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Bart’s Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD

The safe mode sometimes is not safe enough when trying to eliminate viruses, recovering files, delete system components, and a lot more.
Microsoft created a PE (Preinstalled Environment) for this special situations. It’s basically a minimal win32 with a few services which is burned in a bootable CD or DVD.
But there’s some limitations in this Windows [...]

More people using Firefox

This is a good one. Today I checked my website statistics for the last year (May 9 2008 -May 9 2009) and among other things this came up: 

1
Firefox
44.88%

2
IE
39.49% 

3
Chrome
6.01% 

4
Opera
5.41% 

5
Safari
2.83% 

6
Mozilla
0.86% 

7
Konqueror
0.11% 

8
Netscape
0.11% 

9
Mozilla Compatible Agent
0.10% 

10
SeaMonkey
0.10%

Which means that, at least the people who visits this site is more aware of the benefits of using Firefox over Internet Explorer.
Safer and faster are the [...]

Regprot : free registry protector

I like the idea of being in total control of every important modification the Windows registry have. And for that reason I’ve been using TeaTimer, a program that comes with Spybot S&D that warns you every time the registry is going to be modified letting you choose to allow or deny the modification. I really [...]

ADrive.com: Free 50 Gb storage space.

After a disastrous hard disk failure and of course, an almost total loss of information, I started to worry about backups and looking for online options.
One of the best I found is ADrive.com. The basic package is free with 50 gb of disk space. With the free account you also have the option of using the [...]

YawCam: Free web camera software

Suppose you want to see who’s using your computer when you are out. And you don’t want to alert the unauthorized user of your “invisible presence”. I was looking for a software to do that but I kept finding demos or shareware versions.
YawCam is freeware and it does exactly that. It’s basically a webserver that streams video [...]