Greeting cards and animated advertisements are created with Flash swf documents .Sometime we need to download these cool embedded graphics from web pages .Downloaded flash files in SWF format can be decompiled or extracted to create new custom flash documents .Sothink SWF Catcher is free browser addon for Firefox and Internet explorer to download and save these flash documents .
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In our last article, we wrote on how to access blocked websites like Orkut, Youtube, Myspace, Facebook, etc. using proxy websites. Most of these proxy websites are vulnerable to security risks as they are not SSL secured and as open to the service providers. Proxy websites just only act as a mediator between us and the target website or service. At the same a VPN ( Virtual private networks ) is operated in a secured medium. VPN services first encrypt our data and associates a custom key or wrapper and transfer over the internet. The data is then decrypted at the end of the VPN end point and transferred to the web service So in between this transfer none will be knowing your personal details, and you will get all benefits of using a proxy. So by using VPN service, we can hide our IP, login username, password, credit card information, etc. in an extra secured environment. Furthermore, you can use VPN services to fool ISPs and bans employed by countries to particular websites. There are both paid and free Virtual Private networks. Here we have collected few VPN networks that you may use for accessing private services.

These free VPN services will have some limitations on download quantity, bandwidth, etc., But they are good if you’re looking only for browsing purposes.

ALONWEB free VPN service: Complete registration, download and install Alonweb OpenVPN client for Windows. After instillation click on icon from system try and connect  Enter username and password registered with service.

Now VPN will be established. ALONEWEB will now let the user to surf anonymously and download by bypassing country and ISP firewalls. But free service is limited to 1GB monthly traffic share.

(Update: The service seems to be discontinued)

Loki free VPN service : Loki is yet another free and SSL secured VPN service for Windows OS . Here you don’t any site registration to access VPN service. A guest role is enough to use there VPN servers located at different parts of the world.

Download Loki VPN client and install. Similar to that in ALONEWEB VPN, click on connect button and establish a secured connection to access blocked websites on a secured mode.

A good and reliable free VPN service that I use personally is Cyberghost VPN. I got a user name and password for the service though a promotional offer and so far it is working great. You can try their free version here.

We had earlier shared a free MP3 splitter and cutter for Windows. Smartmp3splitter is another useful, but online utility for creating MP3 ringtones and small MP3 sound clips from songs. Here you don’t need to download and install anything. Just upload the required MP3 file, edit and download.
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The availability of addons ,themes and plugins are the most attractive features of Firefox web browser . Authors of the addons rewrite their product with each major Firefox releases .The recently released Firefox 3.5 was a major update .So now few non updated addons and themes gives error messages and incompatibility issues .But majority of users will not be in a situation to compromise on the new fastest Firefox version for this addon facility . So here is tip that would help you to Install old Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 addons and themes on Firefox 3.5 .

Install old addons and themes on Firefox 3.5 :

In the URL bar, enter about:config and hit enter .
I promise , I will be careful .
Now right click anywhere and select new Boolean from context menu .
Enter the preference name as extensions.checkCompatibility and hit OK.
Now set the Boolean value as False .

Now onwards Firefox 3.5 will not check addons and themes for incompatibility issues . So you can install old extensions if they are not still supported on the browser to some extend .

Google recently introduced a new feature called latitude that let us to track or locate users of Google maps in real time. Users can sign up to latitude from Google maps mobile or Google maps web application . Latitude will update their location in real time and we will be able to track the movement of people who opted to display their status public . So you will be able track the location of the friends on Google maps if they accept your invitation to join latitude .

Google maps

Desktop users will only be able to set a static address . But mobile users can opt for automatic update , that with GPS produces excellent real time tracking . A proper data plan is required in each case .

Download Google maps mobile .

After installation, click on latitude . Here you will be able to see a list of friends who are already on latitude and sharing their location .  You can choose to invite more people to the list by using Gmail contacts or email ID .

Update: Watch World Cup 2011 online. Earlier we posted live streaming links for IPL T20 cricket matches held in south Africa .The matches are now over and people are looking forward for the upcoming T20 world cup from England . Some of those old links we mentioned here for streaming IPL T20 is still working for ICC T20 World cup . These streaming links uses TUV networks player and sopcast player to access live streaming TV links from p2p and compatible web servers . Streaming links consumes lot of server resources , so mostly they are not available or luck depended . Here we also have few websites,widgets and softwares for getting live T20 worldcup scores .

T20 World cup live streaming links:

You will get thousand of sites offering live T20 World cup live streaming links from Google . Almost all them need sopcast and TUV player get them here .

Download Sopcast player .
Download TUV player .

Willow.TV offers high quality live streaming links to ICC world cup Twenty20 matches  . But there is a charge associated with each package .

Watch demo live cricket streaming .

Willow.TV uses Windows media player browser plugin for live streaming ,and the service needs you to be on internet explorer .

Get T20 World cup live cricket scores in Firefox :

HitWicket is Firefox addon that lets you to get instant cricket sores and alerts on Firefox browser windows You don’t need to visit cricket sites and refresh them to keep updated with the scores . HitWicket Firefox addon automatically refreshes at predefined interval and displays the scores on Firefox status bar .

Download HitWicket  Firefox addon

Get T20 World cup live cricket scores in Windows Desktop:

For this you need Windows Vista or Windows XP with Google  desktop . Search for cricket widgets from menu . These widgets uses live streaming  feeds from Cricinfo and other popular Cricket websites .

Download Google desktop .

More T20 World cup live streaming links and cricket resources will be added soon  .

Update :Watch ICC champions trophy cricket online .

Update :Watch Indian premier league (IPL 3) 2010 matches live online Here .