Archive for 'Software' Category

Samsung Galaxy S official firmware update can void your Vodafone warranty

By Florin - Last updated: Monday, August 23, 2010

Being a Vodafone customer sometimes sucks. After delaying the Android 2.2 Froyo update for the HTC Desire (the update should finally arrive today), Vodafone UK is now doing another thing that upsets some users. Talking about a recent Galaxy S firmware update, the carrier says, on its official forum, that “any firmware that hasn’t been [...]

Motorola announces future Android 2.1 and 2.2 Froyo updates

By Florin - Last updated: Sunday, August 22, 2010

Wondering when exactly your Motorola Android smartphone will receive software updates? If the answer’s yes, chances are that you’ll find what you need in this update schedule that Motorola has just released. Let’s start off with Android updates for Moto’s smartphones available in the US. Here’s the list of devices, and the expected updates: Motorola [...]

LuckyBackup: a powerful, fast and reliable backup & sync tool for linux

By Daki - Last updated: Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Tweet LuckyBackup is an application that backs-up and/or synchronizes any directories with the power of rsync. Its main features are: backup, safety, synchronization, exclude/only include options, allows custom rsync options, remote connections, restore and dry-run operations, scheduling, profiles and command line mode. It is simple to use, fast (transfers over only changes made and not [...]

How to update Firefox to 3.6.6 on Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx

By Daki - Last updated: Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Tweet Firefox 3.6.6 is a quick update to fix the hanging timeout issue in the crash protective Firefox 3.6.4. There seems to be a trouble with either old computer or people trying to play Farmville because of the loading time. So, if you are facing similar trouble on your Ubuntu system, its time to update. [...]

BleachBit: CCleaner for Ubuntu

By Daki - Last updated: Thursday, June 24, 2010

Tweet BleachBit quickly frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and easily guards your privacy. Erase cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, remove unused localizations, shred logs, and delete temporary files. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 70 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Adobe Reader, APT, and more. [...]

Two Programs To Easily Create Network Firewall Rules For Ubuntu

By Daki - Last updated: Friday, June 4, 2010

Tweet ZoundryDocument Via: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/programs-easily-create-network-firewall-rules-ubuntu-linux/ Linux is one of the most secure operating systems out there. Generally, you don’t need an antivirus, files cannot execute without your permission and there is a lot to protect you from people with malicious intent. One common tool that system administrators and home users use alike is the firewall. UFW [...]

OracleVM VirtualBox 3.2.2 released!

By Daki - Last updated: Thursday, June 3, 2010

Tweet Download: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: * VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only) * VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716) * VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728) * [...]

PortableVPN: a portable PPTP VPN client

By Daki - Last updated: Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Tweet PortableVPN is the first application which allows you to take your pre-defined PPTP VPN connection with you, without configuring everything on every computer. VPN connections are very popular these days and for most people it’s too complicated to install and configure all these settings on a computer or to drag your computer with you, [...]

Bitvise Tunnelier : Free SSH file transfer, terminal and tunneling

By Daki - Last updated: Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Tweet Bitvise Tunnelier is a SSH and SFTP client for Windows which incorporates: * one of the most advanced graphical SFTP clients; * state-of-the-art terminal emulation with support for the bvterm, xterm, and vt100 protocols; * support for corporation-wide single sign-on using SSPI (GSSAPI) Kerberos 5 and NTLM user authentication, as well as Kerberos 5 [...]

TheFreeVPN: Protecting the web for your security, privacy and anonymity

By Daki - Last updated: Thursday, January 28, 2010

Tweet Access blocked websites from within a corporate environmement Watch Hulu.com, Pandora.com, ABC.com, BBC.co.uk Abroad Use VoIP software like Skype if it’s blocked Protect yourself from snoopers at Wi-Fi hotspots, hotels, airports, corporate offices and ISP hubs. Hide your IP address for your privacy online 100% Security Through a VPN Link: http://www.thefreevpn.com/ So go ahead [...]

Pino: a Twitter client for Linux desktop

By Daki - Last updated: Thursday, January 28, 2010

Tweet Pino is Twitter client for Linux desktop. It’s simple and fast. Pino is written in Vala language and compiled to the native binary code. Download: http://pino-app.appspot.com Screenshots:

PaperBus : The free proxy service

By Daki - Last updated: Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Tweet PAPER BUS a Free proxy service brought you by Open Terrace Ltd the same company that made Freedur. PAPERBUS has just been released January 21, 2010 . Website: http://www.paperb.us/ 1 – paper bus is free and fast. there is no registration and the app is multi-platform. 2 – you can use paper bus to [...]

Get Free Keycode of PDF to Word Converter at Today

By Daki - Last updated: Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Tweet PDF to Word Converter 2.5.0 , The First PDF to Word Converter supports Microsoft Office 2010 and Windows 7 Support encrypted PDF files conversion Support Microsoft Office 2010 and Windows 7 3 conversion modes-Batch, Partial, Right-click conversion modes Preserve text, layouts, images and hyperlinks in an editable Word document Now, Get Free Keycode of [...]

10 Must-Have Google Chrome Extensions

By Daki - Last updated: Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Tweet Via: Google Operating System To install an extension, visit Google Chrome’s extension gallery and pick one of the 1,861 extensions that are currently available. Here are some of the most useful extensions that add missing features to Google Chrome: 1. RSS Subscription Extension. Detecting and previewing feeds is a standard feature in most browser, [...]

Zen-Coding: Set of plugins for HTML and CSS hi-speed coding

By Daki - Last updated: Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Tweet Zen Coding, a set of tools for high-speed HTML and CSS coding. Originally proposed by Vadim Makeev (article in Russian) back in April 2009, it has been developed by yours truly (i.e. me) for the last few months and has finally reached a mature state. Zen Coding consists of two core components: an abbreviation [...]

YouTube HD Transfer:Download YouTube Videos in HD 720p and 1080p

By Daki - Last updated: Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Tweet YouTube HD Transfer is a small freeware utility that allows you to download videos from YouTube in various formats and qualities to your local hard drive, like low/high quality FLV, High Definition MP4 (720p) and even Full High Definition MP4 (1080p). Simply paste the YouTube url from your browser into YouTube HD Transfer, select [...]

Sikuli: a automate scripts creator based on Picture

By Daki - Last updated: Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Tweet Sikuli is a visual technology to search and automate graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots). The first release of Sikuli contains Sikuli Script, a visual scripting API for Jython, and Sikuli IDE, an integrated development environment for writing visual scripts with screenshots easily. Sikuli Script automates anything you see on the screen without [...]

Turpial : A twitter client like Tweetdeck for Linux

By Daki - Last updated: Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Tweet Turpial is twitter client like Tweetdeck for Linux , It is written in Python and aims to be an application with low consumption of resources and integrate the user’s desktop without sacrificing any functionality. It is not only wanted to reinvent the wheel (assuming that DestroyTwitter, TweetDeck etc . Are available for Linux), but [...]

Skydur: The best VPN/Proxy Client

By tdomf_810c2 - Last updated: Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Tweet Skydur is an easy to use anonymous web surfing application which protects your identity and improves your web surfing speed and experience. Skydur adds strong encrypted connection layer between your computer and the internet. You can securely access Hulu, Youtube, BBC iPlayer, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Bloger and many more websites from anywhere around the [...]

Plowshare: a command-line downloader/uploadera for file-sharing websites

By Daki - Last updated: Monday, January 11, 2010

Tweet Plowshare is a command-line downloader/uploader for some of the most popular file-sharing websites. It works on UNIX-like systems and presently supports Megaupload, Rapidshare, 2Shared, 4Shared, ZShare, Badongo, Depositfiles, Mediafire, Netload.in, Storage.to, Uploaded.to, Uploading.com, Sendspace, Usershare and X7.to.. $ plowdown http://rapidshare.com/files/130403982/1989_-_Castellum_honesti.rar 1989_-_Castellum_honesti.rar $ plowup natalie_merchant-crazy_man_michael.mp3 megaupload http://www.megaupload.com/?d=710JVG89 Link: http://code.google.com/p/plowshare/