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Camera Sales Increasing In Asia

2011-05-14T21:58:00.002+08:00

More Symbol for Facebook

2011-04-23T21:02:00.001+08:00

Online Photo Editing Made Fun

2010-11-01T12:02:00.002+08:00

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ATI Tray Tools

2010-10-12T12:53:00.003+08:00

Having problem with your ATI Catalyst Control Center after upgrade your ATI display driver? Many people complaint that the Catalyst Control Center unable to start after the driver update.
Some of them keep uninstall, reinstall or even clean install but still cannot load it.

Here is another alternative for you to change your display settings, instead of using ATI Catalyst Control Center, try using ATI Tray Tools.

ATI Tray Tools is a Full Featured Radeon Tweaker that can be found in the windows tray which then allows instant access to options and settings.

Download ATI Tray Tools

EVIL vs DSLR

2010-09-29T02:03:00.004+08:00

(Article from 3C Digital September Issue)

Fujifilm FinePix JZ300

2010-07-02T20:51:00.003+08:00

(Article from 3C Digital June Issue)

Solid State Drive

2009-12-25T17:28:00.002+08:00

(Article from PC GAMER December Issue)

Quick Defrag

2009-08-24T20:25:00.004+08:00

It differs from other defrag tools on the market, by enabling you to quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to process the whole drive. Simply run it, select the file and defragment in seconds. No more struggling with the Windows defragmentation tool! (Text quoted from defraggler.com)

Must Try: Quick Defrag from Defraggler
1. Select your drive and click Analyze.
2. Click the drop down arrow from the Defrag button, select Quick Defrag.
3. You can now experience that your Windows is speeding up.

- Download Defraggler

Fences for Your Desktop

2009-05-25T20:38:00.004+08:00

Fences is a one-of-a-kind program, allowing you to draw labeled shaded areas on your desktop, which become movable & resizable containers for your desktop icons. These groups can help bring organization and consistency to your computer's desktop, solving the "constant mess" problem that has plagued the desktop since its inception.

Fences also helps you finally appreciate the wallpaper you have hiding behind all that clutter.
In addition to its organizing features, Fences offers a novel quick-hide feature (in-patenting-process). Double click your desktop, and all your icons will fade out. Double click again, and they'll return. (Text quoted from stardock.com)

- Download Fences
- See more products from Stardock

Manual Update Avira AntiVir Personal - FREE Antivirus

2009-05-01T21:34:00.008+08:00

Avira AntiVir Personal - FREE Antivirus is a reliable free antivirus solution, that constantly and rapidly scans your computer for malicious programs such as viruses, Trojans, backdoor programs, hoaxes, worms, dialers etc. Monitors every action executed by the user or the operating system and reacts promptly when a malicious program is detected.

Avira AntiVir Personal is a comprehensive, easy to use antivirus program, designed to offer reliable free of charge virus protection to home-users, for personal use only, and is not for business or commercial use. Available for Windows or UNIX. (Text quoted from free-av.com)

How to Manual Update virus definition:

1. Download the latest virus definition file at:
http://www.avira.com/en/support/vdf_update.html
(Note: Extracting of the ZIP file is not necessary)

2. Start AntiVir, go the menu Update and select Manual Update

3. Select the downloaded IVDF ZIP file and click open. Done!

- Download Avira AntiVir Personal

- Download latest virus definition update

Online Office Application

2009-04-11T14:37:00.005+08:00

Zoho

http://www.zoho.com/

Zoho is a suite of online applications (services) that you sign up for and access from our Website. The applications are free for individuals and some have a subscription fee for organizations. Zoho vision is to provide our customers (individuals, students, educators, non-profits, small and medium sized businesses) with the most comprehensive set of applications available anywhere (breadth); and for those applications to have enough features (depth) to make your user experience worthwhile.

(Text quoted from zoho.com)

ThinkFree

http://www.thinkfree.com/

ThinkFree Docs is an online community for publishers who want to share a variety of documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. ThinkFree My Office allows you enjoy instant access to your files, and share them with colleagues and friends anytime, anywhere. Document editing is fundamental.

(Text quoted from thinkfree.com)

Google Docs

http://docs.google.com/

Google Docs allows you to create basic documents from scratch or start from a template.
You can easily do all the basics, including making bulleted lists, sorting by columns, adding tables, images, comments, formulas, changing fonts and more. And it's free.
Upload your existing files - Google Docs accepts most popular file formats, including DOC, XLS, ODT, ODS, RTF, CSV, PPT, etc. So go ahead and upload your existing files.

(Text quoted from docs.google.com)

Free PDF to Word Doc Converter

2009-03-05T10:29:00.008+08:00

How to edit PDF files without purchasing an expensive PDF editor? How to extract text/images from PDF files? What you need is a PDF to Word Converter.

Free PDF to Word Doc Converter is such a desktop document conversion tool to convert Adobe PDF file to Microsoft Word Doc file - and it's totally for FREE!

The program can extract text, images, shapes from PDF file to Word Doc file and preserve the layout. It can convert all the pages, or any pages range of the PDF file.
And it is a standalone program - you can convert PDF to Word Doc without Adobe Acrobat Reader or Microsoft Word installed!

Key Features:
- Convert PDF to Word & preserve original layout of your PDF in an editable Word Document.
- Extract text labels, graphics, shapes from PDF file into Word Doc file.
- Convert all the pages, or partial pages of PDF file to Word file.
- Support Adobe PDF 1.0 - 1.6 formats.
- Can automatically open the output Doc file when the conversion is done.
- Several PDF to Word conversion options are available for a better result.
- Convert in a high speed.

http://www.hellopdf.com/

(Text quoted from hellopdf.com)

CDBurnerXP

2009-03-02T09:38:00.004+08:00

CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.

Key Features:

- burn all kinds of discs
- audio-CDs with or without gaps between tracks
- burn and create ISO files
- data verification after burning process
- create bootable discs
- multi-language interface
- bin/nrg → ISO converter, simple cover printing and much more!
- Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista/Windows 7

http://cdburnerxp.se

(Text quoted from cdburnerxp.se)

YouTube Downloader

2009-02-13T21:33:00.003+08:00

YouTube Downloader allows you to download videos from YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, and many others and convert them to other video formats.

The program is easy to use, just specify the URL for the video you want to download and click the Ok button! It also allows you to convert downloaded videos for iPod, iPhone, PSP, Cell Phone, Windows Media, XVid and MP3.

The latest version 2.1.7 enable you to download video from Yahoo!, DailyMotion, Pornhub, Pornotube, and RedTube!

http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/

(Text quoted from youtubedownload.altervista.org)

Revo & Handy Uninstaller

2009-01-12T19:01:00.005+08:00

Revo Uninstaller is a freeware innovative uninstall utility much faster than Windows Add/Remove applet. With its advanced and fast algorithm, Revo Uninstaller scans before and after you uninstall an application. After the program's regular uninstaller runs, you can remove additional unnecessary files, folders and registry keys that are usually left over on your computer. Even if you have a broken installation, Revo Uninstaller scans for an application's data on your hard disk drives and in the Windows registry and shows all found files, folders and registry items so you can delete them.

http://www.revouninstaller.com/

Handy Uninstaller is a simple uninstaller. It shows a list of installed programs on your computer and helps to uninstall and remove unwanted program. Handy Uninstaller is a fast and powerful alternative to the "Windows add or remove programs" and has a lot of powerful features.

http://www.flexbyte.com/handy-uninstaller/

(Text quoted from download.com)

TraceMonkey: JavaScript Lightspeed in Firefox 3.1

2008-12-16T20:28:00.003+08:00

The new Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is out! And the browsing speed is getting faster than the previous version.

Follow the step below to turn on TraceMonkey, an evolution of Firefox's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine for Firefox 3.1 that uses a new kind of Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler to boost JS performance.

1. Type “about:config” and hit enter;
2. Enter “jit” in the filter field;
3. Make sure “javascript.options.jit.content” and “javascript.options.jit.chrome” are enable (true); the value can be toggle by double click it.
4. Restart Firefox and feel the difference.

Download Firefox 3.1 Beta 2

Smush.it! Image Optimization

2008-11-17T21:36:00.002+08:00

Image optimization is an art that not many people master. There are many good image editing tools that allow us to get the best visual result for a certain file size but "under the hood" a lot more optimization can be done.

Smushit.com is a service that goes beyond the limitations of Photoshop, Fireworks & Co. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images - without changing their look or visual quality. You'll get a report of how many bytes you can save by optimizing your images and all the changed images as a single zip for download.

Smush it comes in different flavours:
- You can upload a bunch of pictures in your browser
- You can provide us with a list of image urls or
- You can get a Firefox Extension or a cross-browser bookmarklet to optimize the images found on any web page

(Text quoted from smushit.com)

Try Smush it Now

RocketDock

2008-11-14T11:39:00.004+08:00

RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock.

Features:
- Minimize windows to the dock
- Real-time window previews in Vista
- Running application indicators
- Simple drag-n-drop interface
- Multi-monitor support
- Supports alpha-blended PNG and ICO icons
- Icons zoom and transition smoothly
- Auto-hide and Popup on mouse over
- Positioning and layering options
- Fully customizable
- Completely Portable
- ObjectDock Docklet support
- Compatible with MobyDock, ObjectDock, RK Launcher, and Y'z Dock skins
- Runs great on slower computers
- Unicode compliant
- Supports many languages and can easily be translated
- A friendly user base
- And best of all... its FREE

(Text quoted from RocketDock.com)

- Watch it in Action
- Download RocketDock

Double Driver

2008-11-09T12:56:00.004+08:00

One of the most boring parts of reinstalling the operating system is to find and install all drivers again. What if you don’t have the Driver CD that came with the computer or you have lost it or they are unavailable online?

Double Driver is a very simple and useful tool which not only allows you to view all the drivers installed on your system but also allows you to backup, restore, save and print all chosen drivers simply and reliably.

So, if you intend to format/ reinstall your PC, what you need to do is:-

1. Backup the driver with Double Driver
2. Format/ reinstall Windows
3. Restore the driver, Done!

- Visit BooZet Freeware for more information
- Download Double Driver

Windows XP SP3

2008-11-08T12:06:00.009+08:00

Keep your PC update with the Latest Service Pack 3. This update offers over 1100 security patches for your system.

Important: To ensure smooth installation, or those having problem during the SP3 installation.
Please follow the steps below before continue with the SP3 installation.

1. For those running Norton Products such as Norton 360 should turn off the SymProtect Tamper Protection.

2. Start Windows in Diagnostic Mode.
Run > msconfig > Select Diagnostic Startup > Apply and restart

After the installation complete, you can now turn on the SymProtect and also select Normal Startup in msconfig

Download SP3 at Microsoft Download Center