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Multitasking Wallpaper
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Multitasking
Desktop Wallpaper
Clever parody of everyday life living in front of a computer. The theme is “multitasking.”
Resolutions: 1920×1200, 1920×1080, 1680×1050, 1600×1200, 1440×900, 1400×1050, 1280×1024, 1280×960, 1280×800, 1280×720, 1024×768, 800×480, 480×272, 320×480, 320×240.
Belarc Advisor – builds a profile of your PC
Belarc Advisor – builds a profile of your PC
Submitted by David Pope
The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, CIS (Center for Internet Security) benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private no your PC and is not sent to any web server.
- Operating Systems: Runs on Windows Vista, 2003, XP, 2000, NT 4, Me, 98, and 95.
- Browsers: Requires IE 3 or Netscape 3, and higher versions. Also runs on Opera, Mozilla, and Firefox.
- File size: 1642 KB.
- License: The license associated with this product allows for free personal use only. Use on multiple PCs in a corporate, educational, military or government installation is prohibited. See the license agreement for details.Belarc Advisor
Things I love about Firefox 3
I had recently installed firefox 3 and I had fallen in love with the changes it has. So in this series I will be telling what I had found about Firefox 3 and tell you how cool it is.
The new Book Marking
Bookmarking was never so easy in firefox before. Now you dont need to go and click bookmark menu item and then bookmark it but rather just hit the star button and it turns yellw telling you the page is bookmarked. And the next is edit bookmark part. If you see the image you woul;d know how cool it is. The difference is in tagging. Now you can bookmark and add tags to it. So cool.
Extension Update feature:
This feature just makes things more clear. Till now you never knew what was the change made when a firefox extension gets update but with the “Get details button” You will just know it all. Moreover Firefox alos popsup a small notification just above the Clock area telling you there is an update availble to an extension. I missed taking a screen shot as it went off very quick
The new Site Verification Feature:
Firefox finally makes itself more secure. Any site you visit , firefox 3 gathers wether its verified site or not. This doesnt mean the sites which are not verified are spammy but this is a good way to find things. Most of the blogs you will never get this thing. Any verified site just turns blue. Ah and You must have noticed the favicon is just before the address bar !!!
Download Popup just got better:
I think this feature got the major update. Now with your download window you can find the following things
- Supports Resume or Pause.
- You can copy the link and open the folder where it is ( Not sure But I have a doubt this was there but I never noticed it )
- Now you can SEARCH in the list of already made downloads
Just in case would let you know, If you have started using DownloadAll Frefox Extension , which is the download manager for Firefox, It intigrates with the Download popup.
This is all for now but wait I have got more. Just waiting to find some more and I will be coming with one more post on this. So if you havent downloaded it just give a try to the from All rc version of firefox
Flexcrypt Folder: Free file or folder encryption for Windows
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Flexcrypt Folder: Free file or folder encryption for Windows
Filed under: Security, Utilities, Windows, Freeware
Have some files on your PC that you'd rather not have your roommate looking at? Want to send some top secret government documents over email without the risk of someone intercepting your email and reading your files? Flexcrypt Folder is a free encryption utility for Windows that can password protect any group of files for you.
Once you've installed Flexcrypt Folder, all you have to do is highlight a file, folder, or group of files that you want to encrypt and right click on them to bring up the context menu. Select Encrypt using FlexCrypt Folder, enter a password, and you're all set. The program will create a self extracting archive that can only be opened with the correct password.
In other words, you can send the file to anybody you want, and they don't need to install anything on their computer to extract the contents. They just need the correct password.
[via Shell Extension City]
WipeDisk Securely and Completely Erases Disks [Featured Windows Download]
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WipeDisk Securely and Completely Erases Disks [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Portable freeware utility WipeDisk securely erases hard disks, USB drives, camera memory cards, and other removable media. Select from 14 erasure methods that make recovering files impossible after WipeDisk is through, including multiple random data passes, USAF, DOD, and NATO standards. A word of caution: WipeDisk sanitizes the entire disk without exception. For erasing portions of a disk try the also free Eraser. Note: On first run, the program's default language is German. On the menu bar select Extras > Language > English to set to English. WipeDisk is a free download for Windows only.
Windows Search 4.0 Now Available
Windows Search 4.0 Now Available
Today Microsoft shipped an update to Windows Search. Windows Search 4.0 includes the following improvements:
- Support for indexing encrypted documents of local file systems
- Reduced affect on Microsoft Exchange when you index e-mail in online mode, and there is no local cache (.ost)
- Support for indexing online delegate mailboxes
- Support for client-to-client remote query to shared indexed locations
- Improved indexing performance
- Faster previewer updates for Windows XP
- Per-user Group Policy settings
- Windows software updates for Watson errors
Available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:
Download the 32-bit Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 package now.
Download the 64-bit Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 package now.
Download the 32-bit Windows XP package now.
Download the x64-based Windows XP package now.
Download the 32-bit Windows Server 2003 and Windows Home Server package now.
Download the x64-based Windows Server 2003 package now.
The Windows Search 4.0 installation process automatically upgrades Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 2.6 and later versions of WDS. If you are running a version of WDS that is earlier than WDS 2.6, use the Add or Remove Programs tool to remove the earlier version before you install Windows Search 4.0.
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/library/f98696ed-6e3e-47b7-ab38-511439bce7ae1033.mspx?mfr=true
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/library/84c1c305-baaa-4352-b55a-45daaebf18df1033.mspx?mfr=true
Outlook Attachment Remover Frees Up Inbox Disk Space [Featured Windows Download]
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Outlook Attachment Remover Frees Up Inbox Disk Space [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only with Outlook: Sick of bumping up against your employer's tiny Exchange server space limit? The Outlook Attachment Remover can detach all those huge images and documents your co-workers insist on emailing around and free up space by offloading them to your hard drive. The Attachment Remover is a free Outlook add-in that lets you process a folder of your choosing, and specify which attachment file types and sizes you want to save to your hard drive (like only .PPT's larger than 100KB, for example.) Great way to reduce disk usage fast without having to manually delete or archive Outlook messages. The Outlook Attachment Remover is freeware for Windows, donations requested.
New Windows Live Writer Adds Easy Image Editing
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New Windows Live Writer Adds Easy Image Editing
Windows Live Writer, your favorite blog editing software, just got better.
You can now crop pictures and screenshot images right inside Windows Live Writer without requiring external software. There’s a new tilt feature that lets you rotate pictures by a custom angle.
The new version also adds some new visual effects for your photos including Reflection and Rounded Corners. They are simple things but definitely help in making your blog entries more appealing.
With the new Windows Live Writer, you can also upload videos directly to MSN soapbox though we would like to see support for YouTube as well.
Available at Writer Zone. It’s a technical preview but pretty stable. I also find this release a bit faster than the previous version.
Related: More Windows Live Writer Tips
Email anything on internet with just a Click
Email anything on internet with just a Click
Confused when you find something on internet which you would like to share with others and there is no email link for it or Its too many steps ( copying the text, opening your email client, pasting ) ? Not any more, Email This is another hand on firefox extension which just does the job.
Select the text you want to send , right click and send it to most commonly email client used like Gmail, Yahoo, Google Aps and Seamonkey. It even writes the subject of the email which is same as the title of the article.
Email This firefox extension is something you should install and use it. Howevere there are few drawbacks which I think should be added or fixed in the next version
- The formating is lost.
- There should be some “You may find this interesting ” text in the body of mail embedded automatically.
- How about support to Email Clients like Thunderbird and Outlook.
- Best could be if they can directly use the default email client chosen by the user.
Found Via Mackenzie and LazyRussian
Go-OO: Stick a fork in it
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Go-OO: Stick a fork in it
Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity, OpenOffice.org, Open Source
Since before the dawn of time, open source projects have forked more often than Lindsay Lohan cheked into rehab. The Mozilla browser is a great example of a successful fork, it was once based on Netscape, but evolved on its own and eventually rendered classic Netscape obsolete. Many — if not most — forks disappear into obscurity. We aren’t so sure this one will go so quietly.
Go-OO is a fork of OpenOffice that has quite a few impressive features which really ought to be in official OO, but for some reason or another aren’t, such as support for OpenXML, better Microsoft Binary support, and Word Perfect Graphics support. It also boasts significantly better start times — at least on our poorly equipped test machine.
Long story short, this is a fast, lean beast of an office suite with great compatibilty with Microsoft Office. The price is right at $0.00, but as with any community project you are both welcome and encouraged to donate to the developers for their efforts.
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