Ashampoo Registry Cleaner – Free Download Today

 

Ashampoo is giving their Registry Cleaner software for free today only via GiveawayOfTheDay. If you are using windows operating system and doing software installations and un-installations frequently, you would have noticed that your system became unbearably  slow. This is because your windows registry is grown in huge size due to many software do not completely remove their entries from the registry.  Ashampoo is one of the good system tools maker and they developed a product to clean your windows registry. If you want to grab this software for free, you need to act fast and install the software with in next 20 hours from now. The download is available in the above GiveawayOfTheDay website. While installing make sure the below points.

1. Download the software from the link provided in the Giveaway Of The Day site

2. Run the Executable and Accept the Terms & Conditions

3. Make sure you select the “Custom Installation” and uncheck the checkboxes otherwise the software install some browser toolbar and  changes your browser homepage.

4. Once completed with installation you would be redirected to their website for registration. You have to enter your email id here. My suggestion is you provide your secondary email address here in order to avoid any spams in future.

The Terms & Conditions specifically says that the software you download and install during the Giveaway period comes with the following important limitations:
1) No free technical support

2) No free upgrades to future versions

3) Strictly non-commercial usage

So, go and download it now.

I have used many other software earlier for cleaning my windows registry, but this software looks little faster in finding the inconsistency in the registry.

If you know some reported inconsistency is not really an issue, then you can ask the “Ashampoo Registry Cleaner ” to give exception to that entry (right click and select the last option in the reported issues) so that when you run the tool again, it won’t be reported.

If you by mistakenly mentioned some inconsistency as exception, then you can always go to Options–> Exceptions Tab and select all the exceptions and click on Remove button.

Ashampoo Registry Cleaner can also take the backup of the registry before performing any action on it. You can restore the registry back to its earlier state in case if something goes wrong.

There are few good points missing from this application in my view.  The Reporting, which allows only a text report of inconsistencies. A HTML report would be attractive for this kind of software.

Note: You have to be very careful while using any registry cleaner software. Always take backup of your windows system before running any process which require administration privileges.

Comodo TrustConnect – Free VPN

It has been more than a month since I started using TrustConnect a free VPN – ‘Virtual Private Network’ service from Comodo a well-known name in PC security tools segment. I am also fan of their other free tools like Firewall and Internet Security with Antivirus. I thought it would be the right time to give review of this cool VPN service. For those friends who are not aware of what VPN is, In one term, VPN masks your actual IP address provided by your Internet Service Provider and assigns another IP address to protect your online identity. So, what is it for us? You can automatically get the answer to the question about how an IP address reveals your identity, if you open-up any IP finding sites like whatismyipaddress.

The VPN creates a protective shield around your Internet Connection, by encrypting all your Internet traffic it prevents others from attacking or scanning your system from the local network that you’re using to connect to the Internet.  It  would do so by assigning another IP address which may belong to another country. So when the IP address finding tools looks to find your details by analyzing the IP address, what they really get is false information about your IP address, your  location/region and your Internet Service Provider etc., Usually any good VPN service is not 100% free, there would be some restrictions. The free account of TrustConnect comes with a monthly cap of 10GB which is very much sufficient for normal web browsing and also has Ads which will be displayed on the top of every page where ever possible. After reaching the cap your service account get blocked till the next month. In the next month your account would be activated again and you have another 10GB for that month. My VPN connection got terminated abruptly only once during my usage In the last one month. And of course TrustConnect gave the message in a pop-up window. And i could able to reconnect after few minutes. Apart of this small inconvenience i am very happy about this service.You can also view the usage statistics from your service account online in Comodo website.

You can sign-up for the FREE TrustConnect VPN by accessing the FREE TructConnect. I am not finding this URL directly in Comodo website now, but can be found in google search.

Downlod link for Comodo TrustConnect Installation file:

Comodo TrustConnect for Windows

Along with this i am also using another free VPN service proXPN alternatively, which is having another type of limit to the free version. I may probably give my review about this tool later.

Know the distance and auto fare by sending SMS – A txtWeb service

Usually any website which is providing different services would expect user to log-in to their website to use their services. Optionally few sites allow to user there services without log-in to their websites. Well, we have here one more website which allows us to use their services by sending SMS (short message service) .

Getting services by sending SMS  is not a new concept. We already saw such services particularly in the  Information Services sites like asklaila. But this website txtWeb taken a different form of handling services. Today IndianExpress published an article about one such service which is developed by Bangalore-based Ideophone Technosol Pvt Ltd, a start-up software applications firm. This service runs on SMS and the requester has to send sms to 9243342000.  The good thing with this txtWeb website is,  anyone can develop a custom services using their core services. One such interesting  ”autofare” application which was developed by the co-founder of Ideophone “Sandeep Bhaskar“.  The next time when you are travelling in autorickshaw and you feel the auto you are in has a faulty meter or you suspect that the autowala is making roundtrip to our destination, and you have a fancy smartphone you can track the distance and the fare in real time. Even you can use this service to know the distance between the two points of travel and the approximate fare  just by sending an sms keyword ‘@autofare’ and send it  to 9243342000. Earlier I used to depend on Google Maps service to get the information on distance and a manual calculation of approaximate fare.   and Ideophone will get back with a summary of the total distance, the likely tariff and the major landmarks on the way that are stored in their database.  This service surely will help in knowing the distance and rough fare. But you cannot use this result to fight against the autowala , you know why? because they have a handful of explanations to make to convince. Very long back when i had the same situation and i found that the meter is showing Rs. 80/- more than the actual, the driver said he has taken indirect routes to eliminate traffic, and i have no idea how to calculate this ‘indirect’ route so, simply paid and walked away.

Example usage of this application as mentioned in their website. I tried with my own query string (@autofare bangalore, madiwala, sarjapura) which did not result any reply even after waiting 15 minutes. So, i changed the query string to (@autofare Bangalore, Madiwala, Sarjapura Road) which gave me some results but appears like the target is taken wrongly. Instead of “Sarjapura Road” it has taken “Rd” (may be a short form for Road and ignored the Sarjapura) and gave the directions to “Hosa Road”. The service has to improve more to be used by people new to that place.

eg: @autofare Mumbai, Powai, Bandra    -  (and send it to 9243342000) Gives the approximate auto fare from Powai to Bandra in Mumbai city

Sample Response:

Auto Fare Details for Mumbai

From: Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

To: Bandra West, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Distance: 19.4 km(s)

Tariff: Rs. 157.2 (approx)

Important Landmarks:

Adi Shankaracharya Marg

Jogeshwari Vikhroli Link Rd

Krantiveer Lakhuji salve Marg

Mahakali Caves Rd

Jeejamata Rd

Western Express Hwy/NH 8

S V Rd

Hill Road

St Peter’s Rd

Google Chrome – Detachable Tabs

I started using Google’s Chrome  for the last 2 days. And I liked it very much because of its faster load and execution. Rearranging the tabs is a common feature in any tabbed browser like IE-7, Firefox. Chrome is gone little bit ahead and it offers detachable/attachable tabs. Yes, we can detach and reattach the tabs, and here is how…

1. Open multiple tabs as shown below

 

2. Click on the tab to be separated, hold the mouse and drag little down or up. Now the Chrome visually shows the tabs position as shown below

3. Once you see the above window, Release the mouse button.

We can also (re)attach the multiple chrome windows to a single window-with-tabs, by following the similar approach, but this time it should be reverse. We should drag the 2nd window’s tab (not the window itself) to the first window’s tab location to make it as a tab.

The Task Manager of Google’s Chrome browser is common for all Chrome windows. To invoke the task manager press Shift + ESC button on any active Chrome window.

Firefox 3.0.1 Crashed :(

My Firefox 3.0.1 is always getting crashed on my windows box. I never open more than 5 tabs when browsing, not sure of what exactly the cause but it is happening when accessing the http://java.sys-con.com web site.

The firefox’s built-in crash reporter is not able to send the details to firebox behind the proxy server. I updated to 3.0.2 today. May be this should resolve the issue.

And the technical details about the crash are

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Add-ons: {0AC54906-5413-4C81-B446-07929BC39C25}:0.7.1,bettergmail2@ginatrapani.org:0.6.1,{63df8e21-711c-4074-a257-b065cadc28d8}:1.9.3,{DDC359D1-844A-42a7-9AA1-88A850A938A8}:1.0.3,{daf44bf7-a45e-4450-979c-91cf07434c3d}:1.5.1,firebug@software.joehewitt.com:1.2.0,{89506680-e3f4-484c-a2c0-ed711d481eda}:0.9.4.9,{a7c6cf7f-112c-4500-a7ea-39801a327e5f}:1.0.2,firegestures@xuldev.org:1.1.3.1,{cc85cd4e-5a5b-4eda-a25c-bdaffa93b406}:0.1,{e4a8a97b-f2ed-450b-b12d-ee082ba24781}:0.8.20080609.0,{77b819fa-95ad-4f2c-ac7c-486b356188a9}:1.5.20080823,{1A2D0EC4-75F5-4c91-89C4-3656F6E44B68}:0.3.1,{c33c5b47-69c8-45a4-a5e0-af85bbe628dd}:1.5.6.1,{cf15270e-cf08-4def-b4ea-6a5ac23f3bca}:2.0.5,{338e0b96-2285-4424-b4c8-e25560750fa3}:2.1,fireloop@drawloop.com:1.07,share@mahalo.com:4.0.1,{3e450467-892a-45b8-9ed8-90e8d3bf2ad7}:0.4.13,{37E4D8EA-8BDA-4831-8EA1-89053939A250}:2.0.0.0,pronounce@netgents.com:1.1,{F807FACD-E46A-4793-B345-D58CB177673C}:2.3.2,firefox-extension@shareaholic.com:1.4.1,{29c4afe1-db19-4298-8785-fcc94d1d6c1d}:0.4.2008061601,{46551EC9-40F0-4e47-8E18-8E5CF550CFB8}:0.5.7,{5B280457-4290-40c2-9441-EA647775F824}:0.13,{ded0fc70-7215-4802-afeb-b2982d3e7225}:2.9.1,{1DEAE5AA-E19E-458b-9C8C-73CB651B9A58}:2.9.1,{5c8bfb7c-9a54-11dc-8314-0800200c9a66}:3.0.1,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:3.0.1,HiVisGnome@edhume.googlepages.com:2.9.1,{F8DA5A34-B011-4b27-8581-87FDBBDF3698}:1.6.4,{069FB356-C69F-7349-D092-AB28AF836D0E}:0.8.100,{07b2a769-ed19-4483-87ce-c643914c81bb}:2.0.0.38
BuildID: 2008070208
CrashTime: 1220009367
InstallTime: 1216132023
ProductName: Firefox
StartupTime: 1219990603
Theme: PhoenityReborn
URL: http://java.sys-con.com/node/303726
UserID: 3f3ffd2d-ec05-4e32-a720-76de3adf1f4a
Vendor: Mozilla
Version: 3.0.1

This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.

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Firefox Update: FF 3.0 RC1 Available

Today Firefox 3.0 RC1 version is released. This preview release is being made available for testing purposes only. Many of the plug-ins which you installed in the earlier beta releases may not work in this RC version, So be careful before updating to this version. Firefox is expecting a lot of inputs from us to improve this version, here is the note from the Firefox web site

We want to hear all of your thoughts about this release candidate, especially if you encounter broken sites or other web weirdness. Drag this feedback button onto your bookmarks toolbar and click on it when you have something to tell us. We’ll be waiting to hear from you! (Or, if you’d prefer, you can file a bug.)

To know more features of this version visit Firefox release notes.

Confused of That vs. Which & Will vs. Shall etc.,

Should i use “Will or Shall”? Should i go for “That or Which”? Too many questions…
DailyBlog network site started and managing a site DailyWritingTips to answer all these questions. You can also post your questions to get the answers from them. Here is a sample question from their site

When proofreading a peer’s article on the solar system, I realized that she, and I, are unsure of the proper use of “that” and “which” in a sentence. Below is two examples of the same sentence, one using “that” and the other “which.”

“To our knowledge, it is the only body in the solar system which currently sustains life, although several other bodies are under investigation.”

“To our knowledge, it is the only body in the solar system that currently sustains life, although several other bodies are under investigation.”

Which is the correct sentence, and what is the general rule of thumb?

Look at their site for the answers in the gramner section and get updated about many more questions like above.

US economy slowdown- The Impact on indian Software

I was into stock market for the last 2 years and doing trading on BSE and NSE through my broker HDFC Securities. Overall i was on good profits until January 2008. Suddenly i observed that in a 15 days span my profits are gone down to 40%. I came out of stock market by selling all the holdings and booked the remaining profits. Then only i realized the fact that USA’s economy is in worst phase and it it going to hit the Indian economy too.

I also receiving some news related to IT slowdown in India and companies are terminating employees to reduce their costs.  The company which i was working right now has a good strength and i heard that it did not terminated any employees even in year 2000-2001. During 2000 i used to work for another company and was one of the victim for pick slip. But very recently my company has terminated around 400 employees in their Hyderabad branch. Who will be the next??

If US is not going recover soon, i believe it is going to affect India too in a worse way, especially the IT industry because most of our IT customers are from USA. I used to believe our central  minister Mr. Chidambaram’s statements about Indian economy and >9% GDP growth. It seems very silly to me now. Isn’t it?

Fire Fox-3 Beta – Support for Telugu language

ఈ రోజే కొత్త FireFox-3 Beta version ని download చేసుకుని testing మొదలు పెట్టాను. ఇంకా అన్ని features ని పరిశీలించనప్పటికీ, ముఖ్యమైన తేడా, నాకు నచ్చినది ఏమిటంటే, కొత్త వెర్షన్ లో తెలుగు భాషని కూడా చక్కగా చదవవచ్చు. ఇంతకు ముందు అన్ని site లకు ForeFox-2 వాడుతున్నప్పటికీ, తెలుగు సైట్ లకు మటుకు IE ని వాడవలసి వచ్చేది.  తేడా ని మీరు కింద చూడవచ్చు.  మీరు రెండు version లను కావాలంటే install చేసుకోవచ్చు. మీరు ఇప్పటికే FireFox 2 ని వాడుతూవుండి, దానిలో చాలా Add-ons కనుక వుంటే, FireFox 3 beta మొదటకొంచెం trouble ఇస్తుంది. ఎన్నిAddons వుంటే అన్ని సార్లు మీరు proxy యొక్క user id/ password ఇవ్వవలసి వుంటుంది. ఈ issu, FireFox 3 final version లో పోవచ్చు.

FireFox 2 తో

FireFox 3 తో

HDFC Securities changing its trading interface?

As everybody these days, i am also  into the share market business since one year using HDFCSec trading platform. When i opened the 3-in-1 account with HDFC, it was just supporting trading in NSE, nothing else. Now it supports most of the things except Mutual Fund trading. The interface of this trading system was not so elegant and the software used was php for information and JSP for trading. Now seems to be like they are in the process of changing their user interface and the software also. The new platform using .NET it seems and the interface is looking good. The main page looks similar to Reliance’s money trading site. The charting is better than old charts. Seems like both version (php/.NET) of the trading platform are available, and defaultly it will goto php version of the site. You can access this site at http://hdfcsec.com/Investor.aspx

 Update: As of now only information related to market is available in the new version and the trading is still refering old site.