October 2008
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By Pallab De on October 31, 2008
Earlier this year I brought to you Six Premium Antivirus Software for free (the links for F-Secure, eScan Anti-Virus, CA Anti-Virus and Norman are still working). Well, the security companies are at it again and there are loads of free extended trial keys up for grabs. Here are six premium security products for free. [...]
Posted in Security, Software
By Pallab De on October 30, 2008
The Filter started out as a music recommendation and playlist generation plug-in backed by Rock star Peter Gabriel and Eden Ventures. When it launched there was no auto-playlist generation in iTunes. But things changed with the release of iTunes 8 (which incorporated Apple’s playlist generation technology called Genius). As a result The Filter also [...]
Posted in Software, Web 2.0 | Tagged Music, Software, The Web, web 2.0
By Pallab De on October 17, 2008
Blue Screen of Death (commonly abbreviated as BSOD and sometimes called the Blue Screen of Doom) needs no introduction. It’s an integral part of each and every Windows Operating System. It’s the one thing that a user never wants to see but BSOD in the life of an Windows user is inevitable.
Although Microsoft [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged microsoft, Software, Tips and Tricks, windows
By Pallab De on October 15, 2008
Today is Blog Action Day 2008. Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Their aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion. This year the theme is Poverty. Here are five resources [...]
Posted in Misc | Tagged blog action day, poverty, The Web
By Pallab De on October 14, 2008
In the final review of the series I will take a look at Themestock.com. Themestock.com is from the same guys who are behind Boxedart.com and Built2Go.com. Themestock focuses on Content Management System (CMS) templates or skins. Themestock provides themes for traditional CMS like Drupal, Joomla and Mambo as well as blogging platforms like Wordpress, [...]
Posted in The Web | Tagged review, template, theweb, wordpress
By Pallab De on October 14, 2008
In the days of cool and catchy names (Feisty Fawn, Jaunty Jackalope and Snow Leopard) Microsoft is going back to the basics and has decided to call its next Operating System – Windows 7. Yes, its official now. The successor to Windows Vista will be called Windows 7.
That’s how Windows started out. In the [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged microsoft, Vista, windows, Windows 7
By Pallab De on October 14, 2008
Do you remember Joost – the video streaming that promised to bring Television to your desktop? It made a big splash when it was launched. Joost invites were much sought after resource. But then something went wrong. People stopped bothering about Joost. No one wanted to download a separate piece of software to watch videos. [...]
Posted in Software, Web 2.0 | Tagged joost, multimedia, Software, The Web, video, web 2.0
By Pallab De on October 13, 2008
There is only so much you can do with J2ME due to inherent limitations of the platform. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t any good applications for Java based mobile phones. Here are my top seven free J2ME applications:
Opera Mini : This is a no-brainer. With about 16 million users Opera Mini is [...]
Posted in Mobile | Tagged fring, google, maps, Mobile, Opera, shozu, Software, strands, widsets, youtube
By Pallab De on October 13, 2008
Turnkey Website Templates are premium and one of the most sought after web resources. Turn Key Websites get their name from the fact that all you need to do is upload the scripts and install them in order to get started. So in order words you just turn the key and you are all [...]
Posted in The Web | Tagged review, script, template, The Web
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