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A small sized image is often required in many occasions. For instance, inserting into blog post, inserting into email messages or inserting into an office document required a small sized image to make it load fast or fit in to the page. There are several programs in this category; here is a brand new way of image resizing. JustResizeIt is an adobe air based application for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. You only need to drag and drop one or more images into JustResizeIt, wait a few seconds and drag and drop resized images into a folder, email message or office document. The working is very simple. You can create many widgets that define how the images will be resized. Just create some widgets and define its sizes ( example, 100x100, 400x400 or in percentage 50%, etc ) and quality ( Click ‘Add New’ to define sizes, quality, widget color, etc ). Now drag and drop one or more images over a widget. Wait until all images are resized (You can drop multiple images onto one widget and they will ...

The recently popular, world’s first Cloud Antivirus from Panda Security has enters into second beta stage. This free Antivirus offers a high-level protection in real time with a little system resources. And, as it is based on internet platform, it does not need a system of updates like a traditional antivirus. However, some users upgrading from Beta1 to Beta2 version have come across problems during uninstall/reinstall upgrade procedure. In order to make things easier here is a standalone uninstaller for Panda Cloud Antivirus. Remember to use this generic uninstaller on PCs with Panda Cloud Antivirus. If this uninstaller is executed on PCs with other Panda products (Panda Antivirus Pro, Panda Internet Security, etc.) it will have negative effects and will leave the PC in an unstable state. Simply download Cloud Antivirus standalone uninstaller and execute the uninstaller.

Nero is world’s best burning software-from quicker write speeds to support for new formats like Blu-ray to multimedia creation tools for DVD authoring and audio CD compilation, Nero has been one of the most capable applications in its field. They are continuously evolving to incorporate some of the best technologies and features, while keeping pace with optical drive standards. Nero has released a free version of it's burning software, Nero Essentials , with limited features. This version of Nero 9.4 contains simply data burning and disc copying features for CDs and DVDs. However the free version comes bundled with Ask Toolbar ( My antivirus program warned me this unnecessary, risky add-in ) which you can disable while installing. You can download latest version of free Nero (current version. 9.4) from here or from this Softpedia link.

What sets Firefox apart from all other browsers is ‘Extensions’ . Extensions give additional functionalities and features to the browser. The Mozilla community is highly active and you have over thousands extensions to choose from. But the question is how to build an extension. What many people don’t realize is that they’re so easy to create and implement. Anyone with a little knowledge of JavaScript and XML can easily build a Firefox extension. If you really want to make an extension, the e-book ‘ Build Your Own Firefox Extension ’ would be a great reference guide. After carefully reading the book you’ll be able create simple Firefox extensions with extremely powerful functionality. The e-book ‘Build Your Own Firefox Extension’ written by James Edwards is available for FREE download from Sitepoin t for a limited time period . So get in quick. ( via ) Download Build Your Own Firefox Extension’ (in PDF format) from here or here .

Border Skin is a small utility for Windows XP that will give Windows 7 like visual style (blur and reflection/Aero glass) to window boarder. The application is portable and no installation is required. Just download (2.2Mb), unzip and run it. It will sit on the system tray. You can select and apply different boarder styles and other effects from there. The program requires .NET Framework 2 and above for working and you can put this program on Windows start up. However, like every visual style program, this one is also not free from instability. It has some minor bugs, especially if ‘Aero explorer’ enabled on maximized window. You can download Boarder style from here .

In recent times several rogue security software ( misleading applications ) are circulating over the internet that mimics the popular security program for confusing users ( Avira has already reported that ). These programs usually pose a security threat and financial risks to the users. As an initiative to stop these fraudulent applications, a website ( Common Computing Security Standards Forum , CCSS Forum) has been launched as a voluntary organization by the CEO and Chief Security Architect of Comodo. The forum has already been created a public list of trusted vendors and legitimate programs. However there are a wide range of software developers still in the provisional list, including Microsoft, Symantec, Trend Micro, McAfee, Kaspersky Lab, Check Point, Panda, Sunbelt Software and Webroot . This is a good initiative from CCSS Forum to prevent fake software from circulating over the internet. The list will help the public distinguish between useful software and online scams. Users c...

File or folder locker is an essential security tool for most computer users to hide their personal and sensitive information from other users. There are plenty of such tools available for download, here is a light weight, easy to use, and very practical program. Easy File Locker is a quite easy to use freeware tool that can protect your private files and folders. The hidden files and folders will be totally invisible to all users and to any program, even under Windows Safe Mode. Other users will not be able to see, open, read, modify, delete, move, and copy the locked files or folders without a proper password. Using this tool is very simple. After installation run the program. Set a password from toolbar menu- System – Set password. Drag any file (even picture) or folder into the program’s window (or Edit – Add folder / File) that you want to hide or protect. Double click on it to set the parameters such as Visible, accessible, or deletable. Once you set a password, no one can launch ...

Web of Trust (WOT), the best website security rating service provider together with Panda Security , the market leader in security analysis has announced the availability of new WOT and can be downloaded via Panda’s website. WOT is said to be one of the best security add-on for Firefox and Internet Explorer . Panda Security recommends to use WOT (Web of Trust) in a layered approach to security. Because, before visiting a suspicious web site, knowing about its behavior is very important. Whatever security precautions you have been taken; still there are chances to an attack just by visiting or clicking a link. WOT is a community for reputation rating that lets Internet users share their knowledge of websites, helping you stay in control when surfing the Web. It keeps your computer safe from online threats like spyware, adware and viruses and gives warnings about online scams, sites with adult content and spam. The new version has 4 customizable protections. The Light option is for e...

It is always best to be prepared for the worst, and the worst scenario any computer user will face is loss of data. Drive Backup 9.0 Free Edition is one of the simplest and easy to use software to backup an entire PC or separate partitions to a local drive or external USB or a Firewire Device. If disaster occurs, it could restore entire PC, separate partitions or any combination of disks and partitions from one archive. It can create bootable USB Flash drive, CD or DVD to recover your PC on demand. As said above, it is an easy to use program with wizard driven user interface and doesn't ask you bewildering questions – it just backs up your data when and where you tell it, and recovers whenever disaster happens. Backup Features: - Backup Entire PC - backup an entire hard disk or separate partitions - Perform Live Backups - Paragon Hot Backup® technology creates backup images without restarting Windows - Storage options for your backups - Save backup images to local drives or externa...

Disk images (particularly ISO format) are very useful for distributing software over the Internet or networks because it can contain all data of a file including boot code, structures, and attributes. Image Master is an open source user-friendly program that lets you read and write disc images and can convert BIN, CDI, IMG, MDF and NRG image formats to ISO image. Following are some of the main features of Image Master: - Read the contents of image files before burning them to disc. - Extract the contents of iso files without burning them to disc. - Burn an iso file to disc. - Burn files and/or folders directly to disc. - Convert Bin Image Files (.bin), Nero Image Files (.nrg), Alcohol Image Files (.mdf), CloneCd Image Files (.img), DiscJuggler Image Files (.cdi) to iso images. The program is compatible with Windows XP and Vista, (both 32 and 64bits) and requires .NET Framework 2.0 and Image Mastering API v2.0 (to burn images to CD and DVD optical storage media). Download Image master .

Interclue is a Firefox add-on that tells you everything behind the link before you click. This is useful for researchers, journalists, bloggers and content creators who spend more time on internet. It lets you know whether the content is objectionable, full of paid-for links, just plain irrelevant, dead links or Phishing site. After installing the add-on, before clicking a link, just hover over your mouse it, an icon (site’s fav icon) will appear. Rest your mouse on the icon, a popup window appears with an enhanced summary of the linked page. This is not just a link preview tool, it is more than that - Lets you know sizes and dates of linked files, lets you submit a link or selected text to del.icio.us, Google Bookmarks, Digg or Reddit, etc, you can email the link and contents to anyone and more. Interclue is fast and does not find any load on Firefox. There are several options available to customize the tool. For example, you can add any words in the ‘Words lists’ (In Firefox Tools ...

Internet connection problems are common nowadays, especially after removing adware, spyware, virus or worms (malware) from your computer or after installing or uninstalling security programs. Most of these problems arise because of corrupted Winsock settings. Windows sockets settings may get corrupted due to the installation of networking software, or perhaps due to Malware infestation. Here is a freeware tool Rizone Winsock Repair, which helps you to reset/repair the Winsock configuration to defaults or clean state. It will help if you are having any of the following problems: - Loss network connection after installing/uninstalling adware, spyware, antispam, vpn, firewall or other networking programs. - Unable to access any webpage or can only access some WebPages. - Pop-up error window with network related problem description. - No network connectivity due to registry errors. - NS lookup problem. - Fail to renew the network adapter’s IP address or other DHCP errors. - Network connect...

Anti screensaver is a freeware tool that prevents the system from starting the screensaver or disables other power saving options like shutting down the monitor and going to standby mode for the title of the running application. This is useful, if for example, if you watch a YouTube video and don't want to be interrupted by the screensaver, just run the program and add the word YouTube. Any window containing the text YouTube will trigger the application and prevent the screensaver or other power saving options. It does this simply by simulating a key press every minute (shift key). Using this program is quite simple. Download and install the program. Run it (it will sits on the system tray) and add a text (or texts) (e.g. YouTube) and click OK to save. You can disable the program (also from the auto startup lists of Windows) by removing the check marks next to ‘Enable Anti screensaver’.

There are several software tools that can provide a range of functionalities in order to perform a particular task in a simple and fast way. Here is one such desktop utility that allows you to access your hard drive contents quickly via system tray or menu bar icon with dynamic pop-up menu. Hawkscope is an open source, cross platform (runs on Windows, Mac and Linux) application; once installed it will sits on the system tray and you can access any files, folders and programs from there with a mouse click or with a global short cut key combination. Besides, it has some other functionalities such as hide unwanted drives, folders or files by adding them to blacklist, plug-in system like Open with, etc that you can configure through the option menu. Download Hawkscope from Google code .

Upgrading Nero can some times be a problem because the program tends to leave behind unnecessary entries in the registry that prevents you from installing a newer version. This a usual occurrence reported with Nero. In order to install a newer version of Nero, it is recommended that all older versions of Nero and unnecessary installation entries must be thoroughly cleaned from your computer. Follow the steps described below for a complete removal of Nero: Download Windows Installer Cleanup Utility from Windows and install it. Run the program, it will lists all software installed in Windows. Search for Nero, select it and choose Remove to uninstall it. Now download Nero General Cleanup Tool from Nero. Run the tool, it will remove all files and registry entries left behind by Nero. You can now install a newer version of Nero.

Integrated Gmail is a very useful extension for Firefox that lets you add Google services like Google Reader, Calendar, Maps, Picasa, etc inside Gmail inbox. These services are loaded as different collapsible tabs into your Gmail inbox. Just click read/collapse button from you Gmail inbox to read your RSS feed, access Google Calendar, Picasa web album, Maps or Google site, etc, so easy and simple. This add-on has been updated with new features and has many improvements over its previous version. You can add as many mail accounts and different services for each account. You can add different Google services from Integrated Gmail option menu. Download integrated Gmail (Windows / Mac and Linux).

Many web sites are very long and the browser can show only a part of it. If you need the entire web content as an image in a document you required a special tool. IEsnapshot is one such free tool, which could capture full web pages ( capture longer pages than screen resolution and even live action animations ) and saves as image. This ‘WYSIWYG’, independent mini-browser (don’t need your browser to capture a webpage) can grab full web pages and save them in PDF, JPG, GIF or BMP file formats. IEsnapshot is fully compatible with Internet Explorer. You only need to enter the URL of a site in the address field and click ‘GO’ button to load the page and click ‘Grab Now’ button to take a snapshot. Moreover, this program fully supports single and multiple page web-captures to a PDF file format. Each snapshot stores all background images, even images inside the style sheets or dynamic content. Before taking a screen shot, just customize the program. For that, click on ‘Configuration’ – ‘Setti...

If you have a website and want to detect any unauthorized changes (hacking or malware attack), or own a domain and worry that they might be hijacked or stolen and want to know your domains are ever added to a blacklist database (SpamHaus, Safe Browsing, etc), the free Network Integrity Monitoring service will help you. Network based Integrity Monitoring (NBIM) takes snapshots of a web site (DNS records, Whois information, SSL certificate and blacklisting status) and then it compare the current information with the saved snapshot. The result will be notify you via email. The Network based Integrity monitoring features: 1. Monitoring every 10 minutes, every day. 2. Can add several web sites to monitor. 3. Detects if a website added in blacklist. 4. Instant notification via email, sms and twitter. This NBIM service may be useful to bloggers, site administrators and web designers. More information from here. [via]

Here is a useful add-on to enhance Firefox browser security feature. When you visit a website this add-on will alerts and blocks any web bugs that the site implemented for their use. Web bugs are hidden scripts that track your behavior and are used by the sites you visit to understand their own audience. The Firefox add-on Ghostery watches any web sites that you are watching and could block any hidden scripts (if enabled) they are using for tracking you. Ghostery alerts about the web bugs, ad networks and widgets (e.g.: Sitemeter, Facebook Beacon, Amazon Associates, etc…..) on every page on the web. You can also block (on /off) any hidden script from the Ghostery option menu (In Firefox, Tools – Ghostery – Manage Ghostery option). So you can surf the site faster. This add-on supports Firefox 3 – 3.5 and works with Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. Install Ghostery from Mozilla add-on site.

Image Enlarger is an open-source software that lets you enlarge a picture (or part of it) into maximum possible quality. Unlike other image editing program which requires a lot of editing process, this program requires only a few parameters to acquire a good quality image. Smilla Enlarger, which uses a special algorithm invented by the developer to re-size or enlarge an image (especially magnify bitmaps in high quality), is a portable application for Windows and Mac OSX. Using this application is simple, select the file; settings and zoom region; adjust the parameters like De-noise, dithering etc, click preview and save your image. While testing the software here, it gives a good result. You only require a few minutes to complete the task. You can download Image Enlarger (Mac/ Windows, 8Mb Zip) from Sourceforge.net .

By clicking an unknown link to open the site in your browser is likely a security risk. For example, most of the URL posted on the popular micro blogging service Twitter is shortened by services like Tinyurl in order to limit the post size. You do not know where will be taken if you will click the link. Therefore you might want to preview the link. Here is a browser add-on, Hhott View, (for Internet Explore and Firefox ) that lets you safely preview links and rich media without clicking or leaving your current page. You only need to just mouse over the link to preview. Moreover, it also displays safety rating on each link using Google APIs. HHOTT View's unique features are: 1. Display safety rating on each link to support secure and safe browsing 2. Preview window is a full-featured browser window, not just a small static screen shot 3. Preview window can be placed anywhere within or outside of the web page; in the main monitor or the second monitor 4. Separate preview window for...

Avast antivirus is one of the best free antivirus solution which provides a full bouquet of system protection, ranging from antivirus, anti-spyware, network intrusion prevention, rootkit scanning, mail scanning, web protection as well as P2P and messenger scanning. Avast is planning to release a new version 5 and will be launched in October. Version 5 will be offered in three versions: a free AV, a paid AV and a full Internet Security suite . One important thing about this release is its new graphical interface which is designed to meet all users requirements. According Avast blog post, the free AV will contain all the features from the existing Home Edition, plus a couple of new extras. The paid AV now includes a new virtualization module as well as all the features from the free. And finally, the Security suite adds an antispam and firewall module and will thus provide you with a complete, worry-free protection. It is said that Avast antivirus 5 is designed to have a low memory ...

Often we receive emails that contain links to websites, but opening these from the message is a potential security risk. Therefore you might want to view the link destination before opening it in your default browser. If your mail client is Thunderbird, here is a free add-on ThunderBrowse that integrates a mini browser in it. You can check any link directly from your mail. Moreover it works faster than opening up a browser and loading the page. Installation procedure: 1. Download and save the file to your hard disk. 2. In Mozilla Thunderbird, open Add-ons from the Tools menu. 3. Click the Install button, and locate/select the file you downloaded and click "OK". After installation follow the setup wizard. Click next and select ‘Browse website in Thunderbird’. Click next and select Tab enabled Yes / No, click Next and finish the setups. Normally default settings are enough for security; however you can configure it from the add-on option menu (Tools – Add-on – ThunderBrowse – ...

Most people have some confidential files or folders on their computer which they do not want others to see or use them. One of the simplest and best ways to protect them is hiding from others. With Free Hide Folder you will protect your files with a password avoiding them to be being modified, seen or erased by other users. They will not know where your personal files exist and will not be able to accidentally view them without a proper password. It's actually very easy to hide a folder with Free Hide Folder. First, you need to run Free Hide Folder, locate and select the folder you want to hide, and then click Hide Folder button to hide folders. It works with Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista. Download (745Kb) Free Hide Folder.

Nearly everyone has a program, only he wishes to execute. It may be your email client, or games, the kids should not play or any application or document that you don’t want others to execute or see. Here is a freeware program, SaveIt that offers the possibility to password-protect nearly every Windows-program against its execution. When a user attempts to open a password protected application or document, he is automatically prompted for the password. However you can grant permission to individual users for accessing the protected application. SaveIt is very simple to use. After installing the program, just right click on any application or documents (for example a desktop icon) that you want to protect, and select Send to - Protect through Saveit3 from the context menu (see screen shot). Now enter a password to protect it. You can also run the program directly from your desktop and browse for programs and documents to protect it. And also, this new version has the possibility to prot...