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Monday, July 30th, 2007
DS Clock is a digital desktop clock that displays variable date, time, and time zone information built from the format string. You will definitely appreciate the fact that the program allows you to fully customize its look and feel. You also get to synchronize your computer’s clock with Atomic Time Servers.
The latest updated version just hit the software market recently. This latest version is DS Clock 2.0 Beta 3 and it comes with these changes:
- Windows Vista support;
- Added Help;
- Fixed bugs.
Check http://www.dualitysoft.com/dsclock/ for more info.
Posted in Developer, Information Management, Internet, Main, Shareware, Utilities, Windows | 1 Comment »
Monday, July 30th, 2007
Here is a cool design instrument for your use. Blender is an extremely fast and versatile design instrument. The fact that this software has a personal touch, offering a unique approach to the world of Three Dimensions makes it a must have.
What can Blender be used for? Use it to create TV commercials, to make technical visualizations, business graphics, to do some morphing, or design user interfaces. One thing you will love about this software is the fact that you can easy build and manage complex environments. The renderer is versatile and extremely fast and all basic animation principles are well implemented.
It doesn’t matter what OS you are using, Blender has an edition that is perfect for you. There is Blender for Windows, Blender for Mac OS X, Blender for Linux and Blender for FreeBSD.
Want to check it out? Go to http://www.blender.org/
Posted in Design, Developer, Linux, Mac Stuff, Main, Open Source, Windows | No Comments »
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
There are a number of different programs around that allow you to monitor your usage when it comes to windows programs but at the same time there are programs that are overstuffed with unnecessary stuff. It is just not really logical to think that you would need a program overstuffed with different services in order to do the usage monitoring tasks that you want. Monitoring your usage is one thing, but some of these programs come with so many different addons that even if you really knew what you wanted to do via the usage issue, you might not even really know where you should begin.
Usage Monitor however makes sure that this is not really a problem. It is a very simple software package that basically has a window where you can look at all of the different processes currently being run on your computer. Through the use of the usage monitor, you can make sure that you have the ability to use it to set watch limits on the different processes on your computer. This serves ultimately to allow the usage monitor to let you know when the processes are using too much of the system’s resources, thereby allowing you to quickly respond before the situation gets out of hand.
More information can be found at http://www.veign.com/download_app.asp?app=110
Posted in Browsers, Developer, Information Management, Programming, Security, Shareware, Windows | No Comments »
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
There are a number of different places that a person can go to nowadays in order to read a comic online and indeed with all of the different pages available in JPEG format, you can tell right away that the people that are ultimately interested in the idea of reading the comic online would most likely have a hard time doing so. Opening up different pictures when you finish the preceding one is an annoying process and a number of the existing programs are way too general in order to make sense when reading the comic itself. A program specific to the needs of online comic readers is needed and indeed this is where the CDisplay Comic Reader 1.8 comes in.
The CDisplay Comic Reader 1.8 is a program that was written specifically to ease the burdens of people previously trying to read comics where every page was in JPEG format on a person’s hard drive. It was because of this niche that the software was made and indeed people that have used it can testify to how fantastic a piece of software it really is. It is simply a reader, so the software does not take up either much space on your hard drive or tie up much space in your system resources. Ultimately, what the CDisplay Comic Reader 1.8 happens to be is just a fantastically simple solution to a problem affecting thousands.
More information can be found at http://www.geocities.com/davidayton/CDisplay.html
Posted in Archive, Catalogue, Developer, Freeware, Fun, Information Management, Main, Windows | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
When you are talking about the sky, you are talking about something that people love. During the space race of the 1950s and 1960s and ever since, the concept of space and space travel has inspired us as a race to go for bigger and better things and the idea of charting and exploring space has indeed long been in the minds of many children around the world. In order to keep that dream fresh, those children of course start with the night sky and with Stellarium for Windows you can download a free program that allows you to make sure that even when the sky is cloudy, your child has a chance to look at the night sky in wonderment.
What exactly is Stellarium? It is a graphical representation of the night sky. You can change it to different times during the day and different sun angles as well as of course looking at the sky at night. You can add or remove lines that point out all of the different constellations and of course you can even go so far as to look at the sky from different points on our lovely planet Earth. One of the main drawbacks of really looking up at the sky, the one point of view, is something that has been defeated by the use of computer software and therefore your child can get a fantastic education all while spending more time looking at something they already love.
More info can be found at http://stellarium.sourceforge.net/
Posted in Developer, Freeware, Internet, Main, Shell and Desktop, Windows | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Whenever you take a look at your own process monitor such as the one you can access from your desktop by pressing ‘Ctrl’ + ‘Alt’ + ‘Delete’, have you ever had the feeling of frustration of not really understanding exactly what was going on? Was the process list an endless list of things that you had no clue about? I’ve certainly had that feeling and for those of us that aren’t terribly computer savvy, the Process Monitor 1.12 is definitely the piece of software that you absolutely want to have.
It’s an advanced monitoring tool for any Windows system and it basically shows the real time file system activities. These include things like the actual tasks and processes as well as information about the registry delivered to you in real time. You can use any number of special features to figure out exactly what each task is doing and perhaps that more than anything else is what the appeal of this piece of software is. The idea that you can finally figure out exactly what’s been going on in your computer this whole time and then cut back on the programs that you don’t need so that the resources of your computer are free to deal with other things is a very powerful idea indeed.
More information can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processmonitor.mspx
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
There are so many different ways for people to chat nowadays and one way that is really starting to pick up steam is video conferencing. Whether it is being done for business reasons or for pure personal reasons, there might be times when editing what is being sent out to the other people in the video conversation would be prudent. For businesses, it might be someone accidentally divulging something and for personal chat it might be something embarrassing action wise such as a burp or a cough. Either way, people will want to edit that annoying stuff out and now with AV Webcam Morpher 1.0 you can do exactly that.
There are so many different ways for a person to use the AV Webcam Morpher that it is really crazy! Not only can you change the tone of your voice to make yourself sound like someone completely different than who you are, but at the same time you can also use hundreds of different video effects in order for people to get things across that are closer to what they want to portray. With all of the neat effects that people have been able to come up with for the AV Webcam Morpher, it is no doubt whatsoever that it is definitely the real deal.
More info can be found at http://www.audio4fun.com/
Posted in Design, Developer, Fun, Internet, Main, Multimedia, Photo, Shareware, Windows | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
There are a number of important things in the world today and while Windows XP does have a lot of interesting stuff to it, there are certainly other things that it could benefit from having as well. For example, there are a number of different things that can be incorporated into the Windows XP install CD through the use of this addon pack. It was a pack created by Ryan VanderMeulen and it includes a number of useful addons that people interested in getting additional functionality out of Windows XP might want to take a close look at.
Some of these include:
- Shell extensions for the copy to and move to functions that are available in file manipulation;
- HashTab 1.9; a specific program that increases the functionality of Windows XP;
- Microsoft Calculator Plus 1.0; a replacement for the calculator file that normally comes with Windows XP and an upgrade in terms of what you can actually do with the calculator itself;
- MS HighMAT CD Writing wizard;
- MS Make Cab;
- An extension to the font properties and the OpenType fonts that come already with Windows XP;
- A remote desktop client; something that is lacking in the original Windows XP install.
More information can be found at http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/updatepack.html
Posted in Business, Developer, Internet, Main, OS Updates, Programming, Utilities, Windows | No Comments »
Monday, July 23rd, 2007
Notepad2 is another small, fast notepad replacement with some unusual features. It includes zoom, rectangular selection, regular expressions, and more.
Notepad2 is a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. The good thing about this software is that it can be run out of the box without installation, and does not touch your system’s registry.
Want to check it out? It’s free, so go check it out at http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html
Posted in Developer, Freeware, Main, Programming, Text, Windows | No Comments »
Monday, July 23rd, 2007
There are always times in life when we need to have some of our important information stored. Whether you are talking about the school notes that you want to use for the test, the work notes that are top secret or the phone number of that girl you just got at the bar last night (wink), you need a place to store information that you want not only to be kept safe, but also to be kept secret. InfoCryptor refers to itself as being a multi-user secure information storage application and upon taking a closer look at what it actually has the ability to do, this turns out to be exactly the case at hand.
Whether you are looking to store text documents, notes, passwords, e-mails, security codes, diagnostics or anything else, you will find a way to store it with ease with InfoCryptor. The interface is very easy to use so that you don’t have to spend hours accessing the information that you want to keep safe. More impressive than anything else perhaps is how amazing the software itself actually is. InfoCryptor can be your friend and your assistant all bundled up in one and this ultimately is why it has become so popular amongst so many different people.
More info can be found at http://www.cynapse.co.in/infocryptor/index.php
In the latest updated version recently released, Cynapse InfoCryptor 1.50.1203, the Major change is the fixed component update URL.
Posted in Business, Commercial, Developer, Information Management, Internet, Main, Security, Shareware | No Comments »
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