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iPhone And iPod Touch Firmware Updated To Version 2.2, Download Now

As rumored earlier iPhone Firmware 2.2 is now available for download via iTunes to general users, apart from several new features and performance improvements the new update fixes critical security vulnerabilities and is being labeled as a "essential update" by Apple.

iPhone Firmware Update 2.2

The new firmware update brings the following new features:

  • Google Street View with public transit and walking directions with handy option to share location via email.
  • Mail improvements like better formatting of wide HTML email with resolved issues with scheduled fetching of emails.
  • Availability of millions of free podcasts from your device.
  • Performance and stability improvements to Safari.
  • Handy option to turn text auto-correction on and off from the Keyboard Settings.
  • Now pressing the Home button from many Home screen takes you to the first Home screen.
  • Decrease in call setup failures and dropped calls.
  • Better sound quality of Visual Voicemail messages

Go-OO - Lighter And Faster Alternative To OpenOffice.org Office Suite

OpenOffice is one of the most preferred open-source office application suite, despite being the best free alternative to Microsoft Office, OpenOffice lacks in terms of speed and full-compatibility with MS-Office formats, But this can be taken care of with Go-OO - A fork of OpenOf

Microsoft's Free Anti-Malware Solution Coming Soon !

Microsoft has announced to offer full featured comprehensive anti-malware protection from all kinds of Malware's like viruses, spywares, trojans and root-kits, at the best possible price-tag of FREE, Codenamed Morro the free security suite is expected to be made available in second half of 2009, as a standalone download for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.

Free Video Joiner With Fast And Easy Video Conversion

We have blogged about Freeware Video Splitter solution earlier on this blog, But if you are looking for a fast and free video joiner with ability to convert video to different format's here is the perfect solution - "Free Video Joiner" is as simple as its name sounds, the single screen interface offers basic functionality but gets the job done fast and easy.

Freeware


Free Video Joiner
supports AVI, MOV, WMV, MOV and MPEG video formats for input and can output to AVI, WMV, MOV, MP4, DVD, VCD, iPod, iPhone, Zune and PSP compatible video formats covering all popular devices and video formats.

Removing Google Updater

Annoyed by the Google Automatic Updater service - GoogleUpdate.exe, One of our blog reader contacted me asking for a solution to completely remove it from the computer, surprisingly the process is pretty simple and you just need to use Windows Add/Remove Programs control panel applet to get rid of it, However, if you are having problems using the above method you can manually uninstall it using the DOS-command prompt discussed below.

Google Updater

Grab ZoneAlarm Pro For Free Today !

ZoneAlarm is one of the most popular and trusted free firewall software for Windows operating system, There exist two version of the software - ZoneAlarm Free and ZoneAlarm Pro, as the name suggests ZoneAlarm Free does not cost anything and provides basic firewall protection, the Pro version provides a complete internet security solution including advanced firewall, Identity Theft protection coupled with complete Anti-Spyware Protection but costs $40 to buy.

ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite

Now the good news is that under a special promotion the parent company ChekcPoint Software's is giving away free genuine license keys for ZoneAlarm Pro internet security suite on November 18, 2008.

Rapidshare Plus - Free Utility To Automatically Download Rapidshare Files

Rapidshare free users have to face several annoying limitations including pre-download timer, no simultaneous downloading and variable download wait before successive downloads, because of these limitations downloading multiple-files one after another can be tedious for free users, today I will be sharing a free utility "Rapidshare Plus" to overcome this problem, the small portable utility lets users add and download a queue of Rapidshare links one after another in a fully automated way.

Rapidshare Plus Download Manager

The user interface is very easy to use and intuitive, users simply add Rapidshare links to create the download queue, and Rapidshare Plus will do the rest automatically downloading file one after another saving them to the folder of your choice.

Download Latest DirectX Redistributable November 2008 (9.25.1476)

DirectXHaving the most up-to-date version of DirectX on your Windows computer is crucial for best multimedia and gaming experience on PC, If you have decided not to risk-upgrade your Windows XP to unofficial DirectX 10, you can now update to the latest November Microsoft DirectX End-User Runtime v 9.25.1476 build, according to the official Microsoft download page the updated DirectX release includes security and performance updates, along with several new features accessible by applications using the DirectX APIs.

The full web-installer is 86.25 MB in size and require Windows Genuine Check (WGA) to download, However, if you are having problems downloading from the Microsoft site you can use the full direct-download link at the end of this post.

Windows XP SP3 TCP/IP Patch To Increase Maximum Half Open Connection Limit

By default Windows XP allows a maximum of 10 half open connections at a time, this limit is implemented as a security feature to slow-down spreading of internet-worms in-case the user machine gets infected, if your network use is crossing this limit your computers event-log will show the following Event:

EventID 4226: TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts.

This limit can slow down your internet access specially Peer-2-Peer applications like BitTorrent which require connecting to several peers for optimal performance, to increase this limit for speedy torrent downloading you need to patch the Windows TCP/IP system driver file, If your have already patched your TCPIP.sys file and updated your computer to Windows XP Service Pack 3, you should re-patch it using the free TCP/IP patcher for Windows XP.

TCP/IP Connection Limit Patch
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