SpeedUpMyPC 2010

The all new SpeedUpMyPC 2010 boasts a new speed-up engine with refined functionality. SpeedUpMyPC combines a professional range of tools to boost your computer’s performance, speed and output. After scanning your system, SpeedUpMyPC will optimize system settings, delete junk files and improve RAM and CPU function, giving you immediate benefits in performance and speed

With SpeedUpMyPC 2010, you will benefit from:

• New powerful system tweaks that optimize your PC and network settings.

• Advanced speed tools that enhance system resource management for extra power.

• Tweak management console to implement or undo individual tweaks as required

Uniblue is a trusted and dependable software partner to millions of PC users and is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

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New Backdoor Trojan Nukes Windows Boot Process

A new backdoor trojan can halt Windows even before the OS even completes the boot process.

Microsoft's Chun Feng said Friday that a new piece of malware capable of nuking the Windows boot process has been discovered. Rather than loading up the operating system, users are greeted with a black screen displaying a single-line, ASCI-based banner.

"A recently discovered backdoor sample (detected as Backdoor:Win32/Yonsole.A) can accept and execute a command from a remote server to modify the Master Boot Record (MBR) on the affected machine," Feng said. "The modification to the MBR is like the old "Stoned" virus for DOS. However, in this case, the MBR does nothing but display a banner in the center of the screen and freeze the PC. We detect the new MBR as Trojan:DOS/Yonsole.A."

Yonsole can infect popular, mainstream versions of Windows platforms--XP, Vista, and Windows 7--by dropping a DLL into C:\Windows\System32. The trojan can also dump a DLL into C:\Winnt\System32 on machines running Windows 2000 and NT. Yonsole was actually discovered earlier this month, so most anti-virus programs--including Microsoft Security Essentials--should already provide protection.

Handy Recovery – restore deleted files easily

Have you ever experienced sudden power failure while in the midst of typing a long important document or minutes of meeting for your company? Or worse, some nasty virus lurking around in your infected PC and your data is compromised? Well, fret no more. Handy Recovery is the ultimate solution to your problems.

Known as user-friendly data recovery software, Handy Recovery is designed to restore files accidentally deleted from your PC. The program can also recover files damaged by virus attacks, power failures and by corrupted software. On top of that, it can even recover files from deleted and formatted partitions. If for some reason, certain programs do not use Recycle Bin when deleting files, Handy Recovery can restore such files without any problems. It can also recover files moved to Recycle Bin after it has been emptied.

The good news is that Handy Recovery works under many versions of Windows operating system such as Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 OS. The program supports all Windows file systems for hard and floppy drives including FAT12/16/32, NTFS/NTFS 5. It can also cater to do image recovery from CompactFlash, SmartMedia, MultiMedia and Secure Digital cards. Moreover, it can recover compressed and encrypted files on NTFS drives.

The key features of Handy Recovery include recovering files from deleted and also formatted partitions; filtering files by name, mask, date and size; provide options to create disk images for deferred recovery and shows the probability of successful recovery for each file, amongst other functions.

Retailing for only USD39 for a single user license, Handy Recovery provides flexible discount program for volume purchase orders. Why not add this software to your list of compulsory programs that you cannot do without?

Download Handy Recovery for 30-day trial.

Vixy.net – online download and convert YouTube flash video

Last year, I reviewed the Video Downloader which allows us to download online video but it does not convert flash video(FLV) to avi/mpeg video files. Here comes the Vixy.net.

Vixy.net is a online FLV converter that convert online flash video to common video file formats. It is handy because it does the conversion for us!

Review Vixy.net

I tested Vixy.net with a few online video URLs from YouTube, Google Video and Metacafe but only YouTube url is working. Also, it took a few times to successfully download and convert the YouTube video. I got a few timeouts and server busy errors.

The flash video conversion is quite fast. It took less than a minute to convert a 2 minutes YouTube video. I cannot comment on the download speed because of my lousy ISP broadband.

Anyway, Vixy.net is nice if you want to download YouTube video and do not know how to convert the flash video for your PC / iPod / PSP. But, I hope Vixy.net will support more online video websites, other than YouTube.

3 Steps to Find All Your Facebook Friends who are using Twitter

You have both Facebook and Twitter accounts. You want to find your Facebook friends who have Twitter accounts too. How? All you take is 3 simple steps.

1. Sign in your Facebook account at fb140.
2. Sign in your Twitter account.
3. You will get a list of Facebook friends who have Twitter account. Tick them and click on the “Follow these people!” button to follow them on Twitter. Done!

fb140 is a web application to find all your Facebook friends on Twitter. It looks at the website field of your Facebook friends’ profile to find friends who have listed their Twitter URL.

If your Facebook friends do not list their Twitter URL then fb140 cannot find them…

Among my 344 Facebook friends, only 6 have Twitter URL listed in their profile. I was expecting more.. maybe my friends are not keen to tweet?

How many of your Facebook friends are Twitter users too? Try fb140.

Quick Way to Test Your Broadband Quality

Pingtest.net is the new project of the popular bandwidth test site, SpeedTest.net. Unlike SpeedTest.net, PingTest is used to determine the “quality” of your Internet connection.

How Pingtest works?

According to Pingtest.net, the quality of your connection is determined by 3 factors:

1. Packet loss: the success rate of data packets to reach its destination from its source. The less loss the better.
2. Ping: the travel time of a data packet between source and destination. The faster the better.
3. Jitter: the variance in measuring successive ping tests. The less the better.

Pingtest rank the your broadband test result with A to F, where A is the best quality broadband.

Benefit of quality broadband

The better broadband quality, the better performance when you are accessing online stream data such as online video, online music, online gaming.

How is your broadband quality? Let’s compare!

Top 20 Words of Encouragement

If you’re like most people, there are days when you just feel down in the dumps. You feel like giving up. You feel like you’re a failure, and that you’ll never be loved, or be successful, or have the kind of life you want to have. On days like that, you need words of encouragement.

Here are 20 words of encouragement to keep with you for those days when you just feel blue:

Panda Cloud Antivirus, the Best Free Antivirus for Windows 7!

This is a review of Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition 1.0, which won Editor’s Choice award for Best Free Antivirus from PC World.

Panda Cloud Antivirus

Panda Cloud Antivirus is the first FREE cloud-based antivirus. It connects in real-time to Panda Lab’s online database for protection against virus and malware.

Therefore, Panda Cloud Antivirus could detect the latest virus faster than the traditional signature-based antivirus.

And, it does NOT need to download updates, because the virus signature database is online!

Download Panda Cloud Antivirus

Top 5 Antivirus Programs for Windows 7

Ensuring the security levels of your computer is the most basic and fundamental task for any computer user. There is an old saying in the Medical Fraternity that “Prevention is better than Cure.” The same applies while you are putting your efforts to protect your computer from malicious attacks. So keeping your computer shielded with a robust antivirus program is the very much necessary.

It has been few days but Windows 7 has already created a great buzz. People are very much in love with this brand new operating system from Microsoft because of its amazingly innovative features. Since Windows 7 is the newest operating system of the current date, users are skeptical about the antivirus programs which can be used to protect their computers powered by Windows 7.

Hackers release numerous viruses, Trojans, rootkits and other malicious program every year. It is nothing less than any unending process. So, computer security experts have already warned people about number of malicious programs which are designed to hamper the performance Windows 7.

How to Know When Someone Hacks Your Facebook Account?

Little did we know that Facebook had a security setting which will notify you when someone access your Facebook account from other locations or computers. Read on this tutorial for how to do it.

Setup Facebook security 

1. Login your Facebook account (preferred your home computer)
2. Click the “Account” drop down menu at the top right hand side
3. Click “Account Settings”
4. Under “Settings” tab of “My Account” page, locate “Account Security” and click “change”
5. At “Would you like to receive notifications for login from new devices?”, click “Yes”
6. Click “Submit” button. Done.

That’s easy, isn’t it? Next, you need to register your computer.

Google Chrome 5 Beta is Faster than Speed of Light?!

Google Chrome 5 beta has been released and it is the fastest beta to date for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new beta release is 30% better performance and faster than the previous beta version.
Chrome 5 beta also includes couple new features such as:

• Ability to sync not only bookmarks but also browser preferences (themes, homepage, browser settings) on multiple computers using your Google Account.
• Now you can install and use Chrome extensions while in incognito mode (private browsing mode).
• Added new HTML5 features: Geolocation, app cache, web sockets, and file drag-and-drop capabilities.
• Bundle Adobe Flash Player plug-in with Chrome.
• Chrome now remembers zoom settings for each site.
• Bookmark manage now open in tab as an HTML page.
• Now you can reorder the extension buttons as you like.

Now you can download Google Chrome beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Now You Can Wear Your iPad, the Kangaroo Style

If you have an Apple iPad then you might want to wear your iPad on the go, in the kangaroo style.

Designed by iClothing, the iTee and iDress allows you to store your iPad right in the pouch of the tee or dress. Now you can bring your iPad everywhere but still keep your hands free. Brilliant!

The iTee price is AUD $44.95 (RM 124.39) and iDress is AUD $89.95 (RM 248.91).

That’s very expensive for a simple tee and dress like that! I would DIY and sew an iPad pouch on my tee (if I ever want to wear an iPad).

What do you think?

Now You Can See Google Maps in 3D View!

Now you can use Earth view to see maps in 3D on Google Maps!

Earth view uses the same technology that powers the Google Earth desktop application. It allows you to view the same high-resolution imagery, terrain, and 3D cityscapes, all from right within your browser.

The screenshot above is the Petronas Twins Tower in Google Map’s 3D view. Impressive, isn’t it?

The 7 Best Movie Review And Rating Sites : Save Your Cinema Money

There’s nothing worse than spending $10 at the local multiplex to see a movie that totally sucks. The movie theater sure isn’t going to give you a refund. And yea, it pays to read a couple of reviews by professional movie watchers.

That’s why I usually rely on friends’ recommendations and read few reviews of any movie I want to watch so I know what I’m getting before the endless trailers even start running.

How to Export Firefox Bookmarks

Image via Channy Yun

If you’re like me, you have at least a couple of browsers loaded on your desktop – Opera, Chrome and probably Firefox, my browser of choice.

I’ve written a lot of posts about Firefox because it’s totally customizable through the use of the thousands of addons available and because the basic Firefox interface is just so darned simple to use.

I have thousands of sites bookmarked on my Firefox browser – bookmarks that I’d like to also export to the other browsers I use, or to a thumbdrive or memory stick that I can take with me to access favorites from a remote site. As with all online functions, Firefox makes it easy to bookmark and easy to export your bookmarks to anything from a spreadsheet to another browser.

9 Essential Tips To Speed Up Windows 7

The Microsoft Windows 7 operating system has been designed for delivering better speeds than its predecessors. However, as time passes by, the laptop/PC might tend to get slower. This is not exactly the fault of the OS. As the matter of fact, it is a common problem faced by many operating systems.

The major reasons for this are accumulation of junk in the system or a highly stuffed hard drive or running of too many unnecessary services and programs. Here we shared a few essential tips that can help speed up Windows 7 performance on laptops or computers. Hope it helps!