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The standard media player that ships with Windows does a good job. It's free and it supports a range of media formats. However, as with virtually any free software, it has a downside. Its developers have concentrated on how to make some profit by selling media and not how to get you buying the player itself. This is probably the main reason why the default Windows media player is so slow. When you start it, it connects to the Internet, loads advertising and more.

It's time to think about a good replacement! @MAX Tray Player is intended for everyday use. Do you like to listen to background music when working with other Windows applications? Then @MAX Tray Player is for you. It embeds Player bar into Windows taskbar virtually becoming a part of Windows. Thus it doesn't obscure desktop and user application windows while always being at hand.

All basic actions, including: open files, play files, stop or pause file, go to next or previous file are easily accessible through corresponding buttons on the taskbar. You don't have to open the main window to control the player and you can easily access these buttons from any Windows application. Tray Player displays information about file being played including: play time, title and artist in the small floating window. One can adjust the transparency of this window or just hide it.
For key-binding fans all basic actions can be easily bound to hot keys. Using hot key combinations one can control the player regardless of the program being active at the moment.

Getting full control over player is easy - single mouse click brings up Player window. Besides basic actions it offers seeking functions, volume and balance adjustment, playlist editing etc. All Tray Player functions are also accessible through a popup menu which can be invoked either from the Player bar in Windows taskbar or from Player window.

While @MAX Tray Player is lightning fast and has a low impact on system resources, it is still a powerful and feature-reach media player.
To select files or whole folders for playing there are traditional choices such as open file dialog, drag'n'drop, explorer context menu as well as Tray Player special feature - My Media.

My Media browser window introduces an explorer-like interface to your media resources and provides many useful features to manage collections of your music and video files.

Moreover, there is an ingenious way to select media files from the Windows Tray.

A pop-up menu allows you to browse your multimedia collection and select folders or files as you select programs from your Windows Start button menu.

Tray Player provides you with a lot of options for configuring various parameters according to your personal preferences. One can change player position in the taskbar, buttons displayed, etc. Ever popular skin support is there too.

Tray Player can play audio, video and other multimedia files in the most popular formats, including:

• Windows Audio Files (wav, snd, au...)
• MPEG Audio Files (mp3, mp2, mpa...)
• MIDI Files (mid, midi, rmi...)
• MPEG Video Files (mpeg ,mpg, m1v, mpe...)
• Windows Media Files (wm, wma, wmv, asf...)
• OGG Vorbis Files (ogg) (you have to install OGG Vorbis DirectShow filter)
• Windows Video Files (avi)
• Audio CDs (cda)
• Playlist Files (pls, m3u)
• Multimedia formats support depend on specific codecs installed in the user operating system.

FlexiServer is software for automatic employee time attendance logging. It also features additional tools for quality assurance monitoring and reporting, and works perfectly with home or remote working staff.

FlexiServer is the modern replacement for an hours book or time card. For staff who work at computers it does all hours logging automatically. It records log on and shut down times as worked hours. It automatically detects lunch and other long breaks by monitoring computer idle state. Hours can also be entered manually if the employee is not working at a computer.

The way it works is like this. The manager or bookkeeper runs FlexiServer on their Windows or Linux PC. Whenever the manager or bookkeeper want to view reports they can log onto FlexiServer with their web browser and use the control panel.

All staff then run the component FlexiStation on their computers (Windows, Mac OS X or Linux). As a restricted version of FlexiServer and providing only the essential features, FlexiStation will run automatically in the background logging hours worked. Employees can also add hours manually, report a colleague sick or put in an application for annual leave.

Benefits

• Saves employees the chore of needing to fill out hours in their hours books every day.
• No more chasing staff for them to submit their hours. Bookkeeping has 24/7 immediate access to casual staff hours.
• Improves the way your business works by knowing exactly what is taking your staff the most time. Reports can be used for costing reasons to estimate how much time employees are working in different programs.
• Gives management the confidence to let employees work at home without fearing not being able to see what they are working on. The QA Screen Monitor gives managers the chance to see what their team is working on at any time just as if they were in the office.
• Lets you know exactly where your colleagues are at any time. This is perfect in roaming computer environments where it will show you which computer any member of your team is working at.
• Allows management to monitor outsourced or contract staff and whether they are working and the hours they are billing for.
• Gives employees more flexibility. With the FlexiServer accurate hours tracking implemented, management are much more likely to let employees work when they want.

Features

• Logs employee time attendance automatically using computer logon times.
• Hours can automatically be entered on a web form either as an alternative to computer logging or to override computer detect times.
• Automatically detects breaks using a configurable idle time measure.
• Can be linked to payroll software. Files are stored in open database friendly format.
• Shows the team if anyone is in the office (or working at home), what computer they are working at and (optionally) what document they are working on.
• Real time screen monitoring of home employees (optional).
• Can run on any Windows computer (XP or later). It does not need a dedicated server. It is typically run on the managers or bookkeepers computer.
• FlexiStation keeps logging hours even if the server computer is turned off. When it is turned on all cached data is sent.
• Works behind firewalls routers and other difficult networks.
• Can be used over the internet (for remote workers) or on the local network (for in-office staff).
• Very easy to use. No special technical knowledge is needed.
• Can run up to 300 employees from one installation.
• While FlexiServer can be installed on Windows or Linux PCs, employees can be running the FlexiStation module on Windows, Mac OS X or Linux.
• Installs literally in 2 minutes. Just click download then enter your name and the list of employees.

The good thing about today's hard drives is their size. Having up to a terabyte of free disk space silently spinning in your PC case makes you forget about saving space and paying attention to copies of folder and files scattered across the drive. However, the abundance of copies may become quite confusing, especially if you try to keep your archive of program distributives more or less up to date. Finding the unnecessary copies of files in the manual mode is a tedious task that requires lots of time and attention, so it may not be acceptable for most users. If you would like to be able to perform regular clean-ups of your hard drive or drives and remove duplicate file with just a few clicks, Easy Duplicate File Finder will be a choice you will never regret!

Intended for users of all levels, this great application is based on a lightning-fast and amazingly efficient proprietary comparison algorithm that is well-suited for file archives of any level -- from a typical home system to a storage server. The program allows you to search for duplicates on your hard drive and remove them in automatic and semi-automatic modes. The latter gives you much more flexibility in terms of managing the detected copies of files. You can simply delete them (using the Recycle Bin or bypassing it), move them or rename them adding a user-specified prefix or postfix. The software also features protection of system files and a number of semi-automatic selection options.

Bring order to your hard drive, free some disk space and stop spending time looking for the most recent version of the same file -- Easy Duplicate File Finder will do all that much better!

FEATURES

• Search for true duplicates (files with same contents)
  Powerful search engine with fast files check
  Full binary (byte-by-byte) comparison
• Flexible Scan settings
  Search files by masks
  Size conditions & skip zero-length files option
• Find duplicates from selected folders or drives
  Add multiple folders/drives for scanning
• Safety
  Protect system files and folders
  Move files to Recycle Bin or delete duplicate files permanently
  Mark selected duplicates by renaming them with adding prefix to file names - to test which files is safe to delete
• Convenient user interface
• Duplicate file management - remove only unnecessary duplicates
  Select files manually (for deletion) or use flexible selection options
  Rename duplicate files with prefix/postfix
  Move duplicate files to folder
  Open folder containing selected file
  Show file properties
  Open file with associated program
• Full Unicode support
  Support for files with Chinese, Japanese, Arabian etc names
• Export list of duplicates to HTML document or to TXT file

 Managing your day-to-day life is not an easy job to do. There are so many things to concern for - housekeeping, shopping, children... And what about cousin's birthday you always forget or important 'phone numbers? Undoubtedly your working place is covered with dusty yellow (or blue, or pink) sticky notes. If so - PNotes is right for you. Throw the physical stickies away and replace them with virtual ones on your desktop.
PNotes (Pinned Notes or Portable Notes, use what you prefer) is written entirely in C and Windows API (with Pelles C for Windows IDE) - so it is fast and light-weight. It has flexible settings - both for the program in whole and for individual note. Skins, fonts, colors, alarms, transparency level - there are all-in-one. Any portion of note's text can be formatted separately.
There is a variety of skins for PNotes and, moreover, you can create your own one if download PNSkinCreator - a small utility for creation PNotes skins. Notes can also be skinless, that allows stretching them to any reasonable size. Scheduling is also important feature of PNotes. It is possible to schedule each note to remind you about significant events by three different ways - alarm you once, every day at specified time or pester you every specified interval.
You may also dock notes to any side of screen (all together or each one separately) and get as result a kind of panel.
One more PNotes feature - ability to join notes into groups by your choice. You can create, modify, delete and relocate groups by simple click or drag-and-drop. Changing group for each note performed by dragging it onto appropriate group.
PNotes is fully Unicode supported and translated into many languages.
And, obviously, it is portable - it leaves no traces in Windows registry and can be started from any drive (fixed or flash) on any computer. Take your notes with you to any location.
I also want to thank PortableApps.com forum staff for many useful suggestions and spending time for testing the program.
I hope that you will enjoy using PNotes as I enjoy developing it!

Mz Vista Force is an updated version of Mz Ultimate Tweaker, to work on Windows Vista.
The interface, the -apply tweaks- and -load- engine are rebuild. It also comes with much more new Tweaks.

Mz Vista Force features:

• Performance Tweaks
• System Tweaks
• Visual Tweaks
• Internet Booster
• Internet Explorer Tweaks
• Mozilla Firefox Tweaks
• Windows Media Player Tweaks
• Cpu Accelerator Utility
• Ram Booster Utility
• Fast Disk Cleaner
• Registry Optimizer
• StartUp Manager
• Services Manager
• Shutdown Scheduler
• Backup - Restore Service

This FREEWARE application indicates the status for NUM LOCK, CAPS LOCK and SCROLL LOCK in your system tray... You can also set the NUM LOCK status at Windows startup to be on or off. From just a few click you can Turn on your screen saver or turn off you screen etc.... It's been tested on a Windows 2000 client and Windows XP as well...

Now all these problems will be solved! Media Programming Group company presents a new program for automated system clock correction by means of the Internet. Your system time will be regularly collated with an atomic clock, and your computer clock will always be precise.

XMPlay is an audio player, supporting the OGG / MP3 / MP2 / MP1 / WMA / WAV / CDA / MO3 / IT / XM / S3M / MTM / MOD / UMX audio formats, and PLS / M3U / ASX / WAX playlists. A load more formats are also supported via plugins. When XMPlay was first released in 1998, only the XM format was supported, hence the name "XMPlay".

Linux, Mac OSX or PocketPC user? Want to enjoy the same quality MOD playback as XMPlay users? You can... BASSMOD

• Balls-on accurate
  Plays the way nature intended
• 32/24-bit & multi-channel output
  Take advantage of supporting hardware for ultimate quality
• Gapless output
  Gapless playback of all supported formats
• Interpolation & volume/pan ramping
  For output that's smoother than a baby's arse!
• DSP
  Automatic gain control (and Replaygain), 9 band equalizer, reverb, plugin support
• Net streaming
  All supported file types (including MODs and archives) can be streamed from FTP and HTTP servers (inc. Shoutcast/Icecast/Icecast2), optionally writing a copy to disk, FTP directories and HTML webpages can be scanned for playable files
• Track information
  Displays file/format information, messages/tags, and instrument/sample texts, open webpages from the texts
• Title formatting
  You decide how you want the track titles to look, title updating from 'net streams and CUE sheets
• Library
  A database of your tracks, with directory monitoring, for quick and easy access to the tracks you want to play
• Saved/preset settings
  Save settings (DSP/etc) to be automatically used each time specific tracks or filetypes are played, save presets for quick application at any time
• Disk writing
  Write 8/16/24/32-bit WAV files, use external encoders (MP3/OGG/etc), optional level normalization, dithering & noise shaping, individual MOD instrument writing
• Keyboard shortcuts
  Fully customizable shortcuts, including global hotkeys
• Integration
  Open files/folders from Windows Explorer, drag'n'drop files/folders/shortcuts/URLs, monitor the clipboard for playable URLs, drag'n'drop tracks from XMPlay into other programs, icon customization
• Archive plugins
  Archived/compressed files can be loaded just like normal files, including support for nested archives
• Unicode file support
  Support for Russian, Chinese, etc...
• Visualisation
  Compatible with Sonique plugins, fullscreen display, includes a MOD pattern view
• No installation
  UnZIP where you want and go!