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AnVir Task Manager Free is freeware utility software that gives users a comprehensive set of tools to put them in full control of their computer.
It gives you detailed information about every process that is running, and about applications running automatically on Windows startup including all hidden applications.
Download: AnVir Task Manager Free 5.1.0
Many of you remember last year’s CanSecWest conference, where a MacBook Pro was compromised for a $10,000 prize. Well… take that, replace the MacBook Pro with a MacBook Air, and repeat it again for 2008.
We learned in February that this year’s CanSecWest would still involve a Mac, but also a laptop running Vista and some flavor of Linux. That’s exactly how it played out this week in Vancouver when security teams were presented with the three machines for the PWN2OWN contest. Unfortunately for Mac fanboys, the MacBook Air was the first to go down, thanks to security researcher Charlie Miller. Miller is now the proud owner of $10,000 in cold, hard cash.
Full story: arstechnica.com
Calgoo Calendar is for organizations and people who need to manage business, family and social commitments.
Calgoo Calendar allows you to:
· Share your work calendar with your co-workers and spouse
· Plan meetings and events with clients, business partners, family and friends
· Share your agenda and schedule with your friends using Facebook Agenda Share
· Avoid scheduling conflicts by knowing where people are and what they are doing
· Subscribe to calendars and schedules you are interested in: school, sports, television
You need: Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac OS X or Linux. Java 1.5 or higher.
Download: Calgoo Calendar 1.6.1
Dell has announced that they has added a Blu-ray drive (with reading capability for Blu-ray Discs, and read/write capability for DVDs and CDs) to their award-winning Inspiron line of laptops. More impressive, the Inspiron 1525 with Blu-ray drive will only set consumers back a mere $879. The computer features a 15.4″ 720p screen and HDMI output.
Blu-ray disc decoding will be accomplished via a dedicated Broadcom decoder located in the laptops mini-card slot.
Read more: blu-ray.com
SundryTools XV is an all-in-one multimedia organizer, with multiple unique features.
- Organize your CD Collection easily. Insert a audio CD and retrieve album info automatically from Gracenote.
- Scan hard drives and CDs/ DVDs and automatically add audio files like Mp3 and WMA to the MP3 Collection.
- DVD Collection showing information and covers. Rate films stored on hard drive, DVD, VHS and films or on your wish list.
- Search audio files/ folders added to CD- and MP3-Collection, with Music Search.
- Task Scheduler organizes Windows StartUp, Applications, Events and Shut Down.
- Sundry Tools is a collection of minor tools.
- Reminder is a Day planner incl. Appointments/ Birthdays and Red-Letter Days.
- Crypt Notes is a notepad with a extended Toolbar.
- KillAll is a process viewer/ killer.
- System Info display Basic information about your computer.
- Media Player
SundryTools XV is optimized for Windows Vista. (Works with 2000/XP/2003/Vista, Windows 95/98 & NT is not supported)
Download: SundryTools XV 4.0 Build 516
Apple seeks engineers well versed in pattern recognition.
The iPhone’s popularity shows no signs of dying down. When the device was first unveiled in January 2007, it took the world by storm and sparked a buying frenzy when it launched a few months later.
The iPhone was clearly designed with consumers in mind, focusing on phone, music and video operations. Later updates even provided mobile access to Apple’s iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store.
The only people seemingly left out of the iPhone equation were business users. Apple announced its plans to rectify that issue earlier this month with the rollout of the iPhone SDK and a beta of the upcoming 2.0 firmware. The 2.0 firmware brings a wealth of business-oriented features to the iPhone including push email support, Cisco IPsec VPN, WPA2/802.11x and support for Microsoft Exchange/ActiveSync.
Read more: dailytech.com
NetSetMan is a network settings manager which can easily switch between 6 different, visually structured profiles including:
- IP Address
- Subnet Mask
- Default Gateway
- Preferred & Alternate DNS Server
- Computer Name
- Workgroup
- DNS Domain
- WINS Server
- Default Printer
- Run Scripts
It is not only useful and effective but also easy and intuitive to handle.
The entry fields remind of the Windows “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties” but it’s much easier to fill in the addresses. Current settings can easily be retrieved.
All settings and changes are saved automatically in a separate file (settings.ini) so a backup, transfer or upgrade to another version is absolutely no problem.
With only 2 mouse clicks you can activate a saved profile!
NetSetMan is freeware for your non-commercial purposes.
Download: NetSetMan 2.4.2 Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
The fastest way to upload files.
ShellFTP is a versatile FTP engine specifically designed for fast uploading.
It is engineered to maximize productivity and bridge gaps in the website development process.
It does this by integrating with your work environment, so that it is readily available when you need it.
ShellFTP inserts a new item in the right-click menu for files and folders, allowing them to be uploaded to your server quickly and automatically.
ShellFTP is free.
Download: ShellFTP 1.1
FlyingBitPassword Keeper offers a simple solution for the problem of remembering a lot of confidential information. For example, it may include passwords, serial numbers and all kinds of codes. Data is stored in a special encrypted database. Thus, even if someone gains access to the storage, it will be impossible to read information from it. Due to reliable encryption algorithms, such as AES, Towfish and Blowfish, your password database is securely protected.
FlyingBit Password Keeper allows you to create your database on a removable media with one click. It occupies minimum space and can work without installation. Due to this, all the necessary information is always at hand even if you work with another computer.
Supporting operating systems from Windows 98 to Vista
Download: FlyingBit Password Keeper 1.0.1.6
Blue IP Scanner Free allows you to scan any IP subnet range for alive or dead hosts. Fast, simple, effective and best of all its Free!
Select Your Ping Timeouts
Resolve DNS Hostnames
Export Data Into CSV / Excel
It’s Totally Free!
Download: Blue IP Scanner Free 1.1
Recover files from damaged or corrupted CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-Ray disks
CD Recovery Toolbox tool was developed for recovering damaged files from different disk types: CD, DVD, HD DVD, Blu-Ray, etc. You can use it to restore information lost as a result of some mechanical damage of the disk (scratches, chips, different spots on the surface) or as a result of incorrect recording. Thus, the program can recover data that was considered lost. The CD Recovery Toolbox Free tool scans any CD and DVD disks and finds files and folders located there. We should mention that there can be some information on the disk that cannot be recovered. Not all of the files and folders can be found - that depends on the degree and location of the damage. Therefore, the CD Recovery Toolbox Free tool finds the possible maximum amount of information. After that, it shows a list of all files and folders available for recovery. Now the user can select the files and folders to be recovered. Those specific objects will be recovered while the others will be ignored. The program recovers the maximum amount of information in the damaged file. This reduces the risk of data loss considerably.
The CD Recovery Toolbox Free tool not only has a complete set of data recovery features, but is also user-friendly and convenient. The program interface is designed as a step-by step wizard, where the user has to perform a single action on each page of the wizard. The wizard makes the use of the tool very simple and convenient even for a beginner. CD Recovery Toolbox Free is absolutely free.
Compatible with Windows 98/Me/NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista.
Download: CD Recovery Toolbox 1.1.8
The video-sharing site will offer more information about who’s watching clips to uploaders.
YouTube is going to be sharing more statistics about the people who view video clips with those who upload them, according to an AP story. A new program called YouTube Insight could greatly help those adding clips in terms of advertising and when to schedule a new video, among other things.
The program debuts today, and Google hopes it will help it make some money from its $1.76 billion purchase. To date there hasn’t been a rush of people eager to advertiser on YouTube.
Read more: digitaltrends.com
Bytessence PassKeeper (BPK) is a freeware password manager. It helps you remember your sensitive information from forums, websites or services with only a few clicks. It is very easy to use and it’s filled with features. Also, you can carry it with you on your USB Stick. If you’re looking for a fast, free and simple solution, then BPK is for you!
Features
- Easy to use interface
- Total control over the passwords (add, remove, edit, move)
- Group management
- Clipboard operations (copy password or username, account, etc. from every entry)
- Easy import/export to/from HTML, CSV, TXT (for backup purposes)
- Can minimize to tray while you work
- Boss key (panic button - hides instantly so nobody knows what were you doing)
- Random password generator
- Password strength analyzer
- Included secure file shredder with 7 wiping algorithms
- Customizable colors for the entry list
- Uses modified and strenghtened up encryption algorithm derived from ARCFOUR
- Guards your data while you are not near your PC (automatically closes open containers)
- Portable (you can carry it on your USB stick)
- Freeware (and free support)
Download: Bytessence PassKeeper 2.5
TreeDBNotes stores and represents your information in a comfortable and clear tree-structured form. Each node in such ‘tree’ represents associated note, so you can store a lot of mostly independent notes in one notebook. With any note you can perform main Wordpad-like text-formatting functions (font and paragraph styles).
Features: Search, Replace, Case options, Insert file/ link/ image/ time/ date/ symbols/ table / html table. Import from txt, wri, rtf, Excell, Word, html and more. Export to txt, html, wri, doc and more. This program is ideal for storing notes, emails, images, URLs, document management, etc.
System Requirements: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Download: TreeDBNotes Free 3.35 Build 001
AMD announced Thursday that it is shipping triple-core processors, a first for the PC market. AMD also updated the quad-core Phenom lineup and reaffirmed that quad-core Opteron chips for servers will be available later in the second quarter.
The AMD Phenom X3 8400 (2.1GHz) and 8600 (2.3GHZ) triple-core processors are the first processors that use three cores. This is expected to allow AMD to target price-performance points that two- and four-core processors can’t easily match. “The value proposition is simple. Three cores versus two cores. You make the choice,” said Pat Moorehead, VP of Advanced Marketing at AMD. “When you’ve maxed out your two cores…(this is an) extra core to do background tasks,” he said.
Read more: news.com
cdrtfe is a Win32 frontend for some functions of Jörg Schilling’s cdrtools. With VCDImager VideoCDs can be created. Furthermore, cdrtfe supports the basic funcions of the Mode2CDMaker which makes it possible to create CDs that can contain about 13% more data as usual (Mode 2 Form 2: 738 MiByte instead of 650 MiByte, 795 MiByte instead of 700 MiByte).
cdrtfe is free software since version 1.1pre4 (GNU General Public License)
Download: cdrtfe 1.3.1
PowerEnc is an easy to use and fast CD ripper and encoder which will allow you to easily and fastly switch between different audio formats.
Download: PowerEnc 2.32
Photo storage on the Web is nothing new. Nor is image editing. But when the two are combined under the mantle of Adobe’s Photoshop, well, that unto itself becomes news. Fortunately, Photoshop Express–Adobe’s new free, Web-based service that entered public beta today–offers more substance than just the novelty of its heritage.
Photoshop Express may carry the name of Adobe’s flagship image editing software, but the online version bears little resemblance to that. Rather, the software tries to make basic editing and enhancing tasks point-and-click easy. My early impressions after using this service: The Photoshop Express beta succeeds in making serviceable image editing available wherever you have an Internet connection, but it stil has bugs and annoyances to eliminate in this shakedown cruise.
Full article: pcworld.com
Uninstall Tool is an ultra fast and small utility that helps you to uninstall various software. It can be used instead of the standart unconvenient and heavy “Add and Remove Programs”. The program has lots of features and options missing in Microsoft’s ™ applet.
Features
- Great speed and small size, great quality
- Multilingual, cool and simple interface
- Portable - you can even run it from a usb flash drive
- Allows you to display hidden installed programs
- Display of a program’s occupied size
- Allows you to find fast the desired program while typing known letters
- Enables to delete programs if their uninstaller fails
- Navigate to selected program’s registry entry, installation folder and it’s web site
- Saving (exporting to HTML) current installed software list
- Running “Windows Components” applet
- … a lot of more
Download: Uninstall Tool 2.3.2 Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista (including 64-bit systems)
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