How to Run Application In Your Browser Without Installing Them

Have you ever wanted to run applications without having to install them? It always is a hassle to download the application, then install the application and then check it out. At times, the application is not what you are looking for and only manages to waste your time, and your hard-drive space as well, as the application is installed, and the registry is updated with its files.
If you come across such problems regularly, then you should check Spoon out. Spoon is an online-working tool that allows people to run virtual applications on demand. These applications can be searched for and then virtually installed to be run virtually on your Spoon console. Think of Spoon like an emulator that works online – it allows every application to work online, right from its own window. No need to download and install onto your OS itself.

The very first step is to download the Spoon console from the Spoon website. The link is provided at the bottom of the post. Install this plugin. Use the account with which you signed up for to login into your Spoon console dashboard.
Click on the “All Applications” text to view the categories of the applications so you can view them accordingly and install. Once you have chosen a category, select the app you want from it and click on the software. Simply, you can search for the application using the top given search-box feature.
 
The application will be buffered from the virtual online database on Spoon and the application will soon be running! Like I said, no need to install and waste your hard-drive space. The application themselves work perfectly fine.
There is one catch. You only have 1GB of free space on the free account. So 1GB of software it is. If you upgrade to a PRO account, you get 16GB! Which is massive.
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PDF Password Remover is a freeware tool

A while back, we shared some nifty utilities to Remove PDF Security Restrictions, Password Protect PDF and Remove Password from PDF Files. Another similar free app, PDF Password Remover is recently launched for Windows that aims to quickly wipe out all the restrictions of a PDF file, without requiring the owner password. Thus, to let users decrypt the PDF and remove the printing, copying text and editing protection.

PDF Password Remover is a freeware tool to remove PDF restriction from protected PDF files. It is very easy to use, offers drag and drop functionality and it even supports batch conversion to decrypt multiple PDFs at once. One can easily remove the owner password from any PDF document just by dragging the file(s), the tool will then instantly and automatically export the un-protected file to the output directory, and the output folder opens up itself in the explorer. You can also specify the desired output path.

 

This is one of the simplest and fastest application to remove restrictions from PDF(s). Moreover, a portable version of it is also available. However, it should be noted that PDF Password Remover cannot remove the user password, i.e. you cant remove the PDF password and restriction if there is a user password set.

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Auto Sync and Backup USB Drives Automatically Using USB Sync

USB Portable storage drives are convenient and also the main storage medium than CD/DVD’s for the convenience they offer users.These devices contain day to day updated files which are important and keeping a backup of the files is very important because these devices can sometimes due to virus, and hardware failure become inaccessible and data is lost.

Backing up the USB Drive can be difficult task if you carry many files on your storage drive and creating new folders backup daily can take a lot of backup drive storage space.USBFlashCopy is a USB Backup Software, which can automatically back up your data on flash drives and storage cards on the fly once it is inserted into the system.USBFlashCopy copies only newer or updated files, you can optionally keep old versions of the files.

USBFlashCopy automatically detects when you insert a media and copies its content to the local drive on your machine. By default, it creates a sub-folder for each removable media in “My Documents\Removable Media Backups”.If you use multiple devices then you can create different profiles with separate settings for different flash sticks or storage cards.

 

It is a portable application, weighing 300KB only and stores all the settings in an INI file ( USBFlashCopy.ini ), automatically created in the folder the application is running from.USBFlashCopy works on any Windows OS.

USBFlashCopy is available in 2 versions, Basic and Silent.The only difference in the versions is that the Silent Version runs completely invisible with No icons, no progress bars, no prompts and auto backups the data once the USB Drive is plugged into the machine.

The Silent version costs $ 39.95 and the Basic Version is free.

Portable Application Launcher – Portable Start Menu

In this age of multi tasking users are always have the need to use different applications for different uses, having all the shortcuts on the desktop is not the best options as this can make the desktop too   cluttered.An easy way out is the use of application launcher like the Application Dock in Mac, or similar application for Windows OS like Circular Dock, PStart, etc. Portable Start Menu is a application which makes it easy to launch app from a easy to use menu from the system tray.

Once installed the application places a tray-icon from which apps can be launched, with a single click.

New Applications can be added to the start menu by first clicking on the tray icon, and under Options selecting Applications, which should open a new window like in the image shown below.

Next Click “New Application”,where the Application Name, and the exe location can be set.Any parameters that can be passed can also be set in the parameter box and further customizations like icon, window size can be made.

 

Portable Start Menu can automatically mount and dismount a TrueCrypt container on your USB-Stick or hard disk. All drive letters to that container are adjusted automatically, that means that you can use absolute drive letters within the PSMenu user interface.

To enable this feature, Navigate to True Crypt Tab Under Settings and check Automatically Mount/UnMount True Crypt Container and follow the “Setup Wizard” to set up the TrueCrypt Container.Once the wizard is completed the USB stick must contain the following files for the auto mounting of the container to work :

1.Portable Start Menu

2.TrueCrypt program files

3.TrueCrypt container

If you have a lot of portable application stored on your USB Drive then, you can also set PStart Menu to auto start on inserting the USB Drive so that it becomes easy to launch applications from the system tray.To auto start “Portable Start Menu” On inserting the USB Drive, Select “Create AutoRun File” Under Portable Mode in the Options Tab in Settings.

The application can be installed as a portable app or a normal program, this option can be chosen during the setup which makes it easy to setup.

Do you make use of a application launcher, If YES Share with us what you use or try Portable Start Menu and share your experience.

PrintConductor : Print Any Number Of Documents In Batch Mode

Print Conductor lets you print any number of documents in batch mode. It lets you print large numbers of files, including Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word DOC, Microsoft Excel XLS, Autodesk AutoCAD DWG, Microsoft PowerPoint PPT, etc in batch mode.PrintConductor can print on virtual printers to convert documents into graphics files using its own
Universal Document Converter.

Features :

1. PrintConductor can batch print 16 document types: PDF, DOC, WRI, WPS, RTF, TXT, XLS, PPT, PPS, POT, VSD, DWG, DXF, SNP, HTM, HTML.
2. PrintConductor supports any printer installed on your computer and provides you with instant access to the settings of the specified printer.
3. Add documents to the list using drag & drop, Open dialog box or auto-scan a specified folder and its subfolders for documents of needed types. Sort documents by name or type, preview before you print, and/or print any document(s) from the list.
4. A progress bar keeps you informed of the ‘%complete’ status of the job. And, the job can be easily cancelled at any time in processing.

Download Printconductor and Universal Document Converter from here.

How To Clear Stuck Print Jobs In Print Spooler

Did you ever find your printer stuck, not accepting a new prints and you also find that you are unable to clear any previous print jobs you assigned then the possible reason would be a stuck print job in the print spooler which is queue of print jobs, incase the first print job is stuck the subsequent jobs are also on hold until the first job is either completed or deleted.

There are 2 ways in which you can fix this problem.First the manual way and the other using a simple portable app that automated the same steps.

Manual Method -

1. Start –> Run Type “services.msc” without quotes
2. Find PrintSpooler and Stop the service
3. Navigate to C:WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SPOOL\PRINTERS and delete all files in the folder.
4. Next Repeat Step 1 and Start the PrintSpooler Service.

Now all the print jobs in the print queue should be deleted, and the printer should accept new prints.

Alternatively, there’s also a simple tool called Stalled Printer Repair which is  a portable app that Detect and Repair Stalled Print Jobs.

Start the application and it should detect the Print Spooler Folder and any Stuck Print Jobs, next press “Purge Print Jobs” to clear all the queued and stuck print jobs.

Now you print jobs should be cleared and your printer should be able to start printing new print jobs.

How To Remove – Disable Programs From Windows StartUp

Is your Windows startup taking time ? The culprit could be tool many programs starting up which might have added to the Windows Startup List during installation.Some of these programs can be disable or removed from the list.Windows also has a inbuilt tool to do the same but that tool requires the understanding the programs under “Command”.StartUpLite is a portable app that makes it very easy to clean up the Windows Startup programs.It provides the list of startup entries and also a brief description about the entry to know the application related to the entry lets the user Disable or Enable a selected program in the startup list.

CCleaner also provides a way to deal with the startup entries.Here are the steps for CCleaner for removing unnecessary entries in the startup.

• Open CCleaner
• Navigate to “Tools” –> “StartUp”

where the list of all the startup entries that are active are shown and which can either be deleted or disabled by selecting the entry and clicking on “Disable/Delete” or “Enable” to enable a previously disabled entry.