Protect Your Chrome From Malware Adware Extensions With ExtShield
Most of the people dont realise that browser extensions might be dangerous .But why they download & installing it?.May be they are too lazy to download and install a software with the same functions as the extension, or it may save some time or it is a faster way to explore lots of features in a short time.After installation, the malicious extension can gain complete control of the victims profile and may have access to your data.By installing these extensions, you give your browser additional functionality unknowingly . So dont install an app or extension unless you trust its creator.
ExtShield (formerly Chrome Protector)tells you that you need to download Google Chrome in order to run it. It keeps a more than 100s of blacklisted browser extensions known to contain adware, spyware or malware.It will scan your browser and alert you if any of these are installed.
ExtShield extension is a freeware available at Chrome webstore. Once installed, you can access the shield located at the right hand top corner of your webpage to know the status about your other installed extensions.
? Stops over 100 adware, spyware or malware extensions that are currently available in chrome web store and used by millions ? Monitors extensions and websites behavior to detect malicious patterns ? Shield code is protected to avoid bypassing by malware creators
Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on MSN, talking to a friend on Google Talk, and sitting in a Yahoo chat room all at the same time.
Pidgin runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems.
Download : PIDGIN 2.5.5 HERE Plug In : mxit for pidgin Plug In : facebook chat for pidgin
Installation: 1. install pidginnya 2. install mxit for pidgin 3. install facebook chat for pidgin 4. Open pidgin 5. Click account > Manage Account > Add User n Go
Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. It can support many more with plugins.
Supported chat networks:
AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, MSN, MySpaceIM, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, Sametime, XMPP, Yahoo!, Zephyr, Facebook with plug in.
Pidgin supports many features of these chat networks, such as file transfers, away messages, buddy icons, custom smilies, and typing notifications. Numerous plugins also extend Pidgins functionality above and beyond the standard features.
With This application you can repair your old hard disk. this will group the bad partition and create new partition with the good partition
Features: High-efficient and error-robust disk scan algorithm. You wont wait for a whole night just to see your computer hangs or makes little progress in scanning the disk. You can stop the scan at anytime and continue it later. PBD will save the scan results automatically so that you need not scan the disk again when you want to adjust the partitions next time. Almost no limitation about the number of created partitions/logical disks. Visualized disk diagram makes it easy to use. Just click the blocks in the diagram and assigned them to partitions. You can adjust the size of, the start/stop positions of, the type of partitions and split/combine partitions at will. Provided advanced partitioning strategies. Choose a strategy, and PBD does the rest. Super Format option allows you to mark bad clusters at file system level. This is useful if you want to create a large partition thus have to include some bad sectors in it(the bad sectors will be mapped out after formatting). It is much faster than traditional format when dealing with massive bad sectors, and it never hangs. Currently only FAT is supported. You can convert the formatted partition from FAT to NTFS using the command: convert X:/fs:ntfs Even your disk has no bad sectors, you can also use PBD as an ordinary easy-to-use partition software.
About bad sector: Bad sectors(or bad blocks, bad clusters) are the areas on the disk that can not be read or written. Bad sectors are classified into two categories: logical bad sector and phyical bad sector. Logical bad sector can be repaired by software while phyical bad sector is hard to fix. Bad sectors should be blocked out, otherwise you will meet problem reading or writing files, and if bad sectors are often read and written, they may propagate to originally healthy part of disk. Use
Partition Bad Disk to isolate/hide bad sectors so that they can not be used to store files.
PCHeal 1 8 1 2011 Increase your computers efficiency
Keeping Windows continually optimized is an ongoing challenge and the worst problem is when software conflict with each other.
PCHeal is designed to step in when youve suffered a major software conflict or system slowdown. It makes direct changes to your system registry and files to enhance memory, screen drawings, animations, refresh rates and CPU threading speeds. According to PCHeals developers, it automatically adjusts settings and changes made based on computer specifications although its hard to tell if anything really has been done or not after running the program.
There is also a deep system analyzer and diagnostic tool in PCHeal which attempts to find and repair any potential problems with the computer which is affecting its performance. PCHeal also focuses on over-clocking features to enhance memory and CPU priorities and theres an easy and intuitive user interface which performs all setting changes immediately. In reality, in the case of a major software conflict, theres little you can do but PCHeal offers some hope of at least recuperating some of your systems performance without uninstalling the guilty products.
Worth a try if youve experienced a major system failure although dont expect it to perform miracles.
Just a reminder that there is a web page with complete step by step instructions on how to use the pen tool to create a selection and convert the selection to a mask. The instructions go on and detail what you need to to do to "refine" the mask using the Refine Edge dialogue. Click here to go to the Selection and Masking Tutorial
Preparing for Week 7 and beyond
Bring to class images that you would like to convert to Black & White, or split Tone.The class is partially about how to convert your images into Black and White. Well also look at how to split tone images. We will also be looking at techniques that used to belong to the realm of Photoshop, but can now be better accomplished in Camera Raw. In this class we will begin to look at how to deal with "retouching" portraits, but concentrate on that during week 8s class. Bring to class a portrait that youd like to work on...
Its Your Topic!
Is there a technique or subject that hasnt been covered in class? Send me an e-mail! Is the a technique YOU developed that youd like to share with the class? Either leave a comment on the blog, or send me an e-mail. garry@uofgts.com See you in class!
Homework!
Post some pics to the blog and share them with your class mates!
Pocket Life v0 9 10 J2ME puts your Social Life on the Map updated
Pocket Life is a web and mobile service that offers a seamless, integrated experience for communication, social networking, location based services, street and satellite mapping.
Pocket Life was designed around your group of friends, allowing you to communicate and interact in ways never before possible. Seamless synchronisation of the information across web and mobile devices as well as synchronisation across selected social networks is a cornerstone of Pocket Life.
You maintain full control of what you share by placing your contacts in Groups and only sharing what you enable with specific Groups.
You are able to store and remember your favourite memories, whether this is the spot where you got engaged, your favourite mountain bike trail or even just to keep a record as to how you are progressing on your daily jog.
Pocket Life, lives and grows with you. Whats on the mobile
* Fast access to all areas of Pocket Life through the home navigation * List all your nearby Favourite places based on your location * Find friends and places on interactive Maps * Send messages and get updates from all your social networks in Pulse
ProfiMail 2 70 Cracked Push Your Mail Over Symbian
Kalian mengalami kesulitan membuka mailbox ketika di luar, sedangkan email yang masuk tersebut bersifat penting. Gak usah bingung menghadapi kesulitan itu, karena symbian kalian adalah gadget yang serba guna dan praktis.
Pada layanan ponsel symbian kita memang sudah disediakan layanan setwiz (setting wizard) untuk layanan operator seperti layanan GPRS atau MMS dengan hanya mengetikkan nama provider yang kita gunakan, serta layanan email yang hanya mengetikkan jenis account email yang kita gunakan. Namun, kemudian kita diharuskan mengisi nomor port untuk layanan incoming dan outgoing email. Banyak dari kalian pasti kurang tahu nomor port tersebut.
Dengan ProfiMail,kalian bisa secara instant mengakses account email dan langsung didownload otomatis kedalam ponsel. Kita bisa menyunting email yang masuk, seperti hanya header-nya saja yang ter-download, supaya akses data yang masuk kedalam ponsel tidak terlalu besar. Kalau terlalu besar, akibatnya pulsa yang kita miliki pun cepat terkuras habis :)
Screenshots :
Pada gambar diatas dapat lita lihat tampilan dari ProfiMail :
ProfiMail ketika mendownload email yang masuk dengan suntingan header only
compose message dengan cc dan bcc
daftar list email yang masuk
indikator jumlah email yang masuk kedalam ponsel (lingkaran merah)
Pada gambar diatas juga dapat kita lihat tampilan menu-menu untuk email yang masuk ataupun yang sedang dikirim.
Dimanapun kalian berada, kalian bisa menikmati betapa praktis dan serba gunanya symbian kita dalam mengakses email lewat ProfiMail :)
Serial number : 000000000... (tekan sampai tidak bisa lagi ditekan)
Recover Your Disk Space with the New Windows Update Cleanup
Every time Microsoft patches Windows, the obsolete versions of earlier files and their settings are normally stored in the WinSxS folder( C:WindowsWinSxS) . This helps if you needed to roll back a patch, Windows can pull it out from the previous version stored in the WinSxS folder. But it consumes huge amount of disk space. You cant just manually delete everything in that folder, because some files are needed if you want to roll back a Windows Update .
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Microsoft has recently released a tool "Windows Update Cleanup" for Windows 7 that adds a new option in the Disk Cleanup tool.With this update (KB 2852386) you can free up several gigabytes of hard drive space .Once you have it installed, run Disk Cleanup and click the "Clean up system files" button to find the new Windows Update Cleanup option.After you install this update, you can use the Windows Update Cleanup option to delete Windows updates that you no longer need.
Right-click on your C: drive -> Properties-> Disk Cleanup button .Here you can see a summary of what files Windows can clean up -- temporary files, Recycle bin and log files. It is not bad , if you are able to retrieve 1GB to 3GB -- or more -- of C: drive on all of your Win7 SP1 machines .
Notes
The Windows Update Cleanup option is available only when the Disk Cleanup wizard detects Windows updates that you do not need on the computer.
To enable you to roll back to previous updates, updates are stored in the WinSxS store even after they are superseded by later updates. Therefore, after you run the Disk Cleanup wizard, you may be unable to roll back to a superseded update. If you want to roll back to a superseded update that the Disk Cleanup wizard deletes, you can manually install the update
You needed to run Windows Genuine Validation to install Windows Update Cleanup
Download the update package for x86-based versions of Windows 7
Download the update package for x64-based versions of Windows 7
Printer toner is expensive. Adobe LeanPrint for Windows reduce printing costs by optimizing the layout of documents before sending them to the printer. Do you print web pages? Word documents? PDFs? A lot of them? Adobe offers a relatively inexpensive utility called LeanPrint that will help reduce your printing costs by smartly optimizing the layout of the printed page such that it consumer less ink and paper. Adobe LeanPrint is available for Microsoft Windows and works with Microsoft Office applications and all popular browsers including Chrome and IE. It is a software-only solution and thus can be used with any printer.
LeanPrint minimizes whitespace in your document while maintaining readability.
When you print a document using the Print wizard (Ctrl+Alt+P), LeanPrint offers you two printing modes Super Saver and Toner Saver. The former mode transforms your document into a more compact multi-column layout (similar to a newspaper) while maintaining readability. The Super Saver mode saves both paper and toner. In the Toner Saver mode, the layout of the original document isnt altered so you dont save any paper but it cuts down the ink toner consumption. This can be done by reducing the intensity of the toner or by converting color fills into patterns. In the case of web pages, LeanPrint removes all the extraneous information like backgrounds images, advertisements, sidebars and footers before sending the web page to the printer. If you have used the Readability or Evernote Clearly add-on earlier, this will be familiar except that the focus is on saving printing costs.
A story on the The New York Times website, optimized for printing.
Other than Word Documents, the LeanPrint plugin can also optimize your Excel sheets and PowerPoint slides for printing. You can easily see your toner and paper savings in the LeanPrint window itself or switch to the dashboard view for tracking your printing history and overall savings. A single user license of Adobe Lean Print is available for $20 and you may also download a free trial version of the LeanPrint software from Adobe.com that will be valid for 30 days.
Every time you use a regular search engine, your search data is recorded. Major search engines capture your IP address and use tracking cookies to make a record of your search terms, the time of your visit, and the links you choose - then they store that information in a giant database.
Those searches reveal a shocking amount of personal information about you, such as your interests, family circumstances, political leanings, medical conditions, and more.
This information is modern-day gold for marketers, government officials, black-hat hackers and criminals - all of whom would love to get their hands on your private search data.
Major search engines have quietly amassed the largest database of personal information on individuals ever collected. Unfortunately, this data can all too easily fall into the wrong hands.
Startpage Protects Your Privacy!
Startpage, and its sister search engine Ixquick, are the only third-party certified search engines in the world that do not record your IP address or track your searches.
They are the first search engine to do so!
Give Startpage a try. You will love your newly found ease of mind.
Protect your USB Drive with Password without Software
Do youve some important data in your USB drive that you dont want to share with anybody? It may be some documents, username/passwords or images/videos. Then why not encrypt the USB drive data with password? And if youre using Windows7, you dont even need any third party software for password protecting portable drives.
When you are online ,Keyloggers are extremely dangerous and can be used to steal personal information such as your social security number, credit card number, web-based email accounts,and passwords to just about everything.Since Keyloggers are designed to be as invisible as possible in the list of processes, so it is not easy to find the existence.So how to protect your PC?
KeyScrambler Personal is a browser add-on, protects all your inputs in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Flock, which prevents keylogger from capturing the data you type into login boxes, search engines, web mail (Gmail, Yahoo etc.), including your login credentials, credit card numbers, passwords, search terms, Java, Flash, PDF Forms, web email and a lot more.It encrypts your keystrokes at the keyboard driver level, deep within the operating system. This tool is very easy to use and protects you automatically whenever you launch your browser .
KeyScrambler encrypts your keystrokes deep in the kernel, as they enter the computer.When the encrypted keystrokes reach your browser, itr then decrypts them so you see exactly the keys youve typed. Keyloggers can only record the encrypted keys, which are completely indecipherable.
KeyScrambler | FirefoxAddon | Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit).
Playback 1 7 9 Stream media from your Mac to PS3 or Xbox 360
Playback is an easy-to-use tool that allows you to share media on your Mac with any Playstation 3, Xbox 360 or other UPnP compatible device.
Playback integrates with major media applications such as iTunes, iPhoto, Aperture, Adobe Lightroom, Photobooth, EyeTV, and more, meaning all you have to do is select what you want to share. Playback also allows you to control the amount of data being transferred to your devices via a handy bandwidth throttle that ensures you can surf and transfer data at the same time comfortably.
Playback also prides itself on being particularly fast due to the nginx server. Nginx delivers high performance transfer rates, stability and simple configuration which is why its favored by sites such as WordPress, Hulu and SourceForge. Finally, another bonus is that Playback supports HD MKV files so no transcoding is required. However, some Matroska formats are not supported meaning that you have to sit through painfully long transcoding processes before playing certain media.
Overall, Playback is an excellent streaming app for Macs to PS3s and Xbox 360s. Combined with an application such as XBMC, it offers a superb home entertainment setup system.
Preview Your Website in Different Browsers and Operating Systems
From browsershots.org:
Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here.
Just go to browsershots.org and specify which OS/browser combinations to use.
Supported OSes
Linux
Windows
Mac OS
BSD
Gecko
KHTML/WebKit
Supported Browsers
Firefox
Internet Explorer
Google Chrome
Opera
Netscape
Many more
Misc. Options
Screen size
Color depth
Javascript
Java
Flash
Examples from browsershots.org:
MSIE 8.0 / Windows XP
for http://www.powercram.com/
Firefox 3.5.7 / Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) for http://www.powercram.com/
Prank your Friends Invert their Mouse Direction for Fun
I love to prank my friends either by fake calling them with different numbers or showing them some weird Blue Screen Errors on their PC that is too fake. I have posted many other pranks too you can check them all by visiting my pranks section. Well today I have something that is not that much cool but still your friends could get in dilemma when they wont be able to click what they actually want to and would be running crazy.
Simple Tool to Invert your Mouse Direction for Fun
Now this tool does not have much configurations, you have simple settings that you can do once and let this small software run in the background and enjoy the expressions of your friend while they get confused.
The best way to execute this tool is to sit with your friends on their computer and ask them for something to make or send them somewhere, while they are out install this small utility and let it sit in the background while fun starts.
So as you can see the settings in the image on the right, you can choose what all you need to be reversed and that is it your pranking tool will execute and start the awesome fun time for you and your friends.
Download Sakasa Mouse Inverting Tool for Free
Now you can download this tool using the website its hosted on. After you have downloaded the tool just start the tool and configure it once, then ask your friends about the problem you are facing using their mouse. They will get confused about what actually happened.
Plants vs Zombies Game of the Year Edition 1 0 1 Use plants to defend your home from zombies
Just when you thought it wasnt possible to come up with any more variants on the zombie theme, up pops Plants vs. Zombies.
In Plants vs. Zombies you have to protect yourself from a "mob of fun-loving zombies" intent on invading your home. Your only defense is a collection of 49 lovingly-tendered, zombie-zapping plants. These are no ordinary plants though - they can use an array of weaponry from peashooters to cherry bombs to destroy the 26 types of zombies before they reach your front door.
The different zombies each have their own skills and abilities so each will require a different tactic to defeat them. Obstacles such as a setting sun (which make your flowers close up), flower-eating frogs and other hazards add to the drama. There are five game modes to choose from, namely Adventure, Mini-Games, Puzzle, Survival and Zen Garden. The range of zombies is truly impressive - from Bucketheads to Bobsleigh zombies that require a different plant to kill them off.
While each scenario is essentially all the same - stopping the zombies crossing the garden - there is enough variation between levels to make Plants vs. Zombies a really good laugh. Each level you win means you win a new arsenal of plants to play with and you can collect sunflower seeds as currency with which to buy more for particularly difficult levels.
Plants vs. Zombies is a Tower Defense-style game with plenty of character, humor and action, making it much more fun that it might sound at first.
Download Plants vs. Zombies Game of the Year Edition 1.0.1 in Softonic
As everyone who has ever had the flu knows, viruses can be devastatingand computers dont get off any easier than people. Even though a flu virus and a computer virus have obvious differences, there are some similarities: Both you and your computer get viruses from others who are already infected, and prevention can help keep both of you healthy.
Keep in mind that the steps listed in this article are only recommendations that may help prevent virus infection and help deal with it if one does occur. This topic is complex, and it changes rapidly, so its important to stay vigilant and stay informed.
Prevention is the key.
Your best defense is to keep your system from getting infected in the first place because once it is, it can be very difficult, if not impossible, to get rid of the virus. The road to prevention begins with these steps:
Install effective anti-virus software. Anti-virus software is widely available; any online or brick-and-mortar store that sells software will offer a number of products. These products typically require an annual subscription, which lets you keep your anti-virus software up to date and ready to detect the latest threats. Tip: For added protection, consider buying a security suite that includes firewall software and other protection (such as spam filtering).
Avoid risky behavior. For example: never open an email attachment that comes from someone you dont know, and avoid downloading anything from the Internet that might not be trustworthy. Keep in mind that humorous material is often passed along, from address to address, through email. Its best not to open this type of file, because even if the attachment is from someone you know, they may be unknowingly passing along a virus.
Make regular virus scans a habit.
Anti-virus software typically lets you choose whether to schedule a scan on a regular basis or perform a manual scan. Because a full scan can take an hour or more to complete, many anti-virus software packages also let you perform a quick, but less thorough, scan of the most commonly infected parts of the computer. See your product documentation for details.
Tip: While you shouldnt depend on it for your main anti-virus solution, another option is to use a free online service to scan your computer, like Trend Micro HouseCall* or Symantec Security Check*.
Youve discovered an infection. Now what?
If you discover a virus or related threat during a scan, follow these steps:
Follow your anti-virus softwares on-screen instructions. Many viruses can be easily removed using this method. Another option for Windows-based systems is to use the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool*, free software distributed through Windows Update* and updated monthly. Re-scan your computer after youve removed the virus (just to be sure). Tip: Its also a good idea to scan again with a separate scanner, such as an online service, for added assurance.
Contact an expert. If first efforts arent enough, check your anti-virus products Web site for additional information. Sometimesespecially for high-profile threatsmajor anti-virus software manufacturers will provide a tool to help get rid of specific viruses. However, these tools can be complicated to use, so depending on how comfortable you are with the procedure, you might want to bring in an expert. Many large retail chains now provide in-store services that specialize in removing viruses. The cost involved can be a small amount to pay to resolve the problem.
Use restore disks or re-install the operating system. A new computer often comes with a set of one or more emergency "restore" disks. If you havent been able to remove the virus, this set of disks might help you to resolve the problem. However, you will lose any files that havent been backed up on separate media. Although many anti-virus programs let you make a set of emergency restore disks when you install the software. Similarly, if your computer came with a set of one or more operating system disks, you can re-install the operating system and return the computer to factory condition. These options are strong medicine, but if everything else fails, they may be the only way to restore your computers health.
Keeping virus-free
Install anti-virus software and keep it up to date
Dont open suspicious email attachments or download untrustworthy Internet content
PRISMA Adds Awesome AI Based Effects to your Images
Prisma is an amazing filters application that uses the Artificial Intelligence to add awesome effects to your images. This is pretty much similar to the Toon Paint application I used earlier on my iOS device. But this one has some real artificial intelligence built into their application. So various effects are being used from different artists and it really transforms your images into real artwork.
PCBoost 4 8 1 2011 Efficiently manage the resources of your PC
PCBoost increases computer performance by allocating higher portions of CPU power to active applications and games. PCBoost is a revolutionary product which enhances processor intensive software to run at even faster speeds.
The applications interface is designed to be very easy to use, fully compliant with all versions of Microsoft Windows and compatible with most software. With PCBoost your computer should run faster than ever before.
"Get More Sales and Better Response From Your Email Marketing Campaigns"
The thing is, this technique of increasing sales is no secret. It has been proven to work and almost everyone knows about it...
Personalization Increases Sales
Theres no doubt about it. If you send an email to someone saying, Hi Joe, How are you doing today? I was thinkig of you..." rather than, "Hi Fellow Internet Marketer, How are you doing today?"
Which one do you think will bring in more sales? If you say both will perform almost equally or maybe the second one might perform magrinally better, you will be dead wrong.
It has been tested by marketers (like Corey Rudl, Gary Halbert and many others) that personalization can increase sales by as much as 300%...
So almost everyone uses personalization in emails (while sending out ezines and newsletter mails etc). But what almost nobody knows is that you can also personalize your websites and boost-up your sales even more.
Just by adding a few lines of code to your website, you can now...
"Instantly Improve The Response Rate of Your Website, Autoresponder Series Or Mailing List By 40-300%"