Android 1.0 SDK download available for developers free

The Android platform is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. Developers can create applications for the platform using the Android SDK.

Applications are written using the Java programming language and run on Dalvik, a custom virtual machine designed for embedded use, which runs on top of a Linux kernel.

The main objective of the release of this new development environment is to try to provide a stable platform for developers, which will see the beginning of the Android Market on October 22 2008.

Major improvements to the package, compared to version 0.9, are related some bugs resolved and inclusion of some API. Going on the Android developer's blog, you can already see some applications ready for commercialization, such as Panoramio and Photostream.

Panoramio is software that displays web galleries, using the principle of geo, namely: choosing a specific area from a map, can view the best photos in a gallery, using the GPS with the broadband connection.

Photostream is a "photo browser" and viewer for Flickr, which allows, in addition to traditional navigation of photos on Flickr, to import new images as wallpaper for your phone, the same manipulation of images and the ability to create direct links on the desktop image ever loaded on Flickr. (Via – Trackback)

Online theme creator for Sony Ericsson and Nokia cell phone

If you like to have beautiful theme on your Sony Ericsson and Nokia mobile phone, here is an online tool where you can create your own beautiful theme. This online tool supports most of the phone models available toady.
You can upload your own background image, select different types of menu icons, font colors, effects, etc with this tool. After making your own theme you can download and use it for your phone.

Download 20000+ free ring tones for Only your mobile phone

Here are over 20000 ring tone files from the latest songs to the old classic. Tons of different analog to polyphonic ring tones that will work on the majority of cell phones.

There are movie themes, sound tracks, top 40, hip-hop, and rap.

Even though selecting a suitable ring tone is bit difficult from this huge collection, downloading and saving this collection is worth. File size: 125Mb.

Calibrate with Colors of your Monitor in three easy steps

Calibrize helps you to calibrate the colors of your monitor in three simple steps. After finishing this process your system will have a reliable color profile and the monitor will be automatically be adjusted accordingly.

Just download the software and follow the procedure to generate a reliable color 'profile' to maintains color fidelity throughout the system.

The first step is adjusting the contrast and brightness control, then the gamma settings, next is saving the settings. Your settings will be saved and load automatically each times the computer start up.

Features: Works quickly, easily and reliably, even if you don't know the first thing about screen calibration, Works for CRT monitors, (flat) LCD monitors and even beamers, Reads out the color data (EDID) from your monitor, Produces an ICC monitor profile, Loads a set of adjusted values into the lookup table (LUT) of your video card

Calibrize is a free application (adware) and required an internet connection to operate it. Calibrize can run on any Windows XP or Vista computer. More information / Download

download free CD of Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

The latest version of Ubuntu, the popular Linux OS is Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex which is scheduled to release on October 30th 2008. You can order the copy of FREE CDs now at free of charge.

Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition delivers the features you need for an increasingly mobile digital life, including 3G wireless support and guest sessions that lets users temporarily share computers without compromising security.

Ubuntu 8.10 Server Edition consolidates its support for virtualization with an integrated Virtual Machine builder, and brings with it a fully-supported Java stack and support for per-user directory encryption. (via – nirmaltv)

Download new release of Ubuntu 8.10 desktop and server edition

Best open source Linux distribution Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" has officially released with hundreds of improvements and with full 3G support. You can download desktop edition or server edition (32bit / 64bit) or can be request a free CD from the official website.

Ubuntu, the community developed, Linux-based operating system is a perfect choice for laptops, desktops and servers and includes all the applications you need such as web browser, office suites, instant messaging and much more.

Features of Ubuntu 8.10:

• Productivity tools: Ubuntu supports all of your favorite web-based mail programs like Yahoo(TM) or Gmail (TM).
• Photos: Upload from your camera or phone to F-Spot and manage, tag, share and sort your photos and upload easily to you favourite social networking sites.
• Audio and video: Plug in your PSP, iPod, MP3 player; share playlists with your friends; buy in the creative commons online music stores, stream more live radio and content from the BBC and plug in more devices with UPnP.
• Office applications: Word processing, spreadsheets and presentations can all be delivered through Open Office.
• Accessibility: Ubuntu is one of the most accessible desktop operating systems around.
• Includes Bootable USB Maker and Full 3G support

Ubuntu 8.10 is a free download, it can run as a live CD or install on your computer.

free XpGnome- Convert Linux desktop looks like Windows XP

XPGnome is a Linux theme pack that brings visual aspect of Windows XP to the Gnome desktop. This script adds custom icons, Wallpaper, logon screen, colors and other tweaks to makes Linux desktop just looks like Windows XP.

However, if you wish to remove this theme, there is no easy uninstall method, you have to change every thing manually. That is the main drawback of this theme.

You can download the theme from this link. (via –Genbeta)

How to Resize Programs Window Automatically in your PC?

AutoSizer is a small software that will automatically maximize, resize, minimize or position just about any window. This is useful, for instance, some Windows programs like Paint, Notepad or some web browsers open up in a non-maximized window.

Using AutoSizer, you can set those windows to automatically maximize every time they are opened.

This freeware work with most programs, and supports maximizing to specific monitors on multi-monitor computers. Using this program is simple. Download (264Kb) and install Auto Resizer.

Run a program you want to resize the window. Open Auto Resizer (Right click on the tray icon and select ‘open’). Select the program by left clicking (from the upper side window). Then click on ‘AutoSize’ and select what you want – maximize, minimize, restore and position. And click ok.

Windows Tweaker makes your Vista faster, more stable, and secure

Ultimate Windows Tweaker is a tweaking and optimizing utility for all Windows Vista editions (32-bit and 64-bit). Released by WinVistaClub, a Microsoft featured community; Ultimate Windows Tweaker makes your system faster, more stable, and secure with just a few mouse clicks.

The tweaks are classified in different categories, such as personalization, system and performance, security, Internet Explorer, networking, etc and can be accessed, just like your Windows Vista Control Panel.

This tiny, portable application (370Kb) has a simple to use interface and has over 130 tweaks. These tweaks help you personalize your Windows Vista, just the way you want it to appear.

However, some tweaking required knowledge about what it is; a beginner may find it little bit difficult. However detailed descriptions are also provided with each tweaking. More details and download

Split and Merge PDF files (get free

The portable document format (PDF) has become the most popular medium for sharing or saving documents, because it benefit from features like smaller size, high portability and strong security.

Adolix Split and Merge PDF is a free utility that will help you modify your existing PDF files. You can split or merge multiple documents with this utility. This is useful; for instance, if you want to merge some pages from an older PDF file, or merge 2 or more documents into a new single PDF file. You can do all that with only a few mouse clicks.

However, you cannot merge more than 5 PDF files using this free version. Features included are: Combine PDF files into a single document, You can even append encrypted PDF files to another PDF, Split PDF files using a customized pattern (similar to Word printing), Process password protected PDF files.( Via - uploadsblog)

Download (1.83Mb) Adolix Split and Merge from the following link

Small Basic – Visual basic for your kids (Beginners) get free

The latest programming languages and their concepts are complicated and are difficult to understand by a beginner. This discourages people from learning (or attempting) the amazing computer programming.

Small Basic is a programming language that is designed to make programming extremely easy, approachable and fun for beginners. Its intention is to bring down the barrier and serve as a stepping stone to the amazing world of computer programming.

Small Basic derives its inspiration from the original BASIC programming language, and is based on the Microsoft .Net platform. It is really small with just 15 keywords and uses minimal concepts to keep the barrier to entry as low as possible. More details.

A getting started guide is also available for download which teaches you with simple examples. You can download Small basics from here. (Via – Readwritweb)

Easy Create amazing header graphics for your blog

Creating a decent header image that matches your blog’s or website’s theme and content is not an easy task. It requires creativity and knowledge in image editing software like Photoshop.

If you like to create a professional header graphic in an easy and quick way without the need of an expensive image editing software, XHeader might be a perfect choice. It lets you create amazing header graphics in few simple edits and you don’t need any previous knowledge of graphic design.

The software contains a number of graphical header designs to choose from. These are all neatly categorized to make finding the right design really easy – and there many options to choose from. When you have selected the header design you want to use you can add your own text, shapes, shadows, transparencies, additional graphics, etc.

After finishing your work, just click “Save JPG” and you will be presented with ten (10) different versions, each of a different quality and file size. Just pick the one that you feel is the best match between high quality and small file size – and that’s it!

XHeader includes 1000 graphics templates which makes your task easy. You can also import your own image to create header graphics.

XHeader is a free software, required registration (after installation) to get full functionality. You can get it from here (36Mb), support Windows XP and Vista. Required .NET Framework 2 for Windows XP.

E-book ‘The Art & Science of CSS’ Free Giveaway by Site

Cascading style sheet (CSS) has an important role in web designing, which determine a website’s look and feel. To maintain this across all pages of your website, consistent formatting, design and layout are required. CSS enables you to do everything quite easily with a single or small group of files.

The ebook ‘The Art & Science of CSS’ from Sitepoint is ideal for anyone who wants to gain the practical skills involved in using CSS to make attractive web sites. Each chapter of this book will teach you how to style common web site components through practical examples.

The book contains seven chapters that engage with the fundamental elements of the web page—headings, images, backgrounds, navigation—as well as applied styles such as those used in forms, rounded corners for content boxes, and tables.

Here is a chance get a free copy of this e-book. This is a limited time offer (Two weeks, starts from Nov 18) form Sitepoint. Hurry up and grab a free copy of this amazing e-book (PDF format, 23Mb) worth $29.95. Enter at http://www.twitaway.com/ or here and follow the instruction to download the book.

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Paragon Partition Manager 9.0 Express Free Download

Paragon Partition Manager is one of the most popular hard drive partition tools available on the market today. Paragon who is known for developing some splendid disk utilities now provide its popular partition manager for free as a first step to manage your partitions and redistribute unused disk space (Express edition, limited feature).Partitioning a hard drive is necessary in some situations, for instance updating an old FAT 32 partition to NTFS partition, install another OS (such as Linux or other), split or merge files etc required partition with out reformatting the hard disk.
Key features of Paragon Partition manager Express edition
Gain additional space in your existing partitions by easily resizing and moving partitions with through the smart Resize Wizard.
Add partitions with the highly intuitive Create Partition Wizard. Leave a core partition to host Windows and automatically create a new partition for work and data files in a logical, intuitive place.
Simplify the backup process by separating your data from your Operating System. A structured approach allows you to have a separate location for your OS, your data, and your backups.
Many applications still don't work with Vista, so why not keep a copy of Windows XP? With separate drive partitions, you can install several operating systems and have a choice on startup.
You can download it here (file size: 96Mb)

Multi-platform text editor for developers get free

Editra is a multi-platform text editor for programmers. This feature rich application has an easy to interface and supports syntax highlighting and variety of other useful features for over 60 programming languages.
The project is still in its alpha stage, but test builds of "stable" points are available for download. Currently the application supports Windows and Mac OSX (Universal) binaries, other UNIX and Linux based systems will have to install from source using the included setup script.
(Editra is freely available under the terms of the wxWindows Licence). Full details and download

Protect your Kids from Explicit contents with K9 Web Protection (get a Free License key)

Many of you have kids who use internet and off course internet is a lot more help than it is destructive. However, nowadays content is becoming more and more mature, pornographic and other harmful sites are dominating the net. In such situation how can you prevent your child from accessing such explicit contents? The simplest solution is to use content blockers. These content blockers restrict your children to the clean web and block all explicit sites, images and videos from being viewed on your home computer. Usually such software is protected by passwords, so children can not by pass the rule you set.Blue Coat® K9 Web Protection is a content filtering solution for your home computer. Its job is to provide you with a family-safe Internet experience, where YOU control the Internet content that enters your home.K9 Web Protection implements the same enterprise-class Web filtering technology used by Blue Coat's Fortune 500 customers around the world, wrapped in simple, friendly, and reliable software for your Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista computer. More details….
To get a free license key and download visit here.

PhotoPosPro – ultimate photo editing software for free

PhotoPosPro is an advanced image editing and enhancing software which offers a wide variety of possibilities in computer graphic design. You can perform various tasks from simple to complex like changing colors and textures, removing scratches and unwanted details, sharpening, blurring and spreading of areas on a picture and much mor. With powerful tools and functions, the application allows you easily create, edit, enhance, print, and manipulate your digital images, web graphics and much more.One of the most important possibilities of Photo Pos Pro is the ability to expand the capabilities of the software yourselves! You have an idea for a new Feature that does not exist in the program? In many cases, you can add this Feature yourselves. You can combine a number of operations with the Script Tool in order to create Scripts which will perform new operations, according to your needs.PhotoPos.com and Softpedia.com give you a free registration key for PhotoPosPro (Untill Jan 2009). The value of this gift is 50$. To get this free gift just enter here and follow the instruction. More information and download from here. (Via – instanfundas)

See whats information your browser is revealing about you when visiting a web site

In this age of cyberspace, prime importance needs to be given to online security and to our privacy. As you know the web browser is the easiest way a hacker, spammer or phisher can attack a computer system. According to Symantec, more than 80% of attacks on the internet are aimed at a web browser or website. Hackers are using additional features of browser, such as ActiveX, Java, Cookies, etc to gain this.Here I am not talking about how to prevent these attacks, instead, just aware you what your browser sends information about you to every website you visit.This is useful; for example, if you are using a proxy server to hide your IP address, make sure that your IP address does not appear to others; if it does, you should change your proxy.Following are some online tools, just visit any of the sites and see what your web browser show about youBrowserSpy - Tell you all kinds of detailed information about you and your browser. Information ranging from simple stuff like the name and version of your browser to more detailed stuff like what kind of fonts you have installed and what hardware you're running on. Audit My PC- Another similar service which promoting security awareness and web security tools free of charge. AuditMyPC is a vulnerability assessment, privacy test, and research and security information site. HackerWacker – Another service which reveals what your browser is telling every website you visit.

How to Move Newly Created Files Automatically from Desktop to a Predefined Folders?

Desktop Teleport is a tiny (825Kb zip) utility that will helps you to move newly created files and folders from your desktop to a pre-defied folder automatically. Whenever you save a file on your desktop, it will automatically transfer to the folder you preferred. Thus it keeps your desktop clean and also saves time. Working with the program is simple. You need not install it on your computer, just run the exe file (after unzip) and it will sit on your taskbar and perform the task very quickly.Before using this program, you can control which file extension or file name want to move or not to move. Right click on the Desktop Teleport icon and select ‘Show’, now add or remove file extensions and names. You can also add or remove target folders by clicking ‘Folders’ menu.
Get the program here

U can Get Free Live Mesh Wallpaper Pack

Here is a wallpaper pack from Live Mesh Team that offers wallpaper in different variations on the Mesh Logo and colorful background.
The wallpaper pack includes 32 wallpapers (1024x768 screen resolutions, JPEG format) and five Live Mesh logos in PNG format.
You can download the Wallpaper pack from here. (Via – Askvg)

How to Resize Programs Window Automatically in PC?

AutoSizer is a small software that will automatically maximize, resize, minimize or position just about any window. This is useful, for instance, some Windows programs like Paint, Notepad or some web browsers open up in a non-maximized window.
Using AutoSizer, you can set those windows to automatically maximize every time they are opened.
This freeware work with most programs, and supports maximizing to specific monitors on multi-monitor computers. Using this program is simple. Download (264Kb) and install Auto Resizer.
Run a program you want to resize the window. Open Auto Resizer (Right click on the tray icon and select ‘open’). Select the program by left clicking (from the upper side window). Then click on ‘AutoSize’ and select what you want – maximize, minimize, restore and position. And click ok.

How to get internet Your Cell Phone to a Computer

Install the Nokia PC Suite software (usually via CD ROM.) Follow the on-screen instructions. (You’ll need to find the USB socket on your computer and have the Nokia phone cable handy.) Once that’s done, attach the phone to the computer using the cable provided. The short end goes into the bottom of the N95:

The big end goes into your computer’s USB port (it won’t look exactly like this.)

Windows will install the necessary drivers.

When the two devices are connected, a list of options will appear on your phone. Select PC Suite mode:

Launch the Nokia PC Suite:

An icon will appear in the system tray in the bottom right hand corner, which will be gray when the phone isn’t connected and blue when it is:

Click on the Nokia PC Suite tab:

You should see a window like this:

That’s it. Enjoy your self.