PC HelpSoft Smart System Informer: Shows Detailed System Specs

Performance of a Windows PC depends on various parameters: its hardware specifications, running processes, startup items, installed software etc. So, to troubleshoot any issue, you need to know such details. PC HelpSoft Smart System Informer is a tiny freeware that provides all such information. According to the webpage,

Smart System Informer is a free tool that compiles all the information you need on installed hardware and software. Specific information includes computer ID, processor, BIOS, memory, disks, video, motherboard, monitor, etc. This information shown as number and graphical views - you can easily evaluate your computer's performance, and save the received data as a text file.

SSuite Office - System Monitor: Shows RAM, CPU, Pagefile Usage, Current IP Address

While testing SSuite Office - Backup Master earlier this day, I found out another tiny piece of software from them. Its SSuite Office - System Monitor; A real time desktop system monitor, that monitors system ram, cpu usage, page file load - {swap file}, and the system power in real time. It also shows internet connection status and displays the current I.P. address. This tiny application is a freeware and is portable. Must be an attractive choice for users of laptops, notebooks and netbooks. I quite like this simple application. If the points mentioned later in the Cons are considered it would be more appealing.

SSuite Office - Backup Master: A Simple Portable Backup Software for Windows

Computers made our life simpler and better by storing, processing and computing things in a faster pace. We store, process loads of valuable data everyday for various needs. But the digital life is so uncertain. You can loose everything withing a few seconds. Be it a hacker attack or a computer hardware crash - your data consisting of years of work and sweat family memories are so fragile... Therefore its always a useful idea to make copies or backups. This may require you to buy more hard disk or online drive space but you will never have to regret for that.

Copying files and folder from one location to another location is the basic way to create copies or backups, but its always useful and time-saving to make that job automatic. Backup softwares are coded for this purpose. With these you can update your backup once you made changes in the source location. Most of the time the options in Backup softwares are way too lengthy which common users tend to avoid. SSuite Office - Backup Master is  a lifesaver software that makes the task of automating backup jobs easier and faster. The software is portable and offers easy options to create uncompressed backups from any number of folders and files to an external hard disk or to another PC in your network.

JetBoost Improves your Work and Gaming Experience

Windows uses many different processes and service to improve the experience and to for serving various needs related to its stability, security etc. We also install third party software to customize our choice and needs. Most if not all such software runs some background service all the time for its stability. Of course, with all such services and processes running Windows resources gets consumed and the free resources may not be sufficient for another resource intensive job like gaming, photoshopping etc. While it is possible to manually scroll to each processes and services and close the unnecessary ones and turn those on after the work is finished, its not the most convenient option. BlueSprig have released a software JetBoost to take care of such needs. According to the developer,

JetBoost ensures top performance from your PC. It releases system resources by shutting down unnecessary background processes and services and prioritizing processes. With three boost modes – game, work and custom – JetBoost configures your PC to best meet the demands of your activities. Game mode provides super gaming experience by automatically detecting and shutting unnecessary processes/services. Similarly, work mode is pre-configured to best meet your requirement for work. And custom mode allows you to create your favorite boosting mode!

You can even turn on those stopped processes after your work is done, with a click of a mouse!!

Incinerate Files with Kakasoft Super File Shredder

Normal File deletion in Windows (Shift + Delete) deletes only its metadata. Actually, the files hides on your hard disk somewhere and Windows only removes the entry from the FAT (file allocation table) so that the system does not see the file. These files can be found and recovered again as long as they haven't been overwritten by new data yet. As such the entire file can be recovered with the use of special data recovery softwares. To avoid privacy and security issues resulting from insecure file deletion, you need a software that will delete every trace of the existing file. Kakasoft Super File Shredder is such a software. It is distributed as Free under GNU public license. The software can quickly shred files by overwriting random bits, 15 times using advanced algorithms, making recovery literally impossible. According to the website:

Kakasoft Super File Shredder is simple but powerful program that surpasses manu commercial file shredders out there. The Author believes that such a utility should be available to anyone for free and that permanent and safe removal of confidential documents is a matter of basic right to privacy.

Anvi Browser Repair Tool Fixes Common Browser Problems

Browser is the most common infection vendor in Microsoft Windows. Malicious software hijack browsers, adds toolbar, change search engine, changes registry settings and makes internet browsing a hell-like experience with frequent pop-ups, redirection, crash etc. Among all browsers for Windows, Microsoft Internet Explorer still rocks the market share since it comes pre-installed in Windows. Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome comes after that, Opera, Safari, Maxthon etc has only a little market share according to reports. As obvious the browser hijacking incidents follow the order of browser market share. To fix the problems resulting from common browser hijacking incidents Anvisoft recently has released a new portable application known as Anvi Browser Repair Tool. According to Anvisoft

Many users may troubled by those problem such as default homepage changed, numerous annoying ads pop out, being redirected to other malicious websites or browser crash down without exact reason, especially if windows system had been unfortunately infected with viruses when using Internet Explorer surfing online. Anvi Browser Repair Tool is a free tool created to help you conveniently repair browser settings and networking settings such as homepage, safe startup items, DNS settings, Title Bar, BHO plug-in, etc, changed by malware to return smooth browser use. While antivirus, antimalware tool helps detect and remove malware infections from computer, this program will practically assist normalizing safe browser searching. Anvi Browser Repair Tool is designed to help fix browser, network settings altered due to rogueware/malware infections and even facilitate malware removal with one-click solution.

First Look at TwistedBrush Open Studio : A Mini-Review

Photo Editing is Fun and that's why I write a number of posts on such software in my blog. I recently came to know about TwistedBrush Open Studio, which has been around for a while but yet to be popular. I found this software quite versatile and is perfectly suited for professionals who need a Free photo editor with powerful features. Even for a beginner, this software is useful owing to an excellent quick tutorials that comes along with the software. There is also a Pro version, TwistedBrush Pro Studio which is more powerful. That software normally costs $99 and as I posted on the forum, you can get a 70% discpunt on that software.

Lazesoft Windows Key Finder is a Free Windows and Microsoft Office Product Key Code Finder

In many cases we forget the product keys of Windows and Microsoft Office. These are costly software and unless you remember the product codes, you will have to purchase another license to use it again. Anyway, there is a way out too, if you have those Windows and Office software installed. Use Lazesoft Windows Key Finder, it will find out the product codes of any installed Windows and Microsoft Office.

Lazesoft Windows Product finder is a free Windows and Microsoft Office Product Key Code Finder, is a Windows and Microsoft Office Product Key Code Retriever. The program allows you to recover your CD Product key for Windows or Microsoft Office programs for the purposes of reinstalling / repairing your Windows or Office setup. Recover your lost key for Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, 7 and all version of Microsoft Office.

Youtube Downloader HD can Download Youtube Videos in Normal & HD Format

YouTube is the most popular online video sharing site now-a-days. Lots of video demonstrations and non-copyrighted works are being distributed everyday through Youtube and its a wise idea to keep backups of these useful videos for offline viewing. Officially YouTube do not provide downloading but lots of software and online service made that possible. YouTube Downloader HD is a similar kind of software that can download YouTube videos in normal and HD format and also can convert flash videos to AVI and MP4 format.

Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder finds Near Duplicate Pictures

Often I got wallpaper collection from my friends where a number of pictures are in common and obviously its very tedious to find out duplicate pictures in a collection of large number of pictures. Nevertheless, there are software that can find out duplicates based on their filename, hashes etc. But what about near duplicate images? Almost all duplicate file search software fails to pick near duplicate images. Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder is a life saver under such circumstances. It can easily find out nearly-duplicates in a collection of images. Also It shows side-by-side previews to let you decide about the near-duplicates. It also assigns a similarity percentage among the near-duplicates. It can of course find exact duplicates.

Undelete360 can Recover deleted Files and Shred Files & Free space: A Review

Normal delete function in Windows can only delete files metadata but keeps all the information, with which entire file can be recovered by file recovery software. Undelete360 is a Free software that can help you with recovering accidentally deleted files and also assist you to delete your sensitive files with precision to make it unrecoverable with any file recovery software.

Fix Corrupt Files with File Repair

Have you ever encountered with errors called file is not in a recognizable format, or, unable to read file, or, file cannot be accessed, or, application cannot open the type of file represented by filename, or, out of memory errors, or, low system resources errors? If yes, then be informed that your file has been corrupted and some data has become unreadable. Under such circumstances you need a software like File Repair which will scan the corrupted file, read through the damaged bytes and will extract maximum possible data from it to a new usable file.

Anvi Ad Blocker is a portable Advertisement Remover

Advertisements are the source of revenue for any web publishers but it could be annoying for the internet users. I have wrote about AdFender and GT-Soft Ad Blocker previously that does the same. Today I will tell you about Anvi Ad Blocker which is a relatively new product in the market. According to the developer,

Anvi Ad Blocker is a free tool that integrates several Ads blocking database, mainly designed to block pop-up ads, flash ads, advertising banners, malicious ads, phishing ads and some other unwanted ads. Besides antivirus program, to protect your PC security, you need a program that protects your PC from annoying advertisements since some malicious ads loads might infect your system with spyware or adware. Anvi Ad Blocker is designed to block all new forms of advertising with frequently database update.

Create Strong Passwords with Password Generator

Today everything is digitized and sensitive items are protected by digital lock i.e. a password. Creating a strong password is the easy way to make the job of hackers tough. But its not easy to create strong passwords. So, without scratching your head for a enough strong password you make seek help from the Free software Password Generator or its Online version. With this software you can create password with length upto 99 characters and quantity upto 100K at one mouse click. The software has been around for the last 12 years and so I can say its reliable enough.

Secure My Screen: An Ideal Alternative to Lock Windows PC

For most of us, personal computer is a place where we live our own world. Here, we do our office work, watch movies, listen to songs, play games etc. So, privacy is an utmost requirement to restrict unwanted interruptions. Microsoft understands this and that's why there is are options to create multiple user accounts, lock you account and switch to other. But there are some disadvantages in using multiple user accounts. Suppose you have an important job opened in your account and another user using his user account shuts down the PC. Windows does alert in such situation but how often common users respond properly to alerts in a PC! So, if the computer you are using is really 'Personal' and not for public usage, it is always recommended to use accounts that are under your control only (password protected). You may give its access to some reliable users by providing them the password.

Windows default account locking has a few disadvantages: To provide someone its access, you need to giveaway your password and he/she may change your password (for joking!) and under that situation there is almost no easy way to recover your password. Secure My Screen developed by Benchtech Software, is an alternative to Windows default account locking that has all its usefulness minus its disadvantages. According to the developer,

Secure My Screen is a revolutionary third party screen locker that is designed to keep your computer safe and secure whilst you are away from it. Secure My Screen employs advanced technology to make sure that your screen stays locked no matter what. Task manager cannot be used to close Secure My Screen and key combinations such as Alt + F4 and the close button will not work. Meaning that your screen really does stay locked. There is a great deal more to Secure My Screen than just screen locking however. Features such as multiple unlock passwords for trusted friends and family, and the ability to turn your screen onto standby when your system is idle make Secure My Screen one of the best screen lockers around.

SuperEasy Codec Checker Fixes Codec Not Found Error

We buy videos and audios for our entertainment and everything goes into vain when we see errors like " Codec Not Found " during its playback. SuperEasy Codec Checker is a gifted freeware that analyzes videos and audio files and informs you about file format, resolution, frame rate, file container, audio- and video bit rate as well as about the used and required codecs.

ImageUSB: Make Duplicate USB by Creating and Writing an Image of a UFD

Like CD/DVD, in many cases software, game comes in a USB drive. So, making an image of USB Flash Drives is sometimes very essential for backing up things exactly in its original form. ImageUSB from PassMark Software is a handy tool in such situation. According to the developer,

ImageUSB is a free utility which lets you write an image concurrently to multiple USB Flash Drives. Capable of creating exact bit-level copies of USB Flash Drive (UFDs), ImageUSB is an extremely effective tool for the mass duplication of UFDs. Unlike other USB duplication tools, ImageUSB can preserve all unused and slack space during the cloning process, including the Master Boot Record (MBR). ImageUSB can perform flawless mass duplications of all UFD images, including bootable UFDs.

Piriform CCleaner Adds Full support for Windows 8

CCleaner has always been my number 1 choice for cleaning junk files, privacy items & junk registry entries. In fact it is the first software of this kind I used after Windows default utilities. There are a number of positive sides of the application. It is open-source, regularly updated & supported by a large, helpful community, that makes it as perfect as possible. Moreover, you may add your custom programs for CCleaner to clean.

Today, Piriform, the developer of CCleaner have released yet another version of the leading software, with a complete support of the upcoming Windows 8.

Microsoft have released the final build of Windows 8 to developers, so we've spent the last week finalizing changes to CCleaner to allow us to fully support this next generation OS.

Photo Magician can Resize, Convert, Apply Effects to Multiple Images at Ultra Fast Speed

In my blog, I have wrote about a number of software Free & Paid, that can manage photographs for a variety of goals. Photo Magician from Sheldon Solutions is just another software but it is mainly useful for its fast conversion and completeness in features. It can resize, apply effects, convert format etc of images in batch at a very fast speed after following wizard type steps. It offers emailing, uploading and sharing the output images via inbuilt tools. There is a Quick Convert Mode, that makes the software usage even easier. Overall the software is pretty amazing in what it does. I recommend this software to you. Try this out or you will miss something.

Bandizip is a Lightweight, Feature Rich, Versatile Archiving Tool - A Review

If you are looking for a feature-rich freeware alternative of WinZip, WinRAR, PowerArchiver, WinArchiver etc, I should introduce you with Bandizip from Bandisoft.
Bandizip is a freeware, multilingual archive manager for Windows that can handle multiple archive formats including ZipX. It has many features including Fast Drag and Drop, High Speed Archiving, and Multi-core compression, File Search in Archive, Archive Error Check, Support for Self Extracting Archive (SFX), Splitted Archive Volumes, Support for Unicode filenames (UTF-8), eye-catching icon-packs.