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Saturday, March 7, 2009

MORE, POSSIBLY BETTER INTERNATIONAL TV STATIONS ON YOUR COMPUTER BUT THIS TIME THEY ARE FREE

On March 5, I published a post concerning available software, that for a price of one payment of $19.99, you can have almost 2000 different TV stations from all over the world on your computer monitor screen.

I installed it in my computer and I have enjoyed it; some stations have pretty good video quality, some are not so good, but it is a lot of fun.

Today my good friend Raymond Marr, sent me an e-mail stating that there is another website that does basically the same thing, EXCEPT THAT THERE IS NO COST, IT IS FREE !

The website is:

http://delicast.com/tv/USA/science/Ebru_TV

I tried it today and it is as good as DTV4PC which I mentioned on my post of March 5.

Thanks Raymond for the tip.

George Freire

Thursday, March 5, 2009

WORLD WIDE TV STATIONS ON YOUR PC! IT IS NOT FREE BUT ONLY COSTS $19.99 FOR DOWNLOADING THE PROGRAM AND NO MORE CHARGES EVER!

No kidding, I downloaded this software for $19.99 and I can watch over 1056 TV channels all over the world, and in the USA, right there on my screen!

NO Hardware To Install!


DTV4PC's proprietary software technology plugs you directly into hundreds of worldwide LIVE digital television channels right over the Internet. Enjoy more channels than cable and satellite TV combined for a one-time fee less than one month of either of those services. Imagine watching 1,056 live television channels whenever you want, wherever you want all at the convenience and comfort of your desktop or laptop computer!



What is DTV4PC?

This software technology leverages the power of a playback engine and proprietary entertainment database to connect you directly to hundreds of live digital television channels from across the world. Access to these channels is completely free, allowing you to watch all you want, wherever you want whenever your PC is connected to the Internet. All at no extra cost!



For more info and if you want to order it go to:



www.dtvforpc.com/ash/main_nflf/e/index.html



I hope you'll enjoy this tip!



George Freire

DO YOU HAVE TIME TO RELAX A BIT AND HAVE A GOOD TIME DOING IT?

Well, some times I like to relax and spend a few minutes having fun playing all sorts of games.

There is a website, www.pogo.com that will give you that opportunity.

Just link to it and you'll have hundreds of free available games from fun crazy to mind challenging and for all ages.

Try it, you'll have a good time.

George

Friday, February 27, 2009

DO YOU HAVE OLD 8mm HOME MOVIES OR SLIDES?

If you do and would love to have these old treasures restored to DVD disks that you can play on your DVD player or computer, contact me, gfreire@att.net or call (803)945-4444.

I have now in my office all the equipment required to make these conversions.

I just finished doing all my old 8mm movies and a ton of old slides. What fun it has been watching events that took place 20, 30, 40 years ago... See my kids growing, my wife and I when we were so young and trim...

I can add sound to the DVD's, like good music or if you send specific outlines for the movies or slides, they can also be inserted.

George Freire

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

GADWIN PRINT SCREEN FROM GADWIN SYSTEMS INC.

Here is a great free useful print screen software that enhances the operation of your "Print Screen" key in your keyboard:

Gadwin PrintScreen allows much more flexibility. Usually when you hit the Print Screen button it loads the current screen into your clipboard. To save the image you have to open up an image-editing application, paste it, then save the file. Gadwin's free PrintScreen streamlines this whole process. It sits in your System Tray, and you can set a number of options. When you hit print screen (or whichever button you specify), you can choose to save the screen directly to a specific folder.

Gadwin PrintScreen captures the contents of the screen with a single keystroke. The captured screen can then be sent to the printer, or saved to disk as a file in 6 different graphics file formats.

Gadwin PrintScreen can capture the entire Windows screen, the active window, or a specified area, when the hot key is pressed. The hot key defaults to the PrintScreen key, but users may also define other keys to initiate a capture. Gadwin PrintScreen allows you to e-mail the captured images to recipients of your choice.

All this is free software. However Gadwin Systems Inc. also offers a more powerful version which combines the power of a first-class screen capture application with an advanced image editing and annotation utility - wrapped into one easy-to-use tool. Gadwin PrintScreen Professional is versatile and extremely easy-to-use.

In order to download either program, go to:

http://www.gadwin.com

Select the "Download " tab then scroll down to either "Gadwin Print Screen Professional Version 4.5" or the free "Gadwin Print Screen Version 4.3" and download whichever you want. Full description of the program is outlined.

I use this program almost everyday, it is so easy and practical.

George Freire

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

FROM USA TODAY: INTERNET THREAT, HACKERS SWARM BANK ACCOUNTS

For your information, we refer your attention to this important article in USA TODAY:

Internet threat: Hackers swarm bank accounts

By Byron Acohido, USA TODAY

New and nasty banking trojans are on the rise on the Internet and attacking online bank accounts.
The new trojan programs — which wait on your hard drive for an opportunity to crack your online banking account — are different from traditional "phishing" e-mail scams that try to trick you into typing your login information at fake bank websites.
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They're invisible, can steal data multiple ways and require no action by the victim to be launched.
"Phishing doesn't work as well as it used to," says Patrik Runald, security specialist at F-Secure, the Internet security firm. "Banking trojans provide a very effective and direct means for the bad guys to get their hands on the money."
Banking trojans can be gotten by clicking on a viral link to a greeting card or video that arrives in e-mail spam. Or, they can be picked up by clicking to a Web page that's been corrupted by hackers.
F-Secure tallied 59,177 unique banking trojans circulating on the Internet in 2008, up from 15,969 in 2007. The escalation partly underscores how intensively criminal hackers churn out new variants to escape detection by antivirus programs.
Banking trojans "are more advanced and evolving faster than antivirus solutions," says Gunter Ollmann at IBM Internet Security Systems.
The American Bankers Association acknowledges the rise. Doug Johnson, vice president of risk management policy, notes that most U.S. banks try to make certain that online customers log in from their usual computer.
Losses caused from unauthorized transactions aren't known. Banks generally don't disclose them.
A typical banking trojan remains dormant until the customer logs on to a banking website. It then steals usernames and passwords by capturing keystrokes or copying the log-on page after the victim has filled it out.
So-called man-in-the-middle trojans go further. One type makes illicit cash transfers while the victim is legitimately logged on. Another can reproduce a copy of the Web page showing account balances — except with the balances altered to show the numbers the victim expects to see. This buys time for the thief to drain the account and hide his trail, Ollmann says.
Despite the trojans, Johnson of the bankers' association insists "online banking, on balance, is safe."



Find this article at: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/banking/2009-02-22-bank-accounts-hackers_N.htm


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To download a free and powerful program to keep you more protected from this type of hackers
go to :

http://www.Trusteer.com/support

Monday, February 23, 2009

GREAT FREE PICTURE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

This picture handling/management software is one of the best, simple to operate and FREE!

Go to:

http://www.irfanview.com/ and download it. You'll have a new tool to handle your photos, enlarge or reduce them, create and enhance etc.etc.:


WHAT IS IRFANVIEW?

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.

IrfanView is trying to create new and/or interesting features in its own way, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 8+ years).

IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support.
One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support.
The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.


Some IrfanView features:
Many supported file formats
Multi language support
Thumbnail/preview option
Paint option - to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc.
Toolbar skins option
Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
Fast directory view (moving through directory)
Batch conversion (with image processing)
Multipage TIF editing
File search
Email option
Multimedia player
Print option
Support for embedded color profiles in JPG/TIF
Change color depth
Scan (batch scan) support
Cut/crop
IPTC editing
Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
Capturing
Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
Lossless JPG rotation
Unicode support
Many hotkeys
Many command line options
Many PlugIns
Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired"
No registry changes without user action/permission!
and much much more
Click here to see a screenshot of IrfanView.



USAGE AGREEMENT



IrfanView is provided as freeware, but only for private, non-commercial use (that means at home).

IrfanView is free for educational use (schools, universities and libraries) and for use in charity or humanitarian organisations.

If you intend to use IrfanView at your place of business or for commercial purposes, please register and purchase it. I want to continue working on this program, therefore, your registration will be an incentive for me to add new functions and increase the program's quality.

Any suggestions, feedback and comments are welcome and won't be ignored.

If you are a commercial user and you like this program (or are a home user who wants to support/donate further development), please register/donate by sending US$ 12.00 or EUR 10,- (this is the price for one (single) licence) to the address below.
Please send cash only. (I cannot accept high check cashing fees at the bank)


Address:

Irfan Skiljan
Postfach 48
2700 Wiener Neustadt
Austria, Europe



Commercial users: please contact me by E-Mail for prices and discounts. Note: If you want, you can buy the licenses using PayPal or credit card.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

PREVENT IDENTITY THEFT AND PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

This information came to us from secure sources:

"Magnetic Key Cards" used today in most hotels as a safe way to open the door of your room and protect intrusion by strangers, contain a lot of information that can be dangerous to your personal identity security.

Here is the information these "Keys" store about you:

1- Your name
2- Your address, as supplied by you
3-Hotel room #
4-Date for your check-in and check-out
5- Your credit card # and date of expiration

When you check-out, if you leave the "Key Card" with the reception, it will normally be thrown in a drawer and all the above information will be available to any unscrupulous employee with access to the hotel scanner or even a personal scanner they may keep at home for that purpose.

In most cases, this information will be available to anybody, until a new guest checks-in and the "Magnetic Key Card" is overwritten with new information.

Until this happens, your personal information can be stolen and used to spend your money using your credit card # and all the info the thief has available on you.

Our recommendation is simple:

Never leave your "Magnetic Key Card" with the reception when you check-out; take it with you and then destroy it. Do not throw it in the trash when you get to the airport either!

It is against the law for hotels to charge you for not returning the "Magnetic Key Card", therefore it is up to you to secure your identity.

Keep yourself safe from identity theft.

George Freire

Thursday, February 19, 2009

HOW TO IMPROVE WINDOWS VISTA'S PERFORMANCE

Easy: go to PCWORLD site:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/157312/article.html?tk=nl_wvxvid

and watch the video.

Copy the above address, paste it in your browser and you are in business.

That simple, enjoy it.

George

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

A-SQUARED HIJACKFREE SECURITY SOFTWARE

Folks, here is another great security and analysis utility for your computer. This utility is very thorough, but you should have good knowledge of computer usage to use it at its maximum efficiency:

Download a-squared HiJackFree now! It's free for private use!
It comes with language packs for English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and many more.

a-squared HiJackFree is a detailed system analysis tool which helps advanced users to detect and remove all types of HiJackers, Spyware, Adware, Trojans and Worms.
Product details
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Manage all types of Autoruns on your system
Control all Explorer and Browser plugins (BHOs, Toolbars, etc.)
Manage all running Processes and their associated modules
Control all Services, even those Windows doesn't display
View open ports and the associated listening processes
View all DNS entries in the hosts file
Manage installed Layered Service Providers (LSPs)
Analyze the system configuration with using our live online analysis


George

VISTA SERVICES OPTIMIZER

Here is a very smart free utility which will help you speed-up your computer if you have Windows Vista as your OS:


Windows Vista offers a lot of functionality--not all of which you need available at every moment. Stop unnecessary services with this useful freebie "Vista Services Optimizer".

From Smart PC Utilities, Ltd.:

When you install Microsoft Windows Vista for the first time, you will notice the low performance of your system. There are many reasons of the performance problems in Windows Vista, one of them that there are many of Windows Vista services that are running in the background that consume a lot of CPU power and take up much space in the system memory (RAM) which we do not really need them at all.

You can download this utility at:

http://www.download.com/Vista-Services-Optimizer/3000-2094_4-11003997.html.

To do this, copy and paste the above address to your browser and then download and install this great utility.

George

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

MORE GOOD STUFF FROM PC WORLD

Here is another good utility program from PC WOLRD that you all will enjoy:

SIW Standalone Version
Version: 2008.10.28.0
File Size: 1503 KB
Price: Free
Operating Systems: Windows NT, 98, 2000, Me, XP, XP Tablet PC Edition, Vista; Windows Server 2003, 2008

You can ask the SIW tool anything about your PC--it'll give you a list of regional settings or scheduled tasks, or which DLLs are loaded and which are shared. How about which video and audio codecs you have installed, or details about your network or open ports? SIW has everything, offering lists that you can easily access from toolbar shortcuts or from a panel with a hierarchy list.
--Steve Bass

Copy the following web address paste it in your brouser and download it:

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,64280/description.html?tk=nl_ddxdwn

Great simple utility.

Post your comments on this, thanks,

George

PC WORLD GREAT DOWNLOADS

Here is another very useful and free software from PC WORLD: "Password Safe".

Password Safe
Version: 3.15.1
File Size: 3719KB
Price: Free
Operating Systems: Windows 2000, XP, Vista

Password Safe stores your login data in a password-protected, encrypted file you unlock whenever you need access to your stored login information. At the very least, Password safe lets you manually cut and paste user names and passwords from its database into Web pages and applications, and is a great place to store any sensitive information.
--Scott Spanbauer.

Go to the following website and install it!:

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,23779/description.html?tk=nl_ddxdwn

Let us know if you like it.

George

Friday, January 30, 2009

GREAT MUSIC ON YOUR COMPUTER

I am bringing this old post back to life, because it is a great web site which allows you to listen to any kind of your favorite music gender, while you work on your computer. Please try it:

If you enjoy music, and I mean any kind of music, you can have it playing along as you work on your computer, by joining PANDORA.Folks this is an incredible website. Try it by going to:http://www.pandora.com/You'll thank me you did it!George Freire

GLOBAL WARMING? MAY BE THE GREATEST HOAX EVER DEVISED?

Check the following link and you'll see why:

http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/38574742.html

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

ANOTHER GREAT UTILITY PROGRAM FOR FREE

This is a great utility program. To download it go to: http://www.ccleaner.com/

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! :)

Cleans the following Internet Explorer
Temporary files, history, cookies, Autocomplete form history, index.dat.

Firefox
Temporary files, history, cookies, download history, form history.

Google Chrome
Temporary files, history, cookies, download history, form history.

Opera
Temporary files, history, cookies.

Safari
Temporary files, history, cookies, form history.

Windows
Recycle Bin, Recent Documents, Temporary files and Log files.

Registry cleaner
Advanced features to remove unused and old entries, including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more... also comes with a comprehensive backup feature.

Third-party applications
Removes temp files and recent file lists (MRUs) from many apps including Media Player, eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, Microsoft Office, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and many more...

100% Spyware FREE
This software does NOT contain any Spyware, Adware or Viruses.

George Freire

Saturday, January 24, 2009

GREAT SECURITY SOFTWARE FOR FREE!

Good security/anti-virus software is in most cases expensive and requires annual fees for renewals.

Well my friends, there is an anti virus free software which stands out and works as well as the "big boys". This anti-virus program includes many varieties of shields, safe-surfing tools, real time virus protection which is automatically updated on a daily basis.

The name of this beauty is AVAST and can be downloaded for free at http://www.avast.com/ .

When you log to the above website, do not select any of the professional editions of the software. Instead go to the last tab on thr right, "Free Software" click and download the Home Edition, which as I said above is totally free for your use.

This is not a time trial type software, it is free for as long as you keep it and works with Windows XP and Vista.

I have it installed in my computers and frankly, when the time comes for renewal of my other security software, whose name I am not going to mention, but that costs $69.00/year to renew, I'm going to pass...

Have fun,

George

Friday, January 23, 2009

DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS IN YOUR SYSTEM?

When you decide to upgrade certain components in your computer, wouldn't it be nice to first make sure of what you have inside that box in great detail?
That can be very easy to do: go to http://www.cpuid.org/ and download and install a free very, very handy utility called CPU-Z.

This freeware will in a split of a second gather information on the main devices of your computer system such as:

CPU
Name and number.
Core stepping and process.
Package.
Core voltage.
Internal and external clocks, clock multiplier.
Supported instructions sets.
Cache information. Mainboard
Vendor, model and revision.
BIOS model and date.
Chipset (northbridge and southbridge) and sensor.
Graphic interface. Memory
Frequency and timings.
Module(s) specification using SPD (Serial Presence Detect) : vendor, serial number, timings table. System
Windows and DirectX version.

Let me know if you have a problem downloading this free sofware.

George Freire

NEW INTERNET WORM

There is a new Internet worm, (a malicious software program), that has swept through corporate, educational and public computers all over the world, (more than 9 MM computers ) and is spreading quickly.



This worm has been named Conficker or Downaup. It is spread by a recently discovered Microsoft Windows vulnerability, by guessing network passwords and by hand-carried gadgets like USB flash drives.



This type of worm harness infected computers into unified systems called botnets, which accept programming from their clandestine masters. Many computer users may not notice that their machines have been infected: The worm operates in the background to send spam or infect other computers and steal PC user's personal information.



Back in October 2008, Microsoft rushed an emergency patch to defend the Windows OS against this worm, but because not every user has installed this patch, the worm continues to spread at a very fast rate.



Security researchers, have estimated that at least 30% of Windows OS based computers linked to the Internet remain vulnerable to infection because they have not been updated with the patch.



Once infected, the computer will allow someone to remotely command it without the computer owner's knowledge.



Our advice: MAKE SURE TO GO TO MICROSOFT.COM AND CHECK THE STATUS OF YOUR SOFTWARE UPDATES; ONCE THERE, DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL ALL UPDATES THAT HAVE NOT YET BEEN INSTALLED.



If you have questions on how to do it, e-mail me at gfreire@att.net and I'll be glad to tell you what to do.



George Freire

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

GOOD COMPUTER STUFF IS THERE ALL THE TIME!

PC World Magazine Web Sites are like a bible for computer folks like you.

There you can find information that will blow your mind.

There you'll find free downloads of wonderful computer utility programs, the latest news from the computer/software/electronics world, good advice and analysis etc...

Just visit the following sites:

http://www.pcword.com/blog.html

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/downloads.html

You will enjoy it!

If you visit the above sites, let me know about your experiences and whether you took advantage of what is available!

George Freire