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There are several spam sites that appears top in our search results to provide improper contents, dishonest information and other illegal things. For an average user, it is very difficult to differentiate between the required data. So the question is, how do we keep away from these spam sites? The Chrome extension ‘Spam Blocker for Google search’ helps you do a little by blocking spam site.

Windows 7 OEM Info Editor is a small, portable program that lets you edit, create, or delete OEM information of your Windows 7 PC. You can customize the system information such as manufacturer’s name, logo, support phone number, Support URL, Model, etc with this tool. This way you can give your friends or customers an easy access to your contacts or support site.

The portable document format (PDF) is by far the most popular document distribution format there is. For professional looking, non-editable documents that can be opened on nearly any operating system, in exactly the same format, PDF are hard to beat. Though there are several tools for creating PDF documents, not all are able to create professional and secure PDFs. It requires expensive tools like Adobe Acrobat.

The long-awaited first beta of Avast Antivirus 6.0 has been released with new security features and improvements. New features such as Avast WebRep (website reputation rating system), AutoSandbox (automatically run suspicious files in a sandbox), sidebar gadget for Windows 7, etc certainly ensure your computer security further.

Would you like to integrate Google Talk as a sidebar widget in your Firefox browser? So that you can browse the web and talk to your friend in Google Talk at the same time. This is useful, especially, if you are a kind who spend lot of your time for browsing and talking with people.

Though it is possible to create an email signature in Microsoft Outlook, it involves some digging in Outlooks’ settings. But, with the free tool Microsoft Outlook E-mail Signature Creator you can easily create a professional looking e-mail signature using the built-in template format.

BitDefender has released final version of their advanced online malware detection tool called BitDefender QuickScan , which uses .in-the-cloud scanning to detect malware running on a PC very fast, usually in less than 60 seconds. This new version has added features to keep you secure more. Moreover, the revamped website provides more clear information about threats.

Windows Utilities Launcher is freeware tool designed to bring some of the Windows utilities that you are using frequently at your fingertip. You can access utilities like add remove programs, task manger, disk clean-up, computer management, etc with a click which are normally required few clicks to access.

CleanPages is an add-on for Opera, which brings distraction free online article reading by removing annoying ads and other visual disturbances from web pages. CleanPages is a converted version of Readability (a bookmarklet for browsers) and is similar to Reader function in Apple Safari.

Windows 7 Boot Updater is a small program designed to makes it easy to update the Windows 7 boot animation and text. If you are tired of seeing the same boot screen every time you start windows, you can simply change it with this tool.

Speech Recognition is a technology (available in Windows 7 and Vista) which is used for controlling computers using your voice commands. You can perform various computer tasks such as writing documents, opening folder, shutting down your PC, etc without touching the keyboard or mouse. Speech recognition feature is much better and accurate in Windows 7 PC.

Speed dial is a useful feature, which is available by default in Google Chrome, Opera, and now in Internet Explorer 9 , displays your recently visited websites in a tab, so you can access them just with a click. The same feature can be enabled in Firefox also, though with add-ons.

Bootable USB Drive Creator Tool is a tiny utility that lets you easily make a bootable USB drive with few clicks. A bootable USB drive is useful if you want to boot from devices other then the default hard disk. For example, you can use it to troubleshoot a virus infected PC or can be used to cure other critical computer related issues.

Though there are several ways to present a topic in front of an audience, PowerPoint presentation is the most popular, because it’s very easy to construct - anyone can build complex presentations with images, audio clips, text and sound effects with little effort. Now with the program PowerDVDPoint Lite, you can give your presentations a more professional edge by viewing it on TV or portable devices.

There are several free and paid disks defragging software available on the internet, but unfortunately, only few of them can perform well. Some shows only beautiful graph on the screen, but does nothing on the hard disk! O&O Defrag is one of the best defragging tools and its free edition is now available for download.

If you’re a fan of free music-streaming service Grooveshark, then this new Remote Control add-on for Firefox is essential. Normally, the only way to control music on Grooveshark is from the page itself, which is inconvenient if you’ve too many tabs or webpage opened.

GeoSetter is a free, comprehensive tool that lets you add location information (GPS data) to photos using Google map and lets you view and edit metadata such as IPTC, XMP and Exif of image files. The tool is useful, for example, travelers can add GPS data to images taken by them.

Metro Home is an attractive weather widget based on Windows phone 7 (WP7) Metro style user interface (UI) for Windows 7 and Vista. It will display current date, time, and temperature of your city (or any other city) on your desktop.

Usually we hardly give importance to hard drive on a computer system, because it works flawlessly for years. However, it should be regularly checked and maintained in order to prevent any data loss due to hard disk failure and to improve the performance of your PC. Ashampoo HDD Control is a best option for maintaining your hard drive and USB drives.

A forgotten email attachment sometimes brings troubles in your professional life. As it is a common problem, Microsoft Office Labs developed a plug-in called Forgotten Attachment Detector for Outlook 2007 that will notify you about the missing outlook email attachments when you send an email.

Normally when you save a webpage for future references using the built-in ‘Save As’ option of your browsers, it will save all files (images, CSS, scripts, etc…) in a separate folder along with the html file. Of course, it is necessary to fully reproduce the web page, but what about if the number of saved web page grows? Moreover, it’s become tricky if you want to archive the saved web pages or share with others.

i2OCR is a free online OCR service that allows you to convert scanned document or images into editable word document. Just upload an image file (TIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, PBM, PGM, and PPM) and the server side program will process the file and will send the results back to you, which you can either download, or copy and paste.

Apple Wireless Keyboard is a small tool that allows people to use the Apple Wireless and Wired Keyboard features under Windows 7 without losing the Mac functionality. With this tool users can use the following Mac shortcuts under Windows 7.

Not only Windows 7, every computer system should be updated regularly to fix any critical issues associated with the operating system. However, sometimes an update will not work as we are expected. It’ll cause trouble to you and at times it could not be tolerated. Here is how to solve such issues in Windows 7 Ultimate.

FlashResizer is an extension for Firefox browser that lets you resize flash video and games at any size by just dragging. This extension is very useful for video or game sites that do not even allow switching to full screen mode.

Windows Power User Guide is a worth to read free handbook that covers a whole host of topics, Windows 7 Shortcuts and command line tricks. It shows you how to get more from your PC by taking control with advanced features.

Internet Explorer 9’s new feature ‘ Most Popular Sites ’ displays your most frequently visited sites (default 10 sites) in a tab, so you can visit your favorite sites just with a click. But this display is not permanent and you may find that few of your favorites have got replaced over time.

The Recycle Bin usually appears on the desktop. If you wish to hide it from your desktop and want to keep it as a system tray application, here is a tiny tool called MiniBin. This portable tool adds a small icon to the system tray (see screenshot) and with a right mouse click you will be able to empty your Recycle Bin.

For protecting your computer from internet threats Avast anti-virus can be of great help, because, it’s free and offers real-time and heuristic protection from all types of threats. But, when it does an update or finishes a scan, it makes louder voice announcements, which is often annoying or interrupting the user (at least for me!).

LockCrypt is a powerful account management program that was developed to be a user friendly and easy to use tool designed to provide a secure, central database to store and manage passwords, contacts and other personal information.

TrackMyLaptop is a free service from Quick Heal Technologies, which helps users to track down their stolen or misplaced Laptops. The service is available for free to all laptop users in India. Quick Heal Technologies is a leading Internet Security tools and anti-virus provider in India.

Tabbed browsing is incredibly a useful feature for browsers that lets you open several websites at the same time and lets you switch between web pages quickly. But, you can do much more with browser tabs. For example, if you’ve a habit of opening too many tabs and forget to close those that you’ve stopped using can be closed automatically.

Here is an online PDF reader called avidPDF that lets you view any PDF document quickly and very easily. You don’t need to download and install any PDF reader on your computer or don’t need to worry about the safety issues associated with PDF documents.

Twitter Followers Monitor is a tiny tool designed to monitor several Twitter accounts for its new followers as well as un-followers at once. You can monitor any account even if it is not yours and you don't have its credentials. Twitter Followers Monitor can be useful for individuals or companies that are responsible for a number of Twitter accounts and need to keep an eye on their follower engagement.

Though, it has no common usage, HOSTS files included with Windows and other operating systems are important files and are using to redirect TCP/IP traffic in special situations. In simple words, it can be used to prevent opening some web sites from your computer, or redirect a web URL to another site.

ExcelArt is a freeware tool designed to brighten up your Excel spreadsheets by importing your photo to create little works of art. With ExcelArt, you can convert Bitmaps, Jpegs, GIF, and PNG images into colorful mosaics just with a click.

Screen Capture is an extension by Google for its browser Google Chrome that helps you to capture webpage as a whole, visible region or section of a web page and save it as a PNG image. As comparing to similar desktop tool, this tool is really fast when capturing large pages.

iMindMate (Windows, Mac and Linux) is a lightweight tool that can be used for planning and decision making job or can be used to work out complex ideas or explain their working implementations.