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Saturday, 28 May 2011
REALXATION BEATS: BINURAL BEATS
Binaural beats affect our brainwaves directly and can alter moods, behavior, even consciousness. Sound crazy? We thought so too. But guess what? We tried it and it works! You c
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Friday, 27 May 2011
Alarming Ring
Ring is a vibrating alarm designed for people who hate the loud blaring sounds of a typical alarm. The charging cradle is where you set what time you want each ring to go off. The ring fits over the tip of your finger and when that opportune time arrives, it vibrates. Putting the ring back on the dock shuts off the alarm.
The benefits are two-fold. It’s perfect for couples whom wake up at different hours. Never again will you be disturbed from your precious sleep when the alarm goes off. It’s a discrete sensation that only you feel. Another application is for the hearing impaired helping to improve their quality of life.
Designer: Meng Fandi
Sunday, 22 May 2011
How to make an external laptop graphics adaptor
Tutorial: Take a spare 3D graphics card and hook it up to your laptop
Laptop graphics have always been something of a joke performance wise. Nvidia and AMD do try, but cramming all those millions of transistors into a low-power, compact package just leads to massive expense and an inability to upgrade.
Wouldn't it be perfect if you could simply use a standard external graphics card to power your laptop's 3D graphics?
The good news is that you can. The suitably technical-sounding PE4H is just that; a passive PCI-e x16 to x1 adaptor, which enables you to plug an external graphics card into a laptop's ExpressCard slot. Currently we're only aware of it being available from the Taiwanese firm www.hwtools.net for around $100 including shipping.
We'd like to say it's as simple as that, but this project does have a few sticking points. The first we've already mentioned: a laptop with an ExpressCard slot.
The second is Windows 7, as it handles multiple display drivers far more adeptly than anything else. We're told Windows XP is next best with Vista being least desirable.
Also if your laptop has more than 2GB of memory a 64-bit installation is also required, as otherwise you'll hit the 4GB address space limit hard. The big issue here is that it'll cause the allocation of memory for the graphics card to fail.
Even though the card has its own memory the processor still needs to be able to address it, this address space is added on top of any existing system memory plus any other hardware resources, including the integrated graphics memory space.
The final sticking point is that there are certain laptop models that this simply won't work with or have some serious documented issues. Some of these can be worked around and others cannot, but before you run off and spend your money it's best to check if people have reported issues with your model.
The best two sources for compatibility can be found on the Notebook Review forum and Village Tronic. The former is the best, offering detailed system configuration and how many issues are solved.
The PE4H comes with the adaptor itself, an ExpressCard, data cable, Molex power cable and ATX power switch. Alongside this you'll need a suitable power supply, the adaptor can take a 12 to 15v supply but for higher-end cards you'll need a desktop PSU anyway. Plus for neatness we're going to house it all inside a mini-barebones case.
The walkthrough below details putting together a system. The main thing to be aware of is before plugging the ExpressCard into the laptop, you will need to have Windows fully booted and to have the graphics card powered up. It's important to do this so Windows can recognise and install the correct drivers. If everything goes smoothly you'll have multi-card, multi-monitor system, where there was none before.
This might not be evident but it has happened, check the Display Properties Control Panel to see if the new display is detected and active.
Troubleshooting
In our case we encountered a couple of issues on our Lenovo X200 at this stage, which we can see other people encountering. If the card isn't detected reboot and see how the BIOS handles the new device.
For us booting produced a stream of POST errors complaining about PCI resource allocation problems. A BIOS update later and we had a booting system but one that was running incredibly slowly.
Our next step was to try inserting the card immediately after pressing the power button and that seemed to sort this out. Similarly another trick is to put the laptop to sleep insert the card and power back up. Whatever voodoo cured the problem, once it was up and running we didn't have any further problems and the device could be happily hot swapped. All of these issues are connected to allocation of the PCI address space for the card.
Once it's up and running it just works, albeit within the limitations of a x1 PCI-e system. You may have spotted that the adaptor card offers four PCI-e connections, the obvious question is how do you connect those additional PCI-e lanes?
Most laptops use a mini-PCI-e add-in card for its wireless adaptor, other laptops actually have spare mini-PCI-e ports for 3G modems and the like. If you can locate one of these and add-in one of the HWTool PM3N mini-PCI-e adaptors, then it's possible to upgrade to an x2 system where the performance hit narrows to around 75 percent of the graphic card's full performance.
This, of course, requires a second cable to be trailed from the laptop to the adaptor, as it turns out these are mini HDMI (Type-C) cables, so can be picked up from various sources such as www.lindy.com.
Use something like SiSoft Sandra to see what chipset your laptop has and what devices are attached to them, the Hardware Buses report tool is best. The older ICH6/7M Southbridge can provide up to four PCI-e ports. The newer ICH8/9M and HM55 chipsets can go to six, with the latest HM/QM/QS57 range providing up to eight. You need to use the ports in matched pairs for it to work, so ports one and two or three and four.
DIY desktop graphics for your notebook
We remember getting excited about an Asus prototype called the XG Station a few years back at Computex in Taipei. That device promised to do something similar to this project. It never made it to the UK though, but did pop up in Australia in 2008 before promptly disappearing within a year.
No matter, we'll show you how to hook up your own spare PCI-e graphics card to your laptop. It just takes the right bits of hardware and an ExpressCard equipped laptop. We're even going to look at an easy way to package the whole lot into an external case.
1. The kit you will need to make your adaptor
The catchy named PE4H from www.hwtools.net comes with a x16 PCI-e adaptor, the ExpressCard interface, an ATX power switch, plus the necessary Molex power cable and PCI Express data cable.
2. Grab a passive PCI Express adaptor
The adaptor that takes the PCI Express graphics card is called a passive adaptor, which is actually not doing any processing or routing, it's simply connecting two buses together.
3. Connect the GPU to the ExpressCard
Getting started is easy enough, plug the graphics card into the adaptor and connect the data cable to the first PCI-e port and to the ExpressCard, not forgetting the power cable.
4. Get a PSU powering your graphics card
So you can use a standard PC system power supply for your graphics card an ATX power adaptor is supplied, which will attach to the 20/24-pin power cable of the PSU.
5. Everything hooked up and ready to go
With a basic PCI Express graphics card the set-up looks a little like this (with or without a loop in the cable). At this point you don't want to connect the ExpressCard but you can boot your laptop.
6. Now, power up the pixel pusher
Before you go ahead and connect the ExpressCard to your laptop, you must make sure that the graphics card is powered up, so turn on the ATX switch and power up the PSU.
7. Get in on some ExpressCard action
With your Windows OS laptop up and running along with external graphics card, you can now safely push the ExpressCard into its slot, being careful not to knock over the graphics card in the process!
8. Displays ahoy, as far as the eye can see
If you have a compatible laptop, then after a flicker or two and perhaps a reboot, the laptop should detect the new graphics card and automatically start installing the driver.
9. Control, multimonitor is a go
If everything has worked correctly then you will now have a multimonitor system that you can configure from the Windows Display Control Panel.
10. Put her safe 'n' sound in the mini
To create a neat external box, we're going to cheat a little and just shanghai this rather nice mini barebones box. We won't need the original mobo though we might be able to use the PSU.
11. Compact and decidely bijou
This box has space for two PCI cards, so even a double-width graphics card should easily fit inside the chassis and the PCI-e adaptor sits nicely, where the mobo used to be.
12. Get the power that you really need
It's important to make sure the power supply unit's 12v rail will meet the power supply needs of the card. Check the Wikipedia entry to look up the TDP of your chipset if you're unsure.
13. Get a cable, that is Type C
We're going to route the connecting cable out of the side of the case. To make life easier it'd be best to pick up a longer mini HDMI (Type-C) cable, which is actually what the cable is.
14. Connect up the power button
The ATX PSU is activated by connecting pins 14 and 15 (20-pin) or 16 and 17 (24-pin) together. It's the green wire and any black wire, so you could connect up the case's power switch instead.
15. And this is one I made earlier…
And here she is, our neatly finished solution for getting desktop graphics on your weedy laptop. The mini-case, as it turns out, makes quite a handy monitor stand. Or you can just hide it away.
The good news is that you can. The suitably technical-sounding PE4H is just that; a passive PCI-e x16 to x1 adaptor, which enables you to plug an external graphics card into a laptop's ExpressCard slot. Currently we're only aware of it being available from the Taiwanese firm www.hwtools.net for around $100 including shipping.
We'd like to say it's as simple as that, but this project does have a few sticking points. The first we've already mentioned: a laptop with an ExpressCard slot.
The second is Windows 7, as it handles multiple display drivers far more adeptly than anything else. We're told Windows XP is next best with Vista being least desirable.
Also if your laptop has more than 2GB of memory a 64-bit installation is also required, as otherwise you'll hit the 4GB address space limit hard. The big issue here is that it'll cause the allocation of memory for the graphics card to fail.
Even though the card has its own memory the processor still needs to be able to address it, this address space is added on top of any existing system memory plus any other hardware resources, including the integrated graphics memory space.
The final sticking point is that there are certain laptop models that this simply won't work with or have some serious documented issues. Some of these can be worked around and others cannot, but before you run off and spend your money it's best to check if people have reported issues with your model.
The best two sources for compatibility can be found on the Notebook Review forum and Village Tronic. The former is the best, offering detailed system configuration and how many issues are solved.
The PE4H comes with the adaptor itself, an ExpressCard, data cable, Molex power cable and ATX power switch. Alongside this you'll need a suitable power supply, the adaptor can take a 12 to 15v supply but for higher-end cards you'll need a desktop PSU anyway. Plus for neatness we're going to house it all inside a mini-barebones case.
The walkthrough below details putting together a system. The main thing to be aware of is before plugging the ExpressCard into the laptop, you will need to have Windows fully booted and to have the graphics card powered up. It's important to do this so Windows can recognise and install the correct drivers. If everything goes smoothly you'll have multi-card, multi-monitor system, where there was none before.
This might not be evident but it has happened, check the Display Properties Control Panel to see if the new display is detected and active.
Troubleshooting
In our case we encountered a couple of issues on our Lenovo X200 at this stage, which we can see other people encountering. If the card isn't detected reboot and see how the BIOS handles the new device.
For us booting produced a stream of POST errors complaining about PCI resource allocation problems. A BIOS update later and we had a booting system but one that was running incredibly slowly.
Our next step was to try inserting the card immediately after pressing the power button and that seemed to sort this out. Similarly another trick is to put the laptop to sleep insert the card and power back up. Whatever voodoo cured the problem, once it was up and running we didn't have any further problems and the device could be happily hot swapped. All of these issues are connected to allocation of the PCI address space for the card.
Once it's up and running it just works, albeit within the limitations of a x1 PCI-e system. You may have spotted that the adaptor card offers four PCI-e connections, the obvious question is how do you connect those additional PCI-e lanes?
Most laptops use a mini-PCI-e add-in card for its wireless adaptor, other laptops actually have spare mini-PCI-e ports for 3G modems and the like. If you can locate one of these and add-in one of the HWTool PM3N mini-PCI-e adaptors, then it's possible to upgrade to an x2 system where the performance hit narrows to around 75 percent of the graphic card's full performance.
This, of course, requires a second cable to be trailed from the laptop to the adaptor, as it turns out these are mini HDMI (Type-C) cables, so can be picked up from various sources such as www.lindy.com.
Use something like SiSoft Sandra to see what chipset your laptop has and what devices are attached to them, the Hardware Buses report tool is best. The older ICH6/7M Southbridge can provide up to four PCI-e ports. The newer ICH8/9M and HM55 chipsets can go to six, with the latest HM/QM/QS57 range providing up to eight. You need to use the ports in matched pairs for it to work, so ports one and two or three and four.
DIY desktop graphics for your notebook
We remember getting excited about an Asus prototype called the XG Station a few years back at Computex in Taipei. That device promised to do something similar to this project. It never made it to the UK though, but did pop up in Australia in 2008 before promptly disappearing within a year.
No matter, we'll show you how to hook up your own spare PCI-e graphics card to your laptop. It just takes the right bits of hardware and an ExpressCard equipped laptop. We're even going to look at an easy way to package the whole lot into an external case.
1. The kit you will need to make your adaptor
The catchy named PE4H from www.hwtools.net comes with a x16 PCI-e adaptor, the ExpressCard interface, an ATX power switch, plus the necessary Molex power cable and PCI Express data cable.
2. Grab a passive PCI Express adaptor
The adaptor that takes the PCI Express graphics card is called a passive adaptor, which is actually not doing any processing or routing, it's simply connecting two buses together.
3. Connect the GPU to the ExpressCard
Getting started is easy enough, plug the graphics card into the adaptor and connect the data cable to the first PCI-e port and to the ExpressCard, not forgetting the power cable.
4. Get a PSU powering your graphics card
So you can use a standard PC system power supply for your graphics card an ATX power adaptor is supplied, which will attach to the 20/24-pin power cable of the PSU.
5. Everything hooked up and ready to go
With a basic PCI Express graphics card the set-up looks a little like this (with or without a loop in the cable). At this point you don't want to connect the ExpressCard but you can boot your laptop.
6. Now, power up the pixel pusher
Before you go ahead and connect the ExpressCard to your laptop, you must make sure that the graphics card is powered up, so turn on the ATX switch and power up the PSU.
7. Get in on some ExpressCard action
With your Windows OS laptop up and running along with external graphics card, you can now safely push the ExpressCard into its slot, being careful not to knock over the graphics card in the process!
8. Displays ahoy, as far as the eye can see
If you have a compatible laptop, then after a flicker or two and perhaps a reboot, the laptop should detect the new graphics card and automatically start installing the driver.
9. Control, multimonitor is a go
If everything has worked correctly then you will now have a multimonitor system that you can configure from the Windows Display Control Panel.
10. Put her safe 'n' sound in the mini
To create a neat external box, we're going to cheat a little and just shanghai this rather nice mini barebones box. We won't need the original mobo though we might be able to use the PSU.
11. Compact and decidely bijou
This box has space for two PCI cards, so even a double-width graphics card should easily fit inside the chassis and the PCI-e adaptor sits nicely, where the mobo used to be.
12. Get the power that you really need
It's important to make sure the power supply unit's 12v rail will meet the power supply needs of the card. Check the Wikipedia entry to look up the TDP of your chipset if you're unsure.
13. Get a cable, that is Type C
We're going to route the connecting cable out of the side of the case. To make life easier it'd be best to pick up a longer mini HDMI (Type-C) cable, which is actually what the cable is.
14. Connect up the power button
The ATX PSU is activated by connecting pins 14 and 15 (20-pin) or 16 and 17 (24-pin) together. It's the green wire and any black wire, so you could connect up the case's power switch instead.
15. And this is one I made earlier…
And here she is, our neatly finished solution for getting desktop graphics on your weedy laptop. The mini-case, as it turns out, makes quite a handy monitor stand. Or you can just hide it away.
Read more: http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/graphics-cards/how-to-make-an-external-laptop-graphics-adaptor-915616#ixzz1N9SSj5Lc
Friday, 20 May 2011
NO SPAMS NOW USE SPAMBOX
What's that thing?
Why does spambox.us exist?
Many websites ask for your e-mail address to download software or to register. But you don't know what they'll be doing with your e-mail.. Your e-mail will probably be stored in a database which will then be resold to spammers and you will be receiving unsolicited bulk e-mail.
So? How does this website help?
We create for you a temporary e-mail address that will expire in the time you chose, all the mails directed to this e-mail will be transparently forwarded to your real e-mail.
For example, you need to register on a forum that requires e-mail verification, so you generate a spambox e-mail with an expiry of one hour. The generated e-mail will expire in an hour, way enough for the Forum to send you the verification code.
For example, you need to register on a forum that requires e-mail verification, so you generate a spambox e-mail with an expiry of one hour. The generated e-mail will expire in an hour, way enough for the Forum to send you the verification code.
But.. You could be collecting my e-mail address!
Yes, we could be, but we're not doing it. We've got an automatic cleanup agent that wipes out every n-minutes the expired spambox e-mails. Don't worry, we won't sell your e-mail to spammers.
Great! Now, how much does it cost?
Absolutely nothing.
No really, what does it cost?
It's free, without charge, uninhibited by cost. It's really, really free. Don't be ridiculous!
Sunday, 8 May 2011
Samsung W200 Rugged Camcorder is Shock-, Dust-, Water-proof
we have said in the past, there is a hardcore group of gadget loving geeks who just plum need waterproof equipment! While the truly hardcore - and uber-rich - go for a full on specialized waterproof setup that is capable of withstanding tens of meters under water, most people can get by with something good for ten feet or so of water protection (or in other words, its good for about one lung full of air worth of depth while snorkeling on vacation).
Unlike the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS3 we showed you not that long ago, the Samsung W200 is a dedicated camcorder which also can take photos instead of being a camera which can take video. While the lines between the two gadgets is blurring, the difference comes down to how good they are at each task. The all new W200 is capable of 1080p 30fps video but only 5.5 megapixel still shots so it really is a video camera first and a P&S second. More importantly, it is shaped more like a cell phone than a camera, thus allowing for easier one handed video while snorkeling in the shallow end of Montigo bay.
Add in a good dose of shock and dust proofing with an anti-fogging F2.2 lens (as well as a special coating on the back 2.3" LCD to keep it crisp and clear regardless of the environmental conditions) and the end result is a handy little vacation "pocket cam" that can fit in your pocket when not in use and be taken darn near anywhere! This goes double when you consider it is only 60 x 113 x 19.7mm and weighs only 130g (with battery). The only potential downside to this little pocket cam is the removable 1300mAh battery that is only good for about 2 hours of continuous use and the lack of optical zoom abilities. With a price of only $159 we think that these minor negatives are more than outweighed by the positives. Expect the Samsung W200 to hit shelves sometime in May of this year.
Saturday, 7 May 2011
The Power Play Continues
This is so simple. Continuance is a set of batteries with a USB interface on the side. The batteries are rechargeable plus dole out some juice to stranded gadgets that are starved of power. Handy, compact and a totally do-able concept! Kudos!
Continuance is an iF concept design entry for 2011
Designers: Haimo Bao, Hailong Piao, Yuancheng Liu & Xiameng Hu
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
Softwares
IncrediMail 2 6.28 Build 4960 [ 11.4 MB | Freeware | Win All]
IncrediMail 2 is a powerful, easy to use, feature-rich and fun email program. Better and smarter than ever before, IncrediMail 2 includes features such as a powerful and fast email search tool, taking less than a second for IncrediMail 2 to search through 10,000’s of emails.
VueScan 9.0.36 [ 6.04 MB | Shareware $39.95 | Win All]
VueScan is a scanning program that works with most high-quality flatbed and film scanners to produce scans that have excellent color fidelity and color balance. VueScan is very easy to use, and also has advanced features.
Vispa 0.6.1 [ 82.5 KB | Freeware | Vista]
Allows you to easily tweak your Windows Vista for better privacy and security, even system performance. Do a few clicks rather than finding the write registry keys or program settings.
The Bat! Home Edition 5.0.12 [ 6.65 MB | Shareware $35.00 | Win XP/2003/Vista/Windows7]
The Bat! was created to help users deal with your growing volume of email as quickly as possible, saving much of their time.
McAfee Virus SuperDAT Definitions Update 6335 [ 108 MB | Freeware | Win All] Hot
McAfee virus pattern contain up-to-date virus signatures and other information.
AndreaMosaic 3.33 [ 9.11 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP] Editors Pick New
Free software used to create mosaic digital art using images that you define. AndreaMosaic has many features and adjustment to help you create something as interesting or as artsy as you like.
Gmail Notifier Pro 2.0.3 [ 2.85 MB | Shareware $7.00 | Win7/Vista/XP]
Gmail Notifier Pro is a Windows application capable of checking multiple Gmail accounts for new mail and display notifications.
VideoCacheView 1.92 [ 74.2 KB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7]
After watching a video in a Web site, you may want to save the video file into your local disk for playing it offline in the future. If the video file is stored in your browser's cache, this utility can help you to extract the video file from the cache and save it for watching it in the future.
Backup4all 4.6.251 [ 21.5 MB | Shareware $49.95 | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
Backup4all is a very powerful backup utility. Backup4all provides intuitive interface to help you define customized backup configurations. Use it to protect your valuable data from total or partial loss.
32bit Web Browser 11.05.01 [ 1.00 MB | Shareware $19.00 | Win XP/2003/Vista/Windows7]
32bit Web Browser is easy to use is very fast. This web browser makes browsing the web fun and profitable. It takes up little hard drive space and loads fast too. It has features not found in other web browsers, such as Smart Bookmarks with many searching options.
CCleaner Slim 3.06.1433 [ 2.07 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7] Editors Pick
CCleaner is the number-one tool for cleaning your Windows PC. It protects your privacy online and makes your computer faster and more secure. Easy to use and a small, fast download. Slim version is released later and has no toolbar.
Easy Image Modifier 4.1 [ 429 KB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7] New
Do you want to resize, rotate, flip, change format, add watermark texts, sort or rename your images without having to use complicated editing programs? This tool runs with no need for installation and even most advanced operations are set up with just a few mouse-clicks.
Opera (BETA) 11.50 1009 Snapshot [ 9.49 MB | Freeware | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
A full-featured Internet browser, Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat. This is the latest beta.
ICQ 7.5 Build 5242 [ 12.7 MB | Adware | Win7/Vista/XP]
ICQ (or 'I Seek You') instant messaging service is used by millions worldwide to make the complicated work of finding friends, colleagues and people with similar interests, as straightforward as calling across a room and starting a friendly conversation.
PathLock 1.0 [ 51.9 KB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7] New
With PathLock you can decide which directories users can rename files and folders or create files and folders, you can protect your data from damage or unwanted actions.
ExtractNow 4.6.2.0 [ 1.85 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/Vista/Windows7]
ExtractNow lets you extract multiple archives with the ease of a singular button. Supports ZIP, RAR, ACE, & JAR file formats.
Samsung Format Utility 2.4 [ 2.09 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7] New
Samsung Format Utility is a handy software that can be used to format the external hard drive using either the FATS32 or NTFS file system.
AIDA64 Extreme Edition 1.60.1375 Beta [ 12.6 MB | Shareware $39.95+ | Win7/Vista/2K/XP]
As a descendant of the award-winning AIDA16 and AIDA32 software, and the successor to the widely popular diagnostic utility Lavalys EVEREST, the brand new AIDA64 version leaps forward into the next decade by introducing a collection of 64-bit processor and memory benchmarks.
DesktopOK 2.51 [ 74.1 KB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
DesktopOK is a handy, easy to use application specially designed to help you save and restore the position of your desktop icons and also come as a solution for users who frequently change the screen resolution.
DarkWave Studio 3.5.2 [ 2.32 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
DarkWave Studio is a free, open source, Digital Audio Workstation for Windows. Featuring a modular Virtual Studio, Pattern Editor, Sequence Editor and Multitrack Hard Disk Recorder.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Update May 3, 2011 [ 101 MB | Freeware | Win All]
The latest virus definitions for Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal and Lite.
Windows Defender Definition Updates May 3, 2011 [ 14.5 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/Vista/Windows7]
Update your Windows Defender if the automatic update fails.
SUPERAntiSpyware Database Definitions May 3, 2011 [ 5.13 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7]
Allows you to update both versions of SUPERAntiSpyware to the latest definitions
avast! Virus Definitions May 3, 2011 [ 36.2 MB | Freeware | Win All]
Manually update your Avast anti-virus versions.
Avira Antivir Virus Definition File Update May 3, 2011 [ 44 MB | Freeware | Win All]
Update AVIRA Desktop for Windows with latest virus definitions and scan engine.
Bitdefender Virus Definitions May 3, 2011 [ 92.6 MB | Freeware | Win All]
Bitdefender latest virus definitions.
F-Secure Virus Definitions May 3, 2011 [ 122 MB | Freeware | Win All]
Latest virus definitions for F-Secure Anti-Virus 5 and F-Secure Anti-Virus 4.
Ad-aware 2007 / 08 / AE Definitions File May 3, 2011 [ 130 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7]
Latest reference file for Ad-aware 2007 / 08 /AE , a free multi spyware removal utility.
Kaspersky Rescue Disk 03.05.2011 [ 212 MB | Freeware | DOS]
Boot from the Kaspersky Rescue Disk to scan and remove threats from an infected computer without the risk of infecting other files or computers.
Combofix (Latest) [ 4.09 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/2K/XP]
ComboFix is a program that scans your computer for known malware, and when found, attempts to clean these infections automatically. ComboFix also displays a report that can be used by trained helpers to remove malware that is not automatically removed by the program. The use of ComboFix is done at your own risk.
Dr. Web CureIT May 3, 2011 [ 55.7 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
Dr.WEB CureIt! is an antivirus and anti-spyware scanning tool that is developed on the Dr.WEB engine which will help you quickly scan and cure, if necessary, a computer without installation of the Dr.WEB Anti-virus.
Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool 03.05.2011 [ 107 MB | Freeware | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
The Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool application was designed to be another virus scanner and detection software from Kaspersky. The product will scan the specified locations for any virus threats and remove them or send to Quarantine folder.
Norman Malware Cleaner May 3, 2011 [ 115 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
Norman Malware Cleaner is a Norman program utility that may be used to detect and remove specific malicious software (malware). It should not be used as a substitute for running normal antivirus protection, but rather as a reactive tool to handle systems that are already infected.
Chromium 13.0.754.0 [ 34.2 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
Chromium is an open source web browser that was designed in order to provide for all users a safer, faster, and more stable way to experience the web.
Trend Micro Pattern File for Windows 8.133.00 [ 46.1 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7]
The Official Pattern Release or OPR is Trend Micro's latest compilation of patterns for identified viruses.
Off Base
How to remove MAC Defender malware @ Mac OS Compatible
AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition Reviews Roundup @ NT Compatible
Coming soon to a Mac near you: serious malware @ ZDnet
Sony Hacked Again; 25 Million Entertainment Users’ Info at Risk @ Wired
Way Off Base
Cupcakes, hammocks offered college students during exams
Teacher who vowed not to shave until bin Laden was caught or killed finally shaves
Amid 'war on obesity,' skeptics warn of stigma
Obama -- Sex After bin Laden Announcement?!?
Iran TV: Israeli warplanes massing at U.S. airbase in Iraq to strike Iran
MajorGeeks Recommended
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05-02-2011
Spiceworks IT Desktop 5.1.2126.0 [ 29 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/Vista/Windows7]
Your network may be complicated and expensive but your IT management tools don't need to be. Spiceworks IT Desktop is the only application that combines Network Inventory, Help Desk, Reporting, a built-in TFTP Server, Monitoring, Active Directory Management, and Troubleshooting in a single, easy-to-use interface.
Network Monitor II 10.0 [ 74.8 KB | Freeware | Win7/Vista] New
The Network Monitor II will show you SSID, signal quality, Internal IP address, External IP address with your country flag when you are connected to the internet, network utilization, upload speed, download speed and total (both current session and global) of usage.
Top Process Monitor 2.4 [ 133 KB | Freeware | Win7/Vista] New
Top Process Monitor is simple Sidebar gadget shows the top processes on your system - the processes that are consuming the most CPU, Memory (Working Set), IO (Bytes read/written) and others.
System Monitor II 10.09 [ 152 KB | Freeware | Win7/Vista] New
System Monitor II is a great gadget for Vista and Windows 7. Mainly because it combines the most important hardware information in one highly configurable interface, and because its option to launch the task manager with a double-click.
Patch My PC 1.06 [ 345 KB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP] New
Patch My PC is a handy and reliable utility designed to check your system against the current version of Adobe Reader, Flash, Firefox, Java, and Quicktime.
Comodo Programs Manager 1.2.188360.106 [ 11.2 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7] New
Comodo Programs Manager helps users to comprehensively remove programs, drivers, services and Windows components. It monitors and records every change that a program makes to your computer so that it can completely undo those changes when it's time to uninstall.
Balabolka 2.2.0.502 [ 6.53 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech software application. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV or MP3 file.
Simple Port Forwarding 3.2.2 [ 4.79 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/Vista/Windows7] Editors Pick
Whether you don't understand how to forward ports, or your simply looking for an easier way to forward ports then this program is for you. Simple Port Forwarding works with webpages and not directly with your router making it a safe program to use. Supports 52 Languages and 1700+ routers.
Simple Port Tester 2.1.5 [ 3.56 MB | Freeware | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7] Editors Pick
Simple Port Tester is a free program by PcWinTech.com to help users test if their ports are open with just a few clicks. Now supports 52 Languages.
Tiny Burner 1.0.0.202 [ 6.13 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7] New
Tiny Burner is a free DVD burning software for both personal and commercial use and works on Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000 and 2008/2003/2000 Server (32 and 64-bit). Download it now and start burning your data to CD/DVD/Blu-ray.
RoboSizer 1.0.0.0 [ 3.56 MB | Shareware $19.95 | Win7/Vista/XP] New
RoboSizer is a fully automatic, on-the-fly picture resizer that completely eliminates the need for manual photo resizing. Just attach your images to an email, instant message or upload them to the web, and RoboSizer will automatically resize them for you.
Bopup Scanner 2.1.6 [ 232 KB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7] New
Bopup Scanner — Freeware LAN scanner that resolves NetBIOS, MAC, IP addresses, HTTP servers. This freeware network scanner displays active computers with logged user names (NetBIOS), MAC and IP addresses.
PenFormat 1.0 [ 54 KB | Freeware | Win All] New
PenFormat is a small utility allowing to format a key USB or MP3/MP4 Reader in NTFS partition types.
TrulyMail 3.0.19 [ 12.5 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7] New
TrulyMail is a private messaging system (replace email messages with TrulyMail messages and get the extra benefits of automatic encryption and a lot more).
PaperScan Free 1.1.01 [ 6.81 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7] New
PaperScan is a powerful scanning software with an OCR engine centered on one idea : making document acquisition an unparalleled easy task for anyone.
JetPhoto Studio 4.10.1 [ 16.5 MB | Freeware | Win 2K/03/XP/Vista]
JetPhoto Studio enables user to organize photos by notes, keywords, time and location. The specified date or time the user took the photos will be highlighted in calendar (Month View or Week View).
n-Track Studio 6.1.2 Build 2734 Beta [ 21 MB | Shareware $49.00 | Win XP/2003/Vista/Windows7]
n-Track Studio is an audio & MIDI multitrack recorder that turns your computer into a full-fledged recording studio. Records and plays back a virtually unlimited number of audio and MIDI tracks and many more features.
Fresh UI 8.72 [ 1.47 MB | Freeware | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
Fresh UI is a fresh solution for configuring and optimizing Windows. Loaded with hundreds of useful hidden settings in Windows, this software covers the customizing and optimizing techniques that you'll be glad to know.
Universal Virus Sniffer 3.60 [ 12.5 MB | Freeware | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
Universal Virus Sniffer is a powerful antivirus removal tool designed to ease the process of detecting and eliminating unknown viruses, rootkits, and bootkits. For experienced users.
FastPictureViewer 1.5 Build 190 [ 18.5 MB | Shareware | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
Introducing FastPictureViewer Professional, an image viewer designed for photographers, helping to review digital photos faster than ever before. Now with powerful and fast workflow tools to automate file management duties like copy, move, delete, save for web and more.
Go! YouTube Snagger 1.5.0.47 [ 5.35 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
Go! YouTube Snagger is a YouTube video downloader, which supports HD videos. Videos can be downloaded in FLV or MP4, upon availability.
ConvertXToDVD 4.1.19.364 [ 18.6 MB | Shareware $49.99 | Win All]
ConvertXtoDVD (formerly DivxToDVD) is a software to convert and burn your videos to DVD. With ConvertXtoDVD and in a few clicks you can backup your movies to DVD playable on any home DVD player. ConvertXtoDVD supports most popular format such Xvid, MOV, VOB, Mpeg, Mpeg4, MP4, AVI, WMV, DV and stream formats.
PRTG - Free Network Monitor 8.4.1.2282 [ 62 MB | Freeware | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
PRTG Network Monitor is the powerful network monitoring solution from Paessler AG. It ensures the availability of network components while also measuring traffic and usage. It saves costs by avoiding outages, optimizing connections, saving time and controlling service level agreements (SLAs).
Norton Virus Definitions 2003\2004\2005\2006\2007 05/02/2011 [ 115.4 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/2K/XP] Hot
Ensure your Norton AntiVirus product contains the most up-to-date detection and prevention.
Norton Virus Definitions 2008\2009\2010 05/02/2011 [ 97.9 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/2K/XP]
Ensure your Norton AntiVirus product contains the most up-to-date detection and prevention.
Free Video Dub 1.8.11 [ 5.70 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7]
Free Video Dub is a free video editing software which lets you delete unwanted parts from video files without re-encoding. And "without re-encoding" means without loosing original quality! This is lossless video editing, which is very fast.
AVG Anti-Virus Update May 2, 2011 [ 71 MB | Freeware | Win All]
Manually update your AVG when the automatic update fails.
Nero Kwik Media (Nero Burnlite 10) 10.6.11000 [ 174 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/Vista/Windows7]
Nero Kwik Media includes the best of Nero BurnLite 10, your solution for CD and DVD burning and copying, powered by the industry’s best software. Make flawless copies of music files or home videos to share, or create disc images in .iso and .nrg formats.
Ashampoo Photo Commander 9.2.1 [ 132 MB | Shareware $49.99 | Win All]
Ashampoo Photo Commander 9 offers you the perfect mix of features to manage, edit, present and optimize your digital pictures.
Driver Magician Lite 3.77 [ 1.55 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7]
Driver Magician offers a professional solution for device drivers backup, restoration, update and removal in Windows operating system.
cFosSpeed 6.51 Build 1846 Beta [ 3.74 MB | Shareware $11.00 | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
cFosSpeed - Internet Acceleration with Traffic Shaping and bandwidth management. Ping optimizer + packet prioritization. Maximum Download & Minimum Ping. For DSL, ADSL, VDSL, Cable, Modem, ISDN and more.
GreenForce-Player 1.09 [ 2.86 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
GreenForce-Player is an portable alternative media player, with many additional functions. One of these functions is to protect media files. You can encrypt your audio and video files with a password and protect them against screenshots.
iPhoneExplorer 0.9.21.1 [ 1.76 MB | Freeware | Win All]
With the iPhone Explorer can you look into the file system of your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch and down- and upload files by USB connection, regardless of whether file format.
Kaspersky TDSSKiller May 2, 2011 [ 1.20 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
Kaspersky Lab has developed the TDSSKiller utility that allows removing rootkits. A rootkit for Windows systems is a program that penetrates into the system and intercepts the system functions (Windows API).
Avira AntiVir Rescue System 20110502150022 [ 224 MB | Freeware | Win All]
The Avira AntiVir Rescue System a linux-based application that allows accessing computers that cannot be booted anymore. Thus it is possible to repair a damaged system, to rescue data or to scan the system for virus infections.
Speckie 1.8.5 [ 1.20 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
Ever since Internet Explorer was created, it has lacked an essential feature; real time spell check. Versoworks proudly brings you that feature, say hello to Speckie! The first and only dedicated real time spell check for IE.
Wipe 2011.07 [ 4.93 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
WIPE is a free, easy to use and powerful security tool that allows you to protect your privacy by clearing browser history and cache, cleaning index.dat files, securely removing cookies, history and temp files and erasing any other tracks that you leave behind after having used your pc.
Passmark BurnInTest Standard 6.0 (Build 1030) [ 5.83 MB | Shareware $24.00 | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
Passmark’s BurnInTest is a software tool that allows all the major sub-systems of a computer to be simultaneously tested for reliability and stability.
Passmark BurnInTest Professional 6.0 (Build 1030) [ 6.01 MB | Shareware $49.00 | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
Passmark’s BurnInTest is a software tool that allows all the major sub-systems of a computer to be simultaneously tested for reliability and stability.
doPDF 7.2.363 [ 3.99 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7]
doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create searchable PDF files by selecting the "Print" command from virtually any application.
RemoveIT Pro 2.5.2011 [ 4.24 MB | Shareware | Win7/Vista/XP]
Locates & Removes many new dangerous files including Spyware, Malware, Virus, Worms, Trojan's and Adware that other popular AV programs do not find.
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Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Release Schedule @ Linux Compatible
The 7 Most Hackable Android Smartphones @ Wired
Windows Phone 7 update foul-ups continue @ Ziff Davis
Facebook growth exceeds expectations, $100 billion valuation justifiable @ ZDNet
Researchers create two 100 terabit per second optical connections, dare us to torrent something @ Engadget
How to repair a graphics card with the oven trick @ eTeknix
Panda Cloud Antivirus Beta 1.9 Available @ Panda
Way Off Base
Top 50 Internet Reactions to Osama bin Laden's Death
Cops: Man Baked Pot Into Cupcakes To Sell At Schools
School Resource Officers taser student over sagging pants
Google Maps view of Osama Bin Ladens home
Man Live-Tweets U.S. Raid on Osama Bin Laden Without Knowing It
Ex-soldiers fly ice cream van to Afghanistan
Deaf Men Stabbed Over Sign Language
Facebook used in 90 percent of divorce cases
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05-01-2011
SuperRam 6.5.2.2011 [ 5.91 MB | Shareware $10.99 | Win All]
SuperRam is a tool for all which allows you to maintain and manage memory the right way. By managing your computer's memory you will gain system performance and computer speed never seen before.
Throttle 6.5.2.2011 [ 1.80 MB | Shareware $9.99 | Win All]
Throttle is a tool for all that allows you to modify your modem settings to increase internet performance up to 200% or higher.
PCMedik 6.5.2.2011 [ 1.83 MB | Shareware $9.99 | Win All]
PCMedik can increase the performance of your computer and fix annoying problems like crashes and errors that randomly appear.
PCBoost 4.5.2.2011 [ 5 MB | Shareware $10.99 | Win All]
PCBoost is a tool for all which allows you to optimize your computers performance and make your computer faster! PCBoost works by allocating the majority of your CPU/Processor to the currently active application/game.
GameGain 2.5.2.2011 [ 1.59 MB | Shareware $9.99 | Win All]
GameGain will optimize your computer performance and make your games run faster without having to upgrade your expensive gaming hardware.
PowerDVD 11.0.1620 [ 87.5 MB | Shareware $49.95+ | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7] New
PowerDVD 11 is the ultimate universal media player that extends your viewing experience beyond just movies on PCs. Play any Blu-ray movies or any media format from any device at home or on social network, at enhanced HD and 3D quality, all at the convenience of one player PowerDVD 11.
Windows Essentials Codec Pack 3.5 [ 155 KB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
With Windows Essentials Codec Pack you should be able to play 99% of all movies and music files that you download off the internet, stay up to date with the latest Codecs with the Audio / Video Codec Update Service, and eliminate the many conflicts and error caused by using multiple codecs to decode the same file types.
JShot 2.0 Beta [ 3.42 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
JShot is a free and multiplatform screen capture and uploader application which allows you to capture and annotate a part of your screen and share it via the Internet in one step.
metapad 3.51 [ 107 KB | Freeware | Win All]
Metapad is a small, fast and completely free text editor for Windows with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features.
LiLi USB Creator 2.7.6 [ 3.18 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7] New
LiLi USB Creator is a handy, easy to use application designed to enable you to create a bootable Live USB key with a Linux on it.
Free RAR Extract Frog 3.20 [ 3.41 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7]
Free RAR Extract Frog is a skinable extraction tool for RAR-archives that supports spanned archives as well as the decompression of password protected files.
Gizmo Drive 2.7.8 [ 7.71 MB | Freeware | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
MountMount ISO, BIN, CUE, NRG files to a virtual CD-ROM drive, mount VHD files, used with Microsoft Virtual PC, mount password protected images to a virtual hard drive anbd more.
AutoHotkey 1.1.00.00 [ 2.54 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7]
Customize your keyboard, joystick, and mouse with an open source scripting language (AutoHotkey) that is backward compatible with AutoIt v2. AutoHotkey it includes a quick-start tutorial, an automatic script writer (macro recorder) that records your keystrokes and mouse clicks, and a comprehensive help file.
Undelete 360 2.11.15 [ 1.91 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/2K/XP]
Undelete 360 can recover files deleted from your Computer drives, USB drives, Camera devices, Pen Drives, Memory Cards and supports both file recovery and folder recovery.
Dictionary .NET 3.4.4138 [ 147 KB | Freeware | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
Dictionary .NET is a tiny, easy and smart multilingual dictionary translating from/to 52 languages using Google´s services. Integrates Google Dictionary, Translate, Search, Suggest, Wikipedia 5-in-1 without installing them.
SuperEdi 4.3.1 [ 1.65 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/Vista/Windows7]
SuperEdi is a text editor with syntax coloring and build-in FTP client. The build-in directory tree helps you locate files quickly without opening the Windows Explorer. Context sensitive information is available via keyword lookup in any Windows help file.
jGnash 2.5.1 [ 14.8 MB | Freeware | Win All]
jGnash is a free personal finance manager with many of the same features as commercially-available software. It was created in order to make tracking your personal finances easy, but also provides the functionality required by advanced users.
ArtSage 1.00.06 [ 248 KB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7]
ArtSage is a small graphics viewer. It displays the image files in a folder tree. ArtSage is freeware for personal non-commercial use.
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IncrediMail 2 is a powerful, easy to use, feature-rich and fun email program. Better and smarter than ever before, IncrediMail 2 includes features such as a powerful and fast email search tool, taking less than a second for IncrediMail 2 to search through 10,000’s of emails.
VueScan 9.0.36 [ 6.04 MB | Shareware $39.95 | Win All]
VueScan is a scanning program that works with most high-quality flatbed and film scanners to produce scans that have excellent color fidelity and color balance. VueScan is very easy to use, and also has advanced features.
Vispa 0.6.1 [ 82.5 KB | Freeware | Vista]
Allows you to easily tweak your Windows Vista for better privacy and security, even system performance. Do a few clicks rather than finding the write registry keys or program settings.
The Bat! Home Edition 5.0.12 [ 6.65 MB | Shareware $35.00 | Win XP/2003/Vista/Windows7]
The Bat! was created to help users deal with your growing volume of email as quickly as possible, saving much of their time.
McAfee Virus SuperDAT Definitions Update 6335 [ 108 MB | Freeware | Win All] Hot
McAfee virus pattern contain up-to-date virus signatures and other information.
AndreaMosaic 3.33 [ 9.11 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP] Editors Pick New
Free software used to create mosaic digital art using images that you define. AndreaMosaic has many features and adjustment to help you create something as interesting or as artsy as you like.
Gmail Notifier Pro 2.0.3 [ 2.85 MB | Shareware $7.00 | Win7/Vista/XP]
Gmail Notifier Pro is a Windows application capable of checking multiple Gmail accounts for new mail and display notifications.
VideoCacheView 1.92 [ 74.2 KB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7]
After watching a video in a Web site, you may want to save the video file into your local disk for playing it offline in the future. If the video file is stored in your browser's cache, this utility can help you to extract the video file from the cache and save it for watching it in the future.
Backup4all 4.6.251 [ 21.5 MB | Shareware $49.95 | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
Backup4all is a very powerful backup utility. Backup4all provides intuitive interface to help you define customized backup configurations. Use it to protect your valuable data from total or partial loss.
32bit Web Browser 11.05.01 [ 1.00 MB | Shareware $19.00 | Win XP/2003/Vista/Windows7]
32bit Web Browser is easy to use is very fast. This web browser makes browsing the web fun and profitable. It takes up little hard drive space and loads fast too. It has features not found in other web browsers, such as Smart Bookmarks with many searching options.
CCleaner Slim 3.06.1433 [ 2.07 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7] Editors Pick
CCleaner is the number-one tool for cleaning your Windows PC. It protects your privacy online and makes your computer faster and more secure. Easy to use and a small, fast download. Slim version is released later and has no toolbar.
Easy Image Modifier 4.1 [ 429 KB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7] New
Do you want to resize, rotate, flip, change format, add watermark texts, sort or rename your images without having to use complicated editing programs? This tool runs with no need for installation and even most advanced operations are set up with just a few mouse-clicks.
Opera (BETA) 11.50 1009 Snapshot [ 9.49 MB | Freeware | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
A full-featured Internet browser, Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat. This is the latest beta.
ICQ 7.5 Build 5242 [ 12.7 MB | Adware | Win7/Vista/XP]
ICQ (or 'I Seek You') instant messaging service is used by millions worldwide to make the complicated work of finding friends, colleagues and people with similar interests, as straightforward as calling across a room and starting a friendly conversation.
PathLock 1.0 [ 51.9 KB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7] New
With PathLock you can decide which directories users can rename files and folders or create files and folders, you can protect your data from damage or unwanted actions.
ExtractNow 4.6.2.0 [ 1.85 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/Vista/Windows7]
ExtractNow lets you extract multiple archives with the ease of a singular button. Supports ZIP, RAR, ACE, & JAR file formats.
Samsung Format Utility 2.4 [ 2.09 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7] New
Samsung Format Utility is a handy software that can be used to format the external hard drive using either the FATS32 or NTFS file system.
AIDA64 Extreme Edition 1.60.1375 Beta [ 12.6 MB | Shareware $39.95+ | Win7/Vista/2K/XP]
As a descendant of the award-winning AIDA16 and AIDA32 software, and the successor to the widely popular diagnostic utility Lavalys EVEREST, the brand new AIDA64 version leaps forward into the next decade by introducing a collection of 64-bit processor and memory benchmarks.
DesktopOK 2.51 [ 74.1 KB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
DesktopOK is a handy, easy to use application specially designed to help you save and restore the position of your desktop icons and also come as a solution for users who frequently change the screen resolution.
DarkWave Studio 3.5.2 [ 2.32 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
DarkWave Studio is a free, open source, Digital Audio Workstation for Windows. Featuring a modular Virtual Studio, Pattern Editor, Sequence Editor and Multitrack Hard Disk Recorder.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Update May 3, 2011 [ 101 MB | Freeware | Win All]
The latest virus definitions for Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal and Lite.
Windows Defender Definition Updates May 3, 2011 [ 14.5 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/Vista/Windows7]
Update your Windows Defender if the automatic update fails.
SUPERAntiSpyware Database Definitions May 3, 2011 [ 5.13 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7]
Allows you to update both versions of SUPERAntiSpyware to the latest definitions
avast! Virus Definitions May 3, 2011 [ 36.2 MB | Freeware | Win All]
Manually update your Avast anti-virus versions.
Avira Antivir Virus Definition File Update May 3, 2011 [ 44 MB | Freeware | Win All]
Update AVIRA Desktop for Windows with latest virus definitions and scan engine.
Bitdefender Virus Definitions May 3, 2011 [ 92.6 MB | Freeware | Win All]
Bitdefender latest virus definitions.
F-Secure Virus Definitions May 3, 2011 [ 122 MB | Freeware | Win All]
Latest virus definitions for F-Secure Anti-Virus 5 and F-Secure Anti-Virus 4.
Ad-aware 2007 / 08 / AE Definitions File May 3, 2011 [ 130 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7]
Latest reference file for Ad-aware 2007 / 08 /AE , a free multi spyware removal utility.
Kaspersky Rescue Disk 03.05.2011 [ 212 MB | Freeware | DOS]
Boot from the Kaspersky Rescue Disk to scan and remove threats from an infected computer without the risk of infecting other files or computers.
Combofix (Latest) [ 4.09 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/2K/XP]
ComboFix is a program that scans your computer for known malware, and when found, attempts to clean these infections automatically. ComboFix also displays a report that can be used by trained helpers to remove malware that is not automatically removed by the program. The use of ComboFix is done at your own risk.
Dr. Web CureIT May 3, 2011 [ 55.7 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
Dr.WEB CureIt! is an antivirus and anti-spyware scanning tool that is developed on the Dr.WEB engine which will help you quickly scan and cure, if necessary, a computer without installation of the Dr.WEB Anti-virus.
Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool 03.05.2011 [ 107 MB | Freeware | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
The Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool application was designed to be another virus scanner and detection software from Kaspersky. The product will scan the specified locations for any virus threats and remove them or send to Quarantine folder.
Norman Malware Cleaner May 3, 2011 [ 115 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
Norman Malware Cleaner is a Norman program utility that may be used to detect and remove specific malicious software (malware). It should not be used as a substitute for running normal antivirus protection, but rather as a reactive tool to handle systems that are already infected.
Chromium 13.0.754.0 [ 34.2 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
Chromium is an open source web browser that was designed in order to provide for all users a safer, faster, and more stable way to experience the web.
Trend Micro Pattern File for Windows 8.133.00 [ 46.1 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7]
The Official Pattern Release or OPR is Trend Micro's latest compilation of patterns for identified viruses.
Off Base
How to remove MAC Defender malware @ Mac OS Compatible
AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition Reviews Roundup @ NT Compatible
Coming soon to a Mac near you: serious malware @ ZDnet
Sony Hacked Again; 25 Million Entertainment Users’ Info at Risk @ Wired
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Cupcakes, hammocks offered college students during exams
Teacher who vowed not to shave until bin Laden was caught or killed finally shaves
Amid 'war on obesity,' skeptics warn of stigma
Obama -- Sex After bin Laden Announcement?!?
Iran TV: Israeli warplanes massing at U.S. airbase in Iraq to strike Iran
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05-02-2011
Spiceworks IT Desktop 5.1.2126.0 [ 29 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/Vista/Windows7]
Your network may be complicated and expensive but your IT management tools don't need to be. Spiceworks IT Desktop is the only application that combines Network Inventory, Help Desk, Reporting, a built-in TFTP Server, Monitoring, Active Directory Management, and Troubleshooting in a single, easy-to-use interface.
Network Monitor II 10.0 [ 74.8 KB | Freeware | Win7/Vista] New
The Network Monitor II will show you SSID, signal quality, Internal IP address, External IP address with your country flag when you are connected to the internet, network utilization, upload speed, download speed and total (both current session and global) of usage.
Top Process Monitor 2.4 [ 133 KB | Freeware | Win7/Vista] New
Top Process Monitor is simple Sidebar gadget shows the top processes on your system - the processes that are consuming the most CPU, Memory (Working Set), IO (Bytes read/written) and others.
System Monitor II 10.09 [ 152 KB | Freeware | Win7/Vista] New
System Monitor II is a great gadget for Vista and Windows 7. Mainly because it combines the most important hardware information in one highly configurable interface, and because its option to launch the task manager with a double-click.
Patch My PC 1.06 [ 345 KB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP] New
Patch My PC is a handy and reliable utility designed to check your system against the current version of Adobe Reader, Flash, Firefox, Java, and Quicktime.
Comodo Programs Manager 1.2.188360.106 [ 11.2 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7] New
Comodo Programs Manager helps users to comprehensively remove programs, drivers, services and Windows components. It monitors and records every change that a program makes to your computer so that it can completely undo those changes when it's time to uninstall.
Balabolka 2.2.0.502 [ 6.53 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech software application. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV or MP3 file.
Simple Port Forwarding 3.2.2 [ 4.79 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/Vista/Windows7] Editors Pick
Whether you don't understand how to forward ports, or your simply looking for an easier way to forward ports then this program is for you. Simple Port Forwarding works with webpages and not directly with your router making it a safe program to use. Supports 52 Languages and 1700+ routers.
Simple Port Tester 2.1.5 [ 3.56 MB | Freeware | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7] Editors Pick
Simple Port Tester is a free program by PcWinTech.com to help users test if their ports are open with just a few clicks. Now supports 52 Languages.
Tiny Burner 1.0.0.202 [ 6.13 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7] New
Tiny Burner is a free DVD burning software for both personal and commercial use and works on Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000 and 2008/2003/2000 Server (32 and 64-bit). Download it now and start burning your data to CD/DVD/Blu-ray.
RoboSizer 1.0.0.0 [ 3.56 MB | Shareware $19.95 | Win7/Vista/XP] New
RoboSizer is a fully automatic, on-the-fly picture resizer that completely eliminates the need for manual photo resizing. Just attach your images to an email, instant message or upload them to the web, and RoboSizer will automatically resize them for you.
Bopup Scanner 2.1.6 [ 232 KB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7] New
Bopup Scanner — Freeware LAN scanner that resolves NetBIOS, MAC, IP addresses, HTTP servers. This freeware network scanner displays active computers with logged user names (NetBIOS), MAC and IP addresses.
PenFormat 1.0 [ 54 KB | Freeware | Win All] New
PenFormat is a small utility allowing to format a key USB or MP3/MP4 Reader in NTFS partition types.
TrulyMail 3.0.19 [ 12.5 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7] New
TrulyMail is a private messaging system (replace email messages with TrulyMail messages and get the extra benefits of automatic encryption and a lot more).
PaperScan Free 1.1.01 [ 6.81 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7] New
PaperScan is a powerful scanning software with an OCR engine centered on one idea : making document acquisition an unparalleled easy task for anyone.
JetPhoto Studio 4.10.1 [ 16.5 MB | Freeware | Win 2K/03/XP/Vista]
JetPhoto Studio enables user to organize photos by notes, keywords, time and location. The specified date or time the user took the photos will be highlighted in calendar (Month View or Week View).
n-Track Studio 6.1.2 Build 2734 Beta [ 21 MB | Shareware $49.00 | Win XP/2003/Vista/Windows7]
n-Track Studio is an audio & MIDI multitrack recorder that turns your computer into a full-fledged recording studio. Records and plays back a virtually unlimited number of audio and MIDI tracks and many more features.
Fresh UI 8.72 [ 1.47 MB | Freeware | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
Fresh UI is a fresh solution for configuring and optimizing Windows. Loaded with hundreds of useful hidden settings in Windows, this software covers the customizing and optimizing techniques that you'll be glad to know.
Universal Virus Sniffer 3.60 [ 12.5 MB | Freeware | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
Universal Virus Sniffer is a powerful antivirus removal tool designed to ease the process of detecting and eliminating unknown viruses, rootkits, and bootkits. For experienced users.
FastPictureViewer 1.5 Build 190 [ 18.5 MB | Shareware | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
Introducing FastPictureViewer Professional, an image viewer designed for photographers, helping to review digital photos faster than ever before. Now with powerful and fast workflow tools to automate file management duties like copy, move, delete, save for web and more.
Go! YouTube Snagger 1.5.0.47 [ 5.35 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
Go! YouTube Snagger is a YouTube video downloader, which supports HD videos. Videos can be downloaded in FLV or MP4, upon availability.
ConvertXToDVD 4.1.19.364 [ 18.6 MB | Shareware $49.99 | Win All]
ConvertXtoDVD (formerly DivxToDVD) is a software to convert and burn your videos to DVD. With ConvertXtoDVD and in a few clicks you can backup your movies to DVD playable on any home DVD player. ConvertXtoDVD supports most popular format such Xvid, MOV, VOB, Mpeg, Mpeg4, MP4, AVI, WMV, DV and stream formats.
PRTG - Free Network Monitor 8.4.1.2282 [ 62 MB | Freeware | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
PRTG Network Monitor is the powerful network monitoring solution from Paessler AG. It ensures the availability of network components while also measuring traffic and usage. It saves costs by avoiding outages, optimizing connections, saving time and controlling service level agreements (SLAs).
Norton Virus Definitions 2003\2004\2005\2006\2007 05/02/2011 [ 115.4 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/2K/XP] Hot
Ensure your Norton AntiVirus product contains the most up-to-date detection and prevention.
Norton Virus Definitions 2008\2009\2010 05/02/2011 [ 97.9 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/2K/XP]
Ensure your Norton AntiVirus product contains the most up-to-date detection and prevention.
Free Video Dub 1.8.11 [ 5.70 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7]
Free Video Dub is a free video editing software which lets you delete unwanted parts from video files without re-encoding. And "without re-encoding" means without loosing original quality! This is lossless video editing, which is very fast.
AVG Anti-Virus Update May 2, 2011 [ 71 MB | Freeware | Win All]
Manually update your AVG when the automatic update fails.
Nero Kwik Media (Nero Burnlite 10) 10.6.11000 [ 174 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/Vista/Windows7]
Nero Kwik Media includes the best of Nero BurnLite 10, your solution for CD and DVD burning and copying, powered by the industry’s best software. Make flawless copies of music files or home videos to share, or create disc images in .iso and .nrg formats.
Ashampoo Photo Commander 9.2.1 [ 132 MB | Shareware $49.99 | Win All]
Ashampoo Photo Commander 9 offers you the perfect mix of features to manage, edit, present and optimize your digital pictures.
Driver Magician Lite 3.77 [ 1.55 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7]
Driver Magician offers a professional solution for device drivers backup, restoration, update and removal in Windows operating system.
cFosSpeed 6.51 Build 1846 Beta [ 3.74 MB | Shareware $11.00 | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
cFosSpeed - Internet Acceleration with Traffic Shaping and bandwidth management. Ping optimizer + packet prioritization. Maximum Download & Minimum Ping. For DSL, ADSL, VDSL, Cable, Modem, ISDN and more.
GreenForce-Player 1.09 [ 2.86 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
GreenForce-Player is an portable alternative media player, with many additional functions. One of these functions is to protect media files. You can encrypt your audio and video files with a password and protect them against screenshots.
iPhoneExplorer 0.9.21.1 [ 1.76 MB | Freeware | Win All]
With the iPhone Explorer can you look into the file system of your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch and down- and upload files by USB connection, regardless of whether file format.
Kaspersky TDSSKiller May 2, 2011 [ 1.20 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
Kaspersky Lab has developed the TDSSKiller utility that allows removing rootkits. A rootkit for Windows systems is a program that penetrates into the system and intercepts the system functions (Windows API).
Avira AntiVir Rescue System 20110502150022 [ 224 MB | Freeware | Win All]
The Avira AntiVir Rescue System a linux-based application that allows accessing computers that cannot be booted anymore. Thus it is possible to repair a damaged system, to rescue data or to scan the system for virus infections.
Speckie 1.8.5 [ 1.20 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
Ever since Internet Explorer was created, it has lacked an essential feature; real time spell check. Versoworks proudly brings you that feature, say hello to Speckie! The first and only dedicated real time spell check for IE.
Wipe 2011.07 [ 4.93 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
WIPE is a free, easy to use and powerful security tool that allows you to protect your privacy by clearing browser history and cache, cleaning index.dat files, securely removing cookies, history and temp files and erasing any other tracks that you leave behind after having used your pc.
Passmark BurnInTest Standard 6.0 (Build 1030) [ 5.83 MB | Shareware $24.00 | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
Passmark’s BurnInTest is a software tool that allows all the major sub-systems of a computer to be simultaneously tested for reliability and stability.
Passmark BurnInTest Professional 6.0 (Build 1030) [ 6.01 MB | Shareware $49.00 | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
Passmark’s BurnInTest is a software tool that allows all the major sub-systems of a computer to be simultaneously tested for reliability and stability.
doPDF 7.2.363 [ 3.99 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7]
doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create searchable PDF files by selecting the "Print" command from virtually any application.
RemoveIT Pro 2.5.2011 [ 4.24 MB | Shareware | Win7/Vista/XP]
Locates & Removes many new dangerous files including Spyware, Malware, Virus, Worms, Trojan's and Adware that other popular AV programs do not find.
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SuperRam 6.5.2.2011 [ 5.91 MB | Shareware $10.99 | Win All]
SuperRam is a tool for all which allows you to maintain and manage memory the right way. By managing your computer's memory you will gain system performance and computer speed never seen before.
Throttle 6.5.2.2011 [ 1.80 MB | Shareware $9.99 | Win All]
Throttle is a tool for all that allows you to modify your modem settings to increase internet performance up to 200% or higher.
PCMedik 6.5.2.2011 [ 1.83 MB | Shareware $9.99 | Win All]
PCMedik can increase the performance of your computer and fix annoying problems like crashes and errors that randomly appear.
PCBoost 4.5.2.2011 [ 5 MB | Shareware $10.99 | Win All]
PCBoost is a tool for all which allows you to optimize your computers performance and make your computer faster! PCBoost works by allocating the majority of your CPU/Processor to the currently active application/game.
GameGain 2.5.2.2011 [ 1.59 MB | Shareware $9.99 | Win All]
GameGain will optimize your computer performance and make your games run faster without having to upgrade your expensive gaming hardware.
PowerDVD 11.0.1620 [ 87.5 MB | Shareware $49.95+ | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7] New
PowerDVD 11 is the ultimate universal media player that extends your viewing experience beyond just movies on PCs. Play any Blu-ray movies or any media format from any device at home or on social network, at enhanced HD and 3D quality, all at the convenience of one player PowerDVD 11.
Windows Essentials Codec Pack 3.5 [ 155 KB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
With Windows Essentials Codec Pack you should be able to play 99% of all movies and music files that you download off the internet, stay up to date with the latest Codecs with the Audio / Video Codec Update Service, and eliminate the many conflicts and error caused by using multiple codecs to decode the same file types.
JShot 2.0 Beta [ 3.42 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/XP]
JShot is a free and multiplatform screen capture and uploader application which allows you to capture and annotate a part of your screen and share it via the Internet in one step.
metapad 3.51 [ 107 KB | Freeware | Win All]
Metapad is a small, fast and completely free text editor for Windows with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features.
LiLi USB Creator 2.7.6 [ 3.18 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7] New
LiLi USB Creator is a handy, easy to use application designed to enable you to create a bootable Live USB key with a Linux on it.
Free RAR Extract Frog 3.20 [ 3.41 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7]
Free RAR Extract Frog is a skinable extraction tool for RAR-archives that supports spanned archives as well as the decompression of password protected files.
Gizmo Drive 2.7.8 [ 7.71 MB | Freeware | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
MountMount ISO, BIN, CUE, NRG files to a virtual CD-ROM drive, mount VHD files, used with Microsoft Virtual PC, mount password protected images to a virtual hard drive anbd more.
AutoHotkey 1.1.00.00 [ 2.54 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7]
Customize your keyboard, joystick, and mouse with an open source scripting language (AutoHotkey) that is backward compatible with AutoIt v2. AutoHotkey it includes a quick-start tutorial, an automatic script writer (macro recorder) that records your keystrokes and mouse clicks, and a comprehensive help file.
Undelete 360 2.11.15 [ 1.91 MB | Freeware | Win7/Vista/2K/XP]
Undelete 360 can recover files deleted from your Computer drives, USB drives, Camera devices, Pen Drives, Memory Cards and supports both file recovery and folder recovery.
Dictionary .NET 3.4.4138 [ 147 KB | Freeware | Win 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7]
Dictionary .NET is a tiny, easy and smart multilingual dictionary translating from/to 52 languages using Google´s services. Integrates Google Dictionary, Translate, Search, Suggest, Wikipedia 5-in-1 without installing them.
SuperEdi 4.3.1 [ 1.65 MB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/Vista/Windows7]
SuperEdi is a text editor with syntax coloring and build-in FTP client. The build-in directory tree helps you locate files quickly without opening the Windows Explorer. Context sensitive information is available via keyword lookup in any Windows help file.
jGnash 2.5.1 [ 14.8 MB | Freeware | Win All]
jGnash is a free personal finance manager with many of the same features as commercially-available software. It was created in order to make tracking your personal finances easy, but also provides the functionality required by advanced users.
ArtSage 1.00.06 [ 248 KB | Freeware | Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7]
ArtSage is a small graphics viewer. It displays the image files in a folder tree. ArtSage is freeware for personal non-commercial use.
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What are the bumps at the end of computer cables?
What are the bumps at the end of computer cables? See more computer accessory pictures.
In a typical computer system found in a home or office, you normally see these "bumps" on the mouse, keyboard and monitor cables. You can also find them on power supply wires when a device (like a printer or scanner) uses an external transformer.
These "bumps" are called ferrite beads or sometimes ferrite chokes. Their goal in life is to reduce EMI (electromagnetic interference) and RFI (radio-frequency interference). You can see these beads in the following photo:
A ferrite bead is simply a hollow bead or cylinder made of ferrite, which is a semi-magnetic substance made from iron oxide (rust) alloyed with other metals. It slips over the cable when the cable is made, or it can be snapped around the cable in two pieces after the cable is made. The bead is encased in plastic -- if you cut the plastic,
all that you would find inside is a black metal cylinder.
What are the bumps at the end of computer cables?
Computers are fairly noisy devices. The motherboard inside the computer's case has an oscillator that is running at anywhere from 300 MHz to 1,000 MHz. The keyboard has its own processor and oscillator as well. The video card has its own oscillators to drive the monitor. All of these oscillators have the potential to broadcast radio signals at their given frequencies. Most of this interference can be eliminated by the cases around the motherboard and keyboard.
Another source of noise is the cables connecting the devices. These cables act as nice, long antennae for the signals they carry. They broadcast the signals quite efficiently. The signals they broadcast can interfere with radios and TVs. The cables can also receive signals and transmit them into the case, where they cause problems. A ferrite bead has the property of eliminating the broadcast signals. Essentially, it "chokes" the RFI transmission at that point on the cable -- this is why you find the beads at the ends of the cables. Instead of traveling down the cable and transmitting, the RFI signals turn into heat in the bead.
In a typical computer system found in a home or office, you normally see these "bumps" on the mouse, keyboard and monitor cables. You can also find them on power supply wires when a device (like a printer or scanner) uses an external transformer.
These "bumps" are called ferrite beads or sometimes ferrite chokes. Their goal in life is to reduce EMI (electromagnetic interference) and RFI (radio-frequency interference). You can see these beads in the following photo:
A ferrite bead is simply a hollow bead or cylinder made of ferrite, which is a semi-magnetic substance made from iron oxide (rust) alloyed with other metals. It slips over the cable when the cable is made, or it can be snapped around the cable in two pieces after the cable is made. The bead is encased in plastic -- if you cut the plastic,
all that you would find inside is a black metal cylinder.
What are the bumps at the end of computer cables? Another source of noise is the cables connecting the devices. These cables act as nice, long antennae for the signals they carry. They broadcast the signals quite efficiently. The signals they broadcast can interfere with radios and TVs. The cables can also receive signals and transmit them into the case, where they cause problems. A ferrite bead has the property of eliminating the broadcast signals. Essentially, it "chokes" the RFI transmission at that point on the cable -- this is why you find the beads at the ends of the cables. Instead of traveling down the cable and transmitting, the RFI signals turn into heat in the bead.
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