Data confidentiality has emerged as one of the most challenging issues for companies with a majority of clients mentioning data security clause in their project contracts. Along the same, data confidentiality coupled with good performance has become one of the prime concerns for the businessmen these days. Being concerned about your project files’ protection, you must have started seeking for an adept encryption tool. However, you can try Hide Secret Files 3 3.0 that comes with expertise features which help users in applying password protection or hiding the files in order to safeguard them against unauthorized access. The functioning of the utility is much effective as it doesn’t let even your operating system to modify the file information.

The Hide Secret Files 3 3.0 application’s best feature is that the protected files aren’t visible to your Operating System, thus making them inaccessible in Safe Mode or even if the hard drive is moved to another PC. Beginning to work on file protection task, first you require selecting files and folders you want to be password protected. The selected files/folders are queued up at the console in explorer style, with files represented by specific icons as per file type. By right clicking on the item, you’re provided a context menu allowing you to hide, unhide, change settings, erase open or browse folder relating the file. You can also utilize the hotkeys to hide or unhide the chosen file without browsing through the menus. As the hidden data is to be moved at a specific destination, you can set your desired destination using the Settings option. Along with destination setting, it also allows you to set password for the application so that no unauthorized person can access its features and unhide any file.

Hide Secret Files 3 3.0 facilitates users in employing high-end protection to their files and folders, by hiding them from other users and even from the operating system itself.

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Is your business being affected with poor management, with its impacts being observed on almost every aspect of your business, from managing appointments with clients to organize business events properly? Then it’s time for you to go for some handy solution that can help you organizing various business tasks effectively. However, you don’t have to surf through a large number of websites to get such assistance, as FocusDesktop 1.2 is there to help you out. The utility works as a reminder and organizer, which supports managing your appointments, events, notes, project files, and even contacts. With it, you can record information as notes, keep contacts, set reminder for events/appointments, and also manage different files/folders into specific category folder.

The FocusDesktop 1.2 runs with ‘Configure Projects’ wizard, where you have to select project type, its related contacts, and finally create the projects. Creating the project, the program opens its relating tab with sub-tabs presenting different features. It’s capable of working with multiple projects at one time, which accompany Documents, Planner, Address Book, To Do List, and Notes tabs. Coming to the basic features, the Documents tab helps categorizing your files and folders to access specific files immediately by clicking the category folder. You can add different type of files to specific category or folder, which further can be opened from the program with ease. Next is the Planner tab, using which you can easily set appointments, events, meetings, etc at specified date and time, and also can set reminder if necessary. Setting each day’s plans, you can select Contacts tab that facilitates importing and adding contacts, whether personal or professional. Last is Notes tab, where you can record your important idea, information, etc. The supportive To Do List column appears at the right side, where you can add and view the list of tasks you have to perform. You can plan your event, appointment, meeting, etc easily using the Calendar feature.

FocusDesktop 1.2 helps you in managing your work files, daily events, routine tasks, and plan out your day properly for enhanced work performance.

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Web developers prefer using Flash objects so as to add appeal to their websites. These objects make the website more dynamic and user-friendly and thereby help in increasing traffic to any website. But, the large sized flash files may also inflict troubles for the web developers as these take huge amount of time to load. However, instead of removing your impressive and fantastic flash files from website, you can rather try compressing them to smaller size. Well, performing this task requires a proficient utility that would give the effective results with minimal quality loss. A competent utility that could be very useful for you is SWF Compressor 2.0. The application boasts of features that help easy SWF file selection and compressing task. It utilizes different algorithms of shapes, vector, Z-buffer, fonts, morphing, etc, for flash optimization.

With its intuitive interface and rich feature set the SWF Compressor 2.0 surely comes across as a potent tool. For beginning with the compression task, you have to choose the source folder containing SWF files you want to compress. When the selected files are listed on program console, next you’re required to specify the target folder for output file storage. Further, it also allows you to choose a desirable name for the compressed files, followed by alteration in ‘Compression Settings’. The ‘Compression Settings’ lets you choose the quality level along with the selecting the objects you want to be compressed. The object list for compression covers every SWF file element; images, video, sounds, shapes, and fonts. Furthermore, it also lets you enable applying Zlib compression along with compressing zero objects. Finally, click on ‘Compress’ button to commence the process. Moreover, in addition to this, the application even gives you the liberty to compress many files altogether.

Using the SWF Compressor you can effortlessly compress your SWF flash files making them smaller in size.

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ImTOO MPEG Encoder Platinum is powerful video and audio converter, especially WMV converter, which can convert video or audio file from one format to another, like convert WMV to AVI, WMV to MPEG, as well as video to audio and picture.

Features: ImTOO MPEG Encoder Platinum converts video files. It can covert video from one format to another easily. It also is able to convert audio files. It supports video formats like AVI, WMV, MP4, ASF, MPEG, RM, 3GP, audio formats like MP2, MP3, WMA, AAC, AC3, OGG, AU, and picture formats like JPG, PNG, GIF, and BMP. CBR or VBR output can be selected for some profiles. From one video clip in the input you can make separate pieces or you can merge several input clips into one at the output easily. Previewing is available for source file and clip segments. You can set volume control over the clips.

While splitting a source file you can clearly define the cut points precisely. Set the duration of the clips or the file size to define the individual pieces. A built in bit rate calculator helps you decide the size of the video you want to create for mobile player devices. You can define several output formats to one source file. When ripping audio from CD you can convert to various formats suitable for your portable player. It supports HD encoding/decoding and APE/CUE decoding. When ripping video add or adjust sub-title files such as ASS. SSA or SRT formats. Multi core processors are supported, thus when the machine actually has a multi-core CPU your conversion gets faster.

Overall: With so many formats being handled, there’s always a possibility of problems so make sure the formats you use most often does not give rise to any artifacts when converting. Easy to use and full of features application.

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In a world where most of us have a negative net worth, managing finances is a key way to reach your financial goals. Desktop Budget Lite will help you reduce loans, pay off your credit cards or mortgage, and manage your investments.

Features: Desktop Budget is a Microsoft Windows based personal finance manager. It is a financial management software that delivers all essential features covering almost all day-to-day financial activities. Managing finances is the key to keep your head above the waters in these tough times. Desktop Budget Lite will help you reduce loans, pay off your credit cards or mortgage, and manage your investments. You can manage not only your personal finances but of a small business as well. This program can be used for multiple currencies, large number of payees, payers any number of budget categories and bank accounts.

Your ability to manage multiple databases in this program lets you manage personal as well as business finances from the same program. Multiple account types with different currencies can be handled within the same project. Exchange rates can be downloaded from the Internet so that net values can be at your fingertips frequently. Investment portfolios can be managed closely as you can download stock values frequently so that current value of you stock is available. Mortgage and loan payments also can be calculated, so that net asset/ liabilities are known. Plan your budget and monitor the expenses by tracking spending records and reports. Set your own criteria to generate these reports that suit your needs specifically. You can schedule future transactions and save them as templates. You can import/ export transactions from/to on-line bank transaction records.

Overall: An easy to use budget planner and net worth tracker that can track your personal as well as business finances.

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With the notable surge in online virus attacks, web users have become more conscious about security of their content over the web. This rise in malicious attacks has called for some effective preventive measures that can safeguard the data present on the web. A way to do this is to apply password protection to the webpages that prevents these pages from any sort of unauthorized intrusion. If you’re also seeking such password protection measure for your web pages then try out Easy Web Password 1.2. It’s an effective utility for locking HTML webpages and text files by allowing you to add password protection to them. The tool employs effectual encryption algorithms for protecting your web pages. When you apply password protection to Text or HTML files, their content can be seen only if the correct username and password is entered.

The protected files created by the Easy Web Password 1.2 are compatible with all modern browsers. The encrypted files can easily be stored on your PC, website, CD and DVD for further usage. For protecting your HTML files, there’s a simple step-by-step process you need go through. Beginning with the first step, add your HTML and text files for applying the protection. Selecting the files, press ‘Next’ for moving to the further step for applying the username and password to each file. While adding new username and password, you can even choose them to be generated randomly or use the single password mode. Specifying the usernames and passwords, the next step is for setting the Protection type, and enabling the features relating double bytes charset support, creation of backup file, and redirecting to specified web page. After the configurations, the last step lets you lock or unlock the file to apply or remove the protection.

Easy Web Password 1.2 facilitates safeguarding of your text and HTML files with effective password protection.

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Usually job-profile of writers, developers, and coders include copy-pasting various text strings, which eventually turns out to be monotonous due to repetitive nature of the task. In order to get rid of this monotony and frustration, you can try taking the effectual assistance of a utility to perform the copy pasting task effortlessly. If you are yet to find such an effective tool that can serve you, then Flashpaste 4.6 could be the one for you. The utility helps you in getting rid of repetitive copy-pasting task by enabling you to use the hotkeys. The application not only helps you in copying and pasting, but can also store templates of text that is repetitively used such as email addresses, contacts, signature, html codes, phrases, etc.

The functioning of Flashpaste 4.6 begins with configuring the hotkeys and position of the string selection box. The default keys assigned by the utility are Ctrl+U for opening the string panel, and Ctrl+O for pasting the last copied text. The program icon after installation is placed in the system tray, which also provides you the access to the string selection box. On main screen, with the left pane you can add new add folder file, or simple text content for further usage. While adding new text you can write or copy-paste it within the right side area to store it. Further, the utility comprises of Clipboard History feature, where it keep the list of all copied text strings making them available for usage anytime. Even you can add, edit or remove the templates for easy insertion of repetitive text strings. Along with these features, the utility accompanies Insert Macros option that helps you quickly insert current date and time, print, open target, access clipboard content, etc, along with letting you configure Macros Options. These and other beneficial supportive features make this application worth using for professionals whose work involves frequent use of text.

Flashpaste 4.6 allows copy-pasting text, storing and using text templates, along with creating and inserting macros effortlessly, thus making it easier for you to work with your text documents.

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DirEdit is one of the many batch renaming tools you can download for free. It’s a pretty basic application wherein you can batch select the files and rename them faster through the utility.

But what makes this application different from other batch renaming tool is on strings. The rules on renaming the files are very impressive. For example, users can create a rule deleting the first letter of the filename or replace them with their preferred character. This is also the possible for characters at the end of the file name where deletion as well as replacement is possible.

The interface of the application is also impressive. You’ll be working with two panels wherein the old file name will be displayed on the right and the new filename will be displayed on the other side. Users can manually edit the filename and see the actual results before they are implemented. File renaming will be completed only when the user clicks on the “Perform Action”. This prevents impulsive renaming which could be a great inconvenience.

The only downside of the application is that you have to manually enter each filename that you want to edit. The batch renaming is only possible if you have written the filename on a text and paste them in the application.

This tool is highly recommended for those who wanted to have a small application that could help them in renaming small number of files in their computer. Because it’s lightweight, installation is easy and will never use up your computer’s resources.

Check it out at http://www.bartgroot.nl/diredit/

Eyes Relax is a very simple but a very effective tool in reminding you to relax your eyes.  This application will inform the user that it’s time to rest the eyes by looking away from the computer monitor. Users can set the time of work and break time and the application will work as a timer wherein it will pop-up and produce a sound as a signal. After installation, Eyes Relax could be placed in the desktop and could be minimized to the notifications area. It’s presence in the notifications area will also help users customize the application without really opening it.

The application also comes with a parental control. Parents can prevent their children from staying too long in front of their computers through this application. After installation, the application will forcibly lock the computer. The computer will stop working unless the right password is entered. Because it can be customized, parents can use this as a reward system application wherein they can extend or limit the computer time of their kids. The interface is very simple for everyone to understand even on first use.

The application is installed as a systems utility in XP and Vista. That means it will require Microsoft .Net 2.0 before the application could run. Although the application is less than 2mb in size, the additional requirement is more than 200mb which could take a long time to download. But if you already have the framework, this is a great addition for your computer. The application is not intrusive and very simple to use.

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TTSReader is a free application that helps users listen to text as they are read by the application. A relatively small application (less than 3mb) but comes with very useful and powerful functions to help users listen to texts with full understanding.

The interface is very easy to understand. As it uses the standard shortcuts, copy and paste of text is possible in the interface. Text and Rich Text Files (.rtf) could be imported in the application and would be accordingly read.  The tone of the reader can be customized through the pronunciation manager interface. You can instruct the reader on how to read a word by matching the specified word with another word that has the same sound. Sentence and paragraph skip is also added and you can follow what the application reads as it highlights every word while reading the document.

There are two unique features rarely found in most text to speech applications – the first feature is the additional output available in the application. Aside from the common .wav output, the output could be on .mp3 with full bitrate control. This means you can easily transfer the files to your chosen mp3 player and listen to them wherever you go.

The second feature of the application is the option for expansion. Users can opt to download “commercial voices” from AT&T and NeoSpeech for a more “human” voice. The application already comes with a male and female voice and there are also free voices that could be added from Microsoft.

More info at http://www.sphenet.com/TTSReader/index.htm