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Free download Ashampoo Burning Studio 2010 Advanced

May 29, 2010 0 comments

The full version of Ashampoo Burning Studio 2010 Advanced is currently available for download through V3.co.uk Software Store, from May 28 t...

SubMaster is an awesome visual subtitle editor and translator

May 29, 2010 2 comments

Most movie subtitles you find on Internet doesn’t need to be edited or time-synced. Simply load them into your favorite movie player and the...

Opera makes fun of Chrome’s speed test video

May 28, 2010 0 comments

Opera Software today uploaded a parody video on YouTube poking fun at rival Google over the infamous Chrome speed text video that the compan...

FolderSpy monitors folders for file changes

May 28, 2010 0 comments

FolderSPy is a tiny application that allows you to monitor any directory for any changes. The changes might include creation of new files, f...

How to create hidden images that show only on Internet Explorer

May 28, 2010 5 comments

Here is a nice trick you can use to spook your friends. It’s an old trick but still a good one. Show your friends an innocent looking, ordin...

21 fresh cursor packs for Windows XP and 7

May 28, 2010 22 comments

You frequently change your Windows desktop wallpaper. Adventurous ones probably apply a custom theme and even a new icon set every once in a...

Futuremark showcases impressive 3DMark 11 demo

May 27, 2010 0 comments

With major graphic card manufactures shipping DirectX 11 compatible GPUs, Futuremark Studios is preparing to release a newer version of thei...

New Mozy 2.0 does local backups too

May 27, 2010 2 comments

Online backup service Mozy just announced a new client software for Windows called Mozy 2.0 with some notable changes. One that’s worth tak...

Lady Gaga says downloading her music illegally is OK

May 26, 2010 3 comments

At a time when the entire music industry, music label companies and anti-piracy groups are going after torrent sites and illegal file downlo...

NASA seeks your help to find craters on the Moon

May 26, 2010 0 comments

After the hugely successful crowd sourcing venture Galaxy Zoo , the creator Oxford astrophysicist Chris Lintott is calling out to citizen sc...

Nitro PDF Reader - Free PDF reader, editor and creator

May 26, 2010 3 comments

Nitro PDF Reader is a free PDF solution for Windows with features generally unheard of on free products. Most free PDF applications are eith...

Speed up Windows boot time with Soluto

May 26, 2010 1 comments

An Israel based startup has recently launched a new software application called Solute, which was unveiled during the ongoing TechCrunch Dis...

5 short links for today #37

May 25, 2010 0 comments

1. Anatomy of a Typeface : Before I discovered this site I knew only two anatomical features of a font – serif and sans serif. Now I’ve lear...

Google reveals AdSense revenue share data

May 24, 2010 0 comments

For a long time, the percentage of revenue Google shares with publishers on the Adsense program has been subject to much speculation. Today ...

gdipp – Alternative Windows Font Render

May 24, 2010 0 comments

Although Windows own ClearType font render works reasonably well on LCD screens as well as CRT monitors, an open source project is working o...

Password protect specific bookmark links on Firefox

May 24, 2010 1 comments

You may have some sites you visit regularly but you wouldn’t want others to know. It could be a link to your secret blog or your bank’s webs...

Winners of Handy Backup Giveaway #3

May 24, 2010 2 comments

Last week we had a Handy Backup giveaway contest , our third giveaway of the same software. We received several entries and 5 lucky persons ...

Coranti – Multiple scanning engine (4-in-1) Antivirus

May 24, 2010 0 comments

Years of research and testing by security companies and independent testers alike have taught us that a single anti-virus software is incapa...

Embed Google’s Pac Man game on your own webpage

May 23, 2010 6 comments

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the most popular video game of all time, Pac Man, Google put a playable version of the game on Google’s...

Free download iCare Data Recovery Software, again

May 23, 2010 1 comments

On March last, iCare Data Recovery Software conducted a giveaway where they gave away the $70 hard disk data recovery product for free. The ...

Windows Media Player Plus! plug-in for WMP

May 22, 2010 0 comments

Hardcore music listeners never use Windows Media Player for listening to music or managing their collection as third party software offer be...

Google launches secure encrypted web search

May 22, 2010 0 comments

Last week we mentioned Google dropping hints about bringing encrypted web search to the search engine. Today a blog post announced it’s la...

Whoa! This Twitter Parade makes me feel important

May 21, 2010 1 comments

Some Japanese developers have created a funny Twitter application called IsParade that shows your Twitter followers literally following you...

Free Handy Backup Licenses Giveaway #3

May 21, 2010 0 comments

We have given away Handy Backup licenses twice before . Since our last giveaway on December 2009, four new versions of the software has bee...

Google introduces Adsense for non-Google search results

May 20, 2010 0 comments

The Google Adsense program offers publishers several different ways to add Adsense advertisements on their site. The two most popular and co...

Extend Windows 7 trial period forever with Infinite Rearm

May 20, 2010 9 comments

Windows 7 has a hidden “rearm” command that can extend Windows activation grace period of 30 days by an additional 30 days. The rearm comman...

2 tools to bypass boot manager and restart into Linux or Windows

May 20, 2010 0 comments

Those who run multiple operating system on a single machine and need to frequently reboot from one to another, know how tedious it is to sit...

RAMMap – Physical memory usage analysis tool from Sysinternals

May 20, 2010 0 comments

Not too long ago, Windows Sysinternals released a virtual and physical memory analysis tool called VMMap that enabled software developers a...

Jumplist Extender adds Windows 7 Jumplists to any programs

May 20, 2010 0 comments

Windows 7 Jumplists are pretty nifty. Unfortunately a lot of programs are yet to take advantage of this feature. This is where tools like Ju...

Winyl – A simple but attractive new audio player

May 19, 2010 0 comments

Years ago the only decent audio player available for Windows was Winamp. You would find one copy on every machine during the Windows 98 era ...

SaveFace automatically resets Facebook privacy settings

May 19, 2010 0 comments

Please pardon the slew of Facebook privacy related posts in recent weeks, and bear with me one more time as I write about yet another applic...

OutSync synchronizes Outlook contacts with Facebook

May 19, 2010 0 comments

OutSync is a simple Windows desktop application that syncs photos of your Facebook friends with matching contacts in Microsoft Outlook.

Idle keyboard makes you sound busy when you are not

May 19, 2010 0 comments

Here at Instant Fundas we have a detailed guide and numerous tips on how to surf at work surreptitiously. These are really good to save you...

WiseStamp adds customized email signatures on any webmail

May 18, 2010 1 comments

WiseStamp is a browser plug-in for Firefox and Chrome (available also for the email client Thunderbird), that allows you to embed a surprisi...

Seagate planning a hybrid SSD+Disk drive

May 18, 2010 0 comments

If the rumor is true, then soon we will be seeing a new kind of hard disk drive from Seagate - one that is a combination of the flashy new S...

ReclaimPrivacy: Facebook privacy scanner

May 17, 2010 0 comments

With over 170 options to choose from, Facebook’s privacy settings are a nightmare for a user who just wants to keep in touch with his frien...

Openbook: Search public Facebook updates without logging in

May 17, 2010 1 comments

You do know your Facebook wall updates are publicly searchable, don’t you? Well, if you don’t, there is a new site that shows you how scary ...

Boston Globe Big Picture gallery downloader

May 17, 2010 0 comments

The Boston Globe’s Big Picture series is one of the finest example of photojournalism on the Internet. Updated every Monday, Wednesday and ...

Free download Advanced SystemCare PRO Edition

May 17, 2010 0 comments

Advanced SystemCare Pro, formerly known as Advanced WindowsCare, provides an always-on, automated, all-in-one PC Healthcare Service with ant...

Google to offer encrypted search next week

May 16, 2010 0 comments

Google plans to allows users to run encrypted search by next week, it announced in a blog post on Friday. Ironically, the announcement of th...

MoonyDesk is a gorgeous new desktop widget engine

May 14, 2010 0 comments

Widgets on the desktop might seem useless from a practical standpoint, but you can’t deny their awesomeness. Widgets look stunning on the de...

What’s behind Wikipedia’s puzzle globe?

May 14, 2010 0 comments

If you have visited Wikipedia during the last 48 hours or so you must have noticed that the online encyclopedia now sports a soothing new lo...

Import, Export and Backup Opera profile and settings

May 14, 2010 2 comments

Backing up Opera browser’s profile settings manually is easy but clumsy and require you to backup several different folders/files, feeds, bo...

Product Observer – Price tracker browser plug-in

May 14, 2010 0 comments

Product Observer is a browser addon for Firefox and Internet Explorer that can monitor the price of a chosen product on a shopping site and ...

Facebook’s privacy policy is longer than the United States Constitution

May 13, 2010 0 comments

At the turn of the new year (from December 2009, actually), Facebook brought dramatic changes to their privacy policy requiring users to opt...

Free download Portal for PC and Mac until May 24

May 13, 2010 1 comments

In celebration of the launch of Steam for Mac, Valve Corporation is giving away the game Portal for free. This promotion is different from t...

YouTube now lets you keep public videos out of search results

May 13, 2010 0 comments

Until now, there were only two options when you upload a video to YouTube – either make it public or make it private. Making it public meant...

Recover lost hard disk space with DiskMax

May 12, 2010 1 comments

DiskMax is a powerful hard disk file cleaning software that makes other file cleaning software like CCleaner look like a minnow. (Actually, ...

Mozilla’s insecure plug-in check for all browsers

May 12, 2010 0 comments

Mozilla has introduced a service that allows users of other browsers – Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera and Safari, to test whether they ar...

VideoSurf - Get video summaries before you click

May 12, 2010 0 comments

Remember Rick Roll? If only there was a way to peek into the videos before playing them. Think of all the hours of your life you have wasted...

Driver Sweeper removes leftover after driver uninstall

May 11, 2010 0 comments

With only a few exception, a majority of uninstallers that come with software applications are pure junk. These uninstallers remove only the...

Mandriva up for sale. Linagora confirms takeover

May 11, 2010 0 comments

In case you are using Mandriva, the once popular Linux distribution, you might be interested in knowing that the French company is now up fo...

DocTranslator translates Word document online while preserving layout

May 10, 2010 0 comments

DocTranslator is an online file translation service that uses the Google Translate service to translate DOC, DOCX, PPT, XLS, XML and TXT fil...

Create custom Windows Run Commands with Run Manager

May 10, 2010 0 comments

There are hundreds of Run commands for Windows – some of them are very popular and are frequently used and seen in articles like the regedit...

Use Google Docs as LaTeX editor

May 8, 2010 0 comments

In case you you are not familiar with LaTeX, here is a brief description: LaTeX is a document markup language based on the idea that autho...

How to remove the new Google sidebar from search page

May 7, 2010 0 comments

Some weeks ago I wrote that Google had rolled out a new design for their search page. Later it turned out to be just a test run. The real c...

AM-Notebook is an All-in-One life organizing utility

May 7, 2010 1 comments

AM-Notebook Lite is a software that has notes, to-do list , calendar, contact book and a simple spreadsheet application all rolled into one....

Convert a collection of images into a PDF file

May 7, 2010 0 comments

One easy way to convert an image into a PDF file is to use a virtual PDF printer or file conversion software such as Omniformat . But what i...

Alert: New Facebook bug secretly add apps to your profile

May 7, 2010 0 comments

In a new privacy scare, several blogs reported a sneaky new security hole on Facebook yesterday. It was discovered that when you visit cer...

Microsoft Image Composite Editor – Advanced panorama creator

May 6, 2010 0 comments

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher for Windows that can create high-resolution panoramas from a set of...

Zen Coding – Speedy way to write HTML and CSS code

May 6, 2010 0 comments

A typical CSS/HTML code for a page contains lots of redundant codes such as repeating DIV tags, A tags, attributes etc. You can minimize the...

Make your computer sound like those in movies

May 6, 2010 7 comments

You must have noticed computers in movies keep making weird beeps and sounds whenever the actor is using the keyboard or hacking into the ma...

Zoner Photo Studio Free – Photo editing tool for the masses

May 5, 2010 0 comments

A large number of users find Adobe Photoshop and applications of similar caliber too intimidating, and rightly so. After all how many point ...

5 short links for today #36

May 5, 2010 0 comments

1. 40 ways we still use floppy disks : After Sony announced that they would stop producing Floppy disks, BBC asked users if they still used ...

Timeshot makes wonderful time lapse photo manipulation

May 4, 2010 0 comments

Timeshot is a new tool built upon an entirely new concept of photo manipulation. Instead of using a brush to pain on photos, Timeshot uses p...

3D virtual tour of Anne Frank’s Secret Annex

May 4, 2010 3 comments

To mark the 50th anniversary, the Anne Frank Museum has launched a virtual tour of the house where the 13 year old penned the most famous di...

Synchronize files between Skydrive and your computer

May 4, 2010 1 comments

You must be aware of applications such as Skydrive Explorer and Gladinet that lets you use your online Skydrive account as a local folder ...

Add elevator music to Windows progress bars!

May 4, 2010 0 comments

Instant Elevator Music is a fun little application that sits on the system tray and automatically starts playing cozy elevator music wheneve...

Windows 7 Taskbar Separators

May 3, 2010 0 comments

The Windows 7 taskbar is designed such that it can used as a dockbar . So if you are using like one you are probably missing one item that e...

Enhance, fix shaky home videos with vReveal [Must-have]

May 3, 2010 10 comments

Home videos are generally unappealing. The under exposed, shaky, pixilated and out-of-focus videos of your kids blowing the birthday candles...

Granola reduces computer power consumption by scaling the CPU

May 3, 2010 0 comments

Granola is a safe to use power management software for x86 based systems, laptops, and PCs running Linux and Windows that reduces power cons...

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