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Thursday, December 25th, 2008
Smart Calendar software helps you to generate event calendar. You can type your events into calendar easily. Events can be highlighted with background or text color. The calendar can be exported into PDF, EXCEL or HTML format.
Pros: Smart Calendar software lets you prepare a calendar. It is generated as a month per page event calendar. Each day slot can be marked up for specific events you have. You can type your events into calendar quickly and easily. It works like a traditional calendar. You choose the month for the calendar, and you will be provided with different day boxes to fill your events. When you select the month, select a year too. Set background colors to each day box. Text color and alignment of boxes can be selected to suit your preferences. You can get a preview of the calendar in the PDF format at any time. Edit tools available lets you polish up the final form easily. For interaction with team mates or colleagues you can share the calendar quite easily. Export the calendar into PDF and HTML format. You could export the calendar into Excel format too for further processing, if you like. The calendar can be sent via e-mail with a single click too.
Cons: The application lets you select a year too when selecting a month for your calendar to be prepared. What would one want to do with a calendar for some earlier year is not very clear. Similarly next year may be an useful thing but is it useful to go further into future! Also sharing the calendar would be effective only if marking events on one calendar updates details of collaborators calendars otherwise it is just exchange of documents.
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Thursday, December 25th, 2008
No need to carry a mainframe to perform a complex analysis when you visit a remote lab. Get the full power of a precise data analysis tool always with you. Perform a statistical analysis on-the-fly without carrying a powerful, bulky computer with you.
Pros: This is a statistics lab in a USB flash drive. The application does powerful statistical analysis yet has a small enough footprint to be fitted into a pen drive. No PC or even a laptop need to be carried around. Once plugged in you have the environment you used to operating in. Though light weight it is a fully powered data analysis tool that performs a range of analysis. From basics to complex analysis like GLM ANOVA, non-parametric and regression analysis, Probit and Latin Squares analysis too. The analysis and calculations are compliant with standards such as ISO2602:1980, ISO 2854:1976, and ISO 3207:1975. Get consistent, repeatable, ISO compliant results every time you perform an analysis. Import and export to popular products such as Microsoft Excel and StatSoft Statistica makes StatPlus results and analyses even more compatible.
Most such package are usually very expensive and have a steep learning curve. The interface is simple and quite intuitive. It is in an Excel like format that in itself gives it a high level of familiarity. There’s even a little bit customization you can do to the look and feel when the package comes up after installation. Manipulating data in the spreadsheet environment is quite easy, the same familiar edit tools can be used. The package provides a range of charting/diagramming tools that is useful.
Cons: No problems found. It is for users of course who are familiar with statistical concepts of course.
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
We are always pretty sensitive about the ‘first time activities’ of our kids, and always try and preserve those cherished moments with us. Capturing different moments like first arrival at home, sleeping habits, first birthday, etc and then forming a beautiful album to share it with friends and family is a desire that every parent shares. This is where you may find TurtleTed Memory Album 1.27 worth using, as it provides a variety of templates to form an album of such events. It saves your efforts, as you just need to insert the images and fill in the text, and the pages of your baby’s album are ready. It’s as easy as it sounds and you can create fantastic and captivating album without putting much time and efforts.
TurtleTed Memory Album 1.27 presents you with template pages for creating baby album that even can be customized. The interface of the program is pleasant and maintains the user’s interest while operating it. It opens with full screen view, and the right side displays the types of events to form the album pages like Cover Page, My Arrival Home, My First Photo, My Family, Bathing, Sleep, Meals, First Birthday, First Step, First Drawing, Kindergarten, etc. Make the selection of the pages and fill in the required elements. According to the pages, you need to enter the text with the given spaces, and to insert the images click on the provided area and load the suitable image. You can zoom, resize, and move the images to give it an apt view. Further you can select a suitable theme for the album, from the given ones. When you’re done with the process, you simply need to mark the pages that you want to publish in your baby’s album and then click on ‘Publish’. It also helps you in sending a message, and notifies friends and family about the album.
TurtleTed Memory Album 1.27 is extremely easy to work with and helps you bring together all your special moments relating to your baby.
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
The ideal choice for small to medium sized organizations and individuals looking for an affordable photo ID card solution. Free Edition offers an ideal photo ID management solution that is both powerful and easy-to-use.
Pros: This is identity card design software. Small and medium organizations or an individual business could benefit from this application. The solution is easy to use yet quite a powerful one. The most versatile identity card design software! Easy user interface and nice design capabilities make this package equally useful for beginners as well as experienced users. It takes care of most useful security features too. designs and prints ID cards and badges, envelopes and labels, Student Identity Cards and much more. You could print out the designs on identity paper badges as well as plastic ID cards. Support is available for all kinds of card printers in fact it is supposedly optimized for accelerating the design as well as the printing process.
A range of photo id printers could be interfaced to the application. These include single sided, duplex and lamination capable card printers and in monochrome and color. The application is capable of latest encoding technologies. With combination of the software and the printers you get a user-friendly tool that helps you control, monitor, maintain, and most importantly, upgrade the security and quality of your photo ID card and badge system. It has an internal database for managing cardholders’ information and your ID cards design. It can be integrated with any type of external databases too. Use your own customized template if you like.
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
Final Uninstaller, a professional uninstall tool for your PC, offers a new and better way to completely clean up files and registry entries that were left after unsuccessful un-installation.
Pros: Quite often un-installation of a program is not quite clean and complete. Files remain in the installation directories, registry entries do not get completely cleaned and such other problems remain. These eventually slow down the machine used for such program installation and un-installation. Final Uninstaller is a uninstall software that can delete files from an incomplete un-installation and clean up the registry.
This program uses a leftovers database to ensure implementation of its various functions. Functions include scanning, leftover detection, listing of applications that can be removed and completing the clean un-installation of programs. That helps PC performance to be maintained at optimum levels. The leftovers database is continually updated and thus this application is able to detect leftovers that the windows add/remove program is unable to do reliably.
You are thus able to safely uninstall stubborn drivers that are left by Windows Add/Remove program. It is true of systems services installed.1-click scan and 1-click clean make removing applications and left-over files easy.
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
Free Ape player is a free audio player can play ape file and mp3 file. it can run under Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003 server. This application may be freely distributed.
Pros: Monkey’s Audio (APE) is used by Windows users mostly. It is a free lossless audio compression format with a highly competitive compression algorithm. Decompression speeds of Monkey’s Audio are slow compared to other lossless audio formats. Files generated are also quite large. The free player plays APE files. It plays MP3 files as well. The interface has the play controls like play/pause and stop etc. The file controls lets you find the right files easily as it is integrated with the Windows explorer. There is a large play time display and another display area shows the track details.
The details displayed indicate the sampling and the overall bit-rate of the track. Two slider controls control navigation through the play-list and also the specific track. The program runs within Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003 server. This application is not only free to use but free to distribute as well.
Cons: Slider control navigating play list or specific track is a little uncommon. Most users are familiar with the more common forward/fast forward and rewind controls.
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
A lite version of the Feed Editor RSS Creator. A tool to create RSS Feeds.
Pros: This is a lite version of the Feed Editor RSS Creator which is useful for creating professional RSS feeds. It features an easy to use interface. The interface has an in-built HTML editor which makes HTML editing tasks simple and one doesn’t need to leave the tool to get that editing done. “Feed image” view is especially useful for visualizing what the RSS feed will look. “Feed items” view is where most of the editing takes place.
Cons: The publisher’s description reads the same as the Feed Editor RSS Creator version. This may give an impression that this is as good. Nothing can be farther from the truth.
Sadly, this is a (much) watered-down version of the Feed Editor and hardly any functions work or work to a level where they can be useful. The recommendation is to skip this one and go for the full version which is full-featured and a really nice tool for a novice as well as an expert looking to create professional RSS feeds. This is a trial version but one is better off trying the full version.
One of the best features which is the uploading of podcasts simply does not work in this version. As such the interface is too simple and could use some work.
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
DocPoint is a document management and imaging management solution that provides organizations of any size with a powerful and affordable paperless office solution.
Pros: DocPoint is a document management solution for an enterprise. It includes imaging solution to enable legacy documents to be integrated into the management solution. It provides document as well as record retrieval, effortless information distribution across an organization and high volume capture. Available in personal, pro and corporate editions take care of the needs of most organizations. What it helps with is reduce the time spent in finding documents, eliminates the need for reproductions for distribution while letting users maintain their existing work flow processes. The application integrates easily with existing applications. Storage structure can emulate filing systems used in the physical systems. Flexible and customizable folders & cabinets help you do that. Security processes protect the document archives from unauthorized access and modifications. Once scanned the legacy documents also go into this protected archives. File storage formats are non-proprietary thus there should not be problems in accessing data at times in the future. The application woks closely with MS Office including Outlook, and is easy set up on the corporate network. With ODBC connectivity this application can work with any ODBC compliant database.
The application provides fast retrieval of document supported by fast document capture and indexing. Tree like display of the documents helps retrieval. Sharing and collaboration is easy to set up. Direct benefits to the organization besides the productivity gains and regulatory compliance of document archival are customer service responsiveness, reduction is document handling costs, disaster recovery preparedness etc.
Cons: Facility to build in workflow such as automatic forwarding of documents for approval/review to persons on the team would have been a useful feature.
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
GeoDataSource Free Cities Edition provides geographical database of world features, cities with place names and region names.
Pros: This application provides a database. Database consists of geographical details of world features. Country, region, cities and other sub-divisions are some of the details available. Details supplied with these features include maps, satellite pictures and a composite of these two views of the area/region depending on the level of subscription. All three data set displays are served by Google Maps. Several versions are available that provides increasingly more details with the class of subscription. Beside the free version a basic, silver and gold subscriptions are available.
Free database of worldwide cities in text format is suitable for any application requiring a comprehensive list of cities and country code. Subscribers get updates every month and the database is kept at a very accurate and up-to-date level. The list of cities and related items cover more than 2 million records and covers more than 260 countries, territories and sovereign regions. Users can download the database immediately on subscription. What you would require is a database capable of storing these 2million+ records such as SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL etc. Data needs to be imported from the tab delimited ASCII text file format.
Cons: This is obviously targeted at special applications and users need to be absolutely clear of what the usage is. Also it is for programmers who would be integrating SQL queries with the database.
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
Pet themed graphic images and web elements, including HTML web templates with a pet theme, stock photos of all types of pets and animals. Great collection for veterinarians, animal rescue clinics or other pet businesses.
Pros: When setting up a website it helps to have the overall design based on some theme. A theme that gives a visitor the feeling of what the site is all about. This package puts together web elements required for such a site. The present set is about pets. That makes it suitable for setting up by veterinarians, animal rescue clinics and any other business related to pets. A nice collection of all web elements needed to build a website designed specifically for pet lovers Each themed CD contains a collection of web templates, layouts, images, logos, and photographs all related to this central theme. The web elements are supplied on CDs. The distribution media contains a large collection of stock photos, these images are high quality digital photographs of pets and domestic animals. There’s a set of logos, the graphics are again all based on animals that are pets for humans. The HTML templates are quite attractive. The template set includes CSS files and the web graphics and the images discussed above. The website material is easy to edit in any HTML editor. They include a variety of pets.
Cons: Like any such collection however big a collection is presented, not everybody is likely to like all of them. One would always look for more.
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