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I agree it looks lengthy, but I have tried to make it as short as possible, and have tried to touch all the important concepts of Sandboxie, which a general user will require to understand, to use Sandboxie properly, without problems.

I believe it's still quicker than going trying to understand Sandboxie by yourself.

Hi,thanks to you all for a nice discussion, I have seen a website http://customercaresupportnumber.com/ thta is providing valuable information on customer care services provided on various products by

various companies, when ever there is a requirement you can find many things starting form a, b,c, to z

The MS description is somewhat confusing. Where is the PDF guide you mentioned?

I Know What You Are Going To Do This Summer - a 75-day free programming online seminar that aims to teach novice coders the fundamentals of Python (begins June 22):

http://opensource.com/life/13/6/learning-program-open-source-way

fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for OS X, Linux, and the rest of the family.

Features:

- Autosuggestions
- Glorious VGA Color
- Sane Scripting
- Web Based configuration
- Man Page Completions
- Works Out Of The Box

http://fishshell.com/

But don't forget to untick the box for installing Ask ... it's a b*gger to get rid of.

"... Obnam is an easy, secure backup program. Backups can be stored on local hard disks, or online via the SSH SFTP protocol. The backup server, if used, does not require any special software, on top of SSH.

Some features that may interest you:

* Snapshot backups. Every generation looks like a complete snapshot, so you don't need to care about full versus incremental backups, or rotate real or virtual tapes.
* Data de-duplication, across files, and backup generations. If the backup repository already contains a particular chunk of data, it will be re-used, even if it was in another file in an older backup generation. This way, you don't need to worry about moving around large files, or modifying them. (However, the current implementation has some limitations: see dedup).
* Encrypted backups, using GnuPG ...":

http://liw.fi/obnam/

Done ... thnx for the reminder Rob.

I'm a little confused as to which is the best HIPS firewall. According to the quick selection guide, Private Firewall is the new number one yet, in the detailed review of each HIPS firewall, in the 'Firewalls With Strong HIPS Protection' section, it says "Comodo Firewall is the best choice for users seeking a full featured security suite".

Is it simply that the quick selection guide has been updated but the detailed reviews haven't, because those for Comodo and PrivateFirewall look just the same as when Comodo was still number one? Thanks.

Of course it's asking for trouble to install 2 or more AV apps. But it can be done safely if one can be set to run in real time, the other to run only on-demand, as a cross-check of the realtime app.

I currently have Avast Free as my real time AV (quite happily) and Avira AntiVir on-demand because it has very strong detection rates with few false positives. But Avira's nag pop-ups are unstoppable, even after following many "proven" methods for getting rid of them that one can find on safe 3rd-party sites.

Now my questions. If I update Avira from AntiVir to the 2013 Personal edition:
a) can I still set it to run non-resident/on-demand only?
b) will the pop-ups stop?

Take the lid off the drive and spay some WD40

"... We See In Every Direction is a Web browser for collaborative, synchronized surfing ... Users can type, click and change URLs in real time together; they can jockey for control of the browser – akin to fighting for the TV remote – or choose to sit back and let their friends take care of the surfing ...":
http://ineverydirection.net/

FYI: Also bundled with..
'Install Angry Birds & MyFreeGames Toolbar, set default search & new tabs to MyFreeGames Search, and set my homepage on my browser to MyFreeGames Search'.
No thanks, Declining is not obvious, typical confuse a cat gotcha for the innocent set up,...time to look for an alternative, or stay with the previous version.

Had a qualitative experience with the Digimanonline.com when my PC almost stopped responding due to a virus attack. Left with no other option i had to take help from an online tech support. These guys offered, what they call as "No fix, No pay" so I decided to give 'em a try. With remote assistance they diagnosed the problem free of cost (which was in my case LOADS of Trojans) and provided a complete solution just for $29.

We cannot provide individual support in the comments. If you want assistance please post here in our forum.

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BeGone is browser based online multiplayer first person shooter with a realistic theme:
http://www.nplay.com/BeGone/

Offensive Combat (beta)- browser-based first-person shooter:
http://offensivecombat.com/

UberStrike is a free-to-play browser based First Person Shooter:
http://www.uberstrike.com/

CS Portable is a web-browser-based port of Counter-Strike:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/IgorLevochkin/counter-strike-web-browser...

X Speed Race - Drive the super fast cars and become the best driver out there:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/x-speed-race/

Iron Grip: Marauders is a turn-based strategy browser game with full 3D battles:
https://igmarauders.isotx.com/

When reading on my Ipad, I tried to bookmark a page. The bookmark would not show up red so I kept trying it to no avail. Later, I looked up the bookmarks and I have 15 of the same bookmarks for the same day. Is there anyway I can delete them? I tried hitting the bookmark again but I just get another bookmark under the bookmark pages.
Thanks
Mande

Next release of Opera 15 web browser has something very similar built into it. It is called Stash and once web page is saved in this area of the browser does not use any resources of your pc. Link http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/opera-next-15-0-released

"Nobody is listening to your phone conversations" says President Hopey-Changey. True, but they have computers that can recognize your words and sort them into key phrases for further analysis.

ImgBurn has been updated to version 2.5.8.0. It is now bundled with OpenCandy.

Since this site would NOT allow me to DELETE my post, I edited it down to a few words!

The rest were supposed to be comments on the game, and answers to questions asked of me.

http://prism-break.org/

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. The product details have now been updated. MC - Site Manager.

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I've been using KM Player for a few years...
we are indeed a spoiled lot with so many excellent freeware media players to choose from because they are generally on a par with each other.

Thanks. Can't wait to check these out.

Wonderful reviews and information. Terrific site. One thing that seems
missing although I might be missing the obvious and that is do any of these
free firewalls provide any level of any kind of support.

I'm one week from expiration of Comodo commercial so a prompt response would be much appreciated. I found support from Comodo somewhat erratic.

thanks

Hugh

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Qiqqa is indeed a powerful research and knowledge management tool. While its strengths lie in the organization, management and citation of academic and business reference material, it is clearly overkill as a PDF reader.

It's a kind request. Whenever you suggest a software, please post a link to its site. I have inserted the link this time in the comment.

Also, if you notice, yBook has been suggested just a comment below.

Just took a look at yBook. It's now at version 2 and can handle ePub.

http://www.spacejock.com/yBook.html

Here is a list of current features:

Runs on any Windows PC (Win95 or later)
Display your book on side-by-side or single pages.
Resize the pages, adjust the margins, set text and paper colour.
Text, html and RTF reader
PDB and PRC reader
ePub reader
Search for words or phrases
Automatic bookmarks
Text sizes from tiny to HUGE
No zooming, panning or scrolling
Direct download of all Gutenberg titles, with index.
Internationalised menus - Spanish, German, etc
Completely free to use: No registration, no adware, no spyware.

I like playing online minecraft games, I use play on http://www.minecraftgames.co

Just so everyone's aware, this program can download from other select sites. This is the only free program I know of that can still download off of Hulu.

All I had was a flash camera. Every so often I could take a picture and see something in the flash.
It would not save, so every time I had to start from the beginning and sit through the long winded intro.

The controls could not be adjusted. The aiming was off on the buttons so it was difficult to click on the one you wanted. I could go on with so many other bugs!

I was researching Visio alternatives a while back and found a few possibilities in addition to the Cloud-based ones. They are: LibreOffice Draw, Gephi, ArgoUML, Dia and the one I settled on, yEd Graph Editor.

So sorry, but this game sucks.

Yup, it's crap.
Cheap "game" FULL of bugs. Everything is black. Will not save your game. Poor controls.
I really tried to like it, but is to frustrating trying to get it to run to be enjoyable.

Here, I am discussing backup and cloning software for Mac. As we know CCC is now no more free, so I find getback from belightsoft as free backup software for Mac. But, it is not as much reliable as the others Mac cloning apps. Stellar Drive Clone and CCC are best Mac cloning apps for your Mac.

Thanks for your response, George. Good point about PotPlayer's independence, so perhaps it's a coincidence that WMP ran fine before but failed after installing PotPlayer -- and I made no other changes related to playing media in at least the two weeks before that. But I don't have a detailed log of of events other than installations and updates, so there could be something I have missed.

My OS is Win7 x64, and WMP 12 (installed with Win7). I didn't associate any file types with PotPlayer, and I haven't installed any codec packs.

The program requiring wmp.dll is Listen N Write (transcription software from Elefant Software). The error message when I try to launch Listen N Write says
"Lib OCX -> Reg ERROR! Failed to load control 'WindowsMediaPlayer' from wmp.dll. Your version of wmp.dll may be outdated. Make sure you are using the version of the control that was provided with your application."

Listen N Write was installed after PotPlayer was installed and after WMP stopped working, so I can't say if it would have run before that. In fact it wasn't until I got the above error message that I went back to my installation log and saw that two WMP-related programs have failed to run since installing PotPlayer (WMP itself and Listen N Write). So that's what makes me suspicious. But I remind myself that WMP is Microsoft, and MS programs sometimes just fail on their own so PotPlayer may be just an innocent bystander.

I've been having a great experience with Toolwiz Care for about a month now. I feel it actually trumps Iobit's product (I was a big fan in the past before I learned about the company from this site), and it's not from a shady company. I look forward to seeing what Toolwiz comes up with next.

I downloaded the portable version of Avant Browser and tried to download video from Youtube with Avant Downloader. The result was always 0 bytes files.

And yes, it has a small memory footprint and seems rather agile.

Whenever you copy something (like text or link to a website), it's automatically stored in the clipboard. Next time when you use paste, the text or link from the clipboard is pasted.

This means you don't need to access the clipboard. Just copy-paste.

But if you want to retain the clipboard history, or want to paste something you copied yesterday, check this: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-clipboard-replacement-utility.htm

The Weather Channel App For Windows has a compatibility problem with windows 7.
The software supports a resolution of 1024 x 768 only.
The application has compatibility issues with windows 7 64 bit.
Also the software does run of a 32 bit operating system.
The software does take time to load.

Earth Alerts on the other hand gives you every 15 minute coverage of whats going on around the world.
Also i have used this software and found that when you select global settings you not only get alerts of the world but United States of America are also included irrelevant of whether you choose united states of America or global you will get alerts of the weather.

Weather bug has a problem with their download server.

Check out this - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ab.animatronix tons of wallpapers no ads

I will start my post with a quote:

"According to China’s CERT, in the first quarter of 2013, US-based servers were used to hijack over 2.9 million mainframes in China.

In addition, the now famous NSA leaker, Edward Snowden, has also revealed that the US is “hacking everyone everywhere.”

Foreign Policy reports that the US’s National Security Agency (NSA) has a highly secretive unit, called the Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO), which has been hacking into foreign computer systems for almost 15 years.

TAO is headquartered in the NSA’s Fort Meade complex, in Maryland, and only a small number of the agency’s employees have access to it.

Former NSA officials have told Foreign Policy that TAO collects intel on foreign targets – China and other countries – by hacking into their computers and stealing the data stored on hard drives.

The core of TAO lies in an operations center called the Remote Operations Center (ROC), where 600 military and civilian hackers work 24/7 on finding and penetrating computer systems used by terrorists and other adversaries.

The software used by the NSA to compromise computers and intercept communications is custom-built by a team of skilled computer scientists and software engineers of the Data Network Technologies Branch.

One of TAO’s units, the Access Technologies Operations Branch, helps the CIA and the FBI plant eavesdropping systems on computers and telecommunications infrastructures located overseas."

source:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Secret-NSA-Office-Has-Been-Hacking-China-...

Questions:

0. Is there any Firewall able to stop the NSA army of hackers?

1. Is it true, or not, that the users' activity, on the Internet, is monitored, by "the agencies", at the ISP level - no matter what Operating System are using the Internauts; no matter how "impenetrable their Firewalls are; and no matter how vulnerable (unpatched) are the applications installed on their PCs?

2. Is it true, or not, that NSA needs very large storage facilities ("data vaults")? If they want to intercept ALL of us, and to store the data exchanged by, let's say, 100.000 users - doing video-chat, in HD (720p) -, they need a lot of memory.

3. Is it true, or not, that the agencies are using very reliable, mission-critical HDDs - which are expensive?

4. Is it true, or not, that, in the event that some of those HDDs stop working, they can not be replaced with new ones, even if they are still under warranty? They contain, "sensitive, classified data", and therefore, they must be destroyed.

5. Is it true, or not, that all the data stored on NSA's Archive, must have at least one duplicate? This means a double, or a triple number of storage devices (HDDs)! Which increases the operational costs.

The NSA, the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon, they would need, together, a HDD factory able to deliver, non-stop, HDDs only for them.

By the way, there are certain rumors that NSA has acces to a sci-fi-like storage technology, easy scalable to Peta-bytes of data, technology which does not rely on the "classical" magnetic (HDD) storage. But no one has tangible proofs. There are only suppositions and speculations.

6. Does, the United States - a country with a public debt of over 14 TRILLIONS of Dollars -, have enough money to support the ever increasing expenses of NSA, FBI, CIA, Secret Service, the Pentagon, and all the other agencies?

"Pentagon Five-Year Cybersecurity Plan Seeks $23 Billion"
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2013-06-10/pentagon-five-year-cybers...

7. Is it true, or not, that the United States are using "local contributors", from many countries, who deliver to their agencies everything they want to know? I mean, it is cheaper, and easier, to ask a telecommunications company, from Romania, for example, to allow NSA to access the account of a certain individual, instead of trying to bypass the security solution installed on most ISP servers. Because, before getting to your "target", first you must pass the protective barrier of the ISP.

I'm afraid that this "scandal" was artificially created in order to divert our attention from something very ugly - prepared for us, in the near future, by those who secretly rule the world...

Thanks for notifying me. Link updated.

Kingsoft Office Free 2013 is here!

The interface has been radically changed and a lot cleaner, you don't need to get the full version to change layouts. Please update the review :D

http://www.techsupportalert.com/freeware-forum/home-office-and-productiv...

My ESET Firewall. I understand how bittorrent works (multiple users, etc), but I don't understand why these clients need to talk to 100+ sites during installation and when they're running, but not downloading anything. I never got to the point of actually downloading a torrent.

I believe that DrBongo was stating that the program had been installed on his/her computer, and the recommendation was in the form of an email from this site that this article had been posted. Tech Treats (and other site sections)are available via RSS or email. See the intro above as well as the content in the upper left corner.

Personally, the program was not my main interest at the site. I briefly installed and then uninstalled it.
I find the site information and how it's organized to be extremely helpful and an excellent resource.

If you install the program and run it through the items you've listed please let us know what you find, I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be interested. :)