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Top 30+ Adobe Air Applications

Posted on 05. Jan, 2010 by UzEE.

Adobe AIR has become one of the most popular desktop publishing platform for interactive applications. AIR builds on the rock solid technology innovations like Adobe Flash and Flex and blends them with new functionality to make them desktop friendly.

There are thousands of applications that are based on the Adobe AIR platform ranging from desktop clients to popular web services to productivity applications, stock tickers and even games. Here’s a list of over 30 top applications that are running on top of Adobe AIR.

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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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Analyze and Tune Your Laptop with Notebook Hardware Control

Posted on 28. Dec, 2009 by Sourojit.

Until now, you must have come across many hardware monitoring and tweaking tools, but how many of them were dedicated for your laptops? This might sound strange, but laptops need different treatment as they are not the same as desktops.

Desktop users can go for high performance without worrying much about their power consumption on the other hand laptop users have to keep in mind the battery life and other components that require special attention. Notebook Hardware Control (NHC) serves the purpose of tweaking your laptop to get the most out of it.

Let’s jump right into the features of NHC and what it can tell you about your laptop.

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Transfer Music and Settings from iPod to PC with CopyTrans 4

Posted on 21. Dec, 2009 by srikanth.

Disclosure: Copytrans currently advertises with LostInTechnology.

Have you ever had your hard drive crash?  I know I have, and one of the most painful parts of it is losing all of your music. I had all my music on my iPod at the time, but iTunes won’t let you import music from an iPod.  Therefore, what should work as a great back up device doesn’t really help you out at all. You must clear all the music on it in order to get music back on it. Doesn’t really make sense does it?

Good thing for all of us, there is a great piece of software out there that makes it easy and hassle free to get all that music off your iPod or iPhone.  CopyTrans 4 lets you copy everything on your iPod and iPhone to your computer in order to safely recover your iTunes library. You can transfer all media (music, video, podcasts etc) including artworks, date added, ratings, playcounts and more. It enables you to import iPhone artworks automatically into iTunes and import iPhone media to respective iTunes categories.

Now, your iPod and iPhone are actually a great back up for your iTunes library.

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Recover Office and Windows Product Keys with ProduKey

Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra.

Initially, I used a text file to store my Windows and Office product keys.  This made it very easy to keep up with these keys in case I ever needed to reinstall those program, but if I was to ever accidentally delete this file or it got corrupted, I would not be able to reinstall any of my software.  This was a little concerning.

Produkey offers a solution to this problem.  It is a free program which is designed to help you find certain CD or product keys on your computer.

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Monitor Your Bandwidth Usage with NetworX

Posted on 14. Dec, 2009 by Sourojit.

If you have an internet connection with a bandwidth limit and often fail to stay within limits due to lack of awareness of how much bandwidth you have used, you might feel the need for a good software to analyze and keep track of your Internet usage. NetworX is a free, simple, light weight and powerful tool that can evaluate your bandwidth usage.

Apart from measuring your bandwidth usage, it can also measure the speed of your network connection, identify possible sources of network problems and can also track suspicious network activity of Trojan horses and hacker attacks.

Now, let us take a look on services provided by NetworX.

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Find Out Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Your Computer with Speccy

Posted on 10. Dec, 2009 by Sourojit.

Have you ever wanted to find out all the small details about your computer?  I know that I have, but most of the time the tools you use to find out that information only give you part of it or are difficult to use or cost money.  Well, Speccy is a great and free tool from Piriform that gets you all of the information you desire.

What will you learn from using Speccy? Speccy will analyze your hardware and tell you just about everything you want to know about your operating system, CPU, RAM, motherboard, graphics card, hard drive, optical drive and audio.

Let’s take a deeper look at what you can expect to see from Speccy.

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Retrieve Data from Damaged Hard Drives, CDs and DVDs with Unstoppable Copier

Posted on 04. Dec, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra.

There are lots of frustrations involved when migrating from one hard drive to another. Many of us while moving or recovering system files or huge amounts of data from one local drive to another run into some type of damaged file.  This is amazingly frustrating, because one little error can prevent you from getting lots of your data.

Unstoppable Copier is an open source software which retrieves the data from your hard disk or CD/DVD  with bad sectors, badly damaged disks and/or boot sector failures.

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