Have there been times when you see your pictures somewhere and you wonder how it got there. Now you don’t have to worry any more with Bytescout Watermarking Pro. It’s a tool that allows you protect you protect your images from unauthorised usages with features like, ability to use stamps: DO NOT COPY, PROTECTED and other stamps, and symbols like ©, ® to your images.

It not only protects your images but can also convert images to other image file format, and ability to change the output JPEG quality.

It’s got an easy to use interface and preview functionality and lots more features you should look up for yourself. Visit http://bytescout.com/watermarkingpro.html

If you’ve used previous version, you won’t be surprised at the improvement on this version. As before, it supports a lot of formats like (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc.) and video types, like (AVI, ASF, MPEG, NSV). The skins I tell you will blow your mind, you need to check it out. Its library is more advanced with Internet radio and TV support, CD ripping, and CD burning.

I’ll just run down couple of changes in this version.

• Chinese, Japanese & Korean installer translations and language packs
• New: [in_swf] Adobe Shockwave Flash (SWF, RTMP) playback support
• New: [gen_dropbox] Winamp DropBox alpha (use: Ctrl-Shift-D)
• New: [Online Services] AOL Radio featuring CBS Radio (requires in_flv)
• Improved: Background reading option for playlist metadata
• Improved: Classic song ticker scrolling for Winamp Modern skin pledit winshade
• Improved: Vista elevation (fixes: installing skins, filetype reg, Pro reg)
• Improved: Zero padding option for play list item numbers
• Improved: [in_flv] Better streaming support and other improvements
• Improved: [in_mp3] Optional retention of existing APEv2 headers
• Improved: [ml_disc] Improved start times if ml_disc view is active
• Improved: [ml_local] Redesigned ‘Show Info’ panel

There are a couple more you should look up. Visit http://www.winamp.com

Getting your PC totally secured, you’ll need to get a couple of software from firewalls to antivirus and all sorts. But here is a program that does all the security watch your computer needs. ZoneAlarm internet security provides complete protection for your PC in a single, comprehensive program. It banishes viruses, block spam, and remove spywares from your PC for good.

Working as an antivirus, it has the ability to remove even the most persistent, hard-to-find spyware that infiltrate your PC at the core level. It also protects your PC identity from identity theft. Working as a firewall you may rest assured that your system well protect from all other unauthorized computers (or hackers), with 100% stealth mode operation and also protects your programs from Malwares.

ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite not only eradicates threats but also prevents them from ever entering in the first place. Comprehensive protection defends your PC with robust firewall technology and stops identity thieves and spammers in a single, easy-to-use application.

Visit http://www.zonealarm.com

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

Broadcast real time text news over the company network to all connected receivers. Also display notes locally as known from previous versions. Sophisticated time control included!

Pros: MemoTicker has developed from a handy note tool to a powerful news system for a company network. Important news and information can spread at high speed and in real-time. This is push-communication as an instrument, without using the Intranet, and without the necessity to act yourself in order to receive the information (pull-communication, like with browsers, email, etc.). Using memoticker3, you display or broadcast your notes and memos in a ticker on top or bottom of the screen – similar to the known stock exchange or news tickers in TV.

As a special feature, a sophisticated time control turns your ticker-line into a powerful time management system. You can display your notes permanently or on selected dates. A powerful and easy to use timing control assists you with creating date-controlled notes. News broadcast then can be controlled to such logic as “Broadcast this message (show this note) on every last Tuesday of the month, and also on two days before”. News created on a computer defined as the transmitter will be displayed on all computers defined as receivers. A company network can hold one ore more transmitters, but a receiver can only be connected to one transmitter at a time.

Switching to another transmitter can easily be done by entering a new network path. MemoTicker may, but does not have to run permanently on the broadcast computer in order to maintain the broadcast mode. You can close MemoTicker after creating, editing or deleting news on the broadcast computer. It is merely essential to keep the broadcast computer itself running. The sysop can individually activate the broadcast mode and set the network path to the broadcast computer on each computer designated as receiver. He creates his password on the broadcast computer administrated by him. It is not necessary to explicitly define a computer as transmitter. Each computer not set as a MemoTicker receiver can be a transmitter.

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This tool is very useful for Business Bulk SMS text messaging. It can be used to remind clients or patients of appointments or to promote special events or offers. Many companies use this method including recruitment agencies, doctor’s surgeries and etc.

Pros: Sending SMS is the main feature. For that one can add customers, get a report on which SMS succeeded, what failed and which phone may be was not reachable. Settings is the other choice in the top level menu. Sending text message could be to an individual customer or can be a broadcast to all of them. For sending these text messages one creates the message in the text box provided. Creating the group to whom the message needs to be broadcast consists of just dragging names from the complete list to the target list.

For adding a customer you need to type in customer name, address, location, phone number and e-mail addresses. For automatic SMS, the text can be entered in a text box and automatic message checkbox can be checked. SMS report provides statistics that cover no of SMS sent, number remaining, messages delivered and numbers that failed. Messages are sent with the Senders Name (as Sender Id).

The application can deliver text messages to all the operational areas covered by either GSM or the CDMA networks. Customized message s could be sent in a single click to different phones. Log of historical records are maintained. It could be useful for Doctor’s clinic for reminding of people of their appointments and such other operations.

Cons: Except for the usual watchfulness required of version 1.0 software nothing adverse was found.

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This video and audio conversion software, 4Media Video Converter Platinum 5 can help you to convert between video files and between audio files. You can convert WMV to AVI, convert WMV to MPEG, and convert TS to WMV HD.

Pros: 4Media Video Converter Platinum is designed to meet all your needs of converting video files between AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF, 3GP, RM and MP4 formats. Audio conversion from audio and picture/ audio extraction from video are fully supported. It is capable of clipping and merging your video segments at will to get flexible output with the ability of clipping and merging segments selectively. You could capture images from video too to create thumbnails for the movies in your collection. Once clipping of a video is done, you can preview the segment, as well as the snapshot and the source file. It is possible to merge multiple clips to create one.

There’s a lot setting possible when working on conversion of files. These include details of video and audio profiles settings. Details include codec used, bit rates, video size, frame rate, aspect ratio and so on for video while for audio one can set bit rate, sample rate, number of channels being encoded and so on. Audio conversion features include converting CD to any other audio formats. The application produces good quality of video and audio both. Main interface is clean and simple enough. One defines the profile to which the input file is to be converted. The range of profiles that can be defined is very large and include video formats for such devices as PSP, iPhone, general video, Apple TV, iPod, Xbox, mobile phones, HD video and user defined. Video and audio quality can also be defined qualitatively on the front panel. The application is claimed to multithreaded. That would imply large speed improvements in conversion as the current multi core processors are used. The application can process several videos in a batch.

Cons: With so many formats being involved there’s always a possibility some combinations could give rise to problems. I needs to watch out for it.

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