Microsoft Windows Live Essentials 2011 Final is now available for download, the free add-on pack for Windows is now upgraded to final version shedding the beta tag with this release, comprising new versions of MSN Messenger, Photo Gallery, Windows Movie Maker, Windows Mail, Writer, Family Safety, and Windows Live Mesh the utility pack is surely going to be of great help. The new Windows Live Essentials 2011 requires Windows Vista or Windows 7 but an older version is also available for XP and can be downloaded from the link provided below.

Online web-browser version of popular games titles is the new trend letting game-developers tap into a larger user-base benefiting from existing game popularity, after Quake Live, FIFA Online and Need For Speed: World the next to follow the suite is classic "Age Of Empires". Currently under free beta "Age Of Empires Online" will be launched as a part of Windows LIVE in 2011, The online-only game release is compatible with Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.

A video demo of the online game-play is posted below.

There are quite a few free services offering free online multi-engine anti-virus scanning but VirusTotal would be the only service offering various methods to use their service easily. Few days ago we reviewed VTZilla Firefox addon from VirusTotal which provides power of multi-engine malware scanning right from user web-browser, VirusTotal Uploader is yet another handy extension to this service offering easy uploading functionality for suspicious files from your computer.

Rapidshare is trying hard to keep it's throne of being the leading one-click file-hoster, plagued by anti-piracy outfits pressure users are getting away to rival services like Hotfile.com as evident from this Alexa traffic comparison chart of past six-months. The company has now came up with a brand new site design, social-network and anti-wait strategy to win back users to Rapidshare.

We have reviewed many free system maintenance utility suites and almost everyone one of them does the job decently, developed by a "Microsoft certified partner" company brand new entry to this niche "SlimCleaner" has something new to offer and that is to utilize the power of community letting users decide what to keep and what to remove.

Tired of bloated and resource hungry download-managers or just want to run a download-manager on any kind of server or embedded system?, the answer is pyLoad - A powerful download manager designed to run on very low hardware requirements, platform independently and even without the need of Graphical Output.

Beside the standard systems like Windows or Ubuntu many User successfully installed pyLoad on a great variety of systems e.g. ASUS Router, NSLU2, any OpenWRT Router, Linkstation, QNAP NAS, PlugBox, eTrayz, basically any system with a unix os and at least 32MB ram. Supporting all common One-Click-Hoster including free and premium support like Rapidshare, Hotfile, Megaupload etc., it has a GUI for desktop systems, a nice Webinterface to control your downloads with your Browser and much more features of any modern download-manager.

Firefox Sync aims to provide fast and easy access to your browser bookmarks, history, passwords and open-tabs across all your devices including phones like iPhone where Firefox is not available. If you are using Firefox 4 and are still unable to figure-out how to access tabs from other computer here's the solution.

This place seems to be one of the best place to get a free VPN account as evident from the amount of VPN service reviews and free account giveaways in the past, the great news is we today have another giveaway of popular proxy based anonymity solution IP Hider and that too with full one year validity. IP Hider is as simple to use as it can get - simply launch the utility, select the premium proxy you want to mask your IP with and start surfing anonymously right-away.

Looking at all the positive reviews and huge number of downloads Internet Explorer 9 Beta can be comfortably called a success taking Microsoft back into the game, My main web-browser is still Firefox but I occasionally used Google Chrome which is now replaced by IE9 Beta. While using any web-browser one thing you would like to do is to enable advertisement blocking (Adblocker) which in IE's case called InPrivate Filtering, we have shared tutorial on how to import an pre-populated adblocker server list for IE8 and even how to make it enabled by default (always on adblocking) now it's time for an updated adblock InPrivate filter list for Internet Explorer 9 as posted ahead.

Want to extract and convert a part of Youtube video as animated GIF image ?, the fastest and easiest solution would be to use an free online Youtube To GIF format converter.