The simplest way to avoid cluttering your hard disk with old email messages is switching to a web mail services like Gmail, yahoo mail or Hotmail. However, if you prefer to have desktop access your emails, then the best option is to use free archiving software Mailstore home portable, which can create a compressed backup of your email messages.

Microsoft has released a new theme for Windows 7 based on the comedy-adventure movie Rio by 20th Century Fox. This theme contains 6 fantastic wallpapers from the movie.

In early 90’s it was Marc Andreessen who programmed the first full featured web browser for the internet. From there, the evolutions of browsers were incredible. It may be sound interesting to see the history of current web browsers (1990 – 2011). See below infographic ‘Browser Evolution’.

Missing real-time spell check is one of the main drawbacks of Internet Explorer. It misses even in the latest version of IE9. This essential feature is available on all other popular browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari. However, you can add this feature to your IE with a small tool called Speckie.

By default, Firefox will automatically check update for all installed add-ons and extensions once in a day, useful at times to fix bugs or to add new features. However, if you don’t want Firefox to check update for add-ons every day, you can change the update interval to once in a week or month. Here is how you can do that.

The latest version of Google Chrome makes websites respond much faster, plays videos and games more smoothly by utilizing the computer’s graphics card rather than relying on the process alone. By default, hardware acceleration is disabled in Chrome.

Piriform just released new version of CCleaner (v.3.05) with full support for Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) and Firefox 4.0. This popular Windows cleaning tool has also improved its registry cleaning function to trim out old Firewall entries and added a lot more third-party cleaning rules.

AVG has released a new and a complete security solution named Mobilation for Android tablets. This new app is based on AVG’s free security solution for Android AntivirusFree and has a unique feature for remotely wiping and locking tablet to protect your privacy, incase it has lost or stolen.

The free system cleaning utility CCleaner for Windows does a great job of removing leftover and temporary junk file from your hard disk. I think this tool does not need a description; you may have already installed this to keep your PC and applications running at optimal performance.

As you all know, latest browsers are now supports Hardware acceleration, which makes website respond faster to rich and interactive contents such as games, animation, video, and images. That is, when available the browser transfers CPU intensive tasks to GPU (graphics processor) to make everything smooth.

Mozilla has released its open source browser Firefox 4.0 with enhanced performance, better security, new features, and a sleek updated interface. Version 4.0 brings a great performance improvement with the new JavaScript engine, which speeds up start-up time and makes web pages load faster.

As in a PC, a Smartphone has also needed a good security suit to protect your privacy and security. There are few free mobile antivirus programs like Lookout that give decent protection for your phone, however, if you are looking a commercial mobile security with little more features, here is a chance to get Dr.Web Mobile Security Suite for free.

TrafficLight (beta) is a new security product from BitDefender designed to help people keep out of dangerous websites and prevents distribution of viruses via web pages and social networking sites. TrafficLight includes an advanced fishing filter, ad blocker, malware filter and search result analyzer.

The main reason for crashing Internet Explorer 9 when you open YouTube or similar sites is incompatible extensions, especially download manger, YouTube video downloader (BHO) and old display adapter. As in Firefox, IE9 has no built-in option for automatically checking incompatible add-ons. Therefore, some Add-ons installed in IE7 or IE8 may become incompatible after you upgraded to Internet Explorer 9 (IE9).

A key security feature of Microsoft’s newest browser Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) is Tracking Protection, which is designed to prevent third-party sites from tracking your web activity to monitor your behavior and target you with ads, spam emails, etc. The latest Firefox 4 has also similar feature called Do Not Track to protect your privacy.

NoVirusThanks updated their Malware Remover to version 3.0 with new features. The new detection engine is able to detect new and unknown malware even without up-to-date signatures (available with pro). This free utility is quite useful to detect and remove Trojans, spyware, rogue software, adware, and other malicious threats from your computer.

If you are looking a best, free, and easy to use tool for creating professional looking PDF files, even for commercial use, PDFCreator might be a good choice. You can use this tool for creating professional looking, digitally signed, and encrypted PDF document from nearly any Windows application.

Microsoft has released final version of its browser Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), which features support for GPU hardware acceleration and various enhancements. This all-new browser has greater security and improved JavaScript engine to deliver a best web experience on Windows than ever before.

There are several web based proxy servers available to surf the internet anonymously or as from another country. The Firefox add-on (Firefox 3 – 4) Phzilla helps you view a webpage or surf the internet using the PHProxy (a type of web based proxy server) proxy servers. It is very easy and convenient to use.

IObit Unlocker is an extremely simple to use application for Windows that helps you unlock files and folders occupied by other programs and enables you to delete, copy or modify them. It is handy when Windows refuses to delete, move, or rename a file or folder, which was shortly opened by a program.

Some YouTube videos are blocked for viewing outside particular countries or territories. However, because of the way that YouTube detect your location, it is possible to bypass the country checks by using an anonymous proxy server. ProxyTube extension for Google Chrome allows you to watch restricted YouTube videos in any country.

There are several applications available for changing Windows 7 logon screen background (example here, here, here). But, if you want to change the Windows 7 Logon screen brand name (Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 7 Home Premium, etc), here is how you can do that.

Like fake antivirus programs, there are several fake disk clean-up utilities, defragging tools, and hard disk scanners on the internet. Fake utilities can look legitimate, but spreads malware and may cause financial lose to users. Our readers should be aware of such fake utilities.

The ContextConsole Shell Extension is a tiny application for Windows that adds an "Open Command Prompt" menu item to the context menu (right-click menu) in Windows Explorer. This eliminates the need to navigate up a level in order to open a command prompt in the current directory, which was one of the biggest shortcomings of Windows.

Alt+Tab windows switching in Windows 7 is nice, but if you still love the old Windows XP style Alt+Tab windows switching, you can bring that feature to your Windows 7 also with a simple trick. No registry tweak or third party tool is required.

The popular German security software developer G Data has released a free security solution called CloudSecurity which offers real-time protection from malware and phishing attack from malicious websites. It is available as a plug-in for Firefox and Internet Explorer and blocks accessing any known malware distribution and phishing websites.

If you have recently purchased a LCD monitor, checking its dead pixel (pixel that is not able to display the correct color) is a good decision, because, though almost all LCD monitors have some amount of dead pixels, some of them have many bad pixels. Such screen is considered as defective.

There are several online and offline solutions available to convert files that are used daily to PDF document or image file. We have mentioned many of them in previous articles. Neevia Document Converter is a free online PDF and image conversion tool that offers few professional features like PDF encryption, watermark, etc.

Would you like to extract text from a scanned image of a document? Or wish you didn’t have to retype text from a PDF document? GImageReader, the free OCR (optical character recognition) software helps you does that easily. it’s a GUI frontend to Google’s Tesseract OCR, perhaps one of the most accurate open source OCR engines and can be considered as an open-source alternative to the professional OCR ABBYY FineReader.