SpywareGuard works similar to the realtime protection feature on many anti-virus programs, except it guards against spyware. It works in the background, scanning any EXE and CAB files on access ( these are file types that spyware often come as) and alerting you if known spyware is detected.

If this is the case, it initially blocks access to the file and then allows the user to select an action. It provides a fast scanning engine, signature-based scanning, heuristic/generic scanning, a control panel, and an online update utility for downloading of up-to-date definition updates. It also detects with signature-based scanning for known spyware and heuristic/generic detection capabilities to catch new or mutated spyware.

This is brought to us by JavaCool Software, the same people who make SpywareBlaster, which i reviewed previously here.

Both programs work fine running together and offer decent protection for spyware/adware prevention and detection.

It’s essential these days to have some kind of anti-spyware defense, and this program is a good defensive measure to have guarding your computer.

You can check out more information and get this totally free program here.

TrueDownloader is a free and open-source download manager/accelerator. It allows you to pause and resume downloads, (something that’s normally impossible if you use Internet Explorer), so next time you’re downloading a huge file and it disconnects, there’s no need to restart it all over again.

It integrates into Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Mozilla, using it’s extension capability. It also allows simultaneous downloads and segmented downloads,which helps it to download stuff faster. As well as supporting HTTP, it also supports FTP. It also allows the use of proxies and zip file previewing is included too.

It’s totally free software and totally spyware and adware free, unlike some similar software!

You can check out more info and download it totally free by going here.

Quicktime is of course a core technology on Apple Mac computers, but is an add-on to Windows too. Quicktime player, has many similarities with Windows Media Player and plays a lot of the same media. So why would you bother with Quicktime? My not stick with the native player on Windows.

Well, as a predominantly Mac based writer, I will admit to a little bias, but honestly it doesn’t really matter what you use, WMP, Quicktime, DiVX Player, whatever floats your media. But I have to say that I like the quality and solidity of Quicktime. Okay it doesn’t play Windows files quite so well as WMP, but it does play them. It does however ROCK as the kids would say with QT files. There is actually no reason why you shouldn’t have many different video file players on your machine, Windows or Mac. Most of the cohabit very gracefully on any machine, and I have most of them on my Macs and PCs.

Most importantly, whatever media player you use, make sure you always have the latest versions, and that goes double for Quicktime. Check it out at the source.

Mozy is an online remote backup service that gives you up to 2 GB online storage space to store your backups. This is very useful in case something happens that makes your beloved computer die for a while. There’s nothing worse than that happening and losing irreplaceable data such as photos you’ve taken,emails, or your work, or just data that takes a long time to replace such as your mp3 collection or games you have to start all over again, etc.

You simply create a user account and then download the small setup program, which should take less than 30 seconds, then you’re good to go! Then you just select the filetypes you want Mozy to take care of, you can also choose whatever directories you want backed up.

You get a full 2 GB for free but you can upgrade to more by paying or through the referal program. It supports block level differential backup so that it only backs up new data.Its fully encrypted so its gonna be safe, it has 128 bit ssl encryption during transfer of data and 448 bit encryption during storage! You can even schedule backups to make things even easier!

That’s all pretty impressive to me anyway for a free service. Like the sound of it too? Go check it out here!

I think you’d be hard pressed to find a better online backup service for free, but if you do, tell me about it : )

If you’ve been having problems with software that claim to help you view and convert graphic files, then you need to try this.

XnView is a group of utilities that features viewing, converting, screen capture, slideshow, and Twain support. These utilities support viewing more than 400 graphic formats and can create about 50.

Some of its nice features include :

• Import about 400 graphic file formats
• Export about 50 graphic file formats
• Multipage TIFF, Animated GIF, Animated ICO support
• Image IPTC, EXIF metadata support
• EXIF auto rotation support
• IPTC editing
• Resize, rotate, crop support
• Lossless rotate & crop (jpeg) support

AND SO MUCH MORE.

XnView has the following other editions available: XnView for Linux, XnView for FreeBSDand XnView for Mac OS X.

Want to try it out? It’s free! CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO AND DOWNLOAD!

There is a new way for you to secure your PC. And it’s what I call the way of the Deskman. Deskman SE allows you to tightly secure desktops and lock computers, and it’s suited for both home users and administrators. The security level is up to you. You can achieve your desired level of security by easily combining different options. I love the new advanced features, they give you the ability to ability to disable Ctrl – Alt – Del, and any other key combination, and the ability to create your own Start Menu, among others.

Whether you need to secure workstations or lock your desktop, Deskman SE is your tool of choice. Arguably it is one of the most advanced, yet accessible, desktop security manager.

In the recently released new updated version, bug that could prevent Deskman from starting up after initial reboot has been fixed so you shouldn’t have any such problems as you might have had if using the older version.

Want to try it? CLICK HERE!

There is this software I’d like you to check out. I find it useful and I think it may come in handy for you too. It’s called BGEye.

BGEye displays system information on your desktop. The information is rendered to a bitmap that is temporarily set as the system wallpaper. I love the cool wallpaper that is incorporated into the actual meters.

Rendered elements include:

• 5 Title Text(s)
• UserName
• Local Date and Time (*Always included*)
• ComputerName
• Computer Uptime
• Accumulator (Days, Hours and Minutes)
• CPU(s) (Clock Speed (MHz), Model, Manufacturer etc)
• Graphics Devices (Model, Manufacturer etc)
• Audio Devices (Model, Manufacturer etc)
• Network Devices (Model, Manufacturer etc)
• USB Device(s)

and so much more.

With BGEye you can keep an eye on your system.

Check It Out Here! It’s FREE!

Having duplicate files on your PC can rob you of precious disk space and even slow down your system, that’s why this freeware is a really useful tool. I’m talking about CloneSpy. Like the name suggests it spies out clones [duplicates] of files on your system and helps you to get rid of them.

In case you are wondering why you need this freeware, maybe you are thinking, duplicates will always be obvious and you can get rid of them when you see them. That’s the problem, they are not always obvious. Duplicate files can have exactly the same contents regardless of their name, date, time and location. CloneSpy helps you to fish them out with ease. CloneSpy is also able to find files that are not exactly identical, but have the same filename. So if you want to get rid of older versions of your favorite files you can do so with ease. It can also find zero length files, which are files that have no content.

Want to try it? CLICK HERE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD!

With PostSmile sending emails and posting on message boards gets to be fun. You can Drag and Drop images and animations, smiles and emoticons, text or HTML snippets, quotes and signatures into your email, message board or web-forum postings.

One thing I appreciate about this program is that the smiley faces are divided into clear categories – Happy, Love, Sad, Communication, Other, Signatures, Famous Quotes, Love Quotes, Proverbs, Jokes and Compliments. PostSmile offers a wide variety of smiley faces but that’s not all, hundreds and hundreds of great emoticons are available in the PostSmile’s Online Collections Gallery. It also works well with all major email programs.

Like me you may be having an issue with the price. You may find it difficult to comprehend why you should part with $24.95 for smiley faces. Well they are offering a 25% Christmas discount presently, so it only goes for $18.71 for now. If you are still having an issue with the price, check out the trial version. But you need to note that you’ll only get limited smileys with the trial version , to get access to hundreds of emoticons , you’ll have to buy the full version.

Learn more and Check out the trial version!

If you manage or run a website (or just upload or download a lot of files by FTP) then you’re probably very familiar with FTP (File Transfer Protocol). The method of uploading and downloading files to and from web servers.

But what happens if you find yourself at a computer that hasn’t got your usual FTP program installed? Or maybe you just don’t wanna install another bloated program you’ll only ever use the basic functions of! What happens is you can go to the Web2ftp website and do it all from a webpage! That’s right, any server, anywhere in the world.

You just put in your FTP details such as server, username, and password, and work away as usual with uploading or downloading! You can even select multiple files at the same time by using the shift key. It supports file sizes of up to 50 Mb for download, 50 Mb for binary upload, and an editing function of up to 200 Kb files.

Tip : If while downloading, your browser tries to open a file instead of saving it, just right click and select “Save as”.

Check it out right here.