I need to work with some pictures on the net and indeed had a couple of hitches largely a function of the sizes of the images. Discovered imagres, and I must say it works just the way it is described. In three clicks image files (from your camera) are quite large to send over the Internet, become smaller with best quality output.

With Imgares, in a few clicks you can shrink batch of photos, and reduce transfer times. All you need to do is to simply drag and drop your photos to the application’s window, change the size and press “Start”. As simple, as that.

Imgares also enables you to rotate photos, add text to them and make a slideshow (as a movie) and add your voice comment on it. All of these in “batch” mode, that is – you can process many of images at once and even send your slide shows on the internet.

Want to see if it may be useful to you? Visit http://www.konradp.com/products/imgares

RaidenFTPD is an easy-to-use FTP daemon. With this tool I share files with my friends and as many users as I want. Raiden provides file download services to customers or even setup your own home network FTP server. Not only are all the basic FTP features built-in; it also features various advanced features such as SSL/TLS, UTF8 (Unicode), UPnP NAT traversal and more.

I’ll recommend this for home use, it has a couple of hitches when it comes to professional use though, but I’ll rate it high. It has a lot of cool features, check it out yourself and be the judge.

Visit http://www.raidenftpd/en/download.html

There are times you lose very important files, sometimes without your knowing. These files could be irrecoverable. I used Recuva and my once irrecoverable files were right at my reach.

Recuva restores files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer including files emptied from your recycle bin and files from media devices (digital camera, iPods, memory cards, flash drives, etc). Whatever way the files might have been deleted whether by bugs, virus infection or improper shutdown due to power outage. Recuva brings back your files in shortest time. Isn’t that cool?

There are a couple of changes to the new version, which was released some days ago, Recuva 1.16.333.

The changes include:

Added

• Ability to search for non-deleted files (for recovery from damaged or reformatted disks only)
• Support for .rtf, .pdf, .mp3 and .tif files to deep scan

Fixed

• Bug that would limit file size of .avi files to 1GB after deep scan
• Various UI tweaks
• etc

Recuva restores files in their actual formats, no conversion whatsoever. You get back your files just the way you left them.

Check it out and see if it’s what you need, http://www.recuva.com/

Computers sometimes appear to work and function effectively even whilst being infected. Microsoft’s Malicious Software Remover is designed to check your computer for infections by specific prevalent malicious software including Blaster, mydoom and sasser and if an infection is found it removes it. So it also works like an anti-virus but it isn’t one. So if you are always online, you can rest assured that your computer is free of malware infection.

Because computers can appear to function normally when infected, Microsoft advises you to run this tool even if your computer seems to be fine. In addition to using this tool, you should use an up-to-date antivirus product to help protect your computer from other malicious software.

Guess what? Rumor has it that, this Malicious Software Removal tool removed game password-stealing software from more than 2 million PCs in the first week after the updated version was released , So it’s already living to it name.

Want to try it? The new version was just released last week- Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool 2.0

Check it out
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ad724ae0-e72d-4f54-9ab3-75b8eb148356&displaylang=en

I work online at home and most of the time I notice some unauthorized access to my connection, from my family. I used iNet protector to and I was able to protect my connection. Don’t get it twisted this is not an antivirus or a firewall. This tool prevent unauthorized accesses to your connection by enabling you to password your connection.

It’s key features include restriction to internet access at specified time (that save the stress of having to type your password several times.), allowing only specified programs and only specified websites (this way you can keep employees from online entertainment like chatting and movies while working. Isn’t that wonderful).

You could also specify time when your connection comes on and goes off, so as to put checks on the time your kids spend on the internet, and also increase productivity of workers by limiting the temptation for web surfing block web surfing and online entertainment .

You could use this tool to block harmful services and allow useful ones like education related sites for your kids.

This is a good tool and I strongly recommend it for both private and professional use.

Visit http://www.blumentals.net/inetprot/

This tool is easy to use MS backup repair tool to recover and repair the corrupt BKF files corrupted due to, power outage, backup interruptions, virus attacks, cyclic redundancy, backup software malfunction or corruption.

BKF File Repair Software tool recovers corrupt bkf file and displays the files and folders contained in the backup file.

Kernel BKF File Recovery Software is an advance tool to repair corrupt Microsoft backup (BKF) files created with ntbackup.exe, Veritas Backup Exec or any other backup solution having MTF format.

Key features include:

• Display all the file(s) and folder(s) in Tree Structure.
• Repairs failed [.bkf] file(s)
• Recovery of corrupt BKF Archive
• Provides you to update the software
• Recovery from corrupt or damaged BKF files.
• Repair BKF files more than 300GB
• Supports Unicode characters (Non English Characters also). And more.

Bkf repair software recovers corrupt bkf file of any size. It has been tested with sizes of up to 300 GB with amazing results.

Check www.bkffilerecovery.com for more information.

This tool searches and duplicates files on your computer and network. It has no restrictions whatsoever to file types and extensions. I noticed, however, that it is pretty fast when it comes to duplicating files but not as fast in erasing unwanted files. Works well for me though.

It is an excellent tool, not only for private users but also for professional purposes (seeing that companies work with an enormous amount of files).

File types are unlimited, exact definition and search according to date and time, size, attributes and contents are included in this application.
You can specify search parameters like drives, folder location, networks etc. Any search you select can be stored as a “Job” and re-loaded at any time.

You can specify how the program erases data since duplicated files are usually redundant and unnecessary and consumes disk space, so your hard disk space is conserved..

http://www.dupehunter.com

There are times you want to search for files and you haven’t got the fuggiest idea the name or the spelling. All you can remember is probably a letter and it’s position in the word or perhaps a punctuation mark (. , ! ; :).

Instant File Name Search (IFNS) instantly searches files by name or wildcards on your computer or local network. It even supports Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), punctuations, hot keys and a convenient, Explorer like interface.

I am yet to recover from my trial of this search tool. It works exactly the way it’s say it works, searching and bringing out results to every last detail. It comes with features like instant search, network search, easy to use explorer interface, taskbar icon and hot keys for easy access, etc.

I am sure you want to look this up for yourself, visit http://www.sowsoft.com/file-name-search.htm

This one by far greater than Windows movie maker and a couple of other movie makers have come cross. Flash Slideshow Builder come with a whole lot of features, which makes it stand out. It helps you make compelling and outstandingly great flash photo galleries and flash slideshows of your photos. it comes with a wide range of slide show templates to give desired slideshows.

There are wonderful features like sharing your slideshows on the internet (myspace, facebook, blogs etc) and flash slideshows allows you manage your slideshows so they can match your website style and offers quick and helpful online supports. one feature in find awesome is being able to add as many songs as you can to a single slide show and up to 400 images plus you can add hyperlinks for a single or whole slideshow. Its supports most image and audio formats. There is just so much to work with.

Check it out at http://www.flash-slide-show.com/flash-slide-show.html

When it comes to my computer, though it is usually called personal computer, it is not personal in any way, everyone in my house and relatives and friends have access to my computer.

Well i needed some sort of privacy within the public use of my system and i stumbled on folder lock software. now this one hell of a software you can actually encrypt and password-protect, lock, hide and encrypt any number of files, folders, drives, pictures and documents in seconds. Protected files are hidden, undeletable, inaccessible and highly secure. It hides files from kids, friends and co-workers, safeguards them from viruses, trojans, worms and spyware, and even protects them from networked PCs, cable users and hackers. so i can have my public computer really personal.

Folder lock can also encrypt files and folders on removable storage devices like flash drives, Memory Sticks, CD-RW, floppies and notebooks. i’m sure you would agree with me that is awesome!

Even when you transfer files form one system(with folder lock) to another, you don’t have to install folder lock over again, transfered files and folders retain their encrypted properties.

You need to check this out: http://www.newsoftwares.net/folderlock