Tips & Tricks
Protect Your USB from Viruses with USB Protect
USB Firewall is a great software that blocks all viruses and other spyware applications that try to spread in your system when a USB device is inserted. It runs in the background and imeediately alerts you in case of any viruses, giving you the ability to either stop the program or delete the associated file.
It’s a freeware and its functionality is limited, it does work great but I would recommend a proper Anti Virus.
How to backup Google Chrome Profiles
Google Chrome, as everyone (almost) know, is the next gen browser and is being used very commonly now, resulting in, everyone creating their profiles and what not. If you are looking to backup your Google Chrome profiles, check out “Google Chrome Backup“. It’s a great tool which lets you create, backup, restore and manage your Google Chrome profiles.
How to send MMS with your iPhone for Free
Anyone who switched to iPhone must’ve missed the MMS service. Unfortunately (in a weird way) you cannot send MMS with your iPhone, that’s when Flutter comes in play. You can now send free MMS with your iPhone with it. It’s a free service which lets you send unlimited picture messages and almost every mobile phone in the world. Having the convenience of sending multi-media messages (MMS) to virtually any mobile phone number in your iPhone contact book is something that you should have!
Flutter Features:
- Send picture messages from your iPhone.
- Your message can (optionally) include a link to your location pinned on Google Maps.
- Friends get a link to view your pictures and location right on their cell phones.
Update your status on All Major networks with HelloTxT
Managing social networks like facebook, twitter, LinkedIn etc sometimes gets a bit hectic. That’s when HelloTxt comes in handy. It’s a nice service that lets you update your status and read your friend’s status on almost all the major microblogging and social networks in one go.
When you become a registered member, you’ll have the ability to save login data for services without having to retype it every time, get a “timeline” view to track update status of their friends (only for supported services), get access to the mobile version, can set the services that should be selected by default and what to display on the Dashboard.
Official Website - HelloTxT
Spell check your website / Blog with Screenshots
Confronted a great tool for any website or a blog at TechCrunch50 conference called “Spellr.us”. Ever wondered about making spelling mistakes in your website, that’s when Spellr.us comes in handy. You don’t need to install anything since it is web-based.
According to them It’s a “Highly configurable and web based, spellr.us is a spell check tool that crawls a user’s website at regular intervals and displays errors within “screenshots”. With this tool, you can keep your content in a good check by these regular scans and detect the errors.
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Download iTunes 8 Offering New Features
iTunes 8 has been released for download. With the announcement of the new iPods, Apple released a latest version of iTunes along with a new iPod Touch firmware 2.1. On a note if you purchased the iPod touch firmware 2.0, you can update to version 2.1 for free which offers several new features including the new Genius play list feature. You can download iPod touch firmware 2.0 Here for $9.95 US.
The newest feature in iTunes 8 is the Genius Sidebar which makes recommendations of songs from iTunes store which you may want to buy and automatically makes playlists from songs in your library.
iTunes 8 Features Include:
- It has a new visualizer
- New itunes is more user friendly.
- Works with Mac and Windows
- New Grid View which displays you entire music library once you select any album and automatically creates groups of albums based on your selection.
- HD Tv Shows, with which you can buy episodes of your favourite Tv Shows.
Download : iTunes 8
How to view Images in Zip Files without Extracting
I found a very handy application that lets you view images in zip files without extracting them. It’s called Inzomia Viewer.
You can view images in compressed zip files normally, all you have to do is drop it on the play list or open it from the ‘add file/add dir’ button. If you add a folder all images in the folder including images in zip files in the folder will be added.
Google Chrome Tips and Tricks
Google Chrome again! 
- I was browsing and saw some great tips on TechRader on Google Chrome by Paul Douglas. Something that you should bookmark maybe. We’re already covering a post on Google Chrome Bugs and Updates so this is a nice addition.
30 Google Chrome tips & tricks:-
1. Create desktop and Start menu shortcuts to web apps such as Gmail - go to Gmail.com and then select Create application shortcuts… from the Page Control menu (in the top-right corner of your browser - it looks like a page with the corner folded over). Now choose where you want to place your shortcut. This works for other Google apps such as Calendar and Documents, and other services such as Windows Live Hotmail.
2. Control + Shift + N opens an ‘incognito’ window - sites you view in this window won’t appear in your history and cookies served by sites in this window will be deleted when the window is closed.
3. You can open a link in an incognito window by right-clicking the link and selecting Open link in incognito window.
4. Alt + Home loads your Google Chrome home page, with thumbnails of your most visited sites shown in the active tabbed window.
5. Control + T opens a new tab. You can drag tabs around to change their order or drag a tab out of the window into its own window.
6. Control + Shift + T opens your most recently closed tab. Press the key combination again to open the tab closed before that one. Google Chrome remembers the last 10 tabs you’ve closed.
7. Jump to different open tabs using Control + 1, Control + 2, Control + 3, etc. Control + 9 takes you to the last tab.
8. Control + Tab lets you cycle through your open tabs in order.
9. Control + Shift + Tab cycles through your tabs in the opposite order.
10. As with Firefox 3, you can drag a link onto a tab to open it in that tab, or drop it between two tabs to open a new tab in that position.
5 Best Firewall Applications
We have been surrounded by Malware attacks, spyware and whatnot. These situations call for a good Firewall application to protect your computers. The next step is choosing which Firewall application is best for you. I suggest experimenting by installing one after another until you discover one which meets your needs. I have complied a list of the 5 best firewall applications of 2008. All listed preformed the job well and are highly recommended.
1- Comodo Firewall
Comodo is a top rated software that specializes in protecting from malicious applications like Viruses, Spyware, Trojans, Rootkits etc. The latest version gives you complete protection from Hackers, Spyware, Trojans, and Identity Theft while the Host Intrusion Prevention System stops malware from being installed and Clean PC Mode registers your current applications. This will allow only applications that you approve to be installed on your computer.
The Malware Scan Feature checks your computer for viruses, spyware and trojans before you install Comodo Firewall Pro. Best thing about Comodo is that it is free of cost.
Download Comodo Firewall | Official Website
2- Eset Smart Security
As they say, Firewall, Antivirus, Antispam: ESET Smart Security Has It All! Eset Smart security provides a personal firewall, antispam, and antivirus and antispyware protection in one application, saving your computers from major threads which are in the form of new variants of malware—new viruses, trojans, worms, rootkits, spyware, and more are released every day. This will keep your system prepared.
Features include:
- Proactive Protection: Utilizing ThreatSense—the industry’s most advanced heuristics technology, capable of proactively recognizing threats—the window of vulnerability between malware outbreak and signature update is reduced. The included antispam and firewall software provide you with a total security solution.
- Precise Detection: ESET accurately identifies known and unknown threats. It consistently wins top awards from testing labs and is recognized for having zero false positives.
- Lightweight Design: Smart Security requires less memory and CPU power, allowing your computer to run fast, making more room for games, web browsing, and emailing.
- Fast Scanning Speeds: ESET Smart Security is a highly efficient program ensuring fast file scanning and product updates, while running quietly in the background.
Download Eset Smart Security | Official Website
