Articles for the Topic: 'Windows'

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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Dell has announced launch of its new Precision 390 workstation in India which offers significantly enhanced performance and scalability.

The Dell Precision 390 Workstation offer custom-built configurations including Intel Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme processors to deliver dramatic performance improvements for applications ranging from 3-D entertainment to 3-D engineering design.

The Dell Precision 390 Workstation, according to company, can deliver improved and enhanced computing performance as compared to comparable Extreme Edition processor on the Dell Precision 3801. The new Precision 390 workstation delivers upto 63% improvements in computing performance with up to 56 percent in application benchmarks and up to 88 per cent in graphics performance enhancement for CAD applications, architectural engineering and digital content creation as compared to the comparable Extreme Edition processor.

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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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i-mate, a specialist vendor of Microsoft Windows Mobile devices, has announce the launch of their most compact Windows Mobile 5.0 based Pocket PC, the ‘i-mate JAMin’.

The new i-mate JAMin mobile phone comes in the same compact form factor as i-mate JAM but houses significant improvements including Quad-band GPRS/EDGE capability, lightning-fast Wi-Fi built in (802.11b and 802.11g), a 2.0 megapixel advanced camera, and all the latest Windows Mobile 5.0 software that includes standard packages such as Pocket Outlook, Phone, Internet Explorer, Power point, MSN Messenger and Games.

The i-mate JAMin mobile phone comes with 64MB RAM and 128MB ROM, MMC/SDIO slot.

Resembling a standard PDA, i-mate JAMin’s larger stature, compared with the size a regular cell phone, allows for a bigger touch screen of 2.8 inches diagonal, with support for 64k colors, as well as a 240×320-pixel resolution.

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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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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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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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Microsoft Corporation India introduced a free tool, Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions, for India’s growing student and technology enthusiast community.

The Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions are light-weight, easy-to-use and easy-to-learn offerings that enable novices to quickly develop dynamic Web applications and Windows applications.

Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions consist of Visual Web Developer Express, Visual Basic Express, Visual C# Express, Visual C++ Express and Visual J# Express.

The Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions can be downloaded from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/default.aspx. In addition, to address bandwidth issues in India, Microsoft is giving out CDs of Visual Studio Express Editions.

The CD is available to the first 20,000 developers that register on the site - www.vsexpress.in and will be shipped to them free of cost.