January, 2005 Issue

Sometimes I’m going out of my mind with the mess in my PC storage – hard drive. I think that everybody of us who uses a computer hardly for a long time encounters a problem of disorder in great amount of stored files. It takes place especially when we have deal with a lot of information and a plenty of multimedia, when we surf the Internet and download frequent. So copies of files may appear. Than we realize that free space on our hard drive decreases. In such cases it is necessary to use software, which looks for duplicates and allows user to manage them.

Sometimes it is needed to print documents containing various types of data such as text, different formats of images, charts, vector graphics or bar codes. Usually that data is provided by several applications and there is a special solution to incorporating it together.

Custom IE toolbar is a great way to promote website, provide visitors with extra options for searching and online/offline browsing, simplify navigation and drive more traffic. After astounding success of Google and Alexa toolbars, thousands of search engines, e-commerce, news and portal sites are starting to follow their lead by offering their visitors own custom toolbars for Internet Explorer.

FeatherySoft has released version 4.0 of FlashSlider, a Windows platform application that lets you make slideshow or presentation using various transition effects (114 transition effects).

DiskInternals Flash Recovery is a flash memory file recovery tool for digital cameras and a must-have tool for all digital photographers, whether amateur or professional. The program recovers digital images that were deleted or lost due to malfunction, low battery error, card reformatting or any other reason from the camera memory and flash memory cards.

Last year Masterra challenged 20 makers of emoticons applications (the ones that insert "smiley faces" into e-mails and web forums) participate in emoticons competition to find out whose work is the most original. Second year in a row, an independent jury of magazine and e-zine editors found that PostSmile offers the most imaginative and creative emoticons.

It is easy to understand why shareware critics have been impressed with this utility. With a powerful registry editor and an automatic registry cleaner, Reg Organizer performs fast search and replace tasks, documenting the system registry before and after programs are installed and reporting on what changes have been made. Registry editing is performed in familiar tree format with options for the addition of comments to individual keys to chronicle when and why a value was changed. PC Magazine has called Reg Organizer 'the only (registry utility) you're likely to need' (June 22, 2004), and Tucows has awarded it a rating of 5 Cows, elevating its popularity among shareware choices for 2005.

Especially for Apple iPod users we added in version 4.5 support of M4a tags. Now mp3Tag works with MP3/WMA/OGG/APE/MP4/M4a files. In one window you can change one or more fields (for example, comment and genre) for a group of files, while changing capitalization of values. With just a few clicks of mouse all your songs will get lyrics and album covers from the Internet. This job is completely automatic, no typing is required!

Microsoft Corp. warned Windows users on Tuesday of two new "critical"-rated security flaws in its software that could allow attackers to take control of a computer and delete or copy information.

SnapTouch is creating a small revolution in the world of digital photograph processing. One small program incorporates virtually every function that camera owners will ever need.

Microsoft Corp. is determined to help accelerate the integration of consumer electronic devices and personal computers, Bill Gates, chairman of the software giant, said in an interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun.

We fill our lives with music for all the feelings it brings us, songs

Technology investors expect a rash of new issues in 2005, inspired by last year's runaway success for Google and growing evidence that the internet has become a major business force.

Napster, the name that once was a symbol of rampant music piracy, has completed its transformation to respectability by becoming a publicly traded company on the Nasdaq exchange.

COMMUNITY projects are a big thing at Microsoft Corporation. Over the last 20 years, the company has launched several global programmes aimed at ensuring under-served communities have the same access and opportunity to information and technology.

THE year 2004 has been one where Microsoft focused our attention and increased our commitment in three core areas — education, digital inclusion and local economic development — to spur the innovation economy.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Hackers, spammers and spies go into overdrive in December and January, when unsuspecting neophytes unwrap new computers, connect to the Internet, and, too often, get hit with viruses, spyware and other nefarious programs.