Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Software hubs - places where you can download software

Applications along with the built in Microsoft applications make the usage of Windows easy and better. There are tons of websites which provide the service to download this software, but all the sites are not trustworthy and the testimonials written by all the sites are not acceptable. Hence here we want to list a few important sites that will solve your problems with the software. There are three types of software mainly, freeware, shareware, premium. Freeware are freely available software with complete features and you can use them how many times you want. They don’t cost you any money but they would be glad if you can donate them if you like them and also write testimonials about the software with your experience with the software. Shareware won’t enable all the options but you can use the basic options of that particular software as long as you wish. Premium software will give a limited period of 30 days generally, to try its features and later you have to buy it to use it.


These are some precautions that have to be taken while downloading from any site

1. Always look at the cons before you download and use them on your computer.

2. Check for the reviews written by other users and see what they are telling about it.

3. Always, make a restore point before you install something, infact the Windows itself make.

Monday, January 19, 2009

Slife - completely monitor and control your online activity

The worst part of internet is you never know how much time you have spent on it while searching for one thing you eventually fall into something else and you will forget what you started with and the real task never completes. Slife is software which will monitor all your activities that you did on computer, it also stores what all you opened, read and for how long.

The advantages of this are

1. You can create Activity Groups, so that you can put specific applications into one group and then you can monitor how much time you have spent for one activity than on one application.

2. Automatic Tracking: After installing, it will load at the start up of the computer and will start monitoring your activities.

3. You can choose which applications can be tracked and which can’t be, giving you full control of your computer.

4. The best thing about Slife is its interface; the smooth and shiny interface is very attractive. You can view the activities of the month/day/week or look at the application’s usage.

5. It gives reports in the form of charts, graphs and bars.

Slife Teams is a new web service from Slife Labs that offers automatic, real-time communications and activity analytic for teams and businesses.