Mozilla Weave 0.2.2 for Firefox:
Lucky are those who only ever access the Web from a single Pc. Others are cursed with forever customizing their browser every time a different PC is used. Or do we give up and just go with the defaults? For a while 'Google BrowserSync' for Firefox 2.x seemed to have the solution, but that was discontinued. Now, a new service by the Mozilla Labs aims to provide similar func¬tionality and much more. Eventually, Weave will let you upload all your bookmarks, history, passwords, customi¬zations and preferences to a server of your choice, and have access to the encrypted data from any PC in the world once you login with a password. So for example, you could start browsing with a few tabs at home, and the next morning, resume your browsing session from where you left off at work. Weave is compatible with Firefox 3.0 and requires account creation with the service - which signs on a limited number of users every few days, so that their server is not overwhelmed.

FosiX Lite 1.0: Space usage on a hard drive needs to be tracked, if you don't want to run out of space at the wrong time. For instance, you might see 20 GB of space inexplica¬bly occupied. Solving the mystery of how that much space is being used is fairly simple, but time-consuming. The slow way to do that might be to right-click each folder in the root of your drive, and see the 'size on disk', and then further investi¬gate within the largest-sized folder. There is a much quick¬er way to do the same - install the freeware tool named FosiX Lite. Start it and tell it which drive letter you want to investigate, and you will be shown pie charts or bar graphs of folders and files, proportionate to their space usage. Click on a folder name to go one level deeper into your folders.

PodmailingO.lO: E-mailing large files is always a difficult proposition, both to the recipi¬ent, and to your e-mail provid¬er, because it causes clogging. However, Podmailing tries to offer an innovative solution to this problem. It uses the bit¬torrent protocol to transfer files and folders from the sender to a recipient. The nature oftor¬rent downloads means that if you have multiple recipients, they can download the files even quicker.

XAMPP 1.6.7 - Web server:
Moving towards a Web-ori¬ented lifestyle has become inevitable today. If your
home PC is switched on most of the time, you can also ben¬efit from this, by putting the data you choose, up on the Web, for you to be able to access from anywhere.;. Whether it be document files,,, songs, to-do lists, appoint¬ments, or information reposi¬tories, having them accessible anytime and anywhere you choose, multiplies their value many fold. On the DVD this month, is a slideshow tutorial of how to start with XAMPP. Also provided are a few free PHP Web scripts for your use, such as Content Manage¬ment Systems (CMS), blog¬ging applications, and so on.

TuneUp Utilities 2008: This all¬in-one tool performs a thor¬ough tune-up of your PC, from cleaning your hard drives to fixing performance problems to de fragmenting your Registry, and more. All the tools are presented in a clean, easy-to-use interface. The Startup Manager identi¬fies each program that launches on startup - it tells you whether each is trustwor¬thy or potentially dangerous, describes what each does, and offers advice on whether you can disable each safely. There's a useful "I-Click Maintenance" feature that analyzes your Registry and system components, auto¬matically fine-tunes them, deletes temporary files, and defragments your hard disk. Apple iTunes 7.7: iTunes lets you manage music and video files in countless ways. And iTunes' ease of use is second to none. Among its features: it connects to an iPod to sync music, lets you burn CDs directly from the software, shares music over a local net¬work, and streams Internet radio. You could even set up Apple 1V, which streams video from your iTunes library to your 1V.