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5 Free Image Resizing Software

Ravi Ahuja — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:30:21 +0000

Today we are living the world of nano technology and everything is getting compact and precise. From large and heavy weighing computers we have now turned to laptops and tablets. But on the contrary, technology has given an opposite impact if we talk about images.

With the newest of technologies and advancements in photography, size and weight of images has been increased to a great extent. Previously with the commencement of digital photography, the images shot by the cameras were not of so much high quality and enhanced and they use of be of some kilobytes but now we find that images are going larger and larger as you go high end photography and the size of the images has reached of MBs instead KBs.

Although it is a great and extremely good development in the technology but the problem arises when you need to transfer those images. Uploading and downloading the image over the internet requires lot of time and space to transfer, so it become quite time taking and long process to transfer those heavy images over the web. To get rid of this problem there are some softwares developed which have the ability to compress the size of the image.

So if you are not a proficient expert of graphics designing, no need to worry. You can compress those images without losing the quality of image in just few clicks. These softwares are enriched with features of shortening the size of images and editing them. Some softwares are paid while some are FREE too. For the convenience we have listed below 5 best image compressing or resizing softwares which youcan try.

1. Image Resizer for Windows: It is an utility software that lets you resize one or more selected image files directly from Windows Explorer by right-clicking. Especially designed for Windows the Image Resizer allows you to resize the image in any ratio you want and after installing the software you get the resizing option at the right click menu bar.

2. FastStone Photo Resizer: FastStone is an image converter and renaming tool which provides many image editing tools. You can convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to images in a quick and easy batch mode with just drag and drop operation of mouse. It supports JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF and JPEG2000 image format and provides much of other features.

3. ObviousIdea Light Image Resizer: Previously known as the VSO image resize, this software is among the top seller image resizing software. ObviousIdea resizes and simply converts image, 1 by 1 or as a batch mode. It is available as windows shell extension. You just right click and easily create copies or work on the original HQ photos and share your resized photos online with friends. Rename, sort or add a watermark to protect your pictures, create custom pdf pages, Convert Jpeg to pdf are some of its unique features.

4. High Quality Photo Resizer Version: High Quality Photo Resizer is an easy-to-use freeware for batch resizing of digital photos. It supports many input formats: BMP, DIB, EMF, GIF, ICB, JPG, JPEG, PBM, PCD, PCX, PGM, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP, RLE, SGI, TGA, TIF, TIFF, VDA, VST, WBMP, WMF. And it supports 8 output formats: JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIF, TGA, WMF, EMF and allows you to you to add up to 37 effects (Sharpen, Mosaic, Tweak RGB, Colorize, Spray, Emboss, Blur, Gray Scale, Negative, Soften, Swirl, etc.

5. Mihov Image Resizer: With Mihiv Image resizer you can make pictures or any kind of images smaller or bigger in just moments. The program is capable of converting pictures between different graphic formats. You can also rotate the photos to the left or to the right or turn upside down.

Create Desktop Based Web Applications with Pokki

Ravi Ahuja — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:20:29 +0000

Pokki developed by OpenCandy is a framework built on Chromium that allows developers to build basic applications using standard web technologies. It also provides a common platform same like app store or more precise Google Chrome’s web store to assemble apps and make available publicly. Pokki currently has apps for Gmail, Facebook, Groupon, eBay, the WSJ, Living Social, and Twitter and added two new music-focused Pokkies, Grooveshark and Rdio.

It can also be used as a desktop building applications software based on HTML5, CSS and JavaScript for a modernized web application experience. Basically Pokki can be used in three ways as:

An interface that makes it easy for users to access apps and notifications
A framework that enables web developers to build great desktop apps
A store for users to find apps thus connecting users and developers

Developing apps through Pokki: Pokki enables web developers to create rich, connected mini-desktop applications using the latest web standards. You can create applications in seconds and can convert websites into applications. The framework is easy to understand and there are handfuls of special JavaScript APIs for the convenience. Pokki also offers you to participate in the contest by submitting your developed app. You can win up to $30,000.

Using Pokki as an interface you will find some exciting features while using its apps like Facebook, Gmail, etc. First, these applications support nice notification tags in the menu bar and are also handy by design When you click on one app it will pop up in a small window that you can use to access your Facebook wall, Gmail inbox, or whatever other application you’ve installed and as soon as you click outside of the Pokki, and it disappears.

Pokki’s web store also offers you apps for your usage so that you need not to open web browser to go to your favorite sites like Facebook, Twitter or reading your new mails.

To use Pokki, you need to install the basic framework first, but this will come bundled with all Pokki apps. After that you can use the prebuilt apps or can create your own apps.

Pokki can be fun, can be an earning platform or can be a resource store. It offers you many functionalities and it’s also light weighted. Currently Pokki works on Windows platform but its support for MAC OX will be available soon.

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Develop PHP Web Application with CakePHP

Ravi Ahuja — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 06:17:13 +0000

Need an interactive framework for developing your PHP scripts in a more easy and rapid way? Then you must try CakePHP. CakePHP provides you an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying your applications with low development cost. Whether you are at the entry level or the expert CakePHP will serve both. It is an open source web application framework to develop PHP apps and is distributed under the MIT License.

Developed by Cake Software foundation, CakePHP uses many concepts of Ruby on Rails and design patterns like MVC and ORM within the convention over configuration paradigm, CakePHP reduces development costs and helps developers write less code.

CakePHP doesn’t require any configurations you just need to set up the database and start working with this most easy web editor. Its various features are:

It is Object Oriented so whether you are a seasoned object-oriented programmer or a beginner, you’ll feel comfortable
Provides Internationalization and Localization with static translations in gettext style or dynamic translations of model data
Full Console environment with support for multiple tasks and include shells: bake, schema, acl, i18 extractor and api
CSRF protection and HTTP authentication via Security Component
Flexible Caching by using memcache, apc, xcache, the file system, or a model to speed up your application
Configure class to provide dynamic handling of configuration settings and App class to handle importing required classes

Moreover, CakePHP community is there to provide you full support for any query. Active and friendly Community helps you interacts in numerous ways. You can also join their irc channel which includes the core developers and long time community members.

Working with CakePHP can be a very convenient option for developing the PHP projects and as nowadays most sites are based on PHP scripts, a good environment and framework like CakePHP can make your task easier.

Download CakePHP Free

Useful Tools for Website Designers

Ravi Ahuja — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:40:09 +0000

Establishing a firm career in Web Designing may seem an easy task and quick source for revenue making from the top. But if you enter into its depth and find each and every aspect of it then it turns out to be complicated. In this world, where millions of websites are running over the net, if you start as a fresher then you have to face a tough competition from others. Developing a website needs lot of exploration and knowledge.

The first thing which a user looks when he visits your website is its aesthetics and designing. For a neophyte it may become quite difficult to look at each and every aspect necessary in making a website. Any website creation requires first of all the knowledge of HTML, CSS, scripting and programming languages to develop the base of the website. After that further refinements can be done using the various tools.

Today, thanks to internet, which makes everything available at the finger tip, now you can use various tools which are really very helpful for the creation of website. There are prototyping tools, designing tools, coloring tools, graphics tools and others which play important roles during development.

If you are a new web designer, you will find this article really helpful as we have listed below the crucial tools and links which make your job a lot easier and quick. The list has been categorized under the various section like IDEs required for writing scripts and doing programming, prototyping tools which shows the dummy model for your website, coloring tools for selecting the proper color and combination to give a real look to the website, typographic tools which are helpful in selecting the proper font which is most suitable for your website, some links to the websites which provides the readymade scripts for you in different languages and at the last we have also stated some tutorial websites guiding you in the best way.

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IDE & Development Software

1. Dreamweaver CS5.5

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 is the industry-leading web authoring and editing software developed by Adobe. You can create standards-based websites and designs for the desktop, smartphones, tablets, and other devices. It provides both visual and code-level capabilities and supports CSS3/HTML5, jQuery Mobile integration for adding advanced interactivity with jQuery code hinting, multiscreen Preview panel and new PhoneGap functionality to build and package native apps for Android and iOS.
Dreamweaver supports many languages to build the applications and websites like Active Server Pages (ASP), C#, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), ColdFusion, EDML, XHTML, XML, HTML, Java, JavaScript, PHP and others.

2. NetBeans IDE 7.0.1

NetBeans is a platform framework for Java desktop applications and also a integrated development environment (IDE) developed by Oracle Solutions. The IDE is written in Java and is highly compatible.
NetBeans is a free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers for developing with Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Groovy, C, C++, and other languages. It contains all the tools needed to create professional desktop, enterprise, web, and mobile applications.
The latest version is the NetBeans IDE 7.0 which introduces language support for development to the Java SE 7 specification with the JDK 7 language features. It also supports GlassFish 3.1, Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Database, Maven 3, HTML 5 and more.

3. WYSWYG Web Builder

WYSWYG is the web designing solution that makes building of websites quite easier and quicker. The software requires no HTML web designing proficient knowledge and gives you “One Click Publishing” feature. No FTP program needed. You can easily create forms using the built-in Form Wizard plus Form validation tools and built-in CAPTCHA. It also includes many jQuery features like Accordion, Tabs, animations, AutoComplete, Dialog etc.
It also features many graphic and navigation tools and has 100 free templates to choose from. WYSWYG supports AVA, Flash, Windows Media, YouTube, Flash Video, Quicktime, Real Audio and other Plug-ins with more than 250 extensions.

4. Aptana Studio 3

5. Eclipse IDE

Coloring Tools

6. ColorSchemer Studio2

ColorSchemer Studio 2 is a professional color matching application useful for web designers and advanced professionals. It helps you to build beautiful color schemes quickly and easily. You can also use ColorSchemer Studio to identify color harmonies for the web (RGB) or print (CMYK) and can create palettes from photos and gradient blends. It also provides you the facility of to transform a single color into a complete color scheme.

7. Pixie

Pixie is a utility software for webmasters and designers. It is a color picker with few extra goodies. It is a freeware software which tells you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that color you point on. You can then use these values to reproduce the selected color in your favorite programs. Pixie will also show the current coordinates of your mouse pointer.

8. COPASO : Color Palette Software

9. Color Palette Generator

Mockup Tools

10. Mockup Builder

Mockuo Builder performs many tasks like UI mockups, interactive wireframes, website layouts, desktop software prototypes, website design, sitemaps or screen navigations by using light version via your web browser and Microsoft Silverlight installed. It gives a new look to solve old problem with prototyping and sharing mockups with customers.

11. LUMZY Mockup Tool

Lumzy is a Mockup and Prototype creation tool for websites and applications.You can quickly sketch your website or application you are planning to build will look like and can create prototypes of how the site or application will function by adding events within your Lumzy controls
You can create Message Alerts, Page navigation or Links to external content when your client interacts with your Mockup, yet with the hand drawn feel of a sketch. Lumzy gives the extensive list of controls and also features collaboration tools for team editing.

12. SimpleDiagrams Free Version

Typographic and font tools

13. FrameBox

Typechart is a font selection tool that lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS. You can browse numerous typographic styles.
You need to download CSS and each style corresponds with a “style ID” which allows you to annotate prototypes and retrieve the css while coding.

14. TypeChart

15. FontStruct

16. What The Font

Programs & Scripting Source

17. Hot Scripts

HotScripts is a website containing more than 48,000 scripts in various categories. Having 750,000 active worldwide members serving for Web scripts and web development resources, Hotscripts provides resources and pre written scripts for the developers from beginners to experts. You can also review, rate and vote for your favorite scripts listed in the directory and can get discounts on certain scripts, services and products.

18. MSDN Library

From MSDN Microsoft site you can get essential source of information helpful in using Microsoft tools, products, technologies and services. The MSDN Library includes how-to and reference documentation, sample code, technical articles, etc. The site contains all the sample codes of all libraries for developing any desktop, web, game, phone or even cloud application. To find the content you just browse the table of contents, use search, or use a Quick Link to jump to some of the most popular areas of the library.

19. Dynamic Drive

Dynamic Drive is a place on the net which provides free, original DHTML & Javascripts to enhance your web site. The site contains scripts for creating calendars, games, text effects, form effects, scrollers, image effects, games and many more. You can become an exclusive member and can participate in listing submission, favorites, and referrals programs.

20. PHP Scripts

Learning Resources

21. W3 Schools

W3 Schools forms the basis for all the new comers in software development field. It provides you with the basic learning of languages and scripts through their online tutorials and examples. The site contains tutorials for HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, ASP, PHP and others. After learning the basics you can also opt for the online tests to check your knowledge and gain some expertise on the topic that interests you.

22. Web Design-Tutorials

Web Design Tutorials contain thousands of tutorials required for web designing. You can learn website creations, adobe photoshop editing, javascript, PHP coding and many other scripting languages. It also teaches you graphic effects, animations and etc. It is very useful for the beginners.

5 Free Offline Blog Editors

Ravi Ahuja — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:49:35 +0000

Many of the bloggers search for a tool which can increase their blog publishing speed. Publishing blog post from online takes lot of time and reducing that time can help us to do lot of other works.

When we publish blog post online it takes time because you have to do text formatting, uploading images and inserting images one by one, creating links etc this consumes lot of time. If your internet speed is slow then it can take more time. So what you can do to reduce post publishing time? The best solution can be using offline blog editor software.

Blog editors help you write blog post without using another editor you have to setup your blog ones and you are ready to go. After setting your blog start writing on blog editor, you can edit text style, insert images, insert link etc in just few click and in just one click you can publish your post without going to your blog admin page. There are many blog editors available from free to paid. I am listing five most popular free blog editors which can help you to speed up your work. You may also be interested in the following creative examples.

5 Free Offline Blog Editors

1. Windows Live Writer

Windows Live Writer is one of the most popular free blog editors. Over the time it is improved a lot. It supports WordPress, Blogger, TypePad etc. It’s very easy to edit blog post on Windows Live Writer you can easily change font size, font style, heading, inserting images and in one click you can publish your articles. This is WYSIWYG editor and you can see source and preview right on your desktop.

2. BlogDesk

Another popular blog editors which is easy to use WYSIWYG editor. With BlogDesk Image Wizard you can insert images to your posts and you can crop, resize, rotate, shadow etc to those images. You can easily inserted and edited files like MP3 or PDF, BlogDesk will automatically upload them.

3. Thingamablog

Thingamablog is a cross-platform, standalone blogging application. Thingamablog does NOT require a third-party blogging host, a cgi/php enabled web host, or a MySQL database. With Thingamablog you can set up a blog in minutes via an intuitive wizard, maintain multiple blogs, dynamically update blog content, publish your blog with a single click, publish remotely to your blog via email and much more.

4. Qumana

Qumana is another free blog editor which let you publish post quickly and also save all your post in your hard drive. Qumana lets you easily insert tags into to your posts. One click, type your keywords, and that’s it. Increase your traffic from Technorati and other search engines, instantly. Publish your post, and then repost it instantly to another blog.

5. w.bloggar

w.blogger is easy to use, multi blog support editor. It is also WYSIWYG editor software which let you easily publish blog post. With many options in toolbar you can complete your work quickly.

Win BDlot DVD Clone Ultimate and BDlot DVD Ripper 10 Licenses

Ravi Ahuja — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:55:09 +0000

LotSoft developer of great software like BDlot DVD Clone Ultimate, BDlot DVD Ripper, BDlot Video Converter etc are giving 10 licenses of BDlot DVD Clone Ultimate and 10 licenses of BDlot DVD Ripper for CodeFear followers.

Yes you can win full license of BDlot DVD Clone Ultimate and BDlot DVD Ripper without doing much. These software cost $29.95 each and you can win both software cost about $60. Before telling you how you can win these software license have a look on these software.

BDlot DVD Clone Ultimate
BDlot DVD Clone Ultimate is DVD cloning software. BDlot DVD Clone Ultimate will bring you excitements of copying an entire DVD to blank DVD or ISO image, decrypting DVD to VIDEO_TS folder, and extracting DVD main title or chapters to single MPEG2 file. It provides genuine 1:1 DVD copying with untouched video and original surrounding soundtrack. The embedded newest GPU accelerating technology will shorten the whole process time to within just minutes.

BDlot DVD Ripper
BDlot DVD Ripper can help ripping your favorite DVDs to any mainstream video and audio formats. Enjoy one click program to rip DVD to MP4, AVI, H.264/AVC, MPEG, MOV, FLV, WMV, MP3, etc. It also helps you convert and rip DVDs to iPhone, iPad, iPod, Sony PSP, Zune, Zen, Nokia, Blackberry and other popular portable devices for you to enjoy videos anywhere at any time.

How to Win BDlot DVD Clone Ultimate and BDlot DVD Ripper

It’s very easy to win this software you can request for one or both software.

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4. Last date to submit your entries is 28 June 2011.
5. Winners will be announced on 29th June 2011.
6. We will send license key to Winners email id (mentioned in comment form) and they have to register their product before June 30th 2011.

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5 Free Useful Graphic Software to perform Specific Task

Ravi Ahuja — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:04:04 +0000

Many times it happen we need to just do limited graphic task and we don’t need full graphic software like Photoshop. There are many free software available which do specific graphic task.

Everyone doesn’t need to buy premium graphic software as everyone is not graphic designer. Using premium graphic software need some training to use that software as they come with lot of features and it is difficult to use for new user. Today there are many free graphic software to do limited task. Here I have listed such software which is not able to do unlimited task but they can do limited task perfectly.

5 Free Useful Graphic Software

1. DuckCapture
DuckCapture comes with four capture modes that make screen capture easy! Capture a window on your screen, region of your screen, or the contents of a tall web page that scrolls. You can easily edit, and share a screenshot. DuckCapture is available free for Windows and MAC.

2. Quick JPEG Resize and Crop
This program is useful for quickly resizing and cropping JPEG pictures. It can also be used to adjust the quality setting of a picture to reduce disk space usage. Quick JPEG Resize and Crop has a simple interface that’s quite easy to figure out. Users can navigate to the desired image from within the program’s file menu, or simply drag and drop the image onto the program’s interface.

3. Photo Card Maker
Photo Card Maker is a free photo cards designing software. With Photo Card Maker, you can edit texts on photos flexibly, and frame photos with exquisitely designed templates. In a word, it is quite easy to create your own distinctive photo greeting cards.

4. Photo Finesse
Photo Finesse adds borders and effects to images which helps you to improve your image. It is not full graphic software but it can do some limited task easily. You can crop or zoom image, you can add border, a feature that we thought was pretty cool. Users can choose the color, width, curvature, and fade of the border, and can even use a second image as the border, merging two images into one.

5. Photo Decorator
Photo Decorator is easy to use photo resize, crop, and warp or transform software. It also allows you to add frames, texts, balloons and other items quickly. Photo Decorator supports more than 20 effects and filters, with which you can adjust color, alpha, brightness, sharpness of any photo, or add mosaic, noise, shadow, bevel, blur and so on to photo.

6 Useful Free Apps with Online Sync

Ravi Ahuja — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:10:02 +0000

Working on computer means you have to use software for specific use. Problem using a computer is that your files are stored on that computer what if you have to use them on other computer.

Yes we know we can synchronize our work online and use it from anywhere. Now we can create a MS Word file and upload it on Google Doc, MS Live, Zoho office etc. But most of the software are not inbuilt capable of online sync this create problem to make them available online we have to go to website and upload our file, this can be painful task.
There are many free and paid software available which are capable of online sync. You don’t have to go to website and download and upload file. Here are 6 useful apps with online sync.

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6 Free Software with Online Synchronization

1. Dropbox

Dropbox is software that syncs your files online and across your computers. Put your files into your Dropbox folder on one computer, and they’ll automatically appear on any of your other computers that also have Dropbox installed (Windows, Mac, and Linux).

2. FeedDemon

FeedDemon is the most popular RSS reader for Windows. Use FeedDemon at home, your office, or anywhere you go and keep your feeds, tags and shared items synched between locations.

3. Wunderlist

Wunderlist is free task management tool. With Wunderlist you can share your lists with your collegues and friends and collaborate with them. You can add notes and with Cloud App spread your „wunderli.st“-link to everyone.

4. Evernote

Save your ideas, things you like, things you hear, and things you see. Evernote works with nearly every computer, phone and mobile device out there. Search by keyword, tag or even printed and handwritten text inside image.

5. LastPass

LastPass is free password manager with online sync. With LastPass all of your data is encrypted locally on your PC – only YOU can unlock it. Automatically synchronizes your data: access it from anywhere at anytime.

6. TweetDeck

TweetDeck is your personal real-time browser, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Google Buzz and more. It’s not software on which you can do something or store your work on your computer. It is app which can help you do bring your social network on your desktop and reply to your friends.

Download Microsoft Security Essentials 2 Direct Download Link

Ravi Ahuja — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 07:10:14 +0000

Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) second version is finally released. Microsoft Security Essentials is a free anti-virus and anti-spyware software.

Microsoft Security Essentials provides protection against antivirus, malware, spyware, rootkits and Trojan horses. With its heuristic scan engine, integrated Windows firewall, network intrusion detection, management etc provide best security for your computer. The best part is it free and reliability of Microsoft. You will get regular automatic updates for Microsoft Security Essentials.

Features of the Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) 2

Windows Firewall integration
Network inspection system
Enhanced protection for web-based threats
New protection engine

You can download Microsoft Security Essentials 2 free from official MSE website of Microsoft download center. To install Microsoft Security Essentials you must have original Microsoft Windows OS installed. You can also direct download Microsoft Security Essentials 2 from links below.

Download Microsoft Security Essentials 2 – 64-bit English

Download Microsoft Security Essentials 2- 32-bit English

Download your Favorite Software with Offline Installer

Ravi Ahuja — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:19:59 +0000

There is plenty of software which we always need. These days many software are based on online installer. If you have to install this type of software you must be connected to internet. Many times this is very slow process.

There are software which we use regularly comes with online installer like Flash Player, Google Chrome, Yahoo Messenger, Adobe Reader etc. If we have to install same software on two or more computer it can be tedious task. Fortunately there are standalone installers available for this software which companies do not tell. You can download offline installer of this software listed below.

Yahoo Messenger 11

Yahoo Messenger 11 is in beta stage but t is come up with some new great features. Now you can connect with your Facebook directly from your Yahoo Messenger.

Some of the new features in Yahoo Messenger 11

Easily find or invite friends from other services to come chat with you
Now you can chat with high quality full-screen video.
Send text messages (SMS) to friends’ mobile phones for free*
Instant message with one friend, or conference in a bunch
Show your style with emoticons, Avatars, audibles and IMVironments
Use the built-in media player to watch web videos and view photos with friends

Download Yahoo Messenger 11 Offline Installer

Adobe Acrobat Reader X (v10.0) Final Offline Installer

Adobe Acrobat Reader X is latest release which is now more secure and feature rich. Now reader can access rich media and CAD file on Adobe Reader X.

Some Great Features

View and comment on any PDF document more securely
Interact with forms and rich media
Easily access PDF documents
Access PDF files on the go

Download Adobe Reader X offline installer

Google Chrome 8 with PDF Reader Version

Google Chrome 8 is latest release which now comes with PDF reader and many bug fixed.

Changes in latest Chrome

Cross-origin video theft with canvas.
Browser crash with HTML5 databases.
Prevent excessive file dialogs, possibly leading to browser crash.
Possible pop-up blocker bypass.
Use after free in history handling.
Browser crash with HTTP proxy authentication
Out-of-bounds read regression in WebM video support.
Crash due to bad indexing with malformed video.
Double free in XPath handling
Possible browser memory corruption via malicious privileged extension.
Use after free with SVG animations.
Use after free in mouse dragging event handling.

Download Google Chrome 8 Offline Installer

Chrome For Linux
Chrome For Mac

Flash Player 10.1 Offline Installer

Flash player is essential for web surfing. Many sites are developed on Flash and not just that many web ads are also created on Flash. There are many reasons to have Flash player.

Latest Flash Player version is 10.1 which come with many improvements. You must download latest Flash player.

Download Flash Player 10.1 Offline Installer

Flash Player for Internet Explorer (IE)

Useful iPad Apps for Painting and Drawing

Ravi Ahuja — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:47:27 +0000

iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab and other similar devices are hot these days. iPad had changed the way of computing and this is the future of computing. With iPad you can access internet, social networking and many other things on the go.

iPad is not just used for internet it can be used for many other things like gaming, music and designing. Yes you can do lot of things graphic designing too. Today there are many iPad apps available for painting and image editing. These apps can help you create amazing graphics which you create on PC. Here are some paid and free iPad apps for graphics which can help you to create amazing stuff thru your fingers.

7 Great iPad Painting Apps

1. Doodle Buddy – Make your finger your brush. Doodle Buddy for iPad is the most fun you can have with your finger. Finger paint with thousands of colors and drop in playful stamps.

2. SketchBook Pro – Autodesk SketchBook Pro for iPad is a professional-grade paint and drawing application. Using the same paint engine as its desktop counterpart, SketchBook Pro delivers a complete set of sketching & painting tools through a streamlined and intuitive user interface.

3. MyPaint Free – MyPaint Free will also help you to articulate conversations, add that sparkle to your photos and paint away the boredom in long meetings.

4. Adobe Ideas - Adobe Ideas is your digital sketchbook, letting you capture and explore ideas anywhere you go. Adobe Ideas is an ideal companion for the professional design applications.

5. Freeform - Freeform is a vector drawing tool for your iPad. Create quick sketches, mockups, or diagrams with this powerful tool. Export your drawings via email in JPG, PNG, or PDF formats, or save to your photo library.

6. Downsize - Downsize is a utility that allows you to prepare images for the web, email, or presentations by resizing, adding watermarks, frames, and drop shadows. Batch resizes an entire folder of images in bulk to save time.

7. Adobe Photoshop Express - With Photoshop Express, it’s easy to improve your photos. Choose from a variety of one-touch effects, or simply drag your finger across the screen to crop, rotate, or adjust color. Add artistic filters like Soft Focus or Sketch. And never fear: You can undo and redo changes until you get just the look you want—a copy of your original file is always saved.

7 Free Useful Software for Bloggers

Ravi Ahuja — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:00:35 +0000

Blogging is an online work but every blogger need some software to complete their work. Bloggers not just have to write content but they have to do many other works too.

There is plenty of software available for different types of work. Everyone has different requirement and they use software of their requirement. Bloggers also have to use some software requirements not just for blogging but many other tasks related to their work like maintaining their website, checking emails, connect with their subscribers etc. Here I have listed some free software which is very useful for bloggers/webmasters. These software are free but as good as paid software.

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7 Must Have Software for Bloggers

1. FileZilla – FileZilla is a free FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client. As a webmaster you may always need to upload file to your web server for that you need FTP client. FileZilla is a free FTP client which can remember more than one website login details and you can connect to your web server in one click. FileZilla is free but it is as good as any paid FTP client.

2. LastPass – There are too many site we visit regularly and may have to login to access those sites and it is not possible to remember passwords for all sites. LastPass is free password manager software which can remember password for site you need to login. You just need one master password and LastPass will fill login forms automatically.

3. FlashGet – FlashGet is a free download manager. As webmaster you may need to download files or software regularly FlashGet will help you download your file much faster than normal downloads.

4. Windows Live Mail – Now days everyone has email accounts and you have to go to email site and read your mails. Website owners have many email ids and they have to save their time reading email. If you have many email accounts then this task is default. Windows Live Mail is free email client which can download your email to you computer and you can read them anytime you don’t need to go on your email website.

5. TweetDesk – Internet have open great ways of social networking. Everyone is connected with social networking sites and bloggers have to connect with social networking to promote their website and connect with there subscribers. TweetDesk is social media manger software with real-time browser, which will connect you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Google Buzz and more. It can save your lot of time and you don’t need to go to social networking sites.

6. NotePad++ - Everyone computer user knows about Notepad and Notepad++ is advance text editor. As a blogger you may have to use HTML for creating website or post. Notepad++ is not just advance text editor it is also highlights syntax, it can use plugin, it support many programming language which can highlight code and many more features which can reduce your lot of time.

7. ScreenHunter – ScreenHunter is free screen capturing software. For your blog post you may need to capture screen to take picture of it and ScreenHunter can do this for. It can capture screen image and can with its image editor you can edit images.

Download 4 Paid Ashampoo Software for Free

Ravi Ahuja — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:02:59 +0000

Ashampoo is well known software company. They have lot of great software in their portfolio which is very popular. Most of their software is paid but you can get some of their software for free.

Ashampoo create software in different categories like multimedia, system utilities, securities software and many more. As a new version comes of software company offers some previous versions for free. The previous versions are not bad compare to new one they are great to use for current requirements.

This software are not available on Ashampoo website. This software are offered free by v3.co.uk. All these software are totally legal and you can register them on Ashampoo website.

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4 Ashampoo Software for Free

1. Ashampoo Burning Studio 2010 Advanced – Ashampoo Burning Studio 2010 Advanced is a compact, lightweight program that delivers all the core disc burning functionality you need in one straightforward, easy-to-use interface.

2. Ashampoo WinOptimizer 2010 Advanced – Ashampoo WinOptimizer 2010 is a comprehensive toolkit that provides everything you need to clean, optimise, tune and manage your PC.

3. Ashampoo Magical Snap 2.50 – The Windows PrtSc function is a simple and effective way to take screen grabs, but it’s not exactly versatile: press PrtSc to get the full screen, Alt+PrtSc to get the active application window only.

4. Ashampoo Slideshow Studio 2010 – Compact, cheap and easy to use, digital cameras are perfect for recording all the precious moments in life. But if you tend to leave your photos on the hard drive, then Ashampoo have a better idea.

To get product key for the software just follow the instructions on v3.co.uk download page. Free software offer is for limited time so download them today.

Download all 4 Ashampoo Software for Free from v3.co.uk Store

Download some more free Ashampoo Software

Google Chrome 5.0.375.125 Offline Installer

Ravi Ahuja — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:08:52 +0000

To view any Website you need a web browser. These days you have lot of choice in web browser software. By default most of the users use Internet Explorer but now Google Chrome is increasing web browser market share.
On December 2008 Google Chrome market share was 0.83% and on July 2010 its market share was 7.24% a great jump. Reasons for Google Chrome popularity are it is very fast, lightweight, extension support, theme support, regular development, new features introduce with every new release and much more.

You can install Google Chrome by downloading web installer from Google Chrome Website. As it is a web installer you have to connect to internet when you have to install Google Chrome. You may not find any offline installer from Google Chrome Website.

With offline installer you don’t need to connect to internet while installing chrome. You can use that installer to install Google Chrome to any other computer. Even there is no offline installer download link on Google Chrome website still you can download Chrome offline installer from Google Chrome website by using download link below.

Download Google Chrome 5.0.375.125 Offline Installer

Download DivX 8 Plus Software Offline Installer

Ravi Ahuja — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:35:56 +0000

Want a player which can play your HD videos without loosing its quality and performance. Then you must have a look to DivX player.

DivX player can play different file formats like DivX®, AVI, MKV, MP4 or MOV file. DivX Plus Player gives you the best video playback performance and media management on your PC.

DivX Plus Software pack include:

DivX Plus Player: Play DivX, AVI, MKV, MP4 and MOV videos. Transfer videos to your devices with DivX To Go. Navigate your videos with greater speed and precisio.

DivX Plus Web Player: Watch DivX, AVI and MKV videos in your web browser. Experience stunning 1080p video with 5.1 channel surround sound. Enjoy multiple audio tracks and subtitles.

DivX Plus Codec Pack: Play high-quality videos with DivX Codec. Watch DivX, AVI, MKV and MP4 videos in popular media players. Stream MKV videos to your game console (usingWindows 7).

DivX Plus Converter: Convert your videos to DivX or MKV in one step. Create high definition MKV videos for free. Backup personal DVDs with the additional MPEG-2/DVD Plug-in.

You may have downloaded DivX Plus Software but by default it is online installer it means you have to be connected with Internet at the time of installing software. When you start installer it downloads the files from internet which take lot of time. If you have to install the same software or different computers those entire computer have to be connected with internet. This can take your lot of time.

You can download full software exe offline installer file which can be run without internet connection. You have to just download it ones and you can run it on other computers with internet connection.

Download DivX Plus Software Offline Installer (41 MB)