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HomeKey A simple beginners
touch typing program. Make your own lessons. Improve your keyboard
skills. Learn at your own speed. Freeware,
copy and pass on for free. Touch typing trainer program for DOS or Windows.
Short lessons ideal for beginners. Take your own time to
learn. Great to learn the Keyboard layout. Educational give to pupils in
school... for free.
Will work on most 286 IBM, 1Mb RAM, VGA machines and above, a
DOS program will easily run in Windows. Suitable for older computers and
will run on newer machines. Small program size may be run from a floppy
disk.
File size 150Kb, zipped. Will run from a floppy disk.
Small program size. DOS will work in Windows 3.0 or above.
HomeKey
is
release as Freeware, copy and pass on for free.
You may use it for as long as you like and pass it on for free,
(keep all files together). Box not included.
Quote
"Small and quick. Nice short lessons make it idea
for children. Works well. Free to use and pass on, so I can give it to my
class at school."
This software is release as Freeware,
copy and pass on for free. You may use it for as long as you like
and pass it on for free, (keep all files
together).
How much does this cost? HomeKey is free software; you can download and
install it entirely free-of-charge. This isn't a trial, or a crippled cut-down version to tempt you towards an expensive "full" version, or a
package loaded with SpyWare
to steal your personal details - the fully-featured version of HomeKey
can be downloaded and used without imposition or restriction! You may even
pass the software on to others.
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Instant
Video Suite. How about offering click-by-click multi-media
presentations of your desktop activity as you demonstrate and explain
exactly how your product works? Create your own "FLASH"
demonstrations on your web sites. Create CD/DVD's demonstration video
manuals with audio in High Quality AVI. Include with your software
release and demonstration in Video your products and services. Great
for Educational CD/DVD and web site's. Make your video with audio
using Instant Video Suite. This gave us the opportunity to concentrate
more on marketing and getting more sales; after all, there were hardly
any support requests any more. eBook
Instant Video Suite User Manual
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Digital Cameras. Video Camcorders. Make you own videos. Take Professional Quality Stills. Find the best cameras whether you enjoy still photography or making your own videos and Video Production. Amateur and professional cameras. Camera Memory and batteries. Quality and Value.
Free Jigsaws
Jigsaw
Puzzles see if you can solve these free Jigsaw Puzzles. Download
and compete with friends see who can solve them faster.
RNID
Typetalk and TextDirect There are an estimated 450,000 deaf, hard of
hearing, speech impaired and deafblind people in the UK that cannot use a
standard telephone. For them textphone communications provides a vital lifeline
along with TextDirect and Typetalk. By making calls through TextDirect textphone
users have automatic access to the Typetalk Relay Service, the new TextDirect
Relay service for people with communication difficulties. Along with access to
Typetalk TextDirect converts ringing and busy tone into text messages, which are
displayed on the textphone display and allows the telephone companies to provide
a text rebate. If you use a textphone you can make a call through TextDirect by
dialling prefix 18001 before the telephone number you want. TextDirect is
available from most UK telephone networks. TextDirect is provided by BT,
Typetalk is managed by the RNID and both are supported by the UK Telephone
Industry.
Stretch
Break is an ergonomic stretching and typing break timer program. the program
reminds you to take periodic breaks from your computer and provides ergonomic
information, including workstation setup guidelines.
RSI
Action is a student group providing preventative education about RSI to thegeneral public and to students at
Harvard.
It also provides advocacy and support for Harvard
students with RSI. RSI stands for Repetitive Strain Injury. It includes a whole
spectrum of conditions, from tendonitis of the hand or wrist to carpal tunnel
syndrome to cubital tunnel syndrome.
UserHealth.
Do you spend several hours in front of the computer without breaks or pauses?
Maybe you want a tool that can monitor how much time you actually spend in front
of the computer? In that case this software can be perfect for you, and by the
way did I mention that it is freeware!
Safe computing tips
Know the basic tips about Office
Ergonomics, Workstation Ergonomics, Ergonomic PC, Laptop Ergonomics,
Ergonomic chair and avoid health problems such as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
&
Repetitive Strain Injury. Stay Healthy & Fit while working in front of your computer. No eyestrains, back pains or other discomforts.
Description : Secure File transfer solutions to simplify your work. Automate repetitive tasks with FTPshell scripts. The personal edition is now available as freeware. ... More
Description : Eusing Free Registry Cleaner is a free registry repair software that allows you to safely clean and repair registry problems with a few simple mouse clicks.You can restore any changes made using the software by choosing Restore registry backup. ... More
Description : Funny freeware space-shooting arcade in which you have to clean up the galaxy from the asteroids using the laser cannon mounted on your spaceship. Some asteroids give you useful power-ups increasing weapon power or restoring health. ... More
Category : Family and Leisure - Modern Arcade Games
Description : Paessler Site Inspector is a web browser that combines the two most frequently used browser engines; Internet Explorer and Mozilla/Gecko into one program. Its advanced analysis features make it the perfect companion for webmasters and web developers. ... More
Category : Software Development - Other Software Development
Description : FREE card games, board games, and dominoes including canasta, spades, hearts, euchre, pinochle, checkers, and more. Play online against people or robots. Famous for having thousands of types of each game. Tournament competitions and friendly chat. ... More
Description : Reliable network and website monitoring. Sensor types include PING, PORT, HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP Advanced, HTTP Transaction, DNS, SMTP, POP3, FTP, SNMP, as well as various native Windows system sensors and native SQL sensors for MS SQL, MySQL and Oracle. ... More
Description : A free, time-saving tool for software developers. Searches multiple software sites for any given program's name, and allows you to quickly and easily see where your program is listed, and where you need to submit or update. Fast, free and fantastic! ... More
Category : Software Development - Product Promotion
Description : NotesHolder lets you quickly type in any piece of information so that you can easily find it when you need. This is the most effective way to store all your notes without cluttering up your desk with PostIt and sticky notes. ... More
Category : Business and Productivity - Sticky Notes
Description : Easily creates Portable Application Descriptions (PAD) files for all your applications. Use PAD to get all of the important information to your vendors and webmasters as quickly and as concisely as possible. ... More
Category : Software Development - Product Promotion
WinRemotePC is remote control/administration software. It allows you to quickly and easily access your server, home or office PC remotely anywhere. WinRemotePC Lite provides industry leading performance and security to access remote desktops. FREE.
WinRemotePC is remote control/administration software. It allows you to quickly and easily access your server, home or office PC remotely anywhere. WinRemotePC provides industry leading performance and security to access remote desktops.
Miraplacid Text Driver extracts text from documents. Format text output as plain or formatted text, preview and save to a file, copy to Clipboard, upload to a server or email. Use it for importing text from unsupported document formats
RationalPlan Multi Project is a powerful project management software capable of handling multiple interrelated projects and covering project management areas starting with WBS construction, project planning and scheduling to progress tracking etc.
RationalPlan Multi Project is a powerful project management software capable of handling multiple interrelated projects and covering project management areas starting with WBS construction, project planning and scheduling to progress tracking etc.
Easy-to-use program for playing your favorite music CDs and audio files. Flexible playlists. Music players can reside in the task tray, out of your way. Hotkeys allow fast control of music playback.
Software is designed to administrate remote computers via a local network or the Internet. It has a convenient and intuitive interface so even an unskilled user will be able to learn how to use it.
Memory Improve Master Free Version is a powerful free memory optimizer which will keep your computer running better, faster, and longer. Sometimes computer system becomes slow because of large and heavy sized applications are running simultaneously, it takes more memory space and makes the system works slowly.It frees up and compresses system memory to make processes run faster and crash less often. Powerful features include the ability to view and monitor data of RAM memory, paging file usage and CPU usage in real time, set parameters RAM optimization, display running processes on you PC, etc.
Memory Improve Master Free Version shows real-time system information about Windows with a dynamic graph. This information includes usage of CPU, physical memory and paging file.
Memory Improve Master Free Version includes four Rule Lists: White List, Black List, Smart List and Idle List. The four lists can be found on Memory Optimization tab. They are designed for recording process list and showing the way of memory optimization or distribution when those processes are running. Users can use White List and Smart List simultaneously or use Black List and Idle List simultaneously.
Adreamsoft PDF to Word Converter is small yet powerful PDF to Word software. User-friendly interface and fast conversion rates allow you to create Word files from PDF documents by simply few clicks. No Adobe Acrobat needed! Adreamsoft PDF to Word Converter really enhances the quality of your work.
With Adreamsoft PDF to Word Converter you can extract anything you need in a PDF file to Word document for easy reuse. It does not only remain the layout, but also keep the text content editable. No matter what you want is to export PDF to Word from a PDF or a batch of PDF files, Adreamsoft PDF to Word Converter software assists you to make it with ease!
Key Features:
1. Convert PDF files to editable MS Word 2003-2007 formats (.doc, .docx).
2. Retain the original layout, format and images.
3. Convert entire document or only a specific page range.
4. Convert multiple PDF files to Word documents.
5. Convert PDF to Word quickly in shortcut menu by right-clicking the PDF file and selecting Convert with Adreamsoft PDF to Word.
6. Convert encrypted (copy, print and edit restricted) and password- protected PDF to Word documents.
7. Support PDF 1.0-1.7 formats.
Imonggo is not only a POS software, but also a complete retail management solution that enables you to operate and manage hundreds of retail stores. The all-in-one Imonggo software combines point of sale, inventory management, sales analysis and business intelligence functions into an easy and intuitive user interface.The POS point of sale functions include barcode integration, tax handling, cash register mode, unlimited transactions, unlimited stores, unlimited users, cash flow management,track salesmen performance and layaway feature. The inventory management functions include price and cost history tracking, supplier/vendor purchases and returns tracking,items adjustments, upload and export in CSV, inter-branch transfer, tracking in-transit and received items. The sales analysis and business intelligence functions include daily, hourly and monthly reports and graphs, customer database, sales analysis by tag, comparison of sales of different branches, consolidation of sales of all branches at head office, salesman performance graph and report, and many more.
Privacy and Registry Cleaner is a safe and easy-to-use privacy protection tool, that allows you to erase common Internet and computing tracks, including browser cache, cookies, visited websites, typed URLs, recent documents, index.dat files and more. You can also easily erase the tracks of up to 100 popular applications. It also includes an option to overwrite deleted data multiple times, so it cannot be easily recovered. The cookie cleaning feature allows you to specify which cookies to keep, so that you don't erase your important login cookies. You also can schedule automatic erasing for any time you like and use boss key to hide all browser windows in one quick keystroke!
In addition, the program comes with a registry scanner to optimize your system registry by finding and removing errors and invalid entries. After fixing the invalid entries, your system will be more stable and run faster. For maximum safety, Privacy and Registry Cleaner will make a backup of the repaired entries. You will be able to restore any changes made using the software by choosing Restore registry backup.
TweakNow PowerPack is a fully-integrated suite of utilities that let you fine-tune every aspect of your computer's operating system and Web browser. The Registry Cleaner module provides you with a safe and simple way to clean Windows Registry. To keep your computer always at top performance, we recommend to clean your registry at least once a month. For Windows tweaking lovers, the suite provides more than 100 hidden Windows settings in the Windows Secret section. Using modules included in this section, you can easily customize your Windows like geeks do. The Virtual Desktop module lets you run as many as four custom-designed desktop configurations simultaneously, allowing you to tailor your computer screen to your mood and your work requirements.
Last but not least, the suite also gives you a complete picture of all aspects of your computer's hardware, including detailed information about your motherboard, processor, video card, memory, hard disk and network.
SE-Explorer is a free and powerful file manager for Windows and a complete portable replacement of standard Windows Explorer.
It has tabbed interface which made it possible to manipulate more than one directory or file view at the time, dual-panel file manager with two file windows side by side; new powerful search feature that allows to search media files, text in files, recently changed documents, files by tags, resources; embedded size scanner and lots of build-in tools:
Media player for audio, video and flash files: MP3, AVI, DIVX, MPEG, WMV, SWF, MOV, DV, DVR-MS, etc. FLV files are supported!
Picture viewer for PSD, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, PCX, TGA, etc.
New DLL Inspector component is added. It has embedded resource view, object browser and dependencies walker for EXE, DLL and OCX files.
Archive explorer for ZIP, RAR, ISO, MSI, CAB, etc.
Resource view for executable files and icon libraries.
DOC, WRI, PDF, DjVu, Html Help and RTF document view.
Text viewer with syntax highlighting.
Text file comparison (difference) tool.
Hex viewer for binary files.
Web Browser for web and email files.
TTF Font files view.
XML structure view.
SE-Explorer is small and easy tool which you can use everywhere - just copy application executable file to your USB flash drive and work with program on any PC.
Active KillDisk is a quality security application that destroys data permanently from any
computer that can be started from floppy CD USB. Active KillDisk Professional conforms to US Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard DoD 5220.22-M. New Wipe function that wipes out all unused space on existing drives, not touching existing data.
5.1 version supports 17 security standards from various countries such as:
Bruce Schneier's algorithm
Canadian OPS-II
DoD 5220.22 M
Gutmann's algorithm
German VSITR
HMG IS5 Baseline
HMG IS5 Enhanced
Navso P-5329-26 (RL)
Navso P-5329-26 (MFM)
NCSC-TG-025
Russian GOST p50739-95
US Army AR380-19
US Air Force 5020
and some others
You can be sure that once you wipe a disk with Active KillDisk, sensitive information is destroyed forever.
MEO is a powerful data encryption application to encrypt or decrypt files of any type, including Microsoft Word, emaill and PDF documents on Mac OS X. MEO allows you to protect your sensitive data against un-authorized viewers by utilizing the latest data encryption technologies. Keep your documents safe and secure with this free data encryption software.
. MEO also features the ability to create self-extracting encrypted files. This is handy for those who like the freedom to view their encrypted files without the need for installing any other encryption software. Also, many downloads now days supply a checksum or hash value for you to verify the integrity of your download. Meo allows you to create and verify MD5 checksums, SHA-1 hashes and Tiger Tree hashes.
Features:
~ Easily encrypt data from a single click of a button
~ Decrypt files that have been encrypted using MEO
~ Create self-extracting encrypted files that are accessible from any computer. All you need is the password.
~ Encrypt or Decrypt entire folders of data
~ Windows Explorer popup menu integration
~ MEO will automatically log all operations to a file
~ Simple and intuitive interface
Bywifi Video Downloader is a free program for downloading, transcoding and P2P accelerating video streaming. It supports downloading, transcoding and P2P accelerating videos from all video websites, such as Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, MySpace, Yahoo, etc. Lots of advanced network technologies like P2SP (peer-to-server-and-peer), multiple tasks, web sensitive, intelligence caching are used in the software. The bitrate of video streaming is 3-5 times faster with bywifi than without it. Moreover, it can transcode videos into mobile formats for mobile phones and PDA.
Software Features:
1：P2P Accelerate Video Streaming：With P2SP, it speeds up downloading speed of video streaming.
2：Resume Video Automatically: For the same video, it does not need to buffer again when you close the Web Browser.
3：Search Hot Video: You can search video with bywifi. It is easy for u to watch the new, hot and cool video.
4：Downloading Video: You can download the video when you watch it. The feature supports IE browser.
5：Transcoding Video: You can transcode the video format after downloading the video. The video formats support mobile phone and PDA, such as Nokia, iPhone, SamSung, iPad, iPod, and PSP.
6：The software supports Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, and Vista.
Eusing Free Registry Defrag is a free registry defragmentation software that optimizes registry by removing gaps, fragments and wasted space in Windows registry files. Over time the registry becomes larger and larger as new programs are installed, used and removed. Even if this data is deleted from it when applications are uninstalled, the size of the Registry will not decrease. This is because the data will be marked as blank but remains in place. In this way the registry becomes more and more fragmented over time. Registry fragmentation causes overall system performance to decrease. Systems with a fragmented registry will take longer to boot and will use more memory just for processing the registry, resulting in decreased overall performance as other programs are forced to use much slower virtual memory. Eusing Free Registry Defrag can defragment and compact the Windows Registry in less than a minute. It will scan through the registry to remove any slack space, reducing the registry size and ultimately the amount of RAM the registry takes up, and improving your computer performance. It does NOT change the contents of the registry in any way, nor does it physically defrag the registry files on the drive. The optimization is simply compacting the registry hives to the minimum size possible. The software is free, it's simple to use, and it speeds up your PC.
Key Features:
* Improve your Windows PC's overall performance and stability
* Reduce the amount of time it takes your system to boot
* Save memory by compacting the registry
* Prevent registry corruption by building a fresh copy of the registry
* A simple, user-friendly interface with which you can safely compact the registry
* 100% Spyware FREE, NOT contain any Spyware, Adware or Viruses
If you are unable to purchase the latest intellicad Technology, then you found the right software. CMS Xpandy Powered by IntelliCAD 6.3 Technology allows you freely to use a reliable IntelliCAD based CAD application. You can also create and publish your own ads using Xpandy Technology. System extra requirements: Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework, and an Internet connection.
CMS Vault by M-Files is an innovative electronic document management system (EDMS) that solves the problems of managing, finding, and tracking CAD drawing files and documents in today's information-intensive organizations.
CMS Vault by M-Files is based on the popular M-Files document management software and provides the ability to organize and manage CAD drawings created with CMS IntelliCAD, as well as all other office and business documents. CMS Vault features include fast search, secure user access permissions, check-in / check-out and version management.
Primus-DCF is a free and complete software that allows Engineers, Architects, Surveyors and building contractors to easily create bills of quantities and estimates for the building industry through a very user-friendly interface.
Your monitor becomes your desktop where you will be able to open Price Books, Price Lists, Estimates and Bills of Quantities, consult them, insert, modify or copy parts of data from a source document to a destination document, and easily modify data with simple Drag&Drop operations.
Thanks to the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) technology, the document that you see while editing is exactly the same document you will get printed on paper. You can have different documents on your monitor and operate on any of them wherever you want by simply pointing your mouse cursor on the part you want to modify allowing you to work in a more direct and intuitive way.
Furthermore, the DCF (Document Computation Format) format can be modified for free thanks to Primus. This revolutionary format allows you to easily transmit Bills of Quantities and Estimate documents: send, receive, publish on the Internet, copy to hard disk (CD, USB Memory, floppy disk, etc). All the information in your document will be contained in one unique compressed file that can be also easily exported and edited in Word and Excel.
No large sized database structures but just one small sized easy to manage compressed file!
With Primus-DCF you can also take-off measurements directly from your AutoCAD drawing file with a very powerful feature that recognizes the drawing entities and automatically sends the measurements to the associated Price List Item in PriMus-DCF. This additional feature allows you constantly keep under control the Bill of Quantities and Estimates budget as the design phase progresses, updating all data in realtime!
Welcome to PHP MicroCMS
PHP MicroCMS (PHP MCMS) is a simple, but very powerful Content Management System that everyone can use. The PHP MCMS can be installed easily by web developers, webmasters, graphic designers, etc. PHP MCMS was developed in OOP and allows users to build websites in a few minutes.
PHP MicroCMS allows users with very little technical knowledge to build websites, as done by millions of bloggers on the web. PHP MicroCMS requires NO knowledge of HTML, although HTML can be used to enhance the pages by adding headings, images, hyperlinks or simply to emphasize text.
The PHP MCMS is an excellent tool for those who:
1.Want to create web sites.
2.Look for small, but powerful CMS.
3.Need to build a secure web site quickly.
Main Features:
1. Easy installation
2. Customizing header/footer
3. One click page creation, editing, or deleting
4. WYSIWYG pages editing
5. Left/Top menu links
Corrupt xlsx2csv requires the installation of the Microsoft .Net version 2 framework. Corrupt xlsx2csv will extract and convert to CSV format worksheets from even damaged or corrupted Excel 2007 xlsx format files. It succeeds at doing so where Excel 2007 itself fails to salvage data. The program has a Perl/Tk GUI front end. It can also be simply used as a viewer of the unformatted data in an xlsx file without having Excel 2007 installed.
Excel 2007 files are really zipped collections of mostly XML files. XML is not tolerant of file corruption and from the errors generated it appears that Excel 2007 is using a fairly corrupt intolerant XML reading algorithm to even salvage unformatted data from corrupt xlsx format files.
Corrupt XLSX2CSV uses an unzipper which is tolerant of XML file corruption and uses Perl coding to extract the sharedStrings.xml and worksheet.xml files where all of the unformatted data resides in a xlsx file. Since this Perl coding does not use a standard XML reading applet or module but identifies the cell data as text or string and extracts, the result is more less perfectly extracted data until that part of the xml files where the corruption starts, is reached. Contrastingly, Excel 2007 appears to return no results for that particular xml file if it encounters any XML errors at all.
AnyBizSoft PDF to Word Converterconverts read-only PDF files into fully formatted editable Microsoft Word documents with one click. With PDF to Word converter, users can easily get the word documents for reusing and editing. The original layout, text content, images, and hyperlinks can be exactly retained in the generated Word.
Key Features of Free AnyBizSoft PDF to Word Converter:
1. Convert PDF to Word by one click.
2. Support conversion from encrypted PDF files and password protected documents.
3. Support Adobe PDF 1.0 - 1.7 and MS Word 2003 and 2007 formats (.doc, .docx).
4. Preserve the original layout of text, columns, tables, graphics and hyperlinks from PDF file to Word document.
5. Batch conversion of multiple PDF files at one time.
6. Support page range conversion (all, from-to, individual pages).
7. Preview PDF files before conversion with the pre-installed PDF reader.
Use this tool to find dedicated servers with eas. searches all major seach enginea with 1 click. Get fast result from yahoo, google , and msn. to find some of the best deal online. This software is free to use. And can be install on any windows app.
Dedicated servers are the safest and most reliable form of hosting.They are designed for home, professional or business users to manage their internet presence from a central location on a stable platform. The dedicated server range is also ideal for enthusiasts, hobbyists and for use as game servers ensuring everyone benefits from great performance at an affordable price. Dedicated servers allow quick delivery of web pages, which increases the probability of keeping web site visitors on a site that may convert them to paying customers.
Files that are created as self-registering have information that need to be stored in the Windows registry in order for the file to be available and useable to applications on the machine. Usually DLLs, and OCXs are self-registering and require to be registered on the machine. Normally you would have to go through a whole procedure; copying and pasting the required file into your system directory and typing in commands such as regsvr32 "C:Windowswowfx.dll".
With RootReg you can still do all that but with a click of a button and there is no need to worry about getting it wrong, because you cant!
RootReg is able to effortlessly use registration / un-registration commands on DLL, OCX, TLB, and OLB Files with a simple mouse click. It comes equipped with multiple features that include; bulk file registration (which can come in very hand in the case of a lot of missing files!), the ability to automatically copy the required files directly to the system directory, plus it also includes a complete un-registration system.
In order words with RootReg will make sure that when it comes to ActiveX registrations, everything is kept simple, done perfectly correct and within seconds.
Apart from that RootReg is also interconnected with our service called doFiles, a huge online repository which hosts over 4,400 DLL, OCX, TLB, OLB files and all available to download for free.
Sleep Moon Xpress is a next-generation Automation Utility that takes computer automation to the highest level. It is simple to use, yet it comes packed with a lot options and features, such as Alarms, Automatic Shutdown, Remote Executions, Download & Upload Speed Detection and much much more.
With Sleep Moon Xpress, remotely or automatically, controlling your computer will become a piece of cake. It can be used in multiple scenarios and situations, from as simple as displaying a notification at 4:30:50 PM to as complex as rebooting your computer using a Bluetooth mobile phone equipped with a camera.
Yes you heard right! This software product uses our BlueActiv Technology, which is an advanced piece of software technology allowing you to remotely control your computer using any Bluetooth or Infrared enabled device.
How? Ok let us say that you have a Bluetooth enabled phone with an integrated camera (you can also do without a camera) and a Bluetooth dongle installed on your computer. Now snap a picture with your mobile phone and rename it to "restart" and using Bluetooth send it to your computer. As soon as it is received, Sleep Moon Xpress will automatically restart your computer. This will also work with various others commands such as "shutdown" "run" and "alarm".
But that is not all! Sleep Moon Xpress can also work using several others advanced methods such as WTP Mobile Technology which allows you to trigger off any pre-defined command by simply typing in the Host Computer's IP Address in any internet browser.
Believe it or not you can also shutdown your computer with a clap, thanks to the Sound Sensitive Consoles mechanism built into Sleep Moon Xpress!
dotDefender Monitor for Apache is the only way to know who is attacking your web site in real time. Residing on the server as webserver plug-in, dotDefender can be installed and implemented in minutes without influence on traffic or network architecture. dotDefender Monitor provides plug-and-play monitoring of SQL Injection, Cross-site scripting, Path Traversal, and many other application attacks. Version 3.8 enhanced configuration performance, improved comfiguration engine to enables changes in seconds.
Highlights
* Quality protection -- out-of-the-box, best practice security levels to suit diverse security needs.
* Ongoing security commitment -- automatic updates against emerging threats.
* Rapid implementation -- plug and play software solution, no need to change server configuration or network architecture.
* Low maintenance -- no need for security expertise, very low false positive rate, simple customization.
* Automated operations -- dotDefender automatically detects and blocks attack attempts, logs the information, and generates reports and alerts.
* Smooth integration -- centrally managed, multi-platform solution fits any network architecture.
* Best TCO in the industry -- affordable acquisition, rapid implementation and simple maintenance.
Advanced RSS2Web allows you to automatically publish aggregated news pages or articles on your website. Live information feeds on your website can be used to get your website more targeted visitors, improve your search engine rankings and increase your website 'stickiness'. Advanced RSS2Web helps you to: download newsfeeds in RSS and XML format, reformat them according to user-defined HTML templates, upload results to website via shared folder or ftp, work with free newsfeeds and articles available for download and redistribution, increase your website popularity, position in search engines and website traffic.
Advanced RSS2Web main features:
* Download newsfeeds in RSS and XML format;
* Reformat them according to user-defined HTML templates;
* Upload results to website via shared folder or ftp;
* Work with freely available newsfeeds, articles and whitepapers;
* Increase your website popularity, position in search engines and website traffic;
* and more...
PDFZilla is a desktop application that quickly and accurately convert PDF files into editable MS Word Documents, Rich Text Documents, Plain Text Files, Images, HTML Files, and Shockwave Flash SWF Files.
Features:
Convert PDF to Word – Convert PDF to Word with all text and Graphical data.
Convert PDF to RTF – Convert PDF to Rich Text Files. You can edit all text and graphic by Windows Wordpad.
Convert PDF to TXT – Convert PDF to plain text files. You can edit text by Notepad.
Convert PDF to Images – Convert PDF to BMP, JPG, GIF or TIF files.
Convert PDF to HTML – Convert PDF to HTML files and automatically generate the Index file.
Convert PDF to SWF – Convert PDF to Shockwave Flash Animation files which can be published on websites.
Page Selection – Convert all the pages, or partial pages of PDF file.
Easy to use software – Add a PDF File -> Select the Output File Format -> Click on Start Converting button, then just have a cup of coffee.
Customer Backup is a simple and extremely easy to use Database Software Package that is able to keep records and information with regards to your customers. This product is highly suitable for small scale businesses that are looking for a versatile way to store details about their customers, but they do not have the time to learn complex database software packages nor wish to spend hundreds of dollars to acquire such packages.
Customer Backup offers a user friendly interface that completely renders opaque the database interface from the end user, allowing them to populate simple and pre-defined fields to store the needed information inside the database.
Desktop3D is tailored to replace the standard Windows Desktop and bring new features. Desktop3D includes more of 100 icons that replaces the default icons on a large and beautiful with alpha – effect (Transparency).
Desktop3D replaces the wallpaper on animated pictures that will definitely give a twist to your desktop. The default setup includes three skins, there are a beautiful blue sea representation, a fire and a nice looking rainy autumn day.
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Every day we experience a number of threats to our private life and private information. If you want to guard your private life Paragon Software has a perfect solution – Encrypted Disk. Ease the pressure on your privacy! Paragon Encrypted Disk is a set of system drivers, plug-ins, wizards and utilities to store your data in an encrypted form but use these data in a common way as if they are not encrypted.
Store your data in an encrypted form but use these data in a common way as if they are not encrypted.
Create any number of encrypted disks (mounted) and copy folders and files to and from it, create and edit files there by any program.
Write encrypted disk container to any compact media (e.g. a CD/DVD, a USB flash memory drive etc) and always carry it with you.
Technical Support:
During the Giveaway period Paragon Software provides technical support at http://twitter.com/paragonsoftware. Please, post your questions if you have any troubles while downloading, registering and using the software. Paragon Software’s support team will reply you as soon as possible.
eCover Engineer makes covers for software boxes, ebooks, magazines, business cards and DVDs.
A professional cover for software costs a lot of money. Some of them need to be updated. Why spend so much money on something that you can do for free with ecover generator and cover creator software like eCover Engineer? Why waste precious time on something that you can do in a few minutes with an ecover generator product. Design ebook covers, CD covers, DVD covers and software box covers with minimum costs. Use our free templates to create amazing covers for your products.
eCover Engineer v6.0 includes:
Transparency support
New objects : Vista style software box, curved screenshot, VHS
tape,business card
DPI settings
Support for any 3rd party image editor to prepare images that are used for
templates
a new Profiles tab to change settings at once at a global level
Create you own crazy voice effects. Speak into the microphone and hear your voice at the same time through the speakers. But it will not be your voice. It will be the voice of a monster, killer, alien or any crazy voice you can think of. You can save your recorded voice as mp3 or wav file. You can read in existing mp3 files or music CDs.
The program ships with a couple of predefined effects. But you will be able to create new effects using simple formulas to map one frequency to another frequency.
The formular for the build in robot voice is:
x*(1- stark)+((len / 2-1-x)*x / (len / 2))*stark
for example. Simply try to change the existing formulas to create your own effects and your own monster voice.
Aplus DVD Copy Creator Ripper Studio contains DVD Copy, DVD Creator and DVD Ripper.
Copy your favorite DVD movies to DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W) Disc remaining original quality. can Copy your favorite DVD movies to DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W) Disc remaining original quality;
Transcode and burn internet movie files into DVD disc. With DVD burning engine , you can easily Merge 4 hours of multiple movies and episodic files to standard MPEG2 Video and burn it into a DVD R/RW disc that playable on car or home DVD player;
Convert DVD to AVI, DivX, XviD, VCD, SVCD MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4 video files, with almost same quality, but just only 10% size;
It is able to rip DVD to Apple iPod MP4 files, Sony PSP MP4 files, Cell phone 3GP files, Pocket PC files, PDA files, Xvid files.
If you like everything dull, typical and common, don’t ever visit BeeIcons.com or download Bee Icons. This program is intended for all fashion-conscious PC users who are willing to go beyond desktop beauty standards and make computer desktop the ultimate expression of their style. Bee Icons allows changing over 250 system icons by applying themes to them. Your PC will stand out from thousands of boring look-alikes, generating the OOOHs and AAAHs.
Distributive package contain only a few icon themes. But BeeIcons.com offers more than 200 pizzazz artistic themes to replace your boring Windows system icons. You can spice up Desktop, Start menu, Drives, change folder icons, Files and other icon types.
PS: Dear GOTD Visitors, we need your feedback on our new software! Please, try Jet Screenshot, and write us what you think about it using this form. Jet Screenshot is screen capture software for instant screenshot sharing.
The only way to securely delete a file is by overwriting all the data that it contains with new and unrelated digits at least for few times. This is what Freeze Burn will do.
Freeze Burn Inferno Edition is equipped with a complex binary overwriting algorithm designed to make sure that any deleted data contain inside such sensitive files is never recoverable or readable in anyway, using any whatsoever file recovering technology. The process of wiping your sensitive data is as easy as it could be and it does not require any advanced computer knowledge at all. The simple wizard interface will practically walk you through all the steps required and in a matter of minutes you can rest assured knowing that the files you have deleted using Freeze Burn are gone, and this time for good!
WebSite X5 is the only software, designed to work like a wizard, that lets you create a website in just 5 easy steps.
Easy and intuitive, WebSite X5 doesn’t require any programming skills and guides you through the steps to create and publish your website on the Internet.
Main features of SMART 7 version:
Gallery of 200 templates ready to use (50 unique templates for 4 different colours);
Graphic Editor to personalize templates;
Navigation menu Generator;
Videos and Sounds;
Flash Animations;
FTP engine to publish the project on the Internet.
WebSite X5 Smart 7 is available in the following languages: EN, IT, DE, ES, FR, PL, PT, GR, NL, RU.
More information on WebSite X5 and the new version Evolution 8 are available on our official website: www.websitex5.com
We also suggest you the Tutorial, for a brief introduction on the software, and the user’s websites Gallery.
Installing WebSite X5 Smart 7, a special promotion will allow you to buy the new version Evolution 8 at a discounted price.
iTranslator is an online translating software that supports 13 different languages and uses several internet resources to do the translation. Currently the program is capable of translating to/from the following languages: English, Chinese-Simplified, Chinese-Traditional, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Korean and Japanese.
Key Features of iTranslator:
Translation to/from English, Chinese-Simplified, Chinese-Traditional, Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, Russian, Korean and Japanese.
100% Unicode compatible. Encodes Unicode text into any ANSI format and the other way around.
Allow the select block to translation.
Works with all versions of Windows including Windows Vista !
Full install/uninstall support.
PDF Duo .Net is a converting component for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (VB, C# etc.) users to enable conversion of Text, HTML, HTMLX documents to PDF. The main class HtmlToPdf provides all necessary methods and properties to enable multi-purpose customization of the resulting HTML.
Developers can easily invoke the converting component in their own application or website projects on base of ASP.NET. To deploy the PDF Duo .Net component you will need only three lines of code. Installing package is provided with fully featured demos written in both C# and Visual Basic. Simple examples with source code help you using the PDF Duo .Net component to successfully convert HTML to PDF.
Main functions allow to convert HTML represented as:
- File
- Page from Url address
- Stream
- String
PDF Duo .Net component skillfully converts:
- tables and embedded tables;
- table borders, cell background;
- images (png, jpg, wmf, bmp);
- lists;
- hyperlinks;
- font face, color and size;
- italic, bold and underline text;
- subscript and superscript text;
- background colors;
- other text formatting.
PDF Duo .Net Key features:
- Conversion directions: HTML to PDF, XHTML to PDF, TXT to PDF.
- Strict copying of HTML file formatting to PDF file in your own ASP.NET project.
- Makes the best use of invalid or bad formed HTML file.
- HTML file can include formatting styles CSS those will be correct converted to PDF.
- PDF compression to further reduce PDF document sizes.
- Developed in 100% managed C# code and tested in ASP.NET web applications.
- Allows to convert either from HTML file or from HTML string stream.
- Takes a Web Site URL instead of HTML file in order to convert to PDF.
- Does not require installed Microsoft Office(R) or Adobe Acrobat(R). Supports .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5
Adding a whole new twist to the conventional drop down menu idea, this script turns an ordinary UL list into a drill down style menu. The top level UL dictates the height of the menu, with the sub levels tucked away until navigated to. You can customize which level should be shown by default, whether to remember the last shown level when the page reloads, plus the speed of the "drilling" animation. Optional breadcrumb trails can be shown as well.
Nevron Chart for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is an advanced report item, which delivers a complete set of 2D and 3D charting types, highly customizable axes, tight data integration and unmatched visual effects to your reports. It also instantly improves your report authoring experience, with its polished visual editors, exhaustive and refined settings and well-organized structure.
Nevron Chart for SSRS is an indispensible tool for any serious Business Intelligence, Scorecard, Presentation, Scientific or general purpose report.
Features include:
- Multiple Charting Areas.
- Multiple Legends.
- Multiple Tittles.
- Complete set of 2D/3D Charting Types.
- Advanced Axis Model.
- The industry-leading set of XY and XYZ scatter charts.
- The industry-leading support for 3D charting.
- The only chart for SSRS with Grid, Mesh and Triangulated Surface Charts.
- The only chart for SSRS with Photoshop-like effects.
- The only chart for SSRS with HTML-like rich-text formatting.
- Seamless integration with SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 and 2008.
Balls, Blocks and Stars Game is an interesting and fun single-player puzzle game.
The goal of the game is to remove as many balls (blocks or stars, upon your choice) as possible.
You can remove only balls with the same color that are standing adjacent. When you click on a ball which is adjacent to a ball of the same color, all the balls with that color will be removed that are directly or indirectly, horizontally or vertically connected to the clicked ball.
You start the game with 1000 points. For every ball you remove, you get 10 points. Every second, you lose 1 point. Try to remove all the balls in the best possible time.
The game is user friendly and customizable.
There are eight different shapes/skins and eight background colors enabling you to create the look and feel that best satisfy your aesthetic preferences as well as your eyes perception. More than fifty different graphic combinations are available! You can make your choice!
There are simple sound effects that you can enable or disable.
You can choose between three different difficulties of the game: Beginner, Experienced and Expert, and infinite number of different games will be generated within each one difficulty!
You can restart current game or you can save the game to reload it later and try to increase the score or to share saved game with your friends.
It is easy to install and uninstall the game.
Help file is included in the game.
This is a small java http webserver for win32 with source code incl. It is php and perl capable but not servlets. Feel free to use it for private purposes (not commercial). I would like help in refining it to accept servlets.
Flash Web Calendar is a stand alone script which allows you to easily put a calendar on your web sites. The web calendar uses flash to display days and notes associated with each date and a PHP script is used to manage all the calendar data - events, colors, size.
FTP2Web is an ASP.NET application intended for creation of the automated file exchange solutions via Microsoft FTP service in the Internet and Intranet environments. The application provides a high-level model of shared FTP resource organizing, based on the management of logical folders and access to them of users and groups. It offers advanced features of FTP like folders and multiple files resumable download and upload. Application needs just empty FTP IIS server and completely saves from any manual operation with virtual FTP directories and FTP users. FTP2Web can be used as simple documents management system and offers check-in check-out (lock/unlock ) feature. It supports Forms or Windows Integrated authentication and supports own users or Windows NT (Domain) users. Provides data security by NTFS permissions and access restrictions by IP address. It supports all most popular browsers an OS.
Save Snippets, Keystrokes and Time with Snip-It Pro, the code library organizer designed to make developers, designers and database professionals more productive. Put your favorite queries, JavaScript functions, helper classes, CSS hacks, regular expressions, command line arguments, html blocks and other useful code you find online in one place... Snip-It Pro has two windows: the Snippet Toolbar, which docks to the side of your screen allowing you to drag and drop snippets to almost any application, and the Snippet Explorer which used to edit snippet details with syntax highlighting and printing support... Snip-It Pro lets you store snippets anywhere. Put them on a network share and your entire team can use the same snippet collections... Import and Export snippets and send collections of snippets as a single file... Save Time using templated code snippets. This feature allows you to define placeholders in your snippets, which can be easily replaced before use... Save keystrokes with global hot key support. You can assign frequently used snippets a global hot key which will insert your snippet into any application... Track snippet usage with automatic comments. This feature can automatically add comments in all supported languages above your snippet that indicate a unique searchable ID, a reference url, the current user and the date a snippet was used. When you copy snippets from the web, Snip-It Pro tracks the url where it came from... Snip-It Pro is integrated with Snipplr, an online community for sharing code snippets. With Snip-It Pro you can view your favorite snippets as well as publish snippets directly to Snipplr... Snip-It Pro monitors the windows clipboard... Search your snippet library using the built in search feature... Snip-It Pro supports syntax highlihting for many languages including: ASP, C#, C++, C, CSS, Batch, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Perl, PHP, Pascal, Python, SQL, VB, VB.Net, VB Script and more... Be more productive with Snip-It Pro.
Save Snippets, Keystrokes and Time with Snip-It Pro, the code library organizer designed to make developers, designers and database professionals more productive. Put your favorite queries, JavaScript functions, helper classes, CSS hacks, regular expressions, command line arguments, html blocks and other useful code you find online in one place... Snip-It Pro has two windows: the Snippet Toolbar, which docks to the side of your screen allowing you to drag and drop snippets to almost any application, and the Snippet Explorer which used to edit snippet details with syntax highlighting and printing support... Snip-It Pro lets you store snippets anywhere. Put them on a network share and your entire team can use the same snippet collections... Import and Export snippets and send collections of snippets as a single file... Save Time using templated code snippets. This feature allows you to define placeholders in your snippets, which can be easily replaced before use... Save keystrokes with global hot key support. You can assign frequently used snippets a global hot key which will insert your snippet into any application... Track snippet usage with automatic comments. This feature can automatically add comments in all supported languages above your snippet that indicate a unique searchable ID, a reference url, the current user and the date a snippet was used. When you copy snippets from the web, Snip-It Pro tracks the url where it came from... Snip-It Pro is integrated with Snipplr, an online community for sharing code snippets. With Snip-It Pro you can view your favorite snippets as well as publish snippets directly to Snipplr... Snip-It Pro monitors the windows clipboard... Search your snippet library using the built in search feature... Snip-It Pro supports syntax highlihting for many languages including: ASP, C#, C++, C, CSS, Batch, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Perl, PHP, Pascal, Python, SQL, VB, VB.Net, VB Script and more... Be more productive with Snip-It Pro.
This code implements a DFS (preorder) algorithm in PHP.
Graph is represented as an array on nodes which values are single linked lists containing the adjacent children for each node:
array(
[key:node_1][val:adj list]
[key:node_2][val:adj list]
...
)
DFS uses stack for traversing!
I think it is worth because reading pseudocode of dfs is not of much help (although a necessity) if you have never implemented your self, what is more the way it is represented and the way important values are named helps getting understand how exactly dfs work in terms of a graph represented in a PC (which was my intent) not the way represented in a piece of paper.
Cusror Hider helps you to do a litlte less of atcion druing wokring with cmoputer . It remvoes the mouse pionter from
an user focus at a worknig area so the mouse curosr does not cover the text or pitcure that you see. Poinetr
dsiappears when user keytsrokes or after a some sceonds witohu mouse actiivty. With any mouse aciton mouse
poitner shows at its place. Real examlpe: You are going to visit a web site with form to fill it. At first you type the
URL in the brwoser addrses bar www.sotfexe.com. But mouse pointer bolcks char (peirod) and you do not know
excatly typed it or not. To check that you must take the mouse deivce to hand and do move action so mouse
poniter move out from focus area. With Cursor Hider the mouse pointer disapperas with first keystrkoes and nohting
will block the typed text now. Futhremore You can turn off the mouse pointer (do crusor invisbile) . This is the very
usfeul opiton for touch screen dveices and kiosk appilcations. User will not see the cursor at all!
ASPSMS is an SMS ActiveX component and service. It offers multiple SMS
functionality; SMS delivery notification based on transaction numbers;
operator logos, import, conversion and sending of bmp files in realtime;
ringtones: import, conversion and sending in realtime; binary SMS: your
key to next generation mobile features; define the originator of each
sent SMS; extensive SMS roaming (more than 40 countries); administration
of ASPSMS balance and general user settings within the password-protected
administration area.
"Emphasize" and make particular content on your page stand out by keeping them always visible on the visitor's browser screen, using this script. It uses CSS's "fixed" positioning to accomplish this, and lets you manage their display frequency (using cookies) to make the whole affair sensible and user friendly.
This is a site logo/watermark script that lets you display a static image at any of the four corners of the browser, never going out of sight. It's useful for branding purposes, or to offer visitors an easy way to jump back to your site's homepage from anywhere on the page. The logo can be set to disappear after x seconds.
This script brings smoothness to the behaviour of same page HTML bookmarks on the page, so clicking on them gently scrolls the user to the designated HTML anchor, instead of abruptly. Furthermore, you can use this script to scroll to any element on the page with a unique ID attribute defined.
Tabs Studio is a Microsoft Visual Studio IDE add-in that replaces the built-in Windows tabs bar with a more advanced one. Main additional features of the Tabs Studio's tabs are multi-row support (making all tabs always visible) and automatic tab grouping by name (to preserve screen space and to keep relevant tabs close to each other).
Boenken 2 is a crossing-over between soccer and snooker. The game's name is Dutch, translating it to English would yield the name 'Bonking'. 'Boenk' is the phonetic word of the sound two colliding Dutch snooker balls make. Boenken 2 can be played with twenty players at the same time (on the same single keyboard)!
This is a complete hotel reservation system.
Basic features:
Guest reservation
Billing System
Change room
Multiple account per room
Guest report
Other charges
Proof of concept developing an emulator.
The first steps (10% of 6502 CPU opcodes yet implemented) towards an Atari 800XL emulator running on a GameBoy Advance.
One-Step-Debugger for technical reasons implemented.
Written in GBA ARM assembly.
Commented source code and full opcode-table included.
.... last try in reanimating plain DOS in 2004 :-) ...
Shows how to create a "framebuffer" for VESA. 'Cause it's plain DOS creating an "real" framebuffer isn't possible (REAL Mode). You get access to an array of 64k segments, that will be copied to screen.
The source only uses conventional memory that's why only mode 640x480x8 is supported.
Source code of the help file in English. You can edit and modify this file to modify the help file of the program DHelpGen V2. Copy it and uncompress it inside the directory "Samples" of the program.
Source code of the help file in Spanish. You can edit and modify this file to modify the help file of the program DHelpGen V2. Copy it and uncompress it inside the directory "Samples" of the program.
Module (Plugins) of the program DHelpGen V 2. 0: It captures all the screens and components of the forms of your application automatically and it upgrades the file of helps that you are generating automatically
Hometrainer 2 is a tool to make and train multiple-choice tests. The multiple choice test can be created in any simple text editor (Notepad for example). Special is that the program also needs an image filename for each question. Because of this, you can generate 'Which number is ...?' questions.
GIRIST (GRUS IRIS TOOL) is a novel iris recognition software by GRUSOFT. It’s free to
use. The performance of Girist is comparable to the best commercial systems.
Some Key Features of GIRIST
1 Average Decidability > 6.0
2 Average Correct Recognition Rate >95%
3 When FAR=0.01%, average FRR=5%
4 Average Extraction time <0.4s
5 Match rate>50000 irises/second
6 Handle noises such as eyelash, eyelids and strong reflections
7 Upper limit of Rotation Angle: ±15 degrees
8 No limits on size of iris.
9 Unlimited database size
10 Three mode: iris authentication, iris identification and iris library verification
11 Interactive graphical user interface
The performance of GIRIST has been verified by the datasets of CASIA, UBIRIS and
MMU IRIS. And the testing CPU is Intel Core 2.0 GHz.
Flash Optimizer is a powerful SWF compression utility, a handy solution for anyone dealing with Flash. It easily reduces SWF files size up to 80% thanks to amazing algorithms of vectors, shapes, morphing, Z-buffer, fonts, sounds and other optimizations, thus saving considerable amount of traffic and loading time. Unlike any other similar software it manages to optimize not only a separate part of your Flash movie, but the whole SWF, including curves, zero-objects, ZLib optimization and a whole lot more advanced techniques. More than 50 of such separate compression options predefined and customizable give you full control over the optimization process, reaching an optimum compression with no quality loss at all. Optimization result preview feature will help you to choose proper compression settings for a particular movie. Also handy is SWF info button which shows you details on Flash movies like size in bytes and percentage of each kind of resources (shapes, pictures, sounds, videos, actions etc.) and general size of original and optimized files. Frame by frame animation view in 1 or 2 players with the zoom in/out function, customizable interface with several layout options make it very convenient and highly efficient in use. Flash optimizer is already available in English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Croatian, Serbian and Russian.
The Advanced Data Generator is a comprehensive test data generator tool that can generate data for your database, CSV files, SQL scripts and more. It comes with real life like data libraries and many options for generating complex test data.
CSE HTML Validator Professional is a fast, powerful, highly user configurable, and easy to use professional web development tool that checks HTML, XHTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, accessibility, links, and more. CSE HTML Validator can even automatically fix HTML and XHTML with the Format and Fix Tool. You'll be surprised how many problems exist in your web documents (especially if it was made with a WYSIWYG editor or automatic HTML generator)! CSE HTML Validator will help you locate and fix problems so that your documents are correctly rendered by a variety of web browsers, not just Internet Explorer. In addition, CSE HTML Validator will give you valuable and customizable advice while alerting you to deprecated and proprietary tags and attributes. CSE HTML Validator is designed for both HTML beginners and professionals who want to make sure that their website visitors do not leave their site because they run into problems caused by poorly written HTML or broken links. The latest version of CSE HTML Validator includes accessibility checking (Section 508 and WCAG), CSS syntax checking, PHP & JavaScript checking, link checking, spell checking, a powerful, easy to use, integrated HTML/text editor, an integrated web browser (browse the web while you validate the pages), and a powerful Batch Wizard that lets you easily validate entire websites and multiple HTML documents by generating a single validation report in HTML format. CSE HTML Validator also checks for issues that can affect search engine rankings and gives advice that may help improve a web page's rank on search engines. CSE HTML Validator is a must have for anyone and any business that desires a quality, trouble-free web site.
JUDE/Professional 5.5 is a System Design Tool that supports UML, ER, Flowchart, DFD, CRUD and Mind Map.
*UML 2.0 (partly) and UML 1.4 (Full)
*ER Diagram
*Flowchart
*DFD
*CRUD
*Mind Maps
*Import/Export Java
*Export C#
*Export C++
*Generation of SQL
*XMI input/output
*Convert ER Diagrams, Mind Maps, Flowcharts to UML models and vice versa
*Export RTF, HTML Documents also Images
*UseCase Descriptions
*Unlimited UNDO/REDO
*Merge and compare JUDE Projects
*Multilingual Display (Alias) and MORE!
Phase 1 for review before releasing the fully working version.
OPC DA based data monitoring tool to perform the following:
- basic opc client
- data logging
- simple formula
- bridging (OPC - DX)
Desene Animate 1.0 for kids is a software that let you draw your own cartoons. You might think this sounds too hard for your kid, but is verry simple to use, this software is creatin artists, you can vizit our website for other software and pictures for kids www.desene-animate.ro
Renders rain or snow on top of your 3D scene. Uses starfield algorithm, very fast and fairly easy to use (although it uses TYPES). Configurable colors, snow can be driven in any direction (looks 3D though for speed it uses no 3D functions) and configurable speed. Create any sort of precipation in an instant!
Very simple, blazing fast. Simply include the file, run the function, and a randomly generated terrain is returned in about 2 seconds. Able to specify bumpiness, average height, slope etc. Able to add detail to an existing heightmap image. Very easy to use.
The Organisation Chart Component is a charting component specifically designed for building organisation charts. Written in C# it provides the developer many features to make creating an organisation chart a quick and pain free process.
The component software is licensed on a "per developer basis" and is run-time and royalty free. We operate a 30 day "no questions asked" refund policy.
Modern computers' power is enough to let you run numerous applications at the same time. You can surf the Internet, listen to the music and chat with your friends at the same time, but the more tasks you launch, the harder it gets to manage them. That's when you might start thinking of getting the second monitor. AltDesk gives you a better choice. It creates several Virtual Desktops you can easily switch. Switching from an office application to your favorite Internet browser can be done in a blink of an eye without maximizing and minimizing numerous windows manually or switching them by means of the Taskbar. With AltDesk you can create as many Virtual Desktops as you want and switch them with ease. You don't even need to remember, where you've put a certain application's window as its icon is displayed by AltDesk. You can also easily swap tasks between Desktops, using Drag and Drop.
A brief list of AltDesk features includes:
Easy task managing
Simple, user-friendly interface, translated into more than 40 languages
Little resource consumption
Hotkeys for any actions
Skins for changing the program's appearance
Reliablity: even in case of a failure you'll be able to recover the lost application's window.
Numerous advanced features, like setting unique wallpapers for each Virtual Desktop, sticky apps, autorun and so on.
We made AltDesk for ourselves and we did our best to turn it into the world's best Virtual Desktop manager. We were the first to bring Windows users numerous features they missed. Now many competing products just clone AltDesk: isn't it a proof of its superiority?
This version of AltDesk features even more improvements in speed, stability and
usability and we're sure you won't be disappointed by it.
Software to create helps files (.hlp) for the applications developed in Borland Delphi.
This software is basically oriented to developers and programmers in Borland Delphi, but it can be used by anyone and although it was designed to generate helps starting from projects. dpr of Delphi, autonomous helps can be generated that don't depend of a project. dpr
Now in the version 2 with improved characteristics, such as:
Now with Outputs for both file formats (HTML and HLP)
Text editor: more robust and more functional, equipped with orthographic corrector and other novel characteristics.
Menu Modules inside the menu Tools that will allow you to access to complements installed by way of PlugIns.
More support on the part of MHCSoft than it designs and it puts to your disposition new modules (complements) in a continuous way.
Packages of new Languages
And many other New characteristics that confer to your Helps generated with DHelpGen V 2, Easiness, Speed and a more professional appearance.
The Chilkat ActiveX component provides objects for creating, sending and retrieving Internet e-mail. It fully supports SMTP, POP3, MIME, HTML, SSL, S/MIME, secure authentication, attachments, SSL, progress monitoring, zip and unzip of attachments, XML import/export, and is fully internationalized to handle email in any language. The Chilkat mail components draw on over 7 years of email component development, and has an established user base of approximately 10,000 customers. Chilkat's licensing provides for free new-version upgrades, 1 year unlimited email and phone support, and royalty-free redistribution.
The Chilkat .NET email component can be used with any Visual Studio programming language (C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET) and provides managed classes for creating, sending and retrieving Internet e-mail. It fully supports SMTP, POP3, MIME, HTML, SSL, S/MIME, secure authentication, attachments, SSL, progress monitoring, zip and unzip of attachments, XML import/export, and is fully internationalized to handle email in any language. The Chilkat mail components draw on over 7 years of email component development, and has an established user base of approximately 10,000 customers. Chilkat's licensing provides for free new-version upgrades, 1 year unlimited email and phone support, and royalty-free redistribution.
The Chilkat email C++ class library for Visual C++ 8.0 provides classes for creating, sending and retrieving Internet e-mail. It fully supports SMTP, POP3, MIME, HTML, SSL, S/MIME, secure authentication, attachments, SSL, progress monitoring, zip and unzip of attachments, XML import/export, and is fully internationalized to handle email in any language. The Chilkat mail components draw on over 7 years of email component development, and has an established user base of approximately 10,000 customers. Chilkat's licensing provides for free new-version upgrades, 1 year unlimited email and phone support, and royalty-free redistribution.
123 Flash Menu is a quick and easy way to build a wide range of Flash menus. It comes with 121 build-in templates, like navigation bars, dropdown menus, scrolling menus, etc. On top of this, it gives you complete control over appearance of your menus, including options for specifying font, colors, dimensions, etc., to match the design of your website. You can also embeds any non standard font into the flash menu to ensure that your users will see the menu exactly as you designed it. With the help of publish wizard, all of these menus can be inserted into any web page in a snap.
ChartDirector is a fast and powerful charting component for creating professional and clickable charts. It's unique layering architecture enables you to synthesize the charts you want using standard chart layers. ChartDirector's comprehensive chart styles include pie, donut, bar, line, spline, step line, trend line, curve-fitting, inter-line filling, area, band, scatter, bubble, floating box, box-whisker, waterfall, contour, heat map, surface, vector, finance, gantt, radar, polar, rose, pyramid, cone, funnel, angular and linear meters and guages. ChartDirector charts are interactive with full suite of mouse events, supporting tool tips, clickable chart objects, and "drag to zoom" and "drag to scroll" features. AJAX enabled features allow charts to update without refreshing web pages. Easy to use and with comprehensive documentation. Come with numerous examples. Free trial available.
ChartDirector is a fast and powerful charting component suitable for Ruby On Rails and standard Ruby applications. It's unique layering architecture enables you to synthesize the charts you want using standard chart layers. ChartDirector's comprehensive chart styles include pie, donut, bar, line, spline, step line, trend line, curve-fitting, inter-line filling, area, band, scatter, bubble, floating box, box-whisker, waterfall, contour, heat map, surface, vector, finance, gantt, radar, polar, rose, pyramid, cone, funnel, angular and linear meters and guages. ChartDirector charts are interactive with full suite of mouse events, supporting tool tips, clickable chart objects, and "drag to zoom" and "drag to scroll" features. AJAX enabled features allow charts to update without refreshing web pages. Easy to use and with comprehensive documentation. Come with numerous examples. Free trial available.
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Documents To Go (with and without support for MS Exchange attachments) is one of our favorite apps for turning your iPhone into a home office. But it's not anywhere near complete and it has some formidable competition in the form of Quickoffice Mobile Suite, another premium offering.
If you're in the market for a document editor and creator, this video will give you a peep at what Documents To Go can offer in its first application release.
How long does it take you to sync your iPhone? I have the 16GB 3G, about 9GB of music, almost 2GB of apps, and about 60 photos. My "Other" category shows up as more than 2GB (!) in iTunes, but that might be worthy of a separate post. In any case, from start to finish, syncing my iPhone on my Windows PC (it's where my music library is) takes almost an hour. A lot of that time is spent backing up or transferring purchases, but it just doesn't seem right that it should take that long.
A friend of mine uses his Mac for syncing his iPhone and he says it takes less than 10 minutes. Please let me know in the comments how long it takes you to sync your iPhone and what type of system you're using. Any tips for speeding up the process would be greatly appreciated by me and anyone else who suffers the same problem. Now, on to this week's apps!
This week's apps include a new (to me) news feed aggregator and a brand-new game from Freeverse that's on sale for a limited time.
Headlines and descriptions make it easy to find the stories you want to read.
(Credit: CNET)
Fluent News (free) is a recent discovery for me and well worth the download if you're looking for a better way to get your news. Fluent News grabs exclusively mobile news content from all the top news sources including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and CNN. Unfortunately, the app is primarily U.S.-centric so international users won't get the news they're looking for. But among the news apps available for iPhone, this one just might be the best I have seen yet.
The interface is easy to use, with tabs across the bottom for Top News stories and sections organized by category. But the layout is what makes Fluent News a standout app. Each story has the headline, which source the news came from, related stories, and a brief description of the story (like many desktop RSS readers). Even better, all the news stories are in mobile format so they're easy to read in the app's included browser. If you find a story you want to share, you can easily post the link to Twitter or Facebook, once you connect to your accounts in the settings menu. Overall, Fluent News is the best free newsreader I've found so far, and it's definitely worth a free download.
Hitting an ammo dump with a grenade or rocket launcher results in impressive explosions.
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Warpack Grunts (99 cents for a limited time) lets you command a squad of four tiny soldiers for shoot-'em-up action in a top-down perspective. Touch the screen to move your squad around the map and double tap to fire your weapons. A few early tutorial missions help you get accustomed to the control system and the different weapons you'll find in the game. As you progress through missions, the game gets harder with more enemy squads to battle and other dangers like snipers and mounted machine guns. As an added bonus, you can play this game in landscape or portrait mode--Warpack Grunts easily switches views on the fly.
Warpack Grunts, like many titles from Freeverse, offers comedy relief with funny voices and sounds to keep the game lighthearted while remaining challenging. There are several items to find in the game like rocket launchers and sniper rifles, along with items that replace downed units (to bring your squad back to four) and increase your health. The missions are quite difficult later in the game and offer unique challenges to keep the game interesting. You can also choose the Zombie Survival gametype to blow away wave after wave of shambling undead. With a ton of missions to explore and the extra game type, Warpack Grunts is definitely worth more than the introductory price, so grab this one while it's still cheap.
What's your favorite iPhone app? Do you have a better newsreader than Fluent News? How long can you last in Zombie Survival mode? Got a secret way to make iPhone syncing faster? Let me know in the comments!
There's a temptation to mock people who still talk about Winamp, and its true that AOL gave up its industry-leading position to Apple without a fight. However, the past few years have seen Winamp reinvent itself as a jukebox for those who haven't been bitten by the iTunes bug, and the latest version introduces the proprietary song-scrobler Orgler.
Orgler scrobles music to give AOL Music some Web 2.0 flair, finally.
(Credit: Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)
Much like Last.fm's scrobling, Orgler sends your music data up to the cloud. Also like Last.fm, it allows members of the AOL/Winamp community to contribute their played songs to a list of what's been on their stereos. Tracks get added to your AOL Music page, and since the service is a Winamp-designed plug-in, it integrates seamlessly and users should find none of the sluggish behavior that occasionally afflicts third-party Last.fm plug-ins. Orgler was originally available in beta as an external Winamp plug-in.
To set up the service, go to Online Services under the Media Library tab. Go to the second page of the site that opens in the built-in browser, and activate Winamp Charts. Log in with your Winamp or AOL log-in--your AOL IM log-in will work, too--and you'll be all set to Orgle.
Seeing as how there's been Last.fm support for Winamp for ages Orgler is more about not sending listeners elsewhere for their music community needs than dragging Winamp users into the present. Still, Orgler's not a bad service.
Last.fm is a part of CBS Interactive, which also publishes Download.com.
It's too bad that add-ons for Microsoft Outlook haven't caught on with the intensity of Firefox extensions. The good ones can save as much time for office workers who live and breathe by the in-box as a browser extension can enhance the power of your Internet experience. I wouldn't recommend loading up on dozens of Outlook add-ons--they could slow Outlook's performance--but here are three I find useful (and light enough) for daily use.
The visual Xobni can help quickly find e-mail and contacts. Seeing a Facebook image can also help humanize a stranger.
(Credit: CNET/Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt)
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. Every day.
Gwabbit ingests details from the signature block into Outlook's address book.
(Credit: CNET/Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt)
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.
(Credit: Google)
Google Calendar Sync beta
It's in Google's best interest to sell office workers on the proposition of using Outlook's calendar and Google's, and it's in your best interest to let it. This free beta program has been relatively static for quite awhile, but that shouldn't stop you. Install it and you'll be able to sync events to or from one calendar or the other. Two-way syncing is also an option. You'll pick your time interval, and leave the rest up to Google. Be forewarned that you do gain the calendar icon in your task tray. The good news is, you'll be able to access the settings from here.
Other Outlook add-ons
Just to name a few more intriguing apps:
Google Apps Sync--If you use Google Apps Premier or EDU Edition, this application holds onto the familiar Outlook interface, even though you've abandoned Microsoft Exchange Server in favor of the Google Apps server.
Xiant Filer--An offering from a one-time Microsoft luminary, Xiant Filer is a one-click filing add-on that gives you a 60-day test of its new beta software.
Microsoft appears likely to offer a "Family Pack" version of Windows 7, according to language in a leaked test version of the operating system.
This week enthusiasts started buzzing over wording in the license agreement in the test build that suggests Microsoft will have an option to buy a license for Windows 7 that covers up to three PCs in the same household.
Wording in a leaked test version of Windows 7 suggests that a long-anticipated Family Pack option may become reality.
(Credit: Microsoft)
According to blogger Kristan Kenney, the license agreement included with the recently leaked version states that "if you are a 'Qualified Family Pack User', you may install one copy of the software marked as 'Family Pack' on three computers in your household for use by people who reside there."
Microsoft would neither confirm nor deny that it plans to offer the family pack.
"We will continue to work with our partners and expect to have other great offers in the future as we lead up to and beyond general availability," a representative said. "We have nothing to announce at this time."
Vista Ultimate users are already upset that Microsoft's first discount offer for Windows 7 allows for discounted upgrades to Windows 7 Home Premium and Professional, but offers no upgrade options for them. Microsoft said it may have more offers, but users will have to gamble if they want to skip the current pre-order program.
That option allows $49 upgrades to Windows 7 Home Premium and $99 upgrades to Windows 7 Professional. Microsoft said that those deals will be offered only until July 11.
The first thing I saw when I booted my PC yesterday evening was a notice that Google had prevented my default search setting from being changed. I certainly didn't want to switch from searching via Google by default. I hadn't even been considering a search change, regardless of Bing's pretty wallpaper.
The Google Toolbar prevented Windows Search from changing my default search setting without my permission.
(Credit: Google)
To find out what program was trying to change my search default, I opened Vista's Event Viewer by pressing the Windows key, typing event viewer, and pressing Enter. I clicked Application in the left pane and scrolled to the approximate time the warning popped up. It took all of about two seconds to realize that Windows Search Service attempted to change my search default.
Vista's Event Viewer identified the Windows Search Service as the likely source of the attempt to change my search default.
(Credit: Microsoft)
Well, I can't prove it based solely on the Event Viewer logs, but it's safe to say the search service is the prime suspect. I was relieved that Google prevented the change, but I couldn't recall asking the company to do so. I found the alert setting in the options of the Google Toolbar in Internet Explorer.
The Search tab in the Google Toolbar options lets you generate an alert whenever a program attempts to change your default search setting.
(Credit: Google)
Ironically, I couldn't find a comparable setting in the latest version (5.0.20090324) of the Google Toolbar for Firefox, which is my default browser.
The Google Toolbar for Firefox lacks a setting that generates an alert and prevents programs when they attempt to change your default search setting.
(Credit: Google)
Should you find your search default has been changed unexpectedly, resetting it is a breeze. In Firefox, type about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Browse to and double-click browser.search.defaultenginename. Type the name of any search service listed on the search drop-down menu and press OK.
To add a search engine to the list, click Manage Search Engines and then Get more search engines. Download your engine of choice and restart Firefox to see it among the search options on the menu.
To make the same change in Internet Explorer 8, click the down arrow to the right of the search box and choose Manage Search Providers. Make your selection and choose Set as default. Or choose Find More Providers, pick a search service, and click Add to Internet Explorer to broaden your IE search options.
To change your search default in Google's Chrome browser, click the wrench icon in the top-right corner, choose Options, and make your selection in the "Default search" drop-down menu near the bottom of the Basics tab. Unfortunately, there's no easy way to add search providers to Chrome's list, though you may see more options by clicking Manage, choosing one of the services listed, and clicking Add.
You've probably heard of Mobile Air Mouse, the clever app that turns your iPhone into, well, an air mouse. (It's currently on sale for $1.99, by the way.)
JumiMouse is a bit different: It turns your iPhone (or iPod Touch) into an oversize touch pad, complete with left and right mouse buttons, tap-and-drag support, and so on.
The free JumiMouse app turns your iPhone into a roomy touch pad controller.
Why would you want such a thing? For starters, JumiMouse could take the place of a laptop touch pad that's worn and no longer working properly.
It could also solve the common problem of accidentally grazing the laptop touch pad with your thumb, causing the cursor to jump and your document to get messed up. Just deactivate the touch pad and use JumiMouse instead.
Finally, JumiMouse is an ideal replacement for netbook touch pads, which are notoriously tiny. The iPhone screen is ginormous in comparison.
JumiMouse communicates with your PC via local or ad-hoc Wi-Fi. To use the app, you must first install the free Jumi Controller utility. It's currently compatible with Windows XP and Vista (32-bit). I tried it with Windows 7: no go.
(Mac users should check out SnatchTest, a similar utility that duplicates the Mac touch pad. It's free.)
On a Vista system, JumiMouse was a snap to set up. My iPhone immediately detected the server, and a tap later I was controlling the cursor from my screen. Everything worked perfectly, and I detected no lag between my finger movements and the cursor.
At first I was disappointed by the lack of options for things like pointer speed and size. But it turns out that Windows recognizes JumiMouse as hardware, so all you do is hop into the Control Panel and tweak the standard Mouse settings to your liking.
This is a fabulous little app for anyone looking to control a PC--for any reason--with an iPhone or iPod Touch. Amazingly, JumiMouse is free.
Updated July 2 at 10:30 a.m. PDT: The full list of supported languages has been added to the bottom of the story.
Toolbars have long been an effective way for software publishers to add several features to a browser at once, and the Google Toolbar has long been among the most popular of these. Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer introduces revamped translation tools, giving users one-click powers of conversion over many languages.
Google Toolbar for IE now offers one-click page translation.
(Credit: Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)
The toolbar now detects your default language setting and using the Translate button will attempt to convert the page to it. Clicking a link will automatically translate the new page, as long as its part of the same domain as the original. Forty-one languages are supported so far, from Spanish, French, Italian, and German to Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Hindi, Ukranian, and Vietnamese.
Not all words on a page will be translated, but from my tests that seems limited only to text that's been embedded in logos and other art. If you need a lot of on-the-fly translation, this could be a major time saver. The feature has not been extended to Google Toolbar for Firefox, although Google said on its blog post announcing the feature that it hopes to implement it soon.
Yahoo has released a test version of a Delicious social bookmarking extension for Chrome, one of the strongest indications so far that the technology foundation is coming to fruition in Google's browser.
Extensions still must be specifically enabled through a command-line switch on the developer version of Chrome, and Google recently broke extensions compatibility through an update, so the technology clearly is immature. But Google is steadily addressing the concern that its browser lacks one of Firefox's notable features--called add-ons in the Mozilla browser.
"Delicious extension (alpha version) for Google Chrome is now available," said Amit Papnai of the Delicious team in a mailing list posting Tuesday. "This is a light version of the extension and allows you to sign in and post bookmarks to your Delicious account."
The Delicious extension for Chrome shows the logo in the address bar. Clicking it pops up a dialog box as a new miniature Web page.
(Credit: Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)
Extensions can be powerful tools to customize a browser's interface or add significant features. In an effort to ease programming difficulties, Chrome's extensions technology uses the same interface techniques as Web pages, a method Mozilla as adopted for its Jetpack Firefox extensions project at Mozilla Labs.
Delicious lets people store, tag, describe, and share bookmarks, and the add-on simplifies use of the service directly through the browser.
I found both the Delicious and Chritter extensions easy to download and install, though Chritter isn't terribly useful at this stage because it only flashes recent tweets in a status bar. Update 2:57 p.m. PDT: Google has added a rough but workable interface for managing Chrome extensions, including uninstalling them, by typing "chrome://extensions/" into the address bar.
"We're working on pushing out a new Gears version that supports Firefox 3.5," Google programmer Aaron Boodman said Monday on a mailing list for Gears, a Firefox add-on that among other things can enable offline access to the Gmail Web application. "We typically wait until the official 'gold' release of Firefox is pushed, because otherwise, we keep having to do new builds every time a new release candidate is pushed."
One of Firefox's most popular add-ons is AdBlock Plus, which suppresses online advertisements. With Google's business dependent on advertising, skeptics have said they don't expect Chrome ever to support that technology.
It's no secret you can run various flavors of Windows on Intel Macs using Apple's Bootcamp or other popular virtualization software options like Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion. Any of these work great if you need to run Windows software on your Mac or even test beta software worry free, but a fairly recent discovery of mine might be a better choice. VirtualBox is the free, cross-platform, open-source virtualization software I used to get the Windows 7 beta running on a Mac, and it just received a major update.
VirtualBox 3.0 (Windows or Mac) lets you create a secure virtual environment to run the OS of your choice without effecting anything else on your computer. This means that in addition to being able to run software meant for a different system, you'll also be able test beta software without fear of conflicting with your current regular setup.
A handy wizards make it easy to set up a virtual system quickly.
(Credit: CNET)
The new version of VirtualBox offers a huge laundry list of new features and fixes, but the major version updates include the capability to run up to 32 virtual CPUs; run programs (games!) that require Direct3D 8 or 9 (Windows); and newly added support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux, and Solaris.
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V3.co.uk gets hands on with Mozilla's latest web browser to see if
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The browser wars continue to rage, and Mozilla's latest iteration of Firefox
introduces a slew of new features and improvements to up the ante.
Probably the most noticeable addition in
Firefox
3.5 is the inclusion of Private Mode, a feature already available in most of
today's popular browsers - it's called Incognito in Google Chrome and InPrivate
Browsing in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8. The feature allows users to surf
the internet with a greater degree of anonymity as no local data from the
session, including history, cache files, form data, passwords or searches, is
kept on the machine.
Private Mode can be activated from the Tools menu. It closes all existing
windows and begins the new Private session with a clean slate. Once the Private
Mode is stopped the previous session and all its tabs are automatically
restored. While this removes any confusion about what is running under Private
Mode and what is not, it can be frustrating if you need any information from a
previous window when entering Private Mode.
Users also now have a lot more control over data that has already been stored
locally, as it is now possible to clear recent history from the past hour, two
hours, four hours or day, as well as erasing all history as per normal.
Similarly, from the history library users can also opt to 'forget about this
site' and remove all reference to a particular site. It should be noted that
sub-domains are not affected, so 'forgetting' about maps.google.com, for
example, won't affect anything from mail.google.com.
Mozilla has also done a lot of work on tab management with Firefox 3.5,
making it easier to sort tabs. This includes a new feature called 'Tab Tearing'
whereby users can reorder tabs within a window, and move them between windows as
well. 'Tearing off' a tab and dropping it on the desktop will cause it to be
opened in its own window, while if the last remaining tab in a window is moved
to another, the empty window will automatically close.
Firefox 3.5 includes location awareness, allowing different online services
to find your location based on information about your internet connection. The
system uses any information to hand to pinpoint your whereabouts, be it your IP
address, nearby Wi-Fi signal information and 3G data if it is available. The
results will vary depending on the connection. For instance, someone on a 3G
data connection will get their location pinpointed quite accurately, while
someone on a wired local area network connection connected to a larger company
wide area network will get only a very rough estimate. In general, we found it
got a location down to within a few blocks, which should be accurate enough for
most location-based services.
Although this feature will be of limited use to desktop PC users, it could be
very handy to laptop users and will be ported into mobile versions of Firefox
such as
Fen
nec where it could prove a lot more useful.
One of Firefox's most useful features is the ability to easily recover
recently closed tabs, helping to fix those moments when you accidentally close a
tab you still need. This has now been extended to include recently closed
windows and all their associated tabs, which is perfect for those moments when
the wrong click of the mouse or a mistype could mean losing something important.
There are a slew of other smaller tweaks that have been included in Firefox
3.5, over 5,000 if you include minute changes such as altering the text in a
dialogue box to make it clearer. For instance, the browser's Awesome bar, which
provides suggestions as users type into the address bar based on history and
bookmarks, can now also be refined with the inclusion of different command keys.
The session restore will also remember any form data that has been entered
but not yet committed. If a user is in the middle of an email on their webmail
service, for example, and needs to close the browser before they are done, the
text they have entered will still be there when the session is restored.
Mozilla developers have also done a lot of work under the hood to boost
Firefox's performance. These enhancements are a little harder to test, but
include the TraceMonkey JavaScript and full HTML5 support among others. Dynamic
content such as webmail, Flash applications or streaming video all feel a lot
slicker and smoother, and the changes will go a long way to helping support new
online services and technologies as they emerge.
Add-ons are one of the most popular features in Firefox as they allow users
to customise the browser and to include a wide array of services and functions,
but with over 6,000 available it can be difficult to find the ones you want. To
help solve this problem Mozilla has introduced Collections, which allows people
to create bundles of add-ons. This can help with the management of a collection,
as well as assisting those who need to deploy the same configuration across
multiple computers or who are looking for a group of compatible add-ons for
personal use.
Mozilla has also implemented open codecs Ogg and Theora to help more deeply
integrate video and other media into the browser without the need for
proprietary codecs or plug-ins, which should help to generate an even more
interactive web experience.
While many of the new additions to Firefox 3.5 are available in most of
today's popular browsers, Mozilla is the first to implement an open-source media
platform, which should open the floodgates for a much deeper embedding of rich
content by web developers.
Whether Firefox 3.5 puts Mozilla ahead of its competitors is highly
debatable, but what is certain is that the firm is listening to its users and
delivering the types of features and functions they want, not just solving
today's problems but trying to create an open platform for tomorrow's online
world.
Frank Ohlhorst, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 30 June 2009 at 17:25:00
A worthwhile contender for the enterprise backup market
Today's enterprises often have terabytes of data files scattered across
multiple storage networks, servers and desktop PCs. Add to that the issues of
compliance, security and auditing, and it becomes easy to see why so many backup
technologies have started to fall short of enterprise needs.
Symantec is looking to bring order to the chaos of enterprise backups with
Veritas
NetBackup PureDisk Version 6.5.1, a product that melds several backup
technologies under a single umbrella to ease the backup process.
The latest iteration of Symantec's enterprise backup and deduplication suite
is aimed at enterprise networks, both large and small. The product's claim to
fame comes from the integration of several backup technologies into a single
product that eliminates the need for specialised hardware and tape-based
storage.
NetBackup PureDisk employs advanced technologies such as deduplication,
bandwidth optimisation, granular backup policy controls, compression and
encryption to bring efficiency, speed and ease of management to the forefront of
the enterprise backup market. Some of the advanced features are the result of
Symantec's 2006 purchase of Revivio, a company known for its Continuous Data
Protection technology. Symantec has successfully integrated Revivio's technology
into NetBackup, and has upped the ante with deduplication, extensive client
support and branch office connectivity, all managed with a single, comprehensive
console.
Symantec has done its best to keep complexity to a minimum, but NetBackup
PureDisk is still a very complex product that takes significant network
management savvy to master. The product is far from plug-and-play easy but,
considering the extensive feature set, the company has done a decent job in
automating many of the tasks and building wizards to perform other complex
chores.
Looking at the individual components of the product, it becomes easy to see
why complexity enters the equation. NetBackup PureDisk is based on a software
appliance, which runs on a modified version of Suse Linux. As a software
appliance, administrators can scale the product pretty easily by throwing as
much hardware as needed at it.
The software consists of three primary parts, starting with the software
appliance which is aptly named a NetBackup Media Server. Part two comes in the
form of the backup clients. Each system to be backed up needs to run a small
piece of client software provided by Symantec. The company offers clients for
various flavours of Windows Server, as well as Red Hat Enterprise Server, Suse
Linux Enterprise Server, IBM-AIX, Solaris, HP-UX and Mac OS.
Symantec also provides clients for popular applications such as Microsoft
Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server. Currently, there is no direct support for
Windows Desktop operating systems, Oracle, IBM DB2 or MySQL. But savvy
administrators should be able to create scripts or batch files that will allow
these non-supported applications to be backed up.
The final piece is the PureDisk Storage Pool, which is simply the storage
target for backups. A storage pool consists of many different types of disk
storage, ranging from storage area networks (SANs), to network attached storage
devices and direct attached drives.
The three elements can be deployed in several different ways or combinations,
depending on the network infrastructure and the number of remote sites, if any.
For example, if deploying the product in a datacentre that supports multiple
remote offices, an administrator will install backup clients on each of the
systems at the remote sites, and then deploy a NetBackup Media Server at each
remote site. The datacentre will also have a NetBackup Media Server, and the
PureDisk Storage Pool is likely to be located at the datacentre as well. Of
course, there can be various permutations of this setup.
In practice, the solution works by performing backup processing, including
deduplication and compression, at the local site, which significantly speeds up
the backup process while reducing the overall size of the backup that has to be
transmitted back to the datacentre. Other variations of this setup may include
configuring additional Netbackup media servers for load balancing and failover,
and additional storage pools for data mirroring or failover.
We tested NetBackup PureDisk by setting it up as an 'all-in-one'
configuration. That meant a single 'node' solution, where all NetBackup services
are installed on a single machine, as opposed to installing the metabase server,
metabase engine, storage pool authority and content router on different systems.
Our single node was installed on an HP server class system, running a pair of
Xeon CPUs and 8GB of RAM. An 'all-in-one' or 'single node' installation is the
simplest and most basic way to set up the product, and is appropriate for
smaller enterprises or branch offices.
Setup consisted of installing the NetBackup PureDisk operating system, PDOS,
which is based on Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Service Pack 1 (SLES10
SP1). Hardware compatibility is determined by the requirements of SLES10 SP1.
Simply put, if the hardware can run SLES10 SP1, then it will be fine for PDOS.
After installing PDOS, administrators will need to install NetBackup
PureDisk, which comes on Linux standard TAR files. Although the included
instructions are straightforward, experience with Linux is a definite plus when
it comes to the initial setup and configuration. An installation requires at
least two disks, a boot disk and a storage disk. The storage disk can be direct
attached storage as in an internal drive, a disk array as in iSCSI and fibre
channel, or a SAN.
Administrators will want to properly size their hardware, making sure that
enough processing power and storage is available. Symantec offers detailed
instructions on capacity planning in the documentation. Luckily, setting up the
nodes is the most complex part of the product. The remaining chores are
relatively straightforward and consist of deploying agents or backup clients,
configuring storage options, running wizards and setting up various system
parameters.
Installation of the client software was very simple, just a matter of running
an installation program on the target machines. Administrators could also
install the clients remotely using any deployment and management technologies
that they may already have in-house.
While it is not rocket science, a good understanding of storage, networking
and security is needed to successfully deploy the software. Once deployed,
NetBackup PureDisk is managed via a concise browser-based tool that offers
context-sensitive help. The management console can be a little intimidating,
simply because of the number of menus, pull-downs and options.
For the most part, the management console offers a logical procession through
the various choices. That said, it could be better organised and vastly improved
with a tab-based interface that focuses on common functions. But potential
purchasers should not be put off by those minor complaints, as Symantec intends
to overhaul the interface in a future version of the product.
After testing a few backup scenarios it became easy to see where NetBackup
PureDisk offers the most value. One of the more interesting aspects is how the
product handles backing up virtual machines, which we tested with a couple of
Microsoft Hyper-V virtual PCs.
Virtual machines are becoming very popular in datacentres and offer their own
unique challenges. The technology used by Symantec's solution addresses many of
those virtual machine challenges. For example, deduplication can reduce the size
of the backup by a factor of 10 or more, by identifying which software elements
of a virtual machine are the same as other virtual machines. Most virtual
machines are created by duplicating a standard virtual machine, so many files
across the virtual machines are the same. Removing those duplicate files from
the backup saves significant space and time.
The deduplication process runs on the NetBackup media server, and the process
was very fast in our tests and barely taxed the CPUs. We were able to run dedupe
on 300GB of backup files data in under 15 minutes, using local Sata drives on
the NetBackup media server we had built. Simply put, our test bed could handle
significantly more data, and most, if any, performance issues will be dictated
by the speed of the network backbone and the throughput of the storage disk.
The major strengths of NetBackup PureDisk come from its flexibility. It can
be scaled relatively easily and deployed in a way that best suits the target
environment. Scaling up usually means just adding more media servers, and
incorporating failover has the same basic requirements.
That flexibility extends to the types of storage that can be used, as well as
the hardware selected. Additional advantages of NetBackup PureDisk come from its
disk-based nature of backup processing, which eliminates the complexity of tape
media while significantly speeding up backups.
Of course, administrators can move backup files to tape for long-term storage
or archival purposes if needed. The viability of disk-based backups is further
enhanced by the product's deduplication abilities and data compression prowess,
which can reduce storage needs by as much as a factor of 10.
While there are several other vendors in the backup and deduplication space,
Symantec seems to be unique by offering a solution that incorporates several
technologies that ultimately reduce the hardware, software and expenses
associated with enterprise data backups.
Tom Royal, Computeractive, Tuesday 30 June 2009 at 17:22:00
Learn a new language - or two
Learning a language can be rewarding, but it also tends to be expensive.
Even if you don’t fork out for a tutor, the textbooks and software on offer
are often costly, so we were surprised to see this Berlitz package, which claims
to teach two languages, selling for less than £20 online.
There are several language versions available – we opted for the Japanese and
Mandarin Chinese version.
The main program in the box, Berlitz Learning System, was disappointing. Its
‘immersion environments’ offered plenty of photos, audio and text, but the
interface was confusing and despite knowing some Japanese already we were
baffled as to where to start in the Survival Phrases for Japanese environment.
After some confused clicking we found that each includes some handy
conversation practice lessons, but the Theater screen that appears first is so
lacking in guidance that we can imagine many users giving up before they even
work out how to use the software properly.
Fortunately, the rest of the contents was far more useful. Best of all is the
Before You Know It flashcard program that allows learners to practice simple
words and phrases using on-screen flashcards and spoken examples. It’s simple,
effective and easy to use – everything, in fact, that the main program is not.
And there’s more, too. One of the discs includes flashcard software for Palm
and Windows Mobile handheld computers so you can take the same flashcards and
practice them on the move – smartphone versions would have been handier for
some, but this is a nice extra nonetheless.
There’s also a short audio course that can be copied to a portable music
player. This concentrates on teaching useful short phrases, and although some of
the teaching methods are a little daft – picturing the state of Ohio at sunrise
to remember the Japanese for ‘good morning’, ohayo gozaimasu – we did learn a
few new phrases.
All in all, this package is a really mixed bag. We don’t like the main
program at all, and it seems daft to pay for two languages at once, but at less
than £20 it’s worth buying for the flashcard tool alone.
Tom Royal, Computeractive, Saturday 27 June 2009 at 10:00:00
Create a colonial empire in this pocket strategy game
The Nintendo DS's touch screen is ideal for strategy games and, in
particular, 'God games' in which the player uses a bird's-eye view to build a
miniature civilisation.
The latest title in the Anno series allows you to rule over a fledgling
empire in the 15th century.
The plot sees you, the son of an ageing king presiding over a kingdom in
trouble, sent out to find new lands to supply hungry subjects back at home.
After landing on a small island you must build houses for your small band of
pioneers, and clear fields for them to work. They pay you taxes, allowing you to
build new facilities: a chapel, for example, or a dairy farm.
Creating more municipal buildings will attract more wealthy citizens who, in
turn, are able to pay more taxes. Over time your cluster of shacks with hardy
owners that require only food can grow into a city of stone houses whose
patrician inhabitants need food, milk, linen clothses, herbs, spices and much
more, but who pay you a fortune in return.
One island alone can't provide all the raw materials for such a city, so
you'll have to spread out, colonising other islands that are suitable for
growing particular goods. To find enough islands you need to acquire maps, which
can be gained by meeting certain requirements such as colonising a number of
islands or building a city with so many hundred inhabitants.
Fail to provide any one type of goods and your citizens will stop paying
taxes – fatal when you have a few plantations to support and you're trying to
save up for a cathedral. Similarly, an island left undefended can be stormed and
occupied by pirates. The game's combat system, which involves moving troops
around between forts and ships, isn't as polished as the rest of the game, but
it works.
The game includes a story mode, which serves to introduce the key concepts of
the game at a decent pace, or you can go it alone and start building a colonial
empire. It's not an action-packed rollercoaster of a game, and the combat
sections are a little clumsy, but the rest is strangely absorbing: with your
frontier empire always perched on a knife-edge, it's hard to save the game and
step away.
A simple and affordable anti-virus program for Mac users
We recently heard reports about the first ever Trojan to attack the Mac. The
offending malware, known as iServices.A, was present in pirated versions of
Apple’s iWork software suite that had been downloaded using Bittorrent. There’s
also a variant called iServices.B that was linked to pirated copies of
Photoshop.
The moral of this story, of course, is not to download pirated software. But
if you’d rather be safe than sorry, you could take a look at iAntivirus from PC
Tools. Unlike its two main rivals Norton Antivirus for Macintosh and Intego’s
Virus Barrier iAntivirus is available in both free and paid-for versions.
The two versions are identical, but if you pay the full $29.95 price for the
program, you get online technical support with guaranteed 24-hour response times
as well.
The program is extremely easy to use. Its main window provides just two
options Scan and Protect. You will want to run a scan the first time you
install the program, and the ‘Quick Scan’ option took less than 30 seconds to
work through our Macbook’s 120GB hard disk, while a more thorough scan took
about 24 minutes.
You can then leave the program running in the background in order to provide
constant protection, or just run it occasionally in order to perform a quick
virus check as required. You can schedule additional scans whenever you like, as
well as downloading regular updates for no additional charge.
Admittedly, most Mac users happily get by without any anti-virus software at
all, but the ability to download iAntivirus for free and then upgrade at a later
date if you want the full technical support package makes it a good choice for
Mac users who want to keep their options open.
Stitching together a panoramic image to give web users a virtual tour of a
location is usually time-consuming and fiddly. Panoweaver 6 makes the process a
lot easier, and can be used to create both 2D and 360º immersive panoramas,
which can be exported to Flash, Quicktime or Java player formats.
We’ve reviewed the standard version, which is the cheapest at £87, but there
are also Professional and Batch editions that cost £439 and £791 respectively.
Version 6 adds plenty of tweaks, such as automatic recognition of the lens
used, cylindrical panorama production, dual-core CPU support and improved Flash
player export options.
The major new feature is support for ‘normal’ and wide-angle lenses. Previous
versions of Panoweaver concentrated on producing panoramas from images shot with
fisheye lenses. That makes sense because you can cover a 360-degree field of
view in only four shots with a fisheye lens (including the overlap).
According to Easypano the Standard edition is restricted to non-fisheye
images, but using the trial version, we managed to stitch a 360º spherical image
from four images shot with a Sigma 8mm fisheye lens. Another limitation is that
it doesn’t include the Smartblend algorithm, which does a superb job of
seamlessly blending stitched images together.
The really impressive thing about Panoweaver is ease of use. The interface
isn’t pretty, but it’s very effective. Within a few minutes of importing our
photos we had a fully stitched panorama ready for export to a Flash, Quicktime
or Java player format.
Panoweaver’s autostitching engine did a good job, though it was necessary to
add control points between two of the images to indicate matching overlapping
detail. After we added these, the result was perfect.
For applications such as estate agency tours and for amateur panographers,
Panoweaver 6 could save you a lot of time.
PC tune-up tools have been added to the security suite
Zonealarm Extreme is Checkpoint’s answer to Norton 360, adding backup and
tune-up tools along with its impressive Forcefield online protection to the
Internet Security core engine.
After a rather lengthy installation that requires a combination of scans and
updates, it becomes apparent that the ‘headline’ additions, namely backup and
tune-up, must be installed separately and behave as standalone tools.
These are both fairly rudimentary, as backup includes encryption and useful
options such as multiple file-version support and live monitoring, but it can
only be used to save files to the 2GB of online space provided.
The tune-up tool is focused around scanning, backing up and repairing the
Registry and is hardly comprehensive, so we were a little disappointed not to
see a level of integration comparable to Norton 360.
The Forcefield component works well though, protecting Internet Explorer and
Firefox against a range of threats using a virtual browser, which also allows
you to prevent any traces of a current session from being recorded.
The security-related aspect of the suite is typically effective and Zonealarm
maintains its excellent and well-deserved reputation with a powerful firewall
and comprehensive threat detection. Scan times are reasonable, at around six
minutes for a quick scan and just under an hour for a normal scan and, as with
Norton 360, these decrease as the software gets to know your system.
There’s little to criticise when it comes to core components but we were
disappointed by the limited additional tools and poor integration. There’s still
a commendable collection of security and protection on offer but we’d question
the value in paying extra for the new additions to this particular version.
Jonathan Parkyn, Computeractive, Sunday 21 June 2009 at 16:15:00
Let’s off-road
The idea of an open-world racer is not a new one. Several recent games,
including the excellent Burnout Paradise, have offered similar worlds with no
set routes, in which players can drive around to find new places to race.
Fuel promises 5,000 square miles of virtual environment to explore, making it
by far the most expansive game of its type so far – something that works both
for and against this ambitious racing title.
Set in an alternative near future, you and your initial vehicle are airlifted
by chopper to the Wastelands area, where you can carry out a series of career
races.
But once these dry up, it’s up to you to track down your next dose of
high-octane racing excitement.
You’re free to cruise around the vast map looking for further
career-advancing races. Exploration will also allow players to discover various
challenges and secrets, such as liveries for their vehicles, fuel canisters (the
game’s currency) and collectable backdrops.
Races vary from shorter on-and-off-road circuits to longer checkpoint-based
rally-type events, over a remarkable variety of terrain and extreme driving
conditions.
The number of available vehicles grows throughout the game, up to a maximum
of 75 Mad Max-style motorbikes, dune buggies, trucks and quad bikes.
In total, there are more than 70 career races to discover and a further
190-plus challenges to take on, and that’s before we’ve even started with the
multiplayer possibilities or the built-in race editor, which allows you to
create your own custom tracks and races to share with your fellow petrol heads
online.
The racing physics aren’t particularly realistic, but then Fuel is not
intended to be an accurate driving simulation. The game’s emphasis is on arcade
thrills rather than naturalism, although the pacing isn’t quite as enjoyably
frenetic as with some similar titles, such as Pure.
In truth, the open-world aspect can be a bit frustrating at times, particu
larly during the earlier portion of the game, when it’s easy to feel a little
daunted by the huge expanse of game universe at your disposal.
But, while other similar games may do a better job of the racing itself,
Fuel’s impressive, varied environments certainly make it stand out from the
crowd.
Anthony Dhanendran, Computeractive, Saturday 20 June 2009 at 16:15:00
Good games don’t have to be complex
Plants vs Zombies is a ‘casual game’ that bucks the trend towards
ever-more-complex games with harder-to-fathom controls, featuring incredibly
simple gameplay and lots of fun.
The premise is that you have to defend your house from marauding zombies, but
being zombies they maraud very slowly. They can also be stopped by your plants,
which fire deadly pellets, blow open or stop the creatures in other ways.
You can place a certain number of plants at any time, but sunlight is
required to grow new ones, so you have to wait before putting down another. It’s
also possible to plant sunflowers which generate more sunlight. All the while,
the zombies approach.
It sounds easy, and it is for the first couple of levels, but there’s a good
difficulty curve, with new plants becoming available each level. There are also
different scenarios so things don’t get too repetitive. Graphics are good but
unspectacular, and the sounds entertaining enough.
In addition to the 50 main levels there are also mini-games and puzzle modes,
plus other sections that break up what might otherwise become monotonous. There
are lots of different kinds of zombies, too, which helps to maintain interest
levels.
This isn’t a game that requires a lot of thinking, and nor will it last those
several-hour-stretches like more in-depth titles, but for the price and for
regular short fun fixes, Plants vs Zombies is superb.
Plenty of tools for both novice and advanced photographers
Serif has christened version 11 of its image-editing software Photoplus X3.
This could be an effort to go one better than Corel’s Paint Shop Pro Photo
X2, or perhaps Serif simply felt it sounded less prosaic.
The name is not the only change, of course. This release adds support for
Camera Raw images, High Dynamic Range (HDR) merging, support for
16-bit-per-channel images and some new effects.
These additions expand on an already comprehensive suite of existing tools
and features that places Photoplus X3 squarely in the realm of the serious
photographer.
The Layers palette often provides a good indication of a photo editor’s
capabilities and this one allows you to add new layers and organise them into
groups, independently lock their transparency, pixels and position, adjust their
opacity and blend modes plus add adjustment layers, layer masks, layer effects
and depth maps (otherwise known as displacement maps).
In a tabbed group within the Layers palette you’ll also find a Channels
palette, vector paths and a macros palette X3 supports recording and playback
of macros as well as batch processing.
X3 does a good job of making these advanced features and other editing tools
accessible to beginners or anyone unfamiliar with the program. There’s a
Quickfix Studio window that provides a range of image adjustments and effects
including white balance, brightness and contrast, cropping, red-eye and blemish
removal, noise reduction and sharpen tools, in a single location. The only
complaint here was that it didn’t seem to work with 16-bit images.
There’s also a How To panel, which provides guided help for a range of
editing activities broadly categorised into Getting Started, Image Adjustments,
Retouching, Makeover Studio, Black and White Studio, Creative Effects and Photo
Finishing. This has been well thought out and implemented.
Any editing application that aims to attract serious hobbyists has to offer
support for Camera Raw formats. The Photoplus X3 documentation doesn’t say which
Raw formats are supported, though the open dialogue box now specifies CRW, CR2,
ORF and NEF, that includes Canon, Olympus and Nikon and we were also able to
open Adobe DNG files.
The Raw Studio importer provides a good set of conversion controls including
white balance, exposure, highlight recovery, noise reduction and chromatic
aberration. You can export files with either eight or 16 bits per channel,
tagged with a colour space profile. It doesn’t offer the sophistication of more
expensive Raw converters but nonetheless does a great job.
High Dynamic Range (HDR) tools, which produce a composite image from a set of
bracketed exposures, are becoming common in photo applications, but both ease of
use and quality of results have been lacking; X3 manages to score well in both
these areas.
Using HDR Merge we imported six 16-bit TIFFs and produced an excellent
tone-mapped composite image in a matter of seconds. The HDR merge controls
include a local contrast radius slider, which helps to overcome the flatness
problem typical in HDR images, and colour temperature and saturation controls to
save you having to make these adjustments subsequently. You can then save images
as eight- or 16-bit tone-mapped files or in EXR or HDP formats.
Photoplus X3 is up there with Photoshop Elements and Paint Shop Pro Photo X2
in its ability to cater for digital photographers of all levels.
Installing the program from its CD took just a few seconds, and once
installed it displays a simple window that lists the three main steps in
creating a will – selecting the correct type of will, planning its contents, and
then actually filling it in.
The first two steps – Will Selection and Will Planning – simply present the
user with documents to read, which explain the different types of will and how
to estimate the value of your estate.
The third step is to Create Your Will. At this point the program uses one of
its built-in will templates to ask a series of questions and uses that
information to draw up the will, couched in all the appropriate legal jargon.
But although the earlier selection process refers to three different types of
wills – basic, comprehensive and discretionary – the Will Maker program only
includes templates for four variations on the ‘comprehensive’ format.
As a result of our feedback, the software publishers tell us that they will
be adding new templates for ‘basic’ wills, and making those available as a free
download soon.
Unfortunately, you will still have to pay an extra £65 to order templates for
the ‘discretionary’ will online, but most of us will be able to get by with just
the ‘basic’ or ‘comprehensive’ wills, so that’s not a major problem.
Will Maker does have the potential to save both time and money when making a
will, but the without those additional ‘basic’ templates we can’t truly
recommend it as a reliable alternative to using a solicitor.
Paul Lester, Computeractive, Friday 19 June 2009 at 16:00:00
Send and receive faxes from an email account
Despite being overtaken by faster, more efficient and more environmentally
friendly methods, fax machines still exist in some homes and offices.
But people who need to send or receive faxes don’t have to buy a machine any
more, with the advent of computer-based services such as
Myfax.
Registering for the service was fast and it’s fairly cheap at £5 per month
for 100 sent and 200 received pages.
Once we’d registered we received an email confirming our new fax number and
account setup details.
Setting it up involved following a simple step-by-step procedure to send a
test fax, creating a password and viewing an optional demonstration video,
making it extremely easy for even total beginners to get started.
The online account page shows current fax usage and allows users to send and
receive faxes, but the service also integrates with email applications such as
Microsoft Outlook, if you have a compatible one installed.
To send a fax, the fax number and country code are entered into the To line
of the email with ‘@myfax.com’ at the end.
For emailed faxes, the subject line carries the name of the recipient and any
body text forms a cover sheet. Up to eight attached documents then form the fax
message itself, so sending faxes through Myfax really was as simple as sending
an email.
Received faxes, on the other hand, arrive in your email inbox as attached PDF
documents, from where they can be saved, printed or sent on.
If you do have trouble during any stage of the process there is documentation
available along with a quick-start guide and freephone support number.
We were impressed by the straightforward setup and operation of the service
and, though it took a while for faxes to arrive (between 30 seconds and one
minute per attached page), it is still going to be more convenient than dealing
with reams of paper.
At £5 per month for the basic service, this is a cheap and convenient way for
home users and small businesses to remain fax-capable without having to shell
out for new machines and more paper.
Zombies: the cannon fodder of choice for gamers and publishers alike. If a
zombie isn’t already cast as the main enemy in a game these days they can
usually be found festering in a bonus level such as WW2 shooter Call of Duty.
With Plants vs. Zombies, the scenario is a little different. Essentially a
tower-defence game, your goal is to halt the encroaching zombies and prevent
them from reaching your base by using strategically placed towers or in this
case, plants. Although Plants vs. Zombies may sound utterly silly (and it is),
we think you will be completely hooked after playing it for five minutes.
You decide from a varied selection what offensive and defensive plants you
will use to stop the undead in their tracks (such as pea-shooting pods or
exploding cherry bombs). But you also need to regenerate your resources in the
form of sunlight to keep your plant defences growing and save your brains from
the hungry horde.
Different seeds have different growing times so you have to continually
estimate what to plant and when, while contending with the Zombies themselves,
which also come in a wide variety of guises and abilities. It is a case of
forward planning as well as experimenting with your arsenal to find the best way
of coping with the onslaught.
Despite the simple concept of Plants vs. Zombies, the strategic demands and
learning curve are pitched just right and the effect is a very polished and
crucially, fun experience. With an excellent sense of humour, well-balanced
controls and catchy tunes, we felt smitten with what PopCap (producers of Peggle
and Bejeweled) have created.
Mini games add to the longevity, as does the opportunity to buy a stack of
new equipment once you have built up enough in-game credit. So while the waves
of zombies never seem to end, there is also enough variety in the game play
between levels to keep you interested as well as challenged.
Plants vs. Zombies gave us a welcome reminder that first and foremost a great
game must be fun and this one does it in spades.
Laurence Gunn, Computeractive, Thursday 18 June 2009 at 16:02:00
Synchronise your phone and your computer automatically
Mobile phones may not quite be disposable yet, but they do have to be
replaced now and again. Vufone, which promises to store and synchronise your
phone data online, therefore seems to be a useful service.
Vufone
is a subscription service costing £10 a year. It gives users a 250MB of
password-protected online storage that synchronises automatically with their
mobile phones using a downloadable application.
Most major handsets and all networks are supported, including those from
Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung and LG models
(a full
list is on Vufone's website), though there is currently no Apple iPhone
support.
The service stores phone numbers, text messages, calendar events, pictures,
video and music and can be used to remotely delete personal information from
your phone, which could be handy if it is stolen.
Vufone can also be used to send text messages – a potential money-saver – and
synchronise information with Google’s Calendar and Contacts applications.
There are online players for stored music and videos that support major file
formats, as well as a function to upload photos to Facebook, Flickr and Picasa
automatically. There is also a cute tool called Mypersona that makes an image of
your choice appear on friends’ mobile phones when you call them.
It was easy to install and automatic in use but there were drawbacks. You
really need to have unlimited data included in your talk plan, as all the
transfers are made over the mobile network.
If you don't have this, you’ll get a nasty shock when the phone bill arrives.
(Vufone does make this clear in the terms and conditions).
And the 50MB storage limits for video and music are not really enough in this
day and age.
The music player’s controls weren’t very responsive when we used it in the
Internet Explorer or Safari browsers, while video uploads of large files took so
long, even from a fast broadband connection, that we gave up. A few other
glitches while using it made the experience annoying.
Most modern phones can be synchronised with a PC or Mac, while some mobile
phone contracts even include online backup of your data. The ability to wipe the
phone if it is stolen might justify the subscription charge, though.
A larger amount of storage and fewer glitches would have made Vufone more
attractive.
Store user names and passwords securely on your PC
There are lots of ways to keep track of passwords, such as jotting them down
on paper or in a spreadsheet or another computer file.
However, none of these can be considered properly secure, and finding and
using the information when needed can be an issue.
If that is the case you might want to consider a custom password organiser,
such as Password Depot from Acebit.
Password Depot is designed solely to manage passwords. Now in its fourth
release, it lets you store and organise all your account names, passwords and
other login information in a set of lists.
The software automatically applies 256-bit AES encryption to protect the data
both on disk and in computer memory. It also provides active protection against
keyloggers and ensures sensitive user and password information is cleared from
both the Windows clipboard and system memory when not needed.
Other benefits of the Acebit software include its ability to rate the
strength of your passwords as you type them or it will create them for you using
a random password generator.
The latest version also lets you attach files, such as product keys, to
passwords and synchronise the contents of multiple password lists. Plus it lets
you track password histories, encrypt/decrypt other files on the host PC and
store the application and password lists on USB memory keys, enabling you to
carry your credentials around and use them on any PC.
Written for use with any version of Windows from 98 onwards, we tested
Password Depot in conjunction with the optional Password Deport Server.
Available free for up to three users (for six users licences start at £129 ex
Vat), this add-on package enables passwords to be centrally stored and shared
rather than kept on user PCs.
The Password Depot Server installs as a Windows service on either a server or
desktop PC, with a separate control panel for management which can be run on the
same host or remotely.
The server does little beyond sharing centrally stored password lists and
users interact with the application via the same interface, whether using it
standalone or in conjunction with the server program. We found this reasonably
easy to follow and there is an option to minimise the GUI to a small toolbar to
reduce the amount of on-screen space it needs. However, you are presented with
lots of tools beyond simple password management, many of which you may never
need and it takes a while to get to grips with what’s on offer.
There are wizards to help with some of the more common tasks, such as
capturing login information and passwords when you sign on so you don’t have to
type everything into the program from scratch. Likewise, you can get Password
Depot to auto-fill login screens on the fly rather than you having to look up
the information and enter it manually.
It all works and a few tutorials are included but we did have a few concerns
over the level of training likely to be needed simply to secure user passwords.
We would also like to see more supporting documentation beyond the rather basic
user guide supplied. Otherwise Password Depot does what it’s supposed to and is
a huge improvement over jotting down passwords on bits of paper.
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