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try downloading it from CNET Download or Filehippo. those sites are mostly safe.
Internet download manager is the fastest and easiest by far.
FOrmat Factory I s d Best Period..........
DOES THE LATEST VERSION OF PC TOOLS FIREWALL WORK YET WITH WIRELESS? I BELIEVE THIS WAS AN ISSUE WITH THE PREVIOUS RELEASES...
Good points Marc. User interface is a concern to me for a good program.
Thanks for the update!
Futurix has already been suggested here before and I reviewed it in a comment this year (06/22/2009):
I've reviewed FuturixImager and these are my opinions:
I said I had tried older versions but I still see the same drawbacks. There are several of these.
First, I believe browsing capabilities are fundamental in a viewer and this program offers no folder tree view, so you can't really browse your directories in a convenient way, as you always have to access them through the 'open' tab or the 'file' menu. This reason alone makes it unsuitable for my personal workflow, though I guess others can live without it. But that's not all.
Similarly, there's no thumbnail window, which leads us to the previous point. I don't see much functionality with this kind of approach. Just imagine browsing through folders with hundreds of pics when you're looking for one whose name you don't remember, only by clicking on the 'previous - next' arrows. How long will it take to identify it in Futurix?
If the program were fast, this problem could be alleviated, but then there's the speed issue too. I find it to be significantly slower than most of the programs I review in my article. Average images(2-5mpx) load with almost no delay, but 10-megapixel JPGs report a different story already. Either larger images or LZW-compressed TIFs or RAW files can make you wait beyond your patience. And there's no support for animated GIFs.
Of course, having no possibility to select several files at a time means there are no batch processing options, which is something I'm beginning to appreciate as a fundamental feature in a viewer.
These personal inconveniences won't be a concern for many users, and Futurix does have some good points as well. For example, although there's no kind of control over the process, the rendering of RAW files (at least Canon's CR2) is top quality, but at the expense of time, as I said above. That lack of options will need further postprocessing, which can be done inside the program because the filters and adjustments are good enough. However, there's multilevel undo but no redo at all.
Having said this, I'm sure you can understand it if Futurix isn't listed among the other products in my article. But thanks for the tip anyway.
Marc
OMG, it's the best free video converter i have ever used. it's a video converter, and also a audio converter. So cool! Very simple to use!
Thanks for sharing!
Threatfire 4.7.0 has been released.
Anupam
Threatfire 4.7.0 has been released.
Anupam
Hopefully this will coincide with an improved update service!
New version of Avira 9.0.0.415 has been released.
Anupam
i dont know the name or the singer. i know its a girl and it goes like:
bum bum baram baram and its kind of fast. i need to know
This is a post about Prevx 3.0 I remember a wise person on this site saying stay away from products that make you pay to test them. I can't recall who said it as well as when it was said or I would quote them with this post. I believe in trials and not cut down versions of trials. Thats just me I like to think smart about most things.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned XviD4PSP. It's a very good video transcoding/conversion tool with several video and audio presets and many configurable options, and has a clean and fairly intuitive interface. Despite the name it can encode to a variety of codecs and containers, including MKV for HD video files.
One of my problems with progeCad is that when it comes time to plot I can't have screened lines.
Only tried it briefly thus far but nevertheless impressed. Nice easy to use interface plenty of configuration options and no adds (I'm looking a you Format Factory!)or attempts to up-sell. Well worth checking out.
not to toot another site but if you go to www.giveawayoftheday.com the easeus partition master pro is free for 10 more hours. its now 4:38pm est. good luck. oh and it works when you open it
ClamWin is the Windows version of ClamAV on Linux. You know ClamAV, or you hear.
ClamWin is not realtime but it is very good for weekly scans.
Please have a look at this discussion on our forum :
http://www.techsupportalert.com/freeware-forum/security/2250-iobit-secur...
Anupam
It would be nice of you had just one Mac option. Know any good ones off the top of your head?
What do you mean exactly? I am using IObit Smart Defrag currently. Any new information I should know about it?
Well...
I don't saw any word about FuturixImager (http://fximage.com/imager/)
I think that you can try to write if this program is a good alternative or not...
I use XnView, but I find on the net FuturixImager and I am curious to read about your opinions...
Greetz!
You can still get it. Step by step instructions with pictures could be found here,
http://dottech.org/freebies/11599
srikam
If you want to screen capture automatically while playing games in full-screen:
http://autoscreen.sourceforge.net/
This is good advice. I find that most people overestimate their need for additional anti-spyware protection other than that now included in many of the standard anti-virus solutions. In any case, spyware can't work unless it can get out of your PC again after it's got in, so having a correctly configured firewall and responding to the alerts properly is already most of the battle won.
If that's the case, then I would undo the change (right click on the entry, choose Reset and restart Firefox)and run a virus scan. Check the options you have set for pop-up's in Firefox's menu bar: Tools/Options/Content and make sure the box next to "Block pop-up windows" is checked.
Changing the setting as outlined in the article would'nt cause pop ups to appear. The only thing that this change does is make a Firefox window open in the background when you click on a link from inside other programs like email or newsreaders.
If you made any other changes to your system such as downloading and installing programs, using torrents, or visiting sites that have drive by malware then that could be the source of your problems.
Thanks so much for your kind patience, and understanding.
Anupam
I posted this again for the simple reason that it brought no reply...Most if not all posts on this site are usually replied to quickly...Now that someone has posted a response I will wait on the actual review. Simple, isn't it?
lookin for a song goes like this"hold me in your arms come on and show me baby
System restore is best turned off and replaced with an actual drive image.
Did you manage to find anything? thanks.
IMO, turn off spybot tt and win defender completely. just use one realtime av. consider avast or avira instead of avg, especially if you're concerned about resource use, as both have anti spyware capabiities.
Nice find Rhiannon,
I think it would have been a great help when I was putting my first PC build together and I am certain it will aid anyone new to building their own computer.
Many thanks,
Torresmagnifico
Polylines can be a pain in the arse even with ACAD. Sometimes it will not join lines and arcs to complete the polyline.
tvcatchup.com (if you live in the UK) works on the iphone too!
Ok, now that I have done this, I get YAHOO POP-UPS where I did not have them before!
I know Spybot is not as good as SAS and Malwarebytes when it comes to scanning, but what about free real time protection, which you have to pay for from those other two? If I'm running AVG 9 free with its Resident Shield turned on, do I need to run Windows Defender' real time protection and Spybot's TeaTimer? Do they work? I'm tired of TeaTimer taking up system resources, it seems very heavy; is there something better? Thanks.
Indeed, the menu provided for refining the search results is very good indeed.
Worked well on Firefox and IE8, didn' try any others.
Don't care about menory usage as long as it does the job. Agree that there is no perceivable impact on PC performance.
Time to index depends on what you actually index. Up to now I have only indexed documents of various types, databases ( Lotus notes), texts and e-mails.
Have not reached any limitations. On one setup we had 472,000 documents, most very large ( PDF books mainly). Worked perfectly. I don't know how the professional version performs. I only have the freeware. I have seen the professional version in operation, but had no chance to try it myself.
Have also not tried the network searches personally, but again somebody I know has tried it, he has about forty machines on his network, he tried the freeware on it, and he says it works fine, but I don't know anything specific about it. Presumably a commercial operation would buy the professional version anyway? Perhaps using the freeware as a "trial" beforehand. Apparently one may also get a trial fo the professional version if one wishes, one has to contact the company to do this.
I'm very happy with the software. Of course there are some alterations I would like to see, to suit my preferences, but one can say that about any software.
I have used Exalead in the past. I tried it again this week.
Some comments:
1. It is easy to search and narrow done your search with one mouse click.
2. Exalead shows the search results in a browser. In Chrome and Firefox, this works fine. In IE8 it was a mash (at least on my computer).
3. The memory usage is roughly 200-300 MB, sometimes even higher, which I consider as high. But, there is almost no impact on PC performance.
4. The initial index is created in a reasonable time.
5. My total index has almost 90.000 documents. I have heard that Exalead free edition could only index up to maximum 100,000 documents. I do not know if that is true.
Please try the alternative link now added in the article.
We've recently moved to Acronis at work for server and workstation
backups. The product looks amazing on paper but lots of little
things don't work, or start out working and then fail with cryptic
error messages.
My point in posting is to corroborate some of the above posters'
comments about Acronis tech support -- it is awful. They took over
a month to respond to two of our issues, and two weeks for another,
with no resolutions yet after over five weeks so far. Their first-level
support is not very knowledgeable and is a waste of time.
Telephone wait times are long. No one responds to their on-line
support chat.
If you value your time, stay away.
Geocities exists no longer anymore...
Hi
No, these terms can be somewhat misleading but there is no AV solution in Privatefirewall as most people would understand it. 'Zero-hour' protection refers to malware too new to be included in anyone's signature based detection scanner and so this component in Privatefirewall looks for 'behaviour consistent with the actions of malware' and then warns you with options what to do about it. The Mamutu component in a-squared Anti-Malware performs the same function for that program. So, when using Privatefirewall you also need to use something like Avira or Avast! with it.
Very true... FormatFactory is very good for both average and experienced users.
But, now there are other softwares available too, which are good and can be kept, and used as alternatives.
Edit : Whoops... sorry.. I meant it to be a reply to the post below :D.
Anupam
Although of course the main idea is to let people know that this excellent freeware is there.
Doubtless not everybody will like it for one reason or another, but I imagine the majority who use such software will be enthusiastic.
Can't go past Format Factory, IMO. It does just about everything and is as simple as drag and drop and click.
Interesting, I don't get this when installing. ( This may be due to my setup). Anyway, you will find the software is absolutely first class. Far far better than any of the other freeware, and by a very big margin. ( I have not tried much of the commercial software in this area extensively, but from what I have tried, I suspect it is better than most of them as well).
A few friends of mine have installed it after hearing about it from me, and they are really enthusiastic. One friend of mine bought the full version after trying it at home for a week. He tells me his employees can no longer do without it and are really happy with a search software for the first time.
Before trying this, most were agreed that Copernic was about the best of a bad lot. ( Although earlier versions were actually better than the present one as well!)Hardly any of them liked Google because it is too intrusive and bloated with other stuff. Other solutions like "search inform" and a couple of others had other problems.
I will be interested in reading your review.
Being a person who is interested in what others use i checked out the item you asked about. Now i'll be honest i haven't used it, but just to point out 1 important thing is, "IT ISN'T FREE"!
Now i know you said it was free, and yes it was, but only for that 24 hr period, than they ask you to download their " trial version".
nuff said me thinks
Why post this over and over again? Have some patience. The moderators and editor look at all comments. When the editor has time, he will review the firewall and update the review. Please have patience.
Anupam
Whoever wrote this well done. Very good advice and layout.
Hi!
Actually you can to boot Macrium Reflect from USB with Macrium Reeflect Free version (only for restore images, not for create new clones), With "Rescue.ISO" that you found on the Macrium Reflect Free version installed folder, an UnetBootIn (A GPL software for GNU/Linux or Windows capable to "hack" an ISO image into an USB Stick and boot from It if your Main_BD has the USB Option in the BOOT settings).
Same Hack is valid for Clonezilla (my Favourite), But Your info is wrong. Clonezilla clones ONLY the used space from a partition or Full disk. If you HDD is 20% full, it will BACKUP ONLY THIS 20%, NOT ALL THE DISC!!! If your HDD is 80GB and your info is 10GB, your image will be aprox 6,5GB, in less than 20 minutes (Backup + verification. I tested on my ASUS X50SL laptop). Ah, Clonezilla suports multicast, too (create/restore from FTP or over the Ethernet).
Many thanks for the other programs and the review!!! Best wishes from Andorra (and sorry for my English, but here in Andorra the people speak only Catalan, French or Spanish) ^_^"
Respect,
Benny Beat
good
This utility made my FF3 load really fast. Just run it periodically to clean up the SQLite database.
http://www.crystalidea.com/speedyfox
Speaking for myself and the other *techno-dolts I know , with this great instruction , I think we could.
*techno-dolt: Someone who , when looking at "more information about formatting options" at the bottom of this page , starts whimpering.
where is the love by black eyed peas.
Great to know this, specially when you see microsoft office 2007 new icons , options etc very hard to keep up with the changes.
Ok. Here is a portion of their new software license accessible upon installation:
LICENSE
1. You are granted a free, personal, non-transferable and non-exclusive license to use one copy of the Software on a single personal computer and to use the Documentation under the terms stated in this License. Title and ownership of the Software and Documentation remain to Exalead.
2. In order to qualify for the free use license described herein, you must have downloaded or received the Software in the form of an original Software distribution package as distributed by Exalead and/or Exalead-authorized Distributors, including all files contained in such package ("Original Distribution Package"). Current Original Distribution Packages for the Software are available from Exalead and Exalead-authorized distributors. Copies of the Software not received in the form of an Original Distribution Package are not licensed for use, copying or transmission by you or others.
TERM
This license is effective until terminated. Exalead shall terminate the license at its sole discretion. You may also terminate it at any time by destroying the Software and Documentation with all copies, modifications and merged portions in any form. Exalead shall terminate the license if you fail to comply with any term or condition set forth herein. You agree upon such termination to destroy the Software and Documentation together with all copies, modifications and merged portions in any form.
Their license agreement has indeed changed. It is apparently no longer "trialware" and appears to be fully "freeware". I have installed it and I will give it a try. I'll report back later my findings.
You bring up a good point. As I speak nothing more then American English, I overlooked features like language support. I will now pay more attention to the supported languages of the various readers I test. Come to think of it, I'm going to download a bunch of PDFs in different languages to test as well.
Thanks for the constructive feedback!
Great stuff, surfing on the net for few minutes then I found this website thru bing.com
I tried expert PDF Reader awhile back, but I wasn't impressed. I'm not saying it was a bad reader, just that there wasn't anything better/different about it that other PDF readers didn't provide.
I just have to say that Threatfire seems to have slowed down the pc's here alot. We thought we had a trojan, but running Sys-Internals Process Explorer showed that it was Threatfire dragging the system down. The older version was hardly noticeable, but the latest caused a serious drag & delay response on older systems.
After removing Threatfire, pc's seem to run much faster, more memory available. Too bad, it seemed to be an OK program.
We are now using a combo of MS Security Essentials, Outpost Firewall, and PC Tools Spyware DR (starter ed via Google pack). Run Malware Byts AM once a week too.
A2 Squared seems pretty good, but the update download is huge. Once a month we also run Spybot S&D too.
As for rootkits, try Panda Anti-rootkit or Sophos Antirootkit.
Yes, lets hope so!
Qtpfsgui:
I downloaded and installed in english,
but when I run the program everything is not in english, so I can't read the menus or anything.
I uninstalled, redownloaded and reinstalled in english,
but same problem.
I uninstalled that piece of crap.
End of story.
I believe many readers would like PrivateFirewall-the new release- to be tested and included in this section in the next few weeks when they include their changes...Is that possible? Thank You
I tried it. You get a pretty low-res version but I watched anyway.
The lesson is that if you have a pleasant memory, just leave it alone. The film is now hopelessly dated and more than a little cheezy. It hasn't held up like "Forbidden Planet" or even "Destination Moon". *sigh*
I guess there's a good reason why you can't find it on DVD.
Thank you for File Renamer Basic. It is great (just renamed some files, which i sorted by date) with changing the suffix. It is easy to use, not like the one on the first place.
whats the new song that goes wheres the love wheres the love right now i put the blame on you
Your comment about "regular people" is very astute. I think the majority of professional movie critics outsmart themselves. They may have particular reasons for liking a movie, but the overall movie-watching experience is what counts in my book. 2001 is painfully boring, regardless of the artistic awe that some ascribe to it. I give it a 3 on a scale of 1 to 100. (I give a root-canal a 5.)
i loaded and used for free..go to alternative download its free
Hi MC, I looked at the Privatefirewall link and in the Product Features list, it says, "Zero-hour anti-virus protection", so it has an anti virus and a user should take their anti virus off before installing Privatfirewall? I assume Privatefirewall is a Suite like Comodo with an AV included...
Yeah, the new version was released on 19th, and the download sites are showing the release now.
The official site do have the new version. I confirmed it, and then downloaded. Here is the download link on the official site. It clearly says 4.0 with the release date of 19th Nov in red.
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDownload.htm
Anupam
What do you mean, a mistake?
Thanks for letting me know, Anupam. Oddly enough I downloaded and installed version 3.9 on a PC just yesterday. So, I wouldn't have checked for a new one in a while! Anyway the new version doesn't appear on their official site yet???
http://www.majorgeeks.com/FastStone_Image_Viewer_d4691.html
I think they made a mistake though ...
its brooke hogan 'ur not so hot'
FastStone Image Viewer 4.0 has been released.
Anupam
Thanks. Well, "Gog" isn't on Netflix/Amazon ... too bad. Maybe if enough people request it some site somewhere will provide it!
Most sites that allow you to watch it online have safety problems, but this one looks possible (I can't try it with dialup):
http://motionempire.com/Watch_Gog_-1954-_Movie_Online_for_Free_8162.html...
They declare it as freeware on their page.
System Requirements
* Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
* Internet Explorer 6+ and FireFox 1.5+
* To index emails/contacts: Outlook Express 5.x/6.x, Outlook 2000/XP/2003/2007, Windows Mail, Microsoft Exchange, Mozilla Thunderbird, Lotus Notes (from version 5.09)
Download Information
* Version: 4.6.0.515
* Last release: 05.05.2009
* Size: 16,4 Mb
* Languages: English and French (soon German, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Polish, Russian and Japanese)
* License: Freeware
There is no licence agreement, it is simply freeware.
There are no nags, no problems, no nothing. Its is just FREEWARE.
It is simple enough to try it.
Very welcome :).
I checked Koyote Video Converter today. It does not do audio conversion... only videos. It can extract audio from the video file, and convert it to another format though. But it does not accept audio file as an input, and convert it to another audio format.
I tried MediaCope today too. It requires .NET framework SP1... and I think that will be a disadvantage for the product, as many users do not like to install .NET frameworks unnecessarily... including myself.
I however tested it on my cousin's PC, after installing .NET 2.0 SP2.
The program looks good, and the interface is different. But the video conversion part was very unsatisfactory... even useless in my opinion. The FPS were 30 and 24, which are not exact. 29.97 is for NTSC and 25 for PAL. Further, even the display resolution choices are not standard. Quite disappointing. I wouldn't want to convert my videos with MediaCope, unless they offer some standard attributes.
I haven't checked on the other features... so can't say about that. But, the main was the video conversion, and it was disappointing.
I checked out the audio converter though, and noticed that it allows conversion to AC3 too, a feature which I have not seen in another audio converters.
Anupam
Although '2001' got mixed reviews initially, on average '2001' gets extremely high critic averages (88.3 AVG for Metacritic/RT/MRQE, compared to 88.5 for Metropolis), so it would be second highest for critics of all the movies I sampled for SF (of all time, excluding "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" -- since it only gets a single critic source with its high RottenTomatoes score).
It's also high on SF and non-SF lists when critics are the judges, such as #6 on the highly regarded BFI Sight & Sound list (http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/critics-long.html / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Films_considered_the_greatest_ever). And it tops the OFCS list and is high on the AFI list.
But it also trickles onto populist lists, such as #5 on Peter Sykes' top 100, which is based on user ratings and user suggestions. And it's #11 on my poll of polls list, which includes user ratings as 50% of its final score. It's lowest rating comes from Netflix at 3.7 (*20=74/B), but it has high user ratings on IMDB (A) and RottenTomatoes (A). It gets a B from Yahoo.
In general the more regular people you average, the lower its standing (as on Netflix, and Blockbuster probably: in the B range), but the opposite is true with critics (it goes straight to the top to A+). And on smaller samples of user ratings it gets A to B ratings.
I personally think it's a masterpiece and has a great sense of the possibilities of our humanity. But I feel your pain, but more so for movies like "Gone with the Wind" (also a cherished classic by many) which puts me straight to sleep every time (so far). I had problems with "2001", "Blade Runner", and "Tron" initially, but over time I came to appreciate and enjoy them, and now I can re-watch films like them over and over and always find something else to like in them.
Don't know about the above comment but It's a good program...
Colin J...
DOES ANYONE HAVE AN OPINION ON OR EXPERIENCE wITH THE DEFRAGMENTER OFFERED TODAY OVER ON FREE GIVEAWAY OF THE DAY? IT IS BY PARAGON...ARE THERE REE ALTERNATIVES AS GOOD? THANKS
Great article, Rizar. Thank you for taking the time and effort to put it together.
Thanks also to those who provided comments, many as interesting as the original article.
Regarding the film "Gog," I am old enough to have seen that one in a theater (with my parents) and I still remember it a half century later! If you can find it, see it.
Please confirm this with the license agreement. My apologies, but the real truth will be in their license agreement. I can't seem to find this online, so it must be within the program itself.
If possible, post the first couple sections here of the license agreement.
I'd be interested in knowing what you are using now that works for you.
Adobe CS4 also includes a 64 bit version of Photoshop.
I second Nexus Font. It's got a clean and nice-looking interface with install/uninstall font options. Haven't tried the program out extensively, but I downloaded on the recommendation of the reviews in the forum.
Used the link from post below: http://xiles.net/programs/ to get it.
If you think 2001 Space Odyssey is the best, then I don't think much of your review. 2001 Space Odyssey may be in competition for the worst, most boring, movie of all time--science fiction or otherwise.
You have to pay for Prevx just to see if it cleans up? No thank you...Hitman Pro is probably as good and is also Cloud Based, but at least you get to Clean Up with it for 30 days! For me anyway, no trial, no go...
What about five past midnight? Great sci-fi film upstaged by crap spoof Groundhog day.
I can confirm that I've been using Firefox 3.5.2 on Vista Ultimate 64 without a single issue. It updated automatically yesterday to the new version, checked the extensions for compatibility, and again no issues.
It is completely free;
http://www.exalead.com/software/products/desktop-search/#section-4
the free edition is limited to 100 file types, but all the important types are covered. I use it primarily for PDF's and text. This is the best software for this I have tried, and I have tried just about all of them.
That was quick.
Good to hear.
You are welcome-always here if you have issues.
Enjoy
Steve
TheSearchMan unRARs before you can blink your eye.
Its a 35 KB program.
Light on resources.
Accurate.
Portable.
Simple.
Small.
Free.
Fast.
what more do want?
Apple pie??
Ok. I've tried it. Grid plugin is included in Compiz, grouped under Window Management. It uses hotkeys to reposition the current active window. Much easier to set up, but it doesn't work with a mouse.
Another good one is www.channelsurfing.net
I will have to add academicearth.org to the list. It has real courses from IVY league colleges which are recorded and available to the public. It even includes assignments and homework which are downloadable. ;)
Already on my list for next update.
Thanks
Steve
Hi, can anyone tell me the best way to keep a laptop running fast? I am running vista 32 bit. it takes like 10 min for it just to boot. I have done all I know how to do (disk cleanup,uncheck everything in the startup, defrag) nothing seems to work! can anyone give me some tips! Thanks