Freeware / Free softwares 04 Nov 2010

Facebook Group

If you have been wary of joining FaceBook because of privacy issues, or as a member do not want to share a post with everyone in your friends' list, now, you can start an exclusive FaceBook group. This new feature of Facebook lets you organize your friends, family or colleagues into mini Facebook communities. Within these communities, you can share posts, links, create events, contact each other and many other things without making your content public. The other useful features include: Group chat – This is like a chatroom where everyone in the group can 'see' and chat with each other; Group email – a single mail would suffice to inform all the members in the group about an event or any other issue, just like a mailing list; Share photos /videos/links/docs: quite useful, especially, in project collaboration; Choice of three settings: Open – Members and content are public; Closed – Your group, and its members, visible to the public, but the content within the group kept private; and Secret – The group, including its members and all the postings, remain invisible to others.

To create a Facebook Group head over to http://www.facebook.com/groups/

DisposableWebPage

You can now create a disposable web page with as a few key strokes and start right away at filling up the page with the content you want to. Disposable web page offers you the convenience and freedom of getting information out there on the internet with as little hassle as can be. A disposable webpage acts like a canvas on which friends get together to count down to an event. Just issue the editor key for editing privileges on the disposable webpage for friends to brainstorm ideas with you on the page. You could create DisposableWebPage to brainstorm weekend plans, birthday, study, travel, and any other common interest or issue. Features of each disposable webpage: disposed within 90 days or less after its creation; count down clock shows the time of disposal; history of revisions from the first edit to the current edition; bookmarking facility for readers to follow the page; rich text editor for editing purposes; includes uploading of up to 5 photos; and sticky notes and sticky notes player.

The number of disposableWebPages on date is around 18,000, so far. Go ahead and create yours at DisposableWebpage.com  

DataSafe Backup™

DataSafe Backup provides all the functions that are needed to help keep your data well protected and safe at all times. DataSafe Backup lets you structure the backups into multiple jobs so that each type of data is backed up at the right time intervals and with the right settings. The built in scheduler can ensure that the jobs are executed with accuracy, and at the intervals specified. To save on space the backups can be compressed and the files can be encrypted as well using a strong 256-bit AES encryption method. All the files in a backup can be restored quickly to their original location or to an alternate destination. The other features are: Intuitive and easy to use interface, Full, incremental, differential, and mirror backup types, include and exclude filters, built-in scheduler enables unattended backups, Backups can be targeted to hard disk, network share, CD, and FTP. Limitations: Cannot backup to DVD.

DataSafe Backup™ for Windows XP, for Windows 2003, Windows Vista (x32 and x64) can be downloaded at at http://www.sofgem.com/products/datasafe.html

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I notice that the Mozilla Firfox browser has become, of late, slow.
Is there a way to speed up?

You could try the 459 KB SpeedyFox v1.5, a free tool designed specially to resolve theproblem of slow speed of FireFox at http://www.crystalidea.com/download/speedyfox.exe

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