But have no fear, because compiled in this list are the top ten best utilities software to repair your computer. These are the ten most beneficial soft wares to help you repair registry problems that may be slowing you down. So, no need to log on the Internet to view forums and reviews to get updated on the new trend, just check out the different programs that will help your PC regain its former glory. And the best part is, you don’t have to look for more on the web as this must have list contains links on where to get them. Just click on them and you will be forwarded to their main site. You never have to worry about your PC ever again.

1. Clean My PC : CleanMyPC Registry Cleaner checks incorrect or obsolete information in the registry by scanning the Windows registry. It helps in optimizing the speed of your system.

2. Registry Easy : A simple tool to fix the PC errors and have simple and easy features of Scan and Repair of PC. It help in fixing the invalid entries / registry files that cause system slowdowns, freezing and crashing.

3. Registry Mechanic : Registry Mechanic is popular registry cleaner that uses a high-performance detection algorithm for quickly indenting the missing and invalid references in your Windows registry.

4. PC Tune-Up : It another well know PC utility that can defrag and do a complete backup of your application and system files together with the creation of  restore points. It is very light weight application that require less space on your hard drive and can easily perform repair actions.

5. Advanced System Care : Speeding up your system with free Advanced System Care is quit easy job. It helps in fixing multiple system errors ,scans and removes spyware and adware and perform like an automated healthcare system.

6. DT Utilities Registry Repair : It reloads with several features that can easily fulfill yours registry cleaning needs. It have several features like Fast, automatic internet clean up , Automatic Windows registry backups , It includes other utilities such as the startup manager and backup utility that will help keep your computer streamlined and functioning well.

7. Advanced Registry Optimizer : A simple registry cleaner utility that helps in fasten system speeds ,improving system response time ,reducing the windows error messages.

8. Ace Utilities : It comes with variety of application for the first aid of your PC in various needs. Ace Utilities  provides several tools like Registry Cleaner, Startup Manager, Disk Cleaner,Duplicate File Finder, Internet History Eraser.

9. Fix-It Utilities : Its a PC utility suite that helps is quick computer repair together with speeding the and optimizing your computer.

10. Advanced System Optimizer : It a systweak products that have turbo tools like Advanced System Protector ,Advanced System Optimizer ,  Advanced Vista Optimizer 2009 ,CacheBoost Professional. Advance System Optimizer is top rated PC utility that provides the free scanning and cleaning of spyware. If you haven’t yet read about ways to remove Conficker virus then you can also go for these utilities.

Few users are reporting update notices, but I’ve not received any notice when Firefox is launched. I forced the upgrade by downloading the new version and installed it. Firefox 3.5 is awesome and more powerful than ever. Here is a quick walkthrough of new features and also the reasons why you should upgrade.

 What is new in Firefox 3.5?
1. Private Browsing: The new browse has Private Mode browsing feature. Firefox is quite late in introducing the private mode future that allows to use the browse the web without leaving any traces of the session.

2. Tab Tearing: The skinny Google Chrome introduced this awesome feature that allows dragging a tab out to create a new browser window. Now Firefox also has this nice feature.

3. Forget this Site: This feature allows you to erase history of a specific website. This comes handy when you want to clear browsing history of a single website and retain the rest.

4. Recover Selected Page of a Crashed Session: The crash recovery of Firefox is smarter now. It allows you to choose the pages that you want to recover after a crash. 

5. Faster JavaScript Engine: Firefox 3.5 has got a brand new JavaScript engine called TraceMonkey. Mozilla says its 20 to 40 times faster than the Firefox 3.0 JavaScript engine. We have to wait for independent performance assessments to know the actually performance boost in Firefox 3.5. Nevertheless, JavaScript will run more faster in the new version.

6. New Icon: Firefox 3.5 has a new icon that is slightly different from the previous version. You can have a look at the new logo here and also download high quality image.

Want to know more about all the things changed in Firefox 3.5? Then read the release notes

Download Firefox 3.5
Click here to download

bbPress is a simple forum software, easy to use, easy to administrate, and is very fast and clean. It has some powerful features and is highly customizable and WordPress bloggers will find the same WP goodiness and feel when they use bbPress.

We used bbPress for our forums earlier and here are the top 10 reasons to install bbPress. Some key highlights are pretty SEO optimized permalinks, lots of plugins and themes, open source, lots of feeds, Akismet spam control, integrated Gravatars, and lots more.

Download bbPress now and start a new forum for your site in minutes. Remember bbPress requires PHP 4.3 or greater and MySQL 4.0 or greater.

1.Advanced Dork: Advanced Google queries – If you had to refer to a webpage every time you needed to use advanced search queries on Google, Advanced Dork will help you. You can highlight text, right click and choose from the available advanced operators. If you want to run an intitle or allintext operator on the title tag and alt tags respectively of the current page, right click within a page and choose the query. There are several other options available beyond the scope of this article. Download

2.Autocopy – As the name suggests, Autocopy copies text to your clipboard whenever you select text. If you are a writer or designer, Autocopy would be particularly helpful in copy-pasting text and code fragments. Download

3.Smart Bookmarks Bar – If you use Firefox’s own bookmarks bar for frequently used pages (as I do), it is likely cluttered beyond recognition. Smart Bookmarks Bar reduces clutter by hiding names of bookmarks bar items. Names are revealed when you hover over them. Download

4.Autopager – AutoPager automatically loads the next page inline. Think of it as Google’s autopagination. AutoPager works with popular sites like Google, Digg etc. You can also add support for websites that are not supported by default. Download

5.History Submenus – History Submenus places your browsing history for each day in submenus under History menu. If you are a frequent surfer and go back to websites that were visited earlier, History Submenus will help.  Download

Everyone who uses Firefox addons will have their own favorites. I am always curious to know, so recommend your favorite addons in comments.

Opera Turbo uses “Opera Web Optimization Proxy”, such that though the web sites layout and text look same, image resolution is much lower due to compression. Dynamic Web technologies such as Ajax (XmlHttpRequests) and Flash are supported, but some plugin content will load only after clicking on the empty element.

If privacy concerns are important to you, they point out that encrypted traffic does not go through compression servers, which means that on SSL sites, they let you communicate with the SSL site directly. Opera does not store any users’ private information

Download Opera 10 preview with Opera Turbo, a time-limited release which can help you test the new technology which might be a boon to developing countries affected by slow internet connections,  and poor wi-fi connectivity. If you are troubled by slow internet speeds, check out Opera Turbo, or try the world’s fastest browser.

Enabling POP3 access from Hotmail allows you to easily access your emails using the e-mail software on your computer (like Thunderbird, Outlook) or mobile devices such as a Windows Mobile phone, iPhone, or BlackBerry.

Here are the email client settings you need for starting POP3

POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995)
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID (full email address)
Password: Hotmail or Windows Live password
SMTP server: smtp.live.com (Port 25 or 587)
Authentication required? Yes (same POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes

Gmail had POP3 access for a long time which lets me read my emails easily in email clients like Thunderbird or access it from other email accounts. Now the Hotmail users rejoice with better connectivity and email on the move.

99CHATS

99Chats lets you create your own chat room in less than 5 minutes. Just sign up with any email account and start creating your chat rooms. You can create as many chat rooms as you want and add them to your blog, website or social profile (Myspace, orkut, hi5, Friendster, Wordpress and Blogger).

You can completely customize the look and Feel of your chat room. Invite your friends and their is no registration involved to enter in your chat room. The service can also improve by giving every chat room a unique URL. This way it would be easier for users to invite friends.

TINYCHAT

TinyChat is the best chat application that requires only your browser to do the job. No registration, no signups. When you create the chat room, Tinychat provides a URL. Share the URL with anyone and start your conversation right away. You can also sign in with your twitter account and start tweeting in Tinychat.

You can save your chat Logs as a txt file in your computer, email the chat log to any email address, save to your twitter account or as a URL that you can view later. You can add your chat room to any webpage or your blog. The only downside is that you cannot configure the look and feel, but compared to the advantages I think it does quite a good job.

MEEBO CHAT

Meebo Chat is similar in functioning but with an attractive interface and advanced features. You can create a chat room and embed it in your blog or website. Send the URL of the chat room to your friends and they can join even if they are non-Meebo users. What makes it unique is when you add a Flickr photo, Youtube video or any other web media, it is embedded in the room and all the users can view it. So it is ideal for conferences.

You cannot save your chat logs and any video embedded in a Meebo chat will contain advertisements.

CHAT MAKER

Chat Maker lets you create a temporary chat room for your use. Just give a name to your chat room and share the link. No registration or sign ups and its completely free.

Users can join your chat room with their mobile phones which is an added advantage. Unlike the other services listed above, you can neither add this in your blog nor in any social profile. But it is a very secured service as you can chat with anyone as an anonymous user.

YAPLET

Yaplet is brilliant and I just love it. You can create a chat room for any webpage and start chatting around it without leaving the site. (See Example)

When clicked Yaplet opens a right sidebar in the Firefox window and takes you to the website. Other users online in that webpage can start a conversation.

You can set Moderator options in your chat room (requires registration) and ban a particular user. Also includes audio notification support (for firefox) so that when someone sends a message you are pinged! You can also link your chat room or embed the applet on any page. The chat logs are saved forever and you can see what others have talked about when you were offline. Impressive!

Bloggers can take advantage of this feature and add a link to their Yaplet chat in their blog. Unlike other widget enabled chat rooms this does not hinder your blog loading time as the chat widget loads only when a user clicks it.

GABBLY

Gabbly is best of the lot. Make money while you chat! Gabbly is a chat service that allows you to chat around any webpage. Just grab a URL and append gabbly.com/ in front of a webpage’s URL, you will be able to chat with anyone visiting the page at the same time! (See example)

There is nothing to install as it works on AJAX. Works on IE, Firefox Safari and Flock. You can completely customize and embed your chat room in a webpage. You can publicize your chat room by placing a link in the forums so that other people may discover your chat room and join. You can also create password protected chat rooms that allows only those users to join who know the password.

Registered users can make money via Gabbly. Just register for an account and gabbly lets you show your affiliate links in your customized ad-page. Firefox users can enjoy the Gabbly Firefox extension in their Sidebar.

So next time, your Grandma wants to have a chat and does not know how Instant Messenger works, just send a link to your chat room in her email!

Install bbPress Forums

1. Simple, Light, and Blends – The first thing that strikes you when you get a bbPress forum is its simple clean crisp look, fast loading speed and the ease with which it can blend with your site structure. There is no unnecessary flab to increase the server load and its easy to customize to match your web design.

2. Pretty permalinks urls – the permalink slug gets all the title keywords into the url, which is great for search engine optimization and will give you that extra edge for higher search engine rankings.

E.g. Most forums will give you urls like
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=23238

3. Just Like Wordpress – If you run a wordpress blog, then you will feel the same experience when installing, and upgrading bbPress. The dashboard has a similar feel to wordpress (not as sleek as WP2.5 and much is left desired). In fact a major bonus is you can integrate it with wordpress easily.

4. Its Free, Open Source – Hey! its free, it costs nothing to check it out. Any tool developed by community effort will get better with time and open source is the way to go.

5. Free Themes and plugins – There is an amazing array of plugins to expand the functionality of your forums, and one click themes will change the forum design in seconds. There are plugins for most features missing in the core bbpress installation.

6. Lots of Feeds – Regular readers like feeds for everything – be it the front page topics, individual topic discussions or new comments in general. bbPress has so many feeds for every possible need, that you many need to think which feeds to downplay.

7. Akismet Spam Control – Its difficult to control spam on message boards and many forums close down because more time is spend moderating spammers than posting content. But Akismet is a powerful antispam solution which is well integrated into bbPress and helps to keep spammers away. In fact, it can automatically mark spammers as Bozos, whose posts will be visible only to themselves.

8. Integrated Gravatars – We all like avatars on forums. But if hosting avatars and moderating them is bothering you, relax – the amazing integrated Gravatars takes care of all avatar management for you, without any extra hosting needs while adding to better profiles.

9. Tag Navigation – Tags is the new way to navigate any site and bbPress gives you tag navigtion wherever you want it. Add tags to each topic and define a new way for readers to browse your forums, while search engines find new ways to index your topics.

10. Brand Automattic – Wordpress is powered by the Automattic brand, and the same guys created bbPress, so you can expect a quality product which will promise to get better with each version.

Get bbPress Forums

The future of bbPress is bright with fresh funding coming in. Its not the greatest forum product out there, with the admin interface needing improvements, my wish for features to be more automated and ajax-y and there are many desirable essential features still pending. Its not right to compare the functionality with wordpress, which is far more advanced. But bbPress is getting better with each new version, and the latest release has added some great new features.

If you are a wordpress blogger looking to expand you network for more interaction with your readers and develop user generated content, it is easy to start with and customize with the same wordpress feel, and its a great forum tool (I just told you 10 reasons why!) and we use it too. Remember it needs PHP version 4.3 or greater and MySQL version 4.0 or greater. Get bbPress.

If you are looking for a some other free forum solutions, some big message boards and bulletin boards use vBulletin, phpBB or Simple Machine Forum.