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Choose Right Hosting

Posted in Free, Security, Technology on November 13, 2008 by techuptodate

As a matter of fact, using computer, you prefer to use different, depending on the necessities, higher level, always available and secure managed hosting. As for instance, high quality assessment that can help you to improve security, functionality and performance your site requires is also indispensable condition you can do your business successfully.

Choosing and comparing hosting services for online big and small businesses one should take into account such important circumstances as for instance fast and reliable servers, professional and friendly staff, multiple free tools, a feature-rich hosting package and all these are by reasonable price of course. Don’t forget to make sure that selected by you package includes a sufficient quota for disk space and data transfer rate as well.

Pay your attention to database and scripting language, be sure that service makes it available. What else? There are a lot of things you should learn and analyzed before you make your decision to choose right hosting to display and maintain your website successfully, without any risks to your site, applications, data, and business.

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Free Image and Graphics Hosting Services.

Posted in Computers, Free, Internet on May 13, 2008 by techuptodate

If you are looking for free and handy image and graphics hosting services to use them to host images for Web sites, message boards, forums, blogs, eBay auctions and more here is the list of services which can help you on the way. They support the Web’s major image formats, including GIF, JPG and PNG. So I have decided to start to check them out from freepichosting.com. If you already have used some of them please feel free to let me know which of them, by your opinion, are the best. In case you have any other recommendations please leave me a comment.

So, right now I’ve made an offhand sketch then placed it on PicAttic.com. You can see the result, it seams it is as sharp as a needle:-) No wait, no registration.

PicAttic.com
This is an easy-to-use free image hosting service. PicAttic.com supports files up to 2 megs in size. Files types permitted here include JPEG, JPG, GIF, PNG, ICO, MPG, MPEG and BMP.

Super File Hosting
A free file hosting service with an easy-to-navigate interface that lets you upload an unlimited number of files. Each file you upload can be up to 25 megs in size. Your files will be stored here permanently (as long as they’re downloaded at least once every 30 days).

Upload2.net
A popular free file and image hosting service that lets you upload and share files up to 25 megs in size, with no bandwidth limits or restrictions on file types. Upload2.net stores your files on its servers for one year and there is no limit on the disk space you can use.

FasterUpload.com
This is a speedy, easy-to-use image and video hosting service that requires no registration and lets you host files up to 100 megs in size. FasterUpload.com allows all file extensions and split files are permitted.

Dropfiles.net
An easy-to-use free image hosting service that gives you 250 megabytes of storage and 1 gig of bandwidth per month. The individual files you upload here can be up to 2 megs in size.

SnapDrive.net
A handy free service that lets you upload, share and save files in an online hard drive. The service is easy to use and you’re not even required to register. Anonymous uploading is limited to 20 megs per file. Registered users get 2 gigs of storage and can upload files of up to 100 megs.

ElectronicFiles.net
A free image hosting service that gives you 5 gigs of storage space and 5 gigs monthly bandwidth. You can upload individual files of up to 10 megs in size. All file formats are permitted.

Alkaspace.com
A free image hosting service that offers lots of useful features, including an auction gallery, portfolio, slideshow and a “spin 360″ option. Alkaspace.com gives you 99 megs of disk space and is suitable for image hosting for Xanga, MySpace, eBay, blogs, message boards, and more. Here, you can host JPG, GIF and PNG files.

Piczs.com
This versatile image hosting site (which is available in a free version) lets you share photos and other images with your friends and family, as well as host images for online auctions. Piczs.com lets you create image portfolios, auction galleries, slide shows, and more.

Free My Image
This free image hosting service offers an online photo album that lets you share photos with your friends and family. Here, you get a control panel that lets you easily manage your images. You can also password-protect your images, if you want.

Free Image Home
Here’s a free image hosting service that gives you 20 megs of space and offers 250 megs of monthly bandwidth. Free Image Home lets you browse your uploaded images and the service supports JPG, GIF and PNG image formats.

Img4Free.com
Here’s an easy-to-use free image hosting service that gives you 20 megs of storage space and 200 megs of monthly bandwidth. Image formats supported are JPG, GIF and PNG.

PhotoServer.us
A free image hosting service that gives you 555 megs of disk space and 1,000 megs of monthly bandwidth. At this site, you can create image portfolios, slide shows and auction galleries. Supported file types include JPG, GIF and PNG.

ImageUploads.
Account Types:
Free Account - $0.00/month
Get 10MB of disk space and 100MB of bandwidth absolutely free!
Silver Account - $2.99/month
Get 50MB of disk space and 1,000MB of monthly bandwidth.
Gold Account - $5.99/month
Get 100MB of disk space and 2,500MB of monthly bandwidth.
Platinum Account - $9.99/month
Get 1000MB of disk space and 10,000MB of monthly bandwidth.

FreeImageHosting.net
This is a new free image hosting service that is easy to use. FreeImageHosting.net is useful for posting images on message boards, online auctions, online classifieds, and sharing pictures with your friends and family. The service supports GIF, JPG and PNG file extensions.
And more, and more…

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Free Antivirus Software.

Posted in Computers, Free, Internet, Security on May 7, 2008 by techuptodate

All of us use antivirus software for save computing. There are several excellent paid professional antivirus software like Norton Antivirus, McAfee, but they are expensive software and require yearly subscription fees for regular antivirus updates. So if some of you prefer to use free ones here is the list of free antivirus software that are available to download right now.

AVG Free edition Free edition of the AVG anti-virus program for Windows and Linux. Tested and recommended by Freebyte.com.
Avira Antivir Free anti-virus software for Windows, Linux, Free BSD and Solaris. Detects and removes more than 50,000 viruses. Free support.
BitDefender Freeware virus scanner for Linux.
Clam AV Freeware, GPL, Linux. Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet.
ClamWin Freeware, open-source anti-virus program for Windows.
Comodo Anti-Virus Free anti-virus program for Windows.
Cyberhawk Protects against viruses, worms, trojans and other spyware, designed to be a complement to your current anti-virus software. Cyberhawk does not need to know anything about a virus before it can protect you against it. This is because Cyberhawk looks at the behaviour of an infected program (instead of the contents of the infected file). The basic version is free.
Note from the editors: after testing Cyberhawk we found that it generates a lot of false alarms on legitimate software. Nevertheless we think that this program can be useful provided you know how to interpret these alarms.
FProt Free anti-virus software for Linux, FreeBSD and DOS (personal use). Evaluation version for Windows.
HandyBits Free for personal use. Virus ’scanner integrator’. After performing an auto-search for installed virus scanners, it will scan your files using all found installed virus scanners. This can be useful, since some antiviral programs are good for one type of viruses, other programs for other viruses.
PC Tools AntiVirus Free anti-virus program + firewall for Windows.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6 Tops CNET Antivirus Performance Test
Apple Ships Video iPods with Windows RavMonE.exe Virus
VirusTotal Free Online Scan with Multiple Antivirus Engines
Google Pack : Free Essential Softwares Collection

Free Online Virus and Trojan Scanners.
The virus and trojan scanners in this section do not need to be downloaded or installed, they run from inside your Webbrowser.
VirusTotal Freeware online malware scanner. You can upload a single suspicious file which will be scanned by around 30 well-known virus scanners.
GFI online Trojan Scanner Freeware online Trojan scanner. This program runs in your browser (Internet Explorer only, Windows), no explicit installation is required.
McAfee’s Virusscan Online - Online virus scanner by McAffee
Panda Active Scan - Ffree tool for detecting and eliminating viruses from your computer. Installs as an ActiveX control in your Web browser (Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher).
PC Pitstop - is a large number of online computer and Internet related tests, including a virus scan and spyware test. The free virus scanner installs itself as an ActiveX control inside your Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher.
RavAntivirus is online scanner which can also remove viruses.
Symantec Security Check is a number of online tests (run in your Web browser), including a virus scan. Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher required.
TrendMicro HouseCall is free virus scanner which runs directly in your Web browser (Windows only).
The programs below you can try out for free for a certain time. During this trial period they can be very helpful. You need to spend a little bit of money should you decide to use them beyond that period.
Command AntiVirus Useful 30-day trial versions for Windows, Linux, Netware, DOS, Exchange, Lotus Notes
eSafe Anti-virus software for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP.
InVircible Detects viruses, Worms, Trojans, Hacking tools, backdoors, etc. utilizing generic methods: without needing a virus-pattern database. An example of a generic virus-detection method is: detecting code installing itself to be activated at system startup or ’shell open’. InVircible uses many different generic methods simultaneously.
Solo Detection and removal of viruses. The system integrity checker protects against Internet Worms, Backdoor programs, malicious VB and Java scripts. 30-day anti-virus trial versions.
McAfee 30-day anti-virus evaluation versions.
NOD32 Anti-virus evaluation versions for Windows.
Protector PLUS 30-day anti-virus evaluation versions. Versions for Windows (all flavours), DOS and Netware.
QuickHeal 30-day anti-virus evaluation versions.
Kaspersky 30-day trial versions available for: Linux, DOS, Windows. Protects against: trojans, backdoors, logic bombs, macro viruses, etc.

Norman Anti-virus and firewall trial versions for Windows, Linux, Novell, OS/2.
Norton Anti Virus Anti-virus trial versions.
Panda Software Anti-virus trial versions.

Principal AntiVirus Scans for viruses, trojans, worms, backdoors, adware, spyware and any other type of malware. For Windows.
Sophos Anti-virus trial versions.

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