Tiny Uploader : Upload Images to Imageshack or Imgur from Windows Desktop

Tiny Uploader is a Windows application that allows you to upload any picture to Imageshack and Imgur image sharing services. Tiny Uploader turns the tedious task of uploading images to image sharing websites into a very simple process. It integrates itself into the right-click context menu of Windows Explorer enabling you to upload your images just by right-clicking on them. You can also take screenshots of your desktop and other windows and automatically upload them.

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Metascan Online : Scan Files for Virus with 30+ Antivirus Engines

Metascan is an online service similar to VirusTotal that helps you scan a file using multiple antivirus engines. According to Metascan – no single antivirus solution is perfect and may omit detection of some of the malware. The same malware can be detected by some other antivirus which itself may overlook another kind of virus. But when you scan a file with multiple antivirus engines, the probability of detection failures or false detection is reduced drastically.

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Xleaner : Effectively Clean Up Junk Files from Hard Disk

Xleaner is a free Windows application developed by MoreThanACleaner.de. It can help you clear garbage files from your hard disk as well as the tracks of your activity resulting from your browsing the web, such as cookies, browsing history, cache, passwords, computer memory etc. and Windows recent files, run history, open/save documents and more. It is available for all the versions of Windows starting from Windows 98 to Windows 7.

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Check Your Hard Disk Health with CrystalDiskInfo

CrystalDiskInfo is a free, open source and portable Windows application that can help you determine the health status of your hard disks. It supports not only the traditional hard disks but also modern SSDs (solid state disks). It can monitor the health status of your hard disks using various parameters. It also displays your hard disk’s S.M.A.R.T data and its current temperature. It can also send you alerts through e-mail.

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Disable HTML5 Media in Mozilla Firefox

If you are a Youtube addict like myself, then you must have noticed that some videos start playing in the HTML5 video format on their own. This happens even if you have opted out of the HTML5 video experiment in your Youtube account. This is very annoying because the HTML 5 videos do not play that smoothly on my computer. If you want to force Firefox to play all videos on Youtube in the Adobe Flash plugin only, then you can do so making simple changes in the Firefox configuration.

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JavaRa : Remove Older Versions of Java & Update to the Latest Version

JavaRa is a simple tool that makes removing older and redundant versions of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) a very simple task. JavaRa will check if your computer has the latest version of Java (JRE). It would download a newer version of Java and install this newer version for you. The installation of newer version is performed through Oracle Java own update program. It also allows you to remove all possible older versions of Java.

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How to Change Belarc Advisor Settings

Belarc Advisor is a very useful system analysis tool that can be used to scan your Windows system and generate a detailed report about the installed software, hardware, antivirus status, missed Microsoft security hotfixes and other benchmarks. When you first use Belarc Advisor, you get to choose various options which are saved for all future use. Belarc Advisor does not offer any way to change these options at any later stage.

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Predator : Lock Your PC with a USB Key

Predator is a very secure and fast way to lock down your Windows PC. It turns your simple USB flash drive into a locking and unlocking device. What can be a faster and simpler way, than to just remove the USB key and walk away? If you find your colleagues routinely try to snoop into your PC when you are away, then Predator is the solution to your troubles.

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