The easiest way to compare mobile phone deals from UK’s leading retailers to find the best deal for you. Compare over 50,000 best mobile phone contracts from UK retailers. Use this for the best mobile phone deals and offers.

Pros: The website helps find the best possible deal on mobile phones that are available from retailers in the UK. One could search for deals by handset or by inclusive minutes and text. You could use the simple search tools to filter and find the best mobile phone deal. You can compare over 50,000 best mobile phone contracts.

Find Cheap Mobile Phones Deals and Mobile Phones with Gifts. The search could be for all handsets or by specific manufacturers such as Nokia, Samsung, LG, Sony, Motorola. Similarly you could search all networks or specific networks including O2, Virgin, Vodafone, Orange, 3 or T. Use The Deal Tree for great deals on mobile phone contracts and handsets. The data available is extensive whether it is the handsets or the contract deals. On the handsets deals handsets are from a large number of manufacturers and a large range of models from each are represented.

The contract deals are wide-ranging too. If at all finding a deal is problematic it’ll be for the wide range of alternatives being available.

Cons: How good the comparisons are really depends on how well the deal details are collected by the software publishers.

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TurboEditor is a powerful Windows editor program for web coders and programmers. It supports 12 predefined language/script types with extensibility. It features enhanced HTML support and offers many advanced features.

Pros: This is a flexible & powerful text editor for the Windows environment. It is able to support many predefined languages. These include 12 odd languages/script types. Being tuned to the syntax of these language/scripts lit can check for syntax related issues. Language-specific keywords, comments, and strings are colored differently to set them apart from plain text. The installation comes with several popular language definitions; however custom languages may also be defined. Regular expressions and scoping rules can be used to accurately define a language. Languages may be defined by application code or XML data. Bold, italics, and underline are supported per keyword set. Matching braces and scope keywords are highlighted as users type.

Users can change the font size simply by holding the control key down and spinning the mouse-wheel (Ctrl +Mouse-Wheel). Text copied or dragged from the edit buffer can be pasted into other applications with all formatting information intact. The application comes with enhanced support of HTML editing and a hex viewing and editing mode. Hyperlinks embedded in code are highlighted differently and can be navigated by the user. It supports fully customizable keyboard mapping that lets you Keystrokes to be added and removed to emulate popular keyboard mappings like Brief and Epsilon. Users can record a series of keystrokes and assign a keystroke to play back the keystrokes repeatedly as keyboard macros.

Select text as a column rather than a paragraph. Empty columns (columns with a width of zero characters) can be selected, causing subsequent typing and deletion to occur over multiple lines at the same time. Perform regular expression searching and replacing using Perl-like regular expressions. Save and load files in a single step. Unicode, UTF-8, and ANSI formats are supported.

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Stick Photo Star is a tool of sticking many effects into your photo, create colorful image with star, lighting, creative graphics, sky, different scenery and memorable frames. Jpeg (*.jpg) or bmp is the exported format.

Pros: This is an application for adding additional effects on your photos. These overlays contain star, lighting, creative graphics, sky, different sceneries and different frames based effects. Stick Photo Star allows you to add and edit many of these effects into your photos.

The simple interface has a preview area and you have the 20 presets in a lower pane. To add the effects of the photo shown on the preview pane, all you need to do is to click on the icons on the lower pane. Then there are presents known as single 1 and single2. These are single items that can be added to the target photo. These effect items can be scaled by dragging on the handles provided and place on the target photo by dragging and placing the item wherever you want. Star, light 1, light 2, amaze, sky, scenary1, scenary2 etc. are other groups of effects that can be applied. Frames1, farme2 and frame 3 provides you groups of frames for your photos.

Templates provide some framing cum mounting options while background lets you add some background photos. You can choose any photo to be used as a background too. Any objects in the photos can be moved, rotated, flipped or completely reversed. Jpeg (*.jpg) or bmp is the exported format.

Cons: Like with most such applications with lots of presets, one always runs short of choices. One wishes for more effects. Besides, the choice of these effects being driven by icons from one’s own culture, a user would want more items that he can relate easily culturally. Some general photo edit functions could have been useful too.

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Quickie Web Albums gives the ability to order the images, put a description for each image, and many other options.

Pros: This application provides you the facility to create photo albums and then publish to the Internet. Friends and family then can share the same with ease. The interface provides the means to select photos. You have a set of icons/controls that let you select the order in which to arrange the photos in the album. Image rotation tools allow you to set up the images in the album the way you want it.

You can add descriptions to each of them. Text formatting facilities are available. These formatting include HTML font, size, alignment, format or even the thumbnail size. There are templates available and you could create custom templates if you need it. Configurations set up can be saved so that for creating more albums one can automate the process further. You could mark the images with a logo at the bottom of the page that decides if the image would be displayed or not. Saving/loading of albums, custom logo options and updates are available too. If you need to you can add AVI and Quick-time movies into your albums.

Cons: Basic photo editing such as color, contrast, brightness enhancements should have been included in the application, as while processing a bunch of digital photos you would need these functionalities. It’d be much more convenient to have them integrated rather than trying to find another editor.

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Real-time audio recorder, offering professional recording features with support for WMA, MP3, OGG, APE, FLAC and WAV formats. Additional features include silent skip, file size limits, recording schedule.

Pros: FairStars Recorder is a audio recorder. It can record everything that can be played through the sound card of the system. Whether the microphone or the line-in jack or anything else playing through the card are fair game for the application. That includes music, sound track of a movie or a video clip, game audio or any streaming audio. While doing the recording you have additional feature support such as silence skip, file size limits, scheduled recording, a recording wizard, tag editor and so on. File formats supported are WMA, MP3, OGG, APE, FLAC and WAV.

The interface is simple and has a spectrum display as well as the file size and time display. Simple controls lets you set up everything very easily. You have the playback options for preview with the usual control of play/pause, fast forward and rewind of course. File list opens a box where you can specify the batch of files to be recorded. Recording options lets you choose record control, record sources, volume level and formats etc. Tools give you the controls to tag editor, recording schedules and opening of record device or the playback device controls. Options have selections for skins, file lists, record options etc. Remove environmental noise automatically with the option filters setting. Support for writing of ID3 tag when recording and showing when playback is available.

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As we continue to use our computers, nearly each passing day, we create and store files on to it. With the passage of time our computers become enormous data repositories from where finding out a single file may take time. It happens quite frequently that you fail to remember in which folder did you store your data and invariably you use the search function. However the standard windows search function often comes short of our expectations. To perform better search an advanced tool like Content Central 4.5 is needed. This remarkable tool is capable of capturing documents through scanner, automatic uploading, and even supports to drag and drop the electronic file for better organization and safety. The browser based application also provides the features to search for the required document. All these and even more features are present with the application, which helps in providing effective document management.

Content Central 4.5 is browser-based management system for documents that supports effective organization, uploading, capturing, retrieving and protection for your entire documents. For commencing the work with Content Central, first you need to login and it would present the consisting features. Coming to the interface, it is divided such to give suitable proportion to different functions. The search, catalog, document type, etc features are placed at left panel and the containing file details are displayed on the right. While starting with to use it, you can easily manage the documents and perform different related functions like email, print, edit, append, etc, and also includes Work Queue where you can accept or reject the landing document. Using its features, it’s easy for you to find and capture the documents. Further, you can check out the messages on the dashboard, search catalogs, upload document folders, check the custom policies, zip and save, assign to work flow, and do much more.

Content Central 4.5 provides you with wide range of features that help in effective management of your documents, and perform variety of related functions.

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Enhance your movie watching experience with tons of cool features and options that you just can’t get from a standard DVD player.

Pros: The biggest feature of this player application is that it plays all kinds of formats of DVDs to make your movie viewing experience hassle free. For example if you have some HD DVD and some in Blu-ray disks, you do not need to organize the different players required by the two different formats. In fact now that HD format has completely lost in the format war it may actually be very hard to find a player that would play the HD DVD. If you do have one, there are no guarantees that it could be maintained easily as time goes by. This application has put together players for all the available formats of DVD content. The formats include even the content recorded on writeable media. It plays Blu-ray discs of course but it can handle AVCHDs, CDs, VCDs, and a variety of multimedia files, including QuickTime, RealPlayer, DVR-MS, WMV HD, and H.264 HD videos also. It supports full Hi definition video specifications at 720p and 1080p that can support basic 1280×720 and 1920×1080 pixel resolutions. All three Blu-ray high definition movie formats are supported that include HD MPEG-2, AVC and VC1 and other HD formats such as WMV HD, DivX HD and H.264 HD. That should take care of most of the latest formats you are likely to see in the near future. Several language versions are available.

Cons: It is possible with all these format support that some combinations will create visual artifacts and that can be visually very distracting. One simple check would be to actually play a disc of all the types in your collection and make sure they play without problems.

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A free file sync utility for Windows that lets you compare and synchronize files and folders quickly and easily. It works with laptops, desktops, PCs, USB drives, hard-disks, network disks.

Pros: Typically, these days, your work extends across multiple machines. Your office desktop, a laptop and your home machine is a typical scenario. Quite often work files are spread across these machines but then may not be the same version! You may need to have sync between a local drive and a drive somewhere across the network. ViceVersa Free lets you do just that. This is a free file sync tool for Windows XP and Vista that syncs files quickly and easily between computers, laptops, desktops, floppy drives, hard-drives, USB drives, CD-ROM drives, Zip drives, network drives, etc. To get the sync done, select the two folders and do a compare and find out what matches and what does not. Then simply ask for a sync between the folders; the source one and the destination one.

There are several criteria that you can use to synchronize. CRC, time stamps, or file size to decide the newer versions of files. You could specify filters that include/exclude files and support delete or copy operations for letting you do manual sync. Several sync methods are offered that include augment, refresh and update. The interface is very simple and easy to use. It lets you do compare, sync, back ups quite easily. You can do that with all kinds of files including e-mails, photos, iTunes, MP3s, and almost anything else!

Cons: This is not necessarily a problem. But would it not have been nice if I could just specify two files and the application did the compare+ sync on its own!

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Screen capture program, very easy to use. Right-click provides access for contextual menu access. Move and size the window to the desired location, and select the “Capture” command for a region capture of the screen and Save the capture with the “Save” command.

Pros: This is a easy to use screen capture application. Access to the program is integrated with contextual menu and you can access the features through right click. You can place the capture window where you want and size it appropriate to capture only the region you are interested in. You can, of course, decide to capture the full screen too. Captured image is saved through a save command. You can decide to capture a screen with precise dimensions in terms of pixels on two dimensions. Image size menu item provides you those options. The format of capture is the PNG. A thumbnail capture also is possible.

The “Transparent Mode” command preserves the window and the image in transparency: you can use the capture like a tracing paper. There are several effects you can use besides raw capture. Lighten option cranks up the brightness to make the picture lighter, similarly reducing brightness will darken the captured image. One is able to enhance color, contrast and RGB components individually too. Turn the capture into a complete black and white image by getting rid of all the color information- if that is what you need to do. Psychedelic, black and white sketch and color emboss are some more effects available for your use. A “no border “ mode lets you get rid of the windows borders. If you need to create a photo montage, just open several instances of the program, arrange the windows and just capture the images.

Cons: Capture area can only be rectangular. Some kind of mark up tool would have been useful as a content creation tool.

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AptDiff is a visual text/binary files comparison and merging utility for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. It is highly useful for software developers, web designers and other professionals.

Pros: AptDiff is a Windows utility that does text/binary files comparison and merging. It is compatible to Windows 2000 to Vista. There are dual panes in the application that visually displays the differences in the files very effectively. Differences between the two files are highlighted for easy spotting. The color coding used can be customized easily. The color coding scheme can clearly indicate each line/byte added, deleted or changed. This could be very useful for software and web site developers besides other uses. The difference display can be formatted into a HTML page for publication on the web. Picking out the files for comparison is easy through the browser integrated into the application. File changes are detected and the display moves to the first difference. Navigation is easy thereafter; horizontal and vertical scrolling is synchronized. You could customize the way the panes are split. The application mode can be easily set to text or binary. Command line support, customization of keyboard shortcuts, multi language support, customizable toolbar are some other nice features.

When comparing text it can merge differences, merge differences in selected text, watch for changes outside the application and reload the file, comparison reports in HTML can be created, Unicode support, unlimited levels of undo/redo, can ignore white spaces, leading whitespace, trailing whitespace and case of characters while comparing. It can delete differences easily. When comparing binaries it compares byte by byte, navigates by differences within bytes and file sizes can be unlimited. AptDiff can be installed on FLASH or other portable drives including all user configurations. That lets you take the application anywhere.

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