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.

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 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.

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!

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.