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Ford KeyFree - Automatic login to your online accounts just by getting near to your computer

While we have some excellent free password managers like Lastpass, here is something very interesting from "Ford"!, yes a software for your computer from a car manufacturer. To promote the keyless entry system feature in Ford cars, the company has released a Chrome extension which once configured, stores user login details for websites like Facebook, Google, and Twitter and then, whenever the user is near their Mac computer the app detects them via bluetooth from an pre-approved smartphone and automatically logins to the websites.

Ford keyFree

Imagine the possibility of just sitting down on your computer and getting 'automagically' logged into your online accounts, without hitting a single key or moving the mouse. Although, not very secure I would certainly like something similar to get integrated with my current favorite password manager "LastPass'. A video demonstration and download link after the jump.

How to Enable Caps Lock on Apple iOS

There was a time when revolutionary Apple iPhone lacked the very basic text manipulation functionality like copy/paste and we have to use hacks to get the feature. Slowly and steadily the Apple iOS mobile operating system has now matured a lot and offers a decent set of functionality to perform text manipulation.

If you make use of capital letters, you should be happy to know that Apple iOS offers the ability to use "CAPS LOCK" feature - letting users write all capital-alphabets without the need to repeatedly use SHIFT key. Here is how to activate and use this nifty feature from Apple iOS native keyboard.

Caps Lock feature in Apple iPhone

Update Freezer - Free utility to control annoying auto-updaters for various popular software

While updates to software installed on your computer does not only provide new features and bug-fixes, but also are critical for computer security. It is therefore always advised to have your operating-system and computer software up-to-date.

However, at times some auto-updating software's get annoying like the Adobe Updater which needs to be blocked, a user would also like to temporarily/permanently disable an auto-update for situations like slow internet connection, keeping your system configuration exactly the same or simply the desire to have manual control on what's get updated on their PC. Free and simple utility "Update Freezer" caters to exactly these users allowing them to temporarily disable different kinds of automatic software updates on Windows.

Main Window Update Freezer

Virtual Router - Free Utility To Create And Share Adhoc Wifi Hot Spot on Windows 7 and 2008 R2

While Bzeek offers an excellent free utility to share your internet connection over WiFi, another free and open source software based router for computers using Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 is "Virtual Router".

As the name suggests, the software enables users to wirelessly share any internet connection on there PC/laptop (Wifi, LAN, Cable Modem, Dial-up, Cellular, etc.) with any Wifi device (Laptop, Smart Phone, iPod Touch, iPhone, Android Phone, Zune, Netbook, wireless printer, etc.) without requiring an dedicated WiFi router hardware, this "advertisement free" (unlike Connectify) utility creates an "Virtual Router" by utlizing Windows 7 built-in adhoc WiFi sharing capabilities - the acess-point created is completely secured using WPA2.

Virtual Router

[Exclusive Giveaway] - AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro Edition 5.0

AOMEIFree licensed copies of AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro Edition 4.0 were given away last new year. To celebrate the release of their new upgraded version "AOMEI Partition Assistant 5.0", we have been provided with free licenses of "AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro Edition 5.0" to giveaway to our readers.

AOMEI Partition Assistant 5.0 comes with many new features like support for Solid State Hard Drive (SSD) with easy, wizard styled OS migration functionality from HDD to SSD, Partition Alignment for optimized performance and lifespan of the disk and Partition Recovery Wizard to recover lost or deleted partitions. The utility also offers critical features like ability to create WinPE based bootable CD's for disk management via direct boot, fixing of corrupt Windows Master Boot Record (MBR), conversion of GPT disk to MBR disk without data losing, management of Linux partitions and changing of partition type ID and serial number.

AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro Edition 5.0

Firemin - The ultimate tool to fix Firefox memory leaks and optimize usage

Firemin LogoFirefox high memory consumption is one of the biggest challenges this popular, open-source project, has faced in tough browser wars, while there have been quite a few attempts to make the web-browser optimized with forks and utilities and Mozilla foundation even addressed the "memory leakage" issue with targeted efforts like MemShrink - the results were promising but nothing very exciting.

Enter "Firemin" - the free, handy, little, portable application which magically shrinked my Firefox memory usage 188 times within seconds (see comparison picture below) of launching. You simply launch the application and it eliminates all Firefox memory leaks, including the one's caused by extensions.

Firemin

How to download and install Spire (Siri Port) for iOS 5.1.1

Spire the Siri port for non-iPhone4S Apple devices is sadly no longer developed and would even refuse to install on Apple iOS 5.1 . While trying to install via Cydia you will receive the following error. However, there is an alternative way to get this on iOS 5.1 as shown ahead.

Spire Error

How to remove PDF restrictions using free online service

Pirate LogoOne of the reason for popularity of Adobe PDF file-format is it's ability of granular file permission security, a PDF file author can restrict or allow printing, copying, commenting, form-filling and password protection etc. while creating the document.

However, there are ways to get around these restrictions both complex hardware based dedicated solutions to crack passwords and free online services and desktop software's.Here is yet another handy, clutter-free, easy-to-use, free, online service to crack PDF security restrictions.


PDF With Security Restrictions
PDF with security restrictions

How to automatically rotate Bing, Picasa or flickr featured images as Google's background

Bing's background images are simply stunning, but if you prefer Google as your search companion but would still like to use the bing wallpaper here is a neat solution for you. Free extension for Google Chrome browser - "Bing wallpaper for Google homepage" lets users automatically rotate the current bing wallpaper as Google background, apart from Bing images the extension also supports Picasa featured images, as well as RSS feeds from picasa - this is not all it also allows users to download the image as wallpaper for use on desktop.

Bing wallpaper downloaded

Download ESET Smart Security 6 and ESET NOD32 Antivirus Beta With 5 Month Genuine Serial Key

Kaspersky and ESET are my top choices when it comes to computer security, the good news is ESET Smart Security 6 and ESET NOD32 Antivirus 6 Betas are now available for download. With usual updates like improvement to the GUI, Personal Firewall, Cloud-based reputation of files and proactive heuristic detection the upgrade features Idle-state Scanning, scan while downloading files, update rollback and the best of all, exciting - Anti-theft functionality.

Eset Security

While equipped with the standard computer and internet security features like protection from internet threats, identity theft and parental controls the most exciting feature of this new release is "Computer Anti-Theft", a feature not available in any other malware protection software. The "Eset Anti-Theft" feature allows users to track there computer's location, snap webcam images with desktop screenshots in case there PC gets stolen via an online portal to collect valuable recon data to track there device and get it back. Something similar can be achieved using separate anti-theft utilities reviewed here earlier.

ESET 6

A detailed image tour of the feature is posted below.

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