Check Point are being generous. Now they are offering most of their product with 50% discount. Yesterday they are offering ZoneAlarm Pro for free, and after the offer have expired today, they are giving 50% discount to their product.

ZoneAlarm Pro now at USD19.95

Check Point products that are getting 50% discount are;

• ZoneAlarm Pro Firewall at $19.95 (Normal price $39.95)
• ZoneAlarm Antivirus at $19.95 (Normal Price $29.95)
• ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite at $49.95 (Normal Price $69.95)

This is one great offer by Check Point. If you are looking for a stable security product, you got to hurry to their website for this offer.

Click here to go to Check Point website and get 50% discount off their products

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If you fancy a powerful commercial firewall software, with antispyware for free, then you can hurry and go to ZoneAlarm Pro website for a free download of the ZoneAlarm Pro Firewall.

ZoneAlarm Pro Free Download

Checkpoint, the developer of ZoneAlarm Pro are offering ZoneAlarm Pro that normally would cost you $39.95, for free. This is in conjunction with Checkpoint’s 15th anniversary. The offer is valid from 11/18/08 6am PST to 11/19/08 6am PST.

So what are you waiting for, just click here to go to the download page of the ZoneAlarm Pro that Checkpoint is offering for free. You might want to hurry.

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Besides new enhancement and improvement, Firefox 3 also come with a funny easter egg, just like the previous version of Firefox with the Kitchen Sink Easter Egg.

This time it is all about Robots in Firefox 3 new Easter Egg.

Firefox 3 About Robot Easter Egg

To view the new Firefox 3 About Robots Easter Egg,

1. Go to Firefox 3 Address Bar.
2. Type “about:robots” without the quote

A disclaimer will appear in the Firefox 3 browser. It seems that this new Firefox 3 about:robots easter egg feature some famous quotes from several movies and TV Series with robots.

As always, the Firefox 3 team never fail to impress.

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Do you know that a clustered Registry Entries will slow down your Microsoft Windows performance tremendously?

Every time you install new software into your Windows operating system, these installation process will create new registry entries necessary for the software to function properly. The trouble come when you try to uninstall the software from your Operating System. Most of the software uninstaller process WILL NOT REMOVE the software registry entries from your Windows Operating System. It will be left there, somewhere in your Windows registry, eating up space and degrading your Windows performance.

You will need a special Registry Diagnosing and Cleaning utilities to do the job properly. RegSweep is one of those tools.

RegSweep is an advanced Registry Diagnosing and Cleaning tool that are design to work for beginner and advanced user. The software featured an easy to use user friendly interface like most modern registry cleaner.

I found out that RegSweep offer several advance scanning options compared to other Registry Diagnosing and Cleaning software. RegSweep also let you manage your startup entry. You can disable startup program that you do not use to descrease your Windows Operating System startup time and free some resources.

The part where RegSweep excel the most is it scanning time. It took less than a minute on my test system to scan all my registry entries and found several errors on them.

As an IT Professional, I would highly recommend RegSweep as a useful tool to keep your Windows Operating System on peak performance.

You can download RegSweep from their official website:

DOWNLOAD REGSWEEP HERE

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I wasn’t surprised when I found out that the good folks at Google quietly update the Google Chrome to Google Chrome Beta 3.

Google Chrome Beta 3 (0.3.154.9)

The Google Chrome browser has been riddled with bugs upon Google Chrome release. But the bugs does not stop user from giving high hope to the browser. No doubt that the Google Chrome from Google load web pages faster than any other browser in the market, including the new Firefox 3.

According to several sources, the new beta 3 update bring several security fixes and enhancement, including an exploit that can be use to redirect your browser to another website. Another useful improvement include a warning message that pop up whenever you want to download executable files.

If you haven’t experience the Google Chrome experience yet, you can download the Google Chrome browser at Google Chrome official web page.

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PC Wizard 2008 is a useful free software (freeware) that enable you to analyze your hardware and software, and will run several simple benchmark of your computer.

Installation of PC Wizard 2008 is an easy step with the executable Installer provided. PC Wizard 2008 also featured an easy to navigate user interface, appropriate for beginner or advance user. Although PC Wizard 2008 support a lot of analysis and benchmarking module, you can choose which analysis or benchmark you want to run on your system through PC Wizard 2008 options page.

All in all, PC Wizard 2008 is a nifty free utility to have on your PC when you want to see the performance of your current PC system.

You can download PC Wizard 2008 from CPUID, the developer of PC Wizard 2008 here.

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Mozilla have made Firefox 3.1 beta 1 available for download.

Be advised though that Firefox 3.1 beta 1 is beta version and mostly will contains bugs and extensions compability. Some of the new features implemented in Firefox 3.1 beta 1 are:

• Web standards improvements in the Gecko layout engine
• Added support for CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 properties
• A new tab-switching shortcut that shows previews of the tab you’re switching to
  Improved control over the Smart Location Bar using special characters to restrict your search
• Drag and drop tabs from one Firefox window to another.
• Support for new web technologies such as the and elements, the W3C Geo location API, JavaScript query selectors, web worker threads, SVG transforms and offline applications.

Another features worth noticing is that Firefox 3.1 beta 1 scored a respectable 89/100 in acid test. In my previous post on badxp, I wrote about the new privacy features of Firefox 3.1 dubbed the “porn mode“. Interestingly, the new privacy mode are not mentioned in this new beta 1 release of Firefox 3.1 beta 1.

Those interested in trying the beta 1 version of Firefox 3.1 can dowload Firefox 3.1 beta 1 from mozilla download page.

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Mozilla will incorporate a private browsing mode, known to some as porn mode in their new Firefox 3.1 release.

Firefox 3.1 porn mode will enable user to browse the web using Firefox 3.1 without worrying that the browser collecting history and cookies while browsing. This feature have been provided by other browser such as Internet Explorer 8, Safari, and the new Google Chrome.

However, talks have it that Firefox 3.1 porn mode or private mode differ from other browser’s private, as upon entering Firefox 3.1 porn mode, the browsing information are still accessible by the sites and your ISP. The only things you are hiding are from your parents, husband/wife, or your kids.

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Microsoft Windows Vista has a lot of services that run in the background which use CPU processing power and consume space in System Memory. With Vista Service Optimizer, you can tweak Windows Vista services safely and easily


Vista Service Optimizer is a free utility design to tweak windows vista services. This is due to the fact that a standard Windows Vista installation have a lot of running services that most of normal user do not use. Leaving this services running in the background in Windows Vista will definitely slow down the computer running Microsoft Windows Vista.

Using Vista Service Optimizer to tweak Windows Vista Services is easy as there is an Automatic mode to optimize Windows Vista Services. There is also a Manual mode for advance user who would like to tweak Windows Vista Service manually

You can download Vista Service Optimizer and tweak your Windows Vista services from snapfiles.

Download Vista Service Optimizer

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Google have launch a web browser known as Google Chrome Browser. With this Google Chrome Browser release, Google have ventured into the Web browser territory with the giants.

A quick glance of features of Google Chrome Browser taken from Google Chrome Browser website:

• One box for everything
  Web search. Web history. Address bar. Suggestions as you type. One unified box serves all your browsing needs.
• New tab page
  Every time you open a new tab, you’ll see a visual sampling of your most visited sites, most used search engines, and recently bookmarked pages and closed tabs.
• Application shortcuts
  Use web apps without opening your browser. Application shortcuts can directly load your favorite online apps.
• Dynamic tabs
  You can drag tabs out of the browser to create new windows, gather multiple tabs into one window or arrange your tabs however you wish — quickly and easily.
• Crash control
  Every tab you’re using is run independently in the browser, so if one app crashes it won’t take anything else down.
• Incognito mode
  Don’t want pages you visit to show up in your web history? Choose incognito mode for private browsing.
• Safe browsing
  Google Chrome warns you if you’re about to visit a suspected phishing, malware or otherwise unsafe website.
• Instant bookmarks
  Want to bookmark a web page? Just click the star icon at the left edge of the address bar and you’re done.
• Importing settings
  When you switch to Google Chrome, you can pick up where you left off with all the bookmarks and passwords from your existing browser.
• Simpler downloads
  No intrusive download manager; you see your download’s status at the bottom of your current window.

Looking at the features above, some of Google chrome browser features such are new and are not available on other browser at the moment.

Installing the Google Chrome Browser is as easy as an installation process could be, and the Google Chrome Browser seems to start up real fast, and the memory usage is quite minimal on Microsoft Windows XP compared to other browsers. But the real Google Chrome Browser experience can only be judged on how the browser perform on daily usage.

You can download the Google chrome browser for the official website here.

Be sure to give feedbacks by commenting here on how the Google Chrome Browser perform for you.

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