Archive for July, 2010

Microsoft has announced the availability of the new Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 Beta, the next big version of the well acclaimed Windows security software. The beta was announced over at the Windows Team Blog with a link to Microsoft Connect to download the 32-bit or 64-bit edition of the application.

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For the time being, the Beta Build, version 2.0.0375.0, is only offered to testers in the United States, Israel (English), and Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese). It is important to underline that Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 is in Beta stage at this point in time, and as such designed for testing exclusively, and not for deployment in production environments.

Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 Beta features

Windows Firewall integration – During setup, Microsoft Security Essentials will now ask if you would like to turn the Windows Firewall on or off. Enhanced protection for web-based threats – Microsoft Security Essentials now integrates with Internet Explorer to provide protection against web-based threats. New protection engine – The updated anti-malware engine offers enhanced detection and cleanup capabilities with better performance. Network inspection system – Protection against network-based exploits is now built in to Microsoft Security Essentials,” revealed Brandon LeBlanc, Windows Communications Manager on the...
alien-swarm-free Alien Swarm, a brand new shooter game has hit Steam at an unbeatable price - Free! Yes you can download Alien Swarm full version game for free starting today! Alien Swarm is an Unreal mod that has seen some Source Engine enhancements, and was developed by members of Valve who were brought up from the community. Just log into Steam, search Alien Swarm and start downloading. According to the games trailer, Alien Swarm contains 4 player co-op, swarms of aliens and a shipload of weapons. The game is only available for PC at the moment, but it contains free online co-op, Steamworks (access your save data anywhere you have Steam) and over 60 achievements.

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AlienSwarm thrusts players into an epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics. With your friends, form a squad of four distinct IAF Marine classes. Plan your attack using an unlockable arsenal of weapons with countless loadout configurations against a wide variety of aliens. Blaze your way through an overrun, off-world colony, eradicating the alien infestation in environments ranging from the icy planet’s surface, to a subterranean lava-flooded mining facility.
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Guest post by Edson Phicil The MacBook Air and the iPad are two totally different devices. The MacBook Air is Apple’s view of what a net book should be like. It’s lightweight, fast, and runs full Mac OS X. It is very portable, but sacrifices a lot of features to obtain that portability. The iPad is Apple’s latest take on tablet computing. It is powered by Apple’s fabled A4 chip and has easy access to thousands of apps and of course the internet. The MacBook Air and the iPad are two different category of devices, yet they draw in the same consumers market.

Two Products, One Consumer Group

People who buy MacBook Air are essentially the same people who are mostly likely to buy an iPad and vice versa. Although they are different products, The MacBook Air and iPad both appeal to the same consumer group: people who aren’t really held back financially, desire portability and ease of use over raw computing power, or like to have the latest “hot” technology. The problem is because of their price, most consumers will not be able to afford getting both.

Two Products that Define Apple’s Future

The MacBook Air and...
Day by day the blogs are becoming one of the perfect ways to share knowledge online with others and the best part of blogs is that you doesn't need any knowledge to start a blog. The only thing you need to know “work smarter” in this field if you're taking it as a profession then you have to save a lot of time. To save this valuable time you need desktop blogging tools which can speed up your blogging big time!

1. Windows Live Writer

Windows Live Writer is one of the most popular and awesome desktop blogging applications that can really speed up your blogging and makes easier to compose compelling blog posts. The user interface is simple and friendly and comes with lots of features like multiple blog accounts, compatibility with multiple blog platforms, rich text formatting, draft saving, post categorization, picture and tag insertion, spelling checking, pinging search engines automatically and synchronizing draft changes on the editor with the blog.

2. Zoundry Raven

Zoundary Raven is a WYSIWYG-blog editor with XHTML editing that makes posting on your blogs much easier and faster. It is easy to use...
If you are royally bored or just hate to browse the normal way, and think that the default Google is way too dull then you must check out these Google alternatives!

1. Uneven Google

a skewed way to browse the web! uneven-google

2. Google Classic

hope you don't sleep off while Googling this way! google-classic

3. The Revolving Internet

a noisy way to Google and browse the internet. revolving-internet

4. Toogle

the most comprehensive image buggery on the web. toogle

5. Blackle

only one in the list created for a purpose

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6. Purpoogle

my eyes are still hurting purpoogle Know something better worse? Let us know in your comments! Please do share it on Twitter/Facebook/Digg/SU or any of your favorite social sharing...
Lavasoft's Ad-Aware has the reputation of being one of the first and hence one of the oldest security suites to find and remove malware and spyware. Their popular Ad-aware Free Internet security software used to come with anti-spyware solution alone, but now it has been revamped to include the much asked-for anti-virus capability as well, which definitely makes it much more interesting.

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Lavasoft Ad-Aware Internet Security 8.3 Free Edition offers radically improved performance and efficiency, along with comprehensive malware protection. This version loads faster during your boot cycle, and scans are faster.

Ad-Aware Free Internet Security 8.3 - Key features

  • Comprehensive malware protection
  • Fully powered anti-virus and anti-spyware.
  • Behavior based heuristic detection
  • Genotype detection technology
  • Rootkit removal system
  • Download Guard for IE.
  • Automatic updates.
Ad-aware Free internet Security 8.3 supports Windows 2000/XP/Vista and Windows 7. Download Ad-aware Free Internet Security...
iphone-4-india Irrespective of all the controversies surrounding iPhone 4 (antennagate), it is still being sold like hot cakes around the world. If you are in India and waiting to get your hands on this device, you might have to wait till October. According to some Airtel representatives, iPhone 4 launch in India is expected to happen in September - October 2010, somewhere around Diwali. Apple has clearly stated during iPhone 4 unveiling that most countries would get iPhone 4 by September 2010, so this news might actually be true. There’s no mention of price but it will obviously cost you much more than what it costs in US & UK. It is also not known if Apple / Airtel will offer free bumpers to iPhone 4 owners in India like they are do in the U.S. to fix the antenna related issues, as Steve Jobs mentioned in the press conference last friday that the free cases offer is valid only till September 30. Vodafone, the only other cellular operator that sells the iPhone in India, has not confirmed their own launch dates yet. One silver lining for Indian iPhone fans is that Apple might release a redesigned model...
Apple has just announced that the iPad will be made available in 9 more countries this Friday (23rd July 2010) which includes Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore. Customers in these countries will be able to buy the device through Apple’s retail stores and authorized resellers. apple-ipad Apple iPad has already some extra-ordinary numbers to show off with more than 3 million units being sold in 80 days till now. Introduction in 9 more countries should fuel the growth even more. Apple reported that there are more than 2 million iPad apps available in app store as of now. When iPad was announced earlier this year, Apple had told that they plan to ship iPads to places outside US during late May, but they had to defer that due to extremely high demand for the device. Apple says the iPad will roll out to additional countries later this year and will announce availability and local pricing for these additional countries at a later date. It will be very interesting to note what the pricing of iPad will be in places like Hong Kong and Singapore. We will let you know once we...
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