Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Software Release of the Week (Vista Manager)

Vista Manager

Manufacturer's Description:

Windows Vista is the new Operating System for home users and professionals alike. Windows Vista brings clarity to your world, so you can more safely and easily accomplish everyday tasks and instantly find what you want on your PC.

Vista Manager is the powerful software tool to tweak and optimize your Windows Vista, it bundles more than 30 different utilities in one and help your system faster and more stable, secure and personal!


Features and Benefits of Vista Manager

Information
Get detailed system and all hardware information on your system; show all detailed information of running processes and threads on your machine; Vista Manager offers 1-clicking cleans your system automatically.

Optimizer
Tweak your system to improve windows startup and shutdown speed; tweak your hardware to increase system speed and performance.

Cleaner
Find out which files or folders engross your disk space and shown with chart; Find and clean junk files to increase Hard Disk space; Duplicate Files Finder can scan your computer for files with the same size, name and modification time; Registry Cleaner can easily checks your registry and repair incorrectly linked registry entries, automatically remove invalid entries; Registry Defrag rebuilds and re-indexs your registry to reduce application response time and registry access time.

Customization
Control what is started on Windows startup; tune up Vista boot menu; edit context menus of mouse Right-Clicking; customize system desktop, menus, toolbar and notifications settings; automatically change your desktop wallpaper on background.

Security
You can improve desktop, menus, Windows logon securities, and enable numerous hidden performance options of system, disable system updates and error reports; hide and restrict to access drives, specify which applications are not allowed to be executed on your computer; encrypt/decrypt and shred files, change the location of system folders; Privacy Protector can maintain your personal privacy by eliminating the tracks that you leave behind; create lots of randomization password once.

Network
Optimize your Internet connection speed, manage all shares items; tweak your Internet Explorer easily.

Misc. Utilities
Show the collection of Windows utilities; help you find out the installation key of Windows, Office products; shutdown your PC or remind you automatically.

Download the Free Trial Version: (v1.1.6)

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Free System Utilities for Windows®


Compilation of useful System utilities which will keep your system healthy and monitored.

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Auslogics Disk Defrag®
Disk fragmentation tool

Download: Auslogics Disk Defrag®
Size 1.5MB

  • Improve computer performance and stability
  • Increase your productivity - no more waiting for files to open
  • Defragment disks in only a few minutes
  • Useful disk fragmentation map and detailed fragmentation report
  • Windows XP Home and Professional, 2000/2003 and Vista supported

More Info: Click here
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Disk Investigator
Investigate your Disk!

Download: Disk Investigator
Size 348KB

Disk Investigator helps you to discover all that is hidden on your computer hard disk. The program can display the true drive contents by bypassing the operating system and directly reading the raw drive sectors. You can view and search raw directories, files, clusters, and system sectors and also verify the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs. The directory mode allows you to browse the file system in a file structure, the raw mode displays a sector-by-sector view (for advanced users).

More Info: Click here
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PC INSPECTOR™ Smart Recovery
Recover your deleted data from external media

Download: PC Inspector Smart Recovery
Size 6.2MB

PC Inspector Smart Recovery is a data recovery program for Flash Card, Smart Media, SONY Memory Stick, IBM Micro Drive, Multimedia Card, Secure Digital Card(SD) or any other data device for digital cameras. It enables you to recover accidentally deleted or formatted pictures, videos or sound files from the selected media. The program also offers a mode that enables you to check the media for errors.

More Info: Click here
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PC INSPECTOR™ File Recovery
Recover your deleted data from Hard Disk

Download: PC INSPECTOR™ File Recovery
Size 5.9MB

PC Inspector File Recovery is a data recovery program with support for FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems. It recovers files with the original time and date stamp, and can optionally restore them to a network drive and can recover many files, even when a header entry is no longer available. On FAT systems, the programs finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged. PC Inspector File Recovery offers an easy to use interface that will scan your drive and automatically make files that can be recovered available from a "Deleted" folder in an Explorer Style navigation tree.

More Info: Click here
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ICE ECC
File verification and repair tool

Download: ICE ECC
Size 692KB

ICE ECC is a file verification and repair tool that enables you to protect your important files against digital corruption using Reed-Solomon codes. The program is not intended as a main backup solution, but rather as a backup for your backup - it can be included on CDs or DVDs before you store your data, allowing you to recover data that has become corrupt due to age of the media or scratches. You can protect selected files or entire folders by simply selecting them and having the program generate an ECC file. If you ever need to verify whether the data has been modified or corrupted, just select the appropriate .ECC file and load it into ICE ECC, which will then analyze the files and can recover any corrupted data.

More Info: Click here
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Fresh Diagnose
Analyze and Benchmark your PC

Download:Fresh Diagnose

Size 1.3MB

Fresh Diagnose can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, hard disk performance, video system information, mainboard information, and many more. Informational features include scanning your system and give you a complete report about computer s hardware and software, including mainboard, video system , buses, peripheral and, network information. Benchmark features include testing system performance, such as processor, hard disk, multimedia, memory and comparing your PC it with other systems. User friendly interface and well featured.

For free registeration, visit: http://www.freshdevices.com/download.html

More Info: Click here
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RegSeeker
Manage and analyse registry

Download: RegSeeker
Size 458KB

RegSeeker is a handy tool for managing several popular registry items and searching the registry by keyword. It offers quick access to Startup Entries, Uninstall Information, Color Schemes, History items (URLs, Recent Documents etc) and IE Favorites. The program also includes a registry cleaning feature that finds invalid and unused registry entries, allowing you to delete them. RegSeeker can automatically create a backup before deleting any registry entries. The program comes with an attractive, easy to use interface. Nevertheless it is not intended for complete beginners and you should feel comfortable working with the Windows registry before using it.

More Info: Click here
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Ccleaner
Junk files cleanup and Registry clean tool

Download: Ccleaner
Size 1.46MB

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Advanced features to remove unused and old entries, including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more... also comes with a comprehensive backup feature.

More Info: Click here
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Everest Home Edition
Discover every detail about your PC, Complete analysis tool.

Download: Everest Home Edition
Size 4MB

EVEREST Home Edition is a freeware hardware diagnostics and memory benchmarking solution for home PC users, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology. It offers the world's most accurate hardware information and diagnostics capabilities, including online features, memory benchmarks, hardware monitoring, and low-level hardware
information.

Sensor information including system, CPU and GPU temperature, fan status, CPU, GPU, AGP and DRAM voltage monitoring, S.M.A.R.T. disk health status. Support for Corsair Xpert memory modules. Memory read and write speed, memory latency measurement to stress the memory and cache subsystem, including references list to compare actual performance with other systems.

Accurate low-level information about motherboard, CPU and BIOS, including chipset details, DMI enumeration, AGP configuration information, SPD memory modules list, DRAM timing information and CPU instruction set support. Exhaustive information about network adapters, sound cards, keyboard, mouse and game controllers, including NIC MAC address detection, IP and DNS list, network traffic monitoring, DirectSound, DirectMusic and DirectInput information. Three different report file formats: plain text, customizable HTML and the unique MHTML format. MHTML reports including icons are ideal for printing purposes.

More Info: Click here
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Keylink
Launch programs in Windows Vista Style

Download:Keylink

Size 800KB

Keylink allows you to launch programs without searching the start menu or directories. It works similar to the search in the Windows Vista start menu. Adding files and folders to Keylink is ususally done using drag&drop. Keylink can also execute windows orders. Additionaly it is possible to navigate in directories and to do basic file operations.

More Info: Click here
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Total Uninstall 2.35
Complete Uninstall tool (Last Freeware version)

Download: Total Uninstall 2.35
Click "Download (685 kB)" hyperlink in the page, not "Home (shareware version)".
Size 685KB

Total Uninstall 2.35 (last freeware version) can help you to monitor any changes that were made to your system during installation of a new software product and allow you to perform a complete uninstall without having to rely on the supplied uninstall program (which may leave files or changes behind). To use it, you simply launch the installation program from the Total Uninstall interface and select the system areas to be monitored. The program will then create a snapshot of your system before it installs the new software and an additional snapshot after install completes. It then compares the two snapshots and displays all changes in a graphical tree view, marking all values and/or files that have been added or changed as well as some before/after details. Total Uninstall will save these changes and if you decide to uninstall the application, it will reverse all changes to the previous state. Multi-lingual user interface.

More Info: Click here
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Eraser
Secure delete your files permanently
Winner of CHIP magazine award against other paid versions!

Download: Eraser
Size 2.6MB

Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Windows 2003 Server and DOS.
Eraser is Free software and its source code is released under GNU General Public License.

The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter Gutmann's paper "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" and they are selected to effectively remove magnetic remnants from the hard drive.

Other methods include the one defined in the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual of the US Department of Defence and overwriting with pseudorandom data. You can also define your own overwriting methods.

More Info: Click here
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Startup Mechanic
Prevents useless tray applications from registering themselves and more

Download: Startup Mechanic 2.4
Size 537KB

Startup Mechanic will scan your system for known data-mining, advertising, and tracking components and remove them, allowing you to maintain a higher degree of privacy while you surf the Web. It will hunt down and remove junk and obsolete programs, freeing up RAM and increasing your system performance.

Its other features include the ability for automatic Recycle Bin storage of removed components, and a viewer for backup archives that allows you to review removed components that have been stored for possible future restoration. The application also includes Startup Monitor, a small utility that runs transparently in the background and notifies you when any program registers to run at start-up. It prevents those utterly useless tray applications from registering behind your back, and it acts as an effective prevention tool against harmful Trojan horses, dialers, and spyware.

More Info: Click here
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CryptoExpert 2007 Lite
Freeware to store and protect your important information

Download: CryptoExpert 2007 Lite


If you're worried about storing your data and files, why not create a virtual encrypted drive to store your important data?

Even if someone manages to hack in to your computer or, in the worst case, your machine is stolen, the hacker wouldn't be able to access any of the encrypted files.

CryptoExpert creates encrypted virtual disks and these disks are visible as usual disks with drive letters (for example, G:, H:, Z:, i.e. with any drive letter that isn't in use by other system devices).

The data stored on a CryptoExpert disk is stored in the container file. A container is a file, so it is possible to backup a container, move or copy it to other disk (CD-ROM or network, for instance) and continue to access your encrypted data using CryptoExpert.

Any free drive letter (or chosen letter) in the system may be used to mount and to open an encrypted file-container for access.

When your virtual disk is opened, you can read and write data as if it were a conventional removable disk.

You can do anything with a CryptoExpert virtual drive that you can do with a normal hard drive, but with CryptoExpert, the encrypted volumes require password authentication before the files become accessible.

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Free Antispyware Programs for Windows®


Windows® Defender

With Real-Time Scanner

Features overview:
  • Real-time Scanner
  • Delta definition updates
  • simplified user interface
  • Support for 64-bit platforms and accessibility
  • WGA enforcement
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AVG Anti-Spyware Free Edition

Features overview:
  • Easy to use
  • Daily database updates
  • Heuristics to detect unknown threats
  • Automatic Cleaning Engine
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Spybot - Search & Destroy

Features overview:
  • Easy and Advanced options for use
  • Command line parameters to automate tasks
  • Weekly updates
  • Automatic Cleaning Engine
  • Backups of every removed problem
  • System reports to locate even unknown threats
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Ad-Aware SE Personal

Features overview:
  • User-controlled spyware removal
  • Code Sequence Identification (CSI) technology
  • Extensive Lavasoft Detection Database
  • ADS scan
  • Blocks browser hijackers
  • Quarantine manager
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Spyware Terminator
With Real-Time Scanner

Features overview:
  • Real-time Protection
  • Computer Restoration
  • Locked File Removal
  • Daily Automatic Update
  • On Boot Remover
  • ClamAV Antivirus Integration
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SpywareBlaster
With Real-Time Scanner

Features overview:
  • Real-time Protection
  • Prevent the installation of ActiveX-based spyware, adware, browser hijackers, dialers, and other potentially unwanted software.
  • Block spyware/tracking cookies in Internet Explorer and Mozilla/Firefox.
  • Restrict the actions of potentially unwanted sites in Internet Explorer.
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Free Antivirus Programs for Windows®

avast! Free Home Edition

Features overview
  • Antivirus kernel
  • Automatic updates
  • Virus Chest
  • Resident protection
  • System integration
  • P2P and IM Shields
  • Integrated Virus Cleaner
  • Network Shield
  • Web Shield
Certifications:



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AOL Active Virus Shield

Features overview
  • Kaspersky Antivirus Engine
  • Antivirus kernel
  • Automatic updates
  • Resident protection
  • System integration
  • Integrated Virus Cleaner
Certifications:

Officially none. But practically, the engine and updates are Kaspersky Antivirus based. Hence, can be assumed VB100, WESTCOAST LABS and ICSA Labs certified.

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AVG Antivirus Free Edition


Features overview
  • Integrated Virus Cleaner
  • Antivirus kernel
  • Automatic updates
  • Resident protection
  • System integration
Certifications:



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Avira AntiVir® Personal Edition Classic

Features overview:
  • Protection against viruses, worms and Trojans
  • Protection against expensive dialers and phishing
  • Detects and deletes root kits
Certifications:



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Free Portable Utilities for Windows

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How many times you faced the problem of not able to open a file in a cybercafe due to particular s/w not installed in that system. Most often.. right? What would you do in such scenario? Being frustrated, you would google for a freeware, download it, install it and then try opening your file. By the time you do all these things you see that the time taken is too much and so you decide to leave the cybercafe embarrassed.


Alternative or rather the best solution would be to carry a Pendrive with you loaded with all the below stuff . Your precious time is saved. Moreover it's like carrying a virtual lappy!

These are extremly useful portable applications which you can load in a memory stick and roam. These become handy for those who don't own a lappy or for people who visit cyber cafe's for browsing. Compilation includes a s/w for each and every category.
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OpenOffice.org Portable

Complete office suite

Download: OpenOffice.org Portable
Size 65.1MB

OpenOffice.org Portable is a full-featured office suite that's compatible with Microsoft Office, Word Perfect, Lotus and other office applications. It's easy-to-use and feature-rich, performing nearly all of the functions you'd expect in an office suite.

More Info: Click here
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Opera USB
Portable Browser

Download: Opera USB

You want to use all opera features mobile - no problem !
- there are no unwanted effects on IE or other browsers
- existing opera versions are also not affected
- make no entries to the registry
- leave no data on the guestcomputer

What do i need for Opera@USB ?
- a computer with an internet connection
- a USB-Stick / USB Flashdrive with about 8 MB space left

More Info: Click here
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Portable Wackget
Portable Download Manager

Download: Portable Wackget

This is a converted version of popular download manager Wackget. Portable Wackget doesn't write into the registry. Just load it in a memory stick and use it on any system as a download manager.

More Info: Click here
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Portable Google Talk
Chat from any system without installing Google talk!

Download: Portable Google talk

This is a version of Google Talk which has the ability to run from a USB key. One thing to note though is that in order to comply with Google Talk's Terms and Services, the maker had to leave googletalk.exe out of the zip file. So all you have to do is drop googletalk.exe into the "googletalk" folder and it should run properly.

Maker's info: Click here
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TerraIM
Instant messaging client that connects to the AOL Instant Messenger network

Download: TerraIM

TerraIM is an instant messaging client that connects to the AOL Instant Messenger network. Thus, one can use TerraIM with an existing AIM, ICQ, or AOL screen name. Just log in using your AIM screen name or ICQ number with TerraIM, and your regular buddy list will show up. It adds on several useful features such as offline messaging, tabbing, aliasing, remote control and logging, but currently lacks certain features such as buddy icons and Direct IM.

Writes settings to: Application folder. Select the "Misc" tab under Preferences, then check "Store settings in a file rather than the registry". Alternatively, you can create a file called terraim_config.ini in the application folder with a single line "SaveConfigToFile=1".

How to extract: Download the EXE file to a folder of your choice. Launch the program by double-clicking on TerraIM_1.2.1.exe. You might want to rename the EXE file to TerraIM.exe for better portability (otherwise if you add the EXE to a program launcher, the path will be become invalid when you upgrade).

More Info: Click here
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Eraser
Completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive

Download: Eraser

Eraser allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. The patterns used for overwriting are selected to effectively remove magnetic remnants from the hard drive so that they cannot be recovered.

Writes settings to: Windows registry. But if you are just using it to securely erase files on-demand without setting up schedules, I think it can be accepted as portable.

How to extract: Download the installer and extract using Universal Extractor to a folder of your choice. The application files are located in the {app} folder, but you need to copy Eraser.dll from the {sys} folder. Launch the program by double-clicking on eraser.exe.

More Info: Click here
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Undelete Plus
Retrieve accidentally deleted files

Download: Undelete Plus

Undelete Plus is a quick and effective way to retrieve accidentally deleted files, files removed from the Recycle Bin, in a DOS window, from a network drive, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down.

Writes settings to: System registry, though only one setting (Language) is saved and the default is English, so I think this can be accepted as portable.

How to extract: Download the single EXE file to a folder of your choice. Launch the program by double-clicking undelete_plus.exe.

More Info: Click here
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RapGet
Portable Download Manager

Download: RapGet

RapGet is a download manager with special support for 67 free share servers such as rapidshare.de, megaupload.com, slil.ru etc. For apps of this nature, it is realistic to assume that code for various share servers will be broken from time to time due to changes on the servers, but it works great too as a portable download manager for direct links.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the RAR package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch the program by double-clicking on rapget.exe.

More Info: Click here
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1by1
Small and fast music player that plays files by directories

Download: 1by1

1by1 is a small and fast music player that plays files by directories, with optional playlist/favorites support.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch the program by double-clicking 1by1.exe.

More Info: Click here
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HDD Scan
Tool for low-level HDD diagnostics

Download: HDD Scan

HDDScan is a tool for low-level HDD diagnostics. It supports IDE/SATA/SCSI hard disk drives, RAID arrays, external USB/Firewire hard disks, flash cards and can scan the surface, view SMART attributes, adjust AAM, APM (Power Management), etc.

Writes settings to: Application Folder

How to extract: Download the zip package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch the program by double-clicking HDDScan.exe.

More Info: Click here
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VLC media player
Portable Video Player

Download: VLC media Player (Windows)

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

More Info: Click here
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XP SysPad
Windows system monitoring utility

Download: XP SysPad

XP SysPad is a Windows system monitoring utility that allows easy access to Windows system information and Windows system utilities, such as the individual control panel applets, as well as putting the "hidden" applications in Windows at your fingertips.

With XP SysPad, you can easily access hundreds of Windows operating system utilities and system monitoring information. You can also recover your Windows 2000/XP product key, get your IP address, execute web queries, monitor any running system process, launch any program, search files, and more. For convenience, it also can minimize itself to the system tray. XP SysPad has well over 250 functions in all!

More Info: Click here
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Monsoon holiday to Thoseghar Waterfalls

The monsoons are cherished by all picnic lovers looking out for scenic picnic spots to visit during this season. Thoseghar is one such place. Located 135 km from Pune, it is famous for its high waterfalls, serene and quite surroundings, a clean lake, and wooded, hilly surroundings.

The best season to visit Thoseghar is between July and November, when a plethora of small waterfalls, falling from heights of 15-20 m, enchant visitors with their natural beauty. There is also a bigger waterfall, 500 m in height, which is the star attraction.


We decided to go on an excursion to Thoseghar on Independence Day, for what better way can there be to celebrate it than to become truly independent and move away from hectic city life, even for a day or two?

The journey

The journey began early in the morning at 6:30 am, with the four of us (Kiran, Karan, Vipin and Jai, on two bikes). I set my bike’s distance meter to read zero so as to track the distance travelled. It may sound like a long journey to cover 135 km on a bike, but then, when it comes to going on picnics, we are pretty adventurous.

As the journey began, a cool breeze and slight drizzling made for just the right riding atmosphere. The roads, as usual, were pathetic, especially the section that began as we passed through a tunnel just on the outskirts of the city. The road was full of potholes and my bike’s suspensions were put to extreme limits of endurance. I would like to suggest this road to bike manufacturers for their testing routines.

After covering a distance of about 45 km, we halted at a restaurant for breakfast. The television was broadcasting the prime minister’s address to the nation. As the national anthem began, we all stood up to pay our respects. I heard the restaurant owner chastise a waiter, asking him to stand up as well. The fact that we did not miss the Independence Day celebration even while on our way to a picnic made me feel happy. A "2-in-1 independence" is how I would call it.

The next section of the journey was more exciting with a long, smooth road that seemed to ignite our passion for speed. I began cruising at high speeds, while my friend on the other bike stuck to the decision of not exceeding a speed of 60 km / hr, as per the manual guidelines, before it had travelled at least 2,000 km.

It felt awesome riding through lush, green valleys, reservoirs, and hills, even as we shouted ‘Oooooo!!’ all through the way. My bike’s reading now showed a reading of 80 km. It was time to confirm our route, so I stopped near an old man. He confirmed we were on the right track. Our next stop en route was Satara. After enjoying some snacks here, we resumed our journey.

After riding for another 35 km, we began looking out for banners that displayed route names. I tried to confirm the location of our friend on the other bike. It looked like we had lost them, as even they could not confirm their exact location on a mobile call. An interaction with a traffic policeman added to the situation when he went ahead to interrogate us. It seemed like the best way was to try and reach Thosegar independently.

The road we were on passed through a tunnel that led to a steep hill. As rain kept pouring at regular intervals, the view from the place became scenic. Yet there was danger, for there were no side barriers, and a slip could land one right at the bottom of the hill, trashed into pieces. Dense fog at certain place reduced visibility to just a few metres, with steep curves at some places, and made riding with caution a necessity. Yet the roads were smooth and the ride comfortable.

We stopped at a dhaba for a cup of garam chai and I tried to contact our friends on the other bike whom we had lost some time back. But there was no mobile network available — no way to ‘express’ through Airtel, no ‘connectivity’ with BSNL, no ‘idea’ on Idea Cellular! Technology was at its worst at the isolated place. I unsuccessfully rode back about 5 km to look out for them, and then decided to go ahead and reach our final destination.

Indeed, as we reached our picnic stop at around 1:00 pm, we found them at Thosegar. They overtook us some time back without our knowledge. This has still remained a mystery. For there was, and is, only one route to the top.

The waterfalls

After a sumptuous meal of rotis and egg curry, we went to see the waterfalls. The view of the biggest waterfall, 500 m in height, was breathtaking. It began to rain and no matter how much one felt like taking a dip below the fall, it was not allowed for recently, someone met with an accident here.

After taking our fill of the beautiful and serene surroundings, it was time to go back. We rode together till Satara, and from there it was a straight ride to Pune. The climate now was at its best, with a cool breeze and the setting of dusk adding to our happiness. We took short breaks for snacks and tea, it felt heavenly as we were all wet and shivering with cold.

We returned to Pune around 8:00 pm and had dinner together. It is always so pleasant to go to sleep after a long and tiring day. Incidents of the day kept flashing across my mind as I fell unconscious into a deep slumber.

Thanks to: www.tataworld.com for editing my write-up.

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Free Firewall Programs for Windows XP®

Comodo Free Firewall

Features overview:
  • Constantly monitors and defends your PC from internet attacks
  • Free maintenance upgrades
  • Gain complete control over which programs are allowed internet access
  • Automatic Update
  • Real time traffic monitoring enables you to react instantly to threats and identify bandwidth bottlenecks.
  • Easy to use interface and quick setup
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ZoneAlarm® Firewall Protection (Basic)

Features overview:
  • Constantly monitors and defends your PC from internet attacks
  • Easy-to-use firewall blocks hackers and other unknown threats.
  • Systematically identifies hackers and blocks access attempts
  • Automatic Update
  • Real time traffic monitoring
  • Automatically makes your computer invisible to anyone on the Internet
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Agnitum Outpost Firewall Free

Features overview:
  • Constantly monitors and defends your PC from internet attacks
  • Easy-to-use firewall blocks hackers and other unknown threats.
  • Systematically identifies hackers and blocks access attempts
  • Automatic Update
  • Real time traffic monitoring
  • Automatically makes your computer invisible to anyone on the Internet

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Sunbelt Personal Firewall™

The Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall will work for first 30 days. But upon registeration of your email with Sunbelt Software, a license key can be obtained.

Features overview:
  • Packet filter
  • File integrity control
  • Application communication control
  • Application launch control
  • Network Intrusion Prevention System
  • Automatic update checker
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Jetico Personal Firewall

Features overview:
  • Protect your computer against hackers and malicious software when networked or connected to the internet.
  • Choose a pre-defined Security Policy.
  • Edit an existing Security Policy (i.e. the firewall rule set configuration).
  • Create your own Security Policy.
  • Monitor running applications that access the network.
  • Monitor selected/all network packets as well as selected network events.
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PC Tools Firewall Plus™

Features overview:
  • Protects your PC as you are working, surfing and playing.
  • Intelligent automatic protection without all the questions.
  • Easy to use. Designed for both, novice and expert users.
  • Advanced rules to protect your PC against common attacks.
  • Network Intrusion Prevention System
  • Automatic update checker
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Useful Free Video Utilities


DownUTube

Save streaming videos from internet

Download: DownUTube
Size 425Kb
  • Searching the web sites (Searcing is done within the program, not openin a browser to do the search),
  • Downloading the clips (including MMS streams),
  • Keeping looked clips in cache,
  • Showing clips' pictures,
  • Getting all available RSS feeds,
  • Looking the pages that contains clip information,
  • Keeping track of downloaded and deleted clips,
  • Downloading more than one clip at the same time
  • Sending your clips and their links to a friend (With system's default mail manager or without).
Please use the videos for personal use only.

More Info: Mamusoft
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Windows Media Encoder

Download: Windows Media Encoder
Size 4.48MB

Windows Media Encoder Studio Edition Beta 1 is an exciting new addition to the Windows Media tools family. It is a powerful tool for video professionals, optimized for the creation of high-quality offline encoding using Microsoft’s implementation of the VC-1 video standard (WMV9). Windows Media Encoder Studio Edition Beta 1 provides the key features necessary to create next-generation video content and capitalize on the growing importance of scenarios around optical media and video-on-demand. With the final standardization of VC-1, “Studio Edition”, will prove to be an invaluable tool for the offline encoding community.
  • Segment-based re-encoding
  • Full-bit-depth support
  • Hardware acceleration
  • ISAN & Ad-ID support
  • Support for multiple audio tracks
  • Encoding from multiple audio and video sources
  • Graphical bitstream analyzer
More Info: Microsoft
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DVD Genie
Unlock your software DVD player to play any region's DVDs.

Download: DVD Genie
Size 323KB
  • DVD Tweaking and Enhancement tool
  • It allows you to enable many undocumented or hard to find options through a simple and easy to use user interface
  • only supports region free DVD drive. If your DVD drive is region protected (RPC-2), you should try DVD Region-Free to watch all region DVDs.
Please note: all DVD drives as of 1 Jan 2000 is RPC-2 which means you can only switch the DVD drive's region for 5 times.
Most of the popular Software DVD Players are supported by DVD Genie along with certain additional features such as the Widescreen Zooming and certain Windows specific functions.

More Info: Inmatrix
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CodecInstaller

Detect and recommend codec for playing

Download: Codec Installer
Size 623.15KB
  • detect which Audio&Video codecs are installed on your system and that suggest you to install the ones necessary to correctly view the movie it is distributed with,
  • designed to be burned on a CD together with a compressed video, to be always able to play them. The users who receive the CD, with a single tool with a simple and intuitive interface, can check if the necessary codecs are already installed and up-to-date and with just a click can install the ones required.
  • Who distributes videos on CDs can include this program to be sure that who have to see the video, will have all the necessary codecs installed./LIST]
  • complete list of the installed codec and detailed informations on them. Since version 1.3, contains a MovieLauncher that displays informations about the distributed video file (author, plot, director...) Since version 1.4 can analyze avi files. It detects: width/height and ratio, lenght, video codec, framerate, size, bitrate, total frames
More Info: Jockersoft

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VideoBase
Archive your DVD, VHS, VCD, DivX and DVD-R collections

Download: VideoBase
Size 587.62KB
  • archives your DVD, VHS, VCD, DivX and DVD-R collections.
  • sort, search and filter them, and print out listings in text, HTML or XML format. You can also give them ratings.
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Advanced video editing
Edit all your Video

Download: Advanced Video Editing
Size 11.13MB
  • Extract Single Video Frames to Image Files
  • Powerful Video Editing that supports editing video files to extract the individual image frames.
  • Supports AVI to BMP, AVI to GIF, AVI to (PNG, JPEG, JPG, EMF, WMV, BMP, and more). Video editing (Supported formats AVI to GIF, AVI to PNG (Portable Network Graphics), AVI to JPEG, AVI to TIFF, AVI to EMF, AVI to WMF). Easy to use (just one click of a mouse.
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MPEG Parser
View MPEG internal structure and correct errors

Download: MPEG Parser

Size 878KB

MPEG Parser is the program for viewing of internal structure of MPEG-files. It can view fields of structures of MPEG file consists. MPEG Parser show such data about MPEG file: Resolution, Frame rate, Size, Aspect ratio, Bitrate ... Utility allows correct errors in MPEG, use for it menu item "Save corrected...", you can save internal structure in text file via menu item "Save MPEG information...".
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AutoScreenRecorder
Save your screen activities into video files

Download: AutoScreen Recorder
Size 0.8MB

AutoScreenRecorder 2.0 Free is a completely free screen recorder to save your screen activities into video files. It is free for unlimited personal and business use. It has no expiry date and can be distributed with free of charge.
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Free iPod Video Converter
Convert all popular video formats to iPod video

Download:Free iPod Video Converter
Size 1.65MB

Free iPod Video Converter provides an easy and completed way to convert all popular video formats to iPod video. You can enjoy DVD/VCD and AVI, MPEG, WMV, RM, RMVB, DivX, ASF, VOB video files in your iPod with few clicks. The program is a freeware and does not contain any form of malware.

Zilla Free Audio Converter-Extractor
Convert between audio formats, extract audio from Video

Download: Zilla Free Audio Converter-Extractor
Size 0.12MB

Converts audio formats from one to another, extract audio from video or record audio to HD. Audio Converter is able to convert(audio encoder / decoder) audio files from one format to another directly from Explorer with ID3v2 Tag editing and new Mp3 (Lame) support. Converts (to/from) WAV PCM ( WAV sound files ), MPG, MP1, MP2, MP3 ( MPEG Layer-3 ), WMA ( Windows Media Audio ), ALF2, ADPCM, GSM, G.726, DSP, A-LAW, ACM.Records from mic or cassette.
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swf >> avi Converter
Convert Flash Video to avi Video

Download: swf >> avi Converter

Size 1.05MB

swf>>avi is a freeware dedicated to Flashtm .swf files to .avi conversion. swf>>avi is productivity tool. You can batch convert swf files and manage conversion profiles.

Here are some key features of "swf avi":

· Batch convert swf files to avi
· Create custom conversion profiles
· Set swf input format and avi output format
· Set output frame rate

More Info: Click here
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Any Video Converter
Convert any Video formats for iPod, PSP, 3GP phone, MP4 player, DVD movie and More!

Download: Any Video Converter
Size 11.5MB

Any Video Converter is an All-in-One video converting tool with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed and excellent video quality. It allows you to effortlessly convert video files between every format, for FREE! It can convert almost all video formats including DivX, XviD, MOV, rm, rmvb, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, AVI to MPEG-4 movie format for iPod/PSP or other portable video device, MP4 player or smart phone. It also supports any user defined video file formats as the output. Any Video Converter makes it easy for anyone to enjoy any format video with your iPod, PSP, mobile phone or MP4 player.

More Info: Click here

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SUPER © Video Converter
Universal Player Encoder & Renderer

Download: SUPER © Video Converter

SUPER © IS UNIVERSAL as it supports a wide variety of input/source file format to play
or encode (to & from) without any additional third party software.
Supported input source file formats are:
- Video format: 3gp/3g2(Nokia,Siemens,Sony,Ericsson) asf, avi (DivX,H263,H263+,H264,XviD,MPEG4,MSmpeg4 etc..), dat,
fli, flc, flv (used in Flash), mkv, mpg (Mpeg I,Mpeg II), mov(H263,H263+,H264,MPEG4 etc..), mp4(H263,H263+,H264,MPEG4), ogg,
qt, rm, ram, rmvb, str (Play Station), swf (Flash), ts (HDTV), viv, vob, wmv
- Audio format: ac3, amr, mp2, mp3, mp4, mpc, ogg, ra, wav, wma
- AviSynth Script Files: avs. Let you specify advanced encoding commands using AviSynth scripts!

More Info: Click here