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Mikogo

Mikogo can facilitate hosting of online meetings, free. It has quite a number of features to help conduct a near-perfect online meetings, web conferences or webinars, product demonstrations, web presentations, and offer remote support to clients and others. Mikogo's features include: Desktop Sharing; Multiple Meeting Participants (up to ten); Switch Presenter; Remote Keyboard and Mouse Control; Session Scheduler; Session Recording and Playback; Whiteboard; Transfer Files; Application Selection; Participant Pointer, and more. Mikogo is a cross-platform application, can be run both on both Windows and Macs, and participating in desktop sharing sessions from both PC and Mac computers, is possible.

The 1.6MB Mikogo, free for personal as well as professional use, can be downloaded at

http://www.mikogo.com/downloads/mikogo-starter.exe for Windows

For Mac at http://www.mikogo.com/downloads/mikogo.dmg

Rockbox

Rockbox is a an open source replacement firmware for portable digital audio players like iPod and others. If the orginal firmware is lacking in features and has annoying bugs installing Rockbox could help. Rockbox is a complete rewrite, and uses no fragments of the original firmware. Its numerous features can be known by browsing the Firmware Feature Comparison Charts at http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/FeatureComparison  These compare Rockbox with the original firmwares. Rockbox, for most models, includes a wider range of sound settings to enhance its quality. It has has a large number of plugins for games, applications, and graphical demos. Backed by its community, Rockbox, in development since 2001, backed by its community, releases new features, tweaks and fixes, very often. These encompass different configurations, customisation, and more.

Rockbox can be downloaded at http://build.rockbox.org/

Manual at http://www.rockbox.org/manual.shtml

FAQ at http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/GeneralFAQ

The developers affirm that Roxbox does not violate any copyright as it is not offerred as patched versions of the original firmware, however, are in no position to offer any kind of guarantee against the warranty
becoming void.

Ma-Config

Ma-Config.com, in collaboation with TousLesDrivers.com, offers a two-fold free service. It scans your computer to create a summary of its hardware, and also leads you to the official driver download pages. Over there you can easily identify and install the latest drivers that correspond to your computer's configuration. You can use Ma-Config services by installing a plugin and, to protect privacy and data confidentiality, set yourself the detection levels (depth) of the hardware and software components (certified by VeriSign®). These levels are: 0 : Hardware information only; 1: Adding software information; 2: Adding more detailed software information; and 3: Adding hardware serial numbers. While installing the Ma-Config plugin, there are two choices - "standard" or "local network," the former for a single computer. To know more visit these webpages

About Ma-Config at http://www.ma-config.com/en/about/

Tutorial at http://www.ma-config.com/en/tutorial/

FAQ at http://www.ma-config.com/en/faq/

Notwithstanding the fact that it is quite cumbersome to go through the steps, service rendered by Ma-Config service is quite useful indeed.

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Please tell me about a tool which can
secure email by encrypting it.

You could try 4t HIT Mail Privacy at http://www.4tniagara.com/hitmail.html

The utility which encodes the message to a
selected photo, supports Gmail, Hotmail,
Yahoo! Mail, and Microsoft Outlook.

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QUOTE TO MULL OVER

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Thomas A. Edison
(1847-1931, American inventor, founder of GE)

RAMRush

RAMRush is a a free intelligent memory management and optimization tool to optimize memory, free-up RAM, prevent system rashes, and remove Memory Leaks. RAMRush main features: enhances system performance, enhances the amount of memory available, defragments system physical memory, recovers memory from Windows applications, removes memory leaks, prevents system crashes caused by memory problems, displays the real-time usages data of CPU and RAM, carries out optimization with a just a click - move the mouse cursor to the RAMRush window in the tray icon area, click 'Start Optimize', or double-click RAMRush tray icon, or press the hot key 'Ctrl-Alt-O' to commence the optimization immediately.

The 534 KB RAMRush v1.0.6.917 can be downloaded at http://www.fcleaner.com/downloads/ramrush.exe

It is 100% clean, no spyware or adware either, aver the developers.

TeamLab

Developed by Ascensio System SIA, TeamLab, a platform for business collaboration, has a dual purpose: making social networking and project management efficient. It lets you to use social networking tools such as blogs and forums, organize business tasks and milestones, as well as communicate with your team members via corporate IM. TeamLab can help create new and manage existing projects; maintain company blogs and share ideas with teammates; Use forums to discuss important issues; Schedule and check out task milestones, conduct polls to collect and process employee opinions; chat with colleagues in real-time via TM Talk; create corporate knowledge base to ensure effecctive information flow; backup your data - provides the source code to deploy it on your own server; and more. TeamLab, provided free of charge, is available in two deployment solutions.

To know more about TeamLab browse the How-to guides at http://teamlab.com/HowTo.aspx

Sculptris

Sculptris lets you allows you to create your own 3D model faces, as though you were sculpting them from lumps of clay. With Sculptris you can create a 3d object from a sphere, color it and change the back ground and so many things more. Anyone can start sculpting models by playing around with the basic features of Sculptris. However, it would take a bit of exploration to learn how to use Sculptris effectively to create great-looking 3D models. The documentation file has a details on the interface, buttons, and shortcut keys. You could also visit the Sculptris forums to post your questions over there or just to showcase your works.

The 3.2 MB Sculptris v1.0 (Updated to v1.02 on June 28th 2010) truly rivals expensive programs. It can be downloaded at http://www.sculptris.com/sculptris.zip

A trailer on Sculptris can be viewed at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DNRg6pdNeE

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Please suggest a utility to boot XP faster.

You could try BootVis, v1.3.37.0. The tool is no longer
available from Microsoft, however, you can download it at http://snipurl.com/microsoftbootvis

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QUOTE TO MULL OVER

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish to be. We have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions. So we have to know how to Act.

- Swami Vivekananda