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What is Sunbelt Personal Firewall?

One of the best firewalls around and it DOES NOT slow down your PC.

Sunbelt Personal Firewall used to be called the Kerio Personal Firewall (KPF). Kerio was going to discontinue it, but Sunbelt acquired it from Kerio to save the product from "going under". We needed a new name, and changed 'KPF' into the new 'SPF' (so much for software geeks being creative...)

Despite its boring name, Sunbelt Personal Firewall is a very good piece of code, and received many awards. Tucows gave it their 5-Cow Rating. Computer Shopper in the U.K. gave it their Budget Buy Award with: "A seriously good firewall for the money.". Firewall expert Scot Finnie said: " ZoneAlarm Free and Sunbelt Personal Firewall - the two firewalls I've pointed to in the past as having the best user interfaces in this field".

What's New In The Latest Version?
The biggest addition is support for Vista 32 bit (with 64 bit support on the roadmap). However, there have been a lot of under-the-hood improvements in many areas. These include:

• Significant improvement in network performance
• Significant improvement in packet filtering
• Enhanced Process Injection prevents code injection attempts into Windows
• Numerous stability issues corrected in the firewall service
• Significant improvement in overall product stability
• Updated Intrusion Detection rules
• Updated translation files for multiple languages

Rely on the free Windows firewall?
Unfortunately, this gives you a false sense of security. It only protects incoming traffic. But outgoing traffic, with your credit card info, social security number, bank accounts, passwords and other confidential information is not protected. The Windows firewall will let it all go out. (both in XP and Vista) But... Sunbelt Personal Firewall will block that data if you buy the FULL version! You absolutely need a better, weapons-grade firewall.

30-day money-back guarantee
Compatible with: Windows 2000, Windows XP (All) and now Windows Vista. This offer includes one year of upgrades, updates, new definitions and tech support by phone, from real people based in the U.S. Below is the comparison of the "free" vs. the "full" mode. Believe us; with the crime rates on the Internet skyrocketing, you really want to get the full version of Sunbelt Personal Firewall.

Something Else Important You Need To Know.
This firewall has a companion product: VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware. VIPRE is a full fledged, West Coast Labs Certified antivirus product with award-winning antispyware features integrated. VIPRE is an all-new high-performance security product that does not slow down your computer. PC Magazine's security expert Neil Rubenking just gave VIPRE an excellent review with 4 STARS!

Find Out How Bad Old-style Antivirus Resource Usage Really Is!
Old-style antivirus products have stacked layer upon layer of engines, and created bloatware in the process. They slow down your PC, have slow scan times and cause problems. See VIPRE's low impact on system resources compared to the competition. Click the chart to the right to enlarge.

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Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development.

It is integrated with these Web 2.0 services: mashTape, SHOUTcast Radio, Last.fm Scrobbling, and Songkick concert tickets. You can enhance Songbird with community-contributed plugins like Media Flow.

7digital Music Store
Buy high quality MP3s (320kbps) and get recommendation for new tracks based on your listening habits.

mashTape
Discover Flickr photos, YouTube videos, last.fm biographies, Google news (and more) for the currently playing artist.

Last.fm Scrobbling
Integrated Last.fm support allows you to scrobble, love, and ban your tracks.

Concert Tickets
Discover upcoming shows in your area based on the artists in your library. Event listings powered by Songkick.

SHOUTcast Radio
Stream music using the integrated SHOUTcast Radio directory.

Customize with Add-ons
Enhance Songbird with community contributed add-ons like MediaFlow or build one of your own.

Media Importing
Add media to Songbird by importing from your file system or iTunes.

Media Playback
Songbird supports MP3, FLAC, and Vorbis on all platforms; WMA and WMA DRM on Windows; and AAC and Fairplay on Windows and Mac.

GStreamer
Songbird uses GStreamer as the main media playback system, across all platforms.

Gapless Playback & Replay Gain
Skips padding data due to encoding and chains files for gapless playback experience. Adjusts the playback gain appropriately if a track's metadata contains replay gain information.

Album Artwork
Display the currently playing track's album art and write new artwork back to the file. Automatically fetch missing album art from the web.

Watch Folders
Automatically import media from a defined folder.

Smart Playlists
Create dynamic playlists that automatically update based on criteria you set.

Web Browser
Songbird includes an integrated web browser with features like bookmarking, tabbed browsing, and more.

Cross Platform
Songbird runs on Windows, Linux and Mac.

Multi-language Support
Over 25 completed, community-contributed localizations and growing!

Automatic Updates
Always stay up to date using Songbird's built-in automatic updates.

Setup Assistant
Quickly setup Songbird for the first time.

Custom UI
Make Songbird your own by choosing from dozens of different skins feathers.

Library Management
Browse, organize, sort and search your media.

Developer Support
Songbird is getting better everyday thanks to its open platform and growing developer community.

Device Support
Songbird's device support is limited. The Device Support wiki has additional details about what's supported. Apple iPhones, iPod Touch and Microsoft Zune devices are not yet supported.

Metadata Management
Songbird supports reading from and writing metadata to many music file formats. We still need to support the ability to fetch additional metadata from popular lookup services.

Subscriptions
Subscribe to music blogs and download music directly to your library. We're working on ways to improve this feature.

Performance & Stability
Improving the performance and stability of Songbird is an ongoing focus. Each release we set aside dedicated cycles to ensure we're making progress.

Create, open and extract Zip, TAR, GZip and 7-Zip. Open and extract from RAR and ISO.
jZip is absolutely FREE for everybody, home and enterprise users
jZip is an easy to use and fast archiving software
jZip is based on proven 7-Zip technology by Igor Pavlov

Software Features

• Create Zip compatible files
• Unzip any Zip file archives
• Supports other archive formats like TAR, GZip and RAR
• Improved compression ratio
• Fast compression engine

jZip is a powerful and reliable compression utility. jZip is based on proven and reliable 7-Zip archiving technology by Igor Pavlov. jZip sports an elegant, easy to use yet powerful user interface.

It can play almost any video file and offers over 6,000 free internet TV shows and video podcasts.
Miro has a simple, gorgeous interface designed for fullscreen HD video. Since Miro downloads most videos, you can take your shows with you, even on an airplane. Quite simply, Miro is a better way to watch all the video you care about.
Best of all, Miro is 100% free and open source, developed by a non-profit organization and volunteers around the world.

Unlike your browser, Miro's built for HD.
The built-in Miro Guide connects you to thousands of free High Definition video shows. Miro downloads video fast and stores it on your local computer for a level of quality that is often impossible on streaming video websites (even the ones that call themselves 'HD').

Can't open a video? Now you can, with Miro.
Miro can play virtually any type of video file - Quicktime, WMV, MPEG, AVI, XVID, and more.
When it comes to video podcasts, Miro goes far beyond iTunes by letting you subscribe to BitTorrent RSS feeds, with one of the fastest torrent downloaders in the
world (it's called 'libtorrent').

Instead of separate programs...
for downloading torrent files and then watching them, Miro is one integrated experience. And Miro makes BitTorrent RSS dead simple-- when a new episode is available, it will download automatically and be ready to watch.
If you are trying to teach someone how to use BitTorrent, Miro is the easiest place to start. And Miro's torrent performance is powered by the screamingly fast open-source libtorrent engine, which is why we're also a favorite of hard-core torrenters.

Search, download, and save videos...
from YouTube, Google Video, Blip, and more. You can even save a search term and automatically get new videos as they are posted.
With YouTube's new HD support, the video quality
can be incredible.

A Gorgeous Interface
miro has a unique, elegant, and seamless user interface that makes watching internet tv easier than ever.

The Most Shows
miro works with the open internet to bring you everything. the built-in content guide has thousands of free video feeds (many in HD) and streaming video sites.

Open and Not-for-Profit
miro is open source software, built by a non-profit organization; we are 100% committed to supporting users and creators join in.

Resume from Where You Stopped
Miro will remember where you stopped watching a video and will start at that point when you play it again.

Play Almost Anything
Forget about the format wars. Miro can play MPEG, Quicktime, AVI, H.\264, Divx, Windows Media, Flash Video, and almost every other major video format.

One After Another
Set your Miro preferences to either play videos one after another (in the order they appear) or to play a video then stop. If you have Miro set to play videos one after another, you can always right-click on an individual video and have it play then stop.

Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts for all the key playback commands makes it easy to configure a remote control.

Simple Disk Management
Simply tell Miro to reserve a certain amount of space on your hard drive and it will stop downloading new videos when it reaches that limit.

Auto-Expire
After you watch a video on a channel, it will stick around for a few days and then delete itself. You can choose to keep it permanently if you like and you can set the channel to save every video permanently, but most of the time we think you'll want to keep fresh stuff coming in and old stuff going out.

Video RSS
Video RSS feeds are at the core of our vision for internet TV. They provide a simple system that any publisher can use to distribute their content. Viewers can bring feeds from anywhere together into one place. Miro is compatible with more feeds than any other video app.

Auto-Download
Set any channel to download new videos as soon as they are published. You can also tell Feeds to stop downloading new stuff if unwatched videos are piling up.

Sites Section
A new sites section lets Miro work seamlessly with the web.
Watch Streaming Shows
You can now add shows from sites like Hulu to your Miro sidebar, in the new 'Sites' section. This lets you have all your shows-- streaming or download-- in one place. We've add a new section in the Miro Guide, listing the most popular streaming shows on the web.
Download Directly Into Miro
You can also add other types of sites to your sidebar like LegalTorrents.com or Archive.org. Browse the website as usual and whenever you click on a .torrent or an .mp4 file (or any other video file that Miro supports), the video will download automatically in Miro. It makes browsing, downloading, and watching video seamless.

Search Millions of Videos
Miro can search and download from the biggest video sites including YouTube, Yahoo!, Google Video, Blip, and more.

Alternate Channel Guides
Maybe the best thing about the Miro Guide is that it doesn't lock you in. Anyone can create an alternative guide of videos and feeds and you can add that guide to your Miro.

XChat is an IRC chat program for both Linux and Windows. It allows you to join multiple IRC channels (chat rooms) at the same time, talk publicly, private one-on-one conversations etc. Even file transfers are possible.

XChat is a popular Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client. It has a choice of a tabbed document interface or tree interface, support for multiple servers and is highly configurable.

XChat is a full-featured IRC client and includes all basic functionalities that are found in most other IRC clients, including CTCP, DCC file transfers and chats.

It supports a plugin system for various languages (including C, C++, Perl, Python, Tcl, Ruby, Lua, CLISP, D, and DMDScript). By writing plugins, the features and functionality of XChat can be extended and customized.

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TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user a lot of features:

• Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.
• Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click.
• Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer.
• Interactive file list. TeraCopy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix the problem and recopy only problem files.
• Shell integration. TeraCopy can completely replace Explorer copy and move functions, allowing you work with files as usual.
• Full Unicode support.