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Keeping Me Safe for Three Years: Comodo Firewall

Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by Chinmoy.Kanjilal.

This is the second post in the series of Keeping Me Safe for Three Years posts. In the last post, I talked about the award winning Avira Antivirus which according to me is the best antivirus in overall performance and usability. You can see the post on Avira here.

The second post in this series covers Comodo Firewall and how it rounds out my dynamic duo of security programs.

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Keeping Me Safe for Three Years: Avira Antivirus

Posted on 04. Jan, 2010 by Chinmoy.Kanjilal.

Friends and family members walk in and are amazed at how smooth and virus free my computer has always been, and I can not help but smile back, proudly. It has all been made possible because of two simple and free security programs that I have been using for three years in a row now. Needless to say, I am satisfied with their performance.

The first piece of software is Avira Antivirus.  The second….well, you’re going to have to check back in a few days.

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Measure and Analyze Your Website Stats with Woopra

Posted on 01. Dec, 2009 by Chinmoy.Kanjilal.

Checking website performance is an integral part of managing a website. Regularly checking and analyzing visitor stats makes us aware of current trends, current hot topics and most importantly of traffic driving topics which goes a long way in predicting user behavior and preparing for a wider coverage in organic search.

There are many site-analysis tools which let us check stats (i.e. Google Analytics, StatCounter). But the problem is they all run from the browser and lack a proper UI with live reports and actions.

Woopra, unlike these is a desktop client for your website and has huge loads of features which lets us analyze website performance in an easy manner.

The application is just out of beta and is available to registered users. Registration for Woopra is totally free. For registration and download, visit this page. The desktop client is available for all Windows, Linux and Mac OS.

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How To Recover Stored Passwords from Opera, Firefox and Chrome

Posted on 30. Nov, 2009 by Chinmoy.Kanjilal.

Browsers are really becoming more and more user friendly with loads of features to take our browsing experience to new heights.The password wand, the password vault or whatever the name be, is an integral part of any browser nowadays. A browser without a password manager feels extremely dull.

The password storage feature allows us to login into any website without entering login details manually. This comes in very handy as entering login details, specially in cyber-cafe is not at all secure.

Now, lets say you visit a site after a long time and suddenly want to know the password you used to login. The password is there in the password manager, but it does not allow us to see the password. Or, say you forget the master password somehow.

In these terrible situations, we  can use password recovery tools for various browsers. These password recovery tools come in very handy and are totally safe and legal.

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Manage Your Passwords with LastPass

Posted on 24. Nov, 2009 by Chinmoy.Kanjilal.

Managing many passwords over the Internet is a big hassle if you are registered at a lot of places. Not only does it become hard to think of new passwords, it also becomes even harder to keep them secure and remember them.

In these situations, most people are forced into using the same password for multiple websites which can be much less secure than having several strong passwords. This can be easily avoided using a password manager. A password manager needs us to remember only a master password, which can be used to access login information for all user accounts.

The most important thing while using a password manager is to check for features, otherwise it becomes similar to saving passwords in a password protected document. Almost all browsers have a password manager nowadays, but this application makes an optimal password manager.

LastPass is a free application with many options making password management super easy.  In addition to LastPass as just a software application, you can also use the LastPass Firefox extension if you prefer.

There are some unique features in LastPass making it the best password manager.

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FileZilla: Fast and Smooth FTP Client

Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by Chinmoy.Kanjilal.

FTP is a very useful application service and is of prime importance for bloggers and webserver admins for transferring files to and from servers.  It is also necessary for general users to download files from FTP servers.

A good FTP application can make interactions with a server easy. Previously, we covered 5 great and free FTP clients.  FileZilla was included on that list, and we like it so much here at LostInTechnology that we felt it deserved its own post.

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Recover Disk Space with DiskMax

Posted on 09. Nov, 2009 by Chinmoy.Kanjilal.

DiskMax is a completely free Windows software developed by KoshyJohn. DiskMax, as the name suggests is primarily software to free up disk space. It uses various methods to check for Windows space hogs like temporary files, logs, installers, caches and backups and simply removes or disables them thereby leaving the users with more free space.

DiskMax boasts of having removed 15 GB of junk from some computers. I removed 3 GB of unnecessary files with it when I tried DiskMax for the first time. It has been used by over 40,000 people and has been recently updated to support Windows 7.

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FeedDemon: The Best Offline Feed Reader

Posted on 03. Nov, 2009 by Chinmoy.Kanjilal.

Reading feeds is an integral part of keeping up to date with the latest happenings on the Internet. Almost all blogs provide their users with an option to subscribe to their feeds.

Now, feeds are a powerful medium of compact knowledge, but if you start reading too many of them, you have every chance of missing out the important news on time. Reading just a few of them might make you miss out on certain other perspectives of an event. In these situations, you run into a problem either way.

Another thing that can be a challenge with feed readers is that they don’t all provide offline reading options. This isn’t a big deal for everyone, but it can be for some users.

A feed reader goes a long way in making life easier.  I have tried out a lot of feed readers but none of them could attract me as much as FeedDemon.

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