Upgrade apps easily

I use to upgrade my apps regularly….Firefox. Chrome, CCleaner and etc. Normally when upgrading apps, I have to go through annoyances such as not agreeing to install browser toolbars and other craps.

Well to ease your task, why not use Ninite. Ninite ( formerly was called Volery ) helps upgrade your apps in the background as you continue to do whatever it is you are doing at that moment………….:D

Among the apps Ninite will help upgrade are Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox, Skype, Live Messenger, Pidgin, Digsby, Google Talk, Thunderbird, Yahoo! Messenger, iTunes, Hulu Desktop, VLC, KMPlayer, AIMP, Winamp, Audicity, Spotify, Paint.NET, Picasa, GIMP, IrfanView, XnView, Inkscape, MS Office Trial, OpenOffice, Adobe Reader, Foxit Reader, CutePDF, MS Security Essentials, Avast, AVG, Flash, Flash for IE, Java, .NET, Silverlight, uTorrent, eMule, Dropbox, Evernote, BumpTop, Steam, Google Earth, ImgBurn, CCleaner, Launchy, Revo, Dfraggler, RealVNC, CDBurnerXP, Recuva, 7-Zip, WinRAR, Python, FileZilla, Notepad++, Java Development Kit, WinSCP, PuTTY, and Eclipse.

After you have chosen what you need to upgrade at the website you will be prompted to download an installer.

Double click the installer you have downloaded, sit back ( or continue working on your PC ) and let Ninite do all the upgrades for you.

Give it a try……..

Windows 7 E-book

I’m sure not few of us have already installed and used Windows 7 by now. To help newbies to this new operating system from Microsoft, please feel free to download two e-books about Windows 7.

  1. Windows 7 Pocket Guide by Rich Robinson
  2. Windows 7 Tips & Tricks by Microsoft.

Hope these books could help users familiarize themselves with Windows 7 …….. :D

XP Quick Fix

A portable tool to quickly fix 40 common XP problems such as Task Manager, Regedit, restore Run command and other problems.

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You can download the tool here

Source: DownloadSquad

Get Free License Key for ACDSee Photo Editor 2008!

According to InstantFundas, the polish version of CHIP magazine is still giving away free license key for ACDSee Photo Editor 2008.

Go here for instructions how to get it.

Download ACDSee Photo Editor 2008 trial version here.

Good luck…………. :D

Alternative to Microsoft Visio

If you do a lot of charts, diagrams and so forth, you should be familiar with Visio.

If you don’t want to spend so much on such a program, why not try a FREE open source applications that does the same job.

Try downloading DIA here and run it. At first glance, it looks like Visio!

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Go to MakeUseOf for further details.

Pdf tools

Pdf tools is a pdf management application. You can encrypt, split, decrypt, join, stamp, create or rearrange your pdf files using it.

It is also freeware

pdf tools

Download it here

If you want to read a review about it, go to Freeware Genius.

reader_s.exe

I came across this virus yesterday when one of my customers complaint that her computer hangs and the desktop doesn’t appear! I tried reinstalling her OS and it seems as though the problem was solved. After successfully reinstalling her OS ( without reformatting her partition ) and installing an anti virus software, I thought the problem was solved. After a few reboots, I discovered that the anti virus software I have installed stopped working!

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Streamyx Error Codes

Sometimes when we trying logging in to our streamyx account, we get an error message such as shown below..

Streamyx errors

Behind all the words explaining the error codes, what does it mean actually. For instance, Error 718 in fewer words means PPP timeout.

For a full list of Streamyx errors from Error 600 to Error 769, take a look at DSLReports.

Google Translate your wordpress.com blog

I must say it was quite a relief after much googling i came across an indonesian blog with tips on adding translation widgets to your wordpress sidebar.

If you notice the translation tool i have put earlier, well it has flags and all but it doesn’t seem to do the work!

Visit Balagita’s blog to add your own google translation widget. Remember to change the language accordingly.

Downloading torrents via http

If you have ever downloaded anything through P2P you would have certainly experienced the pain of the long wait…….. :P

What if you don’t have to wait that long just to download your gigs of files through peer to peer method.

BTaccel maybe just the answer you have been waiting for. It is a web based BitTorrent client that offers users the ability to download via HTTP.

According to Kaushik of InstantFundas, a 1GB file was downloaded completely to BTaccel’s server in about 5 minutes only and a few more minutes will be needed to start downloading it to your PC.

Go to InstantFundas for details and free invites still available to join BTaccel.