Saturday, November 3, 2012

Fixing Blue Screen Error!!!

The ‘Blue screen error’, otherwise referred to as the ‘blue screen of death error’, is one of the most common errors that affect Windows Computers. The error simply means that your PC has a very serious problem and that unless it is fixed, the PC will not run smoothly. You need to fix the problem so that your PC remains functional. So many things could cause the blue screen error and for your Computer to continue running smoothly, you will need to try and fix all the problems that are likely to cause the blue screen error. Here is a step by step guide.

Check the safe mode

  • The first step is to determine the real cause of the blue screen which you should do by trying to establish whether the problem is software or hardware related.

  • This you do by checking if the PC functions in safe mode or not. If it goes ahead to work as usual in safe mode without crashing, the most likely cause of the blue screen error is software related, which you can effectively fix with steps 2&3 below.

  • If on the other hand when setting the safe mode the screen brings up a blue screen, the most probable cause of the error is hardware related, which should be fixed by a qualified technician.


Uninstall the culprit program

  • More often than not, it is a specific software program that causes the error you are experiencing with your PC.

  • Perhaps the errors are coming from such programs as games or recently installed programs, your best bet would be to try and uninstall the culprit software program, restart the machine and see if the error will still appear.

  • In many cases, the solution to the screen of death error simply lies in a faulty program file, or its settings and a simple UN-installation process fixes the problem.

  • At other times though, it can be very hard to clearly pinpoint the culprit software. This is always characterized by many random blue screen errors. If this is the case, proceed onto the next step.


Clean the registry

  • As mentioned, at times your computer can experience very many random blue screen errors which if not fixed can render your PC useless.

  • The main cause of these random errors is in a very important part of your PC known as the ‘registry’.

  • The registry is simply a central part of a computer that stores a database of all settings of your PC, and all information that the computer needs to function and run smoothly.

  • This is arguably the most important part of a PC’s Windows System.

  • If you are experiencing the blue screen errors, it is a clear indication that your registry needs a fix and a quick one at that lest it crashes completely.

  • This is when you need to invest in a good quality registry cleaner program. These programs are designed in such a way that they will automatically scan through the entire registry and fix any damaged entries on the registry that are causing the problems.

  • This they do by even deleting entries that are no longer in use. A good registry cleaner will make your Windows system run a lot faster and become more reliable because the last thing you would want is to lose important information and data from your PC due to the screen of death.


Have any other doubts regarding "BSOD" then don't hesitate to ping me back!! Stay tuned for more info!!

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Login to Your PC by Simply Looking at It!

Logging into Windows has never been easier! Simply look into your webcam and you’ll be logged into your account in the blink of an eye. Blink! employs advanced face recognition technologies to provide automatic, quick and reliable login for one, or multiple, computer users.

Reliable Login under Varying Conditions


With Blink!, you can login day or night. Sophisticated face recognition algorithms automatically adjust for varying lighting conditions, making login possible whether window or artificial lighting is used.

New Haircut? Swapping Glasses for Contacts? No Problem!


Advanced biometric identification algorithms used in Blink! enable it to adjust to changes in your personal appearance. Grow a beard or mustache, or shave it off. Use makeup or dye your hair. Wear or remove glasses or contact lenses - Blink! will recognize your and let you login to your PC, no matter what.

Improved Security


Say goodbye to those long, complex passwords demanded by your corporate security policy. With Blink!, you can sign into your account by simply looking at a webcam. There are no false positives and no delays in authorizing access.

Catch Identity Thieves


Blink! provides additional security benefits by making it easier for you to automatically unlock your PCs by simply looking into a webcam. Stolen passwords are becoming less of an issue as Blink! photographs and timestamps you every time you login, whether you use a password or a biometric sign-in. Journaling account logins helps identify hijacked accounts and can determine who logged in using stolen credentials.

So, now download it for free and enjoy. Download documentation of the software here

For downloads and key please log on to vtechdownloads

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Clone of YouTube - Start your own video hosting and sharing website forfree.

Yes, you are right this is not a joke or a dream. Now you can start your own video hosting website just like some popular video hosting websites like YouTube, Metacafe etc..,

You just need to have an email account, internet connection and a free account for website in www.pseudotube.com and you are done!!!

You need not require any programming knowledge or scripts to host your website, you just need to have the url of your videos, those can be copied from YouTube or Metacafe.

Here, I'll present you with step-by-step procedure for setting up your own video sharing website for free.

  • Log on to www.pseudotube.com and hit the button 'Join for free'.

  • Scroll down to New users registration and enter your sub-domain name for example 'vivvytech' or something which suits your video channel.

  • Enter your valid email address and set a password for it. Confirm your password and enter the Anti-spam code in the space provided.

  • Agree the terms and conditions and then click on 'Start PseudoTube'.

  • After that, check your mail for the mail which is sent to you by pseudotube and then confirm your registration.

  • Therefore you are now ready with your own website.

  • Then you are provided with a manager menu, here you have to set your channel logo and the site description.

  • The logo should be of size 200x40 pixels image of formats .jpg or .png or .gif

  • After setting up your logo you have to add videos through links and for that you have to copy the url of your videos from YouTube or Metacafe add press 'add video'

  • Now you have to give a name to your video and then you have to put that video in pending list.

  • After adding for about 5-10 videos now you have to approve all those pending videos by clicking 'approve' button which was provided.

  • And now you are done. Your new video hosting website is ready.

Now you can give the link to your friends and you can share your favourite videos on Facebook and you can have fun.

Here is the example and my site which is running uninterruptedly, securely. Please have a look on my channel vivvytech

Thank you and please subscribe to the latest feeds.

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Folder Privacy - Lock! Encrypt! Backup! Anywhere. Anytime.

Folder Lock has been a house hold name in data security for long. Now with the latest version 7, Folder Lock can do even more, you can encrypt, lock, backup and shred your personal files, on your PC and portable drives and use a mix of all these features and other security settings to achieve unbreakable protection for your important files. The new version is better, faster, more feature-rich, user-friendly, and has a better and bigger user interface.

Built from the ground up and no longer a simple encryption program that it used to be, the new version is a complete suite of seven data security tools, ensuring advanced security of your data and information.


Unlike other encryption and backup solutions, Folder Lock 7 with its integrated encryption and backup solution will make it possible for true confidentiality, integrity and availability of your important files.


What makes it different from Folder Lock 6?


As compared to the previous version, it offers a patent pending technology that will allow you to both encrypt your files and back them up to an online storage without requiring you to decrypt or manually handle them. Everything is automatic, real-time and safe. You can restore your encrypted files anywhere and anytime.

Let’s zoom towards the major differences that have been offered in the latest version, keeping in hold all the features that were offered in Folder Lock 6.Keeping in consideration, the every growing security need in places where multiple computer systems are connected together through a shared server, Folder Lock 7 makes it possible to create separate lockers on individual systems on the same server. With this enterprise level security, you can now also open your Lockers from network locations, like servers or can allow several users to store their data in them at the same time by setting Windows privileges on the mounted drive.

Unlike the lockers created in Folder Lock 6, which were static in size and occupied much of your system’s hard disk, it offers you the facility of making lockers that take up minimal space when created and are dynamic, expandable and grow as your need increases. Now, you have the flexibility to choose a maximum Locker size with respect to the amount of data you want to dump into it. The dynamic nature of lockers makes them expand as more and more files are dumped into them.

Contrasting the restriction of opening multiple lockers at the same time, Folder Lock 7 gives you the ease of opening as many lockers as you want and all of them can stay mounted at the same time. You can move your data from one Locker to another or easily access multiple files saved on different lockers or perform any sort of modification, what so ever.

Moving on to another surprisingly convenience driven feature, dissimilar to  Folder Lock 6, you can now move your Lockers to a USB drive or CD/DVD for portability and take them wherever you want. Bringing in the concept of executable locker, you can now convert your lockers into executables and can run as well as decrypt your data even on computers where you don’t have Folder Lock 7 installed.

Introducing Backup Online feature in Folder Lock 7, you can now backup your encrypted Lockers to an online digital storage box of your own. This feature enhances data security for your information as you are now able to not only encrypt and protect your data through Lockers, but also backup these Lockers far away from madding situations which create data breach and loss scenarios.

Bringing in the one-way synchronization of the data you store in your lockers, it updates every modification you do in the data you have stored in your lockers. Every single modification gets synchronized seconds after you are done with it and close your lockers. However, if you happen to accidentally delete your files from your lockers on your local computer, it will still be available on your online storage so that it can be restored in the future. You can easily restore what you lost without having to go into the hassle of running high profile recovery programs and waste so much of your time.

Earlier in Folder Lock 6, the Lock Files feature allowed the user to lock and hide folders, drives, and files at the same time. Whatever got locked was hidden. Now, the current version gives you a choice to either lock the files you selected or hide them or lock and hide them both. Items that you lock, hide, or lock and hide remain that way even in Windows Safe Mode.

For users who wish to maintain a confidential list of their personal identification details, Folder Lock 7 offers a NEW and great way to do this in Make Wallets, a feature specifically introduced. With ‘Make Wallets‘, you can create secure and encrypted Wallets in your PC to save and store your personal information like your Credit Cards, Bank Accounts, Business Cards, Identity Cards, Social Security Cards, Residency Cards, and many other such information. ‘Make Wallets’ provides you with a feature-rich personal and confidential information protection and gives you the power to choose information from over 25 different categories, set passwords for each individual record, and on-screen snapshots of category and card information. ‘Make Wallets‘ stores and saves all your personal and confidential information in an encrypted form.

For the parts of data that remain even after you successfully delete them, the advance Shred Files feature in Folder Lock 7 brings and advance level of file shredding by introducing data overwriting protocols specifically developed to secure data remnants successful and unrecoverable removal. It enables you to permanently shred and securely delete important or explicit material from your computer to prevent recoverability of your data. Shred Files also perform space shredding that permanently empties hard drive space to be sure that your previously deleted files are completely irrecoverable.

Folder Lock 7, with all its advance security procedures, comes forth with an advance level of file security that ensures absolute security of your files, folders and drives without having you to worry about their security ever.

Features:

  • Fastest Encryption: With Folder Lock you can now encrypt your files faster than ever. The program creates Lockers, without taking up much space and grow as you dump files in it. Lockers are encrypted, re sizable, portable and ready for backup.

  • Secure Backup: Folder Lock 7 allows you to optionally backup all files and folders you keep in your encrypted Lockers automatically while you continue to modify or access your encrypted files. Files remain encrypted at both ends.

  • Additional Security: Users can now achieve true portable security, application level password security, activate stealth options, shred files, make wallets, clean history, auto protect the application and all its files, use virtual keyboard to type passwords to prevent key logging of any kind and can prevent hacking and incorrect password attempts.

  • True Ease of Use: Folder Lock 7 leverages New Software's highly regarded graphical user interface. Existing Folder Lock users will be immediately productive: it's the same great console they already know and love. New users will find Folder Lock 7 remarkably easy to configure and use. Even relative novices can use all features of the product without going through all the jargon and how tos.


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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

A Multifunctional Media Converter

Suppose you have some DVD quality movies which you like very much and you don't want to delete them from your hard disk or else you would like to have them in your iPhone or some other phone which supports only 3gp.

Hmm.. but converting them to 3gp means losing their original quality so, you don't want to do so, or some more feel good movies arrive in the market but for those movies you don't have enough space in your hard disk or you may have some other problem regarding quality, size, etc...., What will you do now?

Yes, for those who face problems regarding the above issues have a simple and free solution!!! :) That is none other than Format Factory.

With Format Factory, you can convert your favourite DVD's, VCD's and audio cd's to any of the formats like MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF/MP3/WMA/AMR/OGG/AAC/WAV and many more.

You can also convert your favourite photos to various formats such as JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/GIF/TGA. 

There are so many features available in this media converting software which will make you to have this one definitely in your software rack.

  • It can repair damaged video and audio files.

  • It reduces the multimedia file size with out losing the quality of the file.

  • It supports iPhone, iPod multimedia file formats.

  • Picture converting supports Zoom,Rotate/Flip,tags.

  • DVD Ripper.


And it is available in 60 languages, all you need to have a system which is having Windows Operating System.

And the most happiest thing about this wonderful software is that it is available for FREE.

Here are some screenshots of this software:







And there you go, it is simple to use, it is just about 42 mb in size and is of free. So, why to wait for any other paid software or trail restriction software.

Download it now and don't miss any of your favourite media.

For assistance and downloading please visit www.formatoz.com

Monday, August 13, 2012

Six Obscure Web Browsers You Might Love



It used to be that Firefox, Opera and others were the "alternative" Web browsers, but in an age of forced ballot screens that's not entirely accurate. In fact, one could say that the more experienced a user is the further and faster they run from Internet Explorer.

Excluding the "big five" you're undoubtedly familiar with (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari), there are many little-known browsers that are potentially even more suitable for your needs, no matter how basic or advanced.

Take a look at six truly alternative browsers and what separates them from the rest of the pack. This is far from an all-inclusive list, and we'd love to hear if you happen to be using any of these yourself or perhaps there's yet another unheard of browser that we missed. In alphabetical order, the browsers:



Arora:

Platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, Haiku

Engine: WebKit

Why you care: Arora is an open source, cross-platform program that has a sensible feature set for the average user, such as built-in ad blocking, private browsing, session management and anything else you might expect from a basic browser. It's a worthy alternative to Chrome (it's based on the same WebKit engine) if you're interested in a lightweight solution but want something not branded by Google.

Download: WindowsMac OS Xmore



Camino:

Platforms: Mac OS X

Engine: Based on Gecko, written in Objective-C Cocoa

Why you care: Camino's on a mission to provide the best possible browsing experience for OS X users, and it has integrated support for many of the operating system's services, such as Keychain, Bonjour, and Growl. Considering its specialized feature set, it's certainly a worthwhile replacement for Safari, Firefox or any other browser you might be using on your Mac.

Download: OS X 10.4 or latermore



Flock:

Platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
Engine: Gecko, Firefox codebase

Why you care: Flock has integrated features for popular social media services out of the box, including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, Blogger, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Additionally, it's based on Firefox, so you should be familiar with it from the get-go. Some advanced users might still prefer Firefox along with an army of add-ons, but Flock could be useful for less tech savvy socialites.

Download: WindowsMac OS XLinuxmore



K-Meleon:

Platforms: Windows
Engine: Gecko

Why you care: K-Meleon's interface is extremely customizable and it uses a Windows native interface making it easy on system resources. You can consider this the Camino for Windows. Further optimized and portable derivatives are available, including one that claims it is the least resource intensive browser for Windows that uses an up-to-date rendering engine.

Download: Windowsmore



Maxthon:

Platforms: Windows
Engine: Trident

Why you care: Extremely popular in China, the browser has even received funding from well-known investors to continue its development. Maxthon crams a ton of features into the base install (sort of like Opera) without sacrificing the compatibility of IE's Trident rendering engine. Version 3.0 (currently in alpha) can switch between both Trident and WebKit to render Web pages.

Download: Windowsmore



Pale Moon:

Platforms: Windows
Engine: Gecko, Firefox codebase

Why you care: It's a Windows-optimized clone of Firefox that could offer you a slight performance boost -- up to 25% on some SunSpider rendering and scripting tests they claim, while using less system memory. The speed gains come without a catch, since the browser should work with most of your Firefox extensions. In fact, it should automatically detect and make use of your existing Firefox profile upon installation, so it's a hassle-free "migration."

Download: Windowsmore

 

 

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Log in to your own PC remotely

Log in to your own or your friend's laptop or Pc remotely for free. For example, you are out of station to attend a meeting which is very important to you but, you forgot to bring your saved soft copies of your documents that were saved in your own PC at home or you lost your pen drive which consists those imp docs. So, what will you do now?

It is not possible to carry your own laptop always with you. But, you have to attend your meeting and have to  present your company's videos, photos, docs etc...,  What will you do now?

"NO PROBLEM!!" will be your answer if you have your own PC along with you remotely.



TeamViewer  is a software which allows you to access your own laptop/Pc remotely wherever you are. It provides you with a unique Id and password to access your Pc. It is a user-friendly software and it also allows you to connect to your friend's Pc with their permission and grants access to their files.

TeamViewer comes with great securities and firewalls so don't worry about your privacy over internet.

Another unique feature of  TeamViewer is that you can transfer files from Pc to Pc remotely. And you can chat live with your friends and participants ranging upto 25.

TeamViewer is available in two versions namely, Commercial and Non-Commercial. For Non-Commercial users the software is for free and whereas the commercial users can use it for trail purposes. And is available in 4 platforms Windows, Mac, Linux and Mobile (iPhone, iPad, Android).

Have a try to access your own Pc remotely. For downloads and assistance log on to www.teamviewer.com