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Gigabyte LAN Optimizer is a free tool designed to optimize the network chip (NIC card) on your motherboard as per your online activity or personal preference. It supports Realtek Network Interface Controller (NIC) 8111E and above cards and lets you mange different types of network traffics such as web browsing, downloading, gaming or watching video.

Mozilla has released an add-on recovery tool for the recently released Firefox 7 for helping people who have missed their add-ons after upgrading their Firefox from the previous version. Though Mozilla is planning to release a small update (Firefox 7.0.1) to fix this bug, meantime you can use the official Add-on Recovery Tool to fix the issue.

Mozilla has released Firefox 7 final with many improvements in performance and memory consumption, which is now fast and uses less memory. Mozilla adds a new capability called ‘ telemetry ’ to Firefox 7, intending to collect real world performance data for optimizing future Firefox releases.

We have Windows 8 developer preview here for sometimes now and from my experience, I should say it is a fast, secure and user-centric OS. As we know, it brings new look and new features to our computer. For example, the task manger in Windows 8 has a new look and added functionalities.

You might have heard about Google’s innovative search feature ‘ Search by Image ’, which helps you discover all kind of information related to a specific image. There is an official add-on for Firefox and Chrome to make this easier, which adds a right-click menu option to search an image. ‘Google by Image’ is a similar add-on for Firefox.

F-Secure ShareSafe is a new Facebook application designed to protect you from malicious links and spam that may appear in your news feed and wall post. You can choose any links – top links, news feed and my wall – for scanning for dangerous content before sharing it with friend or visiting the link.

Of course, you can quickly and easily open a new window for a running program by just using a keyboard shortcut key Ctrl + N. However, if you are looking for an alternate way (to open and close a running program’s window) with your mouse, here is how you can do that in Windows 7.

A developer preview version of Windows 8 is here for a while now. Though, it is released for testing purpose, there are many utilities already available to tweak Windows 8 appearance. Here is another little tool called ‘Windows 8 Start Tweaker’ that lets you simply change the background image of Windows 8 Metro screen and color of logon screen.

Snap is a new multi-tasking feature for Windows 8 that allows users to run two programs at once. Snap enables you to run two Start Screen apps or one start screen app and one desktop app at the same time. This feature only supports high resolution (1366×768 or above pixel) PCs. However, if you have a low resolution monitor, you can also tryout this feature.

As you all know, PDF (portable document format) is definitely the most popular, non-editable document distribution format, which have text and images. You can open it on nearly any operating system, in exactly the same format by using a PDF reader, for example Adobe Reader. If you are looking a way to extract text (for editing) or images from a PDF file, here is how you can do all that with Nitro PDF Reader.

Metro UI Tweaker Tool is a simple, freeware tool designed for Windows 8 developer Preview that allows users to tweak few settings that are normally unavailable. For example, you can add power options (Lock, Sleep, Restart and Shutdown, etc) to the Metro Start Menu Screen, disable Metro UI, add apps and files to Metro UI, and more.

Metro Start screen is one of the first changes that I noticed after installing Windows 8 Developer Preview . Underneath the Metro Start screen, you can see old plain Windows with taskbar, desktop and file manager. However, the start screen only shows basic information such as the time, settings, etc, but if you like, you can also easily enable the old Win 7 classic menu.

Each network interface card (NIC) has a unique identification number called MAC address (Media Access Controller address), which is used to identify your computer or networking device over a network. However, some network administrators make use of this information (MAC address) to restrict network bandwidth, access times, etc. For example, public Wi-Fi hotspots often impose such restrictions.

Looking for the cool wallpapers included in the latest Windows 8 developer’s preview build? A Deviantart user has borrowed some cool wallpaper straight from the Windows 8 Developer Preview build and made available for download.

Microsoft has officially released a developer preview version of its next generation operating system code named ‘Windows 8’ during the BUILD conference for developers. This pre-beta version of Windows 8 is intending for developers, but public can also download and try it out from Windows Dev center.

Easy Photo Effects is a little (180KB) application, probably the most easy to use photo editor for Windows that offers some of the best filters like black & white artworks, vintage sepia, cool movie effects, colored grid, etc to make your photos look really awesome. You can apply each effect just with a click.

Do you know how much is your mouse used daily, or the distance your mouse travels every day, every week or year? If you want to measure how much your mouse travels, you can find it out quickly with Ashampoo MouseTracer.

Wish you could translate selected text or entire documents into your preferred language without going through the lengthy process of copying and pasting text into Google Translate? With a free application called Transmiti you can do all that with a click. Just select text from a document or webpage and click Win key (default key) on your keyboard. Your selected text will be translated to your preferred language.

Nowadays you can use any mp3 music file as ringtone for your mobile phone, because many smartphones are supporting it. However, sometimes you may want to customize your favorite mp3 music to make your ringtone unique, for example, you may need only a portion from the middle of the song.

Webpage Screenshot is a handy Chrome extension that lets you captures screenshot of a webpage, cut, edit and annotate the screenshot and save it in your computer as PNG/JPG image file or share it with your friends via Facebook, Twitter or Gmail. You can capture webpage as a whole or just the viewing portion with a click.

Performing your daily computer tasks with keyboard instead of mouse can save you a lot of time and boost your working power. Every application has its own set of keyboard shortcuts but many of them are difficult to remember. However, if you can customize them as per your needs you can easily recall them. Here is how you can customize Firefox keyboard shortcuts to perk up your browsing experience.

Connected Mind is a browser based free mind map editor for Google Chrome that can helps you in planning and decision making works. With this app, you can draw unique and memorable mind maps, decode complex ideas of your mind, store them in the cloud for free and access them anywhere.

Looking for a reliable solution to backup your Blu-ray video disk to your computer? Then the WinX Blu-ray Decrypter can help you to decrypt and backup them to M2TS video file or Blu-ray folder (compatible with Win7 Media Player). It preserves the original video/audio quality and has the ability to remove all known encryptions.

G+7 is a Windows 7 desktop gadget designed to view live Google+ messages feed on your Windows 7 desktop. With this app, you can view live update streams from your Google+ friends without opening the browser.

AVG has released 2012 line of products for Internet Security, Antivirus, and Antivirus Free with some important security improvements including better protection against fake antivirus and ransomware. On the first run, I noticed that, unlike the previous 2011 edition it is lightweight on system, especially when scanning the PC.