Digsby is a feature rich, easy to use free desktop client offering multi-protocol instant messaging with email and social networking integration aimed at bringing all major online communication services and social networks under one roof making things simpler to manage and use.
Currently Digsby supports:
Instant Messaging Services : AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber Accounts.
Email Services : Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, IMAP, and POP accounts.
Social Networking Services : Facebook and MySpace (support for more services coming soon).
Digsby is in private beta now and you need an "Beta Invite Code" to use it (see end of the post for special invite codes for our blog readers).
We have written about DriveImage XML and Seagate DiskWizard as free alternatives to commercial hard-disk cloning software's like Norton Ghost and Acronis True Image, but both of them lack support for multicasting cloning (cloning many computers in a network simultaneously) as provided by Norton Ghost Corporate, so here it is not only free, but a open source solution for your unicast and multicast cloning needs - "CloneZilla" is based on DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot in Linux providing systemless environment for client machines), Partition Image, ntfsclone, and udpcast, allowing you to do bare metal backup and recovery with ease.
CloneZilla supports ext2, ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs, FAT and NTFS filesystems, providing you freedom to clone GNU/Linux or MS windows. For unsupported file system, sector-to-sector copy is also supported by Clonezilla.
Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla server edition. Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While Clonezilla server edition is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone efficiency. At the NCHC's Classroom C, Clonezilla server edition was used to clone 41 computers simultaneously. It took only about 10 minutes to clone a 5.6 GBytes system image to all 41 computers via multicasting!
Maxthon is a feature packed powerful IE based tabbed browser, Besides general browser functions, Maxthon provides a rich set of features to improve your surfing experience. The most notable being the Anti-Freeze functionality - The emergence of Tabbed Browsing Mode and the increasing usage of Ajax Technology in websites might cause frequent freezing while browsing, Maxthon Browser has developed a new technology to solve this problem, makes your surfing more fluently. Test the freeze test here.
Tabbed Browsing - All the web pages are arranged as tabs inside main window to ease your navigation.
Anti-Freeze - Maxthon Browser has developed a new technology to solve this problem, makes your surfing more fluently.
Maxthon Smart Acceleration - Boost the browsing speed of your frequent visit websites.
Undo List - Closed a tab by mistake? There is always a chance to get them back with the Undo List.
Magic Fill - Fill all the forms with Magic Fill by a single click. It can recognize almost any form fields automatically.
Online Favorites Service - Access your Favorites content anywhere with Maxthon Online Favorites Service. The encrypted stand-alone Favorites file format can help you protect you privacy on a shared computer.
Super Proxy - Supports connect to internet with HTTP, HTTPS, Socks4, Socks4a, Socks5 proxy servers, also supports proxies that requires authentication. Maxthon Browser can switch between proxies automatically base on your Advanced Proxy Rule setting.
Ad Hunter - Ad Hunter can efficiently clean up the web pages by stopping Popup Windows and removing Ad Content Blocks. You can add content block to the filter with the "Block Page Content..." command in the Right-click Menu.
Yahoo! released the latest beta of their upcoming messenger update to version 9, featuring a completely new user interface with skinning capability and quite a few interesting new feature additions.
New look for contact list with detail view to see larger Avatar images of your friends or the compact list view also allowing to just hover and click to IM, SMS or call a friend.
Brand new skins and emoticons! Click the dot near the top of your Messenger window to choose a skin, and check the emoticon menu for the new ones that were inspired by user entries in our Emoticon test earlier this year (more on our winners in a future post).
New Flickr integration in the photo sharing feature. Easily share photos from your Flickr.com account, or save photos shared with you directly to Flickr.
A new in-line media player that makes it easy to view maps, photos and videos from sites like Yahoo! Video and YouTube right in the IM window. No plug-ins needed, no extra downloads — it’s built right in. Just send a video, map or photo link to another friend who’s also on 9.0 to try it out.
New features for voice calls. You can have your incoming Phone In or free PC calls forwarded to another number like your mobile, home or office phone, even if you’re signed out of Messenger (Phone Out account required). Plus there’s a new way to get voicemail. When someone leaves you a voicemail in Messenger, an email is sent to you with an MP3 of the voice message attached.
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This new version of messenger might crash while starting up as reported by many users, specially the crash related to nspr4.dll, as in error message specified below.
RapidshareLeecher 2007 v 2.0 is a free software to download files from the world's largest file-sharing network Rapidshare, this version automatically decodes the image code allowing you to use the service without any hassle in a more easy way, RapidLeecher 2007 can run into fully automatic mode residing into system tray using minimal system resources monitoring user clipboard and autostart file download from rapidshare in background as soon as a rapidshare link is copied into the clipboard. The free software has support for proxy servers so that you can download many files at the same time (using different proxy). and multiple instance of the software. Requires Microsoft .Net 2 framework to work.
Rapidshare Ultimate 2007 is a free software to download files from the world's largest file-sharing network Rapidshare, based on the source code donated by previous RapidLeecher author this version automatically decodes the image code allowing you to use the service without any hassle in a more easy way, RapidLeecher 2007 can run into fully automatic mode residing into system tray using minimal system resources monitoring user clipboard and autostart file download from rapidshare in background as soon as a rapidshare link is copied into the clipboard. The free software has support for proxy servers so that you can download many files at the same time (using different proxy). and multiple instance of the software.
Main Features Include -
1. Fully Automated Downloading supporting a semi-automatic option.
2. Automatic CAPTCHA Image Detection.
3. Auto start at system boot with system tray support.
4. Clipboard monitoring.
5. Silent operation mode, will sit and wait for links in system tray.
6. Pr@xy Support for simultaneous downloads and unlimited downloading.
7. Inbuilt Downloader with detailed static's.
8. Full installer and uninstaller.
9. Very simple to use.
10. Pleasant, easy to use interface.
11. Constantly Updated.
12. Adware & Spyware Free.
13. Support is provided for users with quick BUG FIXES
14. Best of All its FREE & SAFE.
After Web 2.0 its time for Desktop 2.0, 360desktop is a new service currently in BETA allows you to grab all your favorite web apps and content like web widgets, RSS feeds, AJAX start pages, or a web page and make them available any time, in an expanded photo-panoramic desktop.
360desktop extends your Windows® desktop as a user generated, photo-panoramic space and delivers a personalized web, free of the browser, into a virtually unlimited desktop. You can import images from Flickr, MySpace, Photobucket and more, to create 360's online and embed any web content for multimedia 360mashups.
IsoPuzzle is a small (91 KB's!) and fast software to recover data from scratched and damaged CD's or DVD's, We have earlier discussed about recovering data from scratched disks using products like toothpaste and metal polish, IsoPuzzle comes handy when scratches can't be removed and data recovery is required.
The goal of this program is to recover as much as possible data of damaged, bad burned or scratched CDs or DVDs.
Please note as of now Audio CD, VCD and SVCD are not supported, All recovered data is stored in an "ISO" image file which can be read by mounted on various software such as "Daemon Tools", Every successfully read sector is stored in the image file (*.ISO) and will be marked "good" in the corresponding "flag" file (*.FLG).
If a read error is encountered a dummy sector will be written which will remain marked "bad". In this case a random number of sectors are skipped for faster progress.
Reaching the end of the disk a retry loop will be entered until all sectors have been read or a selectable "Give Up Time" has been reached.
After selecting the "Source" drive and the "Destination" folder the copy process can be started by pressing "Start".
The suggested filenames are taken from the DVDs volume label.
The copy process can be interrupted at any time by pressing the "Pause" button and can be continued by pressing "Start" again.
This way You can try to complete Your image file even on different machines with different CD drives - often one drive can read some sectors which are unreadable for an other one.
For using different drives You can share the image file *.ISO (together with the flag file *.FLG) on a network drive or put it on a portable disk (USB).
SparkleXP is a free and open-source utility to tweak Windows XP and improve its performance, SparkleXP helps freeing up computer resources resulting in a faster and responsive computer.
SparkleXP tweaks your XP settings in a fully automated and safe way to achieve maximum performance, this fantastic little tool creates a additional Hardware Profile and a correlative new User on your Windows XP system to get a lightweight desktop, you can choose to boot into your regular or lightweight desktop configuration at startup.
Digsby is a feature rich, easy to use free desktop client offering multi-protocol instant messaging with email and social networking integration aimed at bringing all major online communication services and social networks under one roof making things simpler to manage and use.
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Maxthon is a feature packed powerful IE based tabbed browser, Besides general browser functions, Maxthon provides a rich set of features to improve your surfing experience. The most notable being the Anti-Freeze functionality - The emergence of Tabbed Browsing Mode and the increasing usage of Ajax Technology in websites might cause frequent freezing while browsing, Maxthon Browser has developed a new technology to solve this problem, makes your surfing more fluently. 
Yahoo! released the latest beta of their upcoming messenger update to version 9, featuring a completely new user interface with skinning capability and quite a few interesting new feature additions.
