Battery Optimizer is an advanced laptop optimization utility that uses advanced diagnostics and testing to guide you to get better battery life. Battery Optimizer is designed to fix a problem that plagues most people, short laptop battery life. Most other applications just help you manage when your computer goes to sleep. Battery Optimizer goes several steps further and actually tells you how much battery life you can save by turning un-needed features of your laptop off. Giving you those extra minutes you need to save that document or get to the next level in your game. You can then save those settings as a profile so that you can quickly and easily optimize your setting for your current usage at any time. Features:
Extended Laptop Battery Life - Through advanced diagnostics, Battery Optimizer can help you increase your battery life.
Battery Usage Warnings - You can set up Battery Optimizer to warn you when you battery usage increases to a certain level.
Easy To Use - Optimizing you battery life is quick and easy with intelligent profiles for quick settings changes.
Unrivalled Technology - No one else offers the advanced features that Battery Optimizer can offer.
Light footprint - Your Computers performance won't be effected while you use Battery optimizer
Overview ClamWin Antivirus is a Windows based free open source standalone antivirus program for files, folders, running programs whenever it is launched. The application doesn’t stay resident or scanning transferred files all the time. Review
The program updates automatically the virus database by connecting to its home web page, it can be scheduled for scans at specific times, can get integrated to Windows Internet Explorer and Windows Outlook (as an add-in).
When integrated to the Internet Explorer, a file is scanned when the user right clicks on it.
At Microsoft Outlook, the program checks all the incoming and outgoing email messages, including their attached files, with no user intervention. This is the only automatic performance; for scanning any directory, folder, file, etc. the user has to launch the corresponding scan.
The application has the capability of scanning programs that are already loaded in memory and running.
Through the preferences settings, it is possible to specify file length limitations: the user can set that files bigger than anspecific length will not be scanned. Also, the user can define which file extensions should be included or excluded in scanning.
After the scan, the application generates resulting reports that can be sent via email to a defined address. Version Tested
0.95.2
ZoneAlarm Pro Firewall provides advanced firewall features, proactively blocking incoming and outgoing network attacks. Advanced Technology Network Monitor stops viruses and spyware that other anti-virus programs miss. Secure download files prevents the download of malicious software, Web Protection ensures the safe use of the Internet and visiting secure Web sites.
Main features of ZoneAlarm PRO Firewall:
Protecting your computer
• Application Control
• Two-way firewall
Web Anti-Virus
• Secure file downloads
• Phishing and status of websites
• Anti-Spam
Protection of personal data
• Monitor credit card
• Online Backup
Overview WinCDEmu is an open source CD/DVD emulator that is extremely easy to use: you just have to double-click the image file in Windows Explorer and it will be mounted in a virtual drive! Review
The freeware CD/DVD burner that I’ve been using for almost a year now, StarBurn, has also a module called StarPort in which you can create virtual drives and mount disc images into them. But when I found the open source program called WinCDEmu that promised to mount images with a single click I said to myself: “I have to try this one!”. Now don’t get me wrong, the virtual drive creating and mounting in StarBurn works very well, but WinCDEmu promises to be a lot easier to use and most important, a lot faster.
After installing the program it will install the Windows drivers that it needs in order to work. After that step is completed it will all go downhill… Just double-click an image file and it will be mounted in just a few seconds! I used for this purpose a backup of a movie DVD.
Let’s verify if it’s mounted… And it is, drive J.
To unmount the image you can click eject from the drive context menu or you can double click the respective image file again. And it unmounts in a few seconds.
The program supports ISO, CUE, BIN, IMG and RAW image file formats and it simply just works. You can’t customize anything about it, just install and use it. Another important thing is that you can simultaneously mount virtually an infinity of disc images, there is no limit, each mounted image will have its own virtual device. Version Tested
2.2
CyberLink PhotoDirector 3 is a powerful photo editor with the ability to manage archives of images and built-in format RAW. The performance PhotoDirector ensured by the fact that all the functions and tools are divided into groups. The group of Adjustment includes tools for retouching images, white balance control, color correction, noise reduction, brightness and contrast of the image, eliminating defects in images and remove red eye.
Under Library are tools for working with libraries of images in PhotoDirector. The last group - Slideshow. With these tools, CyberLink PhotoDirector user can create a slide show of high quality pictures from a library of images.
CyberLink PhotoDirector 3 has several advantages, such as:
fast intuitive interface;
a wide range of modes of preview photos;
unique technology for the conservation of the original image, as well as the presence of a complete history of its change with the ability to return to the previous steps;
Built-in support for RAW camera Canon and Nikon;
the ability to create their own profile settings and download ready-made profiles created by other users of the resource DirectorZone.com;
the ability to publish photos to Facebook and Flickr;
availability of tools to create stunning slideshows with HD-quality resolution up to 1080p, and features uploading them to YouTube.
Features:
management and color correction
zone of the color settings
bar graph
multiple masks
set of brushes
Gradient Mask
HSL / Color
setting presets
download free presets
Noise Reduction
clarity
Vignettes
stylistic effects
quick fix photos
Keystone
Fisheye correction
red-eye removal
enhancement of the effect of the eye
Remove wrinkles, blemishes
Teeth Whitening
removal of objects, the background
adding watermark, copyright, camera model, exposure, aperture, shutter speed and ISO
Insert images and logos copyright holder
slideshow
upload to social networks, for example, Facebook
Printing high quality photos
export to sRGB, Adobe RGB and ProPhoto RGB
support for 16-bit images
built-in support for RAW
comparison and contrast of images
Metadata
create virtual copies
System requirements:
Microsoft Windows 7, Vista and XP 32bit SP3 (Windows XP Service Pack 3 is required)
Intel Pentium D 3.0 GHz CPU with hyper-threading or equivalent AMD CPU is minimal
Graphics card with 128MB VRAM and above
Minimum 2 GB is required
1 GB of disk space for application and documentation
1024 x 768, 16-bit color or higher
Overview Cometbird is the most powerful web browser ever made. May be there are many other web browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera etc, but the new release by Mozilla, “The Cometbird”, pushes the limits of web browsing. Whenever you think about a perfect web browser, faster browsing and some inbuilt search engines may come to your mind.
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But what would you say when a download manager and multimedia downloader are given with a web browser with lightening speed along with more that 7 search engines like Yahoo, Google, Wikipedia, Amazon, Ebay and many more.Cometbird is a web browser with all these functions available free of cost. You can download Youtube videos or any multimedia like flash or audio using Cometbird. So you no more need any tweak or any web site to help you in getting all those things. Key Features:
Cometbird offers in-built download manager.
Cometbird has add-on manager to install,enable,disable the add-ons or plugins.
Cometbird enables the user to download videos from youtube or any video,audio without using any extra tool.
Download all the non download able songs,flash or videos in single click.
User friendly and very well known toolbar inherited from Mozilla Firefox.
Search toolbar for web search from more than 7 famous search engines.Like,Google,Yahoo,Wikipedia,Amazon and Ebay.
Finally Cometbird gives you the freedom of browsing like never.If you have Cometbird installed on your PC,you won’t need anything else for the WEB. Version Tested
2.4
PowerArchiver - a modern application that combines support practically all popular archive formats: ZIP, CAB, LHA (LZH), TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, BH (BlakHole), etc., and also able to extract files from the archives of ARJ, ARC, ACE, ZOO, GZ, and BZIP2, RAR, etc. In addition, the program works with files, UUE and XXE and e-mail extensions MIME.
Features:
• Supports the following archive formats: 7-ZIP, ZIP, CAB, LHA (LZH),
- TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, BH, RAR, ARJ, ARC, ACE, ZOO, GZ, and BZIP2;
• Support for disk formats ISO, BIN, IMG and NRG;
• Built-in support for XXE, UUE, and yENC encoding files;
• Full support for MIME (Base 64);
• Creating ZIP, CAB and PAE encrypted self-extracting archives using a Wizard;
• Support for unlimited size ZIP archives;
• Using compression profile to store the settings of compression;
• Full support for AES-encryption with varying degrees of stability (128-bit/192-bit/256-bit);
• Full support for AES-encryption for 7-zip and multivolume 7-Zip archives;
• Uploading archives or backups directly to FTP / SFTP (SSH) sites with multiple profiles supported and timeout;
• Password manager for saving frequently used passwords;
• Built-in image viewer and text files in the archive (TXT, RTF, GIF, PNG, BMP, ICO, TIFF, GFI, SGI,
- EMF, WMF, PPM, Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk, Truevision, ZSoft Paintbrush, Kodak Photo-CD, Jasc PaintShop Pro, Dr. Halo);
• A set of powerful file operations (including: renaming files, test files,
- Viewing and writing comments to files, checking for viruses, etc.);
• Supports "Drag-and-drop";
• Two ways of viewing archives (Classic - a list of files
- And the Explorer - browsing through the same way as in Windows Explorer);
• Integration with Windows Explorer for quickly creating and extracting archives;
• Ability to edit files within an archive using one single operation;
• Print a list of files in a text file or a file format HTML;
• Tool for repairing corrupted ZIP archives;
• Converting between file formats (such as ZIP to CAB archive, or from LHa in a ZIP archive, etc.);
• Simultaneous extraction of multiple files;
• Batch to create several different ZIP-archives at once;
• Favorite Folders to quickly locate archives;
• Powerful search the archives;
• Support change skin interface;
Here are some key features of "PowerArchiver 2011":
· Complete built-in support (including creating archives and adding files) for ZIP, CAB, LHA (LZH), TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2 and BH (BlakHole) files, and built-in support for reading and extracting many other file formats: RAR, ARJ, ARC, ACE, ZOO, GZ and BZIP2
· Built-in support for XXE and UUE encoded files
· Many powerful archive operations (including: renaming files in archive, spanning archives, testing archives, viewing and writing comments, installing archives, and checking archives for viruses)
· Internal viewer that supports TXT, RTF, BMP, ICO, WMF, EMF, GIF and JPG (JPEG) files
· Skinnable toolbar
· Drag and Drop from / to Windows Explorer and the Desktop
· Two ways of viewing archives (Classic - all files in the same listing; Explorer - browsing through an archive like folders in Windows Explorer)
· Creating powerful ZIP, RAR, ARJ, LHA and BH self-extracting archives
· Complete integration with Windows (extracting archives and creating archives directly from Windows Explorer using powerful "Explorer Shell Extensions")
· Viewing files in all view styles, including "as a Web page"
· Converting between file formats (for example: changing a ZIP archive to CAB archive, or LHA archive to ZIP archive)
· Tool for repairing corrupted ZIP archives
· Tool for extracting multiple archives at once
· Tool for creating backup scripts and running automated backups
· Auto Update to automatically download and install new versions of PowerArchiver
· Batch Zip function to create multiple different archives at once
· Favorite Folders to quickly locate archives
· Printing file list to printer, or exporting file list to HTML or TXT files
· Powerful help in HTML and a tutorial with pictures for beginners
· Many, many other useful and powerful features