PicLens is an add-on for Firefox which improves your online image viewing experience in a really cool way. Once you install it, It can be invoked with one click whenever you visit several of the well-known image sites online including Flickr, Photobucket, Myspace, FaceBook, Fotki, Picasa web albums, Google image search,AOL image search and some others!

You’ll notice that images at these sites now have a small arrow in the bottom left corner. Once you click this, PicLens launches and shows a gallery of all those pictures. This is no ordinary gallery though, its a 3D “wall” of images on a dark background. It looks pretty cool and it just gets cooler, because you can drag your mouse to move along this virtual “wall”. You can even use your scroll wheel to zoom in and out.

Clicking on an image expands it to full screen. There’s also a thumbnails strip at the bottom once in full screen mode. It also adds a small link at the top of your Firefox browser as an alternative way to start it, also you can search these image sites directly from inside PicLens. This enables you to view endless walls of pictures forever if you chose to without ever leaving it!

This is a must have for anyone who views a lot of pictures online, just try it and you’ll understand what I’m talking about. Also, if you happen to connect your computer to a large screen TV or monitor, then this program is a must (and I envy you!)

It was very fast on my computer when i tried (and kept) it and doesn’t seem to slow anything down at all. It only needs to be used whenever you feel like it and only takes one click to get in or out of it fast. It’s superbly designed and extremely user friendly.

Download it and see images and more info at the homepage here.

Need help in managing your compressed archives effectively and conveniently? Well, WinMount is a Windows utility which helps to do just that. With WinMount you can mount ZIP, mount RAR or ISO file to a new drive so that you can use those files inside directly instead of extracting them first which would take more time and consume much disk space.

WinMount was last upgraded on February 29, 2008 with these changes made:

• Fixed the bug of “Auto run the mounted driver” in the settings
• Fixed the bug on mounting SFX archives
• Fixed other bugs

For more info on WinMount, visit www.winmount.com

There are so many different things that can annoy the average web surfer and computer user and one of those things has to be the fact that it is so easy to lose product keys. With the new age of computer security that came about a few years ago, many programs required CD keys for installation. While this was fine when you initially purchased the program as the CD key was located on the box or on the jewel case, over time many people end up throwing those things out and when the time comes that they need the program again, they are out of luck in finding the CD key.

Or at least they were out of luck until the wave of product key programs hit the market. This is one of those and it is one that has been around for a very long time. The latest version allows you to save .csv files from the software and it allows additional command line functionality within the program. It allows you to figure out the product ID keys for Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Exchange Server and SQL Server as well. It is extremely useful if you need to reinstall one of these programs and do not have another way to access that information.

More information is available at http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html

The latest version of Fresh Download is out and considering the general popularity of this piece of software it is no surprise that one particular file website recorded over 20,000 different downloads in less than a day after it was released. Fresh Download is a freeware downloading software that has been around for years now and in that time it has established itself as being one of the most popular pieces of freeware of its time. The newest version looks great in the screenshot!

The point of Fresh Download is two-fold. The first point of the software is that you can use it to create a centralized downloading list so that you know at all times exactly what is going on download-wise on your computer. While this in itself is really something that would warrant a stand-alone piece of software, Fresh Download also allows you to accelerate your download process and in doing so it provides a second purpose that is wholly integrated into the overall program presentation. It is this combination of fast downloading and keeping tabs that makes Fresh Download as popular as it is and when this is combined with the fact that the program is free the popularity just explodes.

More information is available at http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html

WinUtilities is a collection of tools to optimize and speedup several aspects of the Windows OS performance.

Pros: WinUtilities is a collection of utilities that can be classified into the following categories. System cleaners that help clean disks of junk files accumulated over time, invalid entries and references from the registry, temporary files, cookies, history and other traces of Internet browsing and a task scheduler for tasks that need to start up automatically at pre-specified times.

A set of system optimizers that include duplicate file finder that traces duplicates and helps remove them if not required. Shortcut fixer that finds and helps remove broken shortcuts. The memory management optimizer helps optimize the memory management parameters of windows. System control group has system control optimization, cleaning up of start up program set and arranging auto shut down. Process manager group has management currently running programs, uninstall manager helps uninstall to be done cleanly, system information gathering tool and easy launch of tools.

Registry tools help with back up and restore and cleaning of registry entries. Undelete and shredder as well as file splitter functionalities are also included. Includes a EXE protector through password making it impossible for any unauthorized people to run these programs.

These functionalities being so close to the system internals may prove to be a little overwhelming for newbies and would need some learning. But that is not a short-coming of the application. The interface nicely groups the functionalities into logical groups thereby making it easier to use. When invoked these functionalities wok in a wizards like mode. This utilities set is good for maintaining a machine at top performance levels efficiently and reliably.

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Magic Lens Max is a real-time, intuitive and advanced screen magnifier and desktop viewer to zoom, rotate, enhance, view and capture any area of the screen display. It also lets you view in different color modes or through separated color channels.

Pros: Magic Lens Max is a real-time, intuitive and advanced screen magnifier and desktop viewer to zoom, rotate, enhance, view and capture any area of the screen display. Magic Lens max generates high quality lens view with the help of built in re-sampling and filtering or various situations. Views can be generated for different color modes and separated color channels, red only, blue only and so on. Color modes include normal, grayscale, invert and sepia.

Because gamma adjustments and sharpening processing are built in the lens enhances the capability to view graphic details up close and in more details. Even if the graphics are in shaded, blurred or dark areas of the screen where it would normally be difficult to view.

Magic Lens Max works transparently with the system, follows the mouse cursor and system caret synchronously. Mouse keys or the corresponding hot keys make it easy to resize, hide/show lens view or capture a snapshot or magnify/rotate or lighten the lens view. Three different shape of the lens could be used; as an ellipse, rounded rectangle and a rectangle with a range of magnification up to 32x. The real time re-sampling filters included are nearest, linear, cosine, spline, cubic or the Mitchell along with real time filters sharpen, sharpen more and edge enhance. The settings are intuitive and well arranged.

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Having just been released a couple of days ago, this version of Barracuda Drive is relatively untested by most of the people around. However, Barracuda Drive is a piece of software that many people would get a lot of use out of and because it happens to be freeware as well, it is very easy to see why so many people would download this particular piece of software.

Barracuda Drive is a file manager program that is based on the web. This means that in order to use the program you do not need any kind of FTP software and the Barracuda Drive software can do basically anything that FTP software could do. You can use it for secure uploading to a particular web server and in addition to that you can use it for file management either on a web server or on your home computer. If you choose to manage your home computer files through Barracuda Drive then you’ll be able to get at them from anywhere in the world so long as you have a computer and an internet connection to use.

This great piece of software is quite handy and more information about it can be found at http://barracudaserver.com/products/BarracudaDrive/.

Wetpaint is a website that allows you to make your own community-driven wiki. The best thing about it is the ease of use, as it’s pretty much fool proof and not complicated. Some wiki sites can have a steep learning curve and confuse a lot of non-tech savvy people, but wetpaint is very user friendly from the start all the way through, as theres no wiki code to learn.

It’s worth checking out if you’ve been thinking about having a wiki type site or community and dont want to worry about hosting it yourself, while also wanting to make sure its very user friendly. You simply click “easyedit” to edit pages and can even add embedded videos from sites such as YouTube.

You can watch some lighthearted videos here which explain why WetPaint is different from other wiki sites.

Check out more details and see it in action at the homepage here or try out the “sandbox” here to see what its like to actually use it.

Normally when you want to make a quick note for future reference, it requires some effort. You have to grab a pen and paper, or maybe your PDA if you’re more technologically inclined.

With Jott, all you have to do is grab your cellphone and dial a special toll free number (which you can easily put on speed dial!) You then say who your message is for, such as “myself”, ” family”, or a work group or friends name for example. Now you can dictate up to 30 seconds of a message. This is then transcribed and emailed or texted to yourself as a reminder or to the chosen group.

At the moment its currently only available in the US and Canada, but is certainly an exciting idea which sounds like it could be very useful.

Sound interesting to you? Check out the website and test it out for yourself!

This is one of the previews of Microsoft Expression Blend, a piece of software that used to be known as the Expression Interactive Designer. This is a piece of software that is simply phenomenal in its execution and because the particular market that it caters to is so popular at the current moment in time, it appears as if the Expression Blend is going to be a hit in any form.

If you are looking to design different applications and want a program that can help you make those applications great, then look no further than Microsoft Expression Blend. This software will help you design applications that are great to look at and it will help you utilize multiple tools to do that. Not only is there support for the creation of cinematic interfaces, but you will find that everything from pixel manipulation to vector dynamics is available on Microsoft Expression Blend, allowing you to get the job done in multiple ways.

This fully functional preview will allow you to get a full sense of what the program will be like when the full 2.5 version gets released later on this year and more information is available at http://www.microsoft.com/expression/.