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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I work online at home and most of the time I notice some unauthorized access to my connection, from my family. I used iNet protector to and I was able to protect my connection. Don’t get it twisted this is not an antivirus or a firewall. This tool prevent unauthorized accesses to your connection by enabling you to password your connection.

It’s key features include restriction to internet access at specified time (that save the stress of having to type your password several times.), allowing only specified programs and only specified websites (this way you can keep employees from online entertainment like chatting and movies while working. Isn’t that wonderful).

You could also specify time when your connection comes on and goes off, so as to put checks on the time your kids spend on the internet, and also increase productivity of workers by limiting the temptation for web surfing block web surfing and online entertainment .

You could use this tool to block harmful services and allow useful ones like education related sites for your kids.

This is a good tool and I strongly recommend it for both private and professional use.

Visit http://www.blumentals.net/inetprot/

This tool is easy to use MS backup repair tool to recover and repair the corrupt BKF files corrupted due to, power outage, backup interruptions, virus attacks, cyclic redundancy, backup software malfunction or corruption.

BKF File Repair Software tool recovers corrupt bkf file and displays the files and folders contained in the backup file.

Kernel BKF File Recovery Software is an advance tool to repair corrupt Microsoft backup (BKF) files created with ntbackup.exe, Veritas Backup Exec or any other backup solution having MTF format.

Key features include:

• Display all the file(s) and folder(s) in Tree Structure.
• Repairs failed [.bkf] file(s)
• Recovery of corrupt BKF Archive
• Provides you to update the software
• Recovery from corrupt or damaged BKF files.
• Repair BKF files more than 300GB
• Supports Unicode characters (Non English Characters also). And more.

Bkf repair software recovers corrupt bkf file of any size. It has been tested with sizes of up to 300 GB with amazing results.

Check www.bkffilerecovery.com for more information.

This tool searches and duplicates files on your computer and network. It has no restrictions whatsoever to file types and extensions. I noticed, however, that it is pretty fast when it comes to duplicating files but not as fast in erasing unwanted files. Works well for me though.

It is an excellent tool, not only for private users but also for professional purposes (seeing that companies work with an enormous amount of files).

File types are unlimited, exact definition and search according to date and time, size, attributes and contents are included in this application.
You can specify search parameters like drives, folder location, networks etc. Any search you select can be stored as a “Job” and re-loaded at any time.

You can specify how the program erases data since duplicated files are usually redundant and unnecessary and consumes disk space, so your hard disk space is conserved..

http://www.dupehunter.com

There are times you want to search for files and you haven’t got the fuggiest idea the name or the spelling. All you can remember is probably a letter and it’s position in the word or perhaps a punctuation mark (. , ! ; :).

Instant File Name Search (IFNS) instantly searches files by name or wildcards on your computer or local network. It even supports Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), punctuations, hot keys and a convenient, Explorer like interface.

I am yet to recover from my trial of this search tool. It works exactly the way it’s say it works, searching and bringing out results to every last detail. It comes with features like instant search, network search, easy to use explorer interface, taskbar icon and hot keys for easy access, etc.

I am sure you want to look this up for yourself, visit http://www.sowsoft.com/file-name-search.htm

This one by far greater than Windows movie maker and a couple of other movie makers have come cross. Flash Slideshow Builder come with a whole lot of features, which makes it stand out. It helps you make compelling and outstandingly great flash photo galleries and flash slideshows of your photos. it comes with a wide range of slide show templates to give desired slideshows.

There are wonderful features like sharing your slideshows on the internet (myspace, facebook, blogs etc) and flash slideshows allows you manage your slideshows so they can match your website style and offers quick and helpful online supports. one feature in find awesome is being able to add as many songs as you can to a single slide show and up to 400 images plus you can add hyperlinks for a single or whole slideshow. Its supports most image and audio formats. There is just so much to work with.

Check it out at http://www.flash-slide-show.com/flash-slide-show.html

When it comes to my computer, though it is usually called personal computer, it is not personal in any way, everyone in my house and relatives and friends have access to my computer.

Well i needed some sort of privacy within the public use of my system and i stumbled on folder lock software. now this one hell of a software you can actually encrypt and password-protect, lock, hide and encrypt any number of files, folders, drives, pictures and documents in seconds. Protected files are hidden, undeletable, inaccessible and highly secure. It hides files from kids, friends and co-workers, safeguards them from viruses, trojans, worms and spyware, and even protects them from networked PCs, cable users and hackers. so i can have my public computer really personal.

Folder lock can also encrypt files and folders on removable storage devices like flash drives, Memory Sticks, CD-RW, floppies and notebooks. i’m sure you would agree with me that is awesome!

Even when you transfer files form one system(with folder lock) to another, you don’t have to install folder lock over again, transfered files and folders retain their encrypted properties.

You need to check this out: http://www.newsoftwares.net/folderlock

I totally hate it when i try to download and there are itches here and there. I tried ReGe Deluxe and found download so much fun as opposed to most of the other download managers. It’s really fast and easy to download and to use. Even when you have problems downloading files, it will make sure your download is successful.

One other cool thing is, Reget Deluxe shares your files into fragments and then downloads the fragments simultaneously and then regroups the fragments together so you have it as one file, hence making downloading not only faster but so much fun.

What do you think of that?

ReGet Deluxe integrates well into most of the popular browsers so the downloads are transferred to ReGet Deluxe automatically. Wherever you have a dial-up (modem) connection to the Internet or super-fast cable or ADSL, ReGet Deluxe will fully utilize the bandwidth of your connection and download files in a blast!

It’s got some advance features but I’ll leave that for you to find out yourself .

Visit http://deluxe.reget.com

There are some really annoying unauthorized accesses to files on my system. i get real mad at these access. well a friend told me about this firewall, i tried it and it worked quite well but i had a slight with it when i tried it on my Vista and well it dint work quite as effective as it worked on Xp. I think the company should work on the vista compatibility.

There are however a couple of features I discovered, it protects your PC against attacks from both the Internet and other computers in the local network. It controls all data flow in both directions from the Internet to your computer and vice versa, it can block all attempted communication allowing only what you choose to permit. It is really very good, well except for the Vista compatibility which I think the company should work on cos everybody is going for vista these days.

Want to try it out? Go to http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Home-Home-Office/Sunbelt-Personal-Firewall/