However, there is one simple test to verify whether your anti-virus program is upto its mark or not. In this tutorial we will teach you how to create a fake (dummy) virus and then run it on your system to see if your antivirus detects anything or not. Here is what you have to do;

1. Go to Notepad and open it,

2. Copy paste the following code onto your notepad,

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

3. Save the file on the desktop (or any other directory you like) with the file any file name you like, for instance; fakevirus.txt. The file that you have just created is actually an EICAR test file, developed by the European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research, to test the response of computer antivirus programs.

4. Now re-open the file. If your anti-virus displays a warning sign and closes the text file, then rest assured that it is working fine. Here is what my antivirus – kaspersky – displayed when it detected this file and neutrallized it.

Did you antivirus detected the dummy virus? In case you are interested in the details, you can read more about this here.

Reference: Wikipedia

How To Test your Anti-Virus Software?

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In one of our previous posts, we shared with you some of the “Best Wordpress Theme Directories” around. In case you missed it, you can read it here. In the recent past a new trend of developing ‘Magazine Themes‘ for wordpress has emerged. Like we said in our previous article that there are hundred of thousands of creative designers who are willing to create beautiful and magnificent wordpress themes for us.

However, it’s just like searching for a needle in a haystack: if you’ve ever googled for free and quality Magazine Wordpress Themes, you know exactly what we’re talking about. In this article we present “50+ high quality wordpress magazine themes” that you (probably) haven’t seen.

IsoTherm

[Demo] | [Download]

Artfull

[Demo] | [Download]

BlueMag

[Demo] | [Download]

Grungezine

[Demo] | [Download]

Infinity

[Demo] | [Download]

The Web News

[Demo] | [Download]

News Magazine

[Demo] | [Download]

Mimbo2

[Demo] | [Download]

Magnum Black

[Demo] | [Download]

Music Magazine

[Demo] | [Download]

Hamasaki

[Demo] | [Download]

Word Mag

[Demo] | [Download]

Pinnacle Free

[Demo] | [Download]

Grid Lock

[Demo] | [Download]

Premium Entertainment

[Demo] | [Download]

ForexPress

[Demo] | [Download]

Equilibrium

[Demo] | [Download]

Furosity

[Demo] | [Download]

Zinmag Redux

[Demo] | [Download]

Gamezine

[Demo] | [Download]

Drenched

[Demo] | [Download]

DailyPlanet

[Demo] | [Download]

Digital Statement

[Demo] | [Download]

Dezzain

[Demo] | [Download]

Branford Magazine

[Demo] | [Download]

Blade

[Demo] | [Download]

Mag Essentials

[Demo] | [Download]

IndoMagz

[Demo] | [Download]

OpenBook

[Demo] | [Download]

Concedior GOLD

[Demo] | [Download]

Magadine

[Demo] | [Download]

Linoluna

[Demo] | [Download]

The Morning After

[Demo] | [Download]

Jello Wala Mello

[Demo] | [Download]

Fake Blog

[Demo] | [Download]

CorporateMag

[Demo] | [Download]

Magzine

[Demo] | [Download]

Zinmag Tribune

[Demo] | [Download]

Guzel Magazine

[Demo] | [Download]

Brightness

[Demo] | [Download]

Wordpress Magazine

[Demo] | [Download]

Nautica

[Demo] | [Download]

Small Magazine

[Demo] | [Download]

Mag on Wood

[Demo] | [Download]

Zherald

[Demo] | [Download]

iPod Nano

[Demo] | [Download]

Mag Rebel

[Demo] | [Download]

Newspaperize

[Demo] | [Download]

Maya

[Demo] | [Download]

Zoxengen

[Demo] | [Download]

Milano

[Demo] | [Download]

What?! Your favorite magazine theme is not here! Why don’t you share it with us, we’ll add it right away. Now here’s our question to you; ‘Which one of these themes did you like the most and why?’

50+ Excellent Free Magazine Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen

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In order to place a ‘Recycle Bin’ you’ll need to tweak it a little bit. The idea is very simple; create a shortcut and point it to the original Recycle Bin and then place that created shortcut onto the taskbar. Now the question is how are we going to point a shortcut to the original Recycle Bin folder? Simple; add a small snippet (code) to it.

This is what you will have to do to place an icon on to the taskbar;

Step #1. Right-Click on the desktop and go to New->Shortcut (its the second option from above);

Step #2. Now add the following line in the item box;

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe shell:RecycleBinFolder

Step #3. Hit Next, type a new name, in this case; Recycle bin and hit Enter;

Once the new icon is created, you’ll notice that it does not have the right icon image. In order to counter this problem, Right click on the icon, select Properties from the menu,

Step #4. A new pop-up window will now appear, click on the ‘change icon‘ button (as shown below) and hit Enter;

Step #5. A small window will pop out, type the following code inside the item box;

%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll

Step #6. Now look for the appropriate Recycle bin icon, once you have found it, select and hit OK. Reference screenshot below;

The last step is to drag and drop the newly created icon onto the taskbar. You can then delete the original icon if you want to. Told you it was simple! Image Courtesy: TweakWin7

How to Add Recycle Bin Icon to Windows 7 Taskbar

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Wordpress

While most of the designers who create excellent, premium wordpress themes, manage and publish their themes on their own blogs/websites; there is still a large number of designer who are willing to publish their work all for free to the general public. Generally these designers do this to promote their own blog, thus enabling them to rank higher in Google’s and Yahoo’s SERPs.

Promoting your free wordpress theme is not as simple. There are tons of free wordpress theme directories who are willing to take/publish your wordpress theme(s). However, most of theme are out-dated or obsolete, meaning that either they don’t accept/publish fresh wordpress themes or it take months for the theme to appear on their homepages.

If you are a designer and love wordpress themes as much as I do. Here’s a list of some of the most famous, widely used wordpress theme directories to submit your work.

Top 11 Wordpress Theme Directories

If you are in a real rush and don’t have time to submit your work to all the theme directories. Here is a list of top wordpress theme directories; listed according to PageRank, traffic, collection and above all freshness!

1. Wordpress Theme Directory – [Registration Required]

2. Weblogtoolscollection – [Registration Required]

3. Blog Flux – [Registration required]

4. ThemeBot – [Registration Required]

5. WpSkins – [Registration Required]

6. ThemeBase – [Registration Required]

7. WpThemesFree

8. FreeWordpressTheme – [Registration Required]

9. Theme Rock Kitty – [Registration Required]

10. NattyWP

11. BestWpThemez

Other Free Wordpress Theme Directories

12 FreeWordpressBlog – [Registration Required]

13. FreeWpBlogTheme

14. Fresheezy

15. ProWordpressTheme

16. WpThemeLand

17. ThemeSplice

18. ThemesWP

19. WidgetReadyThemes

20. WpSalon

21. WpThemesArchive

22. BloggingThemes

23. WpTmp

24. ThemesPreview

25. WordpressTemplates

26. TemplatesFree

27. BgTheme

28. TalkTheme

29. FreeWpTheme

30. iLoveyouWp

31. TopWordpressTheme

32. FreeWpTheme

33. ThemesJunction

34. TemplatePanic

35. MyGreenCorner

36. goTheme – [Registration Required]

37. Satinder – [Registration Required]

38. iThemes – [Registration Required]

Wordpress Theme Forums

Registration and active participation is required before you can publish your own theme on these forums.

39. DigitalPoint

40. SitePoint

41.  v7n

42. TalkFreeLance

43. WebMasterTalk

44. Bloggeries

45. WebDesignForum

46. WebDesignerForum

47. CSSChat

48. WebTalkForums

49. NewWpThemes

50. WpForums

Another great way to promote your blog theme is by submitting it to as many social bookmarking sites as possible; which includes Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Delicious, Yahoo! buzz, Propeller, Mixx, etc. and tell your friends or colleagues to vote you on these sites.

Which of these theme directories do you like the most?

50 Excellent Resources to Submit and Promote your Wordpress Theme

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With Windows 7 friendly user interface, you can burn tonnes of .ISO files with ease. Here is what you have to do;

Burn .ISO files in Windows 7

Step #1. Insert a blank CD/DVD into your CD/DVD Writer;

Step #2. Right click on the .ISO file and click on the ‘Burn disc image‘ from the drop down menu;

Step #3. A new pop-up window will now appear, if you have more than one CD/DVD drives, choose the appropriate drive from the list.

Step #4. Hit the ‘Burn‘ button when done.

I wonder was it too hard for Microsoft to think of it in the earlier versions of Windows? Was it?!

How to Burn .ISO files in Windows 7?

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A huge amount of stories get submitted every day, but only a handful (most Dugg) stories appear on the front page. In the recent past it has become very difficult to make it to the front page, unless you have some loyal friends, you won’t make it to the Front Page, but not this seems to work every time.

Digg has one of the largest audience, comprising well over 4 million daily visitors and hundreds of thousands of active members. I too am an active member on Digg.

Here is a humongous list of Digg Tools and sources, that have been categorized for easy searching. I’ll start with non-official tools, since you already know Digg’s Official Tools.

Non- Official (Third Party) Digg Tools

DiggStatistics – Displays who’s digging your stories, the number of diggs made by a user.

Digg Oracle – Very useful if you use Digg as a bookmarking tool and you need to locate a page again.

Digg Expose – Displays thumbnails of all recently Dugg stories

DiggFiltr – create a custom digg feed in seconds.

Diggwatcher – A webpage where you can monitor the number of Diggs a post is getting.

Dugg Trends Beta – Auto-refreshing Digg mirror site that provides access to current Access digg trends graph and filter digg links by categories.

Duggback – Allows you to view cached copies of pages of Digg stories that may have been taken down due to the Digg effect.

DiggAlerts – Free service that allows you to setup alerts when other Diggalerts.com members submit stories you’re interested in.

Digg Wordweb – Visualize the most popular keywords in a Digg submission and related stories.

Digg Explorer- Provides a wealth of interesting data about Digg. For example, you can see the number of most often used proper nouns on Digg and the stories that contain them.

Digg Notify Beta – Notifies you every time someone digg’s one of your last fifteen submitted stories. It also shows you how many digg’s the story has received, who dugg it and provides a button to click and open up the page. It tells you when your story hits front page as well.

Digg Notify - An application that pops up a small box in the bottom right hand side of your screen to display number of diggs on your story. It tells you when your story hits front page as well.

DiggTree – Flash-based RSS aggregator for Digg.com.

DiggUpdate – gives you quick access to the front page stories of Digg in your Mac OS X menu-bar.

Digg Friends Venn Diagram – Displays a particular befriended user of your choosing, who the user has befriended, and mutual friends in a Venn diagram display

Diggitzer – Web based tool that analyzes millions of successful (in terms of popularity) Digg titles combines this knowledge with your keywords to create the fool-proof title to drive your entry to the very top of digg.

Digg CommentSpy – See the most recent live comments on Digg.

Digg Ticker – Shows a customizable scroller or ticker of the most recent Digg news stories on your website or blog.

Digg Expose – Takes snapshots of pages from Digg and displays them in a configurable view.

Diggsig – create your own automatic updating Digg Signature for your website.

Digg City - Shows the 10 most popular Digg stories in a SimCity-esque format.

Digg Radar – Similar to Digg Heat Map, that displays the newest members at the corners of the galaxy and the oldest members in the center of the galaxy. See which users have been most recently active on Digg and who have Dugg a story.

DiggTop – An application for Windows and MacOSX that lets you view a blended list of your favorite Digg topic or keyword feeds.

Digg Entourage – Shows who is in your Digg social circle by avatar , plus table format.

Digg 1 – Submit and share stories, news, videos or comments on other user’s content.

Digg Entourage - Web-based tool to search your previous 25 submissions and pull detailed information on who has dugg your stories the most.

The Digg Noise Filter - Lets you watch upcoming stories before they become popular, a good alternative for Digg upcoming

Digg vs Dot – Simple website that highlights the act of cross-posting articles between Digg and Slashdot.

Digg Charts – Displays most popular stories in a table format, followed by a pie graph format and a graph that shows the progression of story popularity over time.

Digg Pics – Tracks the activity of images on the site. Images slide in from the left as people Digg and submit them.

Digg comment viewer – Helps you view recent Digg comments, their rankings, and you can easily navigate to your friends’ comments. Auto-update option available.

Digg Charts - Flex application that generates charts comparing popular stories, a graph is generated showing a selected story’s popularity over time.

Digg Status – Allows you to view different statistics for a particular Digg user.

Digg Watch – Lets users browse Digg and grab interesting information from stories, like who Dugg what stories and how many Diggs a story gets over time.

Diggtris – Similar to a Tetris game based on recently dugg stories. It’s actually quite fun and addictive, though what’s up with those crazy shapes?!

DiggCity – Allows most recently popular 10 stories in a city format. Each stick figure represents a Digg user and the buildings grow as more people Digg the stories and run into the buildings.

Digg Alerter – Keeps track of the Digg stories you’ve submitted, along with their digg count and if they have gone popular or not.

Digg Digger – Grabs all the new stories submitted to digg area queue.

Digg Submit Bookmarklet – Allows you to submit stories to Digg just by clicking a button. Drag and drop this bookmarklet to your toolbar and you’re ready to go.

Digg Arc – displays stories, topics, and containers wrapped around a sphere.

Digg Stack – shows diggs occuring in real time on up to 100 stories at once.

Digg the Blog – a means to detail all digg-related news, events, upgrades, feature additions, and much more.

DiggSuggest – a web-app that suggests new Digg-stories for you based on your previous interests.

DiggView - See all latest promoted Digg stories by category on one page.

Diggless RSS Feed – a special feed that provides a direct link to the website, bypassing Digg.

Digg card - a way of inserting your Digg.com Profile on to you website.

DiggGraph – AJAX application to have a “bird’s eye” look on the digg queue stories and see rapidly which stories are getting up to the front page.

Digg SMS – Get the top 5 front page stories sent to your cell phone every few hours.

Digg Front – View latest promoted Digg stories by category on one page.

Digg Submits – View latest submitted Digg Stories by category on one page.

Digg Marquee – generates a marquee with Digg stories to put on their websites.

Digg Friends Checker – Who’s Digg friends’ lists are you on?

DiggIRC - An Unofficial IRC channel on freenode with full digg rss feed syndication.

Digg Newstracker for Winbar – Just download and rename the extention to .trk and place in newstrackers in your winbar folder.

Digg Navigation - enable quick navigation of digg links.

DiggTray - is a free application which sits in the task tray and notifies you whenever there is a new article on the front page of Digg.com

Digg Buttons - Chicklet buttons you can paste in your blog.

DiggShoutSlash.com – Digg.com, ShoutWire.com and Slashdot.org in iframes.

DIGG – by Digg Staff – Shows top stories or friends digs.

Diggler - Adds a menu button next to the address bar with actions relevant to the current URL. A single click on the menu button also clears the location bar , useful for keyboard free browsing.

Digglicious – A real time, cool blend of Digg and del.icio.us top stories.

Digg Heat Map – Visualizes the Digg community as a universe with the most popular Digg members appearing to be bright stars in the sky and the newest members to be in the center of the universe.

Diggaz With Attitude – Program that displays the latest Digg and Google news articles in your taskbar.

Digg Eater – is a RSS news aggregator with some features unique to Digg.com.

DiggClone project - is an effort to reproduce the functionality of the popular social bookmarking site digg.com.

Digg Soundboard – Remixes comments.

Diggdot.us – Displays all popular diggs, Slashdots and del.icio.us stories.

Digg Google Modules – For use on the Google homepage.

Diggitizer – Makes any normal headline into a headline perfect for Digg.

DiggMap – Diggs are shown in real-time on the map for users that have specified their location in their profile.

Diggpics – Searches and returns a list of stories that have photos as the main subject.

Diggscape – Splits the window to simultaneously post a story to digg.com and netscape.com

Diggscaperedlicious - Splits the window to simultaneously post a story to digg.com, netscape.com, reddit.com and del.icio.us.

Digg Sidebar v4 – enable quick navigation of digg links.

Digg Sidebar – Auto-refreshing sidebar extension for your Firefox browser, includes quick links, RSS reader, and quick search for Digg.

Digg’s Top Stories – Plugin for the Google Desktop Sidebar that displays the ten most recent stories from Digg.

Digg at Cafepress – Tshirts, cups, bags & thongs!

Diggnation T-Shirt – buy another Tshirt.

PiggFeed – Provides a handy alternative to the RSS feed that Digg provides. Features include links directly to the article as opposed to the Digg page, when subscribed to Digg RSS feed.

Browsers

Flock Web Browser – Browser designed for Digg. You can see your Digg friends in the People Sidebar and view stories they are Digging.

OpenCourseWare Finder – Online digg browser.

AleFox – For mac, The Alex Albrecht based internet browser.

MAKEbot - for chatting apps, MAKE’s updated bot can search digg.

DiggBot – MSN robot whose sole purpose is to alert you (via an MSN instant message) whenever there is an iiem posted on the front page of Digg.com.

Digg IRC Bot - An Unofficial IRC channel on freenode with full digg rss feed syndication. You can also configure the bot to private message you with current headlines.

DiggBot – is an automated MSN robot whose sole purpose is to alert you (via an MSN instant message) whenever there is a new item posted on the front page of Digg.com.

Original Signal – Provides an overview of current Digg stories separated by category and chronological order

mb3D Engine – A Digg RSS engine that displays dugg articles in 3D.

pspDigg - View Digg RSS feeds directly from the browser on your PSP system.

PHPDug – Create a Digg-like site where people can rate and comment on stories posted by other users.

TINC – or Who’s Digging You? – Another tool which shows, who is digging your stories.

DC Digg – An application for iPhone. It allows you to browse Digg right from your iPhone!

DC Digg 1 – Use this application to browse Digg from your Apple iPhone.

Wheel of Upcoming – Shows recently submitted stories in a spiral pattern that a user can rotate using mouse gestures. Stories are color-coded based on activity.

WordWeb - This visualization analyzes the relationships between popular keywords and the stories they appear within.

Mini Digg – Allows users to view stories and see the story activity, with user settings and a story tracking feature that allows to save favorite stories for future tracking.

D’lite - Utilizes Digg’s API to retrieve their amazing data, information, and processes. Useful features include pagination, favorites, network detection, and smart auto refresh.

Social Blade Frontpage Data - An online tool which allows you to analyze frontpage stories and determine a host of factors related to the tipping point when a story goes popular.

Zubbu – allows users to check how their Digg story submissions are doing.

PHPDugg - Allows you to run a site on a similar system to digg.com

Live Digg Buton Generator - generates the code to copy and paste into your website to make a live digg button.

HotDigg – Live Digg news feed screensaver.

Upcomming.org Digg Group - a collaborative event calendar for Digg users.

Rip That Page – Digg “Upcomming stories” ripped every 20 mins with thumbshots.

mashfot – A mashup about photography

popfeeds - Combines social bookmarks and popular blogs

Newspyle – Digg.com, Reddit, del.icio.us

popfeedo – Page powered by feedostyle

Viralbabble - Combines social bookmarks; Digg, Slashdot, Lifehacker.

popurls – Displays popular links from Digg, Furl, del.icio.us, Reddit, TailRank, , Flickr, Youtube and Slashdot.

The WebList – Similar to popurls.

reddiggulo.us – Aggregates the most popular stories from Digg, reddit, del.icio.us, Slashdot and ranks them against each other. Also has categories and search.

xmlhttprequest - Ajax related news.

TechssteRSS – Aggregats Tech news from Digg and more…

Screaming-penguin – Shows some digg, yahoo, arsTechnica news

SlashDigg – Digg and Slashdot news webpage.

wiinintendo – Nintendo related.

Ultimate Homepage – Webpage that shows live news from Digg, Google News, SlashDot, Wired, using Ajax.

TECHzingo – Technology News presented in cloud form watches Slashdot.org, Digg.com, TheRegister.co.uk

popTart – Allows you to preview articles in a resizeable frame at the bottom of the browser.

Integrate – Allows you to put Digg This buttons on your site

Talk Digger - search through conversations within Digg and other websites.

Clean Digg RSS Feed – RSS feed with direct links to the stories rather than going to the Digg comments page

Desktop Applications

DiggGraphr Desktop – A desktop application written in Apollo that lets you browse Digg stories in treemaps. Customizes certain features as well as choose the channels you are interested in.

DiggGraphr Desktop – Desktop installation that allows you to Digg stories in treemap format. Each section is color-coded and you can drill down and see stories that would interest you the most.

Digg Desktop – For Google Desktop, and shows the 10 most recent posts on Digg

DiggDesk – Read your favorite digg and reddit stories and watch youtube videos right on your desktop.

Desktop Digg – a Windows Desktop Application that will pull down the newest submitted stories on Digg.com.

Digg Labs screensaver – Stack and Swarm on your desktop, for Windows.

Diggth Widget - A widget configured for reading various Digg RSS feeds.

Digg News Widget – Aggregates news via various RSS feeds from Digg.

Rigglations – A widget that displays the relationships between members of Digg.com and click to user profiles.

Digg Dashboard Widget - This widget retrieves the latest headlines from Digg every fifteen minutes and displays them in an attractive interface.

Digg RSS Widget - gets the current front page headlines from digg and displays them in a nice little interface.

Netvibes Widget - Add this widget to Netvibes to see the Top Digg Stories on your Netvibes page.

Digg Search Widget – Search all of Digg’s archives.

Digg Opera Widget – downloads and displays the RSS feed from Digg.

Diggnation

Diggnation Widget – lets you know what the latest Audio and Video Diggnation releases are.

Diggnation Digging Game – for Diggnation fans looking to add more fun the podcast.

Diggnation – collection of the diggnation episodes.

Digg With Diggnation - Check out the latest items from a number of RSS feeds from Digg and get the latest audio and video episodes of Diggnation.

Toolbars

NewcyberBar - Customizable toolbar with built in options for to Digg, Slashdot, Del.icio.us, Yahoo! My Web, Furl, Blink this site.

webpedia Toolbar – Give access to 5 rss feed: del.icio.us popular, digg front page news, furl most popular, hot spurls and webpedia blog.

Jedi Digg – A toolbar docked at the top your screen that displays the Digg front page stories in rotation. You can directly digg the story from this toolbar.

Digg Toolbar – Instant access to digg from any site on the web and get digg.com headlines automatically. [mirror]

FireFox Ad-ons

Interclue for Firefox – Shows you everything you need to know before you open another tab. The window also displays the current Digg count and allows you to Digg the site.

Groowe Search Toolbar – Adds a search bar for many search engines and sites including Digg.

Smart Digg Button – Tell you whether the current web page you are viewing has been submitted to Digg, or not. Otherwise, it will display you how many Diggs the page has received.

Digg This! - Adds a Digg This! button to the right-click menu, the tools menu and the toolbar.

Digg.com Comment Spotlight – Shows comments on articles, allowing you to easily wade through hundreds of comments in an article.

Netscape’s Digg Tracker – Helps you keep track of your Digg friends by displaying what they have been submitting, digging and commenting on.

DiggThumbs - Adds website screen shot thumbnails to the listings on Digg.

Cache View – Displays Google’s Cache, Wayback Machine’s Cache, Coral’s Cache, Tech Guru’s Cache, Dot Cache and more, thus keeping a site viewable even after a crash from the “Digg effect.”

Dugged – Adds a dugg-mirror link to websites listed on Digg.

Tadsee – Displays a site’s content through cache if it has crashed, similar to Cache View

Update Scanner – Monitors web pages for updates. Useful for websites that don’t provide Atom or RSS feeds. Sometimes it allows you to grab and submit new stories or articles before other Digg users.

Digg Search Plugin – Firefox plugin that lets you search digg for stories.

Bumblesearch – Firefox extension for advanced search with support for Digg, Slashdot, Amazon, etc.

Cacheout! – Firefox Extension lets you access articles crashed by digg effect through 3rd party caching services like CoralCDN.

gada.be - Search most social bookmarks, this URL will only search digg.

Keotag – Searches digg and other social services.

Newzpile - Realtime web buzz tracker using Ajax, lets you Search Digg, Flickr, Newswine, Youtube

opsdo – Meta search engine, has a digg button if you expand the social block.

Talk Digger – Searches conversations from a lots of places, including Digg.

whonu – Meta discovery search engine that has Digg.

YubNub digg Command List - Firefox Search Plugin that can be installed on every browser, mobile, sidebar or even as mac widget.

GreaseMonkey Scripts for Digg

Digg Button Animation Enabler – Allows you to digg a story using the Digg badge on the site of a webpage without having to click through to the Digg story page.

Digg Rating Extender – Shows both the up and down diggs as well as the total rating. Updated for the new comment system to show all the data instead of just the rating or just the up/down.

Feeddit – Feed for the Digg frontpage. Each feed item has a direct link to the story, alongside a link to the submitter, comments and mirror.

Digg Autohide – This script automatically hides (instead of buries) Digg submissions based on user name or keyword. Add users to ‘var users_blacklist’ and keywords to ‘var keywords_blacklist’ at the beginning of this.

Page Jumper – Easy browsing.

Google Bump – Adds functionality to the Google web search. Main features include Quick Search Shortcuts (including Multisearch), Image & Video results with a Player, and some clutter cleanup by.

Digg Search Replaced by a Google CSE - Search digg.com using a cool custom Google search engine with hierarchical categories. The textbox will turn yellow to indicate that the google search is active.

Diggholder – Marks your last read digg so you know what you have read.

Google Reader Digg News - Add a digg control to every news-item in google reader.

Digg in current window – Simply removes target_blank (Open New Window).

Try This Search On – Provides useful links to search engines based on the page that you’re viewing or the search that you’re performing.

Digg Top In All Topics – Links Top In All Topics links directly to the article, rather than the digg page. The digg page link is also available underneath if you click on the comments link.

Digg Me Later! – Helps you to digg the article directly from the article page after you read it without having to return to digg.

Digg – add mirrors – Cached pages from MirrorDot, Google cache and guzguz.net

Digg Filter - On digg.com, adds a form field next to the Digg logo. Enter a comma-separated list of keywords to blacklist. Any story that matches will be filtered out.

Digg Re-Direct - When browsing to a digg page via it’s RSS feed, you’ll get redirected to the target page.

Digg Top 10 Direct – Replaces the Top 10 sidebar links to the Digg comment page with links directly to the articles.

Digg de-n00ber - Let’s you filter out Diggs.

Digg Comment Enhancer – The Digg comment enhancer allows you to easily add cliches, mirrors, and images to your digg comments.

Digg to Yahoo! MyWeb 2.0

Digg – Add Mirrors – Adds links to DuggMirror, Coral, Duggback and the Wayback machine to Digg story.

Automatically Swear To Original On Digg – Automatically clicks the ‘Totally orginal, I swear’ button.

Search Most Dugg Stories - Sorts searches on Digg by most “dugg” stories by default.

Official Digg Tools

Digg Widget – Digg news on your site by displaying this widget. It allows you to customize the widget and automatically updates on the fly.

Digg This Button – Encourage readers to submit your content by using Digg This button

Digg Toolbar – Displays Digg counts & comments on your browser. You can even Digg and submit stories directly from this toolbar

Digg BigSpy – Places stories at the top of your screen as they are dugg. Older stories moves down the list, as new stories get dugg,

Digg Search – Search for Digg stories.

Digg Spy v2 – Provides a real time, auto-refreshing view of stories being dugg.

Digg Clouds – Check the digg queue in Clouds format. The more diggs a story gets the bigger is the cloud.

Google IG Module – Personalize your iGoogle page with the latest updates from Digg.

Google Coop Module – This module adds Digg news stories to the top of your Google search results page.

Digg Top Stories – A collection of top stories by day, week, month and year. [Download]

Digg Swarm – Draws a circle for stories as they’re dugg. Diggers swarm around stories, and make them grow.

Digg Q – Unpromoted digg stories. Similar to DiggSpy.

190+ Digg Tools and Resources [updated]

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Irrespective to paid or free solutions, if you don’t have a fast machine, these softwares can really slow down your computer by using too many system resources. However, there is one out of the box solution that is not only free but will also take less system resources making it easier to work on slower machines.

Cloud-Based Antivirus introduces new protection model with Thin-Client Protection and real time scanning from the cloud. It took Panda labs three year to develop Cloud based Anti-virus.

In layman terms this technology uses less system resources due to its thin-client agent and server architecture which processes and blocks malware more efficiently than locally installed signature-based products.

Currently the version is in its beta stages, however, you can still download for free once the final version hits the market. [Credit]

Download Panda Cloud Antivirus

Panda Announces First Cloud Based Antivirus for Free

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If you are a company owner or maintain a network irrespective of it size and want to get control over USB ports, then USB Blocker is just the application for you.

As the name implies; USB Blocker is a nifty, light-weight app that blocks USB Ports on a computer or in large networks. Using this tool you have full control over who connects the USB to which port; you can either block all the ports in the network or customize it to allow access to different computers in the network.

The interface of USB Blocker is very simple and easy to use, in just a few clicks you can either block or unblock any port that you want to give access. USB blocker is a free product of NetWrix (Microsoft Gold Certified Partner) corporation and can’t get any simpler than this. So if you are cautious about the unauthorized access of USB devices to your computer then that’s just the app you need! (Image Credit: IntoWindows)

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Prevent Unauthorized Access of USB Drives using USB Blocker

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In this tutorial I will teach you a step by step procedure on how to create a Live CD and then use it to Crack a Password.

Step #1: First of all you’ll have to download Ophcrack. Once the Live CD ISO is downloaded, you’ll need to burn it on a Blank Disk. Burn the Disk at a low burning speed.

Step #2: Now when ever you forget or lose your Admin Password. On system restart, insert the Burned Disk onto your CD/DVD ROM. Make sure you have set the boot sequence to CD first. If not go to BIOS and set the boot sequence accordingly.If every thing works, you should see a loading screen like the one below,

(Image Courtesy: LifeHacker)

Step #3: Once the Live CD loads it will automatically start working on the password, using rainbow tables and some pre-calculated data stored in memory (More on Rainbow Tables here) it will crack the password depending upon the length and complexity. For average passwords of length 6-10 letters it can take up to 3-7 minutes. In case you have more than one account, you will have to choose from a list of accounts.

Step #4: Note down the cracked password once its displayed; remove the Live CD from the CD/DVD ROM and restart your computer. Type in the password that you noted in step #3 and enter at log-in. Once you are successfully logged inside, DON’T FORGET to change the password and note down the new password for future references.

Using Ophcrack is a very useful if you have simple and short alphanumeric. However, it does not crack strong passwords. Ophcrack Live CD can really help those who forget passwords on regular basis.

How To Crack a Password in Windows with Ophcrack Live CD

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If you are like me and feel pissed of each time this pop appears and wish if there is some way to disable it forever, then consider it to be your lucky day! You don’t have to worry about hacking into your registry to disable it, the solution is pretty simple and any one can do it. Here’s how;

Disable ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ Popup Notification

Step #1: Right click on the taskbar and select properties from the menu;

Step #2: For Windows XP users; Under the ‘Taskbar’ tab, click the ‘Customize’ button that appears near the bottom of the window, For Windows Vista users; Click on the ‘Notification Area‘ tab and then click on ‘Customize‘ button;

Step #3: In the new window that pops up, scroll down and look for ‘Safely Remove Hardware‘ option, click on the drop down menu and choose ‘Hide‘ (Windows Vista) or ‘Always Hide‘ (in Windows XP) from the list;

Step #4: Click OK when done.

Next time you remove your USB Flash Drive you won’t have to worry about this pop up anymore. You can also use Icon Remover as an alternative to the above procedure, which basically comes with two options; a button to remove the Safely Remove Hardware icon, and a second button to restore it. Enjoy!

How To Disable ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ Popup Notification in Windows

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However, Lexar’s USB format is an excellent portable tool which was initially designed for Lexar USB’s only, but because of increase in demand now works side by side with other USB drives.

The main window of the application provides you an easy interface, which not only helps you in Flipping the removable bit, but you can also use this tool to format your USB drive, make it bootable or set a volume label when ever needed. In order to create a partition all you have to do it to click on the Flip Removable Bit button, as seen in the screenshot below.

However, you will need to set up a multiple USB stick partions discussed at Ghacks to resolve this issue. [via]

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Partition USB Flash Drive with Lexar USB Format

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But have you ever thought of adding tabs to your Windows Explorer? Perhaps not. Now with QTTabBar – an easy to use tool that allow users to add tabs to Windows Explorer; meaning that you can open folders in the same way you open web pages in Firefox or IE7.

(Image Courtesy: LifeHacker)

This tool will help you save space on your taskbar. It also lets you add a drop-down preview as seen in the screen-shot above and a few toolbar buttons that add entries like “Recently Closed” or favorites. There is another additional feature which lets users to set password to any folder they want, giving them more security. In order to set a password all you have to do is Right-click on the tab and choose ‘Set Password‘.  Next time you click on that folder you’ll have to provide a password in order to pass through.

Installation is also very easy and simple; download the zip file, unzip it and execute RegisterQTTabBar.exe file. Restart the computer and log back in to use the utility. For those who are using Windows XP, make sure Microsoft .NET framework 2.0 or 3.0 is installed on your computer or download from here.

I wonder why Microsoft didn’t implemented this feature in Windows Vista? Lets see if it makes it way to Windows 7 or not. What do you think?

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How To Add Tabs to Windows Explorer

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For all those who like using NOD32 or have already installed it on their machines as an alternative to Kaspersky can now get a free license key of NOD32 for 3 months! By following the procedure mentioned below you will not only get a 90 days genuine license key for NOD32 Anti-virus, but also a license key of the latest ESET Smart Security v4 and ESET Mobile Antivirus v1. All in one! Its a great offer that you don’t wanna miss. Here is what you have to do;

1. Simply visit the page; and type in a valid email address, (as shown below) and hit the Submit button,

2. You will receive an email from NOD32, on the address that you have typed. Keep the email in a safe place as this contains the Registration Code,

3. Now go to this page, and enter Registration code that you got via email, your Name, Email ID you used in step #1 and hit submit button when finished. Reference screenshot below;

4. A new page will display the user name & password for ESET, write it down and keep it safe.

Use the username and password for ESET NOD32 Antivirus, Smart Security and also for Mobile Antivirus. Enjoy 90 days free security! [Via]

Grab ESET Smart Security v4, NOD32 & Mobile Antivirus License Key for 90 Days

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CoverDisk has once again come up with a new Exclusive 100 days Kaspersky offer. Don’t worry you won’t have to spend any money on this one. Unfortunately, this offer is only valid for CoverDisk customers, however by using a simple trick you too will be able to get a free copy of Kaspersky Internet Security 2009.

Grab a free copy KIS 2009 License for 100 Days

Simply hover to this page and fill in the required fields. Tick the check box if you are above 18. You may un-check the boxes below if you don’t want to get information about other offers and services. Click the ‘Submit’ button once you are done.

A new page will now open, asking you to enter a special number that is in issue 256 of Computer Shopper. Like we said, this offer is for Computer Shopper magazine’s customers only, but by following the method mentioned below you can also avail it. Here’s what you have to do;

Step #1. Against an empty field box, read the line as shown below:

Step #2. Now match the line from the list below and enter the code (shown in RED) into the filed;

Please enter the first world of the first step – GO
Please enter the first word of the third step -THE
Please enter the first word of the fourth step -YOU
Please enter the third word of the second step – PERSONAL
Please enter the third word of the third step – SCREEN
Please enter the third word of fifth step -JOB
Please enter the fourth word of the fifth step – IS
Please enter the fifth word of the third step – YOU
Please enter the fifth word of the sixth step – ACCOUNT

As you can see in the above figure, the line was ‘first word of the fourth step‘ therefore the code would be YOU. In case you don’t find the line, keep on refreshing the page until the right line appears. Hit the ‘Submit‘ button and the license key will be delivered at your mailing ID. Write it down and keep it in a safe place.

So, hurry up and rush to avail this offer before it ends!

Grab a Free Copy of Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 for 100 Days

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The best option that I would suggest users is to set a password on Windows. This will not only prevent your family members from accessing your private files, but it will also prevent your friends from sneaking into your computer/laptop while you are away. However, if you are among those users who are hesitant of creating a password just because you’ll forget it in the near future here’s a how you can recover lost passwords in Windows.

Regardless to that, if you still want to block your friends from accessing some application, Applocker is just the right tool that will do wonders! Basically, Applocker is a free, lightweight utility that prevents unauthorized access to certain applications that comes by default in Windows. For instance, you have the leverage to block apps including, Notepad, Calculator, MS Office programs, Internet Explorer, etc.

All of these and other similar options are available on the main window of Applocker. All you have to do it to check those applications that you want to block/lock and then hit the ‘Save’ button when finished. In addition to that, you can add as many application that you want to block/lock. For this click on the Configure button from the main window. Add any application by typing its caption and .exe file name. For example, if you want to block FireFox, simply name the caption ‘Mozilla Firefox‘ and then type the firefox.exe file name. Click the add button when finished.

So when ever any one would click on the application, a message will be displayed prompting the user to contact the admin. AppLocker works with Windows 2K, XP, Server 2003 and Server 2008.

The only downside to this application is that Applocker does not provide any security mechanism to prevent users from accessing the application itself. Any one can easily open Applocker and simply uncheck the applications from the list to use it. Not so clever after all!  [Via]

Download Applocker for Windows

AppLocker: Block Access to Application in Windows

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