Norton

Norton

Norton Internet Security 2010 presents easy access to all of the suite's main tools. Security is front and center, with threat detection and removal at the top, threat protection in the middle, and Web behavior at the bottom.

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PIKOM PC FAIR 2009

PIKOM PC FAIR 2009

UUM - PIKOM ICT FAIR 2009

29 - 31 July 2009 (10:00am - 10:00pm)
University Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Kedah


PIKOM PC FAIR 2009 (II)

31 July - 2 August 2009 (11:00am - 9:00pm)
· KL Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur - Kuala Lumpur City Centre, 50888 Kuala Lumpur
· Village Mall, Sungai Petani - Kedah
· Dewan Perbandaran Taiping - Perak
· Batu Pahat Mall, Batu Pahat - Johor

7 August - 9 August 2009 (11:00am - 9:00pm)
· Penang International Sports Arena, Penang - Jalan Tun Dr Awang, 11900 Relau
· Mahkota Parade Melaka, Melaka - Jalan Merdeka, 75000 Bandar Hilir
· Sabah Trade Centre, Kota Kinabalu - Sabah
· Berjaya Megamall, Kuantan - Pahang

13 August - 15 August 2009 (11:00am - 9:00pm)
· KB Mall, Kota Bharu - Kelantan
· Terengganu Trade Centre, Kuala Terengganu - Terengganu

14 August - 16 August 2009 (11:00am - 9:00pm)
· Persada Johor International Convention Centre, Johor Bahru - Jalan Abdullah Ibrahim, 80000 Johor Bahru

· Stadium Indera Mulia, Ipoh, Perak - Jalan Ghazali Jawi, 31400 Ipoh

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Gwabbit

Gwabbit

I'll admit that I wasn't initially a huge fan of Gwabbit ($19.95), and it showed (I initially called it "weally wame.") Perhaps I was too harsh. This Outlook add-on scours the signature block in an e-mail and creates from it a full contact record in Outlook's address book, going far more in-depth that Outlook does when you attempt to perform the same function by right-clicking a contact's name. Business users who volley e-mail back and forth with unknown recipients will find Gwabbit to be a savvy way to fill in the digital Rolodex.

Yet while the concept is brilliant in its productivity payout and simplicity, it simply didn't live up to the hype generated from its Demo 2009 debut. Since Gwabbit's algorithm relies on a specific template in the signature block to populate its information, it's only as good as the contact is conventional. If a contact bunches information onto a single line, Gwabbit may populate a single data field with all the information. If you amend the record, Gwabbit may try to undo your changes the next time it senses a contradiction between your entry and the matching e-mail message.

Gwabbit has also had trouble ignoring the "all clear" message tacked to the bottom of each e-mail by AVG Antivirus Free. I realize it's a problem that will bypass most, but it's an imperfection nonetheless. Finally, Gwabbit's 5-second delay between a cursor hovering on a message and its new-contact pop-up note has more than once come at an inopportune moment, forcing me to close the pop-up to get back to the reading or e-mail management from which the (admittedly not very serious) interruption.

Yet for all my bellyaching on the points where it fails to work as smoothly as I'd like, it does remarkably well overall, and has unrealized potential. More importantly, it offers a simple, unique solution to contact management that you barely have to manage at all--and one that saves time and typing. The 14-day trial will only save 20 contacts total, but it's enough to give you a sense of the program. If your address book is essential to your business, Gwabbit could be a useful little sidekick.

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Xobni

Xobni

With its hint of bubble gum visuals, Xobni is a free Outlook add-on that quickly searches through your e-mail. Just as Xobni's name comes from spelling 'in-box' backwards, so does its search philosophy, which is all about contacts. Finding contacts and message subjects routinely takes a fraction of Outlook's chugging.

Without ever using up more than three-quarters of the reading pane (and often much less when you collapse it,) Xobni can reply, forward, or open a message, or even a file. Its ability to throw in public information scraped from Facebook, Skype, LinkedIn, and Hoovers can add extra context. Dataheads will be intrigued by the stats analyzing your e-mail relationship with the contact, including the rank assigned to your most frequent correspondents. The analytics haven't figured much into my usage, but the Facebook pictures and quick-find searching do.

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