1. FastStone Capture – A Excellent free tools from the company which offers FastStone Image Resizer. This is one of the Ultimate Screen Capture tool offering you with options which can directly export the captured image to multiple locations like ClipBoard, File, Printer, Email, Word or Web. Its also portable because its a 1.5Mb software with huge features in it.
   
   

   FastStone Capture Images

2. Gadwin PrintScreen – A application which is quite advanced than the above one offering you to setup the settings and then using the hotkey combinations you can take Captures and save them to a specific folder or email them. This application can also take Captures while you are playing your favorite PC Games which are normally not possible using the Print Screen Button because that leads to a Black Blank Screen. The settings allow you to customize the way Screenshots are taken and following this while you are playing the Games, the software will take multiple snapshots and notify you.
3. Snipping Tool – This is a tool which is available to Windows Vista & Windows 7 owners only and not to Windows XP which is why i could not try this application. But based on the features it shows that it can do the following jobs.
   Free-form Snip. Draw an irregular line, such as a circle or a triangle, around an object.
   Rectangular Snip. Draw a precise line by dragging the cursor around an object to form a rectangle.
   Window Snip. Select a window, such as a browser window or dialog box, that you want to capture.
   Full-screen Snip. Capture the entire screen when you select this type of snip.
   
   

   Microsoft Snipping Tool

4. Jing is another excellent service which is free and offers Screenshot Capture along with Onscreen Video Recording facility. You will find a small ‘Sun’ icon on your screen which you can drag and easily select a portion. You can also add a text box, arror, highlight or rectangle to the captured selected area and write down notes. Finally you can share the captured image to the web, email, or else save it to your computer.
   
   

   Jing Image Capture

5. ScreenGrab – This is one of my favorite tool which is a Firefox Add-on useful for you to take multiple screenshots. You can directly take a complete Window Screenshot, Selected Area or else the visible portion. This is the perfect tool for those who are looking to take screenshots of websites and emails which are very long and cannot be normally captured. Selecting the option of Complete Page/Frame you can capture everything on your browser from top to bottom. Along with saving the files directly you also have a option of copying them, which means the captured Image is stored in the Clipboard and you can paste it to your favorite Image Editing Software like Photoshop.
   
   

   ScreenGrab Capture Tool

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Avairy Website Screenshots

Instead of using different screen capture tools, you can try out the avaity.com online Image Markup Utility which is a Online Application which takes instant screenshot of any webpage URL you specify following which it shows you a list of options which can help you in Editing the Image and adding different Image Effects. Some of the options include Rotate & Flip, Crop & Resize the Screenshot which was generated and instantly apply the effects and view the results on the same window.

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The right side menu offers you with options like Undo, Redo, Restore, Colors Selection, Size with Outline & Shadow. You can easily add Arrows by dragging and dropping different pointers from the left side menu. Once you complete editing you can directly save the edited screenshot image to your computer or else save & host online. Overall this is a very much recommended application if you are looking to get some screenshot taken real quickly.

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Update Checker AppHit

Desktop Update Checker – This version allows you to download a small exe file to your PC which when installed would display you a report with all the available or required updates for the installed softwares on your PC. This option is not linked with any other installed softwares and is nothing but a reporting tool useful for giving you a list of all the required.

Firefox Addon

BitComet – BitComet is a multiple featured application which ranges from BitTorrent, FTP, HTTP download client and also the company behind the free software downloads website Apphit.com, hence in this software too you will find a installed notifier which can give you notifications for your PC. The Update Checker comes preinstalled in BitTorrent which can be removed after installation.

CometBird – This is the last option which Apphit offers to keep you updated with all the notifications. You can go with any of these and make sure all the software’s on your PC are updated regularly.

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This software offers a repository of image effect filters frames and masks that can be applied to increase the presentation of the photos that you are interested in. PhotoScape provides a wide variety of options. These options include printing. In this case you can be able to create numerous out puts from which you can merge the photos in a single page. With the availability of different templates, you can create collage from different lay outs. The images can be preserved in files as JPG files. The software has other characteristics like batch editing, slide shows, GIF animations among others. This is a finished collection that will answer your basic needs as concerns your digital image editing procedure.

The PhotoScape undergoes reviews if need arises in order to make it meet new requirements. For instance, Change your image editing view. This review was done on November 7, 2008 by the CBS interactive staff who gave it the version Name PhotoScape 3.3. This review was concerned with adding another feature to the roster of the editors of freeware rich image editor. The software though a vast consumer of memory as it is with Firefox, the editor in this case is excellent for those of you who are shifting from JPEG to am-pro dSLR work. This software is able to support other major image formats like from JPEG and PNG and also up to animated GIFs. It is made up of prebuilt templates for users who want to come up with collages, web comics and fumetti and also a red-eye removal among other features. One should be cautioned that, RAW processing though you can drag and drop it, this does not guarantee its change to JPEG, not until you load the RAW file from the file navigator. This sounds simple but it is a bug that could lead to a final declaration that there is no RAW support that is reliable.

PhotoScape Photo Editing Screenshots

The PhotoScape in this case may look unfriendly to some strangers but it is really intuitive. The program loads very fast and processing is unique from those known with Adobe’s most market fetching programs. The software is strange to you when only you are not into its world. Just try it and you will appreciate it.

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Let us see how to create a user account with parental controls.
1. Open the “systems preferences” utility that is located in the applications folder on OS.
2. Click the “accounts” icon in the system row.
3. Click the “lock” icon at the bottom of the accounts window to enable adding of a new account. Type your admin password when it is prompted.
4. Click the + plus sign in the lower left to add a new account.
5. Enter a name, short name, password, and the password again and a password hint. Do not check off the allow admin box as this would enable the user to have full access to the computer, including the adding and deleting of accounts.
6. Now click on the “create account”. Click on the “urn off automatic login” button when you are prompted to do so.
7. Click on the name of the new user in the list on the left side of the screen and click the “parent control” tab at the top of the screen.
8. Now click the check box next to safari and the configure button to the right. The system will tell you to login s the new user and open up safari to configure the sites that the user is allowed to visit.
9. Now return ti finder and select “log out” under the apple menu, and login as the new user.
10. Launch safari and then select the “preferences” and then “security” from the safari menu.
11. Click to uncheck the box next to “enable parental controls”. Now enter your admin password and close the preferences box.
12. Add book marks for all the allowed sites to the bookmarks bar and remove all other bookmarks.
13. Now return to safari and go to “preferences” and “security”. Check off the box for “enable parental controls” again and enter your admin password to lock in your changes. now you can see that only the sites that you have book marked will be accessible in this account.

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Greasemonkey Tools

Now let us learn what Greasemonkey is – Greasemonkey is a Mozilla Firefox extension that will allow you to install the scripts that will make changes on the fly to specific web pages. It is also known as augmented browsing. As we know the Greasemonkey scripts are always persistent, the changes made to the web pages are automatically executed every time the page is opened; this takes place in order to make them effectively permanent for every user running the script. This software is used to add new functions to web pages, fixing rendering bugs, combining data’s from multiple web pages and various other purposes.

How to use Greasemonkey : The first step is to Install Greasemonkey like any other extension, In order to have the tutorial as well, you have to install also, install stylish, in the same way you have installed the Greasemonkey. After installation of this software all you have to do is to click the links and the script will be installed automatically.

The original author is Aaron Boodman and the available version is 0.8.20090123 which was released on the 18th of February 2009 which is available now in English and the operating system is Cross-platform. The Grease Script is used in auto fill forms, to alter the formatting of text, borders and graphics. Grease monkey can remove specific content, such as advertising, popup, even whole sections of a page. Greasemonkey can even alter content and layout. It can add floating elements and make elements collapsible. Greasemonkey can add links, buttons, or any other type of HTML element anywhere on the page. It can upgrade the content of pages by retrieving connecting information from pages on the same site or other sites as well.

Greasemonkey script is similar to JavaScript for a web page, with some additional privileges such as cross-site XMLHttp requests. When compared to writing a full-fledged Firefox extension Greasemonkey is easier. Greasemonkey scripts are only limited for the sake of security restrictions imposed by Mozilla’s XPCNative wrappers.

If you are interested you can download the software here

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You may end up in law suit if you try to down load from such sites and therefore it is always advisable to check the sites for down load before you do so. Even though there are many programs available to do the recording of live streaming audio, the disadvantage is that you have to hear the entire song. Here are some easy tips to download streaming audio.

Record Streaming Audio

Once you have installed the program all you have to do is configure the source for the music. This is a very good program for recording music played via the web. It has other features like the ability to record videos, and it has no spyware or adware. It is just so easy and simple, to down load in the modern world. The audio is perfect and the videos are crystal clear. You can mute the music and record any music or video and see it letter.

Save Audio Tools

The next one is standalone program called MP3 my MP3 Recorder. It is a free program, the only dis advantage is you cannot mute the music which you want to record but it will not clutter your tool and it is very easy to install and use. All you have to do is to go to following website and install the program. http://www.mp3mymp3.com

There are many other options like My Screen Recorder Pro v2.67, windows media recorder pro, Replay AV, Replay music, super MP3 Recorder pro and I-Sound WMA. I think the best of these is free coder.

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The first and foremost is to educate and explain to your child about internet. What he or she can watch or read according to what you think is your moral standard, This along will be ineffective, because once the child is on the computer desk, he or she has access to almost anything and everything, so we parents need to take control, it is like going to a shopping mall alone, or wandering in the streets alone, unless you have a set of standard it may be difficult.

Block Website Access Children

When the child is on the computer make sure there is an adult supervising them, Peep in and see what they are doing so that they understand that they are :

Parental control bar
The easiest thing would be to just download a parental control bar. It is free public service from the following web site. (WRAAC.org) it gives parents and children controlled freedom. It works on the PC and MAC. It works on Firefox, vista and explorer.

Writing commands
Writing commands is the cheapest of all, because you have to write a program into your computer blocking the unwanted site, but the inconvenience is you need to have at least some knowledge about computer.

Safety software with the advance in the online web sites each and every day millions of new sites are added, old methods may not be that efficient. The latest software you can get is from the following web site (Kid safe Source), they have different software’s and the best would be Spy agent, which helps to monitor your child’s emails on line chatting and web browsing activities.

Some of the software’s give time limit as well which is wonderful, and we can set the time when the children can browse the net. These are some of the good sources with filter software and complete parental control.

Child gambling protection project
“The Child gambling protection project” is nonprofit organization software which prevents children and teens from the glossy and flashy advertisements provoking them into on line gambling.

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Try out CheckPlaces Firefox Add-on which checks your browsers bookmarks in multiple ways. This Add-on would first do a basic checkup and if you check on the options you will be able to perform other options like looking up for pages still exist, duplicate bookmarks, and empty folders. Also you can make the Add-on to restore the Favicon’s which are missing for few of your bookmarks.

Just Install this Add-on and you will find a small icon on your browser’s status bar and also its listed under Bookmarks > CheckPlaces , which when clicked would show you a small box with multiple option to select. You need to select the following option to perform the best clean up.

Check for Duplicates – Finds all the duplicate links stored under your bookmarks folder.
Delete Duplicate Dates – Sometimes while you bookmark a link under dates, they get done twice hence this option can delete those duplicate links.
Check for Empty Folders – You can create different folders and then add bookmarks under them, something like saving them in different categories.
Check Page Exist Use Timeout – This option if for performing a small checkout for all the links to check whether they are all live links and have not gone dead. Though by default it checks for 60 seconds Timeout and if still a link does not load up it will be considered as dead.
Load Favicons – Once you click on your browsers Bookmarks menu you will find a big list of your bookmarks in a drop down format and many a times these links dont have a Favicon which is why its recommended to select this option to restore the Favicon for all the bookmarked links.

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Mozilla Firefox has Adblock. Adblock is a content filter extension. This Adblock is for Mozilla Firefox and Mozila application Suite based web browsers. This Adblock is mainly used to block advertisements. It also lets users to prevent page elements from being downloaded and displayed. An improved version of the Adblock of Mozilla Firefox is Adblock Plus. Adblock Plus has grown to replace the old Adblock. There are many improved features in the Mozilla Firefox Ad blocker, to filter subscriptions, user interface and element hiding.

This Adblock was developed by Henrik Aasted Sorensen, Michael McDonald and Wladimir Palant. The first 1.1 version was released in July 13, 2009. It works in the Cross-platform operating system. Its type is Mozilla extension. With many features added Adblock focuses on the usability. At the top of the main window it has menu items. From its panel at the bottom, which has a list of block able items is integrated. This panel can be detached from the main window. Addition to the regular ad blocking Element Hiding can be also used. There are many other features in the Adblock. It helps to enable and disable individual filters without even removing them. It also has the feature which includes filter statistics which hits counter.

Mozilla has a built-in image blocker like that, Adblock blocks HTTP requests. It blocks according to their source address and can block I Frames, scripts and Flash. It also does element hiding. That is it uses automatically-generated user style sheets to hide elements, elements such as text ads on a page as they load instead of blocking them.

To block the website in mozilla firefox you can use this extension for Firefox which is given below. Or you can edit the hosts file on your PC. You can also download the parental control software from http://www.geeksjunction.com to block certain websites in Firefox. You can also block the websites by adding it to your Windows Hosts file; this can be done without any software.

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