March 5, 2014

Issues with Norton Internet Security 2014 Toolbar and Firefox 27 Update

The new version of Firefox was giving me grief about the Norton Toolbar plugin. It kept saying I needed an updated version yet NIS 2014 says it was up to date. I needed 2014.6.5.1. Turns out there was a bit more to the issue, but it’s easily fixed. Right click the NIS icon and click Run LiveUpdate. Let it download any needed updates. It might look like it’s just downloading AV updates, but it’s doing more. It may take several minutes to run the update and install the patches. One of them took about 10 minutes and made my system look like it was hung. I ran LiveUpdate 3 times before it grabbed the new Toolbar Update. I assume Check for New Version is looking for Major updates, while LiveUpdate is looking for the Minor ones. If you run into the problem while updating Firefox, just keep hitting LiveUpdate. It should eventually sort itself out.

March 5, 2014

The Art of Copy and Paste With ClipboardFusion

Everyone uses Copy and Paste, but even this simple function can be made better with ClipboardFusion by BinaryFortress. It’s an app that gives you ability to strip out formatting, keeps a history of your copied text and it can even run a search and replace on what you’ve copied. Why would you need such a thing? If you copy and paste between Word documents, HTML documents, web pages and PDF files, there’s a good chance ClipboardFusion can make things better for you. Like so many people I work in a lot of web based applications. Those applications have all sorts of formatting like header tags, odd line spacing, bold, italic and all the like . I don’t need to send that to a customer nor do I need to paste that into my research notes. ClipboardFusion strips all those codes out so you just get the text. You don’t have to switch over to something like Notepad++ to remove all […]

March 4, 2014

More Racing Fun with Need for Speed On Sale at Amazon

Steam isn’t the only one selling pieces of the Need for Speed series on the cheap. Amazon has several recent titles in their stable that you can grab for just a few bucks. While Steam is selling off the older assets, Amazon has some of the newer titles such as The Run, Rivals and Most Wanted. If you’re looking to round out your collection, now is a good time to buy. I picked up The Run and Rivals. I’ve never played The Run, but the gameplay videos on YouTube don’t look too bad. I’ve seen Rivals on the PS4 and while the graphics looked good, it was damn near unplayable with the controller. I hope something was out of adjustment and the game is a lot better than that. The reviews are pretty mixed with a lot of people saying this is a pretty poor port of the game. For the price, I’ll take the gamble and see how it […]

March 4, 2014

Need for Speed Series On Sale at Steam – Week Long Sale

As you know I’m a big racing fan. If it has wheels I want to drive it. I’ve recently jumped on board Next Car Game, BeamNG Drive and SpinTires. But let’s jump back a few years to the long running series of Need for Speed. The game has had it’s ups and downs, but overall there are some great "episodes" out of the series. If you’re looking to build your Need for Speed collection now is the time to hop over to Steam and grab the last couple hold outs that aren’t on Origin. The following games are on sale for $4.99 or less. That’s iPad money kids! Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Need for Speed: Shift Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed Need for Speed: Undercover I’m sure most people have these in their library and long since completed them. But, for those that don’t or for those building a new gaming system for their kids (like a buddy […]

March 3, 2014

RightNote on sale for 50% regular price. RightNote Professional – $29.97

RightNote includes different types of notes to store different types of information. There’s a word processing note for textual information, a spreadsheet note for accounting info or any type of list, a source code note for source code snippets, and a webpage note to save webpages for future reference and offline viewing . All your notes are stored in a hierarchical tree outline and can easily be moved around and re-organized at a later point. Folder notes and the unique folder tree allow you to view your outline at a higher level and make even large trees manageable. I’ve been waiting for RightNote to go on sale and today is the day. Yes, I do indeed have OneNote and I even have AllMyNotes, so why would I want RightNote? I use AllMyNotes while in the office to handle customer issues. I use OneNote like a Wikipedia to store all my issues and resolutions. I use OneNote at home to write […]

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