Showing posts from October, 2010

25 New, Beautiful and Free Windows 7 Themes

Oct 31, 2010 5 comments

It’s like a tradition I’ve been following for the past two years – bringing you new collection of the best “designer” themes for Windows tha...

Chatroulette’s marketing genius turns problem into profit

Oct 30, 2010 0 comments

Remember Chatroulette, the controversial video chatting service that randomly pairs users for webcam conversations? The service quickly gain...

Mount Everest gets 3G network at the summit

Oct 30, 2010 0 comments

Climbing Mount Everest is recognized as one of the greatest human feats and test of endurance, yet until now those who have successfully rea...

Protect yourself and others from Firesheep with FireShepherd

Oct 29, 2010 0 comments

Early this week a Firefox addon named Firesheep took the Internet by storm by letting anybody, practically anybody, to get into your Facebo...

Firefox addon Firesheep lets you hack into Twitter, Facebook and more!

Oct 29, 2010 1 comments

Connecting to an unsecured public Wi-Fi network is always taking a chance, but now it has become even more frightfully insecure. A new Firef...

WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe is Free until Nov 4

Oct 29, 2010 1 comments

After giving away WinX DVD Ripper Platinum v6.0 last week, which I hope you’ve taken full advantage of, Digiarty Software, Inc. is here with...

Intel Hard drive to SSD Data Migration Software

Oct 29, 2010 1 comments

The Intel Data Migration Software is a utility that copies your drive's contents from your old storage device to your new Intel Solid-St...

FTP Rush: A free FTP Client worth trying

Oct 29, 2010 4 comments

Let me say this. I hate FileZilla. I hate the look of the program, I hate the way it operates, I hate everything about it. I’m just tired of...

CustoPack: A new way to skin Windows 7 and XP

Oct 28, 2010 1 comments

CrystalXP, the creators of popular Windows appearance enhancing software like BricoPack and Vista Inspirant, has released a new customizatio...

Win eBay auctions by placing bid in the last second with goSnipe

Oct 28, 2010 1 comments

eBay auctions have a time limit. User bid their price on an item and other players try to better it by placing a higher bid. This goes on an...

Russia to create operating system to rival Windows

Oct 28, 2010 0 comments

The Russian Government is planning to build their own operating system to compete with Microsoft Windows and reduce dependence on the US bas...

Adobe launches Project Rome, a free (for now) Content Editing Platform

Oct 28, 2010 1 comments

Project Rome is the latest offering from Adobe, a company know for their extensive line of revolutionary products. Adobe describes it as an ...

Add breadcrumb navigation to any website in Chrome

Oct 26, 2010 1 comments

Breadcrumb navigation, for those who are not aware, is a type of text-based Web site navigation feature that provide links back to each prev...

AVERT: 8 antivirus engines in one

Oct 26, 2010 0 comments

It is not recommended to install multiple antivirus software on the same machine. At many times it is impossible to do so because the antivi...

OpenOffice4Kids – Kids friendly Office suite

Oct 26, 2010 0 comments

Kids start using computers early these days, and it’s not a bad idea to get them used to office applications at an early age, because kids w...

Spider Player: Music player, radio player, converter, CD-ripper. All-in-one

Oct 25, 2010 1 comments

Looking for a nice and sleek audio player with tons of functionality that is still easy to use? Spider Player fits the bill perfectly. Fir...

How to increase volume in one channel of stereo MP3 files

Oct 25, 2010 6 comments

Due to poor recording and encoding, sometimes the audio volume on the two channels of a stereo audio file do not match. When such an audio f...

ReactOS version 0.3.12 released

Oct 25, 2010 0 comments

After almost a year since the last release, the ReactOS team announced the availability of version 0.3.12 of the open source operating syst...

USBDummyProtect protects USB Drives from viruses by filling up empty space

Oct 25, 2010 2 comments

USBDummyProtect is a small utility that employs a clever trick to prevent spreading of viruses through USB drives. This open source tool cr...

Google launches streaming Bollywood music service in India

Oct 22, 2010 0 comments

Google India, in partnership with In.com, SaReGaMa and Saavn.com, today launched a free music search portal at http://www.google.co.in/music...

WinX DVD Ripper Platinum available for Free download for a week

Oct 22, 2010 0 comments

WinX DVD Ripper Platinum can rip the content of DVDs to all popular video formats such as AVI, MOV, FLV, WMV, MPEG, MP4, 3GP, etc. It also h...

Daniusoft MOD Converter is Free for a limited time

Oct 22, 2010 0 comments

What are MOD (and TOD) files? MOD and TOD are propitiatory video file formats used by tapeless (hard disk or SD memory card based) digital...

AllMyNotes Organizer: Personal information manager [time limited giveaway]

Oct 22, 2010 0 comments

AllMyNotes Organizer is a powerful personal information manager that allows you to centrally store and organize all your notes – whether it ...

FB-Secure: Configure Facebook application permission during installation

Oct 22, 2010 0 comments

Most Facebook applications request rights to access different user information during installation. Some apps may request for basic informat...

Opera 11 Alpha released. Screenshots inside

Oct 21, 2010 1 comments

Opera today unveiled the first alpha of Opera 11 - the first Opera browser to feature extensions . As with Firefox and Chrome, Opera extens...

Create beautiful photo slideshows with Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder Free

Oct 21, 2010 0 comments

Wondershare has just released a completely free version of DVD Slideshow Builder that lets you turn your photos into attractive slideshows ...

Facebook Disconnect gets rid of Facebook Connect from websites

Oct 20, 2010 0 comments

Did you know that Facebook Connect – those pesky widgets imploring you to ‘join’ their websites – phones home every time you visit a webpage...

Create your own Scanimation with Animbar

Oct 20, 2010 1 comments

Picket fence animation (sometimes also called barrier-grid animation) is an optical illusion. The illusion consist of two sheets – a white s...

Bynamite tells you what advertisers know about you

Oct 20, 2010 1 comments

For those who take Internet privacy seriously, there is tool called Bynamite that allows you to see and control what information advertisers...

Try out Edubuntu online from a browser

Oct 19, 2010 0 comments

The Edubuntu Team has launched a service called Edubuntu WebLive that allows people to try out the operating system straight from the brows...

Export vector graphics to HTML5 Canvas from Adobe Illustrator

Oct 18, 2010 1 comments

Ai->Canvas is a free plug-in for Adobe Illustrator CS3, CS4, and CS5 that enables easy export of vector and bitmap artwork and even anima...

New Adobe Reader 10 gets added security and usability updates

Oct 18, 2010 0 comments

Today Adobe announced the next version of their Acrobat Family of Products which includes Adobe Reader as well as Acrobat Suite, Acrobat Pr...

OSL2000: Advanced Boot Manager for multi-boot systems

Oct 18, 2010 3 comments

OSL2000 is an advanced multi boot manager using which you can install, boot, and manage up to 100 independent operating systems in your comp...

Backup and restore Internet Explorer settings

Oct 18, 2010 0 comments

BackRex Internet Explorer Backup is a simple backup and restore tool for Internet Explorer, that allows for backing up of favorites, history...

Powerful video editor Lightworks to be released as Open Source

Oct 18, 2010 0 comments

EditShare, the company behind the Academy and Emmy award-winning video editing software Lightworks announced plans to release its product un...

YouTube Leanback is YouTube for the big screen

Oct 16, 2010 0 comments

YouTube today formally rolled out YouTube Leanback . As the name suggests, Leanback allows you to actually lean back on a living room sofa a...

Math Input Panel identifies hand written math equations and symbols

Oct 16, 2010 3 comments

Math Input Panel is a utility found in select Windows 7 editions (Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise) that has the ability ...

How to sync MS Office and OpenOffice documents with Google Docs and Zoho

Oct 15, 2010 2 comments

Although web based office apps like Google Docs and Zoho are a great way to keep your documents synchronized and access them from any comput...

Whoa! ‘Diminished reality’ software removes objects from video in real time

Oct 15, 2010 1 comments

Removing objects from an image without leaving any clues behind is tricky enough. Now imagine doing this over and over again on each frame o...

Free license for DVD Ripper for Mac and Windows

Oct 15, 2010 0 comments

Digiarty software is giving away free copies of MacX DVD Ripper Pro, both Windows and Mac version. The offer is valid till October 28, 2010 ...

Quickly access hidden about pages in Chrome

Oct 14, 2010 1 comments

Google Chrome offers a vast amount of information and statistics about the browser through its numerous ‘about’ pages. There is no link on C...

PDFTiger is available for free for a limited time

Oct 14, 2010 0 comments

PDFTiger is a Word To PDF Converter and PDF To Word Doc Tool that quickly and accurately create PDF documents from Word, Excel, Powerpoint,...

Extensions coming to Opera 11

Oct 14, 2010 0 comments

Today, the Opera desktop team has “confirmed” that Opera Extensions will be a feature of Opera 11, the alpha of which will soon be availabl...

Emoticons, cats and 2000+ new characters invade Unicode 6 [peek view]

Oct 14, 2010 0 comments

On October 12, a new version of Unicode was released by the Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit organization that coordinates and oversees th...

Winners of Prayaya V3 Giveaway

Oct 13, 2010 1 comments

Last week we ran a contest for Prayaya V3 – the portable virtual operating system, where we promised to give away 10 licenses, worth $49 ea...

KeySharky adds keyboard shortcuts and remote control capabilities to Grooveshark

Oct 13, 2010 0 comments

Grooveshark is an exceptional online music streaming service, which is receiving a lot of well deserved media attention lately. After Last.f...

DropItToMe: Securely receive files from anyone to your Dropbox account

Oct 13, 2010 3 comments

A while back I published an article covering the several different options we had that allowed anybody to upload files to your Dropbox acco...

What was the first image to be published on the Web?

Oct 12, 2010 2 comments

Back in the early nineties, when the World Wide Web was still young, a group of geeky girls hailing from the European Organization for Nucle...

Moo0 ConnectionWatcher: A GUI frontend for Netstat

Oct 12, 2010 0 comments

Moo0 ConnectionWatcher is a simple program that lets you watch over any TCP/UDP connection made to and from your computer. It lets you find ...

Grab a free license of Ocster Backup Pro 5

Oct 12, 2010 2 comments

Ocster Backup Pro 5 is a great backup software that was designed from the start to work fully automatic. You simply specify what you want ba...

EmailOracle tracks Gmail message delivery and replies

Oct 12, 2010 0 comments

Emails can be tracked the same way visitor tracking is done on websites – a small piece of code, usually in the form of an image, is embedde...

5 ways to temporarily lock your mouse, keyboard and computer

Oct 11, 2010 2 comments

There are several ways to temporarily lock your computer when are away from your desk. One option is to use the native desktop locking featu...

Manage your Google Docs account and sync folders with Busy Docs

Oct 11, 2010 0 comments

Busy Docs is a software that is designed to help people organize documents on their computer and on the network. Users can quickly find impo...

Free AVG Internet Security 2011 license for 12 months

Oct 11, 2010 1 comments

Here is a quick heads-up: AVG is offering free 12 month license of their complete security package, AVG Internet Security 2011, which is wor...

10 short links for today #42

Oct 10, 2010 0 comments

After a long hiatus, 1. XKCD’s map of online communities : From which part of the Internet are you? 2. Wikipeetia - the misspelled ency...

DoubleCAD XT: The Real Free Alternative to AutoCAD

Oct 9, 2010 0 comments

DoubleCAD XT is a compact CAD utility for users who are looking for a replacement for AutoCAD which is free but close enough to AutoCAD in t...

Recover files from corrupted ZIP archive with DiskInternals ZIP Repair

Oct 9, 2010 1 comments

The zip file format is the most popular form of data storage and widely used for backup and transfer of files over the internet. Archiving f...

Add animated, interactive charts and graphs to PowerPoint presentations

Oct 8, 2010 0 comments

Microsoft Office products has its own charting tool, powered by Microsoft Graph - the native charting component in Microsoft’s Office suite....

Giveaway: Prayaya V3 - Portable Virtual Operating System

Oct 8, 2010 0 comments

Prayaya V3 is a virtual operating system that you can run from a removable drive such a USB stick to launch a self-contained environment - ...

Automatically print new incoming emails in Outlook

Oct 7, 2010 5 comments

One of the simple pleasures that the digital age robbed us off is the joy of receiving mails in the mailbox. I’m talking about the good old ...

Task Coach: Complete personal task manager and project tracker

Oct 7, 2010 0 comments

Task Coach is a simple yet surprisingly feature rich, free and open source task manager to keep track of your personal tasks and projects. T...

Keep track of your dog’s movement via Twitter with Puppy Tweet

Oct 7, 2010 0 comments

Mattel Inc, the toy company of Barbie dolls, Hot Wheels and Masters of the Universe fame, has launched a new toy that gives dogs the ability...

Fix group photos, remove unwanted objects and clone yourself with Windows Live Photo Gallery’s Photo Fuse

Oct 6, 2010 0 comments

Windows Live Photo Gallery, which is a part of the Windows Live Essential 2011 suite, has an impressive and innovative tool called Photo Fus...

Add stylish keyboard styled elements with KEYS.css

Oct 6, 2010 1 comments

If you blog about computers and often show keyboard hotkeys for programs in your post, you can stylize those keyboard keys by using the KEY...

4 Free Font Hosting Services

Oct 6, 2010 0 comments

A common hurdle in web design is in the inclusion of non-web-safe fonts. One solution is to replace the text with a similar web-safe font or...

SysMetrix: Clock, system info and weather, all-in-one

Oct 5, 2010 0 comments

SysMetrix is a free skinnable clock and metering application for Windows that displays a wide variety of system information as well as time ...

How to hide or make Windows 7 taskbar invisible

Oct 5, 2010 3 comments

There are several different ways to hide the taskbar in Windows 7. One way is to hide the Windows 7 taskbar by choosing the Auto-hide option...

Sikuli: Create simple automation scripts using screenshots

Oct 5, 2010 0 comments

Automation through scripting, as you may know, is a process of making a computer perform repetitive tasks by itself without human interventi...

Spoon: Run applications from the browser without installing them

Oct 4, 2010 2 comments

Spoon, formerly called Xenocode, is a web-based application virtualization service that allows users to run a variety of different Windows a...

Google's SEO Starter Guide [Free PDF ebook]

Oct 2, 2010 0 comments

The Google's SEO Starter Guide is a beginner's guide to the basics of Search Engine Optimization. The guide covers around a dozen co...

Mz 7 Optimizer: The ultimate Windows 7 customization tool

Oct 2, 2010 1 comments

Mz 7 Optimizer is a free, complete system optimization suite for Windows 7, and quite possibly the only optimization/customization tool you ...

Two new security features for Chrome: XSS protection and disable outdated plugins

Oct 1, 2010 1 comments

A few weeks ago I showed how you can keep your system safe from vulnerable and exploitable plug-ins when using Google Chrome entirely throu...

Goo.gl: Shorten URL, generate QR codes and get analytics

Oct 1, 2010 0 comments

Google’s URL shortener that was launched last December, has just opened it’s doors to the public. Now you can just say meh! and move on, or...

How to compare or find differences between two images

Oct 1, 2010 1 comments

One of my favorite childhood puzzle games that I still enjoy playing is ‘Spot the difference’. In this game two versions of an image are sho...

Ninite, the multiple software installer, comes to Linux

Oct 1, 2010 0 comments

Ninite , the web service that allows users to download installers for a range of popular Windows software in a single pack, has landed a bet...

Google proposes an alternative to JPEG – WebP

Oct 1, 2010 0 comments

Following close upon the success of the WebM project, the royalty free video container format, Google is proposing to redo the entire web, o...

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