December 2007 Time zone update for Windows operating systems

These updates enable your computer to automatically adjust the computer clock on the correct date in 2007 and 2008 due to revised Daylight Saving Time laws in many countries. These updates enable Windows to correctly apply the changes for daylight saving time (DST) 2007 and later. You have to restart the system after applying the update.

Download the Update for Windows Server 2003 package

Download the Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium based Systems package

Download the Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition package

Download the Update for Windows Vista package

Download the Update for Windows Vista for x64 based Systems package

Download the Update for Windows XP package

Download the Update for Windows XP x64 Edition package

Learn English vocabulary and feed hungry people

Freerice.com was created to feed hungry people while learning free vocabulary. This site was created by John Breen. Freerice has two goals. Freerice provide English vocabulary to everyone for free. Freerice provide rice to hungry people for free.

When you open the site, then the site displays a word and four answers. When you Click on the answer that best defines the word, then the sponsors who advertise on this site will donate 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program for each word. All this rice will be donated to hungry people by United Nations World Food Program. When you answer the first word then again it displays another word with four answers. When you click on the right answer then the sponsors will donate another 20 grains. So you can feed hungry people while learning free vocabulary. Students can get high scores on tests like SAT, GRE, LSAT and GMAT from these free vocabulary tests.

So help the hungry people by visiting www.freerice.com

Remove copy protection on movie DVDs with DVD43

DVD43 is a freeware decrypter. DVD43 runs in the background and unlocks movie DVDs so that you can copy the movies with a DVD copy software. DVD copy softwares like Nero, 1Click DVD Copy, Intervideo DVD Copy, Roxio DVD Copy, Pinnacle DVD Copy work well with DVD43.

How it works?

You will get a happy face icon on your task bar after installing this software. Insert the DVD you want to copy and wait for DVD43 to detect it. The happy face icon turns green after DVD43 detects the DVD. Now run your DVD copy software and copy the movie.

DVD43 supports Microsoft Windows Vista 32 bit, Windows XP, and Windows 2000.

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FireFox 3.0 Beta 1 now available

FireFox 3.0 Beta 1 version is available to Linux, Mac, and Windows users now. It is available in 22 languages.

Download FireFox 3.0 Beta 1 for Windows users.

Download FireFox 3.0 Beta 1 for Linux users.

Download FireFox 3.0 Beta 1 for Mac Users.

Download FireFox 3.0 Beta 1 for any of the above three Operating Systems.

Microsoft released Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5

Today Microsoft released Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 versions. Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 are core components of the Microsoft application platform. Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework make it easy for development organizations and developers of all skill levels to build software and services on the latest platforms including the Web, Windows Vista, the 2007 Office system, and Windows Server 2008.

Visual Studio 2008 delivers over 250 new features, makes improvements to existing features including performance work on many areas. Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 contains many new features than previous .NET Framework versions.

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Download .NET Framework 3.5

Take your Bookmarks, Saved Passwords etc with FireFox Portable Edition

A portable app is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a portable device (USB flash drive, portable hard drive, iPod etc ) and use on any Windows computer. When your portable device is plugged in, you have access to your software and personal data. When you unplug the device, none of your personal data is left behind.

Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition is nothing but Mozilla Firefox web browser bundled with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.

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Process Explorer - an alternative to Windows Task Manager

Process Explorer is an advanced process management utility which shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window shows a list of the currently active processes. If the bottom window is not visible, then you can make it visible by selecting Show Lower Pane from View menu. You can set Lower Pane View either in DLL mode or Handles mode. You can set the required mode from View menu of Process Explorer. If Process Explorer is in handles mode then you will see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened. If Process Explorer is in DLL mode then you will see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded.

Process Explorer is useful for tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks, and provide insight into the way windows and applications work. Process Explorer supports Windows 9x/Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Server 2003, and 64-bit versions of Windows for x64 and IA64 processors, and Windows Vista. Latest Process Explorer supports replacement of task manager on Vista also.

You can kill a process very easily with Process Explorer. Just select a process in Process explorer window then from Process menu select Kill Process.

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Know audio,video information of your multimedia files with MediaInfo

This is a freeware tool which analyze multimedia files. It can give you information about the audio and video format, video resolution, duration, etc.

MediaInfo supports MP3, MP4, OGG, WAV, RA, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, AIFF audio formats. It supports 3GP, AVI, DivX, WMV, MKV, MP4, OGM, QuickTime, Real, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD (VOB) video formats. MediaInfo supports 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

It is very easy to use this tool. Just install the tool. Now right click the media file you want to know it's audio,video information, then select MediaInfo. Now MediaInfo displays information about the audio and video format, video resolution, duration etc of that file as shown below.

Now if you want full details just go to View menu then select Text. Now MediaInfo displays the file's audio and video information in detail.

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Note: Win 95/98 and Windows Milenium users must enable the Unicode functionality for those Operating Systems. For this download the following utility.

Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Windows 95/98/ME Systems

Play QuickTime files with QuickTime Alternative

QuickTime Alternative plays all QuickTime formats like .mov .qt .3gp etc without having to install QuickTime Player. Present QuickTime Alternative version is based on QuickTime 7.3. QuickTime Alternative allows you to play QuickTime files in Media Player Classic. But Lite version of QuickTime Alternative does not contain Media Player Classic. You must install K-Lite Codec for playing QuickTime files with Windows Media Player or other DirectShow players. QuickTime Alternative supports windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. It is a Freeware application.

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Download K-Lite Codec

Microsoft released new generation Windows Live Services worldwide

New generation of Windows Live Services are now available to Consumers Worldwide. Microsoft has released the Windows Live Suite installer worldwide in various languages. These free Windows Live services include Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Events, OneCare Family Safety, Windows Live Toolbar, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Mail and Windows Live Hotmail.

With Windows Live Toolbar you can get Easy access to Windows Live services from any Web page. With Windows Live Spaces you can get your own free web site and can share photos with creative online slide shows. With Windows Live Photo Gallery you can share your photos and videos. With Windows Live Writer you can easily publish pictures, videos, and other rich content to your blog. With Windows Live Events you can create and send custom invitations, Share photos after the event. You can manage the websites your children can see with OneCare Family Safety.

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nHancer - an advanced nVidia Control Utility and Profile Editor

In nVidia's own control panel the 3D rendering settings are very cryptic and difficult to navigate. nHancer is a tool which improves the usage of these features. Any user can use nHancer very easily. Any user can do Enhancement, compatibility and optimization settings for any game very easily with this tool. nHance offers more powerful features than normal nvidia control panel.

nHancer supports all Geforce cards including the new Geforce 8 cards. It supports Forceware driver version 60 or higher. It supports single card, SLI, Quad-SLI and DirectX 10 SLI systems. nHancer allows you to use almost every game with SLI even if nVidia doesn't support it. nHancer offers additional Anti Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering modes, that are not available through nVidia's control panel.

nHancer supports Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Windows Vista. Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 version is necessary for nHancer to work.

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FOG - Free open source Ghost

All we know about Symantec Ghost. Ghost is a computer imaging/rescue suite. When your computer is in good condition, Free from All Viruses, Trojans, Worms etc then you can take an image of your computer with the help of Ghost. When ever your computer is attacked by a Virus, then you can restore your computer to good condition with the help of the image already taken by you with Ghost. So within minutes you can restore your computer to good condition with the help of Ghost.

In a similar way FOG is Free, Open-source ghost, a computer imaging/rescue suite. FOG is a free alternative to Ghost. FOG is used to image Windows XP and Windows Vista PC's only. FOG is good for anyone running Windows XP and Vista with a single partition. Right now FOG can only handle a single partition on the hard disk. So fog is good for educational institutions, small business, etc. Fog can also run on nearly any Linux Distribution.

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FireFox 2.0.0.9 Released

Mozilla Corporation has released FireFox 2.0.0.9 version. This latest release fixes several problems that were found in the previous release, FireFox 2.0.0.8.

Bug 400406, Bug 400467, Bug 396695, Bug 400421, and Bug 400735 are fixed in this latest version FireFox.

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