HOTSPOT SHIELD

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION: Hotspot Shield protects your entire web surfing session; securing your connection at both your home Internet network & Public Internet networks (both wired and wireless). Hotspot Shield protects your identity by ensuring that all web transactions (shopping, filling out forms, downloads) are secured through HTTPS. Hotspot Shield also makes you private online making your identity invisible to third party websites and ISP’s. Unless you choose to sign into a certain site, you will be anonymous for your entire web session with Hotspot Shield. We love the web because of the freedom that it creates to explore, organize, and communicate. Hotspot Shield enables access to all information online, providing freedom to access all web content freely and securely. Secure your entire web session and ensure your privacy online; your passwords, credit card numbers, and all of your data is secured with Hotspot Shield. Standard antivirus software protects your computer, but not your web activities.



Hotspot Shield creates a virtual private network (VPN) between your laptop or iPhone and our Internet gateway. This impenetrable tunnel prevents snoopers, hackers, ISP’s, from viewing your web browsing activities, instant messages, downloads, credit card information or anything else you send over the network. Hotspot Shield security application is free to download, employs the latest VPN technology, and is easy to install and use.

FEATURES

* Secure your web session, data, online shopping, and personal information
online with HTTPS encryption.
* Protect yourself from identity theft online.
* Hide your IP address for your privacy online.
* Access all content privately without censorship; bypass firewalls.
* Protect yourself from snoopers at Wi-Fi hotspots, hotels, airports, corporate offices.


Homepage: http://hotspotshield.com/
License: Freeware
Requirement: None
OS: Windows 7, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Size: 5.46MB

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Toonel - Reduce Internet Bandwidth Usage and Tarriff

If you are one of those paying a fee based on the amount of data transfer (e.g. 3G/GPRS/DSL/CDMA) and have monthly download limit, or you are using a narrow band connection like a dial up modem, then this is for you. Tonnel is a java based cross platform application that reduces your bandwidth usage so you can finish whatever you are supposed to do online faster, reducing your time spent online and tarrif.

Toonel exploits a tunneling technique combined with data compression, runs compressed data frames from toonel client to one of the toonel servers and then these are forwarded to the target host, reducing the size of resources that are transferred between the server and the client makes more efficient use of the user’s bandwidth. It’s 100% Java based, therefore this service can be used on any platform with an installed Java Runtime Environment, including mobile phones.

Homepage: http://toonel.net/
License: Freeware
Size: 118KB
Requirement: Java Runtime Environment
OS: Windos, Linux, Mac





HOW TO USE TOONEL

1. Set up as shown below



2. You do not have to input a proxy except if necessary.



3. Now set your browsers to 127.0.0.1:8080. If you are not sure how to configure your browser, click here

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Lock and Hide Your Folders Without Any Software

In order to secure your privacy on your pc, u might need to lock certain folders. It’ll only take a couple of steps and you're done

The default password is "yourpasswordhere". This is the only thing you're gonna change in the code.

1. Copy the code below to notepad

cls
@ECHO OFF
title Folder Locker
if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK
if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDCAPRIOFILES
:CONFIRM
echo Are you sure to Lock this folder? (Y/N)
set/p "cho=>"
if %cho%==Y goto LOCK
if %cho%==y goto LOCK
if %cho%==n goto END
if %cho%==N goto END
echo Invalid choice.
goto CONFIRM
:LOCK
ren Locker "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
echo Folder locked
goto End
:UNLOCK
echo Enter password to Unlock Your Secure Folder
set/p "pass=>"
if NOT %pass%== yourpasswordhere goto FAIL
attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" Locker
echo Folder Unlocked successfully
goto End
:FAIL
echo Invalid password
goto end
:MDCAPRIOFILES
md Locker
echo Locker created successfully
goto End
:End


2. Save this file as “locker.bat”.

3. Now double click on locker.bat.

4. It will create a folder named Locker with automatic lock. After creation of the folder, place the contents (your files & folders) you want to lock inside the Folder

6. Double click locker.bat again. It will ask to lock the folder Y/N. If you press y then enter. it will lock the folder and your folder will be hidden.

7.To unlock runlocker.bat again, it will ask to enter password, type in correct password then enter, you can see your folder back.

5. Please don’t change anything except password, otherwise this lock may does not work.

***The default password is "yourpasswordhere". This is the only thing you're gonna change in the code.***

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MultiProxy Switch 1.32

As the name suggests, Multiproxy Switch is a very useful firefox addon that lets you switch easily between different proxy configurations. It saves you the trouble of having to go to network connections each time you wish to change your proxy. This Firefox addon is quite user friendly and easy to configure. It is compatible with 1.5 – 3.5.* and works smoothly though it is said to be an experimental software.

Publishers Description: The current version is 1.32

This tool lets you switch proxy between multiple configurations, and it's easy to manage, easy to configure.

If you are using more than one proxy, Multiproxy Switch should be the best extension for you, for someone already have FoxyProxy, and feel it's very complicated for configuration, now you have the chance to try Multiproxy Switch.

Size: 75KB
Homepage: http://multiproxyswitch.blogspot.com/
OS: All
License: Freeware
Requirement: Firefox 1.5 – 3.5.*

Click on the button below to download




Or install directly now

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How to Backup Firefox Password and Bookmarks

Quite a lot of Firefox users know this but there might still be a couple of people out there who do not know of this little tweak.

Saving Bookmarks

To back up your Bookmarks,
-Open Firefox
-Click on Bookmarks
-Click on Organize Bookmarks
-Go to Import and Backup
-Select Export HTML…
-Save it anywhere as a html file and you are done.

When you want your bookmarks back after a reinstall, simply import this file in the same way you exported it.

Backing up Saved Passwords

-Go to Documents and Settings > USERNAME > Application Data > Mozilla > Firefox > Profiles > cxhmjww8.default (this name is random)
-Backup the following files

+key3.db
+signons2.txt (if you’re using FF 2.0+)
+signons3.txt (if you’re using FF 3.0+)
+signons.sqlite (if you're using FF 3.5+)

These files contain data regarding your saved passwords. After a reinstall, overwrite these files back to this folder.

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Freegate 6.80

Freegate, A product of Dynaweb International Technology,Inc., is a free software that circumvents internet censorship and bypasses firewall through it's secure tunnels. Freegate is really popular for what it does as it also hides your IP address too. It works with or without proxy and you can easily switch between servers once connected. It works well with almost any browser and IM applications as it processes HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS requests. Once connected, Freegate automatically starts Internet Explorer but you can use other browsers too. All you need to do is set your applications to process requests through localhost:8580. Freegate needs no installation, it's a portable exectable file. You might read the FAQs here.



PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION: Freegate is an anti-censorship software for secure and fast Internet access. It was developed and maintained by Dynamic Internet Technology Inc. (DIT), a pioneer in censorship-circumvention operation.

* users access web sites overseas as fast as their local ones;
* requires no installation or change in system setting;
* a single executable file on a Windows platform.

Freegate works by tapping into an anti-censorship backbone, DynaWeb, DIT's P2P-like proxy network system.

Freegate's anti-censorship capability is further enhanced by a new, unique encryption and compression algorithm in the versions of 6.33 and above.

Size: 398KB
Homepage: http://www.dit-inc.us
OS: Windows
License: Freeware
Requirement: No special requirement


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