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File Spliter is a Small utility to split files to a number of smaller parts. This helps fit a large file in several diskets or CDs and, on arrival, assemble all parts back together on it’s own, without needing this software. Has no maximum file size limit, and does everything you need to make any file portable.
Download: File Spliter 1.0.1.6
LaptopLock protects the data and aids in the recovery process of a computer if it’s stolen. The LaptopLock can:
· Delete Information
· Encrypt Files
· Render the machine unworkable
· Custom actions
· Visible or Hidden from user
Sign up for a free account to register the computer(s). Install the LaptopLock agent for Windows2000/XP. Complete the setup wizard, to create a set of actions in case the computer is stolen.
LaptopLock is free for now. It comes with no adware or spyware.
Download: LaptopLock
This iFilter allows you to perform a search on all elements of your MSG (.MSG) files including Message Body; Subject; From; From Name; From Address; To Name; To Address; CC Name; CC Address; Doc Title Prefix; Sent Date; Received Date; Primary Date; Conversation ID; Attachment Names and will indicate if an attachment is present within the .MSG. Additionally, content within attachments are indexed and searched.
By downloading this iFilter, Outlook .MSG files will be indexed by Windows Desktop Search when your PC is idle, or when you select to ‘Index Now’. Once the index is updated you can immediately search your .MSG files.
Requires Windows Desktop Search version 2.06.5000.xxxx and Microsoft Outlook 2000, Microsoft Outlook 2002, Microsoft Outlook 2003.
Download: MSG iFilter Add-in to Windows Desktop Search 1.0.1.0
A nonprofit group says it plans to build a network called Neuronet purely to support virtual-reality game and business applications.
Neuronet, which is planned to be separate from the Internet, “will evolve into the world’s first public network capable of meeting the data transmission requirements of emerging cinematic and immersive virtual-reality technologies,” according to a Thursday announcement from the Vancouver-based International Association of Virtual Reality Technologies.
The first-generation Neuronet is scheduled to go live in 2007, the group said. Consumer applications are expected as early as 2009.
“The first-generation network is strictly an R&D network and will function as a sort of sandbox for virtual reality and gaming innovators around the world to develop new applications for a second generation network,” IAVRT co-founder Chistopher Scully said in an e-mail. No services yet are signed up to use the network, he added.
Virtual reality generally refers to environments with visual and audio information that makes a person feel immersed in a computer-generated realm. The growth of environments such as Second Life has spotlighted such efforts, and IBM believes that virtual worlds will open new doors to e-commerce as well.
Full article: CNET News.com
Email Subscriber Pro helps you organize subscription to mailing lists on Internet websites. It checks mailboxes and downloads only email messages with subscribe and unsubscribe requests, extracts email addresses and sender names from them and creates text files with subscribers wanting to subscribe or unsubscribe. The text files with email addresses and names can be used with any mailer to add new subscribers and delete existing ones. All you need to do to get started, is to set up two POP3 email accounts for subscribe and unsubscribe email requests, and specify two words like SUBSCRIBE and UNSUBSCRIBE used for detecting requests of different types in the incoming mail.
The user interface of the program is very easy to learn, excellent documentation is included. Email Subscriber Pro is freeware.
Download: Email Subscriber Pro 2.3 Windows 9x/ME/NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista
With Macworld Expo just over a week away, many expect Apple CEO Steve Jobs to announce further details (and the availability) of the company’s yet to be released set-top-box, codenamed iTV. Powered by something similar to Apple’s Front Row media center software, the iTV is designed to get the media content that’s housed on a Mac (music, movies, and photos), streamed to the living room television. However, with its built-in wireless networking (suspected to be the faster 802.11n), why not bypass the Mac and have the iTV connect directly to the internet? Like the next generation consoles (Microsoft’s XBox 360 and Nintendo’s Wii) the Apple’s iTV is looking like the latest attempt at solving the ‘last 100 feet’ problem of how to deliver content from the internet into the living room.
Full article: ZDNet Blogs
The Firemonger project is dedicated to providing an easy to use CD which contains the latest versions of Firefox and Thunderbird, the completely free web browser and email client created by the Mozilla Foundation. In addition to these amazing products, we’ve added a selection of plugins, extensions and themes and a beginner’s guide. In other words, this CD contains everything you need to start up with and get the most out of Firefox and Thunderbird.
Download: Firemonger 2.0.0.1
One of the lead developers behind the Firefox browser has accused Google of abusing its powerful position in the search market to promote its growing range of products.
In a blog posting this week, Blake Ross argued that Google was wrong to include plugs for its Calendar, Blogger and Picaso at the top of search results for terms like ‘calendar’, ‘blogging’ or ‘photo sharing’.
“This is clearly bad for competitors, and it’s also a bad sign for Google,” wrote Ross, 21, who has been one of the driving forces behind Firefox.
Full story: ZDNet UK
GoPenServer (Go-Open-Server) is an HTTP/FTP Server that includes Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl, phpMyAdmin, Nvu, GIMP, and Audacity. It also contains two common web community projects: Extreme phpBB and MediaWiki.
Available for: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP and Mac OS X
Download: GoPenServer 1.1
xPodClone is the ultimate backup tool for all your devices, it copies easily cds, dvds, folders, directories. You can drag and drop files into the window. The software will find all protected files or hidden files of an iPod, hard disk and what you want. If you need for example to backup an iPod, you click on your iPod which is on your desktop (for Mac users) or in my Computer (for windows users) and drag it into xPodClone, the you choose where you want to copy it and click on “Clone”.
:: Duplicate and restore your iPod,
:: Clone folders,
:: Completly free.
Download: xPodClone 1.3 Windows, Mac OS X
The purpose of Win TempCleaner is to clear the contents of the following folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR USERNAME\Local Settings\Temp
Doing so manually can be time consuming, especially if you have a lot of files and folders in there.
This cleaner is great for use with Install Shield Errors 1316, 1603 & 1706
The applet loops through all the files and folders contained in that path and determines if they can be deleted. If they can, they are and if they cannot, they are left behind.
Download: Win TempCleaner 1.3 Windows XP
Buzz about a Windows Vista zero-day vulnerability is troubling enough (although probably overblown). Now, there appears to be a second product activation hack, this one designed to fool the activation timer into not counting down.
The activation hack is quite different from the first one, which involved setting up a Key Management Service server. Microsoft also released an update blocking a hybrid of testing and final Vista “Monster” code that could bypass product activation.
Full story: Microsoft Watch
XP Super Tweaker allows you to tune-up, tweak and optimize your Windows XP.
Download: XP Super Tweaker 1.0
Ever long for the good old days when all viruses did was stomp on the FAT table of your hard drive? Recently, McAfee’s Avert Labs encountered a new type of password stealer that uses Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony provider Skype’s network to propagate. There is no vulnerability in the Skype service itself, the Trojan just uses the Skype network to move about, according to David Marcus, security research and communications manager at McAfee’s Avert Labs.
The Trojan, called PWS-JO by McAfee, Downloader by Symantec and Win32/Scypex.A by Microsoft, is considered low risk, as there are very few instances of it being found and all of the major antivirus programs will detect it. What it reflects, Marcus said, is that virus distribution has moved beyond just e-mail and Web links to a new network, in this case, VoIP.
Password stealing Trojan viruses grew by 240 percent this year, making them the largest genre of malware along with Botnets, according to an Avert Labs blog posting.
Marcus said Avert gets between 8,000 and 9,000 submissions per day, and around 100 to 150 are totally new viruses, most often Botnets and password stealing Trojans. The methods for infection remain largely the same.
Full article: internetnews.com
What took it so long?
According to recent headlines, Sony is somehow going to challenge Apple iTunes with a film download service straight for the PSP. Instead those headlines should have asked why it has taken so long.
Sony is uniquely placed to offer a film download service in that it has a music download service in its Connect system, it has a perfect handheld video device in the PSP, and a High Definition device in the PS3, it makes PCs and it happens to have access to 8000 major motion pictures, and it has been promising to execute on online films for around 18 months.
It was a widespread fact in the Summer of 2005 that Sony had issued a new firmware upgrade that layered the H.264 codec onto the device, and it began experimenting with free video downloads as early as August last year in its native Japan, where it was being managed by its own ISP, So-net under the brand of Portable TV.
Full article: The Register
AOL and Yahoo are destined to merge, or so said Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen in a note entitled “Is 2007 the year AOL and Yahoo are in play?” that was sent to investors shortly before the Christmas holiday. Both companies have itches in need of much scratching. Yahoo’s problems have been quite visible as of late, as noted in the now infamous Peanut Butter Manifesto. To boil it down to an oversimplification that’s still technically true, Yahoo is feeling the heat from Google.
AOL, on the other hand, is feeling the heat from, well, the Internet. The marriage of Time Warner and AOL has always been tough to understand (unless you’re Steve Case), and Time Warner has flirted with the idea of selling AOL more than once (they’re reportedly thinking about it again, after deciding “no” last year). As of late, the company has been plagued by declining revenues from its search program, which makes sense given that the number of users heading to that portal appears to be dropping off. In the wild world of mergers and acquisitions, this means that AOL needs to toughen up or jump ship, and toughening up is often done with a few reps on the Acquisition Trainer 3000.
Full article: Ars Technica
Every day the programs on your computer create temporary and garbage files and leave them behind on your hard disk. These files build up over time, taking up valuable hard disk space and slowing your system down.
Advanced Disk Cleaner is a free program which makes it easy to quickly find and wipe away all the garbage files on your computer. It scans your disks quickly and then displays the garbage files so you can decide which of them you want removed. The program accurately detects and identifies only the garbage files.
The program’s main window is designed for a logical, effective and pleasant operation, making Advanced Disk Cleaner a good choice for keeping your PC clean.
In the options dialog you can add or modify the folders and file types to clean, as well as the ones you want to be excluded from the search. You can also choose between several methods of deleting files, which include deleting to the recycle bin, moving to a special folder or simple deletion.
After using Advanced Disk Cleaner you will have more disk space at your disposal so you can install more programs, have more MP3 music files, etc.
Advanced Disk Cleaner contains NO spyware or adware.
Download: Advanced Disk Cleaner 4.7
Samsung Electronics said Wednesday it has developed a new mobile memory chip that is thinner and uses less power than previous generations of chips, a development that could impact a wide range of portable consumer electronic devices.
Samsung claims it has developed the first 1-gigabit DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chip for mobile products, using 80-nanometer process technology. The new chip is at least 20 percent thinner than existing chipsets that use up to two 512-megabit chips, and it uses about 30 percent less power, the company said in a press release.
Read more: CNET News.com
Vista Transformation Pack will transform your Windows user interface to ultimate Windows Vista alike looks that everyone will never notice it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s the same old Windows XP (or 2003)
Features
Vista Transformation Pack will replace many of the resources in Windows XP/Windows Server 2003. It can change such things as:
:: Boot screen
:: Welcome Screen / Logon Screen
:: New msstyles files (visual styles)
:: New desktop and file icons
:: New toolbar icons
:: Progress Dialogs
:: Sounds scheme
:: System Tray icons
:: New Wallpapers
:: Windows Media Player Skins
:: And much more
It should be noted that although most users report success with the transformation procedure, the replacement of system files leaves room for possible errors which can render Windows unstable. For this reason, many users recommend performing the installation under Safe Mode.
Download: Vista Transformation Pack 6.0
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