Mirage Anti-bot: Detect, Remove & Block Malware Like ZeuS & SpyEye

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Do you think installing a popular antivirus program will protect you from all evil eyeing your valuable data? Ever wondered why your high speed internet doesn’t provide you with the promised speed? Let it be known that malware like ZeuS, SpyEye, Palevo, TDL3 and the like have made themselves known to penetrate through your system security layers, stealing your credentials, may it be on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter etc., or bank accounts or email access details. These malware belong to the family of botnets, and Mirage Anti-bot protects you against them, effectively. With this powerful tool, you can add an extra layer of protection to your system with a negligible effect on performance and enable foolproof security for your PC. Read More

How To Prevent CPU & GPU Temperature From Hindering System Performance

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Have you ever felt the heat emitted from your PC when subjected to high-end games that demand high system resources? Now, you can easily manage both your CPU and GPU temperature levels and set rules of action for situations where a violation occurs. By viewing the CPU and GPU performance from various aspects with emphasis on core-by-core or overall temperature readings, you can become fully aware of the heat building up inside your computer. With TThrottle, an application for Windows, you can easily define, monitor and react to temperature changes in the processor and GPU in multiple modes, which enable performance throttling for the greater good. In addition, programs running in Virtualization software like VMware or VirtualBox are also monitored for an effective operation optimization experience. Read More

ExtremeCopy: Probably The Fastest File/Folder Move & Copy Utility

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When backing up data or transferring gigabytes of useful information, we often find ourselves waiting impatiently for task completion notification. Copying files and folders from multiple sources to various destinations in an organized batch operation is also a challenge for users. ExtremeCopy addresses all these issues and provides features like verification and enhanced file copy speed. It has been observed to outclass the Windows 7 explorer copy speeds by 20% ~ 120%, depending on the amount of data handled. Furthermore, it has also been seen to perform faster in comparison with previously reviewed utilities like SuperCopier and fairly popular TeraCopy. Read More

TextCrawler: Search, Modify & Extract Text From Multiple File Formats

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Whether you’re a programmer, data analyst or a text-savvy user, search and replacement of text strings is an essential requirement for better organization of information. TextCrawler stands out from the crowd as a free utility that provides advanced search capabilities for text modification over a wide range of file formats, like TXT, JS (JavaScript), PHP, HTML and more. With features like regular expressions support, character mapping, fuzzy search and scratchpad, you can surely monitor text to the minute level. The application not only lets you search text at super speed, but also equips you with extraction capabilities to save the required text string to a new file. Read More

Desktop Modify: Arrange Desktop Icons In Geometrical Shapes

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Tired of usual desktop icon layout? Ever wanted your desktop icons arranged in an interesting way? With Desktop Modify, you can fizz up your desktop by making use of over 77 different shapes and styles for arranging icons on it. Using this free application, you can surely make your desktop unique. It enables you to manage your desktop layout by saving snapshots (states) at critical moments, making it easier to recover useful information usually lost due to either personal error or external intervention. This implies that your desktop icon placement can be modified as well as restored with just a click. In addition, you can choose to save multiple desktop icon layouts, so that you can easily switch between them. Read More

Newzie: News Reader That Works For Websites Without RSS Feeds

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There’s so much happening around us that sooner or later, you’ll get overwhelmed by the flurry of activity in the world unless it is presented to you in a compact and organized manner. In the past, we have covered some exciting news aggregators and tickers like retickr for Mac or Feedly for Windows. Today, Newzie caught our attention owing to its comprehensive feature set. Generally, news aggregators extract updates from multiple RSS feeds and display them either in a standalone or integrated mode in a way that delivers the most to users in the minimum possible time. What if you want to monitor specific strings of updates on defined websites having no RSS feeds? Most news aggregators would look the other way, while Newzie confidently provides you with virtual channels, word watchdogs, bulk channels and timelined highlights to ensure a unique awareness experience. In addition, you can import/export feeds from popular readers like Google Reader using OPML files. Read More

You!Symlink: Create Custom Symbolic Links With Scrolling Text & Animated Images

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In today’s fast-paced information-centric world, creating and organizing links to important files, folders and frequently visited websites is becoming more and more tedious. Often, our desktops get filled with static icons that point to relevant paths of files and programs. You!Symlink is an application for Windows, designed to take the desktop environment to the next level by creating graphically dynamic symbolic links with scrolling texts and animated images. With the ability to add pop-up memos and the option to show all symlinks on the desktop, this application will make it easy for you to access most frequently used files and applications. Once you've created a symlink using this tool, you can quickly open the target location with a click. Read More

Free PDF Image Extractor Lets You Save Images From Multiple PDF Files

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While working extensively with PDF files, we often need to extract high quality images from the PDFs for creating separate documentation in other formats. Earlier, we have covered Fusion PDF Image Creator for Windows and PDF Toolkit for Mac OS X, whereby the former only supports image extraction from a single PDF file and the latter provides numerous PDF manipulation features, but limited only to Mac OS X platform. Although, it takes up a lot of time in extracting images from PDFs manually, you can save more time if a large number of PDF files could be automatically converted and saved in respective folders. Today we discovered Free PDF Image Extractor, which allows you to effortlessly extract images from multiple PDF files and automatically organize them for the better. Read More

ClickBerry Interactivity Creator: Add Interactive Elements To Videos & Share Them On Facebook

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Clickberry Interactivity Creator is an Adobe AIR-based application that lets you add clickable elements to your videos. It is an excellent marketing tool for online campaigns on social media, as it allows you to overlay hyperlinks, link to any online video, tag your friends and more, over any selected video. It's basically designed to make interactive videos, which can include URLs to your websites, images, sidebars, and even the Facebook Like button.  The application offers an elegant user interface and straightforward usage. Just select your video and choose the interactive object that you wish to add. Read More

MindStick SurveyManager: Create & Deploy ASP.NET Web Surveys With Ease

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Online surveys are getting popular day by day mostly due to their usefulness for a wide range of users. Be it recruitment campaigns, feedback promotions or branding awareness; web surveys are now seen as user-friendly avenues for collecting data responses and analyzing them through online tools such as GoogleDocs or SurveyMonkey. For advanced web survey adaptability on ASP.NET, web developers tend to indulge in writing lengthy code to achieve their interactive aims. This usurps both time and efficiency for web development and maintenance. MindStick SurveyManager is an application for Windows that lets you create, deploy and manage ASP.NET web surveys. Moreover, it offers custom validations as well as result analysis in both grid and graphical formats. Details to follow after the break. Read More

TimeSnapper Auto-Captures Screenshots At Custom Intervals & Plays Them Back Like A Video

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Time tracking has wide scale applications in project management where detailed timesheets demand a great memory. Going back in time helps workers and managers identify 0weak areas that are hindering performance and curtailing efficiency in large scale production scenarios. For strict office environments, administrators can keep a check on every click on employees' systems and eradicate all non-work activities for their betterment. However, this isn't just applicable at macro-level; an individual can analyze the time spent on his or her computer with activity details and productivity insights by rewinding and viewing their tech deeds like a movie. TimeSnapper is a sleek tool that makes doing this extremely easy. It lets you record and analyze activity on your system with the help of custom snapshot intervals. Read More

JD’s Auto Speed Tester: Visually Analyze Your Internet Connection

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Ever wondered why your internet speed fluctuates frequently? You might’ve guessed the problem or used a web service like Speedtest.net to check upload/download speeds before contacting your internet service provider, but with JD’s Auto Speed Tester, an automated application for Windows meant to better analyze and depict results both graphically and in tabular format, you can accurately point out the missing dots in the internet speed variations story. Furthermore, it lets you perform numerous internet speed-related tests, generate an average-value based analysis report, save the result sheet in CSV format, and schedule internet performance checks. Read More

Collusion: Visualize Online Tracking & Cookies In Real Time [Firefox]

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If you’ve enabled cookies on your browser, the online activity undertaken is usually sent from websites to third-party tracking websites. This creates a network of company-tracker linked list, which can be used to construct your long-term usage history. Although this is a major privacy concern by some, Collusion, an experimental Firefox add-on, lets you access this information for better and safer activity. Moreover, understanding the concept of intricate dependencies within websites has been simplified by the user-friendly animated layout coupled with relevant information displayed on the sidebar. Using this add-on, you can easily identify websites using third-party cookies, to track your activity while monitoring a spider-web of data dependencies, which motivates you to further pursue your online interests. Read More