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Multiple PDF documents opened in tabs in Sumatra PDF

Sumatra PDF 3.0 Released with Tabs

October 19, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Multiple PDF documents opened in tabs in Sumatra PDF

Sumatra PDF, a lightweight PDF Reader for Windows which till now, lets you open and view multiple PDF documents in multiple windows has got … [Read more…]

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Clean Master for PC Can be a Tough Competitor to CCleaner

October 3, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Clean Master is the most downloaded Cleaning tool on the Android platform, Cheetah mobile, the maker of it has released PC version for it … [Read more…]

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CCleaner Monitoring

New CCleaner 4.18 Update Now Lets you Disable Active Monitoring

September 27, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
CCleaner Monitoring

Yesterday, Piriform has released CCleaner 4.18 with Active System Monitoring feature, which prompts you to run CCleaner if cleaning saves more than 0.5 GB. … [Read more…]

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Piriform Adds ‘System Monitoring’ Feature to CCleaner v4.18

September 26, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

CCleaner Professional version (not the free one) offers ‘Real-Time monitoring’ feature, which alerts you when you can save some disk space by cleaning, it … [Read more…]

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Foxit Reader 7 UI

Foxit Reader 7 Offers Shared Reviews and Ribbon Customization Features

September 24, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Foxit Reader 7 UI

Foxit Software has released Foxit Reader 7 and is available for download. This is a major update, and it has added a lot of … [Read more…]

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What’s new in Adobe Reader XI 11.0.09?

September 17, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Adobe Reader XI version 11.0.09 has been released and available for download with the fixes for critical vulnerabilities, Yep! This is a security update, … [Read more…]

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IObit Uninstaller 4 beta Update adds Windows 8 Style Skin

September 14, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Second beta for IObit Uninstaller 4 has been released and available for testing. According to the changelog, this beta 2 version has improved Powerful Scan

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AVG Antivirus Free 2015 available with New Interface and Outbreak Detection Features

September 10, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

AVG has released its 2015 range – AVG Antivirus Free 2015, AVG Antivirus Professional 2015, AVG Internet Security 2015- these are available for download from

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Advanced SystemCare 8 Beta 1 Now Available

August 12, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

First beta for the next version of Advanced SystemCare has been released and available for download. Advanced SystemCare 8 Beta comes with new UI, … [Read more…]

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IObit Uninstaller 4 lets you remove Windows 8 Apps

August 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

First beta for IObit uninstaller 4 has been released and available to download for testing. When you run this version in Windows 8, you can see, apart from ‘Programs’ and ‘Toolbars & Plugins’ tabs, you can see new ‘Win8 Apps’ […]

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Panda Cloud Antivirus now available as Panda Free Antivirus with XMT Engine

August 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Panda Cloud Antivirus gets a new name. Panda Security has released their consumer products for 2015, Panda Global Protection 2015, Panda Internet Security 2015, Panda Antivirus Pro 2015, Panda Mobile Security 2.0 and Panda Gold Protection. And no Panda Cloud […]

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dBug removes Startup Entries of Malware

July 28, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Whenever your system gets infected with malware, it doesn’t allow anti-malware (Chameleon technology helps users to run Malwarebytes in those situations) or

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