Quick Heal antivirus is security software designed for personalized use on PCs. Still to be rated among the top-line of anti-viruses, Quick Heal antivirus offers some remarkable features that needs a mention. The anti virus software made a significant breakthrough with the release of its Next Generation Anti-Virus Plus 2007 edition that combined the proactive and reactive technologies to provide a comprehensive security solution. It detects and removes viruses, worms and Trojans automatically as well as scans and cleans infection from a system. Quick Heal has a powerful and an optimized scan engine for faster virus scan. The latest edition, Quick Heal Anti Virus Plus 2009 comes with 5 protection tools that include AntiVirus, Antispyware, Firewall, AntiMalware and AntiRootkit.  To have a deeper insight, we decided to delve into the antivirus.

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Microsoft Windows 7 is being launched today worldwide in keeping with their promise. It is a pleasant surprise for many of use to see Microsoft keeping their promise, considering their previous records and that their road was not always smooth. Windows 7 has already been launched in India, though availability in retail stores will be delayed due to customs / Income tax issues. Lenovo has rolled out PC's with Windows 7 today.
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After our stint with Aweber, we decided to review another leading email marketing and email news letter service, Constant Contact. We picked specifically Constant Contact for its comprehensive feature set. The email marketing service provides professional email templates, and an easy to use interface that can be easily handles by beginners and unskilled users.  It also offers high-impact email newsletters and promotions to carry out email marketing campaigns. Its 60 day free trial period and above average customersupport makes it an outstanding email marketing program. To find out more let's dig into working and features of Constant Contact.

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While searching for the top email marketing services we came across one of the leading service providers - AWeber. It is a widely used email marketing service that delivers email newsletters and manages email marketing campaigns. AWeber allows users to send out pre-scripted emails to the list or broadcast emails. It has been designed to address email marketing needs of small businesses and provides various email marketing tools for gaining news customers and managing the existing ones.  Aweber features a host of efficient tools that is especially conducive for Blogs setups. We decided to delve into features of AWeber email marketing and email newsletter software to analyze the pros and cons.

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Twinkle seems to be one of the most ambitious Linux softphones.  This free open source softphone offers voice communications and instant messaging using SIP protocol. Twinkle is one of the most widely used SIP softphones. It's popularity can be given to the fact that it is available in the stable repos in the main distros (Ubuntu, OpenSuse and Fedora). The VoIP application uses Qt toolkit for its graphical user interface. For calls Twinkle uses the session Initiation Protocol (widely used for controlling multimedia communication sessions such as voice calls over IP). It can be used for straight IP to IP calls as well as in a network using a SIP proxy to route your calls and messages. Let's delve into its key feature of Twinkle to find out where does it stand in the queue of open source softphones.

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Mozillla releases Firefox 3.5.1 update version for Windows, Mac, and Linux on Tuesday. This new version claims a fix for critical security hole and available in more than 70 different languages.

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Believe me, being an avid Windows user all my life I know, 70% of the problems you encounter in your PC has some direct or indirect links to the registry. You uninstall a software, sometimes it doesn't erase its registry values and after a certain period you get a junk full of keys that slows down your system's performance too. The scariest part is, with some annoying Windows bugs or spyware, your important regustry values get changed or deleted. That forces you to encounter errors and you donno how the hell did it come. You are quite certain that the ship is  lost in the sea but how do you find it? Here is a nice tool, WhatChanged 1.06 that helps you trace back what has been changed in your registry and how to restore it.

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World's second most popular web browser Firefox offers faster web browsing, better tab handling, newer interface tweaks and many more with its latest 3.5 version (read our previous Firefox 3.5 RC review) which is now available for download. However the improvements are, by no means, a leap ahead of the previous version and rather common and implemented just to keep in pace with the other competing web browsers like Safari or Chrome which have gone through a lot of developments as Apple and Google poured in enough  money understanding the need of a good browser in coming years. We have made a review of the latest 3.5 version to let you know what new features they incorporated in Firefox 3.5 version and what else did not impress us.
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The to-do lists and task management services have become part and parcel of our life. Even a crackerjack might need a to-do list to manage his tasks in order. There are a number of web-based to-do lists that you can avail for free.  ToBeeDo is one such online to-do list and task management service. ToBeeDo is a ready-to-use application that can save time, effort and money for its users. It includes all the usual features that compliments the easy-to-use interface. It saves users time, money and effort.

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You get what you don't pay for in life. So if you want to skim on security software, you'll lose out on customer support, which can save you when badware gets stubborn.

But most of your "tech support" involves waiting on hold and listening to poorly scripted conversation?

Here are the top five free antivirus / antispyware programs. Please note that all these programs are free for home use only.
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