Get to know how safe are the sites in your search result

What do you do when you Google for something, say Wallpapers? Click the links that appear on the top by making some guesses about the safety of the site. But since google doesn’t really filter the good and bad on the web[at least not extensively] you may end up at some malicious site that may infect yourPC with some virus or spyware. What if you could find out which sites were safe and which were not?

In my last post, I mentioned about open source, free antispyware Winpooch that integrates with ClamWin antivirus to provide real-time protection to your PC.

McAfee Site Advisor

All those lucky guys who use Mozilla Firefox web browser, you can make your PC more secure by getting real-time advice regarding the safety of the site and also the links that appear on webpages by installing McAfee Site Advisor plug-in for Firefox.

Why dual-boot? Try Ubuntu flavour inside Windows

Do you know what Ubuntu is? If you know that it is one of the most popular Linux distribution, you might be tempted to give it a try. But then you may not be willing to change your existing operating system for giving it a try. Wished if there was any spare PC to install Ubuntu and check what this OS has to offer, which is so widely talked about on the internet?

If you are among those who are afraid to install Ubuntu on their PC, here’s a way how you can taste Ubuntu on your own PC without having to create a dual-boot or harming the existing Windows, which is infamous for crashing every now and then.

Wubi: The way to Ubuntu

An open source application Wubi allows you to install and taste the Ubuntu flavour on your Windows system. Wubi is an Ubuntu installer for Windows that takes you inside the Linux world with a single click. It allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu like any other application.

Carry your Linux on thumb drive

In the last post, I mentioned how to carry your applications in your USB stick but it would work only for Windows. Linux fans can also take their essential on their thumb drive, rather they can get an entire operating system. They can install a complete Linux distribution on a USB drive. How? Read this post on LifeHacker

Booting Linux from an external drive with the applications and settings of your choice has never been easier after this week’s release of Puppy Linux 3.0. Like Damn Small Linux, Puppy is small enough to fit on a USB thumb drive, and like Knoppix , you can boot it from CD. Puppy can also add your favorite open source applications to the desktop and save multiple user profiles back to your writable CD or thumb drive, too. Let’s take a look at how you can take your operating system, apps, data and user settings to go with Puppy Linux.

What You Can Do with Puppy

The two main uses for Puppy Linux (or any Linux live CD) are to:

• Rescue files from the host PC’s hosed hard drive or perform various maintenance tasks (like imaging that drive)
• Compute on a machine without leaving a trace—like browser history, cookies, documents or any other files—behind on the internal hard drive

While there’s a wide range of Linux live distro’s available, Puppy Linux is a fantastic option which offers a full computing environment with rich graphical apps like the Mozilla Seamonkey suite, Word and Excel equivalents, calendar, chat and photo editors, too.

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron is marching closer to April launch

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron is marching closer to its scheduled April launch. Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu operating system, has released the 5th Alpha of the next generation of the popular Linux distribution. Among other things, Alpha 5 comes with a new installation option: Users can either run and install Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 5 using a LiveCD, or they can use Wubi to install Ubuntu to a partition from within Windows. No reboot necessary.

Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 5 is available for download now. But since this is still pre-release software, we wouldn’t recommend installing it on your primary machine. You know, unless you like using undercooked software on your primary machine and potentially losing data.

[DownloadSquad]