Swype is a typing tool for touchscreens that significantly speeds up the text typing process on such devices. Mobile phone users can write texts quickly and easily by just moving fingers or stylus across virtual letters.

Nokia has released a beta version of Swype for Symbian 5th edition phones. Swype plugs directly into the Symbian input method to ensure seamless integration with every application on the device.

Swype for Symbian Beta is compatible with the following Nokia S60 5th Edition touch screen phones: Nokia 5800, Nokia 5230, Nokia X6, Nokia N97, Nokia N97mini and C6-00, etc.
Key features:

1. Standard QWERTY keyboard layout makes Swype easy to learn
2. Use a stylus or finger – Swype’s amazing input path analyzer allows you to go fast and sloppy.
3. Double Tap Editing - Double tap on a word to bring up a list of other possible matches.
4. Auto-Spacing
5. Auto-Capitalization
6. Auto Spelling Correction
7. Automatic Help – Swype detects when you may be having trouble or might benefit from a particular feature and prompts you with helpful tips and instructions
8. Instant access to Symbols, Numbers and Editing functions
9. 65,000-word Learning Dictionary

Download Swype for Symbian S60 mobile phones (currently beta)

As this is a command-line tool, the operations become time consuming. Here is frontend for adb called WinADB that enables users to take advantages of adb command quickly and easily.

WinADB is a portable tool and the downloaded zip file includes all the files required, including the USB drivers for your PC. Download WinADB at developer’s page. (Via)

Download Ubuntu 10.10 beta (Maverick Meerkat) wallpapers. (Via)

Are you trying to stop your browser from slowing you down? Unfortunately, Web browsers don’t always have speed in mind, and they can run poorly sometimes, especially for people with slower connections or computers. However, there are some adjustments you can make that will speed up your browsing considerably. Here are seven tips to get you started.

1. Eliminate viruses and malware: Viruses and malware run in the background of your system, slowing your whole machine down. Malware often uses your connection to report what you’re doing to an unknown recipient, usually an advertising company. Just scan your system with a virus scanner and malware scanner to remove these useless programs. Here are some excellent free programs you can use: AVG, Avira AntiVir, Malwarbytes Anti-Malware, and Spybot.

2. Use an ad blocker: A huge number of advertisements exist on the Web. Naturally, if you don’t have to bother loading them, your browser will run faster. This is where an ad blocker comes in. There’s an excellent add-on called Ad Block Plus, which works on Firefox and Google Chrome . It stops ads from loading, so you don’t have to deal with them.

3. Learn shortcuts: This may not seem that helpful at first, but once you start using shortcuts, you’ll have more control and browse faster. There are many common tasks the average person performs when browsing the web, such as opening a link in a new window or tab. Most people right-click on the link, and choose from the menu. If you use shortcuts, your computer won’t need to load the menu, saving processing time. Try it out: Most browsers will open a link in a new window by holding “Shift” and clicking. Also, you can usually open a link in a new tab by simply clicking your third mouse button if you have one. Learn some more to see what else you can do.

4. Clear your browsing data: If you’ve never bothered clearing your browser’s cache your probably sitting on a mountain of unneeded files. There’s a great free program called CCleaner that can help you out. Not only will it clean the browsing data for any browser, but it will clean all unneeded files on your computer, and it can clean your registry too. Best of all, it’s free. Every Windows user should have this.

5. Use RSS Feeds: There’s some graphically intense websites out there that are frequently updated, such as Mashable or Lifehacker. They have great content, but you don’t want to deal with slow loading speeds many times a day. Instead, subscribe to RSS feeds. Almost every blog and major website allows this, and you can find the subscription link on their homepages.

6. Try a different browser: While Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer may be the people’s main choices for Internet browsers, they are also some of the slower browsers out there. Instead, give these browsers a shot: Opera, Safari, or Opera.

7. Stop displaying images: Graphics can bring a slow computer or connection to a crawl. Turning them off will speed your computer up a lot. If you can manage to set your browser up to only display text, you’ll be flying around the Web regardless of your system. After all, an even large amount of text only takes seconds to load. Turning of graphics is different for every browser, but if you search through the settings in your browser’s options or preferences, you should find it easily.

Sometimes, browsers can slow you down. Maybe you are on a public connection, or maybe you just have an older computer, but if you use the tips presented, you’ll be able to speed up your browser significantly.

This application can release free memory by pressing refresh button, so that you can avoid frequent crashes, reduce application loading time, and frequent restart of your iPhone or iPod.

Free Memory Pro requires iOS 3.0 or later. Currently the app is free for a limited time. You can download it free at Appstore today

Yes, it is possible to remove these junk trial programs with Windows built-in add/remove tool, but there is a software tool called SlimComputer that allows any users do this job quickly.

It has a powerful, easy to use interface that integrates with many of Windows native functions to deliver a cleaner, better performing computing experience to any user.

With this tool you can remove unwanted Software, remove trial 0ffers, remove Toolbars, remove Ad Links and disable unneeded services.

SlimComputer also features a community rating system that lets users evaluate different applications, features and functions, and share their input with other users through SlimWare’s cloud.

The application not designed for new PCs only, you can use it on any PC for optimization. More detailed information and download SlimComputer (currently beta)

Like other rescue disks, Kaspersky Rescue disk also available in ISO disk image file. You need to download and burn this image to CD/DVD to use it, but how to use it in computers that has no optical drive?

Of course, it is possible to make a bootable USB drive using some Linux Bootable USB maker, but it involves a tedious job. To help you, Kaspersky has developed a tool called Rescue2usb.

Using Rescue2usb tool is very simple. Here is how to:

1. Download Kaspersky Rescue Disk (current verion10) ISO image
2. Download KasperskyRescue2USB and run it. Click Browse and select ISO image of Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 and Select the required USB device from the drop-down menu.
3. Click START button and wait until the process completed, then click OK to finish the process.

To use this bootable USB disk in your computer, first of all make sure your motherboard has support for USB booting and enable it from the BIOS settings.

Insert the Bootable kaspersky USB Rescue Disk into Computer USB port and boot your PC. A message will appear on the screen. Press any key to enter the menu. Choose any option (example Graphic Mode) to continue.

Hope this short tutorial will help you make a bootable Kaspersky rescue disk quickly and easily.

By giving address (URL) of a web site, it will analyze the website and give last 30 days detailed reports – the number of threats, compromised web pages, site’s server location, site’s popularity and an in-depth analysis of the website in question.

The service is similar to their unique LinkScanner real-time surf and search technology, but at a far more comprehensive level.

In the chaos that surrounds our day to day activity on the internet we seldom realize the dangers that hover around us in inconspicuous forms. So, AVG’s this early warning system has a greater role in our day to day online life. Check websites before visiting with AVG’s Treat Labs.

More information at AVG Threat Labs.

When you try to installing AVG 9.0 free edition, it stops and displays an error message: “MSVC Redistributables installation failed. Installation of AVG cannot continue” Or “MSVC Redistributables installer requires immediate restart. Installation of AVG cannot continue”.

Most often rebooting your PC and re-installing AVG solve this issue, but if the problem still persists, following methods should solve the problem.

1. For Windows XP, you need to download the latest version of Microsoft Visual C++ libraries and update it. (Download Microsoft Visual C++ libraries for 32bit / 64bit).
2. For Windows 7 and Vista users disabling UAC while installing AVG may solve the issue.
3. AVG has also released a fix for this issue. Download msvcfix.zip from AVG and extract it. Put the .bat file in the same directory of AVG and run the msvcfix.bat file. Installing AVG 9 should work by using this method. (Via - AVG)

vCardIO is a freeware application for Android phone that allows you to import and export contacts from or to a vCard (vcf) file on the SD card. Here is how to transfer contacts to your Android phone.

First of all, copy all your contacts from your old phone to a memory card. In Nokia mobile phone, click Options and choose Copy on Memory card and pullout.

Connect your Android to the PC, and then mount your SD card. As soon as your device will detect the memory card, use the application vCardIO to import the vcard to your contacts.

Watch the YouTube video “Import contacts to Android from Nokia” to get an idea about the process. More details about how to import/ export contacts with vCardIO available at developer’s page (link below).

Download the newest version of vCardIO at here. (via)