Reduces Malware or Virus Infection
Most of the time installing software requires administrator privilege so that it allows full control of changing some registry or configuration files. However, it may open up the risk of getting malware or viruses to penetrate into your computer that eventually causing system instability or even hang up. How do you ensure that your computer is protected from being attacked by malware or virus during software installation? Now with WinSecurityGate, it will help to reduce the risk of getting malware or virus infection by blocking several key system functions.
WinSecurityGate 1.0.5 is absolutely free for download and is compatible to run on Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista/NT 4.0 SP6. It doesn’t require any installation and users can just run the executable file for immediate use. One thing you might need to take note here is the security driver used by WinSecurityGate could be incompatible with other existing installed security software and may potentially impact your system stability.
Create free Online Share folders and backup!
Guys, Hurry up…..
It’s an amazing application that you can share OR backup your files via online with your friends/stand alone OR you can use for your company purpose. The free dropbox account comes with 2GB of space that you can use for as long as you like.
1- watch the dropbox video, then you will get a brief idea about the product
2- register with the basic (2GB quota)
3- Download DropBox – you just need to provide the username and password where you used to register the account. after that you will get a folder in your my documents called something my dropbox (you can change the destination path as well)
4- add files into the my dropbox folder from your computer
There you can find folders; Public and photos ,You just need to drag/copy the files into the appropriate folders. you dont want to worried about anything, it will synchronize automatically with the files and folders and it will upload into the remote hosted dropbox server. . Once the upload completed, you will find the files with a tick mark and even you can view the files if you login to the dropbox website with your credential.
In case if your computer crashed or happened something, then you just need to login in their website and there you can find the data, from there you can download the data or if you want to copy directly into another system, again simply install the application and login with your credential(use your old credential), you will get the My dropbox in the destination place and from there you can also copy or merge.
One of the cool feature(above I already mentioned) is that if your company don’t have any kind of storage device and you would like to keep a share folder with all other employees too and you do not want to lose any of the information incase if there is any Hardware failure in your local network… DropBox will help you in this situation.so that you dont want to buy any storage server for it.
Just click the 5th option, share a folder with your friends or colleagues.
you will get two options when you click in the 5th:-
- I’d like to create and share a new folder
- I’d like to share an existing folder
Select what options you prefer and invite your friends or colleagues to become a member of your shared folder.
If they dont have account they just need to follow the same method as I mentioned above!
Just let me know in case if you need any assistance.
Save and Capture any Multimedia Contents From the Internet
Well, As you know that there are various softwares Desktube, YouTube Fisher, aTube Catcher, etc available for download multimedia content from video sharing sites like youtube,DailyMotion, MySpace, etc.
These tools allow users to capture and download the multimedia content and store them into their PC for later viewing conveniently without much problem. Having said that, there are limitations to these tools. These handy downloading tools generally support some of the popular video sites but not all. If you happen to find some interesting multimedia contents from a foreign site, for instance, these tools might not support and allow users to download and capture the contents. If that is the case for you, perhaps the free downloading tool, TubeMaster++ (TubeMaster Plus) can give you a better and more comprehensive solution.
Regardless of which website the multimedia content is from, TubeMaster++ can do an excellent job to save the multimedia file for users. TubeMaster++ doesn’t rely on the browser itself but it will scan the incoming data, save it, and convert the media file into users’ preferred format. When users find some interesting multimedia content, users just need to run the program, and the program will thence stream the multimedia content. When the streaming process is completed, TubeMaster++ will save the file. Users can thence convert the files into various popular audio and video formats such as WAV, MP3, OGG, AC3, AVI, MP3, MP4, etc for specific multimedia players. TubeMaster++ also incorporates search engines into the program. Users can use the tool to browse for videos or MP3 files directly from the internet.
TubeMaster++
TubeMaster++ is a freeware and it can be downloaded via the link here. This application supports Windows platform but requires Java Runtime Environment and WinPcap to be preinstalled.
Virtualize Ubuntu on Windows XP Professional
As you know that Ubuntu is the power full operating system in the market now. it has lot of advantages than windows.
I will give how to virtualize Ubuntu 8.04.1 or you can use the later on Windows XP Professional SP3 x86 using Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0.2. To prepare for this tutorial you should download the necessary resources:
- Ubuntu 8.04.1 Desktop CD available here OR you can select the later version: ubuntu 8.04
- Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0.2 available here: virtual box
Please note that you have to choose the package appropriate for your platform. This tutorial was tested on an Acer TravelMate 5620 and lenovo R61 running Windows XP Professional SP3 x86. This tutorial will work equally well on Windows XP Home Edition, and also on either the 32-bit or 64-bit editions of either builds (subject to hardware requirements – read below).
Before going down the virtualization path, you should make sure that the system which will act as the host has sufficient resources to run both its own operating system as well as all the virtual machines you’re planning to run.
Running virtualized desktop operating systems isn’t particularly processor intensive, so really any relatively up-to-date CPU should be able to handle it. Obviously processors with more than one processing core is beneficial, as are CPUs which support Intel-VT or AMD-V.
RAM and disk performance and availability are the most essential components. You really want to be able to run both the host and guest OSes within physical memory. As soon as physical RAM is full and spills over to the page file, hard drive performance will decrease dramatically, adversely affecting both systems. Therefore, on a system running Windows XP as the host you really need at least 1GB RAM to make virtualization worthwhile. Obviously the more RAM the better, but if you’ve got 4GB available then you will really need to install a 64-bit version of XP to get the most out of it.
Hard drive performance is also a major factor, as the virtual guest will be completely dependent on it. You shouldn’t attempt to host the virtual hard drive of the guest system on a hard drive slower than 7200rpm, so laptop users should verify their hardware first. Youcan use an external USB 2.0 or Firewire hard drive, but certain intensive disk operations like creating the virtual disk, formatting it or copying large amounts of files around will chew up the available bus bandwidth and performance will be affected. Finally, if you host the entire virtual guest on the primary partition of the host, fragmentation will occur and affect both systems. So keep the partition defragged and reap the performance benefits.
The last word of warning is that it’s important to remember that your system will be running two operating systems, so resource management becomes very important. For example, it’s not a good idea to encode video while running a live VM unless you have some serious processing power to hand. It’s worthwhile to fire up the Performance monitor in Windows XP to see under what sort of loads your system is running. To access the Performance monitor, right-click the Start Bar, select Task Manager and go the Performance tab. You want to keep your eye on the “CPU Usage” and “Memory” graphs.
Step 2 – Install VirtualBox
Before we start, a quick note about our choice of virtualization platforms. There are other options available for Microsoft Windows.http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx
VMWare Workstation: http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/
While either of these options is more than acceptable, we chose VirtualBox because we wanted to base the tutorial on a platform which was free, intuitive and which supported as wide a range of host and guest operating systems as possible. Virtual PC 2007 SP1 is excellent and freely available but does not support non-Windows systems very well or 24-bitcolour depth, while VMWare Workstation is an outstanding platform but is proprietary.
During testing we were very impressed with VirtualBox, and are using it as the platform for all our virtualization tutorials.
To install VirtualBox:
- Launch the installer and click Next
- Accept the license agreement
- in the Custom Setup window, make sure that all the options are selected then select Next
- Click Install
- During the install you will be prompted to approve the installation of virtual device drivers, as they’re not signed. Accept the installation
Once installed, launch VirtualBox from the Start Menu. You’ll be prompted to register (which is free) and this also creates the default VirtualBox folder structure within your profile (%USERPROFILE%\.VirtualBox).
Step 3 – Create New Ubuntu VM
Click the New icon to start the New Virtual Machine Wizard
- Click Next
- Type in “Ubuntu” as the name and select “Ubuntu” from the “OS Type” drop down menu. Click Next
Assign as much memory as you like beyond the base memory recommendation. In this case 256MB is the recommended amount. Click Next
- On the “Virtual Hard Disk” screen, click “New” to launch the Create New Virtual Disk Wizard, and click Next.
- Choose whichever disk type you prefer. The advantage of a fixed-size image is that as all the space is reserved up front, there’s an ongoing disk performance benefit as the image doesn’t need to keep expanding as you use it. The downside is that all the space is used at once and it takes longer to create. Click Next
- Name the image file accordingly and assign some space (at least 8GB for the Ubuntu boot disk). Click Next, and then Finish. The newly-created Ubuntu.vdi is now populated. Click Next and then Finish, and the VM is created
Step 4 – Install Ubuntu
writing the version was 8.04.1 (Hardy Heron). You just need the normal 32-bit desktop ISO (ubuntu-8.04.1-desktop-i386.iso).
There are a couple of methods available to install the OS. You can burn the ISO to CD and connect the physical optical drive to the virtual guest, or you can attach the ISO directly. Actually, a third option is to install a virtual image utility like DAEMON TOOLS.
OR
mount the ISO in the host virtual drive and attach the drive letter to the virtual guest.Installing from the ISO is quicker than from CD, but it does result in more intense hard drive activity.To mount the ISO, highlight the Ubuntu VM, and in the right-hand side of the screen click “CD/DVD-ROM”, then tick “Mount CD/DVD Drive” and then “ISO Image”. There are no images available for selection in the dropdown menu, so click the folder icon. This opens the Virtual Disk Manager – VirtualBox cleverly keeps track of all the ISOs you access regardless of where they’re kept and catalogues them, making it much easier to access them later.Click Add and browse for the Ubuntu ISO, then click Select and then OK. The ISO is now attached to the VM as the primary optical drive.
Highlight the Ubuntu VM and select Start. This starts the VM, connects you to the machine and, as there is no OS present on the virtual disk, boots from the mounted ISO.
You will get a warning about the “Auto capture keyboard” setting – this causes the VM to capture keyboard input for its own use, but you can click the host key to release the capture. By default the host is the Right Ctrl key. There is a similar feature which captures the mouse input, and again pressing the host key will release the cursor back to the host. This behaviour is common across all virtualization platforms when the guest OS in a state where host integration tools have not been installed or loaded – we’ll install these tools post-install.
You will also get a warning message that the VM is optimised for 32-bit colour, but that you’re currently running in 16-bit (which the Ubuntu CD does do). Just ignore this message.
Select your installation language using the keyboard (the default is English). If you want to boot into the Live CD environment, choose the top option “Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer”. You can start the installation from within the Live CD GNOME interface. To install Ubuntu straight away, select “Install Ubuntu”. You don’t need to select any of the various boot options available.
On the Welcome screen, select the Language and click Forward
On the "Where are you?" screen, select your locale and click Forward
select the appropriate Keyboard layout and click Forward
on the "Prepare disk space" screen, select "Guided - use entire disk" and click Forward
on the "Who are you?" screen type in your username and password details and click Forward
Most virtualization solutions offer a software package which can be installed on guest machines which provides better access to the host hardware and other resources like shared folders, clipboard, file copying and so on.
Once the Ubuntu VM has been installed and has rebooted, log in to GNOME. Then, press the host key to release the cursor, then select the Devices menu and then “Install Guest Additions”. This mounts the additions image into the VM.
Click back into Ubuntu and open a terminal – Applications, Accessories, Terminal. Type in the following command:
“sudo /media/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run” and press Enter (assuming you’ve installed a 32-bit Ubuntu system). This will start the Guest Additions installation script.
Once complete, reboot the system for the additions to take effect. The shortcut to reboot from the terminal is:
“sudo shutdown -r 0“
Once the system restarts there will be some obvious improvements – the keyboard and mouse cursor input are automatically captured and released without having to use the host key, and there’s an overall improvement in performance.
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