If you’ve been looking for a movie database manager but you haven’t been able to find something solid, this maybe what you need- All My Movies.

All My Movies is a movie database manager, the main features being demonstrative and handy vision of all your movie collection; importing screenshots directly from your movie DVDs or AVI files to the database which can help you remember movie using your visual memory and evaluate quality of the movie’s picture; fast movie search by any of the database fields; export your movie collection to HTML, plain text or Microsoft Excel format; easy to use loan manager.

In the latest version which just hit the software market, these changes have been effected:

Added:

• XLXS (MS Excel 2007) format support for import your movies from;
• Warning if you don’t assign any fields for the columns (MS Excel and text import);
• Ability to group movies by Studio. Right click over the movies list and select “Group by – Studio” menu item;
• “View-Orphans” menu item to Names directory. Shows only those persons, who didn’t assisted in your movies;
• CTRL-A shortcut for all persons selection in Names directory

Fixed:

• IMDb.com import function has been adapted for recent changes;
• Plugins for new online databases support are works in trial mode too

Want to see if it’s what you’ve been looking for?  Check http://www.bolidesoft.com/allmymovies.html for more info.

Here is a freeware alternative to expensive CD and DVD burners. It is called FinalBurner FREE.

FinalBurner FREE enables you to create data, audio, DVD disks and burn them onto any type of media, such as CD R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD DL.  The fact that you can also easily create an ISO image of a disk makes this really cool. Combining all the elements of a professional CD recorder and delivered with a convenient user interface, FinalBurner is a must have, it costs you nothing anyways, its freeware.

Designed with features so simple, you don’t need to be an expert to make use of it, Final Burner FREE restricts the complex process of CD recording to a few mouse clicks. But it’s not only a newbie delight, advanced users will benefit from the opportunity to be in full control of many settings that affect the burning process and the quality of the result.

FinalBurner is also available in the FinalBurner PRO edition which unlike Final Burner FREE is shareware.

Want to give the freeware a shot first? Visit http://www.protectedsoft.com/products.php

want to know the difference between the FREE and the PRO versions, go to http://www.protectedsoft.com/fbprovsfree.php
 

If you are interested in a piece of software that allows you to download torrent files for free and one that is easy to use, then BitComet is definitely the piece of software for you. This is a particularly full featured and powerful bittorrent client that allows you to download any torrent file.  It allows for easy multiple downloads that you can track at the same time and even allows you to queue dozens if not hundreds of different files all for your downloading pleasure.

The latest version of BitComet is version 0.97 and it was released on December 7, 2007.  The main changes that were made in this version are primarily changes to the graphical user interface in which different GUI bugs were fixed and functionality overall was improved and extended to different areas such as link support for downloads that are currently going on within the dialogue box.   There were also core patches added on that fixed different issues that affected the core of the actual programming and therefore different crashes that people might have experienced before have now been fixed by the BitComet creator.

More information is available at http://www.bitcomet.com/

If you don’t like having pornographic pictures on your system or you just want to censor what your kids see on your system, then this tool my come in handy. It is called Media Detective.

Media Detective is a tool for helping you remove pornographic media from your PC. How does it work?

It scans media files on the computer, such as pictures and movies, to check whether they contain adult content. This is accomplished by opening and inspecting the files for skin tone present. The files are then rated according to their potential for obscenity and are displayed. You are then free to delete according to your discretion.

Want to check it out? Go to http://www.mediadetective.com/

Need a tool to take screenshots and thumbnails easily? This should help you out.

WebShot is a simple utility that gives you the ability to take screenshots and thumbnails of webpages or websites.  With this simple but tool software you can take screenshots of a single webpage or screenshots of multiple webpages in batch mode. But the simplicity should not turn you off if you are an advanced kind of user because Webshot also comes with a command line executable for advanced users.

In the recently released version there are  new changes including:

• Fixed multi-threaded async pluggable protocol
• Compiled with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

Want to try it out? It’s freeware!!! Go to http://www.websitescreenshots.com/

Here is a useful tool that should come in handy, it is called UrlSearch.

UrlSearch extracts web addresses and other text strings from local and remote files. The good thing about this tool is that with it, results can be edited and exported in various ways. Web addresses can be sorted by domains and exported to your browser’s bookmarks (Netscape, Internet Explorer or Opera).

One other useful feature of UrlSearch is the fact that it can also be used as a Download agent and can view history and cookie files, edit ‘Typed Urls’ lists, and calculate hit rates.

Want to check it out?  You will find it at http://freenet-homepage.de/h.ulbrich/

Zortam Mp3 Media Studio is all-in-one Mp3 application that is really loaded.

Why do I call it loaded?

It contains MP3 organizer for searching and cataloguing Mp3 files into Mp3 library, editing ID3v1 and ID3v2.3 tags converting audio CD to MP3 and WAV format using CDDB.  With Zortam Media Studio you can easily search for song lyrics from the internet, also get batch lyrics and cover picture update from the internet, create lyrcis book. But that’s not all converting Wav to Mp3 files and Mp3 to Wav files, managing M3u playlists, renaming files using ID3 tags, searching for duplicate Mp3 files are among the other cool features available in this cool tool.

See what I mean by loaded?

In the latest version, the major change effected is:

• Improved algorithm for Zortam auto tagging from Zortam Music Database (ZMLIMD)

Want to try it out? Visit http://www.zortam.com/index.php

If you have a lot unused files that have started creating a nuisance and affecting your system speed and eating away valuable space, then you might consider letting Dustbin help you out.

Dustbin is a fast working safe disk cleaning utility from Micware. This utility is suited for systems containing too many unused files, created over time. It doesn’t matter whether the files are hidden and hard to find or there is not enough time and experience to select the ones that are useless and delete individually, this utility can help you get rid of the files very quickly and efficiently.

Bugs which were the major hitch in the previous version have been fixed in the new version which has just hit the software market. Want to give it a shot? It’s free!!!

Go to http://www.geocities.com/micwarecentral/micp.htm

There is this software that could be a lifesaver for software development teams or support departments, it is called Eventum.

Eventum is an issue tracking system that can be used by a support department to track incoming technical support requests, or by a software development team to quickly organize tasks and bugs.

In the latest version which just hit the market a couple of days ago, some changes in features were effected, these include:

• Fixed error with DB error when removing assignees from issue assignment list;
• Rewritten error handling to create less smaller error reports;
• Make issue associated list as text field;
• Implementing per project “mail aliases”;
• Made timetracking window input more convenient;
• Display email addresses to whom email was sent when issue was updated;
• Add “Show Times spent on issue” to weekly report page;
• Improved Weekly Reports output possibilities;
• Fixed bug with reminders when no recipients are found;
• Fixed bug with emails downloaded from mail server only being sent to issue assignee;
• Added support level to list issues page;
• Added ability to control if a custom fields is required and validation options from backend;
• Added option to include custom fields on close issue;
• Changed customer API to support multiple contracts;
• Fixed bug with closed issue notification going out even when it shouldn’t have;
• Updated Smarty and PEAR packages to latest versions;
• Fixed bug with expandable tables;
• And so much more…

For more info go to http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/other/eventum/

If you’ve tried different email notifiers but not really found the thing for you, you might want to give this a shot. It’s called Poppy.

Poppy is a small e-mail notification utility that can check multiple POP3 accounts for new mail. It will display an icon in the taskbar notification area and this icon will change whenever new mail is waiting. The cool thing about this freeware is that it can also optionally play a sound or display a small popup window.

It’s worth checking out and it’s free so no financial commitment needed to enjoy its features.

Here is the place to be for more info and free download.