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How to recover a lost password for your email account?

Forgetting password is a common fact and if you want to recover your lost password form your POP3 / SMTP email clients, here are two simple programs. They let you recover your lost password from email clients such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, etc. ( These programs does not recover passwords from web based email accounts ) Mail PassView is a small tool from Nirsoft that reveals the passwords and other account details for Thunderbird, Outlook Express 2002/2003/2007, Outlook, Yahoo messenger, Gmail Notifier, etc. Mail PassView is an extremely simple to use program, you only just want to run the program, it will list the following information: Account Name, Application, Email, Server, Server Type (POP3/IMAP/SMTP), User Name, and the Password. Mail Password Recovery is another tiny program (10Kb) that allows you to recover your email password for any POP3 account, as long as it is stored in an email program on your desktop. It works with Outlook Express, Eudora, The Bat, Thun...

Reclaim hard disk space and organize music collection by eliminating duplicate music files

Multiple copies of music files occupy major parts of your hard disk space. After numerous download from the Internet, or scattered over your home or corporate network, you may not know how many duplicate music files you have on your computer. Coping up with them are bit difficult, if they are very large. You want to eliminate these unnecessary audio files in order to reclaim your valuable disk space and organize your music collection. Similarity is a free program that helps you to find and remove similar, duplicate musical files (MP3, WMA, OGG, ASF, WAV, FLAC, APE, WV) with the same or similar sound content, music tags (ID3, WMF, and Vorbis). This program analyzes the artist, title, album information from the music tags contained in the audio files and compare these with the appropriate entries in other files. You can adjust senility of searching criteria to find exact or similar files. In this way it is possible to identify similarly titles with smaller differences.

Cleaning and defragging Windows registry

The most inherent problems with the Windows registry are fragmentation and obsolete entries it accumulates over the life of the system. Because of this, over times there will be a performance impact on the registry, which in turn will impact the over all system performance. There are several tools available for defragging and cleaning the registry, but we should take extreme care while selecting a tool. Anything went wrong with registry will potentially wreak havoc on the system. So before doing anything with Windows registry, it is wise to back up the registry by using Windows backup tool (All programs – System Tools – Backup). So that, at any later point you can restore it by using the same tool, if anything went wrong. Here is a free tool WinMend Registry Defrag for defragging and cleaning windows registry. It utilizes Microsoft’s latest base level reconstruction technology that guarantees the maximum safety of your Windows operating system once the registry is rebuilt. It can rebu...

Download Microsoft Bing search applications, gadgets and product guides

Bing is the new search engine by Microsoft (formerly known as Kumo), which will be available to the public on Wednesday, June 3 ( according to Microsoft press release ). The new search engine located at http://www.bing.com will be a first step in moving beyond search to help make faster, more informed decisions. You can use a variety of toolbars, gadgets and applications to access Bing directly from your mobile device or computer desktop . These tools and product guides helps you to understand the power behind Bing’s search and decision engine technology, gives details about the design goals for Bing as well as interactive, step-by-step instructions for how to use the new features in everyday tasks, etc. More information and download are available at www.discoverbing.com/behindbing/downloads.aspx [ via ]

The new Ccleaner (v.2.20.920) now with added features

Ccleaner, the best and reliable Windows hard disk cleaning software (registry and temporary files) have got a new update and comes incorporated with several new features and improvements such as support for Google Chrome recently closed tabs, disabled removal of most recent System restores point, etc. This free application is available for Windows 98, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and Windows 7 (both 32-bit and 64 bits). Following are some of the new features of Ccleaner 2.20.920: - Added support for Google Chrome recently closed tabs. - Disabled removal of most recent System restores point. - Fixed bug with Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View settings. - Improved uninstaller support for Windows 7. - Enhanced right-click menu options for Cleaner screen tree. - Added right-click menu to Registry screen tree. - Internal 64-bit improvements. You can download Ccleaner (3.3Mb) from here / Portable version (918Kb) from here .

Free mobile phone browser Skyfire officially launched

The mobile browser Skyfire is officially launched and is available for free download for Nokia Symbian and Windows mobile phones. This new mobile browser guarantees a complete web browsing experience exactly like PC browsing on your mobile phones. The good things about this browser are that it supports flash contents and gives a better rendering of pages. Currently, Skyfire runs on Windows Mobile (smart phones and PPC) and Nokia N and E Series (Symbian S60, 3rd Edition) phones. However right now, Skyfire officially launched in the US, Canada and UK only, but is possible to download and install it from anywhere in the world. [ Via ]

Disable Windows automatic update with Microsoft service pack blocker tool kit

In order to prevent any possible issues as a result of automatic service pack installation, Microsoft has created a tool for blocking automatic service pack update of Windows Vista, Windows XP (SP3) and Windows Server 2008 via its automatic update service. The Windows Service Pack Blocker Tool Kit is especially useful for organizations and corporate, because any problems associated with the OS update could not be tolerated. This tiny (95Kb) toolkit contains three components. All of them function primarily to set or clear a specific registry key that is used to detect and block download of Service Packs from Windows Update. You only need to use the component which best serves your organization’s computer management infrastructure. This toolkit will not prevent the installation of the service pack from CD/DVD, or from the stand-alone download package. It simply prevents the service pack from being delivered over Windows Update. More information and download . [ via ] Meanwhile Windo...

Automatically synchronize a folder from your computer with a folder on your USB drive when insert it

USBsyncer is an automatic synchronization tool that synchronizes a folder on your hard drive with a folder on your removable drive when you insert a USB drive into your PC. So you always have the most recent files on your drive without having to copy them by yourself. This is useful, for example, if you are using a portable Firefox browser and want to synchronize your local bookmarks with it; you jut point USBsyncer to your Firefox profile folder and let it copy it to the profile folder on your external device. However currently, only one-way synchronization is possible with this tool. This means that it just copies the contents of the hard disk folder to the folder on the removable drive, so changes in the folder on the drive will be discarded. After installation, right-click on the USBsyncer icon from your system tray and choose 'Configure drive'. This will help you to set up your USB stick for synchronization. Then, choose 'Synchronize now' to perform your first syn...

CD/DVD Drive Locker

CD/DVD Drive Locker is free tool for Windows Vista and XP that helps to temporarily turn off the CD/DVD drive and so pressing on the CD/DVD drive's buttons doesn't lead to the drive being ejected. This is especially useful to keep the children away opening the CD/DVD tray. The tool is very small in size (130Kb) and required 10 MB of free hard drive space. After installing, it will sit on your system tray. Just open it and select available CD/DVD drive and move it to locked CD/DVD drive to lock it.

Easily find which files and folders occupying the most disk space

To know which folders or temporary files consume most of your hard disk space could be a challenge especially when you have so many folders and sub folders in your system. In order to free up some valuable disk space, you should need to know who who takes up the most space on your hard drive. There are several freeware and commercial tools are available for this. O&O DiskStat is one such high-powerful program that analyzes the used disk space on your storage volumes. With the help of O&O DiskStat you can identify and dispose of unnecessary files, saving yourself valuable hard disk space in the process. It has an easy-to-use interface like Windows Explorer. So you can take a closer look at the file and folder structure of your internal and external drives. Through intuitive and beautiful graphical representations (Doughnut, Bar or Tree-map) you will easily find out which files, file types and folders are taking up the most space. The program has full support to Windows 2000/X...

BitDefender free Chat Encryption program

Like email messages, Instant Messaging (IM) too suffers from the threat of malicious intruder. IM have become all-pervasive; at every location where a user access his/her IM account, faces the risk of being observed by a hacker. You can never know who’s got an eye on your private conversations. There are several things you can do to make sure your chatting experience remains safe and secure such as never, ever give out personal information in a chat room, etc. BitDefender Chat Encryption is a free program that keeps your instant messages safe from hijacking through a simple and automatic encryption process. It protects your confidential documents and your instant messaging conversations through Yahoo! Messenger (8.1 or newer) and Windows Live (MSN) Messenger (v8.5 or newer). To use BitDefender Chat Encryption, you just have to make sure the persons you are talking to install on their computer the same encryption tool or a BitDefender product, version 2009 or higher. Main features of B...

Outlook email backup methods

Certain emails and contacts are precious assets and you might want to backup them for future use. Here are different ways of doing this for your Outlook. Outlook 2003 and later versions stores all data in .PST files (Personal Storage tables). Each .PST file contains all of your Outlook folders, including the Inbox, Calendar, and Contacts. So saving these files lets you backup it at later times. The simplest method is manual backup at regular intervals on any media such as USB pen drive. Normally, these files found at C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook. (You should enable ‘show hidden files and folders’ from Windows explorer Tools menu in order to view the files). When restoring it you need to copy the files to the very same location from where you copied it earlier. Microsoft has developed an add-on for Outlook (2003/2007) that lets you backup and restores your emails quite easily. And it reminds you at regular intervals for back...

Solve your Windows update problems

Have you got any problems with Windows updates? Microsoft Fix It team has created an automated solution to that. This new solution repairs almost all common Windows Update client configuration issues by resetting Windows Update settings. You only need a few mouse clicks to solve the issues. To reset the update components automatically, just download the file from here (kb971058). Run the utility and then follow the screen instructions. Note this Fix it Solution has two modes Default and Agressive. You should run the Fix it solution in Default mode and determine if it resolves your problem with Windows Update before running it in Agressive mode. Solve your Windows Update issues from here

Anti-Malware Toolkit: Lets you download required applications to clean your computer

Anti-Malware Toolkit is a very useful application that allow users to download only programs that they need rather than download a large package containing multiple files they may not require (For example Ccleaner, normally the official download include unnecessary Yahoo Toolbar). It allows fast easy updates and helps a user get an additional info quickly if necessary. This program has been developed to replace Anti-malware packages and contains an useful collection of applications available to download to help a user clean their computer and keep it in excellent running condition. Many of the applications offered in the Anti-Malware packages can be found in the Anti-Malware Toolkit. The Anti-Malware Toolkit works on 32-bit versions of Windows: 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008 and Windows 7. It requires the .NET 2.0 Framework at a minimum (Windows XP/2000/2003). It is highly recommended that you install the latest .NET Framework.

Windows XP Update Remover: Removes Windows update backup files and trouble causing updates

Windows XP Update Remover is a free utility designed to remove unnecessary backup files created after every Windows updates (patches). You can also remove any updates that cause trouble to you after an update. Every updates or security fixes to your system create a folder containing backup files. These folders have names like "$NtUninstall..." and are highlighted in blue. These unnecessary folders occupy your valuable disk space and are normally difficult to remove, because they are referred to by links in the Registry. This is where Windows XP Update Remover comes in. It makes clean removal of these folders easy. Just select an update from the list, read the information about it to see what it is, and then click Remove backup folder. Windows XP Update Remover can also uninstall Windows updates as well. If you suspect that your computer has problems after an update, you can uninstall it. The program displays a warning before allowing you to proceed. Download Windows XP Up...

Antivirus software for Mac OSX from F-secure

Although the amount of viruses and malware infections are comparatively less in Mac OSX, the success of this operating system attracts more and more malicious code writers onto it now. F-Secure introduced a Mac Protection Technology Preview program for Mac OS X 10.5 on Intel platforms intending to provide protection against malware with minimal impact on the performance of your computer. This technology preview program service will be always up-to-date with F-Secure transparent automatic updates and in this initial version, the malware detection capabilities are limited to detect Eicar test file, the actual database updates will be automatically delivered later during the beta program. F-Secure Mac Protection will be include the following features: Anti-Virus, real-time Anti-Virus engine which scans files when accessed, stopping malicious content from being executed, easy to use intuitive user interface and license key provisioning through the F-Secure SMI Users of F-Secure Mac Pro...

How to take screenshot of an active window without any software?

Probably most of you might know about this simple tip. It is quite useful, if you don’t have an extra tool installed on your computer and want to take screenshots of an active window, or entire desktop for publishing on your blog. Take a screen shot of an active window with the keyboard shortcut key ‘ Alt + Print ’ and the entire desktop with Print key. You can edit this on any image editing program like Pain t, Gimp for publishing on your blog by just pasting the screenshot on it.

PDF to Word/Excel online converter

PDF to Word is a free online service that lets you quickly and easily creates editable DOC/RTF files, making it a cinch to re-use PDF content in applications like Microsoft Word, Excel, Open Office, and WordPerfect. It is designed to convert and accurately re-position all elements such as paragraphs, columns, tables, and margins upon conversion. This service is useful when you need to quickly re-purpose PDF content in Word. PDF to Excel is another free online tool that quickly and easily creates highly-editable XLS files, making it a cinch to re-use tables and spreadsheets from PDF files in Microsoft Excel, Open Office, Google Docs, and WordPerfect Office. Unlike other tools, PDF to Excel matches font styles, size, and colors, and wherever possible, reproduces the table appearance with borders, cell coloring, and row/column height and width.[ via ]

The new Mailwasher 6.5 lets you avoid spam in your mailbox effectively

Does your email inbox contain more spam emails than genuine messages? If yes, the new MailWasher (v.6.5) might be a good choice. MailWasher is said to be the leader in spam filter software that check and manage your e-mails before you download them , it clear your inbox and keep your computer safe. This effective program works with most email clients such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Incredimail, Windows Mail, Thunderbird, Gmail, AOL, Yahoo Mail, Windows Live Hotmail, etc. MailWasher works directly with your email server, exactly like your email program like Thunderbird does, one important difference is you can tell MailWasher to delete a message at the server, without downloading it. MailWasher retrieves information about all the email on the server. With that information you can decide what to do with each individual email - download, delete, report or bounce it back. The free version supports only one account and comes with ad supports. However, this is certainly a very easy to us...

Xsleep: Prevents multiple USB/Firewire or eSATA drives from going into sleep mode

xSleep is a small utility that can prevent external hard drives (up to four USB, Firewire or eSATA drives at a time) come in a state of suspension because of inactivity of the drive. This is an improved version of NoSleepHD and helps in situations where a user does not like this to happen or where the drive has troubles waking up again. The program weigh only 198Kb and requires no installation and has a very simple to use GUI. You just have to select the External Hard Disk, the time interval and start the xSleep mode. You can set the time interval between 1 – 20 minutes. Moreover it also includes an 8 hour customizable working day timer (default starting time is set to 9 hour), so that you can program xSleep to operate only within a specific time slot. xSleep is a freeware and works on all Windows versions. Windows XP users required to installed .net framework 2 on their computer. It is very useful in order to eliminate the annoying lag waiting for your external drives to spool up.

Extend Vista Notebook battery life with Aerofoil

Aerofoil is a small, freeware utility that lets you extend your Vista Notebook battery life by disabling Windows Aero Glass Interface, switching Windows Power Plans and enabling/disabling Windows Sidebar when you run your notebook on battery. Aero Glass is automatically re-enabled on program exit or whenever it is connected to the AC power again. These changes are essential in order to save your battery, because Aero Glass requires substantially more graphics processing power than when it is switched off. Windows Sidebar uses idle processing power, when the CPU should/could be in a low power state - this is not ideal for a notebook when running on battery. Windows Vista will show warnings in the Power Options like "Your current plan may reduce battery life" or "Your current plan may reduce performance" if you use (respectively) high performance on battery or power saver when plugged in. Aerofoil can switch these two plans for you automatically so these messages will...

GFI Backup 2009 now available for free: Securely backup and restore your valuable data

The worst scenario any computer user will face is loss of data. Losing data from different reasons, like hard disk failure, accidental delete, computer crash, is unfortunately a very common thing and can happen any time. In these cases a backup of your data turns out to be crucial, offering the possibility to restore data to a previously saved state. Be prepared, and archive your data with GFI Backup 2009. GFI has now offers a free Backup and restore software to home users. It is an easy-to-use, powerful, professional and wizard-interfaced program. Main features of GFI Backup 2009 are: 1. You can backup your files, folders, registry keys, emails, user settings to any media or locations such as local folder, LAN, removable devices, USB, CD/DVD, and remote location by FTP. 2. Run as a service - GFI Backup 2009 has a service component that allows the user to run a backup even when all the users are logged off. 3. It allows open files backup by using the Volume Shadow Copy Service of Wind...

AVG Remover

Because of the strong integration with the operating system, removing antivirus scanners from a computer system often end up with partial uninstall or no uninstall at all. Because of this, most antivirus software developers have also released special uninstaller for their product. AVG Remover utility is one such tool for completely removing AVG antivirus programs from a computer. This tool is the least option to be used in case the AVG uninstallation or repair installation process has failed. It removes all parts of AVG installation on your computer, including registry items, installation and user files on your disk, etc. This is an automated, portable tool, you only need to run the tool, and it will automatically remove all entries from your PC. All AVG user settings will be removed after the uninstallation, as well as the Virus Vault content and other item related to AVG installation and use. During the removal procedure you will be asked to restart your computer. Therefore please ma...

Simple tool for enabling or disabling MS Office add-ins

This may be one of the most beneficial tools for MS Office users (Office 2003/2007). EnableDisable is a simple, freeware tool that lets you enable and disable MS Office add-ins (Word, Access and Outlook add-ins) with just one mouse click. Disabling add-ins might be useful if your Office programs are running slow with the add-ins installed, you can disable them when you are not using them and enable when using. The program is extremely simple to use, just install and run the program, it will list all installed add-ons for MS Office with a check box against each. Check the box that you want or uncheck the add-in that you don’t need.

A cool system monitoring tool to find out what is slowing down your system

As against usual graph and number system monitoring tool, here is a very pleasant tool that displays your RAM usage, CPU usage, network traffic , and swap file usage in an aquarium. Finding what is slowing down your system performance is very easy with this tool; you only need to take a look at the aquarium display to find out what is holding up. Finding what is slowing down your system performance is very useful for shutting down such programs for smooth working of a system. The free tool, Rubberducky, gives an average of system information at a glance, the small aquarium sits above the system tray, and elements of the aquarium represent system information. Water level indicates RAM usage, if the water level is too high the duck will drown. If you open too many applications, your computer memory starts filling up. If the duck is drowning close some applications to improve performance. Water color indicates swap file usage. If the water color is muddy, the computer is using too muc...

Beware of this new rogue security program

Recently rogue programs (misleading applications) are growing at an alarming rate. ‘ Rogue programs uses malware or malicious tools to advertise or install itself or to force computer users to pay for removal of nonexistent malware. Rogue software will often install a Trojan horse to download a trial version, or it will execute other unwanted actions’ PrivacyCenter is a misleading application (reported by Symantec, 2009 - May 7.) that may give exaggerated reports of threats on the installed computer. The program may be manually installed or installed though Trojan.Zlob and it affects all Windows operating systems (95 to Vista). Removal method: You don’t need to worry about this program if you have latest, good antivirus program installed. It won’t allow either downloading or installing on your computer. If you have already installed this rogue program, the following information may help you to remove it from your PC. 1. Disable System Restore (Windows Me/XP), 2. Update the virus d...

Super maximize active window

Winsupermaximize is a tiny utility for Windows that "super maximizes" the active window, just like "Full Screen" (F11) function in Internet Explorer or Firefox browser, but for any window. That is it removes the title bar from active Window and it may be useful when viewing a full screen image. When running, this utility will add an icon in the notification area of the Windows taskbar. When you double-click on the icon or using a shortcut key (Windows key + F11), it will resize the currently active window so the title bar is actually above the screen boundaries, thus saving those extra pixels that you don't want to waste. When you double-click on it again it or using shortcut key (Windows key+F11) will bring back the window to its original size and position. However for best performance you should set up your taskbar as "auto-hide". If you don't, the lower part of the window will actually be behind the taskbar. You can download the utility from c...

New Anti-Rootkit (Version 1.08) from Panda Security

Rootkits are malicious programs that enable administrator-level access to a computer or network system. It monitors traffic and keystrokes and makes a backdoor into the system for the hacker's use. A special feature of rootkits is, being well masked they often hide their presence from virus scanners. A scanner specialized in this type of malicious programs can only help you to solve the issues. Even though a few of modern virus scanners are comes bundled with rootkit scanner, a standalone scanner specialized in this category will be useful for most of us. It removes these types of pests and repairs manipulated drivers, registry, system files and process. The new Panda Anti-Rootkit will be able to detect and deactivate known and unknown pests from your computer. The program is freeware and no installation required. Just unzip and run. You can also enable a deep scan (required system restart). Features: 1. Capable of deactivating unknown rootkits. With this new version you'll ...

How to test the performance (JavaScript) of a web browser?

Peacekeeper is a free online browser benchmarking tool that measures your browser's ability to render and modify specific HTML elements used in typical web pages. You can easily compare different browsers to find out which one offers the best performance on your system. After the test your browser receives a score indicating its overall performance. By choosing a higher score you are ensuring a faster and smoother web experience within the limits of your internet connection speed. What does it test? It measures your browser's performance by testing its JavaScript functionality. As JavaScript is a widely used programming language for providing features such as animation, navigation, forms and other common requirements, measuring a browser’s ability to handle these JavaScript functions can evaluate its performance. What does it NOT test? Peacekeeper is a JavaScript performance benchmark. It does not test your browser’s other features nor does it measure its security functionalit...

How to delete unnecessary USB drive signature from Windows XP and Vista?

When you connecting a new USB device to your computer, Windows will automatically installs its driver signature on your system (if it is not already installed). However, how can you delete a USB drive or a particular USB device’s hardware signature that are not required anymore from Windows XP or Vista? In order to show and delete installed USB devices that are not currently connected to the computer, you can use either a command prompt or a little tool USBDeview from Nirsoft. USBDeview is a small and very easy to use utility that lists all USB devices that currently connected to your computer, as well as all USB devices that you previously used. It will give you information such as Device name/description, device type, serial number (for mass storage devices), the date/time that device was added, etc. You can uninstall USB devices that you previously used by right clicking it, or disconnect USB devices that are currently connected to your computer. You can also use a command line ut...

Windows7 tweaking and customizing tool: Windows7 manager

Windows7 manager is a comprehensive tool for optimizing and tweaking Windows 7 operating system. It comes bundled with more than thirty different utilities in one and helps to tweak, optimize, tune up, clean up and personalize your system. It will increase your system speed, improve system stability, and will meet your all expectations. The bundled Optimizing tool lets you tweak windows startup and shutdown speed; tweak hardware to increase system speed and performance and lets turn off unnecessary system tasks. The Cleaner section lets you find out which files or folders absorb your disk space and shown with chart. You can find and clean junk files, duplicate files, checks your registry and repair incorrectly linked registry entries, automatically remove invalid entries; etc. With the Customization utility you can control what is started on Windows startup, tune up Windows 7 boot menu; edit context menu (right click menu) items, customize system desktop, menus, toolbar and notificat...

How to use any image as logon screen background in Windows 7

Unlike earlier versions of Windows, in Windows7 you can change the logon screen background manually by altering the registry keys or automatically by using software. However the image size should not be more than 254Kb, or you need to resize it using another program. But with the new version of Tweaks.com Logon Changer, you don't need to worry about the 245KB limit imposed by Microsoft. The Tweaks.com Logon Changer for Windows 7 is a freeware, portable tool that lets you customize the logon screen background with just a few clicks. It will give you the option to automatically resize and recompress the image to the highest quality possible. The original image is left untouched. The application will prompt for the location of the new background image and then install the new screen behind the scenes. Tweaks.com Logon Changer will even provide a preview of your new background on a logon screen. When you have settled on a good logon background, click the Test button to see it in acti...

Firefox add-on to know the real URL of a shortened URL

There are several sources for shortening the long URL (for example TinyURL). However in some situations, it may be necessary to know the real URL behind the shortened URL before clicking on it. The Firefox extension LongURL Mobile Expander lets you expand shortened URLs on any website, no matter where you go. The LongURL Mobile Expander uses the LongURL.org web services to let you know where shortened links really go. Just install this add-on and whenever you come across a shortened URL, just place your mouse over it, it will reveal the real URL as a popup.

Internet Explorer privacy keeper - NeatSurf

NeatSurf is a freeware privacy tool for Internet Explorer that prevents writing your browser's history, cache, cookies, user data, etc. The tool is especially useful when you using a public computer for surfing the internet. Because, unlike other browsers, IE handles these data differently and basically it is difficult to wipe out. So this tool ensures your privacy by preventing other people from seeing your data or which sites you visit. For example, if you are using a cyber café or any public computer to buy something over the internet, or entered any other sensitive information into the web browser's window, you cannot be absolutely sure that this information is not cached somewhere. NeatSurf is designed to protect you in such situation. NeatSurf is a portable application and has no interface. Just download and run NeatSurf.exe. It will start an instance of Internet Explorer (no matter whether IE is your default browser or not) and continue to run until IE browser is closed...

Secret Keeper: login to any online services without fear about keyloggers

Secret Keeper is a little, portable application that helps you store any number of user names and passwords in its database and lets you instantly login to any website and applications that requires a username and password with a shortcut key. You need not enter or remember your usernames and passwords again and again, instead just use keyboard shortcut key ‘Ctrl + G’. In this way you can login to any online services without the fear about keyloggers. As I said, you can store any number of username and password and all these information are protected with a password that you choose. Moreover, it is a portable application, which means you can securely carry your login information on a USB stick and can be use them from anywhere. Create a directory on your hard drive or a flash drive or some other portable device that will house Secret Keeper . Extract SecretKeeper.exe from SecretKeeper.zip to that directory. Double-click on SecretKeeper.exe. At first time use, you will enter the passwo...

Add your own background image to your Firefox browser

Browser Backgrounds is a Firefox add-on that lets you add any background image to your browser. Think about having your favorite music band or NBA player backgrounds right on your browser window, without leaving the browser and stopping the web experience even for one second. Installing backgrounds ranging from your favorite Football player to Hollywood stars is just a matter of seconds. You can even install your own photos on your browser. Just install the extension, restart your browser and enjoy the new backgrounds. To add your own background image, right click the button show at the bottom right section of your screen and click on ‘ Browse Background ’. Now you can add a collection of photos by clicking on ‘ Add new collection ’ or can add any image into any collection by clicking on “ Add ’ button after selecting a ‘Collection”. Don’t forget to resize the image according to your screen size before adding it to the extension.

How to send digitally signed encrypted emails?

Using digitally sign in email allows recipients of your emails to confirm your identity and ensure that the email you sent was not modified during transmission. Comodo's Free Email certificates allow you to use the digitally sign and encrypt features built into your personal email client such as Outlook, Thunderbird, etc to authenticate and secure your email communications. Firstly create a Personal Secure Email Certificate from Comodo . Backup this certificate. To backup, if you are using Firefox browser, follow the instruction. After Installing Comodo certificate; 1. Open your browser (Firefox 3). Click Tools menu, then Options – Advanced – View Certificate – Your Certificate . 2. You should see your certificate there. Select this and click on Backup button to backup using any password. (See image for confirmation). Installing and Using your Secure Email Certificate with Thunderbird (2.0.0.12) Assigning your Certificate to your email account: 1. Open Thunderbird 2. Select To...

Website Login and Password manager: Comodo iVault

Comodo i-Vault is a secured personal information manager that lets you store, organize access and effectively use your personal data in a secured manner. With this tool you can instantaneously logins to any of your online memberships and subscriptions such as e-mail, social networks, etc generate complex passwords, and securely keep any personal information. i-Vault maintains all these data under 256 bit industry standared encryption systems to keep your information safe from curious eyes and protect against the very latest key-logging programs. Main features of Comodo i-Vault are: Instantly login to your favorite websites and applications, Single point of storage for all your confidential information, 256 bit encryption , Secure Password Generator , Supports for multiple users on a single machine, and Anti Keylogging feature . i-Vault is simple to use with its drag n drop interface. You can download i-Vault and get a free license key to activate the software from Comodo.