ooVoo - Free Next Gen Conferencing vs Skype

Skype, iChat and Tokbox and Sightspeed are among the many popular free services capable of delivering high-quality video online, so what makes ooVoo so special and a better choice?

How's FREE calls to a landline or mobile phone in the USA or Canada!

Not only can you have a real-time, face-to-face chat with upto 6 people at once or record and send a video messages, but a new offer gives you 500 minutes of free online to landline calls to anywhere in the U.S. or Canada.

Also there are video effects that you may have seen on WebCam software in ooVoo, which allow you to change or dress up your appearance while your chatting. These are little things that make it more attractive than using Skype which feels plain and pre-web 2.0.

Setting up your contacts is quick, and if you want you can import your contacts from your email

programs such as Outlook, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo mail and AOL mail for example.

Video calls can be viewed in Standard View or Sidebar View, giving you viewing flexibility, depending on your desktop tasks.

Save your video calls as AVI, FLV or HTML embedded video

So is this the next Skype? Well, the infrastructure and service is new compared to Skype, and since ooVoo is in Beta currently, its the new kid on the block with much to offer but with no real track record yet. However having said that the video quality is excellent, sound is good though you might want to get one of those headsets with a built in Mic for best results.

Main control panel shows status of other users on your ‘friends list’ so that you can see who is available or not - also allows user to type in customized status or message to others.

ooVoo system requirements are:

Microsoft Windows 2000, XP or Vista, OS X 10.4+
Pentium 4 1Ghz + or Power MAC-G5 1GHz or Intel MAC
256Megs of Ram
20 gigs of space
WebCam

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Written by PCWizKid on March 17th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Get Green and Stay Green with Windows Live OneCare

To help celebrate St. Patrick's Today - the Windows Live OneCare Team is kicking off a brand new campaign: Get Green Stay Green.

The Get Green Stay Green campaign is designed to make sure Windows Live OneCare users are staying "green" - meaning their PC Health Status. Here is Amy Barzdukas, Senior Direct here at Microsoft, to talk about Windows Live OneCare and keeping your PC safe. Amy leads the Windows Live OneCare Team.

Video: Microsoft Windows Live OneCare

I use Windows Live OneCare on my 3 personal home PCs - which are connected together in an OneCare Circle (you can have up to 3 PCs in an OneCare Circle). This lets me manage the PC Health for all my personal PCs. If any of my PCs in my OneCare Circle have their PC Health Status change to yellow or red, I can quickly see which PC it is and why. I can then do what is needed to bring that PC back to green. Keeping all my PCs green is very important to me. If any of my PCs slip into yellow or red - I fix it immediately.

I have a few tips to share from personal experience in keeping my PCs green in my OneCare Circle that you can use to help keep your own PCs green:

Make sure you have your PCs backed up. Windows Live OneCare can backup your PCs automatically to a centralized point on your home network. In my case, I have all my home PCs backed up to my Windows Home Server which Windows Live OneCare detects.
Have your firewall turned on. Windows Live OneCare can maintain and monitor your firewall - protecting your PC from attacks. Even though I'm behind a pretty secure router - I have the firewall turned on for all PCs in my OneCare Circle to add an extra level of protection.
Make sure Protection Plus (malware definitions) are up to date. This ensures your PC is protected from the latest internet garbage.
Do a PC Tune-up! Windows Live OneCare can do regular Tune-ups that can ensure your PC is running at its best.
Make sure your PC has the latest updates from Windows Update. Important updates are key to ensuring your PC stays green.

Again, keeping my home PCs green is very important to me and the above tips help me to do so.

Do you have any tips for Windows Live OneCare and keeping your PC green? I'd love to hear them. Leave a comment below. I would be particularly interested in hearing about how you use Windows Live OneCare to ensure your PCs are backed up.

Users can also visit http://www.getgreenstaygreen.com/ and find out what it takes to keep their PC "green".

Written by Brandon LeBlanc on March 17th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Get Green and Stay Green with Windows Live OneCare

To help celebrate St. Patrick's Today - the Windows Live OneCare Team is kicking off a brand new campaign: Get Green Stay Green . The Get Green Stay Green campaign is designed to make sure Windows Live OneCare users are staying "green" - meaning their Read More......(read more)

Written by Windows Vista Team Blog on March 17th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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SpyAway Removal Instructions (Spy Away)

SpyAway Descriptions:

SpyAway, also know as Spy Away, is one of the latest counterfeit anti-spyware softwares that endangers the world of computers. SpyAway usually installed itself onto your PC without your permission, through Vundo Trojan, Zlob Trojan, Virus or fake software. SpyAway will display fake system alerts or fake security alerts to trick user to buy the paid version of SpyAway, in order to remove the potential and reported problems. Not only does it cause your machine to slow down dramatically, it would also put your privacy and data in risk.

Download SpyHunter* Spyware Detection Utility.

Manual Removal Instructions:

Stop SpyAway Processes:
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SpyAway.exe

Find and Delete these SpyAway Files:
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SpyAway.exe
sa_ie_monitor.dll

Remove SpyAway Registry Values:
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4698D99D-CA8F-438A-AC82-96495A2DE714
4EBD21A2-8CE0-47DD-8EB6-C902333D582C
DF782422-23F3-442A-924E-8A341C8BEF08
88DE3E1B-3D01-4032-9BAE-FD1994A3D7B8
2A5B24D4-06E1-46E3-BB69-25654B3382CB
29C864B2-F22C-4EAE-B08F-12F72ADAEB57

Download SpyHunter* Spyware Detection Utility.

Written by Karen on March 17th, 2008 with no comments.
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iPhone Dual Boot

How would you like to have two iPhones in one? NerveGas of iPhone Dev Team reveals that the team has been using dual-booting to jailbreak the iPhone for months. The team has decided to release the hack enabling iPhone users to boot multiple versions of the iPhone software/OS “from” the handset.

This should present iPhone users with quite an advantage once the 2.0 firmware is out, meaning they’ll be able to have a bootable jailbroken software version, as well as a non-jailbroken software version available at the same time on their device. Partition-making is involved: (more…)

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If You Think SP1 Fixed Windows Vista, Think Again

If you think that the first service pack for Windows Vista has managed to fix what was broken with the latest Windows client, think again. The same problems that were initially associated with the gold version of Vista have survived and moved on as the legacy of SP1. At the end of its first year of availability on the market, Vista had passed the 100 million sold license milestone, and according to Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer, present at MIX08 the past week, the platform is the second most popular Windows operating system in the world, despite its long line of problems.

“I’m not saying that there aren’t things that customers choose to comment on. Come on, the number one issue we’ve had customers have issues on were application compatibility and driver compatibility. (more…)

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How to get the password for microsoft access protected file

It happens some time when you lost the password for a database microsoft access file.

As file is password protected so it will not open up without the correct password entered, in order to solve the problem you can simply use a free password revealing utility by nirsoft.net

It’s called Access PassView, the only limitation with this program is that it works for every password-protected mdb file that created with Microsoft Access 95/97/2000/XP. (more…)

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Ticker Tape News for Firefox

I wouldn’t say I’m addicted to the news but I have the radio on throughout the day whilst I’m working and always try to catch the hourly bulletins, but for those of you who need a constant fix of the goings on around the world here’s a great Firefox add-on. It’s called RSS Ticker and the idea is the latest news headlines scroll across the bottom of your browser window, and if something catches your eye, click on it for a summary, or double click to see the whole item. (more…)