The most popular CD/DVD writing software - Nero Burning ROM has evolved a lot from being a simple CD/DVD burner application to a full-fledged all-in-one optical media authoring solution, resulting in adding a lot of bloat and lots of other applications and features that you’ll never really use, so if you are looking to get rid of Nero bloatware and looking for a free, fast and simple alternative to Nero - BurnAware Free is your answer, the free CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning application is pretty much similar to Nero and comes in three versions - Free, Home & Professional, the free version allows you to burn data, audio, and video CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs pretty much sufficing everything you’d ever need.

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is now available for public downloading, the most notable change being addition of a "Private Browsing" feature, dubbed "InPrivate™ Browsing" the feature when activated let users browse website off the record, not saving any browsing history, cookies, and any other browsing related data.

FosiX and SpaceMonger are pretty good free windows disk space usage analyzer's, but if you are looking for a simple and fast pie-chart of your disk usage, Give open-source utility "Scanner"a try.

The small (just 164 KB) free utility creates a concentric pie chart displaying disk space usage on your computer media, The chart shows all major files and folders from all directory levels at once, the utility also provides a simple explorer extension to perform quick analysis of a folder.

Flashget has always been my download accelerator of choice, but recent inclusion of Adware like components and stat collection modules in latest versions forced me to stick with the older builds, But here we have a brand new version of their upcoming product Flashget-Mini directly from their private VIP forums translated to English and all adware and spying components removed.

This nice, fast and compact free download manager from FlashGet comes with a brand new eye-catchy interface, the new product is optimized for smaller system resources use, faster downloading and better use of desktop real-state, The new version also lets you download videos directly from more then 56 video sites including YouTube.

Nokia's much hyped, feature packed upcoming model "Nokia N96" is launching soon and could become a iPhone killer.

Here is a video comparison of Nokia N96 vs iPhone :

Periodic data backups are crucial for anyone using computer on regular basis, Backing up your data is like an insurance, you never have to worry if data corruption disaster strikes. Norton Ghost have been an all time favorite amongst PC users for making backup clone images of their Hard-Disks or partitions for restoring at a later time when disaster strikes, but if you can't afford Norton Ghost here is a little gift from "Paragon" - a well-known software company, Paragon is giving away "Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 Express" free for personal use.

The simple and easy to use software lets you backup and recover entire hard disk or separate partitions with ease without asking bewildering questions, Drive Backup Express make use of Paragon’s Hot Backup ® technology - allowing you to be productive and use your PC during backups. The software supports a wide variety of storage devices including Parallel ATA (IDE), Serial ATA (SATA), SCSI HDD, USB 1.x/2.0, IEEE 1394 (FireWire) and even PC card storage devices, the wide-variety of file-system support includes FAT16, FAT32, NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1), Linux Ext2FS, Linux Ext3FS, Linux Swap and HPFS.

Few days ago my Firefox profile got corrupted and resulted in loss of essential data, Loosing your browser's saved passwords, bookmarks, settings and customizations can be very frustrating if a lot depends on it, While searching for Firefox profile backup solutions, I came across FEBE - A simple to use, highly customizable Firefox Environment Backup Extension, unlike other Firefox backup and restore solutions FEBE lets you automatically backup your browser data of choice to Box.Net free online storage service, allowing you to easily synchronize your office and home browsers.

In an interview given to Indiatimes, Airtel's IT director Jai Menon claimed that the Airtel version of the iPhone 3G is hacker-proof and even the most talented hackers on the planet won’t be able to crack the iPhone’s Airtel applications with other SIMs.

Airtel claimed that even if a hacker manages to get another provider's SIM card to work with on Airtel iPhone 3G, they would still be locked out of Airtel-specific applications like Airtel Live and mCheck, With no access to Airtel Live they wont be able to access any text, audio, video, static images, music or gaming options available on the preloaded Airtel Live portal.

It's very surprising to see Airtel locking their iPhone's even when Indian customers are paying Rs. 31,000/- (~ US$715) and a fully working unlocked iPhone (non 3G for now) from grey market is easily available under Rs. 24000/-, being a Airtel customer myself, I would suggest Airtel and their tech team to invest more efforts in improving the quality of their service instead of making such non-worthy statements as nobody is going to put efforts in cracking this pricey iPhone just for using Airtel Live.

Kevin Rose - founder of Digg is claiming to have knowledge of upcoming revamped iPod models and iTunes 8.0 software with lots of new features, in a blog post Kevin also posted pictures of rumored new version of iPod Nano.

Kevin is claiming to have knowledge of following rumors: