Spybot Search & Destroy is a free Anti-Spyware program. It can help you with removing those annoying and sometimes dangerous spyware threats.

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Spybot Search and Destroy searches your hard drive for so-called spy- or adbots; that is, little modules that are responsible for the ads many programs display. Many of these modules also transmit information, including your surfing behavior on the Internet. If it finds such modules, it can remove them. In most cases the host still runs fine after removing the spyware/adware.

Another feature is the removal of usage tracks, which makes it more complicated for unknown spybots to transmit useful data. The list of last visited websites, opened files, started programs, cookies, all that and more can be cleaned. Supported are the three major browsers Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator, and Opera.

It is recommended to scan your computer from time to time to ensure you are free of spyware/adware.

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This is one my favorite freeware image viewers, if not the number one. Its fast at displaying pictures and has tons of features.

You can customize it by choosing among all the options it has. Can apply lossless transformations, which is great for digital photos because you can rotate them, either automatically or manually without any single loss of quality.

You can download it with an installer or in a zip file. I use the latter because i can set it to store all settings in an .ini file inside the program’s folder. This way, i make it portable or i can make an installer to use in unattended installations.

Supports various languages. Read about all the features.

Highly recommended.

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Feedreader is, like its name says, a RSS news reader. It has basic capabilities and its great for quick viewing you newsfeed. There is also support for Podcasts.

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There has been a little hype for the last couple of days regarding a supposedly leaked version of Windows 7 Milestone 1, the nest version of Windows that will replace Windows Vista in the future.

A few monts ago i read about a demonstration of the new Kernel of Windows 7. It is called MinWin and you can read about it and see a video showing it here.

According to a Neowin user, he or she tried it and posted this:

[Over the weekend I finally managed to play with the build…. but disappointed.

One my primary machine, it asked for my SATA driver (never happened when installing Vista, as my drives were set as IDE in BIOS). After adding the driver from my USB thumb drive it would finally install. It didn’t boot after first restart, however.

On my laptop it installed perfectly, but with no driver support for the video card. After numerous tries I gave up in the end, so Aero is now left in the dark.

Oh well, so there’s nothing to show...

The build is 6.1.6519.

The GUI, as much of you have guessed, is very much like Vista. I don’t know if once the right video card driver is in place whether there will be flashy stuffs to surprise me. The system is very responsive, using barely 480MB of memory after boot]….

If you are interested you can read more details and all the discusion here.

I already downloaded an ISO image file of this build but i haven’t tried it yet.

Yesterday i was trying to send a compressed file to a cousin via e-mail. He told that he never got anything on his mailbox. He was using Hotmail and i sent the file using my ISP’s account in Outlook 2007.

After several tries, nothing happened: I didn’t receive any errors on my side and he didn’t got the file.

I tried to re-send it but this time i add my GMail account to the recipients.

I got this error from GMail: 552 5.7.0 Illegal Attachment so i knew GMail blocked the mail because of the attachment.

The problem is that i don’t know if my ISP or Hotmail were blocking the other tries.

I will try to contact my ISP to see if they are blocking because i didn’t receive any error from the mail server.

The compressed file i was trying to send contained a little .exe program along with other text files.

This a new way of blocking, so if you ever need to send an executable file using Gmail or other ISP’s, you will need to change the extension of the .exe files in order to bypass this, even if you compressed them.

I just finished searching for some plugins i would like to implement to my site.

I will add more cool stuff like more widgets, some plugins i would like to use and at last a contact form for people to send me e-mails.

Maybe tomorrow i can check those things locally in my desktop before putting them on the server.

This handy utility list all available usb devices that has been installed on the system.

With it, you can disable or uninstall them as well as see important information such as last connected, safe to unplug and more.

The main reason i use it is to uninstall usb devices that won’t be plugged again in my computers, because windows looks for this devices when starting up. Many of you may have tons of devices listed, which can add some seconds to the time it takes Windows to boot.

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Just recently, i began to learn how Windows PE 2.0 works to make my own installation media.

Today i found a live-cd distribution of linux made by the guys at Neowin. Having a live-cd, be it Linux or WinPE provides great flexibility when a system can’t boot.

Neowin’s Shift Linux is designed to give the user an experience of being part of the Neowin community as well as having a simple, easy-to-use Live CD. Shift is a free, GPL-based Linux distribution that can be freely distributed or modified. There are no restrictions with Shift.

Shift Linux comes with either Fluxbox, Gnome or KDE desktop managers, so it is up to you which version to download.

I’m downloading version 0.6 with KDE and Gnome as i write this. I’m going to try it soon.

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