Battery Pack Pro 3.0.3

View battery life, storage cards, launch apps, keep your system optimized & adjust brightness on your today page!

Search Bar - Search the web, get a phone number, business address or get driving directions.

Calendar Bar - See up to 50 next appointments.

Power Start - Tap & hold the start button to launch your own chosen programs.

Program Bar - Tab view to display thousands of programs or documents.
* Host plug-ins inside the Programs Bar to save valuable screen real-estate.
* Easy new drag & drop interface.

Battery Pack Pro home page

AIM 6.0.28.1

Description by the Software Developer:
"AIM 6 is the next generation of instant messaging software. We listened to your requests and added lots of new features. Plus, we streamlined the software to make sure it's fast enough to keep up with you. "

AIM home page

Don't Pay For Virus Protection, Get these Free Anti Virus Software

The computer security market is flooded with antivirus software that work but don't come cheap.

While viruses remain a threat to our precious data, you need not necessarily invest in expensive antivirus scanners - there are plenty of free options available that may give even some commercial vendors a run for their money.

We look at some of the best software available today for keeping your computer free of viruses and other malware. Later we help you decide the one most suitable for you.

Free Online Virus Scanners [run inside the web browser to scan your hard drive]

Trend Micro HouseCall - An online virus scanner that's absolutely free and scans your PC hard drive for any sort of viruses or even spyware. HouseCall allows you to remove detected infections. Works with Firefox and IE. Requires Java.

McAfee Freescan - This free virus scanner from McAfee is based on the McAfee VirusScan engine. Should viruses be found, FreeScan prepares a list of infected files and links to information about the viruses on your computer. It also gives you an option to clean your system. Requires IE with ActiveX.

Windows Live OneCare Scanner - A free antivirus online scanner from Microsoft that cleans your system from viruses and also recommends ways to improve the overall performance. Part of Windows Onecare.

Symantec Internet Security - An online virus scanner from the developers of Norton Antivirus 2007 can detect most virus threat but there is no option to delete the virus infected file or repair it. Does not examine compressed files. Requires IE with ActiveX.

BitDefender Online Scanner - Their Free Online Virus Scanner version 8 scans your system's memory, all files, folders and drives' boot sectors - the default options automatically cleans the infected files. Requires IE with ActiveX.

Free Anti Virus Software for Windows [Requires Installation]

Avast! Home Edition - One of the most popular antivirus software, can also be run from Explorer context menu. You can either scan the entire hard drive or selected folders. Ships with an Antivirus screen-saver.

AOL Active Virus - a free virus scanner from AOL based on Kaspersky Antivirus that doesn't require an AOL account to download the software. The software can be configure to check only new and modified files thereby reducing the memory requirements. Also support scanning of incoming and outgoing email messages.

ClamWin Virus Scanner - An opensource antivirus software that is great for running routine antivirus checks on your PC. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware.

Conclusion: Which one should I choose ?

Unlike Desktop antivirus software, online virus scanners do not proactively protect your PC against new virus infections.

But if viruses have already entered your hard drive and taken control of your existing desktop scanner program, any of the above listed online virus-scanning services can save your day.

If you are a fairly experienced web user who doesn't need an antivirus software to run in the background 24 hours, scan you drive at regular intervals using HouseCall. Others may install the AOL antivirus software which uses the Kaspersky virus definitions database.

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Ultra RM Converter 2.3.2

Description by the Software Developer:
"Ultra RM Converter is a tool to help you convert,split,and join RM, RMVB to AVI, MPEG, WMV. Use it you can convert RealMedia(*.RM,*.RMVB) file to AVI(Divx,XviD,MPEG4), MPEG1, MPEG2, VCD, SVCD, DVD, WMV/ASF file.

It also enable you to joint some small RealMedia files to one in various format, and you can split a large RealMedia file to some small pieces of films.

Ultra RM Converter has a multi-tasks system,which enable you do different tasks (convertion, joint, split) at one time after performing a single click. You can change the framerate, size etc as you like. The program does not require any technical experience and is very easy to use."

WinMerge 2.7.1.2

WinMerge is an Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions.
Features: - Visual differencing and merging of text files - Flexible editor with syntax highlighting - Handles DOS, UNIX and MAC text file formats - Unicode support - Difference pane shows current difference in two vertical panes - Location pane shows map of files compared - Highlights differences inside lines - File filters in directory diff - Moved lines detection in file compare - Shell Integration - Rudimentary Visual SourceSafe and Rational ClearCase integration - Archive file support using 7-zip - Plugins - Localizable interface via resource DLL - HTML-based Manual

WinMerge home page

mIRC 6.21

The description by the developer:
"mIRC is a highly configurable IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client with all the goodies other clients on UNIX, Macintosh and even on Windows offer, combined with a nice and clean user interface. mIRC offers full color text lines, DCC File Send and Get capabilities, programmable aliases, a remote commands and events handler, place sensitive popup menu's, a great Switchbar, World Wide Web and sound support, and a lot more."
Evaluation period: 30 days.

mIRC home page

X Codec Pack 2.1.2 Build 408

Description by the Software Developer:
"X Codec Pack is an small codec pack for viewing/encoding movies.

Here are some key features of "X Codec Pack":
· DivX Codec
· XviD Codec
· AC3 Filter
· DivX AntiFreeze
· Video Inspector.
· All this codecs, filters, tools are FREE!"
Note: "Download" links to the X Codec Pack Downloads page.

X Codec Pack home page

Intel Processor Identification Utility 3.2

The Intel® Processor Identification Utility was developed by Intel Corporation to identify the processor inside a system, assuring the processor contains intended technologies and is operating at the tested and rated frequency intended by Intel Corporation.

Intel Processor Identification Utility home page

Ground-breaking Intel Core 2 Quad

It has been a couple of week since the new ground-breaking Intel processor Core 2 Quad was officially released and I just realised it's already in the market! Here are the two excerpts taken from TechSpot and Hexus.net.

Get more detail pictures, specifications and all the facts about this processor from the links below.

Currently, there are four Core 2 Duo processors which were released at the initial launch (E6300, E6400, E6600 and E6700). There is also the Core 2 Extreme processor dubbed the X6800, though it offers very little in the way of performance over the E6700. There is said to be four new Core 2 Duo processors on the way that will run on a 1333MHz FSB and will all feature the larger 4MB L2 Cache. They are the E6650, E6750, E6800 and E6850, though we are not here to discuss these processors today. Rather, we are here to examine the new Kentsfield micro-architecture which is based on a quad-core 65nm design.

Read more at TechSpot.

Intel's quad-core processor, codenamed Kentsfield, has been one of its least well kept secrets. In fact, benchmarks have been leaking out for months. Illicit samples obtained on the black market were the first to appear, then Intel itself gave more than just a sneak peek at its most recent Developer Forum. The numbers were already impressive back then, but at last the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 is finally here.

Read more at Hexus.net.

Eventhough the multi core era has begun, but very few applications that can really take advantage of this state-of-the-art processor. For those who have money, go and get it as it's a good investment for the future but I rather wait for some time until the price starts to settle down.

Hot Keyboard Pro 3.0.584

Enables you to assign a hotkey for virtually any action - from launching a program and opening a hyperlink to turning your computer off. The built-in scheduler lets you execute a task even when you are away.
Besides the Pro (shareware) version, there is also the freeware version of Hot Keyboard.

Hot Keyboard Pro home page
 

PicaJet Free 2.5.470

A digital photo organizer that enables you to automatically organize thousands of photos in seconds, as well as create web galleries, edit images, and much more. (The "much more" is basically featured in the shareware edition of PicaJet, which sits here.)

PicaJet Free home page

FlashGet 1.80 Beta 1

Popular download manager specifically designed to address two of the biggest problems when downloading files: speed and management of downloaded files.
Speed: FlashGet can automatically split files into sections or splits, and download each split simultaneously. Multiple connections are opened to each file, and the result is the most efficient exploitation of the bandwidth available. Whatever your connection, FlashGet sort of makes sure all of the bandwidth is utilized. Difficult, slow downloads that normally take ages are handled with ease, and take minutes. Download times are drastically reduced.
Management: FlashGet is capable of creating unlimited numbers of categories for your files. Download jobs can be placed in specifically-named categories, for quick and easy access. The powerful and easy-to-use management features in FlashGet help you take control of your downloads easily.
Is FlashGet capable of integrating with Internet Explorer and Netscape? It is, indeedie. For happy Opera users, there is a special plug-in that sits on the developers' web site.

FlashGet home page

Nero Burning ROM 7.5.9.0

Description by the Software Developer:
"Nero is a flexible, reliable, and easy-to-use application designed to write both data and CD audio to CD-R and CD-RW discs. It supports ISO 9660 images as well as ISO mode 1 and XA mode 2, and allows for on-the-fly disc recording in addition to overburning (if supported by hardware). It also supports multisession and mixed-mode recording, HFS, ISO/HFS hybrid, UDF, PSX, OFAS (optimal file access speed), track-at-once (TAO) and disc-at-once (DAO) writing, digital audio extraction, and more. In addition, Nero can dynamically disable automatic-insert notification, offers support for multiple languages, and works with all major models of CD-R and CD-RW drives. This also contains a standalone Cover Editor for designing and printing CD covers."

Nero Burning ROM home page

CPU-Z 1.38

A small program that detects processor name and vendor, processor features (package, current core voltage), cache information, motherboard features (name, vendor, BIOS, chipset, memory, AGP), memory info (size, type, timings, specifications) etc. Doesn't require installation.

CPU-Z home page