Written by Ruhani Rabin on April 10, 2009.
AlternativeTo lets you Find better Windows, Mac, Linux and online applications. It is a new approach to finding good software. Select what application you want to replace and they will give you suggestions on great alternatives! Instead of listing thousands of more or less crappy applications in a category, they make each application into a category. It’s more like a forever evolving blog posts about good alternatives to the software that you’re not satisfied with. And the “blog posts” are generated by you through suggestions, comments and votes. [More]
Written by Ruhani Rabin on February 12, 2009.
There are literally uncountable websites around the world. How many sites you can suspect while there are few hundred thousand of sites to steal your identity, do phishing and harm your computer or even worse. You might say hey I have an Anti virus or personal firewall installed in my computer and I am secure. But in that case you’ve spend enough money to secure your computer. Nevertheless not every time an anti virus or firewall software can detect a fake or low privacy site. Previously I’ve tried to use SiteAdvisor from McAfee the popular anti virus maker and Internet Explorer’s Phishing site checker but honestly both of them didn’t really fit my expectations. Then recently I’ve introduced to WOT (Web of Trust) software from one of my online contacts. WOT is a Mozilla recommended security add-on that also works with Internet Explorer and has been downloaded 3 million times. WOT addon warns you about risky websites to help you avoid spyware, browser hijacking, identity theft, phishing and other Internet scams. WOT is a user contributed site checker and comes with a huge database of known sites. This software comes in a flavor of plugin for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, the 2 most used browser on the globe. It represents the safety marks in a ring format. Dark green is most safe and Dark red represents no safety at all. The colors are designed in Human behavior so it takes a less than a second to understand it. As long we understand Red light is No Go and Green light is a Go. Lets take a look at the features this product offers for Free: [More]
Written by Ruhani Rabin on January 16, 2009.
Create your own color palettes in breeze using ColorPic. It virtually captures any color from any objects of the screen. ColorPic allows you to have your own palettes collection of colors so you can re-use the captured colors anytime. This tiny little tool saves hours of time looking for color codes, a must have tool for the web developers, CSS designers and people who deal with colors in a day to day basis. Also includes a magnifier with grid map so you wont miss a color in any pixels of your screen. 501K download, fast and it runs from your USB disk without installing. Grab this freeware today and save your time.
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Written by Ruhani Rabin on January 14, 2009.
VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called ‘workspaces’). Virtual desktops are very common in Unix/Linux, and once you get accustomed to using them, they become an essential part of a productive workflow.
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Written by Ruhani Rabin on June 12, 2008.
When working on your Windows computer, you may come across several strange DLL errors that may leave you baffled. Some examples of DLL errors that you may encounter are listed below:
“rundll32.exe - Unable To Locate Component
This application has failed to start because framedyn.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.”
“IEXPLORE caused an invalid page fault in SHELL32.DLL”
“This application has failed to start because Msvcp71.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.”
“Msvcp71.dll is a bad windows image. Please check against your installation diskette.”
There are many causes of DLL errors such as these. Missing DLL files, such as the missing framedyn.dll, shell32.dll and msvcp71.dll errors given above are one of the most common DLL errors. These errors usually occur when one or more required files are either overwritten by older or incompatible versions or the existing files get damaged due to certain hardware problems or malware infections.
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