Google has started PR update from second week of January 2008. From January 10 th onwards some reported that their websites demoted to Pagerank Zero. Some reported that, the inner pages of their websites got good ranks but their homepage got Zero Pagerank. A better example for the above case is technorati.com. Technorati.com is still showing Pagerank zero. But some of the internal pages of Technorati.com is showing Pagerank of 4.

The above cases clearly indicates that google has not finished it's January 2008 PR update. First it has updated Pagerank's of new and some popular websites. PR update is a long process. According to Netcraft report the total number of Websites on Earth is around 156 million. So it is impossible for Google to update the Pageranks of all these websites on earth in 2 or 3 weeks.

I strongly believe that Google has not finished it's January 2008 PR update. For example take my blog. I have started my blog in October 2006. My Pagerank is still 2 since from 2006. But today I checked my blog's Pagerank on Google Data Servers. Most of the Data Servers are showing a PR of 2 but some Data Servers are showing a PR of 7. This clearly indicates that Google will update my PR in the coming days.

You can check your PR on major Google Data Centers at this website.

Process Lasso is a unique new technology which takes control of your processes. Process Lasso automatically adjust the allocation of CPU cycles so that system responsiveness, system performance and stability is improved in high-load situations.

Process Lasso temporarily lowers the priorities of processes that are consuming too many CPU cycles and give a chance to other processes to run. Process Lasso offers default process priorities, default process CPU affinities, termination of disallowed processes, and logging of processes executed.

It configures processes to always start at a desired priority. It configures processes to always start at a desired CPU affinity. Process Lasso supports Windows 2000, XP, 2003, 32 and 64 bit Vista. Process Lasso is not a task manager even though it does have some task manager capabilities.

You can download Process Lasso from here.

Recently Huawei MT 880 adsl router's are not working in PPPOE mode. It is working in Bridge mode only. For multiple computers using the same internet connection, we can configure PPPOE mode very easily. But Bridge mode configuration is little bit difficult when multiple computers are using the same internet connection.

If anybody wants PPPOE mode, they have to replace their MT 880 routers with utstarcom modems like UT300R2U or WA3002G4 adsl wireless routers. UT300R2U modem is available at Rs 1250, so it is better to buy it. PPPOE configuration is same in both UT300R2U and WA3002G4 modems. So I will explain it now for WA3002G4 model. It is same for UT300R2U model also.

BSNL people will do Modem, splitter, phone line connections etc. They will connect the modem to your computer.

Now open http://192.168.1.1 in internet explorer. It asks DSL Router's username and password. So enter admin as username and admin as password. Then it will display Device Info window as shown below.

Click advanced setup. Then it will display Wide Area Network (WAN) Setup.

First row will display details about PPPOE protocol. At the end you will observe EDIT button. Just click that button. Then ATM PVC Configuration window will come. Just click NEXT. Connection Type window will come. Now select PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE). Then click NEXT. Now enter your PPP username and PPP password which are given by BSNL. Then click NEXT. NAT settings window will come. Just click NEXT(For UT300R2U model here Enable IGMP Multicast and WAN service window will come. Just click NEXT). Now WAN setup summary window will come. Now click Save button. WAN Setup window will come. Click Save/Reboot button.

This completes the router settings for PPPOE mode. There is no need to enter DNS numbers.

Now right click MY Network Places then select properties. Now right click Local Area connection then select properties. Then double click TCP/IP. Then select Obtain an IP address automatically. Also select Obtain DNS server address automatically. Then click O.K, then again click O.K as shown below. In Windows XP machines there is no need to enter gateway address 192.168.1.1.

Now your system is O.K for BSNL Broadband.

How to share the internet connection among more than one Computer?

Just connect LAN cable from Ethernet port of ADSL Modem to a HUBs first port(uplink) instead of P.C. All P.C's will be connected to Hub through LAN cables. Remember one important thing that is all computers in LAN must have same workgroup. So set Unique workgroup to all of the computers in the LAN.

In all machines set the TCP/IP properties as 1. Obtain an IP address automatically and 2. Obtain DNS server address automatically. In Windows XP, Vista machines there is no need to enter gateway address 192.168.1.1 but in Windows 98 machines you have to set the gateway address as 192.168.1.1 in TCP/IP properties. After these settings internet will come in all machines.

xVideoServiceThief is a tool for downloading video clips from video websites. This tool supports nearly 30 video websites. xVideoServiceThief tool can convert videos to AVI, WMV, MPEG1, MPEG2, Appli iPod, 3GP and MP3 formats.

This tool supports the following platforms:

Windows 98/Me, NT4, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista
Mac OS X, 10.3 and 10.4
Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, AIX, and many other Unix variants

How to use xVideoServiceThief Tool?
Start the program. You will find Add Video tab on the right hand side. Click that tab. Then Add Video URL dialog box will open. Just enter the video URL to download then click O.K. Then the tool will download the video to a default folder specified by the tool. You can change this default download location to another folder also. For this just click More Options button. Then Options window will open. Under downloads specify a folder you like to save in your computer.

Converting videos:
For converting videos to different formats you also need FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder. You can download it from this site. Install it first. Now start xVideoServiceThief program. Now click More Options tab.

As shown in fig you can select a format from Output format then click O.K. Now enter the video URL to download through Add Video tab. Then the xVideoServiceThief tool will download the video to the format specified by you.

You can download this tool from this website.

With Vista Codec package installed, You can use any media player to play DVD's, movies and video clips of any format. There is no need to install any other codecs by installing this codec. The Vista Codec Package no longer includes any QuickTime components. Vista Codec Package is fully capable of MOV and 3GP playback without any QuickTime software installed. This package supports English, Chinese Simplified/Traditional, Japanese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Polish, Swedish and Turkish languages.

You can download Vista Codec package from this website.

The Minnesota Zoo and St. Paul-based eduweb, award winning developer of digital learning games have developed this 3D multiplayer wildlife simulation game WolfQuest. WolfQuest game will be available as a free download for Windows and Macintosh computers at wolfquest.org.

The Minnesota Zoo leads a national network of zoos and science education centers including the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minnesota, Yellowstone National Park, Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C. and the Phoenix Zoo in Arizona.

WolfQuest game will teach wolf behavior and ecology through its gameplay and intense social interactions. Both single player and multiplayer options are available in this game. In this game Players join a wolf pack made up of computer-controlled wolves. You can create your wolf avatar by selecting male or female. You can learn about wolf ecology by living the life of a wild wolf in Yellowstone National Park. You can hunt elks, challenge other wolves for territory, defend territory, avoid danger, find a mate and protect your pups. Gameplay will create a strong emotional connection between players and wolves. So players can change their attitudes toward wolves and habitat conservation in the real world.

System Requirements:

Minimum NVIDIA GeForce 2 3D card is necessary. But Intel 865G integrated graphics or higher, NVIDIA GeForce 6 series or higher, ATI Radeon 7500 or higher is recommended for good Graphics Quality. Remember you can use Geforce 2 or Geforce 4 cards to run the game, but 1 GB RAM must be compulsory, otherwise the game runs slowly or jerkily.

All we know that Windows Registry is the heart of Windows operating system. Windows crashes and Windows error messages are due to Registry problems. These problems can occur for many reasons like incorrect removal of software, missing or corrupt hardware drivers, or orphaned start-up programs etc. This will increase the Registry size and slow down your computer because Windows will need more time to load, search, and read data from the Registry.

Eusing Free Registry Cleaner is a free registry repair software which will safely clean and repair your Registry problems. It scans your entire Windows registry for invalid or obsolete information and provide a list of the errors found. It will fix all these errors very easily and make your PC faster. It can also restore your previous Registry.

Eusing Free Registry Cleaner will clean your Registry by finding Missing Shared Dlls, Unused File Extension, Invalid ActiveX, Invalid Paths, Invalid Help Files, Invalid Fonts, Invalid startup programs, Missing ShortCut reference, Missing File and Folder, Invalid application paths etc.

You can download Eusing Free Registry Cleaner from here.

Windows Vista SP1 RC Refresh is pre-release software and it will undergo changes before the final release. Windows Vista SP1 RC Refresh is provided for testing purposes only. It is for individuals, organizations, and technical enthusiasts who are comfortable evaluating pre-release software.

Windows Vista SP1 RC Refresh is time-limited software and will no longer operate after June 30, 2008 and it should be uninstalled prior to that date. You must uninstall any previous versions of Windows Vista SP1 before installing Windows Vista SP1 RC Refresh.

You can download Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC Refresh from here.

You can analyse a drive or a directory in your computer with Xinorbis. It is a powerful disk analyzer tool. it gives the user a complete overview of the contents of a hard disk or a directory by Using a sophisticated mix of graphs, tables and tree displays.

Xinorbis is very easy to use. Just start the program.

As shown in the figure we have two options Analyse Directory and Analyse Drive. If you select Analyse Directory and choose a directory from your computer and click Scan button, then it analyses the directory and displays the results in a Pie or bar diagram and in a Text report and in tables as shown above in the figure. If you select Analyse Drive and choose a drive from your computer and click Scan button, then it analyses the disk and displays the results as explained above.

Features:
Analyse a single drive/directory or merge several together in one report
Complex report generation, with export to HTML, ASCII or XML
Save reports and compare them to see how the contents has changed
All information displays are completely resizable for ease of viewing
XP style support
Improved speed
Shell support, scan a directory through explorer
Supports Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista

Download Xinorbis from here

Satellite Antenna Alignment is the program used to calculate the angles necessary for installing satellite dishes. It calculates azimuth and elevation positions for all satellites at once. You will get a clear picture about what satellites can be visible from the location where the dish will be installed. This program calculates theoretical value only, but factors like obstacles (buildings, trees), the landscape, the altitude, transponder orientation, polarization, etc should also be taken into account.

This program is also very easy to use. Just start the program. On the right hand side of the window, you will observe Site location boxes. In those boxes enter the geographical coordinates of the location of the satellite dish. Then you will observe the calculation for all satellites at once in the table to the left.

Download Satellite Antenna Alignment program from here.

With My Pictures 3D product line you can place your digital photos into a picturesque environment of realistic 3D galleries. My Pictures 3D package consists of two products, My Pictures 3D Screensaver and My Pictures 3D Album. It is a freeware software.

With My Pictures 3D Album, you can hang your favorite pictures on the walls of a modern Showroom, a secluded Yard or a bohemian-style Art Gallery. It is very easy to hang your favorite pictures.

If you want to add Aish pictures to My Pictures 3D Album, then do as explained below.

Just start My Pictures 3D Album. Then choose Create new gallery then click O.K. Then it display list of galleries. Now select a gallery then click O.K. Now that selected gallery will be opened on the right hand side of the My Pictures 3D Album window. That gallery may be a modern Showroom or an Art gallery or a secluded Yard. Put the Aish pictures folder on desktop. Now select Aish folder on the left hand side of My Pictures 3D Album. Now on the toolbar select Add Image. Then all Aish pictures will be added to the 3D gallery.

If you want see those 3D pictures, put the mouse pointer on the gallery window and move the mouse pointer while holding left mouse button. While doing like this you will move inside all the rooms of the gallery. You will find Aish Pictures in one of the rooms as shown below.

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The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware utility that reads the registry and extracts the key that was used to install Windows. It retrieves product key of Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Windows Vista, Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007.

You can save the key to a text file, you can print the key or you can save the key to clipboard.

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Cfont Pro supports TrueType, OpenType, Bitmap, and Postscript Type 1 fonts. With Cfont Pro you can get detailed view of your installed fonts, you can preview fonts from any folder, CD, disk, or network drive before you install them, you can Package any number of fonts into a single file for ease of transport to another computer, and you can Move and copy installed fonts.

Cfont Pro is a freeware software. It supports Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/2003 Server.

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TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software. TestDisk can make non-booting disks bootable again, fix partition table, recover deleted partition, recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup, rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector, fix FAT tables, rebuild NTFS boot sector, recover NTFS boot sector from its backup, fix MFT using MFT mirror, and locate ext2/ext3 Backup SuperBlock.

TestDisk can find lost partitions for almost all file systems like DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32, Linux ext2 and ext3, NTFS ( Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 ), Unix File System UFS and UFS2 etc. TestDisk supports DOS, Windows (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003), Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, SunOS and Mac OS.

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Soundbase is a simple freeware album player. It allows to play from the playlist, from the library, or from the folder. It supports a wide variety of formats, including MPEG Audio Layer-3 (MP3), OGG Vorbis (OGG), Monkey Audio (APE), and FLAC sound files.

By using Soundbase, you can organize your music to different locations, edit tag information, search, filter, create playlists.

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Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor is a small software Tool that helps Windows XP users identify which edition of Windows Vista meets their needs, whether their PCs are ready for an upgrade to Windows Vista, and which features of Windows Vista will be able to run on their PCs. This small software tool will scan your computer and create a report of all known system, device, and program compatibility issues, and recommend ways to resolve them.

To install and run the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor, you will need .NET2.0 (at least .NET 1.1), MSXML6 (at least MSXML4) and an internet connection. Before you run the Upgrade Advisor, plug in devices such as printers, external hard drives, or scanners that are regularly used with the PC you are evaluating.

Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor supports 32 bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista, except Windows Vista Enterprise edition.

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WordWeb is a quick and powerful international English dictionary for Windows. This off-line dictionary can be used to look up words from almost any program, showing definitions, synonyms and related words. It includes pronunciations and usage examples.

The free version includes Definitions and synonyms, Proper nouns, Related words, Pronunciations, 150000 root words, 120000 synonym sets, and Fixed web reference tabs. WordWeb supports Windows 98/2000/Me/XP/Vista.

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M.S Windows
Microsoft has added a new file format called the Microsoft Office Open XML File Format (.docx) to Microsoft Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 and Microsoft Office Excel 2007. But this format is not compatible with earlier versions of Microsoft Office. With the help of Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack, you can convert .docx files to .doc files very easily and you can open and save Office Open XML Formats in earlier versions of Microsoft Office.

By installing the Compatibility Pack in addition to Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003, you will be able to open, edit, and save files using the file formats new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007. Before installing compatibility pack, users of Microsoft Office XP and 2003 must install all High-Priority updates from Microsoft Update.

This Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack supports Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP Service Pack 1, and Windows XP Service Pack 2.

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Mac
For Mac beta version of Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter is available. This beta version expires on December 31, 2008. This Open XML Converter can convert Open XML files to a format that is compatible with Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac and Microsoft Office v. X for Mac.

With this converter you can convert Open XML file formats like .docx, .docm, .pptx, .ppsx, .potx to a format that is compatible with Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac and Microsoft Office v. X for Mac. But remember, You must use Office 2004 11.3.4 or later, or Office v. X 10.1.9 or later to open these converted documents. Also this version of converter is not compatible with Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac.

Download Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac

Firefox 3 is based on Gecko 1.9 Web rendering Engine. FireFox 3 includes nearly 2 million lines of code changes, fixing more than 11,000 issues. This latest Firefox 3 Beta 2 version includes nearly 900 improvements over the previous beta, including fixes for stability, performance, memory usage, platform enhancements and user interface improvements. This beta version is intended for testing purposes only. So this is recommended for developers and testers.

Firefox 3 Beta 2 is available in more than 25 languages for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux users.

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CrystaMark is an excellent benchmark software, with which you can test your CPU (ALU/FPU), Memory, HDD, and Graphics (GDI/DirecDraw/OpenGL). You can know about your BIOS/Mother Board Information, CPU (Clock, Cache, Multiplier, System Clock), Chipset, Video (Driver Information/ Video RAM), Netwark Information, PCI Device, IDE HDD Information, and DLL Information.

No need to install CrystalMark software. Just download and unzip it. Now just run the application CrystalMark core system. Then you will get all details about your Bios/Motherboard, CPU, HDD, DLL information etc. For further information you can run the other applications like CrystalMark OpenGL test, Windows GDI BenchMark, DirectDraw benchmark.

CrystalMark 2004R2 supports 32bit Windows Vista/2003/XP/2000 and 64bit Windows Vista/2003/XP.

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Microsoft has released Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate. Users can Install Windows Vista SP1 Release Candidate through Windows Update. Windows Vista SP1 RC is pre-release software and will undergo so many changes before the final release. Windows Vista SP1 RC is for individuals, organizations, and technical enthusiasts and is provided for testing purposes only.

You must uninstall any previous versions of Windows Vista SP1 before installing Windows Vista SP1 RC. Windows Vista SP1 RC is time-limited software. Windows Vista SP1 RC will no longer operate after June 30, 2008 and should be uninstalled prior to that date. If you install Windows Vista SP1 RC it is strongly recommended that you install the final version of Windows Vista SP1 when it is released. To do this, you will be required to uninstall this RC version of Windows Vista SP1.

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Previously web pages are required to manually activate ActiveX controls, by clicking the control or confirming a “click to activate” message, before interacting with controls loaded by websites. At present Microsoft has released an Internet Explorer Automatic Component Activation (IE ACA) update that will disable the “Click to activate” behavior of the Internet Explorer ActiveX update. So web pages that previously required activation will no longer require controls to be activated. The update that removes this behavior is called the Internet Explorer Automatic Component Activation update (IE ACA). This activation behavior will be permanently removed from Internet Explorer in April 2008 by Microsoft.

This IE ACA Update (945007) disables the “Click to activate” behavior of the Internet Explorer ActiveX update that is contained in update KB942615. This update should only be applied after installing KB942615 to ensure that the security updates contained in update KB942615 are still present and functional.

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Update KB942615 for IE7 in Windows XP Service Pack 2

Update KB942615 for IE7 in Windows XP 64 bit

Update KB942615 for IE7 in Windows Vista 32 bit

Update KB942615 for IE7 in Windows Vista 64 bit

Microsoft has released service pack 1 for the 2007 Microsoft Office suites. The 2007 Microsoft Office suites SP1 combines the previously released fixes into one update. The 2007 Microsoft Office suites Service Pack 1 (SP1) contains significant security improvements, stability improvements, and performance improvements.

To successfully install SP1, you must have Microsoft Installer 3.1 (MSI 3.1) or higher. You cannot use the Add or Remove Programs item in Control Panel to remove this service pack. To remove the 2007 Microsoft Office suites SP1 from your computer, you must remove the 2007 Office suite. Then, reinstall the 2007 Office suite by using your original 2007 Office suite CD.

This SP 1 supports Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Windows Vista, Windows XP Service Pack 2

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Download 2007 Microsoft Office suite SP1

Microsoft has recently released Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate. Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 includes all previously released updates for Windows XP, including security updates, out-of-band releases, and hotfixes. It contains a small number of new updates, but should not significantly change the Windows XP experience.

Windows XP SP3 does not include Windows Internet Explorer 7, although Windows XP SP3 does include updates to both Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7, and it will update whichever version is installed on the computer.

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eBook to Images is a freeware software which converts Text, HTML, PDF, and LIT based eBooks into images. It supports Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP/Vista. This software requires the Microsoft .Net Framework v2.0.

This software is for people without MP3 players with text or eBook support, but can view photos. It will convert a book into a series of images. Supports multiple subdirectories for easier sorting, rotating images, inversing colors, anti-aliasing.

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