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Barron's: Steve Jobs is worth $20 billion
March 26, 2007 10:51 AM PDT
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs is worth more to his company than any other CEO in the world, as much as $20 billion in market capitalization, according to the annual list of influential CEOs in Barron's Magazine.

In real life, Jobs isn't worth quite that much money, although once you get over a billion, who cares? But were he to leave Apple (willingly or unwillingly), the fallout would cost Apple $16 billion in stock market value, the magazine estimated. In the middle of the Monday trading day, Apple's market capitalization was $82 billion.

The article is behind a paid-subscription wall. But in a free video (for those who don't have any billions) posted on Barron's Web site, associate editor Andrew Bary puts the figure closer to $20 billion. Either way, Jobs is going to have to leave Apple at some juncture, and that day definitely won't be a good day for Apple investors.
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Paint.NET 3.05 Beta
Author: Rick Brewster
Date: 2007-03-26
Size: 4.90 Mb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win 2K/03/XP/Vista



Paint.NET is free image editing and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing.

New in this version:
- New: Pencil Sketch effect
- New: In Windows Vista, the new-style Save/Open dialogs are used
- Changed: The View->Units, Image->Flip, Image->Rotate, and Layers->Flip submenus have been "flattened" (their commands were moved out into the View, Image, Image, and Layers menus respectively)
- Improved: Download size reduced by about 300 KB by using PNGOUT
- Improved: Some uses of confusing "MessageBox" style dialogs have been changed to a much friendlier "TaskDialog" style interface
- Improved: When changing the language, Paint.NET can now restart itself automatically
- Improved: Performance for Move Selected Pixels tool for quad-core systems
- Removed: The "Clear History" button has been removed because it was not very useful
- Fixed: Sometimes the Colors window would get "lost" between sessions of Paint.NET
- Fixed: Stack-overflow crash when using certain effects, such as Gaussian Blur, on very large images with certain settings (such as a 200 pixel radius)
- Fixed: When cancelling the multi-image Unsaved Changes dialog, the input focus was sometimes confused
- Changed: Renamed PdnLib.dll to PaintDotNet.Core.dll
- Fixed: Very rare race condition in background thumbnail renderer


DOWNLOAD
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download5576.html

 

CrystalDiskMark 1.0 RC2 (Beta)
Author: Crystal Dew World
Date: 2007-03-26
Size: 702 Kb
License: Freeware

CrystalDiskMark is designed to quickly test the performance of your hard drives. Currently, the program allows to measure sequential and random read/write speeds.


DOWNLOAD
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download5574.html

 

NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) 3.3
Author: xtremetheme
Date: 2007-03-26
Size: 532 Kb
License: Freeware


NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) enables you to change the sign-on message text & color, GPU & memory clocks, hidden features like SBA (Side Band Addressing) and much more.

NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) will support all BIOSes from NiBiTor does only work with Geforce5, 6 and 7 series. Does not require any .dll, and will work under any version of Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP.

Supported BIOSes:

6800/U/GT/LE
6800 Go
6600GT
6600
6200
5950U
5900/U/XT/ZT
5800/U
5700/U/LE/VE
5600/U/XT
5500
5200/U

Quadro FX4000
Quadro FX3400
Quadro FX3000
Quadro FX2000
Quadro FX1400 Go
Quadro FX1100
Quadro FX1000
Quadro FX700

PCI-E 7800GTX
PCI-E 6800U
PCI-E 6800
PCI-E 6600GT
PCI-E 6600
PCI-E 6200 TC
PCI-E FX5900
PCI-E FX5750
PCI-E FX5300

PCI-E Quadro FX1300
PCI-E Quadro FX540

DOWNLOAD
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3122.html

 

Mozilla Firefox for Windows (Gran Paradiso) 3.0 Alpha 3
Mar 26, 2007 - 12:57 PM - by Digital Dave
Alpha but being the huge fan I am of Firefox I had to let everyone know.

Mozilla Firefox project (formerly Firebird, which was formerly Phoenix) is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. It includes a popup blocker, tabbed browsing, a smarter search, hassle free downloading, and improved privacy and security.

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Mozilla Firefox for Windows (Gran Paradiso) 3.0 Alpha 3 alpha
Publisher's Description:

Mozilla Firefox project (formerly Firebird, which was formerly Phoenix) is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. It includes a popup blocker, tabbed browsing, a smarter search, hassle free downloading, and improved privacy and security.

Mozilla Firefox has the following other editions available: Mozilla Firefox for Windows, Mozilla Firefox for Linux, Mozilla Firefox for Mac OS X, Mozilla Firefox for Mac OS X (Gran Paradiso) and Mozilla Firefox for Linux (Gran Paradiso).
Latest Changes:

* Animated PNG (APNG) images are now supported
* The DOM clientLeft and clientTop attributes are now supported
* Introduced support for , which puts resources into the browser's offline cache. This allows a web application to ensure that its resources are available in the cache when the browser goes into offline mode. See Marking Resou
* Improved precision of layout and scaling across a wide range of screen and printer resolutions
* Implemented cycle collection in XPCOM, which detects cases where two released objects hold one another, but neither is held by anyone else. In this scenario, both objects can safely be purged. Previously, the holds each has on the other would have preve
* Added support for the HttpOnly cookie attribute, which marks a cookie as readable only by the server and not by client-side scripts
* Added a new preference, "Warn me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page", which notifies the user when the page specifies HTTP-EQUIV=refresh
* Windows 95, Windows NT 4, Windows 98, and Windows ME are not supported for Gecko 1.9
* OS X 10.2 is no longer supported, and OS X 10.3.9 or better is required
* The non-standard JavaScript Script object is no longer supported
* Moving DOM nodes between documents now requires a call to importNode or adoptNode as per the DOM specification


DOWNLOAD
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Mozilla_Firefox_for_Windows_Gran_Paradiso/1032985422/4

 

Oil at $15 a barrel?
March 28, 2007 8:41 AM PDT
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Garry Anselmo is completely serious when he says that his company, Silverado Green Fuel, can produce a liquid fuel for industrial boilers that will cost about the same as oil, if oil sold for $15 a barrel.
For cars, he says the company's processes can be used to produce barrels of "oil" for car fuel that will cost about half of what conventional oil costs today, which is around $50.

What's the secret? Coal , a word that makes most people's flesh crawl. Silverado takes low-grade coal, pulverizes it and cooks it under pressure with water until it develops a waxy coating. The waxy coal particles are then reunited with carbon-infused water removed at an earlier part of the process to make a liquid fuel. So think of it as a coal latte.

The key to the process is that almost no one wants low-grade brown coal, which is about half water. Instead, coal miners and consumers concentrate on anthracite coal, which contains only about 3 percent water.

And there is a lot of coal out there. In the U.S. alone, the existing coal reserves hold enough coal to produce liquid fuel that would be the equivalent of 800 billion barrels of oil, according to a report earlier this year from Dave Edwards at ThinkEquity Partners. The U.S. right now consumes 21 million barrels of oil a day, according to the Treasury Department, so that's a potentially large cushion. (Edwards, though, also notes that coal-to-liquid companies face high capital costs, legislative regulations and other issues. Most of these projects only make sense if oil stays above $40 a barrel for an extended period.)

Silverado will soon break ground on a $26 million plant in Mississippi that will be capable of producing about the equivalent of 111,000 barrels of oil a year. The Department of Energy is working with the company and the Department of Defense has agreed to buy output from the plant, which will become operational in about 1.5 years.

The company, which is a subsidiary of a gold mining company, will also take measures to protect the environment, Anselmo added, including carbon dioxide capture and sequestration at the plant. The fuel also burns fairly cleanly. Nonetheless, he realizes that it will take a massive effort, and proven results, to win over the public.

"Coal is 200 years of dirty. The proof will be in the pudding," he said. "You're not going to get away from that.

Anselmo, though, says he has time. "They've been fighting wars over oil for 300 years. A few more won't make a difference," he said.
Posted by Michael Kanellos

 

AVS Capture Wizard

Transfer video from DV and VHS cams to hard drive and create movie DVDs. Capture video from TV tuners, DVB cards and WEB cameras. Encode video directly to MPEG 4 instead of native hardware uncompressed video format and save free space on your computer.

Features Overview

* Transfer video from DV and miniDV camcorders to your computer. Capture video on hard drive to cameras’ native AVI DV format or directly to MPEG 4 and save your computer free space.
* Transfer video from VHS camcorders and VCR to your computer. Give new life to your old VHS tapes. Capture video on hard drive to MPEG 2 format or directly to MPEG 4 and save your computer free space.
* Transfer video from WEB cameras, DVB cards and TV tuners. Capture live video or TV shows on hard drive to MPEG 2 format or directly to MPEG 4 and save your computer free space.

Unzip the package you`ve downloaded and install the software. Carefully read the instructions which you can find in readme.txt file. This readme.txt file is enclosed with all our downloads.

AVS Capture Wizard is available as a Giveaway of the day! You have 13 hours 25 minutes to download and install it.

LINK FOR DOWNLOAD
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/download/?id=865

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/avs-capture-wizard/

 

No! 2nd school tells the RIAA

p2pnet.net news:- Another US school has told Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG's RIAA it's not prepared to act as a messenger boy-cum-enforcer.

The RIAA is demanding the University of Maine System hand over names linked to IP addresses but, "The only way the RIAA can get that information is if the RIAA takes us to court to get those names," says system spokesman John Diamond, quoted in the online Maine Campus.

The University of Wisconsin told the Big 4 it wouldn't be a copyright cop, or act as their runner in extorting 'settlement' money from students, p2pnet posted eight days ago.

Now, "[The RIAA] have so many lawyers that they can afford to send frivolous subpoenas right and left, and the mere threat to do so has caused some universities to cave right away," Tony Reaves has Jon Ippolito, a UMaine new media professor and associate curator of media arts at the Guggenheim Museum, stating, going on that the university has taken a "principled stance".

Ippolito said subpoenaing universities won't necessarily hold water in court, and was critical of the RIAA's newest tactics with colleges, a policy he called "mafia-like," the Maine Campus states.

"They want to bully universities into exposing students and also bully students directly into signing onto a discount," Ippolito said. "There's no legal process and that's the end of the story."

The RIAA demand for student information asks the system to violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, "which bars the UMS from divulging information not considered public," says Diamond in the Main Campus, also quoted in Recording Industry vs The People. The site's Ray Beckerman, a New York lawyer who defends RIAA victims, has also drafted an open letter to universities being targeted.

In other defeats, the RIAA has been forced to pull out of a case it brought against a middle aged couple, and has been told it can't personally grill a 10-year-old girl in an alleged file sharing lawsuit it's brought against her mother.

And the bulk of American students are ignoring RIAA efforts to con them into incriminating themselves on a so-called 'settlement' web site.

Is this the beginning of a trend? Stay tuned.

Slashdot Slashdot it!

Also See:
Maine Campus - UMS refuses to hand student info to RIAA, March 27, 2007
p2pnet - University ignores RIAA blackmail, March 20, 2007
Recording Industry vs The People - University of Maine Refuses To Forward RIAA Letters to Its Students, March 27, 2007
open letter - 405 more RIAA blackmail letters, March 21, 2007
middle aged couple - New RIAA defeat, March 27, 2007
personally grill - RIAA vs Kylee Andersen, 10, March 27, 2007
ignoring RIAA efforts - Take a hike, students tell RIAA, March 26, 2007
http://p2pnet.net/story/11788

 

RIAA vs Kylee hits the mainstream,

p2pnet.net news view:- The mainstream media are beginning to pick up on the Kylee Andersen travesty.

That's Kylee the Kopyright Kriminal on the right. You can tell just from looking at her that she's out to do ill to Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG.

Having accused her mother, Tanya, of being an illicit online music distributor, the Big 4 music cartel wanted their RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) lawyers to grill 10-year-old Kylee. Face-to-face.

Was the idea to try to get information from her so they could use it against her mother? Or are they going to claim Kylee herself is another of those "massive online distributors of copyrighted music" who are, according to the multi-billion-dollar Big 4, "devastating" the corporate music industry?

After all, Kylee was seven when the RIAA first zeroed in on her mother, who's disabled and who gets by on a pension. And as every online criminal and thief knows, seven is the perfect age to start as an illegal music distributor.

Judge Donald Ashmanskas partially spiked the RIAA's guns, ruling it can speak with Kylee, but at her home, and by telephone only.

But even that's a farce. The RIAA shouldn't be allowed anywhere near Kylee, by phone or by any other means.

In USA Today's Tech Space, "The RIAA is now attempting to depose 10-year-olds," notes Angela Gunn, going on:

Seriously, the music industry wants to put a ten-year-old girl under oath to be grilled by lawyers. Most of us would be creeped out at the thought of our favorite ten-year-olds spending grownup-type time with their favorite music stars, much less with those stars' lawyers - are we comfortable as a society with the thought of some piece of juris doctor interrogating little girls? Isn't that, like, a Dateline NBC special in the making?

The Kylee case is bad, but it's nothing new. Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG been using their RIAA-like units trampling on the rights of their own customers in North America and abroad for years. And we let them get away with it, somehow forgetting we don't depend on them, they depend on us.

"This has been going on now for two and a half years and has turned my life upside down," Tanya Andersen told me recently. "It continues to be a huge source of stress and chaos in my life. I certainly don't feel like a free human being at this point because it just continues to go on and on--it doesn't seem to matter what proof I give them or what questions I've answered for them."

It's almost the end of March, designated Boycott the RIAA month. So how about extending that into April? And then May? And then .....

There's a ton of excellent and affordable non-corporate music online.

You don't need the Big 4 for that.

JN

Slashdot Slashdot it!

Also See:
Kylee Andersen travesty - RIAA vs Kylee Andersen, 10, March 27, 2007
partially spiked - RIAA loses in Kylee case, March 27, 2007
Tech Space - They're coming for your kids, March 27, 2007
Boycott the RIAA month - It's March. So Boycott the RIAA!, March 27, 2007
http://p2pnet.net/story/11792

 

ACCESS YOUR ZUNE WITH WINDOWS EXPLORER.......... The Microsoft Zune portable media player contains a miniature hard drive that is used to store your music files, videos and pictures. Unlike most other portable media players, iPods, MP4 players and the like, the Zune does not appear as an external hard drive in My Computer. You cannot copy files to and from it using Windows Explorer. You have to use the somewhat clunky Zune software to add and remove files. This article describes how you can make your Zune portable media player appear to your computer as a portable hard drive so that you can access it using Windows Explorer. However, due to the way the Zune has been designed, there are some limitations to Explorer access that cannot be overcome.....(free).....GO THERE!

http://www.tech-pro.net/how-to-access-zune-windows-explorer.html






How To: Access your Zune hard drive using Windows Explorer

The Microsoft Zune portable media player contains a miniature hard drive that is used to store your music files, videos and pictures. Unlike most other portable media players, iPods, MP4 players and the like, the Zune does not appear as an external hard drive in My Computer. You cannot copy files to and from it using Windows Explorer. You have to use the somewhat clunky Zune software to add and remove files.

This article describes how you can make your Zune portable media player appear to your computer as a portable hard drive so that you can access it using Windows Explorer. However, due to the way the Zune has been designed, there are some limitations to Explorer access that cannot be overcome.

Other Zune software on this site:

* DVD to Zune Converter - the easy way to rip DVDs to watch on your Zune

Zune software controls access

Microsoft included a way to allow the Zune's hard drive to be accessed using Windows Explorer, but by default it is turned off. There is a good reason for this. Allowing songs, videos and pictures to be added to the player only using the Zune software means that after adding new files, the player is ready for immediate use. The internal database of what's on the player gets updated as files are added and removed. Other players that do allow direct access to the hard drive take time to start up, as they have to scan the drive to see what content has been added or removed before allowing the device to be used.

Even though you can enable Explorer access so that you can view the files on the Zune's hard drive using Windows Explorer, you cannot add or remove files unless the Zune software is running on the computer. You cannot copy files to the Zune at all using Windows Explorer. If you try, you'll see an error message. The only way to add songs, pictures and videos is through the synchronization function of the Zune software. This means that you cannot add or remove content using a computer on which the Zune software has not been installed.

You won't see all of the files on your Zune hard drive, either. You'll only see what Microsoft wants you to see. The Zune hard drive is partitioned into two, with one partition holding the system software or operating system. You won't see those files at all.

Although your Zune will appear in Windows Explorer looking like a removable hard drive, you can't access it as a normal hard drive. It won't have a drive letter, so you can't access it directly from other software. And it doesn't behave like a real hard drive, so you can't use data recovery utilities like Music Recovery to restore songs that you have lost or accidentally deleted.
Zune Explorer Enabler

If you still want to enable Explorer access to your Zune hard drive, despite these limitations, then it's easy to do. The method described on most sites involves making changes to your computer's Registry, a complicated and risky process unless you are a computer expert. However, you can download a free utility Zune Explorer Enabler (ZEE) which will make these registry changes for you, and allow you to undo them equally easily, making enabling Explorer access to your Zune hard drive a risk-free process.


DOWNLOAD HERE
http://www.tech-pro.net/click.php?clickid=370

 

ATI Catalyst Drivers for Windows XP 7.3
Mar 28, 2007 - 9:21 PM - by Digital Dave
Updated for the XP users only.

This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The ATI CATALYST software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability.

DOWNLOAD HERE
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/ATI_Catalyst_Drivers_for_Windows_XP/1058330408/1

 

OpenOffice.org For Windows 2.2.0
Mar 28, 2007 - 2:22 PM - by Digital Dave
Free...

OpenOffice is a free, Open Source alternative to MS Office with a Word compatible word processor, a complete Excel compatible spread sheet program and a Power Point like presentation software and drawing program and also allows to save to PDF file.

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OpenOffice.org For Windows 2.2.0
Author: OpenOffice.org
Date: 2007-03-28
Size: 99.2 Mb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All

OpenOffice is a free, Open Source alternative to MS Office with a Word compatible word processor, a complete Excel compatible spread sheet program and a Power Point like presentation software and drawing program and also allows to save to PDF file.

In addition, OpenOffice offers enhanced printing capabilities and options for direct connection with external email programs as well as form-letter management to send letters to addresses from a database.


DOWNLOAD HERE
http://www.majorgeeks.com/OpenOffice.org_For_Windows_d3461.html

 

Dell to add Linux to desktops and Notebooks

Dell bows to demand for desktop Linux

Vendor listens to customers
Tom Sanders in California, vnunet.com 29 Mar 2007

Dell has promised to add Linux desktop and notebook computers to its product line-up after seeing strong demand from customers.

The announcement on a company blog was short on details, but promised additional information within the coming weeks. Dell will also beef up support for the Linux kernel and open drivers for its computers.

Users have been lobbying the computer maker since February to offer Linux systems. Customers have been using Dell's IdeaStorm website where the company solicits feedback and asks for suggestions.

Dell followed up on the IdeaStorm site with an online poll in which it asked users what they would do on Linux computers. The survey attracted more than 100,000 respondents.

The vendor currently offers Linux bundled on servers and professional workstations. Buyers can purchase some desktop and Linux systems without any operating system and then install Linux, but Dell will not install it in its factories.

 

Memtest86 - Memory Diagnostic Program

LAST VERSION : 1.70 LAST UPDATE : 01/14/2007

Based on the well-known original memtest86 written by Chris Brady, memtest86+ is a port by some members of the x86-secret team. Our goal is to provide an up-to-date and completly reliable version of this software tool aimed at memory failures detection.

Memtest86+ is, like the original, released under the terms of the Gnu Public License (GPL). No restrictions for use, private or commercial exist other than the ones mentioned in the Gnu Public License (GPL). Texts about the original version was taken from the original website and written by Chris Brady.

History =-

The first version of Memtest86+ was released on early 2004, based on memtest86 v3.0 that was not updated since mid-2002. Our main challenge was to provide an up-to-date version of this useful tool, as reliable than the original. Our work started when we got the first AMD64 system. Unfortunatly, the original memtest v3.0 didn't run at all. After looking at the source code, we fixed the bug.After some days, I saw lot of other things like chipsets or CPU that were not correctly detected or not detected at all. As I'm the chief-editor of a french hardware website (www.x86-secret.com), I have access to lot of recent hardware and I can test and debug on quite all available motherboards on the market. After adding detection for all current CPUs, I've added detection for all current chipsets (SiS, VIA, nVidia, Intel) and ECC Polling for AMD64, i875P and E7205. Then, I decided to display some useful settings for the most popular chipsets. For exemple, on i865PE/i875P series, memtest86+ will now display FSB & Memory frequency, PAT status, memory timings, ECC status and the number of memory channels. Next version will perhaps contain several enhancements and bug-fixes.

Change Log =-

Here is all the change logs for memtest86+ since first release :

*** Enhancements in v1.70 : ***

* New Features
o Add new DMI polling feature
o Add Support for Core/Core2 Solo/Duo/Quad CPU
o Add Support for AMD K8 with DDR2 Memory
o Add Support for Intel CPU with 192/384 KB L2 Cache
o Add Support for FB-DIMM based memory (DMI)
o Add Detection for ALI CyberAladdin-T (M1644)
o Add Detection for Turion 64 X2
o Add Support for ATi Radeon xPress 3200
o Add Support for Intel i975X
o Add Support for Intel Q965/P965
o Add Support for Intel Q963/Q965


Download (Pre-built & ISOs) =-

Here is some pre-compiled distributions of memtest86+. Memtest86+ comes in three different way, first is a pre-build bootable ISO, second is a bootable binary and third an installable package for creating a bootable floppy. Third version are compressed in .zip and .tar.gz.

** Memtest86+ V1.70 (01/14/2007) **

o Download - Pre-Compiled Bootable ISO (.gz)
o Download - Pre-Compiled Bootable ISO (.zip)

o Download - Pre-Compiled Bootable Binary (.gz)
o Download - Pre-Compiled Bootable Binary (.zip)

o Download - Pre-Compiled EXE file for USB Key (Pure DOS)

o Download - Pre-Compiled package for Floppy (DOS - Win)


go here for the downloads
http://www.memtest.org/

 

YouTube Downloader 2.1.1.0
Author: youtube-d.com
Date: 2007-03-29
Size: 2.68 Mb
License: Freeware

YouTube Downloader is a free tool that downloads videos from YouTube and saves it as Avi file to your local computer.

YouTube Downloader allows you to easily grab and save desired youtube video. Simply paste the URL of a video into the program, press Start , and the AVI or MPEG file will be downloaded into the selected folder.


download here
http://www.majorgeeks.com/YouTube_Downloader__d5580.html

 

XP-Antispy 3.96-5
Author: Chris Connell
Date: 2007-03-29
Size: 608 Kb
License: Freeware


XP-AntiSpy is a little utility that let's you disable some built-in update and authetication 'features' in WindowsXP. For example, there's a service running in the background wich is called 'Automatic Updates'. I don't know what this service transfers from my machine to other machines on the internet, especially the MS ones. So I play it safe and disable such functions. If you like, you can even disable these function manually, by going through the System and checking or unchecking some checkboxes. This will take you approximately half an hour. But why wasting time when a little neat utility can do the same in 1 minute? This utility was successfully tested by lots of users, and was found to disable all the known 'Suspicious' Functions in WindowsXP.

download here
http://www.majorgeeks.com/XP-Antispy_d2062.html

 

adionSoft Fast Image Resizer 0.84
Author: adionSoft
Date: 2007-03-29
Size: 160 Kb
License: Freeware

Features
-Dual and Quadcore compatible
-Resize images to any size quickly and in high quality
-Resize Algorithm quality and JPEG quality configurable
-Create resized files in new folder, or in the same folder as the source
-Copy EXIF info from source image
-Easy resizing by using windows explorer Send To menu


download here
http://www.majorgeeks.com/adionSoft_Fast_Image_Resizer_d5557.html

 

PC Tools Firewall Plus 2.0.0.17
Author: PC Tools
Date: 2007-03-29
Size: 4.42 Mb
License: Freeware

PC Tools Firewall Plus is a powerful personal firewall for Windows that protects your computer from intruders and controls the network traffic in and out of your PC. By monitoring applications that connect to the network Firewall Plus can stop Trojans, backdoors, keyloggers and other malware from damaging your computer and stealing your private information.

PC Tools Firewall Plus is advanced technology designed specially for people, not experts. Powerful prevention against attacks and known exploits is activated by default and advanced users can also easily create their own packet filtering rules to customize the network defenses. All you need to do is install it for immediate and automatic ongoing protection.

That’s why PC Tools Firewall Plus provides world-leading protection, backed by regular Smart Updates, OnGuard™ real-time protection and comprehensive network shielding to ensure your system remains safe and hacker free. PC Tools products are trusted and used by millions of people everyday to protect their home and business computers against online threats.

Main Features:
- 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.
- Best of all it’s FREE. No catches, limitations or time-limits.

Note There have been some people with problems uninstalling this firewall. If that is a problem for you, please read the Instructions HERE

download here
http://www.majorgeeks.com/PC_Tools_Firewall_Plus_d5470.html

 

Paint.NET 3.05
Author: Rick Brewster
Date: 2007-03-29
Size: 4.7 Mb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win XP/Vista

Paint.NET is free image editing and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing.

The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with a small amount of C++ for installation and shell-integration related functionality.

Change log:

* New: Pencil Sketch effect
* New: In Windows Vista, the new-style Save/Open dialogs are used. Among other things, this enables Search functionality.
* Changed: The View->Units, Image->Flip, Image->Rotate, and Layers->Flip submenus have been "flattened" (their commands were moved out into the View, Image, Image, and Layers menus respectively)
* Improved: Download size reduced by about 300 KB by using PNGOUT
* Improved: Some uses of confusing "MessageBox" style dialogs have been changed to a much friendlier "TaskDialog" style interface
* Improved: When changing the language, Paint.NET can now restart itself automatically
* Improved: Better performance for Move Selected Pixels tool for quad-core systems. This issue is documented and explained here, http://blogs.msdn.com/rickbrew/arch...t-many-core-performance-scaling-analyzed.aspx
* Removed: The "Clear History" button has been removed because it was not very useful
* Fixed: Sometimes the Colors window would get "lost" between sessions of Paint.NET
* Fixed: Stack-overflow crash when using certain effects, such as Gaussian Blur, on very large images with certain settings (such as a 200 pixel radius)
* Fixed: When cancelling the multi-image Unsaved Changes dialog, the input focus was sometimes confused
* Changed: Renamed PdnLib.dll to PaintDotNet.Core.dll
* Fixed: Very rare race condition in background thumbnail renderer

download here
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Paint.NET_d4548.html

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Paint.NET (Includes .NET Framework 2.0) 3.05
Author: Rick Brewster
Date: 2007-03-29
Size: 52.1 Mb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win XP/Vista

Paint.NET is free image editing and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing.

The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with a small amount of C++ for installation and shell-integration related functionality.

Change log:

* New: Pencil Sketch effect
* New: In Windows Vista, the new-style Save/Open dialogs are used. Among other things, this enables Search functionality.
* Changed: The View->Units, Image->Flip, Image->Rotate, and Layers->Flip submenus have been "flattened" (their commands were moved out into the View, Image, Image, and Layers menus respectively)
* Improved: Download size reduced by about 300 KB by using PNGOUT
* Improved: Some uses of confusing "MessageBox" style dialogs have been changed to a much friendlier "TaskDialog" style interface
* Improved: When changing the language, Paint.NET can now restart itself automatically
* Improved: Better performance for Move Selected Pixels tool for quad-core systems. This issue is documented and explained here, http://blogs.msdn.com/rickbrew/arch...t-many-core-performance-scaling-analyzed.aspx
* Removed: The "Clear History" button has been removed because it was not very useful
* Fixed: Sometimes the Colors window would get "lost" between sessions of Paint.NET
* Fixed: Stack-overflow crash when using certain effects, such as Gaussian Blur, on very large images with certain settings (such as a 200 pixel radius)
* Fixed: When cancelling the multi-image Unsaved Changes dialog, the input focus was sometimes confused
* Changed: Renamed PdnLib.dll to PaintDotNet.Core.dll
* Fixed: Very rare race condition in background thumbnail renderer

download here
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Paint.NET_Includes_.NET_Framework_2.0_d5493.html

 

WinPatrol 11.2.2007
Author: BillP Studios
Date: 2007-03-29
Size: 5.41 Mb
License: Freeware

Scotty the Windows Watch Dog sniffs out malicious "mysteryware" and parasites that may assault your computer. WinPatrol puts you back in control of your computer so you'll know what programs are and should be running at all times.

- Increase Your Speed & System Performance.
- Detect & Neutralize Spyware. Detect & Neutralize ADware.
- Detect & Neutralize Viral infections. Detect & Neutralize Unwanted IE Add-Ons.
- Detect & Restore File Type Changes Automatically Filter Unwanted Cookies.
- Avoid Start Page Hijacking. Detect HOSTS file changes.
- Kill Multiple Tasks that replicate each other, in a single step!
- Stop programs that repeatedly add themselves to your Startup List!
- Delete and Remove the most Stubborn Infections

download here
http://www.majorgeeks.com/WinPatrol_d3380.html

A plus version is available for $19.95 offering more features.





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