March, 2005 Issue

Helicon Focus solves shallow DOF (depth-of-field) problem which almost always appears in macroshooting (<10cm) and in digital microphotography (optical microscopes). The program finds the focused areas in each image and combines these areas into one perfectly focused image.

Over time, the contents of files and folders become more of a mystery. Row upon row of the same little yellow folder, and inside, the same little Word icon attached to each file. Sure, they have titles, but what was the purpose of creating each document? Was it business or social, a rough draft or something you want to keep forever? Wouldn't it be helpful if the icon told the story of a folder or file's content? IconChanger provides the simple tool to assign specialty icons to any file, to label it as part of a special group, to remind you of its purpose and importance, and give instant visual identification of that file's contents.

Multimedia surrounds us during our internet surfing closely and closely. It is developing faster and faster and as a result becomes better and better. Sometimes it is so good that it would be desirable to get it on our PC.

Ergonis Software has released PopChar Win version 1.2 for Windows 95/8, ME, NT 3.x/4.x, 2000 and XP; an easy to use utility for inserting special characters, accented and foreign letters into any document.

Since the beginning of this decade, Binary Brilliant, Inc. has been developing a line of Brilliant Database software with a focus on universally-recognizable interfaces that rapidly produce functional results without specialty programming knowledge. Continuing with that tradition, the latest release of Brilliant Database SDK (Software Development Kit) offers a tool for creating end-user executable database applications using simple visual editors to design all the intrinsic features.

DeSofto SpamFilter is an e-mail client independent utility that works as pop3-proxy server to slaughter unsolicited correspondence. The software is absolutely merciless to spam, yet it does not delete "borderline" messages that may be messages from real people by using a smart neuro-algorithm.

MedianSoft Joiner-Converter 3.1 is a digital video processing application that captures video, converts it from one format to another and joins video fragments encoded with different standards together. Essentialy, MedianSoft Joiner-Converter 3.1 is attractively priced alternative to expensive video processing software.

Whether you are a busy professional managing a team of engineers or a busy mother managing your family’s hectic schedule, the job of planning and communicating appointments and deadlines will become a stress-free issue with the help of Bryht Task Calendar.

Webmasters and IT professionals who develop web content or tutorial programs will be delighted with the creativity and functionality designed into Mr. Captor. This award-winning software captures screenshots and offers many exclusive features for working with the captured images.

Have you ever had a problem with your hard disk drive? I mean a case when bad clusters appear. Usually it is called physically damaged areas on the hard disk surface. Of course, it is no good if the part of your information is located in the bad sector of the hard disk drive. It may cause the loss of important information and unstable work of your operation system or applications.

Every year, increasingly powerful digital photography tools expand the opportunities for ordinary people to produce works of art. AKVIS LLC has been in the business of designing the most intuitive and powerful digital photo editing software since 2004 and has completed a series of refinements to its image combination application, AKVIS Chameleon.

People with a passion for collecting know keeping track of the details about a collectible item preserves the overall value of a collection and makes it easier to enjoy and share. A variety of mediocre software applications exist to help with these tasks, but none provides the ease of use and customizable features of MessLess Collector.

NewSoftwares.net, Inc. has released version 5.1.6 of their award-winning and feature-rich security tool for the Windows XP/2000/NT/Me/98/95 platforms, a software tool designed to password-protect files, folders and drives from unauthorized users.