You probably have came across messenger clients like Trillian, Digsby that lets you  access all your instant messenger clients in one place. Recently another trend shows many applications, online and downloadable integrating Facebook and Twitter accounts or our accounts on other social media websites without us switching madly between each other. Part of this interesting trend led me to another cool application that integrates your Facebook account directly into your Gmail account.

Gmail Facebook Integration is a useful extension for Google Chrome. Unlike other extensions it won’t place a icon near your address bar but instead it directly into your Gmail interface. If you already accustomed to Greasemonkey scripts, you probably would know what have you come across. As you don’t need to open Facebook in a different window, its so much faster and less time consuming. Besides the Google Buzz style approach makes it plan and simple to work with. Gmail Facebook Integration is a pretty cool and new approach to convergence in social media and email services.

But as wonderful as it works, still the developer needs to fix lots of bugs and add new features. Hopefully in coming months it should be lot better.

Gmail Facebook Integration

Acronis True Image Home is a popular disk imaging software for both personal users that lets you create backup copy of the system and later lets you restore or recover to saved state whenever a data disaster occurs. The disk image can be created within Windows or offline by booting from CD/DVD, USB key, USB flash drive, PXE, removable hard disk or other bootable device. Another interesting feature lets you clone entire hard drives, replicating to a newer disk even if the capacities are different.

The current version of Acronis True Image Home edition is Acronis True Image Home 2010. Still Acronis True Image Home 11 packs with quite a lot of features such as:

Disk imaging – File backups, full, incremental and differential backups, and around the clock protection
Manage & Protect – One-click protection, set & forget backups, Try & Decide, encryption, and privacy tools
Recover – Quick restore, recover files and folders, recover to any point in the past and keep working during a restore

A genuine  license for Acronis True Image Home would cost you about $49.90. But if you don’t mind leaving with a little out of date software, the developers have partnered with German ComputerBild magazine to giveaway Acronis True Image Home 11 German version for free. The only catch is, it’s only available in German language and the free serial key won’t work with the English version.

OK, if you’re interested, just  follow these steps below to grab a free serial license key code:

Step 1

Head over to the following promo page http://www.acronis.de/mag/cobi/ati11h

Step 2

Enter the “Vorname” (First Name), “Nachname” (Last Name) and E-mail, tick the check box for “Ich habe die Datenschutzerklärung gelesen und akzeptiere sie” as shown in the image below,  then click on “Registrieren!” button.

Step 3

Now check your email inbox for an email from Acronis and click on the confirmation link. A personal Acronis account will be created.

Step 4.

Another email with the genuine serial key will come. Note down the serial key.

Step 5

Download the German setup installer of Acronis True Image Home 11 from one of the download links : Link 1 | Link 2 | Link 3

Now install the application and enjoy.

Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro is a pretty well known firewall solution, advanced features included defense against PC infiltration by denying unauthorized access by remote hackers and protecting against data theft, denial-of-service attacks, privacy violation, Trojan horses, spyware and more.

Cool thing is that PC Authority are kind enough to setup a promotion offer which lets you use $20 worth 6 months Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro 6.7.3 license for free. Follow the steps below and you will be able use it for free.

How to Get Outpost Firewall Pro 6.7.3 license for Free ?

Step 1.

Head over to the link http://www.agnitum.com/promo/pc-authority/

Step 2.

Enter this promo code E9NZR-XY3RW-WK8CS-WKW85-XKNC2 , with your email and name and click “Send” button.

Step 3.

You’ll now receive the email with the license code.

Step 4.

Now download the following installtion files whichever suits your system. Install and enter the license key you got in the email.

For 32 bit Windows:26.9 MB
For 64 bit Windows system: 33.2 MB

Step 5

Enjoy.

The latest update to the Norton 360, version 4.0 is finally available for consumers in need of an “all-in-one”  security suite. As you would probably know it comes with a personal firewall, anti phishing technology, spyware, malware detection, file backup and other PC maintenance utilities.

Norton 360 4.0 claims to be the first to introduce new and cool features like Norton Insight, Norton Download Insight, SONAR 2 Behavioral Protection, Norton System Insight and Norton File Insight but as they claim we can also point out that the same features have arrive 5 months earlier when Nortion AV and IS 2010 were released. Only new features that we haven’t came across are “Reputation service” and “Web-based Access to Backup Files”. The reputation service adds an additional layer of security to detect viruses, Trojans, spyware, and other threats. The Web-based Access to Backup Files feature on the other hand lets you retrieve and restore files that you have backup-ed online from virtually any computer with Internet access.

If you want to give it a try, you’ll have to download Norton 360 v4 setup file which is 138MB in size and just install it. Download link can be found below. As a trial version Norton 360 c0mes with a complimentary 90days trial which lets you test you system for a reasonably long time so you can figure out stability.

Download Norton 360 v4

Kaspersky is probably the best anti-virus and Internet Security suite available in the market and the promotional posts we carry out once in a while grabs a lot of attention. But as you would know these promo licenses last for about 6 months or 3 months, after that the keys would normally expire or get blocked. Coming today we again would like to share a free offer that lets you use Kaspersky Security Suite CBE Win7 aka KIS 2010 for 91 days.

How to get free Kaspersky Security CBE for Windows 7 or KIS 2010 License ?

Before moving on with the post, let me tell you this promotion offer works only with Windows 7.

Step 1.

Head over to Computerbild.de website and fill up the following details and click on Registrieren.

If you already have a computerbild account you can skip directly to Step 3.

Step 2

Now click on the confirmation link you’ll get in your email.

Step 3

Now head over to this promo link http://goo.gl/qthJ and type in the username and password you previously registered with and click on login.

Step 4

Now you will forwarded to a webpage as shown in below image, then select “Persönlichen…..” (2nd) box and click on “Lizenzschlüssel anfordern” button.

Step 5

Now you’ll receive a email with the license code in big red letters.

Step 6

Now download the latest CBE installation from this link http://rapidshare.com/files/318817518/kis.de.msi.html and install. As the installer is in German, if you understand German there is no problem otherwise just click on any screen that comes with the “weiter or Ja” .

Step 7

Now after installation run the program and your left side click on “Einstellungen”, then uncheck “Selbstschutz aktiveren” box, as shown on the image below.

Step 8

If you want english language instead of german just download this registry hack and run.

It’s this part of the RapidShare that I hate. You have to wait for the next 30 seconds to wait for the download to get started. For what? After all the navigations and pains taken to reach there (atleast at times), I have to wait another 45 seconds? Hell no.

NOTE: These are Google Chrome extensions.

Rapidshare Countdown Remover: As the name suggest, this extension removes the countdown timer for the download. So that your download gets started automatically. All you need is to install this extension and enjoy quick clicks for downloads.

If in any case this extension does not work, you can try the extension below.

Rapidshare Download Helper: This Google Chrome extension monitors yours time limit and after that starts your download automatically. You don’t have to leave your other work and come back and click download which when not done on time will get terminated and therefore has to be restarted.

Dropbox is a pretty cool online backup solution and I have to say I’m pretty impressed by the ease of use and functionality. Dropbox desktop client is pretty impressive with automatic file syncing with any types and size of files, besides that it works with Mac, Windows and Linux.

Normally you can access your Dropbox files opening a regular tab in Chrome but that requires logging into Dropbox website which is quite a hassle and lazy guys like me don’t like to switch between tabs. Dropbox extension for Google Chrome is the answer!

Install the extension from Google Chrome Extensions Gallery.

Now click on the Dropbox icon in the top right corner of your Chrome browser, to sign into Dropbox.

The default view will provide you with the latest updates under the “Recent Events Tab”

If you click on the ‘Files Tab” you can access your files and folders or access the regular site.

If you click on “regular site” it will open dropbox website inside the tab itself.

You can now  access all your files without having to open dropbox site .

Hopefully this plugin will have more features with coming updates till then if you need quick access to your Dropbox files nothing beats DropBox Extension for Google Chrome.

Download the Drop Box extension for Google Chrome

I pretty much reckon its the free season. I have been doing a lot of free download posts lately. You can blame it on the word Free. Free is a such an ambiguous word. Right here at ThinkTechno, if its Free, its with a purpose.

Download Free Winrar 3.8

1. Visit this German Promopage. You may need a proxy.

2. Fill in your name and give a valid email address.

3. Click the Abschicken button.

4. You will receive an email with two links. The second link consists of the license key which is the license key.

NOTE: You may have to download that license key with the same proxy as above.

Download Free Winutilities PRO

Winutilities PRO is one software that keeps your computer completely clean of those unused files and wasted registries. It efficiently manages cookies and internet history. Overall a good tweaking suite for the Windows XP.

1. Download the Winutilities PRO.

2. Here is how you register to get the full product:

USER: Softpedia User

REGCODE: C1H0L9-20CC-321B-36F7-4117-W6Y1L3

Thats it! This is a special for all the Softpedia Users. Download and have fun!

Zoner Photo Studio 12 Xpress is one great way of managing and editing your photos. Zoner Photo Studio Xpress also lets you publish photos with ease. Creating such great pictures has never been so easy!

Zoner Photo Studio Xpress 12 is for all types of photographers alike, whether you are an amateur or a professional.

1. Navigate to this promo page.

2. Enter your Name and a valid Email ID and click Register. Thats it! You will get your license key in your mail in a while.

If you do not have the software, click below to download:

Download Zoner Photo Studio 12 Xpress Edition

Feeling unsafe about your computer, Secunia Online Software Inspector is a great way to know which software your computer needs to be up-to-date. Basically your usual antivirus or Internet security would never tell you anything about software vulnerabilities but with this web scanner your most common security problems should be history.

All you got to do is headover to the web scanner’s page and simple click on Start and let it scan your computer for known vulnerabilities of the softwares installed and gives you list of whom to patch. Only thing required is to have your browser enabled Java and the scanner works with almost all Windows system.

Thou the scanner won’t cover every application on your PC and only checks for the most common programs like Flash, Adobe Reader, QuickTime, Java and others, still its a great way to deter malware and spyware attacks as these common applications are the ones that most of the time lead to infections. Besides that everybody loves freeware stuff .

Secunia Online Software Inspector is free and works with any Windows web browser that supports Java.