Customize Your Comodo Product's Skin!

Latest version of the products of Comodo, such as Comodo Time Machine and the 4th version of Comodo Internet Security and Comodo Firewall, introduced many improved features. To the average users, one of the visibly notable difference is the new user interface, which spots a red color and interactive interface. I like the new user interface of Comodo since i am a GUI fan as always, but although Comodo did offer a setting where we can change the skin, the unfortunate thing is that the official website for Comodo does not have a skin library. A simple search using Google also came up nothing of the sort.

The original skin for Comodo products, predominantly in red color.

I recently stumbled across a file shared by a user called quanzi1507 and thought i'd share it here. It is a 391 KB ZIP archive which contains three theme files for skinning Comodo products. They are simple-colored theme files which are in Blue, Green and Gray color, but its quite enough to ill-customize your Comodo products.

Click here to download the skin files

After you download the ZIP archive, simply extract the files to anyway on your PC, and copy all the contents to a folder called 'Themes' in your Comodo Program Files installation path. To activate the themes in Comodo's GUI, you'll need to exit and restart your Comodo products.

Incidentally, i also discovered that one of my PCs lacked a dedicated firewall. Maybe i should keep Comodo Firewall for a change? (LOLX)

Enjoy skinning!!!

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Recent Beta Program Updates

I have been busy learning new stuffs in and out during my holidays, so i couldn't fulfill my promise as stated in my announcement area. Nevertheless, i felt it's time i pull myself away from all this learning and started posting something here.



Today i'll not be introducing software or promotions to you, but i'll instead, give you a brief update on some of the interesting beta programs i keep tabs on throughout my holiday periods:

1. Avast! Antivirus v5

This popular antivirus has just came out of beta on the 20th of January. The new v5 has a revamped interface design, more user-centric charts and options plus several new features and scan engine updates. It is incredibly light on PC resources as well. Not bad for a free antivirus, i must say!


2. Trend Titanium

Remember my previous post about Trend Micro Security Beta? Well, this is essentially a renamed version of the previous Trend Micro Security Beta program. Trend Titanium is released as renamed, recolored and optimized feature. Having said that, it still keeps its virtue of operating from the cloud, so it is extremely light on resources. The beta program is still going on at Trend Micro Beta Portal and will proceed all the way into March 2010.

3. Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate (RC)

Firefox is pretty much the trendsetter in terms of add-on features and security standards for browsers, but in v3.6, due to release in the coming weeks, Firefox developers are more focused on performance and speed improvements. Personal testing revealed that v3.6 is indeed, more responsive and produces minimal crashes for a beta program, but then it's speed significantly trails behind those of Google Chromes and the latest Opera v10.5.


4. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta

Although the current Adobe Flash Player 10 works just fine with no reported vulnerabilities, the fact is that it is still slow...incredibly slow on graphic rendering. Imagine Youtube's hi-def videos going sluggish on your PC, or the Flash games on Facebook maxing out your CPU cycle, making your PC as slow as a snail! The latest beta version of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 bring GPU acceleration technology to your PC, or in other words, Adobe Flash Player now utilizes your PC's graphic cards in order to render high-definition flash videos and games, therefore reduce CPU stress! Bad news is, there are only some processors in the market that supports this new tech...


5. BitComet 2010 Beta

 BitComet's high times are over; people nowadays would rather recommend uTorrent or Vuze to manage downloads, but then to hardcore fans, BitComet serves them just fine. The new BitComet emphasizes on GUI improvements and  bug fixes, plus some minor network tweaks to improve overall experience.

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MAGMe Allows You To Read Free Magazine Publications Online!

We can do a lot of things online; watching movie, listening to music, polling, chatting...but have you ever considered reading a free magazine online? Certainly, you can find a lot of website that will publish magazines for subscribed readers once every while. However, for most of the time, users must pay a subscription fee in order to read them. How about reading magazine online for free?


MAGMe is a 100% free online service site dedicated to users who want to read various types of magazines online without having to pay anything. Technically speaking, MAGMe displays full scans of popular magazines directly in your browser, covering every possible topic from computers and lifestyles magazines to art, fashion, and photography magazines. MAGMe mainly covers well-known publications of magazines, but it also covers some not-so-popular ones. To be honest, i think that most of the magazines it published are pretty rare in the market.


Most impressively however, online full scan magazines rendered by MAGMe are dynamic, interactive & realistic; it is as though a user is really reading a real-life magazine by flipping across a page or turning over a page partially to preview the next page’s contents. All of this realism is courtesy of MAGMe’s brilliant use of Flash to display real-life magazine-reading scenarios. If you sign up for a free account, you will be given the privilege of higher quality browsing experience. If you prefer to read the magazines as guest reader, you are also given the access, although the experience might not be as good as when you are a registered user.

The only weakness I found with MAGMe so far is its magazine scans' ‘very small font size. As the browsers’ zoom feature does not work with Flash in Magme, I had to utilize the Magnifying utility of Windows 7 to read the words properly.


MAGMe is currently still in beta stage and thus, you can expect minor glitches and bugs here and there. Still, Magme can be considered a nice, free service on which I think is useful if you love reading (wonder how many people enjoy reading, by the way...=)). Of course, if you are using the contents of Magme’s magazines for your report, thesis, projects, assignments etc. and are therefore required to quote them in a reference list, you are also given the ability to copy its link and refer to its page easily!

Visit Magme’s official site here and start reading!

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P2P file sharing: All you can find!

Ever wonder how you can enjoy free file, music, software, picture and video/movie download at an expenses ranging from little to none, involving no money?

That is the purpose P2P programs exist for the public. While there are lots of file sharing network, the most used is probably Gnutella. Gnutella is basically a file sharing network where people possessing certain stuffs can share their stuffs with others via the internet network. Imagine that you wanted some mp3 songs so badly, but you have no money, or you're just being reluctant, to pay for mp3-providing companies online to obtain the mp3 songs that you want. Here's an option: you can use P2P programs to search for people on the Gnutella network for the exact mp3s that you want, download it if they provided the files for sharing, and voila! You now officially possess the file and being capable of spreading it further by sharing it!

I will not go into detail about how Gnutella networking services function, as it's quite complex and i will not want to confuse those who had little computering knowledge. However, i do like to share with you about some of the popular P2P file sharing service software. It is, however, not my priority to tell you which is better. You are the consumer who needs to decide on which suits you better...On the other hand, you should also take your own PC security & the legal status of P2P file sharing in your nation into accounts...:)

1. LimeWire

Limewire is a P2P software which runs on the Java platform, and is the most famous P2P file sharing software to date. While available for free worldwide, it does encourage users to pay certai amount of fees, which grants them access to their turbocharged upgrade, Limewire PRO.

2. FrostWire

FrostWire is a fork of Limewire and thus similarly runs over the Java platform. FrostWire is a free software and like Limewire, users can pay to have a higher download speed and simultaneous peer downloading amount. Unlike its greeenish counterpart though, FrostWire is more blueish in color.

3. MP3 Rocket

Like LimeWire & FrostWire, MP3 Rocket also runs on Java platform, with similar peer downloading amount and is readily offered as a freeware (upgradable to MP3 Rocket Pro with payments). However, MP3 Rocket is also a video sharing P2P program, which allows users to directly connect to streamed videos like Youtube via MP3 Rocket. MP3 Rocket, like its namesake, spots a blue rocket as its brand logo.

4. Shareaza

Unlike previous 3 file sharing program, Shareaza is privately developed and runs on the Microsoft Windows platform instead of the Java platform. It also supports more file transfer network, from Gnutella and eDonkey to Bittorrent & HTTP networking protocol. It also offers more languages support; reportedly around 30 languages.

5. iMesh

iMesh is essentially both a file sharing and a social networking software. It is owned by American's iMesh Inc. and is one of the more legally approved software in America & Canada. It also boast a ringtone service, where global users can purchase ringtones of their choice via the software.

Other notable P2P software includes:
a) Bearshare
b) Morpheus
c) XFactor ( For Mac OS X only)

If you ask me which P2P file sharing software i'm using, i would say it's MP3 Rocket...however, like i've mentioned beforehand, all software is free and so, you can download one by one and test all of them to see which is your favorite...:)

Happy File Sharing!!!

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