Anti-Malware.com put all the popular antivirus softwares through the test and the results are shocking to say the least... Anti-malware.com first infected the test bed with Adware... It has a strong heuristic due to which its able to detect a large number of viruses (it has the best detection rate among all single engine AV products)... Although Dr. Web managed to completely remove everything thrown at it, its not the best option due to its average detection rate... … View Post »

Just as the name suggests WebHostingrating.com is a web hosting rating service that is similar to WHG (reviewed in previous article) in many ways... With all them vying for your attention, making the correct decision can be tough... One thing that sets WebHostingRating apart from WHG is the depth of information available about each host... Not only do you get info on the hosting plans WebHostingRating also lists any available discount coupons or promotional code... CMS (content management system) webhosts are listed separately according to the CMS hosted (wordpress, joomla, drupal etc)... The excellent category based organisation makes WebHostingRating a breeze to browse through, but once again weirdly enough Search box is not present on all pages... Search box is a very critical element in any directory and I would like it to be present on every page... The best thing about WebHostRating is that you get all the information you need without even visiting the web hosts home page... … View Post »

Does it support scripts and php?... How good is the after-sale support?... Making the right decision can be a daunting task... It even has a list of web hosting providers that provide free domain name or Google adwords credit when you sign up with them!... The only thing missing is a Search Box on the home page (it is present in the reviews page), which is a bit surprising... … View Post »

The Pre-Beta Windows 7 build distributed by Microsoft at the PDC08 (build 6801 the one readily available on torrent websites) doesnt contain many of the eagerly anticipated features of Windows 7 like the super taskbar... Till now we had to resort to elaborate command line based tweaks to get around the protection, something not everyone was willing to do... All the text has been done away with and each application assigned a 32 32 icon... Aero Shake - This hidden feature was discovered by Rafael earlier this month... With Aero Shake enabled if you vigorously shake (move) your application window, all windows other than the active one gets minimised... The only way to revert back to original condition is to manually replace the patched files... … View Post »

Instant desktop search softwares are nothing new... In fact you are pampered for choice as far as local desktop search clients go... Most of these tools take hours to index your computer, and build huge indexes before getting started... To make matters worse you need to have them running in the background to maintain an up-to-date index... Instead it utilizes the data present in the Master File Table (MFT) in NTFS volumes... Unfortunately this means that its compatible only with NTFS filesystems, but this isnt a huge deal breaker as most people use NTFS anyway... Unlike traditional desktop search client Everything indexes only file and folder names and not the data contained by them (e.g. the text in a .txt... Whenever you need to search for something you can bring up the quick search window (screenshot below) by pressing Alt+Space... … View Post »

With Mozilla preparing to enter the Mobile arena the competition is about to get tougher... But Opera is definitely trying their best to stay ahead of the curve... This should considerably increase browsing speeds for those based in US or in the Asia Pacific region... Other users should also get better speeds due to reduction in load on the original Norwegian server.Other major improvement includes the ability to sync notes through Opera link and better support for YouTube Mobile ... … View Post »

Blogging Tips - Blogging Discussions forum is holding a big content with loads of prizes... Members with most credits in the forum will win cash prizes as follows :... Week 3 Prize : One Year license for the professional edition of Performancing Metrics online stats software (worth $59)... Week 4 Prize : 2 hours of blog consultation with David Peralty from Branding David ... Week 6 Prize : 2 signed copies of blogging book ProBlogger : Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income (co-authored by Chris Garrett )... Week 7 Prize : WordPress Theme of winners choice from Unique Blog Designs (worth $79)... The contest is currently into its third week... Weekly prizes are awarded based on small contests like slogan creation etc. The contest ends on 12pm ET on Friday November 28th 2008... … View Post »

Earlier this year I brought to you Six Premium Antivirus Software for free (the links for F-Secure, eScan Anti-Virus, CA Anti-Virus and Norman are still working)... Well, the security companies are at it again and there are loads of free extended trial keys up for grabs... Here are six premium security products for free... Mcafee VirusScan Plus : Mcaffe VirusScan may not be the best product in the market, but in case you want to try it you can get a free 90 Day Trial from here ... But, considering the fact that it was in 24rth position (with respect to Malware on demand test detection rate) in the Avtest.org comparison (with 93.6% detection rate for malware and 94.5% detection rate for adware/spyware), you would be better served by the products listed below... Here is how to get a 1 year license for free : Go to http://defilter.co.uk/ and surf to http://www.pctools.com/internet-security/free/promo/PCADVISOR0809 ... AVG 8.0 Anti-virus Pro : IOBits is providing a 3 month trial license for AVG Pro... Bitdefender Internet Security and Antivirus 2008 : Recently Bitdifender was offering extended trial on its 2009 product line... … View Post »

The Filter started out as a music recommendation and playlist generation plug-in backed by Rock star Peter Gabriel and Eden Ventures... But things changed with the release of iTunes 8 (which incorporated Apple s playlist generation technology called Genius)... Earlier this year they unveiled their new and revamped service which now supported iTunes (both on Windows and Mac), Windows Media Player, Winamp and even many Symbian powered Nokia handsets... Immediately after registration The Filter displays a list songs belonging to a wide range of genres and asks you to rate (thumbs up or down) at least six songs... After this I was given the option to import my Flixster and Last.fm profile... The Desktop Client While The Filter has drastically improved the web-based portion of its service, the software is still the core of the service... Before The Filter plug-in can get started it needs to index content on your computer... Its recommendations are quite good and is a worthy alternative to Genius; that doesn t require a credit car to get started and supports multiple media players... … View Post »