Author: raymond

Pick Up Your Email, from any computer, anywhere in the world

Like FuseMail, mail2web.com lets you check almost any e-mail account from virtually anywhere. In ad hoc mode, you don’t even need to register: Just enter your e-mail account and password. (This made us uneasy, but according to the privacy policy, passwords are never stored.) The service does its level best to ascertain server settings for Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, and other popular mail services; you can also provide POP or IMAP settings manually.

Intellilogin will automatically figure out your Server name or IP address of your email server. So by entering only your email address and password, you’re able to retrieve your email within seconds.
Advanced Login enables to to specify your own custom Server name or IP address of your email server.
Secure Login brings you to a secured connection (SSL) which you’ll see a https at the hyperlink. Every information you submit will be encrypted with 128 Bit.
There is even Outlook Web Access for emails that is on exchange servers.

By registering and creating a free account with mail2web, you can store your e-mail server names and get a personal home page on the mail2web servers (including a picture, favorite news groups, and favorite links). The contact importer offers a handy ability to parse CSV files to find just the right fields for your address book. There is also a WAP version of the e-mail client for accessing mail on WAP-enabled phones.
For PDA users, you can also find a PDA mail2web version.

Although mail2web.com does not provide all the functions of a premium service (there is no antispam filtering, for example), what it does it does very well. While you’ll see a good many banner ads here, the visual design remains clean and even elegantly laid out.

Basically everyone is able to use this service 🙂
I know I use them on my PDA. For desktop, I still recommend ePrompter.

December 7, 2011
How to Receive Webmails (Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail and etc) in Outlook

Yesterday I wrote an article about an email notifier called POP Peeper which you can use it to send and receive webmails and POP3. It works pretty much like an email client but it lacks of some important features that is usually included in email client, that’s why it’s called an email notifier.

Some of you might still prefer to receive emails using Outlook which is more powerful. If that is the case, here is a solution on how you can receive webmails such as Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail and POP3 using your favorite email client such as Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express.

With FreePOPs, it is possible to get all your email messages in your favorite email client. It is able to support more than 100 domains. Check out the supported domains list here. There is one limitation on FreePops, that is FreePOPs helps doesn’t help you in sending messages. You can use your ISP SMTP or GMail SMTP to send out email.

There is nothing to configure in FreePOPs. Just download, install, update modules and configure your email client such as Outlook Express or Microsoft Outlook.

After installing FreePOPs, it is important that you update the modules first. Run FreePOPs-updater from the programs menu. If one day you are unable to download your email using outlook, you can also run FreePOPs-updater to check if there’s any update on the modules.

An example on how to add Yahoo Mail to Outlook Express:
1. Go to Tools menu, choose the Accounts
2. Click Add -> Mail
3. Enter your Display Name and click Next
4. Enter your full Yahoo email address, for example [email protected] and click Next
5. Make sure POP3 is selected. Enter incoming mail (POP3) as localhost. As for Outgoing mail (SMTP), enter your ISP SMTP. (Usually you can get this info from your ISP website)
6. Enter your full email address in Account name, for example [email protected] and your password.
7. Click Finish.
8. Select the newly created email account and click Properties button.
9. Go to Advanced tab, change the Incoming mail (POP3) port 110 to 2000 and also make sure that “This server requires a secure connection (SSL)” is uncheck.

10. Click OK and you’re done.
11. On Outlook Express, click the Send/Recv button and it’ll download your emails.

If you get error messages that says “The connection to the server has failed“, make sure your firewall allows port 2000 and also FreePOPs is running.

Actually GMail supports POP3 and SMTP. You can configure your email client with the information provided here. If you need to send out mail from Yahoo, YPOPs supports sending and receiving Yahoo! email.

I remembered I once found a software that is able to Send and Receive Hotmail using email client but somehow I couldn’t find it anymore. Tried HotPOP3 and Hotmail Popper, but it doesn’t work because it is outdated. If you know any, do leave a comment.

What I like about FreePOPs is, the wide amount of webmail domains supported.

[ Download FreePOPs ]

December 7, 2011
The BEST Free Network Settings Switching Software

I very frequently need to change my IP address, Subnet Mask, Gateway and DNS whenever I am from home to work or vice versa. That’s because I use static IP at home for some software port forwarding purposes and DHCP auto IP address assignment when at work.

To make my life easier, I found a free software that can easily help me to switch between network settings. Yeah, it’s quite normal but let me assure you that this software has a little more advantage compared to other network settings switching program.

Net Profiles is able to help mobile computing becomes a whole lot easier. It eliminates the need to manually reconfigure your network settings when you move your desktop/laptop computer to another location. Once a profile is created, Net Profiles can configure your IP settings, proxy settings, mapped drives, default printer, wallpaper, and screen resolution with a click of a button; as well as run any number of user-defined applications upon activation of a profile.

Net Profiles Features:
* Save your network settings as profiles.
* Automatically activate wireless profiles when specified wireless connections are detected.
* Change IP Address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, Primary and Secondary DNS Servers, WINS Server, and DHCP settings with the click of a button.
* Specify different mapped drives for each profile.
* Change your default printer based on which profile you’re currently using.
* Automatically change you profile via program shortcuts created with Net Profiles.
* Change the default homepage for Internet Explorer and Firefox.
* Proxy settings for Internet Explorer and Firefox.
* Run a user-defined list of programs when a profile is activated.
* Maintain separate desktop wallpaper for each profile.
* Change screen resolutions and color quality when profiles are activated.

Why I said Net Profiles is better than other network settings switching program is because it is totally free. You can use it for both commercial and non-commercial purposes! Other than that, you can proxy settings for your browser, map drives, set wallpaper and screen resolution, and even auto activate Wireless SSID for different profiles! The main window gives you the familiar look of Windows XP network connections. Definitely the BEST free network settings switching software!

Note: Microsoft .NET 2.0 is needed. If you don’t have it, Net Profiles installer will allow you to install Microsoft .NET 2.0.

[ Download Net Profiles v2.0.1 ]

December 7, 2011
Multiple email checker

Frankly I need to admit that I have quite a lot of email addresses. I have Gmail, Yahoo!, MSN, Hotmail, Pop3…. email accounts.
It’s not because I use them all to communicate with my friends and colleagues, but it’s because if I am able to get the login name that I want on a popular free email service, I’ll sign it up before someone else gets them.

Some free email providers such as Hotmail requires you to at least login to your mailbox once every 30 days or else your account will be deactivated.
On deactivation, all personal items including e-mail messages and address books are deleted and incoming messages are no longer accepted. After deactivation a user has 90 days to reactivate the account before the e-mail address is removed from the system.

It’s quite troublesome to login to each webmail when you have like 10 email accounts.
Why not automate the task?

Introducing ePrompter…

ePrompter automatically and simultaneously checks and retrieves your email messages from up to sixteen password protected email accounts AND lets you read, delete and respond to any of your messages with a simple click on the account of your choice – without ever having to launch your email program or go to your webmail’s site. Importantly, when ePrompter retrieves messages, it leaves the original messages on your various email accounts’ servers and/or webmail sites.

ePrompter works with AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, POP3, Earthlink, Excite, iName, Juno, Lycos, Mail.com, Mindspring, MSN, MyWay, Netscape, OneBox, Rediffmail, SBC Yahoo, Switchboard, USA.net and hundreds of other email domains.

ePrompter notification features include a unique rotating tray icon, the main ePrompter screen, audio alerts for new messages, and a choice of five unique screensavers that let you know at a glance the number of new messages in each account.

Finally, ePrompter employs auto-upgrades which means it will be automatically updated to the most recent version of ePrompter once you click on “Update” button.

ePrompter website | Download

December 7, 2011
20 Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Keys to be Given Away on My Birthday!

Actually my birthday is sometime around this week but I am not comfortable in revealing the exact date. By giving a part of my real information, it is possible that some of you might be able to dig out my personal information, thanks to the power of Google! Not that I have done something shameful in my life but all this while I prefer to fly under the radar, be unknown and stay low profile. You can see that I don’t even have accounts for social networking websites such as Facebook, Friendster, Orkut or MySpace.

Anyway I will be taking a break from spending hours in researching and writing today because I stayed up until nearly 4AM trying to fix a WordPress plugin problem. Don’t worry about birthday presents because all of you has already given me one which is by voting for my blog site. It was really heart warming to see nearly 300 comments and receiving a couple of emails informing me that you’ve voted. To return the favor, I will give out 20 Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 license key valid for a year. The license keys are still new, not yet activate and of course genuine.

I personally prefer to give out Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 license instead of Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 because the internet security suite tends to be a little too strict and sometime blocks unnecessary software from functioning properly. KAV works the best, it gives very good protection against virus, spyware, trojan, worms and keyloggers yet it won’t create problems for legitimate programs. If you are afraid of hackers, you can install trustworthy firewall from ZoneAlarm, Online Armor or Comodo.

The 20 KAV 2009 license will be given out randomly. Doesn’t matter if you are the first or last to post, your chances of winning is the same. To be eligible for the draw, you MUST be a subscriber of my newsletter and then leave a comment at the end of this article. This draw will open only for 24 hours and the winners will be announced tomorrow. Come on, no cheating please.

UPDATE: 20 Lucky Winners Has Been Randomly Chosen!

You should be receiving an email from me in a couple of hours later. Please check your SPAM or JUNK folder if you do not hear from me.

December 7, 2011
Recovering Deleted Emails in Microsoft Outlook

Oh My!! I accidentally deleted a very important e-mail in my Microsoft Outlook 2003!
Thanks to the Shift+Del that I am so used to whenever I need to deleted something.
Shift+Del automatically deletes files/emails without going in to Recycle Bin or Deleted Items folder. So be careful not to be too used to use this command or else you’ll end up accidentally deleting important files 🙁
PST has its own FAT, so to speak, and when an e-mail is deleted, it is simply marked to be replaced.

Luckily I found a few ways to recover my deleted emails in Microsoft Outlook 2003.

1. Software – GetData Recover My Email For Microsoft Outlook
This software able to recover individual deleted messages or deleted attachment from your Microsoft Outlook mailbox. It can even access your PST file even if it’s corrupted.
See how easy it is to use from the picture below.

FYI, there is also another software that is able to do the same for Outlook Express from this author.

2. A rather unorthodox solution – Corrupt and then recover the PST file
Make a backup first!
As the following steps involve corrupting Outlook’s PST file, I strongly recommend you make a backup before attempting the process outlined in this article. I realize PST files can be rather large, but it’s better to be safe than sorry.

1. To corrupt the PST file, please use any hex editor of your choice. If you don’t have one, try searching for one on CNET’s Download.com.
2. Delete positions 7 through 13 with the spacebar. Since you’re using hexadecimal numbering, this actually clears 13 characters in the following positions:
00007
00008
00009
0000a
0000b
0000c
0000d
0000e
0000f
00010
00011
00012
00013

(The editor displays the code â€œ20â€ each time you clear a position with the spacebar.)
3. After clearing those positions in the file, save it. Your PST is now corrupted.
4. Run the Inbox Repair Tool, SCANPST.exe, to recover the file. On Win2K and WinNT systems, the executable is located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Mapi\1033\NT. You can also find it on the Office 2000 CD-ROM in Drive:\Pfiles\Common\System\Mapi\1033\NT. In WinXP, the file is located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Mapi\1033. For additional information on the Inbox Repair Tool, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 287497.
5. After creating a backup, the Inbox Repair Tool repairs the damage and recreates the PST. Open the new PST in Outlook. The Deleted Items folder should contain all removed messages, so anything you’ve emptied will be restored.

Though this technique falls outside the lines of the usual measures available for repairing or recovering data, it may be the best available option for retrieving specific messages that have been permanently deleted from Outlook. It’s a fairly simple operation to perform, and you don’t have to spend any money on recovery tools.

Edit: I also found out that Microsoft Outlook has built-in Recover Deleted Items function at Tools menu. You must select Deleted Items from navigation pane to open the deleted items folder first.
Then select Recover Deleted Items option from the Tools menu.
A new window should appears with a list of the items that have been deleted within the past 14 days
Although this method has been discussed, but I wasn’t able to find that function in my Microsoft Outlook 2003 Service Pack 2 🙁

December 7, 2011

WebSiteSniffer Captures Files Downloaded from Internet

Very often we get people asking in forums on how to check what files are being downloaded to the computer by a web installer. One example is when you want to install Google Chrome, the whole process of downloading and installing seems to be done automatically without going through the traditional method of asking you to download a single executable file and run it to install. You don’t even know the direct link to download the files. The solution to see what is happening in background is to use a packet sniffer. Packet sniffing and decoding using advanced tools such as WireShark may not be easy for everyone, hence, Nir Sofer from www.nirsoft.net created a really simple tool to do that.

WebSiteSniffer is a free and portable packet sniffing tool that captures files downloaded by your computer and saves them to the base folder that you get to define in the Options. Although WebSiteSniffer is a portable tool, you may need to install packet capturing drivers such as WinPcap or Network Monitor Driver if the Raw Sockets method doesn’t work for you.

Website Sniffer

I tried the Raw Sockets capture method and it is really buggy. There are times that it doesn’t capture anything at all even though I run it as Administrator or I get the error “Failed to start capturing packets from the current network adapter!”. So far WinPcap or Network Monitor Driver 3.x worked flawlessly but I personally prefer to use WinPcap because I have it installed on my computer for many years and never had any problems.

At the WebSiteSniffer Options, you get to choose the folder where all the files are downloaded to and the file types that you want to download. Installers in executable extensions (.exe .msi) are grouped into “All Others”. Next is to select the capture method where by the capture method is only selectable if the drivers are installed. Finally, select the network adapter that you want to sniff and capture. Once you finished configuring the options, click on the green play icon at the menubar to start capture. To me, the WebSiteSniffer user interface doesn’t really provide any important information other than the total count and total size that it has downloaded. What matters most is the captured files on the base folder.

WebSiteSniffer Options

Although the name of the software sounds like it can only work on web browsers to capture on websites, it also works on web installers such as AVG, Google Chrome and etc. There are limitations to WebSiteSniffer which is it cannot capture HTTPS secured website as they are encrypted. It also reports of possible file corruption when downloading a large file with a fast Internet connection. When that happens, URLSnooper2 comes to play by revealing the hidden URL so you can manually download the file from your web browser.

Do note that WebSiteSniffer works very differently from URLSnooper2 which I normally recommend. WebSiteSniffer produces the “files” while URLSnooper2 produces “URLs” that are downloaded by your computer.

[ Download WebSiteSniffer ]

GuardedID Keystroke Encryption Review

Please bear with me if I shared with you too much about keystroke encryption with you and I assure you that this is probably the last since I have covered nearly all of them. I am personally looking for the best keystroke encryption software because last week I realized how important it is to keep my password safe as there are too many undetectable malwares out there which only a handful good antivirus can only start detecting it after a couple of days. By then it’s too late when my password falls into the wrong hands…

After tested KeyScrambler and NextGen AntiKeylogger, KeyScrambler wins the competition by preventing 10 different types of keyloggers from capturing keystrokes and also more stable because some of the NextGen AntiKeylogger features doesn’t work. Looking to review more alternatives, I found GuardedID, created by StrikeForce Technologies, Inc which also claims to provide keylogger protection by encryption keystrokes.

There is a fully functional 30 day trial which can only be downloaded after providing a valid credit card. After passing the 30 day trial, your credit card will automatically be charged USD $24.99 annually, valid for 2 computers. Yes, GuardedID is a subscription software and will stop working when the subscription period is expired.

There are 2 modules on GuardedID which is for the Desktop and Internet Explorer/Firefox. The Desktop module encrypts your keystrokes with an incremental number; for example, typing “www.raymond.cc” becomes “01234567890123″. As for the Internet Explorer/Firefox module, it provides protection against clickjacking by warning you when you’re about to click on a potentially dangerous opacity (transparent) and positional button or link.

Elite Keylogger – FAIL
REFOG Keylogger – PASS
Revealer Keylogger Pro – PASS
Award Keylogger Pro – PASS
All In One Keylogger – PASS
Ardamax Keylogger – PASS
WebWATCHER – PASS
DarkComet RAT – PASS
CyberGate RAT – PASS
BlackShades RAT – PASS

The reason why GuardedID fails to protect the keystroke against Elite Keylogger is because it is a low level kernel keylogger, which is not a common method in keystroke logging and requires very competent programming skills.

Other than that, screen capturing is automatically disabled by GuardedID. One way to go around that restriction to capture the screenshot of GuardedID Preferences window is by using another computer to connect via Remote Desktop and then capture the screnshot from there.

Another good thing about GuardedID is the keystroke encryption works on most if not all applications, unlike KeyScrambler or NextGen AntiKeylogger where it only works on supported software.

My only gripe on GuardedID is there is no way to temporarily disable the protection other than terminating the process. When the GuardedID Desktop process (GIDD.exe) is killed from Windows Task Manager, the keystroke encryption instantly gets disabled. Way too easy to bypass GuardedID protection… I would continue to use KeyScrambler because I only need to pay for it once, blocks all keylogging methods, continue to encrypt keystrokes even process is terminated and it supports 64bit Windows.

[ Visit GuardedID ]

Full Backup and Restore Nokia Contacts, Calendar, Text Messages and Settings

I bought a Nokia N82 mobile phone on December 2007 for my wife as a Christmas present. It was newly released at that time and comes with a 5 megapixel camera. As usual, when we buy something that is so new in the market, it tends to be buggy. Just like when a new version of Windows is newly released, there are lots of problems and the end users will have to wait for hotfixes and service packs to make the system more stable. Many years back when I want to update the firmware of the Nokia phone, I’ll have to bring it to a Nokia service center and get them to do it. Now, Nokia allows us, the end-users to update the device firmware via Software Updater from our computer.

The benefits of updating the Nokia device firmware include getting new features, applications, and performance improvements to your device. Before updating the device’s firmware, it is advisable to make a full backup of the phone first in case something goes wrong with the update and you can still restore back your contact, calendar, text messages and settings.

You can backup Nokia with Nokia PC Suite. Currently the latest version of PC Suite is v7.1

1. Download the latest Nokia PC Suite, install and follow the instructions on screen on how to connect your Nokia phone to your computer.

2. Launch Nokia PC Suite and click on the top left icon that looks like a safebox.
Backup Nokia Phone

3. Click the icon that says “Back up the desired phone contents to a backup file which is saved on the PC”.
Nokia Content Copier

4. Now you can select what you would like to backup from the Nokia phone. There is user files from the phone memory and memory card, contacts, calendar, notes, text messages, bookmarks and settings. You can check all to perform a full backup of your Nokia phone.
Backup Nokia Phone

5. You will now get to choose where to save the Nokia backup file. The file name by default will have the current date and phone name with .nbu extension.

6. Click the next button and the backup will start. When the backup has completed, you will get a window telling you that.

You can now update your device’s firmware or even reset your Nokia back to its default factory settings. The steps to restore back all your contacts, text messages and etc from backup is nearly the same as back up. Launch Nokia PC Suite, click on the backup icon and select “Restore the desired phone contents from a backup file to your phone”. Backing up mobile phone book or contacts is actually very important even if you’re not going to update the firmware. We never know when we will misplace our phone or even get stolen and cause us to loose all our important contacts. Happened to me once on my PDA and I had a tough time getting all my contacts back.

FREE IObit Advanced SystemCare PRO v3 License Key Codes Exclusive for Raymond.CC Readers

A new Windows does not mean it is error-free and it is fully optimized. During the installation of Windows 2000/XP/Vista, many drivers and software are also installed, leaving lots of useless registry installation. If you’ve been using the same old Windows that came pre-installed a year ago or more without proper maintenance tool, I bet you’ll surely noticed a degraded performance compared to the first time you bought the computer. Manually doing checkdisk and defrag is very basic and not really enough to fully optimize your computer. You will need something better than that.
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Disable Program Has Stopped Working Error Dialog in Windows Server 2008

One of the most important thing when hosting a game server such as Counter-Strike Source is to make sure that the server is able to automatically restart itself when it crashes. It is perfectly normal for a CSS server to experience crashes when it is running a system-intensive mod such as ZombieMod and like all software they might not be free of bugs.

If you are hosting your game server on a linux or unix server, then you do not need to worry about auto restarting when crash because by default it can already do that via a script file. However for Windows, it cannot auto restart. If you check the srcds.com windows server tutorial, there is a part where it teaches you to create a batch file that monitors the srcds.exe process and if it is terminated, the batch file will run the specified command line to restart the CSS server.

Sorry to say that the batch file will not work because by default Windows shows an error window when it crashes. It will require someone to click on the “Close the program” button in order to restart via batch file. Here is how to disable the ErrorMode window so that you can use the batch file to auto restart CSS server when it crashes.

When the game crashes, the srcds.exe process is still running in background because of the error popup that says “srcds.exe has stopped working. Windows can check online for a solution to the problem.”.

If you disable Error Reporting, you will still get a similar error window that says “srcds.exe has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Please close the program”.

To disable Error Reporting in Windows 2008 Server, just run the command below.

serverWerOptin /disable

I found another guide from MSDN on how the user can suppress system and application error messages from occurring on an embedded system. The registry location is at the following, by default the value data is 0 and we should change it to 2 to set all messages to invisible.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Windows\ErrorMode.

Weirdly even after doing all that, it’s still not enough to disable the error window when the game server crashes. So I continue digging and I found that there’s another important registry key which you need to modify in order to totally suppress the “.exe has stopped working” dialog.” Go to the following registry location and change the value data to 1.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\DontShowUI

Now you can run the batch file to monitor the srcds.exe process and it will auto restart when it crashes. I just can’t understand why there are no complete tutorials for running a CSS server. The information had to be scattered around and the server admin had to spend hours looking it up. By the way, there is a free software called ServerChecker which is able to restart your game server if it has crashed. It actually can automatically configure the registry to disable Windows Error Reporting and ErrorMode but it doesn’t support Windows 2008 Server.

Download MapSource from Garmin and Install Without CD

GPS is a topic that I have not touched because I still haven’t got one. A good GPS unit can be quite expensive and I am still waiting when I have saved enough money for it. GPS is very impressive but scary at the same time because the satellites can actually track where I am. Think about it, if the US military uses GPS to hit their target, it is surely damn accurate.

I do have some experience with GPS because I borrowed from my friend a few times and managed to know how to find a location, updating the unit software and also looking for the latest maps. The menu on the GPS unit is pretty straight forward and easy to understand but the technical part such as putting more than one gmapsupp.img file on the GPS unit or even using the JetMouse keygenerator can be pretty tough and confusing to a novice user.

Anyway, since I do not have a GPS unit, I am sure I can somehow view the maps in my computer without the GPS tracking capability. I found out that MapSource, a software provided by Garmin is able to create, view and edit waypoints, routes and tracks as well as to find items, addresses and POIs.

All sounds good and I actually found a link to download the latest MapSource from Garmin’s official website. When I tried to install, I got the error message “Previous MapSource not found! Setup will terminate”. It seems like the file that I downloaded is an update and not the full installation setup. Luckily there is a trick on how to install MapSource without having the original installation CD.

1. Download the latest MapSource from Garmin.

2. When finished downloading, if your archiving software such as 7-Zip, WinRAR or PowerArchiver, you can right click on the file that you downloaded and extract. If you’re unsure, you can use Universal Extractor to extract the MapSource installation file.
Install MapSource

3. Open the MapSource folder once you’ve finished extracting. You should see a bunch of files and folders. Now run MAIN.msi first, wait for it to complete and then run Setup.exe. Follow the instructions to complete the installation.
Install Mapsource without CD

If you do not have any maps installed for MapSource, you would be seeing an error window that says “MapSource could not find any installed MapSource map products. Please install one or more MapSource map products and start MapSource again”. There are some maps for MapSource that costs money and some free. If you want to take a look how MapSource works, here’s a free Australia map. Just download, install and then run MapSource. The Australia map will be automatically loaded in MapSource.

Note: If you know any free maps for your country, do let me know so I can compile a list for everyone’s convenience. Thanks!

Download Official Windows Vista Beta 2 and obtain Product Key

The below link is to download official Windows Vista Beta 2. You can use any download manager software such as FlashGet to download Windows Vista Beta 2 from the direct link. If you visit the link using your browser, it will prompt you to download an activex from Microsoft site and use their online Download Manager.
Do take note that the download is pretty unstable and I kept on getting disconnected and would have to retry download nearly every 5 minutes. Perhaps a lot of people already started to download the 4GB Windows Vista Beta 2 and Microsoft servers is not capable of handling too much download requests.

Windows Vista Beta 2 English x86 or x64
Direct Link:
â€¢ Windows Vista Beta 2, English 32-Bit Edition
â€¢ Windows Vista Beta 2, English 64-Bit Edition

Windows Vista Beta 2 German x86 or x64
Direct Link:
â€¢ Windows Vista Beta 2, 32-Bit-Edition (Deutsch)
â€¢ Windows Vista Beta 2, 64-Bit-Edition (Deutsch)

Windows Visata Beta 2 Japanese x86 or x64
Direct Link:
â€¢ Windows Vista Beta 2, Japanese 32-Bit Edition
â€¢ Windows Vista Beta 2, Japanese 64-Bit Edition

To get your own Windows Vista Beta key, see the instructions below.

1. Login to your Live account.

2. Browse to Microsoft Office 2007 ‘Get the Beta‘ Site

3. Select your Country and click Go
Windows Visa country

4. Check the URL after you pressed Go button. It should look something similar to the URL below.

https://profile.microsoft.com/RegSysProfileCenter/wizard.aspx?wizid=bc6972e5

-9969-40d5-85fd-2535f3f8d96f&lcid=17417&FU=https://www.microsoft.com/
betaexperience/scripts/office.aspx?lcid=17417%26Action=download%26Region=
APAC%26CountryCode=MYS

5. Ignore the first part of the URL which is https://profile.microsoft.com/RegSysProfileCenter/wizard.aspx?wizid=bc6972e5
-9969-40d5-85fd-2535f3f8d96f&lcid=17417&FU=
The important URL that you should take note is https://www.microsoft.com/betaexperience/scripts/office.aspx?lcid=17417%
26Action=download%26Region=APAC%26CountryCode=MYS

6. Copy the second part URL into your browser’s address and change office.aspx to vista.aspx
Example, https://www.microsoft.com/betaexperience/scripts/vista.aspx?
lcid=17417%26Action=download%26Region=APAC%26CountryCode=MYS
To change the country simply change the code at end of the URL, eg change â€˜CountryCode=MYSâ€™ to â€˜CountryCode=USAâ€™

7. It should forward you to the Windows Vista Site that has Windows Visa Beta 2 download links together with your Windows Vista Beta key.
Windows Visa Product Key

8. You will also get an email from Microsoft that contains Windows Visa Beta 2 download links together with your Windows Vista Beta key.

Note: You can get 2 Keys, each one will activate 10 computers. After completing the download, you will need to burn the ISO file to a DVD.

Get Your Windows Vista RC1 Key NOW

If you’ve downloaded Windows Vista RC1 from Microsoft and having problems in getting the serial number to activate Windows Vista RC1, then please continue reading.
Windows Vista Serial Number activation

1: Windows live account required(a Hotmail email account that has NEVER used to get Windows Vista serial number)

2: Visit this link

Shocking SourceForge Top Downloads

SourceForge is the world’s largest Open Source software development web site, hosting more than 100,000 projects and over 1,000,000 registered users with a centralized resource for managing projects, issues, communications, and code. SourceForge.net has the largest repository of Open Source code and applications available on the Internet, and hosts more Open Source development products than any other site or network worldwide.

Want to know what projects has been most downloaded at SourceForge? I got quite a shock when I had a look at SourceForge.net’s All-Time top downloads to see what files are most downloaded by people. Even the past 7 days are not much different that then all-time top downloads.

The shocking thing is that six file-sharing applications is occupying the first six places in SourceForgeâ€™s All-Time Top Downloads! They are eMule, Azureus, Ares Galaxy, BitTorrent, DC++, and Shareaza.
SourceForge All Time Top Downloads

Not much difference either on the past 7 top downloads. Although file-sharing applications did not occupy the first six places like the all-time top downloads, but there are 5 file-sharing applications in top 10.
SourceForge past 7 days top downloads

Now we know what people download most and what they want.

[ View SourceForge.net All-Time Top Downloads ]