Accidental data losses from PCs have always been among one of the notorious issues of modern days. Our PCs are very prone to virus attacks or other form of illicit intrusions that could end up in sudden system crash, and ultimately loss of data. Moreover, certain other issues, such as hard drive failures, connection issues, etc, could also result in accidental loss of information. Though these losses pose irremediable troubles, an effective backup could save us from getting trapped into it. One such commendable application that truly deserves your attention is Quick Backup 4.0. You simply need signing up and installing the application for the back up creation. It supports creating backup of emails, documents, files, and network drives. Further, you can also set specific schedule for running daily online backup.

Using Quick Backup 4.0 is extremely easy as you just need to sign up, install the application, and begin creating backup of the desired files. Login and the main screen of the utility presents different options to begin with; ‘Create a backup task’, ‘Restore file/folders’, ‘Manage existing task’, and ‘My account/plan’. First time users need to click on ‘Create a backup task’ option, which presents program window prompting you to select backup type from Daily Backup, Real Time Backup, and Email Backup. Daily backup create automatic online backup of selected files on daily/weekly basis.

Real Time backup and Email Backup help creating backup of files you’re working on, and Outlook/Outlook Express emails, respectively. The backup creation wizard provides steps to make file/folders/drives/network drive selections, followed by the selection of backup type, backup schedule, backup time, name of backup task, and finish. Making necessary selections, the program begins the scheduled tasks. You can easily restore data, and manage backup tasks with Delete, Edit, and Migrate options. Furthers using ‘Options’ you can check your account info, change password, alter backup schedules, encrypt folders, access error logs, and set program startup options.

Quick Backup 4.0 utility facilitates creating secure online backup for all your important data with a simplified selection process.

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Internet has clearly redefined the entertainment options in current scenario, with a huge chunk of population is shifting towards web-based activities and content. Online videos rest among the prime entertainment entities for the modern world, and hence the web is currently flooded with a number of video sharing websites. Well, the real crunch comes when we try to download these videos, as a few prominent websites don’t sport the downloading feature. However, the issue could largely be resolved by trying out the new Hulu Downloader 1.0. It’s an effective Windows utility offering diverse features to grab, save, and play flash movies, conveniently. The program comprises of ‘FLV Browser’, ‘FLV Downloader’, ‘FLV to Video Converter’, ‘Video to FLV Converter’, ‘FLV Audio Ripper’, and ‘FLV Fixer’.

While beginning to download the flash movies with Hulu Downloader 1.0, the FLV Browser option is where you can enter website URL or search engine URL for searching the desired video. The URL of pages, with videos embedded in it, is grabbed and displayed at browser window’s bottom side. You can highlight desired URL and click Download, after which it gets listed with ‘FLV Downloader. This option enlists the flash movies in downloading process, which can be assigned a category after downloading. Further, the downloaded movie file can be added to ‘FLV to Video Converter’ option, where you can split, crop, watermark, and afterwards convert it into MP4, AVI, MPG, WMV, VOD, 3GP, or DV format. The program also offers ‘Video to FLV Converter’ option for converting other format videos into flash format. Listen to your favorite music by extracting it from the flash movie using ‘FLV Audio Ripper’ feature. With the various features, the application can also work to repair the FLV file through the ‘FLV Fixer’. It even integrates a player to play the flash movies. Followed up with all, it also gives you the liberty to alter Options relating Standard Settings and Skins.

Hulu Downloader 1.0 sports an intuitive interface is accompanied by a sophisticated feature-set to support easy grabbing, saving, converting, and playing the flash movie.

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Full-featured digital audio editing software that offers a variety of audio recording, mixing, editing, analyzing and effects processing possibilities. It provides an intuitive, easy-to-use interface and is designed for the everyday user.

Features: Mp3 Editor Pro is a audio editor. Its features make it suitable in producing studio quality recordings. Recording, mixing, editing, analyzing and effects processing gives it its power. If you understand what to do it has the tools to do it via a easy to user interface. Inter conversion between formats is possible. The formats supported include MP3, WMA, WAV, Ogg Vorbis and many others. There’s a set of effects and tools for the conversion between formats So preparing audio for presentations, flash animations or websites this is a tool that’s going to be handy for producing quality clips.

Supported audio formats are Uncompressed WAV PCM, Compressed WAV (GSM, DPCM, DSP, U-Law, A-Law and others); MPEG2 Layer 3 (MP3), MPEG2 Layer 2 (MP2), WMA (Windows Media Audio), Ogg Vorbis, AIFF, AU, MPC (Music Pack), VOX (Dialogic ADPCM), RAW (Uncompressed PCM, U-Law, A-Law), G.726, G.723, G.721, Audio CD tracks.

To help editing accurately you can display audio files in the waveform or the spectral view modes and apply zooming. You then mark the positions where editing needs to be applied. Edit and master audio with the following tools Cut, Copy, Delete Silence, Paste, Paste From File, Mix, Mix From File. There’s a range of filters and effects that you can apply. The filters include BandPassFilter, FFTFilter, HighPassFilter, HighShelfFilter, LowPassFilter, LowShelfFilter and NotchFilter. Effects that can be applied include Amplify, Delay, Fade, Flanger, Invert, Normalize, Reverse, Silence, Stretch, Vibrato, Echo. It works with Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista operating system or higher.

Overall: Quite a useful tool that can be used to produce professional clips if you know your filters and effects well.

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Many users are tired of over-complicated CD burning applications that are getting harder and harder to use. Sometimes you can waste most of your time just trying to find a function. Cool Burning Studio focuses on what you want!

Features: This application is positioned as a simple to use burner software. This is in contrast with many other products that are quite complicated. The application also offers file back up as an additional feature in addition to the simple operation for disc burning being offered. The burner applications are so complex at times that figuring out the feature is quite complex. His application offers burning of discs quickly, easily. It offers maximum quality as well as minimum hassle.
Burning of data in the form of files and folders on data CD or DVD or even Blu-ray discs are possible with this application.

Creating and burning disk images on CD/DVD and Blu-ray discs is easy too. You can both create and burn ISO, CUE/BIN image formats. You can rip music from CDs and burn music to audio CDs and MP3 discs on CD, DVD and Blu-ray in a variety of formats. Audio CDs can be created from WAV, MP3, WMA and Ogg Vorbis files. Video DVD, VCD and SVCD burning features are also available. Making copies of audio, video or data discs are easy and the burn speed and related options get set easily. Erasing of rewriteable media features is also available. The disc types that can be handled include CD-RWs / DVD+RWs / DVD-RWs/ DVD-RAM/ BD-Res.

Overall: Good features and ease of use makes this a really useful application. HD-DVD support also is included. That is not an useful feature any longer unless you have a HD player already. Copy creation goes with a responsibility of making sure you do not violate copyright issues.

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SmartFolio is state-of-the-art asset management software for investment professionals and private investors. It contains advanced portfolio optimization and risk management algorithms, based on the latest achievements in portfolio theory.

Pros: SmartFolio is an advanced, easy to use analytical tool for portfolio analysis and management of investment portfolios according to the investor’s risk profile. Investment professionals and private investors can use the software to make meaningful investments decisions. SmartFolio is a state-of-the-art asset allocation software for investment professionals and private investors. SmartFolio contains advanced asset allocation, portfolio optimization and risk management techniques. These techniques are based on advancements of portfolio theory. These mathematical techniques are from the developments in the last few years.

Techniques lead to practical indicators that help in advanced portfolio optimization, asset performance ranking, risk-reward Analysis and efficient frontier, portfolio risk analysis (VaR and CVaR), target shortfall probabilities analysis, minimization of transaction costs etc. The application has been upgraded to include the functionalities of Black-Litterman model, walk-forward optimization, import from Bloomberg Professional, import from an Excel table, batch import, and automatic update from all data sources. It supports multi-period investment paradigm and supports portfolios that feature assets with non-Gaussian distribution of returns or non-linear inter-dependencies such as options and hedge funds. Other major functionalities are portfolio construction, estimation of parameters, portfolio optimization, historical simulations and data management. The application is supported on Vista also.

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Calculate Mileage Charts and Tables with MS MapPoint. You can calculate tables for customers and suppliers including “closest only”, or to create “road atlas” tables. You can distances, travel times and/or estimated costs to Excel.

Pros: You can use the application for calculating mileage charts for locations of interest. These can be customer locations, supplier location and so on. If you are already using Microsoft MapPoint, you know how much trouble it is to calculate various distances and travel times to reach your customers in time. Use MileCharter to take the pain out of these calculations. Process hundreds of source and destination locations accurately in minutes with a few mouse clicks. If you need, create “road atlas” tables. These mileage charts and tables are created using MS MapPoint maps as the basis. You can output route distances, travel times, estimated costs etc can be output to Excel sheet. These can be very large spread sheets and thus no real limitation as to how many points you use to calculate the tables. The options available in MapPoint of finding routes based on fastest route, straight line routes, road speeds, road preferences etc available in MapPoint. It uses 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009 versions of both the European and American editions. The application can calculate very large batches of thousands of routes quite easily. Windows 2000, XP or the Vista is the platform on which this application works.

“Closest only” option lets you sort and find the closest destination easily. If you need to find the closet service location for a specific customer this will be the approach. For deriving a cost table you could assign a per mile cost or a fixed cost for a distance interval. Pause/restart function allows very large processing runs to be stopped and restarted. So calculating a cost schedule for hundreds or even thousands of your customers is not a problem at all. It works as a plug-in and MapPoint MileCharter has a simple, easy-to-use interface allowing easy selection of start and finish locations, as well as formatting and other options.

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Rohos Welcome 1.1 is a dynamic Login Screen that could replace your default Windows 2000/XPLogin dialog box. The password that you set for logging into your PC can be easily hacked, and thus the safety of your data and computer may get compromised. But the application offers a competent protection measure, by allowing you to use a hardware key as a replacement of Windows password. It supports storing the username and password info on USB drive for using it to access your Windows. Further, it also consists of configurations that support locking your workstation by removing the USB drive. Using the application you would not require remembering the login and password details, as they get safely stored with the flash drive. Moreover, the application by replacing the default security panel, helps preventing unwanted access to network users to your PC data.

Rohos Welcome 1.1 is rather easy to use and its interface comprises of small window with uncomplicated features. At the top of the program window is displayed the info relating to Admin’s USB key configurations. With the first option, Setup USB Key, you can configure a USB device as Windows accessing key. Connecting to the USB device, enter Windows password and click ‘Setup USB Key’. Also a ‘Setup Emergency Logon’ can be set by entering few questions and answers, and you can easily disable/enable key as desired. If you want to set a new password for Windows, then the ‘Change Password’ option is provided to you. With this option, enter the current and then new password, confirm the new one, and type the password tip if you wish to. You can even restrict the usage time for specific users through ‘Setup users’ feature. Using ‘Options’ you can select Windows logon model, USB key device type, and the action to be performed when you remove the USB key, from the option’s dropdown menu. Further, you can customize the images and text of the Logon screen. Finally apply the settings and enjoy working with effective protection applied to your Windows.

The Rohos Welcome 1.1 offers users the flexibility to configure various attributes relating the protection applied to Windows with the help of a hardware key device.

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Moonfall, a legendary village, is renowned for its totally dark seasons of eleven months. The people of Moonfall live with dreams as their reality, but now the land of beautiful dreams has turned out to be the place of nightmares and utmost fear. It’s because of Malus, a demon, who wants Moonfall to be a dark place where no one would ever awake. The twist comes in when a young farmer having control over his dreams comes forward to fight Malus. But on his journey to find and confront Malus, he needs your help to guide through different levels of ‘Moonfall Land of Dreams Demo’ game. During this journey, you would have to pass 11 distinct chapters with increasing difficulty.

After installing the Moonfall Land of Dreams Demo, you can immediately begin playing the game. With the Setup feature you can modify Input, Audio, and Video relating settings. Input helps you to change the game controls like jump, fly, attack, run, etc. Beginning to play the game, you would meet Pixie, a fairy, who would guide you throughout the journey. You have to find the four pieces of sunstone that are scattered across the Moonfall’s land to restore the peace. While moving on you would have to jump over the platforms and other hurdles, deal with various vile creatures, collect the weapons, and fight your enemies. The game includes hero health bar, inventory box, number of lives, stars, golden star, brain, keys, potions, gauntlet, lantern, boots, wings, hidden traps, and weapons like mace, magic-shot, cannon, etc. These are set for different purposes to help to further progress with the game.

Moonfall Land of Dreams Demo is an exciting game that presents a catchy graphical work, sound effects, and various challenges offered with each level.

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A free PHP script, converts RSS feeds to HTML. Users can create web pages that will always display the most current information from the RSS feed, and because the resulting page is pure HTML, it will be in a format friendly to search engine robots.

Pros: This really is a PHP script. A script that allows conversion of RSS feeds to HTML. Normally a RSS feed is available at any website for a visitor to subscribe to and read via his RSS reader. What a webmaster can do with this script package is to offer content from the RSS feed to be displayed. With this script you could arrange things so that the content is updated as the RSS feed contents that you are using changes. Usually search engines love frequently updated content. The spiders also like the fact that the content is in HTML via the visitor’s browser. A free PHP script, converts RSS feeds to HTML. The rss2html.php script allows webmasters to display RSS feeds on their website. RSS or Really Simple Syndication, as it is commonly known, is a technology that gives webmasters the ability to easily distribute and publish syndicated content on the Internet. Most webmasters understand the potential benefits of making RSS feeds available for viewing in a web browser. When used, this script will allow you to create web pages that will always display the most current information from your RSS feed.

Using rss2html.php webmasters can customize the format and look of the web page created from the feed. Customizing the look and feel of the pages would be easy. The necessary information gets parsed and then the page is created in HTML using the information items thus parsed. The script package will run on any server that can run PHP and supports RSS versions 1.0, 92, 93 and 2.0. There are several ways to achieve this. One would be to run the script on the web server and pass the feed URL and webpage template file. Alternatively run the script on the web server and edit its feed and template variables. You can also pass the feed to RSS2HTML server which will display your feed in HTML format.

Cons: This is strictly for the programmers, developers and webmasters.

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Store Manager for Zen Cart is a Windows application to quickly and effectively manage your Zen Cart online store. Manage Zen Cart products, Zen Cart product attributes, categories, manufacturers, orders and other things.

Pros: Store Manager for Zen Cart is a Windows application that lets you manage a Zen Cart online store. You can do that very effectively with the manager. Zen Cart is one of the most popular shopping carts available. Unlimited categories, products and product-options, registered and unregistered shopping cart, customizable tax options, multiple shipping and payment modules, special prices, banner management are some of the major features available with the shopping cart implementation. It is licensed as open-source. Manage Zen Cart products, Zen Cart product attributes, categories, manufacturers, orders and lot of other things. Suppliers can provide you the data and then it is an easy up load to the Zen Cart.

Product attributes can be uploaded in a batch. Edit of the attributes are easy too. Data upload can also be through clipboard copy & paste. Category data can be dragged & dropped into the category tree and the tree reorganized in a few mouse clicks. Some other top level features are export of Zen Cart products into Excel file, edit it and then import products into Zen Cart store and fast batch updates, import products into Zen Cart from your supplier – Zen Cart product import is one of the prominent features, import from Excel/CSV into Zen Cart in seconds , manage Orders and Customers. Additionally the applications also allows you to use SalesMaker module to manage flexible and easy discount/specials sales management, Product Types are used to control unique data, specific to a given product and management of media products via Media Management to manage music genre, media manager, media types, record artists, record companies. Quick search and effective reporting features round off the features. Order management supports the business end of the whole process.

Cons: Choice of the shopping cart would determine if this module makes sense and that’s a decision of specialists. One ought to seek out feedback from actual users.

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