Total Power Control is a program that puts at your mouse and fingertips a well-designed tool to help you get your work done quickly and easily. TPC provides everything you need to fully control the power functions of your computer. With Power Control application, there is now more crawling around and clicking through layered menus. This latest version comes with the possibility to hide battery meter when used on desktop computers. The program also comes with some few features like the Timer Manager you can shut down your computer at midnight, the CPU Load Manager you can shut down your computer after your backup utility has completed, and the hotkey Manager you can shut down your computer with Ctrl-Alt-S (or any other keyboard shortcut).

Total Power Control is a shareware, but you can download and install it for free for 14 days. Other important key features of this program include the following: two clicks to shutdown, restart, hibernate, sleep, screen off, logoff, lock workstation, switch user, run screensaver and more; built-in web server allows sending commands over internet or local network to shutdown or restart computer; battery Charge State meter reports current charge state of laptop battery; always-on-top CPU load meter puts CPU load information on your desktop; access any power plan with two clicks – power saver, balanced, high performance or any custom power plan; and many more.

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Bucharchiv is one fine application that simply lets you manage your personal library and eBooks (PDF-files) comfortably on your PC. You can also access extensive online-databases in English, German and French, which means you can find the desired book or books very quickly. Bucharchiv is offered in different Editions: Standard (one computer), Professional (three computers) and Enterprise (ten computers).

Bucharchiv is easy to use, and all you have to do is enter title, author, publisher or EAN/ISBN-number by your barcode scanner and you get the results inclusive high resolution cover pictures. Bucharchiv also gives you the possible of adding a custom existing file of the cover picture; and that is just one more reason to give Bucharchiv is a try. As a matter of fact, you can make a selective search for Audio books, paperbacks, magazines, special bindings, sheet music etc. Apply the corresponding books into your personal database and all important information like title, author, publisher, cover picture, EAN/ISBN-number etc. are added automatically. Bucharchiv also includes a feature that you can use to apply filters to each book (like already read, novel, specialized, advisable) to use the filter-function. All filters are self-defined.

A few other key features carefully selected and included in Bucharchiv include the following; assign categories, printing of single books or lists, export as Excel-file, download of online-reviews or write your own review, enter quotations, etc.

Want to check it out? Visit Gbelectronics.

ChronoWall is an all-in-one desktop wallpaper manager. One of its main features is the ability to specify which wallpapers to use based on the time of day and time of year. Beyond that, ChronoWall offers many unique ways to view your photos on your desktop. The application is easy to use, and offers a lot of advanced features that can be easily understood after only a couple of uses by any user. ChronoWall is a shareware and users who have Windows 7 as their operating system can also install it because it supports it as well.

ChronoWall desktop wallpaper manager’s underlying linear effect layering system allows users to change the way an image looks based on the time elapsed. Imagine being able to look at a green meadow and have it red-shift as the sun nears closer to sunset. Another possibility is that if you want something more out-of-this-world, you can colorize an image throughout the entire spectrum as time elapses. ChronoWall 0.91 Beta also features several effects that can be applied to an image; which means users have a lot to enjoy from this wallpaper manager.

ChronoWall is a shareware program, and comes with an uninstaller. Version 0.91 is still in Beta stage, but some of its features are a bit stable.

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Breaktru Payroll is one of those easy-to-use applications that make it easy to calculate & track your weekly or biweekly pay checks. All you have to do is enter the hours worked as well as overtime, holiday, sick leave, and other pay categories, then Breaktru Payroll will apply the withholding tax rates for federal tax, state tax, and city tax based on your exemptions claimed and marital status. You can also vary your K-plan deduction to see what percentage is right for you. Calculate Medicare, SDI, SUI, Cafeteria Plan and Social Security tax with this shareware program that costs just $24.95 per download. Version 11.42 is compatible with Windows 7, Windows 2000/2003/2008/9x/Home server/Vista/XP; and also comes with a few updates.

Breaktru Payroll supports a lot of quality features, which include the following; a year to date printout that shows your week by week earnings and deduction, export report to Excel, print employee pay checks and pay period report, simple to use, and affordable. Breaktru Payroll is available for a 10 day free trial for all users.

One interesting thing about Breaktru Payroll is that it is easy to install and setup on your system. You can set it up in just a couple of minutes; and this is highly commendable.

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CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. The program conforms fully to the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible. CentOS is a project of the CAOS Foundation. The core developers of CentOS are supported by an active user community including system administrators, network administrators, enterprise users, managers, core Linux contributors and Linux enthusiasts from around the world.

Some of the useful features and advantages over some of the other clone projects include; an active and growing user community, quickly rebuilt, tested, and QA’ed errata packages, an extensive mirror network, developers who are contactable and responsive, multiple free support avenues including IRC chat, Mailing lists, forums, and a dynamic FAQ. Users may have to install Javascript on their systems to use the publisher’s website; however, those who use FireFox browsers may not need to install java.

CentOS is a freeware program and mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork. All Linux users should take a look at CentOS because of the enormous amount of work that have gone into it from those involved in bringing it to the public.

Want to check it out? Visit ?entos.org.

ThumbNailer is an application that allows you to create thumbnail images and HTML image galleries for use on the web or CDs. The program offers a lot of advanced features that allow you to customize the output (including templates), as well as features like text overlays, image fades, macro expressions, output naming styles and a lot more. Even if you are a newbie, Smaller Animals ThumbNailer also includes several wizards to get you started. In addition to thumbnail and gallery creation, you can use ThumbNailer to resize images, convert between graphic formats, change image color depth, create contact sheets and more.

As a newbie, you can follow the next few steps in order to use Smaller Animals ThumbNailer; set the source directory, browse, and type or drag a folder. Then you will have to set the output directory, browse, and type or drag a folder. Set the input image size, set the output file format, and finally you can press the start option.

Some of the key features of Smaller Animals ThumbNailer include the following; wizard to help you get up and running quickly, JPG, GIF, MPEG, PNM, JPEG-2000, PNG, TIFF, PCX, BMP, TGA, HTML page generator, with links, tables, HTML templates, and many more.

Want to check it out? Visit SmallerAnimals.

SysAdmin Anywhere makes it easier to administer Active Directory-based networks by providing a single tool to do whatever you need use it to manage domains, servers, computers, users, and groups. Requiring a .NET 4.0, SysAdmin Anywhere has a few changes that include the following; added a property load lists when navigate to management, and save settings in the right path. SysAdmin Anywhere program lets you make an inventory of all software and hardware installed on computers in the network, and can be used to easily generate various reports based on the collected information.

With this program, computer management becomes a bit easier than usual. You can quickly search for a computer in the list of computers, and carry out the following; view and edit properties, view information about a remote computer’s disks (total space available, file system, and disk label), open a remote computer’s disk in Windows Explorer, shutdown a remote computer, reboot a remote computer, view the list of software installed on a remote computer, and many more.

Other key things you can use SysAdmin Anywhere for include the following; quickly search for group in the lists of groups, scan all software and hardware installed on remote computers in the network and add the data collected into a local database, print out various reports, and many more.

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UltraFileSearch is a Search Utility which is able to help you find Files as quickly as possible. You can also find folders and text on your local, network, DVD, CD-ROM, USB Hard or Flash Drives. UltraFileSearch allows you to specify several File Mask and multiple Drives and/or Folders at the same time; it is able to sort out files and folders according to their properties (e.g. Modified Date) and find files which contain one or more specific words or sentences. A few changes have also been made to this version in review, and they include the following; ability to save and load search parameters, option to select which types of parameters to save and load, and option to select which types of items to save and load.

The search results can be put in order by column (upward, downward or neither of them). The results window supports Windows Explorer functionality (such as icons, context menus). You can also carry out specific actions on the results, including Open Folder, Open Containing Folder); as a matter of fact, you can export in various formats (Plain TXT, Tabbed TXT, CSV, HTML, XML).

UltraFileSearch has a lot of features, but the key ones include the following; shows search statistics as found Files and Folders, Search Time, controlled Objects, Speed, full support to Unicode Characters, easy User friendly interface, and many more.

Want to check it out? Visit UltraFileSearch.

Crypt-o is one of those fine applications that will help you organize and store securely any kind of valuable information, such as logins, passwords, customers or employee’s lists, access codes, credit card numbers, PIN codes, files, etc. This version includes a few updates or addition such as: French translation, and fixing of “access violation” error when changing permissions inheritance for a folder.

Crypt-o is a secure Client/Server solution for creating custom databases, which is designed for use in enterprise networks. The data is reliably stored in a Firebird SQL Server database and is encrypted using AES encryption algorithm with 256-bit key. The program’s client applications access the Crypt-o Server using secure SSL connection.

You can use Crypt-o as a network password manager for your enterprise as well as auto fill web pages, registration forms, logon windows, etc. This feature is compatible with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera. You can now easily create custom encrypted databases for storing all your sensitive data.

Crypt-o application is a shareware, and you can download your 30 days trial version, which also comes with an uninstaller. The actual price for Crypt-o 1.4.67 is put at $39.95. The program runs on virtually all Windows operating systems.

Want to check it out? Visit Soft-O.

LanTalk NET is an Internet instant messenger program that makes communication within a working environment quite easy. As a matter of fact, in most companies it substitutes corporate email for files and messages. The phones will not ring as often as before you started using our messenger, because LanTalk faster and better. Files transfer, presence detection without server software, Sending messages to the offline clients and many more with a fault-tolerant and fully distributed architecture. LanTalk NET is designed to be used in an office environment, providing unique benefits to your office communication workflow and making staff management faster and easier.

This useful program works perfectly as an inter office instant messenger for a small, medium and large networks. The publisher designed LanTalk NET to work in the isolated local network environment; and is particularly compatible with Terminal Server.

LanTalk NET lets you manage employees faster and more efficiently by sending an instant message instead of an email. You can send a short message instantly or a large file in a matter of seconds; that same operation takes much longer with email. Other key features of this program include the following; instant messaging (including instant reply), choose interface and functionality that suits your taste, and a few others.

LanTalk NET is a shareware, and even smaller organizations will find it affordable because it costs $17.95 per download.

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