Twitter made the following improvements in it’s app for iPhone & iPad:
* Photos: Uploading photos is now easier than ever. There’s a camera button in the toolbar and we improved the image preview, so you can quickly choose a photo from your library or take a new picture.
* Follow your friends. Now you can find which of your friends are on Twitter that have chosen to be discoverable through the contacts on your phone.
* Local trends: See trends based on your location.
* Shorten links: When you want to share a link on Twitter, just paste it into the Tweet box and we’ll automatically shorten it.
* Tweet box design: We redesigned the “New Tweet” screen so it’s now cleaner and simpler.
* Autocomplete: When tweeting on-the-go, speed and accuracy are important. Autocomplete for @usernames and hashtags help you tweet faster
* Direct Messages: The new Direct Message conversation view helps you better keep track of messages.

Opera is a well known and widely used browser in cellphones.Today a good news has just been posted by opera software, that opera 10.1 will be available for Android on 9 November.it will contain some geolocation features for news and information, while it will also make use of Opera’s Turbo compression technology. Which, according to the Opera website, can reduce the bandwidth used when browsing websites by compressing the pages by up to 80%

Opera isn’t saying much about the next version, Opera Mobile 10.1 beta, but there are a couple of videos that show off what features we can expect. The first video shows off the newly-added pinch-to-zoom, which would seem strange to not include now that Android can support that sort of gesture.

Via : Opera Blog

Immunet provides essential antivirus protection for PC users that leverages the collective intelligence of a growing community, the speed of cloud computing, and the power of social networking to provide a groundbreaking approach to security. Immunet was created in 2008 by antivirus industry veterans from leading US-based security companies to develop cutting-edge security technology and products built specifically to combat the unique complexities of the Web 2.0 threat environment.

10 Free licenses of Immunet Antivirus 2.0 Plus  has been given to downloadsquad.com to distribute for free.Downloadsquad is going to held a luck draw and will give free licenses to 10 lucky winners.But this offer is only available for US residents and you can enter the draw by leaving a comment before Saturday, July 10 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time.

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To survive in this world you need to be social, even if you don’t want to be social.Being social isn’t very difficult nowadays as there are many social networking websites available on internet, by using them we can easily connect with our friends,colleagues and relatives anytime.Rather than typing  different social networking website’s URL in the browser everytime and entering username and password, it is good to manage them all in a single place.

This single place is called a social networking client.Which provides us with ease to manage all the social networks accounts in a single place without need to enter userid and password everytime, we want to use.Most of the social networking sites are free, therefore the clients are also free.6 best Free Social networking clients are mentioned in this post.By using them you can enjoy all the social networking accounts and chatting in a single place.

1)Yoono

Yoono is an easy to use application that allows you to connect to all your social networks and instant messaging services – in one place. Get all your friend updates, update your own status, and easily share stuff with your friends.

http://www.yoono.com

2) Digsby

digsby is a social networking tool that alerts you of events like new messages and gives you a live Newsfeed of what your friends are up to.digsby is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber with one simple to manage buddy list.

http://www.digsby.com/

3) 8Hands

8hands is a new way of managing your online activities. It is a small and friendly desktop application that presents a concise summary of all your online social-networking activities with useful statistics (the number of friends in each network and activity meter). With 8hands you can always stay connected to your favorite networks and your network friends without having to check your various profiles on each and every site.

*  Real-time content and notifications from every account including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, MySpace, Flickr, LiveJournal and blogs
* Organized content according to latest interactions
* Status updates posted to all networks with one click
* Unified upload of pictures to multiple networks
* Dynamic integration of new and local social services

http://www.8hands.com

4) Twhirl

whirl is a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform.

Some of twhirl’s features:

* runs on both Windows (2000/XP/Vista/Win7) and Mac OSX
* connects to multiple Twitter, laconi.ca, Friendfeed and Seesmic Video accounts
* displays notifications for new messages
* shorten long URLs (using digg.com, bit.ly, snurl, twurl or is.gd)

http://www.twhirl.org/

5 ) Gwibber

Gwibber is an open source microblogging client for Linux. It brings the most popular social networking web services to your desktop and gives you the ability to control how you communicate.

* Supports many different social networks
* Provides a combined stream of all your messages
* Automatically shortens URLs when they are pasted
* Built-in search tool and support for saved searches
* Optional support for spell-checking as you type
* HTML themes let you customize Gwibber’s look and feel
* Multicolumn user interface for viewing multiple streams

http://www.gwibber.com/

6) Snitter

Snitter is “Snook’s Twitter”: an Adobe AIR-powered application for twittering. Twitter let’s you post small 140 character messages letting people know what you’re up to.

Snitter is made on the Adobe AIR platform which is both Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows compatible. There is currently a Linux version of Adobe AIR in alpha testing but some functionality is likely missing.

http://www.getsnitter.com/

1) Dexpot:
Dexpot turns your monitor into up to 20. Dexpot creates additional workspaces you can quickly switch between. Take, for example, Desktop 1 to listen to your favourite music, surf the web on Desktop 2, use Desktop 3 to handle your daily word processing or switch to Desktop 4 for a game of Solitaire.
Different icons, wallpapers, start-ups, and much more can be configured for each desktop.
Users owning netbooks, tablets and UMPC with small screens and low resolutions will benefit from virtual desktops as well.

2) Virtual Desktop Manager:
This virtual desktop program takes advantage of this new API and uses some tricks of its own to provide a powerful virtual desktop manager with a full screen thumbnail based preview. You can have as many desktops as you want and can seamlessly switch between them.

3) VirtuaWin:
VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called ‘workspaces’). Virtual desktops are very common in Unix/Linux, and once you get accustomed to using them, they become an essential part of a productive workflow.

4) 360desktop:
360desktop transforms your standard Windows desktop into a 360-degree panoramic workspace, giving you many times more desktop space. 360desktop also lets users make desktop widgets from favorite pieces of the Web and create and share 360-degree interactive wallpaper. 360desktop makes your desktop a more functional place with a 360-degree panoramic view. Always have the latest news, dynamic information, video content, family photos or anything else you like at your fingertips.

5) T3Desk:
T3Desk lets you manage your applications more easily in a 3D desktop adding the third dimension to your Windows screen.
“3Dmized” windows will appear in three dimensions and transparent on your screen and have the ability to be flipped, zoomed, moved, swiveled in almost anyway you want. T3Desk is lightweight on your resources, unlike most applications of its kind.

6) SDesk:
SDesk (Scrollable Desktop) is not a multidesktop application. Instead, it simulates a single, giant desktop up to 32,000×32,000 pixels. An infinite number of desktop regions can be created and made visible by menu, keyboard shortcuts, or even by following the mouse cursor. The features include scrolling the visible portion of the desktop, moving desktop windows, tiling desktop windows, creating new desktop regions, starting the screensaver, locking a workstation, and making any window a top window. The actions can be put into the SDesk menu, assigned to keyboard hot keys, or assigned to a mouse movement.

7) Microdesk:
This program creates 99 virtual deskops that make working with a big number of open windows and applications more easier. Whenever your desktop gets full of applications and windows just change your current desktop and you get a clean new desktop.

VividDesktop:
Are you running out of desktop space. Are you constantly closing down programs that you really need running in order to make space. Do you want to be able to manage multiple desktops like you can on Linux. Well with VividDesktop you have the key to solving all these problems. With this easy-to-use program, you can run virtual desktops on one computer. They are all hot-keyed or easily available from the systray icon. VividDesktop allows you to create multiple virtual desktops within Windows. This means you can have different programs running under different desktops and switch between them with ease.

1) PDF24 Creator:
DF24 provides you a free PDF editor to edit your PDF files. The PDF editor is easy to use and contains a lot of feature useful for daily life.
You can use our PDF editor to:
* Split PDF files
* Merge PDF files
* Change document properties such as author and title
* Move pages from one document to another
* Change security settings and password protect a PDF
* and lot more

2) PdfEdit995:
Create PDF files from any application by simply selecting the print command. Preview documents, combine files, change page orientation, add “Confidential” stamps, create PDF stationery, adjust image resolution, summarize documents, convert PDFs to several image file formats, create batch print jobs from Microsoft Office applications, and choose from several file-naming methods. Encrypt or digitally sign your PDF documents.

3) PDFill PDF Tools:
PDFill PDF Tools are FREE. Included are Merge, Split, Reorder, Encrypt, Decrypt, Rotate, Crop, Reformat, Header, Footer, Watermark, Images to PDF, PDF to Images, Form Fields Delete/Flatten/List, PostScript to PDF, PDF Information, Scan to PDF, and Create Transparent Image options.

4) Free PDF Editor:
This is one completely free and simple PDF editing and creating software, it can help you to create your pdf documents by yourself in minutes, no need any complex setting and knowledge about PDF format, handy and easy to use very much, specially for beginners.
The main interface of Free PDF Editor is simple and easy to understand, it is one WYSIWYG PDF builder, what you see is what you get, and you can insert text, image and shape, then drop, resize and move these PDF elements with your mouse.

5) PDF Hammer (Online):
Use PDF Hammer to quickly and easily edit your PDF files online without installing a thing! Simply upload PDF files to PDF Hammer via your web browser, perform your edits, and then save the files back to your computer. The online editor allows you to view the pages of your PDF files as you edit them. The free PDF editor lets you:
* Combine PDF. Create single, polished PDF documents by merging multiple
files
* Edit PDF pages. Quickly rearrange, reorder, and delete the pages from
existing PDF files.
* Secure PDF. Protect the contents of PDF files with password-based
security.
* Update PDF metadata. Make PDF files more useful and usable by
setting the document information (metadata) fields, including author,
title, subject, and keywords.

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You can easily jailbreak Ipad,iPhone and iPod touch using Spirit and then install any of your favourite apps.

What’s Spirit?
Spirit is an untethered jailbreak for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch on the latest firmwares.
Spirit is not a carrier unlock.
If you currently are using a tethered jailbreak, you have to restore to use Spirit. Do not upgrade if you use an unlock on an iPhone 3G or 3GS. (You can, however, restore to 3.1.2 if you have SHSH blobs for that version.)

Requirements
Any iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch on firmware 3.1.2, 3.1.3, or 3.2.
An activated device: one not stuck on the Connect to iTunes or Emergency Call screen.
Any version of iTunes 9 (including 9.1.1).
Syncing with iTunes before trying this is highly recommended.

To start the process of jailbreaking what you need to do is to first download Spirit using the following links

Windows:
http://www.spiritjb.com/win

Mac OSX:
http://www.spiritjb.com/mac

This jailbreak is real simple, just connect your iDevice to your computer via your USB cable, open Spirit and hit jailbreak, it will do it so fast you won’t notice it

Once the jailbreak has finished.Please follow the steps mentioned below.

First find Cydia on your springboard and open it, usually when you open Cydia for the first time it says it has to reorganize icons (this is normal, just let it do it and it will restart Cydia, if not just open Cydia yourself)

Next you need to go to the Manage tab then select Sources
Once in sources you need to select Edit at the top then you will notice the Manage button will change to Add, select Add.

A new window will open and already have http:// in it, leave this and just type after it. You need to type in “cydia.hackulo.us” (without the quotes) so it should look like http://cydia.hackulo.us

Once its loaded you will get some crap about the repository being illegal, just ignore this. Afer leaving the black screen where it installs some stuff you next need to go to the Sections tab.

Scroll down until you find Hackulo.us, select this.

Now you need to make sure you select the right thing here, if you are on a iPhone/iPod Touch select AppSync for OS 3.1. If you are on a iPad select AppSync for OS 3.2. Install the one you need for your iDevice. This is required if you wish to install apps which you download for free, it tricks iTunes into thinking there legit although there not but we don’t care do we? Smile Now if you want to install apps from your iDevice you can download Installous, just repeat the same step as before and install.

Image resizing and editing are the most comon tasks we do on daily basis.Although windows has mspaint software installed by default.But if you have ever used it, you must have noticed that it lacks several tools which we need.Another problem of using MSpaint is that, whenever you save image to another format (e.g. bmp to jpg) there will be massive color loss and image will become almost useless.

There are some free photo editors available to download which are Free Alternates to MSPaint.We can use them for doing daily photo editing,resizing and converting tasks.Most of these free photo editing softwares also have batch process, which we can use to do a same task for multiple images.

1) Gimp

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

2) Paint.net

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It  features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help,  tutorials, and plugins.

3) Mypaint

MyPaint is a fast and easy open-source graphics application for digital painters. It lets you focus on the art instead of the program. You work on your canvas with minimum distractions, bringing up the interface only when you need it.

4) Tuxpaint

Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.

5) Paint.COM

RealWorld Paint.COM can display images using any zoom factor and always shows 100% accurate preview of the drawn shape. Tooltips are displayed throughout the user interface to explain meaning of controls.

After a geometric shape is added to an image, control handles appear and users can further adjust the shape. New points can be added to poly-lines, curves and polygons by dragging a handle of an edge.

RealWorld Paint.COM allows you to edit pictures with layers and assign effects to every layer. A layer can have for example a bevel effect active giving all shapes a 3D look and feel.

6) Photo Pos Lite

Photo Pos Lite provides many of the same tools for photo editing and retouching that other programs do. However, this program nudges slightly ahead of similar competition with its layout.

7) mtPaint

mtPaint is a painting program which Mark Tyler developed from scratch so he could easily create pixel art and manipulate digital photos.
It uses the GTK+ toolkit (version 1 or 2) and runs on PC’s via the GNU/Linux or Windows operating systems. Due to its efficient design it can run on older PC hardware (e.g. a 200MHz CPU and 16MB of free RAM).

mtPaint is free software, which means you are able to freely use, modify and distribute it according to the GNU General Public License.

HeliosPaint

HeliosPaint is a feature-rich, easy-to-use and powerful paint program for editing photos, drawings and icons. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Linux and Unix.

After acquiring downloading stats from download.com , softpedia.com , downloads.zdnet.com , soft32.com and many more websites, we have Compiled a list of top 20 software’s for the years 2009 and 2010.In the list the AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is the most downloaded software and Avast Free Anti-Virus is second and Yahoo Messenger is third most downloaded software.

1) AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
2) Avast Free Anti-Virus
3) Yahoo Messenger
4) Avira AntiVir Personal
5) Windows Live Messenger
6) Adobe Flash Player
6) CCleaner
7) Microsoft Office
Nero
9) Real Player
10) WinRAR
11) Adobe Reader
12) DivX
13) Adobe Photoshop
15) Internet Explorer
14) LimeWire
16) Nokia PC Suite
17) Foxit Reader
18) WinZip
19) Advanced SystemCare Free
20) Internet Download Manager

Copyrighting is the issue from which most of the artists suffer.As all of us know that the world of internet is huge.It is not only difficult but impossible to make sure that our images are not being used anywhere.By using watermark on your images you make little difficult for the leechers to copy your valuable images as they have your name or website mentioned on images.Manually inserting your logo or some text is a time taking and bothering job.Lots of free softwares are available on internet by using them we can easily watermark thousand of images in seconds.

1) Irfan View

Irfan View lets you open and edit images, as well as multiple media formats. You can cut and crop images, apply batch conversions, watermark, add, sharpen, or blur effects, create panoramas, and change color modes easily.

Website http://www.irfanview.com/

2) Faststone image viewer

An image browser, converter and editor that supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA. It has a nice array of features such as image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, watermarking, cropping, color adjustments, musical slideshow and much more

Website http://www.faststone.org/

3)  Alamoon Watermark
Alamoon Watermark is a powerful watermarking software for protecting and enhancing your images. Our software allows you to easily add watermarks to any image, quickly create stylized text.With Alamoon Watermark editor you can virtually add a text or images watermark to your photos in seconds. A simple to use tool helps you to quickly and easily create watermarks and process thousands of files in seconds. The major picture formats supported by Alamoon Watermark are JPEG, BMP, TIFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, PBM, PGM, PPM, GIF, VDA, ICB, VST, PIX, WMF, FAX, PSD, PDD, PSP, CUT and PCD Image Formats.

Website http://www.alamoon.com/watermark-editor.html

4) uMark Lite
uMark – a utility for marking the images and photos with a copyright notice or your company logo or both.
If you are an online seller, a hobbyist or professional photographer, a graphics designer or anybody who has ever shared an image on the net – then this is something you must know!

Website http://www.uconomix.com/Products/uMark/Default.aspx

5) Exif wMarker
Exif wMarker is a simple and user friendly tool to add a watermark to your images. What is a watermark ? Watermark is a text written on your images, this text can be a fixed text written by you or can be the content of exif or iptc metadata fields. Exif wMarker allows you to batch process all images inside a folder and automatically write over them any information taken from exif or iptc metadata fields.

Website: http://www.gphotoshow.com/exif-iptc-watermarker.php

6) WateremarkLib
WatermarkLib software is a professional digital photo watermark creator. You may easily add text and image to your pictures to protect your copyrights, only watermarking software can stop your pictures from unauthorized use. This photo watermark software places very strong watermarks that no one can remove.

Website http://www.watermarklib.com/

7) MODI
Modi is a powerful and flexible batch image processor freeware with an easy to use interface. It is also extensible by using plugins.

Website http://www.demon27.com/modi/