Surf Web Anonymously - 25 Useful Web Proxies

Most of the offices, schools and colleges block social networking, bookmarking and downloading sites like StumbleUpon, FaceBook, Digg, MySpace, etc. An easy way to access these sites is to use proxy server in your browser. But the issue with this technique is the crashing of free servers often resulting in creating more trouble and less working.

After a lot of working, I have compiled these 25 Web Proxies that you can use to access these sites from your office, college or school.

Hide My Ass!

http://www.hidemyass.com/

OlympicProxy

http://www.olympicproxy.com/

Invisible Surfing

http://www.invisiblesurfing.com/

Anon.me

http://www.anon.me/

Unblocked

http://www.unblocked.org/

Can’t Bust Me

http://www.cantbustme.com/

Our Proxy

http://www.ourproxy.com/

Borat Proxy

http://www.boratproxy.com/

Proxy Mafia

http://www.proxymafia.net/

Anonymouse

http://anonymouse.org/

Proxy Buddy

http://www.proxybuddy.com/

Spy Proxy

http://www.spysurfing.com/

Proxy Pimp

http://www.proxypimp.com/

Fly Proxy

http://flyproxy.com/

Kroxy

http://www.kroxy.net/

Hide My Info

http://www.hidemy.info/

Army proxy

http://www.armyproxy.com/

Apni Proxy

http://www.apniproxy.com/

Anonr

http://www.anonr.com/

Site Surf

http://www.sitesurf.net/

TNT Proxy

http://tntproxy.com/

Proxy Mouse

http://www.proxymouse.com/

250 Proxy

http://www.250.eu/

Texas Proxy

http://www.texasproxy.com/

Proxrio

http://www.proxrio.com/

Another benefit of using these proxies is they help you protect your identity online. They hide your IP address and enable you to surf the web under their location.

Powerful Antivirus And Free

Do you need a powerful Antivirus that requires less resources and is free? That gives you a powerful protection against viruses and spyware.

As a bonus, its real-time LinkScanner technology keeps you from clicking search links to dangerous sites. It's an excellent choice if you need free protection against both viruses and spyware.

Moreover, it has added detection of new variant of Worm/Brontok, new variants of trojans BHO, Downloader.Swizzor, Downloader.Small.

Download and check more of it here.

Yahoo Messanger 9 Released

Microsoft just released Windows Live messenger 9.0 and almost after a week, the final version of Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 has been released. This version supports Windows XP and Vista and has many new features with an improved user-interface.

With this launch, Yahoo! introduced a feature – Pingbox. This is an application that can be embedded into your blog, website or social network page where visitors can IM you anonymously or identifying themselves. You can also reply them back. You can reveal or open your Yahoo! ID.

 Following are the features that can stand Yahoo! Messenger apart:

• Three new skins
• Smaller, original emoticons
• Ignore list bug fixed
• Embed YouTube videos, Flickr images
• Six new emoticons
• Import Contacts wizard
• Yahoo! Updates (similar to WLM personal message)
• Share files and photos up to 2GB in size
• Yahoo! Games are back!

There are lots of other features that Yahoo! Messenger fans would like in. Your system needs to update its Yahoo Messenger to the latest version and have a great fun time with it.

Download Yahoo! Messenger 9.0

Create PDF Documents [Online & Free] - PrimoOnline

Want to make a PDF document? No, now you don't need to install any software - you can do it online and FOR FREE. PrimoOnline is an online service that lets you convert more than 300 file types to PDF like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, OpenDocument, WordPerfect, etc.

It also supports certain graphics formats and can convert to PDF like BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etc.

Now HOW TO DO THIS: go to PrimoOnline, enter you email address. Now choose whehter the file is located at your PC or at i'net. Click on Create PDF. As soon as the conversion is done, your email account will have the PDF.

There is a limitation on file size and that is of 5MB.

go to PrimoOnline

Create Online - Themes For Orkut [Free]

Orkutplus keeps on giving some good stuff on orkut and here it gives Orkut Theme Generator. No hassles, you can do it with single click. These scripts will be hosted by orkutplus too.

Below is the simple step by step way to do create a theme for orkut:

Go to Orkut Theme Creator Page

Enter an image URL

Enter the name for the theme 

Click on create theme

You will be taken to the second page where you will be given option to download or install the theme.

System requirements:

Mozilla FireFox

Orkut Account

Orkut Theme Creator

Create Your Own Fonts Online

FontStruct is a free font-building tool brought to you by the world’s leading retailer of digital type, FontShop. It lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks.

The FontStruct editor lets you create fonts by providing all the basic tools you need to build a font. The site is totally self explanatory and even comes with an easy screencast. Once you’re done building your font, FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts. You can use these fonts in anyMac or Windows application.

If you have created a font, you can keep it to yourself or can submit it to the FontStruct galleries where others can use them for their applications or for making their own variations. 

Go to FontStruct

Check Wireless Network Key - WirelessKey View

WirelessKeyView recovers all wireless network keys (WEP/WPA) stored in your computer by the 'Wireless Zero Configuration' service of Windows XP and by the 'WLAN AutoConfig' service of Windows Vista. It allows you to easily save all keys to text/html/xml file, or copy a single key to the clipboard.

This is a freeware. It works with Windows XP and requires at least SP1 installed. 

In order to run this utility, you need to be logged in with a login with administrative rights. 

This utility is available in different languages as well.

Download WirelessKey View...

Get Rid of Obnoxious Options From Right Click Context Menu

You right click an icon and wait several seconds for the menu to pop up. I can understand the itchy feeling you will have during this wait. 

It so happens at times when you install applications and they really bug you adding their options in context menu. However, we have a solution to it now. Shell Extension Manager for Windows gives you a complete management solution to your such issues. With the help of this tool, you can enable and disable all shell extensions installed on your system. 

I have installed this application and now I am really having a blazing context menu. 

This is a freeware and is supported by almost all Windows version.

Download Shell Extension View 1.23

Windows 7 - The Next Windows Release

Windows 7 is said to be the next upcoming operating system by Microsoft. They have recently released Milestone 3 (build 6780) of it to a few selected partners. This release is more looks like Vista, however, Microsoft Paint, Wordpad and Start Menu seems completely revamped. Microsoft Paint and Wordpad are having ribbon user interface as Microsoft Office 2007 applications have.

The screenshots of this release are now available and soon you will see videos of it as well.

Find the below screen shots*: (click on an image to view enlarged)

*a courtesy of sizzledcore.com

Create YouTube Gif Animation

We all know how to make gif animations online from statis pics on your pc, going a step further now you can make gif animations from YouTube Videos or Flickr account pics. 

If you want to make a gif animation from a YouTube video, you can do it by using gickr.com. No installation is required and every thing is done online. 

You can choose the size and number of frames for your gif animation. Maximum frames can be 45 and minimum 25.  Maximum pixels can be 200 and minimum 50. 

Besides, it gives you option to make gif animations from static pictures you have on your computer. And if you are having your account with flickr, you can use that account too. 

Repair Corrupted Microsoft Word Documents

I was to prepare certain supporting document for a project. I had to take notes from some old .doc files. I opened an important .doc file and to my horror it gave me certain error and when I pressed x button of the dialogue box I had characters not understandable by me, or at least by a human. That day I had had to work a complete one hour extra to get the work done to equal the loss of that corrupted .doc file.

Just happened to come across a utility to recover such damaged/corrupted word document. Repair My Word is a freeware and you can use it to recover your corrupted or damaged Microsoft Word documents (.doc file).

It is a 3-step easy to use utility.

1. Open the corrupted document using Repair My Word

2. Preview the recoverable document.

3. Save the text to a new error free document.

Repair My Word will repair Microsoft Word 6.0, Word 95, 97, 2000, XP, and 2003 for Windows documents.

So, download Repair My Word and save yourself sitting one hour extra for a trivial file.

Emails In Future - EmailFuture

Many a times you want to send an email to someone on a specific time in future. Now you can fix to send an email in future upcoming times. This way you will not miss any upcoming birthday you dont really want to miss. Do this on EmailFuture.com.

You can set up to send an email even to yourself just to remind yourself for an important meeting or task.

It's easy. Simply visit the website > Write your email > Select the time zone and set up the time you want the email should be sent.

You can set up the email to be public or private. It is a great service and you can make use of it in many situations.

Click here to visit this site

Shutdown Your PC At A Desired Future Time

You do not need to install software [even if it’s free] to shutdown your PC at a given specified time. You can do it by setting up a desktop shortcut or by making a .bat file. It doesn’t require any rocket science. Just follow the steps in below given procedures and you will have what you get by installing those software.

Procedure 1 to Shutdown After A Specific Interval
1. Right click on your desktop and choose New > Shortcut
2. In the dialogue box “Type the location of the shortcut”, type in “shutdown –s –t 3600” (without quotes). Here 3600 is the interval in seconds. [60min x 60sec = 3600 = 1 hour]
3. Name your icon

Note: In future you can change the properties by right clicking the icon > properties > change icon.
If you want to abort a shutdown just type in “shutdown –a” in Run command dialogue box. (Obviously without quotes)

If you use –r instead of –s in above command, it will restart your system instead of shutting down.

Procedure 2: Making A Batch File
Making a batch file will ease your work. You will click it, enter the desired time and here you go…

Copy and paste the below code in a notepad new file and save this file as turnoff.bat

@echo off
title Scheduled Shutdown Batch Example by XaaHiR
color A
echo Enter Time To Shutdown (example 18:45)
set /p stime=
cls
at %stime% “”shutdown -s -t 00"” >nul
echo Your PC Will Auto Shutdown At %stime%
echo Press Any Key To Exit
pause >nul
exit

Make Online Presentations - Flowgram.com

If you are bored of using PowerPoint and looking for a way to make spiced up presentations then Flowgram.com has what you have been looking for.

With the following features you features you can make a presentation that will make your audience in awe:

• Web design


• Photo editing


• Powerpoint features


• Your own voice note
  

Go to flowgram.com and check out certain presentations made by flowgram.com for some new ideas.

The best feature of this website is that there are no downloads required, and you won’t have to install anything to create these presentations. This makes the site very accessible to anyone with an internet connection and the need to create a presentation.

This should be a great tool if you want to quickly whip up a presentation for any purpose.

Now Use Google Translate on iPhone

Google Translate is a great utility for translation in different languages. However, iPhone users were not previously able to use this utility on their iPhones. However, this is now available on iPhone.

"Google Translate for iPhone is optimized for speed, supports all of the existing Google Translate language pairs, and uses a client-side data-store on your iPhone to hang on to your past translations so you always have them at hand, even if you can't use the local data network."*

Although the service provider who wrote the code for iPhone does not charge for it, however, your data usage may be charged by your service provider. You can get 200 to 400 translations in 1MB of data download.

To try Google Translate for iPhone, point your iPhone or iPod Touch web browser to www.google.com and choose the "more" tab. Or you can go directly to translate.google.com in your browser.

Automatic Shutdown with EasyShutdown

Being in the field of IT, you might be in situations where you want your PC shutdown automaticaly; after performing certain task. You may want your PC shutdown after completion of a download or after a macro is completed.

I have found this very small freeware that can shutdown your PC after a duration of specified minutes. EasyShutdown lets you instantly shutdown or restart your computer or you can delay it by a few minutes.

System Requirements:
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
Windows XP/Vista.

apart from shutting down or restarting you PC after a specific time, it also performs some other special tasks like locking your login session.

If you want to make use of this software you can download it by visiting this link

Backup Your HD free - Paragon Drive Backup

As long as you are using a PC/Laptop you are exposed to the potential risk of getting your drives physically damaged or damaged by virus attacks. Although you can get myriad softwares that gives you backup utility, yet Paragon Drive Backup is one of the bests for the below reasons:

1. It is free

2. It doesn't ask question that you never heard.

It is a simple to use application. Drive Backup keeps your system and applications protected and quickly and easily recovered using its Paragon’s Hot Backup technology, so you can be productive and use your PC during backups.

You can select what to backup from entrie PC to single file. It restores the system in matter of minutes. You can backup your data to any portable device. Moreover, backups can be scheduled and you can clone your HD as well.


It is compatible with Windows Vista/XP and for vista it comes in 32-bit and 64-bit as well.

Download Paragon