TuneUp Utilities 2009 is now available for download but costs $49 for the full version, if you are looking for a free alternative you can grab a fully functional free genuine license for the earlier version TuneUp Utilities 2007 of this popular Windows optimization application suite.

I have written about creating bootable USB disk using free software, but it is of no use if the motherboard or BIOS does not support USB booting, if you are stuck in a situation where BIOS does not support booting from USB or CD-ROM, free boot-manager PLoP would be the best solution for the problem, the easy to use boot manager can work with your existing boot-loader and even without the need to install on hard-disk.

PLoP Boot Manager can launch from floppy, CD, network or existing boot manager like LILO, GRUB, Windows boot menu and DOS, once launched you can use PLoP to boot from USB and CD-ROM even if BIOS does not support these options.

No matter how hard digital content developers try to make their protection algorithms unbreakable, crackers always tend to get one step ahead breaking it, the newest example would be the highly waited crack for GTA IV PC, after a series of fake and non-working cracks and activation hacks, crack from LOBO is being reported to work fine, although having some serious bugs causing crashes during cut-scenes, which can be avoided by simply bypassing the scenes.

As expected GTA IV : PC version is now released, and as usual untouched CLONE-DVD images of the original game got leaked on BitTorrent portals, thousands of users are now in the leeching queue to download the game, However, no working crack or activation hack seem to exist now for using the pirated copies of the game.

Released as two massively sized DVD's totaling 13.85 GB, GTA IV for PC is protected by SecuROM DRM.

Having lots of tabs loaded in Firefox eats substantial amount of system resources and can make things pretty slow and unorganized, the guys at Visibo Limited seems to have developed a perfect solution for the problem, TooManyTabs 0.3.1 - the free Firefox add-on from Visibo allows users to save more then 50 tabs in multiple-rows as idle tabs, just above the real Firefox tabs in unloaded form saving memory and CPU cycles, furthermore the ability to color and create separate rows provides better tab-organization functionality.

Simply Click The Up Arrow For Adding To TooManyTabs Row

At first instance it seemed no better then a Bookmark Manager like Read It Later, but further digging revealed this blog post at developers website, telling how TooManyTabs will try to load the restored tab from disk cache including the tab history and scroll position.

We have written about unofficial Alky's DirectX 10 For XP, with no further development Alky's project is almost dead, but a new project for porting DirectX 10 on Windows XP seems to be getting momentum with frequent updates and good user-base support, developed by Russian software developer KM-Software the group is providing constant updates to the DirectX port for Windows XP ironing out bugs and glitches with every release, the port lets users play DirectX 10 only games and take advantage of latest improvements in DirectX 10 increasing the speed and quality of games and graphic applications on their Windows XP computer.

The developer also provides another handy utility named "KM-Software DirectX Changer" allowing users to switch between DirectX 10 and DirectX 9 without restarting the computer, the option to change DirectX version makes it possible to use DirectX 9 with older games and DirectX10 for newer games on Windows XP providing greater compatibility as required, the utility can also be used on Windows Vista and Windows 7 to switch off DirectX 10 and use older games on these new operating systems.

Now this is a big news, iPhone Dev Team member planetbeing has managed to reverse engineer Apple iPhone hardware drivers and successfully ported Linux on Apple iPhone and First generation iPod devices.

The port makes use of a Busybox installation (popular Router OS) created with buildroot, the port is in its early stages and supports Framebuffer driver, Serial driver, Serial over USB driver, Interrupts, MMU, clock and other similar basic functionality, the team is looking forward to accomplish write support for the NAND, Wireless networking, Touchscreen, Sound, Accelerometer and baseband support as the development progresses.

After reading the story title you might be thinking how can this be useful, although not much useful writing text upside-down can come in handy for creating strong passwords, encrypted download links, and cool geeky profile names.

There exist numerous free online services offering this simple flipped-text effect like - FlipTitle, FlipText.Org and FlipText.Net to name a few, the effect makes use of UNICODE characters to work and can be used in applications and online services supporting Unicode, You can also create this flip-text effect on your own website using this simple javascript.

There are numerous free video downloaders and converters for Windows and finding one suitable for your needs is pretty easy, but if you are on Mac you are out of luck as finding a free solution is quite hard, Thanks to our reader EVA, today I will be sharing an easy to use solution for downloading videos from online video sites on your Mac OS X (Tiger & Leopard) computer.

iSkysoft Video Downloader is an free software for Mac allowing users to download FLV video files from popular video sites like YouTube, Google Videos, Yahoo Videos, Metacafe, Break, MySpace, Gofish, AOL, Veoh, imeem, Blip.TV and other similar video websites.

Using the software is pretty easy as it automatically sniffs video files played inside Safari and Firefox browsers allowing you to download the full-length videos with ease, the utility is multi-threaded and supports batch downloading options for simultaneous downloads, you can enjoy the downloaded .FLV movie files on your MAC computer using the in-built FLV player, but if you want video conversion feature you will need to upgrade to the PRO version costing $29, However, If you are not willing to spend money and want a free solution, here are two excellent free solutions to convert videos on your Mac computer with ease.