February, 2005 Issue

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For years, Binary Brilliant has been combining intuition with innovation to design database creation software for the broadest range of users. Originally released in 2002, Brilliant Database Pro has evolved into a database design and utilization tool with users of all level of skill and diverse needs in mind.

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Those of us who like to work smarter, not harder, will appreciate the time and work-saving capabilities of xStarter. Designed to automate routine work with a PC, xStarter will perform sequences of tasks that would otherwise have been accomplished in separate steps. For instance, the boss needs to receive the previous day's inventory reports by 9:00 am the following day. One has to start the spreadsheet program, select the file, ZIP the file, close the program, start the e-mail manager, attach the file, dial up the Internet, send the e-mail, disconnect and close. xStarter will use a sophisticated scheduler to compile these tasks into one sequentially-executed function, all run from a single keystroke.

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Two years after entering the photo organizers market, PicaJet has created quite a stir, with some folks calling it "Picasa killer" or "Swish Army Knife of photo albums". But, all the hype aside, PicaJet’s success lies within a simple strategy on concentrating on few important features, rather trying to be many things to many people. As Gregory Anderson eloquently put it in his October2004 article in Smart Computing, "unlike many other digital imaging programs, PicaJet focuses on doing one thing and doing it well."

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In the movies, James Bond gets to drive the most artfully designed, powerful and versatile automobiles: cars that transform into boats, jets or submarines at the flick of a switch. Back in reality, Flexigen Software is turning out applications just as multi-faceted, and you don’t have to be a secret agent to use them. This multiple application concept is the beauty of AccelMan. Designed to be a replacement for Windows™ Explorer, there are many, many productive and innovative functions that AccelMan can perform with the contents of one hard drive.

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If you are creating and running a web site, you, probably expect people to come and see it. And the most certain way to get people visiting your site is promoting your site on search engines. This is the best thing about search engines – they feed sites to searchers – whatever they might be looking for. And every site can find its searcher – provided the site is search engine friendly. But how can one make search engines “like” his or her site? With the latest version of Page Promoter it can be done just with a few clicks. Let us have a brief look at the main modules and functions of this software.

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Allbuttons Web Menu Builder is an inexpensive software package that makes it easy for users to create professional web buttons and menus for their websites. With Allbuttons, it takes just a few minutes to create great buttons, drop-down menus, pop-up menus, navigation bars, and sub-menus.

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With the voluminous storage capacity of modern hard drives, it becomes difficult to keep track of every single thing written on it. We've all done this: downloaded or created a file, not making careful enough note of where it is being saved to, and then, unable to find it later, had to download or create it all over again. This is one of the ways our hard drives get mired down with duplicate or empty files and function less efficiently.

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A well-designed tool that is easy to use and does the job you ask of it with a minimum of fuss and effort is a good thing, and these days, sadly, it is becoming a rare thing. The mark of well-engineered software is that users should be able to obtain reasonable results from it without having to have years of education or some guy from the IT department hovering nearby to bail them out. Simplicity, logic and results are what Effective File Search 3.5 is all about.

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Of all the risks we take in going about our daily lives, opening a web browser shouldn't be one of them. Yet, in order to enjoy the abundance of the Internet, our computer systems become vulnerable to hijacking, infection with viruses, and the mayhem of trojans, spyware and adware. An innovative and powerful solution to these constant threats is Browser Sentinel.

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Internet communication has increasingly replaced face-to-face contact in a world where having a text conversation with a person on the other side of the planet is a mainstay of doing business or developing a relationship. Since we are wired for the visual components of language to be the key to understanding another's message, it is only natural that we want to enhance our electronic communication with attractive, demonstrative and amusing symbols for what it is we really mean to say.

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MicroOLAP Technologies Company (http://www.microolap.com), a leading provider of database tools, native connectivity components and drivers for database servers, announces the 1.4 version release of the microOLAP DBACentral for MySQL, the new generation GUI front-end tool for the most popular open-source database server in the world.

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People are idea machines, but not everyone is equipped with the organizational skills or functional memory to access, prioritize and benefit from them all. We have a hard enough time remembering when to get the oil changed in the car, let alone manage a large project with multiple deadlines, people to contact and meetings to be on time for. ITSD (Is There Something To Do?) Organizer is a simple solution for

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Probably anyone who ever concerned the web development knows about the importance of right optimization of the site structure for search engines. Today it is almost vital to be friendly with ones. And to make this process to be all right you should get keen skills in the web promotion area or pay a fortune for a long time to a company which do it instead you.

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