July, 2004 Issue

Still browsing through endless folders to launch applications? Stop wasting time and get instant file launching pad with 1st TurboRun 2.0. The number of files and applications installed on people's computers keeps growing every day. The regular solutions, like Start Menu and My Documents, are becoming too clumsy, confusing and time consuming to provide fast and convenient way to access files.

Scientific Letter is a specialty mailing software application for scientists and engineers. It is the only application in the world capable of inserting complex equations directly in the body of

xStarter is short of being a digital miracle. This utility has the power of scheduling and automating virtually any computer-related task.When used correctly, it can take up to 50% workload off any IT specialist. The program is primarily used to automate a long list of routine tasks like copying, renaming, moving, deleting, or synchronizing files; checking e-mail (including multiple accounts); compressing or creating backups; launching and terminating applications and NT services; executing macros and shortcuts; rebooting, shutting down, ejecting and closing DVD/CD-ROMs; logging off, clearing memory, establishing RAS connection and much more.

RISK Softworks, a rapidly growing independent software company, today released Version 1.2 of its award winning HyperClip notes manager.

Chronograph is one of the oldest and most reliable atomic time synchronization utilities installed on thousands of computers worldwide. The new version is the most significant product upgrade for the past four years. Following the industry trend, AltrixSoft entirely changed product's internal architecture, making Chronograph 4.0 even more reliable and simple then its predecessors.

Virtually every company uses databases in their day-to-day operations. Some companies run multiple databases, often in different formats, which leads to a compatibility issue. The problem of database conversion is a rather complex one.

Spices.VSIP.NET (Visual Studio Integration Pack) is a new product in the Spices.NET family. Essentially, this is a set of plug-ins for .Net developers (Obfuscator, Decompiler, Modeler, Investigator, Informer) that allows them to use MS Visual Studio when working with their .NET assemblies.

July, 2004 Nikeware announced version 1.30 of its all-inclusive text files visual comparison software allowing end-users see all the differences between two text files in a split screen view mode. Visual Comparer includes full-featured text editor that supports both ANSI and Unicode files (separate versions are available for download) as well as syntax highlighting for most popular programming languages, including C++, C#, JavaScript, Perl, Visual Basic, VBScript and Pascal (Delphi).

A lot of users suffer from their lack of care and attention. When they explore the Internet, the most part don’t give a damn about viruses and some don’t even know what viruses look like. Some hope, that the luck will be on their side and it won’t concern them personally. For situations like that I suggest such a tool as Principal AntiVirus.

Photographs are one of the most treasured possessions in any family. Unfortunately, as time goes on, the photographs get old, stained, fade out, or get otherwise damaged. In order to preserve them, most people try to digitize photos to pass these cherished images onto future generations.

What can give your nerves some rest at a coffee break? It’s only a nice game with a good graphics and not too complicated control that can perform this task. So, Chromadrome is the one you need.

On the 13th of July Desktop Boosters Software released Meta Commander Pro 1.0. This is the unique file manipulation and management software built around single-click technology, ensuring you can access any file or folder on your computer, copy-move files and folders, run popular applications as well as your preferred programs with just ONE click!

Probably there are not many gamers who can remember a game called Ugh!, where a prehistoric chap with mad eyes was pedaling his flying machine to ferry his passenger to a right cave.

Among a variety of letter and file crypting tools that you may come across in the Internet, I suggest paying your attention to CYPHER-5 program or, full title, Cypher Millenium 5 Pro.

I’ve been looking for a simple and fast tool to search in the network and on local drives. And I came across Network Searcher. As far as I see, its tremendous search speed is reached through a large number of parallel processes that use several threads to search for files. Though I’m not that sure about it.

This article is for those who like to listen to the radio broadcasting in the Internet. If you’re connected to the Internet and you’ve got a high-speed connection, then you’ve probably already listened to the radio through the Internet. But now you have a chance to use a long-awaited opportunity. You can both listen to and record the broadcasting stream to your hard disk.

There are a lot of programs to crypt information nowdays. Like, say, programs creating virtual drives with a password access. Imagine that your computer is stolen or used without your permission. Go ahead, that won’t be of any use if you’ve installed CryptoExpert 2004 Pro from SecureAction Research, LCC.

July 1, 2004 SoftPerfect Research announces the release of SoftPerfect Network Protocol Analyzer v2.0, a professional tool for analyzing, debugging, maintaining and monitoring local networks and Internet connections.

The Mozilla Foundation Wednesday announced a cooperative effort to standardize plug-in functionality, ushering in a new era of multimedia accommodation on today's Web browsers.

In a move to make it easier for vendors to operate and compete, Microsoft will draw Business Solutions (MBS) channel partners into the Microsoft Partner Program (MPP) global framework.

The Apache Software Foundation has rolled out a patch for versions of its popular Apache HTTP Server to fix a potentially serious security flaw.

Once considered strictly a consumer issue, spyware is sneaking into the enterprise, eating up bandwidth, pumping out unwanted pop-ups, crashing employee computers and potentially posing a risk to sensitive corporate data.