Posts Tagged ‘Software’

How Effective is Your Antivirus Software?

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I have covered various security products before. I even told you how to get them for free (Six Premium Antivirus Software for free and Six Premium Antivirus Software for Free - II). But in the past I mainly concentrated on the detection rates. Detecting a malware is important, but equally important is completely removing [...]

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Instant Desktop Search – Now For Real

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Instant desktop search softwares are nothing new. In fact you are pampered for choice as far as local desktop search clients go. But the fact remains that almost all of them aren’t really instant search. Most of these tools take hours to index your computer, and build huge indexes before getting started. To make [...]

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Opera Slim - Reclaim Your Screen Space

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Opera Sharp – the default skin since v9.5 (kestrel) is a beauty. It’s probably the best looking default skin for any browser (at least on Windows). However, it comes at a cost. The super wide tab bar eats up a lot of screen real-estate.
Fortunately enough there is a solution. Tamil took it upon himself [...]

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The Filter - Music, Movie and Web Video Recommendation

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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 [...]

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All About the Blue Screen of Death

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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 [...]

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Joost - Now Streaming to Your Browser

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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. [...]

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7+1 Must Have Mobile Apps

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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 [...]

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Make Vista’s User Account Control Less Annoying with Norton

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User Account Control or UAC is one of the most annoying new features in Windows Vista (7 Steps to Delete a Shortcut! - give me a break). Microsoft has promised to tone it down in Windows 7, but you don’t need to wait for Windows 7 to make UAC more bearable.
Norton has released a [...]

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