CD-Door Guard

From the site:

Sometimes it happens, that CD/DVD drive's door breaks. It is not very pleasant, is it? So it's better prevent such situation. What to do? Just download install CD-Door Guard right now! CD-Door Guard will close the door of a CD/DVD device if it is opened too long. Also it checks disks left inside when Windows is shutting down and allows easily lock/unlock device's door. Also you can open or close it using CD-Door Guard by two mouse clicks.

Warning: due to peculiarity of Windows, CD-Door Guard may not close door of CD/DVD device if it is opened without disk inside.

FEATURES:

REQUIREMENTS:

• Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003 (Any edition)
• About 2 Mb free disk space
• 64 Mb RAM

http://www.m-w-c-s.com/product0.php

If you use your cd or dvd drive alot like i do this is a must have program from the guys at Mental Works Computing Software

portable usb applications i use-Runit

I  have my usb stick autostart with this nice standalone launcher so i can easly acsess my docs and apps from my usb stick.

from the site:

What's this all about?
	RUNit is a simple but yet powerful launchpad for Win95/98 and NT(4.0 and above). RUNit gives you quick access to applications, documents, folders and shortcuts. Unlike many other launchpads RUNit doesn't occupy any space on your screen - you only see it when you actually use it. features
How to use it
	RUNit defines a "hot area" on your screen where a click of the right mouse button makes the RUNit launch-menu appear (see fig. 1).The "hot area" can be any border of the screen or even the whole screen. (you have to hold down the CRTL or SHIFT key while right clicking in "whole screen mode")

http://magister-lex.at/RUNit/

now for how i get it to start with my usb stick

make a text file called autorun.txt. now copy and paste the lines between the dotted lines to the text file save it and rename it to autorun.inf .

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[autorun]
open=launch.bat
ACTION = Launch portable workspace

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you can call it what you want just make sure there is a space befor and after the equals sign.

now rename autorun.txt to autorun.inf

now make a text file called launch.txt . i am just going to start runit.exe because from there i can bring up what ever i want from my stick. the line will look like this.

start \runit.exe\

make sure there is a space after the word start. Do not specifie a drive letter because that will change from computer to computer. just give it the back slashes like you see.

you can start as as many apps as you want. just start a new line like above.

now rename the launch.txt to launch.bat

the next time you plug in your stick, and it asks you what you want to do the first option will be "launch portable work space". I have my runit hide untill i right click the bottom of the screen. It's a beautifull thing.

Currently Listening Apostrophe (') By Frank Zappa Stink-foot see related

Gophoria

From the website:

"gophoria can be an enormously helpful tool in speeding up research tasks...

You can:
Highlight text and right click
hover over a link and right click
hover over an image and right click

to launch "gophoria search" from the context menu.

The text that you highlighted will now be found in the gophoria search window. You can choose to search using Google, Dictionary, or Thesaurus.

After the inset browser loads, you can then search ebay or amazon. By entering either ebay or amazon through gophoria before searching, bidding, or purchasing, you help gophoria stay free (no popups, no banners, no spam, no donations, just good clean clickin' fun).

If the highlighted text was a web address, you can effortlessly open a new window with that URL location.

If it was an image that you had selected, the new window will provide the image, alone, in a new window.  (great for viewing image splices)"

http://www.gophoria.com/

Currently Listening Essential By Yello see related

Pandora (web site)

I guess i will have to update my interests because i love music. I also like to explore new music similar to the music i like, and to do this i go to Pandora(a flash oriented site) where i can make music stations using songs and or artists. I set up the station, and they play music similar to the song or artist for my approval or disproval. I could go on, but i like to make my blogs short, and to the point. http://pandora.com/

Now let's take it a step further. You can make your Pandora stations mobile with a nifty simple program called Pyrrha. You run it, sign in as you would at Pandor, select one of your stations, and tell it if you want one, three, or five hours on the mp3 it will produce on your desktop. it will put an mp3, and a .pls playlist on your desktop. you have to close and restart the program to do it again..  http://pyrcast.com/

You can email your stations to friends take a look at my Yello station. 

 http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh149267469506107797

I use River Past http://www.riverpast.com/en/prod/waveatmp3/index.php  to convert the mp3 to wave, and Audiograbber http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/ to break it down to mp3 song tracks. Both are freeware. If any one knows of a program to brake up the songs from the mp3 file in one shot please let me know.

Currently Listening Ambient Collection By Art Of Noise see related

My Linkshelf

WOW! I just remembered that i set up a bunch of links on a site called linkshelf for the public to view last year. I do not know how many of the links are dead or not, but there are some very informative sites on there so make sure you have some time on your hands if you go there,

http://www.linkshelf.com/

User-  rodneyslinks

password-  getlinks

Enjoy