If you’re into moving big files around and sharing them with others, you may know about Microsoft’s SkyDrive, a free online storage solution. You may also know that while it’s great to have up to 25 GB of free data storage out there, the interface leaves quite a bit to be desired. It would be handy to be able to integrate the functionality of SkyDrive directly into your local filesystem. And that’s what SDExplorer would like to help you do.
With SDExplorer, you hook SkyDrive into your filesystem. This extension to Windows Explorer makes it easy to rename or delete files and folders, as well as copying them around. You don’t get bogged down in the details, so you can get your work done, and just leave the heavy lifting to SDExplorer.
This free Windows app is compatible with systems running XP or later. To use SkyDrive you need to have a Live ID, but your Hotmail account will do very nicely, thank you.
Link : SDExplorer
By default, on a Windows system, all the user stuff is located on the system drive. That’s great, as long as everything is behaving the way it’s supposed to. But that’s all wrong when you have to do something dramatic like reinstalling Windows, and your data all goes away. Unix systems have been putting the main system stuff and the user data on separate volumes since forever. It would be nice to mimic that on Windows systems.
Profile Relocator is a tool that lets you do just that. Set your system up just so, then choose a different volume for your user data, and you’re good to go. Now if you have to—heaven forbid—reload Windows, you don’t have to worry that all your hard work is going to go away. Unfortunately this tool won’t move existing user profile goodies—although they say that if they were to do so that you might not be at all pleased with the results—so if you decide to use it on an existing system, you’ll probably have to rebuild stuff just one more time. But after that, you’ll have smooth sailing. Hopefully.
A free download for your Windows system, Profile Relocator is designed to work with XP, Vista, and Windows 7.
Download Profile Relocator
It’s nice to share. When you were a kid, mom told you to share your toys. Helped things run more smoothly in the sandbox. As an adult, sharing is still a pretty good idea. Letting your lunch companion nibble on a couple of your fries is a good thing. So how far do you want the sharing thing to go? If you share your french fries, you have pretty good control over what happens to them once they leave your plate. Share your vacation photos on the Web and you don’t have that type of control.
PhotoWham is a tool that lets you watermark your pictures. It’s nothing fancy: just the ability to label those photos, drawings, or what-have-you so that folks know whence they came. Just enter your text—including a copyright symbol if you want, and press the magic button. You can do individual images, drag-and-drop a handful at a time, or browse to a directory and grab ‘em all. In addition to branding those photos, you can do some image resizing and even rename files or move them into a new folder.
Available for free for home use, you should be able to use PhotoWham with Windows XP and later.
Download PhotoWham
This brief tutorial will show you how to easily trim a second or two from the time it takes for Windows to start up.
Each time Windows starts you’re presented with the Windows “boot logo” and a progress bar. Displaying these items actually causes Windows to load a bit more slowly – because it has to load them. This tutorial will show you how to disable that boot logo and progress bar, allowing Windows to load faster. Note: I timed my Windows startup with and without the boot logo and status bar. The start time averaged 1.9 seconds faster without the logo and status bar.
Click the Windows Start button and select Run from the menu.
Enter msconfig in the Run window and click OK.
Select the BOOT.INI tab. Place a check in the box labeled /NOGUIBOOT, click the Apply button and then the OK button.
At this point you’ll be prompted to restart your PC. Save any open work, close any open programs, and click the Restart button.
Unless you’ve previously disabled the System Configuration Utility “warning” message, it will appear when your computer starts up again. Click OK. The System Configuration Utility will open again – you can revert your changes if anything went wrong (very unlikely, unless you made additional changes outside of the scope of this tutorial). When you close the System Configuration Utility you may be prompted to reboot your PC again – even though you didn’t make any changes this time. You don’t need to, and the “warning” message will not appear the next time you restart.
Ubuntu 10.04 sudah officially released
Sekarang nak download file ISO (600++ MB) agak cepat sebab dah ada server Malaysia (MMU server)
Download : http://bit.ly/demN3S
Web ni sesuai untuk mereka yang suka download software.
Software bukan saja terhad kepada Windows tapi Linux, Mac, Android dan Mobile pun ada
Personally, web ni is one of my favorite..
Link : www.downloadsquad.com
VS 2010 sudah berada dipasaran
Antara yang diupgrade ialah, .NET 4.0 & Silverlight 4
New features include extended out-of-browser capabilities, enhancements for enterprise application developers and more than 60 customisable pre-written controls to quickly build rich, interactive applications.
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Comodo Time Machine is a free program that can roll your system back in time, on-demand, to a previous state. It provides the ability to “undo” any kind of undesirable event, such as a virus or malware infestation or any event or events that might have caused your PC to become too cluttered, slow, or unresponsive, by giving you the ability to revert back to a baseline state or to a snapshot of the system taken before the problem started. It also provides the ability to recover any data or files that may have been accidentally deleted, saved-over, or damaged in any way.
1. Firefox / Chrome (Web Browser)
Both Firefox and Google Chrome are excellent browsers. They are both fast, user-friendly and known to be secure. So, which one do you choose? The rule of thumb here is that you should use Firefox if you’re looking to add additional features (i.e. ad blocker, password manager, video downloader, page translator etc.) to your browser.
You can see all add-ons for Firefox at https://addons.mozilla.org/. There are extensions for Google Chrome as well, but the choice is rather limited. See, 10 Cool Extensions for Google Chrome.
2. AVG Anti-Virus (Anti-virus Software)
AVG Free Anti-Virus is the most popular free anti-virus software in the world. It’s also the most downloaded software program according to Download.com.
Most of the MakeUseOf authors use AVG and we highly recommend it to others. It’s easy to use, consumes a relatively small amount of system resources and auto-updates itself with virus definitions on a daily basis. Install it once and it will keep your system secure without your intervention.
For those of you who frequently shop online and do regular online banking, AVG recommends AVG Internet Security. While it’s not free, it does offer complete Internet Protection that will keep you safe even from advanced online threats.
Download AVG Free: http://free.avg.com/gb-en/homepage
Download AVG Internet Security (Free Trial): www.avg.com/gb-en/download
(Platform: Windows only)
3. Auslogics Disk Defrag (Disk Defragmenter)
Auslogics Disk Defrag is a must-have free PC maintenance tool that was designed to cure system sluggishness and prevent crashes caused by disk fragmentation. Windows already comes with its own disk-defragmenter but Auslogics Disk Defrag is considerably faster and much more efficient.
It’s extremely simple to use, does not require any analysis phase and is faster than most of the other disk defragmentation software.
While there are several other free disk defragmenters, Auslogics seems to be the defragmenter of choice according to the poll results on MakeUseOf, Lifehacker and mega tech sites like CNET.
Download Auslogics Disc Defrag: www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/overview
(Platform: Windows only)
4. Glary Utilites (System Maintenance)
Glary Utilities is a free system maintenance tool for protecting, cleaning, repairing, and speeding up your PC. It comes with one-click maintenance option that automatically runs all optimizations and repair jobs with a click of a button.
But the best thing about Glary Utilities is that it integrates over 15 other useful tools that nearly every computer user likely to make use of. These are:
- Uninstall Manager
- Startup Manager
- Memory Optimizer
- Context Menu Manager
- Registry Defrag Tool
- Track Eraser
- File Shredder
- File Undelete
- File Encrypt/Decrypt Tool
- Disk Space Usage Analysis
- Duplicate File Finder
- Empty Folder Finder
- File Splitter and Joiner
Highly recommended!
Please note, it’s highly recommended that you create a System Restore point when using system maintenance tools like Glary Utilities. This is a precaution to ensure that you can always revert your PC to an earlier state in case something goes wrong unexpectedly.
Note: During the installation process make sure to uncheck the Ask Search toolbar.
Download Glary Utilities: www.glaryutilities.com/gu.html?tag=download
(Platform: Windows only)
5. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (Spyware Removal)
[update: In the original list we recommended the Spyware 360 as a primary tool for fighting spyware. But then we found out that Security 360 was actually using the definition library of Malwarebytes.]
Malwarebytes currently ranks among top 10 most downloaded software on Download.com. It’s a very simple tool that does an important job, that is protecting your computer from spyware, hijackers, keyloggers and other kind of malicious craplets.
What makes Malwarebytes standout from the pack is its huge library of threats to protect against. That’s exactly what it makes so effective when it comes to detecting spyware that other spyware scanners miss. This same library made the earlier recommended Security 360 a powerful tool.
Malwarebytes may not be as feature-laden as say Spybot Search and Destroy (another good spyware removal tool), which has a ridiculous number of tools, but it is a very lightweight alternative with good spyware coverage.
There are both free and premium versions. The only difference between two is real time protection. With real-time protection Mawarebytes will alert you about the spyware before even it’s able to install itself on your system.
Download MalwareBytes (Free): www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
Download MalwareBytes (Premium): https://store.malwarebytes.org
(Platform: Windows only)
6. IZArc (Universal Archiver / Extractor)
One archive utility to rule them all. This archiver suppots both popular (ZIP, RAR, ACE, 7-ZIP, TAR etc.) and less popular (IMG, ACE, TZ, GZ, TAZ etc.) archive formats.
Basically this unpacker/archiver gives you everything you get with other popular archivers (ex. Winzip, Winrar etc.) but with additional features and support for a huge number of archive formats. It can decompress archived folders in over 40 formats.
7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CDI, CAB, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MBF, MDF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO.
That is to say, it supports pretty much every format you’re likely to come across.
There is something else, you can also use the IZArc utility to open CD image files like ISO, BIN, CDI and NRG. Do you know of any other free archiver that can do that?
Note: When installing IZArc make sure to uncheck the “recommended” option to install PalTalk.
Download IZArc: http://www.izarc.org/download.html
(Platform: Windows only)
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