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CoGen Anti-Virus:

so, as promised this is the second part(read the first part here) in the series of anti virus software reviews that we analyze to decide upon the best alternative to norton anti-virus! So, today we analyze and see Cogen Anti-virus, a little heard of an anti-virus and a company Cogen Media, atleast for me has pleasantly surprised me with the quality and the efficiency of the anti virus software that they provide. Cogen Media surely is a though competition for norton anti-virus as well as Anti-Virus 2007 from CA!

So, here are some of the features of the Cogen AntiVirus software:
Virtual machine Unpacking Engine (VUE)
Virtual machine Unpacking Engine (VUE) is new innovative technology featured in CoGen Anti-virus 2007. This new technology detects viruses even when disguised under multiple layers designed to evade detection by many of the anti-virus solutions in the market today.

What is packing? Packing is the process of placing layers over viruses to disguise them from being detected by many anti-virus software applications. Viruses may be packed with many layers and anti-virus software without strong unpacking capability cannot detect the virus, Trojan, or malware. As a result, the packed viruses are identified as new viruses and the anti-virus software vendors are required to update their database of virus definitions in order to remove the packed viruses.

VUE was developed to provide a fast and effective solution to detecting and removing packed viruses. In order for packed viruses to infect a computer system, they must first remove the many layers that have helped the viruses evade detection. VUE creates a virtual machine system environment for viruses to automatically remove their layers which are then detected and removed by CoGen Anti-virus.

Unknown Virus scan and Clean technology

Unknown Virus Scan Technology scans unknown DOS, email, script, macro and Windows viruses, keeping you one step ahead of unknown future viruses.

Pre-Login Scan

This feature allows you to scan your computer system before logging into Windows. Some viruses are difficult to remove once you have logged into Windows, hence this feature allows you to perform a virus scan and remove those viruses.

File Monitor

This feature scans all files before you open them, thereby eliminating the opportunity for viruses to be opened and destroying them before they can infect your computer system.

File Monitor Whitelist

File Monitor Whitelist is a feature that includes files and directories that are skipped and not scanned by CoGen Anti-virus. By adding trusted files and directories to the File Monitor Whitelist, you can improve the amount of time that it takes CoGen Anti-virus to scan your computer system.

Memory Monitor

This feature monitors all running application programs for viruses. Once a virus is detected Memory Monitor will clean the virus and prevent it from infecting your computer system.

E-mail Scan

Incoming emails (POP3) and outgoing emails (SMTP) are scanned for viruses and CoGen Anti-Virus will alert you of any potential virus threats. CoGen Anti-virus currently only supports POP3 incoming and SMTP outgoing email protocols. The Email Scan feature helps to prevent certain Trojans from stealing your passwords and scans and cleans any outgoing emails before they are sent to ensure that you don’t infect other computer users.

Script Blocking

This feature helps to protect your computer system when you are browsing the Internet by blocking certain malicious web scripts. If you visit a web site that contains high-risk web scripts, you will be alerted by CoGen Anti-virus and prompted for action.

Boot Record Monitor

This feature scans for viruses and other malicious files that reside in the boot records of floppy disks, CD-ROMs, or USB storage devices and blocks them from infecting your computer system.

Registry Protect

This feature monitors your system registry for any modifications. If an application program attempts to modify your system registry, you will be alerted and prompted for action. Registry Protect will inform you of the name and location of the application attempting to modify your system registry and how it will be modified.

Vulnerability Defence

If Windows updates are not installed and system vulnerabilities exist, Vulnerability Defense can help protect your computer system by alerting you of any potential attacks on any system vulnerabilities.(This is another major advantage over norton )

File Shredder

File Shredder allows you to protect your privacy by permanently deleting unwanted sensitive files through Windows Explorer. To permanently delete a file, simply right-click on the file and select File Shredder. Any files deleted by File Shredder cannot be recovered.

Network Blacklist

When the Auto-Protect feature detects that a network computer is attempting to spread a virus, Network Blacklist will intercept the virus and record the name and IP address of that computer. Other computers can be manually added to the Network Blacklist. Once a computer has been added to the Network Blacklist, that computer will not be able to copy of modify the shared directory of your computer.

Embedded Scan for other Programs

CoGen Anti-virus can provide added virus protection for third party applications such as instant messaging programs, download management tools, and compression tools. The following thirty party applications are supported by CoGen Anti-Virus:

• Microsoft Office 2000 and 2003
• Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher
• MSN Messenger
• Yahoo! Messenger
• AOL Instant Messenger
• FlashGet
• NetAnts
• Net Vampire
• WinZip
• WellGet
• WinRAR

Once Embedded Scan has been applied to these third party application programs, CoGen Anti-virus can automatically scan all files received through these programs for viruses and other malicious files.

Thus, Cogen Anti-Virus is definately an anti virus from the big league with many features that are not even present in norton, so i would suggest giving cogen anti-virus a try, atleast download a trial version and have a look.

My review, best alternative for Norton Anti-virus, it is either a CoGen AntiVirus 2007
or an Anti-Virus 2007 from CA!

Coming up in the next section, 10 features to look for when buying any anti-virus software.

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So, you have all heard of virus programs and the havoc that they cause when they attack your system and almost lets your system useless. You also know how viruses can work in stealth mode and can steal the information about the data you enter into your computer via keyloggers and that information can be used later to give you heavy financial losses.

So, what do we do to tackle with such viruses and malicious software programs who’s only intent is destruction and sabotage and maybe most of the times these days to steal your financial data. Some of the viruses are also known to consolidate your system for further damage, that is chain propogation. So, what do you do?

You use an Anti-Virus Software?

And when you think of an anti virus software, what is the name that comes to your mind ?

“Norton Anti-Virus”

No doubt the software is good and symentec has spent a lot of development and efforts to get the software to where it is today? But, for those who are looking for alternatives, here are a few!

Computer Associates Anti-Virus 2007:

• Secure Now: Provides proactive protection by monitoring critical program functions and settings, and reminding you to keep your security at an optimal level.
• Quick Tips: provide you with helpful, at-your-fingertips answers to commonly asked questions, easing the burden of searching the Help file or contacting Support for assistance.
• Threat Outbreak Warning System provides real-time content feeds from the CA Security Advisor, giving you detailed, up-to-the-minute information on the most recent and most prevalent virus threats.
• Complete Home Protection. CA Anti-Virus 2007 protects up to three PCs with a single subscription. You no longer need to buy three separate subscriptions to protect your household PC’s.
• Improved! User Interface offers simplicity and superior ease-of-use, helping you quickly and easily set preferences, check program status, and maintain a secure PC.
• Daily, Fully Automatic Updates easily and effectively address the #1 reason PC users suffer attacks: out-of-date signature files.
• Continuous Protection to keep your computer protected from the latest internet risks by automatically renewing your subscription at the then current renewal price (plus applicable tax), so you don’t have to.
• Low System Overhead with a total install of only 25 MB and low usage of system resources, CA Anti-Virus installs quickly, saves hard drive space, and scans efficiently. This is the most important advantage over Norton Anti-Virus.
• Certified by Independent Testing Organizations including ICSA Labs and West Coast Labs, and certified by Virus Bulletin to detect 100% of viruses “in the wild”.
• Automatic Email Scanning protects against viruses that arrive via email, before they can cause damage.
• Scheduled and On-Demand Scanning allow you to run a virus scan at any time, or schedule scans at pre-selected intervals to meet your needs.
• Real-time Scanning proactively stops viruses by scanning files when they are opened, closed or saved to your PC.
• Advanced Heuristic Scanning detects new threats even before computer virus protection updates are created.
• Interactive Virus Detection Messages provide links to helpful resources in the CA Virus Information Center when threats are detected.
• File Quarantine removes threats from their current location to a secure quarantine area to allow you to further review the file.
• File Exclusion List allows you to exclude specific files and folders from virus scans.
• Archive Scanning allows you to scan compressed files in a variety of formats.

So, Computer Associates anti-virus software is as good as any of those softwares in the market; and resonably priced for all these features, Computer Associates Anti-virus is a good alternative to Norton Anti-virus and more than an alternative i think it is better!

And most importantly they are also giving guarantee that if it software doesnt get rid of all the viruses then you get a compensation of more than $1000, so they are real serious folks and any software vendor would give this kind of guarantee when he belives in his product and the product is good enough.

So, my review says if you are about to buy an Anti-virus software, get over Norton and get a Anti-Virus 2007 from CA!

Coming up in the next part a review for CoGen AntiVirus 2007

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So, you are reading this because probably you have installed ubuntu right and now you need to know about the system and how it works and how can you optimize the system for better efficiency, for better look and how can you customize it like you can do it in windows! Well, look no further, you can get all those tips right here! Here is a “Beginners guide to ubuntu tips and optimization”.

So, lets learn a few things about ubuntu, that you might want to know as a first time user.

First boot:

When you for the first time boot the ubuntu system, what you see is a boot flash screen which is called a USplash and it covers up what is going on in the background when linux is booting. This screen is introduced so that the users who arent interested in what actually happens in the background, dont really see it.
First Login Screen:

On the right side of the login screen, you will notice the name of the computer, the date and the current time. On the left side there are some very useful options, like reboot, shutdown, suspend, hibernate, change session etc. Ok, it’s time for you to type in your username and password (hit enter after each one). Immediately after you’ve typed your username and password, you’ll notice a splash screen that shows what programs are loading and in a few seconds the splash screen disappears and the Ubuntu desktop appears. That’s the Ubuntu desktop!

Gnome Desktop:

The desktop environment that ubuntu uses is the GNome desktop! If you have a DHCP based network connection (automatic IP address) then you are connected to the Internet as Ubuntu configures DHCP connections automatically and you will notice a notification message in the right-upper part of the screen that says “Software updates available”. Click on the new orange icon (from where the notification message appeared) and a window will appear on the left side of the screen. This window will start to search for updates. Click the Install Updates button, when the search is complete, to install the available updates on your system. Ohh, what’s this? It asks for a password, because this is an administrative task and it’s safer this way; just type your password and hit enter. This program is called Update Manager and you can always find it under System -> Administration menu, but it will always appear when there are new updates. Also, you will notice another notification message that will ask if you want to install proprietary drivers for your graphics card. Just click the Enable option and it will start to download and install the necessary drivers.

Panels and Applets:

et’s learn a few things about the desktop. First things first, you should know that this desktop is called GNOME; as you can see, it’s a little different than Windows, as it has two Panels: one at the bottom and one at the top. But what’s cool about this desktop is that you can always configure it however you want, but we’ll talk about this a little bit later. Both panels have the same options and configurations.

The bottom panel has the Show Desktop button on the left side; in the middle you will see all the current opened windows and on the right you’ll see a trash icon and the Workspace Switcher. Now this is something you didn’t have in Windows (at least not as default), as the Workspace Switcher allows you to have multiple desktops. How does it work? Very simple: on the actual desktop, you have a window (or more) and if you click on the second square (default there are only two desktops, but you can set up to 36 desktops) the window(s) will disappear. Why? Because they are on the first desktop (you can even see them in the first square), and if you click the first square the window(s) will appear again. On the second (empty) desktop you can have other window(s). Come on, try it yourself to see how it works!

The upper panel is a little more complex. It contains on the left side the Main Menu from where you can access all the applications, different system locations (home folder, network places etc) and the system configuration tools. Right after the Main Menu you will see some software icons; these are shortcuts for different applications installed on your computer and you can add there as many as you want with a simple right click on the panel; then click on “Add to Panel” option and when the Add to Panel window appears hit the “Application Launcher” button on the left side and select your favorite applications from the list. On the right side of the upper panel you will see two icons (the network monitor and the sound volume), the date, the clock and a shutdown button from where you can reboot, hibernate, suspend, log out, switch user, lock screen or shutdown the computer.

I think this is enough for today, with respect to the customization of the ubuntu desktop and the next part of this tutorial will include topics like how to install new software on ubuntu linux as well as how to make your desktop cool and funky!

So, please check back later or subscribe to the RSS feeds so that you know when is the next update to this ubuntu tips,tricks and hacks published!

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I the other day received a email from someone claiming that i have won 4 million US dollars and i should claim it otherwise i will lose the amount!!

This was just like the previous one, but this one was more professionally made and it almost had me belive that i had actually won $ 4 million. Then i probed into it and then found out that the company which had sent me an email is a fraud company and also blacklisted in various fraud tracking organisations.

So, i thought it is my moral responsibility to warn all my users and readers to bewary of such lottery and never ever give any personal information that these emails often ask from you!

This is the email so that you can know how it actually is!

–EMAIL MESSAGE——————————

SURF LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
PRIZE/PROMOTION AWARD DEPT.
Ref Number: PW 9590 ES 9414
Batch Number: 573881545-NL/2007
Ticket Number:PP 3502 /8707-01
Winning Amount: $4,000,000.00.

The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.
No tickets were sold.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as a winner in the category “A” To file in for the processing of your prize winnings, you are advised to contact our Certified and Accredited claims agent for category “A” winners with the information below:
*************************************
Name: Morris Decker
Phone: +31 644 893 668
Email: [HIS_EMAIL_ID]@yahoo.de
[HIS_SECOND_ID]@yahoo.de
*************************************
You are advised to provide him with the following information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Occupation:
Age:

Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Barry Van Klejg
Lottery Coordinator.

—EMAIL ENDS HERE—–

Then i acted to be a genuine person and replied him back with this email:

—EMAIL STARTS HERE———-

Hi,

Just received a mail which says I won a lottery?

What do I do? Is it for real? Please tell me!!

—EMAIL ENDS HERE——————-

and i received a reply almost immidiately which said,

—EMAIL STARTS HERE–

Attn: [MYNAME],
We wish to congratulate you and formally inform you that you have won the sum of US$4,000,000.00 (Four Million United State Dollars) in the last email-lottery draw, organized by SURF Lottery Promotion. We have confirmed the above winning.

The said sum is now deposited in our suspense account in your favor waiting for the immediate remittance to you.

Be informed that your winning prize has a hardcover insurance policy that makes it impossible to make any deduction of any kind, until the sum is finally credited into your designated account.

This firm on behalf of SURF Lottery Promotion will issue an Irrevocable Guarantee of Payment Bond (IGPB) in your favor, thereby securing the above prize money.

A copy of the IGPB will be forwarded to our paying bank for immediate action. However, our client (SURF Lottery Promotion) has been notified of this development and the status of your claim.

Following the above, you are expected to fill the attached form and return back to this office along with a copy of your international passport or driver’s license via email attachment or by fax for vetting process which is a standard practice just to ensure that we are dealing with the right individual.

This process is vital and urgent following the instruction from our clients that all prize money should be claimed on or before the DEADLINE on your notice.
Once again accept our congratulations and we look forward to hearing from you soon.

Regards,

Morris Decker
Phone:+31 644 893 668
Fax : +31 847 171 322
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

–EMAIL ENDS HERE———–

This email message also had a form attached for the claim so that it will look authentic but the simplest mistake that they did was that the amount which they say i have won, is different in the two emails that I have received from them!

So, i knew that this is fraud and did some research on this subject and found many pages on this topic.

You can have a look here to learn better! Look what consumerfraudreporting.org has to say about it!!

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Google’s Pagerank Changes:

Recent patent applications filed by Google shows that the online search leader is working to soup up its search algorithm to provide more detailed and targeted results. Those improvements could lead to improved media search and dynamic content, according to a search engine expert who discussed the findings at this week’s Enterprise Search Summit meeting in New York and in a Wall Street analyst report.

Stephen E. Arnold, managing director of Arnold IT and the author of a book on Google, said his analysis of recent patents filed by Google indicate the search engine company will be able to increase its dominance of the search market and dash predictions that competitors like Microsoft and Yahoo will whittle away at the firm’s lead.

Arnold, whose opinions were outlined this week in a Bear Stearns report, said Google is augmenting its PageRank algorithm by beefing up its search and indexing methodology. The key patent applications, published in February, would create a Programmable Search Engine (PSE) that would lead to more structured Web page data.

“The PSE will be the basic foundation behind Google’s Semantic Web and will be invisible to the searcher, but will augment the search experience to a level that will be hard for competitors to duplicate quickly or easily,” the Bear Stearns report states.

The PSE-based technology can deliver a series of improvements including more personal results for individual users, reduce spoofed results by spammers, and deliver additional granular detail, for instance, detailing car inventory and not just a dealer’s phone number. The technology also could index password-protected information while indexing dynamic sites — for instance, providing user-requested flight information.

The heart of the new technology is based on five patents created by Dr. Ramanathan Guha, which taken together would let Google’s next generation search engine gain access to more interactive programming and allow more involvement by outside Webmasters. The Bear Stearns report went on to state: “Based on the patent filings, we believe Dr. Guha’s work points to Google adding the PSE functionality as a component of Page Rank.”

Original article source at:http://news.iwebtool.com/article_16480.html?mp=1

Posted on this blog because thought it to be important!

Comments as always welcome!

Cheers!!

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          For years, i had thought stat counter provided the best results when it came to providing website statistics and visitors information and traffic information, probably the most important things that matter to a webmaster other than the CTR(Click through rate). Then as usual Google entered the website statistics market and thats when i knew things are about to get better; and they went from better to the best with their analytics interface and i removed stats counter from all of my websites and installed the analytics script in all of my webpages and the result was great; actually more than i expected and i was happy and contented that i shifted from statcounter to Google Analytics!

But, probably google wasnt contented and today morning i woke up from my sleep to check my mails like i always do, and i had this service email from Google Analytics stating that they have changed their interface!

I was more than interested to know about the new google analytics interface and what i saw was out of the world; google has done it again….and this time it is fantastic and if you thought that the previous analytics was good this one is the BEST. See for yourself by logging into Google Analytics.

The most noticable change is the ability for automated reports to be emailed at an email address specified by you, but thats just the beginning! The graphs that are generated this time are very sleek and the graphics for the map overlays and the graphics have been carefully worked to perfection. The navigations to various aspects that it monitors has been simplified and has been made a lot more “User Friendly” than it previously was. The new dashboard is also great and provides the best overview of the system, perfected to the understanding of the novice user and customizable upto the level of a “Geek”!

Plus, a new thing that i have noticed is a possible export to .pdf and a .xml file, of all the reports which i am not sure was possible before!

I know, i cant stop going “ga ga” over the new analytics interface, but i advice its the best for you people to login and see and if you are not an analytics user then maybe this is the best time to get a Google Analytics account and get Started!

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PHP Frameworks:

PHP is finally getting the attention that i deserves, yes I have always believed that PHP is one of those neglected languages, neglected because they are used in abundance but there isn’t enough programs or as we call them frameworks to work on PHP. But that was until the release of PHP 5. After the release of PHP, there is a range of Frameworks available.

Today we review and understand closely the various frameworks available for PHP. Some of the most popular frameworks for PHP are:

1. The Zend Framework.
2. The Prado Framework.
3. CakePHP Framework.
4. Symphony Framework.

These frameworks are ofcourse the most popular ones and there are more than 40 frameworks for PHP and it is very difficult to know which framework suits you the best and will be the most productive for your web development and enterprise goals.
Ofcourse all these frameworks are free and provide a host of services to satisfy almost all of the web development needs of a web designer or a website owner. Some of the most common features of all these PHP Framework are as follows:

• PHP 5: Thats obvious! All the frameworks support both PHP 5 version of the PHP.Only “The Prado Framework” support the PHP 4.x version of the PHP as well as the PHP 5 version of the PHP.
• Multiple DBs: All the above mentioned frameworks support multiple databases to be used without making any setup and configuration changes.
• Validation: All the four frameworks have an inbult validation and a filtering component which can be used.
• MVC: All the four frameworks have the MVC that is the Model View Controller setup.

So, these are the few components and controllers that are common in most of the PHP based frameworks and therefore one should look out for these components when downloading or using a PHP framework.

Now let us see a brief introduction about each of these PHP based frameworks and their salient features:

• Zend Framework:Zend Framework is a component based framework with components for almost all of the programming needs of a PHP programmer or PHP developer.

Some of the components in the Zend Framework are:

1. zend_acl
2. zend_auth
3. zend_cache
4. zend_config
5. zend_consolegetop and many more.

• Prado Framework: The Prado framework provides the following benefits for web application developers.

1. reusablility
2. Ease of use
3. Robustness
4. Performance
5. Team Integration

• CakePHP:

Some of the important features of CakePHP are as follows:

1. Model, View, Controller Architecture
2. View Helpers for AJAX, Javascript, HTML Forms and more
3. Built-in Validation
4. Application Scaffolding
5. Application and CRUD code generation via Bake
6. Access Control Lists
7. Data Sanitization
8. Security, Session, and Request Handling Components
9. Flexible View Caching

Like all other frameworks cakePHP is also component based framework.

• The Symphony Framework:

Some of the features of the symphony framework are as follows:

1. simple templating and helpers
2. cache management
3. smart URLs
4. scaffolding
5. multilingualism and I18N support
6. object model and MVC separation
7. Ajax support
8. enterprise ready

Thus these are the best options available for frameworks relating to PHP and one should review all these features of all these frameworks against his needs and choose the appropriate framework to work on!

Any suggestions and comments as always are welcome.

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Here is a game that will send a chill down your spine and will take your adreline levels to a new high!

Here is Lord of the rings Online!

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Mozilla Firefox

Firefox is quite literally the next generation browser than has become quite popular in the recent years. Firefox is developed and promoted by Mozilla as its flagship browser for both Linux as well as windows platforms. The latest version of Firefox is Firefox 2 which claims to be faster than the pervious versions of the browser, it is definitely more secure than the internet explorer as well as more customizable as compared to Internet Explorer.

Lets see some of the features of Firefox which makes it the browser of the future and why it gives such a though competition to the market leader in the browser sector “ The Internet Explorer”

• Super Fast Page Loading: Firefox definitely loads pages much faster than the internet explorer and the most distinguished quality of this browser is that it is so transparent. Everything that it does is displayed in the status bar where as internet explorer has just the basic and very fundamental things displayed keeping the main things to itself. What this means is that with firefox you know when you are being redirected, when you are connecting to another proxy.
• Secure Web Browsing: Firefox definitely offers more security when it comes to surfing the internet because unlike internet explorer it doesn’t have BHO(Browser Helper Objects) which are often used by spywares and adwares to detect users surfing patterns and even worse to invoke RPC( Remote Procedure Calls). Firefox developers have also invested some quality programming time in checking the popup menace that is eminent on the internet. Firefox blocks out 99% of all the popups which are the reasons of viruses and irritating advertisements over the internet.
• Extremely Customizable: With firefox you can customize just about everything from addons to default search engines to themes. Firefox comes with a built in Addon and Themes Manager to manage, install, uninstall, enable and disable themes and add ons. You can choose from over 1000 add ons for firefox from their website which are made for each and every type of user, from a developer, to a webmaster to an investment banker to a CEO.

One of the distinguishing and the silent feature of the firefox is its ability to detected phising and to warn users about it which no other browser can along with an excellent automatic update routine so that the users need not worry about update at all. The best thing is of all, all these and many more features come for FREE; cause its open source.

So, if you haven’t switched on the Firefox please do so, for a better internet experience and for a safe and secure internet usage.

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As promised this is all you needed to know about google pack and the softwares that come with Google Pack.

The essential software that come with google pack by default are:

• Google Earth– Shows excellent satellite images of almost each and every part of the earth with different angles and with the ability to bookmark places on the “Earth”. This is the first software of its kind which is available to the common public for free.Softwares such as these were available only to the high ranked military officials, the homeland security department and those who are highly ranked in the government. This software is highly recommended for use! The only flipside to this software is its high bandwidth requirement which is quite inevitable when you are getting satellite images of “The Earth”.
• Picasa–Picasa is another great software from Google which is the best that I have used for organizing my personal photos. The most outstanding aspect of picasa is its ability to password protect photo collections and that too effectively!
• Google Desktop–Google Desktop is the best desktop management software around! One of its USPs is its Desktop Sidebar with a range of widgets from Stock quotes to Adsense account details, to weather forecast details to many many more. And obviously it indexes files on your computer in realtime which is very good and I need not tell you about the efficiency of Google’s Indexing technology.:)
• Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar– Firefox is an excellent browser produced by Mozilla and is the best we can get when it comes to competing with internet explorer.In mozilla Firefox, the webpages load quicker than internet explorer, the popups are blocked better than internet explorer and the most important thing, its program logic to handle passwords and form data is far more advanced and better then Internet Explorer and it really saves a lot of your typing; and to top it all the google toolbar which gives us a range of services from quick google search, to gmail access to giving pagerank of the pages we visit.
• Spyware Doctor–Spyware doctor scans the spywares and adwares right, but the problems i faced with this software was the performance issues. The scanning process almost slows down your computer to a 386 level( i have tested this on 512 DDR and Intel 3.00GHZ processor). Along with this spyware doctor monitors spywares in real time by running in the background and can be quite annoying sometimes; but i guess this is the tradeoff that you have to suffer when you want to protect your computer from spywares and adwares.
• Skype–Skype from the developers of the Kazaa is the pioneer in bring voice chat and video communication to our desktops and with services like calling to any number from skype and receiving calls on your desktop from any phone is the best that we can get in its category.

So, here’s a review for Google Pack and all the software that comes with it and it is surely a must download software bundle of essential softwares. Moreover, Google Pack comes with a very efficient installer and updater which downloads and updates your softwares as soon as they become outdated or newer versions are released!

So, my verdict, download google pack right away if you havent so far!!

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