Besides compatibility and performance aspects including functions to accelerate and facilitate the navigation like Accelerators, Web Slices or the Visual Searches which we have already reviewed in a previous article, Internet Explorer 8 also bases its aspirations in the security aspect, with new functionalities such as the InPrivate Browsing or the SmartScreen Filter. Today I'm going to share with you everything about security in Microsoft's newest browser release.

The Safety "Over-Concern"
In my personal opinion, Microsoft is a company which is extremely concerned with security issues, I do not mean that this is totally bad, nevertheless, Internet Explorer 8 shows in part the results of this "obsession" that I think was not the best side of Windows Vista. Thus therefore the challenge is to protect the user without making the program usage an impossible task. Is Internet Explorer 8 going to achieve this goal?

To obtaining a secure browser is increasingly more complex as time goes by and the ingenuity of hackers, malware developers, phishing creators and other social engineering traps, new challenges arise. In Internet Explorer 8 they have taken detailed care of the security, in terms of powerful protection tools and all of this without forgetting that the user is the last barrier.

A sign of this high concern and the efforts carried out with this browser security development is the appearance of a specific menu for Safety, so, we do not have to go to the browser configuration menu to manage certain tools in this area.

Safety In Depth
Many times some small details can make the difference between succumbing or not when facing an online threat. Based statistic studies on the troubles that the users have suffered, IE 8 went under some small retouches in order to reduce the risk of the threat (at least a minimum) and on the other hand to reduce the inconveniences for the user as much as possible. An example of that is that when long URL appears in the address bar, the browser automatically highlights the server address. This improvement allows us to detect if the server domain is really which it says to be and not a mysterious IP, this is very useful in case of Phishing. Read the rest of this entry »

WinQuota 4.5.5
License - Shareware
Publisher - WinQuota LLC

WinQuota Professional is a totally automatic and real-time disk quota management mechanism. Designed especially for administration, WinQuota Professional provides quota management for folders and files separately for any kind of users, groups, including support of Windows Domains and Active Directory network users.
WinQuota Professional guards disk space for any system wide process and provides the way to keep the system in a safe state from disasters like disk overflows. Usually if some service has eaten all disk space, other services fail too. But with WinQuota all other services will work continuously even if some service eats its limits.

Key Features
Real time hard and soft limits support
Notifications (including 3rd party scripts and programs)
Exclude lists support
Complete domain and Active Directory support
Detailed statistic and tips



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It is early proven from Microsoft that Office 14 and Windows 7 will not be released simultaneously even without any specific publication time. However, upon its official planned schedule, Office 14 RTM version will at the latest processed in the first half of 2010. Some certain facts revealed, Office 14 will follow up Windows 7 publication, which means, at the end of 2009 or the beginning of 2010.

TechARP provide Office 14 program planned schedule yesterday, in which shows, SKU line-up will be coming out until the second quarter of 2009, as well as OEM royalty rates in the third quarter and marketing strategy at the end of 2009.

Previously, Wzor, a famous IT website from Russian, devoted there would be any adjustments in Microsoft product process, including Office 14. Office 14 Beta version would be available to selected assessing staff instead of the public. Beta 2 will release at the beginning of November, and final RTM verison is available in March, 2010.

According to reports, Office 14 offers both 32 and 64 bits.

SiteSpinner 2.7
License - Shareware
Publisher - Virtual Mechanics

SiteSpinner V2 is an affordable, easy-to-use yet powerful drag-and-drop editor for quickly creating sophisticated websites. No need for an image tool. The program includes built-in graphics creation and editing functionality to allow you to create and edit graphics right in the work-window. Features include image and graphics shading, transparency, and rotation. Layout functions include a snap-to grid, snap-to tabs, pixel-precise positioning and more. Layout your images and text anywhere on the page you want. Just drag, drop and position.

You don't need to know any HTML - SiteSpinner is 100% WYSIWYG - move anything anywhere with your mouse.
No need for image editing software - Change the size or properties of any picture right in the work-window.
No need for a paint program - Create shapes, backgrounds. Add shading or transparency.
No need for FTP software - Publish directly from SiteSpinner to your web host. All your images can be automatically uploaded too.
Templates - SiteSpinner includes quality templates for you to use to build your site.



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Google Services for Websites released now for a better and easier experience to create a webpage. This new program requires minimal to zero programming experience and few expertise in HTML, Java or C++ coding.

Talking about specific information function, Google Services for Websites currently expands to include Google Site Search, providing us with better partner opportunities for the web hosting community. Every customer who creates Google Site Search would be required to pay referral fees to those webhosters who participate in. additionally, Google Search for Websites would also insure providers to enhance their sites with Custom Search or Google Site Search. AdSense makes monetize available and webmaster tools will be optimized at the same time. More Custom Search functions will lead partners, such as hosting providers and blogging platforms, to integrate services provided into their own management consoles, and are further much easier to access users.

Google Services for Websites is really a big hit for both providers and users; it's a tool for your hosting company to help you improve your website. With Webmaster Tools, AdSense, Custom Search, and Site Search, Google Services is making it easier to drive traffic to your site.

iKey 2.3.4
License - Shareware
Publisher - Script Software

iKey is an automation utility, a program that creates shortcuts to accomplish repetitive tasks. In essence, an iKey shortcut is a little program in its own right, but you don't need to know the first thing about programming to create an iKey shortcut. All you have to do is put together three necessary parts of a shortcut: One or more commands that give the shortcut its functionality, a context in which it runs, and a launcher that defines how the shortcut is activated.

A command is the action, or series of actions, that you want iKey to perform. An example of a command is: Open Photoshop and start a new document.

The context is from where your shortcut can be activated. Most commonly the context is set to universal so that it will work regardless of which application you are in. However you may wish to set a hotkey for use only in Photoshop, in this case the context would be set to Photoshop.

A launcher is what activates your shortcut. Most commonly it is a hotkey or date time event. For example launch Safari by pressing option + have it load for you at 8:00 am each morning.

 

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Nowadays, we everyone get various kinds of social site activities, Facebook, Twitter followers, Flickr photos and possibly a majority of other social ones. Connected with different friends in different favorite activities, we do wish a comprehensive desktop application for us to follow them in a general but full-scale manner. Hereby, we introduce you a happy medium that is Skimmer, an Adobe AIR desktop client for Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, and Blogger.

For a better day-to-day social web activities generation, we need to learn about what's new in skimmer, afterwards, skimmer will make it easier and more fun to follow our friends.

Feed View
Skimmer works as an aggregated feed of posts from your friends on Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube and Blogger. Either by service, group or keyword, multimedia content would be distinguished by presence of thumbnails in a very quick and easy way. There is also a cool feature in it. No matter what kinds of updating information included in your friends’ upload, photo, audio even video upload, Skimmer helps you a simple click on it and get a relevant preview.

Slideshow
Once you want to view your Flickr and YouTube photos any time, use skimmer to create a full screen slideshow view, seeing all of your content at a larger resolution and of course without all of the clutter. There is a small slideshow icon next to an image or video. For Flickr View, it is also very simple and functional. Browse your friends' sets in a new way. You will get recent activities of them and enjoy in a high-resolution slideshow at the same time. Read the rest of this entry »

FlexTk Ultimate 3.1.10
License - Shareware
Publisher - Flexense

FlexTk is an advanced file management toolkit allowing one to search and classify files, scan one or more disks or directories and apply rule-based, file organizing or data migration policies, synchronize files and directories, monitor one or more disks or directories, analyze storage utilization, copy large amounts of files in a fault-tolerant way, identify duplicate files and free-up wasted storage spaceFile Classification, Categorization and Organizing.

Key Features
File Classification, Categorization and Organizing
Storage Utilization Analysis
Duplicate Files Search and Removal
Rule-Based File Search
File System Change Monitor
High-Speed File Synchronization
Multi-Stream File Copy and Data Migration
Built-In Disk Cleaner
File Management and Navigation



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Currently some screenshots released from Internet, which are supposed to be new interfaces of Windows Mobile 7. Is this real? It seems worth waiting.

Motorola's CEO once announced that when Windows 7 would become available, they will continually participate in a more focused way in Windows Mobile 7. We all do hope to see this theories come true, it's pointing to an unannounced version of Windows 7- Windows 7 Mobile/Phone/Cute-Marketing world. Supposedly, Windows Mobile 7 will be available to OEM at the end of this year, while the relevant equipments willbe released until 2010.

Will Windows 7 be the underpinnings for the next version of Windows Mobile? Let's wait and see!

Are you sometimes confused with your computer devices? How many memories they take and how the programs run? Do you want to learn about detailed hardware or integral browsing information? In view of them, we today introduce three kinds of system information utilities that do a very good job. After reading, you will learn detailed information about your PC in one easy but comprehensive searching application.

1. EVEREST
EVEREST Ultimate Edition is the most comprehensive system information utility. For those enthusiasts PC users, it’s an industry leading system diagnostics and benchmarking solution. CPU, FPU and memory benchmarks are available to measure the actual system performance and compare it to previous states or other systems. Total 100 pages of information will be offered by complete software, operating system and security information, which makes EVEREST Ultimate Edition to be a comprehensive system diagnostics tool.

What's more, new V 5.0 supports Intel Core i7, Intel Atom and AMD Phenom II processors. For the upcoming Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008, fixed auto-load at startup features are also available. Read the rest of this entry »