One of the best Windows Firewall software Zone Alarm has a paid version Zone Alarm Pro which offers loads of features including firewall, anti-spyware and ID theft protection. It will be available for free download on 18th Nov, 2008 for 24 hours.

CheckPoint, the company behind Zone Alarm is providing Zone Alarm Pro for free on the eve of their 15th anniversary celebrations. The free download time would start at 6 AM PDT on 18th Nov. The free download would give you one year license which otherwise is sold at $39.95.

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Google today announced the release of Google Sketchup version 7. Google Sketchup is 3D modeling software from Google using which you can easily build 3D models of houses, furniture or any 3D object you can think of. The models built using Google Sketchup can also be used with Google Earth.

Here are some of the new features in Google Sketchup 7:

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Why pay for softwares when freewares are available for almost every task you can think of. We have compiled a list of 29 Freeware Windows Tools that let you do most of your computing tasks.

You might also want to check out our earlier post about 10 Essential portable Applications for USB drive.

Here is the list.

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Now you can read blogs of your favorite topic regardless of the language they are written in as Google Reader now provides you with an option to translate the feed content into language of your choice.

It uses Google Translate service to do translation and therefore those languages will be available which Google Translate understands.

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Here is a good news for Friendfeed users. Friendfeed now allows you to receive updates via IM.  This feature would surely lead to increase in Friendfeed user base as visiting website to see updates is too much an effort. But since IM clients are open almost whole day, now updates can be easily recieved.

Friendfeed is able to send notifications as IM’s over Google Talk or Jabber.

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Google today silently released updated version of its sleek and fast browser Google Chrome. The beta 2 version which was released 2 months ago got much attention from users. Though a lot of issues were reported regarding its stability and performance, yet it is one of the fastest browsers on the planet. With Google releasing update for Google chrome, it looks like a lot of issues would now be fixed.

This update fixes some stability issues with Flash, Quicktime and Silverlight. It also addresses issues of pop-up spoofing vulnerability.

To Update your exisiting installation,

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Firefox community has developed such a large number of add-ons to achieve almost any functionality one could think of.

Below, we have compiled a list of 21 add ons that are incredibly useful to enhance your productivity, keeping you focused and easing routine tasks of surfing the web.

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Gmail Labs team today released two new Labs features for Gmail that let you add Google Calendar and Google Docs Gadgets to Gmail.

Google Calendar Gadget lets you view the agendas and gives you an alert when you have a meeting. Google Docs gadget lets you see your recently accessed documents and provides a search box to search within your documents stored at Google Docs.

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I just discovered this new feature in Google Reader that might be useful to analyze your reading trends. Google Reader now allows you to analyze reading trends of each individual feed you are subscribed to.

To view trends for a particular feed, open your favorite feed in Google Reader and look out for show details link on right side.

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Here’s a new feature in Gmail you might not have otherwise noticed. Gmail now allows adding emoticons and smileys to your messages. Earlier, Gmail supported smileys only for Gmail chat, but today, Gmail team released this feature for Gmail messages.

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