15 million songs: free legal download

Nexus Radio is a free all-in-one application for all of your music needs. Search and download over 15 million songs directly to your PC, or listen to and record over 11,000+ radio stations free of charge! You can play downloaded songs directly within Nexus Radio, or transfer songs to your iPod/iPhone or any other multimedia device effortlessly. In addition to a library of rich music content, Nexus Radio is also loaded with additional free easy to use music tools. Create custom ringtones using the built in music trimmer, or use the Nexus Radio ID3 tag editor to easily tag your music files. Users can also create a custom profile and take advantage of the other many free services we offer. You can upload photos, create personal blogs, establish groups, and post events all for free. Version 5 improves compatibility with Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Main Features:

» No monthly fees.
» No spyware, malware, or adware.
» Over 15 million songs.
» 11,000+ radio stations.
» 38 music genres.
» Full featured media player.
» Straightforward audio editor.
» One click recording.
» Easy to use TiVo style recording.
» Recording filters.
» iPod & iPhone compatible.
» File support: AAC, MP4, MP3, MP2, MP1, OGG, WAV & WMA.
» Dynamic stream recorder with auto file naming features.
» Automatic ID3 v1/v2 tag support.
» ID3 v1/v2 tag editor.
» 32 Bit Digital effects.
» 5.1 Surround Sound.

Selected Reviews

SoftSea Review

Nexus Radio is a outstanding radio program, in a very nice and modern way to completion. The software collected a countless number of online radio stations, now certainly more than 8000 radio stations and music. When you run the pleasant voice you say "Welcome to Nexus Radio".

Stations divided into musical genres, if you go to the selected species have a long list of themes already the name of the radio station and the quality of music played. When you run the selected radio station immediately displays in which the team plays, the singer and what is the title track.

Selected stations can burn to disc to MP3 format, the software has a recording function in the time specified by us, with the gradual mute sound at the end. The software complements the MP3 tags, the quality of MP3, we can determine for yourself. The software is also in the history of our recordings. It should go to options and set everything.

Attached to the radio are very interesting visualizations that can be viewed pe noekranowo. If a station interested in adding us to her favorite, will henceforth be in the tab favorites, before adding, we can still change its title. The software has also equalizers, special effects, options for adding filters.

During installation, the software proposes to install a radio toolbar to your browser, this can be waived.

CNET Review

Nexus Radio is a free music software application that lets users download music and discover streaming radio stations from around the world. It also doubles as a media player, and recording tool that can record in-line audio from your computer, or from the radio streams to which you're listening. In addition, the app plays fetch--create a filter and it will capture songs or artists according to your keyword choice. That spells "free music discovery" to us.

Like competing music jukebox software, Nexus Radio has its own plug-in architecture that allows third parties to create their own add-ons. One of the most popular applications of that has been visualizations, which users are able to add or remove from the player. The app also offers drag-and-drop functionality for creating your own playlists from music stored on your hard drive, and there are built-in tools for saving clips as MP3s and editing clips.

Nexus Radio has an attractive interface that offers plenty of functionality without being overly complex. The main screen has built-in volume control, menu options, and a dropdown for on-the-fly burning. Stations are listed alphabetically, but other than the name, there's really no additional information, so you'll have to hunt and peck to find the stations you like. It's best to add stations as favorites for easier access with further use. The app isn't the most polished we've seen, but it offers a simple way to save songs and create playlists of tracks heard on Internet radio.

Developer’s website: http://www.nexusradio.com/download.php

  

Zone Alarm PC Security Free Firewall

Active antivirus software is a must on any computer, however, no antivirus solution can offer the complete block from unwanted viruses and Trojans. Unfortunately, the average antivirus misses 1 in 3 new viruses and does not protect from hacking attacks. That's why you also need a strong firewall.

Zone Alarm is one of the best known effective and easy-to-use software based computer firewalls on the market. The free version of the software features an anti-virus and anti-spyware engine and anti-phishing checks that give you protection that goes way beyond the Microsoft Windows firewall solution. Nowhere else can you get a solution that gives you complete inbound and outbound control over the network traffic on your computer and offers unique additional protections such as DefenseNet.

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Note that the free version is available for personal use only, but options for businesses and individuals who want even more protection are also available for purchase.

Main Features

• DefenseNet™
  Leverages real-time threat data from community of millions of users to detect and block the latest attacks.
• Inbound Firewall Protection
  Stops hackers and other intrusions by making your PC invisible online.
• Outbound Firewall Protection
  Blocks spyware, botnets, and other malware from sending your personal data out to the Internet.
• Quiet and Automatic
  Runs in the background, un-noticed and out of the way, with rare alerts.
• Anti-phishing and Site Check
  Toolbar blocks fraudulent websites including those that trick you into entering personal data.
• Identity Guard^®
  Provides credit scores and recovery services to secure your identity online and offline.
• Works with all Antivirus
  Compatible with antivirus software, such as AVG and Norton Antivirus.

Reviews

CNet Review

ZoneAlarm Firewall Free 9.2 has gotten quieter and more effective, and should be considered an excellent tool for replacing the adequate default Windows firewall with a stronger option that includes better outbound protection, antiphishing guards, and ZoneAlarm's behavioral detection network.

The changes made to improve the default firewall in Windows 7 are impressive, but the newest version of the free ZoneAlarm Firewall argues that Microsoft still has a long way to go. ZoneAlarm 9.2 introduces multiple new features to one of the world's oldest computer security programs including quieter outbound protection, behavioral detection from the ZoneAlarm Internet security suite, automatic Wi-Fi security setting activation, antiphishing protection, an overhauled ZoneAlarm toolbar, and 2GB of online storage for free.

SupportCave Review

Using ZoneAlarm free firewall software provides you with antispyware, antivirus, and antiadware software on your PC that is a necessity. Zone Alarm reviews have generally given this software raves and recommendations.

Free of charge, you can download the ZoneAlarm free firewall software and install it right away on your computer for testing. It works to block uninitiated and unwanted traffic, both incoming and outgoing, even while your computer remains unattended and the connection is unused. By specifying which applications can gain access to the worldwide web, the software limits your exposure to threats and attacks.

Like all other firewall software products, the Zone Alarm freeware also has disadvantages. You’ll find that support for both Windows 98 and Windows Me has been discontinued. The ZoneAlarm free firewall software was originally developed by Zone Labs, which was later acquired in 2003 by Check Point.

PCMag Review

• Pros

Protects against hack attacks. Controls how programs access the Internet. Resists attack by malware. SmartDefense Advisor cuts way down on popup queries. Toolbar blocks phishing and malware-hosting sites. Includes online backup and identity protection.

• Cons

Doesn't report attempted Web-based exploits. Toolbar includes numerous features not relevant to security.

• Bottom Line

This new version of the ever-popular ZoneAlarm firewall eliminates most popup firewall queries and adds a toolbar that blocks phishing and malware-hosting sites. The result is an excellent, free firewall.

System Requirements for ZoneAlarm Free Firewall

Microsoft® Windows® 7*:

• 32-bit / 64-bit , 2 GB RAM
• 2 GHz or faster processor
• 100MB of available hard-disk space

Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 or SP2 Business / Home Premium / Ultimate:

• 32-bit / 64-bit, 2 GB RAM
• 2 GHz or faster processor
• 100MB of available hard-disk space

Microsoft Windows, XP SP2 or SP3 Home / Professional

• 32-bit, 1GB RAM
• 1 GHz or faster processor
• 100MB of available hard-disk space

Developers’ website: http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-us/zonealarm-pc-security-free-firewall.htm

Downloading page (left site of the screen): http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-us/trialpay-za-signup.htm

Portable Freeware Media Viewer and Editor - FreeVimager

FreeVimager is am image viewer and editor. It can as well play AVI video files and some type of audio files.

Main Features

•View & Edit graphics file of type: JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF (multi-page), PNG, PCX and EMF.
•Save As PDF command
•Jpeg lossless rotate and crop
•Works with all Windows versions from 95 up to Windows 7
•Multi-monitor support: switch form one monitor to another through context menu or TAB key
•The executable only version stores the settings to a INI file
•Preview Display with transparency (useful when working with two or more monitors)
•Unicode support: Open, Edit, Batch Process or Batch Rename your files named in Russian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese...
•EXIF is displayed and all data are kept when editing and saving images
•EXIF date / time adjustment in batch mode
•IPTC & XMP single file / batch editing support for JPEG and TIFF files
•Batch Processing and CD / DVD Slideshow creation
•Print Preview with image positioning by dragging
•Size optimized Email sending of images and AVI files
•Well known editing features like: rotate, crop, resize, brightness, contrast, sharpen, ...
•Live configurable Redeye removal tool
•Live Ansel Adams Zone System Histogram under Brightness, Contrast, …
•Twain Scan multiple pages to tiff and PDF (possibility to Email directly)
•AVIvideo player with snapshot functionality and draggable borders in full-screen mode
•Audio and CD player
•Zip extraction (context menu entry available)

Website: http://www.contaware.com/content/view/45/45/

View all installed USB devices on your system

USBDeview is a small utility that lists all USB devices that currently connected to your computer, as well as all USB devices that you previously used.

For each USB device, extended information is displayed: Device name/description, device type, serial number (for mass storage devices), the date/time that device was added, VendorID, ProductID, and more...

USBDeview also allows you to uninstall USB devices that you previously used, disconnect USB devices that are currently connected to your computer, as well as to disable and enable USB devices.
You can also use USBDeview on a remote computer, as long as you login to that computer with admin user.

License

This utility is released as freeware.

System Requirement

This utility works on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7.

Under Windows Vista/7/2008 with UAC turned on, you should right click on USBDeview and choose 'Run as Administrator'. In order to disable/enable USB items on x64 systems, you must use the x64 version of USBDeview.

Developers’ website: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html

Download (32-bit OS): http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usbdeview.zip

Download (64-bit OS): http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usbdeview-x64.zip

Speed up your Writing with PhraseExpert

If you are writing a lot of professional or technical documentation, and you would like to speed-up a process, you may find a freeware PhraseExpress quite useful.  After a while you may avoid typing the most common phrases again and again. Instead, the program will perform educated guess and will input the string automatically.  

How PhraseExpert may help you?

• Organize frequently used text snippets.

Text snippets allow you to reply instantly to common questions. A snippet can be anything from a short phrase like “Kind regards” to a complete contract draft. When you are replying to an email, you simply type a text shortcut ("Autotext"), press a hotkey or select the desired phrase from a selection menu, and the snippet will be inserted for you automatically.

• Expand abbreviations as you type.

PhraseExpress expands text abbreviations into full phrases for you. E.g. typing 'sig' could insert your signature into any program.  It provides this known MS Office Autotext feature in any Windows program, e.g. Internet Explorer, Excel, Database Front Ends, etc.

• Auto-Complete

PhraseExpress silently monitors your individual text input and analyzes repetitive phrases. The text prediction algorithm is completely different from tedious Auto-Complete functions that are using just static dictionaries or web based contents. PhraseExpress rather adapts to your individual writing style. It learns what you type, it learns which suggestions you like and which you didn't. It automatically dumps rarely used words and assesses frequently word combinations based on your preference usage and frequency.

• Spell Checking

PhraseExpress includes a system-wide spell checker in seven languages in any program. PhraseExpress supports Unicode for multi-language phrases and also offers you to switch the keyboard language layout automatically during keyboard input. This enables multi-language users to use different language within a single phrase with correct display of the characters. Or you can highlight any text and let PhraseExpress change the language scheme on demand.

• Clipboard Manager

While the standard Windows Clipboard keeps only the last copied data, the PhraseExpress Clipboard Manager stores recently copied clipboard contents for instant pasting into any application.

• Program Launcher

Launch programs simply by entering a text shortcut. For example, type 'word' to launch Microsoft Word or 'exc' to open a spreadsheet. You can define whether the program shall launch instantly or optionally after pressing a customizable confirmation key.

• Correct spelling mistakes in any application.

PhraseExpress Standard Edition is free-of-charge to all personal users:

• Fully featured
• No trial expiration
• No Spyware
• No Adware
• No strings attached!

Website: http://www.phraseexpress.com/

Paint.Net – Free Alternative to Photoshop

About

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

Features

Simple, intuitive, and innovative user interface

Every feature and user interface element was designed to be immediately intuitive and quickly learnable without assistance. In order to handle multiple images easily, Paint.NET uses a tabbed document interface. The tabs display a live thumbnail of the image instead of a text description. This makes navigation very simple and fast.

The interface is also enhanced for Aero Glass if you are using Windows 7 or Vista.

Performance

Extensive work has gone into making Paint.NET the fastest image editor available. Whether you have a netbook with a power-conscious Atom CPU, or a Dual Intel Xeon workstation with 8 blazingly fast processing cores, you can expect Paint.NET to start up quickly and be responsive to every mouse click.

Layers

The feature, usually only found on expensive or complicated professional software, layers form the basis for a rich image composition experience. You may think of them as a stack of transparency slides that, when viewed together at the same time, form one image.

Active Online Community

Paint.NET has an online forum with a friendly, passionate, and ever-expanding community. Be sure to check out the constantly growing list of tutorials and plugins!

Automatically Updated

Updates are free, and contain new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes. Upgrading to the latest version is very simple, requiring only two clicks of the mouse.

Special Effects

Many special effects are included for enhancing and perfecting your images. Everything from blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal, distortion, noise, and embossing are included. Also included is our unique 3D Rotate/Zoom effect that makes it very easy to add perspective and tilting.

Adjustments are also included which help you tweak an image's brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, curves, and levels. You can also convert an image to black and white, or sepia-toned.

Powerful Tools

Paint.NET includes simple tools for drawing shapes, including an easy-to-use curve tool for drawing splines or Bezier curves. The Gradient tool, new for 3.0, has been cited as an innovative improvement over similar tools provided by other software. The facilities for creating and working with selections is powerful, yet still simple enough to be picked up quickly. Other powerful tools include the Magic Wand for selecting regions of similar color, and the Clone Stamp for copying or erasing portions of an image. There is also a simple text editor, a tool for zooming, and a Recolor tool.

Unlimited History

Everybody makes mistakes, and everybody changes their mind. To accommodate this, every action you perform on an image is recorded in the History window and may be undone. Once you've undone an action, you can also redo it. The length of the history is only limited by available disk space.

System Requirements

• Windows 7 (recommended),
     or Windows XP SP3,
     or Windows Vista SP1 (SP2 and Platform Update recommended)
• 800MHz processor (dual-core recommended)
• 512MB of RAM
• 1024 x 768 screen resolution
• 200+ MB hard drive space
• Optional: 64-bit mode requires a 64-bit CPU and a 64-bit edition of Windows

Paint.NET also depends on Microsoft's .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, which is automatically installed if it isn't already on the system.

Please note that Paint.NET uses your hard drive to store temporary files related to undo/redo history. 

Because of this, actual disk space requirements will depend on the actions you perform on an image, and on the size of the image.

Languages

The utility is available in many languages including Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, Frisian, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish.

Website: http://www.getpaint.net/

Password Recovery for Chrome Browser

ChromePass is a small and simple password recovery tool that allows you to view the user names and passwords stored by Google Chrome Web browser. For each password entry, the following information is displayed: Origin URL, Action URL, User Name Field, Password Field, User Name, Password, and Created Time.

You can select one or more items and then save them into text/html/xml file or copy them to the clipboard.

The utility is portable and released as freeware.

Latest software release: 1.16

Web site: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/chromepass.html

Direct Download: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/chromepass.zip

Multi-functional Media Downloader and Editor - aTube Catcher

What is aTube Catcher?

aTube Catcher is a simple freeware application for personal, private and non-commercial purposes, allowing to download videos from multiple popular video sharing sites like YouTube, XTube, Pornotube, Dailymotion, MySpace, Google, Yahoo, etc. and export to many formats (MPG, AVI, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, WMV, PSP, MOV, FLV) with the quality that you choose. For your convenience, the utility also provides templates to encode your videos to standard formats as DVD, VCD, IPOD, PSP, etc.

Software supports "Authentication" option in YouTube, so you can download private videos (of course, if you have proper authorization), or videos with adult content.

How it works?

aTube Catcher (aTC ) is a small web browser, it enters to a Website, interprets the content and when it finds one video instead of download and playback (like all the other web browsers), it just downloads in the directory that you have previously selected after that, it converts your video to the format requested.

Do you have FLV files on your disk (downloaded with other tools for example) or videos in other formats waiting to be converted to 3GP, 3G2, MPEG1, 2, 3, 4, DVD, VCD, IPOD, WMV, XVID, AVI, etc? You do not need to convert one by one anymore. Just copy all the paths to a simple text file and open the file with aTC, it will process and recode all that files automatically.

To protect copyright holders, aTube Catcher doesn't support secure/ciphered protocols (including RTMPE) and it doesn't has support to decode/decrypt protected content by any DRM security measure.

The utility comes with a Flash video (FLV) player and a new tool called Smart Media Hunter that allows you to download your favorite comic and fun videos from a hundred sites, including TV commercials, and all completely safe and free.

So, not only you can export the videos from YouTube, XTube, Pornotube, Dailymotion, MySpace, Stage6, Google, etc, also you can convert/recode any video or FLV (downloaded from other site or with other software) to the mentioned formats. YouTube Catcher also can download and encode any FLV if you provide him with the direct link.

The freeware program comes with many features, you can find just in commercial applications. You can set the encoding options such as size, framerate, aspect, video codec, fileformat, audio codec, audio sampling, quality, motion search, etc. Now includes Batch file processing, just paste the links in a plain text file, and YouTube Catcher will download all the videos to the specified folder, you will not have to wait one by one anymore.

Additional Features

Among other features, aTube Catcher also can burn in DVD/VCD your videos without use any other third party software. It has a built-in Screen Recorder to capture what you see on your screen, even video chat sessions from Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, DVD movies, Webinars, Online Meetings, etc, or just create video/audio presentations.

The latest software release includes 2 new functions, IE Cache Media Browser and Video Packet Capture, with this new great tools you will be able to download almost any video from internet, completely free and from the easy to use characteristic GUI (Graphical User Interface).

Computer Requirements

* Processor: Any i686 or compatible CPU running Windows 32 bits.

* Operating system: MS Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, Windows7, Windows 64 bits versions supported.

* Memory: The minimum required for your Operating System.

* DirectX 9.0c minimum for Screen Recorder

* Windows Media Player 8 minimum for Screen Recorder

* Latest version of Adobe Flash Player ActiveX (Click here to download from Adobe)

* ASPI Driver for VCD recording, you can install it by clicking on "Install ASPI Driver" on help menu.

* WinpCap 4.0 minimum, for Stream Catcher mode

* For Windows XP, it's recommended to have Service Pack 3

Developers’ website: http://atube-catcher.dsnetwb.com/get-video-software-windows-home/content/banco-datos-Welcome-Home-Page.html

Direct Download: http://files.dsnetwb.com/aTube_Catcher.exe

Turn you digital photos in funny images with Fotosketcher

Turn your photos into beautiful paintings, sketches or drawings in seconds

Thanks to FotoSketcher you can create stunning images to make original gifts for your friends or relatives. Create birthday cards, season's greetings stationery or simply print your work of art and hang it on the wall. Different styles are available: pencil sketch, pen and ink drawing, various painting renderings. You can also improve your original photo with simple tools (enhance contrast, sharpen, simplify image, increase luminosity, color saturation etc...). But what makes it different from many other professional tools is pure simplicity of use.

CNET Review

FotoSketcher provides users with a simple tool for re-imagining their photos as handmade drawings. While the program provides easy controls and a lot of flexibility, nobody will mistake the results for actual art.

This program is very simple, especially if users have prior experience with drawing and photo-touching software like Paintbrush or Photoshop. The controls mimic those programs with their simplicity and logical progressions. Users having any difficulties will find an informative Help file that walks people through the process. Converting our pictures was easy. Once we selected a photo to work with from our own hard drive, we were shown a screen featuring a pull-down menu to select pencil drawing style, pen and ink, or painting, along with several faders for adjusting color and intensity. A small preview box updated each time a selection was made saved time and effort. The results will look familiar to anyone who has used photographic filters on similar software. While the shots look different and drawn, they will never pass for real pencil sketches. However, for users seeking that computerized look, they are still fun and the changes quickly applied. Special features that helped improve this program included the option to batch process multiple photos at once and the ability to apply text to a photo with point-and-click simplicity.

While the results don't look like a professional artist redid your photos, this freeware program is simple and fun for anyone not expecting huge artistic changes.

FotoSketcher is completely free and does not contain any adware, spyware or virus. It runs on any version of Microsoft Windows (no Mac version available). Portable and setup versions are available.

Website: http://www.fotosketcher.com/

How to Jailbreak your iPhone with LimeRa1n?

What is Jailbreaking?

                       

Jailbreaking is a process that allows iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad users to run any code on their devices, as opposed to only that code authorized by Apple. This process permits users to install homebrew applications on their devices by unlocking the operating system and allowing the user root access. Once jailbroken, iPhone users can download many extensions and themes previously unavailable through the App Store via unofficial installers such as Cydia. A jailbroken iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch is still able to use the App Store and iTunes.

Is that legal to Jailbreak your device?

All the law obedient citizens would be surprised, but the answer is YES. You have a freedom to unlock the Apple device, and Apple has a freedom to prevent you from doing that, but not through legal and enforcement approaches, but purely through technological solutions only.

Jailbreaking an iPod or iPhone in the United States is legal "fair use", and does not violate copyright laws defined by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In response to a request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the U.S. Copyright Office explicitly recognized an exemption to the DMCA to permit jailbreaking in order to allow iPhone owners to use their phones with applications that are not available from Apple's store, and to unlock their iPhones for use with unapproved carriers. Apple had previously filed comments opposing this exemption and indicated that they did consider jailbreaking to be a violation of copyright (and by implication prosecutable under the DMCA). Apple's request to define jailbreaking as a violation of copyright was denied as part of the 2009 DMCA rulemaking. In their ruling, the Library of Congress affirmed on July, 26, 2010 that jailbreaking is legal under U.S. copyright law.

Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School, argued that jailbreaking is "legal, ethical, and just plain fun." Wu cited an explicit exemption issued by the Library of Congress in 2006 for personal unlocking, which notes that locks "are used by wireless carriers to limit the ability of subscribers to switch to other carriers, a business decision that has nothing whatsoever to do with the interests protected by copyright" and thus do not implicate the DMCA.  Wu did not claim that this exemption applies to those who help others unlock a device or "traffic" in software to do so. As of July 26, 2010, The U.S. Copyright Office has approved exemptions to the DMCA that allow iDevice users to Jailbreak their devices legally. These exemptions also allow phone users to unlock their phone in order to switch carriers. It is still possible Apple may employ technical countermeasures to prevent jailbreaking or prevent jailbroken phones from functioning, but they will not be able to sue users who jailbreak.

LimeRa1n Installation Tutorial

Limera1n may be an iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad jailbreak tool created by Geohot. Unlike some other previous solutions, limera1n is very easy to use. Limera1n just requires to click the “make it ra1n” button, and it will quickly jailbreak your iPhone, or iPod touch, or iPad.

Installation Notes:

Note 1: You must run LimeRa1n as Administrator.

Note 2: You need to have Windows PC to apply the solution.

Installation Steps:

Step 1: Download LimeRa1n from developers website: http://www.limera1n.com/

Step 2: Plug your iPhone (iPad, Ipod touch) in and launch LimeRa1n then click “Make it Ra1n”.

Step 3: Follow the onscreen instructions: hold the Home and Power button together.

Step 4: Release the Power button as you get this note on the screen.

Step 6: LimeRa1n will have your iPhone enter DFU mode and will then work its jailbreak magic.

Step 7: Your iPhone is almost jailbroken and you should see the message from Geohot that the jailbreak is completed and the Limera1n is unpatchable.

Step 8: If you don’t see the LimeRa1n icon on your iPhone, simply reboot it, then launch LimeRa1n on your iPhone and select Cydia to install.

Step 9: Once Cydia is installed, you can uninstall LimeRa1n from the LimeRa1n app on your iPhone.

Sources and Additional Information:

http://webfreebies4u.blogspot.com/2010/10/ipad-jailbreaking-news-limera1n-versus.html

http://www.iphonedownloadblog.com/2010/10/09/tutorial-jailbreak-iphone-limera1n/

Free Lightweight MP3 Editor

For those who download music from Internet and create personal audio collection, the free, small, portable, easy to use, and efficient MP3 editor can be a valuable addition to the software kit. The main target of the utility is to improve general quality of your MP3 collection.

What exactly can mpTrim do for you?

* mpTrim can trim MP3s - removing silent or unwanted parts. You can set the trim positions in seconds or by frame number, or use auto-detection to trim silence from the file.

* mpTrim can adjust the volume of MP3s. Volume change can be manual or automatic (volume normalization).

* mpTrim can fade-in/out MP3s (to fix abrupt beginning/ending). You can choose from 3 pre-defined fading effects.

* mpTrim can clean-up MP3s and recover wasted disk space.

* mpTrim keeps the music quality intact, no matter how many times you process an MP3, because it works directly in the MP3 format without having to decode/re-encode. That also makes it very fast.

* mpTrim supports ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags, and can either maintain existing tags, remove them, or update them when the file is edited.

mpTrim is ultimate freeware with no evaluation period or time limit. It is available in many languages.

Operating systems:  Win98/Me/NT4/2K/XP/Vista/Windows 7.

Limitations: For large files (more than 7 minutes audio clips) the system will asks you to consider a for-pay upgrade to PRO version of the program.

Website: http://www.mptrim.com/

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File Manager for Android Smart Phone

The ASTRO File Manager helps you get the most out of your Android smart phone. The Android operating system is designed to be very open and flexible, giving its users the chance to do more things on their phone than ever before. ASTRO helps your phone reach its full potential by giving you the tools to manage your phone.

As one user put it: ASTRO turned my phone from a toy into a tool.

Some of the things you can do with the ASTRO File Manager:

* Manage all files on your SD card (copy, move, rename)

* Manage multiple files and directories at once

* Backup applications

* Manage running applications

* Send files as attachments

* View thumbnails and images

* Browse and create compressed files like Zip and Tar

* And … much more

Manage Files

ASTRO will help you copy, move, delete and rename files. You can work with single files or multiple files. ASTRO does this in an intelligent manner working with your phone. These actions will be completed correctly even if you receive a phone call during the transaction. (try that test with other file managers and see what happens to your data.)

Backup Applications

ASTRO makes it easy to backup and restore public applications and also to install and un-install them. This means you can backup and un-install less frequently used applications, then quickly re-install them when needed. Since Android does not allow applications to be run from the SD card, this offers you the next best solution for freeing up the limit internal memory.

Manage running applications

The Process Manager will show you all running Applications, Services, and Processes. It displays running statistics for each one including the amount of memory and CPU each one is using. Applications can be stopped (killed), opened, detailed or ignored. This allows you to see if any applications use too many resources and keep you phone running smoothly.

Send files as attachments

ASTRO will let you send files as attachments to your email. You can also send images to other applications like Messaging or Picasa, or any other application that has registered to receive files.

View thumbnails and images

You can set the directory options to view thumbnails of any image in the directory (not just images in your picture gallery). ASTRO also has includes an image viewer that shows a thumbnail gallery of all the images in your current directory and supports gestures to rotate and change images.

Browse and create compressed files

ASTRO has built in support for reading and extracting compressed files like Zip and Tar files. You can browse the file just like it is another directory. You can extract individual files using copy and paste just like any other file. For Zip files you can also move, delete and rename files without having to extract the whole file.

Developers' website: http://www.metago.net/

Google Play site: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.metago.astro&hl=en

DjVuLibre djview - view DJVU and convert to PDF

Presented software can be a really treasure for those who is using, at least once a while, DJVU file format. It is not as popular as PDF, but it has multiple advantages, leading to its use by many academic institutions and online libraries. It is fast and convenient, with very compact files, but it lacks the compatibility features, present in Acrobat PDF. The presented software allows reading the DJVU files and easily converting them to PDF.

What is DJVU format?

DjVu is a web-centric format for distributing documents and images. DjVu was created at AT&T Labs-Research and later sold to LizardTech Inc. DjVuLibre is a GPL implementation of DjVu maintained by the original inventors of DjVu.

DjVu (pronounced "déjà vu") a set of compression technologies, a file format, and a software platform for the delivery over the Web of digital documents, scanned documents, and high resolution images.

DjVu documents download and display extremely quickly, and look exactly the same on all platforms with no compatibility problems due to fonts, colors, etc. DjVu can be seen as a superior alternative to PDF and PostScript for digital documents, to TIFF (and PDF) for scanned bitonal documents, to JPEG and JPEG2000 for photographs and pictures, and to GIF for large palettized images. DjVu is the only Web format that is practical for distributing high-resolution scanned documents in color. No other format comes close.

Typical DjVu file sizes are as follows:

* Bitonal scanned documents: 5 to 30KB per page at 300dpi (3 to 10 times smaller than PDF or TIFF)

* Color scanned documents: 30 to 100KB per page at 300dpi (5 to 10 times smaller than JPEG).

* Photos: 2 times smaller than JPEG, about the same as JPEG-2000, but the decoder/renderer is progressive and has minimal memory requirements.

* Palettized images: 2 times smaller than GIF (up to 10 times if it's mostly text).

* Digital (non scanned) documents: between 1 and 3 times smaller than PDF or gzipped PS (depending on the amount of pictures), but rendering, page flipping, zooming, panning are incomparably faster, and the image quality on screen desplays is much better (antialiased text, etc).

More importantly, all DjVu images render very quickly and can be smoothly zoomed and panned. Pages of a document can be turned instantly, with no annoying delay.

DjVu is used by hundreds of academic, commercial, governmental, and non-commercial web sites around the world to distribute scanned documents, digital documents, and high-resolution photos.

Web pages:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/djvu/files/DjVuLibre_Windows/

http://djvu.sourceforge.net/

Freeware universal audio and video batch transcoder

MediaCoder is a free universal media transcoder since 2005. It integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools in an elegant and transparent manner into an all-in-one transcoding solution. With a flexible and extendable architecture, latest codecs and tools are updated added in constantly. MediaCoder intends to be the Swiss Army Knife for media transcoding in all time.

Features In Brief

* Converting between most popular audio and video formats

* Multi-threaded transcoding and job-level parallelization

* Transcoding with high performance and high quality

* Flexible control over transcoding parameters

* Simplified UI for popular mobile devices (PSP, iPhone/iPod etc)

* Fully standalone, no dependancy on system codecs/splitters

* Simultaneous Segmental Transcoding (in development)

Typical Applications

* Improving compression / reducing size for audio/video files

* Converting media content for playback on multimedia devices

* Converting media content for online publication or broadcasting

* Extracting audio track from video files

* Ripping audio/video discs

* Fixing corrupted or partial downloaded video files

Supported Fomats

* Lossy Audio:
MP3, Vorbis, LC-AAC, HE-AAC v1/v2, AC-3, MPEG Audio L2, MusePack, Speex, AMR, Windows Media Audio, ADPCM, mp3PRO*

* Lossless Audio:
FLAC, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, OptimFrog, ALAC, TTA, PCM,

* Video:
H.264, XviD, DivX, MPEG 1/2/4, Flash Video, Theora (Open Video), Dirac, H.263, RealVideo, Windows Media Video, MJPEG

* Container:
AVI, MPEG PS, MPEG TS, Matroska, MP4, PMP, RealMedia, ASF, MTS/AVCHD*, Quicktime*, OGM*

* Storage and Streaming:
CD, DVD, VCD, SVCD, CUESheet*, HTTP*, FTP*, RTSP*, UDP*

     * supported as input only

Website: http://www.mediacoderhq.com

Firefox based browser optimized for Windows

Why settle for a basic build of your Firefox browser on Windows Operating Systems when you can have one that performs 25% faster? Mozilla does not provide optimized browser packages for Windows, while many Linux ("from scratch") users get the advantage of a browser built specifically for their system. That needs to change! So, here is the Pale Moon project: Custom-built and optimized Firefox browsers for Windows Operating Systems. Make sure to get the most speed out of your browser!

Features/disabled features

This browser aims to strike a balance between features and speed. As such, a choice has been made to consciously disable a few features that are not commonly used by the largest group of users. If you require any of the disabled features, then this browser is not for you! Please check the Firefox page to get an official build instead, in that case.

The Pale Moon browser has the following features:

• Specifically optimized for current processors. It makes full use of the enhanced instruction sets of newer CPUs - as a result, this browser will not run on older systems.
• Support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and Canvas, both vector-based types of graphics.
• Support for Firefox Extensions and Themes.
• Support for Personas.
• CSS Downloadable Font support (including WOFF).
• HTML5 and advanced DOM support.
• 100% Firefox Sourced! This means you get the reliability and stability of the Firefox browser, and the wide array of Firefox options and features.
• Significant speed increases for scripting and page rendering compared to Firefox.
• Uses a little less memory than the official builds because of the disabled features (listed below)
• There have been multiple reports of certain web sites being displayed correctly in Pale Moon, that were problematic in Firefox - I have not been able to personally confirm this.

The following features have been disabled by design:

• ActiveX and ActiveX scripting. ActiveX is specific to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and is not natively supported by (any) Firefox builds. There are some extensions that enable ActiveX components and scripts to run in Firefox on Windows, which will, therefore, not run in Pale Moon. This is a security consideration more than a speed consideration.
• Accessibility features. Most people, and certainly the people looking for speed optimized browsers, don't have a need for accessibility features. This cuts down some on the input complexity, and increases speed, but will, obviously, not be suitable for people who need these features.
• Parental controls. Pale Moon aims to be a fast browser for general use, not a "secured family browser". The design impact of parental controls as introduced in Firefox 3.0 and later is significant, and has had serious implications for building the browser. As such, parental controls have been disabled.
• A few miscellaneous things like the crash reporter and automatic updater, since they require server-side components that are not in place at palemoon.org. You will have to check manually if you have the latest version and update accordingly.

Website: http://www.palemoon.org/

Download (portable version): http://www.palemoon.org/palemoon-portable.shtml

Fight Malware – Remove Fake Antivirus

Remove Fake Antivirus is а free portable software used to remove the most popular fake antiviruses from your computer.

What is fake antivirus? This is a type of virus/malwares which disguises itself to be an antivirus. It infects your computer when you accidentally click a link in a website which will download the malware into your computer and run automatically when your windows boot. It scans the infected computer and produces fake alert warnings. It convinces you that your computer is in danger and urges you to purchase a useless copy of the fake antivirus. In most cases, the malware program blocks the real antivirus on your PC and Internet access to limit your ability for recovery.

These fake antiviruses must be removed immediately. The software supports removal of the 64 malware utilities, listed below:

1. Security Tool
2. My Security Shield
3. Antivirus 7
4. Antivirus GT
5. Defense Center
6. Protection Center
7. Sysinternals Antivirus
8. Security Master AV
9. CleanUp Antivirus
10. Security Toolbar
11. Digital Protection
12. XP Smart Security 2010
13. Antivirus Suite
14. Vista Security Tool 2010
15. Total XP Security
16. Security Central
17. Security Antivirus
18. Total PC Defender 2010
19. Vista Antivirus Pro 2010
20. Your PC Protector
21. Vista Internet Security 2010
22. XP Guardian
23. Vista Guardian 2010
24. Antivirus Soft
25. XP Internet Security 2010
26. Antivir 2010
27. Live PC Care
28. Malware Defense
29. Internet Security 2010
30. Desktop Defender 2010
31. Antivirus Live
32. Personal Security
33. Cyber Security
34. Alpha Antivirus
35. Windows Enterprise Suite
36. Security Center
37. Control Center
38. Braviax
39. Windows Police Pro
40. Antivirus Pro 2010
41. PC Antispyware 2010
42. FraudTool.MalwareProtector.d
43. Winshield2009.com
44. Green AV
45. Windows Protection Suite
46. Total Security 2009
47. Windows System Suite
48. Antivirus BEST
49. System Security
50. Personal Antivirus
51. System Security 2009
52. Malware Doctor
53. Antivirus System Pro
54. WinPC Defender
55. Anti-Virus-1
56. Spyware Guard 2008
57. System Guard 2009
58. Antivirus 2009
59. Antivirus 2010
60. Antivirus Pro 2009
61. Antivirus 360
62. MS Antispyware 2009
63. IGuardPC or I Guard PC
64. Additional Guard

Web Site: http://freeofvirus.blogspot.com/2009/05/remove-fake-antivirus-10.html

How to get your Skype on-the-go?

Skype free communication services are so popular now, that there is probably no need to present them in this post. After Skype was enabled for the smart phones, it became the perfect way for the free international phone calls.

For those who still are not in the picture, Skype lets you connect to others via instant message, audio conferencing and video phone. It can also call regular phone lines from anywhere in the world, but these calls will be already billable, which might be a good solution to talk to the less computer savvy international friends and family members, since the rates for international call are very attractive.  

One of the readers of this blog sent me email, complaining that he is not allowed to install software on his office computer due to the IT restrictions, and he is missing the Skype during the work hours. For Daniel and all others, there is a pretty good solution – there is a portable version of the Skype software as well. So, you may use it anywhere, on any computer, with no installation.

Get more information and download installer from the developers’ website: http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/skype_portable

Note that small online installer requires Internet connection to download additional files during setup.

In one of my December, 2009 posts, I have presented Rating List at RateItAll, offering listing and reviews of the third-party free software utilities, allowing enhancing the features provided by basic Skype services. At the time, it was 63 free applications on the list. Now, it is 84, and Skype Portable is having a highest rating: 5 of 5.

You are welcome to review the Rating List at: http://www.rateitall.com/t-2868750-free-software-for-skype-users.aspx

AppRemover – clean uninstall for Antivirus and Anti-Spyware Utilities

When you computer is infected by virus and spyware, the detailed technical clean-up is needed. In many cases, it involves applying multiple software utilities for scrupulous disinfection. After the job is completed, you may want to remove the software doctors from your PC to avoid unnecessary load to your system and to free space on your Hard Drive. Since software developers, especially for freeware utilities invest minimum efforts on the coding related to applications removal (they definitely care more for clean install than for clean uninstall), you may find the multiple broken segments and orphan files after the removal. Here AppsRemover comes to your service.

AppRemover supports a thorough uninstallation of hundreds of Antivirus and AntiSpyware Applications. Additionally, the program will do extra cleanup work for previous uninstallations and failed uninstalls. The complete support charts are listed and updated with each new release. And there’s no more need to mess around with your registry or applying manual cleaning approaches.

The application is free and portable, so it does not need to be installed on your hard drive and can be run from your USB thumb drive.

Release 2.2.4.2 for Windows 2000, 2003, XP (32 / 64 bit), Vista (32 / 64 bit), 2008, Windows 7 (32 / 64 bit).

Developers’ Web site: http://www.appremover.com/

Free anti-plagiarism checkers for your college papers

The word plagiarism comes from the Latin plagiarius meaning "kidnapper."

What is Plagiarism?

 Plagiarism is the act of using someone else's words, sentences, or ideas and passing them off as your own without giving proper credit to the original source. Cutting and pasting is so easy that many people plagiarize without meaning to.

You might be plagiarizing if you:

* Submit someone else's work as your own.
* Buy a paper from a papermill, website, or other source.
* Copy sentences, phrases, paragraphs, or even ideas from someone else's work, published or unpublished, without giving the original author credit.
* Replace select words from a passage without giving the original author credit.
* Copy any type of multimedia (graphics, audio, video, Internet streams), computer programs, music compositions, graphs, or charts from someone else's work without giving the original creator credit.
* Cut and paste together phrases, ideas, and sentences from a variety of sources to write an essay.
* Build on someone else's idea or phrase to write your paper without giving the original author credit.
* Submit your own paper in more than one course without permission of the teachers.

Note that whenever you paraphrase, summarize, or take words, phrases, or sentences from another person's work, it is necessary to indicate the source of the information within your paper using an internal citation. It is not enough to just list the source in a bibliography at the end of your paper. Failing to properly quote, cite or acknowledge someone else's words or ideas with an internal citation is plagiarism.

Checking for Plagiarism

If you want to check your own paper for signs of plagiarism, you can use the following free online services:

1.       Article Checker is a free web plagiarism checker, article checker, and duplicate content checker tool. It also scans your web page for others who may have copied it.
2.       The Plagiarism Checker is a free online application, developed by University of Maryland, where you can check the paper or except from the paper for duplicate content.
3.       Another free online service – Plagiarism Checker – allows searching for the selected phrases or text excerpts on the Web.
4.       Dupli Checker – Allows searching for duplicate content through Google, Yahoo!, and MSN search engines.

Viper – Free anti-plagiarism scanner

Viper is the plagiarism checker of choice! It scans over 10 billion resources, has an easy-to-use interface and highlights areas of plagiarism - totally free!

Main Features:

* Check your essay against 10 billion sources
* Scan against essays on your computer
* Scan against essays published on the Internet
* Easy side-by-side highlighted comparison
* Free, unlike most other scanners
* 100% accurate

Web site: http://www.scanmyessay.com/features.php

How to read and open blocked attachments in MS Outlook?

CodeTwo Attach Unblocker allows fast and convenient configuration of Microsoft Outlook to unblock attachments blocked by Outlook by default (for example, .exe, .url, .reg files). The program is setup directly in Microsoft Outlook, which ensures quick and convenient editing.

From Microsoft Office 2000 with Service Pack 2 version (E-mail Security Update) onwards, Outlook has not allowed opening some attachment types due to safety reasons. These attachments are considered to be potentially dangerous as they may contain viruses or can damage the system. A dangerous attachment can neither be opened, nor saved on the hard disk.

It will also be deleted while attempting to forward the message. Therefore, it is not possible to read such an attachment in Outlook.

CodeTwo Attach Unblocker will enable you to read all previously blocked attachments. In order to define the attachment types that should not be blocked, choose Tools, Options in the top menu of Outlook 2010 and earlier or go to the Backstage view by clicking File in Outlook 2010 menu and go to the CodeTwo Attach Unblocker tab. In the textfield, enter the file extension (the attachment type) you wish to unblock and click Add.

The file extension will be added to the Unblocked attachments list and after restarting Outlook attachments of that type will no longer be blocked and you will be able to save them on your hard drive.

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More than one type of attachment can be entered in one edit field by separating the types with a semicolon. The types are not case sensitive.

CodeTwo Attach Unblocker is completely free software. You can free download and use it as long as you like.

System Requirements

Microsoft Outlook 2010 / 2007 / 2003 / 2002 / 2000 / 98
Microsoft Windows 7 / Vista / 2003 / XP / 2000

Website: http://www.codetwo.com/freeware/attach-unblocker/

Note that there are two downloading link on the page: one for 32-bit version, another – for 64-bit version. Download the correct one, based on your Operating System.