Archive for December, 2006
Monday, December 11th, 2006
Are you in need of a software that enables easy and fast detection, backup and restore of all hardware device drivers on your system? Then My Drivers is perfect for you, because it does all that and more. With this software, you can even find the latest drivers for your hardware and install them into your computer. With just a couple of mouse clicks, you will have all your hardware devices extracted and backed-up to any folder you want.
At times so many devices are lost during an upgrade but with My Drivers, when you reinstall or upgrade your system, you can restore your drivers easily [all the drivers]. Once after a reboot, all the drivers will be re-installed and will function well. You may also choose to backup a particular driver or all the drivers with an EXE automatic installer.
Oh do you have a stubborn or troublesome item of hardware? Just remove the driver with this software.
Want to check it out? CLICK HERE!
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Sunday, December 10th, 2006
If you want to try one of the world’s TOP 3d programs for free you can do that right now. NewTek have released a trial version of their world class 3d modeling, rendering and animation package, Lightwave 3D in a freely downloadable 30 day trial version.
The software is fully functional so you can try out all the features of the new version 9, the same software used to make special effects for TV shows like Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Smallville, and Stargate Atlantis. You can make 3D objects, texture them, light them on a virtual sound stage, and render them in 3D to a very high level of realism, allwithin this one program.
Okay so if you want to use it after 30 days you have to pay for it, but to get to learn how to use it for free? You got to love that price.
Go to the trial web site for details. Works for PC and Mac.
Posted in Business, Commercial, Design, Fun, Internet, Mac Stuff, Main, Movies, Shareware, Utilities, Video, Windows | No Comments »
Sunday, December 10th, 2006
Back in the mists of time when most worthwhile music software was mostly shareware or freeware because nobody could afford the thousands of pounds for the high end stuff, packages like Rubberduck reigned supreme.
The ultimate bass synthesiser, Rubberduck had a sequencer based loosely on an ancient but still well thought of Roland product called the TB303. This was a great parping old bass synthesiser and was instrumental, if you’ll forgive the expression, in creating a lot of hit beats in the 80s and 90s.
Time passes and these things sound a little bit retro. But still the TB303 manages to fetch high prices on eBay and elswhere. You can’t get them just anywhere, so being able to download Rubberduck for free has got to be a better bet. It still has a lot to recommend it, and even in spite of its age I’d say it’s an essential tool in any computer musician’s arsenal. Get all the rubber you can handle at the new d-Lusion web site.
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Sunday, December 10th, 2006
OK! Here is a really cool software. Ever thought about having a program that can bring your texts to life, well DSpeech does just that, it brings voice to your texts.
DSpeech is a Text To Speech program with functionality of ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) integrated into it. The cool thing is it is able to read written text aloud and choose the sentences to be pronounced based upon the vocal answers of the user. You could even save the output as WAV or MP3 file.
Another lovely feature is that it lets you select different voices, you get to even combine or juxtapose them in order to create dialogues between different voices.
You are really going to love it. It’s fun. Give voice to your texts , try out DSpeech and before you start checking your wallet, DSpeech is a freeware. It’ll cost you zero dollars. Go check it out!
One thing is worthy of note though, the program does not come with an installer so you’ll have to download the necessary files by yourself. The upside is it doesn’t write anything in your registry.
To learn more about DSpeech [and other products from the same publisher] and download it, CLICK HERE!
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Sunday, December 10th, 2006
SpywareGuard works similar to the realtime protection feature on many anti-virus programs, except it guards against spyware. It works in the background, scanning any EXE and CAB files on access ( these are file types that spyware often come as) and alerting you if known spyware is detected.
If this is the case, it initially blocks access to the file and then allows the user to select an action. It provides a fast scanning engine, signature-based scanning, heuristic/generic scanning, a control panel, and an online update utility for downloading of up-to-date definition updates. It also detects with signature-based scanning for known spyware and heuristic/generic detection capabilities to catch new or mutated spyware.
This is brought to us by JavaCool Software, the same people who make SpywareBlaster, which i reviewed previously here.
Both programs work fine running together and offer decent protection for spyware/adware prevention and detection.
It’s essential these days to have some kind of anti-spyware defense, and this program is a good defensive measure to have guarding your computer.
You can check out more information and get this totally free program here.
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Sunday, December 10th, 2006
TrueDownloader is a free and open-source download manager/accelerator. It allows you to pause and resume downloads, (something that’s normally impossible if you use Internet Explorer), so next time you’re downloading a huge file and it disconnects, there’s no need to restart it all over again.
It integrates into Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Mozilla, using it’s extension capability. It also allows simultaneous downloads and segmented downloads,which helps it to download stuff faster. As well as supporting HTTP, it also supports FTP. It also allows the use of proxies and zip file previewing is included too.
It’s totally free software and totally spyware and adware free, unlike some similar software!
You can check out more info and download it totally free by going here.
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Sunday, December 10th, 2006
Mazefrenzy is one of those online games that’s sure to drive you crazy, yet you just cant help trying again!
The object of the game is to move a small red dot through a maze, without touching the sides, kinda like a variation on wire loop games. The repetitive music doesnt help you out much, but luckily theres an option to click to mute it.
Tip: It may be easier using a touchpad instead of a mouse, or vice versa, depending on how they respond and how steady those hands of yours are! Also muting the music will definitely help! And not trying to do it all at once!
Check it out for yourself here!
Good luck and if anyone actually makes it through the first maze let me know because as of now i am about to give up! well, maybe just one more go…
Posted in Freeware, Fun, Games, Internet, Main | No Comments »
Sunday, December 10th, 2006
Quicktime is of course a core technology on Apple Mac computers, but is an add-on to Windows too. Quicktime player, has many similarities with Windows Media Player and plays a lot of the same media. So why would you bother with Quicktime? My not stick with the native player on Windows.
Well, as a predominantly Mac based writer, I will admit to a little bias, but honestly it doesn’t really matter what you use, WMP, Quicktime, DiVX Player, whatever floats your media. But I have to say that I like the quality and solidity of Quicktime. Okay it doesn’t play Windows files quite so well as WMP, but it does play them. It does however ROCK as the kids would say with QT files. There is actually no reason why you shouldn’t have many different video file players on your machine, Windows or Mac. Most of the cohabit very gracefully on any machine, and I have most of them on my Macs and PCs.
Most importantly, whatever media player you use, make sure you always have the latest versions, and that goes double for Quicktime. Check it out at the source.
Posted in Business, Commercial, Design, Developer, Mac Stuff, Main, Music, Photo, Shareware, Shell and Desktop, Utilities, Video, Windows | No Comments »
Sunday, December 10th, 2006
Mozy is an online remote backup service that gives you up to 2 GB online storage space to store your backups. This is very useful in case something happens that makes your beloved computer die for a while. There’s nothing worse than that happening and losing irreplaceable data such as photos you’ve taken,emails, or your work, or just data that takes a long time to replace such as your mp3 collection or games you have to start all over again, etc.
You simply create a user account and then download the small setup program, which should take less than 30 seconds, then you’re good to go! Then you just select the filetypes you want Mozy to take care of, you can also choose whatever directories you want backed up.
You get a full 2 GB for free but you can upgrade to more by paying or through the referal program. It supports block level differential backup so that it only backs up new data.Its fully encrypted so its gonna be safe, it has 128 bit ssl encryption during transfer of data and 448 bit encryption during storage! You can even schedule backups to make things even easier!
That’s all pretty impressive to me anyway for a free service. Like the sound of it too? Go check it out here!
I think you’d be hard pressed to find a better online backup service for free, but if you do, tell me about it : )
Posted in Business, Commercial, Developer, Freeware, Information Management, Internet, Main, Open Source, Social Software, Utilities, Web services | 2 Comments »
Saturday, December 9th, 2006
Movie buffs, you are going to love this! eXtreme Movie Manager is a great software to manage your movie collection. The facts that it lets you catalog any video formats such as DivX, XviD, DVD, VHS, SVHS, VCD, DVD-R, or LaserDisc with detailed information makes it a must have for all movie buffs.
And it is not just a movie/video collection manager, it’s also a movie and actor database and a cover manager. Arguably one of the most advanced Movies/Actors collection manager around. It can catalog movies stored in your Hard Disk and removable devices in seconds with all information about codecs, resolutions etc. automatically. And what I really love about it is that, with the exclusive “MagicScript” Technology, it allows you to retrieve movie information from all online movie databases.
The latest version just released of Dec 7 2006, eXtreme Movie Manager 5.6.2.0 has great changes that makes this software really cool. Here are some of the changes
- Now you can export also TV Shows
- Changed the Startup procedure
- Extended the Cover Manager also to TVShow, Episodes and Actors
- Now you can paste cover from clipboard also in cover manager
- Extended the Feature Field in Edit Window
- The Cover Manager now remember the position and size
- Changed some language definitions
- Added alt-e keystroke to open edit window
- Updated MagicScript Programmer’s guide with Block’s List
etc.
The only downside to this software is the User Interface, it could take a while for you to get the hang of it but once you do, you are going to love it, THAT’S A PROMISE! Try it!
CLICK HERE TO VIEW ALL CHANGES AND GET A TRIAL DOWNLOAD
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