Two useful freeware for your PC

1. HWMonitor - This is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors such as voltages, temperatures and fans speed.
The program handles the most common sensor chips, like ITE IT87 series, most Winbond ICs, and others. In addition, it can read modern CPUs on-die core thermal sensors, as well has hard drives temperature via S.M.A.R.T, and video card GPU temperature.
Special hardware monitors such as abit uGuru and Gigabyte ODIN power supplies serie are supported too.
HWMonitor does not need to be installed. Just unzip the files in a directory and run the .exe. In order to remove the program, just delete the files.
The program does not copy any file in any directory, neither writes in the registry.
Available for 64 bit / 32 bit Windows PC/ File size: 334Kb
>>Download
2. CPU-Z – This application gathers information on some of the main devices of your computer. Such as CPU, Main board, memory etc.
It shows you Name and number of CPU, Core stepping and process, Package, Core voltage, Internal and external clocks, clock multiplier, Supported instructions sets, and Cache information.
Vendor, model and revision of main board, BIOS model and date, Chipset (northbridge and southbridge) and sensor, and Graphic interface.
Frequency and timings of memory, Module(s) specification using SPD (Serial Presence Detect) : vendor, serial number, timings table and Windows and DirectX version.
CPU-Z also does not need to be installed. Just unzip the files in a directory and run the .exe
File size: 558Kb / Download

PC Login Now 2.0 –Available for FREE Download

How can you gain access to a Windows computer if you forgot the administrator's password? Normally it is not possible without formatting and re-installing the operating system.
PCLoginNow is a useful and easy to use application in this situation. This free tool is able to reset local administrator and other accounts passwords without reinstall the system. This tool can also help maintain, change accounts policy setting and properties. You can easily upgrades a general account to administrator level, lock or unlock those accounts you don't need anymore, and moreover, all of these are done without booting your system.
The most powerful feature PCLoginNow have is to support Syskey. Even though the system registry is protected by Syskey, PCLoginNow can easily bypass this mechanism and reset the Windows passwords.
The download is an ISO file that needs to be burnt to a CD to make it a bootable CD. Just use any burning software to burn this image file. Before using this Live CD, ensure that your computer will boot from your CD drive (otherwise do it from the BIOS settings).
PC Login Now is made available as a freeware now and supports all Windows OS (Windows 2000/ XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008), and it can handle dual boot machines also.
File size: 55Mb Download / Home page

Kaspersky Antivirus 7 FREE 6 Month license from Tata Communication

No doubt Kaspersky is one of the best antivirus software available today. After several posts on FREE Kaspersky antivirus and Kaspersky Internet security software, here is another trick to get a FREE 6 month license key for Kaspersky Antivirus 7.This FREE Kaspersky antivirus 7 license is actually giving to the registered members of Yuva Yantra (from Tata Communication) as a Kaspersky promotion. To get a free 6 month KAV 7 license, all you need to have a free registration with YuvaYantra.
To obtain a FREE membership, just enter the site and fill up the member registration form and submit. You will be direct a congratulate page as the YuvaYantra member. A button ‘Get in here’ will display on bottom pages, just click on it to start the process to obtain the kaspersky anti virus 7 license key and download link.
When Kaspersky introduction pages and step 1, 2, 3 and 4 show, Just press the 'Get your free license now!' button to start to obtain the kaspersky anti virus 7 license key.
On final pages, you will see activation code for kaspersky anti virus and full instruction guide how to download and activate the kaspersky anti virus 7.0. (source)

Laptop Alarm 2.0 – Download and Protect your Laptop

Laptop Alarm 2.0 beta is a free and small utility with which you can protect your laptop. For example, if you're in a cafe or at the office and have to go to the bathroom an instant, if someone tries to move or steal your laptop, it will emit a loud alarm.

Laptop Alarm 2.0 will emit a loud alarm on:
1. Disconnecting A/C Power
2. Disconnecting USB Mouse
3. Mouse Movement
4. Shutdown / Suspend your Laptop

Thus, with Laptop Alarm 2.0 beta may not allow even touch your laptop or move your site, without sounding the alarm. The new version eliminates the possibility of lowering the volume or leaves your laptop in mute, so that the alarm will always be audible. (Visualbeta)
File size: 350Kb / License: Free
>>Download

Trinity Rescue Kit – Free Live CD for Rescuing and Repairing Windows Computer

Trinity Rescue Kit is a FREE live CD (Linux distribution) ideal for repairing and rescuing your Windows computer (equally usable for Linux recovery issues also).
You can restore and back up passwords, remove viruses before it damaging your computer, recover lost partitions, recover deleted files, etc with Trinity Rescue Kit (TRK) Live CD.
Important features of Trinity Rescue Kit:

• Easily reset windows passwords (backup and restore)
• 4 different virus scan products (ClamAV, AVG, F-Prot, BitDefender) integrated in a single uniform command line with online update capability
• Full NTFS write support through ntfs-3g
• Wide range of hardware support (kernel 2.6.19.2 and recent kudzu hwdata)
• Easy script to find all local file systems
• Recovery and un-deletion of files with utilities and procedures
• Recovery of lost partitions
• Evacuation of dying disks
• 2 root kit detection utilities

It is possible to boot TRK in three different ways: As a bootable CD which you can burn yourself from a downloadable ISO file.
From a USB stick installable from Windows or from the bootable TRK CD
From network over PXE, this requires some modifications on your local network.
Home Page / Download

Asirra - A different form of Captcha

Web services are often protected with a challenge that's supposed to be easy for people to solve, but difficult for computers. Such a challenge is often called a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) or HIP (Human Interactive Proof).
It is used for many purposes, such as to reduce email and blog spam and prevent brute-force attacks on web site passwords.
Today, the most common HIPs ask users to identify text that has been distorted or obscured, such challenges can be difficult and frustrating for people, yet are often easily solved by computers.
Asirra (Animal Species Image Recognition for Restricting Access) is a HIP that works by asking users to identify photographs of cats and dogs. This task is difficult for computers, but people can accomplish it quickly and accurately.
It's easy to add an Asirra HIP to your web site. Microsoft Research is providing it as a FREE web service.
>>More details and download

FREE 5 month License Key for Keygold Secure Parental Control and Internet Security

Keygold Secure is the complete Parental Control & Internet Security package available and brings the best available protection to you in one easy to use product.
Combining the award winning filtering technology of Netintelligence with Kaspersky’s Anti Virus, Keygold Secure ensures that both your family and your computer are protected from on line predators and security threats.
Keygold Secure gives you the ability to filter and customize web access for your children, record all instant messaging conversations, set and monitor time spent on your computers, both on and off line and prevent harmful viruses.
Features of Keygold Secure includes

• Kaspersky Antivirus and Anti-spyware
• Advanced Parental control
• Advanced Firewall and Anti-Hacker
• Remote control from any PC
• Block harmful websites
• Chat monitor

Keygold Secure costs £49.99 for a 12 Months, 3 separate PC License, and supports Windows Vista, XP & 2000.
To get a FREE 5 month trial of KeyGold Secure, enter here and click on Proceed button. Give your details such as your name, email address, etc and enter the promotion code METRO under the ‘Promotion code text box and click Proceed. Now copy your user name, password and license key.
Follow the instructions in the email you just received to download the software.(source)

Ear Test / Hearing Test

The Ear Test / Hearing Test program is designed to give you a quick test of your ear's capabilities to hear all frequencies of the audible spectrum, separately for each ear. You can measure with good accuracy up to which frequency you can hear and compare your result with those of your friends and family. The test result is drawn as a graphical chart.The upper frequency limit of the human ears is strongly dependent on a person's age. A child can usually hear frequencies of up to 20,000 Hz (oscillations per second), while for an old person it can be as low as 5,000 Hz and even lower. For a middle-aged person (40 years), a frequency of 14,000 Hz is an average value.
Some people can have gaps in their hearing spectrum, due to inner ear injuries - this can also be checked.
Due to the lack of calibration, this program cannot replace a medical hearing test. Please be careful when using it with headphones.
>>License: Free / File size: 249Kb
>>Requirements: Microsoft .Net 2
>>Download / Home page

Quicksys RegDefrag – Tool for optimizing Windows registry

Registry data is consistently being written to and removed during a normal windows operation. Whenever a user makes changes to a Control Panel settings, or File Associations, System Policies, or installed software, the changes are reflected and stored in the registry. Overtime all these data become fragmented. Fragmentation affects your computer’s overall performance.Quicksys RegDefrag is a freeware utility for Windows that optimizes your registry by removing gaps, fragmented and wasted space in windows registry files. This tool improves the whole system performance and boot access to registry.
License: Free / File size: 1Mb
Download / Homepage

Tweak and Optimize Firefox 3 for faster web site access

By default, Firefox runs fast enough. But you can amplify your browsing experience a little bit by modifying a few settings. Usually you have to optimize Firefox manually, but manually configuring - by typing about: config in the address bar and scroll through the page and setting or altering some options are little bit difficult and time consuming especially for the novice user.
FireTune is a free software application to easily optimize several configuration settings for Firefox. According to your specific computer speed and internet connection speed, FireTune will optimize several internal settings of Firefox for better performance
FireTune does NOT modify the Firefox executable or any other Firefox binary file. Instead it automates the procedure of optimizing the browsers preferences.How to tell whether Firefox is faster after optimizing it
After installation, just follow these instructions:

• Clear the cache of Firefox from the Firefox settings dialog - this is very important!
• Before you optimize Firefox, navigate to http://www.numion.com/stopwatch/ and do a speed test on http://www.neowin.net
• The time needed to load the site completely will be displayed to you in the browser window. Write down the time
• Clear the cache of Firefox from the Firefox settings dialog again - this is very important!
• Start Firefox again, and repeat the speed test on http://www.neowin.net/
• Compare the displayed result with the result from the test before the optimization
• Repeat this three or more times

>>Download FireTune
>>Requirements - Firefox v1.x / 2.x / 3.x.
>>OS: Windows 200 /XP/2003 (some system required VB6 run time to run it. Those files are usually pre-installed on Windows 2000/XP/2003. If you get an error message during startup, download and install VB runtime (http://download.microsoft.com/download/vb60pro/install/6/Win98Me/EN-US/VBRun60.exe)- (source)

Rising Software releases FREE edition of Rising antivirus software

RISING is one of the earliest enterprises engaged in computer virus prevention in the world. Now they releases free edition, based on its Rising antivirus application, that protects your computers against all types of viruses, Trojans, Worms, Rootkits and other malicious programs.
Ease of use, Active Defense technology, Patented Unknown Virus Scan&Clean technology and Patented Smartupdate technology make RISING Antivirus ' install-and-forget ' product that lets you focus on what you really want to do.
‘Rising antivirus Free Edition still provides the SAME level of detection and protection capability as RISING Antivirus 2008. RISING Support centre will also provide technical support for the free edition users. RISING expects more users can enjoy Lion-strong security protection’
Functions and advantages:

• Anti virus, worms, Trojans
• Anti Rootkit
• Mail Protection(POP3/SMTP)
• Application Protection(RISING unique Account Safe function protects your online bank, online game, MSN, E-mail account, Yahoo Messenger and other private information.),
• Proactive Defence(protects your security safe from malicious program) ,
• Application Access Control ,
• Program Startup Control ,
• Malicious Behavior Detection ,
• Hidden Process Detection ,
• Multiple Languages ,
• High Speed Update Service ,
• Support Service,
• Free

>>Download Rising anti-virus free edition from here / here
>>OS: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
>>File size: 53.66Mb

FREE License key and Download for MultiNetwork Manager 9

MultiNetwork Manager is an application designed to alleviate many of the technical issues encountered when roaming between different network locations. This application is targeted for individuals, home and business users, who want to explore the benefits of easily, connect at new sites, store profiles to switch between location settings for network access and resource allocation
MultiNetwork Manager allows laptop users to easily connect to the Internet, corporate LANs, client networks, wireless networks, dial-up or mobile networks, etc. and ensures that your security settings are correct, firewalls are enabled, shares are disabled, Bluetooth adapter disabled or any other security measure needed.
The new MultiNetwork Manager 9 is fully Vista compatible. The functionality and user interface of MultiNetwork Manager 9 has been greatly enhanced to provide ease of use and powerful features for both less experienced and expert users.
Features includes:

• PC-to-PC connection wizards connect two or more computers directly using e.g. your WLan adapter
• Remote security policies automatically help protect your system when connected to unknown networks.
• Capture helps you create a profile by capturing the current network configuration and let's you connect on your own when returning a second time.
• TCP/IP and Proxy components let you specify specific connection information, e.g. an internal DNS when connected using a VPN.
• The WLAN connection wizard lists available networks and help you get connected.
• Location sensing will automatically
• detect a known network and apply the appropriate profile.
• Import/export helps you share profiles with friends and colleagues.
• The printer component easily installs e.g. a typical IP printer.
• File sharing wizard helps you easily share files between computers.

The software normally costs $29.95. To get a FREE license key just enter here and enter the promotion code MNM9FORFREE, name and a valid email address. After the registration
Download MNM9 from here.
After installation provide the License ID and key to activate the product. Your computer should be connected to internet as it requires verifying your Key and License ID.
OS: Windows 2000/XP/XP-Tablet/VISTA
(via- Slickdeals)

HashCalc - HASH, CRC, and HMAC calculator

Hash refers to a small section of data used to verify the integrity and authenticity of downloaded files.
HashCalc offers a choice of 13 of the most popular hash and checksum algorithms for calculations.
It is fast, free and easy-to-use calculator that allows to compute message digests, checksums and HMACs for files, as well as for text and hex strings..
Major Features:

• Supports well-known and documented hash and checksum algorithms: MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2( 256, 384, 512), RIPEMD-160, PANAMA, TIGER, ADLER32, CRC32.
• Support of a custom hash algorithm (MD4-based) used in eDonkey and eMule applications.
• Support of 3 input data formats: files, text strings and hex strings.
• Work with large size files. (Up to 15 GB).

• Drag-and-drop support.
• Calculates hash/checksum and HMAC for files of any type: music, audio, sound, video, image, icon, text, compression, etc.

>>Similar Application - HashTab
>>License:Free / File size:458Kb (v.2.02)
>>OS: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
>>Download / Homepage

Sylpheed - lightweight and user-friendly e-mail client for Linux

Sylpheed is a fast and light weight e-mail and news client. It will run on just about any Linux or UNIX compliant system - Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X. It also supports Windows.Sylpheed adopts 3-paned display similar to some popular e-mail clients for Windows, such as Outlook Express, Becky!, and Datula. The interface is also designed to emulate the mailers on Emacsen, and almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard.
Currently implemented features are:

• Unlimited multiple account handling
• Thread display,Filtering
• MIME (attachments), built-in image view
• X-Face support, External editor support
• Message queueing, Draft message function
• Line-wrapping, Clickable URI
• XML-based addressbook
• LDAP addressbook, Jpilot addressbook (for Palm types handhelds)
• Newly arrived and unread message management
• Multiple MH folder support
• Mew/Wanderlust compatible key bindings
• News reader function
• Printing, UIDL support
• APOP authentication, SMTP AUTH support
• IPv6 support, GPG encryption and signature
• Autoconf, automake support
• Support of i18n of messages by gettext
• Supports many locales, including UTF-8 (Unicode), when using libjconv
• IMAP4 compliant

Home page / Download
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eEye Digital Security offers FREE one year license for Blink Personal Endpoint Security software.

eEye Digital Security is the innovative leader in vulnerability and security research and provides security solutions to users. They are pioneering a new class of security product – Integrated threat management to enhance security. This next generation of security detects vulnerabilities and threats, prevent intrusions, protects all of an enterprise’s key computing resources from endpoint to network assets to websites and web applications.
Blink Endpoint Security is a single, lightweight client that replaces multiple security agents, protecting against known exploits, zero day attacks, and all other attack vectors.
Personal and home users can get one free license of Blink Personal Endpoint Security software for one year from the date of activation.
Just click here, and give your email address to download the product. After downloading (53Mb), install the product. While installing your PC should be connected to internet for activating the product. (Source)

Unlock password protected PDF files and Excel files Online for FREE

You may still remember my previous post ‘Free PDF Unlocker’ - a simple and useful application that will remove the password and restrictions on any PDF file. Password protected PDF files prevent the user from copying and pasting or printing its contents. But this free software supports only Windows.
If you are looking for a simple, cross platform and easy way to just bypass the copying & printing restrictions of the PDF file the Free PDF Unlock Online Utility will be the best choice, you just need to upload the file to unlock. The unlocked version of the PDF will be displayed in a new browser window, opened in the default PDF application for your system.
Similarly you can use Free Excel Spreadsheet Unlock Online Utility to unlock Microsoft Excel spreadsheet passwords. Microsoft Excel allows a user to protect one or more sheets in a spreadsheet. Protected sheets cannot be modified without entering a password (chosen by the person that protected the spreadsheet). (source)
>>Free PDF Online Unlocker
>>Free Excel Spread sheet online Unlocker

New email address from Yahoo! - @ymail and @rocketmail

Yahoo! launched two new domain- ymail.com and rocketmail.com. The new @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com addresses deliver all the great features you love about Yahoo.The interesting thing about it is that, as it is a new domain you can create your very own e-mail IDs - @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com which you missed earlier. So hurry up to create your own Yahoo ID otherwise someone else will grab it. (source)
>>Create your own new Yahoo! email

XPassGen – Secure password generator

XPassGen is a secure password generator that allows you to generate secure, unpredictable passwords and has several uses. Unlike most password generators, which use computer generated data which is sometimes predictable, XPassGen uses user input (mouse movement) for generating passwords. The advantage of using mouse movement is the result is 100% random and impossible to predict.XPassGen allows you to set various parameters such as password length, number and type of characters, using upper and lower case letters and other options. Once finished the settings, you only need to click the button "generate passwords" and move the cursor over it.
Although there are several similar applications and web tools are available, XPassGen offers greater customization and more reliable. (source)
License: Free / File size: 144Kb / Download

FREE full commercial download for WinOptmizer 4 worth $39.95

Ashampoo WinOptimizer is an easy-to-use suite of tools for maintaining and optimizing your computer. With different PC maintenance functions; WinOptimizer keeps your PC free of unnecessary garbage and optimize it for running smoothly.The fully Windows Vista compatible WinOptimizer has the following main functions:
1. System Benchmark - Tests the processor and memory performance of your computer.
2. Visual Styler - Enables you to replace system icons, apply transparency settings to Windows components and application windows.
3. Process Manager - lists all the processes active on your computer, displays information on the process details and allows you to kill programs manually if necessary.
5. Disk defragmenter - Fully compatible with Windows Vista in both the 32 and 64 bit versions, and is faster and more efficient.
6. Tweaking Tools - Offer over 450 Windows configuration options, including customization settings for Windows logon, the Control Panel, Internet Explorer, Windows Explorer, Windows Media Player, system appearance, system settings and more.
To get your serial code, leave ‘Get full version key’ checked during installation, or click Internet – ‘Get Full Version Key’ within the application and follow the instructions
Supports Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista
File size: 8.8Mb / Download [via – Vnunet]

Core Temp –Application for monitoring CPU temperature

Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, and small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature. The uniqueness of it is that it shows the temperature of each individual core in each processor in your system! You can see in real time how the CPU temperature varies when you load your CPU. It's also completely motherboard independent.Core Temp (V 0.99) supported on all Intel Core and Core 2 based processors as well as the whole AMD's Athlon64 line of CPUs. For full list of supported CPUs, click here.
Its logging feature, allows a user to easily record the temperature of his processor(s) over any period of time, then the data can be easily transferred into an excel datasheet for easy graphing.
Core Temp works on Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista (32bit and 64bit). (Source)
License: Free / File size: 100Kb
>>Download

Revo Uninstaller – Free and innovative uninstall utility for Windows

Revo Uninstaller helps you to uninstall and remove unwanted programs installed on your computer even if you have problems uninstalling and cannot uninstall them from Windows Add or Remove Programs control panel applet.
With its advanced and fast algorithm, Revo Uninstaller analyzes an application's data before uninstall and scans after you uninstall an application. After the program's regular uninstaller runs, you can remove additional unnecessary files, folders and registry keys that are usually left over on your computer.
Even if you have a broken installation, Revo Uninstaller scans for an application's data on your hard disk drives and in the Windows registry and shows all found files, folders and registry keys so you can delete them.
With its unique "Hunter mode", Revo Uninstaller offers you some simple, easy to use, but effective and powerful approaches to manage (uninstall, stop, delete, disable from auto starting) and to get information about your installed and/or running programs.
>>Download

Download Free PDF Unlocker

PDF Unlocker is a simple and useful application that will remove the password and restrictions on any PDF file that you can read.
There are two types of passwords that can be used in a PDF file.
1. A password that restricts some functions. Such as printing, copy & paste. This is the most common type. {Owner}
2. A password to open the file for reading. {User}
Using this application is very simple. After installation:
To remove type 1, that is printing, copy & paste restriction, just drag your PDF file on to the link on your desktop (on to PDF Unloacker icon). With in a few seconds it will remove the password and allows printing or copying & pasting the contents from the PDF File.To remove type 2 requires you must know the password to open the file. You can then remove this password and any restrictions.
Right click Remove PDF Password link (icon) and choose edit.
Directly after ‘-sPDFPassword=’ Place open password, without quotes. Close and save file.
Then drag and drop the PDF on to the link on your desktop. You can rename the file if you want.
The application is tested and found to be working properly and fast. It can be removes 40 or 128 bit passwords.
Supports: Windows 2000 / XP / 2003
License: Free, File size: 5.67Mb, Download/ download

Download FREE Spyware Terminator with Web Security Guard

Spyware Terminator (latest version 2.2.0.438) is a free application that effectively removes spyware, malware, keyloggers, etc from your computer. Spyware Terminator has also included the popular award winning open-source antivirus, Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV), for optional integration to achieve a higher level of security.
The power of this application lies in its database that always is kept up to date. It protects the PC in real time and can be programmed to auto scan or manual scan. It requires only a little system resources and supports all versions of Windows.
Spyware Terminator not only a freeware, but support is included for free as well. Support is provided through e-mail or through public forum.
Features includes –

• Fast spyware scanning
• 100% real-time protection
• HIPS protection
• Antivirus protection
• Multilanguage Support

>>Download Latest Version

Firefox 3.0 Final launched today

Finally Mozilla has released the much awaited version of Firefox 3.0 Final today. Even though it has not been officially launched yet, they have put the download files on their ftp servers. You can download Firefox 3.0 Final from their ftp server.Download English version from here/ other languages from here

RegFromApp - Monitors the Registry changes made by an application

RegFromApp is a small utility for windows from Nirsoft, which monitors the Registry changes made by an application that you selected, and creates a standard RegEdit registration file (.reg) that contains all the Registry changes made by the application.
You can use the generated .reg file to import these changes with RegEdit when it's needed.
RegFromApp doesn't require any installation process or additional dll files. In order to start using it, simply run the RegFromApp.exe file.After running it, select the process that you want to inspect, and click Ok. After clicking Ok, each time that the selected process writes a value into the Registry, the main window of RegFromApp will display the written value in Windows .reg file format.
You can copy & paste the desired values to another Registry file, or alternatively, you can save the entire Registry changes into a .reg file by using the 'Save As' option.
This utility works on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista (32-bit only).
License: Free / Download / Homepage

FREE License Key and Download for PCmover 3 worth $ 49.95

PC mover is a migration utility that moves programs, files, and settings from your old PC to your new PC. Simply install PCmover on both your computers, old and new, and go. It works with almost any Windows operating system, from Windows 95 to Vista.
Features of PCmover include:

• Complete migration - Move all your files, settings, and programs from the old to the new PC
• Transfer from an Old Operating System to a Newer One -PCmover will transfer files, settings and programs from PCs with operating systems dating back from Windows 95 right up to Windows Vista.
• Perform Migrations in Advance - No need to wait for your new PC to arrive - you can store a copy of all your files, settings, and programs on a server, external hard drive, or even CDs or DVDs, and migrate them to the new PC or new hard drive at a later date.
• Transfer from a PC to a Mac running Windows OS -Intel-based Mac users running Apple Boot Camp or Parallels Desktop for Mac can use PCmover to transfer files, settings and applications from their old PC to their new Mac.
• Multiple Transfer Options -Choose from a parallel cable, Laplink USB 1.1, Laplink USB 2.0, Easy Transfer Cable, or for the fastest migrations, use a wired/wireless network to perform the migration. You can even use removeable media such as a CD-R or DVD-R.
• Easy to Use Wizard Interface - Clock through a simple wizard to set up the move - then relax while PCmover does the heavy lifting.
• Undo Feature - Reverse a migration at any time with PCmover's easy "undo" feature.

If you like this product here is how to get FREE license number and download link for PCmover3. Just enter here and register your name and email address to get a serial number and download link. Remember this offer ends on 31st July 2008. So hurry up
After installation run the product and enter your name, email address (given for registration) and the serial number you received to activate the product.
File size: 13.4 MB

Ariolic Disk Scanner- Scan your hard drive for read errors

Ariolic Disk Scanner is a small and useful application for Windows that scans hard drive for read errors. Read errors of hard drives makes some files on your computer can not be open.
This application makes a read only check of the hard drive clusters and shows results as a disk picture.Features of Ariolic Disk Scanner:

• Read-only hard drive volumes test for read errors
• Ariolic Disk Scanner does not require a setup - it's portable. Run it directly from CD or a Flash drive
• See the check result at a glance
• Works with hard drives, flash disks, CD, floppy

Requirements - Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista
License: Free / Download / Homepage

Fedora Liveusb Creator – For Installing Live OS on to USB flash drive

Fedora Liveusb-creator is a cross-platform application that lets you easily install live operating systems on your USB flash drives.Features of Liveusb Creator:

• Completely non-destructive install. There is no need to deal with formatting or partitioning your USB key.
• Supports downloading various Fedora releases, including Fedora 9
• Automatically detects all of your removable devices
• Persistent storage creation. This lets you to allocate extra space on your USB stick, allowing you to save files and make modifications to your live operating system that will persist after you reboot. This essentially lets you carry your own personalized Fedora with you at all times. (Note: only works with Fedora 9)
• SHA1 checksum verification of known releases, to ensure that you've downloaded the correct bits

John’s Background Switcher – Automatically changes your desktop wallpaper

John’s Background Switcher is a free application for Windows that lets you change your desktop wallpaper automatically at regular intervals. You can choose photos from your computer or from online services like Picasa, Flickr or Yahoo image search for this purpose.The new version of John’s Background Switcher can embed a calendar on your desktop over the switchable wallpaper, apply effects to the photos, or limit photos you use to landscape mode so you’ve always got wide photos.
John’s Background Switcher (JBS) sits in your system tray and changes the desktop wallpaper at the time interval you specified. This icon also lets you open the settings, pause switching, view all downloaded photos, check for updates and exit JBS.
JBS is completely free and supports Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista (both 32 and 64-bit version).
It uses Microsoft.NET 2.0 and if that’s not already installed on your computer the setup wizard will download and install it for you. File size:1.2Mb - (VisualBeta)

Holiday Lights Designer 2.1 - Free download

Decorating a house with lights is one of the special joys of the holiday season. With Holiday Lights Designer you can create a rough draft, stringing virtual lights on a picture of a home, office, or anything you want to decorate. The application allows to experiment with different blink speeds, different light styles and colors from which to choose along with trees, wreaths, garlands, pre-lighted foliage and topiaries, home décor, year-round foliage and seasonal decorations.
You can also import your own Christmas lights, silhouettes, lighted displays and decorations.All you need is a picture of your house or anything else you want to decorate. No need to take pictures at night or in special conditions. Holiday Lights Designer 2.1 takes care of simulating different day or night conditions for you.
The software cost £24.95 (version 2.1, current version 4) to buy. To get FREE legal license key (Special offer from PC Advisor and Bluesquad) just register with PC Advisor and follow the instruction.
Just enter here and give your name and email address to get a serial number and download link to the application.
File size: 22Mb (version 2.1).

Macrium Reflect Free 4.2 – Free Hard Disk imaging software for Windows XP and Vista

Macrium Reflect Free (Version-4.2) is a free application that lets you make a complete image of your hard drive. The application uses the Windows Shadow Copy (VSS) service, lets you back up your Hard Drive without any problem while Windows is running. It has a user-friendly interface, good compression level and speed and also can create a rescue CD, all these are for just a cost of zero.Features of Macrium Reflect Free:

• Create a disk image whilst running Windows using Microsoft Volume Shadow copy Service (VSS).
• Image to Network, USB, FireWire drives and DVD.
• Built in scheduler.
• 32 bit and native 64 bit versions.
• Industry leading compression levels and speed.
• Linux based Rescue CD with Network access and full GUI. Only 6.5MB in size!
• Built in CD/DVD packet writing engine. Supports packet writing to DVD DL media with Windows Vista.
• HTML log files.

Supports Windows XP / Vista ( 32 bit / 64bit)
Download / Homepage

FREE 6 Month License key for Kaspersky Antivirus 7

All of you may still remember the articles on how to obtain Free 1 year Kaspersky Internet security 2009 license, Free 6 month genuine license key for KIS 2009 and KIS 7 (2008) and free 3 month license key for KIS 7, here is another trick (Wongsk) to get a free 6 month legal license key for Kaspersky Antivirus 7 (KAV 7).
Kasperky is a leader in Internet security with their award winning Kaspersky Antivirus solution, offering protection from a range of IT threats. Following are some of the main features os Kaspersky Antivirus 7 (KAV7)

• Proactive protection from unknown threats,
• Protection from viruses, Trojans and worms, as well as from spyware and adware,
• Real-time scanning for email, Internet traffic and files; protection from viruses when using ICQ and other IM clients; protection from keyloggers, rootkits, and more,
• Disables links to phishing websites,
• Rollback of unwanted changes on your computer; tools for creating a Rescue Disk, etc.

Jaring Malaysia (a broadband services provider) offering a free 6 month trial of Kaspersky Antivirus (KAV) 7.0 for its users. You can also (non- Malaysian) obtain a free 6 month license key for Kaspersky Antivirus 7. Follow the instruction given below

• Just enter this page and click on ‘Free Trial’ , shown below Kaspersky Antivirus 7.0.
• In the next page enter your name, email address and phone no. ( For phone number select any region code and enter in any 7 digit number (example: 1234567 ) and click on 'submit' button .(see image)

• You should get an email with in a few minutes, that contains your activation code and download link to KAV 7.
• Just download it and use the activation code to activate KAV 7. Follow the instruction given in the email to activate the KAV 7.
  

Desktop Tools – Instantly hide and show Desktop Icons

Desktop tools is a very simple, very lite, one click hide /show desktop icons solution. It sits in the system tray, and with a single click, all your desktop icons are gone, another click will restore all.
Desktop tools instantly hide and show desktop icons without flashing, or messing anything else around, or taking a few seconds (below 10 seconds) to actually do the job, or without hiding desktop widgets at the same time.
You can show/hide the desktop icons by left clicking on the Tray Icon or right clicking on the Tray Icon and selecting the Hide/Show Desktop Icons menu item or simply by pressing CTRL+1 button.
The software required no installation, just download, unzip and rum the exe file. (Source)
File size: 45Kb / Download

DriverMax – Lets you download latest drivers for your PC

DriverMax is a free tool (required registration to get a free serial key) for Windows that allows you to download the latest driver updates for your computer. You can also export all your current drivers (or just the ones that work ok) to a folder or a compressed file. After re-installing Windows all drivers will be back in place in less than 5 minutes.Searching for rare drivers / driver updates on hundreds of web sites, on CDs or inserting one installation CD after the other is somewhat tiresome. DriverMax lets you download the latest drivers for your computer, without any effort on your part. Simply download the software, create a free account and start downloading all updates you need.
Among the most significant developments of this new version of DriverMax 4.1 is that, it can display a complete report of all drivers (versions, release dates) installed on your system. This feature can also be very useful when you want to analyze the differences between the drivers installed on different machines.
After installation just follow the instruction to get free serial key for the application. Downloading functions available for Vista users only.
Supports: Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Vista only.
File size 3.4Mb / Download / Home page.

Tool to test your LCD's dead pixels

IsMyLcdOK is a small program but effective solution to easily check for dead, paralyzed and stuck pixels on LCD monitors.Basically, this application test 8 different colors, horizontal and vertical lines on your LCD. During the test, you can search for any dead/paralyzed/stuck pixels.IsMyLcdOK does not have to be installed and can be executed easily from the desktop, and can be carried on a small usb-stick or other memory device.[source]
License: Free / File size:8.5Kb / Download

IE Privacy Keeper – Hide your online activities from prying eyes

IE Privacy Keeper is a simple and efficient browsing history cleaner for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. It would be safe to clean out unwanted traces of your online activities and keep you Internet privacy after accessing some sites, especially security website like banking websites.Regardless you are using Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, IE Privacy Keeper automatically cleans up the browser history once you are done surfing the net. The program will correctly clean up all index.dat files without the need for a Windows restart.
You can specify custom files and registry keys to delete. IE Privacy Keeper has secure deletion feature to prevent data recovery and conceal the cleanup.
You can keep selective items in the browsing history and hide the program form the list of running applications. Secure deletion will make any attempts to recover deleted items fail. [source]
Download / Homepage

FREE 1 Year Kasperski Internet Security 2009 Legal License key For 3 PCs.

Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 provides an all-in-one security solution that ensures a worry-free computing environment for you and your family. The new interface provides clear and comprehensive information on protection status and any action to be taken.
Features of KIS 2009 include: Protects from all types of malware and spyware, scans files, email messages and Internet traffic, protects instant messengers (ICQ, MSN) and updates automatically.
>>It has two-way personal firewall, safe Wi-Fi and VPN connections, intrusion prevention system, intelligent application management and control.>>Proactive protection from unknown threats, scans OS and applications for vulnerabilities, disables links to malware sites, and disables links to phishing websites, virtual keyboard for safe entry of logins and passwords.
>>KIS 2009 prevents theft of data via secure connections (HTTPS / SSL), blocks unauthorized dial-up connections, parental control and anti-spam protection.
As my previous post FREE 6 month legal license for KIS9, here is another trick to get a 1 year legal license key (Mydigitallife) for Kaspersky Internet Security 2009. Actually this is an exclusive offer for Barclays Online Banking customers. The offer of 3 PC - 1 Year license is originally for Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0. However, you can also use the activation for Kaspersky Internet Security 2009.
Follow the instruction below to get 1 year KIS 2009 Legal license key.

• Just enter this page and click on ‘Kaspersky Barclays offer page’.(see image)

• In the next page enter your name, last name, email address and online banking membership number. For this number just enters 2010 followed by any 8 digit random number (example: 201012345678). And click next.
• You will receive a confirmation email; just click on the confirmation link to confirm your email address and ID. You will receive another email address which includes your KIS activation code.
• Now download latest Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 from here
• Install KIS 2009 and while prompting for activation, select Activate online and enter the activation code you just received.

Alternatively you can also install using a key file, which requires no internet connection. Just enter here and enter your activation code and click next. Now enter your name and email address and click next and down load your key file and save it. Select activation using key file and activate your KIS 2009 using the key file you just saved.
>>More details available at Mydigitallife

Defraggler 1.02.077 RC1 released for download

Defraggler is a different defragmentation tool from Piriform – the company that brought to CCleaner and Recuva.
Defraggler for Windows differs from other defrag tools, by enabling you to simply defrag the files you want to, without having to process the whole drive. Simply run it, select the file and defragment in seconds. No more struggling with the Windows defragmentation too.Features includes:

• Defraggler supports all Windows OSs released since Windows 2000 - Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista,XP 64 and Vista. 64-bit. Additionally Defraggler supports both NTFS and FAT32 file systems.
• Completely free for personal or commercial use
• Defraggler gives you the power to select individual files and folders to defrag. So you can get the job done in seconds, rather than waiting for the whole drive to complete. Of course if you want to defrag the whole drive Defraggler will let you do that too.

File size:500Kb / License: Free / Supports: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/XP64/Vista64
Download / Home page

Mango – Software to convert Web applications into Desktop application

Mango is an interesting application that can be used to convert any web application or simply any website, for example Gmail, YouTube or my blog Techtrends, in to an executable desktop application.
We can run these application or web site from our desktop; neither had we required a browser or even Mango.Interesting thing is that, you can convert your favorite sites into an exe file, carry them on your pen drive and access them from any computer with an internet connection.
You can also add your own icons or a splash screen to the file and even create customizable menus.However the application lacks some basic features. For instance, there is no back button or address bar. If you click on a page there is no way of returning back to the previous page unless there is a link on the site like Home or previous etc. [source]
To run this software .net framework 2 installed on your computer.
File size: 500Kb /License: Free/ Download / Home page

FREE 6 month Genuine License Key and Download for Kaspersky Internet Security 2009

Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 is the newest version from Kaspersky Lab. KIS 2009, one of the best internet security products available today, provides an all-in-one security solution that ensures a worry-free computing environment for you and your family.
The new interface provides clear and comprehensive information on protection status and any action to be taken. And also, found that this new version has requires less resource comparing to its previous version (KIS7).KIS 2009 protects from viruses, Trojans and worms, Blocks spy ware and adware, Scans files, email messages and Internet traffic, Protects instant messengers (ICQ, MSN), and provides proactive protection from unknown threats. More details here.
Follow the instructions below to get a FREE 6 month legal license key for Kaspersky Internet Security 2009.

• To get a free legal 6 month license key just enter here
• Copy and paste the following code in the ‘Activation’ field. (see the image)T6B6K-8YK22-VBQH7-ZUZJG,

• Click next. Now you will get a key file that can be used to activate KIS2009.
• Just download and save this key file on your computer.
• Download KIS 2009 (English) and install it.
• After the installation, while prompting for activation, select activation using key file and activate your KIS 2009 using the key file you just saved.

This method is better to activate Kaspersky Internet Security 2009, because active internet connection not required to activate.

Popular Magazines for Free on your iPhone, Firefox and Safari

Free digital issues of several popular magazines are available via Zinio for free to iPhone users and those who using Safari or Firefox can also view the magazine by changing the user agent in their browser. Following are some of the magazine available - U.S. News & World Report, Playboy, Popular Photography, Men’s Health, Popular Mechanics, PC Magazine, Elle, Technology Review, Macworld UK, Lonely Planet, Reader’s Digest, etc.
To read the magazines you only need to enter your email address which then subscribes to their mailing list, and you’ll be able to view the full digital issues magazines.
To take advantage of this, on your iPhone just navigate to Zinio. In case you don’t have an iPhone but you’re using Safari or Firefox and want to take advantage of this, here’s how you change the User Agent:
For Safari Browser:

• Open Safari and go to preferences.
• Click the Advanced tab and check the box that says “show develop menu in menu bar”
• Go up to the Develop Menu > User Agent > Mobile Safari 1.1.3 – iPhone.
• Navigate to Zinio and start enjoying the magazines

For Firefox browser:

• In the URL bar, enter "about:config"
• Right click anywhere on the page, go down to New and over to String
• You will be prompted to enter the preference name. Enter: general.useragent.override
• You will next be prompted to enter a "string value". Enter: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419 (United States)
• Once you have hit OK, you have morphed your Firefox into an iPhone mobile browser

To reverse this process and return to regular Firefox mode, you must go back into "about:config".
Then scroll down to the "general.useragent.override" and right click it. Select Reset.
[Source : Cybernetnews / ismashphoe]

deVault Pro 2008 X6.1 – Free Backup utility for Download

deVault is an easy to use and powerful utility that helps you to backup, organize, categorize, compress, encrypt and share your important files in a clever and secure digital vaults.
deVault is absolutely FREE for Personal use and $35 for business use (single license). However there is no difference between licensed version and personal version. But customer supports is available to the licensed users only.
Features - Built-in Compression, Encryption, Revision Control, Task Scheduler, Automatic Synchronization, Backup and Restore, Public and Secure Vault Sharing, Virus Scan Interface, Email, FTP, Printing, Searching, Labels and File Shortcuts.
You can use deVault to securely store and organize all your important files by category with custom descriptions and labels, instantly find any file or a particular revision using iTunes like real time search, backup all your important files in secure digital vaults with built-in compression and encryption, share multiple files with others in intelligent digital vaults instead of zip archives.
However you can’t backup your entire hard drive(s) in a single vault and store and share files over 1.5GB.
Supports - Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista.
Download / Homepage

AMP WinOFF – Free Utility to schedule the shut down of PC

AMP WinOFF is an application for Windows that allows scheduling the shut down of your computer.
The highlight of this software is that it lets you set up and program the automatic shutdown of various forms, with different parameters.Some of its features are :

• Scheduled shut downs, either at a set time (e.g. 12:00 PM) or after a period of time (e.g. 1 hour and 15 minutes).
• Perform a shut down when the CPU becomes idle.
• Several types of shut down (shut down, restart, close session, power off, administrative shut down/restart, suspend, hibernate and lock computer).
• Immediate shut down and computer lock from the task bar icon menu.
• Several security options including anti-close protection and password protected access to the configuration.
• Option of capturing the desktop, executing a program and/or hang up the modem before the shut down.
• Command line support for batch processing.

[source] File size: 726Kb - Download / Homepage

Microsoft PowerPoint Producer 2007 beta launched

Beta version of Microsoft Producer 2007 for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 launched yesterday (5 / 6 /2008) via Connect site. The features and functionality of Producer 2007 are essentially the same as Producer 2003. This new version of Producer works with PowerPoint 2007, Windows Vista, and IE7, and is also compatible with Open XML.Power Point Producer 2007 is a free add-in which enables PowerPoint users to capture, synchronize, and publish audio, video, slides, and images to create engaging rich media presentations that can be viewed in a web browser.
This beta ends on June 30, 2008. After June 30, this beta version will not be available for download. Microsoft will review feedback received from customers who participated in the beta and determine whether any bug fixes need to be made to Producer. A final version of Producer 2007 will be made available for download (July / Aug 2008) on the Office Download Center.
To access / download the Power Point Producer 2007 beta, just enter Connect. Microsoft site and sign in with your Windows live ID.[source]

PDF Search Engine – Find PDF documents and e-books very quickly

PDF Search Engine is an excellent tool for finding PDF documents and e-books on the internet. Just enter any keyword in the search field to find documents or e-books on that topics and the search results are also very good.You can either search from the site itself or use the search extension to your Firefox search bar.[source]

Download Windows 7 Theme for Windows XP

Microsoft’s upcoming operating system is Windows 7 and we are not going to get it anytime soon. But, if you like to have a look and feel of Windows 7 desktop theme on your Windows XP, just download the theme and install it.Remember that, since not much detail about this upcoming operating system is available, the theme looks very similar to Windows Vista but provide some nice refreshing changes to the same old look. [Source]
To install the theme- (1) Download Windows 7 Theme here, (2) Install "UXTheme Multi-Patcher 6.0.exe" from "UX Theme Patcher" folder. (3) Double-click "Windows 7 M1 VS.msstyles" in "Theme\Windows 7 M1 VS" folder to install.

Evidence Collector - free forensics program

Evidence Collector is a little program used to manage other utilities in order to collect some data and information you may need to investigate on some IT Incidents. Actually, it deals with Windows environment. Evidence Collector uses utilities such as SysInternals, Nirsoft, etc to collect information and all tools are stored into Utilities repository.What does it really collect?
1. System information: You should get owner, IP, MAC address before going through forensics.
2. Installed software: Unwanted software could be installed without your knowledge. See what inside your computer
3. Installed Hot fixes: Enumerating installed hot fixes. Note that a missed critical patch is a potential exploitable vulnerability
4. Enumerated Processes: List whole processes starting on system
5. Events logs: Application, system and security events logs are collected. Events logs keep traces of what happened to your system.
6. TCP / UDP mapping endpoints: See what hidden behind TCP / UDP ports. Generally, most of remote administration tools and Trojans don’t hide their activities.
7. List start-up programs: When rebooting computers, many evil codes stick into some registry keys in order to be reloaded next time.
8. Suspected modules: Scanning modules to see if they are rootkitted.
9. USB history: Reveals if any USB key has been plugged into system.
The application is still in beta stage. If you like this application you will get more information and download from here. After download just unzip it and start Evidence Collector. No installation required. It checks if you have administrative privileges. If so, upon clicking on "Start collecting data" button, it will perform all checks. You just need to wait until program finished scanning the computer. All logs are stored into LOGS repository.[source]
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Free Personal Learning Edition of Autodesk Maya and VUE for Download

Autodesk Maya and Vue are very costlier ($ 4,995 and $835 respectively) 3D modeling and animation software. Both the applications are capable of creating stunningly realistic looking models, characters and scenes. Autodesk Maya is capable of creating high quality 3D computer graphics and animation. Vue Infinite is a top of the line 3D software which aims to create highly realistic natural 3D environments.However, some of these software publishers have released a fully functional free version of their product, especially for home use and are called Personal Learning Editions 8.5 (PLE). These free editions have all the features found in the actual product and they never expire. The only drawback is, they leave a watermark on each image you render. This free edition is suitable for learning from home.[source]
Download Autodesk Maya PLE and VUE