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If you missed our free AceVPN and Hide IP VPN giveaway you can now enjoy similar anonymity at decent speeds using free VPN service provider - TheFreeVPN, the new free service lets users surf the web privately also allowing them to bypass internet censorship.

McAfee is one of the oldest and well-known anti-virus vendor and we had shared free McAfee promotions and here is another one leaked on internet, this one allows you to enjoy a full 3 user license valid for 12 months of genuine McAfee VirusScan Plus 2010 with SiteAdvisor.

McAfee® VirusScan® Plus offers proactive PC security to prevent malicious attacks, so you can protect what you value as well as surf, search, and download files online with confidence. McAfee SiteAdvisor’s web safety ratings help you avoid unsafe websites. This service also provides security against multi-pronged attacks by combining anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall technologies. McAfee’s security service continuously delivers the latest software so your protection is never out-of-date. You can now easily add and manage security for multiple PCs in your home. Moreover, improved performance allows it to protect, without disturbing you.

Microsoft Windows 7 comes loaded with lots of new features, and one of the most exciting new feature is Device Stage which introduces a brand new way to interact with your hardware devices from Windows desktop; Out-of-the-box support for hardware devices is one of the major strength for Windows over competing operating-systems and Windows 7 takes this to all new level with even more device-support allowing users to utilize services offered by their devices via new visual interface of device-stage without the need to install additional software or drivers.

Newly introduced Device Stage is not just a visual interface to interact with your devices but also offers automatic media conversion suited for devices plugged-in as I found it while working with Creative Zen MP3 player as demonstrated ahead.

Microsoft SkyDrive offers a generous 25 GB of free online-storage but lacks the simplicity of having the online-storage mounted as an local disk-drive for easier access like the one offered by ZumoDrive and LiveDrive, however, the same can now be achieved by using free Windows utility - SkyDrive Explorer.

SkyDrive Explorer enables users to use SkyDrive online-storage like a local disk-drive attached to the computer, user's can perform all the actions as they are working on a local disk-drive including full drag-n-drop support and multi-operations like renaming objects or deleting a group of files/folders.

Free Windows utility PhotoJoy lets you enjoy your digital-images allowing them to be used as impressive wallpaper collages, desktop photo-toys and 3D screensaver's - once installed the software lets you pick folders with your pictures and apply various professional quality templates for a perfect way to remember those precious moments.

PhotoJoy comes highly recommended to bring your long forgotten digital-picture collection to life by displaying them on your desktop in unique impressive ways (see demo video ahead).

Hacker's succeeded in cracking Microsoft Windows 7 activation even before it got officially released on 22 October 2009, now the same guy Hazar has came up with another utility 'RemoveWAT' which claims to completely remove Windows Activation Technologies (WAT) from the operating-system allowing users with illegal copies of Windows 7 to activate their copies and enjoy retaining genuine status letting them receive all updates from Microsoft, this will even let them pass the genuine check in Microsoft software's like Windows Defender.

The utility claims to uninstall the whole WAT thingy with all traces from the OS, after applying this crack there will be no windows activation section in Windows 7 control panel.

We had shared tips on how to reset forgotten iPod screen-lock code and iPod volume lock PIN, if you are facing the same problem with your iPhone or iPod Touch until recently you were out of luck as the only option was to do a fresh restore but now new utility RMPassword lets you reset your iPhone lock passcode easily on a MAC OS X.

To get your iPhone lock code resetted follow the simple hack as described next, for this to work your iPhone must be jailbroken with Wi-Fi connectivity and should have OpenSSH installed.

If you keep up with latest tech-news you must have heard about the Palm Pre and Apple tussle regarding support for non-apple devices in iTunes, If you are also looking for an iTunes replacement for syncing your music collection with non-apple devices or simply don't like using iTunes we had shared free iTunes alternatives which got the job done easily like WinAmp iPod Plugin and iTunes Agent; but all new utility DoubleTwist takes this to a whole new level by providing syncing support for wider range of devices and comes equipped with music purchasing facility via Amazon® MP3 Store (coming soon) posing a direct competition to Apple iTunes music store.

DoubleTwist supports both Windows and MAC platforms letting users choose and sync pictures, videos, music or iTunes playlists with hundreds of devices like Apple iPhone, iPod, Palm Pre, Android phones, BlackBerry, Sony PSP, Archos 605, Sony Ericsson Walkman & Cybershot phones, Nokia N & E Series phones, Windows Mobile 5.0/6.0 platform devices, LG's Viewty and Shine, Motorola (V9 and V3xx)/most Razr phones, Amazon Kindle, Nintendo DSi, most digital cameras and flash-memory-based camcorders.

TechCrunch reader Jonathan Frederickson who sent earliest tips regarding Google Chrome OS folder on the Chromium build site has now came up with something very exciting - an early build of Google's very own under-development operating-system Chrome OS.

Diskeeper is an well-known name in disk-defragmentation software segment, and the company has now came-up with something very exciting - their latest HyperBoot app can bring-down Windows start-up time by more than 54% increasing overall system performance by 118% as claimed and demonstrated by the company in a Live lab test (video after the jump).

What HyperBoot does is that it physically remaps Windows boot data on the disk-drive bringing it closer for minimizing spindle access delays, the application also continues to optimize Windows as new application are installed offering overall PC performance boost including faster shutdown times.

Already partnered with ASUS, the company has announced to provide its new HyperBoot(TM) "instant-on" boot time technology as a pre-installed feature partnering with worldwide OEM brands, the latest version of HyperBoot works with Windows XP and Windows 7 supporting hard-disk drivers and solid-state disk SSD) drives.