I've had my Iphone for over a month now and have been exploring the various apps available from the Apple App store.  I'm keen to try any new apps that become availbale so any recommendations or ones that i've missed please leave a comment.

1. Evernote - this has changed the way i store notes, scraps from magazines etc. Evernote on the Iphone allows you to write text notes, snapshot notes from the iphone camera and voice notes. These are then stored in your account on the cloud.
2. Byline - this is a superb RSS feed reader which i have linked up to my Google Reader account. I'm finding that i'm checking feeds whilst waiting in queues and whilst travelling. It's very easy to use and updates my Google Reader with starred items and notes that i've created.
3. Apps Store - i think i've exhausted most of the apps that would be of use to me via the Apps store. By exploring the different application categories you can read reviews and see ratings of any applications.
4. Itunes - perfect for purchasing music whilst on the hop.
5. Vicinity - uses your geolocation to bring up a list of local information (via Wikipedia) and also local services and amenities (banks, bars and clubs, convenience stores, hotels, restaurants, supermarkets, takeaway and taxi companies). It also uses Flickr and Panoramio to search for photos taken near to your location.
6. Shozu - allows you to easily upload photos to the following services - BBC News, Facebook, Flickr, Google Blogger, Picasa, Twitter, Wordpress, Photobucket, AOL XDrive, Bluestring, Box.net, Buzznet,CNN Exchange, Friendster, HotSMS, Hyves, Ipernity, ITV Uploaded,Kodak (US), life.Dada.net, LiveJournal, moblog:UK, Netlog, NowPublic, Ovi, Pikeo, quipit, Reuters, Scoopt, SmugMug, Snapfish, SnapMyLife, Twitpic, Typepad, Vox, Webshots and Windows Spaces.
7. Google App - this presents the Google search page in an IPhone style in lieu of using Safari. Easier to use and again can link to your Google Account.
8. Bookmarks (Delicious) - another IPhone style rendition this time of Delicious. Very easy to use and then to link to relevant page via Safari.
9. LinkedIn - this is very handy for members of LinkedIn. Specially designed for the IPhone.
10. Talk Bubbles - this is a fun application which allows you to insert speech bubbles onto your photos within the IPhone. Photos can then be emailed to friends and family.
11. Last.fm - this application allows you to connect to your Last.fm account and then can stream your library through the IPhone.
12. Facebook - basically a handy app to access your Facebook account.
13. IM+ All-in-One-Messenger - this cool client brings all your chat accounts into one messenger service. It is compatible with AIM, MSN / Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo!, ICQ, Jabber, Google Talk and MySpaceIM.
14. Remote - this Apple app connects your IPhone to music on your computer or Apple TV.
15. Wikipanion - an IPhone styled Wikipedia app which is easy to navigate.
16. Stanza - a handy ebook reader which feels good to use and allows you to download both free and purchased ebooks.
17. VisuaRadio - search over 2000 internet radio stations over Wifi.
18. IFooty - a soccer portal that allows you to track your favourite team. You can check up to date results, follow a match live, study stats and fixtures and follow RSS feeds for your football club. Excellent.
19. Mighty Docs - a Google Documents app that allows you to work with your docs on your IPhone. A great productivity application.
20. Art Envi - this is a fantastic art application which allows you to access important paintings on your IPhone via a list of the world's greatest artists. Extensive library.
21. Wordpress - allows bloggers to blog from their IPhone and access their Wordpress account.
22. Facemelter - i've had lots of laughs using this to distort photos of my friends. Great fun.
23. Shovel - keep up to date with what's happening on Digg. Can be customised to select the topics you're interested in.
24. Twitterific - Tweet from your IPhone with this Twitter application.
25. Dual Level - a spirit level tool on your IPhone!

Em Ferramentas, na guia Rede, no item Servidor Proxy, habilite: Usar configuração do ambiente.

Em Contas, Gerenciar contas, escolha a conta a ser modificada.

Messenger

Em Avançado, habilite Usar método HTTP, e em Opções de proxy, escolha Usar configuração global de proxy.

Google Talk

Em Avançado, habilite Forçar SSL antigo (porta 5223), em Porta de conexão, altere para 443 e em Opções de proxy, escolha Usar configuração global de proxy.

Até a próxima.

And, until recently (just today, actually), Firefox has been quietly and dependably facilitating all of my activities, communications and learning via the World Wide Web since I converted from Internet Explorer near the beginning of the millennium, around 2004 (not that I needed a good reason to leave that tired piece of reject code behind). All the way from 1.0 to version 3+ I've been a loyal supporter, fan and avid user of Mozilla's beautifully designed desktop icon, Firefox. I upgrade every chance I get. I install plug-ins. I even bought a Firefox t-shirt and some stickers.

I still love Firefox, but now I'm feeling a little... confused.

It's not like I didn't tell her. Firefox knew all about our little "thing" since it started. Since February of 2005 I've been a raving fan of Gmail, Google's (still beta, three years later) e-mail service, and Firefox was there when I signed up. When Google really started branching out into other services, especially with the iGoogle homepage, Google Docs and Google Reader, I was interested. After all, Google was a strong supporter of Firefox, so using their services wasn't a disservice to my beloved web browser at all, was it? In fact, I was supporting a supporter of Firefox.

A couple of days ago I heard that Google was on the verge of releasing their new browser, Chrome. I read a nice article about it from a source I enjoy reading (and usually trust) and decided to give it a try. I had already been using Google Desktop on my Linux laptop and Google's Picasa photo software on my Windows computer, and I love Google Earth, Google Talk and Google's release of SketchUp, so a Google web browser didn't sound all that bad.

My first impressions are a mess of mixed feelings, but overall I am both impressed and pleased. I can come up with really only one major gripe (other than that Chrome doesn't support any good plug-ins yet, like Adblock Plus) having to do with the way it handles RSS and other subscription feeds, but despite how much I do like the newcomer, my beloved Firefox is dormant even now while I use Google Docs to write this from within Chrome, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.

I'm enjoying the experience, but with a touch of bitterness. Chrome is not Firefox. Mozilla took on a web browser giant and made some major headway and history, significantly impacting Microsoft's monopoly on the web browser market. Now Google wants to offer Internet goers yet another option, and I'm all for competition, but now I am forced to question my personal definitions of loyalty and support in this grand game of Hungry Hungry Web Browsers.

Would making the complete switch to Chrome be betrayal? I'm not ready for that yet, as I have fallen in love with the features many of Firefox's plug-ins offer as well as Firefox's inherent feature-set. I don't think Chrome is that far behind though, and it will probably catch up soon. What should I do? Obviously I've switched before, and it's not like I'm married to Firefox, but I had never felt loyalty for a product before like I do for Firefox - or so I thought. Perhaps what I felt wasn't loyalty at all, but satisfaction. If I can find satisfaction somewhere else, and we're not talking about marriage here (of course) then perhaps I belong somewhere else.

That's how I handled my switch from a mail service I liked (go.com, before Disney bought them - do you even remember them?) to a mail service I love. That's how we should do business, that's why there's competition. There has to be choice.

But then, I've been with Firefox longer than I've been with my wife. We go way back (in Internet years, anyhow). Just now I was doing some research to get the dates right for when Firefox was first released, and when Google really got their start. I typed "http://www.wikipedia.org" into the address bar, then hit "TAB" and it displayed this:

Then I could type in my search without ever having to load the main Wikipedia page. Of course, Firefox and other browsers have offered this function in one way or another (separate search bars, toolbars, plug-ins, etc.) but never has the workflow been this natural and easy (from later tests I found that I didn't even have to hit the tab). That's just one of many features they've included in their browser (the Omnibox).

They also snatched up the fastest JavaScript engine on the market (up to ten times than the system Firefox is running, and WAY faster than the IE JavaScript), and they set up their infrastructure to prevent many of the problems that older browsers are facing today with common viruses, bugs and page crashes that can disable the browser or even the whole computer.  
For more details on the technical aspects of this new browser, check out some of these articles:

• Wired Magazine - the one I read that got me interested - the history, reasons behind it and some of the new technology in a well-written, easy-to-read, fun presentation
• Blogoscoped - very good basic rundown of the features
• Washington Post - good review of some of the features
• PC World - good article, seven reasons for it and against it
• USA Today - a nice, brief review

In the end, Chrome has many awesome, powerful features that make it very attractive to me. I may end up switching when they make those last couple of changes to make it just a little more attractive to this (still) loyal Firefox user.

No matter what happens, though, I'm keeping my Firefox t-shirt.

How many of us have a number of friends on different instant messaging networks?  Some are on AIM, others on ICQ, maybe Yahoo!, MSN, or even Google Talk.  Previously, If we want to stay in touch, we had to have each instant messaging application running on our machine.  With pidgin, you run a single piece of software (did I mention it's lightweight and easy to use?) and add your credentials for each of the services.  Then, you can add buddies from each network to be displayed in a single, unified buddy list.  The software is absolutely seamless and works great.  Each client's capability is almost exactly reproduced in pidgin, even with the option for mail notification.  Best of all, it's free.  No more ads with AIM, no more bloatware with Yahoo, download pidgin and stay connected with ease.

Pidgin works with the following IM services:

• AIM
• Bonjour
• Gadu-Gadu
• Google Talk
• Groupwise
• ICQ
• IRC
• MSN
• MySpaceIM
• QQ
• SILC
• SIMPLE
• Sametime
• XMPP
• Yahoo!
• Zephyr

Download Pidgin:

• http://pidgin.im/

Pidgin does require Windows or any Unix based platform, but there are workarounds to get it to work on OS X.  Try searching google for instructions.  As an alternative, try Adium for the Mac.

That's all!  Thanks, and happy computing!

Para mas informacion de como enviar mensajes de texto con Chickka vea el Chikka Messenger FAQs.

¿A qué países puedo enviar mensajes de texto con Chikka?
R: Los abonados pueden enviar sms libres a los servicios móviles de los siguientes países: Estados Unidos, Filipinas, Guam, India, Hong Kong (Smart 1528), Reino Unido, España, Indonesia (sólo XLcom) y Saipan.

Opciones:
-> java.chikka.com Requiere Java jre
-> Tambien se puede correr Chikka ultima version en Prism

Zfone is not itself a VoIP client, but lets you make secure calls with your existing VoIP client, by filtering, encrypting and decrypting all your VoIP media packets as they pass in and out of your computer. You can use a variety of different software VoIP clients to make a VoIP call. It's as if Zfone were a "bump on the wire", sitting between the VoIP client and the Internet.

Courtesy of (http://zfoneproject.com)

Zfone has been tested with these VoIP clients: X-Lite, Gizmo (audio, no video yet), XMeeting, <!-- OpenWengo, -->Google Talk VoIP client (but only when Google Talk is using RTP), Yahoo Messenger's VoIP client (for audio), and SJphone. Zfone will encrypt audio and video for Apple iChat calls on Mac OS X (Tiger and Leopard). Zfone has been tested with these VoIP service providers: Free World Dialup, iptel.org, and SIPphone.

It does not work with Skype. (Why?) Need to find out, why it is not compatible.

Zfone information

I'm trying to download the song "Dancing Days" by Led Zeppelin, but it's not working very well.  So I'm doing it again.  I have to get that song, then the same song, just the Stone Temple Pilot cover of it.  Then I have to get "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls.  Because I love that song and it gets stuck in my head.  And when songs get stuck in my head, I find the best way to deal is to listen to the song that's stuck in my head.  No idea why, but that's what I do.  I tend to embrace the song stuck in my head, love it like it's the best song in the world, because it's the only one I can think of at the time.  Most of the time though, I can think of another song when one song is stuck in my head, just because I'm fancy that way.
I remember back in like 5th grade and into 6th grade I constantly had "Dead and Bloated" by Stone Temple Pilots (yet I didn't know that at the time) and "VooDoo" by GodSmack stuck in my head.  No idea why them two, but they were always there.  I have both those songs now, on my iPod and such; I can still recall them whenever I need to, in my head.  Not all the way through of course, but far enough.

I don't know why I'm going on like this, but I just had to share that "TOASTERHEAD" thing for some reason and then the rest sort of came out.

This morning was freaky, let me tell you.  I was downstairs singing with my songs from the stereo - I plugged my iPod in and stuffs - and it was funness.  Other than the part about how, like, I was really weird in my head.  It was funny and all, ya, but then again kind of strange.
I'm really loopy today.  That's it.  Loopy used to be fun for me.  Now it's still fun, but now I know that it has the possibility to get to super-wrongdom.  Which is scary.
Very scary.

My song's almost done downloading.  Hopefully it doesn't get that error again. I don't remember at what % it did it at, and it's at about 83% right now.  It's going super fast today, cuz right now I'm not doing anything, other than downloading that song and IMs, for connectivity stuffs, so it has all the Kbps it can have, and it's at like 3.  My internet connected at 33.2 Kbps this morning, I was so happy - cuz that's fast.  Fast fast fast.  At least for me it's fast.  Timmy told me that he normally connects at 24....THAT would suck.  Like, majorly.

There's five minutes till noon on the clock on my wall, while the computer clock says 12:01.  Ummmm....I guess the battery is dead again, even though I just put in a new one.  Well, one that I thought had some juice in it.  I guess not so much.

And my song downloaded.....yay for songs!!!  I like this song.  Led Zeppelin is legendary, of course.  DURR.  I could make you a list, but it's on my MySpace, so I'm not going to waste the time.  :P  Now I just have to go back and get the STP version.  And then the "Iris" song.

And then eventually get some lunches, but I'm not really hungry yet.
You know, Frosted Shreded Wheat thingy cereals are very filling.  Which is cool and all, cuz I'm not gonna be hungry before lunch and stuff, but I mean, they're *really* filling!

I have to work on Tuesday.  Well, me and my daddy are gonna go work for this one lady in Flo-Town.  I don't really want to, simply because I'm being a complete lazy bum, but that's the kind of person that I am.
I don't like being lazy,  because nothing really gets done, but then again, oh well.  I can't be not-lazy.  That takes too much work, and I'm lazy, remember!
Actually, I don't even know if I'm lazy, or just unmotivated.  No idea.  Can't tell.

I think I figured out what I wanna do.  When I graduate, that it.  Don't worry, I'll change my mind again, like I always do.  But, anyway, here's my "plan."
I wanna get like a VW Bus or something like that, and just go.  Live in the car and just go.  I know I already had that as the plan,  but oh well.  I thought about getting like,  a truck and a fifth-wheel or something, but that would be way too expensive, and then you'd have to deal with finding stuff for it and stuff - like the places to plug-in and whatnot.  I guess it would be hard to do though, considering cars don't really have power, for like phone charging and laptop charging and stuff, but I guess I could just like, buy a few extra batteries for shit, or like I don't know.  It's gonna be expensive though.  I only have about 550 dollars in savings right now too.  I'm gonna need a hella-lot more than that.  I thought about like, being ridiculous and getting a pay-pal account and being like hey, give me like five bucks, and see how much money I could get.  I don't know if I could do that thought, don't even know if I'd get any money.  I thought it would be cool to try though.  See if I got anything.  Anyway, I could use the money, no matter what I end up doing.
Oh well....Hey, if you wanna give me like five bucks, just tell me, we'll work something out, okay?

Google Talk (ist.)

Jakarta - Anda yang gemar chatting di internet pasti kenal dengan Google Talk, sebuah layanan pesan instan untuk berkomunikasi milik Google.

Google Talk memungkinkan pengguna yang memiliki akun e-mail di Google berkomunikasi satu sama lain melalui internet. Di Google Talk, Anda bisa login ke lebih dari satu akun Google Talk secara bersamaan. Caranya sangat mudah, ikuti langkah berikut ini:

1. Buat shortcut Google Talk di desktop Anda. Untuk membuat shortcut, caranya klik kanan pada aplikasi messenger Google Talk, lalu pilih Send To --> Desktop (create shortcut).
2. Klik kanan pada icon Google Talk, lalu pilih Properties.
3. Ubah teks lokasi pada kolom Target, yang awalnya "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe" /startmenu" menjadi "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex.
4. Klik Ok.

Kini Anda bisa mengaktifkan beberapa layanan messenger Google Talk secara bersamaan. Selamat mencoba!

If you are an Orkut user you probably know what I am going to talk about here. I am speaking about Transliteration, which essentially means that you can type in one language and have that converted to another language.

Google already offers transliteration in Orkut and many users know about it. However did you know that you can now chat in Indian languages in Gmail and Google Talk Labs Edition also?

Follow these steps to chat in Indian languages (currently 5 are supported) in Google Talk.

1. Add a transliteration bot to your friend list. There are 5 of them available currently: (en2hi.translit@bot.talk.google.com for Hindi, en2kn.translit@bot.talk.google.com for Kannada, en2te.translit@bot.talk.google.com for Telugu, en2ta.translit@bot.talk.google.com for Tamil and en2ml.translit@bot.talk.google.com for Malayalam)
2. Start chatting with your friend.
3. Convert the chat session to a group chat and invite the particular bot (you added in step 1) to the group chat.

From now on whatever you type in english will be converted to the appropriate language by the bot. Have a look:

Chat in Indian Languages

You might have to enable Indic fonts if you dont see them correctly. Here is some more information on Indic Fonts

Related:

• How to know if someone is invisible on Gmail
• Securing your Gmail
• Gmail Hacking

หวังว่า วันนี้เพื่อนๆ สมาชิก dailygizmo ทุกคนจะได้ทำตัวเป็นลูกที่น่ารักของคุณแม่อย่างเช่น

ทุกวันนะคะ พิเศษตรงที่หลายๆ คนจะได้ให้ดอกมะลิกับคุณแม่ด้วย ซีก็ขอให้คุณแม่ทุกคนมี

ความสุขมากๆ ค่ะ เอาล่ะ กลับมาดู Gadget ของวันนี้กันต่อดีกว่า :p

ครั้งแรกที่เห็นเจ้าตัวนี้ ซีคิดว่าเป็นเครื่องดูดฝุ่นที่มีหน้าตาแบบหุ่นยนต์น่ารักๆ ที่ไหนได้ มัน

กลับเป็นอุปกรณ์ไฮเทคมากๆ เลยค่ะ Jeppe เป็นหุ่นยนต์ประชุมผ่านเว็บที่ได้รับการพัฒนาขึ้น

โดย Nokia Research Center ผู้ใช้สามารถควบคุมการเคลื่อนที่ และมองเห็นผ่านกล้องของ

 Jeppe ผ่านมือถือแท็บเล็ต Nokia N800 เพื่อนๆ สามารถใช้ Google Talk สำหรับประชุมกัน

แบบเห็นหน้าค่าตาได้ด้วย ดูแล้วน่าใช้มากทีเดียวค่ะ

It scores over traditional Google talk, by having all chat windows open as tabs within the  application window than as pop ups. This is a great help, since in my office, having too many Google Talk pop ups gives a wrong impression. Also group chat feature has now been added, allowing far more interesting discussions with all your friends at the same time, than boring personal messages to just one of them. Off course, unless you are looking for some privacy :-). It has a better interface styling and color layout. At last Google has added some color to the pane. So what if its primitive blue. And the feature, I was dying to see in Google Talk. Like Gmail Chat, one can now go invisible in Google Talk as well. Yippee !!

This edition still lags far behind the traditional client in terms of functionality, especially voice call feature is missing. I wonder, why is it still called Google "Talk"?  Even the settings feature is not available. But after all this is still in Labs, and not a Release. So I am expecting some improvements before this is released.

Here is my verdict on Google Talk Labs Edition,

The Pros,

1) Great interface. Has been shaded in blue.

2) Tabs and not popups.

3) Group chat enabled.

4) Invisible mode added.

The Cons,

1) Voice calls feature missing.

2) Settings feature missing.

3) File transfer feature missing.

Here is what I suggest,

Go and try the Google Talk, Labs Edition. As more and more people use it, Google will be able to collect statistical data, that will help them to improve this product.

Visit their site for more details.

E isso é a só a ponta do novelo, pois rapidamente, posso listar serviços e produtos que estão na minha vida a maior parte do tempo desperto:

• Analiso a performance dos sites que gerencio ou participo através do Google Analytics e do Webmasters Tools.
• Ganho uns trocados com o Adsense.
• Me informo sobre baladas, notícias e eventos culturais pelo Google Reader.
• Mostro minha arte fotográfica e faço contatos através do álbum e comunidades do Orkut.
• Exercito a capacidade de análise e reflexão publicando artigos no Knol.
• Planejo minhas viajens e divulgo informações sobre minha cidade no Maps.
• Faço uma amiga gringa passar vontade de comer brigadeiro, coxinha e pastel de queijo com as fotos encontradas pelo Google Image Search.
• Dou risada, me informo, me aperfeiçôo e me admiro com a liberdade de expressão (e o alcance dessa expressão) que vídeos e posts no YouTube e Blogspot permitem.
• Lamento shows que perdi de artistas e bandas que não estão mais por aqui, relembro alguns dos que vi no YouTube e Google Video.
• Mantenho controle de meus prazos e cronograma no Google Calendar.
• Escrevo projetos, propostas e controlo finanças no Google Docs (que me livrou de ser obrigado a gastar uma grana absurda com o Microsoft Office para usar só o básico).
• Encontro código-fonte e softwares que dão boas idéias, ou mesmo solucionam problemas, em um projeto de software que estou participando.
• Gerencio toda a minha comunicação pessoal e profissional com o Gmail e o Gtalk. Que sem dúvida não substituem uma boa conversa de bar, totalmente offline, mas ajuda bastante a manter tudo em ordem e funcionando, principalmente agora que a versão Labs do Gtalk se integra ao Google Calendar e ao Orkut.
• Amplio o alcance das minhas idéias, utilizando o Google Translator para criar versões traduzidas (ainda que automaticamente e não muito corretamente) de páginas do blog. Útil especialmente quando estou com preguiça de reescreer um post em inglês ou quando quero ter uma idéia do que significa uma página em Russo, por exemplo. :-)
• Blogo e publico mais rápido, já que agora o Wordpress usa o Google Gears para acelerar a perfomance do gerenciador.
• E o mais importante: aprendi que para ter sucesso é preciso aplicar intensamente em seus produtos e serviços a filosofia e princípios que prega que norteiam sua missão.

Para não dizer que o Google é unanimidade na minha vida, ainda não confio no Picasa e prefiro publicar minhas fotos no Flickr, e prefiro publicar no Wordpress ao Blogger. Mas, ao menos na minha vida, talvez já esteja na hora de revisar Descartes:

Google, logo existo.

[atualizado em 05 de setembro de 2008]

O post foi citado numa matéria da INFO, edição 271 (setembro de 2008), sobre o Google.

Avete comprato il vostro nuovo computer, portatile, desktop, eeePC, non importa. Siete contentissimi e soddisfatti del vostro acquisto. Magari avete anche una bella connessione adsl flat, siete connessi 24/7, tutto fila liscio, perfetto.

Per 60 giorni forse. Il problema di molti nuovi computer è che la vasta offerta di programmi inserita nel listino ha una durata limitata, magari 60 giorni, magari 30, magari 10 utilizzi! Chi vuole poi continuare a utilizzare quei software deve necessariamente acquistarli. E il mio riferimento va a molti prodotti blasonati e anche generalmente molto costosi ma che non hanno nulla da invidiare a molti altri 'Free' (nel senso di libero, oltre che gratuito).

Ebbene per far funzionare al meglio il vostro pc, potete benissimo fare affidamento su programmi open source, freeware e gratuiti. Certo, "l'ho sentito dire in giro" qualcuno può replicare, e effettivamente se nessuno ha mai trovato il nome di una alternativa a Windows Live Messenger, difficilmente andrà a cercarla di sua spontanea volontà. :D

Allora partiamo dal principio, il necessario per sopravvivere nella giungla di internet al sicuro, attivamente e passivamente: nel senso che bisogna proteggersi con programmi affidabili e sicuri, oltrechè aggiornati di continuo, e con programmi che possano poi investigare se qualcosa non ha funzionato, se c'è stata una falla da qualche parte, per intenderci un buon antispyware e un buon antivirus.

Ecco allora un buon elenco di programmi che consiglio, ma vi invito a suggerire quali programmi usate voi! Le prove empiriche sopra ogni cosa!

Per navigare (Web Browser): Mozilla Firefox, Opera e Safari

Per scaricare la posta: Thunderbird, (ancora Opera)

Per scrivere, ecc: OpenOffice, ma anche Abiword, oppure Google Documents (senza bisogno di installazione, funziona con la connessione a internet!!)

Per chattare e VoIP: Pidgin (msn, google talk, ecc supporta tanti tipi), Skype

Per ascoltare la musica: su Windows e Mac Aimp o lo storico Winamp, su linux Rythmbox (userei sempre Rythmbox!!! :D )

Per gestire le foto: Picasa (l'arte del "mi sento fortunato")

Per guardare video e dvd: VLC (da affiancare con QuickTime Lite e Real lite)

Per inviare sms e mms dal computer: MoioSMS (semplicemente ottimo)

Antispyware: Superantispyware.com e Spybot, nulla per linux e mac

Antivirus: qualche tempo fa avrei detto Avast, ma sono ritornato a Avira AntiVir (è ritornato affidabile come un tempo molto più di Avast), per linux e mac non esistono!!

Per controllare le impostazioni di windows (xp e vista) Advanced Windows Care e CCleaner

Indicativamente sono questi i programmi che potrebbero garantire una dignitosa vita con il vostro computer, in forma, attivo e sicuro... Sicuro, quando si dice sicuro, non lasciatevi ingannare, un computer non è mai totalmente sicuro, un saggio una volta disse: "Un computer sicuro è un computer spento" e con la spina staccata aggiungerei io.

Ovviamente esistono tanti altri programmi come questi, spesso considerati sole "alternative" di marche famose, ma qui si tratta del vostro pc, della vostra ram da usare con parsimonia e del processore che ha sempre i fatti suoi da risolvere... ^_^