With todays technology of Wi-Fi, users with their laptops and notebooks can now access the Internet from almost anywhere without needing to bring their modems and cable wires. You can connect to the Internet even when you’re outside provided that the place is a “Wi-Fi hotspot”. But the problem of connecting to this place is aside from limited connection speed, you can’t connect to the others who are using the same wireless network unlike in a wired local area network. Well if you want to be friendly by knowing the others who are online using that same network, you may give WeFi a try.

WeFi is a communication program that allow users to have a stable connection to an available wireless network. Depending on your location, the program will find the fastest and most reliable connection available nearby. There’s more on this program than simply connecting you to a wireless network though, read on.

The very basic requirement for the program to run smoothly is hardware support for wireless networks or in layman’s term, your computer must be WiFi enabled before you can install the program.

The program also runs on Windows platform (Windows XP and later versions) and Mac operating systems.

The main function of the program as mentioned is to connect users to a reliable and fast wireless network thats available close to you. If the program detects a new network, it automatically connects users. You don’t need to manually connect your computer to the network. Another interesting feature of this program is that it has the capability to search not only one, not even a hundred but as many as 300+ thousand possible hotspots in the world as the program can find at least 300,00 possible hotspot all around the worlds provided that these wireless networks has a spot page on the program’s website (wefi.com). Complete information about the location and its connectivity will be provided by the website.

The other interesting feature is the availability of the users to connect to other users online. It works like a social network where users can add and approve each other as friends, chat with them and know their information and location. Using this program you can meet new friends and neighbors online.

WeFi is recommended to users who want to have a reliable and faster wireless connection and want to communicate with other online users of WeFi. You can have all these useful features for free. Download the program at WeFi.com to try it out for yourself.

With hard drive capacity increases of the last few years, you may wonder how you’re going to use such huge storage space. But after a few months of using your brand new computer with such enormous disk space; installing your favorite games, downloading music and videos and more, your computer now keeps prompting about low disk space which also causes your computer to slow down its performance. With the free disk space you thought you could never fill now vanished, you keep on asking where did this disk space go? Don’t bother with too much thinking about that lost disk space – Disk Space Fan will help you out!

It scans your computer’s hard drive, displays the files or folders and shows the ones that occupy the most space on your drive – that’s the main functionality of this disk utility software. But there is still more to look for on this program than simply displaying the breakdown of file usage on different files and folders.

The program identifies the breakdown of disk usage by scanning the entire hard drive then displaying the result in an attractive fanned way. The scanning function usually takes longer for large capacity hard drive or drives that have high fragmentation.

You have different views on the different files contained on your hard drive, but the default is starting from the parent directory. To view the content in more detail, double click on the folder and it’ll display the content of the directory with its file size. If you find files that are useless or unneeded, you can delete them in an instant to free some space. Right click the folder you want will allow you to open the folder using the windows explorer for a more detailed view. If you think that the folder is of no use, you can delete it right away.

Disk Space Fan provides all the necessary features and tools for viewing and freeing some disk space on your once spacious hard drive. It is recommended to all type of users because it’s easy to use.

The program also has a professional version with more features and tools, but that’ll cost you. For full details check out the homepage.

You can download Disk Space Fan at Diskspacefan.com

Calibre is e-book management software that allows you to organize all your e-books from your computer. It offers all the necessary features and tools to manage and organize your e-books.

The user environment is simple as it doesn’t use that much detail for its window. Though it’s simple, the software’s flow is easy to understand by users of any type as comprehensive menu items where relevant icons are provided. You won’t get lost when using this program!

The program provides features and tools essential for e-book management. The program supports many e-book formats like CHM, PDF and even archived files. You can add an e-book to the program either one by one or by batch. You can also view e-books by selecting them on the list or by specific format.

As part of the program’s full support for e-book management and organization, you can sort all the e-books according to title, by author and many more. With this flexibility, you can arrange all your e-books the way you want them. Aside from that, you can add tags or keywords for easy book searching based on tags.

It does not only organize your e-books, you can even connect to external devices like disc drive and flash drives to open or save your e-book. The conversion also works well for given formats. Now you can convert your e-book to the format you wanted (convert chm to PDF etc.).

But the highlighted feature of this program is its functionality to connect to the Internet to search for other sources of information like online articles from New York Times, TIME Magazine and many more predefined by the program. You can discover more features and tools by installing and exploring the program.

Caliber E-book management program is recommended for users that uses their computer as a relevant source of information which includes a large E-book collection. You can manage, organize and search your e-books and online resources using this program free of charge. The program also runs on different platforms like Windows, Linux and Mac.

Download the full version of Calibre E-book management program at Calibre-ebook

When you restart your computer frequently or just power it on from being off, it can be somewhat frustrating to wait for a minute or two just to start up your computer. Believe it or not, this interval is only for normal conditions and no errors. If you have problems with other programs on your computer especially the start-ups, then you’re in bigger trouble. Problems with start-up programs are very difficult to trace as you might affect other programs while searching and removing the ones with errors. If that’s the case, the Autoruns software is here to lend a helping hand.

Autoruns is a utility program that provides you with a quick grasp of information about all the programs running on your computer, from the registry to the start-up programs and even web browser addons that might be slowing things down. It provides an easy way to keep track of those programs that are causing slowness on your computer.

The user interface is very simple, but it’s still better than the windows utilities like msconfig and regedit. You have a clear view on different things like start-ups, registry, scheduled tasks etc.

This program does only one task and that is to help you remove unnecessary files that are causing trouble on your computer and affects its overall performance including boot time. You have a display of the different processes currently running on your computer including those that caused the trouble. Adjacent to the different processes is the location of the file, if the file is no longer referenced but still running, a file not found label will be placed instead of the file location. Most likely files with this label are the ones causing the trouble; you have the option of either disabling the file by removing the check mark, or removing the process by clicking the delete button. However, you need to be extra cautious in removing or disabling processes especially start-ups because you might end up deleting important files which may damage your operating system.

Autoruns is not just your ordinary program, so it is not recommended for ordinary users who don’t have the knowledge about start-up programs and operating system concepts. It is recommended only for advanced users who already have the experience and the knowledge about registry, start-up programs etc.

The program is free and you can download the full version of Autoruns from its homepage here

For a parent, monitoring their children whenever they use the computer is a very difficult task especially when their children could possibly end up viewing inappropriate sites. You can’t sit beside them every time they use the computer. The best thing you can do to keep track on their actions is to record everything the moment they sit down and use your computer; keystrokes, visited websites, passwords and more.

Free Keylogger software conceals itself so that no one could ever notice that they are under surveillance the moment they use your computer for different applications.

Keeping track of every activity that’s happening on your computer by recording every keystroke, every website visited; that’s the main function of this program. The saved information will then be saved in your hard drive which you can view later. This file is kept secret and only the administrator has the authority to view it.

Aside from spying, the program’s feature to record keystrokes also known as keylogging is very useful in situations where you forgot your passwords to log-in on your e-mail or social networking accounts. All you have to do is browse the saved file to retrieve lost passwords. You’ve got flexibility on how to utilize the saved information. If you’re an employer, you can keep track if your employees have used the computer for other matters outside work. All of these are possible thanks to Free Keylogger.

When the program is running, it is invisible in task manager so there’s no way for other users to disable the program without your permission. Moreover, the program can’t be uninstalled by other users. (Its worth noting that this free version is visible when first starting up though).

As long as it is not used unethically, this program could be useful to some people such as parents and save them from unnecessary worries. Free Keylogger is recommended for users who are having problems with monitoring their children, or bosses wanting to make sure their employees are getting paid to work and not for checking their social network sites!

You can download Free Keylogger at Iwantsoft

When it comes to backing up all the contents from your hard drive, selecting the right back-up software for your needs is quite a difficult task considering the fact that there are plenty of them in the market, both free and commercial products. Though some of them offer the most sophisticated features, others may only offer basic copy and paste features and just making fools out of unaware users. If bad luck favors you, you might end up wasting your money for software whose features can be performed using built-in windows utilities. With Genie Timeline back-up software, you’ll have the most flexible and reliable means of backing up your files.

Regarding the user interface, features are well-organized in such a way that users can quickly find and use each tool available. It comes with a very user friendly graphical user interface, concise and easy to understand.

Probably the biggest advantage of this program against its competitors is the advance features the program offers. There are 12 file categories the program supports; office files, music videos, images and other miscellaneous files. It can also back up your connected portable devices such as cellphones, iPads, etc.

File compression, encryption and password protection is also useful for large data backup and protecting backup files from being accessed by unauthorized users. You can save some disk space by compressing your backup files.

Next is the Smart Mode and Turbo Mode option for backing up your data. These features are available after the program generates the preliminary backup. With Turbo Mode, backing up occurs at full speed, though eats up lots of computer resources. Smart Mode on the other hand is a smarter option for backing up as full speed back up occurs only when computer resources are inactive. However, either way proves that data backup is incredibly fast.

The program also creates a folder referred to as “no backup zone” – everything that is in this folder is not included in the backup files. Save temporary files here to save space when backing up data. Also the program connects to windows explorer allowing you to have browsing access to other backup files created.

Lastly, disaster recovery rounds up the features of this backup software. With disaster recovery, you have the power to backup your entire system if something happen like sudden power interruption. You can easily go back to the previous state where the disaster happened. Also under this feature, you can create a disaster recovery startup disc on your USB flash drives or on CDs/DVDs.

Genie Timeline is recommended for users who need a strong backup tool installed on their computers.

It is available in a professional and home version from Genie-Soft

Listening to music and watching video is probably the most relaxing thing to do after long hours of doing your computer tasks. For a better music and video playing experience, you need a multimedia player that can give you the best quality audio and video output without causing your computer to slow down. There are too many multimedia players to choose from; both commercial and open-source software. Even your computer alone already has a built in media player (when you’re using Windows). But just in case you’re undecided on which among the numerous media player to install, why not give Winamp Lite a try.

Winamp Lite is multimedia software capable of playing selected audio and video file formats. This is the latest software version released by Winamp; lighter and smaller so downloading the program and installing it are definitely not a burden. There is lots of new from this latest multimedia player and these will be discussed in this review.

As mentioned, the program is very light so downloading it from the Internet is very convenient and does not take too much time. The program also requires only minimum hardware requirements; a Pentium III processor, 10 MB disk space, and 512 MB RAM will do.

The program runs only on Windows so you need to have Windows OS (98 or later versions). The audio driver of your computer must also be correct and updated.

First is the user-interface. The program’s graphical user interface is probably not user friendly for novices who are into using Windows Media player. But for the music savvy, understanding the program’s interface is very easy.

The program offers very useful features for all types of users. First is the file format support. This player supports multiple audio file formats including MP3, WMA and AAC audio files.It contains more control than any other media player and these include equalizer, volume, balance, repeat, playlist etc. these tools are very useful in adjusting the output of the player.

Other features include track information to know basic info about the media being played, creating a new playlist of your favorite songs and saving this list to play later, create and save a predefined equalizer setting for a particular song so you don’t need to adjust the output everytime you play that song. There’s still more features you will encounter if you explore the program in its entirety. After you read this review, you might wanna download and install the program right away for a cool music listening experience.

Winamp Lite is a free and available for free download at Winamp.com

MyPaint as the name implies, is painting software. It does the same thing as some similar programss, but with more added tools. There’s more to this software than merely a paint program, the way of painting on a canvas manually can also be done right on your computer. The features of this program a lot better than anything as basic as Microsoft Paint program, but not as sophisticated as the more popular Photoshop.

This is basically a digital paint editor that lets you create freehand drawings and painting by using your graphics tablet or mouse and a large assortment of digital paint brushes. It lets you toggle all tool windows with keyboard shortcuts, and it lets you cover your entire screen with your drawing canvas so you can concentrate on your masterpiece. It includes a ton of brushes for realistic paint effects (and you can even create your own), as well as layer support,which is a very important tool in image editing. With layers you can add more and more enhancements of your current image. In addition to all this, it has undo, color sampling and more. Your creation can be saved in Open Raster format (.ora) or exported to PNG or JPG image. The only thing you need to add is your own talent!

MyPaint is good image editing and painting software for artists who are seeking for more robust software than Microsoft Paint but don’t have the budget to purchase commercial image editing products like Adobe Photoshop. It contains most of the features you need to create and edit colorful images. You can obtain all these amazing features and tools free of charge. Check it out now if you enjoy painting without the expense and mess!

You can download this free image editing product at MyPaint

There are situations where you had a nicely taken picture, with all the wonderful smiles of you and your family or friends. Everything is perfect except for unnecessary views that distract the whole picture; a passing stranger on the back might be accidentally caught or a garbage bin right beside you. Before thinking of cutting the picture and scanning it again, there’s a program that can remove unnecessary portions of your picture and retain the most important part.

PhotoWipe is a program for removing or cleaning your pictures from unnecessary views or objects found in your favorite or precious photos. This software does only what it does best; remove unnecessary portions of your pictures.

The program only performs simple functions so it does not require any sophisticated hardware and software to perform better. Pentium III or higher processor, 256MB RAM and 10MB free disk space are enough to run the program to its full potential.

Simple but comprehensive, that’s how to describe the graphical user interface of the program. The workspace for editing images is very large and a smaller navigation window is provided to have a view on what part of the original image you are editing. The interface makes the program is very easy to use.

As mentioned, the program only performs what it does best and that is to remove unwanted portions of your favorite pictures. After you open the image, you are now ready to erase whatever portion you wanted to by using the eraser tool that’s included in the program. You’ve got plenty of brushes to choose from when you erase; dot (in different sizes), box, polygon and curves.

It also provides a real time view of the result of the edit. The edited portion can be viewed with a facsimile of the exact result of the erasure process. However, the result may differ depending on the size of the deleted portion etc.

PhotoWipe is the software you need to get rid of those unnecessary portions of your most treasured pictures. No matter what type of user you are; advanced or beginner, you can utilize the program’s full benefits. In addition you can have these at no cost at all as the program is free to use!

You can download PhotoWipe and see some amazing examples here

VideoPad Video Editor is free and open source software for editing videos. It provides lots of tools and features that are very useful for achieving the video quality you wanted.

You look like a professional when working with your videos, thanks to a professional looking user environment. Menus and functions are well organized; you can work on two files, the original and the edited simultaneously as two players are provided.

Supports multiple video file formats including the commonly used formats in the Internet like avi, mpg, wmv, 3gp, divx and many others. Aside from multiple video file format support, the program also contains lots of features and tools for editing videos. You can adjust the brightness and contrast of the video for better quality, apply other effects like sepia and negative effects which are also customizable.

It’s also possible to add still pictures and other images with a few clicks using this program. This makes your edited videos highly personalized. You can also record a narration for your videos, or if you already have a pre-created narration file, you can upload it and integrate to your video. If you don’t want narration, you can add text caption on each clip for a more flexible movie.

The program also supports videos from external sources like DVD video formats including Blu-Ray discs. You can then burn your edited videos to a DVD and watch it anytime.

Create and edit videos like a professional, that’s what VideoPad Video Editor can provide for you. This program is highly recommended not only for advanced users but also for beginners. Its rich features and tools allow you to create the best quality video. More importantly, you will have all these amazing benefits for free. (more…)