Win a Genuine Norton 360 Version 2.0 Serial Number

I am thinking of running a contest where the price is a free genuine copy of Norton 360 version 2. I’m not sure how am I suppose to run this competition, it would be great to see something for a change instead of boring post.

How about the person that blogs in their blog on why he/she should win a copy of Norton 360 from GeckoandFly? Suggestion?

Norton 360 version 2.0 is out now, and I’ve downloaded the trialware did some performance test on two of my comp and surprisingly it is overwhelming, the new version is lighter, faster.

According yo Norton, it uses 73% less memory compare to version 1.0, it boost up any applications by 6% faster, and the user interface response is 92% faster. In short, Norton 360 is a great product and does exactly what its name says in covering the security of your computer. It’s nice to have a product that’s somewhat user friendly and efficient. Speaking of user interface, I would say McAfee has a very user unfriendly interface.

Some of the new features in Norton 360 version 2.0 are:

Network Monitoring, which checks the status of wireless security, maps connected devices, alerts users when they are connected to an unsecure network, and provides advice to help manage network security settings. Norton 360’s Smart Background Scheduler has been enhanced with the ability to prevent tasks from initiating automatically while in battery power mode and also throttles bandwidth for online backups to minimize impact on performance. Norton 360 users have the option to manually scan individual files and folders and to shutdown their computer upon completion of a task.

Norton 360’s anti-phishing and Web authentication functionality has been extended to Firefox. Enhancements have also been made to the Norton toolbar, allowing it to be resized or hidden. Source: WWPI.com

Given today’s threat landscape, computer users need to gravitate towards all-in-one solutions like Norton 360 to address their essential security needs, the Norton 360 Version 2.0 cost around 80 dollars, a reasonable price for a trouble free PC.

p.s. Avoid downloading a copy of Norton 360 version 2 from any Bittorrent site for the time being, not only it is a version 1.0 disguise as version 2, but it comes with a virus.

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Skype Alternative - Free VoIP Internet Calls to Landlines and Mobiles

Make FREE calls to landline and mobile phones in over 60 countries by participating in the All Calls Free plan.

Undoubtedly Skype is the best known VoIP software for making calls from a PC to landlines and mobiles, it is definitely not the only application around. Probably what makes Skype popular is the reliability and fame it has, and not to mention it is one of the pioneer in VoIP.

If you’re unhappy with Skype’s services and reliability, or finds it a bit too expensive, why not give Skype a break and try some other alternatives. Gizmo5 provides you 20 minutes of free calls to landlines and mobiles for every friend you manage to signup, that shouldn’t be hard because who doesn’t like free stuff?

CALL FREE TO THESE COUNTRIES (Landline Only)

Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Chile
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
French Antilles
Germany
Gibraltar
Greece
Guadeloupe
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Monaco
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Panama
Peru
Poland
Portugal
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Turkey
United Kingdom
Venezuela
Zambia

CALL FREE TO THESE COUNTRIES (Landline and mobile Only)

Canada
China
Cyprus
Guam
Hong Kong
Malawi
Malaysia
Puerto Rico
Russia
Saipan
San Marino
Singapore
South Korea
Thailand
United States
US Virgin Islands
Vatican City

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How to Backup Your Blogger Blogspot Posts and Comments

You must be wondering, why should you backup your post and comments? Google is solid and reliable, no reason, right? Wrong. Here’s why:

I am blogging at i5bala.blogspot.com, quite happy with the Google Blogger platform and my Blog is having good page rank too. But now, things are turning bad towards me, just 4 days back my blog has been blocked by the Blogger’s spam-prevention robots, saying:

“This blog has been locked by Blogger’s spam-prevention robots. You will not be able to publish your posts, but you will be able to save them as drafts.” - Source

I blog about it last year, for those that are using blogspot as their main blogging tool, GeckoandFly highly recommend Blogger Backup by Codeplex, its free. The Blogger Backup utility is intended to be a simple utility to backup to local disk your Blogger posts.

Blogger Backup has the ability to backup all of your post and comments and fully restore it when you need to. As a blogger that uses both the Wordpress and Blogger platform, there is no other easier way to backup and fully restore posts and comments like Blogger Backup, its way much harder when it comes to Wordpress, someone should code it for Wordpress.

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How to Recover Deleted Files and Folder in Windows

There are times when you accidentally deleted some files or folder, it could be an important file and coincidentally you have just emptied your recycle bin. The chances of recovering the file is pretty slim if you don’t perform a weekly backup or have the all expensive Norton BackUp installed. Fear not!

DataRecovery is a freeware written by a Japanese Company - Tokiwa, DataRecovery official site in English, the name implies it all, it is a file recovery software and it is free. According to their official statement, DataRecovery can recover deleted files and ironically it has a unique feature to wipe off any files from future recoveries. The user interface of the software is relatively straight forward, no installation required and it works with Windows Vista. The recovering success depends on the individual system configuration, for example the type of software running on the background, the file system FAT32 or NTSF and many more.

Some of the key features:

• Support FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS
• Recover NTFS compressed files
• Prevent sensitive files from being recovered
• Search by partial string in the file name

Download DataRecovery. If DataRecovery fails to perform the recovering task, try some of Norton’s product, the only drawback for Norton’s product is the cost, it doesn’t comes cheap and I believe DataRecovery could perform the same task for free, no cracks, serials, or keygen needed.

• Norton GoBack allows you to try new software safely; recover deleted or modified files, and roll back system to better and healthy state.
• Norton Save & Restore could create full backups of PC’s content, backup and restore individual files and folders.
• Norton Ghost also allows you to full backup PC’s content. You can even encrypt backups to keep them secure.

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Messenger Discovery Live, MSN Messenger Add-on

Messenger Discovery Live is a free Windows Live Messenger add-on, what it does is, it enhances MSN Messenger with tons of features, one of the best feature available is the ‘Contacts that have deleted you’ feature, the list goes on and on, below is are the list of features, please take note that Messenger Discovery is not part of Microsoft MSN Messenger, not does Microsoft endorse it.

Advanced Contact Manager
- See contacts who have deleted you
- See Yahoo! contacts
- View contact MSN/Windows Live Messenger version
- Messages received count
- Messages sent count
- Message ratio statistic
- See the last message received and when
- See the last time contacts came online (since MessengerDiscovery was installed)
- See when contacts came online (since MessengerDiscovery was installed)
- Display picture stealing

Advanced Contact Functions
- Remove contact ‘now playing’ and personal messages
- Alert when a contact returns from away/busy/idle
- Alert when a contact comes online
- Alert when a contact goes offline
- Alert when a contact deletes you
- Alert when a contact adds you
- Alert when a contact opens a conversation
- Alert when a contact closes a conversation

Instant Message Tools
- Imitate your contacts (using command !imitate)
- Auto reply to certain messages (accepts wild cards too)
- Message holding while away/busy/etc.
- Conversation nick name
- Remove your ‘is typing’ message
- Flash scroll lock upon receiving message
- Always be shown as ‘typing a message’
- Remove your ‘is recording’ message
- Stop window flashing
- Show IM window upon receiving a message
- Auto response to any message

Protection
- Block web links from un-trusted contacts
- Block application invites
- Block winks, nudges, custom emoticons and voice clips
- Profanity filter
- Message flood protection

Instant Message Formatting
- Message capitalization
- Remove contact font, font color and font style
- Right align your messages
- Right align contact messages
- Message trimming
- Highlight contact messages (requires Messenger Plus!)

General Tools
- Display picture stealing
- Webcam snapshot
- Terminate Messenger rather than sending it to system tray
- Be shown as online after signing in offline after set time
- Be shown as ‘using a mobile device’
- Be shown as ‘using web messenger’
- Be shown as owning a webcam
- Status hot keys
- Avoid being shown as idle
- Received file organizer
- Nick name history

Speech
- Read aloud when a contact signs in
- Read aloud received messages
- Read aloud when contacts are typing

Advanced Tools
- Custom CVR
- Messenger protocol debugging
- Messenger server error logging

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