Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Free Registry Cleaner For Vista – How Important Is Clean Registry For Windows Vista

by Ashwin Sachdeva

For Vista, Window registry cleaner is a type of software that unquestionably safeguards your computer from the unwanted Adware and Spyware. Moreover, now you may download free Registry cleaner for your Microsoft Windows Vista.

Windows vista is the most modern version of the operating system. When you upgraded your PC for windows vista and stored in your operating system, you must be having a wonderful experience of computer with a fresh, modern and superior feature of your program. For Vista, Registry cleaners are important for the proper functioning. You must have ever considered the details that your old registry cleaner program is no longer well matched or well suited with your windows vista.

As, we all know that whenever we wish to install or uninstall any kind of program, we have to make changes in our hardware and modify the system setting. Similarly, in Window vista registry updated the records of our modification. Free registry cleaners not only provide us the registry entries in a most convenient way to keep us updated. However, it also helps our computer in proper and effective functioning.

According to some myths, some people believed that free registry cleaners does not take good care of windows vista or doesn’t have ability to make it run faster. However, it is not true! For windows vista, free registry cleaners program saves the data and makes the file structured and well maintained.

Vista registry cleaner is an ultimate solution to keep your registry to keep away from such treats. Window vista registry cleaner cleans all the unwanted and outdated entries and files from your system. In short free registry cleaner can also helps you to keep updated, clean and trim.

With the help of windows vista free registry cleaner program you can even do scheduling of your checks and restoring of your registry. This will not only be the finest way for computing but it also protects your PC from the hacking and mal practices. Free registry clean is the need of the today, as we are so much habitual of working on computer and if someday your system crashes, down what you will do. So better, you take caution and download vista registry cleaner free. Windows registry cleaners also store the important information of your hardware system as well as your software.

Just keep in mind, your computer registry will capture by large number of registry entries, if you don’t have any windows vista registry cleaner to keep your computer up-to-date, then you are at higher risk. To protect yourself and your important data lies in your computer download any free registry cleaner today, this especially developed for Windows Vista only.

Improper Install And Uninstall – How Does Windows Registry Cleaner Helps?

by Ashwin Sachdeva

The main concern is to inform you about the effects of Improper Install or uninstall process and provide you the complete details of the window registry cleaner to make you aware that can play a vital role for your computer.

Do you need Windows Registry Cleaner? Why…? Here is the answer. The window registry is getting bigger day by day, as you are installing new software or programs every second day. It is a kind of database, in which all information is stored on computes configurations. It collects all the disturbing and irrelevant information, which slows down the functioning of your computer system.

Nowadays, registry is rising so often, which makes the whole system corrupted and will make you face countless problems regarding you pc. If you want to make your computer system pest free and run smoothly, you must clean your computer as early as possible. Windows Registry cleaner is ready made software, which is convenient to remove or delete all the unwanted information and registry errors from your windows, which is only registered in your system.

There are varieties of registry cleaners you can download from the Internet. Moreover, you can download it free. Free Registry cleaners program detects and scan all the superfluous information and remove it permanently from your computer. Once the process finished by windows registry cleaner, your system will become free from the problems, which can corrupt your computer and slows down it’s functioning.

When the user install the window registry cleaner software than he user can back up all the important information to hoard it to the registry in case when you experience any kind of any crash in your system. This characteristic will also allow you to hold the easily start up.

Don’t forget that Window registry plays the very vital role in the functioning of your computer. It can cause various problems say crash of windows, error in receiving or sending messages, downloading software etc and due to which you and your pc have to suffer a lot, as lot of time is taken in detecting and reading the data. Window registry cleaner will inspect the entire window, detect all the errors, and make the functioning of your pc fast.

Free registry cleaner program also deletes all the unwanted files, which are mange by you while browsing Internet. In fact, this windows registry cleaner is removing all the invalid entries. The registry cleaners program also gives you the facility to change or delete those programs, which you don’t want on your computer screen. A superior performance process is used to identify all the errors in the window registry, even you can clean the items individually selected by you. So hurry up and download the free registry cleaners.

Password Management

by Benjamin Corll

With the need for security in an online world and a username and password required to keep one's own settings it's important to keep all the username - password combinations safe. And the best way to do that is not by writing them down or by using the same username - password combination. It is by putting them into a password safe (tool) that will remember it all for you!

With all of the systems that require passwords and all the sites that require accounts to access it is impossible to remember all of the username and password combinations without either using the same credentials or writing them all down. There are huge security concerns with doing either of those two options.

For the one who uses the same credentials for everything from their webmail accounts to their personal banking accounts they leave themselves open for someone to have complete access to their lives. All it takes is for a person to obtain one of the accounts and they will have access to any of the accounts. Gaining access to the initial information can be from cookies stored on the machine (that are available via web browser vulnerabilities) to sites failing to use https: or SSL (secure socket layer) technology. This sends your username and password credentials in the clear across the Internet and has the possibility of being picked up by any number of machines.

With writing down the username and password combinations on a piece of paper there is always the possibility of either losing the piece of paper or of someone actually finding it and having immediate access to the accounts. The threat of this is great when the pieces of paper are left under the keyboard, taped to the monitor, taped on the laptop, or simply left on the desk. The password is used to add security to the computer and the applications, by writing down that information the person is simply throwing out the security. And yes, there is still the possibility of the packets with credentials being picked up on the Internet if they are sent in clear text, but usually when one is writing down their username and passwords they do have separate passwords for different accounts. So they will not lose complete control over all of their accounts if the piece of paper for one account is discovered.

One of the best things that one can do when setting up accounts is to use a different username AND a different password for each account during the initial setup. This can be tedious and difficult to remember (thus, the two tendencies referenced above). But there is a better way for a person to keep track of their passwords, which is to use a password management tool. This will help them to keep track of the different usernames and passwords associated with each account. Another benefit of using a password management tool is that a person can set a more secure password and not have to worry about forgetting it.

When it comes to setting a password there are differing levels of complexity. Since password cracking tools can guess or crack a simple password in a matter of seconds it is important that users set passwords that have some complexity to them. The choices a user can use when setting passwords they can use: alphanumeric characters (a-z; A-Z; 0-9) as well as special characters (!@#$, etc). By setting a password with upper case, lower case letters as well a numeric characters and special characters a user is setting a password that will not easily be guessed by a password cracking program much less another person. The problem is that they are not as easy to remember. This is why it is important to use a password management tool.

There are many password management tools that are on the Internet, some that are free and some that cost money. The debate as to which are better is strictly up to the individual. However, it is imperative with the age of technology that we are all in with online banking and online bill payments that we all set up our online accounts with user accounts having strong passwords. And in order to help us all remember what we set those accounts to (since we don’t always use them every day but some only once a month or a couple of times a year) it is important to have a central yet secure place where we can store all of the username/password combinations. It is even better if we can store the website information that is used to access the account and secure that with the other information.

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Apple Computer and Microsoft

by L. Winslow

Many detractors of Microsoft cling to Apple like it is some sort of religion. That is fine and as a Technology Buff who runs a think tank, well, I have no problem with Apple Computers at all. I enjoy the technology "next new thing" type exploits there. I think Apple and their Marketing Hype Roll-outs help all personal tech innovative start-up companies in the way they make it glamorous and exciting they do all technology a favor in this way.

Many detractors of Microsoft cling to Apple like it is some sort of religion. That is fine and as a Technology Buff who runs a think tank, well, I have no problem with Apple Computers at all. I enjoy the technology "next new thing" type exploits there. I think Apple and their Marketing Hype Roll-outs help all personal tech innovative start-up companies in the way they make it glamorous and exciting they do all technology a favor in this way.

Apple has done a good job marketing their products and I have watched their marketing strategies. In particular, I enjoyed their education strategies, giving away free computers to schools to hook a new generation on their products - smart thinking indeed.

Still many software programmers have a sever disdain for Microsoft and a lot of pent up hostility too. But I ask them - How can you have hostility against an inanimate object like a created person or corporation? A corporation's job is to grow, make money. They are doing that, and delivering to the world standardization. Just like VHS, Microsoft won, Beta might have been better, but it matters not.

Generally they claim that Microsoft hurts all the other little start-up software companies. But really this is not true either. Many start-ups claim in Business Plans that they show to Venture Capitalists that their exit strategy is to sell to a Microsoft or Google, so those comments are invalid too.

All the other software companies could have organized a co-op and kind of did with open source initiates, but, Microsoft had their own operating system running on 80% of the computers, then 90% and then so on. See, they are winning thru strategic moves and playing to win. We should applaud winners, not make up some BS and attack them.

If it is Microsoft's operating system, they should be allowed to only allow Microsoft products and nothing else. So in reality software programmers should sign up for the Microsoft Partners program and stop complaining. In fact I do not see Sony PS2 allowing Microsoft games? Does the new iPhone allow a Microsoft CE program to run on it? Hmm? Think about this.

Will Green Peace Go After Microsoft Like they Attacked Apple Computers?

by L. Winslow

If Microsoft moves towards web based software applications, then so too will Google and others. Yet in doing so this might get many people to ditch their computers for newer versions. This worries some environmentalists and perhaps you might recall the environmental groups attacked Apple Computers in the media recently calling them evil.

If Microsoft moves towards web based software applications, then so too will Google and others. Yet in doing so this might get many people to ditch their computers for newer versions. This worries some environmentalists and perhaps you might recall the environmental groups attacked Apple Computers in the media recently calling them evil.

If computers become inexpensive will they become disposable, some say yes? If so will they fill up the junk yards? I guess now that Apple settled with the angry ELF, Sierra Club, Green Peace environmental hypocrites (that was opinion - duly noted), that might be a play against Google and Microsoft. Although remember that Microsoft is partnered with companies like Dell and HP and remember both those companies are hot on the environmental trail too.

Besides, Microsoft does not make computers, they make software and think of all the CD ROM Jewel Cases that will not be thrown out, or all the Computer Manuals also online? Think of all the Trees that are no longer cut down due to Gate's concept of the Digital Nervous system?

Now if the Government would follow his lead, think how many trees will be saved then? Microsoft has very smart people, such an attack by environmentalists would bounce off and give them a reason to come out smelling like a rose on the Vista looking out the Window to the world. As for Google, it would be hard to accuse them of being anti-environmental.

Will used computers, Screens, keyboards, USB ports, mouses and touch pads be littered across the beaches of the world? My gosh that was some harsh imagery. Well, please, kids can use all these parts to make robots. And recycling can be the same as mining. Right now you cannot walk on many beaches due to beer bottles, paper products, plastic garbage or flying toilets in some places already. Think about it.

Stolen Laptops & Online Police Database

by Jimtim Smith
Imagine this: On a dreary Monday morning you board the train into work with your laptop for the start of yet another long work week.

Imagine this: On a dreary Monday morning you board the train into work with your laptop for the start of yet another long work week. As the train pulls into your station you sleepily stand up and dash out the door for the platform along with dozens of other commuters. But wait! You’re missing something. You forgot your laptop on the train! You rush back inside the train before the doors close and look frantically under your seat. But your briefcase with your laptop is nowhere to be found!

This situation is more prevalent than you may think. In 2003 there were more than 600,000 laptops stolen (Safeware Insurance, 2003 report). That’s more than 1,640 laptops stolen every single day.And to compound the problem, even if the police were to find the thief and recover your laptop, they have almost no idea who owns it or how to get it back to you! Why? Because you never wrote down the serial numbers and the paperwork accompanying it is long gone. You filed a police report, but with no serial number to report, your laptop could be stored away in some police evidence room with thousands of others just like it across the state or across the country, never to be returned to you again.

That’s where JustStolen.net comes in. Our website was established by Police Officers to assist consumers, college students and business owners retrieve lost or stolen valuables. The website is a powerful database that members can use to register their personal property. Any descriptive information can be entered into the database including make, model, color, serial number and any thing else you can think of. You can even upload photographs of your items.

But along with the other great advantages of being a member, there are two fantastic features about JustStolen.net:
• Once your items are registered, if they are ever stolen or lost you have all the information you need to give to police. Your descriptive information about the item has been stored in our secure database.
• But here is the best part: When your item is recovered by police across the state or across the globe, they only have to log onto one simple-to-use website to search for its owner. They just enter the serial number or description of your laptop, iPod, DVD player or other valuable, and the item’s description and the email address that you entered when you first registered is there for them to contact you!

Your valuable item won’t be sitting in some far away evidence room, because the police now know who the owner is, and they have an easy way to get in touch with you. It’s as simple as that! Your property is returned and there’s no need to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to replace it.

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Imagine this: On a dreary Monday morning you board the train into work with your laptop for the start of yet another long work week. As the train pulls into your station you sleepily stand up and dash out the door for the platform along with dozens of other commuters. But wait! You’re missing something. You forgot your laptop on the train! You rush back inside the train before the doors close and look frantically under your seat. But your briefcase with your laptop is nowhere to be found!

Skull Ports for Your Artificially Intelligent Add-on Memory and Networked Computer

by L. Winslow

In the future all the smart people will have add on computer components to assist them in their thought processes. The smart people will be hooked into their computers and they will have "Skull Ports" with Artificially Intelligent computers to do complicated thinking and extremely complex thought.

In the future all the smart people will have add on computer components to assist them in their thought processes. The smart people will be hooked into their computers and they will have "Skull Ports" with Artificially Intelligent computers to do complicated thinking and extremely complex thought.

"Hooked In?"

What I mean here in discussing "Skull Ports" is that smart people will choose to hook into a portable tiny AI computer system hooked to their human brain that they will be able to communicate with thru thought. You might ask the computer a question and it runs thru scenarios of 20 chess moves and then gives the most plausible answer to the human based on its programming, then the human can ask a question or two more.

This would be similar to the onboard computer on the Enterprise on Star Track but connected. By being hooked into the system wirelessly the human can be remotely connected everywhere. How can this be made possible? Well by using customized fMRI neural network firing 3D Mind Mapping of each individual (taking into consideration their thought process and brain formatting) with a standardized system between during the sending phase.

Humans would then be able to send thoughts, concepts and ideas to AI supercomputers and each other for instant communication and commands. Also in a flight combat situation in the net-centric battle space, where things happen too fast for key-board entries and need Real Time war at the speed of thought? Transfer technologies will be used in all sectors later on. And this is how it will all come to be.

Think about it - better reasoning for humans, hmm? Yes, brilliant. Do you see my point now and why this is so desperately needed to help increase human's limited thinking abilities? Perhaps we should consider this immediately, to reduce the problems occurring with the dummying down trends.

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Anti Spyware - 7 Signs When You Might Be Infected

Spyware is becoming a real, but often underestimated, internet threat. Keep the following 7 signs in mind, as they might very well point to the existence of some nasty spyware on your computer.



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Who Can We Thank for the Rapid Advances in Human Technology?

by L. Winslow
Have you ever wondered who is responsible for the advances in technology? Well on the Private Sector side of things I think a round recognition must go to Futurist Ray Kurzweil for his work, studies and weekly email Newsletter. He is continually promoting the future technologies and the singularity of technology as he calls it. Where technology starts moving so fast that people only remember what was before and what is now - a paradigm shift if you will.

Microsoft Research and other major companies have graciously shared much of their technology, white papers and AI research with the world and this is to be commended and is extremely helpful. One of the greatest joys of my research into technology has been following the ever increasing progression of Artificial Intelligence. Not a week goes by without another breakthrough.

For six years, I have been watching the news alerts, reading scientific journals, trade journals and news articles, the future is coming a lot faster than most people think and there is a wealth of information out there. Indeed it has been at times a little overwhelming, but well worth it. I think everyone who is on the bleeding edge of this science understands that the future is now. But we also need to thank the unsung heroes and the citizen who continually challenges their mind.

For instance my friend Youji Fujoshi who is a huge science enthusiast who exudes information and has spent countless long hours of discussion on Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Androids from ALL the known and available (and some no-longer available) Science Fiction works of authors Arthur C. Clarke, Ben Bova and Isaac Asimov, as well as many other popular science fiction writers.

We need to thank the individuals in our society - the dreamers, Sci Fi writers, scientists, corporations and futurists for propelling the human race forward incrementally to bring us in this place we stand today ready to take the species to the next step.

Protect Your Family and Home with High-Quality Stun Guns

by Chris Robertson
Learn how stun guns can give added security to your home and protect your family from dangerous criminals....

With crime on the rise - especially those of burglary, drug-related robberies, and kidnapping - it's wise to prepare in advance how you will protect your home and family. In the event of an attack or break-in, there are many ways to protect your family, but preparation is a must. Your family members, even those who are young, should have a plan.

Weaponry to Protect, Not to Kill

Though many families have guns hidden away for protection, guns are dangerous. Accidents can occur within the family or in the event of trying to defend the family; the burglar could take the gun from you and murder everyone in the family. Also, there's often an emotional breakdown if someone is killed, even in self-defense. It's a good idea to have weaponry that de-mobilizes the burglar, but doesn't kill them. Some forms of weaponry that many are using include stun guns and pepper spray.

How Stun Guns Work

Stun guns disrupt the attacker's body by generating a high-voltage electrical charge with low amperage. The stun gun's charge applies much pressure but little intensity. The charge can pass through thick clothing and skin. Its charge is not intense enough to do damage to the attacker's body unless it is applied for extended periods of time.

A stun gun can, however, confuse the attacker by sending mixed signals to his brain. He can become temporarily or partially paralyzed, confused and unbalanced. This can give you or a family member enough time to get away and contact the police.

It's important not attempt any heroic acts; only use the stun gun as protection for your life or the lives of your family members. Then, get away as quickly as possible.

Stun Gun Voltage

Stun guns can be chosen according to voltage. They might contain from 20,000 volts all the way up to about 1,000,000 volts! They usually operate on 9-volt batteries. The batteries supply the stun gun with electricity to an electrical circuit. Components within the circuit give the voltage a boost while reducing the amperage. The stun gun has electrodes, which are usually small metal pieces with a gap in between. The gap is where a conductor must be placed. The conductor, of course, may be the arm, shoulder or hand of your attacker! There are also liquid stun guns and taser guns.

The Citizen's Protector

For ordinary home protection, citizens often choose medium-voltage stun guns that are easy to operate and store. There are stun guns that are disguised as umbrellas, flashlights, or other objects to create the element of surprise. Military personnel, security officers, and police officials often use more complex stun guns.

Stun Guns: Where to Buy Them

You can buy stun guns at home security outlets or stores in your hometown or in a nearby larger city. Or if you're pressed for time, there are places on the Internet that offer these products at great prices. You can shop for all sorts of security products online such as Talon stun guns, pepper sprays, alarms, and so forth. You can also save money by buying discount stun guns or even wholesale stun guns from an online store.

Before making a purchase, check out the company to be sure it is a reputable business. Also, check with your state and city laws to be sure the type of stun gun you are buying is legal in your area.

Anti Spyware - 7 Signs When You Might Be Infected

by Lisa Wimes
Spyware is becoming a real, but often underestimated, internet threat. Keep the following 7 signs in mind, as they might very well point to the existence of some nasty spyware on your computer.

Even though most spyware installs itself silently, unlike viruses their presence usually becomes pretty obvious soon enough. Often installed by abusing security weaknesses in software programs or by being attached to other trusted installations, spyware is becoming a real, but often underestimated, internet threat. Keep the following 7 signs in mind, as they might very well point to the existence of some nasty spyware on your computer:



#1 An (endless) number of pop-up windows keep on appearing. A lot of spyware will start opening all kinds of ads on your desktop or in your browser, so be alarmed when you notice an excessive number of ads. Some spyware also displays ‘non-family-friendly’ material to put it simple. Watch out for spyware, especially when your kids are also using your computer and run your anti spyware software on a regular basis.


#2 New and unknown toolbars are added to your desktop or web browser. Thumb rule: never install any of those fancy toolbars. They might look cool, handy and provide a few features, but 95% of all those toolbars contain spyware to a certain degree. Giving stuff away for free is a powerful strategy of spyware distributors, so watch out for toolbars and other free stuff. Most toolbars can automatically be removed with a quick spyware scan.


#3 Your browser’s homepage has changed. Or keeps on changing. A lot of spyware will try to change your homepage for obvious advertising purposes. Not sure who changed your homepage? Then run a scan as soon as possible, as there’s a high chance some spyware is messing with your computer, and doesn’t limit itself to only changing your homepage.


#4 The standard search engine within your web browser has changed. More or less the same as sign 3: some spyware may change your default search engine.


#5 Your computer (suddenly) has become very slow. A lot of spyware poses a real resource hog, ultimately slowing your computer down, which becomes especially noticeable when multiple spyware is installed. Please note that there are a ton of other possible explanations which might cause a slow computer. You might want to run an anti spyware software scan nonetheless. Especially when you notice any of the other 8 signs as well.


#6 Random errors start to appear. Some spyware might even cause problems with your Windows or with other spyware programs, leaving you with a bunch of weird errors and sometimes even complete system crashes. If a full spyware scan doesn’t fix the problems, you should consider using the Windows XP System Restore function. (Contact your computer store for more info and help.)


#7 New unknown icons start to appear without any reason. Most spyware installs itself completely silently, but some are kind enough to add some links here and there so you can manually launch them. Obviously you shouldn’t click any of these links when they don’t seem to be legitimate, but run an anti spyware scan first instead.