Remove malware easily and free with Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware

Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware is an effective anti-malware software that can remove various types viruses and malwares that your standard antivirus software may have missed. The user Interface is pretty simple and user friendly, daily updates of malware definitions, high speed scanning and ability to do quick scan, can delete locked files and can be used together with other anti-virus/malware software. You can also buy the Protection Module which will enable you to have real-time protection, other than that all other features are available on the free version of Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware.

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“Destroying Malware, one byte at a time.”

Speed up Your DVD drive Read/Write Speed

MediaCodeSpeedEdit(MCSE) a software that allows you to change/edit the read and write speed of your DVD Writer by modifying your DVD-Drive firmware. You just have to load the firmware of your drive then MCSE will show you the available options for your drive that you can modify, like RPC1 patch, Read speed, Bitsetting etc.

RPC1 patch: Patches your RPC2 DVD drive Firmware to RPC1 or Region Code free at Drive level.

Read Speed: Increase or Decrease your drive read speed, by increasing read speed coping files from disc will be faster, but not suitable for certain drives like for my old a retired ASUS 1608P3S.

Bitsetting: Useful when burning DVD+R media, because using bitsetting DVD+R media book type can be set as DVD-ROM, which is useful incase of playback compatibility issues on old DVD Players/ROMs.

Change write speed: For example incase of your drive media code SONY16D1 supports 16x speed for burning and SONY08D1 media supports 12x speed for burning, then you can replace SONY08D1’s write strategy with SONY16D1, just double click SONY08D1 then a pop up window will appear where you can choose the media code SONY16D1 to replace the write strategy of SONY08D1. Remember you can only replace write strategy of same type of media like DVD-RW to DVD-RW, DVD+R to DVD+R etc, also changing write strategy will increase the chances of burn process failing and hence increases the chances of making coasters. It’s recommended when replacing write strategies try to choose same manufacturer media code for optimal write performance.

Note that all options may not be available for your drive, because of limited number of supported manufactures, also don’t forget that if you are going to apply the modified Firmware to your drive then your warranty will be void, so do it at your own risk.

 

Free SMS in India using 160by2.com

160by2.com offers free sms up to 80 characters to be sent to any mobile number (Both GSM & CDMA) in India. With ads displayed on the rest 80 characters. It features fast sms delivery, online contacts/phonebook and SMS storage facility, free sms alerts (e.g. birthday alerts, reminders, IPL score update etc). It also features a free mobile Java application that can be installed in almost any phone with Java support and you can send free SMS via that mobile application using SMS or GPRS/EDGE/Internet.

A new feature added to 160by2 is SMS via Email, which allows 160by2 users to send free SMS via Email. To send free sms using 160by2.com you have many options, you can use your computer or mobile and point your internet browser to 160by2.com or use the mobile application or Email.

Download 160by2.com mobile java application to PC or Mobile.

If you are unable to download the app from above link try this direct download or download the Jar file.

*Note: If you don't have Internet/EDGE/GPRS then you can use the mobile application to send free SMS via SMS (using your mobile operator). Using this feature you will be charged by your mobile operator for sending free SMS because you are using your operator's SMS service to send free SMS. So it’s clever to send a SMS to multiple (up to 10) recipients at a time because you will be charged for single SMS only. Click here for more info on the mobile application.

Creating easy Gif animations using some free tools

Gif is the most popular image format for animated pictures and logos. Gif animation is widely used in web animations, user avatars, smileys etc.

This guide will help you to create custom gif animations from slides of still pictures or video using GIMP and VirtualDub.

Creating Gifs using still pictures

Step 1

Open GIMP->then open the stills in GIMP using Open as Layers… option from File [Ctrl+Alt+O] and then browse and select the image files to be opened, click open.

Step 2

Press Ctrl+L to open the Layers window for viewing and applying delay to the slides/layers of images. This delay is the duration of time for which the layer will be displayed and after that next layer will be displayed.

Just right click each layer and then click Edit Layer Attributes… to enter a delay value.

e.g. if you wish to have a delay time of 500ms then enter it in this format (500ms) as Layer name.

Step 3

To preview the animation click Filters from GIMP menu bar, then select Animation->click Playback.

Now to save the animation click File->Save as->then give a file name of your choice and .gif as the extension name->click Save->select Save as Animation->then click Export->Save.

Creating Gif from Video

Step 1

Open VirtualDub->click File->Open a video file->then browse and select a video file, then click open to open it.

Step 2

To save the whole video as Gif animation click File->Export->Animated GIF.

* Saving a whole video as gif is not a good idea if the video is of long duration (greater than 2 min), because it require more time and storage space to encode and save the video as gif. So its better to choose a selection of video for exporting into gif animation.

Nokia Monitor Test - Tweak your monitor and get sharpest possible display

 

Nokia Monitor Test the ultimate monitor calibration tool to tweak any type monitors and have the best possible display configuration. This tool supports adjustment of brightness, contrast, geometry (width, height, Tilt etc), color, readability etc.

It also got a little option for testing system sound configuration.

 

Nokia Monitor Test is no longer supported by Nokia and future development have been stopped, the final version is 1.0.0.1

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