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You have coded the program and tested it using PyS60 emulator or in your mobile phone. Now you want to make standalone application out of your Python code to deploy in mobile phones. You have to create SIS (Symbian Installation System) file.


Format of the command is:

py2sis  [sisfile] [--uid=0x12345678] [--appname=myapp] 
[--presdk20] [--leavetemp]

I used the following command to create SIS file for my program:

F:\Nokia\Tools\Python_for_Series_60\py2sis>py2sis.exe 
dse_stock_tracker.py dse.sis --uid 0x12345678 
--appname=DSEStockPriceTracker

If you want to know details about py2sis, get the book (ebook is there) "Programming with Python for Series 60 Platform" and go to chapter 14. The book is freely available.

It is a very common practise among majority of the desktop users to keep 10-15 windows maximized at the same time. Which in turn increases load on the system resources. When a window is minimized it requires very less ram than what it requires in the maximized state. So it is better to minimize the windows which you are not going to use for some time.

Doing this will help you improve your PC’s performance. But if you are too lazy to minimize all the windows you have opened then here is something what you can try.

Swept Away is a small freeware developed by Adam Pash. It is a simple program which keeps on monitoring your open windows. If an inactive window is been maximized for a particular time period then it will be automatically minimized. The maximum time allowed for maximized windows can be set by the user.




It also allows the user to exclude windows which will not be minimized even after the defined time period. To exclude processes right click on the taskbar icon and move your mouse cursor to “exclude”. A list containing all the open windows will be shown. Select the window you want to exclude from the list and done. Swept Away will never minimize the selected window.




Swept away is a freeware and will work on any Windows Operating system. This small app can be useful for computer junkies who always forget to minimize their open windows.Download this tiny app from the link below.

Download Swept Away (Freeware) (435 KB) (Direct)

Even after the virus is totally removed from the system, some users find it difficult to restore all those things back which were affected by the virus. A virus usually when enters into a system disables the registry editor and task manager so that the user can not remove the virus from the system.




Here is a free tool Re-Enable using which even a novice users can fix all the things which were disabled by the virus. An antivirus can remove the virus files but sometimes it may fail to restore the system settings. In such situations this tool can come handy.



First download Re-Enable 2.0 from here. After downloading the file execute it. As you can see in the screenshot, this tool can be used to re-enable  registry editor, command prompt, task manager, folder options etc. Just select the tools you want to enable and click on the “Re-Enable” button.
You will require dot net 3.5 or higher version to run this software. Or if you don’t want to download .Net framework then you can try the portable version of this software.

Download Re-Enable V2 (freeware) (778 KB)

Download Re-Enable V2 portable (Freeware) (23 MB)

Now you can burn iso  on  pen drive by using this technique.
So follow now and have fun.........




1. Download and install UltraISO trial.
2. Plug in your pen drive.
3. Open UltraISO as Administrator (right-click shortcut, “Run as Administrator”)
4. Open the CD/DVD image file you want to write to pendrive in this instance of UltraISO (File>Open).

5. Under the Bootable menu, select Write Disk Image.
6. A new dialog should open up, listing your pen drive(s).
7. Select the pendrive you want to write your image to.
8. Set the Write Method to USB-HDD (or USB-HDD+ if your BIOS supports it).
9. Click the Write button, and then click Yes/OK in the warning dialog (All data on this drive will be destroyed ……. do you want to continue) that pops up.
8. Sit back, relax.........

Many old computer systems with outdated BIOS programs does not allow user to boot from USB devices. This prevents them to run any Live operating system.Plop Boot Manager is a perfect tool to overcome this problem. Using this tool you can boot from your External Hard disk or Pen Drive or CD-ROM device even if it is not supported by your BIOS.





Features:

    * USB boot without BIOS support (UHCI, OHCI and EHCI)
    * CD/DVD boot without BIOS support (IDE)
    * Floppy boot
    * Different profiles for operating systems
    * Define up to 16 partitions
    * No extra partition for the boot manager
    * Hidden boot, maybe you have a rescue system installed and the user should not see that there is another system installed
    * Boot countdown
    * Hide partitions
    * Password protection for the computer and the boot manager setup
    * Backup of partition table data
    * Textmode user interface 80×50
    * Graphic user interface 640×480, 800×600, 1024×786, 1280×1024
    * MBR partition table edit
    * Start of the boot manager from harddisk, floppy, USB, CD, DVD
    * Starting from Windows boot menu
    * Starting from LILO, GRUB, Syslinux, Isolinux, Pxelinux (network)
    * It can be used as PCI option ROM
    * Access the whole USB hard disk (up to 2TB) even when the bios has a 128 GiB limit
    * PCMCIA (CardBus) USB comes with the next release
    * The boot manager is freeware

This tool is little complicated to use and is meant for advanced computer users only. You may end up screwing your PC if don’t use it with care. So you better use it only if you know how to handle this kind of troubles. I have tested this tool and it worked perfectly for me. You can download Plop Boot Manager from the link given below.


Download Plop Boot Manager