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June 18th, 2019

Use your Oculus with Steam

Did you know, you can use your Oculus Rift with Steam. When you first try to run SteamVR or a VR game from Steam with your Oculus you will be blocked. This is not because Oculus is anti-competition, it’s because Steam is a different system. Oculus will block any application (app) or game that is not from the Oculus store by default. This is primarily for quality control and safety. The Oculus requires the use of the Oculus software/store to operate. Steam uses a variant of OpenVR. Although Oculus and Steam are different, Oculus can detect and add your SteamVR apps/games to your library for quick access. Enable running apps from an unknown source to use SteamVR.

November 29th, 2013

It’s always unfortunate and disruptive when good free programs inserts advertising into their software. However, uTorrent has always provided users the option to remove or hide the ads without paying anything.

In the application’s settings window, there is an option in the long list of advance options to disable the advertising.

February 18th, 2011

How to add the Adobe Flash Player plug-in into Firefox Portable from www.portableapps.com.

From time to time we may use a computer that does not have the Adobe Flash Player installed or may have an out dated version of Flash, but did you know you can add your own version of Flash to Firefox Portable.