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Microsoft Security Essentials Public Beta

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:56:56 +0000

A few days ago, Microsoft released for download on the official website the Microsoft Security Essentials (also known as Moro). this is a new anti-virus software that apparently is climbing very fast into the Top 10 greatest AVs.

All you need to do is to use your Connect account to sign in (you can register if you don’t have one) and start the download. Microsoft released only 75,000 spots for beta testers but this number will be increased according to the received demands.

According to many testers this program works great and it really does a pretty good job detecting those nasty trojans.

Screenshot Of Office 2010

admin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:07:57 +0000

Neowin, a tech site, has a screenshot of the upcoming Microsoft Office 2010 and we can see a number of tweaks in the interface and the integration of voicemail, just as you can notice in the picture.

Installing Your Favorite Software With Smart Installer Pack

admin — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:25:49 +0000

Smart Installer Pack is a collection of free Windows software, that a lot of PC users install each time they reinstall their operating system. This software collection allows you to install them all from a single pack, instead of downloading each file individually. It has around 220Mb and it’s certainly easier to use than going to 15 different sites and downloading the latest version from each one.

Sumatra PDF Viewer, Portable, Free and Open Source

admin — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:55:12 +0000

Sumatra PDF is an open source, free and lightweight PDF viewer, designer for Windows. Its design is minimalistic and it’s made to be portable, occupying only 1Mb of space with only 1 file to carry around. It’s even smaller than Foxit Reader, that I used until now, but the best part is the portability. Highly recommended if you have the habit of carrying around your programs on a USB stick. You can see below how Sumatra PDF looks like when open.

Creating Bootable Flash Drives With Lexar

admin — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:17:10 +0000

Ever tried making a bootable device in Windows? It’s not something that can be done easily usually, but Lexar BootIt might be just what you need. The partitioning you need to do yourself, but once you did that, the tool will create a bootable drive easily. The utility was made mainly for Lexar drives, but apparently they work on most other USB drives as well.

Type the volume label
Flip the removable bit if you have more than one partition
Mark the partition that is active
Go

Free Support For Windows XP Is No More

admin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:48:35 +0000

While the Windows XP is still being sold on low powered netbooks, the support has been officially discontinued, after 8 years of being sold. At the same time, there will be no more support for Office 2003. Paid support will continue until 2014. They will continue however to send important security updates, both for Office 2003 and Windows XP.

Small, Free and Simple Photoshop Alternative – Fotografix

admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:41:04 +0000

Fotografix is a free alternative to Photoshop, that will do the trick as long as you don’t need something too complex. It takes very little resources and it’s portable. It supports masks, layers and scripting. You also have a few other normal editing tools, like the rubber stamp, magic wand, elliptical and rectangular marquees.

If you want to edit some photos to post on blogs, Fotografix might be just what you need. I for one will switch to it for a while to see how it goes.

Download link

Block Programs From Launching With AppLocker

admin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:39:51 +0000

If you need to make sure that certain programs will not be launched on your computer and uninstalling them isn’t an option, AppLocker is the software that will do that. In order to block an application, you need to add the name of the executable to AppLocker. To block Internet Explorer you need to add iexplorer.exe to that list of blocked apps.

OpenOffice.org 3.1 RC1 Launched

admin — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:30:36 +0000

The final version of OpenOffice.org 3.1 might be launched by the end of the month, but we got the RC1 version to play with for the moment. Here are some of the improvements that come in this version:

Anti-aliasing for improved graphics
Easier dragging of graphics
Improved file locking to prevent other users on the network from overwriting your changes to a document
Support for overlining as well as underlining
Ability for different editors to "reply" to comments in a Writer document
Rename Calc sheets with a double click
Zoom slider control in the Calc status bar similar to the one in Writer

Download from mirrors

Linking To YouTube HD Videos

admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:58:36 +0000

If you watched HD quality videos on YouTube, you probably noticed that the URL doesn’t change when you switch to it from normal mode. Adding &hd=1 to the URL will do the trick in this case, allowing you to link directly to the HD version of the video.

Example:

youtube.com/watch?v=ZOmLnGrq-bA – this will show the standard version
youtube.com/watch?v=ZOmLnGrq-bA&hd=1 - this will show the HD version