How many times have you deleted important files permanently or emptied recycle bin, and then had a sinking feeling? I bet we all have done that at one time or other. And I’ve done that today at work.
But before hitting the panic button, I Googled few minutes and recovered the deleted files. There are many number of free applications that recover the deleted files. But here are the four notable applications that do the job very easily
CA Anti-virus, a popular computer protection software widely used by by enterprises users, is now giving away 1 year free subscription.
Home and Home office user can get an year free subscription by filling a small registration from.
Upon completing the registration from, CA will forward the links to download and activate the anti-virus software. To grab your free subscription here.
You can read about other free software that protect computers in the article: The Three Must-Have Antivirus/Spyware Software Free Downloads
Today when I opened the web browser, strange alerts poped up asking me to install some software to disinfect my computer. Here is the exact text of the alert message and the screen shots of annoying popus
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Windows Internet Explorer
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NOTICE: Your system is not optimized and your computer performance is not at the highest level.
Full system optimization will greatly increase your computer’s performance and prevent data loss.Would you like to install AntiSpywareMaster to optimize your computer’s performance now for free? (Recommended)
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OK Cancel
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The infection symptoms were similar to the scamware that infected my personal computer few months ago. To rescue the Laptop and remove the malicious spyware I used Norton PC Tools Spyware Doctor and it removed the spyware immediately. Norton PC Tools Spyware Doctor is a free software distributed as part of the famous freeware Google Pack. Google Pack provides
The Spyware doctor is a very reliable application that can be used whenever we see symptoms of scamwares & spywares.
Skype, the popular VOIP software used for making cheap PC-to-Phone calls has introduced a new package that offers unlimited International calls for just 12.95/Month.
The catch is -- unlimited calls are allowed to only landlines and the covered destination countries are restricted to only 34 around the world.
The exceptions "to only lindlines" is mobile networks of Canada, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and USA allowed in the unlimited calls package.
Here is the complete list of 34 supported countries
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada (incl. cell phones), China (incl. cell phones), Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Guam, Hong Kong (incl. cell phones), Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Republic of Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Singapore (incl. cell phones), Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, USA (incl. cell phones)
Skype Subscriptions [via AP & Lifehacker]
Problem
You want to send digital photos captured during a recent get together to one of your relatives. The relative either do not have a computer or don't know how to use a computer. But he has a DVD/VCD player which he want to use to view the pictures.
Solution
Use the free software VCD Menu Lite or Slide Show Movie Maker to convert Photos to movie files and copy them to CDs/DVDs. VCD Menu Lite works on Windows XP as well as Windows Vista but Slide Show Movie Maker works only on Windows XP operation.
Follow these links to download VCD Menu Lite and Slide Show Movie Maker
Fring, the free chat and Voip software for mobile phones, has released a new version of application that works on Jailbroken iPhones.
Fring is the favourite application for mobile phone users to chat with Google Talk, Skype, MSN Messenger, Yahoo and AIM buddies.
Visit Fring's iPhone page to download and install the application on your iPhone and you can more about at Fring blog post.
Here is a video demonstrating Fring working on a Jailbroken iPhone
Youtube.com is undoubtedly the best online video web site and one of the most visited web site on the Internet. According to data at Alexa.com which ranks web sites based to their visitor traffic, Youtube.com has now overtaken Google.com as the world's second most visited web site[source yahoo].
To make best use of the best Internet video sharing site, we are presenting you the following tools, websites, plugins and other useful resources.
RealPlayer is the first mainstream media player that lets users download and record videos from Youtube
Orbit Downloader - an indispensable free tool that lets us to download streaming web videos in a click.When you are watching a video on say Youtube,Orbit adds small button when you hover the mouse over the player - click that button to download the video or song to your hard drive.
Universal Uploader - a Firefox browser plug in that allows you to upload and download images, videos and documents from Flickr, Picasa Albums, Youtube, Box.net and Facebook with a single user interface
Youtube RSS Feeds - an excellent collection of RSS feeds to watch videos in your favourite feed readers like Google Reader and FeedDemon
KissYouTube, KeepVid and Vixy - Websites which allow you to download Youtube videos without installing any software
Delutube - Allows you to watch deleted Youtube videos. How many times you encountered the message "This video is no longer available"? Delutube is all you to need to watch deleted Youtube videos
iDesktop.tv - A most interactive user interface to view Youtube videos. It also allows users to download and save videos in most popular formats like Window Media, Mobile(3GP), iPOD and QuickTime
YouTube User scripts - A collection of 59 + user scripts to perform several tasks with YouTube
TubeStop - A Firefox plugin to block Ads and stop auto playing of Youtube videos
VideoFocus - A Greasemonky script that shows YouTube videos without any distractions like ads, comments and related videos
Scenemaker.net - This is an excellent service which allows you to share just the scenes which you like from an online video. For example, you saw a lengthy video of Bill Gates Keynote and you only want to share a portion of it on your blog. Then Scenemaker is the right tool for you use by defining your favourite scene starting and ending locations in the lengthy video
Nokia N Series PC Suite has came out of beta after 7 months of rigorous testing. The software is available to download from Nokia N Series support site.
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Sendto Flickr is a free Windows explorer extension that allows you to upload images to Flickr through the right-click “send-to” menu.
Sendto Flickr can used with any image or photo stored on your computer, over a network or even on removable drives.Also supports:
The simplicity and elegant user interfaces of Google made us to love Google Talk instant messenger. But the honesty of Google Talk annoy us at time when we can not respond to all the friends who want to chat with us.
In Google Talk there is no option set our status to appear offline or Idle. Busy is the only possible status which we can set and the other possible status is Idle which I set by Google Talk( If you lock your computer or leave it idle for sometime Google Talk automatically turns the status to Idle.)
However there is a simple work around to set you status to Idle by installing a small software called gAlwaysIdle. Here is what gAlwaysIdle does for you
gAlwaysIdle adds two new options to Google Talk, allowing you to change your status to be 'always idle' or 'never idle'. When your status is set to 'always idle', you'll appear idle to your Google Talk buddies, even if you're sitting at your computer typing e-mails and sending IMs
gAlwaysIdle is compatible with Windows Vista and Windows XP operating systems and you can download it from www.galwaysidle.com
Thank you very much Sudhakar for the excellent finding.
My Lockbox is a easy and free way to quickly hide and password protect any folder from being shown in the Windows files system, and will do so under Windows safe mode as well.
The protected folder is hidden from any user and application of your system, including Administrator and System itself. It is impossible to access the lockbox not only from the local computer, but also from the net.
My Lockbox gives us a most promising protection even under safe mode. Also with the clean and skinned user interface we can hide and unhide protected folder at a push of a button.
The best thing about the tool is if you have any problem, you will get excellent customer service from the company that developed this software.They will even help you if the password does not work anymore.
The Free PDF To Word Converter application does the amazing job of converting Adobe Acrobat Reader(PDF) files to Microsoft Word documents very easily and efficiently.
This small program application(approximately 1 MB installable) comes very handy for documenters who often requires to convert PDF files to MS Word.
Working with the application is very simple - Launch the application, load a PDF, choose how you want the output word file to be by selecting options like images, shapes and text layout features, and click on the convert button. That's all in few seconds you will get a decently formatted MS Word document as an output.
Free PDF to Word Converter is a free download and works in all versions of Microsoft Windows.
>>Free PDF to Word Converter Website >>Direct Download Link
Amit, The Guru of Indian Bloggers has posted a nice article on powerful and very useful free windows software.
The list of software includes for all the purposes like basic photo editing to advanced video editing and securing your PC effectively from virus threats. Here is the list...
The Best Free Software for Windows[Digital Inspiration]
Ever concerned you'll lose the thumb drive where you backed up your most sensitive data? Worry no more.
Here's the simple way to encrypt sensitive files or entire external disk drives to protect them from prying eyes.
TrueCrypt is a free application that works on Windows and Linux. Mac OS X scheduled for January 2008 is also going to increase ability to use TrueCrypt encrypted files across Windows, Mac, and Linux systems.
Global Spellchecker a free tool that can check the spelling and/or display the meaning 
of any text that you can select within any application.It uses the MS Word dictionary and thesaurus as its reference. If you have MS Word installed then you already have a world-class language reference installed on your machine.
Global Spellchecker allows you to access that resource globally from any application for both spell checking and meaning/thesaurus reference.
How it works:
Select any text, copy it (using right-mouseclick or CTRL-C), then
launch Global Spellchecker from the ’Quicklaunch’ menu (or a keyboard shortcut).
The 500kb free tool called “eBook to Images”, converts your Adobe PDF documents, Word Documents or text files to images that very readable on the small screens.
This powerful tool allows you to specify the screen size of your portable device and generates images of the same dimensions.
The tool also lets you to change the text orientation, fonts and the colors to suit the devices.
Now go find some free ebooks and get reading.
Download “eBook to Images” at MerlinSoftware.com.
Camtasia Studio, the popular screencasting application from TechSmith is now available as Free download. TechSmith is giving away fully licensed and working version of Camtasia Studio version 3 to all users.
You can download the software from TechSmith Download Centre and register at TechSmith to request for activation key.
TechSmith sends an email with activation key as soon as you register. Install Camtasia Studio with the downloaded installable and enter the registration key to activate it.
Are you wondering why this software is being made available FREE of cost to all users? The answer is: this is a new advertising model implemented by TechSmith to attract more users.
Related : Download Free SnagIT v7.2.5 Software From TechSmith - Full Working Version
The version of Camtasia Studio FREE download is 3.0 but the latest version is 5.0. By downloading version 3.0 and using it for sometime, users will automatically tend to upgrade to 5.0 because of the great features available in the newer version.
Though you may miss few new features of new software, Camtasia Studio 3 will solve most of your screencasting problems. This software is good enough for bloggers to author decent screencast.
If you would like to enjoy all the new features, the free copy can be upgraded to Camtasia Studio 5 edition at half the standard cost. Isn't a good idea to download version 3 and upgrade it 5 at half the price instead of directly buying Camtasia Studio 5?
Hurry up! DivX software is FREE to download for a limited holiday period from the official DivX website. Grab the free software before DivX closes the offer.
You can download the software from DivX download centre link and provide your mail id while installation to receive activation key. You will receive an email containing serial number required for activating DivX Pro with in few minutes.
The free DivX 6 bundle contains software required to play and create high quality DivX videos - DivX Player, DivX Codec and DivX Converter.
For Newbies: What is DivX?
DivX is a digital media format like MP3 for video. DivX technology compresses video to a fraction of its original size for efficient storage on your hard drive and easy sharing online. Via divx.com
Yesterday Google released 5th major version of FREE Google Toolbar product for Internet Explorer. Some of the new features in the latest tool bar:
Auto suggestion page when Page Not Found Error occurs
YouTube Gadget in new Google Toolbar to view Favourite Videos
Watch this video by Google product managers Avni and Aseem to learn more about the new features.
You can download new tool bar from toolbar.google.com/T5/ and read more information about the new features here.
Any well-equipped system needs a basic software suite that can keep your machine in working order and help it take care of all important tasks.
If you need to clean and optimize your machine, improve 
your privacy and security, or do other similar tasks, you'll want this program. It's free, it's simple to use, and it'll make your computer run much better.
Its cleanup and repair tools include a Registry cleaner, a disk cleaner, and a shortcut fixer that corrects shortcut errors on your Desktop or Start menu.....the list goes on.
Download Glary Utilities
It clears your browser cache, temporary files folder, browser history, Windows log files, hot-fix uninstallers, and temporary files from third-party applications.
Download CCleaner
As good as CCleaner is, there's something it doesn't do: Track down "craplets" and kill them. Craplets are useless programs and trial versions that come installed on many new PCs, or that piggyback onto other downloads and install themselves on your computer. The result: a clogged hard disk, and a slower system.
It looks for dozens of craplets, finds them, and eliminates them.
Download PC De-Crapifier
