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Disabling Annoying Adobe Updater

Adobe LogoWhile Adobe produces some exceptionally great software products, Adobe Updater is one of the most intrusive annoying piece of software which comes bundled with all Adobe products like Adobe Acrobat Reader and Adobe Creative Suite applications, Adobe Updater launches silently in the background starting the downloads without asking for user permission, adding an hardly noticeable icon in system tray as an notification for the update process running in the background, The resource hogging automatic updater can result in slower system performance and huge ISP bandwidth bills.

Adobe Updater Icon

Surprisingly, unlike other softwares Adobe does not provides an easy to find update preference setting to disable these automatic updates and requires you to dig deep into update options as discussed earlier in our "How To Disable Annoying Adobe Auto-Update" blog post using Adobe Acrobat Reader to disable the updater.

IDPhotoStudio - Free Software To Create And Print Passport Size Photos

Passport sized photos are used not only for passports, but also for the purpose of identity on various application forms and ID card creation, today I will be sharing a free software to create and print standard sized passports photographs from home with ease.

IDPhotoStudio is an extremely simple to use free utility for creating and printing multiple standard sized ID photo's using your printer, the handy utility lets you select a photo from your computer, automatically resize it to the required selected size and then print or save the output as an image for later use.

IDPhotoStudeio Free ID Photo Creator

The software currently supports 2x2 inch USA, 35x45 mm France and 50x70 mm Canada passport photo sizes with option for upto 30 pictures on a single A4 sized paper, support for Greyscale and Sepia output is also provided.

How To Convert And Save Microsoft Office Documents To PDF

Microsoft provides free Office Compatibility Pack for automatic conversion of Office 2007 documents to Office 2003 format, the small 28 MB compatibility pack enables earlier version of Microsoft Office to Open, Edit & Save Microsoft Office 2007 Documents.

However, the newer Office 2007 file format might not be the best way to distribute your files, Microsoft therefore provides free Office 2007 add-in for conversion and publishing of Office documents into more popular and widely used Adobe Acrobat PDF file format.

MS-Office 2007 Save As PDF Add-in

Free Alternatives For Managing iPod And iPhone Without iTunes

iTunes 8 is here and is still a memory hogger like previous versions, instead of decreasing the bloat Apple seems to be adding more and more supporting services to the player further increasing the memory consumption.

iTunes Memory Consumption

Today, I will be sharing two free iTunes alternative's for managing your Apple devices with ease without consuming resources like iTunes.

Simple Trick To Search Files On MediaFire.Com

MediaFire LogoMediaFire free file hosting has emerged as one of the most preferred alternative to Rapidshare hosting, specially amongst the downloaders without an Rapidshare Premium account. MediaFire has received excellent reviews and won several top-website of 2008 awards from reputed critics, the one-click file hoster allows free users to upload and share files upto 100MB in size letting users download files without enforcing wait-times and CAPTCHAs.

MediaFire File Hosting

Similar to Rapidshare, Megaupload and other similar file-hosters MediaFire also does not offer any means to search files on their servers, While un-official search engines and file-indexes for Rapidshare and Megaupload do exist no such service is available for MediaFire, But our good old site search commands can be used to search for software, videos, music and other files stored on MediaFire via your favorite search engine.

Best Vista Transformation Theme Pack For Windows XP

Vista Skin PackThere exist quite a few different Windows XP to Vista transformation theme packs for changing Windows XP interface and behavior similar to Vista, Today I will be sharing one of the best free vista transformation pack, allowing Windows XP users to get the exact look and feel of Windows Vista Ultimate.

Vista Skin Pack 5.0 is one of the smallest and lightest resource consuming Vista transformation pack, the skin pack makes more then 120 file changes to get Vista styled icons, animations, pictures, menus and behaviors on your Windows XP SP1/SP2/SP3, Mediacenter Edition or Windows 2003 computer, the best part is unlike other transformation packs Vista Skin Pack 5.0 features an easy restore option for reverting back to the original Windows XP look without requiring XP installation CD.

Windows XP With Vista Transformation Theme Pack

Simple Trick To Recover Deleted SMS From Your Nokia Device

mobile PhoneThere exist quite a few software's to recover deleted SMS messages from SIM cards and phone memory, but all of them require you to purchase the software, However, if you own a Nokia phone you might be in luck, as there are very good chances of message recovery from your cellphone without need of any specialized data recovery software for free, simply follow the step-by-step procedure below for important data recovery:

First Google Chrome Extension GreaseMetal To Offer GreaseMonkey Functionality On Chrome Platform

After Google Chrome Themes the first ever Chrome extension is now available, Named GreaseMetal the free extension offers functionality similar to highly popular GreaseMonkey extension for Firefox and GreaseKit for Safari, the free extension lets you use existing GreaseMonkey scripts to modify webpages being displayed, this also means Google Chrome will now be able to block advertisements using ad-blocking scripts.

Google Chrome Page With Advertisements
Advertisements Blocked Using GreaseMetal Filter Scipt

Since, Google Chrome does not provide any method to develop or support browser addons, Greasemetal has found the way around by using an inter-process communication channel called AutomationProxy, which is used for automatic testing of web browser functions, After installation, and launching Greasemetal will start hooking Google Chrome to insert userscripts achieving the desired behavior.

Free iTunes Store Gift Coupon To Create Account Without Credit Card And Download Free Songs, Videos, Applications And Games

Apple iTunes Store is the number-one music vendor in United States offering not only music but movies, TV shows, podcasts, audiobooks, applications and games for Apple iPod, iPhone and iTouch.

Apart from paid content iTunes Store also offers free music, videos, applications and games for your Apple devices, accessible through iTunes Store account requiring a credit-card number to register.

iTunes Store Free Stuff

However, if you don't have an credit-card or don't want to use one and just want to use iTunes Store to download free content or access album art follow the trick below to create an iTunes Store account using the free gift coupon trick.

Repair My Word - Free Utility To Repair Corrupt Microsoft Word Files

Repair Word FilesMedia corruption, virus attacks, unexpected system crash or shutdown are few of the most common reasons you can end-up having corrupt Microsoft Word Documents, In this case Microsoft Word would display garbage content or won't let you open the file displaying one of the following errors:

  • "This file is not in a recognizable format."
  • 'XYZ.doc' cannot be accessed. The file may be read-only, or you may be trying to access a read-only location. Or, the server the document is stored on may not be responding.
  • "The document name or path is not valid. Try these suggestions. Check the file permissions for the document or drive. Use the File Open dialog box to locate the document."
  • "Word cannot open the document."
  • "Word cannot open the document: user does not have access privileges."

In such situation's free utility "Repair My Word" can come handy to recover corrupted data from Microsoft Word files (.doc) with ease, the software is designed to recover text from damaged or corrupt Word files (.doc files), The recovered text can then be saved as an new error free Microsoft Word document.

Recover Word Files
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