certain URLs and file operations acn be blocked by you ,by configuring its advance optionsWith immediate real-time protection, clockwork updates, and much more, this free software is highly regarded .Though its graphical user interface isnt that much good as other paid antivirus.Some of you may get confused with its buttons which look like a media player buttons.But you will get familiar once you try playing with them.Even the virus protection isnt as much good as topers in antivirus category like Kaspersky or NOD 32 but for a decent antivirus software without any price tag this software is good enough for many home users who cant afford expensive antiviruses.Another feature is you can change its skin as you do with media players.You can get skin that suits your style.You can download Avast here.Free registrationAvast!
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MPlayer – Play anything , almost all formats of Audio and video
Supported Input Formats (S)VCD (Super Video CD) CDRwin’s .bin image file DVD, including encrypted DVD MPEG-1/2 (ES/PS/PES/VOB) RIFF AVI file format ASF/WMV/WMA format QT/MOV/MP4 format RealAudio/RealVideo format Ogg/OGM files Matroska NUT NSV (Nullsoft Streaming Video) VIVO format FLI format NuppelVideo format yuv4mpeg format FILM (.cpk) format RoQ format PVA format streaming via HTTP/FTP, RTP/RTSP, MMS/MMST, MPST, SDP TV grabbing Supported Video and Audio Codecs most important video codecs: MPEG-1 (VCD) and MPEG-2 (SVCD/DVD/DVB) video MPEG-4 ASP in all variants including DivX ;-), OpenDivX (DivX4), DivX 5 (Pro), Xvid MPEG-4 AVC aka H.264 Windows Media Video 7/8 (WMV1/2) Windows Media Video 9 (WMV3) (using x86 DLL) RealVideo 1.0, 2.0 (G2) RealVideo 3.0 (RP8), 4.0 (RP9) (using Real libraries) Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3), Cinepak, RPZA and other QuickTime codecs DV video 3ivx Intel Indeo3 (3.1, 3.2) Intel Indeo 4.1 and 5.0 (using x86 DLL or XAnim codecs) VIVO 1.0, 2.0, I263 and other H.263(+) variants (using x86 DLL) MJPEG, AVID, VCR2, ASV2 and other hardware formats FLI/FLC HuffYUV various old simple RLE-like formats most important audio codecs: MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3 (MP3) audio AC3/A52 (Dolby Digital) audio (software or SP/DIF) AAC (MPEG-4 audio) WMA (DivX Audio) v1, v2 WMA 9 (WMAv3), Voxware audio, ACELP.net etc (using x86 DLLs) RealAudio: COOK, SIPRO, ATRAC3 (using Real libraries) RealAudio: DNET and older codecs QuickTime: Qclp, Q-Design QDMC/QDM2, MACE 3/6 (using QT libraries), ALAC Ogg Vorbis audio VIVO audio (g723, Vivo Siren) (using x86 DLL) alaw/ulaw, (ms)gsm, pcm, *adpcm and other simple old audio formats Earlier Mplayer was just a command line player but now its with full GUI (Graphical user interface) and hence much easier for many of you.As i said earlier, its open source and hence you need not worry much about licenses.You can download the GUI version for windows here which is SMPLAYER
PC Tool Internet Security 2009 License For 1 Year for Free
PC Tools Internet Security Suite 2009 features the award winning antivirus, anti spyware, firewall and spam protection that can protect your pc from viruses, hackers, spywares and spam. Main Features : * PC Tools Internet Security Suite offers powerful anti-spyware, anti-virus, firewall and spam protection in one application.
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta Direct Download Links
Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta is officially out now for public downloading, the latest release features major Hotfixes and security Updates for the operating system, Vista SP2 adds support for new hardware devices, improves certain administration tasks and addresses reliability and performance issues.The following download will work on only English, French, German, Japanese or Spanish language Windows Vista installations, the download is valid for both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.Windows Vista SP2 BETA Direct Download Links : Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 32-Bit (X86) – 434 MB Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 64-Bit (x64) – 726 MB DVD ISO For Windows Vista &
Free ONSPEED Web Accelerator One Year Premium Subscription worth $49
In one of my previous post i had talked about free license for Kaspersky Anti-Virus being offered by YuvaYantra and now they are offering 100% free genuine one year license for ONSPEED Web Accelerator, the popular web-acceleration software from ONSPEED offers upto 10x speed gain on Dial-up connection and upto 5x on Broadband connection achieved using proxy based compression.ONSPEED offers a unique, patented technology called Advanced Imaging, enabling you to receive fully viewable and instantly usable web pages, while maintaining the maximum quality of images.
TuneUp Utilities 2007 Download with Free License
Configuring Windows can be problem for many of you when the options / configuration isnt so obvious.For many of you its quite complicated even though windows is much more user friendly than Linux.Still some may require some special software to do this so that they neednot go deep into configurations/ registry settings and all.Finding the setting you need can be frustrating.
Kaspersky Internet Security and Antivirus offline update
Some friend of mine had a peculiar problem just like many of you.Many of us sometimes get caught in a situation when we need to update Kaspersky antivirus or KIS offline due to non availabilty of internet on that particular system.Many of us dont know how to update those defnitions offline.Even sometimes internet access isnot available on some systems but still need to update antivirus defnitions.Today i will be talking about how to update Kaspersky antivirus or kaspersky internet security offline.
Floola – Excellent Itunes Replacement
Ever got frustrated by restrictions and less flexibility on your Itunes for managing ur Media library and doing so many other things.I m one of those guys who got fed up with Itunes and was searching for some good replacement of it.And then i found something called Floola.
MozBackup – Backup Firefox and thunderbird mail, favorites and contacts
Ever wondered how to save your bookmarks, mail, contacts, history, extensions, cache etc so that you can restore it next time when something happens to your system or u reinstall your operating system or upgrade.Many of you wold be already knowing about MozBackup which is used for backing all this up in a efficient manner.Its one of the programs i normally use as i keep on installing and uninstalling my operating system often.MozBackup is a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Sunbird, Flock, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite, Spicebird and Netscape profiles.It allows you to backup mail, favorites, all your personal settings and contacts.
TeamViewer – Free Desktop Sharing and Remote Control
I have talked abt another remote desktop application LogMeIn in my previous post.Today i will talk about Team Viewer which is free for personal and non-commercial use.TeamViewer is a solution for remote control, desktop sharing and file transfer that works behind firewalls and NAT proxy.To connect to another computer, TeamViewer needs to be installed on both machines .The installation of Team viewer is simple enough just like any other windows application setup.