Need good screen capture software? Check out SnagIt.

SnagIt delivers customized screen captures with the press of a hotkey. SnagIt captures images, text, and video from your Windows desktop easily. So if you want go effortlessly produce perfect graphics and video, SnagIt should do the trick. You will enjoy using SnagIt because it allows you to Capture, Edit, and Share easily.

With SnagIt, you can select anything on your screen – an area, image, article, Web page, or error message – and capture it. Then, save the screen capture to a file, send it to SnagIt’s editor to add professional effects, share it by e-mail, or drop it into PowerPoint, Word, or another favorite application.

Visit http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.asp  for more info and trial download.

If you are a Windows User and you have been searching for a multi protocol IM client that is easy to install and very efficient, then you need search no further, Miranda IM is up to the task.

Miranda IM is a multi protocol instant messenger client for Windows. Designed to be resource efficient and very easy to use, this cool tool uses very little memory, requires no installation and can easily be carried around on a retrievable media like flash drives or floppy discs.

According to the publisher: “The goal of this project is not to duplicate the functionality of AOL’s ICQ Client, but to design a client that has the basic features that is designed for mouse-less operation with a small memory requirement.”

If you ask me, I’ll say the program does just that. This is not one of those software that are “all hype and no help”, it’s really cool and very efficient. Scour the internet and check out all top review sites, everyone agrees that this software is really something great.

Go to http://www.miranda-im.org/  to check it out. It’s open source, that means it’s free to use and even modify.

Here is a software that is really worth checking out, it’s called RollBack Rx.

RollBack Rx is a robust system restore utility that enables home users and IT professionals to easily restore a PC to a time before certain events occurred.  By so doing it makes it very easy for all users regardless of their skill levels – newbie or IT pro to quickly and easily repair PC issues –  saving time, money and PC trouble.

But what can RollBack Rx actually help achieve?

• Reverse any system crash (even if Windows can’t startup);
• Backout of any failed software installations, botched update etc.;
• Roll back minutes, hours, or even months;
• Roll backwards and forwards to any system snapshot;
• Fast, 100% clean uninstaller;
• Roll-back, yet recover files from your “future” snapshot(s);
• Retrieve files from a crashed PC, even if it can not boot into Windows;
• Access control – prevent unauthorized users from accessing any RollBack Rx functions;
• Day Zero Disaster Recovery with no data loss;

Etc.

You can get more info and a free trial download here.

NOTE: Before You Start Comparing Rollback Rx To Windows System Restore, Check Out The Software. Windows System Restore only restores system files, these restores so much more.

Check it out at http://www.horizondatasys.com/page.aspx?id=169614 

Here is a tool that all guitar lovers will find useful. Guitar Solo Toolbar is a free add-in for the Internet Explorer browser. The toolbar helps you to quickly find guitar information and equipment from any web page on www.MyGuitarSolo.com as well as on the major search engines: Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

This tool can help you to easily find and download guitar midi files and tabs to hundreds of popular songs. The toolbar also includes unique links and features for beginning as well as intermediate guitar players, such as a guitar tuner, various guitar scales, recommended modes, notations and tabs, and more.

It’s a guitar and music lover’s delight.

Visit http://www.myguitarsolo.com/toolbar/index.html for more info and download.

Skype 1.4 Alpha for Linux has been released, with quality improvements:

• Audio quality improvements, on par with Windows 3.2 and Mac 2.6;
• More reliable code, thanks to a major rewrite building on Trolltech’s Qt 4.2;
• Better device detection;
• ALSA plugins support;
• UI improvements for file transfer and general layout.

Also there’re still some problems with this Alpha release:

• There are no contact list groups;
• You can’t create new accounts;
• There’s no alert message if your chat message is undelivered.

 So you can try it here, but if you to use Skype on Linux without any problems get the October 2006 gold build. (more…)

MySpace is acquiring Photobucket for $250 million in cash. TechCrunch is reporting that there is also an earn-out for up to an additional $50 million.

Photobucket has been looking for a buyer since March, when they hired Lehman Brothers to help sell the company. They were looking for $300 million or more, but may have had few bidders other than MySpace.

The companies have been in serious acquisition discussions for the last couple of weeks – A dispute that involved Photobucket videos being blocked on MySpace led to acquisition discussions, and the block was removed.

Photobucket generated $6.3 million in revenue last year and planned on hitting $25 million or more this year. They have 40 million registered users and add another 85,000 per day. (more…)

Here is one software that will definitely come in handy for directory administrators. It is called Directory Mate.

Directory Mate is a wizard based import/export tool for your Windows 2000 or 2003 Active Directory. As a directory administrator, you will love the fact that with Directory Mate, you can quickly export a list of users, open the comma delimited file in Excel, and even make the changes you want and quickly import all your changes. It’s really easy to use. You will really appreciate the fact that this software saves time money as it helps make directory content management easier.

So if you want to create users quickly, mailbox enable users with very little effort, avoid learning how to write script files or taking the time to do it or want to import or you just need something to simplify Bulk Directory information exporting and importing then. Directory Mate is worth checking out!

Version 2007 is now available; Go check it out at http://www.madsolutions.com/DM/Main.htm

If you visit a lot of websites regularly like news sites, forums or whatever, then you will enjoy the services of this software, it is called ServiceHolder.

ServiceHolder helps to keep your sites grouped and tabbed easily in just one window. Each site which you add to ServiceHolder has its own unique settings (popup killer, script killer, etc.). So each site is like a whole new browser installation.

What are the main features that ServiceHolder supports? To mention but a few:

• Multiple websites in one window!
• Kills banner popups!
• Access and manage IE favorites
• Live update from internet
• Minimize to tray
• 70,380 mood colors
• Auto refresh on timer
• No installation or extra DLLs
• 100% Banner free.

If you think the software can meet your needs why don’t you just check it out. It’s free.

Go to http://www.serviceholder.com/

One thing is worthy of note though: According to the publisher:

“The auto update server is currently down. This will not affect your application; the error you get in the startup is just for the auto update services.”

Here is a really cool tool worth checking out. Meetro is radius and proximity based software. Getting rid of the jargons this means this software finds like-minded people around you.

Meetro is the first the world’s first location-aware IM client and real-time social network — which means Meetro allows you to meet real people in your neighborhood. One of the cool things about Meetro is that it has multiple IM network support so you don’t lose contact with your old friends on other networks.

One thing you will definitely love about this software is the fact that it generates buddy lists based on proximity so when you enter the program you get two buddy lists: Your normal one, i.e. AOL, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ list and an additional one based on who is nearby.

Check out http://www.meetro.com/ for more info.

Oh! Less I Forget, Meetro will cost you nada, nothing, $0, IT’S Free !!! Go Check it out. http://www.meetro.com/
 

Here is a really cool and safe way to type important data without using your keyboard; using Jitbit Virtual Keyboard.

Jitbit Virtual Keyboard is an on-screen virtual keyboard. Type text with your mouse, trackball or stylus (digital pen used by Tablet PC devices with a touch screen), whenever you are unable to use a physical computer keyboard. Typing sensitive information with keyboards can leave you open to key-loggers attack at times, so what I really love about Jitbit Virtual Keyboard is the fact that it protects your confident data by preventing key-loggers and other remote keystroke trackers from spying your data. With this software you can enter your passwords, personal data, and all sensitive information easily and safely.

In the recent version, Version 1.59, which is making the rounds in the software market these days, these latest changes have been carried out:

• Multi-instance check;
• Transparency fix.

Go to http://www.jitbit.com/virtualkeyboard.aspx to check it out!