Hard Disk Partition using EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition V2.0

With the price of the hard disk going down so rapidly, it will be worth to buy a bigger and bigger hard disk. I have just bought a 640GB hard disk and looking for an utility to partition the drive.

I was looking at Norton but I don't think it is worth it since I will be using it only once. I then discovered that there is a very good partition application call EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition V2.0.

As Partition Magic alternative, EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition is a FREE comprehensive hard disk partition management software to let you enjoy free with all the powerful functions: Resize and Move partitions, Create, Delete and Format partitions, Hide and Unhide partitions and much more. What's more, the freeware works perfectly with hardware RAID and Windows 2000/XP/Vista Operating Systems. Your data is completely protected during all operations. Why not free download EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition now to enjoy it like the commercial program Partition Magic?

Website to download - http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

Real Temp - New temp program for Intel Core processors

For those who likes to overclock, another very good utility to monitor your Core Processors temperature is Real Temp.

Real Temp is a temperature monitoring program designed for all Intel single Core, Dual Core and Quad Core processors. Each core on these processors has a digital thermal sensor (DTS) that reports temperature data relative to TjMax which is the safe maximum operating core temperature for the CPU. As your CPU heats up, your Distance to TjMax will decrease. If it reaches zero your processor will start to throttle or slow down so maximizing your distance away from TjMax will help your computer run at full speed and more reliably too.

The main features include:

• Reads temperature information from all Intel Core based processors.
• Ability to individually calibrate Real Temp for each core of your CPU.
• Program is based on temperature data gathered using a Fluke 62 IR Thermometer.
• Test Sensors feature will check your DTS sensors for any sign of problems.
• Keeps track of Minimum and Maximum temperatures with full logging features.
• Reporting and logging of the Intel PROCHOT# thermal throttle activity bit.
• Quick, very accurate and repeatable benchmark.
• Displays MHz, TjMax, VID, CPUID, APIC ID and Calibration settings.
• No installation or registry modifications required.
• Support for Windows 2000 / XP / Vista (32/64 bit)

Website to download - http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/

Monitor Your CPU Core Temperature using Core Temp 0.99.3

For overclock, you will need to monitor your Core temperature to ensure that that the heat generated will not be too high and burn your CPU.

Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature.Now Vista ready! (x86 and x64)

The uniqueness of it is that it shows the temperature of each individual core in each processor in your system! You can see in real time how the CPU temperature varies when you load your CPU. It's also completely motherboard independent.

Website - http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/

Powerful and all-in-one utility - Glary Utilities

Glary Utilities offers numerous powerful and easy-to-use system tools and utilities to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC. It allows you to clean common system junk files, as well as invalid registry entries and Internet traces.

You can manage and delete browser add-ons, analyze disk space usage and find duplicate files. You can also view and manage installed shell extensions, encrypt your files from unauthorized access and use, split large files into smaller manageable files and then rejoin them.

Furthermore, Glary Utilities includes the options to optimize memory, find, fix, or remove broken Windows shortcuts, manage the programs that start at Windows startup and uninstall software. Other features include secure file deletion, an Empty Folder finder.

Version 2.5.3 improves registry cleaner, startup manager, Web update, and fixes some bugs.

Features includes:

• Optimize, clean and boost the speed of your Windows.


• Protect your privacy and security.


• Block spyware, trojans, adware, etc.


• Fix certain application errors.


• Simple, fast and User friendly interface


• For only private use
  

Website to download - http://www.glaryutilities.com/gu.html

VSO Image Resizer - Manage your Digital Photos

With this free resize image software, you can create e-mail friendly versions of your images, load them faster, move them easily from folder to folder, change their format, edit large numbers of image files/batch image resize and thus save space on your hard drive.

Using high resolution 1600x1200 for creating wallpaper or file-sharing you can save your memory. VSO Image Resizer can also change file names using a template and you can add your own watermark with transparency support.VSO Image resizer is integrated into the Windows explorer shell, right click on your pictures and start working on your pictures !With this free resize image software, you can create e-mail friendly versions of your images, load them faster, move them easily from folder to folder, change their format, edit large numbers of image files/batch image resize and thus save space on your hard drive.

Using high resolution 1600x1200 for creating wallpaper or file-sharing you can save your memory. VSO Image Resizer can also change file names using a template and you can add your own watermark with transparency support.VSO Image resizer is integrated into the Windows explorer shell, right click on your pictures and start working on your pictures !


Website to download - http://www.vso-software.fr/products/image_resizer/

Freeware to Convert Video to iPod Format

You can now convert video to iPod format using
"Free Video to iPod Converter 3.1"

Convert video files to Apple iPod, Sony PSP and mobile phones MP4 video format. Convert the whole movie or select a partition from the movie to convert to iPod or PSP (trim video).

Input file formats are: *.avi, *.mpg, *.mpeg, *.mpe, *.wmv, *.asf, *.mov, *.qt, *.3gp, *.3g2, *.flv, *swf.

For example convert avi to iPod, flv to iPod, mpeg to iPod, mpg to iPod, wmv to iPod, mov to iPod, 3gp to iPod.

Free Video to iPod or PSP Converter contains no spyware or adware. It's clearly free and absolutely safe to install and run.

Website to download - http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-Video-to-iPod-Converter.htm

AVG Technologies Releases AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0

AVG Technologies, a leading provider of Internet security software, will tomorrow release AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0, the latest version of the company’s popular and widely-used free security software, which now incorporates protection against spyware through a new combined anti-virus and anti-spyware engine.

AVG Free provides basic protection against viruses and spyware, together with the safe-searching component of the company’s patent-pending LinkScanner® technology, incorporated into the new AVG Security Toolbar. The Free product does not include the proactive safe-surfing (“drive-by download” protection) of the full LinkScanner module that is included in the commercial AVG products, nor the protection against hackers, keyloggers, spam, phishing attacks, and malicious file downloads that can come through instant messaging and attachments from seemingly friendly sources. The free product also does not include the round-the-clock email support provided with the commercial products.

Website to download - http://free.grisoft.com/ww.download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition

Free System Diagnostic Tool - ESET SysInspector

ESET SysInspector is a free, state of the art diagnostic tool for Windows NT based systems. It peers into your operating system and captures details such as running processes, registry content, startup items and network connections. Once a snapshot of the system is made, ESET SysInspector applies heuristics to assign a risk level for each object logged. Its intuitive graphical user interface enables the user to easily slice through the large volume of data using a slider to select objects of a particular color coded risk level for closer examination. ESET SysInspector is a convenient utility for the tool box of every IT expert and first responder.

Key Features:

• Ability to generate and save a detailed log to be used by an IT expert or uploaded to an online forum for diagnosis
• Option to exclude private, personal information from being saved in logs
• Integrated Anti-Stealth technology allows discovering hidden objects (e.g. rootkits) in MBR, registry entries, drivers, services and processes
• Ability to compare two existing logs for differences makes it easy to detect changes over time
• Log entries are assigned a color code risk level for easy filtering
• Intuitive hierarchical navigation of logs
• Fast and compact single file executable, ideal for first responders to run from a USB drive without lengthy installation

Website to download - http://www.eset.com/download/sysinspector.php

Protect your USB Thumb Drive with TrueCrypt

With the increase of storage in the USB Thumb Drive, people can keep a lot data in those removable storage. There were a number of incidents recently where people has lost the USB Thumb Drive and leads personal data / video / photos being disclosed to the public.

With TrueCrypt, you can be assured that the data in the Thumb Drive will be encrypted and protected.

Main Features include:

• Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.
  
• Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication).
• Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.
• Provides two levels of plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:
  1) Hidden volume (steganography – more information may be found here).
  2) No TrueCrypt volume can be identified (volumes cannot be distinguished from random data).
• Encryption algorithms: AES-256, Serpent, and Twofish. Mode of operation: XTS.
  

Website to download - http://www.truecrypt.org/

Free Photoshop with Adobe Photoshop Express

Adobe announced the introduction of Photoshop Express which is an web based version of Photoshop.

It provides most of the basic functions of Photoshop such as amplify your image:

Do what you want with your photos. Give them cartoon colors. Distort them. Go nuts. Turn average photos into jaw droppers with options like Pop Color, Sketch, Hue, Black & White, Tint, and more.

It also provides you with 2GB of storage for your photos for your use. Create your own exhibit and let people play and interact with it. Display your images in 3D or as a grid. The choice is yours. You control how everything looks in your gallery.

Website - https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html

AceStock - FREE Personal Investment / Stock Monitor

AceStock is a FREE personal investment monitor. You can't afford not to have this tool if you own any stock, participate in Stock Options plan or just want to know what's happening on the market with your 401k today. AceStock brings realtime stock quotes right on your desktop. You don't have to watch it all the time, AceStock works in a completely automatic mode. Every so often AceStock downloads the latest stock quotes from the Net and issues an alert if the stock is out of your defined range. This is it, nothing else, but isn't that all you want to know about your invesments? The latest version of AceStock adds many new data sources for true international investors, it supports quote downloads from Yahoo, Yahoo UK, Money Central, Google Finance, AMFI India, India Times, Russian Trade System and Zagreb Stock Exchange. As an investor you probably know that there are a lot of web sites providing similar service. AceStock not only replaces several opened pages with one window, but also provides these benefits:

• Don't spend your time refreshing web pages - AceStock downloads quotes automatically in the background and does all the math for you!
  
• Some sites send emails if your stock is out of predefined range. Do you really want to read an email about something that has happened several hours or even days ago? AceStock alerts you immediately about any price changes!
  
• AceStock doesn't take any precious space on the taskbar - it stays in system tray all the time and blinks if your attention is required!

Website to download - http://www.mechcad.net/products/acestock

The Virtual Desktop Manager - VirtuaWin v4.0 beta4 made available

VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called 'workspaces'). Virtual desktops are very common in Unix/Linux, and once you get accustomed to using them, they become an essential part of a productive workflow.

VirtuaWin is designed to be simple and elegant to use yet still be highly configurable and extensible.

Website to download - http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtuawin

Free on the fly Encryption Software - CryptoExpert 2008 Lite

CryptoExpert creates encrypted virtual disks and these disks are visible as usual disks with drive letters (for example, G:, H:, Z:, i.e. with any drive letter that is not used by other system devices).

The data stored on a CryptoExpert disk is stored in the container file. A container is a file, so it is possible to backup a container, move or copy it to other disk (CD-ROM or network, for instance) and continue to access your encrypted data using CryptoExpert.

Any free drive letter (or choosen letter) in the system may be used to mount and to open an encrypted file-container for access. When the virtual disk is opened, you can read and write data as if it were a conventional removable disk. You can do anything with a CryptoExpert virtual drive that you can do with a normal hard drive; only that with CryptoExpert, the encrypted volumes require password authentication before the files become accessible.


Product Features

• Using powerful encryption algorithm to encrypt your data: CAST 128 bit
• Ability to create encrypted containers (files vault) up to 20 Megabytes in size
• Access to your files on virtual volume on the fly
• Mapping any free drive letter like G:, F:, K: for virtual volume
• Requires password authentication before the files become accessible
• Works with all Windows application - even DOS applications
• Really Fast
• Looks like normal hard drive

Website to download - http://www.secureaction.com/cryptoexpert/lite/

Convert Video with Any Video Converter Free

Nowadays, there are lots of video that can be downloaded from the web. To allow all those video to be watch in different portable devices (PSP, iPod, MP4, etc), you will need to find utility to convert them to the required format. I recommend the use of Any Video Converter Free.

Any Video Converter is an All-in-One video converting tool with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed and excellent video quality. It allows you to effortlessly convert video files between every format, for FREE! It can convert almost all video formats including DivX, XviD, MOV, rm, rmvb, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, AVI to MPEG-I, MPEG-I, DVD NTSC , DVD PAL, Flash for Video (FLV) , AVI Video and Customized WMV movie formats. It also supports any user defined video file formats as the output. It has an unmatchable speed and high quality.

Features of Any Video Converter Free includes:

• User-friendly interface that is easy to use.
• Converts all video formats MPEG-I, MPEG-I, DVD NTSC , DVD PAL, Flash for Video (FLV) , AVI Video and Customized WMV movie formats.
• Batch convert any video formats including avi, wmv, asf, mpg, mp4, etc.
• Support DivX and Xvid avi format as importing and exporting video
• Support default video/audio settings or user customized parameters for video and audio.
• Has the option to preview the video in real-time before conversion .
• World's fastest video conversion speed with stunning video and audio quality.
• Supports adjust many video/audio options for MP4 files. For example, video/audio sample rate, bit rate, video size...

Website to download - http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/

Portable Applications for your USB Thumb Drive

The cost of USB Thumb Drive has dropped significantly during the past few years. To make use of the amount of storage in those drives, I recommend the use of this PortableApps.

PortableApps is a collection of portable software that allow customers to add to USB Thumb Drive. There are a total of 12 different applications for your everyday use. It also included a user menu as illustrated in one of the picture I attached.

The list of these application in the standard version includes:

PortableApps Suite (Standard Edition):

• ClamWin Portable (antivirus),
• Mozilla Firefox - Portable Edition (web browser),
• Gaim Portable (instant messaging),
• OpenOffice.org Portable (office suite),
• Sudoku Portable (puzzle game),
• Mozilla Sunbird - Portable Edition (calendar/task manager)
• Mozilla Thunderbird - Portable Edition (email client) and runs comfortably from a 512MB drive.

Website to download - http://portableapps.com/suite

Free Registry Repair - Eusing Free Registry Cleaner

Registry is the heart and soul of the Windows Operating System. Whenever we try to modify or delete registry keys we have to be very careful. However, with the introduced Eusing Free Registry Cleaner, cleaning registry will be a much safer task.

Eusing Free Registry Cleaner features include:

Key Features

• Safely scan your entire Windows registry for invalid or obsolete information

• A simple, user-friendly interface with which you can safely repair invalid entries in your Windows Registry

• Make your computer faster by cleaning your Windows registry

• Improve your Windows PC’s overall performance and stability

• Find Windows Registry keys left over from deleted files or uninstalled applications

• The automatic backup creation of the repaired registry entries

• 100% Spyware FREE, NOT contain any Spyware, Adware or Viruses

Website to download - http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm

LivingRoad Software Released as FREEWARE!

LivingRoad Software has just announced that 2 of their software are now Freeware. The 2 software are:

• Batch Image Processing Freeware
• Website Downloading Freeware, Raven

Website to download - http://www.livingroad.com/index.php?/content/blogcategory/11/15/

For Batch Image Processing Freeware, the main feature is:

LivingImage is a freeware image file processor. It allows you to process large numbers of images on your computer very quickly, so you don't have to manually change every image.
With many options for image processing you can save hours of working in converting images for email, internet, or countless other uses.

For Website Downloading Freeware, Raven, the main feature is:

Raven is a web site file downloading application. Based on a url, it will spider that web site and download all the files it finds.
First you set a URL and Raven will spider that URL and its links, up to 10 pages deep, looking for files to download. Once it has found the available files, you can download them to a directory of your choice and go directly to them in Windows Explorer. Raven makes downloading images, wallpaper, zip files, or any type of files simple!

Save Sick PC with UBCD4Win

UBCD4Win is a bootable recovery CD that contains software used for repairing, restoring, or diagnosing almost any computer problem.

UBCD4Win is based on Bart's PE©. Bart's PE© builds a Windows® "pre-install" environment CD, basically a simple Windows® XP booted from CD. UBCD4Win includes network support and allows you the ability to modify NTFS volumes, recover deleted files, create new NTFS volumes, scan hard drives for viruses, etc.

UBCD4Win download includes almost everything you need to repair your system problems. This project has been put together to be the ultimate recovery cd and not a replacement OS (Operating System). Please visit the "List of Tools" page for a complete list of what is included in the latest version of UBCD4Win.

Website to download - http://www.ubcd4win.com/index.htm

Top Freeware - Your Personal Magazine Cover using U.R. Celeb 2.011

It’s your dream come true!!!

Your face on Time magazine’s cover with the caption: “Person of the Year.” Or do you prefer to be on the cover of People’s: “Sexiest Man Alive”issue? Not at all and you don’t have to spend $20 at the local amusement park to fake your 15 minutes of fame.

U.R. Celeb will allow you to put any supported image of yourself, a loved one, or a not-so-loved-one on one of several popular magazine covers in less than 15 minutes.

You can edit the captions, their colors, and add other “mini” images with their own captions (i.e., to indicate other stories inside the issue).

When you’re done designing your custom magazine cover, you can save it to your hard drive, print, or e-mail it to friends and family.

Website to download - http://urceleb.oniton.com/