Face recognition is nowadays very common protection mechanism used in laptops and other home security products. Face recognition process includes hardware and software parts. Integrated camera and allied software mechanism in laptops identifies the facial expression of the administrator and creates a binary data log that is later used for identification. Face detection technology could also be used in personal computers using face recognition softwares and a webcam or mobile camera. Face recognition applications are usually sharewares. But BananaScreen from BananaSecurity team is freeware alternative for those commercial solutions.

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Large files need to be split before they can be transferred over the internet. The continuity of the internet connection may not stable at every time. If some error happens in between an upload or download, the whole process has to be restarted again. File sharing sites like Rapidshare, MegaUpload, Hotfile, and others have  a limit on the size of the files are uploaded. In the internet, mostly we use RAR or ZIP to split files and join them later at the user end.

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Firewall is a software that scans inbound and outbound traffic from a computer that is connected to the internet. Firewall improves that security of a machine by categorizing and blocking unwanted network traffic. Spyware, bots, keyloggers, trojan horses and worms use active and unprotected internet connection on a machine to collect sensitive data and send it to remote servers. Windows itself have a Firewall. However, it is always recommended to use an advanced Firewall to enable full scale protection from new age malware. So here we have collected a list of the best free Firewall software for Windows that might be interested in.

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Having a logo is very important for every website. Logo design can be done with graphics design software like Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw, etc. But studying these applications and designing industry standard logos takes long time. So they are not suited if the creator wants to design logos in 2-3 hours. At the same time, there are specially designed Logo creation software like LogoMaker that makes this task simple that even a kid can design great logs in few steps. Logo Maker 2 has a collection of thousands of logo elements and pre-created log design templates. Usual price of LogoMaker is around 30 USD. However, here as a part promotion you can download the full version of LogoMaker free and doesn’t need any serial for installation.

Logo maker 2 interface:

As you can see in the screenshot, there are more than 1000 custom logo objects arranged in different categories. Just drag the desired logo element and start creating logos. Another menu shape editor has a set of shapes like arrows, balls, clocks, etc . that could be used in the project. There is also an option to edit previously designed logo templates and create derivative ones. This is very useful for beginners.

Get Logo Maker software free from Avanquest.

A UK based software retailer Avanquest is running a promo offer for LogoMaker- though this you can download the version two of LogoMaker free for a selected time period.

To get this offer go to then promotional offer here, enter your email and download the software.

DVD videos are perfect in sound and video quality, but are larger in size. Therefore, most times it becomes impossible to backup them as a whole. Here comes the use of DVD cutter software, for selecting and saving particular part of the movie file. DVD cutter plus is a free software which makes this task pretty simple when compared with other shareware apps in the market. You can download the application from below.

How to use DVD cutter plus :

Select the required DVD movie file using open.
Move slider>See  preview and mark  start at appropriate location.
Similarly select end section and click on save.

Resulting DVD files will have the same quality as the original file .

Download DVD cutter for Windows.

Related :Free MP3 cutter .

A few months back we informed you about free Ashampoo products from German computer magazine Computer Build. Those offers for Ashampoo photo commander and Ashampoo Burning Studio version are still available. Today they have announced another legally free offer for an Ashampoo product, Ashampoo music studio 9.

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