November, 2004 Issue

Prague, Czech Republic -- November 30, 2004 -- Barad-Dur, LLC. announces the release of BitKinex 2.4, a versatile network client supporting multiple transfer protocols

Ovulation Calculator is a reliable tool that determines the date(s) when women are most and least likely to get pregnant, based on their menstruation cycles. This software uses the method developed by doctors and tested in hundreds of fertility clinics all over the world. The precision rate for this application is 95%, meaning 95 out of 100 healthy women get pregnant if they have sex on the date(s) calculated and if they or their partners do not have any medical conditions that interferes with fertility. The "success rate" for no pregnancy risk days is much higher. Please note that software makers don't promote unprotected sex, give no guarantees and don't imply that this software can help infertile couples; thus, we can't be held liable for the way you decide to use Ovulation Calculator.

When I encountered with GIPALS I was really impressed by this program. I had never seen something like this before. The matter is that it can solve any type of financial, industrial, educational and even everyday problems occurred in our way!

Power Mixer 1.1 is a brain-dead simple but very progressive Volume Control replacement utility for Windows. Sadly, the built-in Volume Control solution from Microsoft is far from perfect and as more people use their PCs for listening to music and watching movies, the need for a dependable and straightforward Volume Control utility becomes apparent.

Once, exploring the Internet I came upon a program called Intellyweb and I was amazed at the fact how precisely the developers of the program felt the needs of a simple man, who wants to create his own site. I wonder, will design companies, that develop not too complicated sites, have as much work as they do now. Now, after the release of Intellyweb, any head of a small company or owner of a picture gallery can build a site himself, with no help from web-design companies needed. The program has already made quite a good start and become quite popular among users from many countries.

November 23, 2004 Sidency Softworks announces the release of Collmate

Professionals need professional tools. Designers need Photoshop. Webmasters need Dreamweaver. Writers need Word. So what's the tool

Organizer for fonts in not something 95% PC users will get excited about, but Fontonizer is making big waves in web-design and publishing industries. While an average PC has about one hundred different fonts installed - marketers, designers, publishers, editors and print professionals often have collections with 5000 different fonts or more. With so many fonts, only very experienced professionals can match font name with its appearance. But Fontonizer is not merely a font viewer, though it comes with this function built-in. Fontonizer is a font organizer.

MS Outlook users frequently need to merge multiple e-mails into a single document. This is can be done by copying and pasting. But what if there are 40 e-mail messages to combine? Or if the document should be in HTML or PDF format? The choice is either to spend a few hours doing these manipulations or to simply let ABC Amber Outlook Converter 2.2 do it in a matter of seconds.

G-Lock SpamCombat is probably the most popular and effective spam fighting software from an indie software developer. After all, Alexa ranks www.glocksoft.com among top 100000 websites on the Internet and Google search for G-Lock SpamCombat produces over 16000 results, which is three times as much as some of the "commercially grown" anti-spam solutions.

Dale City, VA (November 15, 2004) - The fCoder Group, Inc., a recognized industry leader in the exciting field of digital document conversion and digital image processing technologies, proudly introduces its "Universal Document Converter" – a virtual printer which features a challenging new concept in user-interface development.

November 15, 2004 SoftPerfect Research announces the release of Print Inspector v4.0, a powerful print management and auditing software product for corporate networks.

As surprising as that can appear, it would seem that Microsoft used a pirated version of the audio editor Soundforge when designing its operating system Windows XP.

November 12, 2004 - AKVIS LLC announces the release of AKVIS Enhancer V.1.2 for Microsoft Windows™ and now for Macintosh, with greater image processing speed.

Gladiators Software announces today the release of Aston Shell 1.9.1, the highly regarded Explorer software replacement for Windows 98-XP, and AltDesk 1.5.5 Virtual Desktop Management tool.

I was questioned today by a developer who was watching a particular IP address scan his site. The IP was 65.54.188.86 and is registered to Microsoft Corp. located at One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington 98052. This visitor was not sending the normal header information associated with a crawler to the web server such as an http robot name or identifying info or even a browser name.

Database developers and administrators frequently need to edit their data, whether manually or automatically. Unfortunately, the incidents of data loss due to improper data editing are not too uncommon. Luckily, with DBF Manager 1.21, any Clipper, dBase and FoxPro database administrators can modify database structure, view and edit memo files, re-index open index files and encrypt/decrypt database files without any risk of damaging database.

Byteplant GmbH have released No Spam Today! SMTP Proxy Version 2.0 for Windows 2000, NT, XP and 2003; a powerful, easy to use and cost effective email spam filter that works as an SMTP proxy server.

If one was to ask a tech editor or a software reviewer about 'must-have' software that 90% PC users don't have a clue about, the answer would almost definitely be flash file recovery software. Almost half of all PC users in North America have digital photo and video cameras, mp3 players and other devices that use flash memory. The biggest misconception in the mind of the users of these devices is that once an image, mp3 song or other flash file is deleted or corrupted, it's lost. This is absolutely not true!

November 8, 2004 - Alchemy Lab announces the release of the newest version of Network Administrator's Toolkit (NAT). NAT bundles applications for surveillance of corporate server performance with remote access capability for maintenance and rescue functions.

The activity of Sirius Computer Consultants Ltd. Company, or, to be exact, its organization department Jpowered.com, mostly concerns developing and applying of Java based web applications. The company’s products are known for their low price and pretty high quality. Let’s take a look at their new product – Advanced Graph & Chart Collection.

Recently Executive Software® Company issued a new tool from the disk defragmentation service programs series – Disk Performance Analyzer for Networks (DPAN). Its main function is to determine the fragmentation rate of the files located on the LAN hard drives. The program takes up just a little part of your hard disk, but at the same time it provides quite high functionality. Let’s take a look at the main features of the program.

If you have no practice in song writing, then you have a chance to try it right now, even if you are not a professional. Keep in mind, that “Titanic was built by professionals and Noah’s Ark – by an amateur”. I mean that there’s no need to be a professional to create worthy things.

ActionOutline 2.1 is the new, improved version of the award winning organizer highly praised by ZDNet, DirtSmart and Sunday Times. Called "the best and most useful of the 2 pane outliners" by Duncan MacDonnald over two years ago, the program still proudly holds the champion title.

At first glance, WireChanger 2.8 is merely a wallpaper manager. But, the fact is, this program offers quite a lot of nifty features to people who aren't interested in desktop beautifiers at all. The most in demand feature in WireChanger is 'desktop sticky notes'. Post-It notes and such can be found in every office. With WireChanger any person can get the electronic analog that can be used on a PC desktop. It's simple, it's effective and it's very helpful in everyday office

When people look for an e-book reader, they are usually looking for a simple piece of software that would let them read their favorite e-books. Unfortunately, there are at least 11 popular e-book formats and no mainstream commercial software supports them all. The fact is Ice Book Reader Professional 7.4 is the only e-book reader that supports TXT, HTML, XML, RTF, DOC, PALM books (.PDB and .PRC), PSION/EPOC books (.TCR), Microsoft Reader Books (.LIT), Microsoft HELP files (.CHM) and FictionBook (.FB2) files.

Hanover, MA - November 4, 2004 - FeedForAll, a software tool designed to create, edit and publish RSS feeds, has been released by NotePage, Inc. Now, with FeedForAll, webmasters have the ability to create new RSS feeds from scratch, or modify and enhance existing RSS feeds.

November 2, 2004 Astonsoft announces the release of long-awaited Pro version of the ever popular DeepBurner free CD/DVD burning software suite. DeepBurner Pro integrates backup, photo albums creation and disk labeling software with high-performance CD/DVD burning package, allowing PC users easily create live multimedia disks complete with interactive Autorun shells, backup important data to a CD or a DVD as well as prepare and print disk labels and burn the disks – all from within the same application. Intuitive user interface and WYSIWYG editors make creation of content-rich professional looking disks a snap.

Golden FTP Server is a free Windows FTP server specially designed for PC novices. While most advanced PC users know what FTP is and how to use it, it's a complete mystery for the beginners. Yet, there is often a need to share a large amount of data, like 200 MB worth of wedding photos, music files or videos with friends and relatives scattered all over the country. This is where Golden FTP Server comes to the rescue.

Terrasoft CRM 2.8 was successfully implemented by one more auto dealer SmartsRus. In result the dealer got control over the stock and sales process, and customers loyalty.

November 1, 2004 - AKVIS LLC announces the release of AKVIS Chameleon

Before I start my narration about Blaze Media Pro, I want to underline that it’s not just a single program, but a collection of necessary tools in one.

Recently Executive Software Company issued a new version of a disk defragmenter that has already become quite popular – Diskeeper®. I examined one of program from the Diskeeper series – Diskeeper Professional Edition version 9. The developers of this disk tool position it as the program that has made another break-through in defragmenting technology, so let’s take a look at it and see if it’s the case.