What are rootkits? There are many explanations but what I need to say it’s more troublesome than any virus or Trojan! Why? Because it’s not detected by any antivirus software (some AV like nod32 are able to detect few of them) and cause major damage to your computer. My computer has been infected twice and inspite of best antivirus and fully updated windows what solution left to me was to format the hard disk! This is painful for people like me who have lots of important stuff lying here and there in many folders. Today I was surfing and found this software by Panda which claims to remove rootkits, although there are many small utilities and antivirus already available but I know they fail to detect any rootkit when we actually get infected. I will not say that this software does a good job as I have not tested it but since it’s from a trustable company and mainly focus on rootkit removal, it may do the trick. This is a small app (only 996kb) and does not need to be installed, runs directly from single exe file. Neat !!

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Size : 353Kb (.zip)

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Gone are the days when people used so called hit counters, they were actually pageview counter. Those who knew coding made their own counters and for others there were always free hit counter service (which I also used in some websites). Still cPanel has hit counter feature which no one cares to use.
Statcounter was the first webstat service provider I used and it’s great. What this webstat service provider offer is a treasure of information about your website visitors at no cost. This is same with all like google analytics, statcounter and histats, however statcounter do has an upgrade option in case you have a website that got lots of visitors. Statcounter and histats are more eye candy and there service will make you happy even if your website does not get enough hits. Google analytics looks more professional and offer some more advance reports which can be helpful for professionals. For average website owner, statcounter and histats provide more than enough information to keep them busy and thinking whole night! I have not used histats service (it’s always better to stick to any one and not jump here and there) but the demo at their website show lots of eye candy and heavy use of ajax and flash work. I switched to google analytics from statcouter few months back when I found some problem with statcounter. To collect visitors information, all there webstat code place a cookie in the visitors computer, now the cookie of that statcounter was recognized as spyware by my favourite antispyware software “Spybot”, now this was a false alarm and the cookie was not actually a spyware but still I know this, some more people who are reading this now know it but majority of the visitors will think bad about my website and fear of spying will definitely keep them away fro my website which was not at all good. So finally I have to say bye bye to statcounter but I still miss its simplicity and functionality. The best feature of statcounter was powered by google itself which I don’t know why google doesn’t include it in analytics as well; it’s a google map in which you can actually see location of your visitor, I have an old screenshot to show you:

Recently google analytics has improved its service and the new interface is cool and better understandable than before, though the delay in report generation still exist, statcounter was very fast and histats claims to be real time. However analytics is completely free for both personal and professional use. There are many free webstat providers on internet which may be very tempting but sometimes they use their service to spy and sell your data to other companies. So stay away from them.

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If you ask your neighborhood shop keeper how much it cost him to maintain his shop you will be surprised. You will never bargain on price with him again! A typical shop always needs to be on a commercial area to do a good and legal business, also if he rented the shop he has to pay for the space on monthly basis which is quite good amount of money. This is not an end, he has to maintain stock plus spend thousands on maintenance and more miscellaneous expenses. This is where internet helps you to sell your product easily. How? You must have seen websites selling stuff on their websites and are doing quite good. These are websites powered by ecommerce software which enabled you to add shopping cart in a website. These sites are often called online shops. If you plan to open shop, think of risk free Shopping cart software based online shop which will be both affordable and faster. Think of a shop on a street, who are the buyers? Mostly people who are in that area right? And your online shop is open for the whole world to visit, look what you have and buy. What’s more you can ask for, but there is always more, Shopping cart software based sites work for your 24/7 , even while you are sleeping, your shop is open and doing business.
So how we get these websites? Contacting a web agency and asking them to make a online shop for you is what people mostly do, its fine but you end up paying huge money for a site which looks clone of some other website since all these websites are based on ecommerce software like oscommerce which is the most popular one. I will definitely not suggest anyone serious with ecommerce site to use oscommerce because it has lots of loopholes and bugs, it doesn’t even have password protect for admin panel which needs to be added later and all together its not reliable software as its coded badly (proof : it require register_globals on). Also if you don’t have some knowledge of html, you are not able to maintain site yourself and always need someone to do it for you (less privacy and waste of money) so will you like to opt for some option which gives you total freedom to create your own online store with thousands of features and is also easy to use? Ashop provide Shopping cart software which will let you do so in minutes and you can start selling right now. Maintaining shopping cart was never so easy before, they offer fully customizable design for your store so that your site doesn’t look clone of some other site (which creates bad reputation) at affordable rates. With the use of ashop hosted shopping cart software you don’t need to have any knowledge of html or graphics, it’s as easy as writing emails. In cause however if you ever need any help there is always free tech support (phone, email, online chat) always ready to help you, great ! Isn’t it?
If you are still not convinced let me show you some more benefit, ether you have been in ecommerce field or not, you know that no one trust a shopping site which doesn’t have secured connecection or SSL (https://), ashop offers this for free, if you go to buy SSL certificate, it doesn’t come cheap. At this point if you feel that yes there is something good here something more, as I said above, an online shop is open for whole world, but this is true only when people reach your site, to make this possible ashop stores are Search engine optimised so that more people reach your site through search engines like google, yahoo etc,
So if have something to sell and planning to open a store, think of an online store. To see demo of ashop admin and storefront, click here.

AMD will introduce in volume the industry’s first native quad- core processors, meaning that four processing cores will reside on a single silicone die. This contrasts with the competition’s current dual/dual core approach, where two dual- core chips are connected in a quad-core multi- hip module. The Quad-Core AMD Opteron” processors, which will be available for IP to 8P servers and workstations, will also feature micro-architectural enhancements. Indeed. AMD’s new quad-core technology has led experts to suggest that AMD’s approach to multi-core processing is more efficient than that of the competition.

“Intel has pursued a strategy of optimizing time-to-market, whereas AMD has pursued a strategy of optimizing performance,” says Nathan Brookwood, founder of Insight64, a semiconductor and IT analyst firm in Saratoga.
Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors will deliver the same 95-watt electrical and thermal envelope (with low power options) as its current single- and dual core processors, AMD expects that quad-core will advance the performance-per-watt characteristics of AMD Opteron processor-powered systems. Once available, data center managers can benefit by being able to deploy quad-core servers using the same space and infrastructure as existing servers powered by AMD Opteron processors. Current DDR2-based AMD Opteron processor-based platforms will be able to seamlessly upgrade to native Quad-Core AMD processors without compromising performance, power or heat.
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So what’s new about this software? We all know it’s good. I call this software as “king” of free security softwares because it was a king always but we never knew. New software comes in market and you cannot say its good just because some so called gurus of net said that it’s good. You have to test and compare it.
It has been years using this software and trust me Spybot never returned empty handed whenever I scanned my PC in case of any trouble. I will not mention name here but most popular free security software which most of you must be having deserves uninstalling right now! Few days back some nasty Trojan and Spyware managed to enter my PC and my antivirus software didn’t detected it.
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Paintball is a very active sport, involving a lot of running, diving, crawling and sliding. A paintball marker is the primary piece of equipment used in the game of paintball to tag an opposing player. The majority of paintball markers have four main components: a body, a hopper, a tank, and a barrel. An expanding gas forces a paintball through the barrel at a muzzle velocity of approximately 300ft/s (91m/s). This velocity is sufficient for most paintballs to break upon impact at a distance Oh no not the real guns but a electropneumatic type. These guns can be more understood if you have a air rifle, these have air tanks instead to propel paintballs. Safety is very important so game is played with full paintball gear which can be easily purchased from any paintball store. These include Chest Protector, Knee Pads, gloves, mask etc, sometimes called “poop”, masks are safety devices that players are required to wear. These completely cover not only the eyes, but also the mouth, ears and nostrils of a person
Paintballs, also simply called “paint”, are spherical gelatin capsules containing primarily polyethylene glycol, other non-toxic and water-soluble substances, and dye. Early paintballs were made of glass and filled with indelible oil-based paint, since they were made for marking trees and cattle, but modern paintballs should easily wash out of most clothing.
All together it can be fun playing paintballs if played under guidance and precations, like using only right and good quality paintball gear. I can see some people maybe thinking it a dangerous game, yes it is but no outdoor is completely safe. A paintball coming from paintball barrels at high speed if hit eyes can cause blindness if no mask (made for this game) was worn. Paintball markers therefore offer complete packages which is a good buy.
If you are a club owner and looking for paintball supplies, then always go for good brand paintball gear which can be little higher in price but these are of better quality, undergo multiple quality test which is important for the safety of players.
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