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Firefox 3.5 Review

We do this over one of the browsers used most in the world. Mozilla Firefox offers an intuitive interface, user friendly and ergonomic thanks to its handling of tabs, popup blocking, a classified historic day, a surf full screen, an adjustable zoom, managing cookies, quick viewing and optimized web pages The automatic update online very regular, managing bookmarks, download manager improved the feed reader built and many others. Among the new features of Firefox you can save your bandwidth by viewing a site without loading images, it also puts at your disposal “private browsing” that allows you to surf freely without leaving any trace of your online activities. For the latest news, Firefox has launched a new feature that allows you to view web pages faster but using less memory. Security side, you can block the execution of a site or program. The browser takes the Gecko rendering engine which guarantee maximum compatibility with most sites. The Flash or Java plugins that allow you to properly view sites using these technologies. On security Firefox has inroads in the browser market revealed by the Washington Post (in English) indicates that Mozilla Firefox is safer in terms of sécurité.De up Mozilla Firefox is cross-platform: Linux, Mac, Windows etc. … it has even been designed for the Windows Mobile. Additional arguments that have conquered the hearts of many users.

Also Mozilla Firefox supports a large number of codec: mp3, wma, vob, mpeg, avi, ogg, etc. so it can serve as a media player for which none currently exists! To customize your Firefox, you can visit his site and find the plug-in for you. The choice is vast and very diverse. It is better to install any add-ons (or plug-in) is the official website of Mozilla Firefox for security reasons.

For this who want to know the past and wonderful history of Firefox you can visit the Wikipedia site.

Open Office 3.1 – Alternative for MS-Office

OpenOffice.org is a full office suite and its completely free. It is ideal to replace Microsoft Office in fact it is compatible with all versions of Microsoft Office suite. Professional quality, the application provides all the tools necessary for office: word processing, presentation, spreadsheet, and database. This version includes a Quick Start, support OpenXML documents, a new interface: new icons, the zoom control in the status bar, new annotation text, and the spreadsheet can handle up to 1024 columns per leaf, and “Writer” supports the display of multiple pages simultaneously. Among others, it also allows the development or modification of diagrams and illustrations have been improved. The program is compatible with the ODF 1.2 standard (Open Document Format), as well as documents of the 2007 Microsoft Office suite. Despite these very attractive new features, the latest version of OpenOffice has some shortcomings, however, detected by users, such as sorting of rows containing formulas that mix references, this problem affects all OS with the direct effect of blocking with OOo increased consumption of the CPU.

The new version 3.1.0 of OpenOffice is available for download on this site. It includes new features, among others, anti-aliasing in geometric figures, drawing, etc.

BleachBit 0.6.4

For those not familiar BleachBit would become like a ccleaner, which allows us to do a thorough cleaning of our system.
This version adds a command line interface shows a more detailed summary, correct mistakes, add a Malay translation and updates the 17 remaining translations.

List of changes:
* Add command-line interface. Often requested as a feature, the command line interface allows you to invoke BleachBit scripting, cron, batch files, or the Windows Task Scheduler. For example, Firefox BleachBit automatically empty every night or every time you log on.

* At the end of the record shows how many files were deleted, how many special operations have been conducted, and how many errors have occurred, if any.

* When the files manually crushed (by clicking File – destroys files), now ignores BleachBit related preferences overwrite files.

* Make BleachBit more portable to other POSIX systems like NetBSD. (BleachBit already available in NetBSD.)

* Fixes two typographical errors in spelling.

* Improve test unit.

* Specific for Linux
– aspect of GNOME options for toolbars (text below the icon, the icon only, etc.).
– corrects Yum error checking for non-English languages.
* Specific Windows

- plant size reduces to 6%, using a unique compression technique in the GTK + translation sites. If you notice any untranslated strings, please report them.
- delete one or more Windows registry file system.
- offers a version in English-only, which is 11% smaller by not including translations.
- Perform the software update notification evident.

Download:

- The installation packages are ready for 20 platforms, including CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, openSUSE, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Windows.

VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware

VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware is a new PC security software created by Sunbelt Software. This Anti-Virus is created to be faster than most traditional security software like Norton or McAfee. VIPRE will not slow down your PC and it is highly effective at preventing and curing PC Infections. If you Don’t want your anti virus to slow down your PC then try using this VIPRE anti virus.

VIPRE the following advantage,

# This will not slow down your PC
# Enhanced new technology is used for AntiVirus and Anti Spyware
# Advance technology Anti- Rootkit
# Cutting-edge Proactive Protection
# Enhanced and complete protection against email-borne threats

You can try this 15 days free trial of this Antivirus Software

Password Cracker – restore your passwords

Whenever you create an account on the website, it asks for a username or login and a password. So when you play to give different names and different passwords for each account, it is quite easy to forget.

Password Cracker is a tool to restore your passwords. It was created to prevent you from breaking your head to remember all your passwords. It works on all browsers even IE.

MalwareBytes’ Anti-Malware – Best Antimalware Software

This anti-malware is really excellent,  it removes infections on your computer with a disconcerting ease!

MalwareByte’s Anti-Malware has proved to be a must to disinfect computers! It incorporates the latest Malware signatures  with speed showing the laboratory work, and furthermore, it incorporates a very effective heuristic detection against new malware which are not listed in the signatures.
It also includes root kit detector by Gmer , one of the best technologies  Anti-Root kit, and a module for removing files locked by the system to delete recalcitrant files (FileAssassin).

In addition, this software is free, but without the shield of protection in real time (Your antivirus program is expected to actively protect the system through its scan  in real time).
Advantages and disadvantages

Benefits

* Work laboratories (updates quickly define)
* Effective heuristic detection,
* Removes infections with simplicity,
* The interface is improving increasingly,
* It’s free

* Scan quickly than any other tool.
* Compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista.

Defects

* The real-time shield is not available in the free version.
* This software is regularly false positive, so it is best to read the search results and keep some time in quarantine deleted items.

How to Scan?

* Download MalwareByte’s Anti-Malware.
* Install and run the program.
* Make updates (Click on Updates and Search for updates).
* Click on “Run a full review” then click “Search” and select all drives.
* Once the scan is * finished, click “show results”.
* Check that all is well checked and then click “Delete Selected”.
* (If you are asked to reboot the PC to complete the removal, accept).
* A report will be generated, save it in an appropriate place to find to a personal or a poster on a forum.

Tip: * The scan will be much more effective against active infections if you are not using Internet Explorer for this scan * and especially if you’re not in Safe Mode *

Update Checker – Is your Softwares upto date?

You have trouble keeping all your software up to date?
Indeed, under Windows, when you have dozens of programs installed on the system, it is difficult to verify that they are all up to date.

Update Checker is the right solution

There are number of software used to check (“checker”) if there is a newer version than that currently on the system. Among them, there Update Checker, a small software with many advantages:

* Free
* Lightweight (154 KB!)
* No installation: just launch
* Effective

How to use?

To obtain this software is simple: click on this link (or go to the following address: http://www.filehippo.com/updatechecker/) Downloading the software does not register, or expectation, against either party.

Use

Once downloaded, simply run it (the small icon with eyes).  After a few seconds during which the software will identify the software versions that you have a web page will open. It contains a direct link to update each program, with some news: latest version, installed on the system, size of the executable to download.

Then at the bottom of the page you will find versions “beta” version is still in testing. It is not advisable to install them because they can be unstable. Interested? Some people like to test the software before their official release to find out what are the technological developments, innovations, or to participate in software development and improvement.

To the right of the page you will find information about your system:

And at the bottom you can find information on FileHippo:

Gimp – an Image editing software review

This post is about the new image editing software Gimp. This is considered to be the best Image editing software available in the internet. The direct competitor of Photoshop supports multiple file formats: BMP, GIF, JPG, PCX, PNG, PS, TIF, TGA, XPM and can support more than 100 plug-ins. Through its professional duties, you can make your own image editing, multimedia presentations and more. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is available on various platforms and is one of its strengths (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X or some variant of UNIX). GIMP is an image processing software to make the photo as the artistic composition. Its new features that are growing are gaining more and more points of reputation.

eMule 0.49c – an Open source p2p Software

eMule is a p2p software open-source most used in the world. eMule adopted the eDonkey network. With a comfortable and intuitive interface, this version provides automatic filtering servers absent from the list, a connection to servers optimized therefore faster, the compression of downloaded files in transit between two eMule clients and statistics on downloads. This new version supports the network coupled with Overnet offers a reduced CPU consumption, improving the Kad protocol that reduces the risk of interference of the protocol, improved management of NAT, support direct callbacks , protection against flood, the backup window for a search session, filtering search for shared files, etc.. In addition, the message system has been improved to rid spammers and that via the identification Captcha. EMule offers you the opportunity to share any type of file, either MP3, JPEG, AVI, ZIP, EXE, etc..), And bet against, you’ll also be able to download files that other users make available to the community.

MyDefrag – Free disk defragmenter and optimizer

MyDefrag (formerly JKDefrag) is defragmentation software for Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista.

Compared to the defragmenter included with Windows, it has many advantages.
Not only is it faster than Windows and consumes fewer resources, but as a bonus it has 2 different defragmentation strategies more effective than those of Windows.

     * This is “fast” and well suited to daily use.
     * This is “complete”; it means you can defragment completely.

MyDefrag disk supports very full, it moves the directories at the beginning of disk, free space unused MFT, it is able to defragment very large files, etc.  It can function as a simple command line program, such as a graphics application, and even as a screen saver!  With the saver, your disc is still in its optimum form.

From a security, it uses the API defragmentation of Windows, which makes software as secure as the Windows defragmenter. You can stop abruptly at any time without risk of losing data.

Speaking of its interface, you can not say that this is a success because the graphical representation of defragmentation is to tousle your hair.  The software is fully automated thereby facilitating its use. MyDefrag can also support removable disk or other storage device that appears as a disk under Windows.