Have you ever felt the need to create a PDF file using a word document you just finished working on Microsoft Office 2007? There is no need to install several converters to do this job for you. Microsoft themselves have developed an add-in for Office 2007 that would do the trick just fine.

Once installed, the save as PDF add in will insert an additional menu item into the 'Office button" menu. Through this, users will be able to instantly save Word 2007 documents, PowerPoint presentations, Excel worksheets, etc as PDF format.

[Click here] to download Save as PDF add in for Microsoft Office 2007 via the Microsoft Download Center.

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When it comes to viewing .PDF files, adobe reader is probably the most used application. Adobe Reader evolved over the years with many new features being added after each revision. Since version 8, Adobe Reader comes with the Adobe Updater, a feature which I hated since the day I saw it.

Adobe Updater would check and download updates for Adobe Reader whenever the application is launched. This is good if you have a broadband connection but will simply suck if your computer does not have access to the Internet or if you are using a dial up connection. You can manually force it shut every time it runs but I found that pretty annoying. I've trying disabling Updating through preferences but this did not work. So here is what I did to kill the Adobe Updater for good.

Warning: The process below may disable updating of other Adobe products present in your system. If you choose to update any of the products at a later stage, you will have to download the setup files from Adobe site manually.

1. Browse to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe

2. Locate the Updater directory. This directory will be named Updater5 or Updater6, depending on the version of adobe products you have installed on your system.

3. Remove the directory (Updater5, Updater6, etc).

That should do it.

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Microsoft has released a Windows Vista performance and tuning guide which spans across 14 pages. We can only but wonder why it took so long for MS to release this, considering the number of performance woes many users had with their Vista installations.

Tips and tweaks mentioned in the guide range from making changes to the default power plan to disabling unneeded services. Although there may be several hundred sites that have posted the same tweaks much earlier than MS, this guide is still worth checking out.

[Click here] to download the PDF version of the guide directly from Microsoft servers.

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A new build of Winamp has been released with several minor bugfixes. Winamp was once the king of all media players but popularity of the application somewhat decreased with the original developers leaving the project. It still is a versatile media player which has the usual components such as a Media Library, Equalizer and Visualizations. This app is fully skinnable and there are tons of plugins and skins to choose from.

From Developer:

Nullsoft Winamp 5 is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows. Winamp supports playback of many audio (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc) and video types (AVI,ASF,MPEG,NSV), custom appearances called skins (supporting both classic Winamp 1.x/2.x skins and Winamp 3 freeform skins), audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins (including two industry dominating visualization plug-ins), an advanced media library, Internet radio and TV support, CD ripping, and CD burning.

Winamp features:

A playlist editor and a 10-band graphic equalizer with user-definable presets that can automatically load specific files. It also includes Windows Media Technology 4.0 input/output support and the industry-standard Fraunhofer MP3 decoder.

Changes in Winamp 5.541.2165 :

• Improved: [pmp_ipod] Better auto-detection of newer iPod models
• Fixed: Filetype icons in Windows Explorer not updating when changed in Prefs
• Fixed: ML & Vis appear under other overlapping modern skin windows
• Fixed: No error message when trying to edit metadata for Read-Only files
• Fixed: Potential security vulnerability in NowPlaying
• Fixed: [gen_ff] Keyboard shortcuts in modern skin playlist windowshade mode- Fixed: [gen_ml] Scrolling to bottom of AlbumArt pane & other misc scrollbar issues
• Fixed: [in_mp3] Broken '307 - Temporary Redirect' url's
• Fixed: [ml_local] AlbumArt icon selection glitch
• Fixed: [ml_playlists] Play and Enqueue actions reversed if Enqueue is set as default
• Fixed: [ml_rg] ReplayGain analysis of 20bit files
• Misc: Double-click Modern pledit songticker now toggles windowshade mode again
• Misc: More miscellaneous general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations

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Trojan Remover aids in the removal of Malware - Trojan Horses, Worms, Adware, Spyware - when standard anti-virus software either fails to detect them or fails to effectively eliminate them. Standard antivirus programs are good at detecting this Malware, but not always so good at effectively removing it. Trojan Remover is designed specifically to disable/remove Malware without the user having to manually edit system files or the Registry. The program also removes the additional system modifications some Malware carries out which are ignored by standard antivirus and trojan scanners.

What Trojan Remover Does

Trojan Remover examines all the system files, the Windows Registry and the programs and files loaded at boot time. The majority of malicious programs (once triggered) load this way.

Trojan Remover scans ALL the files loaded at boot time for Adware, Spyware, Remote Access Trojans, Internet Worms and other malware. Trojan Remover also checks to see if Windows loads Services which are hidden by Rootkit techniques and warns you if it finds any.

For each identified Trojan Horse, Worm, or other malware, Trojan Remover pops up an alert screen which shows the file location and name; it offers to remove the program's reference from the system files and allows you to rename the file to stop its activation.

Most modern Malware programs are memory-resident, which makes their de-activation more difficult. How many times have you been told to start your computer in 'Safe' mode, or even worse, in DOS? Trojan Remover does all this for you. When it finds Malware that is memory-resident, Trojan Remover automatically re-starts (on request) your system and completely DISABLES the Malware before Windows restarts.

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Anyone who has used Mac OS X is familiar with the concept of 'docking'. RocketDock is an application launcher that provides a dock similar to what Mac OS X provides. Users can add their favorite programs or directory paths to the dock so that they are accessible within seconds.

The interface itself is very neatly done with several cool animation effects to choose from. Icons will zoom in and animate whenever the user clicks on them. The dock placement is fully customizable, it can be set to audio hide and there are many themes to choose from.

From developer:

RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock. Now with added Taskbar support your minimized windows can appear as icons on the dock. This allows for better productivity and accessibility.

Features:

• Minimize windows to the dock
• Real-time window previews in Vista
• Running application indicators
• Simple drag-n-drop interface
• Multi-monitor support
• Supports alpha-blended PNG and ICO icons
• Icons zoom and transition smoothly
• Auto-hide and Popup on mouse over
• Positioning and layering options
• Fully customizable
• Completely Portable
• ObjectDock Docklet support
• Compatible with MobyDock, ObjectDock, RK Launcher, and Y'z Dock skins
• Runs great on slower computers
• Unicode compliant
• Supports many languages and can easily be translated
• A friendly user base :)
• And best of all... its FREE!!!

Download

[Click Here] to download the latest version of RocketDock from official download page.

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Today is indeed a good day for British TV show fans. First, The Box was open and now UKNova. Just like TheBox, UKNova is a private torrent tracker dedicated to tracking British content. This includes British TV serials, documentaries and some sporting events as well.

The first thing you'll notice about this tracker will be its interface. It's quite unlike the ones you frequently find on torrent sites. Don't be put off by it initially coz you'll definitely love it once you get used to it. The number of torrents tracked by UKNova or the size of their user base is unknown.

Site Name: UKNova

Signup URL: http://www.uknova.com/wsgi/signup

Categories:

• TV entertainment
• Comedy
• Panel
• Gameshow
• Reality
• Big Brother
• Chat
• Sport
• Children's
• TV fiction
• Soap
• EastEnders
• Corrie
• Emmerdale
• Hollyoaks
• Drama
• Crime
• The Bill
• Medical
• Sci-fi
• TV factual
• Current affairs
• News
• Consumer
• Culture
• Science
• Horizon
• Technology
• History
• Nature
• Property
• Gardening
• Food
• Motoring
• The supernatural
• Radio
• Entertainment
• Comedy
• Drama
• Factual
• Miscellany

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The Box.Bz is a hugely popular tracker specializing in UK based content. You wont find your favorite U.S. sitcom or movie in this tracker but you are likely to find stuff such as BBC documentaries, UK based sitcoms, UK related sports content and the likes. Don't expect to find any movies or games here since this is a specialized tracker for television shows in the UK.

The Box tracks a whopping 28283 torrents and boasts a user base of 60695 at time of this post . The open signup intervals for this tracker are usually very small so you may want to hurry.

Site Name: The Box

Signup URL: http://www.thebox.bz/signup.php

Categories:

• Adverts / Idents
• Comedy
• Documentary / Educational
• Drama
• Entertainment
• Euro 2008
• Food / Drink / Cooking
• Home / Property / Garden
• Kids
• Magazine Shows
• Motoring
• Music TV
• Mystery / Crime Fiction
• News
• Quiz / Game Shows
• Radio / Audio
• Reality
• Sci-Fi
• Soaps
• Special Interest
• Sport
• Style / Fashion
• Talk / Chat Shows
• Travel
• Wildlife / Nature

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BTZONE.ORG is a private torrent tracker specializing in Wrestling and MMA content. It tracks a wide variety of videos related to events such as WWE, UFC and ECW. The site was offline for a while about two months ago but they seem to be fully recovered by now. There are a little over 1000 torrents indexed but this amount grows daily. BTZonE has a user base of 7100 at time of this post.

 

Site Name: BTZonE

Signup URL: http://www.btzone.org/signup.php

Categories: (only categories with respectable number of torrents will be mentioned).

• Boxing
• ECW
• MMA/UFC/PRIDE/K-1/WEC/M-1
• OVW
• ROH
• Sports
• TNA
• Top Gear
• WCW
• WWE/WWF Misc
• WWE/WWF PPV
• WWE/WWF Weekly

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Usually, ESET delivers two or three virus definition updates a day for ESET Smart Security and ESET NOD32 anti virus products. However, I noticed that my NOD32 had not updated for three days even though auto update was enabled. Whenever I tried a manual update, it came up with the message "The installed virus signature database is current". This was very unlike ESET and obviously something had to be wrong, and it was.

When I checked on ESET site, the virus definitions i had installed were not the latest. I had missed around 4-5 updates although NOD32 internal updater was saying my signature were up to date. Further searching on the net suggested that many other users were having the same problem.

How to verify if there is a problem with your update

First of all, you need to check if you actually have this problem with your installation of NOD32. It would be pointless to try and fix a non existent problem.

1. Right click your NOD32 taskbar icon and click 'open window'.

2. Select 'Update' from the left hand panel. Click on 'Update virus signature database'. If an update is being done, wait for it to finish.

2. Now select 'protection status' from left hand panel.

3. Note the number next to "Version of virus signature database"

4. Click here to visit ESET official page on virus definition updates. Verify the latest definition version listed on this page matches with your NOD32's definitions version (found in step 3).

If the two version numbers match, you do not have any update issues. If they don't then there is a problem so read on.

Workaround

At first, i though the problem was limited to pirated versions of NOD32. But according to posts made in several online forums, this is a problem with ESET's servers and affected legitimate versions of ESET products as well. Here is what i did to get around the problem:

(I use a extended trial version of NOD32. This workaround may or may not work for you, depending on the version and nature of your NOD32).

1. Manually delete the update cache of NOD32 or ESS. In Vista, browse to C:\ProgramData\ESET\ESET NOD32 Antivirus\ or C:\ProgramData\ESET\ESET Smart Security\ (depending on which software you have).Delete the updfiles directory

2. Right click your NOD32 taskbar icon and click 'open window'. On bottom left corner, toggle 'advanced mode' if not already selected.

3. Now select 'setup' from left hand panel. Select 'Enter entire advanced setup tree'. Select 'Update' from left hand panel of the window that pops up.

4. Click the 'Edit' button next to the 'Update server' drop down menu. Enter http://u49.eset.com/eset_eval on the top text field and press add. Press ok to close the dialog box. Now select the newly inserted server from the 'Update server' drop down menu and press ok.

Try a manual update now or wait for auto update. It worked for me.

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