While sitting alone, we usually find images as our best companions that help us to relive those wonderful moments of our lives once again. But, even slight blemishes and poor image quality can ruin your pleasure of viewing all through. So, why not make your image viewing experience even better by trying out the new CactusView 1.0, which facilitates you in viewing as well as editing your images. It’s integrated with wide range of features that enables you to form slideshow, view thumbnail list, and edit your images as per your requirements for giving them attractive and striking appearance.

The console of the CactusView 1.0 opens with a dialog box prompting you to select an image for viewing it. The chosen image is then displayed at the mid of main window with various options placed at the top side. You can easily load different format image files like jpg, j2k, jp2, tif, jpe, png, bmp, ppm, along with gif, ico, wmf, psd, jpeg, pdf, emf, and various others. Using the features associated with the program, you can perform various functions. With the options, you can easily scroll through between previous and next image, view image list in the folder, zoom in/out, rotate the image, and make it best fit to the screen.

To make your images look attractive by changing it to lighter or darker shades, and editing contrast, brightness, RGB, colors, enhance image, etc. Even, you can crop the desired image area, safeguard it with watermark, apply sketch effect, black and white, emboss, red eye removal, and more. Add beautiful frames to your images with squares, circles, color lines, fade centre, overlay, flowers, magazine, and different other styles. Along with these, the option range includes annotate, crop, copy to clipboard, EXIF information, IPTC information, magnify, and even more to use. Edit the images and finally form them into a slideshow for fantastic viewing experience.

CactusView 1.0 enables you, in addition to viewing images, to perform basic editing of the images to make correction in order to make them more imposing.

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Wondershare PPT to YouTube is a professional PowerPoint to YouTube video converter. It can convert PowerPoint presentations to YouTube MP4, WMV video formats with all the elements in the original PowerPoint retained.

Features: Wondershare PPT to YouTube converts PowerPoint slideshows into video. This is necessary as YouTube accepts only WMV or MP4 formats. PowerPoint is the most popular format for creating presentations contents. YouTube is one of the best ways to share contents with others. This application marries to two so that promotional material created in PowerPoint presentations can be widely distributed. It thus becomes convenient and easy to create video slideshow with PowerPoint and this converter. Distribute through YouTube your creation to the wide open world audience. Business promotion via the YouTube is now enabled through this package. It is likely to yield better results than direct e-mail campaigns.

While converting the slideshows to the WMV or MP4 videos you can retain animations, transitions, sounds and movie clips. The application has batch processing facilities enabling conversion of many files at a time, up to 12 PowerPoint files can be converted in a batch. For converting a slide show import the file into the application. Set the output format you want and then start the process by clicking on the convert button. Convert to MPEG4 DivX or Xvid formats, 640×480 resolution, MP3 audio and 30 FPS for best results. Resulting video should be less than 10 minutes in duration. MP4 video can work with Smartphones and other handheld devices. WMV works with Zune portable media player.

Overall: Nice and easy converter for uploading on YouTube a comprehensive audience.

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WinUtilities Disk Cleaner securely clears obsolete/junk files, duplicate files and broken shortcuts from your computer. By clearing out these unwanted files WinUtilities Disk Cleaner can help you utilize your amount of available hard drive space.

Features: WinUtilities Disk Cleaner lets you free up space in the hard disk by cleaning up unnecessary junk. The junk that is both unnecessary and unwanted. More free space on the disk ensures better performance of your system. Many a Windows applications create quite a few temporary files. When closed they should clean up these temp files. But they pile quite often because some applications do not do this clean up well. A program error that cause unnatural termination of the program, badly designed application and may the shut down was not proper. When installing many applications add folders as well as shortcuts to the desktop and start menu.

One of the reasons these files may get overlooked is they are no real problems most often until a sizeable volume builds up. Most of these residue files are small by themselves. However thy can pile up to a substantial amount quite quickly. With WinUtilities Disk Cleaner you can safely, easily and effectively remove these unwanted and unnecessary files from you computer. The utility also has other tools that help you easily & securely delete these files. Clearing up such unnecessary muck out of the hard disk periodically helps improve performance. The program works with Windows 95, NT4, 98, Me, 2000, XP, 2003 Server and Vista.

Overall: Nice enough utility when you are substantially full in the hard disk. But that may be difficult in these days of monster hard disks with capacities in 500 GB to 1 TB of storage. It’d take a lot of time to do a scan of such huge disks too.

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Amazon.com is a storehouse of useful information whether you’re looking to buy something or just find information about it. But generally you have to first enter your search term and then click through to a product page to find items like customer reviews or sales rank.

Amazanian is a web site that uses the Amazon API to provides mode detailed information on the search results page. For each item, you’ll find a price, release date, availability information, customer rating, category, and sales rank. You can also click on tabs to read editorial or customer reviews and see similar products. And you add items to a shopping list with the click of a button. When you’re ready to check out from Amazon, you can click a button on the shopping list to add everything to your Amazon cart. (more…)

Do your writing skills leave a lot to be desired? WhiteSmoke 2009 is an English writing software that will boost your writing skills, make your writing look and sound more professional, and help you find the right words when words seem to fail you.

Features: Whether one writes for business or pleasure quite often one could use a little help. WhiteSmoke 2009 aims to be such a companion when you are writing and can point out errors that include not only spelling errors but also style related. This package is indeed better that a lot of run of the mill packages aimed at this niche. The application provides a grammar checker that can detect and correct tricky grammar errors. A style checker helps improve sentences, vocabulary and writing style. The included punctuation checker attempts to improve readability with accurate punctuation.

Error explanations that pop up provide you with detailed explanations of the problem detected and helps you learn from errors. The application can work in conjunction with any document preparation in MS Word, Outlook and other text based applications. All these help are supported by a Thesaurus so that accurate word definition, synonyms and idiomatic phrases are available to you when needed. Letter templates help with templates for standard situations. Something like 600 templates are provided by the package. Supported by NLP and text enrichment technologies this package not only helps your English get better it also can help some one with English as the second language to smoothen out all the kinks. White Smoke 2009 is an amazing English writing software that is sure to have you writing high quality letters, articles, and website content quickly and effortlessly.

Overall: This is truly a great help, particularly the learning experience it provides.

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keyCulator is the simplest calculator software in the world. However, the simplicity is both a concept and a power! This is the only calculator software without a program window. Actually, there is no window at all!

Features: keyCulator is a simple calculator software. It does not need a separate program window or any complicated interface. It works with the program that you may be using at that time. It can add this calculator functionality to any running program at all. It does work standalone too. Supposing you need a calculation to be shown in a Word document and have the calculator running. Typing 2+2 and hitting the = sign will automatically produce the string 2+2+4. If you do not need the 2+2 string that can be done too and only the result entered into the document. You may want to a calculation and then comeback into the document. All these options are available with this calculator.

When running, all you need to do is press the NumLock button. The numeric keypad becomes the calculator keys. The enter key becomes the = key. For calculations outside any other program simply enter numbers and operators as you would with any calculator. As soon as you hit the = key the expression as well as the result is shown in the hint window at the bottom of the screen. You can continue to do calculations with the results of the first step. Simply use the operator of the next level and continue normally you will keep getting results as they are calculated with the result of the earlier stage, the new operator and the new number at the current level.

Overall: Nice and easy to use program. Though for a very simple purpose it does the job well.

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Address book with user-friendly interface that will help you to start a new life.

Features: Delicious Address Book is a user friendly program that can keep track of all your contacts. No need to flip through a bulky address book you have been maintaining manually. Here’s no way you can forget your friend’s phone number or another’s email address. It makes the search very easy. The interface in its friendly way helps updating details of your contact or finding the details. Contacts are organized in a tree so that a structure is imposed on the details and it becomes easy to find.

For example a top level branching could be based on whether the contact is from work or he/she is a friend. Names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses etc are maintained in the database. A value added feature for busy people is a built in Calendar that never lets you forget any meeting or events.

Overall: Even though the version number says it is not a version 1.0, looks like all the kinks has not been ironed out yet. It gave several internal OLE automation error messages during the try out. Did not look like there was anything additional you could do that you could not do in Outlook.

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A tool for find and replace across multiple text files. Supports regular expressions and provides an expression tester, batch processing and library facility. It also features an interactive file list and highlighted search results.

Features: A tool for work with text files. TextCrawler enables you to instantly find and replace words and phrases across multiple files and folders. It utilizes a Regular Expression engine that helps you create sophisticated searches, perform batch operations, extract text from files etc. Varied search parameters could be used.

To make sure the regular expressions specified are workable, the program provides a regular expression tester. Save the regular expressions that work in a library for future use. You can save the search & replace scripts too. Search results are highlighted by the program. Multiple operations can be batched to operate on a file. Search and replace results can be exported to another program.

The extract feature lets you mine of specific information from a set of files. For example you can specify a regular expression to define an e-mail address and extract these addresses. The results are displayed on a separate window and can be saved. You can specify a set of files starting with a “start location”. There are couple of viewing modes. In one all the files that were searched are listed. In the second mode all files searched are displayed in preview window at the same time. The interface is simple and quite intuitive. It is easy to use.

Overall: Simple to use text processing application and is quite powerful.

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RSS Content Generator is a comprehensive website generator from free RSS feeds (news, press releases and articles) to boost up your search engine rankings or make money with Google AdSense or other advertising program.

Features: RSS Content Generator creates websites and is uploads the content to your web server. It collects contents from free RSS feeds; feeds that publish news, press releases and articles. It can handle multiple web sites, keywords, RSS feeds, RSS sources. RSS key word search is built in. several publishing templates are built in. You can customize easily too. Templates are multi page ones. It can run on a given schedule.

As a webmaster you can manage several web site through this application. Feed items filtering could be quite advanced so that you can choose, automatically, exactly what you want to publish. New news items are added to the site rather than replacing the older items. This helps fresh content to be published often. That helps you gain ranks on the search engine results. That in turn, particularly if you manage to get on the first page of results, drives traffic to your site. Whether you are trying to make money through AdSense advertising or actually doing e-commerce it is important that you are able to get enough traffic.

Overall: Can really help with fresh content. How far that will boost your traffic or let you earn more Adsense revenue or how much conversion you can get on your business site are all dependent on lot many factors. Ability to get enough traffic is a fundamental requirement of course.

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Web menu buttons and banners play a significant role in grabbing the visitor’s attention and to urge them for visiting the website pages. Considering their importance, developers put lot of their efforts in creating attractive web buttons and banners. But, it often becomes a long process due to the technicalities involved in applying various effects and customizations to them. So, if you want to create web button or banners conveniently, while avoiding the hassles involved, then just give a try to Just Buttons 4.1. By using the application, you can conveniently generate the web banners and buttons while applying different customizations according to your requirement. The program supports you in applying different effects, mousedown and mouseover events, add text, lines shapes, and event more.

The Just Buttons 4.1 opens with a decently structured interface with self-explanatory features that are easy to use. For creating a new button, you’re shown the default button structure on program screen. For customizing the button, you’re provided with option windows for Size and Location, Text Options, and Preview. The utility even prompts you to take the assistance of the Guide to generate professional web buttons or banners. The frames and buttons that you create are listed with tree view on left panel for easy selection to customize them. Further, you can alter the shapes, insert images, line, colors, text, mouseover, font, style, size, location, and apply different features like shadow, bevel, glass, outline, etc. Using the application, you can create buttons with shapes like rounded rectangle, parallelogram, trapezoid, star, circle, square, triangle, ellipse, hexagon, bullet, and various others. As you customize the web buttons, the preview of the changes made can be seen simultaneously with the Preview window. For creating banner you can easily insert frames, gif frames, images, and other objects, alter animation properties, and apply different supported customizations. Completing the necessary steps, you can save and export the created button/banners.

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