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The Worst Passwords of 2015 |
Posted by: tarekma7 - 01-20-2016 , 12:04 AM - Forum: General Computer Chat
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Quote:Despite the countless times we wrote on Softpedia about the importance of choosing and using strong passwords, with an accent on choosing a long password over a complex one, people still keep failing at protecting their personal details.
Why is it important to choose a long or complex password? Because short or common passphrases, even if encrypted, can be broken in a matter of minutes or hours with almost any competent password cracking tool.
All this said, on SplahsData's list of worst passwords of 2015, "123456" nabbed the top stop once again, just like in 2014.
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Fix Dual Boot Settings After Installing Windows 10 |
Posted by: tarekma7 - 01-19-2016 , 11:59 PM - Forum: Guides, Tips & Tricks
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Many of us run two versions of Windows on the same computer using the dual boot mode. There are many benefits of having more than one version of Windows installed on your PC – it saves space on your desk (instead of two computer, you can use two version on a single computer), it is economical (you do not have to spend on extra hardware), it serves as a backup system (when one version of Windows stops running for any reason, you can switch to the other version and access all the files), it can help remove malware (if malware infects one version, you can boot into the other version of Windows and repair the whole PC using tools like ESET Online Scanner or any other regular antivirus scanner) among many others.
But when you re-install one version of Windows for some reason in a dual-boot system PC, it re-writes the boot entries for Windows and you can no longer boot into the other version. You are allowed to boot into just the one version of Windows that you have freshly re-installed. Fortunately, fixing this problem and going back into the dual boot mode is easier than you think. Here is a list of a couple of tools that you can use to fix dual boot settings:
1. Visual BCD Editor
This tool works on all the versions of Windows starting from XP to Windows 10. You will find different versions of this tool on its website that are suitable for different versions of Windows. In the Visual BCD Editor, you have to right-click on the Loaders and then choose which type of loader you want to add – Windows Vista/7/8.x, XP or Linux. After adding the appropriate loader, you can change its configuration settings (like the values for System Root, OSDevice and Application Device).
2. EasyBCD
EasyBCD is an advanced tool and offers all kinds of BCD management but it is available only to work with .NET 4.0. So you must install .NET 4.x before you can start using this tool. There is no such problem with Visual BCD Editor which is available in different versions that an work with .NET 4.x or .NET 2.0. On the other hand, it is much easier to add a new entry using EasyBCD. To add a new entry using EasyBCD, you have to click on Add New Entry, select Windows, select the drive on which other version of Windows is installed and then click on the Add Entry button.
Using these tools, you can quickly and easily add the missing operating system entries back to your dual boot configuration without any hassles.
You can download EasyBCD from http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/ and Visual BCD Editor from https://www.boyans.net.
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Advanced SystemCare 9 PRO [15 Licenses] |
Posted by: tarekma7 - 01-19-2016 , 11:24 PM - Forum: Expired Giveaways
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Overview:
Advanced SystemCare 9 is an easy-to-use yet all-in-one PC optimization utility that takes one click approach to help clean, optimize, speed up and protect your system, even secure your online privacy. With newly added Speed Up tab, it greatly accelerates your system, system boot time, disks and browsers. What's more, it rebuilds and improves over 10 useful tools like Startup Manager, Performance Monitor, Large Files Finder, Auto Shutdown, Win Fix to explore your PC's full potential.
Boost Your Slow PC up to 300% Faster
Protect Privacy and Secure Online Experience in Real Time
Features : - Basic System Clean, Fix and Optimization
- Ultimate System Tuneup for Top Performance
- Up to 300% Internet Speedup with Internet Booster
- Real-time Optimization with Active Optimize
- Deep Windows Registry Clean
- Maximum Hard Drive Performance
- Basic Protection from Security Threats
- Full Detection against Security Threats
- Auto Online Privacy Trace Clean with Browser Anti-Tracking
- Auto RAM Clean on Performance Monitor
- Auto Update to the Latest Version
- Runs in the Background - Install and Forget It
- Fantastic New Skins & Themes
Free 24/7 Technical Support on Demand
Current version: V 9.1.0 Size: 39.2 MB
Requirements:
Supports Win10/Win8/Win7/Vista/XP
300 MB of free disk space
1024*768 screen resolution and above
Activation
A valid license code is required to activate the Pro version. You can click here to purchase a new one, or click here to renew your expired license code. If you forgot your license code, retrieve it here.Click Enter code link at the bottom right of Advanced SystemCare 9 main screen, enter your license code, and click Register Now button to activate the Pro version.
User Interface:
You can easily change Skin, Background or Font Size, You can also adjust the screen size
Program Quick Settings
The program includes 13 quick settings for the most concerned functions: Security, Performance, Clean, and Automatic. You can easily switch a function on/off by clicking the OFF/ON button next to it. Free users have 5 functions marked with green. Other functions are only available for PRO users who can also Activate all functions with 1-click.
Clean & Optimize
Clean & Optimize tab provides 12 modules to clean and optimize your PC for the top performance in a comprehensive way.
Speed Up
To boost your system and browsers for the top performance, a new feature Speed Up was added in Advanced SystemCare 9 integrated with4 helpful modules: Turbo Boost, Startup Accelerate, Deep Optimization, and App/Toolbar Cleaner.
Protect
There are 6 powerful protecting features including Homepage Protection, Browser Anti-Tracking, Real-time Protector, DNS Protect, System Reinforce, and Surfing Protection in Protect to enhance the security of your computer to the next level. To provide specialized protection for Windows 10 users, we have Win10 Reinforce for Windows 10.
Toolbox
The program has built in 28 useful tools including the new IObit Uninstaller 5, iFreeup, Startup Manager and Large Files Finder. These tools are classified into 4 groups: IObit Products, Security & Repair, System Optimize and System Clean.
The tools marked with Pro are only available for paid customers. And some tools need to be downloaded before you can use them for the first time.Click Manage button to add the tools to My Favorite Tools. It supports to add at most 4 tools in the list. If you want to add the 5th one, you need to delete one tool from the list to add the new one.
Action Center
Security & Performance recommends you other well-known IObit software for better PC security and performance. You can operate the programs quickly in Action Center. If you are using ASC Pro, you can also find an exclusive offer for paid users only to purchase other IObit programs at a very considerably discounted price there.
Performance Monitor:
Monitor displays key information like CPU, RAM usage, temperature etc. to help you understand the status of your system, and provides some practical functions to optimize and use your PC more conveniently.
Rescue Center:
To minimize the possible troubles caused by registry related changes, Advanced SystemCare 9 provides several solutions to restore in Action Center as Rescue registry, Rescue internet boost, Rescue Registry Defrag and system restore
In cooperation with IObit Team we are offering 15 licenses of Advanced SystemCare 9 PRO [6 months licenses] for Promo2day users.For a chance to win one of these licenses leave a comment below. The winners will be randomly selected once the giveaway has ended on 01/30/2016
Rules:
1. Share this giveaway post to your Facebook, Twitter or Google+ and share the links along with your comment below
2. Subscribe to our newsletter RSS FeedBurner and get all the latest giveaways and contests delivered to you by email.
3. Winners will be selected by using random.org.
4. Giveaway will end 30 January 2016
5. Winners must contact me within 5 days after giveaway ends to claim their win. If a winner does not respond within that time-frame, his win will be void.
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Should U Really Join Facebook? (Priceless) |
Posted by: Mike - 01-19-2016 , 10:03 PM - Forum: Off Topic Chat
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Read it all the way through! It's a good laugh! AND really quite true!!
A good laugh for people in the over 60 group !!!
When I bought my Blackberry, I thought about the 30-year business I ran with 1800 employees, all without a cell phone that plays music, takes videos, pictures and communicates with Facebook and Twitter. I signed up under duress for Twitter and Facebook, so my seven kids, their spouses, my 13 grand kids and 2 great grand kids could communicate with me in the modern way. I figured I could handle something as simple as Twitter with only 140 characters of space.
My phone was beeping every three minutes with the details of everything except the bowel movements of the entire next generation. I am not ready to live like this. I keep my cell phone in the garage in my golf bag.
The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday because they say I get lost every now and then going over to the grocery store or library. I keep that in a box under my tool bench with the Blue tooth [it's red] phone I am supposed to use when I drive. I wore it once and was standing in line at Barnes and Noble talking to my wife and everyone in the nearest 50 yards was glaring at me. I had to take my hearing aid out to use it, and I got a little loud.
I mean the GPS looked pretty smart on my dash board, but the lady inside that gadget was the most annoying, rudest person I had run into in a long time. Every 10 minutes, she would sarcastically say, "Re-calc-u-lating." You would think that she could be nicer. It was like she could barely tolerate me. She would let go with a deep sigh and then tell me to make a U-turn at the next light. Then if I made a right turn instead. Well, it was not a good relationship...
When I get really lost now, I call my wife and tell her the name of the cross streets and while she is starting to develop the same tone as Gypsy, the GPS lady, at least she loves me.
To be perfectly frank, I am still trying to learn how to use the cordless phones in our house. We have had them for 4 years, but I still haven't figured out how I lose three phones all at once and have to run around digging under chair cushions, checking bathrooms, and the dirty laundry baskets when the phone rings.
The world is just getting too complex for me. They even mess me up every time I go to the grocery store. You would think they could settle on something themselves but this sudden "Paper or Plastic?" every time I check out just knocks me for a loop. I bought some of those cloth reusable bags to avoid looking confused, but I never remember to take them with me.
Now I toss it back to them. When they ask me, "Paper or plastic?" I just say, "Doesn't matter to me. I am bi-sacksual." Then it's their turn to stare at me with a blank look. I was recently asked if I tweet. I answered, No, but I do fart a lot."
P.S. I know most of you are not over 55. I posted it to allow you to forward it to those who are.......Not me I figured your sense of humor could handle it.... We senior citizens don't need anymore gadgets. The TV remote and the garage door remote are about all we can handle.
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Wise Care 365 Pro [15 Licenses] 1 Year |
Posted by: tarekma7 - 01-19-2016 , 09:59 PM - Forum: Expired Giveaways
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Wise Care 365 is a bundle of important registry, disk, and other system tuneup utilities for your PC.
Easy to use and effective, Wise Care 365 is the best solution to improve your PC’s performance. Get Wise Care 365 and your computer will never run slow again!
Features:
PC Checkup:
Check the whole running condition of your PC, marks its health status with 10 as the full score, and then shows you quick-fix solutions.
System Cleaner:
Scan and clean invaild registry entries, useless files, clean browsers’ history, cache, cookies, passwords, Windows components, traces, etc. Slim down system and manage big files.
System Tuneup:
Optimize system and network, defragments disk and registry, manages startup & services and context menu.
Privacy Protector:
Erases your browsing history (such as viewed pictures, watched movies/videos, accessed files and visited pages), prevents files or data from being recovered by recovery software, and generates various passwords for you.
Back and Restore:
Before every cleaning, wise care 365 will backup your registry, or you can use wise care 365 to create system restore point and registry backup manually.
An all-in-one system tuneup utility
Wise Care 365 includes both Wise Disk Cleaner and Wise Registry Cleaner. However, with other attractive and exciting features, it is far more than just that. Wise Care 365 will keep your PC in tiptop shape and running at peak performance!
Able to find out more hidden problems than other similar programs.
Wise Care 365 can detect more hidden invalid registry issues than other similar programs, which is accredited by CHIP and PCWorld.
Simpler and easier to use
It takes just one click to use Wise Care 365. As if by magic, your old PC will transform into a brand new and blazing fast one after Wise Care 365’s automatic cleanup and tune-up.
Now with the fastest scanning speed
The scanning speed of Wise Care 365 is twice as fast as CCleaner’s, as well as Advanced System Care Pro 5.
Highly reviewed by professionals and users
All the features in Wise Care 365 are highly reviewed by PCWorld, PCAdvisor, ComputerBild, CHIP, CNET, ZDNet, and so on.
Highly experienced developers
A group of top programmers, all of whom have at least ten-years experience, spent three years creating Wise Care 365 after collecting an abundance of feedback from users.
I would like to thank Vivian from WiseCleaner Team for sponsoring this Giveaway
In cooperation with WiseCleaner Team we are offering 15 licenses of Wise Care 365 Pro (worth $29.95 each) [1PC/1Year] for this giveaway. For a chance to win one of these licenses just follow the rules below. The winners will be randomly selected from all qualifying entries once the giveaway has ended on 01/29/2016
Rules:
1. Share this giveaway post to your Facebook, Twitter or Google+ and share the links along with your comment below
2. Subscribe to our newsletter RSS FeedBurner and get all the latest giveaways and contests delivered to you by email.
3. Winners will be selected by using random.org.
4. Giveaway will end 29 January 2016
5. Winners must contact me within 5 days after giveaway ends to claim their win. If a winner does not respond within that time-frame, his win will be void.
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3StepPDF [15 Lifetime License] |
Posted by: tarekma7 - 01-19-2016 , 09:40 PM - Forum: Expired Giveaways
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Create PDF files or crop, split, merge or extract the text from your scanned documents with this intuitive and powerful software solution
By far the biggest advantage of PDF files is that they allow a high level of encryption and provide you with a secure means of transferring data on the Internet.
3StepPDF is a user-friendly utility that enables you to create PDF documents and files from scratch. But that is not all the app can do as you are about to find out.
Enables you to create content with text and images
The primary feature of the application is that it allows you to make a new file by typing the content or copying it from another document. The process is as simple as possible and, as the name suggests, it consists of 3 steps.
First off, you can add your content in the dedicated field and select a font, text alignment as well as the words or sentences you want to highlight with Bold or Italic. It would be nice it included more editing options and allowed more tweaking, especially since PDF files preserve visual elements.
While the application also enables you to insert images, it only supports PNG and JPEG formats of certain sizes. Once you are done, you can export your document to PDF or HTML.
Includes several options for PDF file processing
3StepPDF also enables you to extract text from scanned documents, a feature that surely comes in handy when processing a list or the equipment inventory for instance.
In addition, you can seamlessly merge documents in a certain order, split files based on specific intervals and crop precise sections from the PDF using percentages of points.
It is necessary to mention that the app does not allow encryption and hence, it is not the best choice for processing documents featuring private data. On the other hand, it enables you to add customizable watermarks, an option that can be useful if you want to upload files on the internet.
An overall simple tool for busy people
Despite the fact that it does not support encryption and the editor could use more work, 3StepPDF is quite an efficient program that can help you create PDF documents hassle-free.
Thanks for Cezar Popescu for providing us with 15 LIFETIME license for personal use [does not include free updates to future versions or technical support]
To have a chance to win a license please Follow these rules:
1. Share this giveaway on Facebook, Twitter or G+ and share the link along with your comments
2. write about why they find our software useful
3. Duration of this Giveaway is 10 days
4. Winners will be selected using Random.org
5. Winners must pm me within 5 days after Giveaway ends or your win will be void
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NeatMP3 Pro FREE for 72 Hours [Windows and Mac] |
Posted by: tarekma7 - 01-19-2016 , 09:14 PM - Forum: Promo2day Time Limited Giveaways
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NeatMP3 Pro is an audio files organizer and tag editor.
Overview:
With NeatMP3 Pro you can organize, rename and edit the tags of your audio files in a single processing session. You can also move your new organized/edited files to a new location of your choosing and save your current settings as a profiles for later use. While editing tags you can also play the current file to faster identify its title, artist or other information that needs to be filled in the tags. NeatMP3 Pro saves all the processing information in a log file that can be accessed by the user from within the application. The user interface is very intuitive and easy to use. The software also benefits from a very detailed online help page.
MAIN BENEFITS:
- Organize your audio collection in a well defined folder structure, grouping together songs that have the same artist, genre, year or combinations of these attributes like year/artist, genre/artist/year or any other combination you would think of
- Edit the tags of MP3, OGG, FLAC, WAV, MPC, AIFF, ASF or MP4 files
- Support for Unicode characters
- Support for the mp3, mp4, wav, flac, aif, asf, ogg, mpc, spx and wv file extensions
- Automatically search online for missing tags
- Automatically fill missing tags by extracting them from the original file’s name
- Automatically erase invalid tags
- Rename your original files using tag information and get rid of the annoying “Track X.mp3” files
- Add individual files or entire folders (with sub-folders) to the organize/edit list
- Select the destination folder of your organized files
- Delete the original files after the organized files have been moved to the destination folder
- Play audio files so that you can easily identify the artist and title of a song
- Save your settings as profiles for later use
- Save a log file with all your processing information
- Batch tag editing
- Organize songs by Album and Album/Artist
- Drag and drop files directly to the list of audio files
- Real-time preview of the currently selected file’s output path
- Search for songs with a specific file extension and add the to the list of audio files
- Support for the m4a, wav and wave file extensions
- No advertisements
Thanks to Cezar Popescu at NeatMP3 Team we are able to giveaway NeatMP3 Pro free to all our forum members of Promo2day as a time-limited giveaway for 72 hours. Just download and install (Windows and Mac versions available)
Differences between Pro version and Free version:
http://neatmp3.com/
Giveaway Over
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IObit Malware Fighter Pro [PC] |
Posted by: Xavier Torres - 01-19-2016 , 02:24 PM - Forum: Giveaway of the day
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iObit Malware Fighter 3.4 Pro
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IObit Malware Fighter 3 is an easy-to-use malware removal utility and a browser protection tool. With IObit unique "Dual-Core" antimalware engine, it can quickly detect spyware, adware, Trojans, key loggers, bot, worms and hijacker, and remove them efficiently and completely.
With new Browser Protection module, IObit Malware Fighter 3 provides users with full browser protection to secure online surfing, reduce homepage hijacking, remove malicious toolbar/plug-in, block pop up ads and clean dangerous cookies. It's compatible with all the antivirus tools to double protect your PC.
Giveaway Page: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/malware-fighter-3/
Note: 18 hours 35 mins left
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