Protect Your PC Using Windows Steady State

If you’ve used a PC at a library or internet café, you’ve probably discovered that it’s been ‘locked down’. In all likelihood,Windows will have barred you from installing new programs, launching the Run dialogue and fiddling about in Control Panel. It’s understandable, of course – no administrator wants to deal with a Windows installation trashed beyond redemption by a vandal or inexperienced user.

 

Many shared, public PCs are configured using Microsoft’s Steady State . This provides administrators with an easy method of implementing user restrictions. It’s suited not only to commercial and institutional environments, but is also perfect for the home. If you’re setting up a PC for a child, for instance, Steady State will give you almost total control over what they can and can’t do.

 

There are  2 settings available there,Global Computer Settings and User Settings. Most of the action will take place in the latter.

 

Features

• Set Computer Restrictions (Computer Restrictions).
• Schedule Software Updates. (Allows you to specify whether SteadyState automatically applies Windows Updates. This is recommended, since it handles dealing with Windows Disk Protection for you, and also updates the signatures of several popular Antivirus programs.)
• Protect the Hard Disk (Windows Disk Protection).
• Add User (User Account Manager).
• And  Microsoft gives it away for free!

 

By using Windows SteadyState, you can more effectively: Defend shared computers from unauthorized changes to their hard disks; Restrict users from accessing system settings and data; Enhance the user experience on shared computers.With Windows SteadyState, Windows administrator can minimize the windows corrupting rate and protect their windows shared computer in better management.

 

  Windows SteadyState 2.5

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How to Convert VHS to DVD

VHS video is inconvenient in today's digital world, and there are a lot of people who want to convert their older video recordings to DVD.Luckily, copying your old VHS tapes to DVD is simple, requiring only an inexpensive video adapter and a relatively recent-model PC. By converting those old VHS tapes to digital form, you can effectively stop the deterioration in its tracks. It also allows you to use your computer to edit out the boring and blooper moments, add music or narration, and make extra copies for your family and friends.

 

 

1.Connect your camcorder or VCR to the video converter using an S-video cable if it has an S-video port. Otherwise connect the composite video output to the yellow plug on the converter and connect the red and white audio outputs from the VCR to their equivalent-coloured inputs on the converter. Alternatively, if the VCR has a scart socket use the supplied converter cable as shown here. Power up the VCR, insert a tape and press play.

2.Launch Magix Movies on DVD 7. In the New Project disc settings panel, name your new project, select a disk space preset such as DVD and click OK. Click the recording button to the right of the preview screen, followed by the Analogue video button in the Recording source selection panel. The Video recording capture window will now open and you should see your video playing in the preview window. If you can’t see the video, check the input selection is correctly set for either ‘Comp or S-VHS’, depending on whether you are using the Composite,or S-video input connector.

 

3.Click the browse button alongside the ‘Save file in the following folder’ field and navigate to the folder where you want to save your captured video files. Depending on the capture codec you use, a three-hour tape could occupy up to 6GB on your hard drive – so make sure you have plenty of available space. Click the recording quality pop-up menu and select a recording quality. If you plan to edit the captured footage, select one of the Magix MXV codecs at the appropriate quality for your intended output – for example, DVD requires the MXV:DVD quality choice.

 

4.If you plan to record the captured footage straight to DVD choose the MPEG DVD Recording quality setting from the pull-down menu. Follow the instructions to activate the MPEG2 codec if you haven’t done so before. The advantage of choosing an MPEG2 codec is the captured file can be written straight to DVD without the need for transcoding, this will save a lots of time when it comes to burning your DVD. Choose the MPEG:DVD preset or select MPEG:User defined and click the Configuration button to set your own bitrate.

 

5.Use the VCR controls to cue the tape to the position you want to start recording from. If you want the recording to stop automatically after a specified time period, check the Record time limit box and enter a period in minutes in the field in panel 4. Press the red record button to start capturing. If you haven’t set a record time limit, you will need to press the stop button when you reach the end of the tape. If you experience problems, with sound synchronization for example, try capturing the footage in fifteen-minute segments, rather than one big chunk. When you’ve finished capturing click OK to close the capture window.

 

6.Click the Burn button at the top of the screen and choose a menu template from the Menu Layouts scroller. Choose DVD from the format pop-up menu in the bottom left corner. The status bar shows how much space your footage will occupy on the DVD, the playing time and the number of scenes. A scene is created for each clip on the editing timeline, so if you want menu buttons for more scenes, click the Edit button and use the editing tools to make cuts in the footage. Finally, insert a blank DVD in your writer and click the DVD Export button.

 

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• Transfer Movies From VHS to DVD
• How to Convert VHS to DVD
• How To Transfer VHS to DVD
• Convert VHS to DVD

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Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 Released

Microsoft released Office Service Pack 2, which improves the performance of Microsoft Outlook and adds support for Open Document Format in Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007.Slow IMAP access of Outlook fixed in this release,which is a good news for users  who check their Gmail emails on Outlook via IMAP.Outlook downloads newest mail first instead of oldest mail is another  change for POP3 access.Here’s a complete list of changes and issues that have been fixed through Service Pack 2

 

 

Features

• Support for Open Document Format (ODF)
• Support for XML Paper Specification (XPS),
• Support for  Portable Document Format (PDF)

For Office Desktop Programs:

• Improved Outlook Calendaring Reliability
• Improved Outlook Performance
• Enabling Object Model support for Charts in PowerPoint and Word
• Improved cryptographic functionality by supporting all cryptographic algorithms offered by the operating system
• Improved functionality in Excel’s charting mechanism
• Ability to ungroup SmartArt graphics (and as a result, the ability to add animations to them in PowerPoint)
• Ability for Visio to export UML models to an XML file compliant with the XMI standard
• Tool that enables the uninstall of Office client Service Packs

For Servers:

• Performance and manageability improvements to variations in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) including STSADM commands for repairing links between source and target pages
• Improvements around processing status approvals from Office Project Web Access into Office Project Professional 2007
• Improvements to read-only content databases and index rebuild timer jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

More  here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953195 | Download | 290 MB|Free

Alternatively you can install this update from Microsoft Update

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A Memorable Way to Organize Your Favorites

Do you have the habit of saving a lot of bookmarks, but are lazy to organize them?. Create a town full of your favorite files, folders, applications and web sites with Favoritestown.It  provides a simple, fun and memorable way to organize all of your favorites. It allows you to store and access not only your internet favorites but also your frequently used PC files and programs.

After installing it on your PC, each time you log on it will display a picture of Favoritestown on your desktop.You can enter the buildings in town by clicking on them. Within the buildings you can store links to and then access all of your favorite PC files and internet sites. Favoritestown is far more than just a favorites organizer. It represents a brand new concept in PC usability.

 

Features

• Simple and effective way to store and access Internet favorites PC files and programs.
• No more tiresome searching through folders, desktop icons and browser favorites.
• Add favorites using a drag and drop facility.
• It store over 1000 favorites.
• Freeware
• All of your favorites are just one click away!

SysReq: Windows XP, 2003, Vista  |9.7MB|Freeware | Favoritestown

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Windows Clipboard and Office Clipboard

The main difference is that the Windows Clipboard only holds one item at a time. When a new item is added, it replaces any existing one. Although the Windows Clipboard works when you copy, cut or paste, the Windows Clipboard Viewer isn’t readily accessible by default these  days. However, if you open the clpbrd.exe file in the C:\WINDOWS\system32 folder, you can see anything that has been recently copied or cut.

The Office Clipboard can hold up to 24 items .The first item is only deleted when the 25th is added. The Office Clipboard allows you to choose whether items are collected or not when the Clipboard Task pane isn’t displayed. (They’re always collected when the pane is displayed.)Under the Home tab, below Format  Painter, click the arrow to the right of ‘Clipboard’. At the bottom of the displayed Task pane is an Options button. Check or don’t check ‘Collect Without Showing Office Clipboard’.

 

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Windows Driver Packs

You never know when disaster may strike,resulting in you having to re-install some or all of your Windows setup. This can leave you without drivers for crucial components,and there’s a good chance you won’t be able to connect to the internet to download them.

To avoid this situation, you should visit http://www.driverpacks.net/DriverPacks.Driverpacks is an open-source project that aims to provide a local copy of all the drivers XP will need.On the site you’ll see listed a number of   downloads under the headings Chipset, CPU,Graphics, Lan, Mass Storage, Sound and Wlan. You’ll need to download all the files into an empty directory on your hard disk. The total download size should be about 336MB and all the files will end with the extension .7z.They can be decompressed using the 7-zip
program (available at www.7-zip.org).

Once you’ve downloaded and decompressed all 10 packs, you should move the compressed files you downloaded out of the directory to a safe location. You can then copy the remaining extracted directories and their contents to a 2GB or larger memory key, or burn them to a DVD.
You can use these drivers whenever you have to re-install or repair a Windows XP installation, so it’s worth keeping sufficient backup copies of these driver discs to cover you in all eventualities. What’s more, on page 34 we’ll show you how to incorporate these drivers into a specially customised XP installation disc.You can also find Windows drivers at the Microsoft Update Catalog site at http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site, but it’s
tedious if you need more than a handful

 

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• Sparksspace-Drivers

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IEclean 1.3

For your convenience most web browsers store recently accessed files and web sites.Internet Explorer clean up is just like computer housekeeping and something that you should do on a regular basis. Your computer and browser both will run better and more efficiently when you do an Internet Explorer clean up.Safeguard your privacy, job, business secrets, and anything else you want to keep private with just one click in Windows with IEclean.It cleans Cache, cookies, typed urls, form history.Furthermore, you can delete the temp folder.

 

 

SysReq:Win98,WinME,Windows2000,WinXP| IE 5.x or higher| Freeware|255KB| Download

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ViGlance & ViStart for Your XP

The most interesting and useful feature of Windows 7 is the new "Superbar". Superbar is a redesigned form of the old Taskbar. It shows only icons of running programs (Iconized Taskbar buttons), it allows to re-arrange taskbar buttons, its height is a bit larger than the old Taskbar.This  provides more space for other programs and opened windows to fit in.

 

ViGlance is a small and portable app which lets you use Windows 7 like Superbar in Windows XP.It will replace the normal taskbar of windows xp with this windows 7 like taskbar which is more beautiful and manageable for different windows and  applications opened. It provide more space and good look feel as compared to the boring looks of windows xp taskbar

 

Features

True 48×48 Vista Icon Support

Dynamic Process Grouping

Fading Start Orb

Glide transitional effects

Resource PNG skin support

Native Right-Click support

Dynamic taskbar transparency

x64 and x86 Windows XP Support

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ViStart another  utility from Lee-Soft  is a very small, but perfect Start Menu replacement for your Microsoft Windows XP system. ViStart will now index all personal files and program files and give ACTUAL instant results that is 4 times faster then the real Vista start menu.ViStart  is lightweight, skinnable and freeware

 

 

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Remove Duplicate Outlook Records With ODIR

The longer you use Microsoft Outlook, the  duplicate records are to creep into your calendar and contact list.Outlook Duplicate Items Remover (ODIR)—eliminates duplicate contacts,calendar entries, tasks, notes, and e-mail folders

Using ODIR is very easy: select a folder and click the button Remove Duplicate Items .After installing the free program, fire up Outlook and find the newly added ODIR menu. Click it, and then choose Remove Duplicate Items. Select the folder that you want ODIR to scan; it will detect duplicates and relocate them to a subfolder (without actually deleting anything, so you’re safe against accidental matches).

 

ODIR recognizes an item as a duplicate if all of the following properties match those of another item in the same folder:

 

Contact items : first name, last name, company name and email address

Appointment items : subject, location, start date and end date

Task items : subject, start date, due date and status

Note items : contents of the note (Body property) and color

E-mail or Post items :

• received emails : the internet message ID (this is a unique identifier for each email received)
• sent emails : email subject and the time the email is sent
• unsent emails: email subject only

SysReq:Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista | 2.11MB | Freeware| Download

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Get Into Free Sites Without Registering

ARE YOU TIRED of having to register on a free Web site just to read a news article or view some pictures of your relatives? Rather than registering on such sites (and risking a barrage of annoying spam), many people forget about the news item or put off seeing how their nieces and nephews are doing until their next vacation.

But here is  an easy way to get members-only content without enduring the hassle of signing up for an account.Whenever family and friends send me links to registration required sites, just turn to Bug-MeNot (www.bugmenot.com ) to slip past most of these requirements. BugMeNot is a site that helps web users get around website registration roadblocks, is back up after disappearing for several days because of server hosting issues.

BugMeNot holds pre-made user names and passwords so that visitors can use them to read content on thousands of registration-only news sites.It also encourages users to use such fake e-mail account services as Mailinator and Spamgourmet to create such accounts. However, it does not allow them to add accounts for pay websites, as this could potentially put BugMeNot in legal trouble. BugMeNot also claims to remove accounts for any web site that requests that they do not provide accounts for non-registered users.

 

 

Features

Firefox Extension: Add BugMeNot to your Firefox toolbar.

Bugmenot Bookmarklet: Lookup disposable login details directly from the target website.

Contribute: Submit a missing or alternative login details.

Report non-working accounts

 

If you use Internet Explorer,go to the BugMeNot Web site and type in the URL of the site that you’d like to log in to. BugMeNot will return a list of user names and passwords that you can use to log in successfully.The BugMeNot Firefox Extension automates the service for Firefox users.After you install the BugMeNot extension, the next time you encounter a required log-in prompt for a free site, right-click the username or e-mail address box and select Login with BugMeNot. Re peat the process if the initial attempt doesn’t work; the plug-in might have used old information the first time around. Otherwise,
you should slide into the registration-required content without a hitch.

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100 Days Free Genuine License Key for Kaspersky Internet Security 2009

Kaspersky anti-virus engine is one of the best antivirus protection available with high detection rate. While Kaspersky Internet Security is one of the most complete security protection package available in the market, with not only antivirus feature, but also anti-malware, anti-spyware, anti-spam, two-way personal firewall, anti-phishing, anti-rootkit, anti-Trojan, intrusion detection system (IPS), privacy protector, secure Wi-Fi/VPN connection, parental control, content filtering, and etc.

Essential Protection

• Protects from all types of malware and spyware
• Scans files, email messages and Internet traffic
• Protects instant messengers (ICQ, MSN)
• Updates automatically

Preventive Protection

• Intelligent application management and control.
• Proactive protection from unknown threats
• Scans OS and applications for vulnerabilities.
• Disables links to malware sites.

Identity Theft Protection

• Disables links to phishing websites
• Virtual keyboard for safe entry of logins and passwords.
• Prevents theft of data via secure connections (HTTPS / SSL).
• Blocks unauthorized dial-up connections

Content Filtering

• Parental control
• Antispam protection

Computer Shopper  offers  KIS 2009 free for 100 days,To avail this offer do the following.

1.Pleas visit here  Exclusive 100 day KIS 2009 Offer

2.Enter in the data and click ‘Submit’.

 

3.Next you have to  enter  there some word that contain in Computer Shopper magazine

4.Some hints  are here

Enter the first world of the first step key in GO
Enter the first word of the third step key in THE
Enter the third word of fifth step key in JOB
Enter the fifth word of the third step key in YOU
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Enter the fifth word of the sixth step key in ACCOUNT
Enter the first word of the fourth step key in YOU
Enter the fourth word of the fifth step key in IS
Enter the third word of the third step key in SCREEN

5.Refresh the webpage if can’t get the correct hint then ‘Submit’.

6.Check  your email for activation code and register name .Download Kaspersky internet security  2009 and enter in the register name and product key,Enjoy  KIS 2009 with free for 100 days.

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PC Tools Privacy Guardian - FREE License

Privacy Guardian guarantees your privacy by ensuring all traces of your online Internet and computer activities are permanently erased and unrecoverable on your PC. Information from every website you visit is stored on your computer and recorded in hidden Windows® locations including temporary files, cookies, system registry and the index.dat file. Web browsers only provide partial privacy protection by allowing some temporary Internet files and cookies to be deleted, but they do not clean data out of all the hidden files nor do they delete the data securely

 

 

Privacy Guardian feature highlights

• Completely cleans all traces of online Internet activities on your computer including cache, cookies, index.dat and history
• Permanently deletes recycle bin contents, temporary files, document history, plus many more PC tracks
• Bleaches free space and deleted files using Department of Defense standard (DoD 5220.22-M) making them unrecoverable using regular methods
• Restores valuable hard drive space and improves system performance 
• Plug-ins to clean the history of 100+ third-party programs, including chat, image viewing, P2P applications and more
• Supports Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla Firefox and Opera web browsers

To Get a FREE copy of PC Tools Privacy Guardian , please do the following

 

1. Go here >  PC Tools Promotional Offer . Ensure to provide  a valid email address.

2. PC Tools Privacy Guardian License key will be sent to the email address that you specified .

3. Download PC Tools Privacy Guardian from here.

4. Install the software and apply  the e-mailed license key to activate your software.

 

Current Version: 4.1.0.37|Size: 3,875 KB|Platforms: Windows® Vista™ 32-bit, XP, Me, 98 and 2000

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Windows 7 RC To be Available From April 30 2009

Microsoft said the RC will be available for download by program developers and IT professionals subscribing to the MSDN and TechNet networks on April 30 and available more broadly on May 5.The version, known as a 'release candidate', or RC, essentially means the world's largest software company is in the final stages of completing the operating system.

 

Since the engineering team has been busy analyzing the feedback, fixing bugs, and working hard to improve the overall experience. Many  suggestions helped Microsoft refine the new and improved taskbar, the behavior of Aero Peek, Touch, Windows Media Player, etc. Stay tuned!

Source:The Windows Blog.

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PowerPoint to Flash Freeware :iSpring Free 4.1

iSpring Free is a freeware PowerPoint to Flash converter that keeps original appearance of your PowerPoint presentations regardless of their complexity. After conversion to Flash your PPT presentations turns very compact, easy to distribute and share on web and compatible with all browsers and OSs. Flash presentations can be viewed on computers without PowerPoint installed.

 

The program is actually a Microsoft PowerPoint add-on, which means that if you want to download and install it, you need to have MS PowerPoint already installed on your computer. You need to register the program in order to be able to use it, and it is free of charge.

With iSpring Free everyone can get attractive and high quality Flash movies from PowerPoint presentations just in one click. iSpring Free generates .HTML code that allows placing Flash movie into a web site or a blog. You can publish Flash movie to a folder on  your local computer or right to SlideBoom online portal where you can share your ideas worldwide.The unique features of iSpring Free are creation of solid Flash file with all external resources embedded, processing of large presentations, high conversion speed and accuracy

 

Features

Easily distributable in Flash format which is welcome everywhere and optimized for web

Highly compatible regardless of viewers' platforms and browsers

Accessible to the worldwide audience at free SlideBoom online portal

Rapid as streaming Flash starts playback as soon as the first slide is loaded

Secure as .swf files are hardly changeable

 

iSpringHomePage |SysReq:Windows2000/XP/2003/Vista|PowerPoint2000/XP/2003/2007|Freeware|7.20MB | iSpring Free

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Free PublicProxy to Access Blocked Sites

Here is a free web proxy site  which help you to access your favorite social network, like Facebook, Myspace or Youtube , when  your Government, school, college or workplace network blocked your free access to the internet



http://myproxy24.de/

Related Links:Unblock those BLOCKED SITES!

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GreenPrint: Saving Money Today,Trees Tomorrow

GreenPrint World is a free version of GreenPrint software for home users worldwide. GreenPrint solves a problem nearly every computer user has experienced: The wasteful pages that seem only to appear after a document has been printed (for example, pages with just a URL, banner ad, legal jargon, or a run-over Excel column). GreenPrint does this by analyzing the document and then highlighting and removing unnecessary pages.  GreenPrint also incorporates an easy to use PDF writer, a print preview called GreenView, and a reporting feature, which keeps track of the number of pages, trees, and money saved.

 

Features

• Patent-pending technology highlights and removes unwanted pages
• Print overview - easily decide what stays and what goes
• PDF writer - Create PDFs with 1 click
• Track pages and money saved

 

GreenPrint eliminates wasteful pages in any printout automatically, saving you time and money, and maybe more importantly, saving trees, reducing greenhouse gasses, and decreasing waste.

 

SysReq:Windows 95/Me/2000/XP/Vista,|Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0|Homepage|23.3MB

 

 GreenPrint       

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Safe Internet Surfing with AVG LinkScanner

There are millions of poisoned web pages out there.How to browse safely there?AVG has now made available  its Scanner  as a standalone application for the Windows operating system compatible with the Internet Explorer and Firefox web browser.It integrates with your web browser and verifies search results and website links to let you know if they are safe to visit or not.

 

AVG LinkScanner has a two-fold approach to your safety online ;Search-Shield scans search results and places a safety rating next to each link, so you know where it’s safe to  click.Active Surf-Shield scans the page behind any link you click on or any web address you type into your browser. If the page is poisoned, it stops you from opening it.

 

After the installation of AVG.LinkScanner, it will show green flag and red flag indicators with each links. Red indicator flag brings something dangerous or harmful, other hand, Green flag brings good for you. The user can select to go back or continue to the website in question.In every search results it will confirm you and show you the scanned reports on basis of your clicks on icons.

 

LinkScanner also offers two "slow down" warnings. The first is yellow with one exclamation point in it, while the second is orange and has two exclamation points. A link at the bottom of the pop-up takes you to the AVG product comparison page.

 

   AVG Link Scanner | http://linkscanner.avg.com/

 

Related Reading

 

• SiteAdvisor for Internet Explorer

• McAfee SiteAdvisor for Firefox

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Web Messenger for Windows Live Hotmail

Windows Live team has announced the availability of Web Messenger for Windows Live Hotmail. With this feature you can chat with your friends in Live messenger without having to install it in the desktop.Now  you can chat with your friends in Live messenger without having to install it in the desktop.

You will be able to send instant messages from the Windows Live Hotmail and People pages. So if you are using computer from friends place or a public computer, you can still chat with Hotmail contacts.

 

Features

• You can sign in to and send instant messages from any computer connected to the Internet, even if it doesn’t have Windows Live Messenger installed.
• You can also send IMs to your Messenger contacts from the People page (your contact list). Just click the contact’s picture, and you’ll see Send an instant message on the dropdown menu.
• In Hotmail, if one of your Messenger contacts sends you e-mail, you’ll see their Messenger availability indicated in green, yellow, or red right by their name. If it’s green, click it and instantly start chatting
• If you have more than one Windows Live ID, you can sign in to web Messenger and regular Messenger at the same time, with different IDs.
• Don’t worry, people can only see your availability if you’ve agreed to be their Messenger contacts. You can sign in and use Hotmail or any other Windows Live service without signing in to web Messenger, so nobody can start chatting with you until you decide to let them know you’re available.

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Privacy Tools

When you go online, you leave tracks all over the place. You could be hanging out with friends on IM, checking out websites, or downloading music.There are various ways that information about you or your activities can be collected without your knowledge or consent:

• Cookies
• HTTP
• Browsers
• There may already be information about you published on the web
• Downloading freeware or shareware
• Search engines
• Electronic commerce
• E-mail
• E-mail and cryptography
• Spam
• Dangers of Internet Relay Chat

Tracing on the Internet

 

The best way to cover your tracks on the Internet is to surf on a proxy cascade, a pool of hundreds of servers. This will give you a new IP address, and the connection between your PC and the website would also be heavily encrypted. Using Firefox with an Add-on such as Torpark, or Foxy Proxy is the way to go, or you may use the anonymization service JAP/JonDo.In contrast to normal Firefox operation, Torpark starts without any installation whatsoever

 

Tor is an abbreviation for The Onion Router.It prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from  learning your physical location. Tor works with many of your existing applications, including web browsers, instant messaging clients, remote login, and other applications based on the TCP protocol.

 

   TOR  | JAP/JonDo

 

Protection from  Trojan Spying

 

To encrypt your hard disk  use TrueCrypt.It is a free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.It can also encrypt a hard disk partition or storage device, such as USB flash drive.No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password or correct encryption key. Until  decrypted, a TrueCrypt volume appears to be nothing more than a series of random numbers. The entire file system is encrypted (i.e., file names,  folder names, contents of every file, and free space).

 TrueCrypt

 

BitLocker Drive Encryption is a full disk encryption feature included with Microsoft's Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 Ultimate Beta operating systems designed to protect data by providing encryption for entire volumes.

 

Protection from: Telephone Tracing

ZfoneTM is a new secure VoIP phone software product which lets you make encrypted phone calls over the Internet. It encrypts your call so that only the other person can hea r you speak.The Zfone software detects when the call starts, and initiates a cryptographic key agreement between the two parties, and then proceeds to encrypt and decrypt the voice packets on the fly.

 

ZfoneTM

 

OtherTools

CookieCooker is a tool that enables you to protect your behavior and your interests from being spied on on the internet.It also  protects your email and postal mail account against spam by using trash mail serives and marking your postal adresses. By a report function user community create a database of address sellers. CookieCooker changes the cookies set by web servers on the own home computer to falsify the user profiles collected by the web servers

CookieCooker

 

Steganos Locknote is  the open source software enables users to quickly and easily protect confidential notes, passwords, addresses, phone numbers or other sensitive information. LockNote looks and acts like a normal text file; however, it can only be opened with a password chosen by the user. The encrypted memo can be saved to a USB stick and used while on the road or on another PC

Steganos-LockNote | Mirror

 

 

Exif Tag Remover allows you to easily delete the Exif tag and other metadata tags. By doing so before publishing an image you take an active step toward protecting your privacy on the Internet.Jpeg images often contain hidden information about the image and it's creator, so called metadata tags. These tags are written to the files by digital cameras and  photo editing software. There are many different tags, such as Exif, IPTC, XMP & Comments.

 

 

  Exif Tag Remover

 

 

 

Analyze your internet connection with

 

The test does the following:

• Checks for pop-up windows
• Shows the browser “headers” which is the hidden information your web browser sends a web site.
• Checks to see if port 80 and 16771 are open to see if your browser shows images and if you have a firewall blocking traffic on port 16771.
• Checks your web browser version and determines the capabilities from a database.
• Checks for browser plug-ins that re installed.
• Traces your IP address.
• Determine who owns the domain associated with the IP address of your Internet connection.
• Looks up your the servers that handle mail for the domain associated with the IP address of your Internet connection.
• Determine who manages the IP address of your Internet connection.
• Lists the installed fonts on your computer.

   Check   

 

Visit Online Guide to Practical Privacy Tools : http://epic.org/privacy/tools.html

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