Web Talk

Webroot.com is giving away the world famous antispyware Webroot Spy Sweeper till 17/01/2008. The software normally costs £30 or $29.95. This offer comes from Computeractive.co.uk. The license code is not included in the download and you can get it after a free subscription which can be found here. For more info go to the download page.

I have to confess that I didn’t know about this freeware software but I am impressed by its features and the fact that it comes for almost every O.S. It is a kind of Photoshop to retouch and manipulate your photos. Reading from its web-site, Gimp.org we learn that:

” GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.”

Get it now for free here or get tons of plugins here.

Everywhere on the web there are rumors about a new iPhone firmware (version 1.1.3) due soon and going to change the way you think about and use your wonderful phone. As a matter of fact this new update is going to bring voice recording and disk mode of storing general data abilities. The other side of the coin is that the firmware (like every firmware update) will block the way to the growing community of those liking homebrew applications since indipendent developers will need new “jailbreak” to make their softwares work on the device.

Another software company is giving away its best software. This time it is the well known Grisoft.com with its wonderful software (which I use myself) AVG 7.5 Professional. The software is worth $29.95. The offer is valid till 17 Jan 2008 and comes again from Computeractive.co.uk. The direct link to download your free copy of Avg anti-virus Professional is here. The software comes with license key.

So you have got Windows Vista with all its nice features but you think that you don’t need all of them and that you could use some of Vista’s resources to improve the speed of your computer? Well, this is the right place. Follow this tips and you will see the difference! Differently from most tweaks you can find on the web this ones don’t mess with your Windows registry nor you have to be a computer engineer to use them. Of course I am not responsible for damages that these tips can eventually cause on your Pc. Anyway you will find out that they are pretty safe and you will feel encouraged to use them. Here are the tricks. Continue reading »

If you like Google Maps but you don’t want to spend a lot of time with it you can a nice trick. One of this, very simple but very effective, lets you look for a particular address just by writing a web-address in the browser with the name of the street you are looking for.

This is the address you have to use:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=[write your address here]

and this is a little example: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=fulton street, new york

The Wordpress 2.4 release is scheduled for January 24, 2008 and it is going to be another milestone for this wonderful CMS. Its new features include:

• Admin redesign
• Widget-based dashboard
• You should be able to have any number of any widget
• Undo for comment editing
• Search for both posts and pages

I am just wondering when they will implement the useful and much requested Easy Updating plugin that actually is the first thing most people would love to have since the Wordpress releases are (luckily for us) so many. By the way, I have already spoken about a very good Automatic upgrade plugin.

It seems that the Mozilla team is ready to get out from its two main applications (Firefox and Thunderbird) to start a new project called Weave. It is a software to store a variety of infos such: bookmarks, passwords, history, preferences and customizations, and sync and fecth them by using a Firefox account. In this way Firefox will be a kind of platform to get a lot of personal data apart from surfing the web. Download and read more here.