downloading)

There comes a point when you may have purchased an application but lost your serial number. Now say this was a very expensive application and you don’t want to have to purchase it again. I made a youtube video explaining the process of downloading torrents. Here are the general steps:

Download a torrent application — Utorrent is a great client
Install the torrent client — this is the program that will be doing the downloading for you, it’s similar to how limewire works
Find a site that shows torrent links — One good site that I go to and prefer as stated in the video is torrentz.com
Search for the program/movie/other in the search bar that you want to download it will pull up a page of other torrent providers that have that specific file
Choose one of them and click “Download Torrent” or something along those lines
Make sure that it opens in the torrent application (client) that you installed earlier
Enjoy/Profit!