The Laptop PI
By Johnston Blakley | June 21, 2009
In the last article that I wrote, I described the self-reliant career of a Private Investigator. Today I would like to expand upon the career route that most Private Investigators choose ” the lone wolf of the Private Investigation industry, otherwise known as the Laptop PI. Some Private Investigators opt for the safe routine of working as an employee for an agency. Others strive to build a large agency that hires investigators of various specialties and provides clients with a full lineup of investigative services.
The Laptop Private Investigator prefers to work alone or with a tight group of alliances. His office is both his car and his den at home. Forget the immobile desktop computer; his laptop and Internet access cell phone get the job done from anywhere in the world.
The Laptop Private Investigator usually takes what seems like excessive measures to remain off the radar screen. His residence is in a trust, his name is not attached to his utilities billing, he pays his cell phone bill in person every month and has no landline phone. His laptop has an “Internet Air Card” which allows him to do business from anywhere. In all public and government databases it looks like he ceased to exist 10 years ago.
He does a good business with several attorneys, a string of wronged husbands or wives, professional suers, and occasionally he subcontracts for PI agencies. His mind is always on his cases as the solution or an ingenuous new direction always comes to him in his off time.
Unlike with a large agency, the Laptop PI can clear up his cases, stop taking new ones and take some time off when desired. He knows that his work is sought after and can start up where it left off as soon as he returns. With his only business overhead being his cell phone, Internet Air Card, insurance and yearly PI license renewal fees, he is no slave to the rat race.
Low overhead, substantial profit and non-negotiable freedom sum up the Laptop Private Investigator!
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Configuring Dreamweaver’s Preview In Browser Preferences
By Dwight Davidson | June 13, 2009
As you work on your web pages in Adobe Dreamweaver, you constantly need to review them in a web browser. To facilitate this process, Dreamweaver allows you to configure as many browsers as you would like to see use for previewing. You can specify one browser as your primary, or preferred, browser; you can then specify a secondary browser and as many additional browsers as you want.
Naturally, the first step is to make sure that the browser software is installed on your computer. Next, to specify your preferred browser, go to the Edit menu and choose Preferences. (This is the Windows location of Dreamweaver Preferences: on a Macintosh, go to the Dreamweaver menu and choose Preferences.)
A series of categories is displayed on the left of the Preferences window. Click on the Preview in Browser category. You may already have a browser configured as your primary browser and even, perhaps, another as your secondary. If you wish to change these settings, simply click on the appropriate checkboxes to specify which is which.
To add other browsers, just click on the plus sign (+), navigate to the browser software and double-click to open it. You can repeat this procedure as many times as you need to.
To preview a page using one of your configured browsers, click on the preview icon (the globe) located on the Document toolbar which is normally displayed at the top of the document window. From the drop-down menu, choose the browser that you’d like to use. You can also use the keyboard shortcuts: to preview using your primary browser press Shift-F12 on Windows or option-F12 on a Macintosh; to preview in the secondary browser press Control-F12 on Windows or Command-F12 on a Macintosh. Alternatively, simply choose the name of any other browser.
Once you’ve looked at the preview, to return to Dreamweaver, simply close the browser window.
There may be times when you’d like to preview pages without saving the changes you’ve made to your document. Dreamweaver offers you this possibility but, first, let’s examine what normally happens when you preview a file that has been modified.
Dreamweaver displays a dialogue box asking us if we’d like to save the changes. If we click “No”, it gives us a preview of the last version that we saved rather than the version that we’re currently working on and, naturally, if we click “Yes”, Dreamweaver will save our changes before previewing the file. This can sometimes be inconvenient, since you may not be ready to save your changes.
If you want to be able to preview a file at any time without saving your changes, go back to your Browser Preview category of Dreamweaver’s Preferences and switch on the option “Preview Using Temporary File”. When this option is selected, Dreamweaver creates a temporary file containing the latest version of your document and then shows you a preview of it. If you examine the URL displayed in the address bar of your browser, you will notice that the file name does not correspond to the name of your document it a temporary file name generated by Dreamweaver.
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Windows Vista SP 1 Is Available For Download
By Admin | March 28, 2008
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Windows Vista product manager Nick White made the official announcement on the Windows Vista’s blog. Earlier today Amazon.com has announced that is ready to take pre-orders for boxed copies of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and according to its website it would start shipping tomorrow.
“We released SP1 in these 5 languages: English, French, Spanish, German, and Japanese. If you have any other language installed, SP1 will not yet be offered to you,” Nick White wrote.
Also, White acknowledged that there were problems with a previous release candidate of Windows Vista SP1, but Microsoft has worked around the clock to solve them.
“We’ve completed our analysis and are happy to report that many of these issues were fixed between the release candidate (RC) and the final version. We identified a small number of device drivers that may be problematic after an update from Windows Vista to Windows Vista SP1.
Microsoft hopes that the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 will boost the adoption of its latest OS in the enterprise environment.
According to Microsoft, Windows Vista SP1 will not add new features, but instead it will address key feedback received from its customers. Also the company insisted that the SP1 will not affect any applications that are currently running on Windows Vista.
As Microsoft explained, the updates packed in Windows Vista SP 1 fall into three categories: Quality improvements, improvements to the administration experience and support for emerging hardware and standards.
Amongst other things Vista SP1 will enhance BitLocker Drive Encryption (BDE) by offering an additional multifactor authentication method that combines a key protected by the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) with a Startup key stored on a USB storage device and a user-generated personal identification number (PIN).
In addition, the update will add support for upcoming standards and hardware, such as Direct3D 10.1, Secure Sockets Tunneling Protocol (SSTP), Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI), and the Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT), a file system for Flash drives.
The service pack will include support for Secure Digital (SD) Advanced Direct Memory Access (DMA), which will be on compliant SD host controllers soon, to improve transfer performance and decrease CPU utilization.
Many of the changes in Windows Vista SP1 will address also the administration Experience. Administratos will surely appreciate the improvements to Group Policy management.
In the SP1 timeframe, administrators can download an out-of-band release that will give them the ability to add comments to Group Policy Objects (GPOs) or individual settings and search for specific settings.
The new update will help the users to install their legal copy of Windows Vista without having the same problems as before. In case they have an illegal copy of Windows Vista users will get pop up messages, which notify them about the status of the software along with information about how to make the software legal.
As Microsoft announced, Windows Vista SP1 will start downloading to PCs automatically beginning in mid-April for those customers who have Windows Update configured to download updates automatically. The update will not be automatically installed.
Microsoft launched the consumer version of its Windows Vista operating system on January 30 this year and it’s considered the most expensive software programme in the world which took five years and 7 billion dollars to develop.
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced major price cuts for Windows Vista. The price of its Windows Vista Ultimate, the fully-featured version of the OS, is now $319 instead of $399.
Also, those who already owns a copy of Windows XP or a version of Windows Vista will pay to upgrade to Ultimate only $219 and not $259.
Microsoft also cut the prices for upgrade versions of Vista Home Premium, its mainstream product, to $129 from $159.
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