Quick Cliq is a little productivity tool that can speed-up your daily computer activities by giving you links and shortcut to folders, files, programs, URLs, emails and command line operations. You can access all your favorite items with a click which usually require many clicks.

Many people set a password and username for their Windows PC, and each logon, they required to enter the password and username manually. This job is troublesome on frequent logon. If you want, you can configure the computer to automatically logon the user in two ways.

One downside of YouTube video is that, it does not have video preview. Video preview means, when you mouse hover on a video thumbnail it displays multiple clips (images) from the video instead of a single image. This feature will help you to know more about the video. Here is how to enable video preview for YouTube video.

After a brief beta test, Avast has released final version of its popular antivirus program Avast 6. Besides the regular antivirus and anti-spyware protection, the new Avast 6.0 has included few more new features such as AutoSandbox, WebRep, site blocking, etc, in order to ensures your security further.

Do you have any website in your bookmark list that you don’t want to share with other whom using your computer? There may be. If you’re a Firefox user, there is a tiny add-on called Link Password, which helps you to password protect individual bookmarks or links.

TyperTask is a little, very useful tool to increase your efficiency by automating your keyboard. You can create keyboard shortcuts for applications, favorite websites and instantly input common phrases, chat conversations, website logins, and many other tasks like window activation, delays, and mouse clicks with this tool.

Document file converting application is handy for converting a file into another format, for example, you can use it to convert PDF file to editable Word document or vice-versa. Doxillion Document Converter is a simple to use tool to convert between many different document formats.

If you have been watching a video on YouTube and there is a great scene or funny moment that you like to share with friends, what you will do? Usually, copy the video URL from the address bar, post it in an email or on Facebook or Twitter, and tell your friend to skip to the scene a bit at 2minute 10 seconds or like that.

Windows 7 Navigation Pane Customizer is a simple to use tool that allows you to customize Windows Explorer navigation pane items. You can add or hide items like control panel, recycle bin, home group, favorites, etc from the navigation pane. You can also rename all these items.

It is usual that after a long time the performance of a computer changes considerably. It will take long time to boot, freezes-up occasionally, and error messages are very common. To solve such issues you need either to format the hard drive and install Windows or take necessary actions like reducing disk fragmentation, delete registry junks, etc.

The internet is flooded with lots of rogue applications, which are available in the form of security software, registry editors, etc. Unfortunately, many computer or internet users are still ignorant about such illegitimate software. They often download and install such ‘scareware’ and create security as well as financial threat to them. But, how do you identify the rogue?

AVG, the popular security software developer has announced the launch of AVG LiveKive, a free, cloud-based storage solution where customers can keep their valuable, personal information secure. According to AVG, “LiveKive provides simple, safe, and reliable storage that makes the process of archiving and sharing content as intuitive and secure as keeping money in a bank”.

The open source image editor Gimp is seriously an alternative to Adobe Photoshop, but it lacks some features. For example, ‘Save for web’ option. This option helps users to reduce image size considerably without losing its quality much. This is great for people who want to upload their images on to email or web.

As its name implies USB Disabler lets you disable and or enable the access of USB port of a computer with a click. The main benefits of this tool are you can prevent unauthorized use of USB drives and prevent virus infection via USB flash drives.

Firefox has an in-built capability to set Gmail or Yahoo! Mail as the default mailto service. When you click on a mailto: link, it will open Gmail or Yahoo mail, but if you’re a Hotmail user and want to make it as your default mailto service in Firefox, here is how to.

Spider Player is one of the best and all-in-one music players that can play almost all audio files with amazing sound quality, convert supported files into different formats, record audio from internet radio with no quality loss, and has a built-in tag editor.

Windows Vista/7 Taskbar Color Changer is a little application that lets you change color of your Windows 7 or Vista’s taskbar 'without changing the window color'.

Taskbar preview is an awesome feature for browsers (and all other applications) under Windows 7. When you hover your mouse over an element in the taskbar, will display preview images automatically. This can however be confusing in a browser with several open tabs.

Microsoft just released Internet Explorer 9 RC (release candidate) with new security features to the browser and you can now download IE 9 RC at Microsoft website. One of the important and new security features for Internet Explorer 9 (RC) is Tracking Protection.

Get My Videos Back is a small and portable utility that will help you get back audio/ video files from scratched CD/ DVD. The application is very simple to use and the ‘byte mode’ feature can read the source file from byte to byte, which is helpful if the source media has lots of small scratches.

At times, it is necessary for you to lock keyboard and mouse of your PC temporarily, for example, to avoid your kid from accidentally pressing unwanted buttons on the keyboard and mouse. The little tool KeyFreeze lets you do so with a click.

If you are a Google Calendar user, you may like this Google Chrome extension. The ‘Minimalist for Google Calendar’ extension lets you personalize your calendar application by removing (hiding) useless and distracting elements from its interface.

Portable Remove Empty Directories is a tiny (78Kb) and simple to use application that helps you delete empty folders from your system. It searches and displays empty folders (in red color), and before deleting anything, you can check all empty folders it found.

Resize Magic is a simple to use application (for Windows, Mac, and Linux) that helps you batch resize images without losing its quality. It can deliver a better image quality than your graphic program.

A recent survey conducted by ZoneAlarm shows how unwise people for choosing their password. It reveals that 79 % of users still use risky passwords such as personal information, numbers, and common words. Therefore, what ever will be your online account, Twitter, Facebook, banking, or anything it is very important to have a strong password for all online accounts.

The 2014 Winter Olympics (officially known as the XXII Olympic Winter Games) will be celebrated from February 7 to February 23, 2014 in the Russian cities, Sochi and Krasnodar Krai. To promote the game they have created skiing game on YouTube that you can play with Webcam or keyboard.

Backup Utility is a tiny Windows tool that can help you backup all personal data such as My Documents, Favorites, Desktop, etc with a single click. Therefore, you can use it in emergencies, for example when your system badly damaged.

After watching a video on YouTube, you may want to save the video into your hard disk for playing it offline. Yes, it is simple; you can save it from your browser cache, there are add-ons and manual methods for that. But with Firefox 4 (beta), it is not easy as we think. Also, still there are no add-ons to view cache of Firefox 4 (I couldn’t find one). Why this is?

Before going to the subject, lets us know what is the deference between static IP address and Dynamic IP address. In simple words, a Static IP address always the same every time you connect to the internet, while Dynamic IP addresses may vary each time you connect to the Internet. Dynamic IP addresses are the normal customer access method used by most ISPs (Internet Service Providers) and are enough for normal internet usage. Then, why you need to make your IP address static?

There are several fake antivirus programs circulating over the internet these days. Fake antivirus is a class of malware or virus, which pretends or disguises itself to be a real antivirus program and pose security threats to the user. For example, see the details of recently discovered fake AVG Antivirus 2011, which looks similar to the real AVG Antivirus software. For an average user it is very difficult to identify the real AVG.

BitDefender, the world leader in security software industry has released an e-Guides series, which provides valuable information and practical advice to prevent e-threats and online security issues. There are four free guides to download such as Securing Wireless Networks, Safe Blogging Guide, Protecting Children On-line, and Silver Surfers’ On-line Safety.

Panda Security has updated their Cloud Antivirus to version1.4 with few bug fixes. It is the lightest and fastest antivirus program with high-level protection in real time. As it is doing everything – virus database update, scanning, etc in the cloud, it requires only a few system resources.

Once you decide to discard your hard drive or resell your PC, it is mandatory to remove all personal information, passwords, and other details that you saved on it. Just deleting the data or formatting the hard drive is not sufficient, because there are powerful tools to recover all deleted data. Therefore, you need to permanently wipe all data from the hard drive.

As I told in a previous post, no one can remember all those different passwords, especially if they are complicated. A best solution to this is to use a secure password manager to store and manage all your personal data. Passport is one such free password manager and generator, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way.