Importance of Password

• Password represents the identity of an individual for a system.
• This helps individuals protect personal information from being viewed by unauthorized users. Hence it is important  to secure passwords.
• Passwords acts  like a barrier between the user and his personal information

If you want to test the strength of a password , then here are some free online links where you can check your password strength.

PasswordMeter

Password Meter gives you a full description about the positive and negative points about your password.The instantaneous visual feedback provides the user a means to improve the strength of their passwords.

http://www.passwordmeter.com/

Password Checker:  Microsoft Security

The security of the passwords typed into this password checker is similar to the security of the password you enter if you log on to Windows.Just type in your password and get an instant strength rating: Weak, Medium, Strong, or Best.

https://www.microsoft.com/protect/fraud/passwords/checker.aspx

A strong password is not necessarily difficult to be memorized, there are some small changes that can transform a common word in a strong password.To make a common word in a strong password, it combines uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols.

WinTinker Password Generator a small  free tool, which   makes sure that the passwords you will use for online banking, social networking sites and computers are strong and secure. Simply type the word and it will convert it into a strong password.This  tool allows you to create random passwords combine uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols.

For example, you can type “SparksSpace” and generate a secure password unreadable.The coolest feature is that you do not need to memorize the password you created when you need to use it, simply access the program, type “SparksSpace” and the program displays the password you created.

Features

• Creates an easy-to-remember secure passwords that combines all Upper Case, Lower Case, Numbers and Symbol.
• Creates an unreadable Randomly generated password that you can write down.
• Generates a password that balances the unrecognizable difficult secure passwords and easy-to-remember password ones. From a very simple suggested password like “carlo” into a strong and encrypted words

Download : WinTinker Password Generator 

Other Useful Links

http://www.testyourpassword.com/

http://www.yetanotherpasswordmeter.com/

Also Read:Test the Strength of Your Passwords

AndyManchesta  is the developer of SDFix  the famous tool that removes thousands of different types of trojans, worms, rootkits and other malwares

Visit :http://andymanchesta.com/

ZeuAPP

ZeuAPP is a small  free program, where you can choose the programs you want to download.The latest version has 10 categories and about 76 free software programs to choose .The 10 categories include Files, Audio and Video, Internet, DVD CD / DVD, File Sharing, Games, Picture Editor, Instant Messaging, Security and Office. The interface is quite simple.In just one click of a button you’ll be installing applications that you choose.ZeuAPP is quite interesting and worth trying out.

Download :ZeuAPP1.2 | 925KB|OS:Windows 2K / XP / 2003 / Vista / 7

Quicksys RegDefrag is a freeware utility to defrag registry. Improve whole performance and boost access to registry. It optimizes registry by removing gaps, fragments and wasted space in Windows registry files.

Quicksys RegDefrag

Features

• Compression of the Windows registry
• Defragmenting the Windows registry
• Reconstruction of the Windows registry
• Correction of defects in the Windows registry
• Accelerates the startup and shutdown of Windows
• Makes the operating system more stable
• Improves the response time of programs
• Reduce the amount of memory used by record

Get Registry Info

Download : Quicksys RegDefrag | OS:Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7|1.59MB

You can also use it to extract audio from a video file to a single audio file.This can be useful to quickly convert all the videos you downloaded from the Internet to the format compatible with your phone, etc.It adds shortcuts to the right-click context menus. So you can just right-click on a file and decide what format you want to convert it to.This process saves a lot of time.

Video formats:

3GP, 3G2, ASF, AVI, DV, DVD MPEG2, FFM, FLV, GIF, MOV, MP4, MPEG1, MPEG2 PS, MPEG2 TS, NUT, PSP, RAW YUV, RM, MPEG2 SVCD, SWF, VCD, MPEG1, VOB, YUV4MPEG, M1V, M2V, M4V.

Audio formats:

AC3, AAC, AIFF, AMR, AU, FLAC, MMF, MP2, MP3, OGG, VOC, WAV.

Features

• Easy to use Interface
• Supports Batch files
• Seamless integration with Explorer (Right-click context menu)
• Adjust Audio parameters like Channels, Bitrate & Sample rate
• Adjust Video parameters like size of video file, frames/second & bitrate
• See Video/audio file information by right clicking
• Extract audio from video files
• Direct Stream Copy
• Drag and Drop support
• 100% Free

Download :Oxelon Media Converter | Oxelon Media Converter Plugins OS:Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7| 3.11MB

Some adverts can be removed and there are few that cannot be. For the ones that cannot be removed a HTML replacement file is created and saved with HTML replacement file select a background color of your choice. This can help blend the advert in with the window it is in.

In addition to remove Ads on YM applications, AdBannerRemoverPlus can also be used for Multi Login ID (Multi YM). So we can open multiple Yahoo Messenger on single PC at the same time.

AdBannerRemoverPlus works with most of YM versions 8, 9  & 10 .If you want to restore Ads on a later date ,then that also possible with this software.

Download Ad Banner Remover Plus 1.0.4.2

Other tools : Y.AddsRemover 1.00 |  Yahoo! Messenger Tweaker 1.3.1.0

To remove Ads manually here is the Procedure:-

(1)Open Notepad,
(2) Paste the following code on Notepad and save it as: adremover.reg
Code: REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\pager\YUrl]
“N2Phone Adurl”=”*”
“Messenger Ad”=”*”
“Address Book”=”*”
“Change Room Banner”=”*”
“Conf Adurl”=”*”
“Chat Adurl”=”*”
“Tutorials”=”*”
“Messenger Help”=”*”
“Voice General Help”=”*”
“Finance Disclaimer”=”*”
“Webcam Upload Ad”=”*”
“Webcam Viewer Ad”=”*”
“Webcam Viewer Ad Big”=”*”
“Webcam Viewer Ad Medium”=”*”
“News Alert Ad URL”=”*”

(3)Double click the file ( say: adremover.reg )
(4)Click Yes
Its Done!! No more ads will be there in the yahoo messenger Window!

• Prints Clean: it removes ads, navigation, and all the junk you don’t want to print.
• Prints Pretty: use best practices in print Typography to format your document for great readability.
• Customize: Save even more paper and ink, remove images, paragraphs, and Get PDF

Visit http://www.printfriendly.com

Features

· Lock CD/DVD drives doors to prevent write CD / DVD from your files
· Lock and Unlock all kind of drives from access and show in Windows Explorer, include Windows Drive
· Password Protecting Program Changes

Download  MK Drive Access |Mirror| SysReq: Windows NT/ 2K / XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008 / 7|813 KB

The OpenDisc is available as an ISO image file ready to be burned to DVD. Program has user friendly interface that simplifies the process of installing  it .

OpenDisc The programs are organized into different categories  as under

• Design: Blender, Dia, The GIMP, Inkscape, NVU, Scribus, Tux Paint.
• Education: CARMETAL, Guido van Robot, Maxima.
• Games: Battle for Wesnoth, Enigma, Freeciv, FreeCol, Neverball, PokerTH, Sokoban YASC, tuxmath, TuxType.
• Internet: Alliance, FileZilla, Firefox, HTTrack, Miro, Pidgin, RSSOwl, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, TightVNC, Vuze, WinSCP.
• Multimedia: Audacity, Avidemux, Celestia, InfraRecorder, Really Slick Screensavers, Songbird, Stellarium, Sumatra PDF, TuxGuitar, VLC Media Player
• Productivity: DjVuLibre, FreeMind, GanttProject, GnuCash, Notepad2, OpenOffice
• Utilities: 7-Zip, Abakt, ClamWin, GTK +, TrueCrypt, Workrave
  Besides OpenDisc, the team also produced the OpenEducationDisc that contains everything that is on OpenDisc along with a number of other educational programs.

Download  OpenDisc |1.2 GB |  Visit  here  | Burn with imgburn