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Long back, when I was in IIIT, I used a small player known as Nitin's online radio player (runs only on Windows) which used to sit in the system tray and play online streaming radio channels. It had a small pop-up to switch between radio channels and was one of my favourite sources for listening to music. Six years later, I again wanted to have a similar radio but something which runs in Linux. My search revealed several players which supported this.

Below are a list of the software and utilities which I use and find very useful.

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The biggest blunder I believe I had done while purchasing my Llenovo Thinkpad T61 last year was to have it shipped with Vista rather than XP. Because Vista sucks big time!! But there was one wise choice which I had made then unknowingly. I paid a few extra bucks and went in for Vista Business rather than Home Edition. This proved to be a boon because Microsoft offers a valid downgrade from Windows Vista Business / Ultimate Edition to Windows XP Professional. For further details visit http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/VSTA-DWNGRD.html.

In this article, I shall be giving tips on how one can secure his Windows PC from virus, worms, trojans, hackers, spyware. I shall first start with a definition of all these terms, proceed to give a list of a few must have software and then suggest some other software to ensure maximum safety.

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