There exist hundreds of fake anti-spyware and anti-virus software's with the sole aim of forcing computer users into paying for removal of nonexistent malware, these genre of fake products is known as Rogue Anti-Spyware Products, these malicious applications gets installed on computers by deceiving users using false advertising or by taking advantage of security vulnerabilities, once installed these applications display false malware detections, nagging user with false security alerts and even disable access to certain functions urging users to buy the product and remove detected malware's and restrictions.

One of the most common rogue antispyware application is MS AntiSpyware 2009 and MS AntiVirus 2009, once installed this rogue antispyware nags user with fake alerts and buy now dialog boxes.

Nokia Maps is a free world mapping application for Nokia mobile phones, the application is basically free but require monthly subscription to enable features like Turn-by-turn voice-guided navigation, Door-to-door pedestrian navigation, travel guides, and traffic information with smart automatic re-routing.

To activate these paid features you need to purchase monthly subscription and enter the provided license code into the application, for testing things out Nokia Europe is giving away free Nokia Navigation License codes to interested Nokia customers.

A probable concept screenshot of Microsoft Office 14 is now leaked out from a powerpoint presentation hosted at Microsoft servers, Microsoft has not declared any release dates or roadmap for the next version of Microsoft Office but speculation is that Microsoft Office 14 will get released in 2010.

As you can see the new design has refined ribbon interface with image controls in status-bar, the screenshot seems to be of Grava - a utility for educational content creators which is rumored to be a part of MS Office 14.

Microsoft Windows 7 Beta 1 which got leaked and cracked earlier is now officially available as a public download, Microsoft is also giving away 2.5 million free legitimate keys to let users try the first Beta of their upcoming operating system.

Windows 7 Beta 1 downloads are in huge demand slowing down the Microsoft download servers, you can download and get legitimate activations keys for 32 Bit and 64 Bit Windows 7 using the following method:

Apple iPhone is a hugely popular gadget but still lacks basic functionality for copy-pasting text, there had been quite a few software upgrades for iPhone but none addressed lack of this basic functionality, However, smart developers at PasteBud have found a nifty trick to use Javascript for adding this must-have functionality on the device, to make it work you need to bookmark two javscripts on your web-browser capable of syncing with iTunes (Safari or Internet Explorer) and then sync your iPhone.

Once these bookmarks get synced on your iPhone you can use them to copy and paste text from emails and webpages on the device.

If you are looking for a small, simple, fast and free CD, DVD and Blue-Ray burning solution JetBee would be the best solution currently available, I have written about Free Nero Alternative before but this one is far better then any other free CD/DVD burner out there.

JetBee is pretty small with installer sized only 1.59 MB and application just 658 KB, the application launches almost instantly and you simply need to Drag-N-Drop files and Click the Burn button to start the burning process, the application then minimize to the system tray so you can work on other things unobtrusively, this is by far the most easiest and fast approach you can get in a CD/DVD/Blue-Ray burner application, JetBee allows creation of Audio-CD, DVD Video and UDF discs with full support for creation of multi-session and bootable media featuring buffer underrun protection, test writing, and optimal power calibration.

Microsoft Windows provide a small power icon to display the battery status in system tray, the small icon provides a rough idea about the amount of power remaining and the user is required to hover the mouse over the icon to get the exact amount in percentage, to make things more noticeable and detailed there exist quite a few battery monitoring software's but all of them take up precious desktop space to display the power status, to solve this problem free utility Power Meter Plus uses a smart approach displaying the power status transparently, the meter gradually becomes more visible as the power levels drop, meaning the lower the power the more noticeable the meter will be.

One of the World's biggest telecom company - Reliance Communications, the Indian major is all set to make its presence felt in VOIP business, with the launch of their VOIP service Reliance iCall
they are surely going to make a impact in the VOIP market.

To promote the launch of their service the company is offering 100% free calls to landline and mobile phones destinations like USA, UK, Canada, Germany, China, France, Australia, Singapore, Japan and Brazil till 15 January 2009.

If your institution or ISP blocks access to Rapidshare, free Firefox addon "Download Rapidshare @ Office" can be the solution you are looking for, the handy little addon changes Rapidshare links (rs*.rapidshare.com) to IP's fooling the proxy server into allowing the access, you just need to paste all your Rapidshare links into the addon toolbar and it takes care of everything else including managing the wait-times restrictions, the whole process is fully automatic and very easy, you can also use this to download multiple files as a Rapidshare free user easily.

Microsoft Windows 7 Beta 1 which got leaked and cracked a few days ago, is being reported to corrupt some MP3 files when used via included Windows Media Player 12, users on forums are reporting data corruption issues because of this bug in Windows 7 beta 1 build 7000 while playing MP3 files using Windows Media Player 12, Approximately 2-3 seconds data will get cut-off from the beginning of MP3s as Windows Media Player 12 tries to retrieve meta-information from internet and write it to any MP3 file with a Meta data header larger than 16KB.