Picturama is an advanced digital photo software with additional features. It is a picture viewer that enables you to view your pictures in different formats. The software can edit, move and adjust your photos according to your needs.

Pros: Picturama 1.4.0 features an image editor which can change your images as you want. For instance, you can change the sizes, rotate, scale or flip your graphic files the way you wish. The editor contains various graphic effects. You can have the options including colorize, desaturate, invert, brightness, contrast, threshold and posterize.

Picturama 1.4.0 also allows you to combine the graphic effects into a single effect. You can select a picture with a single click and apply the combined graphic effect. Picturama also operates as an image converter. So you can convert your files to any format. The software is supported by QuickTime. It includes a wide range of formats such as Photoshop, JPEG, TIFF, PICT, SGI, TARGA, BMP, PNG and more. You can select any of these formats to convert your graphic files. Picturama can also create the graphics of your website. It is used as a thumbnail creator that enables you to make stylish thumbnails for your site.

There is a powerful batch processor in Picturama. This also allows you to edit large number of image files quickly. It’s just a matter of few clicks! Each batch setup has its own Batch Destination. It includes file and destination folder settings for processed pictures and print settings respectively.

Overall: Picturama 1.4.0 is a convenient tool for viewing and modifying your pictures. The new program has Version Checker function through which you can look for new versions of Picturama.

RadioBoss 2.9.5 is a software with automation features specially designed for broadcasting stations, clubs, casinos, etc. It has a Musical Database that keeps all your music files. Its Music Player edits and schedules play lists. The Playlist Generator is for generating playlists using different templates.

Pros: RadioBoss 2.9.5 has easy-to-use tools and features to manage your music collection. The program supports a number of audio formats including MP3, WMA, OGG and WAV. The new version allows users to move sound tracks from the report window to the play list in seconds. There is also a feature to create user profiles which allows to create individual configuration for each user. The multi-channel sound output enables you to adjust the sound system according to your choice. RadioBoss has got built-in sound effects to enhance your musical experience. It includes echo, reverb, tempo, pitch, etc. You can control your playlists using its automatic volume control and play all files at the same volume.

The musical database provides quick search of songs by any field, sorting, filter, mass tag editor, etc. With playlist generator, you can broadcast your playlist on the basis of generation method, jingles, rotations and other such parameters. You can work with two playlists at the same time. RadioBoss 2.9.5 supports WinAMP and DirectX plug-ins. Voice track feature finds out the music files for you. With color indication feature, you can highlight jingles and advertisements in your playlist. The built-in file converter can easily switch from one format to another, and you can play your songs in any format you like.

Overall: The new version of RadioBoss has been slightly modified for Windows Vista compatibility. RadioBoss 2.9.5 can retranslate the playlists and run Internet radio stations as well.

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Iconcool Manager 5.22.80718 enables you to manage, keep, modify, extract, convert, enlarge and contract Windows XP and Vista icons. The software has 1300 sample icons (for registered users), accessed through a tree structure.

Pros: Iconcool Manager 5.22.80718 contains hundreds of icons including Windows XP and Vista icons for software development usage. The software lets you search, extract, convert, manage, modify, create, distribute, enlarge or reduce these icons. Iconcool manager can easily export icons to CUR, GIF, JPG, PNG, WBMP, EMF, TGA, WMF, TIF and ICL file formats. The software has hundreds of icons in the library that are arranged in a tree structure. This easily accessible tool enables you to find the icons and create sub-libraries within them. Icons could be searched using keywords. The wizard has three tabs namely icon library, icon extractor/converter and icon websites. The library has the entire list of icons, accessed in a tree structure. You can also create sub categories beneath the existing classes of icons and save them as ICO, CUR, GIF, JPG, BMP, PNG, EMF, TGA, WMF, TIF and WBMP format images. The icon extractor/converter tab has the options to convert images to an icon. You can also drag and drop the icons from your windows explorer. The software supports 25 image formats including jpeg and gif.

Iconcool has some peculiar function like transparent icon which could be enlarged or reduced, convert entire, part or partial image to a transparent icon, intensify or reduce the color depth of icons. The software has a smart image capturing tool that captures images of varying sizes from your desktop or other software.

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Block Commander is a block destroyer game that has been designed for all block game fans. What you are calculating here is no longer the process after block falling rather the path before the block falling.

Pros: The Block Commander is a very simple and smart game designed for block game fans all over the world. The game involves the controlling process of the block before it falls. Therefore, it is important for players to consider the situations for small blocks that are coming up rather than the present or the next block. And if you want to successfully complete the game then you will have to be cautious about your thought process, analyze and grasp the course intelligently. In other words, the Block Commander 1.0 game examines your thought process.

As far as Block Commander game is concerned, it is a simple game. All the features are well defined and can easily be understood. You can customize the game by choosing different game options such as game mode, which can either be GOD, MATCH or NORMAL. Moreover, there are 10 levels and you can also choose that. What’s more – define the process time and the maximum score limit.

Since the Block Commander is a mind game and involves your thinking process, you need to concentrate your mind while playing the game. As you arrive at the higher level of the game, it becomes more exciting and requires quick actions. Complete each level and reach the highest top 10 levels and show how intelligent you are.

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Magic Utilities is a cute program designed to make your computer clean and more stable.

Pros: Magic Utilities is a set of utilities that keep your computer clean and stable. Set of utilities include Uninstaller Plus, StartUp Organizer, Process Killer, Disk Cleaner, File Shredder and File Protector. The uninstaller displays the program icons currently installed in a tabular fashion which is more appealing than the long list most such programs adopt. You could take a look at the program information about the selected item to decide if you need to retain or not.

Start Up Organizer shows the programs that are set to run at start up and provides the tools to edit the list. It also has a rating field to indicate if the start up program is risky or not. The process killer helps look at current processes and lets you stop the ones that are needed or look risky. Disk cleaner removes the temporary and other junk while the file shredder helps remove the files to be properly deleted so that no one else can recover them. File protector encrypts files and access is through password. The set offered as Windows utilities also is a set of useful tools. There are several programs easily available that offer similar functionality but this set really has a easy to use interface.

Cons: When you fiddle with the internals of the OS you better be sure of the programs do what it is supposed to do and no damage is done. User data is thus useful to determine if a set is safe.

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We are usually game for online videos and movies, and often wish to download these on our PCs, but due to non availability of an appropriate tool, we usually couldn’t fulfill this wish. However, you can easily get this easily with the help of MovieSaver 2.0. It is an easy to use tool that helps the users in downloading their favorite videos from different video websites. The program supports downloading videos from the sites like YouTube, MySpace, MyVideo, GoogleVideo, Metacafe, Yahoo! Video, etc. The interface of the program is modestly designed, and the video downloading process. In order to start downloading process, you just need to enter the video link, and after the proper analysis of the website, the program would kick off the process. The program is compatible to the flash videos, but it does not require flash player application for the reproduction process.

By using the MovieSaver 2.0 application it becomes an easy task for you to download the videos from various websites. It’s a small utility which helps you get effective output results. Whenever you want to get the videos downloaded, you just need to copy-paste, or drag or drop the video URL into the program. You’re provided with the ‘Video URL’ option, where you need to enter the link for the video. When you have entered the URL, click on ‘Download’ icon shown on the screen, and the program would start analyzing the URL. Finishing the analyzing process, the program starts the downloading the video. The progress level relating to video downloading is shown below the ‘Download’ option to help you know when the video is saved on your system. While processing the mentioned URL, the program enlists the unknown URLs at the bottom side of its interface. To reduce your work, the application provides the drop down list of video websites, thus making them easily accessible. You just need to open the website, watch the videos and get the desired video downloaded.

The MovieSaver 2.0 application utilizes a simple process to download videos and store them to the desired location.

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Often when a customer buys any product, the foremost thing that catches his eyeballs is the product’s packing. If the packing of the product is made attractive, it would persuade the customers to buy the product. Thus, while designing the graphics for the product’s cover box, every designer puts his best efforts to make it more captivating. If you also want to design your product’s covering that makes it more tempting, then you can take the assistance of 3D Real Boxshot 4.0. The software is easy to use and helps you in creating 3D boxes for your products like softwares, CD, DVD, Poker, etc. To form the box, just select the type of box required, and set the images that you want to be placed on the covers.

3D Real Boxshot 4.0 provides an extremely simple user interface and convenient features that makes it a delight to use. The interface of the application somewhat resembles the image viewer window. A dialog box placed on the screen shows the customization features that you can use to make the modifications. The graphic for the box is shown at the middle of the screen. To start the box formation, firstly you’re required to select the Box size preset to be Software, DVD, CD/VCD, 3.5″ Disk and Poker. To make further changes to box size you can easily set the Box height, width and depth. Coming to the cover graphics of the box, you can select different images for all the sides of the box. Select desired images for the front, left, back, right and top side of the box. The ‘Position’ option helps you to set the ‘Distance’, ‘Rotation’ and ‘Camera Position’ to change the box view. To give the graphics a realistic feel you can apply Shadow and Reflection effects. Modify the size of the image that you placed on the sides of the box, if required. Finally play the graphic to view its appearance from all the sides and save it with the desired format.

3D Real Boxshot 4.0 supports creating, rotating and zoom the graphics on box-covering, to help the users to create attractive boxes. The application is capable of importing the images with different formats, such as- GIF, JPG, TGA, TIF, WMF, WBMP, etc.

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ABC Birthday Reminder is an easy-to-use tool that keeps detailed information about birthdays and other remarkable events.

Pros: This application keeps detailed information about birthdays and other important events. Recurring events need to be entered once. Lot of related data can be stores in a database. Description of gifts, cost associated with it; notifications etc can be stored for example. This database is completely searchable too. There’s even a built in calculator for calculating the gift cost. Advance reminder will ensure that you cannot miss an event even if you have not worked with the computer in the immediate time of the event. The program also has a holiday database. The holiday editor lets you mark up the holidays in a color choice of your own and with the help of listed holidays for different parts of the world. It loads into the system tray so that it is always accessible.

Events can be entered with details such as related people, their phone numbers gift budget and other details. One can review this database any time, available a tab on the user interface. Other tabs are about people whose birthday data you want to capture, Two more tabs lets you set up the back up and restore parameters. Several views of the calendar are possible. Color scheme of the interface can be changed. The scheduler presents a month at a glance view while other views such as week at a time (work week or calendar week) is possible too. Synchronization with outlook is possible while you could also export data to Excel, HTML, XML or TXT formats. If your system is not going to be on all the time, you could keep a printed list of events as reminder for you. Print designer will help with the reports you need to get printed.

Cons: Keeping track of gifts, gifts calculation, skin/color choice are some of the things that are different than the Outlook. Question is would that justify another program if you already have Outlook?

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Spam filter & Antivirus (ClamAV) for Outlook, Outlook Express & Vista. It uses SpamAssassin to score new incoming mails and decides based on the settings made in options what to do with the mail. It supports Black and White list filtering and Bayes.

Pros: One of the major pain areas in using an e-mail address is that very soon you start getting a whole lot of unsolicited mail. Mail that hold, most often, no interest for you. One remedy so as not to increase mails from the same sources is not to even open these spam mails. Any application that helps separate out spam from regular mail is a big help in this area. SpamAware is a plug-in for MS-Outlook, Outlook Express and Windows Mail (Vista). It uses SpamAssassin to score new incoming mails and decides based on the settings made in options what to do with the mail. The application starts up immediately on installation essentially integrating with your Outlook/Outlook express or Vista’s Windows mail. It adds a few buttons to the mail client in use. This includes the training buttons of white list and black list. You use these to tell the package which mail is whitelisted and which is blacklisted. It contacts several spam servers through SpamAssassin to be more efficient. Bayseian algorithm is used internally to automatically detect spam and isolating them. This is a learning algorithm and improves filtering with time. The main spamaware button has several choices including scan active folder, options and choices about the product such as checking for updates, help etc. Couple of other links point to other products published by the same publisher. Options lest you set up spam filtering properly.

Cons: Several text fields in the user interface have typos. For example Englisch, Spanisch, Arabisch, Japanisch etc. or they are not translated.

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Blogspreading is a free utility, which automatically appends a link to the latest post in your blog to your e-mail signature. This will easily catch the recipients’ interest and convert them to the readers of your blog. Spread your blog around world.

Pros: This is a small utility that adds links to your signature file, signature to your eMails that is. The links point to the latest post made by the user to his blog. What that is likely to achieve is that the title of the post is likely to trigger the interest of the recipient unlike a bland URL pointing to your blog. The publisher makes a claim that this is likely to increase the traffic to your blog site. That is probably true. People tend to skip the bland URLs without paying much attention to them. Whereas a title of a specific post may look interesting and with a link to the post being right there can make the reader of your e-mail actually click on the same. Once there he may find the content interesting and keep going back. That surely is one way of promoting your blog, alright. All e-mail clients allow automatic adding of a signature to outgoing message.

As you publish a post the RSS feed on your blog publishes the latest one to the world. If this is read one knows exactly what has been published and where. The application reads from this information. This title and the link are specified as parameters in the signature file. So when the values of the title and links are updated the signature will get updated with this new information. So that, all outgoing mail then on will have this new information. Besides automatically updating the attention getting part of the signature it can help in SEO too as if someone mails to mailing lists they are usually indexed by the search engines and they’ll find links to internal pages of your site rather than the root page only and thereby increase rankings.

Cons: True effectiveness of this program depends on the program being able to update the signature files automatically. Two major mail clients such as the outlook and thunderbird do not allow the same. They have to be updated manually.

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