Avira Antivir Presonal Free Antivirus Software

After many years of using AVG anti virus I've recently switched a couple of my computers to Avira Antivir and so far I've been impressed. My reason for switching was because AVG 8.0 stopped working on my Vista machine, plus I've been getting frustrated with having to manually run the updates since upgrading from AVG 7.5 to AVG 8.0. So I went hunting for an alternative in order to keep protected. I've tried Avast in the past and although it gets good reviews I've always found the usability and user interface to be limiting.

I had not come across Avira before, but it's ranked #2 at download.com (behind AVG). Installation is easy, the user interface is simple and straightforward. I have been so please with the install on my desktop PC that I've just switched my laptop from AVG to Avria as well. The only minor annoyance is the advertising window that appears with updatin the virus definitions, however I feel this is a fair trade for a free product

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Meego 1.1 on Aser Aspire One AOA 110

I've previously covered some to the modifications required to improve Meego on the Acer Aspire One. Having just reinstalled Meego 1.1 (note, the the no easy upgrade form 1.0, the recommended approach is a fresh install), here is a summary of the Meego AA1 tweeks. Enable right hand side SDHC Card Reader Add the following line to /etc/rc.local /sbin/modprobe pciehp pciehp_force=1 > /dev/null 2>&1 Increase battery life Add the lines suggested in the "Increase Battery Life" section at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AA1/Using to the end of /etc/rc.local Fix suspend issue when SDHC cards are mounted At the following line to beginning of /usr/sbin/pm-suspend umount /dev/mmcblk*p* Changes bfrfs settings for SSD usage Modify /etc/fstab to change realatime to noatime and add the btrfs option ssd_spread /dev/sda2 / btrfs defaults,noatime,nodatasum,ssd_spread 1 1 Reduce SSD disk IO use tmpfs To reduce the...

Gaim Instant Messaging (IM) Client

Gaim is an excellent open source IM client that supports the main messaging platforms (MSN, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ etc). Gaim does not support all of the fancy new features available in the main IM clients, but when it comes to plain and simple messaging Gaim is a winner for me. I largly use Gaim as my messaging client at work where I don't care for audio and video features and animated emoticons. There are also a number of Gaim plugin extenstions available. My personal favorite is the Guifications plugin in conjuction with the MSN Guifications theme which provides MSN messenger style popup notifications in the corner of the screen.

Video Conversion: Windows Media Center (MCE) DVR-MS to iPod Video

I treated myself to an iPod Video a couple of weeks ago, and after loading up my music collection I decided to try and move some recorded TV shows from my Media Center PC onto the iPod. The iPod won't play the Media Center recording directly, so they need to be converted to the appropriate video format, which is typically H.264 encoded video and AAC encoded audio in an .mp4 container. After much searching around and trying a variety of video conversion tools I settled on the following fairly straightforward approach using a couple of freely available applications. The first tool is used to convert the media center files to a non-proprietary format, and then the second step is to re-encode the video in a format suitable for the iPod. Step 1 - Convert the Windows Media Center DVR-MS recording to MPEG-2 video format Download and install the latest 1.1.0.x version of DVRMSToolbox (the 1.2.0.x versions are for Windows Vista only). Launch the DVRMStoMPEGGUI tool Start > All Programs ...

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