No matter how fast your computer was when you first bought it, the machine will not able to maintain its top-notch performance all year round. The reasons could be from undefragmented hard drive, restore accidentally delete files, broken Windows Registry keys, hard drive errors, Windows hidden settings and many other possible causes. You still need to fair amount of attention on the maintenance. Fortunately TuneUp Utilities 2009 is here to do all tedious job; saving you lot of time.

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Anyway here is a list of great alternatives to Adobe Reader and the best thing about these applications is they are all FREE.

1. Foxit Reader

Foxit Reader is small in size (approximately 3.5 MB) but features almost everything Adobe Acrobat Reader has. This FREE PDF viewer allows users to view and print out their PDF documents. PDF documents can be opened at lightning speed and users can convert PDF document to its original document. It works well with Windows Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

Note: I have been using this software for a long time.

Download Foxit Reader

2. Cool PDF Reader

I bet this is the smallest PDF reader with only 600 KB++ in size and it is reflected on its simple installation. Cool PDF Reader can do common PDF reader job; view, print ect. Interestingly it can also convert PDF files to other extension such as TXT, JPG, BMP, GIF, WMF, PNG and EPS. It works in 68 different languages and supports all version of PDF files.

Download Cool PDF Reader

3. PDFescape

No installation required. Seriously, all you need is only a browser. PDFescape is a new way to open PDF files and escape from the typical software requirements for using the de facto document file format. With PDFescape, you can fill in PDF forms, add text and graphics, add links, and even add new form fields to a PDF file.

4. PDF Hammer

PDF Hammer is another Free online PDF application. It functions as a reader and also allows users to edit PDF documents. Users can combine or merge PDF documents together, reorder, rearrange and delete pages. You can also lock your PDF files with password-based security and edit or add document information fields including author, subject, title and keywords.

5. Perfect PDF Reader

Perfect PDF Reader is a free download and it runs on both 32and 64 bits Windows platforms. The Visual C++ 2008 runtimes are required for it to function properly and it can be downloaded during installation. Basically there are three views to choose from - reading view, standard and a full screen reading. With Perfect PDF extraction of images and text is made easy. Either type of element can be copied, selected and pasted elsewhere.

Download Perfect PDF Reader

6. Sumatra PDF

Sumatra has a minimalistic design. It is small and launches itself very fast. It is great for portable use because it is just a one file with no external dependencies. You should include this in your USB pen drive.

Download Sumatra PDF

7. PDF-XChange Viewer

This PDF viewer is is smaller, faster and more feature-rich than other available readers. You might be surprised just how quickly your large PDF files open and pages smoothly refresh as they are scrolled.

• Add comments and annotations to any PDF file
• Type directly on any PDF page
• Markup pages with text and objects
• Export PDF pages or entire files to BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG and more
• Make your navigation of large PDF files both simple and enjoyable with the Loupe and Pan tools
• Extract text from a PDF page or file

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For those who insist to use Adobe Reader, you may want to consider to use the lite version of the original one; Adobe Reader Lite 9.1. It was done by a talented developer who managed to strip off the unwanted plugins from the official Adobe Reader installation. You can see the list of things that had been removed from the original version after the screenshot.

Adobe Reader Lite 9.1 Features

• Plugins and features that is not required by average users removed
• Start menu shortcut converted to non-advertisement
• Desktop shortcuts and autorun removed
• License Agreement popups and Beyond Adobe removed
• Removed AcroRd32Info.exe therefore no errors filling up the event log
• Auto-update features removed
• Form filling allowed
• Cosmetic changes
• Adobe Reader better dialog-box and “Create PDF using Acrobat.com” disabled from the toolbar

Download Adobe Reader Lite 9.1: Rapidshare | Mediafire

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Ginipic is a nice application that can really deliver best pictures from across the internet mainly from photo-sharing and social networking sites like the aforementioned websites and few more sites from Live Search, Dreamstime, Smumug and even our own local collection.

Ginipic has user friendly interface with the option to dock it on your desktop. The result is presented in thumbnails and you can preview the images simply by clicking on the thumbnails. A small windows will popup and it will show additional option/info such as saving file in your computer. To better enhance your experience you can switch it to the full screen mode with more thumbnails will be displayed. When an image is previewed it will show information pertaining the image including copyright, its original dimension and size.

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It will appear like any other partitions or drives in My computer but it cannot be accessed unless you could supply the correct password before granted for access.

For creating the space it will use existing available space in your hard drive. Don't worry much about how big the space that should be dedicated for security purposes because you can always extend the drive later on.

SafeHouse Explorer function of protecting sensitive data is not only limited in the protected drive but extends to files residing on any drive, including memory sticks, network servers, external, USB drives, DVD/CD and even iPods.

SafeHouse is compatible with Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista and uses strong 256-bit Twofish encryption.

Download SafeHouse Explorer

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TubeMaster Plus is a useful freeware that is able to download multimedia files (FLV, MP4, MP3 etc) from virtually every YouTube-like website and save them on your hard drive.

What make Tubemaster special is because we can watch a video, while Tubemaster is doing its job and save the video for you. You can watch the downloaded file in flv format (Tubemaster format) or you can simply convert it to AVI, MP4 (for Ipod or iPhone), WMV or even Mpeg. Tubemaster can convert you video with no problem.

When you grab files, they are all lined up in a queue. From there you can decide what you are planning to do next (convert, save etc). TubeMaster Plus is currently available in more than 12 languages including Swedish, Italian, Polish, Korean and German.

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Luckily, iExporter exists to fill in the gap. Basically this small c# application allows you to export iTunes playlists to any other location so you can have your iTunes playlists available on any other device like usb stick, sd card, mp3 player or even any media player in your computer.

Note: For the time being, iExporter only exports native mp3 files because most other media devices do not support the native iTunes files.

iExporter Page | Download iExporter

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Speaking of which, Bywifi Video Streaming Accelerator is another brilliant freeware that performs extremely well in downloading, accelerating and transcoding video streaming.

As expected, this freeware supports all video streaming sites such as Youtube, Metacafe, Dailymotion, MySpace and more. With advanced technologies like peer-to-server-and-peer (P2SP) and intelligence caching, it is able to bring better experience to users with streaming and downloading speed can go up to 5 times of normal speed.

Bywifi Features

• Speeds up downloading speed of video streaming with P2SP
• Search video with Bywifi
• No buffer (again) when you close your web Browser
• Download video while you watching it
• Support Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, and Vista
• Transcode video to video format that supports Nokia, SamSung, iPhone, iPad, PSP and iPod after downloading the video

Bywifi site | Download Bywifi

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Key Features:

• Complete your DVD info, even from online DVD movie
• Totally free Convert DVD to iPhone MP4, MP3
• Convert DVD to iPhone free with user friendly and easy to use interface
• Multithreading, batch free DVD to iPhone conversion
• Enjoy DVD movie on iPhone on the go
• Convert DVD to iPhone free with fast conversion speed and excellent output quality

Download Leawo Free DVD to iPhone Converter

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Previously I wrote about Mx One that acts as a standalone antivirus specifically for USB flash drive and USB WriteProtector that could effectively write-protect pen drives.

In this post I will show you how to protect your pen drive by creating fake dummy file. The idea here is to cheat virus so that it "sees" our pen drive is already full, so it will not be able to write itself. In order to do that you first need to check the exact free space on your pen drive. Right click on the pen drive and select "properties".

With the information obtained, you need to type in the following line of code. Change your drive letter and USB flash drive space (in byte) accordingly.

fsutil file createnew F:\DummyFile 7168172032

You are done if you are using windows XP. Your pen drive should be safe from virus. Unfortunately, Windows Vista users need to take additional step because of its tight security. You need to make sure that FSUTIL gets full administrator privilege before you could successfully run the command.

Alternative method

If you don't want to mess up with the command and Vista tight security, you can use some applications that can do the job on the fly.

Dummy File Creator

With dummy file creator you can fill up each and every single byte in your pen drive. It takes a few minute to complete creating the dummy file especially if the size is in the region of gigabytes.

Download link

Just google for "dummy file creator" and you will find many similar tools like NOD32 Dummy File Creator.

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If you like VLC player you should try GOM player as well. GOM Player is a free multimedia player that can play wide array of video formats without the need to install separate codecs. Playing files that are being downloaded from the Internet or broken during downloading process are not possible several years ago but GOM player is like any versatile video players, is equipped with a pretty mundane feature that allows us to view the broken videos.

GOM Player also supports multiple format of subtitles like SMI, SUB, RT and SRT. A built-in screenshot feature is part of GOM player which allows you to capture screenshots of your favorite videos up to 999 shots.

Apparently for a standard player like GOM Media Player, it allows user to customize brightness, saturation, contrast and sharpness to better suit your preference. Last but not least, it also includes an audio equalizer to cater your liking.

To wrap up everything, GOM player is an astounding multimedia player and best of all is a freeware.

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GOM player

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Messenger Plus! Live 4.8 Features

• Tabbed chats - Like you always do on your Firefox
• Quick Texts - Text replacements: automatic and customizable messages
• Custom Sounds- Sounds are played instantly on both ends
• Colors, formatting and commands - Spice up your text like inIRC rooms
• Recharge your Messenger - Various additions to manage your contacts and conversations
• Personalized Status - Customize your away status and more
• Messenger Lock - Nobody can sneak up your conversation when you away unless somebody knows your password :D
• Contacts on Desktop - Show the status of any desired contact on your desktop in the form of small floating windows.
• HTML Chat Logging - Keep logs of all your conversations in a much more flexible way than the original Messenger ones
• Emoticons and Winks - Everything is logged even custom emoticons are kept
• Log viewer - Shows you all your logs sorted by contact and date within Messenger Plus!
• Skinnable logs - Custom your logs with CSS
• Event viewer and event logging
• Contact List Clean up - Delete old and repeated contacts
• Polygamy - run multiple Messenger sessions

Messenger Plus! Live 4.8 is available in many languages including but no limited to English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Danish, Chinese Simplified, Estonian, Chinese Traditional and Dutch. In order to make sure Messenger Plus! Live 4.8 is fully operational, you need to run latest Windows Live Messenger which requires Windows XP or above (32-bit or 64-bit).

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Messenger Plus! Live 4.80

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Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive but in reality it exists virtually. You can mount ISO image onto a virtual drive from your hard disk or even from a network drive.

Virtual Sheep option is purposely designed to differentiate all virtual drives loaded by the software with its own icon, that way you won't be confused with the real drives.

The second option under "Settings" sets the application to auto-mount the last loaded image for easy resuming of your work at a later time. This is a handy feature especially when your ISO image is buried deep inside folders or when you work on the ISO image on a regular basis. It saves you a lot of time!

The second tab (Language) allows you to choose languages of your preference. Once you choose another language and hit the OK button, the application will automatically be closed. The language will only be set after you reopening the application.

Some of the features included in Virtual CloneDrive are:

• Supports all common image formats such as BIN, ISO, CCD
• Easy to use - just double-click an image file to mount as a drive
• Supports up to 8 virtual drives at the same time
• Virtual CloneDrive is freeware, you may use it at no cost

System Requirements

• Minimum 500 MHz Pentium processor (1 GHz recommended) and 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)
• Windows 98/98SE/ME/2000/XP/XP64/VISTA/VISTA64
• If you use Windows 2000 or Windows XP you must have an administrator access

Download Link

Virtual CloneDrive 5.4.1.1

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There is, however, a solution that can keep virtually every attempt made by viruses futile; write - protecting our pendrive. Not like a good old 1.44 MB diskette that can be write-protected mechanically by using a small latch at the bottom of it, only few pendrive that has the same feature like the old floppy diskette.

The solution now lies on USB WriteProtector, a small portable software that allows us to write-protect our pendrive. This will effectively prevent any attempt by viruses to create new files on the drive unless it is set to unprotected.

Even if you plug your pendrive into an infected computer, the pen drive will remain safe because virus will not be able to write itself onto the pendrive. So no more autorun.inf hassles. Don't worry about the language, you can change the language from the selection once you run USB WriteProtector.

Download USB WriteProtector

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