Articles for the Topic: 'Software'

Avast! 4 Home Edition is a complete ICSA certified and Secure Computing Magazine awarded full-featured antivirus package available free for home and non-commercial usage.

The latest version of avast! antivirus kernel, certified by ICSA, features outstanding detection abilities, together with high performance. It offers 100% detection of In-the-Wild viruses (viruses already spreading between users) and excellent detection of Trojan horses.

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Spybot - Search & Destroy is a must-have anti-spyware tool which detects and removes all sorts of spyware, adware, dialers etc from your computer which are not yet taken care by common anti-virus applications.

Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you haven’t intentionally installed, if your browser crashes inexplicably, or if your home page has been “hijacked” (or changed without your knowledge), your computer is most probably infected with spyware. Even if you don’t see the symptoms, your computer may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging.

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Linspire has introduced Linspire ‘Mini Koobox’, a tiny form-factor Linux machine powered by Linux operating system. The ‘Mini Koobox’ Linux desktop computer comes pre-installed with full Office suite and multimedia software.

Measuring just 6.5 x 6.5 x 2 inches and weighing 1.5 kgs, the Mini Koobox desktop system features a brushed matte-platinum case with clear blue plastic accents. All connections and ports, which includes including two USB 2.0 ports, one IEEE 1394 port (Firewire), speaker-out, S-video, and mic, are located in the rear side of the Koobox system box,

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Avant Browser is the free! and fastest web browser on Earth. Its user-friendly interface brings a new level of clarity and efficiency to your browsing experience, and frequent upgrades have steadily improved its reliability.

Avant Browser allows users to browse multiple Web sites simultaneously and to block all unwanted pop-up pages and Flash ads automatically.

The integrated cleaner helps users clear all traces and maintain privacy. The built-in Yahoo and Google search engines enable users to search for Web pages, images, groups, directories, lyrics, software, and news on the Internet.

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ePrompter is a free email retrieval and notification program that automatically and simultaneously checks and retrieves messages from up to sixteen password protected email accounts including AOL, Email.com, Excite, Gmail, Hotmail, Juno, Lycos, Mail.com, MyWay, Netscape, POP3, Rediffmail, Switchboard, USA.net, Yahoo and hundreds of other email domains .

Once new messages have been retrieved, ePrompter notifies you which accounts have messages and how many messages are in each account.

ePrompter also gives you the ability to delete unwanted spam or suspicious looking mail - the kind that might contain viruses - without having to launch your email program or go to your web mail’s site.

ePrompter also allows you to compose, forward, and reply to your retrieved messages, without having to launch your email program, and gives you the ability to delete unwanted spam or suspicious looking mail without having to launch your e-mail program or having to go to your Web mail’s site.

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POP Peeper is a small utility that runs in your Windows system tray. It visually and audibly lets you know if you have email on any number of POP3 servers as well as Hotmail, Yahoo, Mail.com, Myway, Excite, Lycos and Rediffmail.

It allows you to preview the headers of your email, and view the messages. There is also support for file attachments, which allows you to view the name of the files. If you are checking multiple accounts, you can specify a custom color for each, making it easy to distinguish the messages. Message preview is quick and fully supports HTML messages.

Using POP Peeper, you can quickly scan what messages are important enough to read, and which ones you want to delete without even opening your email client. A great little tool that works fast and efficient.

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Opera has recently released its Opera Mobile 8.60 browser software for Windows Mobile and Pocket PC providing users the full Internet experience on wide screen mobile phones running windows software.

Opera Mobile 8.6 for takes full advantage of the larger screen and higher resolution of PPC devices by offering tabbed browsing and surfing in horizontal landscape mode. The browser is based on Opera’s newest core code and runs on Windows Mobile 5 and 2003 SE, for now.

With Opera on your Pocket PC, you can surf the same Web sites as you do on your personal computer. The Opera 8.60 mobile Web browser for Windows Mobile is designed with speed and ease-of-use in mind.

Opera says that the browser runs on both Windows Mobile 5 and 2003 SE and a version of Opera Mobile for Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphones will be available shortly.

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Nokia has released the complete source code of the Symbian Port of the Apache web server for mobile phones, under open source project, potentially empowering any user to create and maintain his own personal mobile websites.

Running an Apache web server on a mobile phone sounds pretty exciting and it throws open some potentially new avenues of many useful applications for this massess in view of the fact that mobile phones users outnumbers PC users.

Background

It has been possible to access the Internet using mobile phones for quite a while over various mobile phone internet access protocols like GPRS and WAP, although the role of the mobile phone handset used for internet access has remained to be strictly been that of a client.

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DivX Pro player software provides you all what you need to play your favourite DivX videos including every older version; even purchased or rented DivX movies, DivX HD files, and videos created with advanced features such as menus, subtitles and more.

DivX Pro software also lets you create and manage video collections, burn discs and activate your DivX Certified device.

The included DivX Web Player allows you to watch online DivX coded media. The latest version of the DivX Pro Codec for Windows offers multi-threading support, giving you better performance.

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According to leading software industry body, National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom), Software and services exports from India grew 33 percent during the period 2005-06 to $23.6 billion.

Nasscom said the overall Indian software and IT enabled services industry grew 31 percent in last fiscal to $29.6 billion.

The overall software and services industry will grow by 25-28 percent in 2006-07 to $36-38 billion, Nasscom predicted.

IT and ITES exports are likely to grow by 27-30 percent in 2006-07 to $29-31 billion.

The number of employees in the IT and ITES sector grew to 1.29 million in 2005-06 from 1.05 million in 2004-05.

Domain Name Analyzer (V3.2) is a FREE Windows based software for finding the best domain names for your product or business. People refer to Domain Name Analyzer as the best software for searching domain names.

Highlights

• Start checking for available domain names with a single click!
• Domain Name Analyzer also allows you to Save Results for Future Use.
• Easy management of domain names through an easy interface and a ‘Domain Pad’ to keep track of very important or special domains.
• Generate domain names from a list of words and then have the software check them all.
• Domain Name Analyzer supports all generic top level domains (.com, .net, .org, etc.) and country code domains (.us, .de, .cc, .cd, .ws, .nu, .am etc.)

564 KB | Windows All | Download | Freeware

AMCap is a small yet fully functional video capture and preview application compatible with Microsoft DirectShow (formerly ActiveMovie, hence the name). It is based on the sample AMCap source code from the Microsoft DirectX 9 SDK.

The VMR9 option enables support for the multi-monitor, zooming, aspect ratio and deinterlacing features (Microsoft DirectX 9.0 required.)

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‘Norton Ghost’ provides options for automatically backup and recover everything on your computer.

Save the stuff you care about with the new Norton Ghost. From photos and music to tax documents, Norton Ghost 10.0 automatically backs up and recovers everything on your computer. Reliable, efficient, and versatile, Norton Ghost optimizes backup space, works with a wide range of media devices, and brings back your entire system in a few short steps.

One can protect every bit of data and files including photos, music, videos, historical documentsetc by making a automatic backup of computer’s entire hard disk. Not only backups can be scheduled, at any time you can easily restore individual files, folders, or your entire computer.

Highlighted Features and Benefits

• Save everything you care about
• Automatic backup and recovery
• Restore from system failures
• Data encryption
• Better tools for managing backed-up data

44.9 MB | Windows all | Download | Shareware

Microsoft declared that company is extending its VoIP enabled chat service to cover 11 more countries next week as it made its Windows Live Messenger Beta available for download today.

The move comes a week after Skype announced its latest VoIP enabled popular software, and as Microsoft overhauls its MSN service with scores of so called live objects.

In USA, Microsoft tie-up with US phone giant Verizon to enable users make calls to cell phones and traditional landlines for a few pennies a minute. Customers in the US, UK, Germany, France and Spain are already able to access the service, with Austria, Belgium, Finland, Iceland, Italy and the Netherlands coming on next week.

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OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.

Open Office is a free open source alternative to MS Office and totally compatible with Word, Excel, and Power-Point.

Open Office has advanced printing capabilities and direct connection with external email programs. It offers a variety of graphic tools and has slideshow support as well.

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