Here is a tool that all guitar lovers will find useful. Guitar Solo Toolbar is a free add-in for the Internet Explorer browser. The toolbar helps you to quickly find guitar information and equipment from any web page on www.MyGuitarSolo.com as well as on the major search engines: Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

This tool can help you to easily find and download guitar midi files and tabs to hundreds of popular songs. The toolbar also includes unique links and features for beginning as well as intermediate guitar players, such as a guitar tuner, various guitar scales, recommended modes, notations and tabs, and more.

It’s a guitar and music lover’s delight.

Visit http://www.myguitarsolo.com/toolbar/index.html for more info and download.

Skype 1.4 Alpha for Linux has been released, with quality improvements:

• Audio quality improvements, on par with Windows 3.2 and Mac 2.6;
• More reliable code, thanks to a major rewrite building on Trolltech’s Qt 4.2;
• Better device detection;
• ALSA plugins support;
• UI improvements for file transfer and general layout.

Also there’re still some problems with this Alpha release:

• There are no contact list groups;
• You can’t create new accounts;
• There’s no alert message if your chat message is undelivered.

 So you can try it here, but if you to use Skype on Linux without any problems get the October 2006 gold build. (more…)

Here is one software that will definitely come in handy for directory administrators. It is called Directory Mate.

Directory Mate is a wizard based import/export tool for your Windows 2000 or 2003 Active Directory. As a directory administrator, you will love the fact that with Directory Mate, you can quickly export a list of users, open the comma delimited file in Excel, and even make the changes you want and quickly import all your changes. It’s really easy to use. You will really appreciate the fact that this software saves time money as it helps make directory content management easier.

So if you want to create users quickly, mailbox enable users with very little effort, avoid learning how to write script files or taking the time to do it or want to import or you just need something to simplify Bulk Directory information exporting and importing then. Directory Mate is worth checking out!

Version 2007 is now available; Go check it out at http://www.madsolutions.com/DM/Main.htm

If you visit a lot of websites regularly like news sites, forums or whatever, then you will enjoy the services of this software, it is called ServiceHolder.

ServiceHolder helps to keep your sites grouped and tabbed easily in just one window. Each site which you add to ServiceHolder has its own unique settings (popup killer, script killer, etc.). So each site is like a whole new browser installation.

What are the main features that ServiceHolder supports? To mention but a few:

• Multiple websites in one window!
• Kills banner popups!
• Access and manage IE favorites
• Live update from internet
• Minimize to tray
• 70,380 mood colors
• Auto refresh on timer
• No installation or extra DLLs
• 100% Banner free.

If you think the software can meet your needs why don’t you just check it out. It’s free.

Go to http://www.serviceholder.com/

One thing is worthy of note though: According to the publisher:

“The auto update server is currently down. This will not affect your application; the error you get in the startup is just for the auto update services.”

Here is a really cool tool worth checking out. Meetro is radius and proximity based software. Getting rid of the jargons this means this software finds like-minded people around you.

Meetro is the first the world’s first location-aware IM client and real-time social network — which means Meetro allows you to meet real people in your neighborhood. One of the cool things about Meetro is that it has multiple IM network support so you don’t lose contact with your old friends on other networks.

One thing you will definitely love about this software is the fact that it generates buddy lists based on proximity so when you enter the program you get two buddy lists: Your normal one, i.e. AOL, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ list and an additional one based on who is nearby.

Check out http://www.meetro.com/ for more info.

Oh! Less I Forget, Meetro will cost you nada, nothing, $0, IT’S Free !!! Go Check it out. http://www.meetro.com/
 

Here is a really cool and safe way to type important data without using your keyboard; using Jitbit Virtual Keyboard.

Jitbit Virtual Keyboard is an on-screen virtual keyboard. Type text with your mouse, trackball or stylus (digital pen used by Tablet PC devices with a touch screen), whenever you are unable to use a physical computer keyboard. Typing sensitive information with keyboards can leave you open to key-loggers attack at times, so what I really love about Jitbit Virtual Keyboard is the fact that it protects your confident data by preventing key-loggers and other remote keystroke trackers from spying your data. With this software you can enter your passwords, personal data, and all sensitive information easily and safely.

In the recent version, Version 1.59, which is making the rounds in the software market these days, these latest changes have been carried out:

• Multi-instance check;
• Transparency fix.

Go to http://www.jitbit.com/virtualkeyboard.aspx to check it out!

Need a free tool for your mp3 conversions? This one, Free WMA to MP3 Converter, should come in handy.

Free WMA to MP3 Converter converts Windows Media files to MP3 files which can be played in MP3 Players easily. So you can have your favorite songs on your MP3 player or your mobile phones after the conversion and enjoy your favorite tracks anywhere you are.

The fact that MP3 files are usually smaller than the normal media format files will give you the opportunity to have more songs using the same space on your system or phone. All Windows Media formats (*.wma, *.wmv, *.asf) are supported.

Check it out http://www.wma-mp3.org/ at it’s free!!!!

Here is useful tool to get the best of web search. It really redefines Search Engine Optimization.

FirstStop WebSearch Business Edition is a cool tool that increases Web searchers’ productivity by allowing them to do the things they cannot do with standard search engines. With this really useful tool you can search multiple engines all at once,, save and export search results to office and web applications. You will also appreciate the fact that you can get all available search results in a single list instead of only 10 or 20 per page.

The fact that this software helps you to automatically conduct batch searches makes it really very useful. Additional search engines and features can be added on request.

The latest version, FirstStop WebSearch Business Edition 5.0, which was just recently released, has these cool changes:

• More supported search engine types;
• Increased level of detail in search results;
• Improved support for non-English language searches;
• Batch searching;
• RSS support;
• New Discovery Tree enhancements;
• Desktop search bar.

The only downside to this software is its price, it costs a whooping $125, but the question you’ll have to ask yourself is, is this software helping you achieve your desired goals and if so is it worth your financial investment?

You are the only one that can answer those questions but that is after you check out the trial version first.

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

Intelore, one of the key developers of password recovery solutions, launched OpenOffice Password Recovery 1.0.4 – a powerfull software tool designed to help absent-minded or careless PC users recover forgotten passwords for a suite of OpenOffice.org programs (Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math etc.).OpenOffice Password Recovery 1.0.4 offers a suite of mechanisms and schemes to quickly and smoothly recover all types of passwords and discard formatting and editing restrictions (for example, locked cells protection and permissions).

OpenOffice Password Recovery features a variety of built-in attack profiles allowing you to efficiently recover passwords with a single key click. The sophisticated solution offers Unicode support and allows for recovery of multilanguage passwords(e.g. containing both Latin characters and hieroglyphs) regardless of their length or complexity.
By default, the recovery process is done in the background which enables the user to continue working with other programs. At the same time, OpenOffice Password Recovery allows the user to manually change the processing priority and make password recovery the foreground task.

OpenOffice Password Recovery can take into account the so-called “human factor” and recover a password containing typing errors! (more…)

To keep tabs on your system, you need a good system health and stability tester. For that purpose Hot CPU Tester is worth checking out.

Hot CPU Tester is a system health and stability tester. It works by testing CPU, chipset and virtually all parts of motherboard for errors/bugs. It is a burn-in test with uniquely designed state of the art DefectTech engine. DefectTech is a technology developed to diagnose systems regarding its stability and in general, computer’s health.

Why should you consider using this software? Well its features should speak for it:

• Revolutionary DefectTrack 2 engine, accurately tests the whole system and its subsets;
• Written purely to test CPU, chipset, motherboard, Memory;
• Fully supports x64 computing platform(AMD64 Technology,Intel® EM64T);
• Fuly supports dual-core and multi-processor systems;
• Utilizes SSE,SSE2, SSE3, MMX & 3DNow! instructions sets;
• Tests System Bus & Memory Bus;
• Tests Hard Disk Drives;
• Monitors CPU performance under pressure;
• Built in Anti-Crash & Exception Handler;
• SMBIOS & CPUID featured

Etc.

The latest version which was released yesterday has these changes:

• Improved support for Windows Vista;
• Improved support for the newer Intel® processors;
• Improved support for the newer AMD® processors;
• Improved Hard Disk module test to detect SATA controller problems faster now;
• Fixed a bug that caused memory burn-in to crash;
• Due to 32bit limitations amount of memory to be tested is set below 4GB only;
• Small cosmetic changes.

Want to check it out?

Go to http://www.7byte.com/index.php?page=hotcpu