Tips before you download a software using torrent facility

Torrent facility is most widely used to download music albums, movies and softwares from internet. Torrent clients take care of getting chunks of data from its peer computers and put them together to realize the complete data. But there are some hidden vulnerabilities if you use to download data using torrent facility.

Major threat will come in to picture when you download softwares with cracks and keygens using torrent facility. Most of the time the pirated softwares with cracks and keygens will have trojens, adwares, malwares bundled along with. So you are compromising your own computer security for saving few bucks needed to buy original softwares. So never download any keygen or cracks using torrent facility. And never ever download any antivirus software using torrent, as the software itself might be infected with viruses.

Another threat is from sites which provide torrent info files, which are required by the torrent clients to download compete data. Some sites may tend to download some adware or trojans to your computer automatically. So its always better to browse with SiteAdvisor extension installed.

Also install antivirus software for protecting your computer against latest threats. See the best antivirus reviews and comparisons for choosing your antivirus software.

Did Yahoo miss the Social Networking bus?

Even when the waves of social networking ripples across the internet , the Internet Giant is slipping its steps to catch the Social Networking bus. Yahoo has started its spree of acquisitions to come out with a social networking site, but it seems like bursting in futility.

Yahoo once pushed 360.yahoo.com, then mash.yahoo.com, and spotm.yahoo.com as a foundation for their Social Networking ventures. But none of them could not excel and catch netizens attention properly. Now Yahoo is giving a try with its good old profiles.yahoo.com in a new bottle of Social Networking, now the profiles.yahoo.com supports having friends list as connections. Also they put it in Beta!.

Lets wait and watch, hopefully Yahoo could make it with profiles.yahoo.com

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Expression your emotions in GMail with new inbuilt smileys

A picture can speak more than words, similarly a smiley can express emotions more than words. GMail makes the mail composing much more colorful and easy to express emotions with new inbuilt smileys. GMail composing comes with all the default smileys and some new smileys from Google which relates to hugs, technology, weather, music and gadgets.

Now spice up your mail with emotions using new GMail smileys.

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Make free Mobile Calls and IM Chats with your friends using Fring

It would be very much helpful, if we can speak to our friends around the globe without paying much for the telephony. We must thank VOIP and Wi-Fi connectivity technologies for facilitating these services. In fact, I happen to see a similar mobile service that would help its users to make calls to friends using similar services for free of cost. Fring is the mobile internet service & community that facilitates the free mobile call services. The software helps you find out who all are available for making calls through your fring, from your phonebook itself before dialing. Apart from this, you can send and receive files with your friends.

The fring service also integrates well with Skype, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo! and AIM, so that you can have one client and one meta friends list for managing all IM conversations.

Download and try out Fring today on your mobile.

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Convert Your Photos to Pencil Sketch without Photoshop for Free

Pencil Sketches have a classic look, when compared to photographs. You can also use pencil sketches to impress your friends and colleagues by sharing them through social networking sites like Orkut, Facebook, MySpace etc. There are lot of tips and tutorials floating in the internet to convert a photo to its pencil sketch using Photoshop and similar photo editing softwares. But, those requires a some amount of image editing knowledge. It would be always easy, if that specific conversion service is available online, and can be accessed freely using the web browser.

I happened to come across a web site which provides a free photo to pencil sketch conversion service on the web, its SketchMyPhoto.com. Only thing you need to do is to upload your photo in jpeg format and furnish any of your friend's email id to refer. Done, your Pencil sketch will be ready.

I have a tip for those who use this service. Its always better to upload your photos by increasing the brightness and adjusting the contrast. As the process of conversion is an automated one, the black shades in your photos will be highlighted when converted to pencil sketch. Checkout the SketchMyPhoto service.

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Avail Free Perks Online by using Microsoft Live Search

Microsoft Live Search is currently holding 4th position in the world website traffic rankings as per the details collected by Alexa.com. In order to push and convert more users to use live search engine instead of other prominent search engines like, Yahoo and Google, Microsoft has launched a point based free online perks program. Once you register for free search perks program from Microsoft, each search query you make in live search is counted as one ticket. As soon as you register for this program you will be given 500 free bonus tickets. And you can redeem this tickets to get Five Music Downloads if you reach 525 tickets, a Cook Book if you reach 3400 tickets, Xbox Wireless Joystick if you accumulate 4500 tickets and many more. You can choose your prize once they end promotion in April 15, 2009.

Only one catch is there, you have have Internet Explorer 6 or higher to avail this offer and there is a maximum limit of 25 tickets per day. So this tactic is not just for increasing the traffic to live search but also to with stand the wars happening in the World of Web Browsers. Get search your free perks and prizes from Microsoft.

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Get unlimited and free credit for Skype PC to Landline calls

Today I was surprised to see a mail from Skype, which gave me free one month PC to landline calls to more than 30 countries. They had sent me voucher code to redeem this offer. I could not believe it initially, but it was true. I redeemed the voucher code for free PC to landline calls using Skype, and after logging into my account, I found that I have also got free Skype credit of 1 Euro.

To say about the clarity and quality of the voice while having PC to landline calls using Skype, its simply superb. You will feel as if, you are speaking to the other person just by sitting next him. Marvelous voice quality even at free of cost. You can make free calls to Australia, China, USA, UK and most of other European countries, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Canada etc.

Check your email id with which you registered Skype for this offer mail, if you still doesn't have a Skype account its time register for a new one.

Visit Skype Unlimited World Subscription Page.

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Download Templates for Thanksgiving Party Invitation, Place Cards, Party Planner and Menu

Now its pretty simple to make Party Invitations, Place Cards, Party Planner, Party Guest lists, and Party Menu for Thanksgiving and other celebrations with Microsoft Word.

 
Microsoft itself is providing plenty of templates for Microsoft Word 2007 and other previous versions of Word free of cost. Only criteria for some of the word templates is, you have to go through the Windows Genuine Validation. Its pretty easy to conduct and celebrate parties. Go ahead and Download Microsoft Word Templates for Party Invitation, Place Cards, Party Planner, Party Guest lists and Menu.
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Get Free MSDN Magazine and Dr. Dobb's Journal Digital editions

Microsoft is giving away free annual subscription of MSDN Magazine worth US$60 and Dr. Dobb's Journal worth US$ 30 digital editions. This is a nice opportunity for software professionals and technology enthusiasts who are interested to own a copy of MSDN Magazine and Dr. Dobb's Journals without paying any amount, and to stay in touch with latest technologies.

Only requirement is , you need to have a windows live id to register and you should make it to the free slots available to grab the opportunity. Don't wait for a second thought, register for a free digital editions of MSDN Magazine and Dr. Dobb's Journal.

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Get a closer look at stock performance with Hot Stocks social application from Yahoo

World economy is threading through a very tough time. Be it in United States, Japan, United Kingdom, India the stock markets facing a big turmoil. In this hour of economical instability, its a very important to have a closer look at the stocks are of interest to different people, so that you can withstand and overcome the current bearish wave in the stocks.

By foreseeing the importance of providing the information about share performance rallies, Yahoo's Media Innovation Group has came up with a social application to watch financial stocks and create a portfolio of stocks you want to follow. This application can also help you discover hot stocks people are interested in right now and see how your favorite stock picks perform against your friends.

This applications are currently available for Facebook and MySpace, so that you will have a closer view of your stock performance even if you are using your social networking sites.

Try Hot stocks application on Facebook and MySpace.

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Social Networking site features free video and text chat in the web browser

Now a days Social Networking is the buzz word in the internet, most of the big multinational conglomerates and venture capitalists made the business diversion to internet with social networking sites as their stepping stone. You would have received a lot of invitations from different social networking sites, by this time. Each of social networking sites claim to provide varied experiences and features to uphold their dominance in the internet. The prominent sites like, Orkut, Facebook, MySpace, hi5, bebo, and friendster have already picked up their momentum and millions of users.

So, If one more social networking site need to make its presence felt in the internet, they need to have very special features to make it unique among their peer social networking sites. I happened to notice such a unique social networking site which offers video chat and text chat, that even within the web browser. It is none other than stickam.com. It also provides group video chat and group text chatting. Even it has a mobile version too. You might be well familiar with text chats within the social networking sites, the famous is the one within the new facebook page.

Now make new friends after having a video chat in the web browser using stickam.com social networking site. Catch me at stickam.

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Microsoft Speed Launch from Office Labs: An alternative to Launchy

You might be well aware of Launchy, desktop utility available to the windows PC to launch programs without using the windows start menu and with few keystrokes.

Now Microsoft Corporation also made an initiative to provide a Launchy like desktop utility for Windows PCs. The utility named Microsoft Speed Launch can help the windows users to invoke selected programs as per the users choice. Once you install Microsoft Speed Launch a DART like icon will appear in the Desktop. If you wish to add a shortcut to the Microsoft Speed Launch utility, so that you can invoke the an application with few keystrokes, you need to drag the required shortcut icons to the DART icon of the Microsoft Speed Launch. The keyboard shortcut for launching the command window for Microsoft Speed Launch is "Windows Key + C".

Experience the Microsoft Speed Launch to keep away from the windows start menu and to improve the productivity. The only requirement for Microsoft Speed Launch is Windows Vista or Windows XP SP2 with .Net Framework 3.0.

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Zero Assumption Recovery of lost images, formatted disk data, RAID and MBR Damage

Some time it may happen to delete all your photos in digital camera or disk drive accidentally. It may also happen when you try to cut some images from one place to another, but the copy you made after cutting become unusable.

Another case is, when you happen to install Linux for the first time and if you would have chosen an option to let the Linux disk druid to partition your disk automatically. Then, what ever the other operating system and partitions you have would be floating in the air!!!.

In these situations recovery softwares can do a great job, when you are lost without any hope. I happen to come across Zero Assumption Recovery (ZAR) software, its an exciting software tool that can take you to a land of hopes when you are lost in a hopeless state. In fact the image recovery part of ZAR is absolutely free and remaining recovery modules comes with limited features for trial users.

So, don't worry if your memory card is damaged or corrupted by any camera or your mobile phone. Get your damaged card connected your PC and run ZAR to recover all your lost images and other files.

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Firefox add-on to surf the web without leaving a trace in your local computer

Firefox is still leading as the most customizable web browser in the world, being supported by very active community. If you happen to use some public PC, most of the time, you may not be interested to leave  the traces of your browsing details like site history, cookies, form values, disk cache, recently downloaded files, recently closed tabs etc. In order to achieve this, you need to install an Firefox add-on called Stealther.

Once you install this, you can enable the Stealther mode by selecting it from the Tools > Stealther menu and you can customize the Stealther mode by moving to Tools > Addons > Stealther > Options. Enjoy browsing without leaving any trace on your computer.

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Download Windows Media Player 11 without validation for you Windows XP

If you does not have an internet connection at home, and if the internet cafe is providing Linux based systems for surfing, it would become a necessity to download Windows Media Player 11 without Window Genuine Validation.

It is very simple to achieve, only approach is that, you have to look for some other file repositories with Windows Media Player setup. When my friend faced similar problem, I had suggested FileHippo.com. You can also download Windows Media Player 11 without genuine validation from FileHippo.

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How to disable LimeWire running on system startup

One day my friend has complained me about the memory and bandwidth consumed by his Limewire torrent client. He told me that, his Limewire client startsup as soon as he boot his notebook. In fact, my friend had ignored a default option being thrown while installation of Limewire client, to enable Limewire to Run on system startup. If you also faced similar problem follow the steps below to disable Limewire torrent client running on system boot.

Go to Tools menu of Limewire torrent client and select Options. In the Options dialog select the Advanced tree option on left side. Among the tree items of Advanced select System Boot for Limewire basic (or System Startup for Limewire Pro). On the right side you can find the option to select or deselect the check box to run Limewire on System startup.

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Download New Opera with feed preview and custom search engine support

In the hour of close fight in the arena of web browser, Opera is making their presence felt with their new release of Opera web browser 9.6. The all new Opera 9.6 comes with lot of security patches compared to its previous releases. The remarkable features that comes with new Opera web browser 9.6 are the ability to preview the RSS feeds before its being added, facility to make searches using custom search engines from the web browser.

The Opera team also gave much more emphasis to the performance of the browser by judiciously making use of intelligent caching and threads. Also, the look and feel with new themes add colors to its features.

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Download WordWeb offline dictionary for your iPhone and iPod Touch

Dictionary is a must to have software for all mobile phones, and for your iPhone too. Wordweb, which  is the most preferred feature rich free offline dictionary available to the personal computers, has an iPhone counterpart. 

Now the iPhone and iPod Touch can have an up up-to-date international English dictionary, based on WordWeb. The dictionary claims to provide

• Fast, simple navigation
• Synonyms and many usage examples
• Over 222,000 word senses, 370 000+ words including derived forms
• Includes many proper nouns, compounds and phrases
• Bookmark and recent words list
• Full coverage of American, British, Canadian, Australasian and Asian English

Its available for download from iPhone App Store. And this could be one of the must have softwares for your apple iPhone and iPod Touch.

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Dell Partners with Box.net for Mini PC launch

Dell one of the leading manufacturers of PCs and Notebooks partnered with online storage space provider box.net, so as to provide Dell Inspiron Mini users an integrated web based file storage, access and sharing solution. This partnership  would underscore the need for virtualized and web focused  storage solution to satisfy future demands in personal computing.

In the coming years we can witness similar partnerships between computer manufacturers and online storage service providers, to bridge the gap between web and desktop storage.

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