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Mind mapping software is very useful if you need to collaborate on critical ideas, especially during a brainstorming session, you tend to skip some important points if you don’t list them in an organized manner. Mind maps can come to your aid to segregate ideas, especially for planning and decision making. TouchMind is a simple to use, free mind mapping application for Windows 7 that offers some latest Windows technologies like Ribbon Framework, Multi Touch, Direct2D, Jump list, etc for mapping your mind. Currently following new technologies are used in TouchMind: Direct2D HLSL (using Direct2D's Direct3D interoperability) DirectWrite Multi Touch Ribbon Framework Shell Library (Jump list) TSF (Text Services Framework) XPS Printing MUI (Multilingual User Interface) TouchMind only works on Windows 7 and you can free download at source .

RAMMon is a very simple to use tool for Windows that allow users to quickly identify Ram type ( DDR1/DDR2/DDR3 ), clock speed, manufacturer detail, and other data. These details are necessary when you (system administrators and computer geeks) want to replace the old RAM or add another one. RAMMon can quickly retrieve Serial Presence Detect (SPD) data from the RAM Modules installed in your computer. It uses SysInfo DLL SDK to gather SPD attributes from RAM devices. Depending on your RAM (memory) model, RAMMon displays the values stored on the memory module such as the memory capacity, the manufacturer, serial number, model part number, the CAS latencies supported, module voltage, module thickness, module width, maximum operating temperature and more. RAMMon is free for personal use and supports Windows 7, Vista and XP. You can download RAMMon at source.

Adobe's Flash Player is one of the basic requirements for internet. Many games and media content on the internet are presented in flash form. Since almost every computer (Windows, Macs and Linux) has some version of Flash installed, it has always been targeted by hackers, malware authors and so on. The only way to be safe is to upgrade to the newest version of flash player. Although Flash offers update checks itself, but sadly many systems run outdated and insecure Flash Player versions. That is a huge security risk which must be eliminated. Alternative Flash Player Auto-Updater let's you download and install the Flash Player without having to download Adobe's download manager - it downloads the latest version and asks you whether it should be installed or not. You can choose to let it run at the start of Windows, this way you can be sure that your system will never run an outdated and extremely dangerous version of Flash Player. It supports both 32 and 64 bit Windows ve...

URL Shortener services are very popular, especially for Twitter users to save more space. But the real problem with shortened URLs is that it will not give any clue to the real URL. Thus, it is very easy for cyber criminals to redirect users to fishing sites or unwanted content sites. To prevent such incidents, McAfee has started a URL shortener service (McAf.ee), which notifies the user the security status of the site he clicks. If the real URL is flagged as dangerous it will throw up a red sign and block the site, if it is suspicious it shows yellow , and green for good site. You may visit McAf.ee to create short URLs. Here is an extension for Google Chrome that will help you create trusted short URL on the fly. This extension uses the mcaf.ee service which utilizes McAfee's Global Threat Intelligence information. Also see: Bitdefender URL Shortener Service . You can install this extension from chrome extension page

No Autorun is tiny tool that not only blocks autorun-related virus and other suspicious files entering into your computer, but it can also prevent viruses entering into your USB disk from your infected computer. After you run "No Autorun", the program waits for USB disk/flash insertion. Once you insert a USB disk, the program locks autorun.inf file and other related executable files. You can safely open or delete the files from the program. After you enabled write protect option, any newly connected USB disk will be read-only for your computer. It's useful when your PC is already infected but you don't want to spread the virus. No Autorun is compatible with Windows XP, Vista and 7 (32bit/64bit) and completely clean (according to Virus Total ), however check it with your antivirus program. Download No Autorun .

Microsoft often releases beautiful theme pack for Windows 7 . Windows 7 users can free download and use them to spice-up the desktop or laptop. Usually these theme packs are compiled from high quality photographs. Here is a cool technique to view all images from a theme pack before downloading them by using the Bing’s visual search . Bing’s visual search currently works in the US only, but anyone can to switch to the US. Selecting any themepack will get you complete detail about the images in that themepack and a preview of the images so you can preview them before you download. [ via ]

In the previous articles we have covered how to start Firefox , Google Chrome and Opera in Private Browsing mode by default. Here is how to start Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) in provite browsing mode by default. Private browsing mode is a great privacy feature, in this mode no records of your web surfing session - browsing history, cookies, etc. - will be stored on the computer. Here is how to start IE9 in InPrivate Browsing mode automatically: This is very simple. Firstly start your IE9 Inprivate Borwsing mode as usual. Then drag IE 9 favicon to desktop (see screenshot above). It will create a shortcut to IE9. Double click this icon whenever you to surf in InPrivate Browsing mode.

The latest stable version of Firefox (3.6) has certain useful features disabled by default. To enable these features such as Taskbar previews [Windows 7], Tabs previews, etc. you need to manually edit the Firefox’s about :config file. But the Firefox extension Secrets of Firefox let you do it automatically. Install the add-on from Mozilla Addon site and enable or disable the following hidden features. Taskbar previews [Windows 7] Tabs previews menu button (far right in the tab bar) Open links to the right of the current tab Tabs previews (Ctrl + Tab) Download Secrets of Firefox

Whatever will be your system configuration, sometimes your computer performance will hold up, especially when you running memory intensive applications. A memory management (RAM optimization) program may help you in such situation. RAM optimization applications can sweep or reduce unneeded file in your memory.There are several memory optimization programs and we have mentioned many of them in previous pots (example: Memory Improve Master , Minimem , Extra Ram , etc), here is a new one called Adjisoft Ram Accelerator . Adjiesoft RAM Accelerator is a tiny, portable application that allows you to optimize your RAM usage and offers a better computer experience. Adjiesoft RAM Accelerator is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 and is suitable for both beginners and experts and works smoothly on any Desktop PCs, Notebook, Netbook.

Wondershare giveaway their flagship product Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate - a total solution for video and audio converting, DVD ripping, online video downloading, video burning and file transferring app – for free. The software priced at $69.95 will be available for free download from Sep 20 to Sep 26, 2010 on their Facebook page . With this excellent application, you can enjoy your favorite DVD movies and videos (including DRM files) on popular mobile devices, transfer files to iPod, iPad, iPhone without iTunes. Besides, you also can burn all nice videos to DVD discs and offers 5X faster conversion speed boosted with NVIDIA CUDA technology.

Intel launched a software store called Intel AppUp that provides applications optimized for typical Netbook hardware. It provides free and paid apps in different categories for Intel Atom powered Netbooks, from third party vendors. To get started, you need to download and install Intel AppUp center to your netbook. AppUp Center is available for all Windows editions and Linux (MeeGo) running Netbooks. Paid software applications downloaded from the Intel AppUp Center for the first time offers a 24 hour trial period, so you can cancel the purchase if that doesn’t meet your requirement.

As you all know, almost all modern games required heavy system resources. If your system doesn’t meet the requirements, some games will freeze often while playing. To manage this situation, you can try a free utility called Game Fire, which will temporary turn off unneeded Windows features that you do not need for normal PC use. These include Windows services, running background processes and scheduled tasks. Besides turning off unneeded functions, Game Fire can boost your gaming experience by defragging your games files and free up system memory. The application is very simple to use. All actions made by Game Fire is temporary, you can restore the previous state by simply clicking the Turning off Gaming Mode button. Game Fire works on Windows XP, Vista and 7 including 64-bit editions (Required .NET Framework 3.5 SP1) and you can download it at source. Note: While installing doesn’t forget to uncheck their toolbar installation option. Similar Utility: IObit Game Booster

Due to some reasons the icon cache of your PC becomes corrupt and you’ll see wrong icons for different file types or icons did not appear properly on your desktop. Though, this problem can be solved by deleting and re-building icon cache manually, the Rebuild Icon Cache utility will do this with a click. Rebuild Icon Cache meant for Windows 7 only and is very simple to use. Just run it (no installation required), click on the rebuild icon. It’ll delete the IconCache.db and Restarts the Explorer. Moreover, the utility will also back up the IconCache.db, if anything went wrong, you can restore it by clicking the restore button. Download Rebuild Icon Cache .

Want to send reply to received email messages automatically? It may be useful, for instance, when you are away from your work and want to send replies to particular email messages automatically. If you’re using Gmail, here is how you can do that. 1. Log into you Gmail account, select Settings and then Labs . Scroll down and select Canned Responses . Enable this feature and save settings. 2. Now return back to the Compose Mail section and you will see a new dropdown menu named Canned Response . Click on that, select ‘ New canned response ’ and enter a suitable name for it and then click Ok to save. 3. Next type what you want in the message field (your auto-reply message) and click Save button to save the message. This is your auto-reply message, which is now ready to send. It can be accessed from the Canned response dropdown menu. (you can create any number of canned response to send), 4. Just choose the canned response you just created from the dropdown list and the message will b...

All photographs taken by you contain some personal information such as camera model, date and time, exposure, aperture, ISO, what camera mode was used, whether or not a flash fired, information about image editing program, etc. If for some reasons, you don’t want to disclose these details ( EXIF data ), you need to make sure that no such information is saved within the picture files. Free EXIF Eraser is a lightweight, portable application that allows you to easily and effectively delete entire EXIF/IPTC/XMP information from image files. All you have to do is simply select a directory containing image files and EXIF eraser will erase all the EXIF data from the files in this directory. It will not make any damage to the original photographs. It runs on Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit Editions. It is very small, needs no installation, you can run directly from a USB driver. Download EXIF Eraser . [ Similar utility ]

The Wireless Keyboard Indicator is a little, portable program which stays in Windows system tray and displays "Caps Lock", "Num Lock" and "Scroll Lock" status, allows you to switch key status, plays a sound when the key status changed. This beautiful Wireless Keyboard Indicator is useful for notebooks, netbooks and wireless keyboards that have no such indicators. Another feature of this little application is that you can control the volume with your mouse wheel. Move mouse over windows taskbar, turn the mouse wheel, you will see it. [Similar Topics: post 1 , post 2 ] Free download (90Kb) Wireless Keyboard Indicator for Windows 7, Vista and XP

Give your Windows 7 a facelift with this official theme compiled with 15 awe-inspiring nature photographs by Microsoft technical evangelist Mike Swanson. Download this theme from Microsoft personalization gallery and take a closer look at nature's beauty.

The Master Boot Record (MBR) is the very critical part of a computer system. If it is damaged due to a virus attack or by other means your data on your hard drive may lost forever. The MBR Backup tool helps you in such critical situation. The new version of MBR Backup tool (v.2) allows you to restore saved backups in the event that your MBR becomes corrupted. You can do this by connecting the drive to another computer. Another very helpful feature of this new version is its ability to view the partition which is table contained in the MBR. Moreover, this new version will also show the MBR on any drive connected to the computer. You can download MBR Backup tool from here [ home page ]

In partnership with security expert and author, Linda McCarthy, Microsoft offers a free downloadable version of her new book, “ Own Your Space – Keep Yourself and Your Stuff Safe Online ”. This book is dedicated to every teen who takes the time to learn about security and how to stay safe and be smart online. This book is also an essential resource for every parent and teacher who wants to keep up with the latest computer and online safety issues and help kids learn to avoid them. This book is designed for any teen who is: In fear of drive-by downloads of nasty adware, spyware, and viruses Anxious about scareware and ransomware Trying to stay safe on social networking sites Concerned about online predators and identity thieves Scattering secrets to the wind in favorite hot spots Shopping online without protection Unsure of the risks about webcams and sexting Dealing with cyberbullies at home or in school Blogging alone and in the dark You can download your copy free from Microsoft dow...

Google Instant is a new search enhancement tool from the technology giant Google, which is designed to speed up your search. It searches the Web as you type (not after you type) and Google claims that, this new feature will greatly reduce the time spent on search. Ok, whatever will be that, this feature only works in latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, IE8 and Safari (Mac). For Opera users, here is a workaround to enable Google Instant. Visit www. google.com in Opera browser. Note that, currently Google Instant is available in US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Russia , if you are on other countries click this http://www.google.com/webhp?sclient=psy link in Opera. Then, right click anywhere on the page and select " Edit Site Preferences ". Go to the " Network " tab and choose " Identify as Firefox " from the drop down list on the bottom. Click OK to save. [ Via ]

Google Scribe is a new lab project from Google that makes your text typing process extremely fast and simple. It enables auto- complete suggestions as you type on any web page where a text field is available, for example, twitter, comment form, composing email, IM chat, etc. With keyboard shortcuts and mouse actions you can make your text typing process quick and error free. Google Scribe can be used anywhere, on any web page, using the Google Scribe Bookmarklet. To enable this feature, drag the Google Scribe Bookmarklet to Bookmarks toolbar on your browser and click on this Bookmarklet to enable. More detailed information available here .

Integrated PDF reader is one of the exciting features of the latest stable release of Google Chrome 6. This feature will help you to read PDF files without downloading them to your computer. However, integrated PDF reader is disabled by default. You need to enable this feature to view PDF file. To do that, type a bout:plugins in the address bar of Chrome and hit Enter (see screenshot below). You can see a list of plug-ins. Enable Chrome PDF Viewer from this list and restart your browser. And if you want to save the PDF file on your computer, just right click on the page and select save option.

If you’re looking for a comprehensive tool to manage your hard disk and other storage devices, you may be interested in Drive-Thru. Drive-Thru is an easy to use, portable program that enables you to perform certain task such as enable/ disable write protect, hide/unhide drives, disable autorun, convert FAT to NTFS format, change drive letter and icon, etc. The easy to understand user interface lets anyone to make changes without any difficulty. Run Drive- Thru (no installation needed), it will display a window with 4 tabs. The first tab (Drive Security) lets you hide/unhide drives or disk partitions, lock/unlock drives and disable auto run. The second tab (Drive Substitution) lets you make changes to individual drives. The third tab (Drive Monitoring) lets you monitor a drive(s) or partition changes and the last tab (Other) lets you perform certain tasks like enable/ disable disk write protect, change drive letter, icon, etc. You can free download Drive-Thru here.

Making a USB bootable operating system is a good idea if you want to install an operating system in machines that has no optical drive, for example netbooks and ultra-portable laptops. Moreover, one of the main advantages of a bootable USB disk is, as it is faster than the optical drive, installing your OS requires less time, but, of course, your motherboard should have USB boot support. Here is a very simple solution to create a bootable USB drive for Windows 7 without any extra expense and DOS technique. The free application called Windows 7 SBB Tool lets you easily create USB bootable windows 7 setup in few steps. It is very simple to use if you have Windows 7 iso file, just extract the files in any location of your local disk and specify it to SSB Tool. You can choose any removable device (USB drive, SD Card, etc), if your motherboard has support for that. Download Windows 7 SBB Tool