No doubt, you recognize them all, and already familiar to which service or site they represent.

This is a snapshot of the icon set which was recently released by Woo Themes, and to bring this to us they collaborated with South African artist – Alex Latimer – to create a very unique hand-drawn icon set which is reminiscent of Alex’ signature drawing style.

This set has almost all the social media icons you will ever need, covers almost all of them.

You can download the small zip file to get them all.

So go ahead and use these hand-drawn icon set to add the flamboyance to your blog or website.

Download the icon set

Hand-Drawn Social Media Icon Set for your website by Manav Mishra originally appeared on Technospot.Net on August 12, 2009, 8:38 pm. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Microsoft has released its own Antivitus product called as Morro and they call is Microsoft Security Essentials and I decided to give it a try. So the first step I did was to Uninstall the antivirus I have already and reboot my computer. In case you plan to use it, make sure after downloading it, this is firsts tep you follow too.

What is Microsoft Security Essentials ?

• Its basically an Antivirus Program which protects you against viruses and spyware, including Trojans, worms and other malicious software.
• It promises of no costs or annoying subscriptions to keep track of.
• Promised to be Light weight and lot of silence as most of things will be handled by it in background and will not prompt you unless reuired ( We will check this more closely ).

The First look :

Installation was simple and so is the interface. There is not much of options to configured actually. The default settings are more then enough unless you would really get into and find out what more is available.

The first thing it will do is update with latest Anitvirus and spyware definition files.

Morro update definitions of antivirus

Looking at the Settings :

One thing you should realize is that Morro is just an Anti virus and not a whole suite which can configure firewall and Internet securities and other things.  It can provide you

• Real time protection, scan archive files, create system restore point
• You can exclude programs and files that can be skipped to be tested by the antivirus.
• Choose default actions when a virus or spayware is detected.

Morro Settings

My Thoughts :

Morro is pretty light database. Not heavy on system and worth using it. I am pretty sure its scanning capabilities are good but in case I do find something odd, I will let you know.

Like I said its not a complete security pack. Security meaning not only Antivirus but also Internet Security, Filewall security etc. Nod 32 Antivirus had been playing both the roles perfectly.

My Next Move :

• Running Morro and ESET NOD32 Security Program together to find how it works together.
• Do some more virus detection test, Manav will be helping me in this.
• There are couple of more ideas to test this out.

I will let you know more on this.

Morro has a limit of downloads which will be soon exhausted. So if you are seeing this post now just download it now.

Hands on with Microsoft Security Essentials : Morro by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.Net on June 24, 2009, 9:35 am. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

• Directory Zip
• Create traditional zip, self extractor ( command line or gui based )
• compression level from Level zero to level 9 which is best.
• Encryption uptp 256 AES
• Supports more then 50 type of encoding.
• Password protection
• ZIP 64 support.
• Add comment to zipped files.

Dot Net Zip : Powerful zip utility

Dot Net zip is @codeplex meaning the library it uses can be used by even in projects developing on dot net framework.  This GUI is like a demo of how powerful the library is. You can download a copy the GUI from dotnetzip@codeplex

DotNetZip : Powerful replacement for Zip Utilities by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.Net on May 30, 2009, 8:31 am. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Imagine a scenario, like you have been using some particular application ‘X’ on your system for years, somehow you feel that due to some reasons, ‘X’ doesn’t suit you the way it used to do earlier. You start hunting for alternatives to ‘X’. Here comes in picture Alternative To.

Go to Alternative To, and enter ‘X’ in search box, choose the platform (Windows, MAC, Linux, or Alternative Online tool), hit enter to get the results, or you can simply enter the application name in the search box on the home page, and later filter the results on the basis of platforms, and license type (Any License, Commercial or Free).

The results show a short description of the suggested alternative, you can click on the application name to get more details and the download link for the particular software.

As far as you are interested in exploring the alternatives, you don’t need any sign-up, however if you want to participate by suggesting a new application, commenting etc., you can create an account for you to join the community.

Alternative To, seems to be a good idea, this looks like a very simplified, non-geeky, still powerful alternative to Wakoopa.

Give it try; do share with us your experiences.

Try Alternative To

Find an alternative to any application: Alternative To by Manav Mishra originally appeared on Technospot.Net on April 7, 2009, 5:33 am. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

PDFVue is an online tool, which allows you to edit your PDF files for free, and immediately download the new PDF file.

Upload a file

You simply need to upload the PDF file (or you can also give a URL for online PDF file), PDFVue will load this file and open it for you in the browser.

Once loaded, you can make the changes in your PDF file with the help of the wide range of available tools, which can be accessed from the panel on the right hand of the page.

• Typewriter tool – allows free placement of text on the PDF documents.
• Sticky note tool – provides common note format for placing comments or any other data which is helpful or required.
• Rectangle tool – used for placing squares or rectangles on PDF files, can be used as highlighter.
• Line tool – places lines on the PDF files, can be used for highlighting images in PDF files or any table of data like stuff.
• Oval tool – can be used for making circles or ovals on the files.
• Link tool – allows placement and definition of hyperlinks and email addresses.
• Forms toolbar is also there which has some other tools for editing the files, like, Textbox tool, radio button tool, checkbox tool etc.

Some other tools like rotating the page, deleting a page etc. can be accesses by right clicking on the page in front of you as shown below.

Once done with the editing part you can now, save the changes and download the edited version of the PDF file.

You can also get a direct URL for the edited version of your PDF file, which can be shared via email, IM or any other mode; this can be used for collaborating in order to work easily with PDF files.

PDFVue works fine and is fast too, I tried uploading and editing PDF files up to 25 pages, and it works well, however uploading large files or Ebooks might take some time.

A Firefox add-on is also available for PDFVue, which can be downloaded from here.

Give it a try and do share your views view comments, I am sure you will love the simple interface and probably the easiest mode of editing the PDF files.  Try PDFVue

Edit PDF files online with PDFVue by Manav Mishra originally appeared on Technospot.Net on March 18, 2009, 9:06 pm. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

To enable peeking at friend’s updates, all you need to do is provide your Twitter username and password.

tweetpkr generates a bookmarklet, which you can place on any easily accessible location in your browser (as per me best place is bookmarks toolbar), and whenever you click on it, you get the twitter updates from friends in a floating window on your current page.

Have a look at the animation below.

Peek into your Friends Twitter Update

tweetpkr is a nice way to peek into the Twitter updates from friends without any login, click on the bookmark to get the updates, moreover all this can be done without closing/leaving the current webpage, definitely seems to be a good idea. Try tweetpkr

Peek at Friend’s Twitter updates without leaving the current webpage by Manav Mishra originally appeared on Technospot.Net on March 9, 2009, 11:56 pm. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

• Take  picture
• Add details i.e. Title, Description and tag
• Upload to Flickr
• Add to set
• Share it with your friends.

Flickit : Sync Iphone and Flickr together

It can also upload pictures from your iphone picture library  and since it supports multiple file upload  just upload all your pictures and sync flickr with iphone in few minutes. Flickit is available at Itunes Stores and is free of cost.

Flickit : Upload images from iPhone to Flickr by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.Net on February 17, 2009, 1:20 am. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Twitter discount coupon

This helps any business because landing pages always sales. Even if you have ablog you can use it by promoting hosting coupons or lets say give discount on your Blog Tshirts or affiliate program. So if you are willing to do something on the same line TwtQpon is worth a try.

Twitter Coupon : Offer discount in the Twitter World by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.Net on February 15, 2009, 11:40 pm. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

• Check flight status, airport gates
• Find out about flight delays and cancellations as they happen.
• View real-time gate changes, baggage claim info, and aircraft type.
• Live flight tracking maps.
• Search flight arrivals and departures
• And if you are utterly bored sitting at airport and waiting, Just shake iPhone or iTouch to track random flights from Tokyo to London and everywhere in between!! Fun

Flight trackers find this information using the Flight Stats, which is one of most trusted website for finding flight delays, cancellation etc. This application is a wrapper over it with more convenience of using over Iphone. So if you like it just try it out , Flight Tracker

Track International flights status live with Flight tracker by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.Net on February 15, 2009, 12:10 pm. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

I installed it lately but it’s still alien to me, luckily I found this Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference written by Keir Thomas, which is one stop solution to all the Ubuntu related queries and Digital version is free to download.

Download free Ubuntu Guide

The contents of this guide are -

• A brief introduction
• Installing Ubuntu
• Configuring Ubuntu
• Getting to grips with the desktop
• Understand the file system
• Hands‐on the command‐line
• Software management
• Securing the system
• And Appendix A and B, which contain Glossary of terms and Learning more and getting help

Click to Download Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Refrence

Print edition is also available which costs $9.94 at Amazon.  So if the Ubuntu fan in you is still in making, this is probably all you need to bring it out, try it.

Download Free Ubuntu Guide [ Ebook ] by Manav Mishra originally appeared on Technospot.Net on February 5, 2009, 10:10 pm. Please see our terms for use of feeds.