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Make your Slide Shows with Smile Box

Laura — Sat, 15 May 2010 21:18:53 +0000

If you are like me you have hundred of photos saved on your hard disk waiting to be labels, tagged and grouped into event and theme files.

After they are all in the right place I want to make slide shows of an event instead of having the photos separated in files. With Smile Box I can do that online, create beautiful slide shows with several themes available and send them by email or even burn a CD for future storage and preservation.

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Free Seo Software

Laura — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:32:28 +0000

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I really want to spread my online appearance throughout the internet. I’ve been more active on Facebook, I even created two facebook pages for two of my blogs, but that’s not enough.

I have been “collecting” e-books about blogging, social media, search engine optimization, PLR, etc. I mean, I have all the tools I just need to get into the practical side of spreading the content. I started checking for RSS feed submitters and I have already submitted my URL’s to some of them but I just found a way to do the same automatically and for free.

With seo software you can submit your url to a wide list of Web Directories spreading your content all over the internet. With this free software you can reach a larger number of readers and gain subscribers. I am going to use it to all my blogs.

ClamWin – Free Antivirus Program

Laura — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:09:02 +0000

ClamWin is not the only free antivirus program for Windows but this program will be free forever. This is a traditional application therefore you need to add some other security features like an antispyware application and a firewall.

This program offers all the functionalities associated to this type of offer. You can receive regular updates through the internet and schedule scans to the several parts of your computer. Incoming and outcoming e-mails can also be scanned.

7-Zip – Free software to compress and self-extract files

Laura — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:05:19 +0000

I’m glad there are free softwares to do the things we usually could only do with paid software.

If you need to compress or self-extract Zip files you usually use Windows, but what if you receive a RAR or a GZig file? Now you can manage those formats with a free software: 7-Zip. This software support a wide range of compression formats and you can also compress files in 5 different standard formats.

So it works, does the job and it’s free!! Why buy a software when we can have one for free.

SuperAntiSpyware – For me the best AntiSpyware

Laura — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:54:58 +0000

I know there are a lot of SUPERAntiSpyware software, I’ve tried some myself but my choice is SuperantiSpyware.

I wish I could remember which Trojan I had on my computer but unfortunately I don’t, but it was a bad one, one of those that no Anti-Virus I tried could eliminate. I searched for days on the internet for information about how I could remove the spyware, I tried several solutions but without any positive results. I ended up in a forum where there was a link to SuperAntispyware and I said to myself…let’s try it. And it worked.

One month ago I had a Malware and it was Superantispyware that removed it. I run it at least once every two weeks, I have my regular anti-virus but I know that if something real bad shows up on my computer I can count on the “bug program”. I call it “bug program because the icon on the taskbar is a yellowish bug.

SUPERAntiSpyware can be downloaded for free. I don’t find it necessary to purchase the whole version, for me the Free Edition has been enough and it’s free!

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Eraser – Get rid of your unwanted files for ever

Laura — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:19:12 +0000

Some days ago I wrote about how I recovered lost movies from my kid’s Christmas party and my happiness when using Recuva computer software. Well sometimes we really want to erase files for good for our hard drives especially when we are blogging and saving blogging files in the office computer while we were supposed to be working.

If you are sure that you want to erase all traces from some computer files you have good results with Eraser. The Eraser free computer software is a file destruction tool. Once installed in your computer you will have the eraser option available on the context menu of Windows Explorer and in the recycle bin menu.

Eraser Features are:

Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP (32/64),Vista (32/64), Windows Server 2003 and DOS. It works with any drive including IDE, SCSI and RAID, and CD-RW’s.
Uses the Guttmann (Default), Pseudorandom Data and US DoD 5220-22.M methods.
Erases Files and Folders.
Erases Files/Folders that were only previously ‘deleted’.
Erases all hard drives using ‘Darik’s Boot and Nuke’ method.
Erases Index.dat on Reboot
Erases Encrypted Files and Drives.
Erases FreeSpace on 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and DOS.
Erases contents of the Recycle Bin.
Erases Compressed Files and Drives.
Erases Network Files, Floppy Disks, CD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW.
Erases Windows Temporary Files.
Erases Internet Cookies.
Erases Paging (swap) file.
Erases Internet Cache.
Appears as an ‘Erase’ option on the Context Menu of Windows Explorer and Recycle Bin.
Comes with an Eraser Scheduler that allows you to create user-defined tasks.
Defeats File Recovery software applications Hardware tools.
Supports FAT32 and NTFS Files Systems.
Eraser is easy to use and comes with a dedicated support network.

Be careful, remember that using Eraser your files will be erased forever, you can’t recover them even with Recuva program.

Eraser software is FREE.

Recover your erased files with Recuva free software

Laura — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:26:38 +0000

Last week I went to two parties, one of my daughter’s school and the other from daycare that both my kids attend. I used my new Nikon to take pictures and make some movies and I used Picasa to put everything on the computer. After the transference I deleted everything from the camera memory card and well, I was really shocked when I realized that some movies hadn’t been transfered.

On Christmas Eve my husband bought PC Guide magazine (portuguese version) and while I was checking the magazine I realized that it mentioned an easy recover program – Recuva - that was able to recover files from hard disks, digital cameras and MP3. I thought to myself: I’ve got nothing to lose so let’s try it!

I entered directly on the Recuva site, downloaded the free application and installed it. I inserted the memory card on the Laptop slot and ran the Recuva application. The first scan came out negative, no files had been found, I was disappointed. Than there was the option of Deep Scan that would take some minutes. Once again I thought: let’s do it!! And I did, after a few minutes of looking at an empty scan some .avi files appeared

and I instantly received my Christmas present: all the movies I had done. I was so thrilled.

I know there are other applications that can do this job but Recuva did it very well. Recuva is signed by Periform, it is very easy to use and fast in the process of locating erased files. You can select from the first menu the type of files you want to recover or you can select to recover every file. You then have the chance to visualize each file that the program detects and decide if that’s the one you want to recover.

Definitely this is an application I’m going to keep on my computer to be used when…I erase something by mistake.

Free Photo Software: Get it online for Free

Laura — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:20:47 +0000

The amateur photographer is in the majority of all camera owners out there. While the pros have elaborate, expensive equipment and all the latest gadgetry, that’s not the case with you and me. When we pack up our digital camera to take on an outing, or just take a few shots of the kid’s birthday party or our backyard BBQ gathering, we’re just looking to capture some memories, not win a photo contest.

However, many people don’t know about the absolutely amazing enhancements which can be made to your digital pictures, with photo software. There are tons of fabulous photo editors out there, so how do you know which package to choose, that will meet your needs? You may not want to shell out a couple of hundred bucks – or more – when you have no idea what to do with it, or if the whole package might be way out of your skill set.

Well, here’s some great news! Before you go out and spend your hard-earned cash on photo software that may or may not suit your needs, try some of the many excellent Free Photo Software downloads. So how do you find these gems? Easy. Just Google ‘photo software free download’ and wade through some of the thousands of sites at your disposal.

You’ll first want to get a basic photo editor, also known as an image editor. This is your basic workhorse, which allows you to manipulate your images in dozens of ways. Most include an array of special effects, such as altering colors, contrast, or sharpening or softening the image. Rotating, resizing and introducing layers and transparencies are other common features.

While you’re looking, keep in mind what features will be truly useful to you. For example, if your thing is landscape photos, you may want to look for a photo software package that provides lighting effects. With this feature, you can make a sunset a little more luminous, or even change the color entirely.

Be aware that many of these downloads are only available in the .exe format, so when the download dialog box comes up on your screen, be sure to click the ‘save to disk’ option and save the download in a directory of your choice.

Fool around with a few of these editors to find out what photo software technology has to offer. Once you see what you can do with a photo editor, you’ll want to look into photo software utilities to perform specialized tasks, such as merging photos, instant color matching or creating digital sketches from your kid’s photos!

You’ll be surprised to see how intuitive photo software is to use. There’s no big learning curve. You’ll be up and running in no time. Once you’re familiar with this type of software, you’ll know what you need from photo software and the money you spend will not be wasted. Your pics will be like the pros! More on Computer Software and Searcheslive.

Make your digital photos spectacular with free photo software!

Beauty contest, online and worldwide

Laura — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:49:46 +0000

This is very useful information for those looking for a model carrier. Look Of The Year is promoting an online beauty contest for everyone around the globe. Everyone can enter the contest so no matter if you are young or not so young, you can enter anyway.

Beautiful people, just take a photo of yourself or ask someone to take you one, enter the site http://www.lookoftheyear.com and send your photo together with some required personal information. You can win US$ 10.000 and, even if you don’t, once you will be exposed online you have the chance of being spotted by someone from the fashion world. So, what are you waiting for…

EntreDroppers

Laura — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:28:50 +0000

Owen from Ugh!!’s Greymatter Honeypot has developed the EntreDroppers for those using Entrecard.

EntreDroppers is a wordpress widget that allows bloggers to include in their sidebar a widget that will list the last Entrecard droppers they had on their blogs. This widget is very easy to set, you can list as many droppers as you want and even use a “drop” menu. You can find more information on Owen’s post.