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Handle Viewer is a tool with both a GUI and command line interface for listing, searching and manipulating open handles on 32 bit (x86) and 64 bit (x64) editions of Windows XP, 2003 and Vista. Handle Viewer is designed to help developers as a debugging and performance analysis tool to account for the object resource usage of their applications. It can also help Administrators track object usage on their systems.
Download: Handle Viewer 1.00
xplorer² is a file and information manager that adheres to the philosophy “efficiency through simplicity”. Without reinventing the wheel, it integrates the best features of Windows’ shell architecture in a small, resource efficient package that’s instantly familiar to work with. But look a little closer and you’ll discover a whole new world under the surface that offers power, precision and flexibility, and will boost your everyday productivity no end!
The lightweight version of xplorer2 is not a crippled unusable salesman of the professional version. It shares the same browsing and management engine, and gives many rival professional file managers a run for their money — literally! It is a complete little file manager, albeit lacking a bit in bells and whistles.
The free version is for private (home) or academic (school & university) use only.
Download: xplorer² lite 1.7.0.5
Atsiv is a command line tool that allows the user to load and unload signed or unsigned drivers on 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows Vista.
Atsiv is designed to provide compatibility for legacy drivers and to allow the hobbyist community to run unsigned drivers without rebooting with special boot options or denial of service under Vista.
Download: Atsiv 1.02
AdBrick for IE7 Filtering ads in Internet Explorer.
AdBrick is an ad blocker for Internet Explorer.
The Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 is required to install and run this application.
Download: AdBrick 1.0 Pre-Release Build 2380
Pyramid Distribution to pay undisclosed sum after being found guilty of illegal importation
Software giant Microsoft has secured a High Court payout from a UK distributor over the illegal importation of software.
The settlement, for an undisclosed sum, was reached after Microsoft won its case against Pyramid Distribution for importing tens of thousands of copies of Microsoft software into the UK.
Microsoft claimed Pyramid’s actions have cost genuine distributors and resellers millions of pounds in lost turnover.
Read more: channelweb.co.uk
With a new, compact design, Centro is the smallest and lightest Palm phone to date. It comes with the Palm OS, featuring organizer functionality such as a detailed and integrated contacts list. The device allows users to quickly and easily send text messages to coworkers and friends, manage e-mail, keep track of their schedules, check stock quotes and watch videos on YouTube.
Palm (Nasdaq: PALM) staked its claim in the low end of the smartphone market Thursday with a new device priced at US$99.99 with a two-year plan and rebates.
The new Centro features voice, text, instant messaging, e-mail , Web, contact and calendar capabilities, along with a full-color touch screen and full keyboard. Due in mid-October, the device will be exclusive through Sprint (NYSE: S) in the United States for 90 days. It operates on the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network, and will be available in onyx black or ruby red.
Full article: technewsworld.com
SubMagic is an application to convert, edit sync, create movie subtitles. It supports several formats, has a lot of features and functions, is easy to operate and best of all… it’s free!
SubMagic is written in C++ using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and doesn’t need a .NET framework or any other external libraries. DirectX 9.0c is needed for video playback. SubMagic is available in English and (partly translated) in Dutch.
SubMagic doesn’t contain any piece of spyware, adware or whatsoever…
Download: SubMagic 0.70
Recognition of the critical role of secure and stable mechanisms in enterprise operating systems led to the birth of Trustix Secure Linux in 1999. The fact that enterprises crave stability and security in Linux made Trustix go mission-critical in mainstream enterprises. Trustix Secure Linux is a security-enhanced and stability-augmented Linux distribution for servers. With focus on security and stability, the system is painlessly kept safe and up to date from day one using SWUP, the automated software updater.
The Trustix Linux project was created by Erlend Midttun in 1999 taking inspiration from GNU guidelines of the freedom to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer software, and to defend the rights of Free Software users. TSL is a secure Linux distribution aimed specifically at the enterprise server market, without all the unnecessary extra packages and desktop features typically offered by other Linux Distributions.
Comodo Group offers commercial support for Trustix Secure Linux to complement their existing product range of a Trustix Firewall to provide fast secure IT infrastructure connections. TSL is security-hardened and specifically optimized to maximize the performance and stability of enterprise servers without superfluous programs.
Trustix Enterprise Firewall provides the strongest perimeter security and VPN for corporate networks. Also features unique ‘drag and drop’ configuration of DMZ’s, high availability automatic fail over, advanced network traffic shaping and more
Download: Trustix Secure Linux 3.0.5
FlashTray Pro is a system tray utility packed with features :
• a launcher for your favorite applications, documents, folders or URL’s.
• create systemwide hotkeys that can simulate any set of keystrokes.
• hotkey macro language for extra functionality (eg : screenshots)
• extra Built-in tools : Character map, Colorpicker, Screen Magnifier,…
Features
- Popup menu with links to Programs, Documents, Websites, Directories
- Very simple and intuitive interface
- Easy to understand macro language (no programming skills required)
- Small/Large icons
- Uses very little resources
- Easy Setup (with uninstall support)
- No extra DLL’s required
Download: FlashTray Pro 4.0
The OpenWengo is a community of enthusiasts and developers, creating free software products related to communication over IP. The flagship product of the OpenWengo project is a softphone which allows you to make free PC to PC video and voice calls, and to integrate all your IM contacts in one place.
OpenWengo was started and is supported by the french VoIP provider Wengo. Through our partnership with Wengo, we also offer very cheap PC to telephone and SMS rates.
Windows, MacOS X, GNU/Linux
Download: WengoPhone 2.1.2
But Vista sales “still going strong”, it claims…
Bowing to pressure from customers and computer makers, Microsoft plans to keep Windows XP around a little longer.
Large PC manufacturers were slated to have to stop selling XP after 31 January. However, they have successfully lobbied Microsoft to allow them to continue selling PCs with all flavors of Windows XP preloaded until 30 June, a further five months. Microsoft also plans to keep XP on retail shelves longer and will allow computer makers in emerging markets to build machines with Windows XP Starter Edition until June 2010.
The move indicates the continued demand for the older operating system, some nine months after Windows Vista hit store shelves.
Read more: silicon.com
Comandiux is multipurpose command line controlled (cli) system utility. Former Wt32con. Enhances standart windows environment with many new features. Automatizes various activities and ads power to batch files.
Comandiux can run as SERVICE! You can also easy create and delete any service from command line (srvany, instsrv).
Download: Comandiux 1.7.26.210 Windows
CPU-Control handles the CPU-affinity for multicore-systems. Instead of running each process on both CPUs you can define it as you want it. For example, if you want to seperate the firewall and the anti-virus-software from the graphics-application.
CPU-Controls offers five different ways to control the CPU-affinity:
• Automatic: It chooses alternatingly one CPU for each new process
• Manual: You define a list, where you can set the way to handle each process
• All processes run on CPU 1, which is useful for old applications which crashes on a dual core system
• All processes run on CPU 2
• Deactivated
Download: CPU-Control 1.0
Don’t say you weren’t warned. After cautioning customers earlier this week that unlocked iPhones may be disabled when installing future Apple software updates, the company on Thursday made good on its warning.
Two iPhones in the Macworld offices that had the SIM hacks applied to them were disabled after installing iPhone Update 1.1.1. The update process went through without a hitch, however, when the phone restarted an activation message appeared that said, “Insert an unlocked and valid SIM to activate iPhone.”
A similar message appeared in iTunes. A note saying the SIM card was not valid and to insert a valid SIM card greeted the user.
Full story: macworld.com
Start++ is an enhancement for the Start Menu in Windows Vista. It also extends the Run box and the command-line with customizable commands. For example, typing “w Windows Vista” will take you to the Windows Vista page on Wikipedia!
Advanced functions can work with search results, powered by Windows Vista’s integrated desktop search engine. For example, typing “play radiohead” will find all music that matches the query “radiohead”, compile the results into a .M3U file, and launch it in your favorite media player.
It also allows users to export and share their favorite commands.
Download: Start++ 0.7.8
View, print and copy Word documents, even if you don’t have Word installed. This download is a replacement for Word Viewer 2003 and all previous Word Viewer versions.
The Word Viewer, together with the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats, allows you open Word documents saved in the following formats:
• Word Document (*.docx)
• Word Macro-Enabled Document (*.docm)
• Rich Text Format (.rtf)
• Text (.txt)
• Web Page formats (.htm, .html, .mht, .mhtml)
• WordPerfect 5.x (.wpd)
• WordPerfect 6.x (.doc, .wpd)
• Works 6.0 (.wps)
• Works 7.0 (.wps)
• XML (.xml)
With Word Viewer and the Compatibility Pack, you can view, print, and copy document contents to another program. However, you cannot edit an open document, save a document, or create a new document.
System Requirements
• Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 2
• This download applies to the following Microsoft Office programs: Microsoft Office Word 2007; Microsoft Office Word 2003; Microsoft Word 2002; Microsoft Word 2000.
Download: Word Viewer 1.0
FireAnt is a desktop media player and RSS aggregator for Windows and Mac. With an integrated guide to Internet TV, the FireAnt player lets users subscribe to, download, and watch videos in multiple media formats, and synchronize video with portable devices, including iPod, PSP, Zen, Archos, Zune, and mobile phones.
Download: FireAnt Beta v2
Apple is planning to launch the Apple Newton again after the success of its iPhone product. A team within Apple is reportedly working on a newer version of Newton, utilizing the same touch interface of iPhone and Mac OS X Leopard, new operating system.
Apple doesn’t want to rest on its laurels after the success of iPhone; it wants to work on newer models and go after newer markets. They want to revive their once popular Apple Newton model, the predecessor of Palm and PDAs (Personal Digital Assistant). It was successful at the beginning but suddenly Steve Jobs pulled the plug and stopped producing Apple Newton. But now after seeing the popularity of iPhone, they want to bring them back to go against Windows Mobile and Palm PDAs.
Read more: digitaljournal.com
This handy utility adds a highly customisable “New Folder” function to the context menu to the Windows Explorer. Using a single dialogue to manage user-defined templates, Custom Folder facilitates the creation of custom dated and time-stamped folders and even deals with incremental naming in case there is already a sub-folder with the same name.
Custom Folder offers fully customisable options for creating your custom folder name.
Operating System: Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista
Download: Custom Folder 1.3
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