What is your favourite website when you want to download free softwares? For me, I will choose FileHippo.com.

In FileHippo.com, it has many freeware softwares that you can download directly from its server. No registration is needed. Just pick the software that you like, and click on the download link to download.

The softwares categorized in their particular categories for easier navigation such as Browsers and Plugins, Anti-Spyware, Firewalls and Security, Messaging and Chat, and many others. All softwares hosted at FileHippo.com is totally spyware and virus free. So you don’t have to worry about being infected by a virus.

FileHippo.com also keeps the old versions of the softwares in its server. Let say the current version of the software you installed is not compatible with your system. Just download the old version software from FileHippo.com and revert back to the old version at anytime you want.

FileHippo.com aims to provide us the simplest method of downloading the newest versions of the best software- without the usual excessive popups or spyware and without the low quality software. Personally I think, FileHippo.com has achieved its aim. Congratulations to the developer and the team.

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Today, I went to IT Hypermarket at Cineleisure, Mutiara Damansara to register for P1 Wimax. Actually, I have been thinking to move from Celcom Broadband to P1 Wimax since two months ago. You can refer to my entry here.

What you need to prepare is just bring your MyKad and also driving license for registration. The registration fee is only RM100. After you have paid the registration fee, you will get the P1 Wimax modem and can start using P1 Wimax after one hour later.

RM60 which is for the activation fee will be charged in your first bill together with the monthly service charge, RM99 (depends on the package you choose). I subscribed for Home – Plus package because I want the speed of 1.2Mpbs with 20GB monthly usage.

So far, I am very satisfied with the speed. Very fast compare to Celcom Broadband. But sometimes the speed will decrease from 180kbps something to 70-80kpbs. But I think it is still acceptable because if with Celcom, I will get around 10kpbs only. Which is BS!

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The employees of WD at the facility will become employees of the Hitachi. The transaction is expected to close in the current quarter, subject to customary closing conditions. Terms of the transaction between both corporations were not disclosed.

WD announced in December that it was taking actions to realign its cost structure to match a softer demand environment.

The Sarawak facility, at which WD manufactured aluminum substrates for hard drive magnetic media, was acquired by WD as part of its acquisition of Komag, Inc. in September 2007.

WD is consolidating substrate operations from the Sarawak facility into its other substrate facility in Johor, Malaysia. WD will continue to manufacture the majority of its magnetic media requirements at existing facilities in Malaysia and source the balance of its media needs through its strategic external partners.

“We are very pleased that, rather than closing this plant, which was surplus to our needs, we have identified a qualified buyer who will continue to operate the facility,” said John Coyne, president and CEO of WD.

“WD worked closely with Hitachi GST, the government of Sarawak and its local agencies to create a solution that preserves operations at the Kuching location, as well as the jobs of the employees and those in supporting industries, which have a large impact on the local community,” said Coyne.

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USB WriteProtector is a freeware software that can enable or disable the write function to USB through Windows registry. When you choose, “USB write protection ON”, USB WriteProtector will change the USB write value in registry to 0. When the write function is disabled, we cannot write anything such as paste, save, or create new files in our connected USB drives. To enable the USB write function, just choose “USB write protection OFF” to allow write access to our USB drives.

Ok now, how a virus can spread its infection? When you plug in your USB drive to an infected computer, the virus from the computer will copy itself into your USB drive and create autorun.inf file. This file will execute the virus inside your USB drive when you double-click the USB drive icon in My Computer. When the virus is triggered, it will infect your computer and will do the same infection to other connected USB drives.

With USB WriteProtector, you can block the write access to any USB drives. Before you connect a USB drive, make sure to “USB write protection ON” and then plug in your USB drive. If the computer contains a virus, it will unable to write itself to your USB drive because of write access is disabled. Then, when you want to copy or write a data into your USB drive, just turn off the write protection using USB WriteProtector and copy the data you want to your USB drive.

In my opinion, all cybercafe owners should install this tool in their computers to protect the customers’ USB drives from virus infections. But the problem is, how to teach the customer, or how to let them know about this tool before they can connect the USB drives to the computer?

Download USB WriteProtector

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A hardware in your computer or laptop such as video graphic card needs a special computer program to make it intractable with higher-level computer programs like Adobe Photoshop, DoTA, etc. This special computer program we called as driver. An outdated driver will make the device not working properly and need to be updated. To update the driver, we choose Driver Robot.

Driver Robot is a Windows application that able to update your installed drivers automatically. It will first scan your system by looking to the driver files and comparing them with its database whether the drivers are up to date or not. If an out dated driver is found, it will show you the updated driver, download and install it into your system. A reboot is required after the driver installation is completed.

Driver Robot has the industry’s best hardware detection. It correctly identifies 100% of all consumer hardware devices to ensure you always get the right driver update. Its driver database contains over than 100,000 hardware devices including the latest drivers for all of them. With the massive of drivers volume, it is impossible for you to still having an out dated drivers in your system. Driver Robot can updates sound card, printer, video card, motherboard, webcam, wireless, bluetooth, firewire and many other devices driver. Just install it into your system, and run the Driver Scan button to check the drivers.

The interface of Driver Robot is tidy and neat. All the buttons are big enough for me to see clearly and also easily for me to know what will happen if I click those buttons. The functions of the buttons are well described on each of them. One thing that I don’t like Driver Robot is when I clicked on the Download button, a popup will appear asking me to register the software if I want to get full access to my drivers download. But I think, this popup will be gone if I spend $29.95USD for one single PC license.

In my conclusion, Driver Robot is very useful if you have many devices installed in your system and you want to keep your drivers always updated. But for me, I still can manage to update one by one of my drivers because I have not many installed devices. But for those who want to have good performance system, please make sure your drivers are always updated by using Driver Robot.

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MIMOBOT has plenty of USB flash drive designs. They have Halo characters, Star Wars characters, Domo characters, Happy Tree characters, Community Created characters, Artist Crossover characters, Licensed Crossover characters and originally created characters. All the USB flash drives are cute (2.5″ tall by 1″ wide) and lovely.

They come in four capacity sizes, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 8GB. The MIMOBOT USB flash drives also come with MIMOBOT mimoByte Sound Software which allows you to hear your MIMOBOT flash drive’s thoughts whenever you insert or remove it. Cool isn’t it?

via Stylized USB Flash Drives [Project Lurpin]

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As you can see, 7GB space has been occupied by Installer folder in my C drive. But is it safe to remove all those files from my system?

The answer is Yes! But in the future, you might having trouble when want to remove installed programs completely. This is because, C:\Windows\Installer contains a copy of changed system info when you install a program using the Windows installer. With this file, your system can restore back to its original condition when you remove the program using the Add/Remove Programs.

But in my situation, I don’t care with the problem or trouble or anything because what I want is the free space in my C drive. So what I did was,

1. I downloaded and installed Windows Installer CleanUp Utility.

2. Go to Start > Run and type,

3. Click Ok.

Then I wait until Windows Installer CleanUp Utility finished doing its job. And here is the result,

I have 4GB of free space available in my C drive. Yay!

Warning! The command that I give here might corrupt your system and requires to reinstall or repair.

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Since Celcom enforcing their Fair Usage Policy on Excessive Usage (page 8 of 10) a few months ago (I think early of this year), it becomes a problem to me. Celcom only provides 5GB data usage monthly. If you exceeded the usage limit, your internet speed will be cut down and it will become slower and slower. At the end, you can only open Yahoo! page in your dream and not with Celcom broadband.

I have make many problem reports to Celcom since the first time I use their broadband service. Every time I make a report, they will solve the problem quickly. They took about one to two days to fix the issue. That is the only reason why I stay with Celcom Broadband.

I usually face problem with the slow internet connectivity. It is very common problem with Celcom broadband. I think all of Celcom broadband users have experience in facing this type of problem.

But when they start enforcing the Fair Usage Policy , you will get slow internet connection and this time, they will not fix the problem even you have make thousands of report. They purposely slow down your speed to ensure all their users get same connection speed.

So now, I am thinking to move to another provider. Not sure yet whether want to subscribe for Streamyx or Wimax. I heard Wimax is better than Streamyx. Still thinking which one should I choose. Hurm…

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My girlfriend was shocked when she found out her Final Year Project files were missing from her thumb drive. She thought the files were already gone because of a virus attack or accidentally deleted by her friends. But actually the files were there but a virus has hidden all the files inside the thumb drive.

Although she tried to “Show Hidden Files” but the virus does not allow her to view them. Luckily, she has a very intelligent and clever boyfriend who guides her on how to overcome this problem.

The Solution

1. Insert the thumb drive to an empty USB slot. Take note the drive letter. For an example, F:.

2. Press Windows + R, and type “cmd“. Ok.

3. Enter this command,

4. Press Enter and wait for the command to execute.

5. Open the thumb drive and you should see the files that were hidden by the virus.

Conclusion

I am not sure whether my girlfriend’s laptop has been attacked by a virus or only her thumb drive has been infected. But anyway, at least I have teach her how to solve this kind of infection. After this, she can help her friends to fix the same problem.

Btw believe me, universities are the best places for virusses to spread!

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My favourite free PDF converter is PrimoPDF. It is an offline PDF converter where by you need to install it on your system and print the document to PDF by choosing the primoPDF printer.

But here, I list down top 3 free PDF converters that give you a very good quality PDF printing without advertisements or “you are using trial PDF converter” text.

PrimoPDF

• Completely free PDF creator – Create PDF files from 300+ file types.
• Make 100% industry-standard PDF from any files that print.
• Create PDF files optimized for print, screen, ebook, or prepress.

Website | Download

doPDF

• It’s free – PDF converter free for both commercial and personal use.
• 32-bit and 64-bit support – can be installed on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems.
• No GhostScript or .NET – doesn’t require 3rd party programs to do PDF files such as GhostScript or runtime environments like the .NET Framework. This makes the setup file to be incredibly small compared to other free PDF converters.

Website | Download

CutePDF

• Added support for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista.
• Added support for 64-bit Windows XP/2003.
• Seamlessly integrate with CutePDF Professional.

Website | Download

What is your favourite free PDF converter? If you have any recommended free PDF converters, please provide us the link so we can put them here.

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