“Trusted Friends” is a new security feature from Facebook to help users to get their Facebook account back without their emails. It is a new method to prove who you are by contacting your friends when you’re completely locked out. This feature lets you appoint 3 to 5 friends on Facebook whom will be contacted by Facebook later on. The social network will send a code to each of these friends. You’ll be required to enter these codes to open your locked account.

Undoubtedly, we all want everything to be done fast, especially when it comes to resetting a password. This method offers a nice way of restoring your forgotten password when you lose contact with your email at the same time, but it is much slower than the normal password reset method. Nevertheless, it is still a good option to have than having no option at all, isn’t it? You can read more about this new feature on Facebook.

How to use FlashMirrors

Select the hosting providers you want from the list by clicking on each and then upload your files. You’ll get the download links for each provider once the uploading is finished. Keep in mind that the maximum file size permitted is currently 2GB.

You don’t have to enter your email address to upload files, but you’ll get notified when the upload process is completed if you do it. The email contains the link to the download page.

FlashMirrors is a free online service and doesn’t require registration.

List of Fake Disk Cleanup Utilities by Symantec

• Ultra Defragger
• Smart Defragmenter
• HDD Defragmenter
• System Defragmenter
• Disk Defragmenter
• Quick Defragmenter
• Check Disk
• Scan Disk

They act like a normal disk cleanup program, but the report of their scanning is fake simply intended to grab your attention. Then, you’ll be prompted to run the defragmentation process. What happens next is that the program leaves some serious errors after a fake repair attempt, and you’re required to activate the software (buying a license copy) if you want to repair the fake errors.

Search PSD, a free psd search engine

SearchPSD allows users to search based on keywords or category. Each thumbnail has a download button so users just need to hover their mouse over the image and click the button to download the psd.

SearchPSD is designed with simplicity in mind so anyone can find out what the site is all about in a quick glance. Type a keyword, see what you get, and download the ones you want as many as you like. You can also submit your own psd files to the site.

After installing Intel AppUp center client, users can browse applications without having to register an account. If you want to buy Angry Birds or other applications, however, you need to create an account. If you already have an account, then you need to sign in to purchase the game. Angry Birds for Windows 7 and XP, which you can get from appup, is currently available at a price of $4.99.

Source: Rovio blog

Direct download links for Windows Live Essentials 2011 Beta 2 full standalone installer

English: Web Installer – Full standalone Installer
French: Web Installer – Full standalone Installer
German: Web Installer – Full standalone Installer
Dutch: Web Installer – Full standalone Installer
Portuguese (Brazilian): Web Installer – Full standalone Installer
Spanish: Web Installer – Full standalone Installer
Japanese: Web Installer – Full standalone Installer
Chinese (Simplified): Web Installer – Full standalone Installer

Read here to find out about the new features of Windows Live Essentials 2011 Beta 2.

The size of the full installer is much bigger, around 151 MB, than the online installer. Still, when you have to reinstall the program for some reason, perhaps because of some errors, you don’t have to connect to the internet again.

CodeThemed is a community-based website that is full of unique Winterboard themes. You can find the new themes in the Recent category and the best themes in the Top Rated or Most Downloaded section. Aside from downloading themes that are added by other users, you can create your own iPhone or iPod Touch themes.

To download a theme, you just need to click the theme to visit its page where you find the download button.

Visit CodeThemed to download thousands of free Winterboard themes for iPhone and iPod Touch

Both the Windows Live Essential Wave 4 Beta standalone installer and web installer contains the same programs. The size of the standalone installer is approximately 168MB.

Windows Live Essential Wave 4 Beta standalone installer can work with Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2 with the Platform Update for Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 2 and the Platform Update for Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2. Both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows editions are supported.

Direct download of Windows Live Essential Wave 4 Beta standalone installer

The result of the extraction is displayed on the webpage. There is no download feature. If you want to save the text, copy and paste it into your word processor program.

Free-OCR features:

• Free
• No registration
• Ability to extract text from pictures with multi-column text
• Supports a number of languages
• Pictures must be less than 2MB and musn’t wider or higher than 5000 pixels
• You can extract text from 10 images per hour

Visit free-ocr.com

How to shorten an URL of a YouTube video and share it in HD format:

1. Open the YouTube video that you want to share.
2. Click the “Share” button which you can find right at the below of the video main interface.
3. Tick the “HD URL” to directly obtain the URL to the HD format.
4. Tick the “Short URL” checkbox to shorten the URL link.

That’s it. Now you can share YouTube video in HD format, while keeping the URL as short as possible, on social networks such as MySpace, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Blogger and Twitter. Additionally, you can also send the HD video via email.