How to keep your Windows PC always updated: FileHippo Update Checker! January 3, 2010
Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, free software, free software download, Free Software Magazine, Freeware, freeware blog, Freeware Reviews, freeware tip, freeware tips, Tech, Tecnologia, upgrade, upgrade problem, windows.Tags: download software, file hippo, filehippo, Freeware, shareware program, software updater, update manager, updated version, updater
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This week in our Freeware Page we posted a brief review about FileHippo Update Checker for Windows. This Updater is very light (just 155 Kb) and very fat. This particular checker has uses the large software database contained on FileHippo.com and in just 2-3 seconds is able to detect all the necessary updates and it also find the beta version ready to be installed. During the installation you can decide if FileHippo Update Checker has to run at each start-up or if you prefer to use it only when you prefer. Anyway, FileHippo Update Checker easily shows the results of the available updates on a html page on your browser. Recommended!
Rocketdock 1.3.0: a light but powerful dock for Windows 7, Vista and XP November 22, 2009
Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, Desktop, Dock, free software, free software download, Free Software Magazine, Freeware, freeware blog, Freeware Reviews, freeware tip, freeware tips, graphics, Tech, Technology, Technology and Software, Technology News, Tecnologia, windows, Windows freeware.Tags: 7, Dock, icons, RocketDock, Software, themes, Vista, wallpapers, windows, XP
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This week, in our Freeware Page, we posted a brief review about Rocketdock, a terrific “Apple style” dock for Windows. We decided to test Rocketdock on a Windows XP and the results were positive and we did not find bugs. Rocketdock is compatible with Windows 2000, XP, Vista and the brand new Windows 7 using just 10MB of RAM. To add a new icon it is sufficient to drag and drop it into the bar and it will be automatically added. To cut off an icon you have to drag it from the dock to an empty space on the desktop and it is immediately removed. To conclude we suggest this freeware because it is really customizable and easy to add & tune to your existing desktop. Recommended!
Gmail Tips! October 11, 2009
Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, free software, Free Software Magazine, Freeware, freeware blog, Freeware Reviews, freeware tip, freeware tips, Technology, Technology and Software, Technology News, Tecnologia, tools, tutorial.Tags: efficiently, email, Gmail, Gmail ninja, master, productivity, tips, tips and tricks
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This week, in our Freeware Page, we posted a brief review about Gmail Tips, a terrific pdf printable guide with tons of useful information to better manage your gmail account. You can decide to read online the document at www.gmail.com/tips or download the printable pdf version. As for martial arts the tips you receive are related to your skills and are progressively more difficult. At the “white belt” level, I am sure, you will find some feature you have been using for years but when you become a “black belt” or a “Gmail master” you are able to deeply enjoy all the Gmail’s most useful “secret” features. For example you learn how to remotely sign out your Gmail account when you forget it open at the office or in an internet cafe’. Moreover, properly using the Gmail filters, you will able to send automatic responses reducing the time wasted in routine replies. We are sure that everyone will find other useful tips depending on what he/she is looking for. Useful!
SmartViper: an online search engine to better analyze and improve your website! September 20, 2009
Posted by galigio in Computadoras, Computers & Internet, Free Software Magazine, Freeware, freeware blog, Freeware Reviews, freeware tip, freeware tips, internet, internet tips, Noticias, Tech, Technology, Technology and Software, Technology News, Tecnologia, web 2.0.Tags: domain worth, related sites, seo tips, site analyze, SmartViper, SmartViper.com, webmaster help, website relations, website statistics
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Today, in our Freeware Page, we posted a brief review about SmartViper, an online search engine which allows you to analyze your website and all the similar sites built by your competitors. SmartViper is very simple to use: you can directly insert the web-address of the site you want to analyze or a keyword to find your direct competitors and find datas related to their websites. SmartViper has a double goal: you can study deeper your site and try to improve it or find the “winning” features your competitors use to predominate. SmartViper generates complete and interesting reports which are full of links to its blog where you can learn more about developing some peculiar characteristics of your website. Something to try!
How to free some hard disk space and substitute Acrobat Reader without giving up any features August 30, 2009
Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, free software, free software download, Free Software Magazine, Freeware, freeware blog, Freeware Reviews, freeware tip, freeware tips, hardware, Tech, Technology, Technology and Software, Technology News, Tecnologia, windows.Tags: Acrobat, Acrobat Reader, CCleaner, clean HD, compress, foxit, Foxit Reader, hard disk, HD, pdf, pdf reader, substitute Acrobat
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This week, in our Freeware Page, we posted some thoughts on pdf readers. Some days ago I had some problems with my office Windows XP PC because the hard disk space was ending. As usual, I cleaned up the disk using CCleaner and I earned ca. 200MB of space and proceed to compress the hard disk. Unfortunately, this strategy did not solve my problems so I decided to have a deep look into the numbers of Kb each program occupied on the HD and I was surprised in noticing that Acrobat Reader needs more than 200MB of HD space to work. Then I focus my attention on Foxit Reader and I discovered that it occupied more or less 7MB of HD space. Obviously I disinstall Acrobat Reader and earned ca. 190MB of hard disk. Today, I am not able to affirm that I solved all my problems with my PC but I am confident that, with an intelligent use of CCleaner, I will able to go ahead for another couple of months without contacting the administrator for a new HD and stop my work for (sic) at least a couple of days. Something to think about….
Something to know before the release of Firefox 3.5: how to disable the geo-locating feature. June 28, 2009
Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, free software, Free Software Magazine, Freeware, freeware blog, Freeware Reviews, freeware tip, freeware tips, GNU/Linux, Linux, Linux & OpenSource, multiplatform freeware, OS News, OS X, Tech, Technology, Technology and Software, Technology News, Tecnologia, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 9.04, windows.Tags: anonymity, feature, Firefox 3.5, geo-locating, geo-location, how to, ip, network security, OS X, system administration, tip, tips, Ubuntu, Win, windows
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This week in our Freeware Page we we have written a quick post about disabling geo-locating feature in the upcoming Firefox 3.5. I have always been an enthusiastic supporter of Firefox because I think it is so flexible that I can find any add-on I need for any purpose. I am also sure that the new Firefox 3.5 will be the perfect tool for my everyday navigation but there is something I am a little bit annoyed. In fact, the Firefox 3.5 will contain a default feature (which can be triggered remotely by a website you are visiting) declaring your geo-location everytime you connect to a site. This feature (previously known as project Geode by Mozilla Labs) could be useful for people involved in social networking but it is a potential wasting time feature for all the others. In fact, you have to declare if you want to automatically display your geo-location each time a website triggers this feature. For this reason, if you are not a social network addict, my personal advice is to disable this geo-locating feature as soon as you install (or update to) Firefox 3.5… (it continues in the Freeware Page).
How to build a website or blog using just free online tools. Part 1 May 24, 2009
Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, Free Software Magazine, Freeware, freeware blog, Freeware Reviews, freeware tip, freeware tips, GNU/Linux, Linux, Linux & OpenSource, Tech, Technology, Technology and Software, Technology News, Tecnologia, tools, windows.Tags: blog, create, disposable, disposablewebpage, online, online tool, posterous, tools, webpage, website
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Today, in our Freeware Page we posted the first part of a brief research we made to discover the free online services, now available, to create webpages and posts. In particular, in this Part 1 we tested http://disposablewebpage.com/ and http://posterous.com/. Disposablewebpage is a very particular website builder because each website you create, has a life of just 90 days. It could be useful for all that temporary projects you want to share with your friends for a brief period or to 
reach specific goals in a bigger plan. Disposablewebpage is very simple to use but the graphic results are very basic. On the other hand, disposablewebpage allows you to invite your friends or your colleagues in order to completely share the website and the project. In our point of view, Posterous is even more interesting because it is so simple to use that everyone can develop his/her own post. We tried posterous and we were able to create and update our new test post in not more than five minutes. You can post just using your email (gmail.com, yahoo.com,hotmail.com, or aol .com); you have to insert the title in the subject field and attach all the images you want directly on your email. Recommended!
QuotePad a useful portable freeware to take notes “on the go” when in internet. April 20, 2009
Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, free soft, free software, free software download, Free Software Magazine, Free Softwarefree software downloads, Freeware, freeware blog, Freeware Reviews, freeware tip, freeware tips, Tech, Technology, Technology and Software, Technology News, Tecnologia, windows.Tags: backup, Checklist, cut and paste, handy notepad, Multilanguage interface, notepad, notes, Quick filtering, QuotePad, reminder, text, Timestamping
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This week, in our Freeware Page , we have added a short review about QuotePad which is a very interesting notepad that can be used to better organizing your online day by day work especially when in internet. In particular this light freeware allows you also to copy and paste large amounts of texts from web-pages and automatically recording the web-address. After coping the text you have only to go into your QuotePad and paste it using Ctr-Shift-Q. QuotePad directly memorizes the time of your “cut and paste” and allows you to write the most appropriate title for each of your notes. Moreover, clicking on “stay on top” (on the right in the upper bar) you can also stitch your notes above the browser you are using. Recommended.
How to share notes and images using thepiratebay.org satellite websites: PasteBay and bayimg April 13, 2009
Posted by galigio in apple, Computers & Internet, free software, Free Software Magazine, Freeware, freeware blog, Freeware Reviews, freeware tip, freeware tips, GNU/Linux, Linux, Linux & OpenSource, MAC OS, Tech, Technology, Technology and Software, Technology News, Tecnologia, windows.Tags: free, free hosting, free software, Free uncensored text hosting, Freeware, hosting, image, image backup, image hosting, notes, online, online feature, photo, photo collection, photo manager, text, text editor, text hosting, text notes
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Today, in our Freeware Page, we added a brief review about two, multiplatform free services offered by th piratebay.org. The first one is PasteBay which allows you to quickly create, save and protect (in a basic way) your own notes when browsing on internet. PasteBay is very intuitive, quick to use and effective. The only “trouble” could be the simple http connection (instead of https) and the password you choose that could be weak if you do not choose it in a proper way. The second online service offered by thepiratebay.org is bayimg which allows you to store images for your websites in 140 different formats. Each image could be uploaded till 100MB so it is possible to save online also high resolution images. We have spent five days testing the features offered by these two websites and we have really not found any problem or bug. Recommended!
Ext2fsd: an useful freeware to manage Linux partitions when running Windows March 29, 2009
Posted by galigio in bootable Linux CD, bootable Linux DVD, bootable Linux USB, Computers & Internet, Free Software Magazine, Freeware, freeware blog, Freeware Reviews, freeware tip, freeware tips, GNU/Linux, Linux, Live CD, Live DVD, Tech, Technology, Technology and Software, Technology News, Tecnologia, windows.Tags: device driver developping, ext2, ext2 file system driver, ext2 tools, ext2fs, ext2fsd, ext2sh, file system, internals, Linux, partition, windows
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Nowadays it is common to find PCs with more than one OS installed. Normally, when on a Linux OS, it is very simple to access Windows partitions and copy, create, delete or transfer files. Rarely, it could be also necessary to access Linux partitions (ext2 or ext3) from Windows OS but this operation it is not simple to manage. After some web-searches we have found a light and simple program which instantly allows to use Linux partitions as local disks: Ext2Fsd. In our Freeware Page we have posted a brief review about this freeware which is very simple to install (as usual we suggest to reboot your computer after the installation) and in just few clicks you will be ready to manage your Linux hard disks. We tested Ext2Fsd for a couple of weeks and we actually were satisfied from the results; in fact we have never registered any bug and all the writing – copying – deleting tasks were executed in a 100% proper way. Obviously, if you need to access a Linux partition, you are a purist and you do not want to use a Windows OS you can use a Linux Live CD. Potentially useful.
