It is still possible to switch to Windows 10 for free

Microsoft, with Windows 10, had decided to distribute it almost for free to those who already had Windows 7, Windows 8 and 8.1 on their PC. A year to make the free pass and now it would seem expired for a while, but instead ... it's still free!

Are you sure that negative reviews are more reliable?

Nowadays, we find reviews or opinions on products or commercial services both on e-commerce sites and in sites specializing in reviews. Of course, these reviews can be very useful for online shopping, but are negative reviews more reliable than positive ones?

Windows 10 update block Ransomware virus

Updating Windows 10, Fall Creators Update, as well as improving the system in general, has added an important feature to block the fearsome Ransomware virus, the famous attack that forces users to pay a ransom in Bitcoin to free their PC ...

Best Free Sky Simulator

Home Planet, a comprehensive astronomy / space / satellite-tracking package for Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me and Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP and above, is now available; see details at the end on how to download and install the software. 

Release 3.3a of Home Planet is a native 32-bit Windows application which cannot be used on Windows 3.1; if you have such a system, download Home Planet Release 2, which remains available. 

Home Planet is in the public domain; it is free software. It is not shareware—you don't have to register it or pay anybody anything, and the version you download is fully functional as soon as you install it. You are free to give copies to your friends, post it on other sites, and otherwise use and distribute it in any way without permission, restriction, attribution, or compensation of any kind.

Link: Download Home Planet

Easily download radio station content

 

Radio Downloader

It brings Podcast-like abilities to stream downloading, as well as handling Podcasts. This gives you the convenience of being able to subscribe to regular downloads of your favourite programmes, which you can then listen to on your pc or mp3 player.

Radio Downloader is supported on Windows 7, Vista and XP, and is freely available for your personal use under the GPL.

Radio Downloader requires the .Net Framework 2.0, which you can get via Windows Update, or download from microsoft.com.

Link: Radio Download

 

It’s a video of a real kitten playing with an exasperated cartoon mouse in a really fun and unique screensaver.

Download is 100% Spyware and Adware Free. For Windows or Macintosh

Link: Screensaver Cat and Mouse

Extract Text from PDF Documents

Extract Text From PDF Documents

The program is very simple to use. It is a command line utility and takes only two parameters. It has to know the file name of the document that you want to extract text from. It also needs the file name of the new file that should hold the extracted text.

You can still extract text from PDF files if you run Adobe Reader X or another brand of PDF reader. Adobe has a separate download that will install the filter you need. Please follow the link below to get the IFilter from Adobe.

With Extract Text you will be able to input the document and get the text you need from it.

Extract Text From Office 2007 Documents

Microsoft offers a filter pack that enables you to extract text from the following file formats: .docx, .docm, .pptx, .pptm, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, .zip, .one, .vdx, .vsd, .vss, .vst, .vdx, .vsx, and .vtx.

Here are some key features of "Extract Text":

Extract text from the following file formats: .docx, .docm, .pptx,.pptm, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, .zip, .one, .vdx, .vsd, .vss, .vst, .vdx, .vsx, and .vtx.

Link: Free Program Extract Text

Funny Face in the Hole Service

 Face in the Hole, funny free service from Seenow.com.

300+ Funny Face-In-Hole Photo Effects Online, you upload, link to, or take a picture of your face and then put it into a series of clever situation.

Link: Funny Face-In-Hole Photo Effects Online
 

How to Recover Passwords Stores by Browser

BrowserPasswordDecryptor is a handy utility designed to instantly recover passwords stored by popular web browsers. All of these web browsers offer the feature store the login passwords so that user don't have to remember and enter the password every time.

Each of these use their own local storage format and proprietary encryption mechanism to store the login passwords. BrowserPasswordDecryptor automatically crawls through each of these browsers and instantly recovers all of the stored website login passwords.

BrowserPasswordDecryptor presents both GUI interface as well as command line version, the later is more helpful for Penetration testers in their work. Apart from normal users who can use it to recover their lost password, it can come in handy for Forensic officials who can get hold of any stored website passwords by various browsers.

Supported browsers:
· Internet Explorer
· Google Chrome
· Opera
· Firefox

Some key features of "BrowserPasswordDecryptor":

· Instantly decrypt and recover stored encrypted passwords from popular web browsers.
· Comes with both GUI interface as well as Command-line version.
· Recover password of any length and complexity.
· Automatically discovers all supported Applications and recovers all the stored passwords.
· Sort feature to arrange the recovered passwords in various order to make it easier to search through 100's of entries.
· Save the recovered password list to HTML file for transferring to other system or for future use.
· Easier and faster to use with its enhanced user friendly GUI interface.

1.3 MB / Windows XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008 / Vista64 / 7 / 7 x64

Link: Download BrowserPasswordDecryptor

Schedule Shutdown Computer

PShutDown - PShutDown is a small, very easy to use application specially designed to help you schedule various actions. Freeware/GPL. Windows/all

Download 1 MB

Link: Download PShutDown

Compression program (zip, unzip, etc.)

 ZipGenius has all the main features of compression programs (zip, unzip, etc.), but it´s different from the others because it offers very special features.

ZipGenius can create and handle several archive formats, including ZIP, RAR, CAB, ACE, 7-zip, ARC, SQX; also, it can read and decompress CD/DVD images in ISO9660 format (.ISO, .NRG, .CMI).

Features:

    You can give better protection to your archives using encryption instead of the standard zip password
    You can send e-mail using the built-in mail client
    You can publish archives on the Web with FTPGenius, the built-in FTP client (that can run also as a stand-alone application).
    Extend ZipGenius features with the ZGTools: these are small applets that can run as ZipGenius services or as stand-alone programs. Three ZGTools are shipped in the Suite edition.
    ZipGenius can detect the presence of a PocketPC mobile device: the program can interact with the file synchronization folder for these devices.
    ZipGenius has backup functions.
    ZipGenius supports the command line.
    ZipGenius supports 21 types of compression and file encoding format (zip, czip, cab, rar, arj, jar and so on). NEW: added support to ZIP64 format, which allows to handle zip files larger than 4 GB.
    Now it supports Windows XP visual styles and it has the long awaited zip file fixing feature. 

ZipGenius is a FREEWARE product, it is absolutely free for everybody and it can be installed in any environment and on an unlimited number of workstations (private, professional/commercial, corporate, educational, government environments are welcome).

Win 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7 download 8.84 MB

Link: Download Zip Genius Freeware