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Glary Utilities Pro Product Review

November 04, 2009 By: bretthexum Category: Software

Product Review – Glary Utilities Pro

I was recently introduced to Glary Utilities Pro, and after giving it a try I was very impressed and decided to write a review.

Glary Utilities Review

Glary Utilities Review

There are two separate versions of Glary Utilities – the freeware version and the Professional version. The freeware version is a great quick way to diagnose and resolve some simple windows problems. It quickly scans your registry, recommends disk cleaning, and give your PC enhanced internet and speed performance. For a free tool, this can’t be beat. A very quick scan and easy to use interface makes this one of the best diagnostic tools out there.

I’ll spend most of my time review the Professional version. This is a much more robust program that can do a deep level scan of all files and registry entries. Again, the scans are extremely fast and accurate. Many people don’t understand how a cluttered registry can slow down a PC and cause errors. This tool found over 400 bad and/or old registry entries in my computer. It also found almost 1 GB of temporary files in my hard drive that were no longer needed. This is less of a concern today with the very large hard drives, but it can still make a huge difference in older computers.

Glary Utilities Pro has five different modules in it – Clean Up & Repair, Optimize & Improve, Privacy & Security, Files & Folders, and System Tools. I’ll give a brief overview of each module and associated utilities within them.

Glary Utility Review

Clean Up & Repair

This module has four separate utilities in it. Here’s a quick overview of each

Disk Cleaner

Remove sold/junk data from your hard drive and recover the free space. This is a very easy utility that takes a while to run. It basically scans your whole hard drive and gives you the results. Again, not a very necessary tool for newer PC’s but can free up a large percentage of disk space on older PC’s.

Registry Cleaner

I outlined this tool above. Again, a very useful tool that can speed up your system and reduce errors. Thumbs up on this!

Shortcut Fixer

This will scan your start menu and desktop shortcuts to see if you have any old shortcuts that are not pointing to anything active. Useful on cluttered desktops and computers. Worth a shot at running it once.

Uninstall Manager

This is one of my favorites, especially as an Systems Administrator at work. For the normal user I don’t see much difference in this and add/remove programs. But when you highlight the program the uninstall command pops up on the bottom of the screen which is VERY useful for scripting, etc. Honestly, I don’t know how much time I’ve wasted searching the registry for uninstall strings and commands. I’d recommend the products just for this feature alone to any systems administrators or IT people. I love this one!

Optimize & Improve

Fairly self explanatory – optimize and improve your systems performance. Here are the four utilities in this module.

Startup Manager

This utility will show you which programs are set to startup at computer bootup – even the invisible ones. This is a good utility to check for malware or spyware. The average user should be a little careful on this one. You could cause some problems if you tell some certain programs not to start.

Memory Optimizer

This is a neat little utility that can free up some memory if you don’t have a lot of physical RAM in your PC. Unfortunately (or fortunately) my testing PC has 3 GB of RAM so I don’t have a lot of memory problems on here. Again – can be very useful in older or slower machines.

Context Menu Manager
I’m not exactly sure what this utility does – LOL. I’ll have to play with this one and write a follow up. I believe it’s the right click options for your desktop.

Registry Defrag

Another good registry tool that defrags your registry just like a disk defrag. You’ll want to close all other programs while running this to make sure files aren’t in use. Didn’t really notice a speed performance increase after running this, but again – I am on a brand new machine. Nice little utility

Privacy & Security

Here are four more utilities that again are very self explanatory.

Tracks Eraser

Been to website that the wife or husband wouldn’t approve of? Run this utility to cover your tracks. It will erase all evidence of the sites you’ve visited. Clears files, history, cookies, and more. DISCLAIMER – Don’t be stupid and surf porn at work or something – then run this to cover your tracks. This is not meant for that!

File Shredder

A utility that will completely erase sensitive data on your PC. The software claims it uses DOD 5220.22-M (Department of Defense) standards, so that’s good enough for me. Could be useful for HR departments, etc. Good utility.

File Undelete

A quick way to recover files you accidently deleted. This will not work on files you shredded with the tool above! Happens quite often to me – I’ve already used it myself!

File Encrypter and Decrypter

This utility will protect your files so that only you can use them and no one else can view and/or edit. I tried it on a few files and it seems to work great. Don’t forget your password though! Not sure how that would go.

Files & Folders

Again, fairly self explanatory.

Disk Analysis

A quick scan tells you the current disk usage and space available for your files and folders. Probably not super helpful for the average user who only checks email or surfs the internet, but could he useful for a power user or business. Quick scan, easy interface. I like it. My documents and settings take up half of my hard drive space! Imagine that…

Duplicate Files Finder

Another neat little utility that will search your selected drives and/or folders for duplicates. Not very useful for a person like me but it could be helpful for some users.

Empty Folders Finder

Yes, it finds folders that are empty. That’s about it. Could be very annoying for a person like me who moves stuff around all the time. Sometimes my folders are empty for a reason. Again – maybe useful for some. But not I…

File Splitter and Joiner

This tool is worth the money by itself! This is a must own for any system administrator or helpdesk analyst. This will split large files into multiples and make the size manageable. This is great for those larger docs that need to be emailed. One gotcha – the recipient also needs to have this program to rejoin it. If you do the trial of this product – check this one out. This is a great alternative to WinZip.

System Tools
The last 3 tools in this suite are the system tools. Here we go.

Process Manager

A simple program that will monitor running processes on your pc and stop them if you wish. A useful program for more advanced users but I can see some novices causing more harm than good. Be careful with it and keep track of what you stop!

Internet Explorer Assistant

This says it will manage Internet Explorer add-ons and restore hijacked settings. Unfortunately I couldn’t test this one due to our company IE settings. Looks intriguing though.

Windows Standard Tools

A nice one stop window for all of the main windows system functions. It has checkdisk, disk defragmenter, system restore, system file checker, and windows backup. Nothing new here since they are all built-in features of Windows – but many people don’t know where they are. Great for computer novices.

Summary

Glary Utilities Pro is one of the best software utility suites I’ve personally used. I’ve been doing corporate IT work for 10 years, and use tons of these products. Many are junk, this is not one of those. The $39.99 price tag is manageable. It’s a small price to pay to speed up and/or optimize your system. You’ll pay the Geek Squad at least $50 just to look at it. I’ve included a download site to a 30 day free trial. I highly encourage everyone to at least check out the trial version. If you like it after 30 days, it will allow to you buy it right online and keep your current installation. You can download the software here.

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iPod Contest/Giveaway!

December 05, 2009 By: bretthexum Category: freebies, iPhone/iPod

I found this link to an iPod Giveaway on a computer help forum. Read the rules… no spam, etc. Looks like they are giving away 2 of the old style iPod shuffles. One for the most posts this month, and the other for most referrals. Might be a nice present for someone… check it out.

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Backup My Hard Drive – The Easiest Idea To Preserve Your Files

February 08, 2010 By: lilybird Category: Data Recovery/Security

Let’s just suppose I am required to backup my hard drive. What are some of my alternatives that might be practical for me?

The good news is that, I have multiple options at my disposal, depending on my lifestyle choices, my computer usage habits, whether I work or I go to school, how much and what type of data storage requirements I need, whether I access my files frequently while on the go from multiple systems, a single laptop, a PC at home, or a workstation in the office.

I could carry a USB drive to back up my hard drive. It’s easy. It hooks up right into your computer’s USB port and becomes a “removal data drive” where you can save your data to. And you could take it with you, wherever you go. It can fit on your keychain, in your pocket, fit in your purse, fit inside your book bag, or fit in your briefcase. These can potentially store several dozen gigabytes at once.

I could use an external hard drive to backup my drive. It functions using USB, just like a hard disk, except it is bigger and bulkier, taking up more space. It can store several hundred GB, however. It’s not as easy to carry with you everywhere you go, nevertheless it can get the job done as well.

I could backup my hard drive onto recordable DVD disks. You cannot house as much data on them as you can on USB discs, yet it is a reliable way to create a permanent backup of your files for simple storage. Be prepared for these to become phased out in the future, however.

I could do it online through the Internet, to a 3rd party data backup management company. I just need to set up a tiny backup agent on my PC, and it takes care of the rest. It silently works in the background, backing up my files in real-time, twenty-four hours per day, to the remote backup facility. And whenever I have to restore any data, I can retrieve it via a virtual network drive that is created in “Windows Explorer”.

The other, more traditional approaches to to business backup solutions have a number of limitations. They are a lot more costly. You have to front the costs of buying backup media, you have to pay for offsite backup media storage, transportation of your backup media to a secure location. (If you keep your backups in your office, then you are exposing yourself to the risk of total loss of business continuity, if something were to happen physically to your primary business location.) You would need to hire staff to accomplish the manual tasks associated with backing up your computers nightly. You also need to pay the license fees for the backup software solution that you wish to use.

In other words a traditional backup solution can cost you thousands of dollars in terms of manpower, software licensing, hardware, and licensing fees. It makes more business sense to subscribe to an Internet-based business backup solution. Your costs are miniscule in comparison, since all you need to pay is one annual fee per computer. The software, the manpower, the media, the data transfer mechanism, are all handled for you in the background automatically using software that securely archives your data to a secure backup facility across the Internet. And the data is completely secure since it is encrypted. Even if someone else were to intercept your data, they would not be able to open it, since it is encrypted.

Are you taking the necessary steps in the event disaster were to take place and you were to lose your files using techniques to backup my hard drive? The good news is, there is an easy solution: You can protect your data across the Internet in real time on autopilot with solutions to backup my hard drive.

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The Advantage Of Using CRM Software

February 08, 2010 By: lilybird Category: Software

The Advantage of Using CRM Software – Free White Paper

Is the acronym CRM familiar to you? Perhaps Customer Relationship Management is. This technology has been in existence for quite some time and companies benefit from it tremendously. The idea is concentrated on customers, their preferences, providing them better services, and increasing sales by targeting potential customers.

An in-depth look at CRM software systems would tell you that it keeps track of customer records along with the products that they have bought from the company. Any transaction that a customer does with the company is being recorded by CRM systems. You are probably wondering how keeping track of all the purchases and transactions done by customers with the company can help.

Here’s how this whole system really works. When a customer buys a product, it reveals his preferences towards that product. The CRM would then record that information. The data collected would be organized and analyzed by the system. The organized data is made available to company employees to access, and gauge the product that customers need.

The process of analysis of CRM software systems is the secret to the success of a company utilizing the technology. What the CRM does is to provide a general data on the overall preferences of that specific customer based on the transactions she had with the company. Assuming that your company is a woman’s clothing manufacturer. Customer X bought several clothes from the company at different intervals. Through the purchases of Customer X that CRM has dutifully accounted for, you now have an idea what products to promote to Customer X that are most likely to be bought by her.

Along with some data needed to make further sales, CRM software programs would also keep track of important company dates, product recalls, and some personal information on the customer such as birthdays, which would also help build a good relationship with the customer. One such example is it enables the company to send a birthday card to a customer.

CRM software systems have been known to increase sales of companies by specifically targeting a customer’s preferences when it comes to a product line. Having this system is a more aggressive form of marketing than by simply placing some advertisements on paper.

Just to reiterate, CRM software keeps track of customer records along with the products that they have bought from the company. Any transaction that a customer does with the company is being recorded by CRM systems. You are probably wondering how keeping track of all the purchases and transactions done by customers with the company can help. Read more about CRM technology and software at IT Knowledge Hub.

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10 Things To Hate About The IPhone

February 07, 2010 By: lilybird Category: iPhone/iPod

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10 things to hate about the iPhone
I took delivery of my iPhone at the start of September, the start of a trying month personally that saw me out of the office for very long periods and only in touch with the world via my phone. It was a baptism of fire for me and the device.

You will have seen the adverts, played with it in phone shops, looked over fellow commuters’ shoulders, borrowed your friend’s … great isn’t it? Or is it?

In this article I touch on some of the things about the device that have really irked me. Just a bit or quite a lot. And to maintain the celestial karmic balance I have a companion article on some of the things about the iPhone that I absolutely love. There’s enough material for both articles, I assure you!

So here we go, in reverse order, the 10 things that you should hate about the iPhone!

10. Grubby fingers and the onscreen keyboard
The iPhone’s onscreen keyboard is surprisingly effective and doesn’t take long to get used to.

Just remember to wash your hands before you do so, however! This isn’t just cosmetic: For some reason I manage to leave a sticky mark under my right thumb that attract dust, biscuit crumbs, or whatever, right over the erase key. Usually the crumb lands there just as I finish the 2 page email and starts to rub out the whole message character by character! This is not an exaggeration!! It is, however, not a daily occurrence!!

9. External memory
I went the whole hog and took the 16GB iPhone immediately. I don’t regret it! I haven’t been selective with my music collection and have more or less all my ripped CDs stored on the iPhone. That’s 14GB. Which leaves precious little room for real data.

On other devices this is rarely a problem and non-volatile storage is usually flash memory of some description, the size of which obeys Moore’s law and doubles in size and speed every 9 months or so and halves in physical size every 2 years or so with a new “mini” or “micro” format. I have yet to run out of space on a mobile phone or smartphone, even with an address book of over 500 names.

The problem on the iPhone is that there is no external memory slot and no way (short of wielding a soldering iron) of expanding the internal memory. A shame. The iPod Touch has recently spawned a 32GB version and I imagine that the 32GB iPhone is on its way. When that happens the legacy user base will be left wondering what to do next.

8. Battery and battery life
The iPhone is sleek – barely a centimetre thick and enticingly smooth with those rounded edges. There are few buttons, no little doors to come open and break off in your pocket and no memory slots to fill up with fluff and dirt.

One of the reasons for the smooth design is that the iPhone does not have a user removeable battery. The battery can be changed by a service centre, and over the two years I will keep this device I expect to have to change the battery at least once, but I cannot do it myself. Also the battery is surprisingly small – it has to be to fit into this neat little package.

The price you pay for this is battery life. My device is now 6 weeks old and have been fully cycled about 5 times (I tend to keep the battery on charge but allow it to run flat at least once a week). If I am not using the device constantly, just checking the device twice an hour and answering calls, using 3G and Push, I can rely on a full working day of 10 to 12 hours between charges. If I turn on WiFi this drops to 6 or 7 hours. If I use the GPS without WiFi, autonomy drops to 4 or 5 hours. If I wanted to be really frugal and last a full 24 hours, I would need to turn off both Push email and 3G, and reduce screen brightness to a minimum.

For some people this is a major issue. For me, since I usually either have a PC on and can trail a USB cable, or spend the day driving with the iPhone hooked up as an iPod and being charged by the car, it is less of a constraint. But it remains an annoyance. I haven’t yet seen an iPhone equivalent of the Dell Latitude “Slice” – a battery “back pack” for the iPhone that could more than double autonomy with minimal extra thickness, but I assume that someone, somewhere, is working on an aftermarket device.

7. Document management
There is no equivalent of the Windows Mobile File Manager or Mac Finder on the iPhone so there is no way of manipulating file objects on device.

Admittedly the iPhone does a credible job of shielding you from the need to do any file level manipulation: For example the Camera has a photo album that is also accessible in other applications that need to access images (for example, the iBlogger application I use to write short articles on this site). But there are still occasions when you need to manipulate individual file objects.

One is during installation and set up when installing root certificates for SSL so that the device can talk to an Exchange server: Unless you use Apple’s enterprise deployment tool (which locks down the device and prevents further configuration changes, so not always desirable), the only ways to set up the device for Exchange are to set up a temporary IMAP account and download an attachment that you open, or to set up a website with the root certificate and define the appropriate MIME types on the web server (I could not get this to work, incidentally!). How much easier it would be to download the certificate onto the device using Windows explorer (connecting to a PC via USB exposes the devices memory as an attached storage device) and to be able to open the certificate file from memory on the iPhone.

The other key need for this functionality is when manipulating attachments on email messages. There is no way of saving attachments, or attaching documents selectively to a new or forwarded message.

6. Navigating through email folders
I tend to keep a lot of emails in my mailbox. I archive once a year, and usually towards the end of the following year. I’m also fairly busy and work on a dozen consulting and business development projects at a time. That means two things: a lot of emails, and the need to organise those emails sensibly.

I organise my emails into trees – consulting projects in separate folders and these folders organised by client, all kept separate from companies I’m invested in and from my personal stuff. Probably 40 or 50 folders.

On Windows Mobile devices I can organise this quite cleanly, with the ability to expand or collapse sections of the folder tree. The iPhone recognises the tree, but gives me no means of collapsing the hierarchy. The Inbox is always at the top: Junk email is always at the bottom. Moving incorrectly junked emails means traversing the whole tree, which is a pain even using the classy flick scroll gesture. It’s clumbsy and unnecessary.

5. Filtering offline email content
The other side of this complexity is managing how much of my “online archive” to take with me.

There is no need (and no space) to take it all with me: I am quite used to placing sensible limits on the section of the mail folder to take with me. Windows Mobile allows me to take 1, 2 or 3 months worth of email with me, to say whether I take attachments with me, all the email or just the headers. I can even select which folders to take or leave behind. And I don’t need to worry if I go away and find I am missing a crucial folder – I can change the parameters and the device will download what’s missing.

The iPhone is slightly less flexible. It won’t let me download attachments pre-emptively: It will only load the message header and leave the attachment behind unless and until I select the email manually. I can define how many days of emails I download from 1 day to 1 month, but beyond that I cannot specify a limit. I have a filter on the number of messages within a folder that I display from 25 to 200 messages but the interaction between this setting and the time limit is not entirely clear. If you are a light user this is less of an issue: For a heavier email user with a complex folder hieracrchy you have less control and can run into memory management issues as a result.

4. Message management and Exchange
The worst problem with message management on the iPhone is actually specific to Microsoft Exchange.

I am an expert user and really love Microsoft Exchange. It isn’t just my mail server: It’s a full collaboration engine, with group and resource scheduling, rich address book, “to do” lists, journaling, contact histories etc. I don’t use it for fax and voice mail yet, but that is just a question of not having made the time to buy the interface box to the PBX and turn that feature on. So I am up there with the other 60% of enterprise mailbox users that are hooked on Exchange.

When the iPhone first appeared the Exchange interaction story was weak. It could do IMAP, but that’s just a fraction of the story. No problem, that wasn’t Apple’s intended primary audience either, but the enterprise users clearly wanted the iPhone, so Apple got to work.

To be fair to them, Apple have done a lot with iPhone 3G to improve the Exchange story. Most of the security protocols are there, including critical features like remote wipe and SSL, and it supports Push. Enterprise deployment is straightforward too with a dedicated enterprise setup tool that supports remote device configuration. Unfortunately Apple seem to have stopped halfway through the API and a lot of Exchange functionality is overlooked. Some of this, like losing some data richness within calendar and contact items, doesn’t affect all users equally. Other elements are more critical, however.

The best way to describe this is how you forward email messages with attachments. The Exchange API permits clients to forward the message without the message content being stored locally: You can forward the header and the server will attach the attachments and other rich content before forwarding. The iPhone doesn’t understand this: First it has to download all of the message and attachments from the server to the iPhone, then it has to add the forwarding address and send the entire message back to the server. Moving a message between folders is the same and involves the same telecommunications overhead. A nuisance for me, but no more than that: If you aren’t on a data bundle and pay by the MB then you need to be wary of this.

[Another side effect of this issue is that server-side disclaimers and signatures get placed at the end of the forwarded message, rather than under new message text.]

3. Reading HTML and rich text messages
I love HTML emails. I know that is considered a cardinal sin in some quarters, but as someone once said, if email had been invented after http would email have been done any other way? HTML is ubiquitous, it is clean and it works.

And of course being the best mobile web device on the market, the iPhone should be a fantastic HTML email reader, shouldn’t it?

Well, it very nearly is. It does some things really well. It gets the layout, it renders inline graphics, it’ll even show some background. But what if the text is really wide? It’ll wrap won’t it? No, it won’t. It’ll shrink the text to fit. It’ll make the text really, really small. And you can’t cheat by rotating the device, making the screen “wider” and the font larger, because the mail client doesn’t support landscape presentation (why?).

Of course you can zoom in, because it’s HTML, but then you have to scan the whole line, whizzing across the page to the end of the line, then whizzing back again to get the start of the next line. Oh dear!

2. Task switching
The iPhone is a lovely, clean design. And part of the cool, clean look comes from the absence of nasty short cut action buttons.

The iPhone has only three buttons on the edges of the device: the on/off button on the top, the volume up/down toggle on the side and the excellent single button mute button above the volume toggle. That’s it. The only other button on the device is the “home” button on the front, below the screen.

The home button stops whatever application you are engaged on and takes you to the home page of the device – the pretty page full of icons that start up each application on the device. Good job it’s pretty, because you see an awful lot of it.

There is no way to jump straight to your calendar, or address book, or email. Apart from the one “double click” action (user configurable to either select phone favourites or iPod controls), the only way to start a task is to go back to the home page and up again into the application you want. Find an interesting URL in an email that you want to look at in Safari? Memorise it well, or write it down, because unless the text has been created as a link you’ll have to go back to the home page, start Safari, type the URL, realise you’ve got it wrong, press the home button again, start email, open the email, find the URL … and start again.

Or you could just select the URL and cut and paste it into the browser address bar … except …

1. How on earth do you cut and paste?
Once Xerox had invented the mouse, the GUI and WYSIWYG editing, it was up to Apple to take that technology and make it affordable with the Lisa and the Mac. And Microsoft to make it ubiquitous, of course.

One of the joys of using the mouse, or any pointing device, is that it gives you a third dimension as you move around the page. You aren’t constrained by the line or the word or the paragraph – you can jump straight to any part of the document. And you can select parts of a document by dragging over a word, a line, a paragraph, and do something with it. Like cutting it out. Or copying it. Or dragging it. It’s normal. That’s just what you do. You don’t have 3 hour seminars and training courses on using a mouse (or a stylus) to point and select, click and drag. You demonstrate it once, the student understands and does it.

But the company that helped the mouse escape from the lab and get into the shops seems to have forgotten all about it. Get out your iPhone. Write a sentence. Write another one. Oops – that second sentence would make more sense BEFORE the first one. I’ll just cut and paste the sentence. Oh no you won’t! Because there is no cut and paste on the iPhone. Hear that? No? Well, I’ll say it again! THERE IS NO CUT AND PASTE ON THE IPHONE.

Google around a bit and you’ll find dozens of articles on the subject. You’ll find surprise, indignation, horror. You’ll even find brave Apple gurus explaining sagely that you don’t need cut and paste because the iPhone gives you more direct ways of using information, like linking URLS, or detecting phone numbers, or, er, something.

The most likely explanation is that once Apple has decided to do away with the stylus, the only UI gesture was to use two fingers and drag that over the page to select some text. But that gesture had already been taken with the excellent pinch zoom movement used on large documents and web pages.

There is a way out, however. Some very credible proof of concept demonstrations have been put on the web showing how a sustained point and drag with single finger (like the stylus selection action in Windows Mobile) would be workable and not conflict with any other screen action on the iPhone.

Let’s hope that the concept demos work and we see cut and paste implemented in an upcoming firmware release. In the meantime, at least twice every day I bet every iPhone user will silently curse, shrug and give up writing that urgent memo because they just can’t be bothered to type it all again.

So that’s it. Please don’t get me wrong, I think the iPhone is a wonderful, iconic and transformational device. As with the Mac, it has changed our perception of what a mobile device should be. Mobile phones and smartphones will never be the same again.

It’s just that for all it’s brilliance, it remains flawed. The iPhone is the product of a prolific and brilliant yet highly introspective group of engineers. Left free to innovate, unrestrained by any notion of reality or practicality or what the user currently thinks he or she wants, Apple have created a concept device. I’m grateful they have, but I fear that it will be up to other companies, with a clearer grasp of what the user can use, in particular what ELSE the user is doing, to take the iPhone to the next step.

Stephen Oliver is Director of Expraxis Limited http://www.expraxis.com a consulting company that works with academics, entrepreneurs and inventors who need help bringing new ideas to market. We help people set their priorities, plan for their business, build relationships with partners that can help them, and work with them to help turn those ideas into reality.

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Apple IPhone Download Site Reviews

February 06, 2010 By: lilybird Category: iPhone/iPod

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As the Apple iPhone continues to grow in popularity more and more iPhone download sites are springing up. With so many new download sites appearing it can be difficult to decide which one to sign up with. To make your decision easier here are some reviews of the top iPhone download sites.

#1 – iPhone Unlimited

iPhone Unlimited is highly recommended to every iPhone owner. As a member not only will you be able to download easy to use software to unlock your iPhone you will also get a lifetime membership to a download area literally crammed with software, music, movies, games and much more.

One of the best things about iPhone Unlimited is the excellent value for money. As your membership is a one off payment for unlimited lifetime access you don’t need to worry about paying for every single download or having to pay monthly bills. In addition some other sites offering lifetime access only provide you with the download area. At iPhone Unlimited not only do you get the download area but you also get the software to unlock your iPhone should you wish to use it on another network plus many other great tools.

The unlocking method provided by iPhone Unlimited is 100% safe unlike some of the cheap scams currently floating around on the internet that will damage your iPhone. If you want to unlock your iPhone take care and only use the safe software provided by iPhone Unlimited.

#2 – iPhone Nova

iPhone Nova is a very close runner up to iPhone Unlimited. There is a vast selection of downloads available including movie, music, TV shows, games and software. There are also a number of very useful tools to help you transfer your media on to your iPhone as well as DVD to iPhone tools. The site is very user friendly and easy to navigate.

At iPhone Nova you also get excellent customer support. There’s free 24 technical support to help you if you ever have any problems and free step by step tutorials to help you start making the most of your membership immediately. Like iPhone Unlimited your membership is a one time unlimited lifetime payment so again there are no per download or monthly fees to worry about.

If you are looking to copy your DVDs onto your iPhone then iPhone Nova would be your best choice. The free DVD to iPhone software that is included in your membership makes transferring your DVDs very easy indeed.

#3 – iPhone Download Pro

iPhone Download Pro is another impressive download site. Like the previous two sites it also provides you with plenty of features and an impressive amount of downloads. There is a very large selection of games, music, movies, TV shows, software and much more.

As with iPhone Nova there is also free 24 technical support to help you out should you need it and step by step video tutorials to assist you. Again your membership is a one time payment for unlimited lifetime access so you don’t need to worry about per download or monthly fees.

There is also free software to help you transfer your DVDs to your PC and to your iPhone which makes iPhone Download Pro even better value for money.

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Things To Consider When Looking For Laptop

February 06, 2010 By: lilybird Category: Desktop and Laptop

There is no doubt that since there are so many brands and models of the laptop it is very difficult to make a decision and purchase the laptop that will meet all of the needs and perform all of the tasks on the best level. There are a lot of problems people face after buying a computer because before they did not check all of the requirements they are looking for and as a result they are very disappointed with the results they get. The following information will help you to avoid some of the problems and at the end you will get a perfect tool.

Before starting a research of the laptop computer that will meet all of your needs you are strongly advised to make a list of the tasks that will be performed by the laptop computer. In case you are going to surf the internet or use it for word processing there is no need to spend big money on the expensive and powerful machines. The power of the entry level laptops will be enough to fulfill all of the tasks you will set. A notebook that is provided with simple single core processor, 1 GB of memory and integrated graphics card will be a perfect option in your case. While purchasing the laptop computer you have to make sure that the machine will be very comfortable at usage.

In case you are going to run complicated programs or do some multitasking on the computer that will include talking with friends, surfing the net and listening to the music it is strongly recommended to purchase a laptop that will have installed with dual core processor and 2GB RAM. If you will not take this into consideration you will have to wait some time to move between the programs. There is no doubt that very often users are interested in extras such as a built in web camera or microphone.

Powerful laptop is also very important for the users who are planning to run high end games. Special attention has to be paid to the powerful graphics card since it is very important to provide you with the opportunity to run the games. In case to choose the best laptop computer you have to check all of the performance reviews and understand which option seems to be the best.

You also have to make sure that you will never run out of memory. That is why you are advised to purchase 4GB RAM and dual core processor. The amount of the USB connections is also very important in case you are going to run some of the external devices. The choice is really great but the laptop has to meet all of your needs.

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Buying Refurbished Or Used Laptop.

February 06, 2010 By: lilybird Category: Desktop and Laptop

A lot of people doubt that used laptop can be an option for the user. However, it is not always the truth. Very often purchasing laptop computer you not only get high quality device but also save good money. Since economical situation is very difficult nowadays a lot of people can not afford purchasing brand new laptop computers. In that case used or refurbished laptop is a good way out.

Even though there are a lot of places that can provide you with the access to used or refurbished laptops internet is still the only place that can offer such variety. A lot f people are using eBay since its choice is really great and attracts the attention of a lot of people. A lot of users purchase laptop computers through eBay and are satisfied with the result they get. What is more, there are other sites that can provide you with perfect option.

Take into account the fact that such places as eBay have a lot of protection measures and can make sure that you are dealing with an honorable person. Thanks to the filtering they make sure that scammers will not use the trust of the users. You are recommended to get acquainted with all of the deals you meet and make a decision after comparing with the requirements you have. What is more, while purchasing a laptop computer you are strongly recommended find out the information concerning the return policy, warranty period that is left on the laptop and whether it is transferable, battery life and the time it holds the charge, the sum they charge for shipping the laptop and the manuals they have for the laptop.

In case you are interested in buying laptop computer that is up to date and that is provided with modern accessories you are recommended to buy refurbished laptop because the majority of them comes with all of the latest parts and accessories. The reason for that is the fact that refurbished laptops are tested vigorously and seller makes sure that the device functions properly.

It is not weird that there are a lot of people who are in dire need of the laptop computer they need for performing different tasks but at the same time they can not afford buying brand new laptop computers. However, there is always a way out. Used and refurbished computers can become perfect options for the users who are on the budget. What is more, most oа the refurbished laptops are highly functional and powerful machines that cope with all of the tasks. In order to find the best device that will meet all of your needs you are recommended to check the sites in the internet and compare all of the reviews you will see.

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