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Finally the much awaited iPhone unlocking and jailbreaking software "Pwnage Tool 2.0" is released for public downloading, a more official announcement with detailed information is expected to be released in next few days from the developers the iPhone-Dev Team.

The new version of the free software "Pwnage Tool 2.0" allows iPhone owners to jailbreak and unlock older iPhones with firmware up to and including the new version 2.0, and jailbreak iPhone 3Gs and iPod Touches (so you can run 3rd party applications not supported by Apple and the new iPhone App Store), 3G iPhone unlocking is expected to be included in upcoming releases.

Apple iPhone and iPod Touch offer lots of storage space which can be utilized for storing files, backups or as an external disk drive, but unfortunately Apple removed the ability to use the device as an external storage, However as always software's have been developed to bypass this restriction.

DiskAid is one such free software for Windows and Mac enabling owners to use their iPhone or iPod touch as an external disk drive, With DiskAid you can transfer files and folders between your iPhone or iPod Touch and your Computer with ease, DiskAid auto-detects any plugged in supported device and offers an easy to use Files & Folders Browser with drag and drop support for fast and easy operations.

You don't need to jailbreak iPhone or iPod and the softwares works well with all the firmware versions including the latest iPhone Software Update 2.0.

Professional panoramic images need expensive specialized camera's and equipments to build, but now you can create cool panoramic images from your pictures taken using any normal camera and that too for free without using any expensive software, Autostitch is a free software from University of British Columbia allowing you to create panoramas with ease, the software holds title for being the world's first fully automatic 2D image stitcher. The user simply selects a set of images using the windows interface, and the software automatically stitches them into a panorama as illustrated in the image below.

"Sean Carving" is one of the coolest digital imaging trick you would have ever seen, the new content aware image-resizing method is used to resize images non-uniformly, removing only less important pixels. Developed by two Israeli professors, Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir the algorithm makes it possible to select important areas of an image that needs to be preserved and change the aspect ratio of an image without effecting the main content look. It's better to see the video presentation below to see what exactly this method can achieve.

IntuImage - is one of its kind free software to make use of this amazing technique on your desktop, this easy to use tool utilizes “seam carving” or “liquid rescaling” allowing significant change in image size and proportion while leaving the important image elements intact.

Lopesoft's free utility FileMenu Tools lets you customize Windows Explorer context menu to provide advanced functions for file and folder manipulation like advanced renaming, shredding, split & join, register/unregister dll's and much more, these functions come handy at times and can be accessed in the most convenient way using FileMenu Tools.

FileMenu Tools Features:

• Build-in utilities to perform operations like rename and delete operations over files and folders using specified criteria.
• Add customized commands which let run external applications, copy/move to a specific folder or delete specific file types.
• Configure the "Send to..." submenu.
• Enable/disable the commands which are added by other applications to the context menu.
• These are just a few major functions of this wonderful utility.

Default Windows Task Manager provides a simple, easy to understand list of all the running process's on your computer, but if you are a power users and need to diagnose thing's out this information is not sufficient.

AnVir Task Manager is a free but powerful replacement for the default Task manager, loaded with all the tools you will ever need for advanced computer process diagnosis, the software provides detailed information about every process that is running, and about applications running automatically on Windows startup with all the hidden applications.

The interface looks cluttered and overloaded with information, but once you start using, its pretty easy. The main interface is divided into five tabs Startup, Applications, Processes, Services and Log, providing all the information you will ever need to know from the respected function, while loaded into the memory AnVir task manager displays detailed system information like CPU Load, Most CPU using process, disk load and temperature with process network usage statics via tooltips in system tray.

Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8 is a well known professional partition manager for windows, the software allows you to create, edit, merge, backup and restore partitions on your hard-disk.

The software costs $49 to buy, However, a British computer magazine "Computer Active" offered free legal license to the software using a special link which was supposes to expire on April 11, 2007 but is still active and allows you to register your copy of Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8 for free legally.

Low resolution videos taken using cellphones and lower-end digital camera's can now be improved to a much better quality using two free solutions FixMyMovie and FullPix as discussed below in detail.

FixMyMovie provides an easy to use, free online service allowing users to upload videos and download the enhanced version after online processing, utilizing MotionDSP's latest version of regularly updated patent-pending video technology, FixMyMovie significantly enhances the video quality improving overall resolution, fixing video noise, adjusting brightness/contrast and re-encoding, Users can then directly upload the video to YouTube or download in iPod/iPhone/AppleTV or Windows Media compatible formats.

FullPix is another free solution to enhance your poor quality videos and improve resolution, currently in private beta (needs invite code), Fullpix is a desktop software allowing users to remove block effects, video noise and color fading from videos and convert them to format of their choice with ease.

TeraCopy is a must-have free replacement for default Windows copy/move operations, providing a much easier and faster way to copy/move files with advanced features not provided by Windows.

Major advantages of using TeraCopy:

1. Copy files faster using dynamically adjusted buffers reducing overall seek times.
2. Using TeraCopy you can simply pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and Resume with a single click.
3. In case of a copy error, Unlike Windows TeraCopy will try several times and if not successful just skips the file without terminating the entire transfer.
4. Convenient Windows Explorer integration offering easy access to last used copy/move destinations for faster copying.

Digsby is a feature rich, easy to use free desktop client offering multi-protocol instant messaging with email and social networking integration aimed at bringing all major online communication services and social networks under one roof making things simpler to manage and use.

Currently Digsby supports:

• Instant Messaging Services : AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber Accounts.
• Email Services : Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, IMAP, and POP accounts.
• Social Networking Services : Facebook and MySpace (support for more services coming soon).

Digsby is in private beta now and you need an "Beta Invite Code" to use it (see end of the post for special invite codes for our blog readers).