Paint.NET : Free Image And Photo Editing Software

"Impressive." - PC World, #19 on "Top 100 Products of 2007"

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.


Download Paint.NET v3.20

GplusMessenger - Google Talk Enchancer

Gplus is an add-on for Google Talk, the instant messaging software by Google.

Features:

Emoticons:

And I mean real emoticons not just . Gplus allows you to enhance your chatting experience by allowing you to express various emotions through the familiar emoticons common to all major chat agents but missing, until now, from Google Talk. Gplus, of course, supports animated emoticons.

EmotiSounds:

Wanna draw more attention from the person you're chatting with....You need to make a little noise, express what you feel in sound...Gplus let's you chose from a bank of sounds that you can send just like you would send text or smileys. Simply open up the sound menu and chose from the list...from church bells to south park sound bites...try it.

Chat logs:

Gplus allows you to log your chats locally and view them later. Conversations are logged in the html format and can be viewed using your web browser or the chat log viewer that comes with Gplus.

Text Formatting:

Gplus allows you to add color to your text messages by giving you the ability to use text formatting such as bold, italic, etc...

Text filters:

Gplus allows you to define text filters. Filters can be used to censor certain words your contacts may use. They can also be used as aliases that allow you to say more while typing less.

Multilingual:

Upcoming versions of Gplus will be multilingual and will reflect the language used by Google Talk.

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Codec Pack V 6.0.9 Standard : Play Anything

The Standard Codec Pack is mainly for general use, it features a large number of playback codec's/filters and a small number of encoding codec's should you wish to encode files.The package will enable you to playback most major formats currently available.

Installation of the package is made easy for users through the informative menu's.Options that may cause problems have a warning in the description pane, the installer will also unselect options that may cause conflicts.

Features :

● ffdshow Video Codec Build 20070212 Revision 918 by xxl.
● Haali Media Splitter 27/02/07 - For MP4, MKV, OGM and AVI container files
● Flash Video Splitter 1.0.0.1.

And many more...


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Auslogics BoostSpeed 4: Boost Your Computer Performance

Start programs faster. Speed up computer start time. Increase Internet speed, optimize your Internet Explorer, Firefox and E-mail programs.

Boost Speed will clean up disks and the Registry to speed up your computer and tweak Windows to its peak performance.

Version 4.0.0.40

• fixes a memory leak in the Integrator
• improved Visual Effects tweaks after reboot
• fixes Disk Cleaner and Track Eraser issues with web browsers
• removes memory leaks in Registry Cleaner and Tweak Manager
• fixes a bug with System Information incorrectly reading from the Registry
• fixes a number of spelling errors and cosmetic problems

Download Auslogics BoostSpeed v 4.0.0.40

PC World Names The 25 Most Innovative Products of The Year

PC World has put together a top 25 list of the most innovative products of the year 2007, noting the “Innovation”, the “Benefit” and a brief overview of each. All entries on the list are somehow tech-related and all are available either in-store or online right now. I personally can’t wrap my head around how the order of this list was devised, or how some products even made it on the list, but I’m sure the reasoning is clear to someone. Have a look at the list and let us know what you think of it, and what your top 25 would be!

1. Google Gears
2. Apple iPhone
3. One Laptop per Child XO
4. Time Machine, in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
5. Amazon Kindle
6. NetGear Digital Entertainer HD EVA8000
7. HP TouchSmart IQ770 PC
8. AT&T Tilt
9. Facebook API
10. DeviceVM Splashtop
11. Toshiba Portege R500
12. Data Robotics Drobo
13. Hybrid Hard Drives
14. Eye-Fi Card
15. Panasonic TH-42PZ700U
16. Yamaha Tenori-On
17. Zoho Notebook
18. 'In Rainbows' by Radiohead
19. IOGear Wireless USB Hub and Adapter
20. Mint.com
21. Microsoft Popfly
22. Sprint Airave
23. Ask.com
24. eXpresso
25. Kodak EasyShare All-In-One Printers

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VideoCacheView v1.05 - Watch Cached Videos Offline

After watching a video in a Web site, you may want to save the video file into your local disk for playing it offline in the future. If the video file is stored in your browser's cache, this utility can help you to extract the video file from the cache and save it for watching it in the future.

It automatically scans the entire cache of Internet Explorer and Mozilla-based Web browsers (Including Firefox) and finds all video files that are currently stored in it. It allows you to easily copy the cached video files into another folder for playing/watching them in the future. If you have a movie player that is configured to play flv files, it also allows you to play the video directly from your browser's cache.

Download VideoCacheView v1.05

Easy Video Downloader v 1.4.2 - Download Videos From Youtube

With Easy Video Downloader you can easily download videos from YouTube, Google Video and save it as AVI (High Quality for PC) or MPEG4 (for iPod, PSP).

Easy Video Downloader is a completly FREE Software. It contains absolutely NO ADWARE, NO SPYWARE, NO REGISTRATION, NO POPUPS, NO MALWARE or other unwanted software.

The user interface of Easy Video Downloader is very simple, so you don't need any technical knowledge to use it. No need to use scripts for web browsers. Just run Easy Video Downloader and start downloading!

All you need to do is to paste URL of movie and press Start button.

If you haven't flash player to play videos from YouTube just select "Save as AVI" and Easy Video Downloader automatically convert video to avi format.

Download Easy Video Downloader v 1.4.2

Download BitDefender 2008 Antivirus

BitDefender Standard Edition is a powerful antivirus tool with features that best meet your security needs.

Features as easy to use and automatic updating make BitDefender Standard Edition an "install and forget" antivirus product.

BitDefender Standard Edition uses the ICSA Labs certified scanning engines for Microsoft Windows® XP allowing users to enjoy their virus protection as they head towards the future's technologies.

Using powerful engines to filter all possible access ways into your system, BitDefender Standard Edition is the ideal protection for your critical information.

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DRM Removal 3.1.9 - Free Your Music from Copy Protection Legally

Convert DRM protected audio and video.

Fast and simple to use DRM protected media converter. Easily converts ALL audio and video files from your PC to unprotected MP3, WMA, AAC, iPod at high speed and preserving original quality. Legally.

With a single click your got your MP3, AVI (or other audio and video) converted and copied directly to iPod without loosing ID3 tags and quality.

The Drm-Removal supports Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2008 and Windows Vista.


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Active@ File Recovery 7.3 - Recover Your Deleted Files

Active@ File Recovery is a powerful software utility, designed to restore accidentally deleted files and directories. It allows you to recover files that have been deleted from the Recycle Bin, as well as those deleted after avoiding the Recycle Bin (e.g. Shift-Delete).

Active@ File Recovery can be installed on and run from a floppy disk, so that the risk of overwriting your data is minimized.

Active@ File Recovery Professional is an enhanced version of Active@ File Recovery software that includes Active@ Partition Recovery for Windows that can detect and restore accidentally deleted partitions (volumes, drives) on Hard Disk Drives, external USB drives, and memory cards (SunDisk, MemoryStick, CompactFlash, etc...)

Active@ File Recovery will help you to restore data residing on hard drives or floppy drives formatted in any of the following file systems:

• FAT12

• FAT16

• FAT32

• NTFS

• NTFS5

• NTFS + EFS
  

Download Active@ File Recovery v.7.3

HiDownload Pro 7.07 All in One Download Manager

HiDownload is a multi-threaded download manager that allows you to download individual files (or lists of files) from web and FTP sites while maximizing the potential of your internet connection. It also supports multimedia streaming and and RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol) with optional resume, enabling you to download movies, music and capture streaming video and audio,record radio from Internet. HiDownload also offers a built-in Broadcast Manager. In addition, it provides all the standard features of a download manager, including scheduling, drop basket, download history, clipboard monitoring, download categories as well as zip preview and more.

JkDefrag - Disk Defragmenter and Optimizer

JkDefrag is a disk defragmenter and optimizer for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/X64. Completely automatic and very easy to use, fast, low overhead, with several optimization strategies, and can handle floppies, USB disks, memory sticks, and anything else that looks like a disk to Windows. Included are a Windows version, a commandline version (for scheduling by the task scheduler or for use from administrator scripts), a screensaver version, a DLL library (for use from programming languages), versions for Windows X64, and the complete sources.

Google Fixes Orkut Worm Attack

Google security personnel clamped down to stop the spread of a prolific spam worm launched on its social networking site Orkut.

The worm, which was reported yesterday by McAfee Avert Labs, had gained ground by spreading quickly from friend to friend. The virus affected the profiles of almost 400,000 of its members, most of which were from Brazil. While Google initially aimed Orkut toward users in the United States, the networking site has become incredibly popular in Brazilian communities.

The worm was transmitted when members received malicious scraps written in Portuguese. When translated to English, one scrap read, "2008 is coming. I wish that it begins quite well for you."

Upon receiving the scraps, the members' browsers then downloaded and executed the embedded virus. After adding its victims to a community called "Infectados Pelo Virus Orkut" or "Those Infected by the Orkut Virus," the worm then started to send messages to members of the affected user's friends list.

The virus spread through Orkut's new tool that allows users to write messages containing HTML code. The ability to add Flash/Javascript content to Orkut scraps was only recently introduced.

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First Hand With Firefox 3 Beta 2

ZDNet has taken a look at the second beta version of Firefox 3. The reporter says Firefox 3 feels faster and more responsive again and features improved memory management.

But it’s not new features that I’m interested in, it’s performance and reliability - so how does Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 stand up? Well, it’s only been out a few hours but I’ve been hammering it hard on several systems and my feeling is that beta 2 is a significant improvement on beta 1.

Functionally and visually, beta 1 and beta 2 are hard to tell apart, but after a few seconds of using them side-by-side I think that I could tell them apart on pretty much any system. Beta 2 feels snappier and far more responsive than beta 1 (or Firefox 2.0 for that matter) and I can feel the difference on all the systems that I’ve tried it on - from a lowly Sempron system to my quad-core monsters. No matter what you want doing - opening a new tab, moving tabs, opening up Find, zooming in and out of the page, bookmarking - it all happens swiftly and smoothly. Finally, Firefox feels like it’s back to being faster and more responsive than Internet Explorer. The bloat seems to have been trimmed away and what remains is fast.

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LightZone - Photo Editing Software For Linux

Light Crafts has announced immediate availability of a Linux version of its award-winning LightZone photo-editing software. With this open beta release, Linux users now have all the powerful LightZone tools for editing, enhancing and improving digital photos that Windows and Mac users have including the innovative ZoneMapper and Re-Light tools. LightZone is the first and only application of its kind spanning all 3 major platforms. The 3.3B beta version of LightZone for Linux is free and available for download.

Firefox Addon - DataFox,Check your Internet Usage

Check your BSNL DataOne and MTNL Triband bandwidth utilization in Firefox at the click of a button. A color coded progress bar and bandwidth usage tracking helps you stay within your monthly cap and efficiently utilize your bandwidth.

You don't need to take time every day (or every few hours) to log in to the usage site, click through to the relevant page and grok the details; DataFox will give you the info you need instantly in your statusbar, additional information is available in the tooltip. Statusbar and tooltip strings are completely customizable.

DataFox currently supports two of the largest ISPs in India, BSNL and MTNL. More ISPs may be added in the future.

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View Hidden 3D Benchmarks In Windows Vista

There's really nothing useful about this tip, but it's still pretty cool. There's a utility built into Windows Vista used for benchmarking your system called the System Assessment Tool. What most people don't know is that you can call this utility from the command line and view some cool 3D benchmarks.

You should be able to use a regular command prompt, but you'd have best luck using an administrator mode command prompt. (right-click and choose Run as Administrator). You should also note that it will temporarily disable Aero before running the test, but don't worry, it will re-enable it after.

Here's some mini screenshot examples for your enjoyment, the real thing will run fullscreen. Try the command right above each one to see it on your own computer.

winsat aurora


winsat d3d -texshader -totalobj 15



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Increase Internet Explorer Download Limit

If you have ever tried to download several things simultaneously through Internet Explorer then you may have noticed that it doesn't work quite the way you may have hoped it to. This is because IE limits the amount of simultaneous downloads to two. This is done so that the perceived download progress appears to be tolerable. If you have a high speed connection then your browser should be able to handle a few more downloads. Here is 2 steps that will increase the simultaneous download tasks from IE and also increase their speeds.

This is to increase the the number of max downloads to 10.

#1. Start Registry Editor.Type regedit command in Run.

#2. Locate the following key in the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Internet Settings

#3. On the Edit menu, click Add Value (a Dword) , and then add the following registry values:

"MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server" = Dword : 0000000a (Type a selecting Hexadecimal)
"MaxConnectionsPerServer" = Dword : 0000000a

#4. Quit Registry Editor.