Cool idea that actually uses the principle of cloud computing effectively. Analysis is done by the cloud, and no more updating required.
Result: light weight virus scanner without all that other junk: webblocker, scriptblocker, firewall, adware filter, network scanner, IM scanner, …
Just virus and rootkit protection is what I need. And preferably at a low system resource cost. And preferably for freez 
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Another great find by said source blog: Ketarin.
Extremely handy if you maintain an emergency USB stick with all sorts of system tools. Click the source link for a detailed description.
Source: Confessions of a Freeware Junkie
If you’re not yet on Facebook, either go register yourself, or stop reading now.
As some of you might know, you can suggest friends to other Facebook users. For instance, when a good friend you know joins Facebook after you invited him/her, Facebook automatically tries to help the new user get more connections. There will be a link under their profile picture saying “Suggest Friends for <friend’s name>”.
But, when you happen to ‘discover’ a friend, that has been on Facebook for some time, and has several friends, Facebook does not offer you this kind of action to perform.
I actually needed this for a friend I found by just searching for his name. He used an e-mail alias when registering for Facebook, so I didn’t find him by importing my webmail contacts. This friend and I have a lot of friends in common, but somehow he never added any of them. So, obviously, I wanted to suggest all those friends to him. I looked around and searched, but was unable to find anything of the kind in all the menus and links on Facebook.
Googled a bit, and found out that indeed, Facebook doesn’t offer the friends suggest option on profiles of people that have been registered for some time (no idea what that timespan is though).
So I did some snooping of my own and found that you can simply use the address of someone’s profile (in the style of http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1065010701) and type &suggestfriends directly behind it and press enter. Now the profile will show up again, but with the suggest friends box on top of it.
Suggest friends for Filip Lejon [ facebook.com ]
Update: I don’t know if this option was available earlier, but in any case, you can now suggest friends for anyone, by clicking a small link all the way at the bottom of someone’s profile page. Noticed that after I wrote this post. Makes it just a bit easier 
Tags: facebook, suggest friends, social network
I just uploaded the web album version of the collection of photos we took during our 3-nights citytrip to Lisbon (from 29th of March ’till the 1st of April). You can find it on my albums page (look at my blog’s header for clues!).
This time I used yet another hosting solution (as opposed to stuff like my webspaces at Telenet or Skynet, or my Live Space): Google’s Picasaweb [ picasaweb.google.com ]. I tried Picasa v1 some months ago, and liked it, but nothing more. But then I came across some blog post mentioning that you can now have 1GB of storage on Picasaweb. Well, that sure sounded interesting, especially since I didn’t know of online albums hosted by Google So redownloaded the latest version of Picasa, and I have to say it. It really is all I was looking for:
Picasa 2 is what you use to upload your pictures, which is a big plus compared to all those online tools. And it comes with a bucketload of extra inventive, user-friendly features such as GeoCoding via Google Earth (again, all nicely integrated), generating collages, limited editing, printing to online services, posting to your blog, etc….
One word: bigupyagoogle !
Update: I uploaded some other albums I had scattered over the web to the Picasweb site. Since I have so much spare web space available, I’m likely to upload other pictures as well, which I wouldn’t have uploaded otherwise. I’ll mention it on my blog here when I do so.
Remember when I talked about Colibri? Well, this is -in short- exactly the same thing, only way better.
Colibri had a lot of bugs, and wasn’t very customizable. This one is. You can skin it, select which files or folders to index, and especially: the indexing is lightning fast, you hardly notice it. Indexing meant the downfall of Colibri for me, as it indexed my start menu with every logon, and that took a whole minute (!).
If you’re into application (keystroke) launchers, you can’t go past this one.
Launchy: The Open Source Keystroke Launcher for Windows [ launchy.net ]
Technorati Tags: launchy, application launcher, colibri
Copernic has made the 2.0 beta version of Copernic Desktop Search available.
I was extremely pleased with their previous version, and this 2.0 looks very promising. They finally added the option to search all file types, which was a bit of a drawback before. The interface is revamped, and looks a lot slicker. They even suggest search queries (much like Google's Suggest) !
I absolutely love this FREE piece of software. Can't do without at work, because you can define your own file types (like *.cs or *.js) to find that line of code you know you've once written, but can't remember for which project.
A must-have.
Copernic Desktop Search 2.0 Beta [ copernic.com ]
Technorati Tags: desktop search, copernic
The Mozilla calendar extension for Thunderbird.
Via Software updates [ Mozilla Lightning 0.1 ] [ tweakers.net ]
Download here [ ftp.mozilla.org ]
Technorati Tags: mozilla lightning thunderbird
Lightweight little tool that keeps track of your different data sources: news, weather, stocks, RSS feeds, auctions, etc…
Uses Klips to display the data source, very nice interface. Currently at version 2.6 (stable) and 3.0 C (beta).
Personal Dashboard | KlipFolio [ serence.com ]
Two more extension I’d like to put a spotlight on.
First, the most exciting one: Tab Mix Plus [ mozilla.org ].
It has way more functionality than TabPreferences, which I used before this. It has all the basic stuff, like defining custom mouse click events, tab open/close behaviour etc. Added bonus is the appearance of tabs, and recovering closed tabs. But what I really love, and missed about Firefox in comparison to Opera, is the ability to recover your browsing session after a browser crash or manual/auto shutdown. That was a real plus for Opera, and now FF has it too
The second extension – Download Statusbar [ mozilla.org ] – I briefly touched in the past, but didn’t really like it. The latest version however is somewhat improved. It looks better, and has loads of options to customize to your liking. It replaces the standard download popup window of Firefox, and puts your downloads at the bottom of the browser window, just above the statusbar.
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