Freewares / Free Softwares - 21 Apr 2011

Microsoft Office 365

Cloud computing appears to be catching up as it is a great cost saving alternative. With Microsoft Office 365 you can work from virtually anywhere - get automatically updated email, calendar, and contacts on the devices you use most, including PCs, Macintosh computers, iPhone, Android phones, Blackberry smartphones, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phones. It is a subscription service for for professionals and small businesses that combines the familiar Microsoft Office Web Apps with a set of web-enabled tools that are easy to learn and use, that work with your existing hardware. Backed by a robust security, reliability, and control you need to run your business. Cloud-based Office 365 from Microsoft is now available as a public beta for anyone to try out. Later this year it would be offered as two different plans with a 99.9 percent up time for the entire service.

You can check out the beta at
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/online-software.aspx

And, a a good article to browse about how best to manage risk when planning to move assets to the cloud is at http://tinyurl.com/3go29ws

Free Facebook Uploader

Free Facebook Uploader, a new useful application, is specially designed for Facebook lovers who would like to upload videos and images to Facebook. It can prove quite a boon to anyone who wishes to have more videos and images in their account, share and discuss them, easily. A simple application to use, you are in business and after a quick installation. Just open the program and browse for videos or images you want to upload to Facebook. Of course you need to log in to your Facebook account and this taken care of by the application by prompting you to log. Within a couple of minutes the uploaded videos and images are available in your Facebook account. The developers affirm that Free Facebook Uploader contains no spyware or adware, and is absolutely safe to install and run.

The 13.90 MB Free Facebook Uploader, v1.0.0, for Windows Windows XP/Vista/7, can be downloaded at http://dvdvideosoft.com/download/FreeFacebookUploader.exe

You can also learn how to use it at http://dvdvideosoft.com/guides/free-facebook-uploader.htm


Autoruns for Windows

Some applications automatically associate themselves to run during Windows startup. This could considerably reduce systems performance and result in slow booting of Windows. This utility, a startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and reveals the entries in the order Windows processes them too. It could prove quite a revelation to learn how many executables are launched automatically! These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns truly goes way beyond the MSConfig utility which is bundled with Windows Me, XP and others.

The 606 KB Autoruns for Windows v10.07 can be downloaded at http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/Autoruns.zip

More details at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

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