Archive for the ‘Freeware that rocks’ Category
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
If you are looking for a convenient and unobtrusive audio player for your web pages, Yahoo! Media Player provides a lightweight and fast solution for your visitors to listen various audio files without leaving the current page or load Windows Media Player. (more…)
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Many of you might just have upgraded the current Windows operating system to the new Microsoft Windows 7. Like in the case of any type of operating system, after you will use the computer several times, Windows 7 performance will degrade considerably due to various reasons, such as the apparition of temporary files and other unneeded data which takes valuable hard drive space or uses a high amount of computer memory. By performing comparative tests on Windows XP and 7 with a few tweaking and cleaning software, we have found that Indo Cleaner 2009 is a free and reliable candidate for maintaining the optimal performance of Windows 7, as well as your privacy. (more…)
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Google Wave, the upcoming communication service from Google, which mixes in real time project management principles with email and instant messaging Internet technologies, is still tested by a limited number of users who already got an invitation. If you are one of them and in the same time a Firefox user, the first Google Wave add-on for Firefox made available for free download will simplify your tasks (related article: Google Wave Expects The First 100,000 Users). (more…)
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Conficker is a dangerous worm that allows attackers to remotely control your computer. The latest Windows security updates keep Conficker away, but if your computer was already infected before performing Windows update process, you will not be able to access Microsoft or security websites to remove the worm. Besides these symptoms, your computer will also work slow, having a higher number of running processes at startup than it normally should. In order to completely remove Conficker worm from Windows, we have successfully tested a simple method that uses free antivirus software and does not require you to reinstall or update Windows. (more…)
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Saturday, October 10th, 2009
There are situations when you need to boot multiple operating systems (OS) alongside Windows. Usually, the operation of booting into a different OS than Windows can be performed manually via computer BIOS, by switching the boot sequence corresponding to the device (CD, DVD, USB drive) which contains a preinstalled version of the desired OS. A simpler alternative is provided by, PLoP Boot Manager, a free software that will allow you to bypass the BIOS menu and visually select the desired booting device or hard drive partition. (more…)
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Saturday, October 10th, 2009
In 2008, CheckPoint Software Technologies Ltd. has offered an unlimited number of free 1 year licenses for its award winning software Zone Alarm Pro suite. Now, those of you who missed this opportunity, still have a chance to free download the commercial version of ZoneAlarm Pro Firewall 2010, with a free license key on Tuesday, October 13, 2009, because on that day, only for 24 hours, CheckPoint will freely give away this software with a legitimate license. (more…)
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Microsoft Corporation has just released Microsoft Security Essentials, a new and free anti-malware service which provides real time protection for modern computers equipped with Windows 7 operating system, but in the same time it is compatible with older PCs with a CPU of only 500 MHz running Windows XP SP2. Microsoft Security Essentials provides comprehensive malware protection against viruses, spyware and other malicious software. (more…)
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
I do not know how much spare time Internet users have for reading e-books, but a high quality content will always be appreciated. Now, you got the unique chance to read over 1 million free e-books, which include thousands of premium titles and best-sellers , provided by Sony in collaboration with Google, on Google Books online library. The free content offered is on public domain and available in EPUB format, highly optimized for Sony Reader Digital Book. (more…)
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
PicMarkr is a free online service which allows you to add custom watermarks to your images existing on a computer or on a Flickr, Facebook and Picasa image hosting account. Users have the option to resize the images, choose the type of the watermark (text with presets, images or tiled) and select the desired watermark alignment on the original images. PicMarkr service works really fast, but you can apply watermarks to maximum five files simultaneously, while the total size of the files must be 25 MB or less. (more…)
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
For testing purposes or just for fun, almost any existing Linux distribution can be rapidly deployed from its Live CD or DVD ISO image, without the need to perform an installation to a hard drive or a USB drive. Windows users who are curious to test or use Ubuntu without actually installing it on a partition of the hard drive, have at least five fast solutions to deploy Ubuntu from within Windows without affecting the currently installed operating system or modifying the structure of hard drive partitions. (more…)
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
TubeQueue is a freeware application compatible with Windows operating system that uses the “queue” concept in its functionality: given a list of YouTube video files, it will perform their conversion in the desired format, such as mp4, mov, mpeg and more. As compared with similar software, TubeQueue works in a different manner: (more…)
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Last week, a few themes for the upcoming Firefox 3.7 browser were unveiled on MozillaWiki. But what’s next? The first published screenshots which show the design of the Firefox 4.0 browser does not need to be commented. Firefox 4.0 graphical user interface could have surprises, at least for Windows users. The Firefox 4.0 designs proposed on Mozilla Wiki for “ brainstorming / exploration only”, introduce you to the future of web browsing based on Firefox: tabs-on-bottom version is similar with the one proposed for Firefox 3.7, while tabs-on-top design is approximately the same as Chrome browser GUI. (more…)
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
Microsoft has just released an useful free tool for Windows Mobile applications developers: Application Verifier Tool for Windows Mobile. This software is capable to check the validity of the mobile applications functions and to detect common programming mistakes. A positive diagnostics reports of Application Verifier Tool for Windows Mobile is critical for the applications submitted to Windows Marketplace for Mobile catalog. (more…)
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