Friday, July 3, 2009
AppRemover
How to uninstall the Adobe Flash Player plug-in and ActiveX control
- Download the Adobe Flash Player uninstaller:
- Windows: uninstall_flash_player.exe (205 KB) (updated 2/24/08)
- Mac OS X, version 10.3 and above: uninstall_flash_player_osx.dmg (243 KB) (updated 11/05/08)
- Mac OS X, version 10.2 and below: uninstall_flash_player_osx.dmg (1.3 MB) (updated 05/27/08)
- Mac OS 8.x, 9.x: uninstall_flash_player.hqx (33 KB)
- Windows: uninstall_flash_player.exe (205 KB) (updated 2/24/08)
- Save the file to your system, choosing a location where you can find it (for example, your desktop). Macintosh users may need to open or unstuff the .hqx file.
- Quit ALL running applications, including all Internet Explorer or other browser windows, AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, or other Messengers. Check the Windows system tray carefully to make certain no applications are still in memory which might possibly use Flash Player.
- Run the uninstaller. This will remove Adobe Flash Player from all browsers on the system.
Note: The uninstaller cannot remove files currently in use.
If you have any instances of the player open in your web browsers, instant messaging clients, stand-alone SWFs, or projectors, then the uninstaller will complete but some files may not be deleted. If this occurs, then close all of your applications and run the uninstaller again to ensure that all files are removed.
Note: Internet Explorer users may have to reboot to clear all uninstalled Flash Player ActiveX control files. If you're not certain, select the "Show Details" button in the Flash Player uninstaller. If there are any log lines that begin with "Delete on Reboot..." then you'll need to reboot BEFORE running the Flash Player installer again."
This tool has saved me countless hours, I highly recommend it...
Trip-N-Tale
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
SharesPost
This is WAY TOO new to really evaluate, but I wanted to pass it on. From what I can tell, it's another great idea that well, may or may not make it. As always, do your research before investing any anything, but again - this looks like a great idea. From the site:
About Us
Welcome to SharesPost. Here is an overview of who we are and what we've set out to do.
THE PROBLEM WE’RE TRYING TO SOLVE
Just about everyone in the private equity industry recognizes that some fundamental problems jeopardize the prospects for the industry’s participants. Many limited partners need to liquidate substantial portions of their private equity holdings but can’t find an efficient way to do so. Venture capital firms are unable to show attractive ROI’s in large part because there is no liquidity on public exchanges into which even their strongest portfolio companies can exit. Founders who have built successful companies for over a decade find their entire net worth still locked up in a single, illiquid asset. Companies have no way to divest shareholders clamoring for a quick sale despite the companies’ great long term prospects. Regulators, in an effort to create greater transparency, have required funds to mark their assets to “market” but, given there actually is no real market, have left everyone scratching their heads.
The central deficiency giving rise to these dilemmas is the absence of an efficient secondaries market for private equity. If buyers and sellers could find each other efficiently and in volume then LP’s and venture funds could find buyers for their equity, founders could gain some measure of diversification and liquidity, companies could create a shareholder base united around a long term vision for growing the enterprise and regulators (and the rest of us) would finally see what price a willing buyer and willing seller would put on a company’s shares. As Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures said: “[t]he efforts of a few brave souls to create secondary markets for private company stock is going to lead to more data, more transparency, and more liquidity without having to register and do an IPO or sell your company.”
At SharesPost, we set out to solve these problems while complying with the letter and spirit of the securities laws and protecting the interests of companies, investors and entrepreneurs. It’s a big problem and it requires us to balance some competing interests, but we think we’ve done it. SharesPost is all about making private equity liquid.
WHO WE ARE
SharesPost was founded by Greg Brogger in early 2009 with a small team from BrightHouse, the Santa Monica based incubator. Greg has been both a successful entrepreneur and a securities lawyer in the past and draws upon both of those experiences in the building of SharesPost. Our company was launched with the support of a community of distinguished entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, industry luminaries, securities lawyers and technologists. This larger group came together in part of course to build a successful and valuable company but also to rally around the bigger vision, to introduce a much needed liquidity solution for the private equity industry.
CONTACT US
We welcome your input at SharesPost, so please tell us what you think – click here to email us.
STAY AWAY FROM (Insert ad here)
What you're going to end up with is a charge to your credit card or bank account for somewhere between $30 - $100 each and every month for something you never wanted in the first place. Please (super-please) read each and every bit of fine print before falling for such things.
Just a friendly reminder. Oh and by the way - when you read the ad for these things, notice how the person in the ad just happens to live in or near your city. You think that's a coincidence? Nope, just creative web programming. Ask your brother, sister, mom, uncle or whatever to type in the address of the ad and see where that lucky millionare person lives....yep, probably the same person (only local to them).
Again, just pass on this junk...
LogMeIn
"What if you could access your personal computer at any time, from anywhere with an Internet connection - from work, vacation or the road?
With LogMeIn, you can access your personal information securely and transfer files on the fly.
You can use your personal computer as if you were sitting right in front of it and run the programs you use every day. You can play games, stay connected with friends and family, manage photos, check email, administer your personal finances, print and share files, even listen to music."