Prey helps you track and find your laptop or phone if it ever gets out of sight. You can quickly find out what the thief looks like, what he’s doing on your device and actually where he’s hiding by using GPS or Wi-Fi geopositioning. It’s payback time. Prey uses either the device’s GPS or the nearest Wi-Fi hotspots to triangulate and grab a fix on its location. The program fully locks down your PC, making it unusable unless a specific password is entered.

Prey for Windows has a lot of key features that include the following; take a picture of the thief with your laptop’s webcam so you know what he looks like and where he’s hiding, the program uses either the device’s GPS or the nearest Wi-Fi hotspots to triangulate and grab a fix on its location, Prey will attempt to hook onto to the nearest open Wi-Fi hotspot when no Internet connection is found, grab a screenshot of the active session, and if you’re lucky you may catch the guy logged into his email or Facebook account, get a complete list of your PC’s CPU, motherboard, RAM, and BIOS information, hide your Outlook or Thunderbird data and optionally remove your stored passwords, so no one will be able to look into your stuff, and many more.

Want to check it out? Visit Preyproject.

GS-Calc 9.0 is a spreadsheet application that will help you organize your data, track your expenses and incomes, create reports, search and edit databases. Using fast GS-Calc pivot tables and other advanced functions you can perform the most demanding statistical calculations and data analysis. Some of its unique features include capability of organizing worksheets in tree structures, working efficiently with very large data sets (12 million rows x 4,096 columns) and linear/quadratic programming functions. You can install GS-Calc on any portable storage device and carry it along with you. The publisher has introduced multi-core calculation support, which allows you to specify the number of threads/CPUs that should be used when updating formulas.

GS-Calc 9.2 contains about 300 built-in formulas including specialized numerical functions: matrix decompositions; linear equation sets with improving iterations; least squares (weighted, constrained), regression with orthogonal polynomials; time series analysis; minimization; linear, integer and quadratic programming.

Other features include the following; array of formulas and 3D-formulas; UDF functions accepting and returning arrays, workbooks containing any number of hierarchically organized worksheets, multi-pane worksheet windows with up to 100 freely sync views; advanced sync options, 2D/XY and 3D charts capable of handling very large amounts of data, and many more.

Want to check it out? Visit GS-Calc.

Adobe AIR is a very popular program that lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that run outside the browser on multiple operating systems. It offers an exciting new way to engage customers with innovative, branded applications, without requiring changes to existing technology, people, or processes. From shopping on eBay to managing music, Adobe AIR means applications that are easier, more powerful, and more fun to use.

This version of Adobe Air Runtime enables you to explore a new architecture for high-performance 2D/3D GPU hardware accelerated graphics rendering by Adobe; providing low-level Stage3D APIs for advanced rendering in apps and gives framework developers classes of interactive experiences. Other new features or additions to this version include the following; use native code to take advantage of the same platform- and device-specific native capabilities and APIs available to native apps, with easy integration into AIR applications, developers now have more flexibility with their app packaging options and can automatically package AIR 3 with their Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac OS app into a single installation file that includes the app and a bundled version of the AIR runtime, and a host of others.

Want to check it out? Visit AIR.

GS-Base is a flexible and portable database that will help you transform your data into tables of records, analyse it using pivot tables and quickly look up any information you need. With GS-Base, you can print forms, letters and labels, send personalized email messages with customized attachments or publish html pages using your own html templates.

Users who download this version of GS-Base can look forward to a couple of new additions that include the following; new printing options (improved label printing, and new print setup), GS-Base can now use an optional *.gsb file extension for its database *.zip files, improved object/image (inserting and) handling, more format types displayed as graphics in binary fields, a new “Edit > Convert Field > Replace Substrings” command performing table-based, batch character/substring substitutions for all records at once, and significantly smaller setup file size after removing the older, previously bundled graphics/jpeg library.

Some other older features in GS-Base include the following; 12 million records x 2047 fields in one table, managing any type of data, around 300 standard built-in formulas that can be used to automatically calculate field values, easy database synchronization, printing tables, sending personalized e-mail messages with customized attachments, strong password protection and encryption, and many more.

Want to check it out? Visit Citadel5.

Bytescout Screen Capturing SDK makes screen cast video recording (WMV, AVI) as easy as 5 lines of code in your Visual Basic, C# or C++ application. If you develop an application which is intended to record screen activities to WMV, AVI movie files, Bytescout Screen Capturing SDK can be used to easily add screen video capturing functionality to your application. This screen recording SDK lets you create high quality desktop record including audio, mouse movements and clicks.

Bytescout Screen Capturing SDK simplifies developing screen recording software in any programming language. It includes Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic .NET, Visual C# .NET sample source codes and is compatible with any programming language that supports ActiveX. Some of the benefits or features of this program include the following; capture sound from any available source along with screen recording, pause and resume functions available for both WMV and AVI output formats, custom name for the filter or capturer object is available, now includes MSI redistributable files so you can easily integrate installation of SDK files into your application’s installer, record predefined window or application – the best solution for creating tutorials and software simulations, capture selected rectangle region of a screen the most flexible solution that is usually added to any screen recording software, and many more.

Want to check it out? Visit Bytescout.

Virtual Access Point (Virtual AP) lets you share your Internet through Wireless. The program is easy-to-use application that turns any LAN-connected PC into a Wi-Fi wireless access point. So anyone nearby can surf the Internet through your sharing. This is an ideal solution for setting up a temporary AP in a hotel room, meeting room, at home or the like. Also, your iPhone, PDA, mobile can enjoy the Internet by connecting to the wireless network broadcasted by Virtual AP.

Using Virtual Access Point software means you can share Internet access with co-workers during meetings or conferences in locations where there is just one Internet connection such as a hotel or conference centre. This will work in locations which offer Internet access connections through an Ethernet connection.

Virtual Access Point includes a lot of key features such as; share internet with another laptop, share internet with iPhone, iPod, PDA, Xbox or any other, Wi-Fi security, one-click sharing, share 3G over Wi-Fi, share ISDN over Wi-Fi (ISDN sharing), share DSL over Wi-Fi (DSL Sharing or ADSL Sharing), share DSL or ADSL to another laptop or PC, and many more. Virtual Access Point is a shareware and is available for download and tried for 15 days.

Want to check it out? Visit Virtual-AP.

Ever need to change attributes (date and time of their creation etc.) of files and folders as quickly as you possibly could? Well, with Windows it is a bit tedious and slow. However, it is a different ball game with Attribute Manager because it simply allows you to change Read-Only, Hidden, System and Archive attributes. You can change the date and time of creation, last access, last modification of files and folders. The program uses templates that allow you to configure changes and apply them to an unlimited number of files and folders. Attribute Manager is easy to use and supports a multilingual user interface.

Attribute Manager is a shareware that has a lot of user-friendly features that include the following; change all known attributes of files, batch change for the attributes, date and time, increase or decrease date and time, partial modification date/time, processing a large number of files and folders, system of reusable templates, processing subfolders, Intuitive program interface, file manager, as well as in Windows Explorer, detailed manual with examples, and a few others. Attribute Manager’s interface is available in the following languages; English, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, French, Chinese traditional, Czech, Greek, Portuguese, Turkish, English, Deutsch, Russian, Dutch, and Arabic.

Want to check it out? Visit Miklsoft.com.

WinSent Messenger is an instant messaging program for local area networks. The messenger allows you to conveniently and instantly exchange short text messages with other users of your network, send and receive personal messages to and from them, send broadcast messages to a group of users or to all users of the network. A couple of changes made in this version include the following; fixing of issues that cause errors when sending messages, addition of Portuguese (Brazil) translation, and addition of deleting contact list groups.

WinSent Messenger has simple but handy and easy-to-use user interface, and there is nothing superfluous; just things required for a comfortable work without excess body movements. The program has a contact list, message archive, LAN browser. The application supports configurable hot keys and sound notifications and offers a wide set of other options allowing you to customize the program’s behavior according to your needs and preferences. Low usage of system resources comes out of the great optimization work; its distribution package size is actually about 500 KB. Other features of messenger include the following; does not require a dedicated server or an internet connection, compatible with terminal server and newest Windows versions, NET SEND compatible, and a couple of others.

Want to check it out? Visit Winsentmessenger.

JPhotoTagger is a platform independent Photo Manager. The program lets you manage and find fast your photos through keywords, descriptions and other so called metadata (“tags”). JPhotoTagger also speeds up adding or editing tags through automatic keyboard input completion and other features.

All tags will be written into XMP sidecar files and JPhotoTagger’s database. The images are left untouched. The program is open to work together with other applications such as Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. JPhotoTagger automatically reads tags from new and changed sidecar files and updates its database. You also have the opportunity to tag your photos with a program like Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and JPhotoTagger both even on different operating systems. JPhotoTagger runs on every system where Java is installed.

Some of the features in JPhotoTagger include the following; file system folders, favourite file system folders (user defined and ordered by importance), timeline, saved searches, photo albums (image collections), photo albums (image collections), smart collections, images without specific metadata (images without a copyright notice), Fast search input field in the application’s window with auto complete, keywords and rating stars can be overlaid to the thumbnails, embedded IPTC metadata, copy complete metadata from and paste to selected images, and a couple of others.

Want to check it out? Visit Jphototagger.

Web Architect is an extremely powerful application for creating modern and professional Websites, homepages and Web applications. The program supports all relevant Web standards and technologies including the following; HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and a host of others. Web Architect fully supports Unicode which allows creating Web pages using all international languages and character sets (ANSI, UTF-8, UTF-16).

The very intuitive task- and context-centred user interface makes it very easy both for professionals and first-time users to become familiar with the application. The program supports the following; powerful code-based web/HTML editor, supports (X( HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, page preview with Internet Explorer, WebKit and Firefox, integrated desktop CMS, supports HTML5 and CSS3, secure FTP Client with two-way sync, supports jQuery, prototype, etc, as well as modern Office 2010 user interface.

Web Architect also includes a number of highly advanced features such as the following; browser previews (Internet Explorer as integrated preview, Firefox/Mozilla as integrated preview, and WebKit as integrated preview.), supports various JavaScript frameworks (jQuery, MooTools, Prototype, Script.aculo.us, Dojo, YUI), Integrated spellchecking, upload and download files from/to a remote FTP server, support for SFTP / SSH and SSL+FTP, change file attributes directly on the remote server, and many more.

Want to check it out? Visit Mirabyte.