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SpeeDefrag is the exclusive freeware program , which optimizes Windows XP defrag. It restarts your computer, which refreshes the RAM and loads just the defrag.exe program.This imposes minimum load on the system and therefore defragmentation speed is increased.This small software will also shutdown or restart your computer automatically once defrag is over. Also now it supports scheduling of defrag.
Download: SpeeDefrag 5.2 Windows XP/Vista
Flash Movie Player is a free stand-alone player for ShockWave Flash (SWF) animations, based on Macromedia Flash Player plugin. In addition to all Macromedia Flash Player abilities, it has some extended features, such as animation rewinding, advanced full screen mode, exe projectors support and playlists.
Flash Movie Player advantages
• Flash Movie Player is absolutely free - no nag screens, no ads, no spyware, no time limit.
• Allows to rewind swf movies, animations and Flash games to any position in playing or paused mode.
• Opens exe projector files from version 4 to version 7 and works with them same way as with ordinary SWF files (allows rewinding, etc.)
• Flash Movie Player can extract flash movies from exe projector files and save it in SWF format.
• Supports Playlists.
• Has full screen mode with auto-hiding navigation bar.
• All other Macromedia Flash Player standard features (zoom, quality select, repeat, scale mode select).
• Hotkeys for all frequent operations.
• Has Drag-n-drop support.
• The executable has small size and low system requirements.
• Multilingual interface. Translate Flash Movie Player into your native language!
• Allows to explore cached SWF files. (Add from IE cache to playlist).
System Requirements
- Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
- Flash Player Plug-in from Macromedia.
Download: Flash Movie Player 1.5
The release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Server 2008, originally slated to happen by year’s end, has been pushed back until the first quarter of 2008.
In a Wednesday entry on the Windows Server Division Weblog, Helene Love Snell, senior product manager with Microsoft’s Windows Server group, said the next generation Windows Server isn’t quite fully baked.
Full article: crn.com
SubEdit-Player plays movies and displays subtitles mDVDp format. Shows subtitles display method and OCX controls using (MSDXM.OCX Windows Media Player).
To use SubEdit, you have to install standard Windows Media Player ver.6.4 or higher. If You don’t use SubEdit with CodecPack you have to install codecs independently (DivX ;-) for example).
Player properties:
:: Auto-loading of subtitles file,
:: Subtitles multiple language (files compatible with mask “MovieFileName*.txt”),
:: Playing movie on TV,
:: User subtitles directory,
:: Playing all files in current directory,
:: Player resume after system hangup,
:: Shuting down the PC after the movie ends,
:: Movie chapters,
:: Playlist,
:: Subtitles reader,
:: Auto-loading the next part of the movie,
:: Video files associations,
:: Auto narrow too wide subtitles,
:: Smooth zoom (50-200%).
Download: SubEdit-Player Build 4060
Younicate is an extension to the Windows Vista OS speech recognition system, giving users full control over the computer when talking to it. Younicate has been optimized to open websites, play music, play movies, execute software, and even browse the web without clicking nor typing. With younicate, we may believe in an eventual world where the interaction between a user and a computer is mainly based on just asking things to the computer.
Now imagine, selecting your songs by saying it’s name or band, switching to a movie to relax on without even getting up from the couch to search for it. All of this is now possible with Younicate. On top of this, one truly revolutionary function is still being tested, and it’s called Vocal Browsing. This allows you to browse the web by just saying at most the first 2 words from any link. It is currently possible to browse 95% of the websites without a mouse nor a keyboard.
Download: Younicate 0.8 Beta
2008 update will be ‘roll-up’ of existing updates
As well as the news that Microsoft is prepping a beta of Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista, we’ve also heard there will be a similarly imminent beta of the next major update for Windows XP - Service Pack 3.
The last Service Pack for Windows XP was a truly major release with several new features implemented such as the Windows Security Center and new networking wizards.
Read more: tech.co.uk
Continuing the trend of wild Cupertino-related rumors, while simultaneously bringing to mind an old joke about Microsoft and GM, a German magazine is claiming that Apple and Volkswagen have entered into discussions over a concept vehicle to be dubbed — you guessed it — the iCar. If you believe what they say, the two companies are in the early stages of planning for an entire line of new VWs that would incorporate Apple-sourced designs and features.
Read more: engadget.com
Free Internet Window Washer is a free internet tracks eraser and privacy cleaner software. As you work on your computer and browse the Internet, you leave behind traces of your activity. The Windows built-in functions will not protect you, most of the tracks can not be erased with them. Therefore, anyone else can see what you have been doing on your computer. Furthermore, much of your activity information takes up valuable disk space, and recovering this space can be very beneficial.
With a simple click Free Internet Window Washer securely erase your internet tracks, computer activities and programs history information stored in many hidden files on your computer. It also provides you option to clean the data from your PC more securely so that they could not be recovered.
Free Internet Window Washer allows you to erase Window’s temp folders, run history, search history, open/save history, recent documents, your browser’s cache, cookies, history, visited URLs, typed URLs, autocomplete memory, index.dat files, and much more. You can also easily erase the tracks of up to 100 popular applications.
100% Spyware FREE, NO Spyware, Adware or Viruses.
Download: Eusing Free Internet Window Washer 2.1 Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista
A Linux user who was jailed for uploading a film onto a peer-to-peer service has been told he will have to switch to Windows if he wants to use a computer again.
Scott McCausland, who used to be an administrator of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent server before it was shut down by the FBI, pleaded guilty in 2006 to two copyright-related charges over the uploading of Star Wars: Episode III to the Internet. As a result, he was sentenced to five months in jail and five months’ home confinement.
Full story: news.com
Total Commander PowerPack is extended version of Christian Ghisler’s Total Commander. It contains own installer with many options, a lot of automatically installed and configured plugins, rebuilded toolbar, main and directory menu, predefinied own columns and search patterns, new layout and skins. It’s configured for advanced users and contains english, czech and polish language packs.
Download: Total Commander PowerPack 1.7
SolarSeek is a SoulSeek p2p client for Mac OS X. Uses bindings and Cocoa to give a clean, powerful interface.
System requirements
• Mac OS X
• Mac OS X 10.3.9
• Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Download: SolarSeek 0.95.3 Beta
The Zend Optimizer is a free application that runs the files encoded by the Zend Guard, while enhancing the performance of PHP applications.
For enterprise-class performance enhancement with an up to x25 increase in server throughput, try Zend Platform. Zend Platform’s Performance Enhancement Technology was specifically created to help optimize the responsiveness and processing efficiency of robust, high traffic PHP-based sites. At the same time, Zend Platform’s PHP Intelligence Module provides insight into performance bottlenecks and run-time errors.
Download: Zend Optimizer 3.3.0
FileBarricader 2007 is primarily a file encryption utility.
Features:
:: Easy to use, fast file encryption;
:: Includes only the best encryption algorithm: Rijndael (AES);
:: Includes only the best encryption strength setting: 256 bit;
:: Provides secure file deletion, making recovery of deleted files impossible;
:: Provides the ability to create self decrypting .exe files that can be sent to any computer;
:: Integrates with Windows Explorer to provide easy right-click access to all features.
Requirements: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
No nags, no ads, no registration, just 100% free software.
Download: FileBarricader 2007 3.0.0.0 Windows 2000/XP/2003
Microsoft spills the beans on Vista SP1
After months of leaks and speculation, Microsoft is finally ready to talk about Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). Nick White, a product manager for Microsoft, posted today on the Windows Vista Team Blog that Vista SP1 would be released during the first quarter of 2008.
“We improve the Windows Vista experience by continuing to work closely with software partners to ensure application compatibility,” said White. “We likewise align efforts with partners on the hardware side of the business to broaden the range of devices that work with Windows Vista and to constantly improve device driver quality.”
Full article: dailytech.com
DéjàClick by AlertSite is a free super bookmark utility designed exclusively for Firefox. DéjàClick by AlertSite is easy and fast. Install it, and in seconds you can bookmark multiple steps. Then, with just one click, navigate to a pre-determined web page. Got a package or an order you want to track? Have a favorite category at an online auction site? Tired of going through the steps to log into your e-mail? Use DéjàClick by AlertSite to automatically access any final URL.
DéjàClick is compatible with Firefox versions 1.5 - 2.0.
Download. DéjàClick 1.0.7.2
New Ovi platform includes service to take on iTunes
Nokia is to launch a range of mobile and fixed internet services, including music, games and GPS navigation, under the ‘Ovi’ brand.
Ovi, which means ‘door’ in Finnish, will act as a gateway to a series of services and content.
Nokia’s announcement follows several recent hints that the firm was moving into the services arena, including its recent acquisition of social networking site Twango and an alliance with Microsoft’s PlayDRM.
Full article: vnunet.com
A British firm’s plan to sell software that could open the iPhone to non-US networks has been put on hold following legal threats.
Last week, Belfast-based UniquePhones joined several others in claiming it had cracked the code which locked iPhone into AT&T’s network.
But a middle-of-the-night phone call from AT&T’s lawyers has forced the firm to rethink its plans.
Full story: BBC News
IsoPuzzle - Recovery program for scratched damaged DVD Data-CD
The goal of this program is to recover as much as possible data of damaged, bad burned or scratched CDs or DVDs.
This version supports only data CDs and DVDs with sectorsize of 2048 byte - Audio CD, VCD and SVCD are not supported.
Download: IsoPuzzle 1.6
By one measure, Apple’s iPhone has received the highest of compliments: It’s drawn the attention of hackers and tinkerers working non-stop to unlock the features that tie the phone service to AT&T.
A New Jersey teenager took a hardware approach with tools that included a soldering iron in order to replace the iPhone’s SIM chip with one from T-Mobile. He then showed how he was able to make calls on a T-Mobile account, bypassing AT&T. George Hotz, 17, detailed his efforts, which he said took most of the summer to develop, on his blog. And in the end, the founder of CertiCell, a supplier of new and refurbished OEM and after-market handset parts, offered to trade Hotz a Nissan 350Z for the hacked iPhone. He accepted.
Full story: internetnews.com
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