Downloading and deleting files or copying them from external storage devices, installing/uninstalling applications and other related activities, are common tasks for any average computer user. What you might not realize is that all of these actions have an impact on your system’s overall performance, whether it’s hard drive fragmentation, broken shortcuts, registry errors or more common stuff such as occupying valuable storage space with duplicate files or unused programs.
Auslogics BoostSpeed is a maintenance and optimization utility developed with all of the above problems in mind (and many others) to get your computer in excellent shape so you’ll never have to experience system slow-downs or crashes again.
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Backing up your data online can be very useful, whether you do it for important documents, family photos or larger files such as music collections or videos. On one hand you won’t lose backed up data when your computer crashes or malfunctions, such is the case when performing local backups on your HDD. On the other hand your data will become highly portable as you’ll be able to access it from any other computer or device equipped with an Internet connection.
Dropbox is a web-based data backup service that uses cloud storage and offers a simple way to store your files, but also share them with others and synchronize them across computers and mobile devices. Dropbox storage plans come in different flavors to satisfy a wide range of customers: you’ll get 2 GB storage space for free, perfect for small files such as documents or just testing the app, 50 GB for 9.99$/month, 100 GB for a monthly fee of 19.99$ and last but not least, Dropbox for Teams offers multiple user licenses and extra storage space starting from 350 GB, bundled with administrative and group capabilities to suit businesses, organizations and groups.
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Most of us are using computers on a daily basis for online browsing, downloading or playing games. Every second of that time, somewhere hidden deep inside the web, is this tiny virus, Trojan or a hacker who is trying to access every bit of information on our precious hard drives.
Sounds scary I know, but there is more than one way to get essential security for your system without having to spend a single penny for it.
Under the name of Comodo Antivirus resides a freeware multi-layered security application that ensures complete protection against Trojans, viruses, buffer overflows, worms, zero-day attacks, spyware and hackers.
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For those in need of a powerful utility for network analysis, Wireshark, formerly known as Ethereal, is a highly recommended solution that comes bundled with an exhaustive set of tools for network troubleshooting, protocol development and education. Wireshark allows you to capture incoming and outgoing traffic and browse packets data interactively from a live network or previously saved captured files using the graphical user interface or the TTY-mode TShark utility (the terminal-based version).
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SMPlayer is a free and open-source media player, developed as a modification of the simplistic yet highly functional MPlayer. Facing a ruthless competition, SMPlayer aims towards being a bloat-free application just like its ancestor but with an improved interface and a bunch of valuable features that are not so easy to find in other media players, at least not all of them as a whole.
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A good disk defragmentation utility is always a precious asset if you wish to keep your hard drives working at maximum performance. Saving and deleting files on the hard drive results in free space between the files, so every time you want to store a new file, the system will place it in the first available space it finds. If the file is bigger than that first found space, the system will fragment it and store those fragments in other free locations it comes across. In the end the file will probably end up scattered across your hard drive and when you try to access it, the process will be slower as the hard drive’s read/write heads are forced to move over different areas instead of accessing the file sequentially.
Smart Defrag is currently one of the fastest and efficient disk defragmentation tools incorporating an assembly of useful features for hard disk maintenance such as scheduled and automatic defragmentation, analyze fragmentation level for specific files/folders and the advanced “Boot Time Defrag” technology.
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XAMPP is an open-source web server solution stack mostly known as one of those proficient tools that make website development accessible even for beginners. Why go through all the hassle of installing an Apache, MySQL and PHP components individually when you can let XAMPP do it for you? Moreover, XAMPP also contains the Perl programming language, phpMyAdmin database administration tool, FileZilla FTP server, Mercury mail server, and JSP server Tomcat which combined with its cross-platform architecture make it one of the most versatile and accessible AMP packages currently available.
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Norton Ghost is a widely recognized utility that receives great appreciation for providing its users with such an effortless solution for file and system backup/recovery, bundled with a versatile set of tools to deliver all one would expect and even more.
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