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Toolbox is a new, handy and easy to use application from IObit that helps you fix PC related problems anytime and anywhere. With more than 20 dedicated tools, IObit Toolbox diagnoses your computer and lets you fix the problems. It includes a cleaning, optimizing, repairing, security and fully system control related tools. Each application on this portable toolbox is well organized and very easy to use. As it is portable, you don’t need to install it on your PC, just run it from a removable disk. IObit Toolbox currently a beta product and you can download it free from here .

F-Secure just released a computer performance enhancing software called PC Booster (beta), which can regain your computers lost performance. Constantly installing, uninstalling programs and other works leads to the accumulation of vast amount of data on the system. The result is that Windows get slower with time. So we need to maintain our computers periodically. F-Secure PC Booster allows you to get the most benefit out of your old and new computers with a set of easy to use tune-up functionality. There are two options you can choose from; Speed Up and Clean Up to boost your system’s performance. F-Secure PC Booster beta comes with 6 months subscription to F-Secure Internet Security 2011 Beta. Note that you must download and install Internet Security 2011 Beta for installing PC Booster on your PC . Download it from F-Secure

Whenever a user makes changes to his or her computer – installing and uninstalling software, changes in system settings, etc. - the changes are reflected and stored in the registry. In due course the registry data become fragmented and affects your computer’s overall performance including system boot speed. To solve this, you need to defrag and compact it. WinASO RegDefrag is a very easy to use application that can compact and defragment your registry to remove the registry holes and optimize the registry structure. As a result, it will boost system speed and performance as a whole. You can download it free at source.

Redo Backup is an open source, very easy to use, advanced backup and recovery solution for Windows and Linux systems. It allows bare-metal system restore , which means, even if your hard drive melts or gets completely erased by a virus, you can have a completely-functional system back up and running in minutes. Redo Backup requires no installation, just boot from CD or USB drive, it will automatically search your local area network for drives to backup to or restore from. Main features of Redo backup - Simple GUI interface anyone can use - Bootable from CD or USB drive - Auomatically locates network-shared drives (FTP and Windows shares) - Extra tools for hard drive partitioning, factory reset, undeleting files - Web browser for downloading drivers, reading documentation -File explorer for copying and editing files even if system won't boot You can download Redo backup and recovery at source [ via ]

Your computer automatically place unnecessary, hidden files such as. DS_Store, .Trashes, .Spotlight-V100, Thumbs.db, etc. on your USB drive each time you connect it. After a while, quite a few of these pesky files can accumulate and you must browse through each folder to delete them. OptimUSB is a little (96Kb) application for Mac OS X and Windows that keep your USB and memory cards optimized by cleaning these files each time you eject your USB drives. How to use OptimUSB? The application requires no installation. You must run OptimUSB before ejecting your USB drive. All temporary files get deleted and automatically eject your drive. It runs on Mac OS X and Windows and can be downloaded free at source.

If you are a Gmail user, this might be a good news for you. Now you can read Microsoft Office documents (doc, docx), received as attachment, right from your Gmail just with a click. That means, to read office documents received via your Gmail, no need to download, save and open it with Microsoft Word. Just click the ‘view’ button shown near the attachment, it will open in Google Docs Viewer. You can also edit the document by clicking edit online button. Your document will be opened in Google Docs for editing. [ via ]

An exciting feature of Apple’s new browser Safari 5 is its Reader, which allows a distraction free online article reading by removing annoying ads and other visual distractions from web pages. You can bring this exciting feature to your browser Google Chrome also by installing an extension called iReader. iReader has almost all features that Safari Reader offers, you can view news stories and other articles in a very easy to read, clutter-free, scrollable display. How to use iReader on Google Chrome? After installing the extension, when you enter a web page, iReader icon will display on the address bar. Click the icon to open iReader window and click iReader icon again to close the reader window. iReader also gives few configuration options such as transparency adjust, font style, etc. Download and install iReader from chrome extension page. [ via ]

F-Secure Anti-Theft is a free application for your smartphone (Android, Windows, Symbian) that provides a great way to protect your phone if it gets lost or stolen. With this application, you can remotely lock your lost phone or remotely wipe all data it contains so that your private information like SMS doesn’t end up in the wrong hands. And also, with the help of the new remote locator feature, you can find out where your phone is located. Moreover, if the phone is stolen and changes the SIM card, the application locks the phone automatically and informs you of the new number. Interested smartphone users (Symbian, Windows Mobile and Android) can download it free at source .

FLV Extract is a very simple to use, portable and tiny utility for Windows that helps users to extract audio and video from a FLV video without decompressing or recompressing. The extracted video is saved as AVI (H.263/FLV1 and VP6/VP6F) or raw elementary stream (H.264/AVC). The audio is saved as MP3, AAC (with ADTS headers), Speex, or WAV (PCM). The most important part of this program is it’s easiness to use. You don’t need any advanced knowledge to use this program. Just unzip and run the program, drag and drop FLV video files into the window. It will quickly extract audio and video from the FLV file and save them in the same directory. Interested readers can download (80Kb zip) it at source. Required .NET frame work for working.

Sharing folders is really a great method by which users within a network can get instant access to files and documents placed on another location. File sharing is common; but Windows file sharing function has no option for monitoring your shared folders such as who accessed your files or shared folder, etc. ShareWatcher is a freeware monitoring software for Windows that logs and notifies you when others access your shared folders as well as when files are added to other users shared locations. ShareWatcher suports Windows XP/Vista/7 and requires .NET frameworks 3.5. You can download it at source .

Wondershare Time Freeze is an innovative application for windows that not only protects your computer from malicious threats but it also keeps your system fresh and constant. This application creates a virtual environment for your system, on which you can run any applications, surf the internet or install any software or games, all your activities and malicious threats will disappear after rebooting the system. The main benefits of this application are: it will Keep the actual system in a constant state, prevent computer from getting slower and slower with time. Put the actual system under protection to prevent malicious threats being made and doing harm to your computer. Traces of surfing the Internet and computer operation will disappear after reboot. (You have the flexibility to save changes to the actual system.) Test software and game installations safely on virtual system Interested readers can now get it free from Wondershare after registering your name and email.

According to a recent report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which aims to protect privacy and freedom of speech online, only the configuration and version information of a browser are sufficient to identify a user. By using the advanced fingerprinting technique, websites can harvest information form a browser’s header as well as its JavaScript and flash plug-ins, even with cookies deleted or disabled. Though almost all browsers are uniquely fingerprintable, using the website Panopticlick users can test their own browsers to see how much information they leak.

The desktop in Windows 7 indeed looks beautiful but its operation could be more efficient. Preme is a freeware tool that takes care of this deficiency. The software offers many cool features to your desktop. For example it offers faster access to the Start Menu (Touch start) that opens itself when you simply roll over it with the mouse. You can close any window just by hover over your mouse cursor on the title bar area and clicking the wheel. You can close an active window by pressing the ESC key, even the call of Flip 3d view with a double click in the upper left corner of the desktop is more intuitive than the key combination. Interested Windows 7 users can download it free at program source

Private browsing mode is certainly a great privacy feature for browsers. in this mode no records of your web surfing session - browsing history, cookies, etc. - will be stored on the computer. The topic here is how to open Google Chrome in private browsing (Incognito mode) mode by default. Because, there is no such option available in Google Chrome as in Firefox. But, you can get this very easily in Google Chrome. Just right click the Google Chrome shortcut icon on the desktop and select Properties. Enter –incognito at the end of the line in the Target box (see screenshot below). (Enter -incognito after a space). Now click Apply and click OK to save the settings. The next time you launch Google Chrome, you will notice an icon as shown above in the upper, left corner of your Chrome window indicating that you are running in the incognito mode.

Digital Lens is a new tool from Microsoft which helps developers and designers to make their program UI accessible to users with impaired vision also. With this tool designers can view the visual design as it would be seen by vision impaired users. “Vision problems affect most of the population during their lives. Digital Lens was designed with the mission to simplify the process of finding problems that would make your UI less accessible to users with impaired vision” . “It provides UI designers and developers the tools to view the visual design as it would be seen by vision impaired users” . “By emulating common impaired vision conditions, Digital Lens users are able to identify issues in the UI and fix them before the product is released - with Digital Lens you are able to design a more accessible product”. Digital Lens is a technology preview program and it support Windows 7, 32 bit only (with Aero Theme enabled). Download available at Microsoft download center. [ Via ]

Imagina is an innovative image viewer and image editing tool for Windows which offers a finest viewing experience for your PC. With this application you can watch your picture in 2D or 3D, zoom and rotate your images, and show off your images with different kinds of smooth slide show. The application also gives options for fixing your photographs. You can adjust brightness, contrast, gamma and color, view EXIF information of your pictures and edit it (title, author and comments), and more. Moreover, you can Play your movie files just like viewing your pictures; move, rotate and scale them just as you would any image using the smooth interface. The application requires latest DirectX and .NET Framework 2.5. You can download this image viewer software (5.25 MB) free at source for Windows XP/Vista/7.

Avast antivirus free edition is a popular, lightweight free antivirus solution for Windows and Linux which provides added features than similar free antivirus programs. However, the new version of Avast antivirus 5 free edition displays advertisement about their pro version on the main window. Avast Anti-virus 5 with Ads If you think this ads is annoying, there is a simple solution by Techtrickz.com (my sister site) to block the ads. This tip is for Windows 7 with default Firewall. Avast Anti-virus 5 without Ads In windows 7 , run Windows Firewall and select Advanced settings, then click Outbound rules and choose New rule . Now select Custom at the bottom and click next button. Then select " This Program Path " and browse to Avast install directory and choose AvastUI.exe and click next button. Now click next, next to get Action window. Here make sure that bottom rule is selected and click next. Here make sure that all profiles - domain, private, and public - are se...

Martview is an innovative application that will change the way of your PDF documents reading on your computer. It is an e-book reader which offers many options to boost your reading experience. With doubled up interactive features, it allow you to flip, slide, scroll, pinch, circle and many more gestures to keep you excited. Its clean layout with sleek design is easy on the eye, added with crisp images bring your reading pleasure on your own desktop to a whole new level. Watch this video demonstration at YouTube about this product. You can download Martview free at the source. The application supports Windows XP/Vista/7 and requires Java Runtime installed on your PC.

Microsoft has just released a new theme for windows 7 based on the World Cup 2010 football tournament which will bring the excitement of the World Cup 2010 to your desktop. This theme features stunning graphics from the Electronic Arts (EA Sports) 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa game. You can download theme from Microsoft personalization gallery ( via )

AnyBizSoft PDF to Word Converter is a very simple to use application for converting PDF documents (including encrypted PDF files) to word documents (doc/docx). Its developer AnyBizSoft Studio today launched a large-scale giveaway promotion of their latest 3.0.0 version of PDF to Word Converter on their Facebook page. If you have a Facebook account, just visit the Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/AnyBizSoft and become a fan. You will get a free license, which worth $29.95. To get more information about AnyBizSoft PDF to Word Converter just visit the product page.

Rizone Pixel Repair is a simple to use application that can be used to detect dead and stuck pixels of your LCD monitor. It can also be used for repairing stuck pixels, but it won’t repair dead pixels (black one). The ‘Dead pixel locator’ on ‘Rizone Pixel Repair’ lets you find dead or stuck pixels. After you’ve located stuck pixels, you can try to repair them with this tool. To repair stuck pixels, set the color mode, press go and place the flashy window thingy under the stuck pixel. Sometimes this unstuck that pixel, but not always. The Dead pixel locator’ section also help you find dirty little spots and dust when you clean your screen (Because dust doesn’t show on all colors’). You can download Rizone Pixel Repair at source

When surfing the web some people open more and more tabs for different purposes. But if you have a slow internet connection it will affect your current loading page. If you don’t want to interrupt the current loading tab, at the same time want to open many tabs in the background, here is a useful add-on for Firefox. The add-on called Load Tabs Progressively lets you load the background tabs one after the other. It will limit the number of concurrent loading tabs and/or unread loaded tabs, so that you can browse without any problems. You can set any number of tabs to be loaded at the same time (depending on your connection speed and requirement), maximum number of unread loaded tabs, next tab to reload etc. with this add-on. Download this add-on (currently beta) at Mozilla add-on site.

Panda SafeCD is a handy utility that can be used, particularly for detecting and thoroughly cleaning malware infections from your PC, which give regular AV products running within Windows a hard time. You can boot this application from CD or flash drive and it will automatically detect and remove all types of malware from your PC. This new version lets you update signature file from Internet, beta sig or from local PC, has ability to choose individual partitions (FAT/NTFS) for scans and has a new graphical user interface. First time user need to download a large (231Mb) ISO file, then burn it into a CD/DVD or you can use utilities like UNetbootin to put the ISO in a USB drive and boot it from there.

Bufferzone is a security application which creates a virtual environment for your internet applications where you can safely download applications, open email attachments, share any file or applications via P2P without risk to your computer. When you run your internet application such as browser, instant messenger or P2P client Bufferzone automatically loads them inside the virtual environment, keeping your system from internet threat. The free edition of Bufferzone only supports Internet Explorer and MSN Messenger and has the following features: Safely browse with Internet Explorer and download anything in an isolated (virtualized) zone Safely chat with MSN Messenger in an isolated (virtualized) zone Safely open e-mail attachments in an isolated (virtualized) zone e-Bank and e-Shop in a trusted environment (place up to 2 trusted sites in a Privacy Zone) (+) Schedule periodic "flushes" of the Virtual Zone (+) You can download Bufferzone free edition at source

Soluto is an innovative application which makes your system boot faster. Presented as “anti-frustration software’, Soluto helps you understand the Windows boot process and allows you make necessary changes to speed-up the boot process. It let you know which applications are actually slowing down the boot process and gives you options like removing, delaying or pausing the applications from the system’s boot-up sequence to speed-up the boot process. It works as follows: After installing Soluto (.NET Framework and active internet connection required), restart your system. It calculates the boot time and shows you the result as shown below. Click ‘Click here to see why’ button, you will get a window as shown below (required active internet connection). Startup items shown in orange color are potentially removable, in grey shows item that can’t be removed and in green (not on the screenshot) shows items that can easily get rid of. It is an excellent startup monitor and optimizer which can ...

There are several utilities available for blocking auto-run related viruses spreading via USB flash drives. We had mentioned many of them in the previous articles. No Autorun is a very tiny (37Kb), intelligent application that not only locks the autorun.inf file, but also locks the entire autorun-related virus. Most software of the same kind just deletes autorun.inf and leaves the virus file. The application is very simple to use. Once you insert a USB disk, the program locks suspicious files in it. To delete these files, open the main window and click “Delete Autorun Files" or "Delete All". Do not try to delete them from explorer or elsewhere. If you want to open one of these locked files, just open the main window, click the file and click "Unlock". And if you can't determine whether the suspicious files are virus or not, just leave them. No Autorun locked them so that they can’t be executed to harm you computer. No Autorun can be downloaded free at...

Microsoft has released two new themes to beautify your Windows 7 desktop. These two themes consists a total of 21 dazzling wallpaper from Austria, a landlocked country in Central Europe. However, these two themes are available only through the Austrian version of webpage (not available via US Windows Personalization Gallery). Interested readers can download the two themes at the following links: Part 1 , Part 2 .

What about watching videos hosted on sites like Megaupload or Rapidshare without downloading them? Here is a solution. Mustreamer is a free service that lets you watch Megaupload hosted videos without downloading them. The only requirement is Megaupload video link and Flash player, iTunes and Windows media player installed on your computer. Note: After watching the whole video, if you wish to save it on your computer you can save it from your browser cache. For that you can follow this tricks or can use the free software VideoCacheView .

Linuxidx is a very special search engine that helps you to find Linux related web resources like applications, driver files, games and other useful information for your Linux operating system . The search results are very encouraging and I am sure this will certainly useful for you to find something for your Linux OS.