If you are a Pen Drive user, always you are exposed to catch some worms and viruses by inserting this element in every computer that you need to use. Sometimes, you need to work at cybercafe and their PC are not “clean”.

Well, with this simple method you can protect you Pen Drive.

How? By creating an autorun.inf folder.. thats all.

Why does this procedure is effective?

Because Windows system don’t allows to create a file or folder with a same name in a same directory.

Enjoy!!

Part 2 of the list of free software. View part 1

Free Audio Editors

1. Audacity: open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
2. AudioShell: Great tool for mp3 players owners! You quickly and easily fix file tags in Explorer before uploading to your iPod/Creative or any other mp3 player.
3. BeSweet: it lets you convert audio files from one format to another.
   supported formats : MP3,AC3,WAV,MP2,AVI,Aiff,VOB,Ogg Vorbis.
4. CDex: Open Source Digital Audio CD Extractor.
5. dBpoweramp Music Converter: Convert audio files with elegant simplicity mp3, mp4, m4a (iTunes / iPod), Windows Media Audio (WMA), Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Monkeys Audio, FLAC, Apple Lossless (ALAC) to name a few!
6. Exact Audio Copy: Exact Audio Copy is a so called audio grabber for audio CDs using standard CD and DVD-ROM drives.
7. Germanic Transcoder: complete new transcoder version. Only old audio plugins (format plugins) are compatible with version 4. All other things redesigned for a more flexible architecture.
8. KraMixer: the latest technology to produce the best possible DJing experience.
9. MP3 Book Helper: A program to facilitate handling audiobooks in MP3 format.
10. Mp3tag: It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words from tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more.
11. Mp3 Tag Tool: Tag Editing tool for Windows.
12. Mp3Gain: Analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume.
13. mpTrim: A simple and easy to use MP3 editor. Use it to improve your MP3 collection.

Free DVD/CD Burner

1. Burn 4 Free: Free cd and dvd burner.
2. Cd Burner XP: application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs.
3. CDRDAO: Records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode based on a textual description of the CD contents.
4. CD R Front End tools: CDR Tools Front End. Windows versions supported: 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP.
5. DeepBurner: Advanced and extremely powerful CD and DVD burning package.
6. ImgBurn: Lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit!

Free Compress and Uncompress Tools

1. 7 Zip: File archiver with a high compression ratio.
2. bzip2: High-quality data compressor for Unix/linux.
3. ExtractNow: Utility that allows you to extract multiple archives quickly and easily.
4. Filzip: Free zip software.
5. Info-Zip: High-quality versions of the Zip and UnZip compressor-archiver utilities that are compatible with the DOS-based PKZIP.
6. Quick Zip: Allows you to work with 22 encode and encryption formats and 44 archive extensions. Including the popular 7z format.
7. TugZip: Powerful award-winning freeware archiving utility for Windows® that provides support for a wide range of compressed, encoded and disc-image files.
8. UPX: the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables.
9. ZipGenius: Compress files to almost any kind of archive.

In a next post I will add free system tools and free desktop utilities.

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Following with Body Photoshop tricks, I found these five simples and useful tutorials to enhancement hair.

1. Changing Hair Color: How to do it.
2. Phoenix Hair Effect: How to add flame in hair.
3. Creating Shining Hair: Show hair like shampoo ads.
4. Removing Hair Roots: method for removing hair roots that takes mere seconds to accomplish.
5. Color Hair Locks: Change your bored hair color.

View 8 eyes photoshop tutorials

Comment and add others hair tutorials.
Enjoy

Are you Del.icio.us and Firefox user? If the answer is yes this tool can be very interesting for you.

Features

• Jump to Tag feature (press F2) allows you to quickly access tags and
  bookmarks using the keyboard
• New layout for saving bookmarks
• Preferences now in a separate dialog under Tools (which also can be
  invoked via the prefs button on the FF Add-ons pane)
• Status bar indicators for network activity, new links for you, and the del.icio.us website
• Classic mode for users who just want simple buttons without the overhead of sync

More info here

Enjoy

Part one of a huge list of free software. Now, you don’t need to buy any application.

Free 3D Graphics

1. 3Delight: Fast, high quality, compliant renderer designed to produce photo-realistic images in demanding production environments.
2. Anim8or: 3D modeling and character animation program.
3. Blender: free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.
4. Houdini: Procedural node based 3D animation and visual effects tools for film, broadcast, entertainment and visualization production.
5. Now 3D: Freeware program for Windows platform written in Visual Basic 6.
6. OpenFx: 3D modelling, animation and rendering.
7. Pov-Ray: Is a totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux.
8. Softimage: 3D Software Solutions for Games, Film, and Television Artists.
9. Terragen: Free scenery generator for Windows and the Mac OS.
10. Toxic: An Open Source Global Illumination Renderer.
11. Wings 3D: This software is a subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware.

Free Antivirus

1. A-squared: Remove infections of Trojans, Spyware, Adware, Worms, Keyloggers, Rootkits, Dialers and other malicious programs.
2. AntiVir: Free antivirus protection.
3. Avast: Multi-award winning solution to virus protection, with anti-spyware and anti-rootkit software built in for added security.
4. AVG: Millions of home users trust AVG to protect their computers.
5. BitDefender: Offers you the possibility to download everything from product evaluation versions , white papers, to free virus removal tools, and more.
6. ClamWin: Free Antivirus program for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003 and Vista.

Free Anti Spyware

1. Ad-Aware: Powerful protection that detects deceptive malware and spyware applications before they integrate into your PC and steal your personal information
2. Bazooka: Detects a multitude of spyware, adware, trojan, keylogger, foistware and trackware components; sources of irritation that antivirus software does not deal with.
3. HijackThis: A general homepage hijackers detector and remover. Initially based on the article Hijacked, but expanded with a lot of other checks against hijacker tricks. It is continually updated to detect and remove new hijacks.
4. SpyBot: Protect yourself against spyware.
5. SpaywareBlaster: Prevent the installation of spyware and other potentially unwanted software.
6. WinPatrol: This software alerts you to hijackings, malware attacks and critical changes made to your computer without your permission.

Free Audio Production

1. Gungirl: is an easy to use audio sequencer.
2. HammerHead: is a simple TR-909-like drum computer program aiming at the dance-scene.
3. Jesusonic: Turns your PC or Mac into a fully programmable real-time effects processor.
4. Kristal Audio Engine: Is a powerful multi-track recorder, audio sequencer and mixer - ideal for anyone wanting to get started with recording, mixing and mastering digital audio.
5. orDrumbox: Is a software drum machine, designed to a creative pattern based way of drum programming with automatic music composition capabilities.

Free Audio Players

1. Cool Player: Fast Audio Player for Win32 Environments.
2. DeejaySystem: is a simple Winamp-style player, yet DJ-oriented in design and operation.
3. DelPlayer: multi format, free audio player for Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP.
4. Foobar2000: advanced audio player for the Windows platform.
5. iTunes: Check out the most popular TV shows, movies, and music.
6. jetAudio: Play more than 20 kinds of music data including WAV, MP3, RA, MID and MOD, video data such as AVI, MOV, MPG as well as audio and video CD 2.0.
7. Mixere: free, open-source application for mixing audio files. It runs on Windows NT/2000/XP, and supports WAV, AIFF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Flac, and Mod audio files.
8. Mixxx: Open source DJ tool designed for both professional and amateur DJs alike.
9. monoRAVEik: MR1200 is an MP3 player designed specifically for DJing with. Rather than use a PC to replace an entire two-decks-and-a-mixer rig, it replaces only the decks, so you can continue to use your own separate mixer.
10. MoreAmp: Audio player, transcoder and cd ripper for Mac OS X, OS 9, Windows, Unix, and Linux.
11. Musik: open-source, cross-platform multimedia player and library.
12. musikCube: Music Management.
13. Quintesssential Player: feature rich media player for Microsoft Windows.
14. Winamp: may be the most popular media player.
15. XMPlay: Audio player, supporting the OGG / MP3 / MP2 / MP1 / WMA / WAV / CDA / MO3 / IT / XM / S3M / MTM / MOD / UMX audio formats, and PLS / M3U / ASX / WAX playlists.
16. Zinf: A simple but powerful audio player for Linux and Win32.

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