Software by tag 'free'

Download and activate your Windows 7 Beta now!

Posted by Dickey on Jan 12th, 09 | Filed under Downloads | View Comments

Few days ago, Microsoft announce the release of Windows 7 Beta download links, and i would like to share the link to TechSnack readers.

Download from Microsoft website: Windows 7 beta page.

Direct download the iso image file: 32-bit, 64-bit.

After you download the iso image, you may need to get a activation key to activate your Windows 7. This can be done through Microsoft official Windows 7 Beta download page.

Please make sure you do a backup of your important data before install Windows 7 beta. If possible, please don’t install it on your main PC, as the beta version may contains a lot of bugs and may cause some problems to your system.

Senduit – Make file sharing easier

Posted by Dickey on Sep 6th, 08 | Filed under Cool Stuff, Downloads, Internet | View Comments

Senduit is a simple file sharing service. It is a free service and require no registration.

The file limit is 100MB and you can choose the expire date for it. For example, you can set the link expire in 30 minutes, 1 day, 5 days, and etc. The maximum period to store this file is 1 week.

There is only 2 steps to share file. simply upload your file and choose the expire date.After that, you will get a link to your file.

Its simple user interface had attracted a lot of users. For those who don’t like extra features and just want to share file for a short period, i think they will prefer Senduit.

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Grab Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8 Special Edition for free!

Posted by Dickey on May 25th, 08 | Filed under Application, Downloads, Operating system | View Comments

For a limited time, you can grab Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8 Special Edition for free, which originally cost $49.95.

Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8 is a disk management tools, which let you to resize, move, hide, merge, restore and convert partitions without data loss. Furthermore, you can use it to backup or restore your data, with a very fast speed.

Computer Active ran a promotion for its users to download a free copy of this software, and this promotion suppose to expired at last year. However, Haris had found out that this link is still exist and you can actuallyu grab your free copy by follow the steps below:

  1. Download Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8 from Computer Active Website.
  2. Go to Paragon website, register and get a free serial number.
  3. Check your email, you should receive the serial number.

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Free 6 months Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Premium license

Posted by Dickey on May 22nd, 08 | Filed under Application, Downloads, Internet | View Comments

Grab a free 6 months Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Premium license now by filling up the form!

Previously, i had wrote an article about free 6 months Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Premium. However, the link doesn’t work after few weeks. Now, i manage to find another campaign, which will also gives you 6 months of Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Premium for free.

So, follow the simple steps and grab your license now:

  1. Fill in your First name, Last name, email address and country here.
  2. Download Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition.
  3. Check your email, you should receive a mail from Avira. Open the mail and find your attachment named “HBEDV.KEY“. This is your license key. Observe that this license is only valid for 6 months, and it already mention the expire date for this license key.
  4. Install Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition. After installation complete, go to Help -> Load license file… and select the license file which you just received. Done.

Extra: If you want to know about the previous promotion, you can view this post.

How to change icons for any filetypes or folders

Posted by Dickey on May 17th, 08 | Filed under Application, Tutorial | View Comments

IconX is a free application which let users to change any filetypes or folders icon. It is integrated into the context menu.

To change an icon for any filetypes, simply right click it and choose “Change Icon…” and IconX will popup. You can select icons from your system (shell32.dll), import from icon files (.ico), or from icon library files (.icl).

After you select a new icon, remember to check “Use icon for all files of that type” so that you can change the icon globally for same file type.

This is a free application, but installation is a bit complicated. After you download, simply unzip all files to a temporary directory. After that, right click iconx.inf and choose install.

When you first time launch IconX, remember to click the IconX menu and choose “register”. The username and password are provided in the readme file.

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Download free Photoshop ebook from SitePoint

Posted by Dickey on May 16th, 08 | Filed under Design, Downloads, Internet | View Comments

For a limited time, SitePoint is giving free copy of Photoshop ebook called “The Photoshop Anthology”. This book will cover different web design techniques by using Photoshop.

What you need to do is just provide your email address, and they will send you the download link. There are two format of ebook (high resolution and low resolution). I suggest that you download the high resolution version, although it may take longer time. But it is worth as you get higher quality of graphics and images.

I had use my yahoo mail in the email form, but unfortunately it take few hours before i can get the download link. You can direct download the ebook from sitepoint without register (Thanks labnol for sharing the link).

download high resolution version | download low resolution version

Source: labnol

Unhider – Hide or show any window on your desktop

Posted by Dickey on May 10th, 08 | Filed under Application, Cool Stuff, Portable Apps | View Comments

Unhider is a freeware which can hide or show any window on your desktop, which is very useful especially when you want to hide something from your boss.

You can run this application immediately after download, no installation required. By using unhider, you can

  • Unhide any windows which is minimized and hidden after system crashed.
  • View all windows that hidden from you.
  • Hide any windows that can’t be hidden by standard method.
  • Hide any web page/games from your boss in office.

One thing that this application lack is shortcut keys. It would be a great application if we can define our own shortcut keys to hide/show any windows when necessary.

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Grab free license for PC Tools File Recovery now!

Posted by Dickey on May 9th, 08 | Filed under Application, Downloads, Tips | View Comments

For a limited time, PC Tools File Recovery is giving away free license key for everyone. So, grab your free license key before it expired!

PC Tools File Recovery is able to “undelete” your files. It is designed to restore deleted files from local hard drives, floppy, and other type of fixed media such as USB sticks or memory cards. Although the price is affordable ($29.95), but i believe everyone like free things, right?

So, follow the below steps to get yourself a free license key.

1. Visit this page and enter your name and email address.

2. Go to your mailbox and you will see an email from sales@@pctools.com. Open the mail and you will get your license key.

3. Download and install PC Tools Free Recovery software.

4. Launch the application, and click the “Register” button. Use the name and license key provided in the mail. Thats all, you can now have your full copy of PC Tools File Recovery.

Source: Raymond.cc

Check any files for virus before download using Dr.Web plugin

Posted by Dickey on Apr 23rd, 08 | Filed under Firefox, Internet, Tutorial | View Comments

Dr.Web antivirus link checker is a plugin for internet browser so that you can check any files or link for virus before download/open it.

Normally, we like to download free applications/files from the internet and try using them. But, we need to scan them before we install/open these files. If you would like to scan them before downloading them, what should you do? You can try Dr.Web link checker, which is a browser plugin that add a button to your right-click context menu.

Before you download a file or open a link, right-click it and choose “Scan with Dr.Web”. Dr.Web link checker is available for IE, Firefox, and Opera.

I am not advise you to uninstall your anti-virus. Basically, you can use Dr.Web link checker to filter dangerous file from being downloaded to your computer. After you download the file, you better scan it with your own anti-virus.

Download Dr.Web Firefox Add-on | Dr.Web for IE | Dr.Web for Opera

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Grab free RSS icon set from Smashing Magazine!

Posted by Dickey on Apr 7th, 08 | Filed under Blogging, Design, Downloads | View Comments

Dirceu Veiga had released a free RSS icon set which contains 8 icons in different format for Smashing Magazine readers.

These icons are free to use for both private and commercial use and are available is various resolutions: 16×16px, 24×24px, 32×32px, 48×48px, 128×128px, 256×256px and 512×512px.

You can download the icon set in different format: PNG, Windows icons, and Mac icons.

So, which RSS icon you prefer? I prefer the first one, which is a man reading the newspaper. Hurry up, change your RSS icon to attract people to subscribe your RSS feed!

Source: Smashing Magazine

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