Transmute Portable

Transmute is a very powerful, cross-platform universal bookmark converter. It can import and export bookmarks, or favorites, between the latest web browser bookmark formats such as Safari, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, IE, Konqueror, Chromium, Flock, SeaMonkey and XBEL.

File size: 1.6 MB (freeware)
Platform: Windows All

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Wondershare Spyware Removal for FREE

This is one more promotional security software.

Wondershare Spyware Removal is a free, powerful yet easy-to-use system security software. It serves as anti-Trojan & antispyware with talent to remove spyware & trojan virus and performs proactive defense to keep threats away from your computer. Use this freeware to remove spyware & trojan virus and enjoy a safe computer system!

There are lot of security softwares available but you have to be careful in choosing because poor softwares may lead to virus attack on your computer. Wondershare Spyware Removal works well with other antivirus. So go and grab your copy now!

System Requirements:

• Operating System-Windows 7, Windows Vista , Windows XP,Windows 2000

• Pentium 800 MHz processor or faster

• 256 MB Hard Disk

• 128 MB of RAM

• Internet connection for updates

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Note: This offer expires on Feb, 28th, 2010. The free registration code is valid for SIX months.

Pirifrom Recuva Recover's Your Deleted Data ! Download it Free !!!

Have you Accidentally deleted an important file? Lost something important data when your computer crashed? No problem! Recuva recovers files deleted from your Windows computer, Recycle Bin, digital camera card, or MP3 player.

The good thing about this software is it is FREE!

Features:

• Undelete files on your computer-Deleted a file by mistake? Recuva brings lost files on your computer, USB drive, camera or iPod.Recovery from damaged or formatted disks.Even if you've formatted a drive so that it looks blank, Recuva can still find your files on it.

• Recover deleted email-Emptied your email trash and need it back? Recuva's got you covered with full support for Microsoft Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, or Windows Live Mail.

• Recover deleted iPod music-Deleted music from your iPod or MP3 player? No problem, Recuva will get this back for you along with any additional track data.

• Restore unsaved Word documents-Did Microsoft Word crash or did you forget to save that important Word document. No problem with Recuva! As it can intelligently rebuild Word documents from their temporary files.

System requirements:

• Runs on Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000. Including both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

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Microsoft grants USB installation for Windows 7

This will surely give people more to look forward to, rather than the ever vulnerable CDs and DVDs that barely lasted long, and needed more attention than every rugged pen-drives.

Microsoft have taken a fantastic step to ensure that Windows 7 stands out from the previous versions of the ever-popular Windows operating systems. They’ve come out with a bootable USB installer creator that’s aimed at laptop users. Installation files can be downloaded to the device that acts as a bootable installer. All you need is a USB drive that has sufficient capacity to hold the installation files. A likely name for this installation creator program may be Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool (WUDT).

How Can You Protect Your Computer on the Internet?

Viruses, worms, and hackers….oh my!

If you are connected to the internet, you need to make sure you get your computer set up properly if you want to avoid problems down the road. With all the viruses, spyware and other threats on the internet today, no computer should be set up without the proper protection. And that protection needs to be place as soon after you hook up your new machine as possible.

The following five steps will make your computer a much harder target for threats. You still won't be completely immune to problems, but 99% of the time the threat will pass you by, looking for the easy mark.

1. Running a Personal firewall

A personal firewall is software that basically makes your computer invisible to hackers, worms and other threats that can infect your computer over the internet. Setting up a firewall is the absolute first thing you should do if you're going to connect to the internet. Without a firewall, your computer could get infected in as little as one minute after connecting.

If you have a brand new computer running Windows XP Service Pack 2, there is a firewall built into Windows. It will already have been turned on when you first set up your computer. If you're running an older version of Windows, even, an earlier version of Windows XP, there is no firewall automatically set up for you. In this case there are two possibilities:

Your computer came pre-loaded with a firewall such as Norton Internet Security or McAfee Internet Security. You have no firewall installed and should download ASAP. If you don't have any personal firewall software installed, you should do so right away. Zone Alarm is very good firewall program that has a version that you can download and install free. You can download the free version of Zone Alarm from http://www.worldlink.com.np/support/download/index.php

2. Turn Windows Updates

Again, if you're running Windows XP Service Pack 2 this is already set up, but otherwise you should turn on Windows Updates. Microsoft releases updates for security problems and other bugs in Windows on a regular basis. These updates will keep your computer running better, and they often fix security issues that could compromise your information or privacy,

If you are running Windows XP Service Pack 2, you can double-check that automatic updates are turned on by clicking Start, and then click Control Panel, then double-click Security Center. The window that opens will tell you if automatic updates are turned on, and lets you turn them on if they're no.

To turn on automatic updates in earlier version of Windows XP, click on the Start menu, click Control Panel and then double-click on System. On the "Automatic Updates" tab, click the option to "Automatically download the updates and install them on the schedule I specify."

To turn them on in Windows 2000, click on Start menu, click Control Panel and then double-click on Automatic Updates and click same option "Automatically download the updates and install them on the schedule I specify."

Now when Microsoft release updates, they will be downloaded for you automatically and Windows will tell you when they are ready to be installed.

3. Install & Update Antivirus Software

Most new computers come with antivirus software these days. You might have Norton, McAfee or another brand. No matter what program you have, you will need to update it when you get connected to the internet. It doesn’t matter how new your computer is -there will be new viruses, and new updates for the antivirus software, since it was loaded.

The exact process is different for each brand of antivirus program, but most of them will have an icon in the bottom right corner of your desktop, beside the time. The icon might be picture of a shield (McAfee), a stethoscope (Norton) or something else. In most cases, if you point to the icon for your antivirus and click the right mouse button, a menu will pop up with an update option. It could be simply called update of could be something like Live Update or Download Latest Updates. If you click on the update option (with the left button this time) it will install the newest updates for you.

If you are not sure which icon is for your antivirus software, just point to each one for a few seconds and a little should pop up telling you what it is.

4. Install Anti-Spyware Software

Spyware - and other things known as adware and malware - is becoming as big a problem as viruses. Spyware programs can cause a lot of problems with your computer, not to mention they can track your personal information and you never know where it's being sent. Some new computers might include antispyware software, but most of them don't yet. There area quite a few anti-spyware programs available, some free and some not. The one I recommend is from Microsoft and is one of the free ones.

One of the reasons I like it is because it always runs in the background and will automatically catch a lot lf spyware before it gets on your computer. Many of the other programs don't catch it until you run a scan. Not only does this allow things to get on your computer, it also means you have to actually remember to run a scan. You can download the free Microsoft Antispyware from http://www.worldlink.com.np/support/download/index.php

5. Set up a Free Email Account

This last item is not as critical as the first four, but I would highly recommend you set up an email account with one of the free services like Hotmail or Gmail.

Once you're on the internet, you'll find a lot of useful information that you want that requires you to provide an email address. In some cases, these people will end up sending you a bunch of spam. If you use a free email account to sign up for anything that you don't know for sure you can trust it's not going to fill your main email with a bunch of junk.

This goes for anything really, not just online information. If you're entering a contest or signing up for anything offline and you don't know where your information could end up being used, I would suggest using your free email address. If worse comes to worse, and your free email address gets inundated with spam, you can always set up a new one and let the old one expire. Some of the better free email services are http://www.hotmail.com, http://wwwgmail.com and http://www.yahoomail.com.

If you've had your computer for a while and never done any of these things, you should still take these steps to get it set up properly. It will definitely save you a lot of time and possibly money as you use your system.

WinX HD Video Converter Free of Cost

WinX HD Video Converter is the HD (High Definition) video converter software which can convert among all popular HD video formats, like HD TS, HD MTS, HD M2TS, HD MKV, HD MPEG, HD AVI, HD WMV, HD MPG, HD MP4, HD MOV, HD ASF, HD MOD, etc. Besides, it supports to convert HD videos to SD videos and audios, Here SD videos include AVI, MP4, MOV, WMV, etc.
key features-

1. Multi-core CPU supported, which speeds up video conversion notably - New!
2. Lets you batch rename video clips with "Renaming Template" before converting - New!
3. Extract audio from HD video to enjoy the amazing background music
4. Capture images from videos and save them as JPEG & BMP files
5. Offers the option to automatically shut down your computer after conversion completed
6. Super fast HD video converting speed, up to 300%-500% faster than real time
7. Friendly interface helps both veterans and beginners complete the video conversion as simple as 1-2-3
8. Best video/audio quality


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The original price of WinX HD Video Converter is $39.95. Now it is given away to all users for FREE. This offer starts from Dec.1st and will expire at 12:00am GMT Dec. 16th So get your copy now!

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Reg Name: HDgiveaway
Reg Code: WINXHVC-5230-1898-1278

Firefox New plug-in lets you "dislike “stories in Facebook.

We all have friends that post offensive, annoying or abusive comments and sadly Facebook doesn’t allow you to “dislike” a comment or any other stuff. All you can do is block/hide that person from your feed which is obviously not a good solution. There is a vast majority of users that want Facebook to implement a “Dislike” button to allow them to show their disapproval but unfortunately for those users it is highly unlikely that Facebook will ever add such a button.

Well, we just found out the next best thing to an actual “Dislike” button, the

Facebook Dislike Firefox plug-in. After you install the plug-in you will notice a “Dislike” button on every item on your news feed placed in between the “Like” and “Similar posts” button. As per our current observation your friends will only be able to see that you have disliked a post if they have the plug-in installed too which is bit of a problem at the moment as there have only been 1200 downloads of this plug-in and not a lot of users are aware of this yet. We expect this number to grow massively in the coming days and weeks keeping in view the recently growing demand of such a button by the users.

A preview of "Dislike" button using Firefox plug-in

The plug-in is working perfectly and you can it download it here. Just make sure not to misuse it or you might get your friend list cut short and you certainly don’t want that. Do you think it would be a good addition to Facebook if they make it official? We are looking forward to your response.

Tips 'n' Tricks

This section contains tips and tricks on a wide range of topics such as website development, browsing, searching, hardware, windows operating system and softwares.

Browsing

Do you wait forever for your pages to load up when surfing? Are you confused about why you’re not getting a good browsing and downloading speed even though you’re using one of the best ISPs around? Have you ever wondered why your V.90 dial up modem doesn’t operate at the 56k speed it boosts of? Ever even thought of what V.90 or 56k means? Do you just wish you had a smooth and secure browsing experience without all the annoying pop ups and spyware? If your answer to most of these questions is in the affirmative then the following links could just prove to be the remedy of your worries.

Cnet's Internet Speed Tweaks: At the Cnet website, you’ll find 14 steps to faster surfing which I must say are extremely effective. It doesn’t matter what type of connection you have as most of the steps mentioned apply to all types of Internet connections - be it cable, DSL, dial-up, etc. There’s also a download section from where you can download software to enhance the speed of your Internet connection and monitor it. Plus, you’ll also find a speed tweaks discussion board and a free newsletter to subscribe to.

Inboost.com: This website provides complete computer and Internet boost solutions. Besides loads of information and tips on browsing you’ll also find here computer tips for a better PC. The reviews on Net speed boosting software are also given in detail here.

Cyberwizardpit-Xpert Tips: Here you’ll find some useful guides and tips to help you optimize your system and internet connection. The details are pretty technical so new bees won’t find this site very useful.

Learnthenet.com: This site is about Internet for beginners. Check out the top ten browsing tips featured here.

How to Speed Up Excellent speed tips. A must for everyone who wants to enhance his dial up speed.

Search

SearchEngineWatch.Com: An entire website dedicated to search engines. There’s everything about search engines in here from web searching tips to search engine listings. Get tips on search engine submissions and learn about search engine maths. Also featured on the site are reviews, ratings and tests of search engines. One really doesn’t need to visit any other site after visiting this one if you’re on the look out for information on search engines.

Related Links:

A Guide to search online

Web Searching Tips and Tricks

Web builder

Websitetips.com: This website is an educational resource providing CSS, HTML, and XHTML tutorials, graphics tutorials, besides articles, tips, information and resources to build or improve websites. Needless to say, it’s the best online resource if you’re looking for tips on website development online. Also featured at the website are discussion lists and newsletters. You’ll also find fonts in here besides excellent links to other resources on the web.

Website Marketing tips and tricks: Having trouble marketing and getting hits on your site? Look no further because at this website you’ll find fabulous tips on how to make your website pay and web traffic boosting tips.

The Internet Magazine’s Web Design Help: This fantastic UK based magazine also has an online presence from where you can get information on the latest web design techniques. Here you can find an archive search section where you can find the tips you are looking for.

.Net Magazine’s web development tips and tricks page: Another UK-based Internet magazine which has uploaded fantastic web site building resources online.

Related Links:

The first & largest ASP.NET Directory!

Official ASP.NET Website

PHP

XML

Hardware

If you have any problem related to any device on your computer or if you want to install devices or just want to know what tricks you can do with the computer then check out the following links:

• PCWORLD
• ComputerTips.com
• PC BAZAR
• Tips on Common Hardware Problems
• Active Hardware Resource

Toms Hardware Did you say hardware? Tom is synonymous with the computer hardware news covering all the latest news, reviews and gossips. The site covers it all and has a large category base.

Extreme Tech For the extreme geeks who want to learn and live on all the latest news, opinions and reviews. Has an Excellent discussion group. A must favourite for the die-hard.

Tom’s Hardware Guide:This site has a great variety of reviews on video cards, chips, and so on and what not. The reviews themselves are very in-depth as in the writer compares the product to similar products, tests the product out on games, and writes a summary.

Ace’s Hardware:The last of the three great sites, this one combines reviews, how-to guides, and technical/architectural advice to bring you a complete scope on chipsets, 3D graphics, servers, and workstation.

Software

Microsoft Software Inventory Analyzer: A handy tool that generates a local inventory of core Microsoft products on your computer or network.

SoftwareTipsandTricks.Com: For the best and most comprehensive tips and tricks on software.
The best tips and tricks sites available on the Windows Operating system are as follows:

• Windows XP tips and tricks
• Windows 2000 tips and tricks
• Windows 98 tips and tricks

If you’re still not satisfied with the above tips and tricks and want to explore more avenues then try out the following links, which probably have answers to all of your queries.

PC Magazine’s Expert Tips Page

BBC’s Web Wise Expert Help Guide

CNET’s Tips pages

Cell Phones

The Web is littered with mobile or cell phone paraphernalia. You can read reviews about the latest phones at Lets Talk. We also recommend Esato , a unique venture from Norway covering features and fun about cell phones, including a very active discussion forum. If you’re on the look out for a mobile portal, access Think Mobile.

Get the most out of your cell phone. Or go over to CNET’s Cell Phone Diva and make sure you see the cell phone newsletters at the bottom of the page.

Oxygen Phone Manager connects your cell phone with your PC, so you can perform tasks such as reading, editing, and rewriting your phone book and many more. More tricks? See below.

Nokia
Speed Trap Detector: Your Nokia cell phone can be programmed to pick up radar speed traps, when programmed your cell phone picks up the radar and alerts you on the message alert tone. Log on to Maxim.

The James Bond Trick: If you short-circuit the left middle and right pins on the bottom of the phone with all connections touching each other, the Nokia software hangs! How to rectify? Log on to Maxim.

Teach the old phone new tricks: Compose your own ring tones with Ringtone Converter for your Nokia. Your phone will play a different tune every time it rings.

Siemens
Wanna have fun with your brand new Siemens? See Siemens Secret Codes.

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Cell Manners
Read and forward cell etiquettes. Where mobile phones have made life easier, its unwanted intrusion cannot be denied. Imagine what discomfort you cause to others when your ‘Mission Impossible’ ringtone buzzes in the middle of a seminar or an organized gathering – you interrupt everyone!

To avoid the embarrassment at large, learn the basic cell etiquettes on Cell Phone Etiquette or Cell Manners.

Ringtones & Logos
Downloading tones and logos via an SMS from your vendor [ Instaphone, Paknet, U-Fone and Mobilink ] is an easier bargain, however, if you feel a little adventurous, you can key-in the tones yourself (for free!). Try Mobile City which has a cute ‘Mobile Secrets’ section.

Games
Mob Madness has a huge listing of time-wasters for your cell phone. This websites is specially cool because it offers a variety of games individually for Nokia, Siemens, Sharp, and Motorola. Hmm…where’s SonyEricsson? Try Gaming It.

Have a look at the Wireless Gaming Review for more cool links and info.

SMS
What is SMS? It is the shortest distance between you and a friend measured in ‘text’ format (Short Messaging Service).

If you don’t own a cell phone, you can text or SMS a cell phone owner using the Web. Send a message to anyone from any place. Log on to Free SMS.

There are a number of ways to make your text fun and wacky. Learn the SMS lingo including what the smileys, abbreviations and numbers really mean. Remember, you can also send fun text and picture messages from the mobile vendors’ sites.

MMS
Moving on to MMS? Multimedia Messaging is the same as SMS if you have a built-in camera inside your sleek phone. Look how BBC is capitalizing on the MMS craze by inviting people to send snaps for their news frontpage.

If you are new to the game, have a look at this excellent article by Roman Vichr

Currently, exchanging digital snapshots is only optional for Ufone subscribers in Pakistan.

Google's Open-Source Closure Tools Project

Google's open-source Closure Tools project, commenced Thursday, is an attempt to help developers in creating Web sites and Web applications. Google being a strong proponent of JavaScript based programming, intends to help with writing, debugging, and optimizing heavy-duty JavaScript by the program.

The Closure Compiler, is first in the suite of software packages, it tends to boil down a JavaScript program to smaller codes to run faster. The compiler removes dead code, then rewrites and minimizes what's left so that it will run fast on browsers' JavaScript engines. Also, Closure Inspector, is an extension for Firefox's Firebug add-on designed to help programmers understand and debug the rewritten JavaScript program. Another add-on for the Google Page Speed extension lets programmers see how much the compiler helped.

The Closure Library, second in the list, is a collection of prebuilt JavaScript code that lets programmers handle relatively complicated technology. And last on the list, Closure Templates, extensive pre-written codes to ease creation of JavaScript and HTML user interfaces. They are components that can be composed to form user interface, instead of having to create one big template per page.

Google plans to make the compiler available as a Web application hosted on its Google App Engine service.

PDF reader for Iphone

Impact PDF reader 2.0 for iphone is very useful iphone application with this application you can view PDF documents while anywhere.

It also provides the capability for storing thousands of files on the iPhone in a hierarchical folder system for easy access to all documents.

This application has a special feature which is built-in Wi-Fi web server for downloading or uploading files from any local Mac or PC web browser with password protection. All you need to do is type in the given iPhone URL into

your web browser, and you are instantly connected for viewing or transferring files.

iphone PDF reader application Special features:

- On-line user guide with step by step screenshots

- Create an unlimited number of folders and subfolders

- Delete any folder or document by sliding over left to right

- Browse thousands of PDF documents on the iPhone hard disk

- Download and upload PDF documents with the built-in Wi-Fi web server

- Advanced easy to use interface

- View multiple PDF documents at the same time

- Automatically caches all opened PDF documents for resuming at any time

- View PDF documents in portrait or landscape mode

- Loads large PDF files with sizes up to 40,000 KB in a few seconds

- Easily switch between documents by sliding over the title bar

- Tap on the "HD" or "W" button to display the PDF file's location in the file browser

- Compress or rename a PDF document by tapping its icon

- Backup thousands of PDF documents with the built-in zip compression

- Upload hundreds of PDF documents at a time with zip uncompress

pdf reader for iphone supports both iphone and ipod touch(Requires iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later).

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C Cleaner

Piriform - 3.14MB (Freeware)

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and f...

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Last updated on 3rd September 2009
Over 320 million downloads!!!

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! :)

• Cleans the following
  

Internet Explorer Temporary files, history, cookies, Autocomplete form history, index.dat.

Firefox Temporary files, history, cookies, download history, form history.

Google Chrome Temporary files, history, cookies, download history, form history.

Opera Temporary files, history, cookies.

Safari Temporary files, history, cookies, form history.

Windows Recycle Bin, Recent Documents, Temporary files and Log files.

Registry cleaner Advanced features to remove unused and old entries, including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more... also comes with a comprehensive backup feature.

Third-party applications Removes temp files and recent file lists (MRUs) from many apps including Media Player, eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, Microsoft Office, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and many more...

100% Spyware FREE This software does NOT contain any Spyware, Adware or Viruses.

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Title:	CCleaner 2.23.999
Filename:	ccsetup223.exe
File size:	3.14MB (3,293,992 bytes)
Requirements:	Windows (All Versions)
License:	Freeware
Date added:	September 3, 2009
Author:	Piriform

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v2.23.999
- Improved Opera 10 support for final release.
- Fixed the "No Disk" exception error.
- Fixed %ProgramFiles% bug in 64-bit Registry scanning.

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Audio Extractor 2009

Audio Extractor 2009 can extract audio tracks of pretty much all types of video files.

The program is cracked, is only 1 file, a executable fine, just double-click and click new task to get audio tracks from movies in many different audio file types, namely, MP3, WAV, RM, et cetera...

You can take video clips from all movies to create samples for you movies sharing, this is the program i use to create video/movie samples or movie video clips, it has many advanced features.

It is already cracked, no need to do nothing except to use its full power.

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Things I Love ! About Google Chrome

My primary browser is NOT Chrome, but I keep it loaded for testing and as an option; you should always have options.

But Chrome is not one to be dismissed it’s got some power and speed. And while the browser doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of… say Firefox; it hasn’t crashed on me yet. And from that there are some things I like about the speedy browser.

So these are just some things I like about Chrome and as the wheel turns and Chrome actively supports plug-ins, I might be swayed a bit more easily.

Program Startup

From my perspective, Chrome loads a lot faster than Firefox. There’s times when benchmarks say they’re faster, but it’s not noticeable, but there’s a noticeable difference between Chrome and Firefox loading. So getting to where you want to go, faster, can be done with Chrome.

System Memory

It doesn’t use a lot of memory.

Chrome reports back like this in my task manager:

36mb [basically]

Firefox reports back to me like this:

74mb [basically]

Task Manager

I don’t know why no one thought of this earlier. This is an awesome feature and you truly get to see who is responsible for crashing your browser. There’s been countless times I’ve tried to go to websites where they just stall; you never find out why they didn’t load.

Well Chrome handles this differently. It just starts loading and displaying stuff as soon as it’s got some structure. All the processed are divvied out and if they don’t pull their load, they’re pointed out and shunned.

Example:

Web Graphics

The graphics in Chrome are rendered better in Chrome than in Firefox. I’ve seen plenty of examples where Firefox and Chrome have presented images clearer.

Skia seems to be the graphics engine Chrome uses.

Web Security

I like the thought that if I go to a website and get misdirected by some malicious code that the browser is going to be thrown for a loop using browser exploits [not saying Chrome is perfect], but the fact that each site and function is ’sandboxed’ in to it’s own process so that if there’s something bad trying to go on; it’s not going to affect other processes.

Sandbox operates at process-level granularity. Anything that needs to be sandboxed needs to live on a separate process. The minimal sandbox configuration has two processes: one that is a privileged controller known as the broker, and one or more sandboxed processes known as the target. Throughout the documentation and the code these two terms are used with that precise connotation. The sandbox is provided as a static library that must be linked to both the broker and the target executables.

Barebones and Simple

While Chrome doesn’t have all the plug-ins everyone wants, it does have a simple options menu. There’s really not that much to muck around with and the options seem to pretty straight forward. This means it’s ready for the average user and IT Administrator/Consultant guys should enjoy it as well.

Stable and Consistent

I haven’t had Chrome crash on me yet. I’ve had Firefox crashed on me several times and sometime Firefox has this cute little error message type response like, ‘..oops’. But when Firefox crashes on a page it takes the whole browser with it. With Chrome, it reports back this site has a problem and has an intelligent type recovery. So I really like this feature.

Program Updates

Ever since I’ve loaded Chrome, I’ve never seen it tell there’s an update or it’s downloading an update OR anything about an update; it just is. Chrome has always been current anytime I checked the version info. It’s just nice to not have to check back every few weeks and update, OR get the latest update, to see what’s new. It’s refreshing.

Stealth Browsing

It’s one of those things you ask yourself, ‘…why wasn’t this in there from the beginning?’; it’s a common function now, but Chrome was the first to offer it and now everyone has followed suit.

Concept Innovation

Chrome/GGoogle has been pushing the innovation thing a lot. They keep to be really trying to make things better and actively promoting new and better ways to do things. So when a program has this much support behind it it’s encouraging

So, while Chrome is not my browser of choice, it’s really nice to have in the background to play with and test with.

What do you think? Plz do comment ! ! ! !

Microsoft Outlook export options – absent

I’ve to use Microsoft Outlook 2007 at work and one of the most irritating things about Outlook is it’s inability to export information. There’s like no flexibility to get information out of it.

Outlook has a great ability to store information and be a contact center piece, but damn if it isn’t hard getting stuff out of it.

There should be more options…

As a standard there should be an export option to every window; whatever your looking at, you should be able to export this to a CSV file or something compatible with something else.

Take for instance doing an advanced search in Outlook; you can do an advanced search in Outlook to try to find what your looking for, and saying you do, now what can you do with it… NOTHING.

The file menu here offers no export option. When you right-click on an item or a group of items there’s no export options; not even a copy option.

Now, while you can’t right-click and copy, there is the ability to CTRL-C and copy form there, but if you paste it in Outlook it’s links/attachments, if you paste it in to Notepad/Wordpad it’s text.

Funny how that works.

And one of my biggest deals with programs that want to store, or keep, information for you is, once it’s in the program, how do you get it out? Can you get it out? If you can, is it compatible or easy to work with once it’s exported; this is where I think Microsoft Outlook fails.

Since I’ve to export or get information out of Outlook regularly, this is a point of friction for me,but I found this little freeware program that helps me quite a bit; it’s called ‘CodeTwo Outlook Export’.

The beauty of this program/plug-in is that it adds a toolbar icon to Outlook and you can export/filter information to a CSV file and once exported, it’s more usable.

For Outlook to be such a ‘bionic’ contact manager, it lacks some serious common sense functions.

From the contacts window, there’s not even a way to select multiple contacts and export those to a file; you can’t even select all the contacts and create a group/distribution, send email or option to print label/envelope- these things are completely obvious natural functions and completely missing. You can do it from outside the program, but not in it [not easily].

I hope this helps someone.

Thanks for reading!

Enjoy.

Most Recommended Best Freeware for Your Computer

Freeware (from “free” and “software” is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee. Here the most recommended best freeware for your computer. Include browser, office, multimedia, compression utility, security, tweaker and utilities.

Browser

- Mozilla Firefox

Fast and secure browser, and with lot of add-ons make Mozilla Firefox is the most popular browser in the world.

- Opera 10

Opera 10 showcases a sleek new design coupled with our new Turbo technology, which keeps Web pages loading lightning fast, even if your connection slows down.

- Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

Office

- OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.

- AbiWord

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.

Multimedia

- Foobar2000

foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.

- Winamp

The #1 Free Media Player. Play your MP3, AAC, MPEG, AVI files, and more. Get free MP3 songs, videos, skins and plug-ins. Sync your iPod or Creative Zen, and get mobile music with Winamp Remote.

Compression Utility

- 7-zip

7-Zip is an open source file archiver designed originally for Microsoft Windows. 7-Zip operates with the 7z archive format, and can read and write to several other archive formats.

- IZarc

IZArc is the best freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats.

Security

- AVG Free

AVG Free provides you with basic antivirus and antispyware protection for Windows and is available to download for free

- Avira Antivir Personal

Basic protection, Protects your computer against dangerous viruses, worms, Trojans and costly dialers, with new Basic Anti-Spyware.

- Comodo Firewall + AntiVirus

Free Firewall and AntiVirus to take the first step in protecting your PC from malware, viruses, worms, and more.

Tweaker and Utilities

- CCleaner

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool.

- Glary Utilities

Glary Utilities is the #1 free, powerful and all-in-one utility in the world market! It offers numerous powerful and easy-to-use system tools and utilities to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC.

- Revo Uninstaller

Revo Uninstaller – innovative freeware uninstall utility. Uninstall software, remove programs and solve uninstalling problems.

Mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard

That Apple’s latest release of Mac OS X is not accompanied by hyperbolic claims of “300 new features” should be a wakeup call to even the company’s most ardent followers. Mac OS X 10.6, or “Snow Leopard,” is a refinement of the previous release, Mac OS X 10.5. And sure enough, Snow Leopard, like Leopard before it, is a fine OS, a rock-solid and capable computing foundation. It’s just that when compared to what’s happening on the Windows side, Snow Leopard is sort of a letdown. There’s just not much going on from an end-user perspective.

As it turns out, this is by design. Mac OS X, like the Windows systems with which it competes, is now a mature operating system. But that doesn’t excuse the pricing. Had Microsoft released such an update for Windows, they would have called it a service pack and delivered it gratis. But Apple being Apple, they’re charging for the update ($29 to $169 depending on which version of OS X you’re currently running). In Apple-land, that’s a bargain. And of course Mac folks can point to the $99 to $299 pricing on Windows 7 and claim Snow Leopard is a bargain by comparison. In this case, you get what you pay for.

The first thing you’ll notice is that Apple’s cryptic Setup routine–which takes two to three times as much time to do its thing as Windows 7 Setup–will not ask you if you want a clean install or an upgrade if you boot off the DVD; that’s probably OK for many users, but if you’re looking to do a clean install, as I was, you might be surprised to see the upgrade kick off with nary a warning. The trick is to use the advanced menu-based tools to trigger anything other than the default install type.

Once you’ve got Snow Leopard up and running, you won’t notice much difference compared to its predecessor. Apple has forgone sweeping UI changes in this release and has instead focused solely on internal refinements, simplifications, and performance improvements. For example, Snow Leopard picks up multicore functionality that Windows has had for years, making the system more responsive on the Intel Core 2 Duo-based systems Apple is now shipping. The Mac’s version of Windows Explorer, called Finder, has been also brought into the 21st century and rewritten, and thus is speedier and more responsive.

Like Windows 7, Snow Leopard offers a simpler taken on its predecessor. The sole default desktop icon in Leopard, representing your Mac’s hard drive, has been removed. (Windows 7, by contrast, now has a single desktop icon by default, representing the Recycle Bin.) But I find the Finder’s Sidebar to be far less user friendly than the navigation bar in Windows 7’s Explorer; it’s not obvious how you can add often-needed locations to it, for example, while doing so is easy in Windows.

Snow Leopard takes another page from the Windows 7 playbook with a new feature of the Exposé window management tool. In previous versions of Mac OS X, Exposé was very much a power user feature, and you could really only use it effectively via the keyboard, an oddity in the mouse-focused OS X interface. With Snow Leopard, however, Exposé has been improved to work with individual applications, just like the taskbar preview feature in Windows 7. That is, you can now access each open window of any running application using Exposé via the Mac OS X Dock. It’s a great feature, and it’s hard to imagine using it otherwise. (That said, it can’t handle individual tabs in Safari, as is possible with IE 8 taskbar previews in Windows 7.)

Snow Leopard expands on the icon preview functionality in Windows 7 in dramatic if somewhat unnecessary ways. You can now instantly preview the contents of many document types right in the icon for those documents in the Finder. I’ve used this feature to watch H.264 movies and flip through PDF files, for example. But the sheer number of ways in which you can access documents and other data files in Snow Leopard borders on the ludicrous. In addition to these in-icon previews, you can also use a new Quick Look utility to preview documents full screen (curiously using the spacebar on your keyboard as well). Or you can just open the documents normally with whatever default application. Three levels of document viewing? Really?

Snow Leopard’s various bundled applications have all been updated, sometimes in very nice ways. The system includes the latest version of Apple’s web browser, Safari 4, which seems a lot less unnecessary on the Mac than it does on Windows. Mail, iCal, and Address Book have been updated with Exchange Server support, which is a big feature, sure, but none of them can do automatic configuration, so you’ll need a slew of server information, which isn’t the case in, say, Outlook on Windows. The nicest application update, perhaps, is QuickTime X, which like Windows Media Player in Windows 7, now supports a cool Now Playing mode in which all the surrounding player chrome disappears automatically so you can focus on the content. On the other hand, QuickTime X continues Apple’s hypocritical waltz into inconsistency, as this application bears absolutely no resemblance at all to any other Snow Leopard applications. I was hoping this would be the version where Apple reined that in. (QuickTime X does include additional functionality around recording audio and video which could prove quite useful. And it’s worth noting that this version appears to have abandoned the need to pay for a Pro install that has additional functionality, which is also welcome.)

Overall, Snow Leopard is a better Leopard than Leopard. But it certainly doesn’t offer any added incentive to make the switch from the Windows side. Compared head-to-head with Windows 7, it’s clear that Microsoft’s is the most substantial offering, as it provides the same kinds of internal updates as Snow Leopard but also offers major updates to the user experience. Looked at a different way, maybe Windows needed more fixes to begin with. That’s certainly what a Mac user would tell you. They may have a point.

All that said, I’m not sure Snow Leopard justifies even its vastly reduced price. That won’t stop eager Mac users from flinging their wallets open and throwing their credit cards towards Cupertino. You gotta envy Apple that kind of hold over its users.

Bottom line: Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” is a nice refinement to an already solid OS offering. But it’s almost too evolutionary to get excited about.