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MagneticSoft Folder Castle 3.0 Released

Anatoliy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:49:21 +0000

MagneticSoft today announces the release of Folder Castle 3.0, a Windows security tool for protecting computer files from snoops and thieves at home, office and on the road. In version 3.0, users will discover a new interface of the control center that enables fluid navigation through the program, letting users access any destination in a mouse click.

Of all the threats to your computer privacy, people who have a physical access to your system are the most dangerous. An up-to-date antivirus can prevent from viruses, a firewall can stop hackers but what can stop someone who knows your account login from accessing your computer and seeing a folder with the files you don't want others to see? To protect yourself from snoops, you need proactive data protection. Folder Castle gives you the confidence to keep your personal files hidden and password-protected on the computer without fear that a family member or a co-worker can view or use them when you're not around.

Folder Castle employs two methods of data protection. First, you can hide a folder so that the snoop doesn't even suspect there is something hidden away from him. Second, you can put a folder into a secure storage, which acts as a mountable virtual drive where you can drag and drop files and have them encrypted with instant 256-bit AES encryption. A valid password is required to access files in the secure storage or unhide files. Once protected, computer files cannot be seen in Windows even if it's rebooted in Safe Mode. Folder Castle itself can be hidden away without traces if you enable the Stealth mode.

Snoop proof your data for home, office and travel today - Folder Castle 3.0 makes it easy!

Download: Folder Castle 3.0 (1.79 Mb) Shareware, $29.95 per license
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View: Product Details

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WindowBlinds 6.2

Island Dog — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:46:54 +0000

WindowBlinds is an application that lets users easily change their Windows interface by applying a new skin. These "visual styles" can be applied across the entire user interface (title bars, push buttons, start menu, taskbar, etc.) of the operating system. As a result, users gain complete control over the way Windows looks.

What's new in version 6.2:

Improved compression on start menu animations
Animated wait screens during Apply
Enhanced layer support (accompanied by skin author support in SkinStudio 6.2)
Bug Fixes

WindowBlinds is available in both a free version and a an enhanced version which adds many additional features like the ability to change color/hue/brightness on the fly, change toolbar icons of IE and Explorer, and much more. WindowBlinds is available as part of Object Desktop.

Download: WindowBlinds 6.2 (free trial, $19.95)
Link: WindowBlinds
Screenshot: Layering demo
Screenshot: WindowBlinds in action

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Driver Magician 3.30

leejjcn — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:46:17 +0000

Driver Magician is an easy-to-use and powerful tool for device drivers backup, restoration, update and removal in Windows operating system. It can also detect unknown devices in computers.

Key features

* Back up device drivers of your computer in four modes.
* Restore device drivers from backup in one mouse click.
* Update device drivers of your PC to improve system performance and stability.
* Uninstall device drivers
* Live Update device identifier database and driver update database.
* Detect unknown devices.
* Get detailed information of the hardware drivers.
* Clone all drivers to an auto-setup package (.EXE), so you can restore drivers without installing Driver Magician.
* and more...

Link: www.drivermagician.com
Download: Driver Magician
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CDBurnerXP 4.1.2.745

Marcel Klum — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:37:12 +0000

CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.

* Folder sizes are now shown in the compilation window
* When printing audio covers, the tag information will be used in stead of the file name (if available)
* More native looking menus (especially on Vista)
* Fixed NullReferenceException in the "report working drive" dialog
* Fixed ArgumentException for the case that faulty visual styles are in use
* Fixed a KeyNotFoundException when closing a dialog (.NET bug)
* Fixed a FormatException when ripping (renamed!) audio tracks from the hard drive (which does, of course, not work anyway)
* Fixed an overflow exception when copying audio discs
* Fixed an overflow exception when calculating the remaining time
* Fixed an OverflowException when determining the available speeds
* Fixed a MissingFieldException in the startup dialog

View: CDBurnerXP website
Screenshots: >> Click here <<
Download: CDBurnerXP 4.1.2.745

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Windows Search 4.0 Hits Windows Update

Taimur Asad — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:22:51 +0000

It's time to check Windows Update again because just a few moments ago, Microsoft has released Windows Search 4.0 to Windows Update as Recommended update for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 based computers. Windows Search 4.0 lets you perform an instant search of your computer. Windows Search 4.0 helps you find and preview documents, e-mail messages, music files, photos, and other items on the computer.

Improvements:

• Support for indexing encrypted documents of local file systems
• Reduced affect on Microsoft Exchange when you index e-mail in online mode, and there is no local cache (.ost)
• Support for indexing online delegate mailboxes
• Support for client-to-client remote query to shared indexed locations
• Improved indexing performance
• Faster previewer updates for Windows XP
• Per-user Group Policy settings
• Windows software updates for Watson errors
• You can view the complete KB article here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940157

Download: Vista and Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) | Windows XP (32-bit) | Vista (64-bit) | XP (64-bit)
Link: Redmond Pie

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All My Books 1.2 released

bolide — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:22:36 +0000

All My Books is a powerful book organizer software which allows you to perform numerous tasks relating to your book library, including: fast downloading of book related information from internet book databases, including plot synopsis, reviews and book cover; visual appearance of a library using various skins (editable HTML templates are used); large number of standard fields in the book card (author, title, ISBN, genre, publishing house, binding, number of pages, number of copies, location, rating and others); and support for e-books - you can store link to the file in the book card and open it directly from All My Books™

Changelog:

- added: plugin for book details search at Google
- added: Author field to the list of available additional columns
- added: "Add E-Book" menu item to the "Book" main menu
- added: FB2 e-book format parsing and book details auto-filling
- added: import book details from Amazon.ca (French)
- added: "Add using ISBN" menu item to the "Book" main menu. Batch book details by their ISBN is implemented
- added: ability to group books by custom field values
- added: Dutch, French, Romanian translations
- added: an option to auto check for updates weekly. Enabled by default
- fixed: import book details from ozon.ru
- fixed: Add Cover, Add Illustration functions (many graphic file formats support)
- fixed: wrong charset was assigned for the book details area for some languages
- fixed: "Share with friend" feature now uses zipped CHM file to avoid attachment blocking
- fixed: some search by ISBN issues
- changed: "Group books by" popup menu item was moved to "View" main menu item and divided to "Sort books by" and "Group books by"

Download: Download All My Books (4.0 MB) | Shareware, $34.95
Screenshot: Main window screenshot
Link: All My Books official page

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BurnAware Professional 2.0.1.9

x_Jack_x — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:17:17 +0000

BurnAware is the ultimate disc burning software. BurnAware Professional is the professional’s choice for complete CD and DVD duplication and disc burning. It is permitted for commercial use and includes extra features essential for business and professional users including: parallel erasing and simultaneous disc writing.

Key Features
* Create data, bootable and multisession CD/DVD/Blu-ray Discs
* Create Audio CDs and jukebox CD/DVD/Blu-ray Discs
* Create DVDs-Video
* Copy and backup CDs/DVDs
* Create and burn disc images, bootable images
* Erase / Format rewritable discs
* Supports all current hardware interfaces (IDE/SCSI/USB/1394/SATA)
* Supports UDF/ISO9660/Joliet Bridged file systems (any combination)
* Supports true, simultaneous image writing
* Supports parallel erasing
* On-the-fly writing for all image types (no staging to hard drive first)
* Auto-verification of written files
* Supports CD-Text
* Clean, multilingual, easy to use interface
* Supports unicode for multi-byte languages
* Supports Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista (32 and 64 Bit), no drivers required

What's new in v2.0.1.9
* Fixed the bug with disc copying and image burning (in case if virtual drives or drives without writing capabilities installed).
* Added French translation.

Download: BurnAware Professional 2.0.1.9 | 8MB, Shareware, $39.95
Screenshot: >> Click here <<
View: www.burnaware.com

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Axialis IconWorkshop 6.30

Axialis Team — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:03:50 +0000

Axialis Software today announces the immediate availability of Axialis IconWorkshop 6.30, the newest version of its award-winning tool for authoring icons for Windows and Macintosh platforms.

Support for Image Strips

Axialis IconWorkshop version 6.30 adds support for Image Strips. These images are wide bitmaps containing several icons placed side-by-site and are used by developers to populate Toolbars, ImageViews and TreeViews. Editing image strips is usually uncomfortable for developers because standard image editing programs are not designed to work with very wide bitmaps.

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XnView 1.94 released

Marcel Klum — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:58:45 +0000

XnView is a multi-platform software used for viewing, converting and manipulating graphic files. It supports more than 400 image file formats, is free of charge for private usage, easy to use and requires no installation (portable software).

Features:
* Import about 400 graphic file formats
* Export about 50 graphic file formats
* Multipage TIFF, Animated GIF, Animated ICO support
* Image IPTC, EXIF metadata support
* EXIF auto rotation support
* IPTC editing
* Resize, rotate, crop support
* Lossless rotate & crop (jpeg) support
* Adjust brightness, contrast...
* Auto levels, contrast
* Modify number of colors
* Apply filters (blur, average, emboss, ...)
* Apply effects (lens, wave, ...)
* Fullscreen mode
* Slide show with effects
* and more...

Source: XnView website
Download: XnView 1.94
View: Release Notes

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ATI Catalyst 8.7 Display Driver released

Marcel Klum — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:08:56 +0000

This particular software suite updates both the AMD Display Driver, and the Catalyst Control Center. This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The AMD Catalyst software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability.

View: ATI website
Download: ATI Catalyst 8.7 Display Driver
View: Release Notes

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