If your Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) set staff to feel like failures, they won't stick around long, making the money spent on training a waste and annual recruiting costs expensive. Creating a culture to hide crazy KPIs behind won't fool anyone - especially staff/customers who sense flat, pushy boss a mile off.
How To Depress Staff With KPIs:
1. Have a named "Results Board". These can embarrass the underachievers, give a strong dose of worthiness and in some cases be perceived as a "threat".
2. Single people out in meetings. Tell them to "lift their game" or assign a buddy to "help" them.
3. Set targets so high you won't have to pay any bonuses.
4. Raise targets significantly every year without a pay rise or explaination. (N.B. Prepare a "queue here" sign for your "pushy service" complaints office; consider putting out seats too.
5. Test how many times staff can be stretched and stretched before being pushed over the edge.
6. Tell staff how much you value and care for them, even though their KPIs prove that is not true. (Behaviour speaks louder than words.)
How To Motivate Staff With KPIs
Unless you've been living under a rock, you will have heard about work/life balance and flexible work arrangements modernising the workspace. Key Performance Indicators need to be updated too.
When considering KPIs, you need to be clear about what your goal with your staff is. Every single one of them has different backgrounds, skills, circumstances, dreams, goals, motivators and measurements of success. No wonder modernising the workplace is a priority these days. One size doesn't fit all!
Success is not achieving a million goals. It is living the vision you have for your life.
What is each and every one of your staff's life vision? If you've got 6000 staff, I bet you think that is the silliest question you've ever heard! But if they aren't fulfilled in their work, then their vision probably won't include working for you. They may do an average job, give average service and cost you money!
ReGeneration (theregeneration.au) surveyed Australians and found a staggering 94% feel their skills are undervalued, not utilised, not growing, not recognised or don't suit their current working environment. These statistics show that people do want to grow, learn and achieve, but their current KPIs aren't facilitating this. They definitely won't be living their life vision.
If you let staff help set the KPIs, it doesn;t mean they'll vote for an easy ride. Tell them the business goals and ask what they'll commit to so they are achieved. They may have solutions you have not thought of. The KPIs will then be things they are passionate about achieving, and weekly progress meetings will have more meaning, since they were a part of the decision process. By valuing their ideas, a better team environment will be created and staff will be comfortable sharing them.
Having KPIs that staff are happy with also means better customer care. "Customers want to know how much you care before they care how much you know" - that's what factors into getting through to targets. So also consider what your customers want when setting KPIs. This can vary enormously depending on your industry
Key Performance Indicators can be part of your brand personality. Be unique; make them fun - silly even, anything to express what your brands USP (Unique Selling Point) is. Don't be afraid to step away from the norm when setting KPIs. You can trial first and tweak if necessary. Just because you don't set a KPI of "selling 1000 policies, toothbrushes or shoes this year" doesn't mean you will go broke. In fact, taking such a KPI away will probably make you more money as consumers notice a better atmosphere and become less afraid to step inside your door!
Thursday, December 30, 2010
KPIs - Success is NOT a million goals
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Friday, December 10, 2010
Excel Error: Print titles must be contiguous and complete rows or column
Reason:
You have an incomplete row/column address in your print setup.
Resolution:
1. Click FILE on the Menu and select PAGE SETUP
2. In PAGE SETUP dialog box, click SHEET tab and clear or correct the addresses stated (Rows to repeat at the top or Columns to repeat at left)
Done !
Thursday, December 9, 2010
iPhone Sync via iTunes With Outlook
(Contacts)
#1
Open iTunes and connect your iPhone to the computer.
#2
Select your iPhone on the left pane.
#3
Click the Info tab toward the top of the screen.
#4
Under the Contacts section, turn on Sync contacts from to Outlook.
#5
Click Apply and you’re done.
(Calendar)
#1
Open iTunes and check to make sure that you have the most recent version. Do this by clicking on "Help" and then clicking on "Check for Updates."
#2
Use the cable that came with your iPhone to connect it directly to your computer. This will automatically launch iTunes. Select "iPhone" from the iTunes source list. Click on the "Info" tab in iTunes.
#3
Click on the "Sync Outlook calendars" option. Click on "Apply" in the lower-right corner of your screen. Your computer will now sync with your iPhone based on your settings.
(Using iCal)
#1
Sign into your Google account and go to your Google calendar page. In the left bar of the page, click on the downward arrow that's next to the calendar you want to sync. In the drop-down menu, click on "Share this calendar."
#2
Click on the "Calender Details" tab. Next, scroll down to locate the "Private Address " section at the bottom of the page. Click on the green button labeled "ICAL." This will open a pop-up window that has the URL with the private address for your calendar. This address must never be shared with anyone else, as it gives full access to your Google calendar. Highlight and then copy this URL to your clipboard ("Control + C")
#3
Launch your iCal application from your Dock. Go to "Calendar" in the top menu, and then click on "Subscribe." Paste the URL from your clipboard here ("Control + V") into the pop-up dialogue box. Click on the "Subscribe" button. This will subscribe your iPhone to your Google calendar and will open an information window.
#4
Type a name and description for the calendar into the appropriate blank fields. If you do not want to import the "Alarms," "Attachments" and/or "To Do Items" from Google, then check the box next to the option/s that you do not want.
#5
Choose a time interval from the drop-down box labeled "Auto-refresh." This will determine the frequency with which iCal will refresh Google calendar.
#6
Click the "OK" button. Your Google calendar will now be listed in the left-hand pane of your iCal window. Now the next time your iPhone syncs, it will update all your Google calendar events as well.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Saturday, November 13, 2010
AD Group: Domain Users
The permissions on the files and folders on Win 2003 Server were all farked up. Normal Domain Users group (on AD) were able to access everything on the shared resources !
WTH! What was wrong?!
So starts the end-of-the-day investigation based solely on adrenaline after long long day at work:
1. Permissions on users and default accounts (ie. Administrator, SYSTEM, Domain User) were checked folder-by-folder and nothing looks amiss.
2. Advanced permissions were tweaked assuming that too much rights have been given. Still no change. Everything are still accessible!
3. Time checked: 9pm Day: Friday. Reality sets in ... WTF am I still doing here so late! Heck, Cinta Fitri have to be skipped :)
4. AD check: Started with the most common user/group ie. Domain User group. BINGO ! Domain Users were member of Administrators group !! WTH !!!
Case in question closed ... time check 9.30pm :)
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
FaceBookers ! Beware of FireSheep!
When sharing an internet connection, be it office or public wi-fi, take note that your login online to eg. Facebook may be compromised by this thing called FireSheep.
It sniffs on the local data packets ... So beware!
I'm Insan4IT reminding just in case you forgot ! ;)
More Information:
Firesheep, the "new" tool used to grab login IDs, passwords and other important information isn't all that new and any hacker or a decent network admin have been able to sniff Wi-Fi data packet for years now. The only difference Firesheep does is making it easier.
Did a test sitting outside a coffeeshop and started scanning for Wi-Fi Access Points (AP). Took me almost an hour to find about 12 APs and "break" into about 7. Am not a good network admin or hacker but this is child's play as people have no clue on how to secure their wireless networks.
2 AP used the default passwords for their wireless routers and APs and 1 of those didn’t have any security, the other 1 were using, WEP! 1 used WPA TKIP security protocol. Used a rainbow table to open APs almost as quickly as I could open up a Heaven & Earth Lemon Tea bottle. Managed also to open a pair of routers using WPA2 with TKIP using rainbow table.
If you really want to secure a Wi-Fi network in 2010 you must use WPA2 with CCMP, aka AES. If you don’t, trust me, if someone really wanted your important information out of your business network they’ve already got it and they only need a baby cracker tool like Firesheep to do it.
The worry ? Not that someone from a local Wi-Fi hotspots getting your Facebook password but your office itself !
So, I guess, should thank Firesheep. Maybe it will finally make it clear to people that network security is important.
What am I saying? Most people, not even many network administrators, ever learn these lessons. Maybe a few people will start taking security seriously. I live in hope.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Lucrative biz that comes with Smartphones ….
Apple have their AppStore
Android have their MarketPlace
I’m sure Microsoft will follow suit soon … WinStore ?
Its a sure Win for them !
Everything is ok … don’t worry. :) Keep on buying things that you think you need but you actually don’t. Probably because it ‘cheap’, go ahead and grab ‘em !
TIP: For those owning 2G/3G smartphones ie. Android, iPhones, Windows Mobile etc. Look for a 3G enumerator app ie. 3G Watchdog, which actually logs your 2G/3G traffic. Unless you think you need to be more charitable to the ISPs that it ! (refer HERE)
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Enabling Win 7 Admin Acct
Method 1:
1.Right-click Computer –> Manage (or just run lusrmgr.msc)
2. Expand System Tools –> Local Users and Groups –> Users
3. Right-click Administrator acct and choose “Set Password” –> Proceed
4. Enter your desired password twice and click OK.
5. Right-click Administrator acct and choose Properties
6. Un-check “Account is disabled” and click OK.
Method 2:
1. Run cmd as administrator
2. In cmd prompt type net user
3. To reset password, type net user *
4. Enter password and confirm
5. To enable administrator acct, type net user administrator /active:yes
Method 3 (used during installation):
1. When prompted to config new acct, press SHIFT-F10 together and cmd prompt appears.
2. Follow steps from method 2.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Celestial Show
Outta this world fireworks in space coming your way tonight !
http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/08/03/solar-tsunami-celestrial-show-to-hit-earth-tonight/
Monday, August 2, 2010
New “Facebook” by Google
Taken from HERE
Together with Zynga, Playfish, Electronic Arts, Playdom inc., the people who brought you online games, Google will be developing an online social-network app like Facebook…
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Why does my desktop looks different ?
Many a time people ask “Why does my desktop look different ?” and when I ask for details they would explain that they use to have more icons and/or files on their desktop than what they have then. So here, let me explain why most of the time this happens …
On a Windows machine, there is this thing called profiles where the users login credentials and information are stored. Hence, when one logs in as a user, say, Insan4IT, it gets the profiles for that users from the store and restore the login preferences and settings of that person. Simple enough ? Not quite ! Here the tricky bit …
“Look ! I’ve logged in using Insan4IT but all seems
different than it was yesterday !”
I’ll tell you why in a sec … Watch …
This is the typical login screen for Windows XP
Note the Log on to item.
This is present usually for corporate/office user to switch/toggle to their DOMAIN.
The local-machine profile and the domain-profile are 2 separate profile !
TAKE HEED !
Another type of login screen. To toggle it to the above version, simply
do a CTRL-ALT-DEL twice and voila !
Windows Vista login screen
Windows 7 Login screen.
Another reason why you can’t login to your profile is that it is on your company’s server (domain profile). You can’t get logged into your domain profile because:
1. the profile is on the server and either the network connectivity is faulty or that the domain controller (your company’s server) is down
2. the profile is corrupted (call for help :) )
Attention Safari Users …
Safari users need to disable AutoFill web forms to protect themselves.
From what ? Read the full details HERE
How ? Simple answer, don’t use Safari :) Heard Firefox is great and its coming to iStores as well…
Or you can disable it … Here’s how:
Choose the Edit button and then click Preferences
Click the AutoFill tab and uncheck all AutoFill options
Done ! ;)
Some Nice Quotes
These are a collection of interesting quotes ;)
“Certain thought are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude, the soul is on its knees.” Victor Hugo
“Whosoever loves believes the impossible.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“There are two kids of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.” Indira Gandhi
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I forget.” Confucius
“If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.” Socrates
“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.” Daniel Webster
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” Andy Warhol
“A man’s very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.” Oscar Wilde
“I’m prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.” Mahatma Gandhi
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Oscar Wilde
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” Albert Einstein
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” Albert Einstein
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”Albert Einstein
“The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illustion.”Albert Einstein
“The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.”Albert Einstein
Monday, July 19, 2010
Sunday, July 18, 2010
how facts backfire: Researchers found a new threat to democracy: Our Brains
Taken from The Boston Globe, this article kinda scares me. It sheds light on the effectiveness of reverse psychology to be used as a tool for the ‘RDP’ (excuse me for this tech. abbr. as it simply means Remote Desktop Protocol) of the masses’.
How facts backfire
Researchers discover a surprising threat to democracy: our brains
By Joe Keohane
It’s one of the great assumptions underlying modern democracy that an informed citizenry is preferable to an uninformed one. “Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1789. This notion, carried down through the years, underlies everything from humble political pamphlets to presidential debates to the very notion of a free press. Mankind may be crooked timber, as Kant put it, uniquely susceptible to ignorance and misinformation, but it’s an article of faith that knowledge is the best remedy. If people are furnished with the facts, they will be clearer thinkers and better citizens. If they are ignorant, facts will enlighten them. If they are mistaken, facts will set them straight.
In the end, truth will out. Won’t it?
Maybe not. Recently, a few political scientists have begun to discover a human tendency deeply discouraging to anyone with faith in the power of information. It’s this: Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the opposite. In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger.
This bodes ill for a democracy, because most voters — the people making decisions about how the country runs — aren’t blank slates. They already have beliefs, and a set of facts lodged in their minds. The problem is that sometimes the things they think they know are objectively, provably false. And in the presence of the correct information, such people react very, very differently than the merely uninformed. Instead of changing their minds to reflect the correct information, they can entrench themselves even deeper.
“The general idea is that it’s absolutely threatening to admit you’re wrong,” says political scientist Brendan Nyhan, the lead researcher on the Michigan study. The phenomenon — known as “backfire” — is “a natural defense mechanism to avoid that cognitive dissonance.”
These findings open a long-running argument about the political ignorance of American citizens to broader questions about the interplay between the nature of human intelligence and our democratic ideals. Most of us like to believe that our opinions have been formed over time by careful, rational consideration of facts and ideas, and that the decisions based on those opinions, therefore, have the ring of soundness and intelligence. In reality, we often base our opinions on our beliefs, which can have an uneasy relationship with facts. And rather than facts driving beliefs, our beliefs can dictate the facts we chose to accept. They can cause us to twist facts so they fit better with our preconceived notions. Worst of all, they can lead us to uncritically accept bad information just because it reinforces our beliefs. This reinforcement makes us more confident we’re right, and even less likely to listen to any new information. And then we vote.
This effect is only heightened by the information glut, which offers — alongside an unprecedented amount of good information — endless rumors, misinformation, and questionable variations on the truth. In other words, it’s never been easier for people to be wrong, and at the same time feel more certain that they’re right.
“Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be,” read a recent Onion headline. Like the best satire, this nasty little gem elicits a laugh, which is then promptly muffled by the queasy feeling of recognition. The last five decades of political science have definitively established that most modern-day Americans lack even a basic understanding of how their country works. In 1996, Princeton University’s Larry M. Bartels argued, “the political ignorance of the American voter is one of the best documented data in political science.”
On its own, this might not be a problem: People ignorant of the facts could simply choose not to vote. But instead, it appears that misinformed people often have some of the strongest political opinions. A striking recent example was a study done in the year 2000, led by James Kuklinski of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He led an influential experiment in which more than 1,000 Illinois residents were asked questions about welfare — the percentage of the federal budget spent on welfare, the number of people enrolled in the program, the percentage of enrollees who are black, and the average payout. More than half indicated that they were confident that their answers were correct — but in fact only 3 percent of the people got more than half of the questions right. Perhaps more disturbingly, the ones who were the most confident they were right were by and large the ones who knew the least about the topic. (Most of these participants expressed views that suggested a strong antiwelfare bias.)
Studies by other researchers have observed similar phenomena when addressing education, health care reform, immigration, affirmative action, gun control, and other issues that tend to attract strong partisan opinion. Kuklinski calls this sort of response the “I know I’m right” syndrome, and considers it a “potentially formidable problem” in a democratic system. “It implies not only that most people will resist correcting their factual beliefs,” he wrote, “but also that the very people who most need to correct them will be least likely to do so.”
What’s going on? How can we have things so wrong, and be so sure that we’re right? Part of the answer lies in the way our brains are wired. Generally, people tend to seek consistency. There is a substantial body of psychological research showing that people tend to interpret information with an eye toward reinforcing their preexisting views. If we believe something about the world, we are more likely to passively accept as truth any information that confirms our beliefs, and actively dismiss information that doesn’t. This is known as “motivated reasoning.” Whether or not the consistent information is accurate, we might accept it as fact, as confirmation of our beliefs. This makes us more confident in said beliefs, and even less likely to entertain facts that contradict them.
New research, published in the journal Political Behavior last month, suggests that once those facts — or “facts” — are internalized, they are very difficult to budge. In 2005, amid the strident calls for better media fact-checking in the wake of the Iraq war, Michigan’s Nyhan and a colleague devised an experiment in which participants were given mock news stories, each of which contained a provably false, though nonetheless widespread, claim made by a political figure: that there were WMDs found in Iraq (there weren’t), that the Bush tax cuts increased government revenues (revenues actually fell), and that the Bush administration imposed a total ban on stem cell research (only certain federal funding was restricted). Nyhan inserted a clear, direct correction after each piece of misinformation, and then measured the study participants to see if the correction took.
For the most part, it didn’t. The participants who self-identified as conservative believed the misinformation on WMD and taxes even more strongly after being given the correction. With those two issues, the more strongly the participant cared about the topic — a factor known as salience — the stronger the backfire. The effect was slightly different on self-identified liberals: When they read corrected stories about stem cells, the corrections didn’t backfire, but the readers did still ignore the inconvenient fact that the Bush administration’s restrictions weren’t total.
It’s unclear what is driving the behavior — it could range from simple defensiveness, to people working harder to defend their initial beliefs — but as Nyhan dryly put it, “It’s hard to be optimistic about the effectiveness of fact-checking.”
It would be reassuring to think that political scientists and psychologists have come up with a way to counter this problem, but that would be getting ahead of ourselves. The persistence of political misperceptions remains a young field of inquiry. “It’s very much up in the air,” says Nyhan.
But researchers are working on it. One avenue may involve self-esteem. Nyhan worked on one study in which he showed that people who were given a self-affirmation exercise were more likely to consider new information than people who had not. In other words, if you feel good about yourself, you’ll listen — and if you feel insecure or threatened, you won’t. This would also explain why demagogues benefit from keeping people agitated. The more threatened people feel, the less likely they are to listen to dissenting opinions, and the more easily controlled they are.
There are also some cases where directness works. Kuklinski’s welfare study suggested that people will actually update their beliefs if you hit them “between the eyes” with bluntly presented, objective facts that contradict their preconceived ideas. He asked one group of participants what percentage of its budget they believed the federal government spent on welfare, and what percentage they believed the government should spend. Another group was given the same questions, but the second group was immediately told the correct percentage the government spends on welfare (1 percent). They were then asked, with that in mind, what the government should spend. Regardless of how wrong they had been before receiving the information, the second group indeed adjusted their answer to reflect the correct fact.
Kuklinski’s study, however, involved people getting information directly from researchers in a highly interactive way. When Nyhan attempted to deliver the correction in a more real-world fashion, via a news article, it backfired. Even if people do accept the new information, it might not stick over the long term, or it may just have no effect on their opinions. In 2007 John Sides of George Washington University and Jack Citrin of the University of California at Berkeley studied whether providing misled people with correct information about the proportion of immigrants in the US population would affect their views on immigration. It did not.
And if you harbor the notion — popular on both sides of the aisle — that the solution is more education and a higher level of political sophistication in voters overall, well, that’s a start, but not the solution. A 2006 study by Charles Taber and Milton Lodge at Stony Brook University showed that politically sophisticated thinkers were even less open to new information than less sophisticated types. These people may be factually right about 90 percent of things, but their confidence makes it nearly impossible to correct the 10 percent on which they’re totally wrong. Taber and Lodge found this alarming, because engaged, sophisticated thinkers are “the very folks on whom democratic theory relies most heavily.”
In an ideal world, citizens would be able to maintain constant vigilance, monitoring both the information they receive and the way their brains are processing it. But keeping atop the news takes time and effort. And relentless self-questioning, as centuries of philosophers have shown, can be exhausting. Our brains are designed to create cognitive shortcuts — inference, intuition, and so forth — to avoid precisely that sort of discomfort while coping with the rush of information we receive on a daily basis. Without those shortcuts, few things would ever get done. Unfortunately, with them, we’re easily suckered by political falsehoods.
Nyhan ultimately recommends a supply-side approach. Instead of focusing on citizens and consumers of misinformation, he suggests looking at the sources. If you increase the “reputational costs” of peddling bad info, he suggests, you might discourage people from doing it so often. “So if you go on ‘Meet the Press’ and you get hammered for saying something misleading,” he says, “you’d think twice before you go and do it again.”
Unfortunately, this shame-based solution may be as implausible as it is sensible. Fast-talking political pundits have ascended to the realm of highly lucrative popular entertainment, while professional fact-checking operations languish in the dungeons of wonkery. Getting a politician or pundit to argue straight-faced that George W. Bush ordered 9/11, or that Barack Obama is the culmination of a five-decade plot by the government of Kenya to destroy the United States — that’s easy. Getting him to register shame? That isn’t.
Joe Keohane is a writer in New York.
Information glut ? : )
Backup Your Entire PC Using Windows 7
1. Make sure you have your External USB drive for backup has been plugged in and you can find it in the Windows Explorer.
2. Click on Start button => Maintenance => Backup and Restore
3. Click on Set up backup
4.Next is selection of where you want to save your backup. Choose the external backup hard disk drive and click on Next.
5. Next’s what you want to be backed up. Next choose Let me choose button and click Next.
6. What you want to backup, check on all the boxes under Computer except for the external backup hard disk drive (This will backup everything on your PC) .
7. Next screen shows the review page. Take note of all the information and make sure that it is all correct ie. Backup Location and Backup Summary contains all the drive except for the backup drive. Click on Save settings and run backup and your backup will start running.
NOTE: You can also click on Change Schedule to set a regular backup. Note also the exclamation mark right below which states “A system repair disc might be required to restore a system image”. This means, in case you need to recover from backup, you will need to have this media ready. You can get it from HERE for restoring your Windows 7 32bit or HERE for restoring your Windows 7 64bit version. To which version is your, simply click on Start button, right-click on Computer and click Properties. Under System category you will see System Type, either 32 or 64-bit.
Sync-ing your Outlook contact to your BlackBerry Device
The following is how to sync your outlook contacts with your blackberry using BlackBerry Desktop Manager. It's actually quite easy.
1. Download the latest BlackBerry Desktop Software 
from HERE, install it & restart your computer.
2. Connect your blackberry to your computer using the USB and open BlackBerry Desktop Manager (if this is your first time connecting your BB device, it will start detecting the drivers that is associated with it and installs them automatically)
3. From the main menu select Synchronize
4. Under Configure in the left menu select Synchronization
5. "Configure synchronization setting for my desktop program"
6. Select Address Book > Setup
7. Select Microsoft Outlook
8. Select Two way sync or One way sync to device
9. Next - Select your profile in outlook
10. Click OK
11. Click Synchronize from the left menu and then Synchronize (in the middle)
Your contacts will load onto your blackberry and you should be all set !
Friday, July 16, 2010
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Windows Server 2008: NTLDR is missing
Does your server start up with this message:
- NTLDR is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
If your answer is an affirmative YES, this is what you’ll need to do:
1. Mount Windows Server 2008 DVD and boot from it.
2. Click “Repair your computer”
3. Make sure “System Recovery Options” finds an Operating System and click Next.
4. Systems recovery tool is started and click “Command Prompt”
Since Windows 2008 / Windows Vista the Windows Setup includes some new tools. We are going use the bootrec.exe.
5. Execute the following commands from the command prompt:
- bootrec.exe /FixMbr
- bootrec.exe /FixBoot
- bootrec.exe /RebuildBcd
6. Close “Command Prompt” and click Restart
Windows Server 2008 boot will be booting up again !
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Encrypt your External Drive/Stick with TrueCrypt
Step One – Download Truecrypt 6.0
The obvious first step. Head on over and download the encryption program. BUT since you are putting this on your USB stick, you do NOT install this anywhere. When you double-click the “exe” file, you will see this. Choose the second option. This will just unpack the files onto your computer and not install anything.
When the files are unpacked, move the whole lot over to your USB stick. Once they are sitting on your USB stick, again don’t install anything. Just leave them there.
Step Two – Turn Truecrypt Into “Traveller Mode”
In your USB stick folder, double-click the “Truecrypt.exe” file and this opens up the main screen. Go to “tools” then “traveler disk setup”. That brings up this :
Change “create traveler disk files at” to whichever PC drive you have your USB stick in at the moment. Have the box underneath ticked. As to the Autorun configuration, well that’s down to personal preference so you decide. When you’ve done everything, press create. You’ll get a message a few moments later telling you that the traveler mode has been successfully created.
Step Three – Move Your Desired Programs Into Your USB stick
Now move your desired programs and files into your USB stick. PortableApps is an excellent place to start. Notice we haven’t encrypted anything yet. That comes next.
Step Four – Create An Encrypted Area
OK, now we’re going to do the encryption. Go to the Truecrypt folder in your USB stick and double-click “Truecrypt Format.exe”. That brings up this screen.
Choose “create a file container” and follow these instructions from step 3 to make an encrypted container. I’m not going to go through it all here as it’s a long process. One important point though – do NOT fill up the whole USB stick. I would only make a container that fills up at most 75% of your USB stick. Leave the rest free and unencrypted. It’s always good to have some free space.
Before anybody points out option 2 which encrypts the entire USB stick, everyone I have talked to about this recommends that this shouldn’t be done because undoing it later is tricky and it can potentially mess up your USB drive. Doing it my way is better because a) you have some free space left for unencrypted files and b) if you don’t want Truecrypt anymore, you can just delete the whole lot. Much easier.
Step Five – Move The Programs Into The Encrypted Area
Once the encrypted container has been made, you will then have three things sitting in your USB stick – the folder with your programs / files, the folder with the Truecrypt application and the encrypted container you have just made. Now what you are going to do is move your programs and files INSIDE the encrypted container.
You do this by double-clicking “Truecrypt.exe” and “mounting” (choosing) on another drive, the encrypted container you have just made. This opens it up and unencrypts it. When it opens up, just drag your files and programs inside with your mouse. When you’re done, just dismount the container which closes it back up again and heavily encrypts it. No-one can get inside now without knowing the password. So I hope you chose a very good password!
Don’t forget to delete the programs and files which are sitting outside the encrypted container – the ones you just dragged inside the container are copies. If it reassures you, mount the container again, open it up and peek inside. You’ll see your files and apps inside all safe and sound.
Step Six – In Summary
So let’s recap what we’ve done here. We haven’t encrypted the whole USB stick. All we’ve done is put an encrypted container on the USB stick along with the Truecrypt encryption program to encrypt and unencrypt your files. If anyone was to steal the USB stick or find it (if you dropped it), all they would find on the drive would be an encrypted container which, without the password, is absolutely useless and unbreakable.
You also might want to put (on the unencrypted part of the drive) a text file with your name, email address and phone number so if a Good Samaritan were to come along, they would have a chance to do the right thing and return your property to you. A little incentive could also be mentioned depending on how desperate you are to get your property back
Saturday, May 29, 2010
The PC …
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
and your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash,
then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!
If the label on the cable on the table at your house,
says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
but your packets want to tunnel on another protocol,
that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
and you screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
'cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!
When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk,
and the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risk,
then you have to flash your memory, and you'll want to RAM your ROM.
Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Religion and Science
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“Behold ! In the creation of the skies and the earth,
and the alternation of night and day …
there are indeed signs for men of understanding,
Men who celebrate the praise of Allah,
standing, sitting and lying down on their sides,
and contemplate the (wonders of) creation of the
skies and the earth (with the thought):
“Our Lord ! Not for naught You have created (all) this !
Glory to You ! …” ”
(Q. 3 : 190 - 191)
Belief in religion takes faith without the need for any justification. On the other hand, science is rational knowledge-based analysis based on logical findings and observed patterns. As science develops and technology become much more widespread, its validity has thus gained ground to the masses. However, religion’s credibility is being put into question by “knowledge societies”. And so, we find many “followers” in every religion but very few true followers.
Search for truth must take an unbiased path but with close examination of the developments in the past few decades of science, some very disturbing facts would be revealed that would even jeopardise our trust in science. Has there been attempts to mould science to suit materialistic agenda particularly atheism ? This question would surely crop up when the scenario nowadays has been highly conducive to concepts and theories that questions the existence of Allah ! The Darwinian concepts and steady state cosmology belong to this category. (Compare them with these 1, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8)
Big Bang cosmology suggested a beginning for the universe which many did not like because it implied a divine intervention for the creation of the universe. Attempts such as proposed in 1963 by two Russian scientists, Lifshitz and Khalatnikov, on steady state theory is an example. It was Hawking and Penrose which showed that Einstein’s infamous theory implied that the universe had a beginning and, possibly and end but ironically he asks: “But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simple be. What place then for a creator ?”
History of Insan’s pursuit for a rational explanation of the world around him has been marred with conflicts, confrontations, harassments and persecutions of the upcoming revolutionary thinkers. Religious leaders used to suspect science to be a rival to religion and their cherished belief when it was just a speck on the intellectual horizon and as science unfolds the mysteries of the universe in a more convincing way, the suspicion grew stronger.
With the advent of technological breakthroughs, science steadily grew wings and the clash between science and religion touched a new high with the entry of the theory of evolution. Succinctly put by Earnetst Haeckel: “Darwin’s theory of evolution and natural selection revolutionised biology. The implication of this postulated struggle for existence seemed to undermine the basis of religion … no miracle, no creation, no creator.” Darwinism challenged the religion, particularly its theory of creation and the first open confrontation took place in 1860 between Bishop Samuel Wilberforce of the Church of England supporting Genesis and T.H. Huxley supporting Darwinism where the former was humiliated and insulted. The controversy continues between religion and science as religious leaders apprehended that they would be marginalised in society. All developments on this agenda however conveyed a misleading message that religion is antithesis of science or vice versa. However, we find that the theory of evolution has become more of a religion to the evolutionists as it loses it credibility in scientific circles. They are as blind as the followers of religion in support of their faith.
These are the kinds of concepts/theories that needs to be contended with to sustain the validity of religion. Strides in science and technology has been enticing minds and luring them to the world of enjoyment and entertainment breaking moral barriers and Allah’s directives. It is also equally true that no belief or faith without a scientific basis is going to be acceptable and thrive in this new-age technology-driven world. Hence, bound to duty are Muslim scientists/scholars to shed light on rationale of the Quranic message.
“It is He Who taught man that which he did not know.”
(Q. 96 : 5)
Knowledge, both science and spiritual, comes from Allah and true science is as divine as the Quran (being that true science is the scientific knowledge that does not contradict the Quran). The incompatible portion of science should be weeded out to purify science. While science explains the nature, properties and behaviours of the universal components and systems, the holy messages explain the spiritual aspects.
Present day science education tends to detract one from the spiritual and religion. This is the unfortunate consequence of modern secular education and its regimes. Science should be taught in Islamic perspectives upholding its basic principles particularly the existence of God and tauhid. Science should be taught as system created by Allah about the universe, its diverse components, mechanisms and controls from subatomic level to galaxies and beyond. According Seyyed Hossein Hasr, an Islamic scholar : “Islamic science is an independent way of looking at nature and explaining it as a product of creation by Allah, a stand fundamentally different from the so-called modern secular science. It is rooted in the Quran, grounded in the doctrine of Unity (at-tauhid), which is central to the Quranic revelation and has developed in the framework of the Islamic conception of the universe on the one hand and the knowledge on the other”.
As Albert Einstein observed: “Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.” Scientific rendering of the Quranic message would bring out clearly the rationality of Islam and the combination of science and the Quran would lead to the evolution of a holistic knowledge about the universe and the purpose of human life.
The Quran tells among other things that mankind is Allah’s vicegerent on earth. Man is God’s servant and He is testing us to know how many of us accept Him as the Master without seeing Him, and live according to His directions. We are warned that the activities of each and every one of us are being recorded. The universe will end one day and it will be re-created. On that day, human beings will be judged based on their individual records and will be awarded permanent life in Heaven or punishment in Hell depending on the success or failure in the test. How can we comprehend these messages ? Is there any possibility for all these things to happen ? If there is, only science can shed light. Until now, man has used science and technology mainly to better the worldly prospects and material gains – Yet to be tapped, to explain the Holy Messages rationally and bring the absolute realities within his perception and beyond his reproof. True science and religion is like two sides of a coin – complementary to each other.
Religion ruled the past,
science rules the present, and
religio-science will rule the future, Insya-Allah !
Thursday, May 6, 2010
To FB or not to FB ...
Pros:
Allows users to connect with other users through networks and groups of like-minded individuals
Many of the newer "applications" feature games and quizzes that are entertaining and provide a fun way to keep in touch with friends
It's very easy to load a multitude of pictures to specified Facebook albums, sort of like Photobucket. You can "tag" your friends in these pictures, so that the pictures will show up on their Facebook profile.
You can also load videos and tag friends in them
Writing Facebook "Notes" and posting links enables users to express their thoughts and ideas, an idea that is somewhat similar to blogging
Privacy settings can be changed to "friends only," so that only those with your approval are allowed to view your profile.
Status updates are an easy way to let friends know what you're up to or what's on your mind
Users can communicate by posting a comment on another user's "wall," sending a private message or using an instant messenger feature.
Cons:
Even if profile privacy is restricted, it is still very easy for other people to access profiles. There is always the chance that a predator will find information and use it to cause harm. Many users fail to make use of privacy settings at all, leaving them that much more vulnerable to online predators.
Friends may tag you in pictures or videos that you'd rather not have others see. Perhaps you were pretty wild at the bars last night, or were even engaging in some illegal activities. If photos are posted up and you are tagged in them, chances are, a professor, employer or one of your parents will see these and not be ver y happy about it. There are many people who have not been hired because the employer did not like what they saw on the applicant's Facebook profile, or the photos their friends put up. Just because you use discretion on your profile doesn't mean your friends will, so it's important to monitor your Facebook pictures and un-tag any that look like they could cause problems.
Facebook wastes a ton of time. It can be pretty addicting, like any website, so make sure you set a time-limit for how long you can spend on the website, or you won't accomplish anything. And if you're using the computer for schoolwork, avoid Facebook at all costs, it's one of the best procrastination tools out there.
Your parents or other relatives might get Facebook profiles, in which case you're pretty much obliged to accept them as friends. There are few things more annoying than knowing that your mom is constantly "Facebook stalking" you, listening to her ask about every single piece of information you posted to your profile, or answering questions about the pictures you were tagged in.
Applications can collect a ton of information about you and use it for purposes ranging from email spam to charging fees to see results to such valuable tests like "Which Disney Princess are you?" and "How good are you in bed?" etc. In fact, one website, CheckMyPersonality.com, has the ability to access and even charge your credit card once you sign up though Facebook (which many people do, in hopes of seeing a quiz result) . So be careful which applications you use, or better yet, skip the quizzes-you can find the same thing in Cosmo, and that magazine won't sell your personal information to marketing and advertising companies.
Conclusion:
Goodbye FB ! :'(
Monday, April 5, 2010
Best Free Softwares 2010
Anti-Malware
1. Ad-Aware Free 8.2
http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php
2. avast! Free Antivirus 5.0
http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download
3. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 9.0
http://free.avg.com/us-en/homepage
4. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.36
http://www.malwarebytes.org/
5. Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0
http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/
6. Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition 1.0
http://www.cloudantivirus.com/en/
7. ThreatFire 4.5
http://www.threatfire.com/
8. Trend Micro HouseCall 7.1
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/index.html
App Launchers
9. Launchy 2.1.2
http://www.launchy.net/
10. ObjectDock 1.9
http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/
11. PortableApps.com Suite & Platform 1.6
http://portableapps.com/
12. Alfred
http://www.alfredapp.com/
Audio
13. Audacity 1.2
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
14. Foobar2000 1.0.1
http://www.foobar2000.org/
15. MP3 Skype Recorder 1.9.0
http://voipcallrecording.com/
Backup/Synch/Storage
16. CloudDrive 0.68
http://www.driveoncloud.com/
17. Dropbox
http://www.dropbox.com/
18. DriveImage XML V2.13
http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm
19. DriverMax 5.5
http://www.innovative-sol.com/drivermax/
20. Gladinet Cloud Desktop Starter Edition
http://www.gladinet.com/
21. MozBackup
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
22. MozyHome Online Backup
http://mozy.com/home
23. SpiderOak
http://www.spideroak.com
24. SyncToy 2.1
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c26efa36-98e0-4ee9-a7c5-98d0592d8c52
25. Syncplicity
http://www.syncplicity.com
26. Windows Live SkyDrive
http://skydrive.live.com/
Blogging
27. Posterous
http://posterous.com
28. Ustream.tv
http://www.ustream.tv
29. WordPress.com
http://www.wordpress.com
30. Windows Live Writer 2009
http://download.live.com/writer
31. Zoundry Raven 1.0.375
http://www.zoundryraven.com
Browsers
32. Firefox 3.5
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
33. Flock 2.5
http://www.flock.com/
34. Google Chrome 4.0
http://www.google.com/chrome/
35. Maxthon
http://www.maxthon.com/
36. Opera 10.5
http://www.opera.com/
37. OperaTor 3.5
http://archetwist.com/en/opera/operator
38. Prism
https://mozillalabs.com/prism/
39. Safari 4
http://www.apple.com/safari/download/
Calendar/PIM
40. 30 Boxes
http://30boxes.com/
41. Chandler 1.0
http://chandlerproject.org
42. Google Calendar
http://www.google.com/calendar/
43. Google Contacts
http://www.google.com/contacts
44. Lightning
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/
45. Remember The Milk
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/
46. Yahoo Calendar
http://calendar.yahoo.com/
Conferencing/VoIP
47. Adobe ConnectNow
http://www.adobe.com/acom/connectnow/
48. Dabbleboard
http://www.dabbleboard.com/
49. Dimdim 5.5
https://estore.dimdim.com/user/signup
50. Doodle
http://www.doodle.com/
51. ooVoo
http://www.oovoo.com/
52. Springnote
http://www.springnote.com
53. Skype 4.0
http://www.skype.com
54. TokBox
http://www.tokbox.com/
Displays
55. VirtuaWin v4.2 beta1
http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net
56. DisplayFusion v3.1.8
http://www.binaryfortress.com/displayfusion/
57. Affixa 2.2010.1.23
http://www.affixa.com
58. eM Client 2.5
http://www.emclient.com
59. Gmail
https://mail.google.com
60. Inbox2
http://www.inbox2.com/
61. Thunderbird 3
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/
62. VoxOx 2
http://www.voxox.com
63. Zimbra Desktop
http://www.zimbra.com/
File Transfer/Sharing
64. BitTorrent 6.2
http://www.bittorrent.com/
65. FileZilla 3.3.2.1
http://filezilla-project.org
66. LimeWire 5.5.7
http://www.limewire.com/download
67. net2ftp 0.98
http://www.net2ftp.com
68. RightLoad 1.9
http://rightload.org/
69. µTorrent 2.0
http://www.utorrent.com/downloads/
70. Vuze
http://www.vuze.com/
File Viewers/Converters
71. Adobe Reader 9
http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/
72. FoxIt Reader 3.2
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/
73. FreeCommander
http://www.freecommander.com/
74. IrfanView 4.25
http://www.irfanview.com/
75. IZArc 4.1
http://www.izarc.org/
76. muCommander v0.8.5
http://www.mucommander.com/
77. PDF-XChange Viewer 2.049
http://www.docu-track.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer
78. PeaZip 3.0
http://peazip.sourceforge.net/
79. PrimoPDF
http://www.primopdf.com/index.aspx
80. Nuance PDF Reader 6
http://www.nuance.com/imaging/products/pdf-reader.asp
81. xplorer2Lite 1.7.2.7
http://zabkat.com/x2lite.htm
82. XnView 1.97.2/1.70
http://www.xnview.com/en/xnview.html
83. ZamZar
http://www.zamzar.com/
Finance
84. 1DayLater
http://1daylater.com/
85. Billeo
https://www.billeo.com
86. Buxfer
http://www.buxfer.com
87. Mint.com
http://www.mint.com/
88. Outright
http://outright.com
Fun/Home
89. calibre 0.6.45
http://calibre-ebook.com/
90. Celestia
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
91. FreeMind 0.9.0
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki
92. Geni
https://www.geni.com/
93. Ibis Reader
http://ibisreader.com/
94. Kindle
http://www.amazon.com/kindle-store-ebooks-newspapers-blogs/b/ref=topnav_storetab_kinc?ie=UTF8&node=133141011
95. Penzu
http://penzu.com/
96. ReadPal 2.2
http://www.readpal.com/
97. Showoff.com the Visualizer
http://www.showoff.com/apps/default.aspx
98. Sweet Home 3D 2.3
http://www.sweethome3d.eu/index.jsp
99. Timetoast
http://www.timetoast.com/
Graphics
100. Artweaver 1.0
http://www.artweaver.de
101. Aviary.com
http://aviary.com
102. Blender
http://www.blender.org
103. GIMP 2.6
http://www.gimp.org
104. FastStone Image Viewer 4.0
http://www.faststone.org
105. Inkscape 0.47
http://www.inkscape.org/
106. Jing
http://www.jingproject.com/
107. Paint.NET 3.5.4
http://www.getpaint.net/
108. Picasa 3.6
http://picasa.google.com/
109. Google SketchUp
http://sketchup.google.com/
110. Picnik
http://www.picnik.com/
111. Photoshop.com
https://www.photoshop.com/
112. PosteRazor
http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/
113. SketchPad
http://mugtug.com/sketchpad/
114. Splashup
http://www.splashup.com/
115. Sumo Paint
http://www.sumopaint.com
Instant Messaging
116. AIM 7 (beta 2)
http://products.aim.com/
117. Digsby
http://www.digsby.com
118. KoolIM
http://www.koolim.com/
119. Meebo
http://www.meebo.com
120. Miranda 0.8.18
http://www.miranda-im.org/
121. Pidgin 2.6.6
http://www.pidgin.im
122. Trillian Astra
http://www.trillian.im/
Maps
123. Google Maps
http://maps.google.com/
124. Google Earth 5.0
http://earth.google.com/
125. Nokia Ovi Maps
http://www.maps.ovi.com/
Media Manager
126. Apple iTunes 9
http://www.apple.com/itunes/
127. CopyTrans
http://www.copytrans.net/
128. Data Crow 3.8.11
http://www.datacrow.net/
129. doubleTwist 2.7
http://www.doubletwist.com
130. Songbird
http://www.getsongbird.com/
131. WinAmp 5.57
http://www.winamp.com
132. Windows Live Photo Gallery
http://download.live.com/photogallery
Networking
133. Axence NetTools 4.0 Pro
http://www.axencesoftware.com/index.php?action=NTPro
134. LogMeIn Hamachi2
https://secure.logmein.com/US/products/hamachi2/
135. Meraki WiFi Stumbler
http://meraki.com/tools/stumbler/
136. NetSetMan 3.0.2
http://www.netsetman.com
137. Wireshark 1.2.6
http://www.wireshark.org
Office
138. Acrobat.com
https://acrobat.com/
139. Backpack
http://backpackit.com
140. Dia
http://dia-installer.de/index_en.html
141. TypeWith.me
http://typewith.me
142. Evernote
http://www.evernote.com
143. Google Docs
http://docs.google.com
144. Jarte
http://www.jarte.com/
145. Notepad++ 5.6.8
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
146. OpenOffice.org 3.2
http://www.openoffice.org/
147. OrangeNote
http://orangenote.littlesoftware.ca/
148. PaperRater
http://paperrater.com/
149. SlideRocket
http://www.sliderocket.com
150. Springpad
http://springpadit.com/
151. Zoho
http://www.zoho.com/
Operating Systems
152. Ubuntu 9.10
http://www.ubuntu.com/
153. Jolicloud
http://www.jolicloud.com/
Printing
154. GreenPrint World
http://www.printgreener.com
155. PrinterShare
http://www.printershare.com
156. Xerox Mobile Express Driver
http://www.office.xerox.com/software-solutions/mobile-printer-driver/enus.html
Process Monitors
157. Autoruns 9.57
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx
158. Process Monitor 2.8
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
159. Process Explorer 11.33
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
160. ProcessQuickLink
http://www.processlibrary.com/quicklink/
Remote Access
161. TeamViewer
http://www.teamviewer.com/index.aspx
162. TightVNC
http://www.tightvnc.com/
RSS Readers
163. Google Reader
http://www.google.com/reader/
164. FeedDemon 3
http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/FeedDemon/Default.aspx
Search
165. Google Desktop 5
http://desktop.google.com/
166. Copernic Desktop Search Home
http://www.copernic.com
167. Everything
http://www.voidtools.com
Security/Encryption
168. KeePass Password Safe 2.10
http://keepass.info
169. LastPass
http://lastpass.com/
170. TrueCrypt
http://www.truecrypt.org
Social Networking
171. Fishbowl
http://www.fishbowlclient.com/
172. Flexamail
http://flexamail.com/
173. Seesmic Look
http://seesmic.com/seesmic_desktop/look/
174. Microsoft Silverlight 4 Client for Facebook
http://www.silverlight.net/content/samples/apps/facebookclient/
175. Sobees
http://sobees.com/
176. TweetDeck
http://www.tweetdeck.com/
System Utilities
177. Advanced SystemCare Free v3
http://www.iobit.com/advancedwindowscareper.html
178. Auslogics Disk Defrag
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/
179. CCleaner 2.29
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
180. Disk Space Fan
http://www.diskspacefan.com/
181. Eraser 6
http://www.heidi.ie/eraser
182. EULAlyzer
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/eulalyzer.html
183. Glary Utilities 2.21
http://www.glaryutilities.com/
184. Kiwi
http://drinkprog.com/kiwi/
185. PC Decrapifier 2.2.1
http://www.pcdecrapifier.com
186. Revo Uninstaller 2.1.5
http://www.revouninstaller.com
187. Speccy
http://www.piriform.com/speccy
188. UltraDefrag 4.2 RC4
http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/
189. VirtualBox 3.1.4
http://www.virtualbox.org
Video
190. CamStudio
http://www.camstudio.org
191. Handbrake 0.9.4
http://handbrake.fr/
192. Miro 2.5
http://www.getmiro.com
193. Pencil 0.4.4b
http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil
194. TeleKast 1.0.0.14 alpha
http://telekast.sourceforge.net/
195. VLC media player 1.0.5
http://www.videolan.org/
196. Windows Live Movie Maker
http://download.live.com/moviemaker
