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 HD - ShaderEngineTMimage enhancement engine,reduce screen noise, sharp picture quality rendering
- LiveColorTMcolor enhancement algorithms, the picture is more colorful colors
- SmartAmplifyTMIntelligent sound field balance of technology, sound is even more shocking
Low consumption - FastMotionTMoptimized to significantly reduce CPU and memory footprint. Optimization for multi-core SSE2 SSE3 MMX GPU etc
- PowerTravelTMpower-saving mode of travel, reduce energy consumption, increase the cruise time for notebook
- EyeCareTMtake care your eyes for long time watching, health is the most important
Intelligent- Anti-SillyTMSmart, hand-free configuration, hundreds of branch logic automatically selects the best mode based on the hardware configuration.
- CloudMatchingTMIntelligent Display subtitles technology, foreign language film is no longer a need to find matching subtitles
Delicate beauty - After a number of enthusiastic users of professional advice and design, SPlayer interface adhering to simple, stylish, functional integrity without affecting the general use. Buttons novice twist, the cure that is to go
Link: http://www.splayer.org/index.en.htmlLabels: multimedia, software
 Keeping tabs on my machine is something I’ve done for as long as I can remember. I like watching the performance of my applications, monitoring network connections, and all of that stuff most people would never think twice about. One of the most popular utilities for doing this is the Process Explorer that is put out by Microsoft, but there’s another free app that I really love called System Explorer. This is one application worth checking out... Link: http://cybernetnews.com/...Labels: software, windows
Email as a technology has been around for decades, and thanks to wide spread adoption and popularity, it isn't in danger of disappearing. Check out the five most popular email clients to help you wrangle your email. I'm looking forward to the new features of Outlook 2010. Link: http://lifehacker.com/...Labels: email, software
 BaseCamp: Trusted by millions, Basecamp is the leading web-based project collaboration tool. Share files, meet deadlines, assign tasks, centralize feedback, make clients smile.  CodeBase: Git hosting, Mercurial hosting & Subversion hosting with complete project management - tickets, milestones, time tracking.  Project Manager: Share project plans, manage your teams online and track daily progress with the world's smartest project management software.  Zoho Projects: A perfect mix of Project Collaboration and Management features. Plan, track and collaborate on projects. Keep everyone in the loop. A centralized place where relevant project documents and contents are stored, updates are posted, everyone exchange ideas and get work done.  No Kahuna: Whether at work, home, or among your friends, we help you work together on projects big and small. Simply: Set up your project(s), Refine and distribute tasks, Track them as they’re completed.  Teamwork Project Manager: Teamwork Project Manager is an easy-to-use online teamwork & project management software application that helps managers, staff and clients work together more productively online.  Lighthouse: Collaborate effortlessly on projects. Whether you’re a team of 5 or studio of 50, Lighthouse will help you keep track of your project development with ease.  Zen: Zen is a simple, flexible, and cost-effective way to manage your work. With an easy-to-use web interface, and by drawing on ideas from lean manufacturing, Zen helps you stay organized, focused, and on target. Labels: business, software, website
 PicPick is an all-in-one software for software developers, graphic designers and home user. It has an intuitive interface and simple, elegant operation. After starting the software, you simply select one of the tool from the PicPick Tools trayicon menu when you want. It features a powerful capture tool, image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and etc. You can use all these tools freely. Link: http://picpick.wiziple.net/featuresLabels: design, graphics, software
 EmEditor Text Editor is a lightweight, yet extendable, easy-to-use text editor for Windows. EmEditor is very customizable, and it supports Unicode and powerful macros. EmEditor now supports very large files - up to 248 GB or 2.1 billion lines! EmEditor is certified for Windows Vista! The x64 Edition is also available! The portable version is also available for USB drive setup! Compatible with Windows 7! I have been using EmEditor since around v3 - tried many but always came back to EmEditor. It quickly became my choice when doing any web development work. As of now I use it for 99% of the PHP code I write. Oh, and check out the Bricks coloring theme - wish I had found this sooner. Link: http://www.emeditor.com/Labels: software
Note-It: Enhanced desktop notes that; persist windows sessions, give you control of the look and feel, allow you to save and open notes, provides special notes that provide updated information, drag text to and from any application, and even email the notes or just a selection of the note. Notes on your desktop have never been easier and with Note-It you get all the power you will ever need in note application. Cfont Pro: Cfont Pro was developed as a way to manage fonts; to include system, printer, and currently uninstalled fonts. Cfont Pro lets you view installed system fonts, printer fonts, and a special mode where you select a directory, CD, or network drive and preview the fonts. Preview All mode will let you view all of your installed fonts in a single view with printing capabilites. Also, be sure to check out the SlideShow mode where the application will cycle thorugh each font at an interval determined by you. Enjoy! Labels: software, veign
Managing the files and reference materials that you’ve compiled over the course of a project (or even your entire career) can be a daunting task. You need to organize invoices, proposals, creative files, mock-ups, research sources and a myriad of other folders and files for later reference. And let’s face it: most operating systems have inadequate file management tools for power users.
Below are a number of apps and resources that you can use to manage your files and resources. Some are Web-based, some desktop-based and some are analog (i.e. paper-and-pen-based). The one that’s right for you will depend largely on your workflow and what you need to keep organized. Decent list, with some tools that I have never heard of that seem to be worth investigating a bit further. Link: http://www.noupe.com/tools/...Labels: business, software, website
No hassle, no cost security software for your computer. The idea is good and MS is the best computer to protect the OS that they developed (I'm sure lots of people will strongly disagree with that) so will see if this becomes anything. Link: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/Labels: are, microsoft, security, software
 We’d like to share several freeware and open source tools available for download to help you harness the power of multi-display set ups and get you up and running quickly. We hope that you might find the perfect application for you! Link: http://sixrevisions.com/tools/...Labels: free, hardware, software
 Driver Detective software is designed to quickly locate the most current drivers specific to your computer system through its user friendly interface and access to an extensive database. Driver Detective saves the frustration and extensive time investment usually associated with updating drivers. Link: http://www.drivershq.com/Labels: 7, software, vista, windows, xp
With ID theft reaching increasingly alarming proportions, Symantec this week rolled out a battery of new tools geared to helping PC users fight victimization, at a press event Wednesday in New York City.
The company's latest round of heavy artillery includes new Quorum technology, integrated into the now available Norton Internet Security 10 and Norton Antivirus 10, plus a free tool known as the Norton Online Risk Calculator. Does anyone still use Norton? I stopped using them many years ago because they are just way to much of a resource hog. Have they got any better? Personally I use AVG for antivirus and Comodo for a firewall. Link: http://www.betanews.com/article/...Labels: security, software
 The Free MP3 WMA Converter from Koyote is capable of converting your entire audio library from one format to another. Supported Formats:- Input formats: MP3, WAV, WMA, Ogg, AAC, APE, Flac, M4A, AC3
- Output formats: MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, APE, FLAC
Link: http://cybernetnews.com/...Labels: free, multimedia, software
The three PEBrowse programs share large amounts of code, but perform distinct activities. PEBrowse Professional, the static analyzer and eldest, allows you to examine any Windows Portable Executable file (including system drivers) offline and not in the middle of some debugging session. That domain is reserved for the PEBrowse Professional Interactive debugger, which contains most (but not all) of features found in the PeBrowse Professional disassembler but brings powerful additions to the analysis and debugging of an active program. The latest addition to the PEBrowse family, PEBrowse Crash-Dump Analyzer, in many ways acts and feels like the debugger, but instead of a live target examines information collected in a mini-dump or crash-dump file from a dead process. Link: http://www.smidgeonsoft.prohosting.com/software.htmlLabels: free, software, windows
 Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer shows your web pages rendered in Internet Explorer 6 and either Internet Explorer 7 or Internet Explorer 8, depending on which version you have installed on your machine. You can view the pages side by side or as an onion-skin overlay and use rulers, guides and zoom/pan tools to precisely identify differences in layout. You can even compare your page comp to how the targeted browsers render the page. This is a free tool that every web designer should have. Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...Labels: design, development, free, ie, microsoft, software
 Our PHP obfuscator application encodes and obfuscates PHP code to make the output difficult to reverse engineer. The application requires no pre-modifications to your code and no additional components on your server. This product allows for encoding of functions, variables and the removal of whitespace. Link: http://www.raizlabs.com/software/phpobfuscator/Labels: development, php, software
For those of you unfamiliar with the problem of file fragmentation, a quick—and quite simplified—primer is in order. Files are stored on a hard drive in blocks of data. The larger the file, the larger the number of blocks it is composed of. As your operating system accesses files, moves files around, and so on data blocks are not always arranged in the most effective manner. Imagine it like a messy office where as you opened file folders from your file cabinet you frequently placed documents from inside all over the room. You have a great memory, and you can find all the pages from each folder again if you need to, but you waste a lot of time just moving around looking for them. Link: http://lifehacker.com/5348638/five-best-disk-defragmentersLabels: hardware, software, windows
 Yet Another (remote) Process Monitor (YAPM) is a powerful application that allows to view and manage your running tasks, processes, threads, modules, windows, handles, network connections and your services on a local or on a remote machine. YAPM offers lots of features to manipulate them, such as privilege management, memory management, a complete history of statistics, a dependency viewer... etc. Link: http://yaprocmon.sourceforge.net/Labels: open source, software, windows
 Imagine a situation where you need to install Windows Vista or 7 in a system but you don't have access to DVD drive. We all know Windows Vista, Server 2008 or 7 comes in DVDs and you'll need a DVD drive to install them. Then how will you install them? The solution is, you can create a bootable USB drive which can be used to install Windows without using DVD drive. Link: http://blogs.technet.com/stephenrose/...Labels: 7, microsoft, software, windows
 After a complete overhaul, the PAD Database manager makes it even easier to interface with the PAD Database. Still haven't released this to the wild. If I get enough interest I may consider releasing it. Labels: software, veign
 The Dude network monitor is a new application by MikroTik which can dramatically improve the way you manage your network environment. It will automatically scan all devices within specified subnets, draw and layout a map of your networks, monitor services of your devices and alert you in case some service has problems. Link: http://www.mikrotik.com/thedude.phpLabels: software
 Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education. Not sure I have a need for this but it good to know its around. Link: http://www.wireshark.org/Labels: hacking, hardware, security, software
 Fences is a one-of-a-kind program, allowing you to draw labeled shaded areas on your desktop, which become movable & resizable containers for your desktop icons. These groups can help bring organization and consistency to your computer's desktop, solving the "constant mess" problem that has plagued the desktop since its inception. This is something I have struggled with, how to organize something that offers very little help in doing so. I create folders, but then I can't see whats in them easily. I move things to different areas of my desktop, but then switching video sources and all that is undone. Fences is perfect for someone like me who likes things neat and organized. Since its in beta I have been testing in in a Virtual PC and so far see no reason not to adapt oit on my laptop. Link: http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/Labels: software
 In addition to the standard set of IM services, Trillian is now compatible with your favorite social networks, including Twitter and Facebook! Easily integrate social news directly in your contact list, including fully customizable alerts and notification preferences. Highlights:- Chat with video and audio
- Tabbed chats with text, emoticons, and pictures
- Get in style with themes and skins
- Use animated widgets to broadcast your status
- Connect to WLM, Google, Facebook, and more
- Show contacts and social news feeds
- See the status of your contacts at a glance
- Receive real-time notifications of changes
- Minimize your IM world with Trillian Cobalt
- Search and archive chats with activity history
- Extend your Trillian possibilities with plugins
Been using Trillian for many years and can't wait for Astra. This is one application that I thought would never get here as its been in development for years. Link: http://www.trillian.im/Labels: software
 Windows 7 Little Tweaker is a small and simple to use utility that let you easily activate a few useful extras for Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7 Ultimate. Windows 7 Little Tweaker is a Windows 7 only portable application and will not run on any other Windows versions. Windows 7 Little Tweaker must run as Administrator, and with UAC disabled. Link: http://leelusoft.blogspot.com/...Labels: 7, software, windows
 Hulu Desktop is a lean-back viewing experience for your personal computer. It features a sleek new look that's optimized for use with standard Windows Media Center remote controls or Apple remote controls, allowing you to navigate Hulu's entire library with just six buttons. For users without remotes, the application is keyboard and mouse-enabled. Hulu Desktop is a downloadable application and will work on PCs and Macs. It will initially launch as a beta product during which we plan to gather and incorporate user feedback to improve the service. Link: http://www.hulu.com/labs/hulu-desktopLabels: multimedia, software
The internet—unfortunately—isn't a never-ending buffet of secure open-source software and Bollywood-style musicals starring LOLCats. There are people and organizations that delight in stealing your personal data, hijacking your computer, and making a general nuisance of themselves through malicious software. This week we're highlighting the top five tools for removing software with ill-intentions from you PC. Link: http://lifehacker.com/5227896/...Labels: security, software, windows
 Rockbox is an Open Source replacement firmware for portable digital audio players Supported Players: - Apple: 1st through 5.5th generation iPod, iPod Mini and 1st generation iPod Nano
(not the Shuffle, 2nd/3rd/4th gen Nano, Classic or Touch) - Archos: Jukebox 5000, 6000, Studio, Recorder, FM Recorder, Recorder V2 and Ondio
- Cowon: iAudio X5, X5V, X5L, M5, M5L, M3 and M3L
- iriver: iHP100 series, H100 series, H300 series and H10 series
- Olympus: M:Robe 100
- SanDisk: Sansa c200 series, e200 series and e200R series (not the AMS models)
- Toshiba: Gigabeat X and F series (not the S series)
Link: http://www.rockbox.org/Labels: hardware, multimedia, software
 This outlook add-in adds the missing feature in Microsoft outlook which allows you to save and with option to remove all attachments from multiple emails at once. Link: http://www.netpro.biz/saveallattachmentsol2007.htmlLabels: microsoft, office, software
MakeItOne is a great little utility for combining multiple MP3's into a single MP3. I did this recently for a comedy CD I had that was in separate tracks. Used MakeItOne to combine into a single Mp3 and in few minutes it was done. This is a nice little tool to have in your Audio application tool list. MakeItOne: http://www.makeitone.net/Labels: free, software
 This is a free Skype recording program which automatically recorders all your Skype conversations and conferences. It saves Skype conversations in compact and widely used format - mp3 files. This tool records P2P Skype calls, SkypeOut calls, as well as calls to Skype Online number . This program seats in the system tray and monitors skype calls and start the recording automatically when you start conversation. It can record several simultaneous calls (eg. one active while others on hold) in separate files for easy and convenient access. Very simple interface requires virtually no tuning or setup. Just install it, allow access to the Skype client and that's it. I just started using Skype to help reduce the minutes used on my cell phone. The calls are clear, no lagging, very cheap and its dead easy to get up and running. This software seems like a good utility to have when those situations popup and you want to record the call. Link: http://voipcallrecording.com/Labels: software, technology
 The first version of Technibbles Computer Repair Utility Kit was so popular, we’ve created a second version. For those of you who don’t know, the Computer Repair Utility Kit is a combination of computer repair tools in one easy to use pack. The Computer Repair Utility Kit allows you to run all of the repair tools from your portable drive (eg. USB Flash Drive, External Hard Drive, IPod etc.) and comes with an easy to use, right-click menu. A must in any computer technicians kit. Link: http://www.technibble.com/...Labels: open source, software
 SUPER is a Multimedia Encoder and a Multimedia Player, easy-to-use with 1 simple click. If you need a simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file, without reading manuals or spending long hours training, then SUPER is all you need. SUPER does NOT require any additional external codec to be installed, absolutely nothing. Necessary codecs are built in! Link: http://www.freewaregeeks.com/...Labels: multimedia, software
This post presents 50 useful PHP tools that can significantly improve your programming workflow. Among other things, you’ll find a plethora of libraries and classes that aid in debugging, testing, profiling and code-authoring in PHP. Link: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/...Labels: development, php, software
Get message that Google Desktop has stopped working and searching the Temp folder I find Gigs of Zip files that are being left behind (in C:\ Users/[username]\AppData\Local\Temp) by some GD function (indexing not working?) See others discussing: http://groups.google.com/group/...Labels: google, software
 Extracts video and audio from FLV files without decompressing or recompressing. The video is saved as AVI (H.263/FLV1 and VP6/VP6F) or raw elementary stream (H.264/AVC). The audio is saved as MP3, AAC (with ADTS headers), or WAV (PCM). Link: http://moitah.net/#FLVExtractLabels: development, flash, multimedia, software
 Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development. I still use Winamp as my music player but and getting closer to dropping it. It used to be a very good, low resource music player but has gotten bloated over the years. Songbird might be a good option, trying it now. Link: http://getsongbird.com/Labels: open source, software
EmEditor Text Editor is a lightweight, yet extendable, easy-to-use text editor for Windows. EmEditor is very customizable, and it supports Unicode and powerful macros. EmEditor now supports very large files - up to 248 GB or 2.1 billion lines! EmEditor is certified for Windows Vista! The x64 Edition is also available! The portable version is also available for USB drive setup!
In this version (8.0) there are many new features including a Large File Controller, Vertical Selection Editing, Binary Editing, Optimized Search and Replace, improved Projects Plug-in, and many more!
emEditor has got to be one of the best text editors I have come across. So much so that it is my main application for writing web development code (HTML, CSS and PHP). Link: http://www.emeditor.com/Labels: development, software, windows
 Finds error levels from jpg compression in images with Error Level Analyser. Basically it will allow you to see where in images alterations have been made against what was actually photographed. Link: http://www.tinyappz.com/wiki/...Labels: graphics, software
ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application.
ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats - including BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI.
It can burn Audio CD's from any file type supported via DirectShow / ACM - including AAC, APE, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, PCM, WAV, WMA and WV.
You can use it to build DVD Video discs (from a VIDEO_TS folder), HD DVD Video discs (from a HVDVD_TS folder) and Blu-ray Video discs (from a BDAV / BDMV folder) with ease.
Link: http://www.imgburn.com/Labels: software
As a small and fast PDF viewer, Foxit Reader currently has over 50 million users all around the world. After keeping users waiting for almost two months, Foxit Reader 3.0 has been released and introduces many fascinating new features such as multimedia design and Foxit OnDemand Content Management. Whats New:
- Enticing Multimedia Design - Now users can not only play multimedia in Foxit Reader, but also are empowered to add, edit or delete multimedia files with the incredible Movie Tool and Sound Tool.
- Attachment Panel - Lists all the attached files in the PDF document, and provides a number of common options that helps users manage the attachments, such as opening, deleting and adding description to the attachments. Users can also change the security settings when opening an attachment in this panel.
- Thumbnail Panel - Shows thumbnail images for each PDF page and allows users to quickly view relevant portions of a PDF file. Now users can navigate through PDFs with page thumbnails.
- Layout Panel - Lists PDF layers in the document, allows users to control the display of some certain content areas.
- Metric Unit Support - Within the preferences dialog box it gives users the option to set the unit of page dimension in either metric system or imperial system.
- Auto-scrolling with Middle Mouse Button - In the Hand Tool reading mode, users can perform auto-scrolling by holding the middle mouse button/wheel mouse button down.
- Awe-Inspiring Foxit OnDemand Content Management - This new add-on enables users to organize, share and collaborate on documents and forms online. Users can upload from Foxit Reader or send documents with ease. Advanced features include workflow driven document sharing, revisions of documents, CollabRoom for group collaboration.
- Firefox Support - With Firefox Plugin, users can view and work with PDF files loaded in Foxit Reader with Firefox web browser.
I have been using this for years and its works great. One of the best things about FoxIt is it isn't a resource hog like Adobe Acrobat reader and FoxIt starts in seconds... Link: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.phpLabels: adobe, software
Get ZoneAlarm Pro for free tomorrow, November 18th. The page linked below should get activated tomorrow at some point. If the link is not correct I will update it when I find out what the actuall published link is. Link: http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/sum/index.htmlLabels: security, software
 Poke is the ultimate gaming utility. It's a small program that allows you to cheat in every game out there - published or to be published in the future!
In a computer game, all numerical values are stored 'as is' in memory. We'll use a great game, The Sims, to show you how easy it is to take advantage of this fact using Poke.
Link: http://codefromthe70s.org/poke.aspLabels: games, security, software
 AdSenseLog will help you improve your AdSense ad performance, using several monitoring, tracking and analyzing tools, all built into one easy to use software. I have AdsenseLog running all the time and minimized to my system tray. It lets me monitor the performance of my Adsense campaigns that span many domains. This tool makes it dead easy to watch the performance. Link: http://www.metalgrass.com/adsenselog/Labels: google, software
SyncToy 2.0 for Windows is available as a free download from the Microsoft Download Center. The easy to use, customizable application helps you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers. Features:- Dynamic Drive Letter Assignment: Drive letter reassignment will now be detected and updated in the folder pair definition.
- True Folder Sync: Folder creates, renames, and deletes are now synchronized for all SyncToy actions.
- Exclusion Filtering Based on Name: File exclusion based on name with exact or fuzzy matching.
- Filtering Based on File Attributes: The ability to exclude files based on one or more file attributes (Read-Only, System, Hidden).
- Unattended Folder Pair Execution: Addressed issues related to running scheduled folder pairs while logged off.
- Folder Pairs With Shared Endpoints: Ability for folder pairs associated with the same or different instances of SyncToy to share end-points.
- Command line enhancements: Added the ability to manage folder pairs via the command line interface.
- Re-Architect Sync Engine: The SyncToy engine has been rearchitected to provide scalability and the ability to add significant enhancements in future releases.
- Sync engine is also more robust insomuch that many single, file level errors are skipped without affecting the entire sync operation.
- Sync Encrypted Files: Sync of Encrypted files works when local folder and files are encrypted, which addresses the common scenario involving sync between local, encrypted laptop PC folder and remote, unencrypted desktop PC folder.
- 64-Bit Support: SyncToy now has a native 64-bit build (x64 only) for 64-bit versions of Windows.
- Folder pair rename
- Sub-folder Exclusion Enhancements: Descendents created under excluded sub-folders are automatically excluded. Usability improvements for the sub-folder exclusion dialog.
- Folder Pair Metadata Moved: Folder pair metadata removed from MyDocuments to resolve any issues with server-based folder pair re-direction setup.
- Setup Improvements: Integrated setup with single self-extracting archive file and no extra downloads if you already have .NET Framework 2.0 installed. Enabled silent install for the SyncToy Installer file (see readme.txt file for more information). Removed combine and subscribe actions.
- Removed combine and subscribe actions.
Link: http://www.microsoft.com/prophoto/...Labels: microsoft, software
 WinZip will now compress your JPEG files (digital photos or graphic images) by 20 to 25% and still without any loss of photo quality or data integrity. Now you can send photos faster or fit more on your hard drive and removable media than ever before. About time someone came up with a method to compress Jpeg images without any additional loss in quality. Link: http://www.winzip.com/whatsnew120.htmLabels: multimedia, software
Congratulations to the winners: Emails will be coming. Labels: software
 First, what is Camtasia Studio:Imagine being able to show exactly what's on your screen to anyone, anywhere. Imagine that it's easy. Now you've imagined Camtasia Studio. With the smartest screen recording tools on the planet, Camtasia Studio makes everything from training videos to PowerPoint presentations to lectures look better, reach more people, and pack more punch. Which makes you look even smarter, too. I have used Camtasia Studio for years now and its an excellent tool that makes creating videos a simple process. From screen recording to post production to publishing the video, everything is logical and easy to do. Link: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.aspSecond, how to enter:Leave a comment to this post saying one thing you like about Camtasia Studio (at least try it before leaving a comment). Also, in the comment leave your name and email address (use a format like name-a-t-domain-com so spammers won't pick it up) or use a Blogger account where I can locate your email address to send the registration key to. I will be selecting at random three comments at the end of the month. (please don't enter multiple time)
Value: $299.00
Closed - Selecting winners later today
Labels: multimedia, software
 Microsoft Pro Photo Tools provides a set of tools for photographers to perform various tasks with their images—including RAW captures. The current version enables you to quickly geotag your photos, view and edit metadata, and more, leveraging the power of Windows and Microsoft Live Local. Features:- Geotagging with flexibility
- Determine location name automatically
- Determine GPS coordinates from location name
- Identify location on a map
- View images on a map
- Edit image metadata
- RAW support
- Extensibility
Link: http://www.microsoft.com/prophoto/downloads/...Labels: microsoft, software
 If this will be anything like his original The Great Software List, which was geared towards Windows software, then The Great Software List for Linux will be an amazing resource of invaluable software. Even though I'm not much into Linux I can still appreciate the level of software he is recommending. Check this resource out, and be sure to bookmark it. When is The Great Software List for Online Applications coming? Link: http://www.anova.org/software/index.htmlLabels: linux, software
 codebase brings together source control, issue/ticket management & deployment tracking. If you find yourself managing multiple software projects and need a central place to organise your code. Link: http://codebasehq.com/Labels: development, open source, software
Contig is a single-file defragmenter that attempts to make files contiguous on disk. Its perfect for quickly optimizing files that are continuously becoming fragmented, or that you want to ensure are in as few fragments as possible. Another great utility from SysInternals Link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897428.aspxLabels: microsoft, software, windows
SyncToyWith new sources of files coming from every direction (such as digital cameras, e-mail, cell phones, portable media players, camcorders, PDAs, and laptops), SyncToy can help you copy, move, and synchronize different directories Tweak UIThis PowerToy gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface, including mouse settings, Explorer settings, taskbar settings, and more. Power CalculatorWith this PowerToy you can graph and evaluate functions as well as perform many different types of conversions. Image ResizerThis PowerToy enables you to resize one or many image files with a right-click. Alt-Tab ReplacementWith this PowerToy, in addition to seeing the icon of the application window you are switching to, you will also see a preview of the page. This helps particularly when multiple sessions of an application are open. Link: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/...Labels: microsoft, software, windows
Who said Excel takes lot of time / steps do something? Here is a list of 15 incredibly fun things you can do to your spreadsheets and each takes no more than 5 seconds to do. Link: http://chandoo.org/wp/2008/08/01/...Labels: microsoft, software
DM2 provides Windows enhancements that helps in every-day work. This overview is a good starting point and a DM2 introduction since it covers the basics of all functionalities. Don't forget that all described DM2 functions are very configurable and may be set to match user personal needs - Minimize to floating icon
- Minimize to tray
- Hide window
- Align and resize
- Enhanced system menu
- Opacity and On-top flag
- Process priority
- Open/Save dialog favorites & recent
Link: http://dm2.sourceforge.net/overview.htmlLabels: open source, software, windows
Freeware PDF Unlocker, a free Windows utility, doesn't do everything that commerical packages like those from Elcomsoft do, but it will help if you just need to unlock copy/paste and editing restrictions on a PDF. Simply drag a copy-protected PDF onto PDF Unlocker's icon, and a new, non-protected copy will be created.
Link: http://lifehacker.com/396534/...Labels: security, software
 I got the above error message ( This website is designed to work with Microsoft Windows operating systems only) when trying to run Windows Update. A Mac, really?. To fix the issue, and get Windows Update working again I deleted the following two registry keys: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent][HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]Once deleted, I rebooted the computer and all was working again. If you want to see what your Agent string is check out: http://www.veign.com/tools/reflection/(look at Browser information) Labels: fix, software, windows
No, it's not WinFS, the file system that was supposed to revolutionize the way files and documents are stored in Windows. But if it gives users tools that accomplish the same things WinFS was supposed to provide, does Search 4.0 come close? Link: http://www.betanews.com/article/...Labels: microsoft, software
 DonationCoder and Veign have teamed up to give away a free copy of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite with MSDN Premium. What we decided is to hold a 1 month contest where someone enters by simply submitting a new application built with one of the free versions of Microsoft Visual Studio Express. A great opportunity for any developer. Oh, the subscription is valued at over $10,000. How does that sound?
This is no-joke and there are no catches.Read all about it at DonationCoder: http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/...Labels: free, microsoft, software
One tool that I have found to be valuable beyond compare is the Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD). This compilation of software has just about everything you need to diagnose hard to find low level problems, and also some other tools that every PC technician should have available. UBCD on a USB thumbdrive. Link: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/...Labels: fix, software
Google Earth has a new layer: Google News. Writing on the Google LatLong blog, Brandon Badger, Product Manager said, "By spatially locating the Google News' constantly updating index of stories from more than 4,500 news sources, Google Earth now shows an ever-changing world of human activity as chronicled by reporters worldwide." Link: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/080521-090559Labels: google, news, software
 Weather Watcher Live is your personal, real-time Windows desktop weather station. View real-time weather conditions in your neighborhood from WeatherBug weather stations, or as reported by NWS. Link: http://www.singerscreations.com/...Labels: software
Service Pack Update for Virtual PC 2007 qualifying Windows Server 2008, Vista SP1 and XP SP3. Notice it says for XP SP3 only. This appears in the main section of the download but if you read further down it says supported on XP SP2. Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...Labels: microsoft, software
The Windows XP System Preparation tool enables administrators to prepare Windows XP system images as part of an automated deployment. You can use the System Preparation tool to perform the following tasks in a manner that is supported by Microsoft Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...Labels: microsoft, software
 The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe. Link: http://www.worldwidetelescope.orgLabels: science, software
Microsoft Photo Info allows photographers to add, change and delete common "metadata" properties for digital photographs from inside Windows Explorer.
When installed, a new "Photo Info" item appears on the context menu for files selected in Windows Explorer. To use, simply select one or more image files, right-click and choose "Photo Info" to open the Photo Info properties editor. You can edit metadata for files individually, or all together as a batch. Photo Info reads and writes metadata in IPTC and XMP formats (depending on file type). It also provides enhanced "hover tips" and additional sort properties for digital photographs in Windows Explorer. Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...Labels: graphics, software
Regshot is an open-source(GPL) registry compare utility that allows you to quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one - done after doing system changes or installing a new software product. Link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/regshotLabels: software
 Whats New: - Bookmark Design: Makes it possible to have your own bookmarks. Users can create, edit, or delete bookmarks in a PDF file if the security settings allow.
- Multi-tab Browsing: Enables users to open multiple files in a single instance.You can choose to view PDFs in a multi-tab window or multiple instances by setting documents layout from the Preferences dialog.
- Multimedia Player Support: Supports many media formats including audio and video. Read multimedia ebooks with Foxit Reader 2.3.
- Callout and Text box Tool: Creates comments in a callout text box or a box. You can also define their appearance as other commenting tools.
- Commenting Text Tool: Enables users to add most types of text edits by right-clicking on the selected text, including highlight, strikeout, underline, squiggly and replacement. You can also use the Commenting Text Tool to add bookmarks for PDF files.
- Rulers and Guides: Provides horizontal and vertical ruler guides to help users align and position objects on the page. Right-clicking on the ruler enables you to change the unit of measurement.
- Magnifier: Magnifies areas of the PDF files easily as you work on Foxit Reader.
- Automatic Scrolling: Allows users to view documents without using mouse actions or keystrokes.
- OCG Support: Enables the user to view related content stored in a variable number of separate layers.
- FDF Related: Opens FDF files directly with Foxit Reader without any import implementations.
Much smaller (aorund 2Meg) and faster than Adobe PDF Reader. Link: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/...Labels: software
Regularly making phone calls Internationally can get pretty darn pricey these days! Coming to the rescue of those callers is Skype who today, just announced new unlimited calling plans to overseas phones for an extremely reasonable price. When I say reasonable, it’ll only cost $9.95 per month to make a phone call to 34 different countries around the World. You really can’t beat that price, can you? Link: http://cybernetnews.com/...Labels: hardware, software
 PhoneTray Dialup will notify you when someone is calling while you are online. You can choose to take the call or ignore the call. With PhoneTray you can put internet on hold and answer incoming calls without disconnecting from the internet.
Plus, you get full-featured Caller ID software that shows and speaks callers name and number, logs all your incoming calls, blocks unwanted calls and zaps telemarketers. Link: http://www.phonetray.com/Labels: hardware, software
 This is the main interface of the online version of Adobe Photoshop called Photoshop Express. Once you have uploaded an image, through the My Gallery manager, you can access and modify your images. What Adobe has done is make this as dead simple as possible. Nothing too complex, but still pretty powerful.  The menu of options seems limiting at first but when you get into modifying your image you will see it covers pretty much everything need to do (at least for the person using an online version of Photoshop). What they have done that is very cool is when you apply or use one of the menu items it becomes checked and that option is applied. You can simply uncheck the item to see your original image. Everything is done through an AJAX, interactive, interface which means things are done without having to refresh or reload pages. I changed the color of the corvette in the image with two clicks: select Pop Color from the menu and then select one of the preset choices.  Did I mention all menu items, when selected, give you 6 or 7 choices to try so you don't have to worry about figuring out what the settings should be. Link: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopexpress/...Labels: adobe, graphics, software, website
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