Google’s search engine is the world’s favorite search engine, the reason for its popularity is because it returns relevant results faster and with a no-frills, simple user interface. It became popular not by the traditional means of advertising but via recommendation by its users to their friends, relatives and colleagues to use it.

Google rarely used any traditional means of advertising to promote its products and services, but this policy started changing, when Google used billboards to promote GOOG-411 service. Google also aggressively promoted it’s Chrome browser using different advertising schemes. This changes are very much understandable in the sense that Google wants its users to know that Google is more than Google Search now. But what is more surprising for everyone is that Google has decided to promote Google Search Engine at the Super Bowl. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Advertising, Eric Schmidt, favorite search engine, Google, search engine, short online videos, Super Bowl, youtube
Categories: News and Updates

Most of the time, in the event of a virus attack, the virus changes computer security settings to hide itself and do harm. Even though, you may have cleaned the virus by using the various security tools, these changed security settings remains intact in the computer which further causes trouble. You may start getting various “You don’t have permission to…” errors, which is very frustrating. Previously, we have written about tools like Re-Enable, XP Quick Fix Plus and 7 Quick Fix which to some extends help restoring default settings in Windows. We found a new utility which is built specially to restore the default security settings of Windows. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 0x80070005, Installation Failed, portable software, recover settings, restore settings, Rizone 0x80070005 FIX, Security Restore, security settings, virus attack, Virus Removal, Windows 2008, windows xp
Categories: Security, Troubleshoot, Utilities, Vista, Windows, Windows 7

WinUtilities Pro is an award-winning collection of tools to optimize and speed-up your system performance. this suite has utilities to clean registry, temporary files on your disks, erase your application and internet browser history, cache and cookies. it also supports to defragment your disk drives and improve computer performance and stability. built-in StartUp Cleaner allows you to control startup programs that load automatically with windows, find duplicate files, fix broken shortcuts and uninstall unneeded software. other features include secure file deletion, recycle bin shredding, system maintenance tasks scheduling and undelete deleted files.

The developers of WinUtilities Pro, YL Computing, Inc, is running a giveaway exclusively for Softpedia readers. This means that you can get a free full version, genuine license code of WinUtilities Pro v 9.41, which is valid for lifetime and which normally retails at $49.99. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: free giveaway, free license, free registration, tweak windows, Vista, Windows 7, winutilities pro, XP
Categories: Giveaway, Utilities, Vista, Windows, Windows 7

My Technology Guide had a rough day today with around 3 hour, 15 min of downtime in total. The main cause of this was the server on which it was hosted. So we took the issue with Dreamhost Support (our host) to see into the matter. They promptly replied with an apology for the situation explaining about why this was happening. In order to save us from further downtime, they moved us to a new server entirely. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: dreamhost, File hosting, My Technology Guide, prompt solution, server move, updates, Web hosting
Categories: News and Updates

Mozilla Thunderbird is a very popular desktop email client. Thunderbird email software was recently updated by its developers, Mozilla, to version 3. The update brought many new features and notable changes like better email account integration and configuration options, global search option, etc.

The next version of Thunderbird will be version 3.1 and the first alpha release, codenamed “Lanikai Alpha 1” confirms this. Mozilla has asked interested users to test the new alpha release version of the email client and give their opinion. The developer has also warned anyone from installing the email client in a productive environment as it is an alpha version that can contain bugs and other performance issues. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: email client, email software, Free software, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, mozilla, mozilla messaging, mozilla thunderbird, thunderbird, thunderbird 3.1, thunderbird update
Categories: Apple, Email, Internet, Linux, Windows

We all know that Windows 7 comes with a lot of new keyboard shortcuts and hidden features. We have also covered many of them under a dedicated group called Windows 7. Our friend, Nitin Agarwal, editor of Windows LifeStyle and a member of The Windows Club has released The Complete Windows 7 Shortcuts eBook. This eBook comprises of more than 200 keyboard shortcuts and has almost all keyboard shortcuts that are available in Windows 7. This also includes keyboard shortcuts of pre-installed Windows programs like Paint, WordPad, MS Office, Calculator, Help, Media Player, Media Center, Windows Journal, Internet Explorer, etc. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Downloads, Internet Explorer, Keyboard shortcut, Media Center, Microsoft Windows, Windows 7, Windows key, WordPad
Categories: Windows, Windows 7

Apple announced the availability of iTunes 9.0.3 for both Windows and Mac platform. This update is stability and bug fix release and addresses issues like “problems when syncing some Smart Playlists and Podcasts with iPod” and various other bug fixes. This new update came after a long time. The last update iTunes 9.0.2 was released back in October 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Apple Inc., IPod, IPod Classic, itunes, ITunes version history, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
Categories: Apple, Audio/Video, News and Updates, Windows