Enhance your movie watching experience with tons of cool features and options that you just can’t get from a standard DVD player.

Pros: The biggest feature of this player application is that it plays all kinds of formats of DVDs to make your movie viewing experience hassle free. For example if you have some HD DVD and some in Blu-ray disks, you do not need to organize the different players required by the two different formats. In fact now that HD format has completely lost in the format war it may actually be very hard to find a player that would play the HD DVD. If you do have one, there are no guarantees that it could be maintained easily as time goes by. This application has put together players for all the available formats of DVD content. The formats include even the content recorded on writeable media. It plays Blu-ray discs of course but it can handle AVCHDs, CDs, VCDs, and a variety of multimedia files, including QuickTime, RealPlayer, DVR-MS, WMV HD, and H.264 HD videos also. It supports full Hi definition video specifications at 720p and 1080p that can support basic 1280×720 and 1920×1080 pixel resolutions. All three Blu-ray high definition movie formats are supported that include HD MPEG-2, AVC and VC1 and other HD formats such as WMV HD, DivX HD and H.264 HD. That should take care of most of the latest formats you are likely to see in the near future. Several language versions are available.

Cons: It is possible with all these format support that some combinations will create visual artifacts and that can be visually very distracting. One simple check would be to actually play a disc of all the types in your collection and make sure they play without problems.

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A free file sync utility for Windows that lets you compare and synchronize files and folders quickly and easily. It works with laptops, desktops, PCs, USB drives, hard-disks, network disks.

Pros: Typically, these days, your work extends across multiple machines. Your office desktop, a laptop and your home machine is a typical scenario. Quite often work files are spread across these machines but then may not be the same version! You may need to have sync between a local drive and a drive somewhere across the network. ViceVersa Free lets you do just that. This is a free file sync tool for Windows XP and Vista that syncs files quickly and easily between computers, laptops, desktops, floppy drives, hard-drives, USB drives, CD-ROM drives, Zip drives, network drives, etc. To get the sync done, select the two folders and do a compare and find out what matches and what does not. Then simply ask for a sync between the folders; the source one and the destination one.

There are several criteria that you can use to synchronize. CRC, time stamps, or file size to decide the newer versions of files. You could specify filters that include/exclude files and support delete or copy operations for letting you do manual sync. Several sync methods are offered that include augment, refresh and update. The interface is very simple and easy to use. It lets you do compare, sync, back ups quite easily. You can do that with all kinds of files including e-mails, photos, iTunes, MP3s, and almost anything else!

Cons: This is not necessarily a problem. But would it not have been nice if I could just specify two files and the application did the compare+ sync on its own!

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Screen capture program, very easy to use. Right-click provides access for contextual menu access. Move and size the window to the desired location, and select the “Capture” command for a region capture of the screen and Save the capture with the “Save” command.

Pros: This is a easy to use screen capture application. Access to the program is integrated with contextual menu and you can access the features through right click. You can place the capture window where you want and size it appropriate to capture only the region you are interested in. You can, of course, decide to capture the full screen too. Captured image is saved through a save command. You can decide to capture a screen with precise dimensions in terms of pixels on two dimensions. Image size menu item provides you those options. The format of capture is the PNG. A thumbnail capture also is possible.

The “Transparent Mode” command preserves the window and the image in transparency: you can use the capture like a tracing paper. There are several effects you can use besides raw capture. Lighten option cranks up the brightness to make the picture lighter, similarly reducing brightness will darken the captured image. One is able to enhance color, contrast and RGB components individually too. Turn the capture into a complete black and white image by getting rid of all the color information- if that is what you need to do. Psychedelic, black and white sketch and color emboss are some more effects available for your use. A “no border “ mode lets you get rid of the windows borders. If you need to create a photo montage, just open several instances of the program, arrange the windows and just capture the images.

Cons: Capture area can only be rectangular. Some kind of mark up tool would have been useful as a content creation tool.

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Baby Diary keeps a multimedia album for every record of your baby’s milestones.

With Baby Diary, you can keep files like notes, photos, and videos of prenatal development, delivery, first steps or custom categories for multiple children. The diary content can be arranged in a blog style with help of built-in calendar. Each diary entry displays the corresponding baby age.

Your baby’s growth process can be controlled by creating weight, length, and head circumference charts from birth to 36 months of age. Dental and vaccination schedule charts are included as well. This program offers you the possibility of creating your own percentile enabled charts of the baby development.

Baby Diary can also quickly and easily transform its multimedia album into the complete baby web site ready to be published on the web or stored on CD. Information on the Baby web site can include photos, videos, notes, age calculations and charts.

Conclusively, Baby Diary makes it possible to create your own web site templates. So, the possibilities of baby web site design using Baby Diary are virtually unlimited.

Features of Baby Diary:

General

• Easy to use drag & drop user interface.
• Can keep diaries for multiple children.
• Allows creating custom hierarchy of notes’ categories.
• Sortable list of notes with drag & drop support for each category.
• Trash node in category tree that holds recently deleted notes.
• Ability to arrange diary content in a blog style with help of built-in calendar.
• Date range filter for notes

Get more on: http://www.aktisoft.com/BabyDiaryAbout.htm

Petal Palace is game that takes you to an enchanted palace, surrounded by beautiful scenery where flowers grow in great abundance. Interestingly, there isn’t nearly enough space in the garden, so there’s only one thing to do and that is picking the flowers by arranging them in lines, to keep the palace from being overgrown. Use any tools you may find to overcome obstacles.

Picking the flowers as supposed offers you bonuses and rewards that will help you in your task. In Petal Palace you get lots of game variations with varying surroundings and gameplay.

Special features:

• Stunning 3D graphics.
• Lots of different game variations.
• Endless replayability!
• Supports both mouse and keyboard.
• Easy to learn (gameplay somewhat similar to games like Columns and Tetris).
• Hard to master, since every game variation requires different tactics and skills.
• Customizable keyboard keys.
• Customizable mouse buttons.
• Mouse scroll wheel support.
• Import/export highscores OpenGL support*.

Petal Palace always uses OpenGL on Mac OS X, but the Windows version may use DirectX if OpenGL-compatible hardware can’t be found.

Get more info from: http://www.norbyte.com/PetalPalace.html

There is a new diagnostic tool for Windows NT based systems and that is ESET SysInspector. It is free and state of the art. It provides details like running processes, registry content, startup items and network connections. Whenever a snapshot of the system is made, ESET SysInspector applies heuristics to assign a risk level for each object logged.

The graphical user interface enables the user to gain access to the large volume of data. ESET SysInspector is a convenient for all users.

Basic Features:

• Ability to generate and save a detailed log to be used by an IT expert or uploaded to an online forum for diagnosis
• Option to exclude private, personal information from being saved in logs
• Integrated Anti-Stealth technology allows discovering hidden objects (e.g. rootkits) in MBR, registry entries, drivers, services and processes
• Ability to compare two existing logs for differences makes it easy to detect changes over time
• Log entries are assigned a color code risk level for easy filtering
• Intuitive hierarchical navigation of logs
• Fast and compact single file executable, ideal for first responders to run from a USB drive without lengthy installation

For more information check: http://www.eset.com/download/sysinspector.php

You can now automatically process all emails you have in your POP3 mailbox (including Gmail) or in Mozilla Thunderbird, Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Vista Windows Mail email client with the use of an email parser called Process Them. The email parser can do the following instantly:

Process web forms you receive by email, extract common data and save it to a database (Excel, Access, MS SQL or MySQL) or to a text file. This is a must have tool for Ebay sellers or anyone who has online store and get order notifications by email.

• Save attachments to dedicated folder and remove these attachments from emails
• Send emails using extracted data. For example, it can be used as autoresponder with custom parameters
• Launch files with parameters using extracted data. So you can pass extracted data information directly to other applications
• Start Process Them as Windows Service if you want to use it on a server and it will process all your email automatically and unattended 24/7
• Delete, move or copy messages between folders. This feature can be used as perfect antispam filter or just to sort email according to your needs

More information is available on http://www.kadmy.com/process.html

Here is a modern, portable and fast Linux operating system that has a modular approach and outstanding design, it is called slax. In spite of its small size, Slax offers a large range of pre-installed programs for daily use, which has a well organized graphical user interface and useful recovery tools for system administrators.

The modular approach it has provides the ability to include any other software in Slax easily. Other programs like text editor, networking tool or game can be simply added by downloading a module with the software and copy it to Slax, without a need to install and to configure.

For beginners or busy people, there is a step by step method to build your own customized operating system by using web-based interface.

For more details, visit: www.slax.org

AptDiff is a visual text/binary files comparison and merging utility for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. It is highly useful for software developers, web designers and other professionals.

Pros: AptDiff is a Windows utility that does text/binary files comparison and merging. It is compatible to Windows 2000 to Vista. There are dual panes in the application that visually displays the differences in the files very effectively. Differences between the two files are highlighted for easy spotting. The color coding used can be customized easily. The color coding scheme can clearly indicate each line/byte added, deleted or changed. This could be very useful for software and web site developers besides other uses. The difference display can be formatted into a HTML page for publication on the web. Picking out the files for comparison is easy through the browser integrated into the application. File changes are detected and the display moves to the first difference. Navigation is easy thereafter; horizontal and vertical scrolling is synchronized. You could customize the way the panes are split. The application mode can be easily set to text or binary. Command line support, customization of keyboard shortcuts, multi language support, customizable toolbar are some other nice features.

When comparing text it can merge differences, merge differences in selected text, watch for changes outside the application and reload the file, comparison reports in HTML can be created, Unicode support, unlimited levels of undo/redo, can ignore white spaces, leading whitespace, trailing whitespace and case of characters while comparing. It can delete differences easily. When comparing binaries it compares byte by byte, navigates by differences within bytes and file sizes can be unlimited. AptDiff can be installed on FLASH or other portable drives including all user configurations. That lets you take the application anywhere.

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Today an average professional has a number of accounts to keep track of and these include email accounts, bank accounts, etc. Invariably it becomes difficult to manage and remember the passwords relating to these. Similar is the case with the credit card numbers, and since people may have different credit cards for official and personal use and it’s not easy to remember these. Saving such information in documents or writing them on paper, is not safe as anyone can easily access the important information. So, in order to ensure secure information storage of all your ideas, passwords, credit card numbers, etc, you can try the HiznOrganizer 1.0.1. It provides extremely easy to use feature-set that alleviates the risk of storing critical information with its strong password protection.

HiznOrganizer 1.0.1 allows the users to store their ideas, numbers, password, etc and store all the information in a single database. Beginning with the presentation part, the program’s interface is simple and doesn’t include any complex features. Starting up with the functioning, it provides you a home database folder that you can rename as per your requirements. If you’re creating the database the program requires you to enter the Title, description, and a password to protect it from unauthorized access. While renaming the folder, you can further add new category folders to store the information accordingly. Along with these, the right click menu is associated with the folders to help in information adding, and database properties options. Further, to this sequence, you can form notes and store them with the specific folders. These notes and folders are shown in tree form to be easily accessed by the user. With these, the application includes other common features like copy, cut, paste, open and save for using database and stored information conveniently. If there’s any confusion regarding application features or functioning, you can take the assistance of Help file.

HiznOrganizer 1.0.1 combines uncomplicated functionality with a bunch of easy to use features for recording different ideas, information, passwords, etc.

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