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Defraggler

Piriform, the company that brought CCleaner and Recuva have now released another tool for Hard disk optimization. It's hard disk defragmentation tool called 'Defraggler'.

It differs from other defrag tools on the market, by enabling you to quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to process the whole drive. Select the file and defragment in it in particular.

Defraggler is completely free for both corporate and individual use.

Download: Defraggler

Fanaa means.... "Destroyed in Love"

Recently I had been to Cochin for a vacation. On one fine evening, I, my Sister, Brother in Law and grand ma went to Cochin Shipyard. We went for a sail on a motor driven boat. There were around 30 members on the boat.

It was a breezy chill evening. We sat on a upper deck. I and grandma on one side; Sister and Brother-in-Law in opposite side. As we sat, a pretty girl in her twenties sat beside my sister. She had long smooth hairs and eye catching shape. She came with a elder person which I guess is her uncle.

My eyes automatically was turning to have a glance at her. Cool breeze kissed her hairs in a gentle swing. Breeze carried her fragnance to me, I was carried away by her beauty.

I made up my mind that some how I should have a word with her. I was glancing at her at every opportunity I get while speaking with my sister.

My sister whispered "Hmmm...I can see your eyes seeing someone else"?

I said "Hmm...Hey dear please initiate conversation with the girl beside you".

Sister: "Come on".. Don't you have guts to speak to a girl?

Me: "Are yaar" understand...grand ma is also here....

Sister: "Don't worry, she will not mind it...just proceed...

Me: Let me see...

I couldn't start a conversation with the girl as her uncle was right beside her. The girl was watching the other ships passing by..

Sister: You went for shopping DVD's...So what movies you bought?

Me: I got some Hindi movies...Humtum, Parineeta, Fanaa...

Sister: Hmmm...Fanaa... What is the meaning of Fanaa?

Me: I said Fanaaa....means....burnt in.....

As I was saying this, I heard some one speak "Destroyed in ..."

I turned my eyes, and was astonished to see the girl's eyes straight into my eyes! My heart rate jumped to 1000 beats/sec! Then she continued saying....

Fanaa means destroyed in Lovee!

I couldn't believe my ears...I said.."Please say it again"...

She said "Fanaa means Destroyed in Love...Love!"

I was speachless for a couple of seconds..

Then I grasped this opportunity and asked her so you watch Hindi movies?

She said "Ya", I do..

Me: Ok..

Then another straight staright one from her: "What's your name"?!

I said: "Kiran....Kiran Kumar" and asked her "What's your name?"

She said "Soniya"

Then we started having conversation with eachother.... I could see surprised look in face of my sister...

Me: Soniya, so you study in Cochin?

Soniya: No, I am stuying M.B.A in Pune.

I was shocked! I immediately said, I am also from Pune!

Soniya: Oh! So what do you do in Pune?

Me: I am working as a Design Engineer

Me: Where do you study in Pune?

Soniya: Symbiosis....

Me: Oh! I stay a couple of Kms from Symbiosis...

Soniya: Hmm...Is it ?

Our conversation went for around 10 minutes... then the I heard my sister say.. "Anna, Ship journey is over!"...

People started rushing through and so did I...

In matter of few seconds, Soniya vanished somewhere...

I looked around everywhere, but she vanished in the darkness. We didn't exchange our mail ID's nor phone number's because we were totally lost in conversation.

I felt like loosing a crore of rupees. I asked my sister, did you see her?

Sister said "No anna".

That was the end of a unforgettable lovely evening with a beautiful girl!".

Hardware Monitoring Software

There are many factors in a system which are not known from default Windows "Computer management" section (Right-click "My Computer"> "Manage"). Some of these factors are Hardware temperatures, details of BIOS, PCI, Network Cards, Ports etc. Many a times knowning such info of system is handy while troubleshooting system.

Following are some free such tools that lets you study in detail of system hardware.

SIW System Info

SIW is an advanced System Information tool for Windows that gives detailed information about your system and settings.

The system information is divided into few major categories: (From Manufacturer's website)

Software: Operating System, Installed Software and Hotfixes, Processes, Services, Users, Open Files, system update, Installed Codecs, Software Licenses (Product Keys / Serial Numbers / CD Key).

Hardware: Motherboard, Sensors, BIOS, CPU, chipset, PCI/AGP, USB and ISA/PnP Devices, Memory, Video Card, Monitor, Disk Drives, CD/DVD Devices, SCSI Devices, S.M.A.R.T., Ports, Printers.

Network: Network Cards, Network Shares, currently active Network Connections, Open Ports.

Tools: Password Recovery, Reveal lost passwords hidden behind asterisks, MAC Address Changer, Shutdown / Restart.

Real-time monitors: CPU, Memory, Page File usage and Network Traffic.

Download: SIW
[http://www.gtopala.com/]

HSLAB Free Sys Monitor

Manufacturer's Description: HSLAB Sys Monitor is a real-time monitoring and statistics tool that allows you to keep an eye on a specific system performance value. You can choose from CPU, memory, network connections, network traffic, disk space, connected users and more. You can only monitor one of these values at a time, but easily switch between them as needed. The small display can be placed anywhere on your screen and takes up very little desktop space.

Download: HSLAB Free Sys Monitor[http://www.softplatz.com/Soft/Utilities/Other/HSLAB-Free-Sys-Monitor.html]
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EVEREST Home Edition 2.20

Everest Home Edition is a freeware system information, system diagnostics and benchmarking program.


Here are some key features of "Everest Home Edition":

- Full hardware information

- DirectX information

- Overclock information

- UPS, tape drive support

- Diagnostics module

- Benchmarks

- Tweaking features

- Built-in hardware database

Download: Everest Home Edition

[http://www.lavalys.com/]

Note: Lavalys has discontinued development of free version. This is the last free version from them.

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Speed Fan (Recommended for advanced Users)

Manufacturer's Description: SpeedFan is a freeware program which monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can access S.M.A.R.T. info for those hard disks that support this feature and show hard disk temperatures too, if supported. SpeedFan supports SCSI disks too.

Download: Speed Fan

[http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php]

Software Release of the Week - Blender

Blender

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems.

Blender is used to create 3D visualisations, stills and also allows you to create movie quality video.

Main Features:

- Offers a wide range of tools for the creation of 3D content, imaging, modeling, uv-mapping, rigging, shading, animation, physics and particles, rendering, compositing and others.

- Cross platform, supports Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, VistaMac OS X (PPC and Intel)Linux (i386) Linux (PPC) FreeBSD 5.4 (i386) SGI Irix 6.5 Sun Solaris 2.8 (sparc)

- Free support via http://www.blender3d.org/;

Minimal specifications for Hardware:

300 MHz CPU, 128 MB Ram, 20 MB free hard disk Space, 1024 x 768 px Display with 16 bit color, 3 Button Mouse, Open GL Graphics Card with 16 MB Ram.

Free Download: Blender

[http://www.blender.org/] Tutorials and Help