This is a neat little program I found for preventing your laptop from being stolen. It’s called LaptopAlarm and that’s exactly what it is. The best way of describing it is, it’s like a car alarm for your laptop!

If you need to walk away from your laptop in an area where it there is a potential chance of it being stolen or tampered with, this is the program for you, as long as loud noise isn’t a problem, as the alarm sound on this is very noticeable! (Be careful not to try this out with headphones!)

You get the options to set it to sound if the AC power is unplugged, the computer is shutdown or logged off, the USB Mouse is unplugged, and/or even if the mouse is moved. To shut off the alarm enter your password that you entered in settings.

LaptopAlarm doesn’t even need installing as it comes as a small exe file and it’s free!

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In the “eat what you can lay your hands on” crazy world we find ourselves in today, a tool like this comes highly recommended. What tool am I talking about? Nutritional Facts.

Nutrition Facts provides detailed nutritional analysis on over 7500 foods. It has a simple interface which resembles the standard nutrition label found on most food items. Foods can easily be searched and quantities changed to adjust the nutritional data. This is definitely a good resource for those on diets and for those who should be. The tool uses a database that is based on the United States’ nutrition database.

That being said I think everyone, “diet conscious” and “diet unconscious” people alike should check this out, after all you are what you eat. You with me?

Check it out here http://silvertriad.com/

While working with your team you might have faced difficulty in sharing the documents, files, ideas, schedules if the members are far away. Also we quite often realize that whether our team members are at one office or at a far off place, we cannot be possible holding meetings for each and everything. To solve this problem and reduce the chaotic situation one can try using ProjectForum 6.0.3. It allows you to stay in touch with your team members easily and share the required files, etc with much ease, no matter where they are. You would not require disturbing them from their work and every time to leave their work stations. It helps you to share ideas, schedules, documents, and know the status of each member. It’s a private and secure way to work online. It supports wide range of passwords and provides tracking, locking, and various other features.

ProjectForum 6.0.3 comes loaded with different features and also has elegant interface to boot. Leave messages for your team members that they would get and even be online and get the messages, exchange the files, and do much more. Easily post your comment and even it’s simple to go for a new page or edit the page as per your choices. Have the images and files attached to share them with the required person. The messages and the conversations appear on the screen. It also helps in maintaining the list of the group members to stay in touch with them and to share the required information. Have the projects set in the key pages and even conduct the search for finding the required pages. You can have the schedule set for the meetings and set the hints To-Do and Meetings. It can help you to keep the track of all the work being done. Every one would find it easy to contribute the work that they had done.

ProjectForum 6.0.3 helps in managing the projects better and thus saves your time with efficient tracking of the work going on.

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Analyzing the time you spend working on your computer is a facility provided by WorkTime. It accounts for the programs you run and the time you spend running them. It is launched on the Windows Start and it displays various information such as: total working time, working time for a period, time spent running a program or user-defined program group such as Games, Internet, Work etc.

With WorkTime you can carry out comparative analysis of time spent with different programs/program groups and all reports are printable. WorkTime supports multiple users; it has a multi-language interface and provides an alarm and countdown timer. It also reminds you to take regular breaks to prevent computer-related injuries.

Want to check it out?

Visit www.nestersoft.com/worktime/

Need a good statistical tool? Check this out! StatPlus may be just what you’ve been looking for.

StatPlus is a user-friendly statistical software which has a simple graphical user interface. This software possesses a wide range of statistical tool applicable to different field such as biostatistics, gambling operations, calculation of lotteries, economics insurance etc.

Some of the statistical analysis tool include determining descriptive statistics, normality test, fisher F-test, table analysis, cochran Q Test, multivariate linear regression, time series analysis, polynomial regression, profit analysis and so much more.

The cool thing about this tool is it’s simplicity; StatPlus is easy to use because there are given instructions to follow for every procedure.

For more info and download, visit http://www.analystsoft.com/en/products/statplus/

Have you ever imagined being able to use your webcam in more than one application at a time? Yes, it’s possible with tools like Manycam. This is a program which makes this possible by splitting one video stream into several video streams. Sounding good? Well, give it a try, and choose Manycam virtual Webcam as the video source in your webcam applications. There are some features you can also add to the video stream by using Manycam, such as time, text and funny animations.

Manycam just got better with its latest update on march 13 with these latest features:

• Create, add and submit new pre-made ManyCam effects;
• New video source “Custom Desktop”;
• New “Drawing over video” effect;
• Additional features in “Text over video” effect: multiline input text, transparent background and text, color background;
• Gif files support in “Still Image” video resource;
• Pause, Stop buttons in Movie Source.

You can get more information on www.manycam.com

Proper monitoring and control of your finances help you know where your money comes from and to where it goes. Well, that’s where iCash comes in. It is a software designed to control your personal finance, keeping tabs on your incomes, expenses, debts, credits and Bank transactions for you.

This software just got updated recently and the following features were added and changes made:

Upgrades

• • It is now possible to select what accounts to use to calculate general balance displayed in status bar;
• • Automatic back-ups can be deactivated from the preferences;
• • Currencies can now be updated automatically when opening a document;
• • Account Statement report now includes a new column for Payee/Issuing.

Change

• • Preference panel has been redesigned and enhanced.

Fixed

• • New bank status display is now always visible;
• • Balance panel and balance status now automatically updated when updating exchange rates or default currency

For more on iCash go to http://www.maxprog.com/iCash.html

SetPay is a very simple utility to manage recurring online payments.

Pros: SetPay Bill Manager utility helps manage on line payments. Keeping track of payments, particularly those of a recurring due date is a problem. One tends to forget such dates and then payments get missed. One way to avoid such problems is to have a complete table of such payment with all relevant details displayed whenever required. Relevant details would be the amount due, what card might have been used for payment, type of payment-single or recurring and the website at which payment is to be made. Having all these details readily available is a big help in not forgetting a due payment.

The users interface is a spreadsheet like table where the payment details can be added by a add a record button. When clicked on it brings up a form with fields for the required details. There’s a calendar to help with setting a date. Removing a record also is as easy through remove a record button.

Cons: Biggest issue is this program does not have a reminder/alert associated with the payment dates. Without these alerts the listing or the schedules is meaningless as, for various reasons one can forget to even look at the schedule and then one would miss a payment.

Second problem is you cannot set recurrence schedule. One cannot just say that the payment repeats every month or every year or whatever there can only be a note saying this is a recurring payment type.

Overall it is really just a table maintenance program. Without reminders facility having these details in front of you is not much help.

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Batch It! Pro is an automated Batch Imaging Editor which allows photo operations such as resize, rename, rotate, create thumbnail galleries and add captions. It supports image of 22 image formats including PSP, PCD, PSD, JPG, JPEG 2000, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX and more.

Pros: With the digital cameras of today it is easy to shoot a pile of large photographs. Cameras assign them names in a mechanically determined series. Trying to lodge them in a web album or to send the batch to someone for their viewing usually requires resizing these as a minimum. There could be a need for some editing too. Batch It! Pro is an automated Batch Imaging Editor which allows you to resize, rename, rotate, create thumbnail galleries, add captions and more for this kind of a photo batch.

BatchIt! handles a lot of formats it can load or store in. It can load JPEG,JPEG 2000, BMP, TIFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, PBM, PGM, PPM, GIF, VDA, ICB, VST, PIX, WMF, FAX, PSD, PDD, PSP, CUT and PCD formats and Save in JPEG, JPEG 2000, BMP, TIFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, PBM, PGM, PPM and GIF formats.

Batch up/down sizing of photos with aspect ration locking or without is possible. Adding watermark or copyright notices and text captions are equally easy too. Transparency of the watermark can be controlled. HTML based file directory listing, thumbnail listing, slide show for local or web display are part of the features the application has. A auto run CD of the slide show can be created with equal ease.

Individual photos in a batch can have specific rotation, flip and or crop specified. Individual edit in terms of contrast, brightness, hue and saturation also is possible. Renaming them is another feature available. The parameter settings can be saved as a profile and used again with a similar batch process when required.

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There are many different encryption programs that are available on the market but as is so often the case for specialized programs the ones that work the best turn out to be the ones that are free! This is extremely true of encryption as AxCrypt is most definitely one of the best encryption programs out there and it happens to be free as well. The program’s aim is to allow quick and easy encryption of any filename through utilization of the AES algorithm.

The end result of an AxCrypt process is an encryption with 128-bit keys that is symmetrical in nature. It also allows the encrypted files to be compressed as well as editing with just two clicks of the mouse. When your file has been encrypted the file type changes from whatever it was to start with to the new AxCrypt encrypted file that possesses an extension of .axx and has a completely different icon from any other file type that you would normally see. The newest version of the program was released just a few days ago and it allows AxCrypt to become more aware of Windows Vista.

More information is available at http://www.axantum.com/AxCrypt/