Ninite: The easiest way to add applications to your computer. Using ninite is as easy as:

1. Go to ninite.com
2. Pick the application(s) you need
3. Start your customized installer

Ninite installs apps with default settings and says "no" to browser toolbars and other junk.
Ninite checks your PC's language and 64-bit support to install the latest, best version of each application.
Ninite runs on Windows XP/Vista/7 and works in the background 100% hands-free.
will not be installed in your PC

Ninite won't be installed in your PC, all it does is install the applications you choose.
Want to see how Ninite works? Here is a step-by-step walk through by How-To Geek (click here).

Website: ninite.com

...that Internet Explorer 8 (ie8 or IE8) would beat Firefox, security wise? I didn't, well, d-u-h? I know there are several other good browsers out there but five of those are the most used ones. Talk about all IE versions being weak, vulnerable to attacks and all that scary stuff, but hands off, IE8 has TKO'ed the most famous and praised browsers such as Firefox (FF), Safari, Google Chrome and Opera. See the pictorial result below.

IE8 emerged a winner over the top five browsers in a 24x7/18 days test performed every six hours over 74 discrete test runs, each one adding fresh new malware URLs. The test was done by NSS Labs [an independent product analysis and testing organization that operates the largest security & performance lab in the world providing product functionality, security efficacy, performance and manageability, helping organizations worldwide make empirically informed decisions about how to purchase and maintain complex information security defenses].

You can download the full Q1 2010 Web Browser Comparative Test: Socially-Engineered Malware at:
http://nsslabs.com/test-reports/NSSLabs_Q12010_GTRBrowserSEM_FINAL.pdf

PhotoRem.com  is a photo sharing portal and video sharing community which provides you with an easy way to add meaningful metadata and comments to photos and videos then post and share them online with friends, + unlimited hosting space, all for free!

Downloading any text rich website or page for offline reading or printing can be done via the File --> Print or File --> Make available offline. But what happens when you don't want to sit in front of your computer all the time? or when you have to let somebody else use the computer at an inconvenient time? or how about when using office or internet cafe where time is limited? even better, how about wanting to read something while in the public transport or when waiting for something? Instead of staying idol, you can easily visit some interesting websites, convert the pages int simple PDF files, download them in your reader or print them for easy reading.

To easily convert pages into PDF format, simply make use of either: pdfmyurl.com OR html-pdf-convert.com

FOR WEB-BLOG owners, you can place the link in any page you want downloaded as PDF by just adding the url of the web, blog or page. Those with one page personal info i.e. online e-business card or an online resume/cv you can also do the same. Simply link the text or image you want people to use for downloading a specific page/url like this: http://pdfmyurl.com?url=www.wavuti.com
e.g. <a href="http://pdfmyurl.com?url=http://www.wavuti.com/">downlaod this page as pdf</a>
will create a text link that looks like this: downlaod this page as pdf

If you have ever wanted to have a youtube video play repeatedly but don't want to click the play button each time the video ends, there is a simple tip, just add the word 'repeater' between 'youtube' and '.com' and here is how:
Find the video you like on YouTube

Press Enter (on your keyboard) or Go (in your browser)and the video will play repeatedly in a loop

For example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2syi...
becomes:  www.youtuberepeater.com/watch?v=2syi...   

or: uk.youtube.com/watch?v=m6SDM...
becomes:  uk.youtuberepeater.com/watch?v=m6SDM...

This hack also works works on embedded video links. If country links eg. those ending with .uk, .jp .hk etc. don't work, try adding the prefix www after the http://

LiveBannerMaker is a coolest web-ware that lets you create banners and logos online to use in your website, blog or social network profiles. With LiveBannerMaker, you can: Select Banner Size or Create custom; Upload Background image or add color; Add You Banner Text; Add Banner Effect; Upload Image and Save Or Download Your Created Banner.

Scam or phishing is a method of sending email messages to other people with the purpose of stealing their sensitive and personal data and/or financial information for a wrongful use in the future.

While this could be an easy task for someone, it can be a hard task to others. In order to be able to differentiate between the two, build a habit of reading as many tips as you can regarding internet scams. No one can say they have qualified in this subject as phishing tactics change almost every day. Keeping yourself abreast of these new ways will save you out of a lot of troubles.

1. Do not reply to any message coming from a person unknown to you. Do not reply even to a person you know if you are suspicious that the contents of their message seem unrelated. It is sound too good to be true, it probably is.
2. Do not provide any personal information such as your date of birth, place of birth, nationality, bank account number, password(s), telephone number, social security number (SSN or SS#), TIN, passport ID # etc. There is no legitimate business that will just ask you for this information especially when you have already provided it in the past during registration. Be sure by calling them and asking if they wanted your information. When calling, do not use the number in the email which says call this # instead, go to the bank or company's OFFICIAL website and get the customer service number from there. Sometimes, spammers could give you a number to call and they will pick and give you wrong answers, their goal being to mislead you so that you give them your information.
   
3. Do not click on any URL address link inside an email message, instead, point your mouse on it, then read the words which shows up at the bottom, left corner of your browser. This will help you see if the URL is pointing to what is being talked about. Even when the URL is correct, the best way to access it is by copying the URL and pasting it on your browser's address location bar. Sometimes, pasting the URL link address on search engines may give you results for genuine and false links.
   
4. Do not trust all shortened URL. Use websites such as www.untiny.me or sucuri.net which can uncover the URL and show where it really points.
5. Do not call any telephone number in order  to provide your information over the phone. Some scammers can mask their numbers so that it is impossible to tell where the call is being routed.
6. Do not open any attachment you receive, even if it is coming form a person you know but you didn't expect. Call them (if possible) and ask for details or keep quiet and if it is important, they will send again the attachment or call you to ask whether you received the attachment or not and what it was in it.
7. If you live in a country where their mode of transaction is through credit or debit card, make sure you review your account statements regularly to ascertain bank activities. If you see even a single cent deducted from your account without clear clarification, call or visit your bank to report and ask for clarification.
8. Make sure you are using secure and encrypted website whenever necessary especially when providing sensitive information. The way to know if a site is encrypted or not is by looking at the browser's address to see if the prefix http has an 's' at the end of it, i.e https and not just regular http. The 's' denotes 'security' or 'secure' feature.
   

Test yourself, try these tests and see if you can spot a scam
It is reported that, people who spent at least 15 minutes playing the Anti-Phishing Phil game were better able to identify fraudulent websites than people who spent the same amount of time reading traditional anti-phishing tutorials.

• Follow this link: wombatsecurity.com/antiphishing_phil and click on the words saying ‘Play!’
• Click on this: SonicWALL Phishing IQ Test and test yourself. When you have completed the test you’ll get a score along with a chance to see “why” a question was a phish or legitimate.

Better still, learn some tips from:

• Microsoft - office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA012300411033.aspx
• USA Government FTC - ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt127.shtm
• USA Government OnGuard Online  - onguardonline.gov/index.html
• SANS Institute, Security Awareness tip -sans.org/tip_of_the_day.php?utm_source=web-sans

Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It performs operations such as page splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, and others. You give it raw scans, and you get pages ready to be printed or assembled into a PDF or DJVU file. Scanning, optical character recognition, and assembling multi-page documents are out of scope of this project.

Scan Tailor is Free Software (which is more than just freeware). It's written in C++ with Qt and released under the General Public License version 3. We develop both Windows and GNU/Linux versions.

This project is under development, but it's already usable.

Download Scan Tailor from http://scantailor.sourceforge.net/?q=en/node/3

showmewhatswrong.com - is a website where you record and create a 5 min long video, generate a help URL and share with  others the screen recordings.

How is it useful?
- helps in trouble shooting computer issues that one can't give detailed info.
- to people who would want to visually demonstrate something from their computers.
- for sharing information and education or fun on something you see online.

It records in both moving picture (video) and sound (via mic)
Website: showmewhatswrong.com

Google is rolling out a new feature for everyone using gmail. Things are getting organized and assembled together. Almost everything you needed for communication is going to be found right in one place. Now you can  get the attention of people in a conversation by tagging them using the '@' (at) sign - just like in Twitter and in Facebook. With google buzz you will be able to interact with people immediately and share a lot without having to login to another program or opening a new tab/window.

To get an overview of how Google Buzz works, click here to watch a video (youtube). Google Buzz features:

• No setup needed Automatically follow the people you email and chat with the most in Gmail.
• Share publicly or privately Publish your ideas to the world or just to your closest friends.
• Inbox integration Comments get sent right to your inbox so it's easy to keep the conversation going.
• Photo friendly See thumbnails with each post, and browse full-screen photos from popular sites.
• Connect sites you already use Import your stuff from Twitter, Picasa, Flickr, and Google Reader.
• See updates in real time New posts and comments pop in as they happen. No refresh required.
• Just the good stuff Buzz recommends interesting posts and weeds out ones you're likely to skip.