A hardware in your computer or laptop such as video graphic card needs a special computer program to make it intractable with higher-level computer programs like Adobe Photoshop, DoTA, etc. This special computer program we called as driver. An outdated driver will make the device not working properly and need to be updated. To update the driver, we choose Driver Robot.

Driver Robot is a Windows application that able to update your installed drivers automatically. It will first scan your system by looking to the driver files and comparing them with its database whether the drivers are up to date or not. If an out dated driver is found, it will show you the updated driver, download and install it into your system. A reboot is required after the driver installation is completed.

Driver Robot has the industry’s best hardware detection. It correctly identifies 100% of all consumer hardware devices to ensure you always get the right driver update. Its driver database contains over than 100,000 hardware devices including the latest drivers for all of them. With the massive of drivers volume, it is impossible for you to still having an out dated drivers in your system. Driver Robot can updates sound card, printer, video card, motherboard, webcam, wireless, bluetooth, firewire and many other devices driver. Just install it into your system, and run the Driver Scan button to check the drivers.

The interface of Driver Robot is tidy and neat. All the buttons are big enough for me to see clearly and also easily for me to know what will happen if I click those buttons. The functions of the buttons are well described on each of them. One thing that I don’t like Driver Robot is when I clicked on the Download button, a popup will appear asking me to register the software if I want to get full access to my drivers download. But I think, this popup will be gone if I spend $29.95USD for one single PC license.

In my conclusion, Driver Robot is very useful if you have many devices installed in your system and you want to keep your drivers always updated. But for me, I still can manage to update one by one of my drivers because I have not many installed devices. But for those who want to have good performance system, please make sure your drivers are always updated by using Driver Robot.

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My favourite free PDF converter is PrimoPDF. It is an offline PDF converter where by you need to install it on your system and print the document to PDF by choosing the primoPDF printer.

But here, I list down top 3 free PDF converters that give you a very good quality PDF printing without advertisements or “you are using trial PDF converter” text.

PrimoPDF

• Completely free PDF creator – Create PDF files from 300+ file types.
• Make 100% industry-standard PDF from any files that print.
• Create PDF files optimized for print, screen, ebook, or prepress.

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doPDF

• It’s free – PDF converter free for both commercial and personal use.
• 32-bit and 64-bit support – can be installed on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems.
• No GhostScript or .NET – doesn’t require 3rd party programs to do PDF files such as GhostScript or runtime environments like the .NET Framework. This makes the setup file to be incredibly small compared to other free PDF converters.

Website | Download

CutePDF

• Added support for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista.
• Added support for 64-bit Windows XP/2003.
• Seamlessly integrate with CutePDF Professional.

Website | Download

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Do you know, DSLRs have their own life time? It is based on how many counts of the shutter releases. When you exceeded the shutter count limit, it is time to change your DSLR with a new one or replace with a new shutter.

Almost current DSLR models put the shutter count information inside the pictures. The information is located in the pictures metadata and can only be viewed by using special software like Opanda IExif .

As you can see at the above image, the shutter count for that picture is 1706. But that picture was taken on last two weeks ago. My latest shutter count is 2096. Still young and virgin.

After you have downloaded and installed Opanda IExif, right click on your latest picture taken with your DSLR, then choose “View Iexif\GPS\IPTC with IExif”. Scroll down until you see “Total Number of Shutter Releases for Camera” and you will get your latest DSLR shutter count value.

CypherHackz: Do not know what is my Nikon D90 shutter count limit.

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Although previously I like using Media Player Classic (MPC), but MPC needs seperate codec before you can play certain video files. But not with GOM Player. GOM Player is already built in with its codec to play almost of the video files.

GOM Player is free, simple and light-weight media player. GOM Player is already included with XviD, DivX, FLV1, AC3, OGG, MP4, H263 and many other codec. So you don’t have to look other codec to play .rm, .mkv, .vob files. It saves you a lot of time of searching.

GOM Player supports SMI, SRT, RT, SUB(with IDX) files for subtitle. You can specify margin, location, size, resolution, font and others. You can also enable shadow, view ASF files with subtitle, karaoke subtitle mode. You can even synchronize subtitle and video if there’s any mismatch.

The second thing is, GOM Player supports subtitle. It supports SMI, SRT, RT, SUB (with IDX) subtitle and you can rearrange the position too. You also can change the font size or make the subtitle fast or slow according to the movie that you watch. Want to play karaoke media format? Not a problem for GOM Player.

If you watch TV series that have many episodes, GOM Player will automatically play the next episode when the current episode is finished. This is only eligible when all the episodes are in the same folder location and have the correct numbering system.

Have you try GOM Player? Try it now . It is free though.

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Picasa main interface.

Although the photos are well managed (maybe) in the folders but I still need to use Picasa because in Picasa I can view multiple photos at once. It is also really easy to jump from a photo in a folder to the another photo from a different folder.

With Picasa, I can tag the photos that I want for better future searching. Let say if the photo is about macro snapped, I tagged that photo with “macro” and the next time when I want to search for macro photos, I just search for “macro” tag from the search field and Picasa will display the photo immediately.

One of my macro photo.

Picasa also support albums. With albums, I can organize my photos based on the event or where I took that photos. I can create many albums as I want because there is no limitations in creating the albums. When I put that photo into an album, that photo is not copied to the album but Picasa points that photo to the album. So we lose no hard disk space when using Picasa.

Another thing that I like about Picasa because it is light. It uses about 5MB of RAM which I think it is not that much especially for nowadays computers which equipped with 2GB of RAM. Picasa also took about one to two seconds to start from my laptop. In my opinion it is fast compared to other photo organizers like ACDSee and Ulead PhotoExplorer which take longer time to start.

The Picasa photo editing tools.

Picasa is not just a normal photo organizer. It also has photo editing tools like crop, auto contrast, auto colour, effects and many thing else. But I never use that features because I have Adobe Photoshop to do that. I just using Picasa as my photo organizer to keep my photos more manageable.

But the one thing that I really want Picasa to has in the upcoming version is to integrate with Flickr. I have a Flickr account and I always upload my photos to Flickr. If Picasa supports Flickr, it will be the best photo organizer that I ever used.

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EarthView from DeskSoft is a software that enables you to have the Earth on your desktop. It is a dynamic wallpaper and screensaver changer where it will change the daylight view of the Earth at a specific interval time that you can set.

I have tested three EarthView alike softwares, EarthView, DesktopEarth, and EarthDesk. After installed and tested the above three, I found that EarthView is the most customizable and have the glob projection which I like the most. You also can set the globe to appear at any place on your desktop and you can project the view from any direction.

Like in the picture above, I place the globe at the bottom right of my desktop with coordinate 25X 25Y. It is really amazing to watch your country from that location and see the changes of the day and night.

Try it by yourself and tell me what is your opinion about this software. If you don’t think EarthView is good, you can test the other two softwares that I mentioned above. Choose which one that is really suits you. For me, I will stick using EarthView because I can view the Earth in globe projection.

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But Vista Start Menu is not like our normal Vista start menu. It is totally different. The thing that I like the most is the folder segmentation that it provides. Usually, when we install new software, the program folder created will be placed at different area at the Start Menu. When this happen, we will take some time to find where the program folder located. But with Vista Start Menu, you will able to find the folder much faster.

Vista Start Menu is the convenient alternative to the plain Start menu you find in Windows XP and Windows Vista. The program uses your cognitive abilities (visual memory, reflexes,etc.); however, while it is easily understandable for beginners, it is also highly efficient for experienced users.

Vista Start Menu will segmented your start menu for easy program folder finding. This is because your mind will remember the location easily. When you see the same folder location so many times, the next time when you want to look for that folder again, your mind will tell you that the folder is located at this, this area. So it will make you faster in locate the program folder. It is like you type the keyboard without looking at it.

I know my words are confusing you. How about if you watch this flash presentation for better understanding on what I am saying. I hope this software will enhance your productivity and save your time.

Vista Start Menu is freeware but as usual, freeware has limitation. If you found this software is useful, get the pro version. In pro version, you can do almost of the things with just in one click. This is another point why I say this software is convenient.

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I started using GoodSync after I using RoboForm, a password generator and manager software. With GoodSync, I can synchronize my passwords from the USB thumbdrive to my local PC in just two clicks. I use it as a backup procedure just in case my USB thumbdrive got stolen or I accidentally deleted the passwords from it.

GoodSync’s interface is easy to understand and not complex even for the new users. First, choose the source and the destination location. Then, click on Analyze to analyze the changes or differences between both locations. Finally, click Sync to synchronize your files. After the process is finished, you will have the exact files in both locations. You can go here to read the explanation in details.

Actually, file synchronization is different from file backup. In file synchronization, both mediums will have the exact same data and the latest updates. But in file backup, only one medium will have the same data and latest updates. The illustrations shown below explain the differences between them.

Multi-way, work on files in any location, files in all locations are updated	One-way, work on files in one location, files are backed-up to another location

If you asked me, why do we need this software, my answer to that question is simple. Prepare for the future. We don’t know what will happen to our data in the future. So, it is better to take precautious action and synchronize our data in many places. In case one of our storage mediums got problem, we still have the exact files in another location. So we will not start our work from the scratch. We just continue from what we have stopped earlier. It saves our time and saves our money.

GoodSync is freeware but has limitation like the number of files and jobs that it can syncrhonize. But, if you think GoodSync is a good software for your company, investing USD29.95 should be no problem for your business. It is better to spend some money for a software than losing the whole business.

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But I have a question to ask. Between Windows Vista, Mac OSX and Ubuntu, which one is more secure?

Window’s Vista Sucks [via Flickr]

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WebShot is a software that able you to take picture of your website from top to the bottom. The function that it gives is same like you press printscreen key from the keyboard but if using printscreen, it will only capture half of your website. And WebShot can capture the whole page.

You can save the output in various picture formats whether JPG, GIF, PNG, or BMP formats. WebShot will automatically determine the width and height of the website to ensure that it captures the website accurately.

The process to capture the website page does not take too long. It depends on your connection speed because WebShot will connect to the target website and will snap it and then will save the image into your local drive.

WebShot uses Internet Explorer as the browser. The developer always tested the software using the latest Internet Explorer which is currently version 7. If you have Internet Explorer version 6 and below, I recommend you to upgrade to the latest version. This is because in the lower version, the CSS style is not rendered accordingly which make the captured image will not look exactly as it should.

WebShot is a freeware and the installer file size is below than 1MB. I think you should get the software because you can make an album of your visited websites. :p

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