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Blumind is a lightweight, portable, simple to use and multi-tabbed mind map editor for Windows. It can be used for planning and decision making job or can be used to decode complex ideas or explain their working implementation; it helps in recalling finer points of the project at hand. Though, this little program (244Kb) Blumind has basic mapping functions, itis suitable for most uses. Each object is available at right side of the program windows and is easy to navigate and configure. It supports keyboard short cuts and options to choose different color themes as per your subject. You can export your mind map to PNG, JPEG, BMP or GIF file or save it in BMD file for future editing. Blumind can be downloaded free here . [ Home Page ]

Calomel SSL Validation is a security add-on for Firefox whose main job is to notify you how much secure your connection to a website is. Of course, Firefox displays secure connection by green URL tag, blue URL tag and a lock icon if the connection is SSL encrypted, but these information are not enough to decide whether the connection is truly secure or not. Calomel SSL Validation add-on gives comprehensive information about the SSL cipher strength of the current connection just with a click. It scores the connection on the following items: if the certificate was valid, if the fully qualified host name is equal to the common name the certificate was registered for and the strength of the cipher and cipher key length. This add-on offers several other useful functions also. In the "Preferences" section, you can choose to hide titles and icons in each of the tabs, which is useful to stop people looking over your shoulder to see what sites you have open. Another option is you can ...

Sometimes it may be necessary for you to hide running programs from the desktop and from the taskbar. NSC WinVisible is a free application for Windows that can hide and un-hide running programs just with a keyboard hotkey. NSC WinVisible is very simple to use. Download and install it (required .NET Framework 2). Then run the program, it’ll list all running programs; select desired programs that you want to hide. Use the hotkey Shift + Alt + H for hide (you can define your own keys) and use Shift + Alt + S to un-hide the programs. NSC WinVisible (400Kb) can be downloaded at source .

Have you ever spotted on image with some great looking fonts on it and wanted to know which fonts these are? Here’s a great online utility called Myfonts that can read and detect which fonts are used in which images. Before going to identify the fonts, there are few things that you need to keep in mind. Make sure that you pick the image that doesn’t have fonts touching the border of the image. Avoid picking the handwritten type fonts (fonts touching each other). And also the text in the image should be in horizontal position. Now visit here (http://new.myfonts.com) and select the menu ‘WhatTheFont’. Click the ‘Browse’ button (adjacent to the Upload a file section) and choose the image (max 2Mb) to upload and click ‘Continue’ button. The image will be uploaded. At the bottom of the image you will notice some columns each with a single alphabet from the words. Make sure that the character in the bottom text box matches the one in the image above. If not, change it. Do not leave any of t...

ExtraRenamer is a professional file and folder renaming tool for Windows, which suits almost any file renaming situation. You can rename multiple videos, pictures, photographs from your digital camera, MP3 music and folders using flexible file renaming option. It allows many different renaming operations. You can add numeric counter, additional text, file date to the new file name. You can also remove unwanted characters, numbers and special symbols from the file name. Key features of ExtraRenamer: Rename ID3 tags - You can change ID3 tags such as Title, Artist, Album, Year, Genre for your MP3 music files. Flexible file rename options - You can decide on whether to add a fixed length counter to file name, remove existing alphabets, numbers and spaces from file name. You can add additional text to file name or even replace existing text from all file names. Rename Profile Settings - Once you decide on the rename file pattern, you can save and use it later on. Export renamed files t...

Bitdefender, the industry leading Security Company has released a new free application for Facebook users called Bitdefender Safego that lets users to check their privacy levels, identifies personal information that’s visible to strangers and scans users wall, message inbox and comments for malicious links. The application scans your account and warns if you need to modify your Facebook privacy settings so personal information isn’t exposed to public. Moreover users will have the ability to warn their friends about infected links in their Facebook accounts. BitDefender safego keeps your Facebook accounts protected even when you are not logged in to Facebook. More details about BitDefender safego [via]

Mouse Jiggler is a tiny Windows utility whose main job is to move the mouse pointer without user intervention. This is useful for stopping screensaver or other monitoring system triggered by idle detection that you can't turn off any other way. For example, you can use it as a quick way to stop a screensaver activating during an installation or when monitoring a long operation without actually having to mess up with the screensaver settings. Mouse Jiggler has two modes: the first option shows you the mouse movement and the second Zen mode will not. Download Mouse Jiggler (37.5Kb)

Opera Configurator is a handy extension for Opera 11 that enables you to open your Opera settings window just with a click. Besides Opera’s common preferences ( can be accessed with shortcut keys CTRL+F12 ) options, there are several other options available for you to adjust. Options like Cache, Multimedia, BitTorrent settings, etc are not available through the preferences Window; they are hidden in the built-in preferences editor. To access all that settings either you have to type “ about:config ” in the address bar and hit the Enter button or just install the Opera Configurator extension, it will add an icon near to the address bar. Just click on it whenever you want to access the preferences editor.

Till now there is no official download available for portable editions of major web browsers. Only third party’s editions are available. But, now with Opera 11, you can either install it as usual or run it in portable mode, suitable, if you don’t like third party portable editions. One main benefit of portable editions is it will not affect any of your system settings. Here is how you can run Opera 11 in portable mode. Launch the Opera installer and click on “ Options ” (see screenshot below) Set ‘ Install path ’ as a location on the USB drive (or any directory). Then Change the “Install for ” option to “External Device” (see screenshot below). It will extract all the files to the specified destination, without touching any system settings. Also, it makes Opera read its profile from the installation folder. You can make a shortcut on the desktop for quick launch [ Via ]

In Windows you have little option to arrange the desktop. If you’ve many programs and documents open, it became clutter and sometimes unusable. If you would like to keep organized, more productive and want to improve the way you work with Windows, here is a free application to help you. 3Desk lets you manage your applications more easily in a 3D desktop adding the third dimension to your Windows screen. 3D minimized windows will appear in three dimensions and transparent on your screen and have the ability to be flipped, zoomed, moved, and swiveled in almost any way you want. T3Desk is lightweight and simple to use. Install and run the program. Configure it, if you want. Just open any application (example, your browser), you can see a small icon (see screenshot above) on the top of the window, click on it to minimize to 3D. You can drag and drop it anywhere on the desktop. T3Desk works with Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. You can download the program at source .

Windows 7 usually have a logon screen that contains light blue color interface and leaves on it. Of course it is cool, but if you like to use your own image as logon screen for your system, here is a simple application called Tweak My Logon 2010. Tweak My Logon 2010 is very easy to use. After installation just select an image (JPEG) of your own, and click on Change Logon screen button. Interested users can download (348Kb) the application at Sourceforge for free.

If you have too many open tabs in Firefox and want to move them around, the only option available in the newest version is to drag and drop the tab to desired location using the mouse with left click hold. If you find it unusable, here is an add-on that gives keyboard shortcuts to move Firefox tabs. Move Tabs is an useful Firefox extension that allows you to move the current tab to the left, right, the beginning or the end of the tab bar by simply pressing Ctrl + Shift + PageUp, PageDown, Home and End keys respectively. Move Tabs Firefox extension works with any version (3.5 – 4) of Firefox and can be downloaded at Mozilla add-on repository [ via ]

PDF-XChange Lite is one of the best and light-weight print drivers for creating PDF documents (Adobe compatible) from any Windows application. The’ Lite’ edition is a simplified version of its standard print driver and is ideal for home users, small business and all those requiring a simple yet highly efficient way to create PDF files. Features of PDF-XChange Lite 4: Terminal Server/ Citrix Compatible and Multi-Language UI support Create new PDF file from any Windows Application at 2400 DPI max. output resolution. Basic Paper Settings (paper size, scaling, graphic resolution, etc) Embedded fonts support and option to create PDF files with clickable literal URL links Mirrored Printing Supported Add Document Information/Metadata/XP Metadata PDF Files automatically optimized using world leading compression PDF-XChange Lite normally costs $24, its developer Tracker Software now giving away (limited time) free full version of PDF-XChange Lite 4 (special edition) for home and non- commercial...

Opera is really an exciting browser which gives fastest browsing experience, even on a slow connection, but a general criticism of Opera is the lack of extensions, like the ones that make Firefox and Google Chrome more useful or meaningful. But the new Opera 11has changed this and now you can add extensions. Extensions allow you to easily add new functionality to your Opera browser. A selection of add-ons can be chosen from Opera’s new extensions catalog. With Opera 11 alpha running, you can install extensions by just clicking on them. A small install window will appear. Click “Install”, and you are done. If you have an extension file stored on your computer, it can also be installed by dragging and dropping it into the Opera window. Download Opera 11 (Alpha, test version) and Extensions

SmartPower is a tiny application that gives you greater control over your PC’s power-saving settings. You can schedule when your computer should wake up and stay on, and prevent it from hibernating or going to sleep when certain devices are connected, your processor is busy, or particular programs are running. SmartPower is very easy to configure and it uses only minimal system resources. Smart Power is particularly suited to Windows Home Servers, torrent/download boxes and HTPCs. SmartPower's main goal is to hibernate, suspend, or shutdown your PC. This utility lets you create rules that prevent this happening. When SmartPower sees that no rules currently apply it will initiate hibernate (or suspend, or shutdown). The potential rules are: One or more schedules are active - A schedule is a period of time during which the PC must stay on. By default SmartPower will wake-up your PC in order to honour a schedule. One or more devices are online - A device is anything on your network th...

EASEUS Partition Master Professional Edition is an excellent hard drive partition solution and disk management utility for Windows that offers all the standard and advanced features that a disk partitioning tool required. It helps you to extend or resize the portion without rebooting, recover lost partitions, create bootable CD/DVD and many more. It works under Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 (both 32 bit and 64 bit) and offers following main benefits. Support GPT volumes - GPT disk partitioning, GPT disk copy, etc. Convert dynamic disk to basic disk easily with all data protected. Extend system partition to maximize computer performance. Partition Manager utility for better hard disk management and computer performance maximization. Copy Wizard to copy partition or migrate entire hard disk to another without Windows system reinstallation. Partition Recovery Wizard to recover deleted or lost partitions EASEUS Partition Master Professional Edition (6.1.1) normally costs $39.95, now you ...

F-Secure Safe Links is a simple, free and totally new kind of service for bloggers and website owners that give a trust sign to every external link you provided on your post ( demo here ). As we all know, it is important, but often not so easy, to control what is being posted on your site's user generated content area. F-Secure Safe Links helps you tosafeguard your site visitors against dangerous links with a unique link analysis done in real-time, for each page view. What's even better, there is no extra load on your web servers, the whole process takes place in F-Secure cloud service (F-Secure Real-time Protection Network) and in the browsing client. F-Secure Safe Links uses a simple and fast Javascript call that causes all the links on a web page to be checked and rated for possible threats by F-Secure anti-malware cloud service.

Crave World Clock is a good looking clock software that allows you to view current time and date for all cities and countries on your desktop using a real world map and real-time imagery provided by NASA. It is quite suitable for people who need to keep track of the current time in different cities around the world. The time will be displayed on a real world map along with day and night effects. You can add cities of your choice on the world map. Softpedia giving away Crave World Clock 1.2 for free to all users. Just visit here and enter your name and email address to grab it. Download the clock software from here .

FlashControl is a handy extension for Google Chrome that lets you control flash contents embedded in a webpage from loading (enable or disable). The main benefit of this extension is that you can reduce the webpage loading time and broadband usage charge. It will also block flash based advertisements. This content-filtering extension adds a Control Panel to each Flash player embedded in a webpage. Each control panel has buttons that allow you to turn the Flash player on and off, and toggle its visibility. Also Read : Block Flash and Silverlight content in webpages Moreover, from the FlashControl preference page you can load and unload Flash players from a webpage you're viewing, temporarily unblock Flash players for any given tab while browsing a website, add a website address to a whitelist, disable FlashControl's functionality altogether, and activate your personal preferences page. You can install FlashContro l from Chrome extension gallery

Square Privacy Cleaner is a new privacy protection tool from Novirusthanks that lets you delete unwanted history data from your computer and makes your PC operation fast and smooth.The application is fast and powerful andallows you to erase Windows traces, recent opened documents, prefetch files, clipboard cache, MRU lists, temp folders and junk files. Square Privacy Cleaner can also clean Internet traces, like cookies, history and cache of popular web browsers. Cleaning of third-parties applications like WinRAR,WinZIP, Java cache, Java logs, Media Player Classic history, Microsoft Office history, etcare also supported. Moreover this tool can also remove locked index.DAT files and generic locked files on the next reboot of the system. The application is completely free and works on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. You can free download Square Privacy Cleaner from original source.

AVG LinkScanner is a free early warning system that protects you from visiting malicious website. It offers real-time safety rating for all search results in Google, Yahoo and Bing. LinkScanner Online is for those who want to check a site for exploit manually before entering. LinkScanner Online visits websites before you do, inspecting them in real time for any kind of suspicious behavior and delivering safety ratings for all search results. Enter here and type the URL of the site you'd like to visit in the box to scan. It’ll scan the site instantly and give results. This type of service is certainly useful, because one false click and your PC can become infected with spyware, rootkits and other types of malware.

MemoryWatch is a small tool to view memory usage (physical memory and virtual memory usage) of your computer and if the usage crosses the limit this tool will notify you about it. This is useful, for example, if you’re running memory intensive applications simultaneously, you can shut down less important one for smooth operation of other program, if your PC's memory usage is too high. Moreover, you can also see free disk space and page file usage of your computer. You can set the refresh interval and usage warning limit and minimize it to system tray when not used. MemoryWatch works on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. Interested readers can download it at source.

As you all know 3D technology adds a new dimension to videos and give greater viewing experience. If you’re a YouTube user probably you know 3D YouTube videos . Below is a simple tip to convert an ordinary YouTube video to 3D video and a video demonstration to make 3D glasses at home to watch 3D YouTube video. 3D videos aren't entirely easy to produce because there are many things you can get wrong when expecting good results. However, here is a very simple trick to convert YouTube videos to 3D movies ( via -webtalks ) Login your YouTube account and choose an uploaded YouTube video of yours. Edit its tag by adding at its end the following piece of code: yt3d:enable=true Now, go back to the video link and play it. On the right side of the video you will see an extra option which will let you watch the video in 3D. To watch 3D YouTube videos, you’ve many options. You can use anaglyph, or red and blue, glasses. Above is a simple video tutorial to make a 3D glass at home with two perm...

If you’re a Linux user probably you’re familiar with the Alt - dragging feature. You can move and re-size windows by dragging them with the Alt key. This handy feature can be implemented in Windows also with the little tool called Taekwindow . This feature is useful, especially when you have a large monitor, or multiple monitors, and want to move your mouse much more than you should. Taekwindow is a lightweight (28Kb zip), portable program and works with Windows 7, Vista and XP. Just run the tool (No installation required) and it allows you to do the following. Move a window by grabbing it anywhere (not just the title bar) while holding the Alt key, and then dragging with the left mouse button; Resize a window by grabbing it anywhere (not just the tiny little border) while holding the Alt key, and then dragging with the right mouse button; Move a maximized window between monitors by Alt-dragging; Use the scroll wheel on the window under the cursor, instead of the currently focused wi...

Have you heard about the new threat Stuxnet and Tmphider rootkit (discovered in July of 2010) that spreads via pen drives? Surprisingly, these masked malware spreads in an entirely new fashion; it uses LNK file rather than the well-known autorun.inf file method. This highly severe threat enters into your system just by opening the drive location in Windows Explorer. After entering into your system, this rootkit paces two files named mrxnet.sys and mrxcls.sys (which are essentially driver files) and instruct your system to mask the threat. Moreover, these files somehow manage to produce certificate signed by Realtek. Detailed information available at Symantec A normal antivirus program can’t detect and remove this masked virus. If you’re using a free antivirus program just scan your system with Bitdefender Stuxnet Removal Tool. It is free and you can download it from here.

As you all know Google Instant is a new search enhancement from Google which gives instant search results as you type and it will significantly reduce the time spent on search. You may know how to enable this new feature in your browser or just visit here for details. Here the topic is how to enable Instant in Google Chrome Address bar or Search bar. If you’re using latest developer build or Canary build of Google Chrome, you can simply activate it from Chrome Labs feature. For that, type about:labs in the address bar (search bar) of your Chrome browser and hit Enter button. It will open up a page. Select Instant and enable the option (see screenshot below). Then, just restart your browser and you’re ready to search using Google Instant directly from the address bar (search bar) of your Chrome. Also Read: How to Enable Google Instant in Opera?

Did you accidentally delete photos (or videos) from your Sony digital camera or Sony Memory Card? The ‘ Memory Card File Rescue ’ tool from Sony may help you recover your precious photos from your Sony Memory Card, especially if you’re not overwritten other files to the card immediately after the accidental deletion. Sony Memory Card File Rescue is a free tool that you can download from Sony website. However, to download the tool you need model name (example: MS-MT2G, SF-4N4, SR-4A4 , etc) and serial number of your Sony memory card. The serial number ( 5 digit number ) of the MC can be seen on the backside of your memory card. To download the tool, visit here and click “Download” button (shown at right-side of the page). You will be then taken to a new page. Here enter any model name (example SR-4C4) and serial number (or any 5 digit number) and download the file (13.8Mb). After downloading the file, install and run the program. It will automatically select the drive (card reader or ...

If you want to view a PDF file or Word document find on the internet, usually you need to download the file and open it in an appropriate reader. But with Google Docs Viewer there is no need to download it; you can instantly view it directly online. Whenever you want to open and read a PDF file, Word document, PPT, or TIFF files find on the internet, just visit at http://docs.google.com/viewer (No download, registration or login needed) and enter the URL of the document file. Then click "Generate Link" button which shows you various options. To view the file click the link ‘To view now’ or you can embed the document in your web page or send by email.