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I’ve been an advocate of Avast antivirus for long, but I’ve read tons of positive reviews about Kaspersky Antivirus software and have always wanted to try it. The Kaspersky team today released Kaspersky Antivirus and Kaspersky Internet Security 2009, both of which have been improved substantially.
I’m a huge fan of Del.icio.us, and I use it quite a lot to bookmark web pages for later reference. I know there are quite a lot of people who use the service everyday.
This is a list of about 15 Greasemonkey scripts for Del.icio.us. Some of these add functional enhancements. Others add interface enhancements and some others integrate other services like Ma.gnolia with Del.icio.us.
In order to be able to use these scripts, you need to have Firefox installed with the Greasemonkey Extension. Once you have gotten those, just click the Download link near the Greasemonkey script for the installation to happen.
Bloggers are probably going to love this tool. It’s a bit addictive, and does its job perfectly. FeedCompare.com lets you compare FeedBurner subscriber numbers of up to four blog feeds in a row.
Just go to the site, and key in your blog feed’s URL and those of your competitors, and it’ll show you a neat graph listing the growth in FeedBurner subscribers of your blog feed against others. You can compare the stats for a month till two years.
Please note that you should have the FeedBurner Awareness API enabled for your feed so that the tool can access the stats.
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iTunes is a good media player, but it misses those little features that you might really need. One niggle is that it doesn’t update the media library automatically - you won’t see the songs that were added recently to your music folders in the iTunes library. You need to manually update the library by adding the folder again.
Shredding is a process of completely removing data from your hard drive. Remember - even if you delete files from your hard disk, the data still remains in the hard disk and could potentially be recovered.
If you’re going to sell your computer’s hard drive, you probably need to shred the files present there because you might have stored sensitive information on there earlier and wouldn’t want anyone to get access to it.
