Label + Envelope Designer Plus is a shareware used to design the labels, envelopes and postcards. This easy to use application can give your labels, envelopes and postcards a very artistic look and gives you the creative satisfaction.

Salient features of this application are as follows. It allows you to print on both sides of the paper. It allows you to print barcodes and Arc texts on your labels. Its design wizard is the most exciting tool which allows you to design your label or envelope with the help of images, texts, etc. You can also choose from a variety of layouts. It also has a tremendous database support for importing the contact lists or other details to be included. You can also create the post cards with the amazing professional photographs. You can also save and send your creations in the form of graphic files. It also supports both black and white and color printers.

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PowerPoint to Video is a simple and powerful PowerPoint to video tool for your business and personal needs. It can convert PowerPoint presentations (ppt files) into video (AVI) files step by step. You just need to follow an easy step by step process for the required conversion. You have to add your ppt file, set the video size, just click on start, play and stop buttons to record your video file. Your presentations can be shared with everyone at your organization.

PowerPoint to Video can put all your original creations with animations and special effects in ppt files. You can also avail the facility to attach sound from any musical instrument including microphone, CD player, or background music, etc to your video file. This way you get a video file which you need to first burn on VCD/DVD disc that can be played on TV, VCD players etc.

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If you’ve been losing precious data to corrupted Microsoft word documents, this word recovery tool could be a life saver.

Stellar Word Recovery is Word recovery software designed to recover and repair corrupted Microsoft Word documents. Stellar Word Recovery is an advanced document-repair program which easily restores damaged Word files after certain instances like virus attacks, unexpected system shutdown, media read error, etc.

Want to give it a shot? Go to http://www.stellarinfo.com/word-recovery.htm for more info and trial download.

There are some web editors purely or beginners. Then there are some for hardcore professionals. Best of both worlds – Roden Web Editor! An editor for both the beginners and the pros!

The beginners will get started immediately through ready-to-use document templates and wizards, and can also place tags and codes and effects anywhere on the page with little fuss. They’d find the easy to use interface of the program a big asset. For the professionals, the program holds enough juice in its capability to edit in many languages – HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.

Intellisense – a code-sensing technology which helps you as you write code, code checking facility, myriad of built-in functions, FTP support, preview and capture, Search Engine Optimization, internal viewer for many documents and references support for various web languages and keywords, all these features make the latest release a very potent one, considering that it is available for free. Purists would still, however, look elsewhere.

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If you have been looking for a free application for the management of your DVD database, you need look no further; DVDAttache is up to the task.

DVDAttache is a free application for managing your database of DVD titles. What I love about this application is that no matter what kind of OS you are using there is a version readily available for you. DVDAttache has the following editions available: DVDAttache for Windows, DVDAttache for Mac OS X and DVDAttache for Linux.

Want to check it out? Go to http://www.dvdattache.com/wp/index.php

NOTE: It works best with Windows XP, I’m not really sure about its compatibility with Vista.

Need good screen capture software? Check out SnagIt.

SnagIt delivers customized screen captures with the press of a hotkey. SnagIt captures images, text, and video from your Windows desktop easily. So if you want go effortlessly produce perfect graphics and video, SnagIt should do the trick. You will enjoy using SnagIt because it allows you to Capture, Edit, and Share easily.

With SnagIt, you can select anything on your screen – an area, image, article, Web page, or error message – and capture it. Then, save the screen capture to a file, send it to SnagIt’s editor to add professional effects, share it by e-mail, or drop it into PowerPoint, Word, or another favorite application.

Visit http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.asp  for more info and trial download.

Skype 1.4 Alpha for Linux has been released, with quality improvements:

• Audio quality improvements, on par with Windows 3.2 and Mac 2.6;
• More reliable code, thanks to a major rewrite building on Trolltech’s Qt 4.2;
• Better device detection;
• ALSA plugins support;
• UI improvements for file transfer and general layout.

Also there’re still some problems with this Alpha release:

• There are no contact list groups;
• You can’t create new accounts;
• There’s no alert message if your chat message is undelivered.

 So you can try it here, but if you to use Skype on Linux without any problems get the October 2006 gold build. (more…)

MySpace is acquiring Photobucket for $250 million in cash. TechCrunch is reporting that there is also an earn-out for up to an additional $50 million.

Photobucket has been looking for a buyer since March, when they hired Lehman Brothers to help sell the company. They were looking for $300 million or more, but may have had few bidders other than MySpace.

The companies have been in serious acquisition discussions for the last couple of weeks – A dispute that involved Photobucket videos being blocked on MySpace led to acquisition discussions, and the block was removed.

Photobucket generated $6.3 million in revenue last year and planned on hitting $25 million or more this year. They have 40 million registered users and add another 85,000 per day. (more…)

Here is one software that will definitely come in handy for directory administrators. It is called Directory Mate.

Directory Mate is a wizard based import/export tool for your Windows 2000 or 2003 Active Directory. As a directory administrator, you will love the fact that with Directory Mate, you can quickly export a list of users, open the comma delimited file in Excel, and even make the changes you want and quickly import all your changes. It’s really easy to use. You will really appreciate the fact that this software saves time money as it helps make directory content management easier.

So if you want to create users quickly, mailbox enable users with very little effort, avoid learning how to write script files or taking the time to do it or want to import or you just need something to simplify Bulk Directory information exporting and importing then. Directory Mate is worth checking out!

Version 2007 is now available; Go check it out at http://www.madsolutions.com/DM/Main.htm

Here is a really cool and safe way to type important data without using your keyboard; using Jitbit Virtual Keyboard.

Jitbit Virtual Keyboard is an on-screen virtual keyboard. Type text with your mouse, trackball or stylus (digital pen used by Tablet PC devices with a touch screen), whenever you are unable to use a physical computer keyboard. Typing sensitive information with keyboards can leave you open to key-loggers attack at times, so what I really love about Jitbit Virtual Keyboard is the fact that it protects your confident data by preventing key-loggers and other remote keystroke trackers from spying your data. With this software you can enter your passwords, personal data, and all sensitive information easily and safely.

In the recent version, Version 1.59, which is making the rounds in the software market these days, these latest changes have been carried out:

• Multi-instance check;
• Transparency fix.

Go to http://www.jitbit.com/virtualkeyboard.aspx to check it out!