When you use a computer in a cyber doubtful coffee, which says to you that they did not install a recorder of striking to recover your passwords and other codes of credit card?

To avoid the nasty surprise, it is enough for you to a key USB with the utility Neo' S SafeKeys. It is a free portable application which presents a graphic keyboard to you where you type the keys with the mouse. Once the seized password, select and simply make it slip it into the field wished to counter the recorders of striking. Simple and effective!

Neo' S SafeKeys will take only 40ko on your key, it turns under Windows and it is available on NeoBlog.

Throughout this year of blogging, I presented various software to you which makes it possible to be better organized, to improve his productivity and to solve small daily worries related to Windows.

I generally tried to focus me on the most useful software based on my daily use of Windows. But nevertheless the desires change, and to measurement of the experiment, one realizes that certain software does not offer the hoped added-value or can be replaced by others, more effective.

I thus decided to offer to you today an assessment concerning all the software that I presented to you during this year, and even in preview certain software of which I did not speak yet but which is worth the turning. For each software, you will find a short description and a comment on the personal use that I make some.

In order to help you to determine the most interesting software, I carefully sorted this list according to the frequency of employment, which is a good indicator of the utility of the software.

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If you follow It flash! regularly, you must know that I am a large fan of the tools of accessibility, this small software which enables you to reach in a wink relevant information. And today, you will discover one of the showpieces of my system of organization: Small Folder.

It is a software for Windows which with the advantage of being free, fast and autonomous. Thus not need to install it, you can carry out it directly starting from a key USB.

Folder Menu is a kind of hybrid between the software Folder Guide, Launchy and Pigeonhole Organizer which we saw previously. Since I discovered it 6 months ago, I make use every day of it to make 3 things primarily:

• To reach the favorite repertories easily
• To launch applications
• To publish documents

We will see in detail how it functions

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XScrape is a small free software which makes it possible to extract from the character strings starting from the Web. It course pages from one bond to another while starting with an start address.

If you wish to recover emails, bonds, the contained informations in m�ta-tags (such as key words) and all kinds of other strategic data, it is thus the software which you need. A regular simple expression will make him include/understand the required type of data.

Here a tutoriel to help you to use it

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It is a recurring question in the users of Windows: how to make to decontaminate the applications launched to starting? Because it is current that software is configured automatically to start without us to require our opinion and thus comes to pollute our daily use of Windows.

To cure that, one can of course use the utility msconfig of Windows. But it will not remove you from all the intruders, because some are well hidden. The easy way is then to use the program Startup Control Panel. It is a small autonomous application of 76ko which proposes to you one by one to strip all the programs launched to starting.

The interface is simple, fast and effective. One should not any more to put at the oubliette one the most common nuisances of Windows.

To convert the currencies, the most common means is to consult the large gates like Yahoo or MSN. But how to make if you are in displacement? Without counting that these gates of information are often a source of procrastination.

PicoCurrency is an good answer with this need. This small utility is connected to Yahoo Finance for you and can record locally foreign exchange rates of more than 150 currencies. In addition to being free, it weighs only 12ko and is carried out without preliminary installation. What to pack the toolbox of your key USB.

Only flat: they forgot Ariary Madagascans! One wonders what they have moreover in Lesotho and the Fiji islands; p)

One often sees evil eye the constraints and limitations which one can meet in our work. And one even shows them to prevent us from achieving our goals. However, a constraint is not inevitably an embarrassment and can render service to us.

To impose a temporal limit is for example a good means to justify itself. That forces us to reflect more quickly and cr�ativement to respect assigned time. One is thus more effective than when it is known that one can take all his time.

For this purpose, a timer can appear particularly useful. You can use a traditional timer of kitchen of course or like me a software timer.

With this intention, I propose to you today a small utility very sympatic under Windows, unearthed on the forum of AutoHotKey.

It is appeared as a countdown which is posted on the D�marrer button of Windows and at the end which a skeletal message of alarm appears.

Here the bond towards the achievable one: AHK Timer [for Windows XP]

No need to install it, it is autonomous.

Our hard drives in vain contain always more data, one is always able to fill them. It should be said that with all the documents multi-media to which one has access, difficult to resist temptation!

If you wonder where left all your gigas, it is good then to locate the files which encumber more your disc. But for a complete diagnosis, better a utility specialized is worth rather than to seek with the aveuglette in Windows Explorer.

It is what WinDirStat proposes to us. This free utility generates a chart of the files of your hard drive in the form of more or less large boxes according to the memory requirements.

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With NiftyWindows, to handle the windows of Windows becomes a true pleasure.

It is a small free software which is carried out in background task and allows you to control the majority of the properties of your windows: cut, transparency, attribute always one signal, etc One uses for that the mouse and some judiciously selected keys of the keyboard.

Written with the language of AutoHotKey scripts about which we spoke recently, it is also rather easy to adapt it to your needs.

Here a small introduction

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To list the contents of a repertory of the hard drive under Windows is the basic thing which is. It is thus natural to have the possibility of exporting this list with the format text without catch of head.

For this purpose, there exists well the order to dir > liste.txt with launching in a terminal. However, it does not enable you to create advanced reports/ratios.

The solution, it is the freeware DirLister which gives it to us. It is a small portable application of 300ko that it will be good to preserve within reach (for example on your key USB).

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You had to notice that Windows Update with the annoying mania of rebooter automatically your computer as soon as an update criticizes was downloaded. You see then appearing a countdown during which you must safeguard all your documents.

The developers of Windows surely believed well to make by implementing this functionality. But it is rather ga�ant to find its machine reboot�e after having left it lit during the pause lunch.

To cure this problem, there exists a utility: Car Reboot Remover. Carry out it, choissez Sayable Reboot Car and validate: it is all!

source: PC World

To widen its vocabulary in a foreign language, it is current to use lists of vocabulary. However, when a list paper is used, one finished always unconsciously by retaining the word order.

If you seek a solution with this problem, I propose to you to discover the software jVLT (java Vocabulary Learning Tool). This small freeware proposes to make you recite the vocabulary of foreign language in a random and automatic way thanks to quiz.

Here is a small presentation

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Traditionally, lorqu' one wants to modify the sound volume of Windows, one must double-click on the icon loudspeaker and adjust with the mouse the potentiometer.

However they is rather tiresome like approach, in particular when that presses (kind I attery on a doubtful site filled of sound effects whereas I am judicious to work).

To limit the damage, I propose today an easy way to you which will enable you to cut the sound of Windows in a wink thanks to a short cut keyboard.

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If one had to retain only one software among all those presented on this blog, it would be certainly Essential PIM - EPIM for the close friends.

It is about a tool all-in-a which proposes to centralize your personal informations. Your calendar, your lists of things to be made, your notes and your contacts are found thus gathered in a single software.

One calls commonly this kind of software a PIM, for Personal Information Manager. There are some much but this one is with my direction one of more succeeds and convivial, in particular thanks to the enormous community of users, who regularly suggest improvements on the forum.

One of the most practical functionalities is the possibility of carrying out the software starting from a key USB in portable version. Thus, where that you are, it is enough to connect your key USB to find all your personal system of organization.

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Under Windows, when one wants to post the calendar, the weather is necessary to be a click right immediately in the bar of the tasks, then to choose Ajuster the date/the hour, or double-to click immediately.

It is rather fast but there is better: to view this calendar directly with the overflight of the hour by the mouse. It is what the freeware QuickMonth Calendar with in premium proposes small more: the posting of the number of the weeks.

Here a small introduction to start to use it
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