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Alcohol 120%, is a powerful Windows CD and DVD burning software that makes it easy to create backups of DVDs* and CDs. In addition, the program lets you store your most used CDs as images on your computer, so you can call them up at the click of a button. Now includes Pre-Mastering function and support for Blu-ray format and Windows Vista and now Windows 7 Beta.

Home users make backup copies of their game CDs and movie DVDs*, allowing the kids to treat multimedia disks roughly, without destroying their value.

Librarians and school administrators use Alcohol 120% burning software to archive their institutions' collections of recordable media, protecting themselves against the daily wear and tear that damages discs.

Business users use Alcohol 120% burning software to make duplicate backup copies of software titles, ensuring that they will continue to have access to their licensed software, even if their physical CDs become damaged and unusable.

With Alcohol 120% burning software, you no longer have to worry about CDs or DVDs* getting lost, stolen, or damaged. Duplicate discs work just like the originals, and your entire collection can be archived safely.

Pre Mastering Function included (Alcohol Xtra) that lets you make images and burn files directly from your hard drive.
New A.C.I.D Wizard "Alcohol Cloaking Initiative for DRM"

Home users: make backup copies of their game CDs and movie DVDs*, allowing the kids to treat multimedia disks roughly, without destroying their value.
Librarians and school administrators: use Alcohol 120% to archive their institutions' collections of recordable media, protecting themselves against the daily wear and tear that damages discs.
Business user:s use Alcohol 120% to make duplicate backup copies of software titles, ensuring that they will continue to have access to their licensed software, even if their physical CDs become damaged and unusable.
With Alcohol 120%, you no longer have to worry about CDs or DVDs* getting lost, stolen, or damaged. Duplicate discs work just like the originals, and your entire collection can be archived safely.

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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• Clean the registry to fix Windows errors and crashes.
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With Registry Mechanic you can safely clean, repair and optimize the Windows® registry with a few simple mouse clicks! Problems with the Windows® registry are a common cause of Windows® crashes, slow performance and error messages. By using a registry cleaner regularly and fixing registry errors your system should not only be more stable but it will also help improve your system performance without expensive hardware upgrades. Learn more about the importance of a clean registry with our registry insight.

Registry Mechanic uses a high-performance detection algorithm to quickly identify missing and invalid references in your Windows® registry. These problems can occur for many reasons including being left-behind after the un-installation or incorrect removal of software, by missing or corrupt hardware drivers, or orphaned startup programs.

With a few easy steps our registry cleaner will scan your entire registry for any invalid entries and provides a list of the registry errors found, you can then choose to selectively clean each item or automatically repair them all. For your convenience and protection Registry Mechanic can also make a backup of any repairs made so that you can easily recover any changes if required.

GOM Encoder Features

• Convert any video files that can be played with GOM Player
• Embed subtitles to the video (you can see subtitles on the resulting video even if your device doesn't support subtitle)
• Encode just once to convert your video files into MP4/3GP/SKM format playable on your mobile phone, PSP and iPod
• Convert video files to AVI format playable on PMP and DivX players
• Convert video files to WMV format for your homepage or blog
• Convert video files to OGM/AVI for your PDA
• Convert video files to Flash format (FLV)
• Stable encoding
• Fast encoding (even faster on Dual Core or Hyper-Threading CPUs)
• Convert only parts of a video
• Adjust playback speed on the resulting video file
• Supports 2Pass encoding, resulting in higher quality video output
• You can convert any movie files that are playable on GOM Player to AVI, MP4, WMV/ASF, OGM, 3GP, FLV, SWF, MP3 and etc.
• You can enjoy the files you've converted on your cell phone, MP3 player, iPod, PSP/PS3, PMP, navigation or other multimedia devices.

Added functions

• To convert an audio file from your movie file into an MP3 file
• Multi encoding
  : To encode several files at one time
• To support divided encoding
  : To encode files by file size or at a specific time segment
• To support H.264 Baseline Profile @ Level 1.3/3.0
• Video De-interlace Function
• Video Control & Effect Function
• Advanced Subtitle Function
  : Hue/ Saturation / Place / Space Control Function
  : Srt, rt Subtitle Support
  : Internal/External Subtitle Choosing Function
  : Displaying Subtitle by Paragraphs Function
• WinAmp DSP Plug-in Function
• Encoding Logs Function
• History Files Function

GOM is a FREE media player with popular audio & video codecs built-in.

No need to install codecs separately! Try one of your broken AVI files or one of the files that is being downloaded with GOM.

GOM Player supports most popular codecs (AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX plus many more) with its own embedded codec system that you won't have to look for appropriate codecs everytime you can't play a certain video format. For those codecs that require a license that cannot be distributed, GOM will automatically lead you to an open-source codec web-site.

Watch video files while you are downloading them! GOM has a registered patent for playing broken AVI files and files that are still being downloaded. So try one of your broken AVI files or one that you are downloading right now. You'll find it amazing!

GOM supports a lot of advanced features for advanced users. You can customize the player by creating your own skin, setting toggle keys, VMR modes, detailed resolution among others. It also provides features such as an overlay mixer, real-time index rebuilding for AVI files, unicode support, key frame based RW/FF and many more!

GOM Media Player Features

Codec Finder
GOM Player includes many codecs (XviD, DivX, FLV1, AC3, OGG, MP4, H263 and more) so you won't need to install separate codecs for most videos. For those videos that require a separate codec, GOM Player will find one and direct you to a place where you can download an open source version of the codec. That way, you won't get stuck with unnecessary codecs on your system.

Play Broken AVI Files (Patented)
AVI files can't be played if the index is broken, or if the file isn't completely downloaded. This is because the index is located at the end of the file. GOM Player's patented technology enables users to view files with broken indexes or that are still being downloaded.

Powerful Subtitle Support
GOM Player supports SMI, SRT, RT, SUB(with IDX) files for subtitle. You can specify margin, location, size, resolution, font and others. You can also enable shadow, view ASF files with subtitle, karaoke subtitle mode. You can even synchronize subtitle and video if there's any mismatch.

Convenient Playlist
If you run a video file and there is already a file with a similar name in the directory, it will be automatically added to your playlist. GOM Player has a similar playlist format as M3U, PLS, ASX and you can also include and edit different media formats on that playlist as well. It's easy to create and edit your own multimedia playlist with GOM Player.

Support Different Media Types
Along with different media format such as AVI, MPG, MPEG and DAT, GOM Player also supports streaming Windows media format (WMV, ASF, ASX). You can also watch DVD-quality videos with 5.1 channel audio output.

Screen Capture
Screen capture allows you to take a screenshot of your video directly from GOM Player. Using the Burst Capture feature, you can take continuous screenshots up to 999 shots.

Advanced Features
There are an endless number of advanced features. Customize brightness, contrast and saturation. Sharpen and add noise to your video. Try the audio equalizer. Repeat a section of your video with our A-B Repeat feature. Fast forward/rewind a few seconds using left/right keys. And much more for you to discover!

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.

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.

VerificationEngine gives you the ability to verify that the site you are visiting (or directed to via a e-mail) can be trusted - essential in the current environment of fraudulent sites and faked emails.

Just mouse over the logo brand or image you want to verify and VerificationEngine will authenticate the different trust credentials of the site you are on. For example VerificationEngine will check logos such as credit card icons (for online purchasing) web site endorsements such as BBB online or TRUSTe or trade associations are legitimate. In addition simply mouse over a logo and a green border will indicate that the site is legitimately the company it claims to be.

During a secure communications session Internet Explorer users can simply mouse over the padlock to verify;

a) That the padlock is genuine and not a fraudulent graphic
b) The site uses an SSL certificate containing the true entity information about the company with which you have an encrypted https session.

All these tests are seamless. VerificationEngine will extract the credentials of the site from the IdAuthority service, including references to third party logos. All this happened in real time ensuring up to the minute confidence and assurance.

Verification of web page content (brands/logos) with BrandVerify™
VerificationEngine uses patent pending technology to authenticate that a website logo or brand is legitimate and authentic to the company it purports to be.

Verification of login boxes with SubmitVerify™
VerificationEngine uses patent pending technology to authenticate that a website loginbox is legitimate and authentic to the company it purports to be. Combined with anti-keylogging systems.

Verification of SSL session and encryption endpoint with SSLVerifiy™
VerificationEngine allows users of Internet Explorer to determine if the business credentials of the entity with which they have a secure SSL session are available from within the SSL certificate which is being used to encrypt the communication. - What this means is that no Man-in-the-Middle attack can take place as you can be assured of who it is you are communicating with.

Protection against Phishing attacks
Phishing attacks rely on using a link in an e-mail to entice you to a web site which claims to be a legitimate website but is in actual fact a fraudulent site. Now, even if you click on a link and arrive on what should be your banks website you can verify whether it is or not.

Protection against Pharming attacks using IPVerify™
Pharming attacks rely on a virus or Trojan program which corrupts a file on your PC which even if you type the correct URL into your browser send you to a fraudulent website. VerificationEngine supports IPVerify™ which prevents Pharming attacks from succeeding by not only checking the domain name of a sever but also it's unique IP address during the verification process.

Automatic Updates
VerificationEngine has a fully automatic update mechanism ensuring the best performance, highest security and instant availability of the very latest Identity and Trust Assurance services.

Suitable for Internet users with Visual Disabilities
VerificationEngine has been designed specifically to aid users with visual disabilities. Audio feedback can be employed as part of the verification test using a custom .wav file. The Trusted indicator width and colour can also be increased or changed accordingly to aid visual recognition.

Self Protection attack avoidance system
VerificationEngine features the very latest self protection and monitoring systems constantly looking at the performance of the product and alerting you if any spurious software tries to attack the application or shut it down without permission.

Artificial Intelligence System - identifying copycat attempts
Artificial Intelligence constantly looks for potential mimics and other software trying to display a similar 'trust indicator' around the outside of the screen. VerificationEngine will alert you of these fraudulent attempts; however it's always best to ensure you have the correct version of VerificationEngine. Never install a version which is not digitally signed by Comodo CA.