Hard Disk Sentinel is a hard disk monitoring application that can be used to find possible hard disk problems, performance degradations and failures. Hard Disk Sentinel Professional also has the ability to alert if a problem detected or if temperature is too high and it has other reporting options. Specifically, the publishers designed this application to help users test, diagnose and repair hard disk drive problems, report and display SSD and HDD health, performance degradations and failures. Hard Disk Sentinel also gives complete textual description, tips and displays/reports the most comprehensive information about the hard disks and solid state disks inside the computer and in external enclosures. Many different alerts and report options are available to ensure maximum safety of your valuable data.

Hard Disk Sentinel Professional can also be used to prevent HDD failure and SSD/HDD data loss; and this is because it has a sensitive disk health rating system which is highly sensitive to disk problems. You can even enjoy more when you install the professional version that has scheduled and automatic (on-problem) disk backup options to prevent data loss caused by not only failure but by malware or accidental delete also.

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MagicScore Virtual Piano is a program that lets you compose music, type lyrics and print scores without having to pay anything. You can enjoy music improvisations, have hours of fun and impress your friends with piano music. MagicScore Virtual Piano helps kids and adults develop creativity and music abilities by delivering a virtual piano keyboard free of charge.

MagicScore Virtual Piano allows you educate and entertain your entire family free of charge. It also helps you become a composer, allowing you to improvise, pick out the notes or add lyrics to a popular tune or your very own composition. You can also turn your computer keyboard into a virtual piano. This free virtual piano keyboard is created to cover all basics required to compose music, play back using a variety of timbers, type and print music, and save your work into project files you can use with the entire range of MagicScore notation products. MagicScore Virtual Piano virtually turns your computer into a music instrument. With this free virtual piano keyboard, you can enter notes with a mouse or type them with your computer keyboard. Other key features of this musical program include the following; share music with friends and the world, ease to use, even for kids, help you grow your musical skills, and many more.

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ODAC is a VCL/VCL.NET/CLX component library for fast direct access to Oracle from Delphi, C++Builder, and Kylix. Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC) includes comprehensive support for Oracle functionality, which includes Oracle Advanced Queuing, Oracle TAF, and distributed transactions. The main advantages include direct access to Oracle data, Disconnected Model for working with data offline, Local Failover support, optimized code base, and advanced design-time integration. Main changes in this version include the following; Lazarus 0.9.30 and FPC 2.4.2 is supported, Delphi and C++Builder XE Starter Edition supported, Unicode login and password in the Direct mode is supported, Oracle 9, 10, 11 authentication in the Direct mode is supported, and case sensitive login and password in the Direct mode is supported. Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC) is a complete replacement for standard Oracle connectivity solutions and presents an efficient native alternative to the Borland Database Engine and dbExpress for access to Oracle.

Since it provides access to the most advanced database functionality, ODAC allows developers to harness the full capabilities of the Oracle server and optimize their database applications. This program stands out as the set of components with the widest support of Oracle functionality. You can connect to Oracle in two ways using ODAC: in Client mode, using Oracle client software, or in Direct mode, over TCP/IP.

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Movies by CraigWorks is an application that combines a movie collection organizer as well as a home theater PC software in one. Unlike most movie organizers, Movies by CraigWorks runs as web server and is accessed using a standard web browser like Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome; and that is why the interface is very familiar and easy to use. Its new features or updates include the following; JRE 1.6+, VLC 1.0.4, Windows (7, Vista, or XP), Browser (IE, Firefox, Chrome), Remote Controller, Dialogs fail to show if image file was missing, Modify Movie, fix display of movie popups in custom lists screen, and update all movie scrapper to support site changes. The new site does not support all the cover images that the old site did.

Users can also find some of its key features very useful. These features include the following; familiar and easy-to-use web interface, integrated VLC media player, manage settings for multiple display, iPad streaming, create custom lists of movies for easy access, import movie data from the internet, remote control compatible, display media info, and a few others. Movies by CraigWorks is a freeware application, and runs on Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows XP.

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ZenKEY is an application that can be used to launch a program or bring it back into focus, open a document or Internet resource, resize or move a window, access utilities, control media players, issue system commands and simulate keystokes. You can assign any keystroke to perform these tasks, as well as create pop-up menus with often used commands that appear at the press of a button. This new version comes with a few bug fixes, which include the following; fixing of bug in ZebIcon management (gave error when closing), fixing of flush inactive icons function, and addition of flushing or closing icons restores icon Zenbar positions (if enabled).

ZenKEY also allows you to control every aspect of your computer via keystrokes. Using configuration utility of the ZenKEY Wizard, a user can create menus, with every one of them containing items, which performs “actions.” A user can “fire” these actions by clicking on the item or pressing a key-combination. The program also includes the following features; work and play on infinite desktop, users can open a program or file, control program windows, automatically make windows transparent iconify windows, issue a media command, open an internet location, open a folder, perform an internet search, and many more.

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KaraDream is a freeware media application designed to manage and play your audio and video files, Youtube videos included. It automatically looks up related Youtube videos, artist’s portraits, and news as you play the media item. When playing audio files, this freeware will look up related images on Bing/Google, and present them as a slideshow automatically. With KaraDream, users can also create their own synchronized lyrics file for their favorite songs. Synchronized lyrics will be displayed on screen as Karaoke lyrics when songs are being played. However, the program is still in its developing stage and it only supports Windows Vista 7 with .NET 4.0 installed. KaraDream also requires a working internet connection to make it functional.

This version allows you to set the default thumbnail, download image and set wallpaper on the image found. The publishers have also included search engine logo at the start of the media playback, and fixed some keyboard and mouse focus issues.

KaraDream comes with some nice features that include the following; Youtube video playback, DirectShow support-any code installed will be supported, synchronized lyrics playback, allow bookmarking on all media items, support *.kdl synchronized lyrics creation, support *.lrc lyrics import, automatically look up artist’s images from Bing/Google, automatically look up artist’s images from Bing/Google, looks up related Youtube videos, and many more.

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SPlayer is an easy-to-use media player that supports all the popular media formats; including DVDRip, HDTV, RMVB, QuickTime, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AC3/DTS, VP3/6/7, Indeo, XVD, OGG/OGM, APE, FLAC, TTA, AAC, MPC, 3GP/AMR, and subtitles. Though, SPlayer could be improved upon by the publishers to provide better performance, it nevertheless remains a nice piece of application. The player significantly reduces CPU and memory footprints, optimizes for modern multi-core CPU and GPU. SPlayer also comes with a PowerTravelTMpower-saving mode, which reduces energy consumption and increases the battery time for notebook. The player has enough quality features to attract your attention.

SPlayer comes with the following features; smooth playback ensured via a variety of techniques, streamlined user experience enabled via more than 150 unique features, small and sophisticated (especially when compared to other similar players), no extra plug-in required, SPlayer has the capacity to automatically download high quality English and Chinese subtitles, beautiful interface, etc.

SPlayer is a freeware, and runs on the following operating systems; Windows 2000, 9x, and Windows XP. You will be amazed that unlike some other freeware programs available on the internet, SPlayer does not come with ads. There is no longer need to match subtitles on Google for foreign language films.

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Pale Moon is the work of a single individual, using contributed Open Source code to create a full-featured, speed optimized version of the popular Firefox browser. The publisher of this program saw the advantages on other systems like Linux with regards to programs being compiled specifically for the capabilities of the machine it is installed on, deemed it necessary that Windows users were at a disadvantage: Mozilla only releases windows executables with maximum compatibility in mind; this means that Firefox is made to run on as many different systems as possible, sacrificing efficiency and speed in the process to be compatible with, by current standards, absolutely ancient hardware.

This update or version include new features like; performance fix: switched back globally to fast floating point model, with a patch to prevent rounding errors in javascript, update of the source base to Firefox 4.0.1, fixing a large number of bugs, and compensated for a number of internal compiler errors causing build issues and potential browser stability problems on some systems.

The current version of Pale Moon has just been released, and it comes in both regular desktop versions and a portable version; the x64 version is also available.

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Cobra Print Viewer is a simple to use application that allows you select any of your printers, see at a glance images of queued print jobs, perform actions on those jobs such as copying and moving jobs, viewing full screen, pause/resume the job, rename the job on the printer queue, cancel the job and save the print job to an image file (all common image formats are supported). Cobra Print Viewer is compatible with both Windows 32 and 64 bit. For 30 whole days, you can try out Cobra Print Viewer’s latest changes that include compatibility with Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. You can also find a couple of other new changes that have been made just for you to enjoy the application the more.

Cobra Print Viewer is unlike the standard Window print queue manager, which only lists each job as text; this time around, you can view actual image of the job that is queued to be printed. Cobra Print Viewer is especially useful if you print any documents or pictures whilst not connected directly to a printer. You can also use this application to reprint any print jobs both to the same printer and copy/move jobs to other printers.

It is a nice piece of tool, and the price is really affordable too.

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FrostWire is a fast P2P file-sharing application that lets users share and search for all kinds of computer files including movies, pictures, games, and text documents from users of Morpheus, BearShare, LimeWire and others. FrostWire for Windows also has other features that include the following; dynamic querying, the ability to preview files while downloading, advanced techniques for locating rare files, and an extremely intuitive user interface.

Like most file sharing programs, users of FrostWire need to be extremely careful when using this program. As a matter of fact, there is need to have a very effective anti-malware program pre-installed on your system. This will protect the files already installed on your computer, and ensure certain files are not destroyed. This program can also be used for a lot of legitimate online file sharing. However, there are certain individuals who normally use it for illegitimate activities.

Some of the features of FrostWire for Windows include the following; completely free and open source, faster and improved download speed, friendly online chat rooms, new and improved skins, additional connections, compatible with iTunes, improved BitTorrent technology, BTIH Magnet Torrent Downloads, and a few others.

FrostWire for Windows is a completely free application, but be sure you have an effective anti-malware application already installed on your system.

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