Here is a tool really worth checking out. Aurora Password Manager is a handy piece of software for storing and editing diverse confidential data, such as your credit card number, cellular phone pin-code, code to a cipher lock, website access code, e-mail box password and the like.

How Does It Work?

The utility locks all stored information with a strong 256-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) password and ensures its safety.

The cool thing is this tool is developed with simplicity and ease of use in mind. Even if you can’t make up a password on your own that is difficult to guess, the program can do it for you.  With a built-in advanced password generator, that randomly chooses a case-sensitive combination of characters, this cool tool is really something.

The latest version released not too long ago is Vista compatible. The only con to this tool is the price, $29. But then the money may save you a lot of headaches and protection from identity thieves.

Want to check it out? Go for the trial version first and see if this meets your need…

Visit  http://www.animabilis.com/

If you have been less than satisfied with previous burning software you’ve been coming across, you may want to give this a shot. This tool is called BurnAware. BurnAware allows you to easily perform the most common disc burning tasks: write to all CD/DVD media types, including Blue-Ray; write Audio CDs and DVD-Video files; create and burn disc images; write multi-session discs and much more.

I love the fact that it includes additional burning tools which help you to copy your CDs and DVDs with digital photos, documents, games, movies and music easily. One other thing worth mentioning  is the fact that with BurnAware Home you can compile and burn bootable discs and disc images.

For almost $30, the price thing kicks in again. In my personal opinion it’s just too expensive. I mean there are free tools all over the internet that does stuff similar to this. The tool is a good one but I think it would fare better if it was a freeware that accept donations instead of the $30 price tag. But then that is just me. The truth is it does what it says it does, which is something in its favour. So go check it out and see if it is money worth spending for you.

At least check out the trail version, a 10 day trial may convince you. Go to http://www.burnaware.com/burnaware_home.html

I am still trying to get a hang on this download app. It is complicated in that it comes with other app that one wouldn’t exactly find useful.

Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) leverages patented technology, ease of use and rich features including: multi-connections for fastest download from most responsive servers, auto-recovery from lost connections and errors, AlwaysResume (where standard resume is not supported), scheduling, file management tools, auto hang-up and much more.

As for me there are other better and more efficient download managers out there, but then “one’s man’s poison is another man’s food”. It may be good enough for you.

Check it out at http://www.speedbit.com/ and let me know what you think.

One thing about MediaMonkey is that it keeps improving with every new version. I first came in contact with it when I needed an app to convert file formats. Now it’s a universal music manager working with a very wide range of file formats.

Its app window is so beautiful one could get satisfied by just staring at it. It organizes your music and edits tags in your audio library with a powerful, intuitive interface, automatically looks up  media info from the Internet. You could also sync iPhones, iPods, & MP3 players, converting & leveling tracks on-the-fly.

Media monkey is the best as far as I’m concerned. It also allows you customize your window with Skins, plugins, visualizations, and hundreds of user-written scripts that extend MediaMonkey’s functionality.

The latest version – MediaMonkey 3.1.0.1213 Beta, was released just last week with some cool upgrades, check it out at www.mediamonkey.com/

Returnil Virtual System is a powerful technology that clones a copy of your Windows system into RAM. This way you not exactly using your windows, just its clone. It is quite simply the most advanced Virtual Partition solution available.

You can rest assured that your system is protected from viruses, spywares and, preserves your computer settings, and ensures your Internet Privacy. Simply restart your computer to erase all changes. This is absolutely koooooool.

The trial version last for 15 days.

Want to check it out, visit  http://www.returnilvirtualsystem.com/index_files/returnilvirtualsystem.htm

Xilisoft corp. is one company that hasn’t let me down with their products. This DVD audio ripper is an awesome app. It could rip mp3 files from a DVD. Supports ID3 tag so you can edit music info for each file.

It allows you select a language or sound channel when ripping multi-language DVDs. It’s very powerful for those who collect many music/video DVDs or those who want to save a sound segment from DVD movie or any other media. For ease of use, if you don’t want to rip the whole DVD, You can select any chapter(s) in DVD to rip.

If you think it isn’t so precise, you also can specify certain time or file size to rip, for example rip DVD to MP3 every 5 minutes or every 5 MB. I get to rip beautiful soundtracks form my movies that aren’t in the media stores. It works well, I haven’t found any noticeable hitches yet.

Check out http://www.xilisoft.com/dvd-audio-ripper.html for more info

MediaCoder is a free universal audio/video batch transcoder, putting together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of transcoding among different audio/video formats with many extra features.

Tell me why I need to install a Firefox before I can use this app effectively? That’s so not cool. Next time firefox should be automatically installed with MediaCoder. It works well though, supporting a wide range of formats like MP3, Vorbis, AAC, AAC+, AAC+v2, MusePack, Speex, AMR, WMA, RealAudio, mp3PRO,FLAC, WavPack, Monkey’s Audio, OptimFrog, AAC Lossless, TTA, WAV/PCM, Waveform H.264, XviD, DivX, MPEG 1/2/4, Theora, Flash Video, Dirac, 3ivx, RealVideo, Windows Media Video,AVI, MPEG/VOB, Matroska, MP4, PMP, RealMedia, ASF, Quicktime, OGM, CD, DVD, VCD, SVCD, CUESheet, HTTP, FTP, RTSP, UDP

But I think the designer need to work more on it.

Check it out at http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net:80/

If you’ve been having problems keeping your valuable data safe, you may want to consider this tool – DoubleSafety.

This is a perfect tool for ensuring the safety of your data. It offers a double protection for your data. Part of what it does is to encrypt it! This makes your data useful to you alone. In other words, nobody except you will be able to use your data.

PROS

• Ease of use
• Incredible performance rate
• Flexible settings for any situation.

DoubleSafety also helps when you need to

• Compress data to the ZIP format
• Write backups to CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD
• Upload backups to an FTP server
• Encrypt according to the AES standard… etc

This is tool is a powerful and flexibly customizable scheduler that is really worth checking out.

Though it is not a freeware but there is a trial version you can check out to see if the $45 price tag is worth it.

Check for more details on www.doublesafety.com

This application is a PHP-based calendar application that can be configured as a single-user calendar, a multi-user calendar for groups of users, or as an event calendar viewable by visitors. For this to be accessible, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, Interbase, MS SQL Server, or ODBC is required.

Various ways could be applied in setting up this Web Calendar and they include:

• A schedule management system for a single person
• A schedule management system for a group of people, allowing one or more assistants to manage the calendar of another user
• An events schedule that anyone can view, allowing visitors to submit new events
• A calendar server that can be viewed with iCalendar-compliant calendar applications like Mozilla Sunbird, Apple iCal or GNOME Evolution or RSS-enabled applications like Firefox, Thunderbird, RSSOwl, FeedDemon, or BlogExpress.

The really cool thing about this Web Calendar is its Multi-user support  feature. It supports up to 30 languages: (more…)

This simple 3D application is good for authors, developers and designers, who want to get high-quality images very quickly and preserve time and cash. It is used in making professional illustrations of e- books, DVD cases, software boxshots and more.

This program carries on-board the gallery of manually drawn and specially prepared templates for boxshots, e-books covers, CD jewel cases, DVD cases etc. it embeds your artwork into the templates.

Why Is It Worth Checking Out?

• It has some precise adjustments for shading, lightning and reflections of boxshots, e-books etc.
• It has a very convenient productivity tool called Batch Rendering. This very simple and powerful tool allows you to make many illustrations at once. For example, it is possible for you to produce whole own press-kit with few mouse clicks. Another example of Batch Rendering’s convenience: you can make many illustrations based on chosen templates at once.
• It can save true-color picture with smooth 8-bit transparency, so you can easily process the picture with software, if you need it.
• Its Output resolution is from about 64 to 3000 pixels. The pixel range is enough for web illustrations, as well as for desktop publishing.

I love the fact that its operation is supported by: Jpeg, Tiff, Png, Gif and Bmp. One other thing defibitely worth mentioning is that It doesn’t require 3d hardware accelerator,  so it is very simple to use.

Want to try it out? Visit: http://www.nervepreserve.com/quick3dcover/