Ever went searching for information only to be stopped by a wretched free registration page? What do you do? You don’t register. You go on searching for information somewhere else.

Well, divert no more.

Simply head over to bugmenot.com and type in the site you wish to login to. Example: www.thestar.com. As you can see, you get a number of results.

It’s real handy when you don’t want to register for sites you may only use once, to get some piece of information.

From what I gather, it’s perfectly legal provided you’re not using it on paysites.

February 1st, 2006 | Technology, Websites | No comments

Portable Applications - Tweaked versions of existing software that run off a USB Drive.

When I first heard about this, I thought it was a great idea. Ideal for someone who moves around a lot using different computers in computer labs, or cyber cafes and what not. I never had any use for it though… that is until my laptop got stolen.

So instead of installing Firefox on every computer I use, I know run Portable Firefox off my USB drive. The beauty is that all my settings, bookmarks, extensions all move with me.

I’ve also started using Portable Mozilla Thunderbird. I’m fed up with using Webmail on my server, and I’ve set up IMAP with Thunderbird, so all my emails are stored on the server, and Thunderbird can access them, and I can read and write emails within the comforts of a free-standing application. Web applications are only so good.

Also available is the whole OpenOffice suite, which is a free open-source office, not unlike Microsoft Office. It’s come a long way over the years and is a real competitor for the common household software that is MSOffice. So if you want, you could have a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation maker, etc., wherever you go.

PortableApps.com to download.

January 27th, 2006 | Software, Technology | No comments