How easy life has been because of the advent of computer. Yes it has changed a lot. Today let us discuss on the topic which is very crucial for people who work on loads and loads of data. Have you ever thought that all your data is currently on one system and one fine day if you’re PC just refuses to boot up. Well, there is way where we can avoid this catastrophe. In addition to routinely saving your work, it is vital that your internet security is up to date. The latest developments of antivirus 2010 ensure that your computer and data are well protected from the threats of the internet. It is important however to regularly download updates to ensure that you have the latest protection.

While most people pay much attention in upkeeping their computer performance, there are lots of precautions that you can take when you know that you are working on a huge data and you don’t have any backup at all. The few of the ways are listed below:-

Get an extra Hard disk :

Well the most easiest and the most commonest way of working is that you can start having a backup in the different hard drive, it is important because in case if your other hard disk crashes, there is always the advantage of having another one which has up to date information.

The external hard disks that are now available in the market are very convenient to carry and easy to use. It is very easy to connect too and not bulky in size and hence makes your life easier. They come in all sizes (in terms of storage) and can be availed at any hardware shop around your place.

The other benefit of the hard disk is that, it is not very costly .With all the advantages, suiting you and if you are one of the people who work on heavy data, then ideally you should go and invest your money in one of these gadgets.

Use backup software :

As most of you must be aware that there are back up software which is currently available in the market. This type of software once installed in your system, creates backup of all the existing files and folders on your system and then uploads them on to a web server thereby making your life really easy.

Whenever you need to access your data, all you need is an internet connection and you can access the whole thing from any part of the world. This form of backing up data is comparatively cheaper than you investing your money on external hard disk and also unlike external hard disk; you need not carry this everywhere on a daily basis.

If you are working for an organization, then ideally there shouldn’t be any troubles as most of your data will be saved on the company server which will be connected to your system via LAN (Local Area Network). So if you’re PC refuses to start, all you need to do is make a phone call to your IT guys in the organization and bingo you get your files back in a jiffy.

So for all those people who work on very huge data, there is no reason to be fearful about because there are ways and means wherein your data will be safe. Start indulging in the options that is available to us.

However, with the help of Internet, we could send the same documents faster and cheaper, even free! This is why technology is really important for our live.

Voice changers are one of the technologies that start rising today. You probably already saw them in the movie, especially the one in Mission Impossible 3. Who could have realized before that most of the technologies we found today starting from an idea? Nobody would really dream of one day that we could be holding realtime conferencing with our counterpart who are sitting in their room , and conducting business meeting via teleconference technology ! The idea that keeps bugging in the head, with a good execution will make it a worthy product.

Voice changer software that you saw in the movie is professionally created to get to the goals of the movie itself. The voice changer or voice comparator works by comparing vocal qualities of two people and then transmits digital waves to voice morpher. After the morphs, that one voice will be completely changed into others.

People who use voice changer software in their computer will get the results faster, more accurate, in a matter of seconds. The process that seems complicated could be finished in a split second to create a real-time voice changing experience. When you use the hardware that could change your voice, the principle is almost the same. The difference is that you use the hardware to change your voice over the phone or audio recording.

Voice changer programs not only change one person’s voice into another, but it also could be customized too. You could change the voice changer results according to gender, age, preference, and so on. Moreover, you could also change it into a non-human sounds. Again, the changing will not wait for a minute to produce, but instantly. That’s why when you want to get a voice changer hardware and software, make sure you already read the reviews of people who already uses it.

Voice changer is really useful if you want to create some programs, games, or other 3D movies, but you don’t have enough budgets to pay for people who could do the dubbing for you. Of course you could ask some of your friends and families to do it for you. But who knows your character better than you? By using this software you could customize the voice of your character as you need, and do the dialogs yourself.

It’s to make sure you pick the right program or hardware before you buy it. Compare several voice changer softwares before you buy, and you’ll get the best one that suits your need.

One of the well known email application is Outlook Express. This application are widely used by people, especially the ones that using Microsoft Office in their computer. There are so many applications that support Outlook Express, thus making the people who used it gets more benefits. Some of the additional applications that you could put in your Outlook Express are email recovery, email backup, and fixing the corrupt email. By using this software, you’ll see that there are so many choices of email recovery that you could use.

Outlook Express doesn’t come with no competitors at all. There are so many web based email service on the Internet that are more popular and offering more benefits for its users. You could take a look at Yahoo Mail and GMail (Google Mail). Both of these email services are competing neck to neck to get more users to use their services. They use all resources available to make the users choosing them over their competitors.

By the release of Windows Vista, the popularity of Outlook Express starting to decline because of the new competitor called Windows Mail. Windows Mail using a completely different format from Outlook Express and make all email recovery applications in Outlook Express can’t be used in Windows Mail. This is also a big problem because for people who already comfortable using the email recovery application in Outlook Express can’t use the same application to undo the deletion of their email messages in Windows Mail.

Windows Vista also increased itself against modern threats. They keep updating the security systems and creating new security measures that preventing users from modifying and accessing crucial information. For the home user, this could be a bit comfortable, because if they need to modified the information and bypass the restrictions, they need an Administrator access or at least the user with administrator rights.

The recovery application for Windows Mail understands what people feel. That’s why they created the email recovery program without the need of users to change their access into Administrator just for getting back the emails that they’ve deleted before. You’re only need to run the email recovery application for Windows Mail, and it’ll do the rest of it.

Having an email recovery for Windows Mail is a must. It’s not often, but sometimes you could do an error by deleting some important email messages. That’s why you need to have this application as a backup to avoid this problem.

Formerly known as SoftScan, Nuance is the company behind the success of Dragon Naturally Speaking, one of the best voice recognition software. This software could replace all of your typing activities by controlling with your voice. Can you imagine one day playing games or placing online casino bets via vocal recognition? It is the future of technology. You could write more letters or documents just by saying it to your microphone, not typing it. Could you imagine how much time that you could save by using this program?

Besides, the accuracy of this voice recognition program is 99%. So, it’s a no brainer that this voice recognition software is more accurate than any other programs.

Using the Dragon Naturally Speaking from Nuance is quite easy. You’re only have to get a computer, a good microphone, and the software itself. This program basically could write anything into almost any plain text program, such as Microsoft Word, Outlook Express, WordPerfect, even Internet Explorer and America Online. It’s really helpful in making you to get the words out of your head faster than typing it.

Another great software from Nuance is OmniPage. It’s one of the best optical character recognition software. This software is really great doing its job by changing your paper or PDF document into digital files in three easy and fast steps. Nuance also very useful in converting any paper forms into digital forms by scanning the document, do the fast conversion, and save it into almost 30 different formats, including PowerPoint, PDF, Word, and XML.

Nuance also creates software that you could use to create a PDF format document so you could easily share it with your friends. One of the benefits of this software is that you could always convert the PDF back into its original format. It’ll wipe out all the hassles for you.

There is also software from Nuance that will allow you to organize all of your documents. This application called PaperPort. By using it, you could scan the documents that you have, store it, view it, sort it, and organize it without the needs to open the documents one by one. This piece of software is very helpful to reduce the paper cost and waste because you could keep the document in digital format, and print it every time you need it.

No matter whom you are or what you do, the software from Nuance could make your life and business tasks finished faster, easier, and more organized.

Expensive software often packed up with more features, created by famous companies, and won several awards. While the cheap software is not that fortunate. However, this condition is not totally right. Why? Because the cheap software usually only included the most essential features for the users and easy navigation.

Cheap software often beats down the expensive one because it solely focusing on finding the solution of one problem rather than finding more solutions to more problems. Other benefits of cheap software are the cheapness, straight forward operative, and more often they do not have very ‘impressive’ design. You could get what you want without make yourself broke. Even if the expensive software might have more features, but if you don’t need any of it but the essential ones, the rest of the money that you’ve will bring you no good.

Expensive software often created with profit-oriented in mind. The developers usually spend more time and money to research the latest technology or adding more features just to make the software looks better than other competitors. While this is not wrong, it could be troublesome. Why? Because the developer could dumped in any features which is not really essential and insult the users’ intelligence. They think because more features are cramped in it, the price will be higher, and more people will buy it.

This is not wrong though. However, if the software lacks of customer supports and easy navigation, the customers won’t hesitates to do the chargeback.

If you need specific software that you know it’s cheap but not available anywhere, you could use the service of freelance developer. He could help you to create custom-designed software that matches your needs without paying him a very generous amount. The feature of software that you want to made probably already included in the expensive software that you’ve ever saw before. But who wants to pay full price if you’re only want a piece of it?

This is where the cheap software comes. Cheap software is not only software that created with a lower price, but it also could mean the software that YOU created with a lower price (with help of the developer, of course). This piece of software probably not the best software in the world, but if it could solve your problems faster, easier, and cheaper from any expensive software in the market, will you complain?

Spyware keeps evolving throughout the years. The more sophisticated anti spyware you have, the smarter spyware will be released to bypass it. Sometimes you’re only need to do a few clicks to get the spyware attached to your computer.

Spyware usually running on a stealth mode in your computer. It’s created by people who like to collect information about others. The stealth mode, usually a bit hard to track by common antivirus program. It could gather all information that you have in your computer without you being noticed of it, and then transmitted the information to its owner. That’s why you need a special anti spyware to take care of this problem. Spyware is not only harmful in stealing your information, but it’s also known to bugging the big companies when it’s get the important companies data.

Another disadvantage by having this spyware in your computer is that it can slow down your computer. That happens because they crawl your files and used up more spaces in your CPU. It could also run by itself every time you turn on your computer and it won’t stop working until you turn it off.

As you probably know, the danger of spyware is that it can steal all important information that you have in your computer. Starting from your personal information, your username and password for several accounts, even your credit card numbers and emails.

The very first thing you can do to avoid any spyware attack is by installing an anti spyware into your computer. Turn it on, and update it regularly. After that, you need to be careful in downloading suspicious files. Even if you already download it, make sure you scan it with your anti spyware and antivirus to make sure it’s saves before you open it. Last but not least, be careful when you clicking the popups. As you know, clicking something could trigger the spyware to be installed in your computer.

There are so many anti spyware program that you could find on the Internet. Some of them are freeware and others are shareware. Freeware means you don’t have to pay anything to use it, while shareware often gives you the trial version to try before you buy. If you don’t know where to start finding the anti spyware, just go to Google, and type “free antispyware program”. This will pulls out tons of results that you could choose.

XML is a standard and simple way of encoding text and data so it could be processed with little human intervention. The XML files could be exchanged across different platform, applications, and operating systems.

If you have no time to change your Word document into XML, consider to use the converter. Converter is software that will help you to change one digital format to another without any visible changes from the content itself. So, if you’re happen to use other digital format to publish your work online, don’t forget to use XML converter to convert it into XML format.

Some of the benefits of using XML format than others for your documents creation:

1. Extensible communication

You’re not only using it for your internal computing systems, but also the external ones like your partners, customers, and vendors. This communication will be established without seeing whether your partners have the same operating systems, PC requirements, etc because this XML using a technology that could be viewed in any platforms and systems.

2. Simplicity

You could easily read, write, and publish your documents easily. It’s because the information that coded in the XML format are easy to understand and processed by any computer.

3. Could be embedded multiple data types

This is one of the best benefits of XML you could find. Basically, it allows you to put or embedded any multimedia files into your XML documents, and the person that you send it to could see and play the multimedia files directly.

Those are several of the benefits of XML. There are many more benefits of XML that you could find such as extensibility, self-description, containing machine-readable context, separate content from presentation, and much more.

Some people who already use XML than Word still fond of keeping the Word documents themselves. It’s because they figure out that doing editing in MS Word is faster than XML, especially if they know nothing about XML. If you have no knowledge of converting your Word documents into XML, you could get some helps from people who specialized in converting Word to XML. They could also provide you with on-demand system to convert your Word to XML quickly and easily.

But what should you do to find someone to convert the Word to XML? You could type “XML conversion” in Google, and Google will presents you with tons of XML converters. There are many selection in XML conversion services you could ever found, some even specialized in the large volume conversion from Word to XML.

The easiest way to sharing the pictures that you have is by creating the slideshow with it. You could also create a self-running slideshow and burn it into VCD/DVD and send it to your families. There are so many applications on the internet that you can use to make a picture slideshow. But, before you download any of them, make sure you follow these steps below to create a fast and easy slideshow:

1. Photo selection

To create a slideshow, you first need to select the pictures that you want to put in it. You could separate it by using themes, people your take pictures with, etc. The size of image that you have will be different depends on the devices that you use to take picture. For example, when you take a picture with a cell phone than a digital camera, you’ll find that the quality is not really good, and the size could be smaller. You could use image editor to fix it to become a normal size pictures before you include it into your slideshow.

One thing to remember, a larger image will require a longer time to load. If you create an online slideshow, make sure you make the size smaller so it can load faster.

2. Building process

In this step, you’ll be combining the pictures that you selected before into your slideshow and adding some effects, music, voices, and so on. Slideshow doesn’t have to be boring by looking at one picture and another. Put an easy to listening music or effects into your slideshow to enhance the final results of it.

3. Running the slideshow

Please notice that if you want to send the slideshow with burn it first into VCD/DVD, you’re only need to test it in your computer and after the burning process. However, if you decide to send it through video networking website or other online carriers, you need to check it repeatedly. Often, the specific video networking website can’t accept your slideshow because it has different media format.

Read the information that these websites provided first before you start so you could share your slideshow with your families and friends easily, without doing any activities to change the format and so on.

Those are 3 simple steps that you can do if you want to share your pictures with your family in a slideshow format. Follow it, and your families will want to do the same thing and share their pictures with you!

As you probably know, not all data that you have could be stored in an iPod. Some of them require you to do the convert yourself so it can match with the data type for iPod before you could play it in there. If you usually find this problem where you need to convert some files to be recognizable by your iPod, you need an iPod converter.

iPod converter is a software that you could use to convert your media files such as MPEG, AVI, and so on into a familiar format that been recognizable by your iPod. By having this iPod converter, you don’t have to worry anymore whether iPod will support this or that format of media files. Some of the iPod converter software not only useful in converting the files quickly and easily, but it could also assist you in downloading the files from the internet.

There are several things that you need to look up before you download any iPod converter software that available today:

1. Support many formats

You could find often that particular iPod converter only convert AVI format or MPEG format. What you need is simply all-in-one converter. You need an iPod converter that could help you to convert any available media format to a format that recognized by iPod. Some of the media formats that you want to include in it are avi, mpeg, divx, mov, ogg, mp3, wma, and so on. Don’t forget to check whether the iPod converter needs additional software or not.

2. Speed

Get another type of iPod converter if the one that you use takes ages to convert. You need the iPod converter that could convert the files faster. You could feel the benefits of a high speed iPod converter when you have more than one media format that you need to convert. Test out your iPod converter for the speed before you stick with one of them.

3. User friendly

Even if the user interface of the iPod converter is the most beautiful that you could find, it’s no use if you need to spend about half an hour just to figure out how to operate the software. Save your time by looking at the screenshot of the program before you download. If the iPod converter has some demo videos, watch it until you’re sure you could operate it with your eyes closed.

4. Small-part converter

Check out whether the iPod converter could convert some part or segment from a particular media format. This is very useful if you have downloaded a very huge movie and you want to save only the part that you like. By having this function in your iPod converter, you could save up some spaces for other usage.

5. Quality

Need I say more? Find the one that could convert your files in the highest quality you could find. It’s to make sure you don’t get bleary eyes by watching a low quality movie in your iPod.

Those are several tips that you could use to get the best iPod converter. You probably need to do some test first before you decide to use it. Feel free to do that and save yourself more time.

You could remove the traces that you do during your surfing time right from your browser. Under normal condition, your browser will store any information about your activities like browsing history, username and password, cookies, file cache, even information from the form that you filled up. This is the most common things that you usually failed to pay attention because these types of information will reveal what you just done before.

Some of these tracking functions are designed to make your browsing time much faster and comfortable, but it didn’t come without any costs. But, before you learn how to erase these online activities traces, let’s take a look by what each of this information will reveal.

1. Cache – Makes your browsing faster because it stores all information about the website that you just visited and make a copy of that website. So, you don’t have to wait for so long just to access the pages that you’ve been opened before.
2. History – You could stay this is the URL storage. Every URL that you input into your browser will be stored in history to make you browse the website faster without typing the full URL.
3. Saved information form – Remember any form that you fill up lately? Well, this part definitely stores all of the information that you input previously.

To erase these traces form your computer, you do these steps:

1. Open your Mozilla Firefox browser
2. Select Tools -> Options from the toolbar
3. Choose Privacy on the left menu
4. Clear these information; History, Saved form information, Download manager history, Cache.
5. Done.

You probably want to clear the cookies too, but before you does that consider whether you’re still need the information such as username and password for several accounts that you have online. If you do, skip it. It’s because cookies often store the information like username and password so your browser will remember it the next time you visit those particular sites.

When you decide to go online, you can’t ignore the possibility that some information about yourself could be accessible by other person. So, do the steps above to protect your identity online before someone stole it.

Yes, you’re still careful in opening an email attachment that you don’t know or visiting some dangerous websites. But, with the knowledge of having antivirus and anti spyware in your back, you could minimize the risk of any virus or spyware attack.

There is one thing you need to know in order to do a full PC maintenance, it’s a log file. Log file is a result that usually created every time your antivirus or anti spyware scanning your PC. It contains many useful information about the current condition of your PC. If you have a network connection for several PCs, learning about log files is very important.

What can you do by the way with these log files? You could track the current condition of your PC and track the progress. Here are several things that you should track down with you log files:

1. Antivirus and anti spyware

Each of this program will gives you a complete log file every time they finished their scans. You could find out about your PC condition starting from the first time you run the antivirus or anti spyware scan program.

2. Performance

If you have a log files that specifically created to track down every PC performance in your network, you could use it to figure out whether performance of each computer increase or decrease. You could also tracking down the causes by comparing the log files that you have before with the latest one. It could also help you to detect whether any malware attach to your PCs and figure out how you can get rid of it.

3. IP address

If you have several problems that start attacking several PCs in your network, you could use the IP address to located the source of problems and give the solutions to it. You could track it down with the log files than checking each PC one by one.

4. Disk Space

You could increase the effectiveness of your disk defragmenter activities by having at least 20% free disk space available. How do you know this? From your log files, of course. Having this information at hand will help you to get the right decision whether you need another hard drives or not.

Doing PC maintenance with antivirus and anti spyware is not enough. You need to be proactive in tracking the progress of your PC. You need to know what makes your PC run faster or what things that make it too slow. Use your log files to give you some clues about what you should do next. Doing this regularly, and you’ll maintain a great condition for your PC.

Having a computer without the protection system is not a good choice, especially if you’re online a lot. You need to have an adequate protection for your PC so you could keep your PC lasts longer. To protect yourself from any harmful virus or spyware, you need to add antivirus and anti spyware into your computer system. Consider this as your shield while you’re online to protect any data or information that you have in the computer.

There are so many anti spyware that you could download from the internet. Some of them are free, and many others are paid software. For anti spyware program, the companies who make it often wrapped it as a package to persuade you to buy it. The package could consist of antivirus, anti spyware, anti malware, firewall, and so on.

One thing that you need to know, freeware is not always worse than shareware. There are many good freeware anti spyware programs out there that you could make use of. Just make sure you pick it from the best source and backed by helpful customer supports. Some of the free anti spyware that you could find today are:

1. Advanced Spyware Remover.

This anti spyware are made by Evonsoft. This anti spyware will help you to remove tons of spyware and malware from your PC such as keyloggers, system hijackers, dialers, adware, stealthy spyware, and so on. You could also use the scanning method to scan all areas of your computer, and make sure that your computer is clean.

2. STOPzilla.

STOPzilla is another spyware program that is very powerful in fighting ID theft and phising. If you like to do the online shopping, you’ll definitely need this one. It will help you to protect your identity while you’re filling up the credit cards form online. It’s also completed with popup protection, and real-time spyware and adware shield.

3. Ad-aware Personal.

This is the anti spyware product from Lavasoft. Just like any other anti spyware program, this software could protect against all adware, malware, and spyware in your computer. It’s also protecting your computer from data mining, Trojans, and aggressive advertising.

4. Spy Cleaner Lite.

Any program or applications that automatically installed it selves into your computer will be wiped out by this powerful software. It could also scan the adware traces from DAT files and destroy it to the roots.

5. Spy-Ad exterminator Free.

This software is widely known for its power in dealing with worms, spyware, adware, malware, keyloggers, and hijacks. It could also scans any type of files that’s been deleted, quarantine or ignored in your computer system. Initially, it has up to 20,000 malware definitions in its database and it could be updated online.

Those are several free anti spyware that you could download and install in your PC. But, before you download any of them, make sure to pick just one of it. You probably need one or more, but if you installed more than one, the first anti spyware program that you installed could recognize the second program as malware or spyware. Avoid this by turn off one anti spyware before you use the other.

In order to make your PC run smoothly, you need to take care of it, very carefully. Here are several tips that you could do at home to make your PC stop ruining your life and run smoothly:

1. Clean up your mailbox

If you use web based mailbox, you could skip this step. But, if you use an email program in your PC to handle your emails, consider cleaning it up regularly. Do the backup first of all emails, and then delete all of it. This will free up some space in your computer and make your computer work faster.

2. Installed antivirus program

Often, the main cause that makes your computers so slow is viruses, tons of them. You need good antivirus software installed in your computer to combat these harmful things and prevent it to penetrate your computer in the future. There are so many free antiviruses out there. Download and installed one of them as soon as possible. To avoid any problems between antiviruses, install just ONE of them. If you’re not comfortable with the protection level of some particular antivirus, close it, uninstalled it, and installed the new one.

3. Installed anti spyware program

This program will monitoring any illegal access from the outside and reminds you to kick it out from your systems. It’s the second best thing of software that you should install in your PC.

4. Do disk clean up regularly

It doesn’t have to be daily clean up, doing the weekly or monthly clean up is enough. You could find it by clicking Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Clean Up. Make sure you checked all boxes.

5. Delete cached files and cookies

If you’re an internet maniac, you’ll have tons of cached or cookies in your browsers. This will make your browsers load slower. Delete all of these, and your PC will run faster!

6. Empty your recycle bin

Basically, recycle bin is the place where you dump all of the things that you don’t need. It won’t hurt to just empty it. If you don’t know how to empty it right click the recycle bin in your desktop, and choose “Empty Recycle Bin”. You’re done.

7. Defrag computers

Start this by clicking Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Defragmenter choose any drives that you wish to defrag, and your operating system will defrag it right away. It’s very useful to tidy up all of your files, and free up some spaces. If you never did this before, be patient, because it will take a while to finish.

Those are the tips that you could do in order to make your computer works smoothly and faster. Do update your antivirus and anti spyware regularly, defrag your computers and do some disks clean up often, and also don’t forget to clean up the mailbox, recycle bin, cached, and cookies.

When using Microsoft Word there are several shortcuts and tips that you can do to make your document writing faster. Microsoft Word also designed to adapt for any changes you made during typing. In short, you could type all the paragraphs, and format it later. It’s proven to be easier to do so than typing and stop to format it.

Here are 5 Top Tips that you could apply to your daily use of Microsoft Word and increase your productivity , no more grumpy when facing it :

1. Fixing Caps Lock Disaster

We usually tend to focus on typing something without looking at our monitor. It’s a good thing to increase your productivity. But, you’ll soon realize that disasters already happen when you’re on your 5th paragraphs. All words in the paragraphs are capitalized! It’s impossible to delete the paragraphs and rewrite it again without breaking someone’s neck. What you could do is blocked the text that you want to change the capitalization, choose “Format” from the toolbar, and then pick “Change Case”. You could see several options to fix your errors. Doing it this way will surely save you lots of time.

2. Fast Changing For Capitals

Sometimes we need to change the capitals fast without doing some format and spend our time playing with the toolbars. If you want to set upper case for the words or paragraphs that you intend to, highlight it and press Ctrl+Shift+A. Press and hold the first two button first, and then press the last button. You could change the text into smaller capitals by pressing Ctrl+Shift+K. The same rules apply.

3. Switch between Document Pages Fast

These tips will help you to switch between several pages in the same document:
- Ctrl+Alt+Page Up: Switch to previous page
- Ctrl+Alt+Page Down: Switch to the next page
- Ctrl+Home: Showing top of your document
- Ctrl+Alt+End: Showing end of your document

4. Page Breaks

You could insert page breaks quickly and easily by pressing the Ctrl+Enter button. This is very useful if you have lots of pages that you want to edit faster.

5. Finding the Last Changing

We often forget where the last time we do our changes is. For novelist, this could be troublesome because it’ll need lots of time to get back from the beginning just to continue the last changes. Do this by pressing Shift+F5. You could spot the latest place that you’ve changed.

Those are 5 Quick Tips that you could add to your daily typing routine using Microsoft Word. Use it generously, and save your time from switching back and forth between pages or drowning in the Microsoft Word toolbars.

What are needed to consider?

If you want to install 2 antiviruses in one or more computers, you may need to consider several things such as:

* Specifications of computers, make sure the CPU and Memory (RAM) enough. You can see the need or the recommended minimum of each antiviral.
* User can handle if both of them detect the virus.
* Match between the antivirus and the other one. If antivirus is not able to give a warning or do not fit with certain antivirus, it should not be forced.
* How will the give a higher priority.
* And probably also need to read the information / explanation of each antiviral.

What if both of antiviruses detect the same virus

When two or more antivirus are installed in the computer, it can and it is very possible that both antivirus detect the same virus. And sometimes this can cause problems, because if the virus detected is usually anti-virus will lock (file), so can not be accessed, run or even in the clear in the manual.

May occur when one antivirus will delete or quarantine the virus, it does not succeed / fail because the virus is in the lock (locked) access by other antivirus. If this happens, it can be one of the antiviruses must be switch off, and then the other delete to enter the virus to quarantine. Although it can not succeed, the other antivirus still can lock the file.

Do you still want to install two antiviruses?

If you still want to install two antivirus or more, but you worry computer will crash, error, conflict, or computer work will so slowly, this can be solved with activate only one antivirus. Mean?

Each menu usually have antivirus that work on the computer monitor at any time, such as: Active guard, Real-time guard, Proactive defense, Resident shield, Resident Protection, and so forth. To prevent conflicts and reduce the burden on the computer can be done with only the features for only one antivirus. While other anti-virus turned off (not activated), so only used to perform scan manually if needed only.

Or can also turn off the auto run feature or prevent automatic antivirus running windows, can be arranged through a program like Autoruns. There will be seen what the antivirus running when windows start (booting). But with the autorun just sometimes not enough, because the antivirus itself can activate the service through the windows (I checked the menu in the Control Panel> Administrative Tools> Services)

Experience is also important

This may also be made in consideration of the experience of others who had to install 2 antivirus in one or more computers. If you have friends who use two or more antivirus please provide feedback / comments. Whether there have been a problem or not, that can complement each other and become a science for us.

The botnet attacker was ruled botnets that was raised secretly to overwhelm access to these sites simultaneously. As a result, not less than 300 million users Twitter, Facebook, and LiveJournal can not access due to traffic that is too high even make the server down.

Twitter experienced down of service about three hours since the attack that occurred. During the three hours, about 35 million Twitter users can not send any messages. Facebook interference reported the same experience about 250 million users. While LiveJournal report 21 million users affected by this attack.

“This is really a very deadly attack,” said Stephen Tanase, senior analyst of Kaspersky as quoted from UsaToday. None of the big attacks happen again since February 2000. At that time, a boy aged 15 years who named himself Mafiaboy ordered his botnets to attack Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, Etrade, ZDnet, and CNN.

With crippling Twitter and other social networking site, Attackers want to show how strong and terrible of botnet network in the world. Security analyst from the company’s antivirus AV, Roger Thompson estimates 40 percent of computers connected to the Internet are currently infected with botnet. However, users often do not realize the dangerous program that hide themselves and behave reasonably so difficult antivirus detected.

One way to avoid the occurrence of piercing administrator account is to disable it. So, if there are desperate to try to login with administrator user name, then will appear warning “Your account has been disabled. Please see your system administrator. “And the login will not run.

If the fraudulent user has an account on the computer to log in with the access rights does not administrator and then use the Run as facilities … I was also sure to fail. Every effort to get access as administrators will appears warning unable to logon: logon failure: account currently disabled.

Well, for those who want to disable the administrator account in Windows, follow these steps:
1. Click [Start]> [Control Panel]> [System and Maintenance]> [Administrative Tools]> [Local Security Policy].
2. When the Local Security Policy window has opened, go to Security Settings-Local Policies-Security Options.
3. After that, look for policy Accounts: Administrator account status.
4. Double-click the policy and then select Disabled.
5. Then close the box dialog by clicking the [OK] and close the Local Security Policy.

If you have tricks in the run up correctly, the account administrator will not be accessible again. Please note, before the turn off the administrator account; make sure you have created at least one account with another user name that has administrator rights.

1. Be selective
There are a lot of social networks in the virtual world, such as Facebook, Friendster, Twitter, Flickr, MySpace. It is not possible to have accounts on all the networks. You must know the purpose of creating social networks because each network has a respective function, such as whether the friend would like to add? Knowing what others are doing? Promote the various works of music and video?

2. Stay focused
To have success in social network online, you must check the latest development of each every day.

3. Who you are
Display information about you carefully, but not too excessively in order not to attract cyber-stalkers.

4. Stay on
Make sure you keep in touch with your friends routinely, for example, participate in online discussions, teleconferencing for those who are most advance, update status, or comments. Utilize these advancement for good intention, but do not be redundant because you can be considered as a ‘un-welcomed’ by your friends.

5. Have Fun
Make as simple as possible because make relation in the social network online is fun. You can add friends, socialize, and share the same interests.

Users who participate in the Windows Technical Beta Program (must be invited by Microsoft) can register to obtain the final version of Windows 7 Ultimate. All of the other beta testers, users of the free beta public and RC users at this time will not get the version free. Not mentioned how many copies will be provided free by Windows to users of Technical Beta program.

Full version of Windows 7 Ultimate will sale with a price of U.S. $ 319.99. The upgrade version valued U.S. $ 219.99.

Previously, Mozilla estimate that Firefox download could reach 1 billion by the end of this week, but in line with the increasing number of downloads, Mozilla correct the statement and estimate that on this Friday may have reached 1 billion. A site that has the support Firefox Download Guesstimator also predicts the number will reach 1 billion this afternoon.

Please note that the 1 billion figures is not the number of Firefox users, but the number of all versions of the Firefox that have been downloaded since 2004. Update on the Mozilla site was counted as one-time download, but the automatically update is in progress will not be counted as one.

The success of reaching 1 billion will increase the number of achievement Firefox successful. Currently, Firefox has nearly one third of the web browser market. According to Statcounter data, Firefox has 30.7 percent. In the first still held by Internet Explorer with 60 percent. Meanwhile, the Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Opera are still under 5 percent.  Specifically in Europe, the difference between the level of popularity Internet Explorer and Firefox more close again. Firefox successfully reached 40 percent, while 47 percent of Internet Explorer. Unfortunately in Asia Firefox is less popular, only reached 23 percent.

Mozilla has a plan will launched site called onebillionplusyou.com, where users can view the performance of Firefox.

At glance, the shape is similar with iPod Touch with touch screen 3.5 inches wide. The white color is also typical of Apple before switch to silver. This K2 Gadget will be equipped with WiFi connection, web browser, Bluetooth, and even digital TV tuner. In addition there is accelerometer features position so that the display of the screen adjusts with the position.

Unfortunately there are no other details about this product. Product manager of IRiver, Danny Bejanoff, does not sure when this product will be released to the market. If it is really exit, iPod Touch will have a competitor that may be equivalent.