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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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Even the upcoming candidate for the most popular blogging platform WordPress should have the version number 2.9, a new release from the 2.8 branch is available: WordPress 2.8.5. It represents a security update, which should be treated as a priority by WordPress blog owners, because WordPress version 2.8.5 provides a fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack, a recent severe security exploit, identified for several numbers of times. (more…)
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
As compared with earlier candidates, version 4.3 of Puppy Linux puts you in total control of choosing the desired packages from various Linux distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu, Arch or Slackware. The Puppy Unleashed build system was replaced by a new one, called Woof, which is capable to process packages from almost any existing Linux distribution. (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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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Portable web browsers have many advantages when you are using several computers: just plug-in the USB drive and you are ready to go with all settings and bookmarks in place, without the need to synchronize data or perform the software installation. Over the Internet there are already published the portable versions of popular web browsers, like Firefox or Opera for example. (more…)
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
At the beginning of this year, several news sources have concluded that MySpace was building a new web based email product, due to the fact that various MySpace employees email addresses was changed to [name]@myspace-inc.com, in a similar manner as in case of Yahoo! Mail launch back in 1997. Now, MySpace has officially launched MySpace Mail service with unlimited file storage, free for more than 130 million users of their social network. (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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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Approximately in a week after Windows 7 RTM was released to major OEM (original equipment manufacturers), hackers have found an innovative method to crack and activate pirated copies of the operating system. Based on a Windows 7 Ultimate OEM DVD ISO leaked on a Chinese forum, the hackers have identified the OEM-SLP (System Locked Preinstall) product key and the OEM certificate for Windows 7 RTM Ultimate. The necessary data to permanently activate Windows 7 RTM Ultimate was grabbed via boot.wim file existing on the leaked DVD ISO. (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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