February 2009 Archives

Any Video Converter is an All-in-One video converting tool with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed and excellent video quality. It allows you to effortlessly convert video files between every format! It can convert almost all video formats including DivX, XviD, MOV, rm, rmvb, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, AVI to MPEG-4 movie format for iPod/PSP or other portable video device, MP4 player or smart phone. It also supports any user defined video file formats as the output. Any Video Converter makes it easy for anyone to enjoy the any format video with your iPod, PSP, mobile phone or MP4 player.

Any Video Converter features include:

• User-friendly interface that is easy to use.
• Converts all video formats to Apple iPod Video, Sony PSP and more
• Batch convert any video formats including avi, wmv, asf, mpg, mp4, etc.
• Support DivX and Xvid avi format as importing and exporting video
• Support default video/audio settings or user customized parameters for video and audio.
• Has the option to preview the video in real-time before conversion .
• World's fastest video conversion speed with stunning video and audio quality.
• Supports adjust many video/audio options for MP4 files. For example, video/audio sample rate, bit rate, video size...

PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.

Key Features:

• Create PDFs from any program that is able to print
• Security: Encrypt PDFs and protect them from being opened, printed etc.
• Send generated files via eMail
• Create more than just PDFs: PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS
• AutoSave files to folders and filenames based on Tags like Username, Computername, Date, Time etc.
• Merge multiple files into one PDF
• Easy Install: Just say what you want and everything is installed
• Terminal Server: PDFCreator also runs on Terminal Servers without problems
• And the best: PDFCreator is free, even for commercial use! It is Open Source and released under the Terms of the GNU General Public License.

Over 8 million people use MailWasher as their spam filter

Introducing MailWasher, the leader in spam filter software, and the easiest way to check and manage your e-mails before you download them.

MailWasher is free to use and won't ever expire. It works with Outlook, Outlook Express and every other email program.

Use this powerful spam blocker software to effectively stop email spam. Discover the safe way to stop unwanted e-mails before they get to your computer.

No gimmicks here, it is so easy to set up and use that you'll be managing your email like a pro in seconds. It can even be used as an effective privacy tool.

I think you will find this to be the easiest, most effective way to manage your incoming e-mails and stop spam. You will be amazed at how quickly you will like using MailWasher.

Best regards
Nick Bolton - MailWasher.net and Firetrust Email Security.

Features and Benefits

Delete. unwanted e-mails before you download to your computer. You'll be able to see who the email is from, the subject, and the attachment. This will enable you to decide if you want to delete the email or keep it. A great way to stop viruses, large attachments or to just delete unnecessary emails from getting to your computer.

Preview. Easily preview the message in your email to see what the sender has to say before downloading it to your computer. This ensures you won't download any nasty emails to your computer. Additionally, spam is marked in a red color, and your good email is marked as a green color for quick analysis.

Anti spam tools. Comprehensive anti spam tools ranging from your personal friends list and blacklist, customizable filters, external blacklists, bayesian spam filtering which quickly learns to distinguish your spam and good email and email virus filtering.

Friends List. Add your friends email addresses to MailWasher and they will always be recognised. You can even hide your friends from the screen so the spam is easy to recognise.
Bounce back unwanted e-mails so it looks as if your email address is not valid. This will make the sender think your address is no longer active so your name can be removed from their list. This unique feature is great for privacy and it couldn't be simpler!
Filtering. Effective filtering to automatically spot spam, plus it uses a customisable list of blacklisted e-mail senders and/or regular expressions to filter out potential spammer addresses and messages.
Bayesian spam filtering. This clever type of spam filtering learns which of your email is spam and which is not very quickly and accurately.

Fast download of messages, we have clocked speeds of 25 email message per second.

Simplicity. No flashy gimmicks, so easy to use that you won't feel like you have to learn a whole new program. In fact it has the familiar look and feel of Outlook Express. It's as easy as 1,2,3. Just check mail, mark for deletion/learning, then process mail.

Other features: Check mail at different intervals. Don't check mail at certain times. Play a sound when an email arrives, or be notified visually. Email log. Comprehensive help documentation on this site.

This program is so simple to use, just leave it going and process your mail when you want to.

Experience the web, Apple style, with Safari: the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world. With its simple, elegant interface, Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web, up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer.

The fastest web browser on any platform, Safari loads pages up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2.

And it executes JavaScript up to 2.8 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. What does all that mean for you? Less time loading pages and more time enjoying them.

It renders web pages at lightning speed. It delivers never-before-seen features that make browsing more fun. And it works on the Mac, PC, iPhone, and iPod touch. Meet Safari, the world's most innovative browser.

At one time, web browsers simply got you to the Internet.
But from the day it was released, Safari set the bar higher for web browsers. It introduced sophisticated design elements that made browsing a joy. Easy to use, Safari stayed out of your way and let you effortlessly navigate from site to site.

Safari is designed to emphasize the browsing, not the browser. The browser frame is a single pixel wide. You see a scroll bar only when needed. By default, there's no status bar. Instead, a progress indicator turns as your page loads. You'll find tabs at the very top of the browser, opening an even wider window for viewing websites. A great browser, Safari lets you simply enjoy the web -- whether you're exploring it from a Mac, PC, iPhone, or iPod touch.

The first browser to deliver the "real" Internet to a mobile device, Safari renders pages on iPhone and iPod touch just as you see them on your computer. And it's much more than just a scaled-down, mobile version of the original. Safari takes advantage of the technologies built into these Multi-Touch devices. The page shifts and reformats to fill the window when you turn your iPhone or iPod touch on its side. You zoom in and out just by pinching your fingers. And no matter how you access it, Safari is always blazing fast and easy to use.

Innovation is the soul of Safari. From the very beginning, it's been a launching pad for new ideas and never-before-seen features that make web browsing more enjoyable. Safari was the first browser to feature a built-in RSS reader. Its built-in spelling and grammar checker helps you look your best in blogs and email. Safari even introduced Private Browsing to make sure your privacy is protected at all times.

Leading the way to a better Internet

The world's fastest browser, Safari has speed to burn. Why should you wait for pages to load? You want to see those search results, get the latest news, check current stock prices, right now. And Safari delivers, so you wait less and browse more. In fact, every Safari update is tested to make sure it continues to deliver the fastest browsing experience on any platform.

Apple has long been a strong advocate of web standards. In fact, it has taken an active role in promoting and defining standards, such as HTML 5 and CSS 3, that encourage innovation and make the web a better place for all of us.

For example, Safari was the first browser to support HTML 5 audio and video tags. They allow developers to integrate media directly into standard web pages, reducing development time and leading to faster response for you. And by supporting HTML 5 offline technologies, Safari allows web-based applications to store information on your hard drive, so you can use them even without an Internet connection.

Safari was also the first browser to support CSS 3 animations, which bring a new level of interactivity to the web, and CSS effects, which let developers add polish to websites by stylizing images and photos with eye-catching gradients, precise masks, and stunning reflections.

Apple has consistently demonstrated its leadership in supporting the latest standards by passing both Acid 2 and Acid 3 before any other browser. Designed by the Web Standards Project, the Acid tests confirm a browser's ability to handle the latest web standards.

The browser that has your back

The web can be a scary place. But when you use Safari, you can surf worry free. Whether you're checking your bank account, sending confidential email, or just browsing the web, Safari is there to keep you safe and your privacy protected.

Thanks to Private Browsing, your browsing remains your business. Simply turn Private Browsing on, and Safari stops recording the sites you visit and the software or files you download. It also stops storing your Google searches, cookies, and the data in online forms you fill out. So feel free to shop online from a shared or public computer.

To prevent companies from tracking the cookies generated by the websites you visit, Safari blocks them by default. It accepts cookies only from your current domain. It also provides built-in pop-up blocking, so you don't have to be bothered by unwanted ads. Read more about privacy protection on the 150 Features page.

And Safari has even more innovation in store. With Top Sites, Safari raises the bar yet again, offering a novel way to display your favorite sites -- with minimal work on your part. Beautiful to look at, Top Sites makes it easy to spot the site you want and open it with a click.

Looking for a site you visited in the past but can't quite remember? Use Full History Search to quickly find sites using even the sketchiest search terms. And when you click a web page in Cover Flow, it's because you've already recognized it as the site you were looking for. No more guessing. Innovative features like these show you how good browsing can be.

Innovation starts with WebKit, the technology at the heart of Safari. Powering Safari on iPhone and iPod touch and Safari 4 on the Mac and PC, WebKit displays graphics, renders fonts, determines page layout, and fuels the interactivity of the sites you visit every day.

Created by Apple engineers, WebKit simplifies web development and accelerates innovation. An open source project, WebKit is free for anyone to use. In fact, right now an entire community of engineers is refining and streamlining the code to be faster and more reliable. That's teamwork on a very large scale, and the web is a better place for it.

Now used in more than 100 products on desktop and mobile devices, WebKit has been adopted for use in Google Chrome and in AOL Desktop for Mac. It's the web rendering engine used in Adobe AIR, Adobe Dreamweaver, and Microsoft Entourage. And WebKit has become the new standard for mobile browsers, powering Google Android, Nokia Series 60, and Palm webOS.

Apple engineers designed Safari to be secure from day one. And they continue to build improvements into Safari with each new release. For example, antiphishing and antimalware technology is built in, so if you visit a site that might contain phishing or malware content, Safari automatically alerts you and won't open the page. Thanks to its support for EV (Extended Validation) Certificates, Safari highlights legitimate websites and businesses, letting you feel confident about purchasing items or sharing personal information online.

Safari also provides secure encryption technologies to prevent eavesdropping, forgery, and digital tampering while you browse the Internet. It offers standards-based authentication for logging into secure websites, and it supports the most popular proxy protocols.

If you're browsing on a Mac, Safari offers Safe Downloads. That means Safari tags each download with information about when and where you downloaded it and reminds you where it came from the first time you open it. To keep your browser up to date and secure, Safari provides easy access to the latest security updates via Apple Software Update.

MobileMe Control Panel is required to set up and manage MobileMe syncing and manage iDisk settings on a Windows PC.

The MobileMe Control Panel 1.3 update delivers faster syncing of contacts and calendars between MobileMe and Microsoft Outlook.

With this update, contacts and calendars automatically sync whenever a change is made in Outlook, and likewise when a change is made on the web or from another device. A new tray icon also indicates whenever an automatic sync is in progress.

MobileMe is the online service from Apple that automatically keeps your email, contacts, calendar, bookmarks, and more in sync across multiple computers, your iPhone, iPod touch, and a suite of web apps on www.me.com.

MobileMe is available in English, French, German, and Japanese.

In depth tool for scanning your computer for Spyware.

HijackThis scans areas of your registry and hard drive and returns a log of items which it detects. As this tool is recommended for advanced users only, we recommend you run a scan and then post your log file on a support forum, where someone will be able to suggest which entries to remove.

HijackThis is a free utility which quickly scans your Windows computer to find settings that may have been changed by spyware, malware or other unwanted programs. HijackThis creates a report, or log file, with the results of the scan.

IMPORTANT: HijackThis does not determine what is good or bad. Do not make any changes to your computer settings unless you are an expert computer user.

Advanced users can use HijackThis to remove unwanted settings or files.

Not an expert? Just save the HijackThis report and let a friend with more troubleshooting experience take a look. A large community of users participates in online forums, where experts help interpret HijackThis scan results to clean up infected computers.

To analyze your computer, start HijackThis and run a scan. HijackThis will display a list of areas on your computer that might have been changed by spyware. Do not change any settings if you are unsure of what to do. There are many popular support forums on the web that provide free technical assistance by using HijackThis log files to diagnose an infected computer.

Cute Editor for ASP.NET is by far the fastest, easiest, most powerful WYSIWYG browser-based Online HTML Editor for ASP.NET. It also available for PHP and ASP.

It enables ASP.NET Web developers to replace the Textarea in your existing content management system with a powerful, but easy to use WYSIWYG HTML editing component.

It empowers business users to make content updates easily and safely themselves while maintaining control over site design and content, all at an affordable price.

Top features of WYSIWYG HTML Editor

What makes Cute Editor the leading online HTML Editor on the market? Aside from its powerful features and ease to use, here are some of the top reasons that make the Cute Editor your best choice for creating and publishing web content:

1. A cross-browser, cross-platform WYSIWYG online HTML editor.
   Compatible with the most important browsers available in the market: IE 5.5+, Firefox 1.0+, Mozilla 1.3+, Opera 9.0+, Netscape 7+ and Safari (1.3+). This includes Macintosh and Linux.
2. Compliant with the web standards, no deprecated tags such as <FONT> anymore
   Does your online html editor still use deprecated tags such as <FONT>? Cute Editor will help you build sites that adhere to the latest HTML standards, generates clean HTML/XHTML code with no deprecated tags.
3. Insert clean HTML from Microsoft Word.
   When text is pasted from Microsoft Word a lot of unnecessary word specific markup is carried across. This can result in web pages that take an unnecessarily long time to download. The Paste from Word button solves this by removing word markup before pasting the text into your page.
4. Support accessibility according to W3C WAI and section 508 accessibility guidelines.
   Cute Editor optional accessibility settings ensure your site complies with Section 508, so people with disabilities can have full access to your content.
5. Clean, lightweight and extremely fast loading
   Numerous optimization methods has been applied. It's clean, compact, extremely fast-loading, but still powerful and efficient.
6. Advanced file upload function
   We integrate a hi-performance ASP.NET upload component - Ajax uploader into Cute Editor. Ajax Uploader allows you to select and upload multiple files at once. It also supports client side validation of the file size/type before uploading.
7. Store images in a Database
   With Cute Editor you can easily use a Sql Server database or access database as the file storage.
8. Image insertion and automatic upload
   Built-in thumbnail generator. Thumbnail images are dynamically created; Supports upload new images. Paging - specify how many images. Support auto resize images.
9. Style Builder Dialog Box
   With Style builder dialog box you can apply CSS style attributes directly to any HTML elements on your Web page.
10. Online Image Editor
    People that input content on a website are generally not web designers, so most don't have that design & technical fibre in them. With online image editor, you can now edit image file with no image editing software to download or install! Easy drag and drop familiar interface. Resize, change dimensions, scale, crop, add text, optimize, rotate, flip, mirror and add watermark.
11. Compatibility with the browser's back button
    Don't you hate losing your edits? It is so easy to accidentally browse away from the page you are editing (eg by hitting a back space key or button). And then you have lost all your edits. Unless you are using Cute Editor!
12. RTF to HTML, HTML to RTF
    With Cute Editor you can easily convert an HTML document into an RTF file and RTF file into HTML or XHTML document.
13. Create PDF files
    Cute Editor also allows you dynamically create Adobe PDF documents from ASP.NET.
14. Apply security to control user access to resources
15. Cute Editor allows developers to assign a pre-defined set of permissions by group or individual. This prevents a normal user to access the administration functionality.
16. The details of permissions are specified by an XML security policy file. Each level maps to a specific file. The default mappings:
    admin--maps to admin.config
    default--maps to default.config
    guest--maps to guest.config
    You can customize and extend each policy file by editing the XML security policy file. You can also create your own policy files that define arbitrary permission sets.

What is Free Download Manager? It is a powerful, easy-to-use and absolutely free download accelerator and manager. Moreover, FDM is 100% safe, open-source software distributed under GPL license.

FDM is a light-weight, powerful and easy-to-use application. This software product is well-known for its intuitive and user-friendly interface. FDM can function as a site manager, accelerator, site explorer and scheduler.

FDM can resume broken downloads. So you needn't start the downloading process from the very beginning after casual interruption. You can resume unfinished download from the moment when it was interrupted. Also this program warns you if resuming isn't supported by the servers. It allows you to make a decision about the downloading. So with FDM you save your time and money.

Increase your download speed and resume broken downloads
FDM accelerates downloads by splitting files into sections and then downloading them simultaneously. As a result download speed increases up to 600%, or even more! FDM can also resume broken downloads so you needn`t start downloading from the beginning after casual interruption.

HTTP/FTP/BitTorrent support
FDM lets you download files and whole web sites from any remote server via HTTP, HTTPS and FTP.
You can also download files using BitTorrent protocol.

Flash video download
Download video from video sites, such as Youtube, Google Video, etc. The video can then be saved in native .flv format or converted to one of more popular video formats.

GNU General Public License
Free download manager is now open source software released under GNU GPL.

Enjoy easy file sharing
A built-in Upload Manager lets you upload your files easily to share them with other people. Upload manager can be easily integrated with your system (Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express).

Enjoy safer and more rewarding downloading
You can read what other community members say about the file you are going to download, and also leave your own opinion about the file you downloaded. In this way FDM users are always warned against useless or malicious files.

Remote Control
Create new downloads or view the list of active and completed downloads remotely, via the internet.

Enhanced audio/video files support
Preview audio/video files before download is completed and convert file format after download.

Absolutely free and 100% safe
Free Download Manager is free, open-source software distributed under GPL license.

Smart file management and powerful scheduler
With FDM you can easily organize downloaded files by their type, placing them in predefined folders. A smart scheduler allows you to start and pause downloading files, as well as perform other actions (launch other applications, establish or hang up connection, etc.) at the set time.

Adjusting traffic usage
There are several traffic usage modes. You can adjust traffic usage for browsing the Internet and downloading files at the same time.

Zip files partial download
Free Download Manager lets you download only the necessary part of a zip file.

Multi language support
Free Download Manager is translated into 30 languages. Supported languages are: Macedonian, Serbian, Albanian, Croatian, Korean, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese Traditional, Chinese, Czech, German, Dutch, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese-Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Uzbek, Greek, Vietnamese, Slovenian, Persian.

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word and is rapidly becoming a state of the art Word Processor. It has lots of features useful for your daily work, personal needs, or for just some good old typing fun.

AbiWord is unique among word processors in its drive to become a fully cross-platform word processor. Our source code is carefully written so that AbiWord will run on virtually any operating system with a minimum of time spent on porting. This combined with our support for internationalization (the ability to run AbiWord in many languages) gives AbiWord a massive potential user-base.

AbiWord is part of a larger project known as AbiSource, which was started by the SourceGear Corporation. The goal of the project was the development of a cross-platform, Open Source office suite beginning with AbiWord, the project's word processor.

AbiWord has been created by a worldwide group of volunteers and currently supports many languages and operating systems.

AbiWord is GNU Free Software, which means that you will always have the freedom to use it, make copies of it, and improve it. You are encouraged to make use of these freedoms and share the program with your family and friends!

• Multi Platform
• Interoperable with MS Word, RTF, OpenOffice, WordPerfect
• Advanced Document Layout
• Multi language versions
• Mail Merge
• Extensible Plugin Architecture

While viruses for Symbian and Windows Mobile currently seem more like proof-of-concept studies, the Windows Mobile platform offers malware writers who already know Windows a very similar environment. Some may call it a hype, but that's what people said about spyware 5 years ago as well, and our opinion is that it's better to protect yourself before something happens than to do it afterwards.

Spybot-S&D for Windows Mobile uses a lightweight version of the detection engine of Spybot-S&D for Windows to detect threats for Windows Mobile and Symbian both, the later because Bluetooth worms could spread over OS borders, and while they would not perform on an incompatible OS, they would still waste precious space on the device.

Installation instructions: Please download the version for your device (there are different version for Pocket PCs and Smartphones) from our download page, then copy the file to your device through ActiveSync. Open the devices file manager and click on the file, and the installation will start. If you want to download it on the device itself, just point it at http://mobile.spybot.info/ and download and install from there. After the installation, you should have a Spybot-S&D icon in your programs group.

Internet Security combines the power of COMODO's award-winning Firewall and AntiVirus software to protect your PC from malicious software and Hackers. Best of all it's FREE!

• Award-winning Firewall Protection
• AntiVirus Software
• Proactive Security

Comodo Internet Security will help you detect and remove viruses, Trojans, and other malicious software and hackers, and keep them out of your computer. In one easy-to-use bundle that won't slow down your computer. All free, really! No Credit Card Required for this download.

Firewall Protection:
A firewall is your first line of defense in protecting private information. Our award-winning firewall is designed to prevent unauthorized hackers from obtaining your private information.

AntiVirus Software
Prevent, Protect and Defend your computer against attacks. Comodo's AntiVirus Software will scan your computer AND remove viruses on a schedule that works for you.

Proactive Security
Defense+ proactively protects your critical operating system files, registry entries and personal data from internal attacks by root-kits, key-loggers, Trojans and other malware.

TagsRevisited is a small tool, developed to test things and for my own fun, it's not an officially supported Safer-Networking Ltd. product, but was made available in 2006 (version 0.4.2) as a Christmas present to our customers.

Version 0.4.3 has been added to wish everyone a Happy New Year, and the most current release can be found at the bottom of this page.

Music is quite important to me and has to be in the background while I work, so I have all my CDs ripped to listen to them on the computer as well. Managing all that music can be quite a task, and what actually caused my to playfully write my own tagger was that no existing tagger I found was able to show me ALL information from the tags in one view, nor let me make all the changes I want without a lot of clicking. Add to that the wish to try out a few new things like Unicode, virtual trees, application scripting, and you get TagsRevisited, grown over the years to finally be something that could be shared.

Features include:

• an all-in-one view & edit of tag properties
• read & write support for ID3v1.0, 1.1, 2.3 and 2.4
• read-only support for VorbisComments in .ogg and .flac files
• New: read-only support for RIFF tags in .wav files
• MusicBrainz lookup
• cover art lookup
• automated tag corrections on opening folders
• scripting to do (nearly) everything to your tags that you can imagine - not just a few actions, but a standard Pascal syntax.

RegAlyzer is a tool to browse and change the registry. It was created because of a few features we missed in the original regedit tool, from support for exotic value types over background and regular expression search to better bookmarks, displaying .reg files in the accustomed style and a history view.

A short list of the pros of RegAlyzer:

• New: Undo and Redo logs in .reg format
• Improved search function (results list)
• Hierarchical bookmark support
• Jump to key by command line parameter
• Jump to key by typing/copying it into dialog (instead of browsing)
• DWord editing with parallel hex/decimal/binary display
• Support of QWord (64 bit integer)
• Display of .reg file contents without importing it
• Support of version 5 files (Unicode) even with Windows 95/NT
• Low-level display of security settings with option to export it

But there are a few not-yet completed features as well:

• Complete Unicode support
• Display and import support for some system stuff (REG_LINK,REG_RESOURCE_DESCRIPTOR, etc.)
• Changing security settings
• Remote connection doesn't ask login yet
• Changing opened .reg file
• Editing binary data
• Working (add/delete/etc.) in remote registry

RunAlyzer is our brand-new autostart & configuration manager that allows you to view and edit all the spots where Windows looks for programs or services to start. It's a combination of a standard configuration manager and an advanced tool to locate and remove places where hijackers, spyware and other malware hide.

Autostart entries - RunAlyzer shows a bunch of places applications use to get themself started upon Windows start. This is good for tweaking your system as well as finding spyware, viruses or other malware.
Analysis - RunAlyzer comes with a database of known entries and can do an online lookup to get the newest classifications of entries from our servers. Simple colors - green for good, red for bad - will give you the quick overview needed. Our detectives will even classify any unknown entries you submit to us through an easy function integrated into the application.
Log functions - Should you want to get help from another place, RunAlyzer can export log files as would be created by Spybot-S&D or HijackThis - formats that many experts all over the world prefer.
Windows x64 compatibility - RunAlyzer works on the new 64 bit versions of Windows as well - and allows you to view and change both 32 bit backward compatbility and new 64 bit entries there.
WinPE compatibility - thanks to the multi platform code we use in many of our products, RunAlyzer also automatically detects Windows installations on other attached harddisks or partitions, and allows you to manage those. This can be extremly useful if for example you want to repair a system while booting from a BartPE (bootable Windows PE) CD.

Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you haven't intentionally installed, if your browser crashes inexplicably, or if your home page has been "hijacked" (or changed without your knowledge), your computer is most probably infected with spyware. Even if you don't see the symptoms, your computer may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging. Spybot-S&D is free, so there's no harm giving it a try to see if something has invaded your computer.

To see a list of threats Spybot-S&D can remove, in the navigation bar at the left click on Support --> Threats. For an introduction to Spybot-S&D, please read the tutorial. If you fear incompatibility with other software you are now using, although we can assure you that there is no danger you can review our compatibility overview which lists some software whose compatibility has been analyzed.

Spybot-S&D can also clean usage tracks, an interesting function if you share your computer with other users and don't want them to see what you have been working on. And for professional users, Spybot-S&D allows you to fix some registry inconsistencies and extended reports. A list of all the application's features is also available.

FileAlyzer is a tool to analyze files - the name itself was initially just a typo of FileAnalyzer, but after a few days I decided to keep it. FileAlyzer allows a basic analysis of files (showing file properties and file contents in hex dump form) and is able to interpret common file contents like resources structures (like text, graphics, HTML, media and PE).

Using FileAlyzer is as simple as viewing the regular properties of a file - just right-click the file you want to analyze and choose Open in FileAlyzer.

General - The initial information FileAlyzer will show is not much different from what the Windows Properties dialog will show you: file name and location, size, date & times, version and attributes. In addition to those, FileAlyzer will show you both the CRC-32 and the Message Digest 5 checksum of the file, too.
 
Version - Another important feature that the Windows Properties dialog shows is also implemented in FileAlyzer: for executable files and system libraries, it shows the Version resources if available.
 
Resources - Many executable files have so-called resources - bitmaps, icons and text they use, as well as menus, dialogs and whole windows are usually defined in resources. If you don't know what the purpose of a file is, having a look at its text (see screenshot) or bitmaps may give you an idea.
 
PE Header - PE stands for Portable Executable and is a description for the structure of modern Windows (and other platform) files. Nearly all executables and system libraries follow this structure. FileAlyzer can display an insight into this structure on its PE Header tab, showing everything from the target platform to addresses of specific parts of the file.
 
Sections - A modern PE file makes clear differences between code (those bytes representing instructions the program will execute), data, resources and other important parts. The Sections tab in FileAlyzer will display the sections contained in the file you analyze. If you want to see the contents of a specific section, just double-click it and FileAlyzer will jump to the beginning of that section on the Hexdump tab.
 
New in 1.1d: Import/Export table - Most windows programs will use Windows libraries for basic functionality. Many libraries also export their own functions. FileAlyzer is able to display names of both imported and exported functions of a PE file.
 
Hex dump - Are you a byte junkie and want to look at the file content with a hex editor? FileAlyzer has a fast and easy hex viewer with search capability.
New in 1.1c: dynamic width of hex dump depending on window width, and string recognition listing all strings used in a separate list (linked to hex dump).
 
Image preview - If the file is a graphic that is supported by Windows, the graphic can be previewed on an Image preview tab in FileAlyzer.
 
Text preview - If the file you open in FileAlyzer is a text file of some sort, you may want to view it's contents, like the classic QuickView from Windows 9x allowed you to. FileAlyzer can display plain text as well as text in the Rich Text Format (files with the extension .rtf).
 
INI contents (new in version 1.1) - Previewing an INI file in the text preview is nice, but for a quick overview, a more structures list may be better. So FileAlyzer will show you the sections in one list, with a second list showing the contents of the currently selected section.
 
HTML preview - If you want to have a look at a suspicious HTML file, maybe from you Application Data folder (where C2.lop stores 2 such files) or in your Temporary Internet Files, but you do not want to use Internet Explorer (to avoid active contents of the file to be executed), you can also use FileAlyzer. As it uses its own HTML parser instead of IE for this preview, this is much safer.
 
Zip preview - If the file in question is a zip file (it does not necessarily need to have the .zip extension as FileAlyzer will detect if it is one), FileAlyzer will display the contents of the zip file and allow you to extract one or more files from it. This function needs the external library UnzDll.dll, which is installed along with FileAlyzer.
 
Database preview (new in version 1.1) - If the file is a comma- or tab-separated text file, FileAlyzer will display its contents in grid form. Old dBase databases (.dbf) will be displayed in two lists: one displaying the structure, one the actual contents (small databases will be read completely into memory, larger database entries will be loaded upon access).
 
Media preview - If the file is an audio or video file, a tab Media preview will also allow to play back the file. this media preview is still very basic and shouldn't be taken too serious.
 
ID3 tag - FileAlyzer will display ID3 tags in all v1 versions, including ID3v1, ID3v1.1, Lyrics v3 and Lyrics v3.1 ID3 tags are track information used in MP3 audio files.
 
RIFF - RIFF is the structure used in WAV (audio) files as well as in AVI (video) files. FileAlyzer is able to display the properties and tree structure of RIFF files. If you double-click an entry in the tree, FileAlyzer will jump to that address on the Hex dump tab.

FileZilla is a powerful FTP-client for Windows NT4, 2000 and XP. It has been designed for ease of use and with support for as many features as possible, while still being fast and reliable.

The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security.

Features:

• Easy to use
• Multilingual (English, German, French, Japanese, just to name a few)
• Strong encryption support using SFTP over SSH and FTP over SSL/TLS
• Supports transfer resuming and files larger than 4 GiB
• Site Manager
• Queue support
• Proxy support
• Speed limits
• MODE Z transfer compressing

CPU-Z is a freeware utility that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system. CPU-Z does not need to be installed, just unzip the files in a directory and run the .exe. In order to remove the program, just delete the files and that's it. The program does not copy any file in any Windows directory, nor write in the registry.

CPU

• Name and number
• Core stepping and process
• Package
• Core voltage
• Internal and external clocks, clock multiplier
• Supported instructions sets
• Cache information

Mainboard

• Vendor, model and revision
• BIOS model and date
• Chipset (northbridge and southbridge) and sensor
• Graphic interface

Memory

• Frequency and timings
• Module(s) specification using SPD (Serial Presence Detect) : vendor, serial number, timings table

System

• Windows and DirectX version

Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL Licence.

Based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendlyness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.

This project is mature. However, there may be still some bugs and missing features that are being worked on. If you have any questions or suggestions about this project, please post them in the forums. Also, if you wish to make a feature request, you can post it there as well. But there's no guarantee that I'll implement your request.

You're encouraged to translate Notepad++ into your native tongue if there's not already a translation present in the Download Section. And if you want, help translating Notepad++ official site into your native tongue would be greatly appreciated.

I hope you enjoy Notepad++ as much as I enjoy coding it.

Here are the features of Notepad++:

• Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
• WYSIWYG
• User Defined Syntax Highlighting
• Auto-completion
• Multi-Document
• Multi-View
• Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
• Full Drag 'N' Drop supported
• Dynamic position of Views
• File Status Auto-detection
• Zoom in and zoom out
• Multi-Language environment supported
• Bookmark
• Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
• Macro recording and playback

RealPlayer (renamed from RealOne) allows your system to play Real Media files (.ra .ram)

This new version also allows you to buy and download music that plays on more than 100 portable devices, including the iPod.

RealPlayer is a digital-media player for finding and downloading new music, playing and managing audio and video clips, and taking your digital entertainment with you. RealPlayer offers a streamlined interface that allows you to keep your media library close at hand. Keep all your digital-media clips organized in one place; save CD tracks with one click; pause and rewind live streams; transfer music to CDs and portable devices; and enjoy clear, smooth video playback and multichannel, surround-sound support.

Skype can be used on many different devices - from cell phones to cordless phones, from PSP® to WiFi phones. Check out how to take Skype on the move and choose the option that suits you best.

There's a new version of Skype for your Windows Mobile® phone that works just like Skype on your computer.

Make free Skype-to-Skype calls, send and receive instant messages.
Log into Skype from any WiFi zone to make free calls and send instant messages to anyone else on Skype, anywhere in the world, any day of the week. Take your phone with you when you leave the office or when you're out and about and stay in touch with all of your contacts.

Make great value calls to landlines and mobiles on the move.
Save on calls to landlines and mobiles abroad from your Windows Mobile phone. Call phone numbers across the world without worrying about the cost with Pay As You Go credit or monthly subscriptions.

Skype 2.5 Beta for Windows Mobile® works on all Smartphones and Pocket PC phones. You can download it directly on to your phone and install it straight away, or you can save it to your PC and transfer it on to your Windows Mobile device.

System requirements
Compatible device with either Windows Mobile Professional or Windows Mobile Standard.
You need a minimum 12MB of free storage memory on your device to install Skype or 6MB free if you are installing from a memory card.
Please note that data usage costs apply for using Skype over 3G mobile networks (EDGE, EV-DO and UMTS), so we recommend an unlimited data plan.
WiFi connection or 3G/2G data connection (we cannot guarantee voice quality over 3G/2G. You may also be liable to additional data charges so please check with your operator before using)
Use a headset for the best sound quality on calls.

Skype is software for calling other people on their computers or phones. Download Skype and start calling for free all over the world.

The calls have excellent sound quality and are highly secure with end-to-end encryption. You don't even need to configure your firewall or router or any other networking gear.

Additionally it doesn't just work on Windows. Skype is also for Mac OS X, Linux and PDAs using Pocket PC, with a native look and feel for each platform. Talking, sending instant messages or even file transfers work between different platforms like a charm.
Skype calling - Skype has all the features of an ordinary phone so its even easier to manage your calls.
Video calling - see who you are talking to at the same time as speaking to them.
Add Skype and SkypeOut contacts - Add contacts who use Skype and those who use ordinary phones so you can call more people.
Organising groups - group contacts under certain names and share them with your contacts so they can talk to them too.
Basic chat and emoticons - when it's not convenient to call, chat or Instant Message (IM) your contacts.
Group chat - for when it's easier to chat or Instant Message (IM) all your friends at once.
Profile settings - change how you appear to the world and let people know a bit about you.
Conference calling - talk to more than one friend at a time.
Import contacts - search your address book to find friends and family that already have a Skype name and start calling them for free.
View Outlook contacts - view and call your Microsoft Outlook® contacts quickly and directly from your Skype contact list.
Quickfilter and Speed-Dial - find Skype contacts, recent chats and SkypeOut contacts quickly and easily, then enter their Skype name to call them back quickly.

Java software allows you to run applications called "applets" that are written in the Java programming language. These applets allow you to play online games, chat with people around the world, calculate your mortgage interest, and view images in 3D.

Many cross platform applications also require this to run.

AVG Free Edition is the well-known anti-virus protection tool. AVG Free is available free-of-charge to home users for the life of the product! Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high-level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers. AVG Free is easy-to-use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements).

Highlights include:

• Automatic update functionality
• The AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run
• The AVG E-mail Scanner, which protects your e-mail
• The AVG On-Demand Scanner, which allows the user to perform scheduled and manual tests
• Free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product
• AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files