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Someone was trying streetquest - run is a game? Really nice game if you dont like to stay at home 24/7 :)

Here is ling to store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.scapaflow.streetquest

Poor selection of available content and no direct link access into the sites chosen. I'll keep searching for an alternative.

Wunderlist - task manager:
http://www.6wunderkinder.com/

Nitro - light task manager:
http://app.nitrotasks.com/

The certificates are (generally) images (assuming, you would have scanned them). You can import PDF files (page by page) into The GIMP or Inkscape and extract the images. Then use any of the image compression/resizing tools (The GIMP) and insert the images into a document. Then export as (or save as or print as) PDF.

The GIMP and Inkscape are available both for Windows and Linux.

hi steve.

the 'something went wrong' IS the exact error message. i know, helpful, right? but seriously, that's all it says. 'something went wrong. try again later.'

and they come up with checks in the add/edit pane (which is where i get the super-specific error message when i try to save), but when i search they get greyed out. so it's not the same places that they show up that way.

i will try deleting everything and doing KAT again, and see how that goes.

thanks, as always, for your help.

amie

If you make a mistake and install iClaro in FreeFileSync (ie, you do not click it off on the install screen), the easiest way to get rid of it is likely to be a system restore to the nearest point in time to when you installed it. I would certainly not avoid the program because of its bundled software.

So why doesn't Firefox make this part of the browser?

It might be useful for newbies to clarify you reboot the computer to run these diagnostic tools. You may also want to link to a site that explains how to use them. ie: run once to see if theres an issue. Run again if there is, with only one module in at a time to find which one has the issue. You touch on this in the opeing but...

Hello Eloise,

For several years, I've been using TeamViewer on a laptop (now considered a dinosaur by today's standards) running XP Pro to maintain over a dozen machines on different continents, running everything from XP Home to Win 7 Pro (I now have a new state-of-the-art rig running Win 7 Pro).

A few of these computers are operated by people whose technical abilities are rather modest, and for those, TeamViewer is configured with a permanent password, loads with Windows and is always available to me when the telephone rings. On the other machines, new random passwords are generated, whether TeamViewer starts with Windows (a few) or is manually called-up (most), thus assuring that user's peace of mind.

TeamViewer has worked very well for my needs; one outstanding feature is the ability to perform remote reboots, including into Safe Mode (it also has the added feature of being able to create a VPN -- Virtual Private Network -- between the two machines, such that files too large to email or for which encryption is not practical can be sent securely, though not necessarily with the greatest possible speed, for which there may be an improvement with the impending release of version 8).

I hope this is useful input to you; good luck!

Cheers,

AJN

Hello. I've had my phone for about 5 months but I'm still a noob or 'n00b' as some of you guys write it. When I first read this review I was like whaaaat? No viruses in android? What the darn is this guy talking about? Then I did some research and I found out you're somewhat right about sandboxing, viruses, antivirus and stuff but I also found permissions are the weakest point about android. I even read how malware could trick you to install them. Those guys are clever! Anyway this review was an eye opener. I wish you could publish the remaining reviews asap so we have a better and wider perspective. As I do with the android market when I like an app, I give you 5 stars. Thanks!

what what you recommend,thanks

I too use Pocket religiously. I simply use it to temporarily bookmark web pages that I may want to go back and take a look at later. I also use it if I am looking to make an on-line purchase and have not decided on a product or a vendor. I use Pocket to mark the different sources so I can quickly go back without messing with an unfiled book mark or worrying about having to go back to delete it later. It obviously is much more than a simple book marking add-on.

oh, and the 'something went wrong' error always comes up when i use the add/edit feature underneath the search sidebar-- all the sites i added per your instructions do come up, with a check beside them, but then when i hit 'add selected' or whatever the terminology is (i'm not looking at it right this moment), i always get the something's wrong error. grrr.

thanks. =)

I have file in CHM formate i wanted to convert in pdf formate plz suggest any software for this

Please register on the site, and post this query in the forum. We won't be able to provide support here. The query also is not related to the review topic.

The multiple UPnP sounds like it might be the other people's computers active on the wifi connection.

I get conflicting results at public places as some block bittorrent activity. Though, once I find an open one, I have not had it close.

Are these the same places that you were getting good speeds at before?

When you get the notice on multiple UPnP devices, have you check on the left hand side menu of Vuze under "Device Playback"? Specifically, under routers?

Steve

Not sure where the issue is coming up for you.

I just checked several of the templates and they are working for me.

How did you add the templates to Vuze?
What browser are you using?

Steve

Hello Sir,

Regarding Xenu's shortcoming, actually it does tell you the parent page. You can right click the failed URL and check the URL properties. This will show you all the URLs that point to this failed URL. But unlike in Link checker, you can't double click the parent URL and go to it automatically. In Xenu, you have to copy the parent URL and put it onto a new browser and access it (atleast that's the only way that i could find). Thanks for your article.

There are 2 functions for which I wanted a quick tool: cropping; and resizing.

Photopus did what I wanted for resizing, with its option to use pre-defined settings, such as 320 X 240 suggested for Web & email. Still, I found annoyances that detracted from my desire to use it again:
1. When I told it to "use source photo's folder for output" (instead of the default C:\Photopus) and to "open output folder after processing", it still opened C:\Photopus after processing. (It did, however, put the output files in the correct folder as I'd specified.)
2. There seemed to be no way to save my selected settings, other than by saving the current project, which includes whatever file(s) I had selected. Since I always resize different files on subsequent sessions, this would mean first removing the previously selected file(s).

For cropping, however, I found it unacceptable because of the UI; here are my points of discontent:
1. I saw no way to enlarge the cropping dialog box.
2. I saw no GUI tool for cropping. The only option was to set the number of pixels to crop from each edge, either by typing or clicking to set the number.
3. Even that antediluvian method was further hampered by the way the up/down arrows worked: they required a separate click for each one-pixel change, because they had no repeat action. Thus, changing a crop setting by, say, 50 pixels would require 50 clicks.
4. I saw no preview of the changes to be made. The preview (labeled "Modified") image never changed for me.

If the up/down arrows had repeat action, and if the cropping preview image changed in real time with the setting changes, then I could have lived with it.

Another sign of old-school thinking (although not a deal-breaker by itself) in this product was that I couldn't drag-and-drop a file into it; I had to use the file-open type of dialog. At least, it did allow multiple-file selections in that dialog.

Overall, I got the impression that this is an old program with a new skin.

The final annoyance, although also not a biggie, was the nag screen after closing the program.

Oh, my OS is Win8.

(My 2¢ worth)

Why not use EaseUS without encryption for this purpose?

You should also check out http://www.lazeegames.com you can play hundreds of flash and unity 3d games for free.

i want to disable the audio in registry but the same time the audio supported games should be run............ how to do this?

Steve-

First, thanks for keeping on with the updating of this guide. In my last residence, your guide helped me achieve monstrously effective downloading speeds. So thank you.

Currently, I cannot get a deal that I like for an ISP and so have been only using my notebook in public places(coffeehouses, cafes, restaurants, etc.). At first the speeds were pretty good; now they have slowed down to a snail's pace. I cannot account for why this is. I have switched ports(#'s) several times, to no avail.

I went to a different hot spot to get a better speed and I got this message from Vuze:
Multiple UPnP devices have been detected - check if all require port mapping.

There is little info on google as to what this means and what I can do.

Any help and input that you could give me to 'tweak' in public wifi areas would be greatly appreciated.

Windows Blue is Microsoft's future low-cost OS with yearly updates

http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/28/3693368/windows-blue-update-low-cost

I have Windows 7 Starter and there's no sensor or “View location activity” on the control panel.

Thanks for a valuable tip, but when I went to "Sensors," it said at the top of the window, "No sensors are installed." My computer was custom-built and the software installed by a local computer expert, not some large manufacturer (e.g., HP, Dell, etc.), so perhaps that explains the lack of an installed geo sensor (which frankly suits me just fine).

How do you get extra emojifree after you already have the regular ones?

Downloaded Sygate, thanks have windows xp,Avast 7,malwarebyes free .

Not at all hospitable to deal with. Key did not work to activate. when I uninstalled the program, (immediately) it said, basically, hey, not so fast, how about getting a copy through patronizing our sponsors!
Oh well, almost everything I have ever been informed about at Gizmo's has been really right on. this is one of a few, rare, exceptions.

Now you're talking to yourself! I am proving my own geek-cred by running ATTO on a number of drives on 4 PCs and putting on a spreadsheet so I can attempt to make sense of it all, it doesn't look promising, and my sanity reserves getting perilous. The flash drives are decent quality, there is just variability in interactions going on that I don't have a handle on. One performs within 0.2MB/s across 4 PCs, another has read/write spread of 175/148, 109/85, 198/155, 185/127. PCs have latest drives, though I just found out one may need a BIOS update, they range from a almost 3 year old, first generation USB3.0 to a ivy bridge laptop that is Intel-native. The oldest PC is having the best numbers on some drives, so I'm left kerfuffled and perplexified. My SSDs way out-perform the flash drives, the latest have 500MB/s class read and write.

With your imaging questions, if you want to really figure out what is happening, you may need to test with no encryption. I can think of a number of things you could try, like mounting the images and doing comparisons that way, or even going the virtual route. There are too many options to even discuss, any syncing program will run an analysis first and report on diffs. If you set up a virtual system, you could restore the encrypted images inside the virtual system, and compare that to a real disk or another restored image within the virtual system.

And thanks for the FYIs on your experiences working with transferring systems, I usually want clean installs, but the settings savings is a nice touch. Good luck with your endeavors, I hope you can avoid the gremlins better than I appear fated to.

Softperfect requires some networking knowledge to get the best out of it and is only good up to and including Windows XP. IMO if you're using XP, check out Kerio 2.1.5 or Sygate instead which are more user friendly. If you're on Vista, 7 or 8, then look at Tinywall, although tamper protection will not work on Vista.

http://tinywall.pados.hu/

Tinywall is a first rate firewall but it will set default rules that are not that secure. Just bear this in mind for each one you set and choose a more secure option where applicable from the choices available.

IMO Windows firewall is still the best option for those without at least intermediate system and networking knowledge. MC - Site Manager.

If I email files compressed with P zip or 7 zip will users of Winzip be able to unzip them easily?
& if I receive winzipped files will I be able to unzip them?

I use it all the time ( on my Samsung galaxy S3). It is a great app to help you around. I am using it now for a few months and it does exactly what it says. I also use it for my professional trips along with ''Trip and GPS Tracker" (www.gps-tracking-android.com/). I got this app just recently, and it really helps me with my work. I can also share my travel information with my manager, as I have to prove my business trips.

PDF Presenter is a presentation software with focus on PDF documents:
http://pdfpresenter.sourceforge.net

I clicked the link, but I get an error page. Any chance that it has been removed? Shame, as I was genuinely interested in why because I think I could maybe guess.

I am also switching from uTorrent.

MC

Many thanks for your support, it shall definitely help me in near future in a new system

Regards

Thanks for the educational "homework" MC.

I have downloaded and installed the apparent FREEWARE of DVDFab. After converting a DVD the output has the DVDFab logo up in the right hand corner of the movie. That does not get a mention (at least I could not see that written anywhere as a condition of using the unregistered version.) And when the program loads, it also opens a browser page to take you to the buy version. All a bit of a nuisance to go through all the time to download, install, rip and convert to find the files can't be used without the logo in the corner.

There is quite a bit of this around the net. Here's two more examples.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/microsoft-vs-mcafee-how-free-antivirus-ou...
http://blog.avast.com/2012/07/20/avast-free-antivirus-outperforms-compet...

As with all these things though they are relative to the circumstances at the time, and as ako also points out, which components in the programs being tested are actually being used.

It makes sense that the timescale for introducing new samples (very important) is generally less for free AV's because many of these such as Avast!, Avira, Comodo etc. have very active forums providing almost instant feedback.

Any recommendations for ripping copy-protected CDs? I have in the past used [commercial reference removed], but I found one CD in my collection that seems impervious to that, namely an early pressing of The Blue Nile's 'High', which apparently was mistakenly released with copy protection. Only too late did I find that the record company offered an exchange scheme for it. If there were a free application that saved me having to pay a second time, namely for an iTunes or Amazon download, that would be great.

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give.

And, Regarding your USB 3.0 drive: Mine runs BRILLIANTLY -- as fast as eSata or internal Sata HDD's. Did you do a speed test comparison using something like CrystalDiskMark? If so, go back and check the customer reviews where you bought it (or post one yourself if no one has ratted them out!) What I'm seeing on Amazon is that some "USB 3.0" flash drives are fake. (Uh, it's not some cheap Class 2 micro SD is it? That would answer a lot of questions.) It's obvious when using a good benchmark program. If it performs well though, something funky is up with Windows. Mess with the drivers by updating/restoring either your motherboard's USB 3 drivers or it's chipset drivers. Try going to the motherboard manufacturer's website (or just Intel/AMD for chipsets) not your computer manufacturer. Some have better drivers. It's worth a shot.

...Now that I think about it, this might not work. I believe Total Uninstall analyzes date time stamps and archive bits. This may tag files as changed which EaseUS does not tag. Not sure. I might do a one-time file dump --> directory comparison to see which program got it correct. Like I said, we'll see...

Sorry, you just lost me totally with your initial statement;
"The Explorer that now comes bundled with Windows 7 is a substantial improvement over the version available in Windows XP"

I, on the other hand, am looking for something that can emulate what we have in Win XP, as for file management (or management of files) is a far better solution that the "libraries" based version for Windown 7.

Microsoft took two steps back with the version in Win7.

What would you recommend that most looks and works like the good old one?

This article is what I exactly want... This really helps to set up media sharing with my new smart TV.... Thanks to George :)

@ JimV: Follow this link over to the WindowsSeven Forums for a tutorial for adding "COPY TO FOLDER" and "MOVE TO FOLDER" to the Context Menu in Windows 7 and Windows 8:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/516-context-menu-add-copy-folder-move-folder.html

Remember, you must be logged in as an Administrator to make these changes. Also, this process can be easily reversed if you decide that you no longer want this feature.

But Virustotal is not enough for analysing total strength, as it omits dynamic detection (Webroot Prevx, F-secure Deepguard).

Another (and perhaps easier) solution I used was to install a second physical hard drive and rather than moving the My Documents (or any other My folder) to the second hard drive, just ignore it and set up various folders the way you want them on the second hard drive. This leaves your root drive (C:\) alone so the only thing you have on it is your Operating system. In XP there is a learning function that will eventually learn that you don't use your My ... folders and everything will open on your second drive.

I agree with Chiron. The need for speed is the main reason a lot of folks get infected in the first place. Unfortunately there are no shortcuts to staying malware free, or removing it. MC - Site Manager.