Windows 7 on Mac

Let us say that you, a Mac user, for some reason wanted to get a taste of Windows 7. (I do not know for what reason but for "some reason" - curiosity, perhaps?) Well, you can use Boot Camp to install Windows 7 on your Mac and boot Windows 7 instead of your Mac OS. This does not mean that you cannot anymore use your Mac OS. It simply allows you to use another OS when you feel like it.

What you need aside from your Mac is, of course, an installer of Windows 7.

Here is an instructional video on how to do just that. Just follow the simple steps. Good luck.

Download Advanced SystemCare for Free

Last week, I downloaded Advanced SystemCare just to try it. I was not so eager to download it because I have my own registry cleaners anyway. But after a week of using it, I found that it is a must-have on a computer. It does so much more than being a mere registry cleaner.

Advanced SystemCare is too easy to use. All you have to do is click the "Care!" button and it will do the rest. You only need to wait.

Here are the Key Benefits from the software (taken from the site)

• Ultimate Speeding Up with New Added Turbo Boost

  Advanced SystemCare is built with Turbo Boost to speed up PC by shutting down unnecessary background processes, cleaning RAM, and intensifying processor performance.

• View What Has Been Optimized

  New version can let you view log files of what have been optimized in your system.

• Uninstall Unnecessary Application and Remove Leftover Files

  Speed up PC by removing installed files and entries that were left on the system with built-in tool Advanced Uninstaller.

• Enjoy That New PC Feeling Again

  Whatever version of Windows you’re running, enjoy that “good as new” speed usually only experienced on a brand new PC.

• Powerful Hard Drive Defragmentation

  Fast, powerfully and incredibly effective Disk Defrag function to defragment hard drives - up to 10 times faster than other defragmentation tools.

• Next-generation Free Windows XP/Vista/7 Registry Cleaner and System Optimization

  Safely cleans registry junks, compacts registry bloat and defragments the registry for blistering-fast performance.

• Defends PC Security with Extra Protection

  Secure your PC – quickly and easily. Scans and removes spyware and adware using up-to-date definition files. Prevents spyware, hackers and hijackers from installing malicious items on your computer. Erases and updates your PC’s activity history with this powerful free XP registry cleaner. Security and Privacy assured!

• Quick and Extensive Clean-up for Hard Drives

  Boosts your system’s performance with Advanced SystemCare Free, the powerful free XP registry cleaner by cleaning missing files, destroying unwanted files, deleting obsolete files, and removing junk files. Supports deep-cleansing of more than 50 types of junk files.

• Speeds Up PC Performance and Internet Access

  Tunes up Windows by releasing the built-in power of your system. Dramatically improves both system and Internet performance by up to 400%.

• Fixes Multiple System Errors

  More than a mere free XP registry cleaner – keeps your PC stably and running at peak efficiency.

• Extremely Easy to Use

  Completes its work with just one click! Scans, repairs and secures your PC in one minute.

• Safe and Free

  100% free with no spyware or adware! Advanced SystemCare Free is a safe and trusted PC protection and maintenance solution from a leading software vendor.
  
  
  I highly recommend it. Download it from here.

Get Rid of Phishing Scams

Almost everyday, I receive e-mails such as this:

Good day my dear friend,

I assumed you are in good health with your family.

 I am Mr.Ele Ibrahim the Director in charge of Auditing section  Group Bank Of Africa (BOA) Burkina Faso I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of ($13.2 million immediately to your account.

 I will send to you the full details on how the business will be executed and also note that you will receive 40% of the above mentioned amount if you agree to help me execute this business.

Thanks

Mr.Ele Ibrahim

This is clearly just another phishing scam.  Receiving them does not anymore annoy me. I just mark these e-mails as Phishing Scams. But out of the millions of people who receive e-mails like this, there might be one or two who fall into these scams.

If you are receiving phishing scams on your Hotmail account, just choose the messages by ticking the box beside them and click "Mark As" then "Phishing Scam". This will delete the messages automatically and, at the same time, report these messages to MSN.

For your Yahoo! accounts, just choose the messages and click "SPAM".

Always beware of these e-mails. Never reply to them.

ICANN Postpones Decision on .xxx Domains

by LARRY MAGID (taken from CNET News)

Just before wrapping up its meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board voted to postpone any decision about aproposal to create a ".xxx" top level domain for adult Web sites.

The matter is scheduled to be taken up again at its June meeting in Brussels.

The board voted unanimously to direct the organization's CEO and general counsel to write a "report of possible process options" within the next two weeks that will be posted online for a 45-day public comment period.

In 2005, the ICANN board voted to negotiate a contract with ICM Registry for the .xxx domain, finding that ICM's proposal met required criteria. But in 2007, the board rejected the proposal. ICM appealed that decision to the organization's Independent Review Panel which, last month, ruled that ICM had been treated unfairly.

The review panel's ruling (PDF) noted a 2005 letter to ICANN from an official with the Bush administration Commerce Department saying that the department had received "nearly 6,000 letters and e-mail from individuals expressing concern about the impact of pornography on families and children and opposing the creation of a new top level domain devoted to adult content." The panel found that, in 2007, the board was pressured to reject the proposal "by the government of the United States and by quite a number of other influential governments."

By e-mail from Nairobi, ICM Registry CEO Stuart Lawley said: "We note the ICANN board's resolutions and are looking forward to seeing the proposals in the next 14 days for the process to implement the Independent Review Panels decision."

Photoscape 3.4: Free Download

A lot of people I know like to do fancy things with the photos they place on their scrapbooks. They add text bubbles, abstract designs, etc. just to make the photos catchy an fun to look at.

If you are that type of person, you might find Photoscape 3.4 enjoyable.

It is a free image-editing software that is so simple and easy to use. It allows the users to add nice-looking frames to their photos, resize and crop pictures, adjust the contrast and brightness, add effects like turning the photo to Black and White, add text bubbles and overlay images on existing photos, and create a single picture out of several pictures, among other things.

Wait, here's another amazing thing you can do with the program. You can choose a face photo and find similar faces on the Internet! This is just another fancy feature of the program.

Well, even if you are not into editing your photos in that way, you can still try this program because it basically offers the following features:

• Viewer: View photos in your folder, create a slideshow
• Editor: resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal, blooming
• Batch editor: Batch edit multiple photos
• Page: Merge multiple photos on the page frame to create one final photo
• Combine: Attach multiple photos vertically or horizontally to create one final photo
• Animated GIF: Use multiple photos to create a final animated photo
• Print: Print portrait shots, carte de visites(CDV), passport photos
• Splitter: Slice a photo into several pieces
• Screen Capture: Capture your screenshot and save it
• Color Picker: Zoom in on images, search and pick a color
• Rename: Change photo file names in batch mode
• Raw Converter: Convert RAW to JPG
• Paper Print: Print lined, graph, music and calendar paper
• Face Search: Find similar faces on the Internet

DOWNLOAD PHOTOSCAPE 3.4 FOR FREE

Aerofoil: Free Download

This entry is not about the an aeroplane wing or any turbine. I am talking here about a great utility program that allows you to consume less power when running your notebook computer on its battery.

When I upgraded my OS to Windows 7, I took a particular liking about the Aero Glass and Aero Peek features. These are wonderful additions to the interface. Although they do not exactly significantly add anything to the computer's functionality, they are actually good to look at. Having said that, I must admit that I enabled them as soon as I got my Windows 7 upgrade.

However, having those features turned on can consume more power especially if you are running your computer only on its battery. You may need to disable all the "Aero" features in order to conserve power.

But you do not have to do that manually. Just download the latest version of Aerofoil.

Aerofoil is a program that does exactly that. It disables the Aero features of Windows 7 (and even Vista) and reverts it to its Windows 7 Classic theme. This, as a result, improves the battery level of your notebook computer.

Upon installation, you can also configure the program to suit your own liking. Well, in my case, I stuck with the default configurations. I might tinker with them a little bit one day, but as of now, I am happy with it.

Oh, before I forget... you can download it for free.

DOWNLOAD AEROFOIL FROM HERE