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Mozilla has released their open source web browser Firefox 3.5 officially and can be downloaded from Mozilla’s official page. It is said that Firefox 3.5 is more than twice as fast as Firefox 3, and ten times as fast as Firefox 2 ( You can certainly notice this ). As a result, Web applications like email, photo sites and your favorite social networks will feel snappier and more responsive You can download Firefox 3.5 Final from Mozilla (Windows, Mac and Linux)

Here is a chance to win a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate Edition (via- Neowin ) by just participating on a survey conducted by Microsoft. One lucky winner will get a free copy when it becomes available this October. The survey isn’t a complicated one; you just need to answer the four questions to complete the survey. In order to be eligible for the survey, which is hosted on SurveyMonkey.com, all you have to do is answer the following questions: - Name and e-mail address. - What group best describer your role? - What term would you use to search for a Microsoft page about Windows 7? - Which URL would you most likely type to find information on the latest version of Windows? Likes to participate on the survey just visit here . Good Luck!

Does it really save energy if you turn off your computer monitor when not in use? The simple answer is yes. Screen-saver doesn't do anything to cut energy use. Actually it uses more energy than not using one. Monitor Energy Saver (MonitorES) is a little, portable tool that helps to turn off monitor and active screen saver automatically when user locks Laptop or work station or with hotkey (ctrl + F2 to just turn off display). Moreover, it also helps to pause all media players like Windows Media player, Winamp, AIMP, etc and set away status message in IM Messenger (Google Talks) and restore it when you back Download MonitorES (84Kb)

Vizerra is an interesting project that allows you to see amazing places around the world like Macchu Picchu, Taj Mahal, Tatev Monastery , etc with three-dimensional models. It is said that Vizerra is the World’s first 3D educational software application that gives high quality 3D locations, full editorial description for every location and full-functional map service. Vizerra is a beta program; currently there are only a few places to view in 3D. According to the publisher “they have been working on innovative technologies and created complicated technological process, which let us bring you 3D virtual copies of most beautiful world sites in revolutionary quality. Now anyone can surf the virtual world directly from home” Here are the recommended system requirements to install the application: - Operating system Windows XP / Vista - Intel Core (TM) 2 Quad 2.4 GHz / AMD X3 8400 (2.1GHz) / AMD X3 8600 (2.3GHz) - GeForce 9800GT 512 MB GDDR3 / Radeon HD 4850 X2 - 2GB of RAM - 1 GB of free...

Of course you can read The New York Times online newspaper via your browser. But what if you could read it on your desktop using a dedicated application, that too offline? Times Reader (current version 2.0) is an Adobe AIR application that offering a digital experience of The Times that’s very much likes reading the printed newspaper. Once installed, you can read the newspaper easily using the application. The most interesting thing about this application is its offline reading. If there were something missed to read or want to refer on any previous days page, you can get to read it without needing an Internet connection. Times Reader is compatible with Window, Mac and Linux OSs, the only pre-requisite is Adobe Air installed on your system. Anyone can download and try Times Reader 2.0 for free. However, only subscribers can get full content. However the pages which are available for free seem to be sufficient unless you have a habit of going through the whole newspaper thoroughly [ ...

Twitter, the biggest micro-blogging site has become a widely used communication tool these days. This makes use of hackers by posting spam messages on hot topics in hopes of gaining clicks when people search through Twitter. Because of the 140 character limit imposed by Twitter most of the URL posted on Twitter is shortened by services like tinyurl . This hide the real URL that also imposes certain risk to the users, because they do not know where they will be taken if they will click the link. Finjan has released a browser plug-in, SecureTwitter that protects your PC from malware that can be downloaded from the shortened URLs. It scans every URLs and gives security ratings before you clicking the link. SecureTwitter is part of SecureBrowsing , a free security extension for your browser ( Firefox and Internet Explorer ) that scans and classifies web addresses to provide you with safety rating of URLs before you visit them. Unlike other similar products, Finjan’s SecureBrowsing scans ...

Profile manager and Synchronizer is a useful Firefox add-on for those who use different profiles for their browser. This extension lets you easily create, delete , edit or backup a profile and can be synchronize between two profiles running on different machines, different location or operating systems like Linux and Windows by using Dropbox synchronization service. Why use different profiles? Different profiles are useful if more than one person is using Firefox browser on a computer. Each one can configure Firefox as per their needs It is also useful if you require multiple instances of log-in to services like Gmail, Hotmail and other accounts. You can use a new profile to test a new extension you wish to install. Sometimes, install too many extensions in a profile may slow down the Firefox. To synchronize between two profiles you required installing Dropbox and creating a new account with them. It is free for up to 2GB of online space. More information and download is available f...

I am sure you have heard about latest release of Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 that comes with splendid features to protect you and your family at all times automatically. It stops your PC being slowed down by cyber criminals and delivers unsurpassed on-line safety whilst protecting your files, music and photos from hackers. With this new release you can also find a few high definition wallpapers at Kaspersky website. All wallpapers are in 1600 x 1200, 1280 x 1024, and 1024 x 768 resolutions and you can download them from the link below ( Via ). Download Kaspersky 2010 wallpaper from http://www.kaspersky.com/2010

Farr is an easy to use application launcher for Windows (Windows 7, Vista and XP) that helps you rapidly find and launch programs or documents from within the depths of the start menu or other directories. There are several similar programs, but I think FARR ( Find and Run Robot ) is much better and quite easy to use; just one key press launches the utility, then just start typing the name of the application you want to run. When it appears in the result box, press the number associated with the app to launch it. Press your chosen hot-key (default Enter key) to display the FARR window, then just start typing the first letters of the application you want to launch and the results appear instantly. Hit enter to launch the top result, or refine your search with special modifiers and commands. There are several configuration options (bit difficult) to make FARR better. It lets you quickly run web searches, send email, manipulate files, control on-screen windows, and much more. Build and s...

It is always advisable to scan a file downloaded from internet before running it, because some people share virus and malicious code packed with files that not only corrupt your computer but can also steal your personal data. Moreover it is a known fact that an antivirus program alone can’t detect all threats, so you can make use of online scanning tools which are free and effective. These tools scan for any virus and display the result of the files. The Paretologic Online file scanner lets you scan any files (up to a maximum of 10Mb file size in any file formats, exe, zip, rar, gz, etc) for malicious contents. The free service uses Paretologic's Zheng technology for analyzing the files. Zheng technology uses a Heuristic engine and Malware Behavior analysis for zero-day attacks detection. More details about P aretologic's Zheng technology . Paretologic Online files scanner . Other online file scanners: Kaspersky Virustotal , comodo , etc

The Mozilla developers have released the third release candidate (RC3) of their open source web browserFirefox 3.5 today. If you are using previous versions of Firefox 3.5, now you can upgrade to 3.5 RC3. You can download Firefox 3.5 RC 3 (For Windows, Linux and MacOSX) from this release note page.

Normally there is no need to make an email client as default email client for sending or receiving email. It's mainly useful to allow other applications to use for example, when you click on a mailto: link or when you click File -Send link in Firefox, you can set for example Thunderbird to open. Of course you can manually configure an email client being default, but in Windows XP there is no option to set a per-user default email client. One setting affects all the users, machine-wide. And also for an average user manually setting an email client (example Thunderbird) to default client is normally difficult. DefaultMail client utility helps you set the default email client for the currently logged on user account in Windows XP quite easily. Just download the tiny tool (21Kb), unzip and run it. Select a mail client from the list that you want to set as default and click Apply to confirm the settings. Download the free tool from the program’s home page. More information here

As I mentioned earlier one of the main reasons of virus infection to a computer system is wide use of removal disks like pen drives. Because of Windows auto run feature, viruses can easily get into the system when inserting a pen drive into the system. There are several tools and solutions available for preventing auto run viruses, here is an antivirus for USB devices. According to the publisher Naevius USB Antivirus will gives you full freedom for securely using your removable USB drives. It protects you from any Trojans, spyware, worms via USB storage. It is compatible with any antivirus resident like for example: BitDefender, Nod32, Kaspersky, AVG, Norton, McAfee, Panda, AVAST etc. And give Protection in real-time. You can download Naevius USB antivirus (444Kb) (via – WebTrickz ) from here. The program is free and is compatible with Windows XP and Vista.

There are several programs available for launching applications in Windows using shortcut keys (without using mouse) and of course they are convenient in some extend. However if you likes to launch a program quickly using your keyboard and without a software, here is a simple tips for Windows 7 and Vista. I am sure many of you have heard about it, however here is how it is. Just drag and drop a few application icons to your Windows quick launch bar. Now press [ Windows ] key and an appropriate number on your keyboard to launch a program. For example, if you want to launch the first program shown on your quick launch bar, press [ Windows ] and [ 1 ] keys simultaneously. If the application is in the 5th position press [Windows] + [5] and so on. However, you can launch only 10 programs (0 – 9) in this way.

Microsoft has released the public beta version of their new free antivirus program called ' Microsoft Security Essentials ' intending to help users fight against the evergrowing threats. This free, real-time anti-malware solution from Microsoft might give real-time protection from viruses, spyware, root kits, and Trojans. Microsoft Security Essentials (formerly known as Morro)is available for Windows XP (32bit), Windows Vista and Windows 7 (32bit/64bit) editions and can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ Features included are: Real-time protection from malware, Dynamic Signature Service, Rootkit protection, Lightweight , CPU throttling, Idle-time scanning, Smart caching and active memory swapping.

Chrome is the feature rich, faster and safer web browser from Google (current version 2) that comes with some unique features that the other popular browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Apple Safari or Opera are missing, for instance Visual browsing history, Task Manager for website, etc. However, currently there isn’t an effective add-on available for blocking those irritating advertisement like in Firefox browser. Here is a simple method to block ads in Chrome by using Privoxy . Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. 1. Download (455Kb) Privoxy from here (available for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX) 2. Install it by clicking Privoxy-setup.exe. 3. Open your Chrome and Click on 'Customize and Control' icon and select 'Options' 4. Now click on ‘Under the Hood’ tab and scroll down till you see the ‘Ch...

Panda USB Vaccine is a free tool from PandaSecurity that lets you vaccinate your USB drives and computer in order to prevent malware infections from spreading automatically through these devices. It permanently blocks AutoRun.inf file and disables Windows from automatically executing any malicious file (.inf file) that might be stored in a USB drive. Panda USB Vaccine Now comes out of beta (version 1.0.0.50) with some notable features. 1. This new version supports Vaccinating NTFS file system formatted USB keys, but this is an experimental feature (It’s recommended to backup your USB key before vaccinating it). This uses a completely different technique than the vaccination of FAT/FAT32 drives. 2. Lets you configure whether you want USBVaccine to start automatically with Windows or not 3. Configuration option during setup to automatically vaccinate any new USB drives inserted into the PC. 4. bug on PC shutdown when USBVaccine was running in the background (Vista), etc. Because the la...

Snowbird is a fast and light weight file management and search tool for Windows that gives additional functionalities over Windows File Explorer. It is quite faster than Windows explorer, especially when searching or browsing the network. And also it is much faster and easier in copying large files and folders. Features included are: Locate files quickly and easily using the integrated search tool, efficiently copy large amounts of data, skips errors while copying and even pause transfers temporarily, access extremely large folders and network resources at lightning speed, navigate faster using bookmarks, mouse gestures and Vista-style breadcrumb. As the publisher said ‘Snowbird focusing on performance rather than features’. It is certainly a very good tool with low memory foot print and has support to Windows XP and above versions. You can download Snowbird from here[Via]

Launch is a tiny tool designed to run or execute any type of files or programs. It can pass parameters to the file that you want to execute and even open new file types such as .MSU, .MSP among others. As it uses its own process to run a file, the file type is not important anymore as long as you have an associated program on your computer. Launch is actually a replacement to Windows Run box in the Start Menu, but has powerful features like Drag and Drop. It has a simple interface, low memory usage and runs under Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP (x86). Launch has three versions: U3 installer, MSI installer (provides Launch it option in context menu) and a portable version (. Exe) and can be downloaded from the following link: http://www.ajuaonline.com/downloads/

You can not see an image at its best possible quality in Firefox 3 browser, because, by default, Firefox reduces the quality of the images in order to load the web page faster with lesser CPU utilization. It is said that loading images with the best possible quality will slow down the performance of the browser by about 10 to 15%. However, if you want to see a photograph with the best possible quality in your browser follow as described below. 1. Run Firefox browser. In the search bar type abou:config and hit enter, accept the warning message. 2. In the filter text field type gfx.color_management.enabled (see screen shot). 3. By default the value display as false. Double click on it to change the value to true and to enable high definition color profile. 4. To undo this effect, simply follow the same steps and double click on it to change the value to false (disable color management). This is especially useful for graphic designers or any other who like to see an image at the best po...

Firefox 3.5 RC is the upcoming release of the new Firefox browser that offers many changes over its previous version including Private Surfing mode (implemented firstly in Safari, now in IE 8 and Chrome ) for controlling your private data, Location Aware Browsing , new JavaScript engine TraceMonkey for better performance and more speed ( you can certainly notice this ), support for new web technologies, and more. If you are using Firefox 3.5 beta or RC1 version, now you can upgrade it to RC2. You can download it for Windows, Linux and Mac from here (eng) or here for other languages.

Usually many users couldn’t care about the personal information on the digital photos taken by them when forwarding it to their friends or post them on the internet. The personal data on a photo includes the date and time at which the photos were taken, the camera settings like focal length, GPS setting, information about image editing program, etc. If for some reasons you don’t want to disclose these data, you need to make sure that no such information is saved with in the picture files. Here is a freeware tool jStrip that could delete these data very quickly and reliably. Download jStrip (1.28Mb) from here and unzip it. Install the program by clicking jStrip setup exe (The program supports all Windows Versions (Windows 95 – Vista 32bit). After starting the program open the configuration settings from File – Options. 1. Select ‘General’ tab and activate ‘Clear read-only bit’ to remove write protection of files. 2. Select ‘File Selection’ tab and activate ‘Select files’ option. This ...

As its name suggests ‘ Auto History for Word 2007 ’ is an add-in for Microsoft Word 2007 that provides a local history for your documents. This tool automatically creates a backup every time you save a document (or something has changed). So that you can restore any previous versions of a document quickly at any time, you will never lost important information. To use this free tool, just download and unzip it and install it ( Required Microsoft .net Framework 3.5 ). All prerequisites will be installed automatically during the setup. This tool is fully integrated in Word 2007 within the View tab. To use this tool, go to View – Auto History – Setting . Select a previous version that you want to restore from the dialogue box and click on ‘ recover selected file ’ to restore it.

Microsoft Word 2007 uses the .docx format for saving documents. These files cannot be opened using the older versions of Word (word 97 – 2003) or other word processors. If you don’t have Word 2007 installed, you should require some other tools to view these documents, such as a word a reader or word viewer from Microsof. But, what about if you can open these documents (DOCX) using your browser? The OpenXML Document Viewer team has created a browser plug-in for converting Word document (.DOCX) into HTML format so that it can be viewed on a browser. As DOCX format is basically an extended XML format, it can be easily converted to HTML format. The current release supports Internet Explorer 7, IE 8, Opera 9.62, Firefox 3.browsers on the Windows OS (XP, Vista and above) and Opera 9.62 and Firefox 3 on Linux . Installation instruction, download a suitable plug-in for your browser from here. For example, download plug-in for Firefox. 1. Extract OpenXMLViewer to a temporary folder 2. Open...

Even if you don’t have installed Microsoft Word on your computer, still you can read and print word documents. The freeware tool Word Viewer lets you view and print all word document formats such as MS Word 2007 ( docx ), Word 97 – 2003 ( doc ), htm l, htm , Rich text format ( rtf ) and plain text ( txt ) formats. The multilingual software (English, Chinese, German, French, Italian, and Japanese) is quite easy to use, just install, and run it. Select a document for reading or printing (editing is not supported). You can also increase or decrease the font size for convenient viewing. There is also a ‘Full screen mode’ option, but I think there is a minor bug in it. In full screen mode the program crashes and takes long time to come back in normal mode (when pressing Esc key). Download (5.5Mb)Word Reader from programs home page

The simplest way to keep away those curious eyes from your private folders and data are hiding them. You can hide folders and files manually or with software. WinMend Folder Hidden is an easy to use application that can quickly hide files and folders on local drives and or on USB devices using a password. So that it remains safe and nobody can unhide it without a proper password. WinMend Folder Hidden is freeware for Windows XP and Vista that you can download from the programs home page. After downloading, install it. When you run it firstly you will be asked to enter a password. Just enter a password and start the program. Now select folders or files that you wand to hide by clicking on the program’s right side menu tabs and close the program. To unhide a folder or file, run the program, select a folder or file and click ‘Unhide’ button, enter the password that you previously entered. That’s all.

Because Instant Messenger has become so popular virus writers are using it to spread malicious programs. There are several simple things you can do to make sure your chatting experience remains safe and secure. One such solution is WLM Safe that adds security functions to your Windows Live Messenger. According to the publisher, it can detect and block infected virus and fishing URLs, blocks spam messages, and more. WLM Safe is a script for Messenger Plus! Live ( extension for Windows Live Messenger ), that is, in order to use WLM Safe both Windows Live Messenger and Messenger Plus! Live need to be installed on your PC. Download the script, open it, accept the warning and press Import and click on Install button to install it.( You must sign in to your Windows Live Messenger before importing the script ). You can configure WLM Safe and access different tools like ‘Clear Cache’, etc by clicking on the script button. WLM Safe is completely free and only 226Kb in size. You can down...

If you have installed the Windows Live Messenger 2009 downloaded from sites like Softpedia (off-line installer/stand-alone installer) and when you sign in to the messenger, probably you have got an error message ‘ We can’t sign you in to Windows Live Messenger ’ with an error code 80040154 (See screen shot). You can simply solve this issue by installing a small file (947Kb) from Microsoft. Just download Contacts-ship-neutral.cab from Microsoft and unzip it. Run the ‘ Contacts.msi ’ file and wait for finishing it. Now you can sign in to your Live Messenger without any problem. Probably this issue may be because the Windows Live Messenger standalone installer may not have included the Windows Live Communication platform.

Likes to have a new theme and wallpaper for your Windows 7? Redmond Pie has created a theme pack for Windows 7 based on the high resolution wallpapers created by Zawir Rahim . Named ‘Windows 7 Ultimate theme pack’, this theme pack gives you one-click ease of installation and configuration of high resolution wallpaper with the right glass color for Windows Aero Just download and unzip the theme pack and double click on the theme to activate it. If you like to have a new Windows 7 RTM wallpapers for your desktop, a Devinantart user, spain08 has created the RTM wallpaper (1920×1200 resolution) and is available for free download. Download Windows 7 Ultimate Theme Pack and Windows 7 RTM Wallpaper .