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Dropbox now uploads photos and gives you more free space!

Michael — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:54:57 +0000

Dropbox announced an update to its Android app on Friday that automatically syncs a user’s photos on the phone. A complementary update to the desktop app also auto-syncs photos stored on cameras or SD cards.

The service will be added to Apple’s iOS soon, Dropbox said.

On Android, the photo-upload function mirrors one already built into phone: Google+ already can be set to automatically upload photos and store them in the cloud. On the other hand, Google won’t allow any photos over 2,048 pixels wide, so high-resolution cameraphone images won’t be stored on Google+ in their full resolution.

However on Dropbox they are uploaded at original size and full quality, and saved to a private folder called Camera Uploads in your Dropbox

Users will receive 500MB of Dropbox space, for free, just for downloading the app. As users upload more photos, the available space will increase, up to a total of 3GB, the company said.

So if you have not signed up for dropbox yet, use this link and get an extra 250 MB of space on top of the 2.5GB you will get normally.

Software Pick: Ninite

Michael — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:43:42 +0000

The software pick of the week for this week is Ninite. Ninite is a free online service that automatically installs some of the top freeware on your computer with no bloatware, no toolbars or other options and without any intervention on your part. You simply go to the Ninite site, choose your software and run the simple installer and you will have the latest updated software available.

Ninite includes the latest Web Browsers, Messaging, Media, Imaging, Security and more software categories with over 80 applications in total available for you. You don’t even have to choose 32 or 64 bit versions as Ninite does it all for you.

Ninite is incredibly simple to use and is the number one tool I go to for all new PC installs. Then you just run it as wanted and it automatically updates all your software as well.

If you have never used Ninite it will amaze you.

Visit Ninite to get started

Features:

No Clicking Next, Next, Next

Ninite fully automates installers offscreen.

No Toolbars

Ninite automatically says "No" to toolbars and other junk.

Always Up-to-date

A Ninite installer always gets an app’s latest version no matter when you made it.

It Updates Too

Just run your Ninite installer again and it will update the apps to their latest versions.

No Signup

Ninite just works. No account, signup, or client needed.

32 and 64-bit

Ninite installs the best version of an app for your PC.

International

Ninite installs apps in your PC’s language.

Freeware Pick: Fresh UI

Michael — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:27:23 +0000

Fresh UI is a new solution for configuring and optimizing Windows. Loaded with hundreds of useful hidden settings in Windows XP/NT/2000/9x/Me, this software covers customizing and optimizing techniques such as

Customizing Windows User Interface (UI)
Optimizing system settings
Hardware settings
Customizing Windows application settings
Control user environment with policies.

Fresh UI is organized by section for easy navigation and complete with detailed descriptions for easy reference

Supported Operating System:
Windows 95, Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, windows Vista, Windows 7

Freeware Pick: Defraggler

Michael — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:13:16 +0000

Today’s freeware pick is defraggler. Use Defraggler to defrag your entire hard drive, or individual files – unique in the industry. This compact and portable Windows application supports NTFS and FAT32 file systems.

Operating System: Windows XP,Windows Vista,Windows Server 2003,Windows 7

Defraggler defragments your hard drive, and it offers some features that the defragmentation utility included in Windows does not. First, it’s faster and prettier. Second, it has several nice features that can make disk maintenance easier and more focused

Freeware Pick: BlackSheep

Michael — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 05:07:03 +0000

The news has been full of doom and gloom over the Firesheep plugin that allows people to snoop on computers in public hotspots.

Free Wi-Fi hotspots are convenient, but come with increased security risks as well. Another Firefox plug-in called BlackSheep was developed as a Firesheep alarm. It won’t secure your wireless data, and it won’t prevent your information from being snooped by Firesheep, but it will alert you when Firesheep is in use on the network you’re connected to so that you’re aware.

Download BlackSheep

Freebie: Video Converter Pro Software

Michael — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 01:43:30 +0000

Today’s freebie is brought to you by the fine folks at MacXDVD who for the next few days are giving away the pro version of their excellent Video Converter Pro software. This is a fantastic and easy to use converter. With a total of 420+ video/audio codecs and an advanced HD video decoding engine, MacX Video Converter Pro has powerful capabilities to convert among all HD video and SD videos and transfer to Mac, PC, iMovie, iTunes, iPhone iPad, iPod, etc. It also enables users to download YouTube videos and convert to other format or create VOB files from video for burning to DVD.

We use the windows version and it is fantastic. Get your free copy today.

Screenshot:

How to Get MacX Video Converter Pro for Free

Go to the Giveaway Page at: http://www.macxdvd.com/mac-video-converter-pro/

1. For Mac users, download the full version of MacX Video Converter Pro by click "Download for Mac" button, and use the license code: AY-DSJGNKY-6E7E777

2. For Windows users, download the full version of MacX HD Video Converter Pro for Windows by click "Download for Windows" button, and use the license code: BO-UMUJUMYT-FBOBXO

Enjoy your free software!

Freeware Pick: Disk Investigator 1.5

Michael — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 05:57:23 +0000

Disk Investigator helps you to discover all that is hidden on your computer hard disk. It can also help you to recover lost data. Display the true drive contents by bypassing the operating system and directly reading the raw drive sectors. View and search raw directories, files, clusters, and system sectors. Verify the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs. Undelete previously deleted files.

Freeware Pick

Michael — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:37:34 +0000

FastStone Image Viewer

Version: 4.0
File Size: 4619
License: Free
Operating System: Windows XP,Windows Vista,Windows 7

FastStone Image Viewer displays pictures lightning-fast and lets you browse through them–but it does much more than that. You can crop, rotate, and resize pictures, and create slide shows. The program also converts images between several different file formats.

Read more and Download FastStone Image Viewer

The Best Windows 7 Downloads from PCWorld

Michael — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:23:00 +0000

The Best Windows 7 Downloads

We’re big fans of Microsoft’s latest OS, but we’re bigger fans of making Windows better–so we’ve rounded up the best Windows 7 downloads. They’ll let you customize it in any way possible, give it features that Microsoft removed or neglected to include, and more. So get ready to download–you’re about to take Windows 7 to a new level

The Best Windows 7 Downloads

Freeware Pick: Microsoft Security Essentials

Michael — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:01:50 +0000

Never pay for antivirus again. Microsoft has come up with a fantastic antivirus utility that is free, small, and just works well. Pretty amazing from Microsoft. The standalone antivirus product Microsoft Security Essentials has caused a stir, as might be expected when the words "Microsoft" and "free" are involved. We have tested the final product, and overall MSE looks good when compared to other Security Suites.

License: Free

Operating Systems: Windows XP,Windows Vista,Windows Server 2003,Windows 7

Get Microsoft Security Essentials