August, 2004 Issue

SnapTouch offers smart-copying feature for transferring images from digital cameras/flash disks/card readers to computer hard-drive.

New DLL components from SautinSoft give developers a reliable tool for automatic conversions of HTML and ASP files into RTF documents that can be used alone or as a part of third-party applications. There are two versions of the library– regular and professional. The regular version takes HTML sting and returns it as RTF string. All document settings – alignment, font properties (face, color size), hyperlinks, tables (including nested ones), special characters, encoding, etc – are inherited from the source document and can be easily adjusted, if necessary.

Database migration is a process of moving data from one place to another. Sometimes it is as simple as copying database from one PC to another. Sometimes it's a time consuming operation that involves converting old database to a new format, uploading it to a new server and then testing it to make sure everything works correctly. There hardly is a database administrator who does not dread the database migration routine.

CamUniversal is a powerful software solution for video capturing devices, like IP and web cameras. The program supports an unlimited number of devices and is capable of recording, live broadcasting over the Internet, relaying images to PC(s) over local area networks and performing surveillance tasks.

Flash File Recovery is a nifty application that every photographer should be aware of. Essentially, it can recover any previously deleted image file. Plus, it is capable of salvaging pictures from damaged or corrupted flash drives (including camera's built-in memory) and memory sticks. While camera or storage media failure is a rather rare event, the need to recover intentionally or accidentally deleted picture should be familiar to most camera owners.

While there are quite a few software applications that compare images in order to find duplicates, there is only one solution that has own unique comparison algorithm. While most applications can only locate duplicate images of the same format, Image Comparer will identify the same images even if one is a JPEG and another is a Bitmap image.

Today, with huge hard disks being a status quo, a lot of people store all their music on their computer’s hard disk, instead of CD’s and DVD’s. But how to keep all the music files you have in order? How to make storing of the music in your collection comfortable and have compositions available at first request?

The urgent need to protect dynamic information is becoming more and more obvious these days. “Dynamic information” is the kind of information you regularly and actively use. You must have already heard about crypted virtual drives. In fact, “crypted virtual drive” is a crypted file stored on your hard drive. You may map this file as a drive to any drive letter.

TweakWindow 1.2 is a software title that falls into a broad range of applications known as window enhancement utilities. But unlike its countless peers, TweakWindow offers a unique combination of features that no other application in this class has. In addition to now standard features like one-click minimization to the system tray, transparency tweaking, hiding a window or making it topmost, TweakWindow offers two innovative features – chameleon windows and ghost windows.

Mesquite, TX - July 14, 2004 - See you in Hell! id SoftwareTM and Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) confirmed today that id Software's highly anticipated DOOM 3TM for the PC has entered manufacturing and will begin shipping to retail stores worldwide the week of August 2. A sci-fi horror masterpiece, DOOM 3's dramatic storyline, pulse-pounding action, incredible graphics, and ground-breaking technology combine to draw you into the most frightening and gripping first-person gaming experience ever created.

Having touched the topic of file storing security, we have to admit the importance of secure file deleting as well. In fact, when you erase a file on your computer, normally only the link to the actual file is deleted, but the file itself remains untouched. So if you’ve deleted all the information on your hard disk before you wish to sell it or hand over to someone, then you cannot be absolutely sure that the information is completely erased and no one would be able to restore it.

August 2, 2004 SoftPerfect Research announces the release of LAN Search Pro v6.0, a powerful utility for fast file searching across your LAN.

Chameleon is a new innovative image editing plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, Corel Photo-Paint, Jasc Paint Shop Pro and other digital imaging software that supports third-party plug-ins. It is an ideal tool for anyone who would like to create collages or otherwise experiment with digital images.