Best posts on Technically Personal! from Jan 2009

LOST, the popular TV series from ABC is into its 5th Season now and has created a huge rage amongst people all over the world. Unfortunately, for those outside USA, it is not possible to catch up with the latest episodes, but not to worry! Technology a.k.a Internet comes for your rescue! Below are some sites which stream/play the LOST episodes online.

If you don’t have cable at home or if you just want to watch TV and movies while your using your PC, then you should check out the list below which lists the best free online TV services I’ve discovered. Please DIGG/ STUMBLE/ Bookmark the post if you like it.1. Streamick – More then 300 real TV channels to choose from including NBC, ABC, ESPN, BBC1 and many more, organized in categories and ranked by the site users.

Stock photos are a fundamental part of any web and graphic design. There are loads of stock photos services that offer high quality photos, however, the price is not always reasonable. The solution in this case is finding free stock photos something that isn’t always easy. In order to make this process easier I have compiled a list over the years with sites that offer free stock photos.

Last week when I asked the question “Is Downadup, one of the deadliest worms ever?” some people in one of the forums I was discussing, made fun of my question and blamed me for giving hype to the news. Well now, ComputerWorld has reported that 1 in every 16 PCs across the world is being affected from this Conflicker / W32.Downadup worm.Once affected, it prevents the user from visiting any anti-virus or anti-malware websites, which makes it very difficult to fix the infection.

Here is yet another chance to get a free genuine license for Avira Antivir Premium! And this time, it is valid for 6 months!! Just to let you know, following are the features of Avira Antivir PremiumFeatures of Avira Antivr Premium Edition1. AntiVir protection against viruses, worms and Trojans2. AntiDialer protection against expensive dialers3. AntiRootkit protection against hidden rootkits4. Faster Scanning up to 20% faster5.

Related New Post: How to Fix Downadup? How to escape from it? How it spreads?Finland based firm, F-Secure Corp has estimated that 3.5 million PCs have been compromised by the “Downadup” worm, an increase of more than 1.1 million since Tuesday. This worm, which exploits a months-old Windows bug has infected more than a million PCs in the past 24 hours alone.The worm, which several security companies have described as surging dramatically during the past few days, exploits a bug in the Windows Server service used by all supported versions of Microsoft Corp.

Microsoft has announced that it offer 2.5 million downloadable copies of Windows 7 beta for free! But as always there are couple of catches tagged with the “FREE” keyword Catch 1The beta will expire on August 1st 2009. Wow! So generous of you Mr. Blatter. Take a bow!Catch 2The Beta version being released is the upgrade version, so it can only be installed on top of Vista.

Welcome to the first ever Giveaway on Technically Personal! And it could not have come at a better time! Signed off 2008 with some small but cool achievements (see here) and I thought giving away some exciting free stuff through a contest is the best way to say THANK YOU!Here I present the New Year contest (Yeah, it is still new year!

There is a lot of hoopla going on in the blogosphere about Windows 7. Discussion at my friend’s (Stratos) blog made me think about this. Is downloading & installing Windows7 worth all the pain?Microsoft made an announcement that they will be giving out 2.5 million copies of Windows 7 beta for free on January 9th 2009. As predicted by many, Microsoft servers failed to scale up to the demand and went down.

As mentioned earlier, Microsoft has announced the launch of Windows 7 (beta) and you can grab a free copy as well. But, for that you are required to be using Vista and you must have enough RAM to spare. Just in case you like to test-drive and experience the Windows 7 feeling, here are some Windows 7 themes for Vista and XP.Windows 7 theme – 1How to install this theme1.