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Download Update Offline AVG AntiVirus Terbaru (25 April 2012)
Download Update Offline AVG AntiVirus Terbaru (25 April 2012) - Untuk memberikan perlindungan terbaik bagi pengguna setia AVG AntiVirus, GRISOFT terus mengembangkan dan memperbaharui definitions update dari AVG untuk mengenali beberapa jenis virus terbaru. Update virusdatabase dengan tepat waktu merupakan merupakan sebuah anjuran untuk setiap program antivirus.
Untuk melakukannya, sobat dapat melakukan update secara online maupun
offline sesuai kebutuhan dan tentunya kemampuan koneksi internet
masing-masing pengguna.
Jika sobat bukan pengguna internet
aktif dan memiliki banyak kesibukan diluar dunia maya, sangat
dianjurkan untuk melakukan updatedatabase antivirus secara manual atau update offline. Ini bertujuan untuk terus memastikan bahwa AVG Antivirus
bekerja secara maksimum melindungi PC sobat dari jenis virus terbaru.
Karena ini merupakan solusi terbaik untuk keamanan komputer / PC,
maupun laptop sobat.Update virus database yang tepat waktu merupakan komponen kritis untuk efektivitas program antivirus.
Tidak ada sound audio, atau tidak ada suara komputer atau apapun namanya yang jelas musik tidak mengeluarkan suara pada Windows bisa terjadi karena banyak faktor. Kerusakan sound audio komputerbisa
terjadi jika Anda meng-upgrade ke versi Windows baru atau ketika Anda
menginstal ulang sistem operasi Windows Anda. Program perangkat audio
akan melaporkan kesalahan bahwa suara tidak ada. Audio Device Windows
akan menunjukkan tidak ada perangkat audio dan semua opsi akan berwarna
abu-abu tidak bisa diklik. Dalam kebanyakan kasus Anda perlu menginstal
perangkat audio untuk mendapatkan kembali audio komputer.
Semua hardware yang terhubung ke
perangkat di Windows menggunakan device driver untuk memastikan Windows
dapat berkomunikasi dengan perangkat keras itu. Jadi penyebab paling
umum untuk kesalahan perangkat audio adalah bahwa driver audio tidak
diinstal, atau rusak.
Dalam menghadapi masalah audio komputer
ini, selalu mulai dengan menginstal atau menginstal ulang driver audio
Anda. Jika Anda memiliki CD driver, cukup jalankan setup driver audio
dari CD. Jika tidak, download
driver audio dari situs produsen dan jalankan installer driver audio
dari file yang didownload. Jika Anda tidak mengetahui produsen dan
model kartu suara, Anda dapat menggunakan program driver finder yang
secara otomatis akan mendeteksi kartu suara dan mencari driver yang
cocok untuk Anda.
Jika kartu suara terintegrasi dalam
motherboard, Anda perlu menginstal driver chipset motherboard dan
bukan sebuah driver kartu suara yang terpisah. Umumnya motherboard
chipset adalah Intel, AMD, Via, Sis, dan Nvidia. Petunjuk dalam artikel
ini menggunakan Windows XP sebagai contoh, tetapi semua tips berlaku
pada Windows, termasuk Vista dan Windows 7, walaupun langkah-langkah dapat bervariasi sedikit.
Bagaimana mengecek audio device
Silakan buka [Control Panel -> System -> Hardware] (ini relatif sesuai versi windows anda).
Pada [Device Manager], lihat bagian [Sound, video and game controllers].
Di sini Anda akan menemukan merek perangkat audio berdasarkan
produsen chipset perangkat audio. Dalam contoh ini kita lihat mereknya
adalah Realtek, tetapi contoh lain dari produsen perangkat audio ada
juga C-Media, Creative, Turtle Beach dan Yamaha.
Jika perangkat memiliki tanda tanya berwarna kuning maka berarti
ada masalah dengan konfigurasi perangkat atau driver. Jika tidak ada
perangkat tersebut, perangkat audio mungkin tidak diakui, dan Anda
tidak akan menemukan driver perangkat lain di bawah kategori Sound,
video dan kategori game. Sekali lagi, ini sebagian besar disebabkan
oleh driver yang hilang. Instal driver yang tepat untuk menginstal
perangkat audio.
Dari gambar diatas, klik kanan udio device (atau unknown device) dalam Device Manager dan pilih [Properties].
Hal pertama yang harus diperiksa adalah [Device usage] apakah
kolom dibawahnya bertuliskan [Use this device (enable)], jika tidak
berarti disini penyebab audio hilang.
Selanjutnya pilih tab [Properties] dan buka grup [Audio Devices].
Kliktombol [Properties] untuk membuka jendela audio device
properties. Pada jendela ini, pastikan radio button [Use audio features
on this device] terseleksi, kemudian klik [OK] untuk menutup jendela
audio properties.
Selanjutnya, perhatikan dengan baik jendela gambar dibawah ini, pilih tab [Driver].
Di sini Anda dapat melihat rincian driver saat ini jika ada, dan
memulai wizard [Update Driver] serta [Roll Back Driver]. Roll Back
Driver dapat membantu jika Anda baru-baru ini memperbarui sebuah driver
audio dan suara berhenti bekerja setelah itu. Windows menyimpan salinan
dari driver sebelumnya, yang dapat dipulihkan oleh rolling kembali
driver.
Dalam hal tidak ada suara, tidak ada salahnya anda menggunakan fasilitas [[Update Driver] untuk mengatasi masalah anda.
Pemilihan Sound Card Komputer
Jika komputer Anda memiliki kartu audio
onboard, dan Anda ingin menggunakan kartu suara yang terpisah (pci),
pastikan Anda menonaktifkan perangkat suara onboard di BIOS komputer.
Jika tidak, ini akan jadi sumber konflik perangkat audio yang tidak
terdeteksi, atau tidak akan bekerja dengan baik.
Bila Anda menggunakan perangkat audio
USB, masalahnya mungkin berhubungan dengan port USB dan tidak langsung
perangkat audio. Periksa perangkat USB Anda atau baca artikel Cara Mengatasi Masalah USB Device Not Recognized yang pernah saya tulis.
Pengaturan Sound pada Control Panel
Selain dari [Device Manager],[ Sounds
and Audio Devices] di Control Panel Windows dapat bermanfaat dalam
usaha untuk memperbaiki masalah audio Anda namun itu akan dibahas
diwaktu yang akan datang.
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Spanning, which already offers a backup service for Google Apps, is now riding the coattails of Google Drive, promising to help people see, “What’s in your Google Drive?”
Two days after the Drive announcement, Spanning released a free tool called Spanning Stats
that analyzes your Google Drive account. The company says its report
provides data including the percentage documents in your Google Drive by
type, the 10 newest and oldest files, how much of the total storage
quota you’re using by file type, the 10 biggest files, and the 10 users
using the most storage space.
It sounds like there were people who really wanted to see those
charts and graphs. The company now says that people have used Spanning
Stats to scan 25,000 Google Drives. The app is now listed as one of the
top installs in the Google Apps Marketplace and the number one install in the Document Management category.
That’s probably also reflects the initial excitement about Google
Drive. In fact, after the announcement, the the data uploaded to Google
Docs by Spanning users exploded — before the announcement, the average
amount per day was 5 megabytes, but on the day Google Drive launched it
went up to 36.8 megabytes, and then 22.6 megabytes the next day.
Last week, a press release from big names like Larry Page, Ross Perot and James Cameron about combining space exploration with resource extraction made it all but obvious that somebody was going to announce some very ambitious plans surrounding asteroid mining. Now, Planetary Resources has officially unveiled its plans. Alex Knapp has more analysis.
The plan will focus on two things: precious metals and water.
Materials such as platinum and rare earth elements are crucial to
electronics, increasingly scarce on Earth and abundant in space.
Planetary Resources thinks it can find enough of the stuff in asteroids
to offset the massive cost of getting to it. According to the press
release:
A single 500-meter platinum-rich asteroid contains the
equivalent of all the Platinum Group Metals mined in history. “Many of
the scarce metals and minerals on Earth are in near-infinite quantities
in space. As access to these materials increases, not only will the cost
of everything from microelectronics to energy storage be reduced, but
new applications for these abundant elements will result in important
and novel applications,” said Peter H. Diamandis, M.D., Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, Planetary Resources, Inc.
But water may be the most valuable resource asteroids have to offer.
Planetary Resources plans to use near-earth asteroids as stepping stones
to exploring the rest of the solar system by using their water to both
support life and propel rockets.
With the still-nascent world of space tourism also, it’s clear that
we’re entering into a new era of privately-driven space exploration. For
the tech luminaries on board, this industry shows the same kind of
limitless promise that Silicon Valley did a few years ago.
“I see the same potential in Planetary Resources as I did in the early days of Google,” said Ram Shriram, founder of Shirpalo and Google board member.
“The promise of Planetary Resources is to apply commercial innovation
to space exploration. They are developing cost-effective,
production-line spacecraft that will visit near-Earth asteroids in rapid
succession, increasing our scientific knowledge of these bodies and
enabling the economic development of the resources they contain,” saidTom Jones, Ph.D., a veteran NASA astronaut and advisor to Planetary Resources.
In Depth We explore the stonkingly popular adventure game
Play this huge game in Creative or Survival modes
Less a game and more a way of life, Minecraft is all about digging, building, exploring and crafting in a gigantic world.
This
world is made up of blocks - soil, sand, stone, and many other
materials - and you have complete freedom to build structures using
these blocks in an area that's eight times the size of the world's
surface.
The game keeps track of every single change you make
(which produces massive save game files - 100MB upwards is the norm). By
combining items, you can make new things, such as the wool-and-wood
combination we tried, which made a bed.
Minecraft has two game
modes: Survival - where you have to eat and protect yourself from
monsters, and Creative - where you can work safely on huge buildings to
your heart's content.
The game is written in Java and runs on
Linux, Windows and Mac OS, and has already reached a whopping four
million sales. So we decided to spend a week checking it out...
Day 1: Arrival
Our
new life began on a hill next to a swamp - or perhaps a jungle. Either
way, there was lots of water around and a few trees. And mushrooms, too.
We couldn't see any signs of human life, but we kept hearing noises
that we suspect were being generated by animals. It's all a bit weird,
and to make matters worse, we haven't got any tools with us - just our
bare hands.
After a bit of scrabbling around, we discovered we
could gather bits of grass and dirt, and keep them with us on our
travels. As the day progressed, we began to get hungry, and our only
option was to kill a chicken we came across using our hands.
It wasn't pleasant, and eating the raw meat didn't do us much good, but we stayed alive.
Night-time
came, and it was utterly horrible: all sorts of vile monsters appeared,
hell-bent on killing us. First, there was a strange sort of zombie-like
creature going for our throat, and then a skeleton firing arrows, and
big black spiders with red eyes. we tried fighting them with our hands
and got injured badly in the process.
Out of desperation, we dug a
hole in the ground to escape, but some hissing green monster followed
us in, exploded and left a huge crater. We barely slept.
Day 2: Acclimatisation
The
start of the day went well: we gathered wood from the trees and used it
to make some tools - a sword and a pick-axe. They're not very strong,
but they'll do for now. They also make it easier to kill animals for
food, so at lunchtime we walked into a forest and found some wild pigs.
Our hunger level is staying under control.
The big question
bothering us all day was: where are we going to sleep? We can't just
wait for the monsters to kill us - we need to fashion some kind of
shelter that's more substantial than the hole we dug yesterday.
Fortunately,
after a bit of walking we found the entrance to a cave, and with our
tools we could extract some chunks of stone. Our tools didn't last very
long, but we got enough stone to build a small igloo-like shelter.
Just
before night-time, we found a sheep, killed it and took its wool.
Combined with the remaining bits of wood we had, we hacked together a
simple bed and had a tolerable night's sleep. But we kept hearing the
monsters outside…
Day 3: Exploration
In DepthWe
decided we couldn't stay there any longer, so we gathered our things
together and set off on a journey. After a few hours of trudging through
the swamp, we came across a deep forest, which led into a hugely
mountainous region.
It was striking, but the rain was horrendous.
It took us another few hours before we arrived in a really dry,
desert-like area. There was nothing there but the odd cactus.
By
the evening, we were back in woodland and found a cave. After knocking
down a few trees and combining the wood with some stone, we made some
stronger tools. We were feeling pretty confident with our stone sword
and stone axe, although they were heavy. After setting up our bed in the
cave, we slept well.
Day 4: The village
Seemingly without
hope, we kept walking and walking, and then saw something in the
distance… a building! A real sign of humanity after three days. It was a
small village in the middle of a prairie, and although the inhabitants
seemed reluctant to talk to us, we felt much happier being there than in
the outside world.
We made a huge mistake in the afternoon,
though: there's a well in the village, filled almost to the top, and a
man was in it. We tried to free him by breaking open the side of the
well, but it just spread water over much of the village. Why weren't we
thinking?
In
the afternoon, we headed out to gather more wood and stone, and then
came back and started building a proper little house for ourselves in
the village. It's nothing special, and we have no lighting yet, but it's
a good place to store our bed and equipment. We feel as if we're making
real progress here.
Day 5: Confidence
Set off early and
found some cows near the village. A bit of sword-work later, and we had
some good beef and leather. We're not much good at making clothes, but
we hacked together a simple leather tunic that should give us protection
against any night-time monster attacks.
At lunchtime, we carved
up a chunk of wood to make a bowl, and used some of the mushrooms we'd
gathered to prepare a stew. Together with the beef, we were feeling
healthy and full. With our stone sword, pick-axe, tunic and food
supplies, we're building up confidence, so in the afternoon we took a
walk out of the village, dropping bits of stone behind us so that we
could find our way back.
After
going through some swampland, we found the sea, so we swam for a while
and saw a huge island with a cavern in the distance. We'll explore that
tomorrow.
Day 6: Fire!
What a day. After breakfast, we
headed to the cavern, which was even more enormous when we got close to
it. After an hour's climbing up the mountain, we reached the entrance to
the cavern, which was pitch black; so we crept inside and then… there
was a fizz, a huge explosion, and everything went black.
The next
thing we remember was being back in our bed in the village, except
without all of the bits and bobs that we had been carrying. But the lure
of the cavern tempted us back, and once we reached the entrance again,
we saw all of our items lying around - our sword, our food, our bits of
stone and wood.
It
must've been one of those green monsters that attacked us, but don't
they just come out at night? Perhaps they live in the darkness of the
cave… Anyway, we ventured boldly onwards and found some seams of coal,
which we extracted using our pick-axe.
Back in the village, we
combined the coal with wood to make some torches. We've placed these
inside our house and around the village, and although we're going to bed
quite early tonight, it seems that all of this light is stopping the
monsters from getting too close to the buildings.
Day 7: Reinforcement
Subscribe and save We're
really liking it here, but the village needs to be safer. We went out
to gather stones to build a wall. This took most of the day, but we now
have a barrier around the village, broken up by a few doors we made out
of wood, so no monsters can get inside in the night. It feels really
safe and will let us do some work when it gets dark, such as planting
seeds to grow wheat for bread.
As an experiment, we dug a tunnel
inside the village, using our torches to light the way, and deep
underground we came across some traces of iron. There's a smelting
furnace in the village, so we'll have to see if we can make some better
items.
We've been hearing rumours in the village of magic spells and potions, too, so we'll have to investigate that further.
We
can barely remember ourselves from the first day - that terrified,
helpless guy lost in an alien world. Now this world feels like ours, and
we're learning to control it better all the time.
Week in Tech Plus Facebook phones and the future of cash
Ivy Bridge: the third-and-a-bit generation of Intel's Core microarchitecture
Intel's boffins have been busy: the chip goliath has released its latest quad-core processors, codenamed Ivy Bridge. The codename is much better than the real name, which is "3rd generation of Intel Core Microarchitecture".
Intel Ivy Bridge The
tech behind Ivy Bridge is impressive — where Sandy Bridge processors
used 32nm architecture, Ivy Bridge uses Intel's 22nm Tri-Gate technology
— but is it a great leap forward? Jeremy Laird isn't convinced that it is.
"As
predicted, Ivy Bridge is a case of no more cores. Four is your lot," he
says. That's not a big deal - "the future of PC processing probably
doesn't involve an inexorable rise in the core count" - but Ivy Bridge
is "not nearly as good as it could have been. Instead, it's been
carefully positioned to be merely as good as it needs to be."
As Laird explains
in his in-depth analysis, "Ivy Bridge is not all new. On the CPU side,
not a lot has changed". Ivy Bridge does get more graphics power, but
that's about it. That "begs the question of whether Ivy Bridge deserves
its status as the '3rd generation' of Intel's Core processors."
Laird says: you won't be unhappy if your next PC has an Ivy Bridge in
it, but the difference between it and Sandy Bridge isn't dramatic.
What about AMD, Intel's arch-rival? Is there hope for tougher competition from AMD any time soon? "In a word," Laird says, "No."
Eye on smartphones
Intel's
ambitions aren't just on the desktop. Its Medfield processors are
designed to power smartphones and other mobile devices, and early
benchmarks suggest that it's faster than the processors inside the
iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy S II. However, by the time Medfield devices
actually reach the shelves there will be newer, faster processors
inside iPhones and other ARM-powered kit.
It seems that everybody has an eye on the smartphone market: even Facebook, which according to rumours is working on a Facebook phone with HTC.
As Kate Solomon points out, that means history is repeating: "Hello and
welcome to 2010," she writes. That's when HTC's ChaCha was released
with a big blue Facebook button on it.
Google Phone? Isn't that the Nexus?
Here's another blast from the past: a Google Phone
from 2006. As Chris Smith reports, the device was a prototype for what
became Android, "with Google proposing an open source operating system
packed with Google apps like Maps, Gmail and Google Talk." What's
particularly interesting about the prototype is that, one year before
the iPhone was released, Google clearly didn't think touchscreens were
the way forward: "The initial device looks a little bit like a strange
BlackBerry Bold," Smith points out.
One of Google's big mobile ideas is mobile payments, and O2 has joined the payment party with the launch of O2 Wallet.
The
service isn't just for O2 customers: it's available to all UK mobile
phone users, or at least it is provided they aren't running Windows
Phone: the app for that platform is still in development, along with
apps for tablets (we're assuming iPads and Android).
So how does
it work? If you're on an iPhone, Android or BlackBerry device you'll be
able to add your credit and debit card details to the service and "send"
money to people; if the payment isn't received within five days it's
automatically credited back to you.
According to O2 Money MD
James Le Brocq, "additional functionality will soon enable consumers to
use O2 Wallet to top-up mobile airtime, buy train tickets and make
mobile contactless payments via NFC technology." We've been promised
mobile payments for years, so it'll be interesting to see if O2 can be
the firm to make it work.
There's just one problem in the move
from real wallets to mobile ones: as Patrick Goss asks, "What will the
comedy moths fly out of now?"
Every
Firefox release brings something exciting and new to the table. Firefox
12 does not, for those who are expecting something like the previous
versions. There has been no new feature addition, worth mentioning! So
this time around we have focused on the performance of the browser
against its main rival Google Chrome, Firefox 12 vs Chrome 18 in various
scenarios including traditional browser benchmarks.
So, What’s new?
Nothing,
to be frank enough! But the release is a worthwhile considering the
amount of bugs fixed and the performance improvement. Nevertheless there
are minor improvements internally which are pretty hard to notice in
day to day usage and for non developers. To begin with there is only one
(really) “new” feature , which is the implementation of a new Mozilla
service to bypass UAC prompts in Windows Vista and above, whenever you
update your browser. Google Chrome has implemented it long back, but it
involves a lazy trick of installing all your browser updates to the User
folder instead of regular Program Files. From now on you will get UAC
prompt only when you install Firefox for the first time. When updating
later, Mozilla Maintenance Service will take charge of it replacing UAC.
By later this year, Mozilla expects to make the automatic browser
updates completely silent, like Chrome.
Minor Improvements include:
Now
page source includes line numbers as well, which must be helpful for
developers obviously. Too bad they took a while to implement this.
WebGL performance on Mac OSX has been improved significantly.
URL’s pasted in the download managers are now downloaded automatically.
It
is now easier to locate the search results in Find in Page option.
Though I prefer Chrome for this function. Firefox needs to improve its
search in page even more.
Improvements to various built in developer tools like Web Console 3D page inspector, Style Editor and more.
Experimental support for ECMAScript 6 Map and Set objects has been implemented in this release.
HTML5 Video Controls are improve now, and feature a full screen option.
Lots of Security and bug fixes
Note that Firefox does NOT support h.264 format for encoding HTML5
videos as of now, due to Mozilla’s reluctance to adapt to this standard
which is wrangled in numerous patents and Mozilla’s adherence to Open
Web standards. It will be better for users if Mozilla supports this
format as it provides superior compression than ogg theora
There are tons of other bug fixes and improvements, which you can check out here
Here comes the fun part. Several queries have been raised over the Web with the increasing popularity of our Firefox article series over how the data is collected. So let me take time to explain the rig and the procedure:
The
Machine is HP G42 with Core i3 (1st gen) clocked at 2.4 GHz, 6 GB DDR3
of 1066 MHz RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon 512 MB GDDR3 graphics and a 5400
RPM Western Digital Hard drive. Hardware Acceleration was turned on in
both Firefox and Chrome
For even more transparency I have uploaded the document containing the
scores of each browser in various benchmarks to Google Docs (You can
check it here. Do let me know if the scores in your machine are differing by a significant margin when compared to mine
I
ran the older version of Google v8 (version 6) benchmark this time to
maintain harmony with previous browsers’ scores . Sunspider and Kraken
were at their respective latest versions. I took the best of each
browser score after running each benchmark thrice to avoid accusations
of “biasing the article towards Firefox”.
Firefox 12 vs Chrome 18 : Showdown time
Sunspider Performance
Sunspider
is one of the most trusted benchmarks for Web browsers. Sadly this time
Firefox has regressed a bit, and continuing the trend from Firefox 11
the performance has dropped a bit. Chrome on the other hand has improved
quite a lot from its previous version and manages to beat Firefox
handily in this browser intensive JavaScript benchmark.
Kraken Performance
Kraken
is another browser intensive benchmark by Mozilla, Kraken focuses on
much more realistic workloads than Sunspider or V8. Kraken in a way
provides a clear view of realistic workloads pushing the browsers
limits. Chrome 18 almost demolishes its predecessor and all the recent
Firefox release with a stunning score of 3974. Firefox 12 on the other
hand fell behind all others by a noticeable margin.
Google V8
This
has been one of the strongholds of Google Chrome’s performance. V8 is
the JavaScript engine which ships with Chrome, so obviously one would
expect Chrome to perform favourably. Surprisingly this time around both
Firefox and Chrome have regressed quite a bit. There were times when the
the performance parity with Chrome would be quite a lot, but Firefox
needs even more work in this regard as well.
Real World Metrics : Chrome the memory monger
If
your planning to jump to Chrome bandwagon based on the above
benchmarks, hold your guns because the above browser benchmarks barely
indicate any real world usage. It is time to check out how much system
resources does the two browsers consume on a moderately heavy usage.
For
the memory consumption tests I opened the following 10 tabs which I
surf usually as my daily routine: Techsplurge, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter,
OMGUbuntu , YouTube with a 360p video being played in Flash, Rotten
Tomatoes, Phoronix, Google Reader, and a Google search results page.
Errata
: I had not noticed plugincontainer.exe in the earlier memory
benchmarks, which is basically the Mozilla container for browser plugin.
I noticed it consumed around 100 MB for 360p video. Because this
process is entirely separate from Firefox processes, I missed out on
this from process explorer. I have added 100 MB for previous Firefox
iterations’ memory results to compensate this.
Interestingly
Chrome 18 reported to be using 1.25 GB of memory when I checked from
its internal task manager. However upon totalling the memory consumed by
each of the chrome.exe processes, it turned out to be 1.7 GB .
Chrome
seems to be munching more memory with every release. There are numerous
arguments in the wild web about why Chrome consumes so much of memory ,
but one must clearly note that no matter what Sandboxing or process
separation for each tab. Chrome uses a heck lot of memory. This
basically renders your PC useless if you wish to do anything apart from
browsing on Chrome when you are on a low end PC.
CPU Usage
The
CPU usage across the two browsers were the same almost , with the usage
hovering around 5 – 7% in each browser. If you are smart you would have
guessed that Adobe Flash was the main factor contributing to the CPU
usage. But overall, both the browsers manage to be impressively low when
it comes to CPU usage.
Which browser should I choose now?
I
am huge Firefox fan, but both Chrome and Firefox are great browsers in
their own respects and are helping a great deal to make the web better.
Here is why you would choose Firefox or Chrome
Firefox
You want a fast browser which does not eat your RAM for breakfast.
You work with lot of tabs open.
You want a lot of customizations in your browser and use loads of add-ons.
You are bothered about your online privacy
Chrome :
You want the fastest browser on the planet .
You do not open many tabs while browsing.
You have a fairly powerful machine and/or don’t bother about the resource usage of your browser.
You do not care much about your privacy and do not mind Google collecting user data.
Conclusion
Sadly
for me, this one has been quite a mediocre Firefox release when it
comes to benchmarks and new features introduced. However this release
was necessary as it gave more room for Mozilla to fix important bugs and
security issues. With major new features like a completely overhauled
UI , improved download manager , web apps integration coming in later
releases, it will be worth the wait hopefully. Chrome on the other hand
has improved on every other aspect apart from Memory optimization. Do
feel free to share your opinion about Firefox 12 vs Chrome 18.
I
have been reviewing many free apps for Windows, most of them do fulfil
their purpose just right. But there comes a time when you discover a
ultra cool app which is rough around the edges but it works so damn well
that you just cant wait to show it off and rave about it. WinLaunch
by C0rrupted is one such free tool which does its job, of replicating
Launchpad introduced in Mac OS X Lion in Windows, perfectly. By perfect I
literally mean perfectly. Amazing animations, loads of customisation
while being non intrusive and extremely light on resources are just some
of the great things in this nifty tool.
Installation and Setting up : Here comes the clumsy part
This
is the only place where I get to blast the app, and I wont spare it.
Setting up the app is quite confusing at first, but once you get the
hang of it it is really fantastic to say the least. I can see no app
launcher as good as WinLaunch atleast for the moment for Windows.
The
app currently does not feature any sort of installation, and basically
you have to start the app [winlaunch.exe] yourself after extracting the
zip folder. When you first launch the app, you are greeted with a well
written readme which I recommend to go through well for less hassles.
You can begin adding icons by moving the icons from your desktop or
start menu to WinLaunch. As the next step, you need to spend some time
fiddling with the Icon and Text size, and keys for invoking WinLaunch
for a godly experience. Then you must run Winlaunch Starter to start the
app automatically everytime you boot into Windows.
You
may feel that I am over excited and raving a lot about the app, but as
you check it out yourself, you will find a lot more to like. Here are
some super cool things I liked about WinLaunch
Synaptic Touchpad Gesture Integration
: Hell Yeah! Those who thought that Launchpad and the nifty three
finger upward swipe to activate Launchpad was limited to those shiny
Macs, think again. WinLaunch allows to perfectly replicate this feature
on the Windows as well. Even the two finger slide for accessing the
multiple pages works so cleanly that you simply cant stop adoring the
touchpad integration. On my HP G42 it works flawlessly every single
time.
Multiple Ways to access your WinLaunch:
If you are on a desktop, or if you use your three finger gesture for
something else, you can always use the multiple hot corners or hot keys
to activate the Windows implementation of Launchpad
Superb Animations
: I mean it. The animations are so close to the Mac OS counterpart that
you would be easily fooled for once that you were using Lion. Heck , even the famous iOS style jiggle is perfectly implemented in Launchpad.
The Fly In and Fly Out work very smoothly, not to mention silky icon
movements. The animations are one of the core features that makes
WinLaunch such a perfect app launcher for Windows.
Easy Customisation:
WinLaunch offers gut loads of customisation options which even the Mac
OS X Launchpad does not offer to an extent. You can go all the way from
customising icon sizes, to changing the opacity, modifying the animation
speed you name it. Did I tell you that WinLaunch supports creating pages and folders just like iOS including the animations and shelves. This is something which I found was really freaking cool.
Themes Support : For
all the personalization nerds, WinLaunch offers plenty of inbuilt
themes to choose with to suite your tastes. Below is the screenshot with
the square theme applied.
Minor Ramblings
I
am gladly willing to donate and strongly urge you to donate for the
development of this program. But there are few annoying issues which I
really want to see fixed in order to get a even better app launcher for
Windows.
The App comes in a Zip format and does not have an
installer. This is easily a turn off for not so tech-savvy folks. In
future iterations an installer would be more than welcome
I
found the settings menu to be pretty cramped as personalization forms an
important component of this program. It would be useful if more options
could be clubbed in lesser titles. For example the various options for
Hotkeys and Hot Corners could come under a single title instead of
digging deeper into the options.
WinLaunch did not start automatically with Windows even though it was claimed to be. Perhaps this is a bug?
Lastly
I found editing the icons quite cumbersome as in I had to hit edit for
every Icon individually. It would be great if the developer could
provide us some kind of edit mode. Also edit was quite buggy and
inconsistent many times
Usage Tips and Conclusion
WinLaunch
sadly is not the most idiot friendly launcher to set up initially and
use. I personally recommend the following tweaks to enhance your
experience with WinLaunch
Initial Configuration : When you start WinLaunch for the first time you need to hit F and add few icons to begin with.
For
fast performance and great looks, you can better go for the Lion Blur
in the performance advisor. Though Aero blur was quite fast too, it was
not aesthetic enough for me.
Adding icons from desktop can be a tad frustrating , you can instead add your apps directly from the start menu.
The default icon size is medium which is tad big for anyone’s taste. Change it to small and you are good to go.
Hot
Corners can get in your way while using other apps, better option is to
go for synaptic gestures in case if you are on a laptop , or hot keys
if you are on a desktop.
Overall WinLaunch perfectly mimics
the Mac OS X Launchpad behaviour for your Windows desktop without
burdening your CPU or GPU. WinLaunch can easily be the perfect desktop
icons replacement you were looking for. The developer of this app has
been tremendously successful in mimicking the behaviour of Launchpad on
Windows with such a light program. You will never even realise the fact
that the app is still in its early beta stages. A must have for those
who wish to have a beautiful desktop.
Although not having said a single word yet, Google is rumored to launch its own Cloud Storage, Drive, service by this week.
On
several places such as Quora and Facebook, people can be seen
discussing about the features it might (or should) have. Interestingly,
some people also see Drive as a move by Google to imitate Apple’s
iCloud.
Wait a second, wondering what is cloud storage? Ask Mr. Wikipedia.
For those who think the same, let me tell you – You’re sorely wrong.
Google doesn’t need to compete against iCloud. It already has most of the features found in iCloud, integrated with Android since the beginning and, in fact, they’re better.
Google
will actually have to compete with Dropbox. iCloud will only act as a
mobile benchmark and Google’s job would be to outperform it. Drive will
have to excel at areas where iCloud has failed and at the same time,
learn how Apple and Dropbox have managed to provide such an intuitive
user experience with their features.
My Wish List
There
are basically five products with Android which I believe Google will
take advantage of – Play Music, Movies, Books, Google Docs and Picasa.
These, when combined with Drive equal awesomeness. Below is a small
wish-list of mine:
Let
me sync any type of file I want, no restrictions like in iCloud. Let it
be a MS Office document, a Photoshop photo or a song, anything.
Remove Picasa from Android and let me keep my photos on Drive.
I
also want Drive to store music and books purchased from the Play store
which people can access anytime, anywhere, even in my PC.
Give me a folder to manage my files in my desktop like Dropbox does, I don’t want a separate interface for it. Keep it simple.
Offer
the highest level of encryption for my files. I won’t want you (or
anyone else) to read my documents as you’re infamous for doing so for
ads.
Offer flexible 3rd-Party APIs, the reason why Dropbox is so popular among developers.
Don’t make it a US only product, please, or else I’ll declare Drive as a failure.
Right now, I’m a loyal Dropbox fan but if you manage to complete my above wishes, I’ll happily marry you.
Free storage varies with products. (1 GB for Docs, 7 GB for Gmail etc.)
2 GB – Free
80 GB – $1.67 / month
50 GB – $10 / month
200 GB – $4.17
100 GB – $20
1 TB – $21.33
1TB – $795 for 5 individuals
‘Dirt Cheap’
rates – yeah! Google offers storage space at incredibly low rates for
all of its cloud based products and will, most probably, do the same for
Google Drive. This will surely turn a lot of heads towards Drive,
specially Dropbox users whose request for a price cut has still not been paid any heed since long (2 years, 5 months).
So
pricing won’t be any issue for Google. Though, offering lots of storage
space at whole-sale rates does not ensure the success of any service.
In fact, it only determines a fractional part of it. Windows SkyDrive is
a good example for this statement which offers 25 GB of free storage
and is still rarely used. Reason? Apart from a massive amount of free
space, it offers next to nothing.
However, when you combine cheap
prices with great features and integration with major platforms, Google
Drive does indeed sound a great product. What do you think? Will you
move your files to Google Drive from your Dropbox account?
PDF
is the most popular document format across all the platforms. With
multitude of PDF editing applications and with the lack of cheap good
quality PDF editors, it can be a pain to edit your favourite PDF file.
While Microsoft Word and Open/Libre Office Writer do allow creating
PDF’s, editing a existing PDF file is a different story altogether. You
could either convert pdf to word and edit it or download free pdf editor which is easy to use.
We
came across one such software which precisely meets this criteria.
(Free for a limited time though!) Wondershare PDF editor alleviates this
issues with its clean looking interface and powerful feature set.
More about Wondershare Beta (Download Free PDF editor)
Wondershare PDF Editor is a very popular
PDF editor on the Mac OSX platform. Currently the Windows version of
PDF Editor is in the beta stage with 100 days of free testing.
Wondershare is giving a huge 50% discount if you upgrade the app from
the current beta to the stable state when it releases later this year.
Something which I found pretty interesting is that the firm is offering a
chance to win the app for free if you provide feedback on 3 any
elements of the program. Wondershare PDF Editor is available for Windows
XP , Vista and 7.
Wondershare PDF Editor offers some really powerful features.
Clean and Simple UI
: The Ribbon based user interface makes it very easy to wade through
the various nifty features of the program. The Ribbon Interface is
really well polished and easy to navigate. You will easily feel at home
with PDF Editor if you have used Microsoft Word 2007 / 2010. You can
begin editing your PDF files in a jiffy with the clean UI.
Impressive Editing Capabilities:
PDF Editor allows editing text as well as object , image and table
re-size, move, copy and delete. You can also insert images, links and
watermarks on the fly. The nice thing about the text editing is you can
just continue editing in the exact same style as of that of the PDF,
provided the required fonts are installed.
Merge , Split and Modify pages: PDF
Editor allows easy modification of pages. You can extract, crop or
delete pages in couple of clicks. You can also quickly merge multiple
documents or split the document into multiple PDF’s.
PDF to Word Conversion: If
you are less satisfied with the editing in PDF Editor or just want more
editing power, you can convert the PDF file directly into Microsoft
Word 2010, 2007, 2003 .docx , .doc or even Rich Text Format in just 2
clicks.
Other neat Features include:
Advanced annotation with sticky notes, pencil tool , history tracking and more.
Broad Multilingual Support with detection for PDF’s in 17 languages.
The must have Bookmark feature for any good PDF viewer.
How did it perform? Almost perfect..
Wondershare
performed fairly well during the review, with most of the advertised
features working right off the bat. I found the conversion to Word
feature particularly impressive with its speed and compatibility. PDF
editor never felt slow at any point of time during the usage.
However
I found the object moving and resizing to be slightly sluggish. Also
many PDF’s were having some issues with editing the text whose fonts’
were not installed. Nevertheless these were very trivial issues which I
hope will be fixed in the final release.
Final Verdict
Wondershare
PDF Editor Beta looks really promising with its powerful and well
implemented features like flawless PDF to Word conversion, jiffy text
and object editing, PDF split and merge, and a crisp user interface to
top it all. The app actually felt feature complete and very stable even
in the early beta period which speaks volumes about the quality of the
app.
While the app will be most likely priced at 49.95$ (which is
the price of the Mac counterpart) when released, it is currently
absolutely free under the beta testing. Make sure you download free pdf editor during this beta testing period.
Secret Place where Project Glass, Robots, Space Elevators are Developed
Somewhere
in a secret location in California, a team of engineers from Google are
busy pushing the limits of technology. Known as Google X, they are the
team responsible for ‘Project Glass’, Google’s latest project to combine our optical visual field with Augmented Reality using wearable glasses and Driverless cars.
Google is so secretive about the lab that most of its employees even have no idea of its existence. Reminds of Area 51, anyone? Rumors
about Google X and their crazy experiments had started flying late last
year but I ignored them as they sounded very unlikely to exist. Now
when Project Glass has made my imagination fly into the future, I think
those project rumors are actually true.
Driverless
Cars can be seen running on the streets of Nevada. Its artificial
intelligence system relies on information from Google Street View,
several sensors and a video camera.
The projects on which
Google X is working on are still largely unknown to anyone except the
people deeply involved in it. According to The NYTimes,
there are about 100 concept ideas on which they’re researching that
even includes robots, talking refrigerators, dining plates which are
connected to the internet, space-elevators etc. Yeah, they all sound
very unlikely to happen anytime soon but they’re long term projects of
Google. How long? Maybe even 2050!
The X Team
There are
three important people in the team mainly known to the world – Sebastian
Thrun, Steve Lee, Babak Amir Parviz. The team is leaded by Sergey Brin.
They all are known for their special capabilities in fields still
largely unexplored by humans.
1. Sergey Brin
Sergey
Brin is the co-founder of Google and the leader of Google X. He is
known for carrying a silver business card decorated with the letter X.
He was recently spotted wearing a prototype unit of AR Glasses in a
charitable event in San Francisco, California.
Being the 24th richest person on the earth, he owns a private Boeing 737 jet!
2. Steve Lee
Steve Lee is the lead product management for Google X. He’s the brain behind Google Latitude, a service that lets users share their locations with friends, store history of visited places and check-in to places.
His involvement in Project Glass should mean that location based applications would be one of they key features of the project.
3. Babak Amir Parviz
An
assistant professor at University of Washington, Babak Parviz is known
for his achievement in deploy bionics technology in conventional contact
lenses. Here’s a snippet of an article written by him:
In
the Terminator movies, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character sees the world
with data superimposed on his visual field—virtual captions that
enhance the cyborg’s scan of a scene. These visions
might seem far-fetched, but a contact lens with simple built-in
electronics is already within reach; in fact, my students and I are
already producing such devices in small numbers in my laboratory at the
University of Washington, in Seattle. These lenses don’t give us the
vision of an eagle or the benefit of running subtitles on our
surroundings yet. But we have built a lens with one LED, which we’ve
powered wirelessly with RF. What we’ve done so far barely hints at what
will soon be possible with this technology.
Wired
notes that Babak Parviz’s research specialties include
Bio-nanotechnology, Self-Assembly, Nanofabrication and
MicroElectroMechanical Systems, enough to help Google become a pioneer in Optical Vision technology.
4. Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrun is the person behind Google’s another ambitious project of developing driver-less cars which are currently running on the streets of Nevada. The automated cars make use artificial intelligence, several sensors and Google Street View, co-invented by him.
A recent video by Google showing a blind man taking one such car to a local store shows how impressive the car would be in the future.
He has also founded Udacity, a company that aims to bring university level education to the masses for free using the internet. The courses also include Building a Search Engine and Programming a Robotic Car.
These
are a few people whose job is very ambitious – to defy the boundaries
of Google’s core business – the Web and move ahead to the Future where
technology will control our life. Sounds creepy?
Anti-virus databases in zip-archive for offline update ESET products on a computer without the Internet.
Designed for the following programs:
■ Kaspersky Anti ESET NOD32 3.x - 4.x ■ ESET NOD32 Smart Security 3.x - 4.x
Installing Updates Anti-ESET NOD32 / ESET Smart Security
• Download and unpack the archive with the updates (for example, the folder C: \ offline_update_eav)
• Open the main program window NOD32 Antivirus
• Press the «F5» and go to the "Update"
• In the line "Update Server" click "Change"
• In the line "update servers" navigate to the folder with the update
(in this case C: \ offline_update_eav), then click "Add" and "OK"
• In the main window, select the antivirus "Update" and click "Refresh version of virus signature database"
How To enable Offline server feature at ESS / EAV version 5:
1. Boot Your windows to SAFE MODE
2. When u in SAFE MODE klik START>>>RUN> type regediit
3. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ESET\ESET Security\CurrentVersion\Info
4. Finda PackageFeatures
5. Double click PackageFeatures , change Value Data 3 to 1
6. Restart your Windows, Feature of update server will be enable.
Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create 3D models of anything you like. Get started right away.
Most people get rolling with SketchUp in just a few minutes. Dozens
of video tutorials, an extensive Help Center and a worldwide user
community mean that anyone who wants to make 3D models with SketchUp,
can. Model anything you can imagine.
Redecorate your living room. Design a new piece of furniture. Model
your city for Google Earth. Create a skatepark for your hometown, then
export an animation and share it on YouTube. There's no limit to what
you can create with SketchUp. Get models online for free.
You can build models from scratch, or you can download what you need.
People all over the world share what they've made on the Google 3D
Warehouse. It's a huge, searchable repository of models, and it's free.
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