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Vista commands in one click

Vista commands is a Windows Vista sidebar gadget with which we can call or run services like msconfig, Snap shoot, Disk Manager, Device Manager, Services, Admin Tool, Printers, Network, and installed third party applications with one click from the desktop. This side bar gadget also works under Windows7 Beta too. You can download the gadget from Live Gallery .

NOD32 antivirus 4.0 and ESET Smart Security 4.0 are available for beta download

NOD32 antivirus is one of the most trusted security products available on the market today. Because of its low memory consumption, easy of use and fastest scanning engine with high detection rate, it becomes quite popular among users. The latest release provides excellent protection for your computer with several new security enhancements such as added SysInspector module for analyzing running processes on computer, added SysRescue module for creating bootable discs and USB flash drives, etc. It provides on access, on-demand, scheduled, heuristic and manual scan services. Based on the ThreatSense scanning engine, it continues to deliver unmatched protection against zero-day attacks, without the need for constant signature updates to recognize the threats. It provides maximum protection when surfing the web by blocking malicious scripts in the web browser from executing. Moreover it checks emails and attachments for infection and now it possible to scan incoming mail not only in MS Outl...

How to backup Thunderbird settings and messages?

In some situation, for instance when re-installing your operating system, you may be wanted to back up all settings and messages from your email client (e.g. Thunderbird) to restore all its previous settings. Thunderbird Backup utility is an easy to use, powerful backup tool which will backup all your emails and settings from Thunderbird. This tool can backup all profiles from current user. Using this program is simple. Download the software from the official website (freeware, 1.2Mb) and install it. Run it and wait until the searching finishes (below 1 minute). Check the item shown on main window, and then click on ‘Backup” button. A new window popping up, if necessary you add a file name here, clicks on ‘Start backup’, button, that’s all. To restore it, after a fresh installation of Thunderbird, Click on ‘Restore Wizard’ button and follow the simple instructions. Features of the program: Easy to use - Just few clicks you can start the backup process Time stamp - Output filename can...

KCleaner – An efficient, automatic hard drive cleaner

KCleaner is an easy to use, efficient hard drive cleaner with fully automatic cleaning feature. Automatic cleaning may be the first feature in its kind, which works in background, so that you don't have to care about when to launch it. And also, KCleaner has a secure deletion method, which ensures your security by making deleted files unrecoverable by any known mean. You can operate it in three modes-Expert mode, normal mode and automatic mode. In expert mode, you can control any file deletion done by KCleaner. In automatic mode, it automatically cleaned in the background according to the time interval you set. Features includes Detects and cleans temporary and useless files (cache, unused setup files, etc) Automatic mode working in background Secured file deletion method Expert mode : let users control any file deletion done by KCleaner/li> Internationalization support. You can download KCleaner from here

Lock Firefox browser

Advanced Firefox Lock is a security tool for Firefox browser. With this extension you can lock your browse with a master key file or with a user name and password. This ensures that the browser is operated by you only. When open the browser, this add-on asked you to locate the key file selected or entering the username and password, otherwise, the browser will not open. Similarly, this information will be asked again when you open a new window. A padlock in the status bar lets you access the options; you can configure it by clicking on it – set password and user name or switched off it. For more security, you can also hide this icon. Get Advance Firefox Lock from here

Analogue clock – Windows tray clock replacement

Even though both analogue and digital clocks are suitable for readable information, analogue clock is often superior to digital clock as it provides instant information at a glance. Analog Clock is tray clock replacement software for Windows XP and is suitable for home and office use. The program comes with several skins and includes both analogue and digital clock with calendars. This is an NTP-enabled application. It will update your system clock time, synchronizing it with atomic clocks through the Internet. In addition, the program shows a quick calendar window also.

Easeus Partition Manager free (supports Vista also)

Easeus Partition Manager is comprehensive hard disk partitioning software for Windows, which not only provides with convenient user-interface simplifying your tasks but also enables you to configure and manage partitions of hard drive. This free version comes with all basic features that a hard disk partitioning software should meet, such as creating partitions, formatting, deleting, moving, copying and resizing disk images without any difficulty. At the same time, your data is completely protected during all operations. (Similar freeware program is Paragon Partition manager Express edition ) These features are enough for a normal operation. The latest free version works perfectly with hardware RAID and Windows 2000/XP/Vista Operating Systems. EASEUS Partition Manager supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS file systems and supported Storage Media are IDE, SATA, SCSI, USB removable disk, and Firewire disk.

Add Deep Zoom image viewer on your blog or site with Seadragon Ajax

In many situations, in order to get a detailed look of any object, you need to see it closer. If you like to show Deep Zoom Image functionality on your blog or website, you can do it very easily with out having to write any code or any download. See the example below. By using the Seadragon Ajax wizard, you can get Deep Zoom functionality on your blog or website. 1. Just create a new album with Photozoom . 2. Then view an individual photo and copy the URL that appears at the bottom. 3. Paste the URL of the Deep Zoom Image you want to show. Copy the embedded code and add it on your blog. Note: To use Photozoom, your required Windows Live ID and Silverlight installed on your system.

Shell Extensions Manager- Solve third party context menu problems in Windows XP and Vista

When installing many third party applications like antivirus programs, zip utility, etc, additional context menu are also create by adding shell extension components to the system. You can see it by right clicking on a file or folder. This is useful in many cases, but some times it causes problems to the system like slow right click menu, unable to launch applications from the recent programs list in the Windows Vista Start menu, etc. You can read what problems cause by third party context menu to the system from here . The ShellExView utility from Nirsoft displays the details of shell extensions installed on your computer, and allows you to easily disable and enable each shell extension. It can be used for solving context-menu problems in Explorer environment.

Secure your text file by encrypting it with Steganos LockNote

Data security should always be given prime importance, especially if it is confidential. Protecting files with a password, keeping it hidden and encrypting files are commonly used methods for data security. File encryption is much more reliable than the other two. There are numerous applications out there that perform file encryption. As a home user, you can try Steganos LockNote to keep your passwords and other confidential information safe. LockNote is a free, efficient utility, that encrypt your text file using a user input password and the military grade AES 256-bit encryption technology. You only need to drag and drop the text file into a LockNote window or on to the LockNote icon and they will be encrypted automatically. This is a portable application (312Kb); you can carry it around on your USB stick. You can move LockNotes wherever you want, as often as you want. A LockNote document does not require much more hard drive space than an unencrypted document. However, though Lock...

FragExt – A Quick File Defragging Tool with Unique Features

It is said that frequent defragging a hard drive provides over 30 percent more performance to a computer. But the problem is that, if you have a very large hard drive, with millions of files, this process can be very slow, so programs like FragExt which defrag specific files rather than entire volume, indeed a help to save time. FragExt is a free application that helps you to manage file fragmentation on FAT, FAT32 and NTFS volumes. You can defrag individual files and folders by just right clicking on it. Before defragging a file, you can view detailed information of any files and folders by right clicking on it (File Properties – Fragment) to confirm whether it required defragmention or not. And also, built-in scriptable defragmentation engine, allowing you to create your own custom utilities. FragExt is completely free, and runs on Windows 2000, XP (32 and 64 bit), Server 2003 (32 and 64 bit), Vista (32 and 64 bit) and Server 2008 (32 and 64 bits ). File size:395Kb /Download it her...

‘The Art & Science of CSS’ Free e-book giveaway by Sitepoint

Cascading style sheet (CSS) has an important role in web designing, which determine a website’s look and feel. To maintain this across all pages of your website, consistent formatting, design and layout are required. CSS enables you to do everything quite easily with a single or small group of files. The ebook ‘The Art & Science of CSS’ from Sitepoint is ideal for anyone who wants to gain the practical skills involved in using CSS to make attractive web sites. Each chapter of this book will teach you how to style common web site components through practical examples. The book contains seven chapters that engage with the fundamental elements of the web page—headings, images, backgrounds, navigation—as well as applied styles such as those used in forms, rounded corners for content boxes, and tables. Here is a chance get a free copy of this e-book. This is a limited time offer (Two weeks, starts from Nov 18) form Sitepoint. Hurry up and grab a free copy of this amazing e-book (PDF f...

Create amazing header graphics for your blog

Creating a decent header image that matches your blog’s or website’s theme and content is not an easy task. It requires creativity and knowledge in image editing software like Photoshop. If you like to create a professional header graphic in an easy and quick way without the need of an expensive image editing software, XHeader might be a perfect choice. It lets you create amazing header graphics in few simple edits and you don’t need any previous knowledge of graphic design. The software contains a number of graphical header designs to choose from. These are all neatly categorized to make finding the right design really easy – and there many options to choose from. When you have selected the header design you want to use you can add your own text, shapes, shadows, transparencies, additional graphics, etc. After finishing your work, just click “Save JPG” and you will be presented with ten (10) different versions, each of a different quality and file size. Just pick the one that you fee...

PhotoPosPro – The ultimate photo editing software for free

PhotoPosPro is an advanced image editing and enhancing software which offers a wide variety of possibilities in computer graphic design. You can perform various tasks from simple to complex like changing colors and textures, removing scratches and unwanted details, sharpening, blurring and spreading of areas on a picture and much more. With powerful tools and functions, the application allows you easily create, edit, enhance, print, and manipulate your digital images, web graphics and much more. One of the most important possibilities of Photo Pos Pro is the ability to expand the capabilities of the software yourselves! You have an idea for a new Feature that does not exist in the program? In many cases, you can add this Feature yourselves. You can combine a number of operations with the Script Tool in order to create Scripts which will perform new operations, according to your needs. PhotoPos.com and Softpedia.com give you a free registration key for PhotoPosPro (Untill Jan 2009). Th...

Calibrate Colors of your Monitor in three easy steps

Calibrize helps you to calibrate the colors of your monitor in three simple steps. After finishing this process your system will have a reliable color profile and the monitor will be automatically be adjusted accordingly. Just download the software and follow the procedure to generate a reliable color 'profile' to maintains color fidelity throughout the system. The first step is adjusting the contrast and brightness control, then the gamma settings, next is saving the settings. Your settings will be saved and load automatically each times the computer start up. Features: Works quickly, easily and reliably, even if you don't know the first thing about screen calibration, Works for CRT monitors, (flat) LCD monitors and even beamers, Reads out the color data (EDID) from your monitor, Produces an ICC monitor profile, Loads a set of adjusted values into the lookup table (LUT) of your video card Calibrize is a free application (adware) and required an internet connection to opera...

Small Basic – Visual basic for your kids (Beginners) from Microsoft

The latest programming languages and their concepts are complicated and are difficult to understand by a beginner. This discourages people from learning (or attempting) the amazing computer programming. Small Basic is a programming language that is designed to make programming extremely easy, approachable and fun for beginners. Its intention is to bring down the barrier and serve as a stepping stone to the amazing world of computer programming. Small Basic derives its inspiration from the original BASIC programming language, and is based on the Microsoft .Net platform. It is really small with just 15 keywords and uses minimal concepts to keep the barrier to entry as low as possible. More details. A getting started guide is also available for download which teaches you with simple examples. You can download Small basics from here . (Via – Readwritweb )

XpGnome- Convert Linux desktop looks like Windows XP

XPGnome is a Linux theme pack that brings visual aspect of Windows XP to the Gnome desktop. This script adds custom icons, Wallpaper, logon screen, colors and other tweaks to makes Linux desktop just looks like Windows XP. However, if you wish to remove this theme, there is no easy uninstall method, you have to change every thing manually. That is the main drawback of this theme. You can download the theme from this link . (via – Genbeta )

Split and Merge PDF files

The portable document format (PDF) has become the most popular medium for sharing or saving documents, because it benefit from features like smaller size, high portability and strong security. Adolix Split and Merge PDF is a free utility that will help you modify your existing PDF files. You can split or merge multiple documents with this utility. This is useful; for instance, if you want to merge some pages from an older PDF file, or merge 2 or more documents into a new single PDF file. You can do all that with only a few mouse clicks. However, you cannot merge more than 5 PDF files using this free version. Features included are: Combine PDF files into a single document, You can even append encrypted PDF files to another PDF, Split PDF files using a customized pattern (similar to Word printing), Process password protected PDF files.( Via - uploadsblog ) Download (1.83Mb) Adolix Split and Merge from the following link

Mozilla’s New Service Fashion Your Firefox

Fashion Your Firefox - a new service launched by Mozilla allows customizing your Firefox browser in a very simple way. You don't need to install extensions one by one, instead, select your choice from the list and click the 'Install my addons button' when you're done. This is extremely a simple service which saves your time. Simply select your favorites from the categories to add a personal touch to your browser.(Via- downloadsquad )

Ultimate Windows Tweaker makes your Vista faster, more stable, and secure

Ultimate Windows Tweaker is a tweaking and optimizing utility for all Windows Vista editions (32-bit and 64-bit). Released by WinVistaClub , a Microsoft featured community; Ultimate Windows Tweaker makes your system faster, more stable, and secure with just a few mouse clicks. The tweaks are classified in different categories, such as personalization, system and performance, security, Internet Explorer, networking, etc and can be accessed, just like your Windows Vista Control Panel. This tiny, portable application (370Kb) has a simple to use interface and has over 130 tweaks. These tweaks help you personalize your Windows Vista, just the way you want it to appear. However, some tweaking required knowledge about what it is; a beginner may find it little bit difficult. However detailed descriptions are also provided with each tweaking. More details and download

How to Resize Programs Window Automatically?

AutoSizer is a small software that will automatically maximize, resize, minimize or position just about any window. This is useful, for instance, some Windows programs like Paint, Notepad or some web browsers open up in a non-maximized window. Using AutoSizer , you can set those windows to automatically maximize every time they are opened. This freeware work with most programs, and supports maximizing to specific monitors on multi-monitor computers. Using this program is simple. Download (264Kb) and install Auto Resizer. Run a program you want to resize the window. Open Auto Resizer (Right click on the tray icon and select ‘open’). Select the program by left clicking (from the upper side window). Then click on ‘AutoSize’ and select what you want – maximize, minimize, restore and position. And click ok.

See what information your browser is revealing about you when visiting a web site

In this age of cyberspace, prime importance needs to be given to online security and to our privacy. As you know the web browser is the easiest way a hacker, spammer or phisher can attack a computer system. According to Symantec , more than 80% of attacks on the internet are aimed at a web browser or website. Hackers are using additional features of browser, such as ActiveX, Java, Cookies, etc to gain this. Here I am not talking about how to prevent these attacks, instead, just aware you what your browser sends information about you to every website you visit. This is useful; for example, if you are using a proxy server to hide your IP address, make sure that your IP address does not appear to others; if it does, you should change your proxy. Following are some online tools, just visit any of the sites and see what your web browser show about you BrowserSpy - Tell you all kinds of detailed information about you and your browser. Information ranging from simple stuff like the name and ...

Pixia -A Painting Tool Exclusively For Full Color Graphics

Pixia is the English version of a popular Japanese painting and retouching software for full color graphics by Isao Maruoka. It is free software, which has layer, mask, transparency channel, various filters and has many other graphic editing tools. It also has good photo retouching functions, which are good for photographic editors. You can use your own customized brush tips and even use an image file as a brush tip to create unique effects. It is very convenient and useful for computer graphic beginners as well as experts. A complete help file can also be download .

Get Free Live Mesh Wallpaper Pack

Here is a wallpaper pack from Live Mesh Team that offers wallpaper in different variations on the Mesh Logo and colorful background. The wallpaper pack includes 32 wallpapers (1024x768 screen resolutions, JPEG format) and five Live Mesh logos in PNG format. You can download the Wallpaper pack from here . (Via – Askvg )

How to Move Newly Created Files Automatically from Desktop to a Predefined Folder?

Desktop Teleport is a tiny (825Kb zip) utility that will helps you to move newly created files and folders from your desktop to a pre-defied folder automatically. Whenever you save a file on your desktop, it will automatically transfer to the folder you preferred. Thus it keeps your desktop clean and also saves time. Working with the program is simple. You need not install it on your computer, just run the exe file (after unzip) and it will sit on your taskbar and perform the task very quickly. Before using this program, you can control which file extension or file name want to move or not to move. Right click on the Desktop Teleport icon and select ‘Show’, now add or remove file extensions and names. You can also add or remove target folders by clicking ‘Folders’ menu. Get the program here

TeamPlayer – Work Together on one Computer with Multiple Keyboards and Mouse

TeamPlayer allows you to connect multiple mouse and keyboards on one computer. You will be now able to work with two or more people on the same computer at the same time. Install the software, simply connect extra mice and keyboards to your USB ports, and multiple cursors will appear on your screen. Working with this application is simple. Move your mouse around; the mouse with a white cursor (and a little colored square) has windows control. If someone else wants to take control, he or she can simply click his left mouse button to take control. Team Player is useful when you want to work through your spreadsheets together, involve your students or just have fun with your kids. TeamPlayer also supports most tablets and digital whiteboards and fully integrates with Windows XP and Vista. TeamPlayer still in developing stage, the free version is for non-commercial and educational use and supports three (3) users at the same time. For commercial and business use and for use with more tha...

Paragon Partition Manager 9.0 Express for Free Download

Paragon Partition Manager is one of the most popular hard drive partition tools available on the market today. Paragon who is known for developing some splendid disk utilities now provide its popular partition manager for free as a first step to manage your partitions and redistribute unused disk space ( Express edition , limited feature) Partitioning a hard drive is necessary in some situations, for instance updating an old FAT 32 partition to NTFS partition, install another OS (such as Linux or other), split or merge files etc required partition with out reformatting the hard disk. Key features of Paragon Partition manager Express edition Gain additional space in your existing partitions by easily resizing and moving partitions with through the smart Resize Wizard. Add partitions with the highly intuitive Create Partition Wizard. Leave a core partition to host Windows and automatically create a new partition for work and data files in a logical, intuitive place. Simplify the back...

UltraDefrag - Open source disk defragmenter with unique features

Creating and deleting files and folders on a hard disk is a constant process practiced by most of us. This leads to fragmentation of data and ultimately the performance of the computer starts to deteriorate. One of the easiest ways to make your PC run faster is to defragment your hard disk. Windows have built-in defragging tool for this, but only have limited features. UltraDefrag is an open source, small (225Kb) disk defragmenter for Windows NT 4.0 and later operating systems and have some unique features. It makes use of the same defragmenting API used by many other windows defrag utilities, both open and closed source. However, UltraDefrag has two features that make it unique. The first is that it has a kernel mode driver that does most of the work. The second is the ability to run the application at boot up time in a manner similar to chkdsk. This allows for faster defragmentation time and the ability to defragment all files including system files. UltraDefrag supports the followi...

A Complete Dark theme for Firefox

Nasa Night launch is a pure dark theme for Firefox 2x -3 xs. Inspired by the night launch of STS-116, this theme styles every window in Firefox and many extensions too. NASA Night Launch offers everything you want in a dark theme: Firefox compatibility (Firefox 2 and Firefox 3, on Windows 98/XP/Vista, Mac OS X, and Linux), support for subskins to fine-tune the look of your Firefox, and, best of all: complete theme styling of Firefox, with not one window left out. It's all sexy-smooth, it's all dark, and it's all Firefox.

Download Google Search Engine Optimization (SEO) starter guide

Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide from Google helps you to investigate the issues of SEO (search engine optimization) of your web site or blog and provides some of the useful information into a single consistent document. SEO could have a noticeable impact on your site's (blog) user experience and performance in organic search results. This guide explains some of the clear-cut SEO recommendations you can adopt for your site such as choosing unique and accurate title and description meta tags, URL structure, site navigation, content creation, anchor text, and more. “Although this guide won't tell you any secrets that'll automatically rank your site first for queries in Google, following the best practices outlined in the guide will make it easier for search engines to both crawl and index your content” You can download it here .

Protect your Kids from Explicit contents with K9 Web Protection (and get a Free License key)

Many of you have kids who use internet and off course internet is a lot more help than it is destructive. However, nowadays content is becoming more and more mature, pornographic and other harmful sites are dominating the net. In such situation how can you prevent your child from accessing such explicit contents? The simplest solution is to use content blockers. These content blockers restrict your children to the clean web and block all explicit sites, images and videos from being viewed on your home computer. Usually such software is protected by passwords, so children can not by pass the rule you set. Blue Coat® K9 Web Protection is a content filtering solution for your home computer. Its job is to provide you with a family-safe Internet experience, where YOU control the Internet content that enters your home. K9 Web Protection implements the same enterprise-class Web filtering technology used by Blue Coat's Fortune 500 customers around the world, wrapped in simple, friendly, ...

Surf the Internet Safely with Browser Defender

Browser Defender , developed by ThreatExpert, a market leader in security analysis, is an add - on to Firefox and Internet Explorer that allows you to surf the internet safely by displaying site ratings in different colors as you browse the Internet. A simple green, red or yellow rating lets you know immediately if, in ThreatExpert's opinion, the website is safe to visit, harmful or needs to be visited with caution. If the website is not amongst their millions of crawled domains, then a grey rating will be shown. This utility helps you to keep away from any possible threats including viruses, spyware, adware, exploits, spam and other unwanted software. This add-on also integrates with the search results provided by popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo! so you can see if it is safe to continue before you visit a site. Since this application still in beta stage, the results are less. They need to add many web sites in their database. (via- dotnetwizard )

How to have smaller back button in Firefox 3?

In Firefox 3 the back button is large round shaped one. It causes the height of the tool bar to increase a little. Some of you may want to make it the same size as the forward button, just like most other popular browsers have. Firefox has provided a provision to resize this over sized button. Just navigate to ‘View’ – ‘Toolbar’ option, after launching Firefox 3. Click on ‘Customize’ button, check the box ‘Use small icons’ then click ‘Done’. That’s all.

Aero Snap feature in Vista and XP

Aero Snap is an application that clones the new Windows 7 feature Aero Snap on Windows XP and Vista. It will act like Microsoft showed in a presentation video of Windows 7 on PDC 2008. You can resize, arrange or maximize your desktop windows with just drag and drop. Simply drag a window to a side of your (right side) desktop to snap it or drag it to the top to maximize. If you drag it back to the last position, the last window size will be restored. This simple application also works with multiple monitors. Remember that Aero Snap is still in its developing stage. While testing it here, found that some application window, example Ccleaner, shows no effect. To run AeroSnap on your computer, you need Windows XP or Windows Vista. You need also .Net Framework 2.0 or higher.

Accurate CPU Speed Tester

Want to know how fast your CPU is running? CPU Speed Professional will tell you this. With a cool interface, this great little application will tell you the real speed of your Central Processing Unit (CPU). The application is compatible with Intel and AMD processor and uses hard core speed algorithms in testing central processor speed. You can also submit your speed results to the CPU Speed online world ranking tables and see how your computer compares with others - around the world and in your own country.

Windows watch dog - WinPatrol 2008

There are several applications that are designed to increase the performance and security of Windows. Here is a simple, but powerful multi purpose support utility for Windows that replaces multiple system utilities with its enhanced functionalities. WinPatrol monitor your PC and alerts you to hijacking, malware attack and critical changes made to your computer with out your permission. WinPatrol detect and review new auto-startup programs, automatically disable reoccurring startup programs, monitor BHO's and Tool Bars, monitor creation of scheduled tasks, display and kill multiple running tasks, monitor, stop and control Window Services, manage and automatically remove unwanted Cookies, Monitor IE home and Search pages, monitor and edit HOST File, detect and lock changes to file type associations, detect and view newly created hidden files, track date/time when programs are first detected on your system, delay auto-startup programs for quick boot up, multiple system report options...

Open Source Circular and Spiral Dock for Windows

Circle dock is a cool, quick application launcher for Windows. You can launch your programs from a circular dock. You only need to drop your files, folders and shortcut icons onto the circular dock (that you can resize) by just dragging. There are several background images (skin) to choose according to your desktop background. Features include: 1. Rotate the dock with either your mouse wheel or the keyboard arrow keys, 2. Change the image shown for the icons and change the skins (compatible with icons and skins for Rocket Dock, Object Dock, etc.), 3. The dock appears where your mouse is by pressing a hotkey (default is F1) or your middle mouse button, 4. A new settings panel allows you to customize many options. 5. It updates your dock as you make changes. See it change in real time, Multi-language capable. 6. Just translate the English.ini file to the language of your choice. 7. Change the image used for the dock icons with the easiest method out there: Just set the program to ...

Senf- Tool to find Sensitive Numbers (CCN/SSN) on your system

Senf is a fast and portable tool, written in Java, for finding sensitive numbers that pose a security threat on your system . Designed to detect sensitive data in encoded or encrypted binary files, Senf quickly find strings of text which look like SSNs (Social Security Numbers) or CCNs (Credit Card Numbers) However, this tool is not to be regarded as the end-all in your effort to ensure your computer is free of SSN/CCN records. It simply will report to you files that contain numbers that could pose a security threat. Senf is a portable application, you need not install it— just download it, run it, and use it to protect yourself. More details ….

Comodo Firewall Pro - Free tool to stop Intrusion from Infected Networks and Internet

Why do you need a Firewall when you already have an antivirus solution? Well, some functionality like preventing threats from remote login, blocking others from trying to access files and applications from your computer, etc can only be provide with a firewall. And, some installed applications like MS word have features that allow remote access, this act as a backdoor to your computer that hackers try and exploit. A good software firewall alerts you any such activities. And also, a good Firewall is a must in some particular cases such as when you planning to host a website, connecting to a home or local network or playing games online, etc to protect against intrusion before they try to enter your computer. To protect your PC against such security threats, you required to run a software firewall (personal firewall) on your system. Though Windows XP SP2 and Vista are comes with built in firewall, but have only limited functionality. Firewall from Norton or McAfee are well known but cost...

StuffIt Expander 2009 - Easily expand files you download from the Web

StuffIt Expander is a free application that allows you to expand compressed and encoded files and archives in a variety of formats – and quite fastly. The program lets you view the contents of archives such as StuffIt X, Zip, RAR, Tar, exe, cab, 7zip, Gzip, etc and expand individual files without expanding the entire archive. Formats that do not support browsing can still be expanded. StuffIt expander 2009 free version expands over 30 formats and is compatible with Windows 2000, XP and Vista. Required .net framework 2 for Windows 2000 and XP users. The free version supports expansion and decoding only.

Free Vista Learning Snacks

Learning Snacks are free interactive presentations about popular topics, including information on desktop migration, network deployment and more. The presentations, created by Microsoft Learning experts, let you learn something new in a few minutes. At the end of each free presentation , you can view more Snacks, learn more about the topic, or visit a related Web site. To view Learning Snacks, you must install Microsoft Silverlight and enable pop-up windows.(Via – blogs.msdn )

Multi-platform text editor for developers

Editra is a multi-platform text editor for programmers. This feature rich application has an easy to interface and supports syntax highlighting and variety of other useful features for over 60 programming languages. The project is still in its alpha stage, but test builds of "stable" points are available for download. Currently the application supports Windows and Mac OSX (Universal) binaries, other UNIX and Linux based systems will have to install from source using the included setup script. (Editra is freely available under the terms of the wxWindows Licence). Full details and download

Mastering the keyboard with RapidTyping (Free typing tutor)

Mastering the keyboard is not as difficult as it seems. You need not spent time and money over a typing course. You can learn it on your own PC by installing a typing tutor. Of course you need to be spent at least one hour every day. RapidTyping is a free typing tutor program that lets you learn how to use your keyboard in a fun and entertaining way to improve your typing skill and speed. Take a fascinating underwater tour with RapidTyping tutor which will help you learn quick and blind keyboard printing. This program is designed to teach adults and kids to use their computer keyboard more efficiently than ever. Learning to type is fun with the typing game included with RapidTyping, while its extensive training statistics and customized lessons are rarely seen in the much more expensive products. Training takes place in virtual picturesque underwater world. Variety of underwater fauna will make fun of your training. The more you improve your printing level the more nice underwater cre...

Free copy of Windows Server 2003, Visual Studio 2008, Expression Studio, and more for College Students in India

Microsoft is offering students around the world to access professional-level developer and design tools at no coast through DreamSpark . DreamSpark is an initiative from Microsoft designed to unlock creative potential of students. Now students in India (undergraduates and graduate) are also eligible to receive free copy of software such as Windows Server 2003, Visual Studio 2008, XNA Game Studio 2.0; Expression Studio, Virtual PC and more from Microsoft. Just walk into any NIIT or Aptech training center and show your college identity card to get free DVDs, or you may download the software from DreamSpark . (Via – Digital Inspiration )

Dr.Web CureIt - Free anti-virus and anti-spyware utility for advanced system protection

Viruses and Malware are constantly at work, trying to bring your life on the internet to a standstill. In such a situation, it becomes absolutely necessary to defend your computer from such attacks. The first thing you would think of installing an antivirus software, but as you know there are hundreds of antivirus programs out there - paid and free, and it gets hard to decide which one is the best. And also an anti virus program alone can’t defend against all threats. So it is recommended using DrWeb CureIt to scan your PC. This application doesn’t need installation, so you can use it even if you have already installed 'other' security program. Dr.Web CureIt is an easy to use free utility, which help users to clean their infected computer. This program incorporates an anti-virus and anti-spyware scanning engine, based on DrWebs’s popular Anti-virus scanner. CureIt is able to detect and remove many malicious codes such as rootkits, adware, different types of malware, Trojans,...

Full featured tagging and organizing program

To find what you need quickly from your huge music collection, the files should have proper tags. For example, most software will display your MP3 collection filtered by the artist, album, track name and genre information in the file ID3 tag. This makes you find a particular song quite easily. So it is essential to have proper tag in your songs, especially if it is ripped one. There are hundreds of tools out there to edit tags and organize albums. We will bring you one such full featured, free software TagScanner . It help you process entire albums at one go. Ripped CD can be tagged automatically using an online database like Freedb or Amazon to save you time. TagScanner can edit tags of mostly state-of-the-art audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, generate tag information from filenames, and perform any transformations of the text from tags and filenames and supports ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis comments, APEv2, Windows Media and MP4 (iTunes) tags. Main features includes:...