Top 10 Free Virus Scanners

Most of us are using anti virus these days, but some time your antivirus is not helpful with some Virus and Malware. In such situation, the best you can do is use something that's free and fast. So am here posting 10 best Online Scanners which are free and easy to use

1. BitDefender - An online version of the BitDefender software. Will scan your drives, files, and boot sector. Works only with Internet Explorer.

2. Computer Associates Malware Scanner - Browse your drives for a file you suspect of being malware and upload it for their scanner to check it for you.

3. ESET - Online malware scanner. With just an acceptance of ESET’s TOS, you can scan your PC for known malware including viruses, worms, Trojans, phishing, and spyware.

4. NanoScan - NanoScan is an new and fast online virus scanner developed by Panda Software. It takes only 1-2 minutes to scan your whole PC. NanoScan is a free online solution that detects different kind of malware that could be running on the computer.

5. McAfee FreeScan - McAfee FreeScan is a great virus scanner using the award-winning McAfee Scan Engine. Uses ActiveX component

6. Avast - Online version of popular antivirus software Avast will scan individual files of up to 512kb in size.

7. TrendMicro - Scans for Viruses and Malware. It also scans for vulnerabilities and and fixes them to prevent re-infestation.

8. Jotti- Uses several scanners at once to scan files that you upload to detect malware that may be hidden.

9. Panda Security - Searches your system for worms, viruses, trojans and more after a small Active X download.

10. F-Secure - Simple virus scan from web. Uses ActiveX components

Top 40 Free Downloadable Open Source Social Networking Software

This is Vivalogo's list of best free, downloadable, open source social networking software (kinda hard to say all these words

Unlike some other lists you may find on the net, this one contains only really downloadable and functional software.

spree

spree is an expert search engine where users ask questions to find other participating users, who are knowledgeable in that area and willing to help.

iSocial

iSocial is a free social networking CMS software that allows you to create your own Friendster and Orkut like sites. Use bookmarks, dating and create groups with just one mouse click.

Mahara

Mahara is fully featured electronic portfolio, weblog, resume builder, and social networking system for connecting users and creating online communities.

Yogurt

This is a Social Network module for xoops CMS. You have seen Facebook, Orkut, Myspace , try Yogurt for Xoops!

VMukti

VMukti is a Unified Social Collaborative conferencing engine. Allows access through personalized, mashable web-interface. Core features:- Video conferencing, Audio conferencing, IP Telephony, Desktop sharing, Chat, Whiteboard, Presentation & More.

The PeopleAggregator

The PeopleAggregator is a next-generation social networking system that goes beyond the idea of social networks as mating games, and attempts to use open standards, network inter-connectivity and massive flexibility.

Appleseed

Appleseed is (augmented) social networking software, ie Friendster, only distributed. Sites running Appleseed will interoperate, and form the 'Appleseed Social Network.' Development is focused on privacy and security, as well as ease of configuration.

Mugshot Project

The Mugshot site lets you track what your friends are doing online across a variety of popular web sites � music, photos, blog posts, and more.

GetBoo

Web 2.0 bookmarking system, both social (with tags) and private (with folders). Import and export your bookmarks from Firefox, IE, Mozilla, Netscape. Admin management section, translations, groups, bookmarklets, Firefox extension, RSS feeds, and more!

Akarru

Akarru is a social bookmarking engine, is used to build social bookmarkings sites, like www.blogmemes.com. Users posts links and promote links to front page using voting system.

Scuttle

Web-based social bookmarking system. Allows multiple users to store, share and tag their favourite links online.

SemanticScuttle

SemanticScuttle is a social bookmarking tool (based on Scuttle) experimenting new features as hierarchical tags, collaborative descriptions or OpenID authentification.

AROUNDMe

Create collaborative social websites (like Ning, Myspace, Yahoo or Google groups). Each group can create a multiple web pages. They get a drop in guestbook, blog, forum and wiki. Each group is fully customizable using xHTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP.

Clonesumating

Clonesumating is the open source version of the code that runs CONSUMATING.COM. It features many state of the art social networking functions including user profiles, user tagging, matching and discovery based on quirky tag combinations, group activities such as weekly photo contests and blog questions, an event calendar, RSS feeds for everything, etc. It is written primarily in mod_perl.

BeWelcome Rox

Get to know the global village and other cultures, share your place. BW Rox is the platform driving www.bewelcome.org and other social networks, aiming to bring people together in real life. Organize your travel or stay abroad, travelblog, meetings, ...

ICEcore

ICEcore open team collaboration software uses social networking to unify team workspaces w/ real-time web conferencing. Collaboration for knowledge networking, program management, communities-of-practice, telework, ...

Memephage

Memephage is an automated web log (blog). It passively gathers and summarizes links from various places. Currently: IRC, social MUDs, e-mail, and web browsers. Uses the POE multitasking and networking framework for Perl.

InteractOLE

A platform for the delivery and support of online learning. It differs from many other elearning platforms in that its aim is to concentrate on the social/interactive aspects of teaching and learning rather than the delivery of content to students.

Elgg

Elgg is an open source social networking platform developed for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) which encompasses weblogging, file storage, RSS aggregation, personal profiles, FOAF functionality and more.

CommunityNews

CommunityNews uses social bookmarking and bayesian techinques to provide periodic postings to blogs. Users can vote for or against RSS sources ti increase the chances that the source is used again. Spam filtering (bayesian) is provided by spam bayes.

OpenPNE

OpenPNE is a Social Networking Service Engine written in PHP. It has many features(friend control,friend invitation,diary,blog feeds,message box,etc).

MonkeyChow

Feed Aggregator Reader (branched from FeedOnFeeds) with Social Bookmarks (del.icio.us, Blogger, Newsvine, Technorati, mailto), Article Starring, Feed Tagging, OPML, Article Search, Reblogging and Refeeding, Aging, and Edit feed attributes.

NewsCloud

NewsCloud is an open source media platform for citizen journalism and the social news network hosted at NewsCloud.com.

Feed Me Links

Feed Me Links stores your bookmarks online so you can get to them anywhere. Import your favorites and share your links with friends. Add tags to organize your links. Discover new things.

WorldSpace

WorldSpace is a user-extensible shared virtual environment, aimed at being a next-generation social networking system.

Social Networking POC

A networking site on the lines of Orkut.Right now we plan to build it on Jboss seam and use a Java content management system like apache Jackrabbit as the backend. It would be more of a POC than an actual commercial app.

Zoints

Zoints is intimately aware that online communities are the most important aspect of the internet. Our free software solutions are designed to help solve the three major problems forum owners face: Member acquisition, Member retention and Profitability.

earth-life-simulation

A simulation of the world, there will be a global map representation and players can choose a country or civilization and develop it's social, political and military existence.

PHPizabi

PHPizabi is one of the most powerful social networking platforms on the planet. With literally thousands of websites powered by PHPizabi including everything from simple friends sites to the most complex networking super sites out there.

Ozcode

Ozcode is the source code behind Ozmozr.com, a microformat-aware RSS aggregator, social networking, resource sharing, identity aggregation and presentation site.

TallStreet

TallStreet.com is a new search engine concept where users make investments, with fictional money, in their favourite websites and the rankings are determined entirely by the users.

Jamss

Jamss is a social news site based off of Digg.com. Jamss allows for peer submission and review of web articles and can be adapted to fit a variety of themes. Jamss runs on PHP/MySQL.

Dolphin

Dolphin is open-source and free, although there is a cost associated with removing the company�s links from your site.

Ospo

Ospo is an opensource social portal project. It use standard function (add, remove friends, top10), forums integration, music module (artists directory with albums, songs), shoutcast integration, blog (add, delete, modify, view) and so on.

AstroSPACES

AstroSPACES is the world's first open source social networking solution. Coded from scratch, it is highly efficient and very easy to use.

FlightFeather

FlightFeather's goal is "social networking for everyone". This means that anyone should have a chance to run a popular social networking site -- on minimal hardware, and without wasting bandwidth.

SNOSS

Social Networking Open Source Software, an open source social networking framework, written in PHP, Javascript and MySQL with an AJAX UI.

OpenSocialNetwork

OpenSocialNetwork is a social network of open source. Its main task is to create a social network releasing the source code.

S3B

S3B - Social Semantic Search and Browsing - is a middleware that delivers a set of search and browsing components that can be used in J2EE web applications to deliver user-oriented features based on semantic descriptions and social networking.

Facelift

Facelift is a visualization and analysis software for online social networking services. It displays a given community as a node-link diagram and provides several search / filtering functions as well as cluster analysis features.

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Top 10 Web Applications for iPhone

iPhoneChat
One of the missing features of the iPhone is a chat/IM application. iPhoneChat lets you use AIM as if Steve Jobs owned AOL. Log in and chat with multiple contacts with tabs, just like the SMS function on your iPhone.

Google Reader
No doubt one of the exciting things with phones these days is being able to get information right there and then. And the Google Reader application by David Cann takes your RSS reading to a whole new level.

iPhoneDigg
For the avid digg user with an iPhone, this is a must. It has a really easy to use scrolling interface to maximize the small space available and shows you the current Digg count on the articles you are reading.

OneTrip Shopping List
The iPhone alternative to sticky shopping list notes on the fridge? OneTrip Shopping List. Provides a super-simple interface as well as a categorized system to make your everyday shopping easy.

iPhlickr
Flickr + iPhone = Awesome Photo Browsing, Anytime, Anywhere. No, it really is that cool, you know, for those times you need to look up what a Crotalus Oreganus snake looks like.

Hahlo
If you enjoy Twitter, this is probably the best mobile app for you (arguably even beating Twitter’s own). You can tweet from your iPhone using the well-crafted interface, and have a tap on all your friends. Ironically, this was the way Twitter was first meant to be used.

iZoho
One of the conveniences of the iPhone is being a good device for business use. Zoho, one of the best office suites on the web, is being used by more businesses everyday. Docs/spreadsheets/presentations on iPhone? iZoho.

Gas.app
It’s a good day, you’re a bit low on cash, and your car’s running out of gas. You need gas prices — premium or regular? Enter your zip code into Gas.app, and away you go.

MyMetar
This service is best described as a “weather bookmarking service.” You can bookmark your most frequently accessed METARs, TAFs, and radar images. Never fly into a storm without your iPhone and MyMetar again.

Apple Reader
If you want RSS, Apple’s got it. Just point your browser to any RSS feed (try ours) and you’ll get the whole damn thing — like how it’s supposed to look. Of course, remembering the locations might seem as a problem, but your Favourites list is there to help.

Top 10 Free Windows Applications

1 Firefox

Mozilla's Firefox is an excellent browser, a good replacement for Internet Explorer with a well thought out user interface and impressive speed. The biggest strength of Firefox though is the support for extensions which add new features to the browser. Amongst the most popular of these is Adblock, which filters out adverts on web pages and FlashGot which manages downloads automatically. Other useful features built into the browser include automatic spell checking on forms, incremental search and live bookmarks. Firefox is being constantly updated, and security fixes are released on a regular basis.

Alternatives are Google's Chrome browser and the eponymous Opera. Whilst Chrome is technically more advanced than the current version of Firefox, it does not support customisation and has a slightly limited (if extremely well designed) user interface. Opera also supports email, irc chat and BitTorrent downloads and is notable for being available for the Nintendo Wii and in a version designed specifically for mobile phones.

2 Thunderbird

Thunderbird is another sophisticated application by Mozilla. It is a fully featured email client, capable of handling multiple email accounts, news groups and news feeds. It includes a junk mail filter and supports both POP and IMAP email accounts. Like Firefox, Thunderbird can also be extended with a variety of add-ons, including the Lightning calendar extension.

Alternatives are the Opera browser, which also provides email access, and the venerable Eudora which is available for free in an ad-sponsored version.

3 AVG Free Edition

It is vital to have good virus protection on your PC, and perhaps the one area where spending a small amount of money is completely justified - consider the inconvenience and cost of your PC being wrecked. However, there are free virus scanners, and perhaps the best of these is AVG, a full and well respected anti-virus suite which is available in a cut down free version as well as a commercial edition. The free version omits some protection - in particular it does not provide download protection nor protection from crackers, keyloggers, spam, phishing attacks and ICQ and MSN protection. It also has a slower update service and more simplistic scheduling options for virus scans. However it does provide award winning protection against viruses, spyware, adware and identity-theft.

Alternatives are Alwil Software's Avast! which has a free home edition and provides much the same protection as AVG, and Avira AntiVir which is reported to provide better standard virus protection than AVG or Avast! - though it omits email scanning and is somewhat more obtrusive and demanding of system resources.

4 Spyware Terminator

If you have decided upon a free anti-virus package, it is likely to omit spyware protection - another vital defense to keep your PC safe. Spyware Terminator can fill that gap with real-time protection, manual and scheduled scan, safe quarantine and automatic update.

Alternatives are A-Squared Free Edition by Esmi Software, a cut down version of theit commercial product which has recieved many awards, and Ad-Aware Free which again is a limited version of Lavasoft's commercial offering. Both of these omit real time protection and other features as an incentive to pay for the full versions.

5 Picasa

Google's Picasa is an outstanding free photo organiser which catalogues and displays photos stored on your PC and integrates with the online PicasaWeb web album. Picasa shows off Google's skills at organising data - in this case your photo albums - and adds facilities to share, blog and print photos. The software includes easy to use editing tools to perform basic fixes and effects on your pictures.

An alternative is Adobe's Photoshop Album Starter Edition, which provides similar fix, search and share facilities but doesn't have integration with an online web album.

6 Open Office

Sun Microsystems develops Open Office and gives it away free as an alternative to Microsoft's Office suite. The Sun product includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation editor, diagram editor and database application that offer a robust alternative to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Access. The applications are excellent quality and work with the majority of Microsoft documents as well as reading and writing the ISO standard Open Document Format.

One new alternative office suite is KOffice, originally developed for Linux (as part of the K Desktop Environment) but now being extended to run on Windows and OS-X. The Windows version will be released as part of KOffice 2.0 which is expected to be available in late 2008, though alpha test versions are already available for the brave hearted.

7 VLC media player

The VLC media player is a audio and video player which supports a wide range of formats and even supports streaming (playing a file on one computer on a network, and receiving it on one or more clients - handy if you want to set up a central 'jukebox' containing all of your music and video). It can convert formats and can play DVDs and VCDs. The player itself can be customised with a wide variety of skins and includes support for cover art on albums and other media metadata. It is Open Source software with an active development community who always welcome help and support.

An alternative to VLC is Winamp, now in version five, which has a comprehensive feature list to rival any other media player. It is available as a free download, or as a commercial product (for $19.95). The free version has restricted ability to rip music from CDs to your hard disk, but is otherwise intact.

8 Media Monkey

If you've installed VLC media player, and started to build up a collection of music, you're probably going to needMedia Monkey. Media Monkey is a database that helps you set up, organise and synchronise your music collection with an external MP3 player. It's available as a free and commercial version, with the free version ripping music from CDs more slowly, and omitting some advanced features, such as multiple music collections and automatic detection of updated files. The MP3 encoder supplied with the free version (used to copy CDs to your computer) is time limited due to license restrictions, but can be replaced with an unlimited version (available here).

9 Foxit PDF Reader

If you share documents with other people, or browse the web for a while, you're almost certain to come across Adobe's PDF document format. Unfortunately Adobe's own reader, though free, is a cumbersome and rather slow piece of software which can hassle you about updates when you just want to read a single page document. Luckily there is an alternative - Foxit Software's Foxit Reader, which is small, fast and unobtrusive. The free version is supported by adverts, displayed on the main toolbar, which can be removed by paying for the Pro version.

10 Gimpshop

Picasa allows you to make basic fixes to your photographs, but if you want to make more complex changes or create your own images from scratch you need an image editor. Most Open Source advocates will point to GIMP, which was a very early success for Open Source development, providing a sophisticated image editing application for Linux. Whilst GIMP has continued to evolve and provides very professional editing facilities, its user interface has never been particularly welcoming.

GIMPShop begins to address these issues by taking GIMP and adjusting it's menus and terminology to more closely match those of the industry standard Photoshop. There are many tutorials for Photoshop online and GIMPShop allows these to be followed with the free application. There are limits however, as GIMP does not support Photoshop's adjustment layers and some other features used in advanced tutorials



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Top Ten Windows Applications

1. iTunes: This is one application that I have not even tried to replace on the Linux side. I refuse to do it. I think iTunes is that good. Hands down the number one app for Windows that is hard to walk away from and it’s made by Apple! I have to say Rhythmbox does come close though…
2. Outlook: I know everyone says Thunderbird or Evolution but it just doesn’t come close. In an exchange environment (like we are) Outlook is king.
3. GreatNews: Have I mentioned lately how much I love this little RSS reader? I have replaced it with Newsgator Online, but for a client app that can run from my thumb drive, GreatNews takes the cake.
4. Visual Studio: Being a ex-developer, this application is missed greatly. I haven’t found anything on the Linux side that even comes close. In fact I don’t even know what to use for application development in Linux.
5. Zoundry and Post2Blog: I’m grouping these together because they are both excellent client blogging tools that I use almost exclusively. The client tools for Linux do not even come close (from what I’ve seen). Where’s the WYSIWYG editor in the Linux choices? Post2Blog even supports installing it to your thumb drive now to create a mobile version.
6. ePrompter: This little application is a blessing for checking multiple Hotmail or POP3 accounts and takes almost zero system memory. Almost the perfect little email tool for managing multiple accounts.
7. Dreamweaver: I don’t care which version. Anything after 2004 will work. Hands down the best HTML editor in my opinion. Maybe Scream on the Linux side gets close but I cannot get used to the childish looking interface.
8. Blackberry Syncing Software: I’m not even sure what the official name for this software is but I do know that it does not work in Linux. Good thing for Over the Air installs. It still leaves me helpless when it comes to having a backup of my contacts and other info on a regular basis…
9. Flickr Uploadr: There is supposed to be a third party tool that works on Linux, but I can’t get it to run on Ubuntu. If anyone knows how please pass on the knowledge… F-Spot works pretty good to upload to Flickr, but it does not allow me to create new sets on the fly.
10. QuickBooks: Even though I just started using it this year, I cannot figure out how I ever ran my business without it. I just wish they would offer a Linux version, because even their online version requires Internet Explorer.

Top 10 Screen Sharing Softwares

1. RealVNC

Freeware
Truly the real VNC! This comes from the original developers of the VNC (Virtual Network Computing) desktop sharing technology. It contains a Java based in-browser viewer and can be used across different platforms.

2. CrossLoop
Freeware
Its forte is the ease of use. Just enter the 12 digit code generated by the software on the host PC and there you are!

3. ShowMyPC
Freeware
This one connects by making shell calls to the open source SSH client plink and VNC Remote access software. It also allows you to use your own SSH server. Required just a password to connect!

4. Hidden Administrator
Freeware
Versatile and rich in features, it can be used for all your desktop sharing needs. The only drawback is that it works only on Windows.

5.WinRemotePC Lite
Freeware
This free software can help you connect to remote PCs through Internet or LAN. Its performance oriented as well as rich in features. The only problem though - once aagain a windows specific tool.

6. Remote-Anything
A multi platform, portable tool that can connect you to the slave PC penetrating the firewalls.

7. TeamViewer
Freeware
Share the screen, transfer files, chat and do lots more across remote PCs. The software is easy to use and a standalone file thus requiring no installation.

8. Access Remote PC
Another efficient remote desktop tool which lets you connect to any PC regardless of firewalls, routers, and dynamic IP addresses. However a multi platform support could have made it a much better buy.

9. Im InTouch
All it requires to connect to a remote PC is a Web Browser. And is feature packed. But I think $ 99 is just too high and I think free software can just do the fine job.

10. Spy Agent
Its a Spy indeed, made more for monitoring a remote PC than actually sharing it. A perfect solution for parents who want to keep an eye on their kids!