Saturday, December 18, 2010

Picasa


                  Picasa (version: 3.8) is one of the highly efficient softwares which is mainly used in manipulating photos and videos. This software is freely available on net. It takes less memory and is highly efficient. One can use this software as photo viewer as well as photo editor. While viewing a photo it makes the photo visible forward and send the windows backward. That is photo gets enlarged and gets highlighted. This makes the software more attractive. 
                  Editing part of this software consists of fill light, cropping, fixing, red eye, straighten, color temperature, sepia, etc. The editing part has 3 parts. They are basic fixes, tunning and effects. Basic fixes consists of crop, straighten, red eye, auto contrast, retouch, etc. Tuning consists of fill light, highlight, shadows, etc. Effects consists of sharpen, tint, sepia, etc. 
                   One can zoom the photo, make the necessary adjustment and make the photo beautiful. It contains all the basic editing tools. Once this software is been installed in the system, all the photos in the system gets automatically uploading in the library of this software. This limits the work of the user. One can create album of photos. It can also be uploaded to web.
                   To upload the photos to web, picasa has its own website. Picasa is basically designed by google. Hence user having gmail account need not register. He can directly login by using gmail username and password. One can upload photos to picasa and share the photos with his friends. He can share the photos by sending the link through email. User need not copy the link and send it to his/her friends. The website provides an option called share. By clicking this user can share the photos with his/her friends. While uploading the photos the photos get compressed and size of the photo may vary. Even the clarity of the photos may change after uploading the photos to web.
                   User can also send the photos through mail by using picasa. In the picasa windows application there is an option called email. By clicking this, user can select numerous photos or select an album and send the photos. The only disadvantage in this is that the photos get compressed to its smaller size, while sending through mail. This is because gmail can only attach maximum up to 25MB memory. 
                 One can blog, shop, print, collage the photos by using the picasa windows application. Picasa also provides video editing tools. One can make a movie by using images and videos and upload it to picasa web. He can also take snapshot, upload to youtube and export the clip by using picasa. These are all some of the main features exposed in the picasa software. There are some other features that you can experience only by using this software. To download this software click on, http://picasa.google.com/
The web address of picasa web is www.picasaweb.com 

Saturday, December 11, 2010

File hippo

  
               File Hippo is one of the popular software downloading site. It has an user-friendly interface. Here, you get all kinds of basic softwares. The softwares posted on this website is required on daily basis. To know the purpose of each software, the softwares are grouped based on their functionality. For example, IE, Modzilla, Chrome, etc are grouped under Browsers and plugins. There are different groups such as Browsers and Plugins, File sharing, Messaging and chatting, office and news, Developer tools, Anti-malware, Firewalls and security, System tuning, Compression and backup, networking and admin, audio and video, CD and DVD tools, Desktop, photos and images and drivers.
               Browsers and plugins consists of Internet browsers and their plugins. Some of the internet browsers are IE, Chrome, Firefox, etc. File sharing consists of downloading softwares such as bit torrent, orbit, etc. These are used to download files from internet. Messaging and chatting consists of online chatting softwares such as gtalk, yahoo messenger, etc. Office and news consists of softwares such as adobe reader, open office, etc. These softwares are used for presentations, textbooks, etc. Developer tools consists of notepad, VMware Player, etc.
               Anti-malware consists of antivirus and security softwares. It mainly comprises of internet security softwares such as avira, AVG, Kaspersky, etc. Firewalls and security consists of firewalls such as Comodo internet security, zone alarm, etc. These are specialized internet security softwares which are specially designed for internet security purpose. These are called firewalls. Firewalls prevent the unwanted softwares entering your system from the outside net. System tuning consists of error checking and repairing softwares such as CCleaner, autoruns, defraggler, etc. These softwares check errors in organization of files in the system and repair them. They also help in deleting the temporary files, unwanted files, etc. Compression and Backup consists of compression softwares. These softwares are mainly used to compress a large file into its smallest size. Winzip and winrar are one of the popular compressing softwares. It also allows in extracting the compressed file. Networking and admin consists of networking softwares such as Hamachi, realVNC, etc. These softwares are used for networking.
               Audio and video consists of audio and video players. These players provide a medium for playing the songs, videos, etc. These softwares are mainly used while listening to music, playing movies, etc. Some softwares are Windows media player, VLC, winamp, etc. CD and DVD tools are some of the disc editing softwares. Some tools are Imgburner, Nero start smart, etc. These softwares are used in CD or DVD writing, reading, scanning, etc. Desktop consists of some softwares such as Google Desktop, ObjectDock, RocketDock ,etc. Photos and images consists of some of the picture editing and image viewing softwares such as picasa, paint.Net, faststone image viewer, etc. Drivers provide some softwares such as .Net framework,  directX, etc. These softwares are called as drivers which are used in various system applications. Drivers are softwares which provides a communication mechanism with hardware devices.
               In this website, you will get all the above mentioned softwares with different versions starting from the latest version. This helps the user to download the software which has a version of his liking. You can use this website to download different kinds of softwares with latest versions.
Sites web address: www.filehippo.com

Thursday, December 9, 2010

New pro profile of facebook

                    Facebook has finally launched its new profile pro. This profile is to overcome the disadvantages achieved in the previous versions. This profile provides user-friendly interface with more details of a person appearing on home screen. In this profile you can share your interests and activities. You can also list your projects that you took for the sake of job, classes you took in school, various musics, etc. You can also represent your interests and experiences in the form of images and making your entire profile to more compelling visual experiences.
                   It has infinite scrolling feature which is much faster than before. The friends profile allows you to quickly find the people you were looking for; i.e., just by name, school or by other dimensions. You can now highlight your friends who are important such as family, best friends or teammates. Finally, we can say that facebook is growing with improved and extreme features. This is one of the topped social networking site.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Zedge

      
                  Zedge is a mobile application site. We get all sorts of software components such as wallpapers, themes, etc to your mobile phones. This site is the best for downloading wallpapers, themes, tones, videos, etc. You can either download themes to your systems or directly to your cellphones by connecting the mobile through pc suite. There are mobile applications to different mobile phones. In other words, to download an application or a component to your mobile then you must select your mobile name and its model. Mobile name and the model is already stored in the website. Your work is to just select them. It provides components to any mobile phones, even for basic colored hand sets.
                 You can also upload wallpapers, videos, tones, etc. This site also provides an application called theme creator. By this you can create themes to any mobile hand sets by just selecting the mobile name and its model. In order to do the above you must get registered to this site. Registration is free. It is same as that of getting registered to other social networking sites, or any other sites, etc. You can download wallpapers, videos, games, etc without getting registered. But, this can be done only limited number of times, say 15. Then it asks you to get registered. By getting registered to this site, one can enjoy full functionality of this site.
                   There are 5 options in this site: Home, Download, Tools, Upload and Community. Home option displays the home screen of the website. Download option helps in downloading wallpapers, themes, videos, ringtones, games, etc. In tools, there are different applications such as voice maker, screen saver maker, wallpaper maker, personaliser and theme maker. In upload option, you can find sub options such as upload a theme, upload a video, etc through which you can upload themes, wallpapers, etc to the website. Community option gives any update of the community through mobile chat, groups, teams, People, discussion forms. User can create his/her own community in this website and make other people join his/her community. It is same as that of other social networking sites.
                  By getting registered to this site one can enjoy the above mentioned functionalities of this site. The sites web address is www.zedge.net

Monday, December 6, 2010

Photofunia


      photofunia.com is a website used for photo editing. The advantage in this website is that it makes the work of the user more simpler than that of any other softwares. The user must just upload a picture. It has different effects of editing. Effects suggest how the picture will look after a picture is uploaded. There are many such attractive effects. There are many websites like photofunia.  For example: You can select an effect which contains a dollar note. By selecting your picture and uploading it, your face would be printed in the dollar note. All such kinds of editing can be done by using this website.
       This website also provides an user friendly interface with multiple attractive effects. We must note one thing while uploading a photo. The photo size must not exceed 10MB. This website uses face detection technology, where the face in the picture is detected automatically. To edit your photo follow the following steps:

  1. Select one effect
  2. Upload your photo
  3. See the photo with your face in the effect edited
  4. Save the edited photo in your system.
Sites web address: www.photofunia.com

Avira Antivirus latest version



   Avira is an antivirus which is highly efficient. The only problem in this is we must scan the system for every 10 days and to update the antivirus we need to give the update option. It doesnot proceed with updating automatically. But the antivirus is the best antivirus to keep your system protected. But the antivirus must be upto date. Internet connection is not required to update the antivirus. We can update it manually by downloading the update files which is also called virus definitions and then install it directly on your system. the latest version of this antivirus is Avira antivirus 2011. We get this antivirus for free i.e., home edition. We also get proffessional edition to be more efficent is system protection. But it is not free.

AVG latest version



AVG has let out its new version which is really good and efficient. It maintains your system with same speed and protects your system from malicious softwares and viruses. It is one of the best antivirus. Its called AVG internet security 2011. This has another important feature. We need not give update option everytime to update the antivirus. Instead we can set it to update automatically for every 1 or 2 or 3 or etc hours. Scanning can be done whenever required. We get this antivirus for free i.e., home edition. We also get proffessional edition to be more efficent is system protection. But it is not free.