DOWNLOAD Ubuntu: An Absolute Beginner’s Guide

If you are unfamiliar with “File Managers” this may not be big news for you. But managing the files on your hard disk or periferals of your computer normally require using Windows File Manager. The Multi Commander is possibly more ‘intuitive’ to use than the Windows program for handling files.

The Features (from it’s website) are as follows:

• Tabs allowing you to have multiple folders open.
• Caching that enable fast file browsing.
• Background work for all tasks that takes time to finish, allowing you to continue working without interruptions.
• Customize the layout and colors to fit your styling needs.
• Extensions and plugins that will increase the functionality of Multi Commander.
• FTP, Registry , Zip, 7-Zip, Rar , Tar , GZ , Bz2 , Jar  Support
• View and Change file permissions, Take ownership of files.
• Picture tools like Convert / Rotate Pictures, View/Remove EXIF tags, Adjust EXIF Date of pictures.
• Show Movie information from IMDB/Rotten tomato as extra columns on you movie files.
• Audio tools like View Audio file properties, View/Edit MP3 Tags.
• Open API for developers to create extensions and plugins.
• Remember selections when you get back from another location when browsing the filesystem.
• Use mouse and drag and drop or use quick keyboard command for all the task.
• FileOperations plugins that can automatically sort / unpack files when they are moved or copied.
• File viewer that lets you view files of any size, as ASCII/Unicode/UTF8/Binary and Hex.
• Both 32bit and 64bit versions available.
• Handle folders with many thousands of files with easy, And use power full filters to limit what you want to view.
• Compare folders and select the files and folders that are different, that are the same and many other options.
• Power full script engine allowing you to create script that automate tasks.
• Portable. Can be installed and run from portable (USB) device. Will not write any settings/session info on host computer.
• And a lot more….
• Full supports for Windows Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 2008 and can be installed without any Administrator rights.

In our last meeting john suggested we discuss again backing up and restoring, something we all mostly ignore,,, to our peril.

Today I see one of my favorite websites has made available a free PDF book/guide on just this subject so I suggest you download it and read it. Our peril need not be bad.

This is an article from Windows Secrets, a mailling I have received for years since Fred Langa joined them. I recommend it and this article for all of us not yet tuned to Linux or Mac. 

-=Larry Cotton=-

The (Very) Unofficial Facebook Privacy Guide [DOWNLOAD]

I like the MakeUseOf website very much for good information and I am impressed they made this particular book available free. The topic is one we should all spend some time studying, privacy is a different thing in the Internet world. We can still have a lot of fun but we need to be aware of some differnet issues than we needed to be concerned with in the past.

Read and enjoy…   

Those of you at the meeting this week heard me tell you about an ‘E-Book’ I found from MakeUseOf.com‘s website for folks getting used to the new Windows 7. The book can be downloaded for use in a PDF reader but is also available at Scribd.com where you can read it all online.

Maybe some of the quirks you’ve been so annoyed with will become useful when reading why it is the way it is.

Maybe not.    There is always Linux.

7 Top Firewall Programs To Consider For Your Computer’s Security

Windows built-in firewall is, in my opinion, lame compared to the free programs available to us and this article describes them well. If you don’t understand what a firewall is or why you need one or how to use yours, have a short read on this page.

Something to discuss at a coming meeting perhaps? 

For example if you are reading a page and would like to search quickly Control-k will move the cursor focus to the search box in the upper right of Firefox. In addition, while in that focus hitting F4 or Alt-up-arrow or Alt-down-arrow will change the search engine selection.

Check out the link above and see how many of the hotkeys listed are new to you.

Hope to see you at the cafe Monday!

Hotkeys

Perhaps this week we should look at options to this problem and what we can do about it. Adobe has been under attack by Apple refusing to let its iPad use Flash, perhaps this is a reasonable concern.

Hope to see you all at the cafe Monday.

-=Larry=-

I’m always looking for ways to have meetings, webinars, with everyone in a manner that would let us have folks at the cafe, at home or work, anywhere be able to join us and share. To make that work I require our method to include use of Linux and most of us require Windows, 7, XP, and a few of us need Mac support.

Yuuguu.com may make this work for us and this week, next Monday April 5, 2010, I suggest everyone visit this site,  download and install their software and create an account. Then at  5:30 we all start it, find each other through our Internet Messenger accounts, chat or (if you have free long distance) use the Yuuguu telephone conference call.

If there are support questions that member can show us their screen and we can all commiserate together or maybe find a solution.

If you need more explanation have a look at this video or Google ‘Yuuguu video’ and see more.

How To Use Yuuguu For Simple, Free Screen Sharing