Guarding against viruses and other vulnerability issues are some of the basic things you need to do to keep your files safe and secure; but this is not going to come that easy if certain measures are not taken as soon as possible. One of the things you can do is to protect your system with a security program. Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your computer.

What’s the big deal about Microsoft Security Essentials?

Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. It is a free download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple.

Microsoft Security Essentials runs quietly and efficiently in the background so that you are free to use your Windows-based PC the way you want—without interruptions or long computer wait times.

Does it have any downside?

Microsoft Security Essentials no longer supports Windows XP, and may not be top notch when it comes to detecting malware.

Want to check it out? Visit Microsoft.com.

With Facebook going all out to battle YouTube in terms of videos, you would expect publishers to release a lot of apps to make things easier, especially in terms of grabbing videos from timeline or contacts. MassFaces is one of those programs that can help you grab videos on your timeline or contacts.

What is MassFaces?

MassFaces allows you to download and recover your videos from Facebook. It is an intuitive application that comes in handy when you want to effortlessly grab Facebook videos from your own timeline/biography or your contacts’. You simply need to paste the video URL, scan it, then choose the format you prefer and start downloading it to the location you previously chose.

MassFaces is a user-friendly software that can help you download videos from your own Facebook timeline or from your friends’ timeline. It is also very easy to use; simply paste the video URL, scan it, and choose the format you prefer and start downloading to your system.

A lot of new changes have been made to this version including the following: added new tool: “Find Facebook Profile User ID…” in Options menu (this useful feature allows you to find and know the secret Facebook ID of any user profile of Facebook by simply entering a Facebook URL); improved Facebook video title extraction algorithm; improved minor issues for Facebook Login API integration into the application; and others.

Want to check it out? Visit HavySoft.cl.

Sometimes we seemed to be so much in a hurry that all we wanted to do was tap a couple of buttons and sort things out on our system. If that is what you want, then SpeedCommander has a couple of features that can speed up the way you access some things on your system.

What is SpeedCommander?

SpeedCommander is a comfortable file manager. It builds on the proven two window technology and offers a multitude of exclusive features. Sort, copy, move or delete your files either using the keyboard or the mouse. It reads and creates ZIP archives, Microsoft CAB files, and fully supports ten additional compression formats.

SpeedCommander’s newly expanded search feature will find files within all 10 supported Archive formats. The internal file viewer displays over 80 graphics and text formats. In addition, it contains a powerful text editor with numerous extras including syntax highlighting. With the integrated FTP client, you can both download files from the net and upload your own web pages. It even integrates a web browser for you to surf the web.

Want to check it out? Visit SpeedProject.

Want to create flash movies and frames for animated gifs? Do you also want to text effects, import vector clipart, attach wav audio; fill shapes with color ingredients and many more? Then you can try out KoolMoves.

What is KoolMoves?

KoolMoves is a web animation authoring tool that creates Flash movies and frames for animated gifs. Create text effects, import vector clipart, attach wav audio, fill shapes with color gradients or bitmaps, add actions to text buttons and frames, plus more.

The author of the program has a few changes including the following: reversed previous fix from 9.2.1; reduced internal memory usage for images when exporting as Html5 due to problems; and fixed rendering problem with viewing main movie objects while inside a movie clip.

KoolMoves has a lot to offer more than your normal flash software. It provides AS1 and AS3 action scripting capability and exports as SWF, HTML5, AVI, SVG, and frames for animated gifs. You can select from a large library of effects and components, import vector clipart, attach audio, fill shapes with color gradients or images, and add actions to buttons and frames.

Does it have any downside?

While the interface of KoolMoves leaves much to be desired, all in all it’s quite good tool. Still I urge you to try the demo version first before you decide if you really need to spend $39 on a full license.

Want to check it out? Visit: Koolmoves.com.

Some publishers already have a solid reputation when it comes to their software. One publisher that has consistently being releasing great software is NirSoft. This time around, it has maintained its reputation in publishing ProcessActivityView, which provides you with vital information about all files and folders that the selected process tries to access.

What’s ProcessActivityView?

ProcessActivityView creates a summary of all files and folders that the selected process tries to access. For each file that the process access, the following information is displayed: Number of times that the file was opened and closed, number of read/write calls, total number of read/write bytes, the dll that made the last open-file call, and more.

Some updates and changes have been made to version 1.16 including fixing the ProcessActivityView to avoid from BSOD when trying to attach to smss.exe (Be aware that ProcessActivityView will still fail to capture the smss.exe process).

ProcessActivityView also retained its old and very important features that include the following; view opened/locked files in your system (sharing violation issues); generate RegEdit .reg file from Registry changes made by application; edit, merge and fix the AutoComplete files (.NK2) of Microsoft Outlook.

Want to check it out? Visit: Nirsoft.net.

Want to share secure internet connection with your friends and mobile devices? Do you also want an application that will allow you to create your own personal hotspot and connect all your devices to the internet? Have you tried Connectify? It is a program that allows you to share any internet connection with anyone and also create a hotspot.

What is Connectify?

Connectify allows you to easily create a secure wireless network and share any Internet connection with your friends, family, and mobile devices. Create your own personal hotspot with Connectify and connect all your devices to the Internet simultaneously, without breaking the bank. Your Connectify hotspot can act as a repeater for your home router. With Connectify you can wirelessly share that single Internet connection with your phone, tablet, gaming system, and other equally important study tools.

Connectify is easy-to-use, and works like a virtual router, which lets you share Internet from your laptop with your smartphone, tablet, media player, e-reader, other laptops, and even your nearby friends. As a matter of fact, you can start a hotspot and have all your devices connected without any stress.

Does it have any downside?

The free version of Connection is limited; but not to take anything away from Connectify as it is a nice program. Full version costs vary from $40 to $99.

Want to check it out? Visit Connectify.me

It is not every time you get to see or find a program that offers so much in terms of features. Macgo Blu-ray Player is a universal media player and Blu-ray player for your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch.

What’s Macgo Blu-ray Player?

Macgo Blu-ray Player is a universal media player and a Blu-ray player for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch. It can not only play HD Blu-ray movies, but also support any formats of movie, video, audio, music and photo you have ever seen. Adding DTS5.1 makes its outputting quality even better. With beautiful layout and handy operation, Mac Blu-ray Player can bring fantastic Blu-ray enjoyment to you.

The author has fixed a couple of changes to make Macgo Blu-ray Player more effective. Some of the fixes or changes made to the program include the following: fixing the vague audio problem of some videos; and upgrading the decoder and optimized the player’s performance.

Macgo Blu-ray Player is one of the best players you can find especially for your Apple. It comes with free multimedia software for DVD, RMVB, MP4, and any media format.

Does it have any downside?

Macgo Blu-ray Player has a trial limitation. It is one of the best Blu-ray programs available. but the full license would cost you $39.95.

Want to check it out? Visit Macblurayplayer.com

We have always known Photoshop as the most popular and the most powerful app when it comes to image resizing and others; but there are a couple of nice programs with useful features too. One of such programs is Artweaver, which sought of emulate the popular Photoshop.

What is Artweaver?

Artweaver is a freeware program for Windows that is designed to emulate the ever-popular Photoshop. Artweaver supports many different types of digital brushes and image-editing tools, and can be used to edit the most common image formats such as AWD (Artweaver), BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, PNG, and PSD (no PSD layer support). Artweaver is available in many different languages, and a portable version is available as well.

A couple of changes have been made to this version in review. Some of these changes include the following: shape tool has been improved; importing from clipboard has also been improved; error during import of brush presets has been fixed; missing opacity and grain support in other – Add grain category fixed.

Does Artweaver have any downside?

Artweaver is a great imitation of Photoshop. Though, it doesn’t have all the features to match Photoshop, it can still be rated as a great image app.

Want to check it out? Visit ArtWeaver.de/en.

Do you want a small, portable, and handy replacement for Microsoft Excel? Have you tried GS-Calc? The program is lightweight, and has a lot of useful features that some other programs may not be able to offer you.

What’s GS-Calc?

GS-Calc is a spreadsheet application that will help you to organize your data, track your expenses and incomes, create reports, search and edit databases. Using fast GS-Calc pivot tables, multi-core calculations taking full advantage of up to 16 processor cores, easy to use scripting, over 300 built-in functions and other advanced functions you can perform the most demanding statistical calculations and data analysis.

Some of its unique features include capability of organizing worksheets in tree structures, working efficiently with very large data sets (12 million rows x 4,096 columns) and linear/quadratic programming functions. You can install GS-Calc on any portable storage device and carry it with you. GS-Calc supports the Open Document *.ods file format natively. Both 32- and 64-bit versions are available.

A few changes have been made to this version, and some of them include: full Unicode support (entering any characters using a few methods); a new “Chart” dialog box with easier access to all the chart data; and many more.

GS-Calc has a 30 day trial limitation. Full version goes with 12 month free updates and will cost you $19.95.

Want to check it out? Visit Citadel5.com

Looking for an app that has a simple and intuitive interface for performing most of the necessary actions especially in terms of file management and archives in Windows OS? Far Manager is a unique program that has some nice features you can easily get used to.

What’s the big deal about Far Manager?

Far Manager is a program for managing files and archives in Windows operating systems. It works in text mode and provides a simple and intuitive interface for performing most of the necessary actions: viewing files and directories, editing, copying and renaming files and many other operations.

File Manager has some truly amazing features, and can be used for the following: for viewing files and directories; for editing, copying and renaming files; and many other actions. The program is so easy to use that you can customize it to suit you. It has a multi-language, easily configurable interface. File system navigation is made easier through the use of colour highlighting and sort groups. The functionality of File Manager is extended by external DLLmodules — plugins. For example: archive support, FTP client, temporary panel and network browser are all implemented as plugins included in the standard distribution of Far.

Want to check it out? Visit FarManager.com.