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The 7 Most Advanced (And Free To Use) System Security Tools For Windows 7

Who does not have any concern to protect his windows based PC from virus, trojans and other threats but to find a best solution to get rid of online threats is not that easy. You don't need to worry at all and leave this responsibility on us. You might do not believe but there are many Windows security tools out there that are absolutely free and incredible. Today, I am sharing 7 Most Advanced (But Free To Use) System Security Tools For Windows 7 with all of you. These tools work great on other windows versions too. So, start reading each entry in the list and see which tool suits your needs best. Remember, we are not listing any anti virus in this post and will compile separate list very soon.

Contacts and Networking Tools Web Applications

HootSuite5 Comes With HTML5 To Improve The Way You Tweet

Hootsuite, one of the most popular media dashboards out there released its version 5 today. Termed as Hootsuite5, the new version gets a complete makeover with a brand new user interface (UI), and several new features using the new HTML 5 standards.The highlights of the new version include language localization, improvements to Facebook media publishing, and multiple design themes. Also included are geo-located searches, native Twitter ReTweets, and integrated Google Analytics.

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Estimurl: Website Estimated Worth Finder And Analysis Tool

Many professional bloggers start up their own websites. They then bring it up to a reputable level at which they begin receiving offers for the site. Determining what price would be fair for the site can be a little tricky. People value websites in various ways because there is no standard. But Estimurl is one service that provides its visitors with a fair and comprehensively calculated value of a site.

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Favitt Lets You Create Your Own Multi Search Engine In Minutes

Everyone knows how important search is. You search Google, YouTube, Twitter, Wikipedia, Flickr, Last.fm, Amazon and plenty of other sites for different products, content, images, videos etc. Unfortunately, none of these sites lets you customize the search interface as good as Favitt does.Favitt lets you simplify the search experience by bringing all these search engines in a customized start page.

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Twitter’s iPhone App Now Supports Multitasking In iOS4

Are you a Twitter addict who owns an Apple device? If yes, then undoubtedly you regularly use Twitter’s official iPhone app. You will be glad to know that the app now has a wonderful new improvement.

Business Tools Web Applications

Logo Snap: Online Logo Maker With Many Vector Shapes And Options

Hiring a professional designer to create your company’s logo can take a considerable toll on your wallet. This can be a problem especially if you are starting out with a site for the first time and do not have a big budget. All the designer does really is figure out what you want and build up a design accordingly from the ones already in his mind. Now what if you could do that yourself without having to pay anybody anything? Logo Snap makes that possible.

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How To: Turn Android Based Phone Into Wireless iTunes Remote Control

The iTunes media player is used by many people. Its integration with the App Store allows you to easily stream and purchase the music you like. Although it has an unusually large download size (when compared to other media players), its interface features combine to form a competent media player that has many fans.

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Windows Live Messenger For iPhone Goes Live On App Store

Whoever was missing their favorite instant messaging (IM) chat client, the Windows Live Messenger on their iPhone should be happy now. The official (yes, by Microsoft itself) app of Windows Live Messenger is now available at Apple’s App Store for download on your iPhone and iPod Touch. Not only Microsoft has graced the app store again after its Bing Search iPhone app, but they’ve hit hard with the high quality app for Windows Live Messenger (previously, and more commonly, MSN Messenger).

Audio Tools Web Applications

Soundation: Full Fledge Browser Based Music Mixing Web App

If you are looking for a way to create music, you no longer need to master any instrument. All you need to know is how to use a computer and visit Soundation.Soundation is a free to use website that provides sound loops and an interactive UI to play with those loops. You can overlap loops, modify their speeds, and do many other neat things to create wonderful new tracks. Although a signup is not required, it is better if you do register for an account. You sign up on the homepage of the site. When you first log in you are presented with numerous purchasable sound loop packs.

Operating System Tips and Tricks Tools

Place Important Windows 7 Shortcuts Within Reach Of Every User

Windows 7 is relatively a new operating system. Applications are still being developed for it that explore and push its boundaries. If you are a Windows 7 user, you already appreciate its improvement over Windows Vista. But while 7 provides a great margin of user convenience, things can always be improved by third party applications. This brings to our today’s application – Preme.

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The Wild And Wonderfully Creative Animal Artworks

Artists all around the world are continuously exploring more ways of showing their creativity and digital art is the best way an artist can use to explore his creativity. Since there is lots of room for an artist in digital art to create something innovative and appealing, this form of art is getting much popular these days. You can go as weird as you want and bizarre as your imagination would allow you to go. In this post, we have compiled a list of some creative and interesting animal digital art for your inspiration. We hope that you like this collection and would share your opinion with us.

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Desuade Partigen 2 Giveaway (Professional Flash Particle Effects In One Click)

Desuade Partigen 2 is running a contest, where winners will get 5 licenses (worth $147 each). Well, you guys know what Desuade Partigen 2 is. Lets say it once again for n00bs.Featuring over 120 exclusive preset effects, Partigen 2 is the first and only extension for Flash that let's you to create complex particle effect systems in just a click. This means you can effortlessly engage and "wow" your audience with stunning effects in just seconds, instead of days. Most importantly, you and your clients save time and money – all while having fun.

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The Incredible Beauty Of Sunrise And Sunset Scenes

A good photographer can only capture the memory of the sunrise next to majestic mountains and the sunset going down to rest behind the ocean's horizon. These are the most attractive scenes of nature a camera can capture. Here we have compiled a showcase of such beautiful photographs of sunset and sunrise that would inspire you a lot for sure! In these photos, you can notice that how challenging it would be to adjust with the light to take the photograph the way you want!

Education and Learning Fonts Tips and Tricks

5 Online Tools For Designers To Help Recognize Unknown Fonts

If you are designer you undoubtedly view websites critically. You judge their flow and overall design. An important part of a site’s design is the font used on it. If you like a font style, you would definitely want to incorporate it into one of your latest site designs. But in order to do that you first need to know what font style is actually used. Because of the sheer number of fonts available on the web and the number of new fonts being created, it is hard to recognize fonts simply by looking them.This is why I thought I should create a list of 5 online font recognizers. These tools are must-haves for every website designers. Give each of them a read and decide which one will suit your usage best.

Image Tools

Filter Forge Expands Your PhotoShop Ninja Skills

As I’m sure you’ve already noticed, many of the most creative types both online and offline make extensive use of Adobe PhotoShop. It has become the de facto image editing software package for just about everyone, but it is still inherently limited in scope. That’s why there is so much interest in different add-ons and upgrades that are available for the popular photo editor.One such utility is Filter Forge. It is a plugin for Adobe PhotoShop that not only grants you access to a huge library of additional filters, but it also gives you the ability to build your own filters too. This opens up all sorts of creative possibilities that may not have otherwise been available to the regular PhotoShop user. Compatibility appears to be quite good too, supporting both current and legacy versions of Adobe PhotoShop.

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FindEXIF Lets You View Detailed EXIF Data of Any Image Online

When you take pictures through a digital camera, a lot of detailed information is attached to it. Among other things, these details include which camera the picture was taken from, what are its dimensions, its exposure time, and color space. All this attached information is called EXIF data and can be accessed by right clicking your photo on your computer and entering the details field its properties (in Windows).

Best of the Web Browsers

7 Insanely Cool Google Chrome Extensions

You might have been using Chrome for a quite some time now but there is a good chance you are not taking its full advantage. Chrome’s maximum potential lies in the power of its extensions. Below We have gathered 5 Chrome extensions that will enable you all to realize Chrome’s full potential. You will not find these extensions in similar lists on other websites; I hope you find them to be useful to your computer usage.

Mobile Apps

Hold The World In Your Hand With Google Earth For iPad

Google Earth, the world’s most famous virtual globe, map and geographic information program from Google is now available on the iPad. This news had been in the pipeline for a long time and now that it’s finally here, Google earth is sure to do wonders on the glorious multi-touch screen of the iPad.The Google Earth app available now on the App store carries version 3.0 of the software and supports both the iPad and the iPhone.