Now imagine if it was this one: ‘http://local.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=white+house&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=26.991659,68.994141&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=16&ll=38.89763,-77.033515&spn=0.012909,0.033689′ …
Well, good luck!
Or how about you could just change that into this? http://stickythis.com/thewhitehouse
That’s where Stickythis comes in. It changes any URL into ‘http://stickythis.com (whatever you want it to be)’
You can go check it out here and add it to your collection of useful bookmarks!
I kinda felt like i was planning for nuclear war with the flashy graphics, luckily for us all, i wasn’t!
It’s a cool site to go to if you wanna check just how fast your connection is going. See if it’s as fast as your provider claims, although results can vary at different times due to internet conditions.
It’s also a handy and useful tool for anyone who does things such as internet gaming,where having a fast speed is necessary for some games.
Speed on over to the site to check it out.
It allows you to watch desired items using drag-and-drop, manage your search favorites and repeat them at the touch of a button, calculate shipping costs using the integrated shipping costs calculator, plus many more features.For example,’Hot Items’ searches for items with more than 25 bids.
Its available in several versions, Light, Advanced, Professional and Business, Light being free, but this version has some restrictions when compared to the paid version of course!
It’s worth checking out for anyone who takes their ebaying really seriously or who makes a living out of buying and selling on it! For the rest of us its not really necessary.
Check out the site here for more detailed info.
I know from experience that there’s nothing more annoying than losing photos from a digital camera memory card or from your hard drive, because they’re pretty much irreplacable! So if something like that happens to you its well worth checking this out! It’s freeware, so you have nothin’ to lose (and hopefully your files to gain), by going here for more info and the download!
It comes with many useful features such as iPod ‘notes’ editing features, exporting your song list to HTML, management for duplicate files, the ability to locate lost music files, AAC file support and of course PC to iPod synchronization! It can automatically download the latest version and includes a built in music player.
This is a worthwhile alternative to the official iPod client which many people think is bloated and overrated. Personally i think iPods are overrated anyway as mp3 players existed long before they claimed the market, but if you have an iPod, this alternative is definitely worth checking out!
It’s freeware and you can get more info and download it from here.
Pandora is an internet radio station site, but with a twist! It knows what you might like, before you’ve even heard it! You simply type in the name of a song or artist, and it generates a playlist of similiar sounding songs and artists! It bases its findings on musical similiarity, not popularity, only the music counts!
It’s part of the ‘Music Genome Project’ an attempt to group thousands of songs by musical similarity. Everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It’s not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it’s about what each individual song sounds like. You can even give a “Thumbs Up”, which makes that song and songs that sound like that song play more often or “Thumbs Down” bans that song from that station, and makes songs that sound like that song play less often.
It’s a great way to discover new music based on what you already know you like. I like how they even provide links to more info on each band or artist, so if you find something you like you can easily learn more info!
Start listening right now by going here!
But how good is it? Pretty good! - You can manage multiple accounts and checking, savings, credit card, or loan accounts. You can even create your own categories and easily organise where your money goes into these. You can also track your bills and deposits and be reminded of upcoming bills and deposits so you won’t forget and lose track of them.You can import files from excel, microsoft money, and quicken, and also export to excel format. It also supports printing with inbuilt print preview.
Other useful features include viewing spending by category over a date range or by single category over time and viewing income versus expenses and how you’re doing on a budget.
Overall this is definitely worth checking out for anyone trying to budget and manage their finances better, its even free, which helps!
You can get more info and download it by clicking the homepage here.
Your chosen video or videos then downloads to your computer where they are kept for a default of 5 days before being deleted, but you can choose to save them forever too. It even allows you to search YouTube, Yahoo Video, Google Video, and more, right from inside it!
I was a little confused by the interface at first until i realised how simple it was, the “My Collection” link to the left is everything you downloaded, “New Videos” is downloaded videos you haven’t watched yet, and “Downloading” is videos currently being downloaded. So it’s all pretty easy to use!
It has lots of channels built in and feeds from video sites, so you’ll never be lost for something to watch!
I have a feeling we’ll be hearing a lot more about this cool program! You can download it for free here.
You can import (and export) from a whole bunch of other software such as Outlook, Outlook Express, and Google Calendar. You can even sync it with Windows Mobile Pocket PC and Smartphone devices, if your lucky enough to have one of those!
It’s pretty detailed and feature packed with an easy to follow layout and some useful features such as to-do list, contacts manager etc. I’d recommend checking it out to anyone who wants to be more productive or simply has a bad memory!
There’s a free version and a paid version. What’s the difference? Click here to find out or go to the main homepage here for more info.
Naomi doesn’t rely on a simple list of banned sites like a lot of similiar programs do. Instead it examines in real time, all the data being transmitted and received through the Internet application, such as web browsers and chat programs. Monitoring is not limited to web sites, but covers the whole local Internet traffic. It also allows blocking of file-sharing applications and the whole thing can be password-protected. It’s also got some useful plug ins that may be of use, such as one to block Myspace access and one to hide the tray icon.
All in all its worth checking out if you’ve been looking for a free way of protecting your kids when they’re online! You can get more info and the free download from here.
It does just about everything the official MSN messenger program does, plus some more, such as being able to sign into more than one account at a time. It supports display pictures, custom emoticons, file transfer, even webcam support.
When you read the list of features, you’ll see its virtually identical to the official client in every way, but one potentially useful thing is that you can download plug-ins from the site, as well as this, its also skinnable.
You can check out all the features in full and download it by going here.
Hott Notes is a free tool that enables you to write and place sticky-type notes on your desktop (ok, not the actual top of your desk, but on your screen,that thing you’re looking at now). You can use these notes in the usual manner – reminders, lists and more. The notes can be displayed in various translucent colors, so that you can use one color for reminders, another for business notes and one for home-related reminders.
You can even draw or write freehand on them!
Unlike the ‘borrowed’ from work sticky note paper, Hott Notes really is free and you can get it here with more info and here’s some screenshots.
It supports creation of multi-session disks, which is always useful if you have discs you want to keep coming back to add data or files to. It also creates Audio-CDs from mp3, wav, ogg and wma files. In addition to CD burning, you can also rip audio CDs, normalize WAV files, encode MP3 files, and erase disks. All this and it supports use of high write speeds too.
It’s able to write CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW discs, creating either data or video discs. It can also rip audio-CDs, burn and create ISO images, convert WAV files to MP3 and vice versa, verify discs after burning, create bootable discs, print covers for your creation, convert BIN/NRG to ISO, etc. It supports Burn on the Fly and Burn-Proof hardware.
If you’ve been looking for CD/DVD burning software but don’t have money to burn, you won’t be playing with fire if you check out this freeware software right here! Some screenshots of this tool ‘in work’ can be found here.
It’s a pretty basic program that only does exactly as it says. The upside to it being so small and basic means it takes up very little memory. So if this is an minor annoyance for you, having to move the mouse cursor out of the way every time you type, then maybe it’s worth trying out!
(If its a major one, you really need to chill out a little!)
It’s freeware and you can download it from the homepage right here!
To give it it’s full name, Cloudmark Desktop (formerly known as Cloudmark Safetybar) installs directly inside Outlook and Outlook Express, filters through your mail as it downloads, and moves suspected junk into a folder for you to review it later. The filtering mechanism is based on the Cloudmark service, the largest community-based platform used to stop the plague of junk email and email fraud, and it doesn’t require you to create any filters or rules. You can however create a white list, to make sure certain contacts will never be filtered, and also re-classify selected messages.
This is how it works. When a user clicks the ‘Block Spam’ or ‘Block Phish’ buttons, Cloudmark compares this feedback with feedback from other users. If other users in the network also consider the message to be spam or fraud, then similar messages are automatically blocked in the future, for all users in the network.
Likewise, if a user drags a message out of the Spam folder or clicks the ‘Unblock button’, Cloudmark compares this feedback with that of other users. If they agree, the message is unblocked throughout the Cloudmark network.
Well worth checking out if you’ve had it with too much spam. You can check out more info and a free trial by going here.
Speed reading is simply the ability to read very fast by learning to scan the words rather than thinking about them or pronouncing them in your head. I’m not sure how well this works if you have something important to read as scanning things doesn’t really focus your attention on them, but anyway!
Acereader uses two techniques, Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (R.S.V.P.) and Tachistoscopic Scroll Presentation (try saying or even reading that 3 times!!!). It’s pretty easy to use, you can open any text file inside it or copy and paste. It has different grades from beginner to advanced and you’ll be amazed at how naturally you read fast using the method of having the words appear and scroll in front of you. It’s won a bunch of awards as you can see here for being “best educational software”, so it’s not as crazy as it sounds!
Go check out the demo and a lot more detailed info here.
This program is most useful for advanced users who overclock or build their own pc’s, as for the rest of us, we don’t need to worry about this kinda stuff! But for more info, you can go check it out here.
This program scans your drive for duplicates. It uses four image comparison filters to find duplicates and it’ll detect two different resolution files of the same picture as a duplicate, or the same picture saved in different formats, or duplicates where only small cosmetic changes have taken place.
You can adjust the similarity levels and it starts to display the results while scanning,so you don’t have to wait to delete em’. Quick and simple way to tidy up your “picture collection” ; )
So if this sounds useful to you, you can read more and download it for free by going here.
All it really takes is a little self discipline and pretty soon it becomes a habit. After that, you’ll just get better and faster.
This program allows you to test yourself and gives you your W.P.M (words per minute)CPS and CPM(yeah i didn’t know what they stood for either! Characters per minute and per second). As well as the typing speed for each hand, altogether 20 (!) statistics on your typing. Also you can load any text file at all that you wish to practice with, so you won’t get bored!
You can grab it for free here and use those other 8 fingers! (Well 6 fingers and 2 thumbs).
In addition to all this, you can also download add-ons from the website of more stuff, including some fictional stuff for all you science fiction nerds! Celestia is not limited to our solar system; you can visit other stars, or even travel outside the galaxy. The controls take a little getting used to, but to fully appreciate just some of Celestia’s full capabilities, run it and press D to view a demo.
Warp on over to here to download it.
It adds additional window buttons, so you can quickly move windows or stretch a window across the desktop.
It also uses a “Smart Taskbar” to manage more applications, so that you have a taskbar on each monitor and each taskbar only showing the tasks from the monitor it’s on.
Shortcut extensions make it easy to position applications on the desired monitor. The UltraMon screen saver and wallpaper manager make it possible to use a different wallpaper and screen saver on each monitor too. It also includes a flexible mirroring feature with support for mirroring one or more monitors, and use different resolutions for each monitor.Its also pretty cool to be able to move windows from one screen to the other!
Try out RSIGuard to help you achieve this, it schedules regular reminders for you to take a break. It can show exercises and stretches, which can optionally be disabled. In fact everything about this program is very configurable.It also has tracking and reporting of statistics to help you know how you’re doing. If you find yourself ignoring the breaks you can make them harder or even impossible to ignore.
I highly recommend this program as i think its designed well and does what it does well. Although being reminded to take a break can be a little irritating at times, but isn’t that the whole point? (but not as irritating as developing aches and pains, so it’s worth it in the long run).
Check it out here for more info and a trial
You can type in a word and it’ll show you that word in all your different fonts. Also shows you that word in other fonts that you don’t have installed yet, and gives you the option to install them. It allows you to fully browse installed and even uninstalled fonts and view sample text in any color you want,so you can easily choose the ideal one you’ve been searching for from your collection. Also you can install or uninstall any number of fonts at once.
As a totally free program, you can’t go wrong in taking this for a test drive if you work with fonts a lot!
Check out the homepage here for the full list of features and to download it.
I highly recommend this for anyone sick of recieving spam, it won’t help your current email account if it’s already getting spam, but if you’re making a new email account, be sure to use this instead of giving out your real address to things you dont trust!
For example you might wanna record an internet radio show. You can easily do that with this, and what’s more, it can record straight to mp3 format,saving you valuable disc space! To get an even small file size, mp3 modes are fully configurable.
Additional features include voice activation, file length limitation (so that it can’t make overly huge files) and schedule (how about recording your favorite internet radio show while you’re asleep or at work?) and it can even stop recording automatically.
Sounds like it could be the perfect solution for almost any situation where you might wanna record and save audio from your computer? You can download a demo (limited to recording 3 minutes) and more find out more info right here.
What i like about it is that it’s password protected and encrypted, so not just anyone who used your computer can read your stuff! The Journal also provides important options like a hot-key for rapidly “locking” The Journal and a Lock on Minimize feature. In this new version you can also set reminders, so if you have something to do on time or an appointment to keep, you won’t forget about it due to being too involved in typing your life story or your plans to take over the world!
Lots more info and the 45 day trial are available by going here.
So no need to remember to lock it or turn it off, as its all automated. All these things can be set to run at at a one off time or at a regular schedule, daily, once a week or month, etc. You can also set reminders for yourself. It also has a memory and CPU monitor so you can set things to happen only when memory or CPU is above or below a certain level, and it also shows idle time and uptime.
This program could be pretty useful for anyone who wants to automate things a little on their computer without having to remember to do it all each time.
It’s fully functioning shareware but you have to register if you wanna get rid of the welcome screen that pops up on start up. Get more info and the download here.
For home or office users i can’t think of much use, as this idea seems to lack any privacy, since anyone can still see what you’ve been working on, I dunno, maybe that’s not an issue with some people?
Though this does seem like it could be very useful for things such as demo computers on display in computer stores or at trade shows, It could be a tad cheaper but may be worth it to certain people in those circumstances, but the rest of us regular home users can find similiar things for free, or just stick with password protecting the screensaver!
This seems like one of those programs that’s very useful to certain people working in certain conditions like i mentioned, and not very useful to everyone else, althought it has some advanced features such as logging attempts at unlocking the computer.
Theres a standard and a pro version, they seem pretty similiar to me,so if you wanna check it out and get more detailed info on what it can do, go here.
Ok. so you take precautions online. You know to a-l-w-a-y-s use protection, because all it takes is one time!! You don’t download strange files from even stranger people! You have a virus scanner, you have an antispyware scanner, and you’re not afraid to use ‘em!
But then suddenly the worst happens, your beloved computer screws up, is it spyware? Is it a virus? Get it out! Get it out! aaaahhh!! You’ve tried your scanners but it just isn’t helping!! Well, don’t panic and remain calm. There is a last resort, and it’s name is HijackThis!!
HijackThis is a small free program that scans the inner workings of your computer such as the registry. It outputs its findings to a text file, which you can then show to many computer knowledgable people in various forums online, such as such as SpywareInfo or Computer Cops.
Then they can hopefully tell you exactly whats wrong with your computer and how you can get things back to normal again! HijackThis is a serious yet simple tool for anyone who needs to sort out a spyware problem that seems too much for scanners, and you can get it here and information on using it is here
Well with RecentX, you may never have to go through that on a daily basis ever again! It automatically tracks what programs and even files and folders you frequently use and keeps them in a list (which is also searchable) It can also track your favorites and history from both Internet Explorer and Firefox.
What i like is that it doesnt degrade the system performance since it doesn’t index your entire hard drive like certain programs. After all, what’s the point in indexing thousands of files you’ll never need to access? It just keeps track of the programs, files and folders that you most frequently use! You can also quickly perform frequent tasks such as copying and pasting. It even lets you access frequently used files on a networked computer! A lot better than clicking on network neighbourhood (”My Network Places”) and navigating your way to ‘em.
Check it out here for more info and a free trial.
You simply “parcel” your content with the online interface, and then you send a pick up slip via IM or email to your recipient. An important feature to mention is that all files are fully encrypted with 128 bit encryption from end to end, so it really is totally private.
It’s a totally free service and they say it always will be! Sounds good! Another one for the bookmarks! You can check it out or use it by going right here.
It allows you to add your favorite screensavers to a list that it randomly picks from each time the screensaver starts. A great idea, as you’re bound to get bored of just the one screensaver all the time, i know i did! It also has the useful feature of setting a list of programs that you don’t want the screensaver coming on during. This can be useful for times such as when you’re watching a dvd or video file, or doing anything processor intensive such as defragmentation or a virus or spyware scan.
You can also control the settings for each screensaver from within the program,test them, and set the period of time before the screensaver turns on and before the monitor powers off, if you should choose so. It’s a neat little easy-to-use program that makes using your computer (well, not using your computer) that little bit more interesting.
You can grab it for free and get more info by going here
It’s kinda hard to describe what it looks like without seeing it, but imagine endless partterns twisting and turning as they float through a starfield. If that’s hard for you to imagine… Here’s some screenshots because its better than me attempting to describe it!
It’s hard to appreciate how good this screensaver looks until you actually see it moving, so the screenshots don’t really do it justice .
It also claims to have very low cpu usage which is an added bonus. Theres no nag screens or anything like that, just a title that fades away after the first few seconds when it starts up. I’ve seen scrensavers that aren’t even as good as this that make you pay for them! So its worth checkin’ out if you want a pretty cool screensaver for your PC!
To see for yourself, grab the free download here.
This little program is a free add-on for the Windows Task Manager, for finding out about what’s running on your computer.
Firstly, let’s get to the Windows Task Manager, this can tell you whats running on your computer. To get to it right click the taskbar (or press control-alt-delete), click Task Manager, and then click Processes. There you’ll see a list of all the processes running on your computer. A lot of this stuff is useful and needed stuff, but sometimes it can be unneeded stuff. It can be stuff that isn’t necessary and is just slowing up your computer by running, or it can even be bad stuff such as spyware.
So how can you know what all those things listed actually are? Well this program adds a little “I” link beside each thing listed (standing for ‘Information’ i guess!). So now with a simple click, it opens up a webpage telling you exactly what each one means. So you can learn exactly what it does and if it’s needed or not. Handy little program that saves a lot of typing into Google!
Theres over 9000 entries in the processlibrary.com database of running tasks,and more added weekly. So you’re pretty sure to find out what you’ve got running.
Here’s a task manager tip while we’re on the subject: You can easily see which programs are using the most RAM on your PC by clicking the memory column header in task manager to arrange them by memory use.This free little add-on program just does one useful job really well!
For more info and to download it, go here!
It claims to be “the safest and most trusted solution to clean and optimize your system, free it from registry errors and fragmented entries through Advanced Error Detection Technology”. But I still recommend you create a system restore point before using software like this though! Just in case (better be safe then sorry)! As added protection, the program can also fully undo any changes it makes.
I have good faith in this program as it really saved my computer a few weeks ago when nothing else I tried would help at all (including some other popular registry cleaners). I was having some issues with my computer crashing just after start up and I tried a couple of different registry cleaners and this was the only one that totally fixed it. Everything was back to normal after i ran it. So now me and registry booster are pretty much the best of friends! If you check the homepage,you’ll see it received a bunch of awards, so i guess there might be something to it and i didn’t just get lucky!
Although someone else’s system may not react as positively as mine did. So make sure you know what you’re doin’ and do so at your own risk!
You can get more info here.
“But why would anyone want to hack me?” i hear you say. Well these days hackers use tools that can scan hundreds of IP-addresses, just looking for the unprotected computers.The built in windows firewall, while being better than nothing, only offers one way protection. Malicious programs such as trojans or adware can still “call home”. and i’m pretty sure you don’t want them sending back your personal details or credit card number!
Zonealarm is a very well known firewall thats been around for many years now. While the paid versions include such extras as antivirus,antispyware and more, all necessary things these days, they still offer a free version of their basic firewall.
It’s pretty easy to have decent computer security on a low budget or even on no budget at all! In that case I recommend a free firewall such as this one, along with good free antispyware and antivirus programs that have a proven record in doing their job well (Some of which are mentioned in my previous reviews).
Go here to download zonealarm or to find out about what the paid versions offer.
I kinda felt like i was planning for nuclear war with the flashy graphics, luckily for us all, i wasn’t!
It’s a cool site to go to if you wanna check just how fast your connection is going. See if it’s as fast as your provider claims, although results can vary at different times due to internet conditions.
It’s also a handy and useful tool for anyone who does things such as internet gaming,where having a fast speed is necessary for some games.
Speed on over to the site to check it out.
It comes with many useful features such as iPod ‘notes’ editing features, exporting your song list to HTML, management for duplicate files, the ability to locate lost music files, AAC file support and of course PC to iPod synchronization! It can automatically download the latest version and includes a built in music player.
This is a worthwhile alternative to the official iPod client which many people think is bloated and overrated. Personally i think iPods are overrated anyway as mp3 players existed long before they claimed the market, but if you have an iPod, this alternative is definitely worth checking out!
It’s freeware and you can get more info and download it from here.
It does exactly what it claims to, all it takes is a few hours, depending on size of course, size doesn’t matter with Acronis True Image either!
It’ll work no matter how big your hard disk is, but obviously time taken to clone is relative to size, although it worked pretty fast cloning a 20 GB drive the time i used it. It can even work in the background. The best thing is that even though you wont need to clone an entire drive for upgrade purposes often, it works good as a ‘normal’ backup program too.
Tip: Check the site for updates first before using to avoid any potential problems.
You can get a 15 day trial and more info by going here
Now imagine if it was this one: ‘http://local.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=white+house&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=26.991659,68.994141&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=16&ll=38.89763,-77.033515&spn=0.012909,0.033689′ …
Well, good luck!
Or how about you could just change that into this? http://stickythis.com/thewhitehouse
That’s where Stickythis comes in. It changes any URL into ‘http://stickythis.com (whatever you want it to be)’
You can go check it out here and add it to your collection of useful bookmarks!
This program is great for making some pretty impressive stuff that would take hours to make in Macromedia Flash, you can make some very decent stuff with this thing. When you first use it, it walks you through a tutorial which makes you feel comfortable pretty quick. It has a simple to use interface and for the more experienced users it has a pretty good advanced mode too. They have a lite version of this program too, called ‘Flashy effects’, that mostly focuses on just text effects and banners. You can check them out by going here.
Idea: When you go away on vacation, simply take a Flash drive with a copy of POP Peeper to keep a check on your email easily from any computer you use. POP Peeper is freeware too! Always an added bonus!
Pop on over here to peep at more info and download it (Sorry! Couldn’t resist)!
In the version i played around with, you can choose from 4 driving instructors,
three car cockpits, three motorbike cockpits (Hornet, Scooter and a cool Chopper). It starts at beginner level with basics such as indicating and stopping at traffic lights, giving right of way, etc, all the way up to…well almost real life conditions!
I had the pleasure (and pain) of going on a road trip across Europe not so long ago, so i can say that the scenery and experience is pretty accurate in some ways! I’d recommend this for anyone learning to drive or planning on driving in Europe. It’ll give you a good chance to become familiar with the various rules of the road! All from the safety of your chair! (Seatbelt not included)
You can find out more info here
It allows you to watch desired items using drag-and-drop, manage your search favorites and repeat them at the touch of a button, calculate shipping costs using the integrated shipping costs calculator, plus many more features.For example,’Hot Items’ searches for items with more than 25 bids.
Its available in several versions, Light, Advanced, Professional and Business, Light being free, but this version has some restrictions when compared to the paid version of course!
It’s worth checking out for anyone who takes their ebaying really seriously or who makes a living out of buying and selling on it! For the rest of us its not really necessary.
Check out the site here for more detailed info.
Pandora is an internet radio station site, but with a twist! It knows what you might like, before you’ve even heard it! You simply type in the name of a song or artist, and it generates a playlist of similiar sounding songs and artists! It bases its findings on musical similiarity, not popularity, only the music counts!
It’s part of the ‘Music Genome Project’ an attempt to group thousands of songs by musical similarity. Everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It’s not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it’s about what each individual song sounds like. You can even give a “Thumbs Up”, which makes that song and songs that sound like that song play more often or “Thumbs Down” bans that song from that station, and makes songs that sound like that song play less often.
It’s a great way to discover new music based on what you already know you like. I like how they even provide links to more info on each band or artist, so if you find something you like you can easily learn more info!
Start listening right now by going here!
I know from experience that there’s nothing more annoying than losing photos from a digital camera memory card or from your hard drive, because they’re pretty much irreplacable! So if something like that happens to you its well worth checking this out! It’s freeware, so you have nothin’ to lose (and hopefully your files to gain), by going here for more info and the download!
WinDVD
WinDVD is one of the very best software dvd players available!! Highly recommended!Personally, i especially like the 'quick clip' ( make an animated gif for use as an avatar, etc)
and smooth reverse playback features.
Firefox
Freeware
More than 46 million downloads (and growing fast daily) lots of people are currently using firefox
as their main internet browser and for good reasons.
Firefox is the fastest browser available. Even the most complex webpages on dial-up load lightning fast. And it is totally free! No banner ads, nothing. It is fully customisable, and configurable to the individual user. You can configure Firefox to run as you wish, with just the right amount of features you wish, which makes this program truly individual. So I wouldn't pass this one by. Some pages may not cause the browser to work properly, but that has to do with Microsoft-specific programming. As more people break away from IE, more webpages will definately start developing Mozilla compliant programming. The browser has a very clean, and lean interface, which maximizes the browsing window. The more advanced user may want to check out the extensions which can be added to it to provide some more useful functions.
Also Supports FULL range of W3C internet standards (including XHTML, which IE ignores)
Doesn't allow stealth ActiveX installs which is one of the main causes of security problems for IE users
Tabbed browsing- its like when you first used the internet, once you get used to it you'll wonder how you ever managed without it
RSS support- if you're stuck with IE, you need a separate program to read RSS feeds, but Firefox handles them as a BOOKMARK- you just click and it drops down a list of recent stories in that feed
Firefox is a highly popular browser due to its ease of use and better security than internet explorer against spyware, etc. highly customizable and highly recommended! and free!
Firefox Features
* Live Bookmarks
* Extensions
* Themes
* FastFind
* Improved Security
* New Tab Controls
Freeware Version Available
Free version available and has a very good reputation
Freeware
Free and has a very good reputation
Seems to be a good and
highly recommended spyware remover,30 day trial
Cyberlink Power dvd
Regarded by many as THE best software dvd player available, ( i guess it depends on personal preference,which is why i use this AND windvd!) like windvd, this player also offers many advanced features regarding picture and sound quality, but personally,one of my favorites is the ability to watch two subtitles on screen at once, this may come in useful for someone learning a new langugage for example.
CyberLink PowerDVD 6Upon installing and running it for the first time, there’s a page with a couple of settings such as turning on the phishing filter (also available in the recent release of Firefox 2) and some other settings like setting your language and location, and joining the customer experience program.
I gotta admit, firefox is definitely my browser of choice, but i’m pleased to see they’ve finally given Internet Explorer this much needed update. Even though they seem to have lifted the main features from what a lot consider to be better browsers, as i mentioned before. So nothing too innovative here. They also have “add-ons” available, another idea from Firefox, although most of the IE ones aren’t free (or as useful as Firefoxes, who incidentally, now call their extensions “add-ons” too). It also has options for RSS feeds now, if thats your thing. Active X seems to be disabled by default, which is a good thing considering the IE security reputation in the past!
To sum it up, the new Internet Explorer is a step in the right direction, but i doubt they’ll be winning back any Firefox users, including me! : )
You can check it out here for more info or to download it (or just wait and windows update will install it anyway if it’s set to automatic updates)
Hello and welcome! I decided to create this blog because i download a lot of shareware and freeware and am somewhat a perfectionist in deciding which programs to use on my computer for various things.
So i thought i should make a blog to share my experience and recommendations.
I've found out the hard way what software is bad and good,
(just about all of this software i'll be mentioning has been used and/or tested by me personally)
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