Sunday, January 18, 2009

Software and More

CYBERLINK POWERDIRECTOR 7 ULTRA:

Consumers who want a video editor that has an extensive, highly usable feature set, is an outstanding performer, & can speedily input & output all relevant formats should look to CyberLink PowerDirector 7 Ultra. The latest version gives you six independent picture-in-picture (PiP) tracks in addition to the original video, title, & music & narration tracks.
You can configure the work area as a storyboard or timeline & can trim content dragged to the timeline using several tools, including a Multi-Trim window that lets you quickly identify & grab scenes. One, for example, speeds DV capture by letting you can scan the tape at 6x speed.
Another significant addition to CyberLink lets you control effects via key frames so that you can transition them in & out or change values over the duration of a clip. In general, the effects offerings have advanced. You'll find a wide array of artistic effects features, expecially in the powerful picture-in-picture designer.
The product edits & renders high-def contect quickly, makes good use of multiple CPU cores, proves speedy at burning Bly-ray media, & supports new disc-burning formats, including BDMV & BDAV Blu-ray. Its speed, unique range of functionality, & ease of use makes CyberLink PowerDirector 7 Ultra is best.

Vista Manager 1.5.1:

Yamicsoft Software Vista Manager - The Best Tuning and Optimizing Utility for Windows Vista!
Windows Vista is the new Operating System for home users and professionals alike. Windows Vista brings clarity to your world, so you can more safely and easily accomplish everyday tasks and instantly find what you want on your PC.
Vista Manager is the powerful software, All-in-One utility to optimize, tweak, tune up and clean up your Windows Vista. It bundles more than 20 different utilities in one! Get access to hundreds of hidden options to improve system's performance and security, clean registry, junk files and defrag Registry, optimize network to speed connection, Mange the startup entries with Windows, change wallpaper automatically, and many other miscellaneous utilities. It is an excellent companion for Windows Vista.

ADOBE ACROBAT 9 PRO EXTENDED:
The juggernaut of portable document creation is getting more powerful, judging from Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended (the high end among three versions of the latest release that do more than read PDFs). PDF Portfolios-the most impressive of three big, new features-lets you combine different file types (including multimedia) in a PDF document & add eye-catching tools for navigate complex, tree-structured file sets.
Another terrific addition converts standard video formats into Flash you can embed into a PDF file. Anyone with the free Adobe Reader will be able to view the videos. The third major enchancement offers three different document comparison algorithms: one for docs with mostly text & tables, another for presentations & graphics-rich files, & a third for scanned documents.Acrobat 9 also promises to reduce the frustration of collaboration: You'll find live-chat & shared-document features, complete with free storage & chat hosting on a new adobe site. And although this is a measure update, you won't have to learn an entirely new app. The product largely sticks to the previous interface style.
Some rough spots linger. The overlap between the features in the top-line menus & the toolbar remains confusing, & I'm disappointed to find that the OCR capability still can't properly scan pages from old books & newspapers. Nevertheless, Acrobat is the gold standard for PDF management, & this version is brilliant. No one with professional responsibility for exchanging & managing data should be without it.

Internet Explorer 8 Beta: Underwhelming:

MICROSOFT HAS released a public beta version of the next Internet Explorer—but don’t download it expecting either a stable browser or stunning innovation.
Its developers say Internet Explorer 8 better supports Web standards, can automatically recover from a crash, and includes new features. One of these is Activities, plug-ins that eliminate some tedious cutting and pasting. Highlight a street address, and you can automatically bring up a map of that location. Another new feature, called Web Slices, lets you track changes to a portion of a Web site—for instance, a specific eBay auction.
The beta is clearly buggy: when we tried installing Internet Explorer 8, it crashed oft en and seemed to confl ict with multiple apps on the system. Th e Web Slices feature seems already to trail Safari’s Web Clips technology, which lets you transform a piece of any Web page into an automatically updating widget on an OS X desktop. Internet Explorer 8’s version works only if the site’s developer enables it. And because the slices live in an Internet Explorer toolbar, you still have to open your browser in order to see new activity.
Microsoft hasn’t specified when Internet Explorer 8 will be fi nal.

SugarSync File Syncing Service:

IF YOU USE multiple computers and mobile devices for creating and editing documents, it can be tough to keep different versions of your fi les in sync. A new service called SugarSync goes a long way towards curing those syncing headaches.
SugarSync is both a Webbased service and an application that you download; together, they provide a way for you to always have the most current version of a file, regardless of what computer you’re using. You configure the downloadable application, called SugarSync Manager, to monitor certain folderson your PC. Files in those folders are then uploaded to your personal SugarSyncSugarSync File Syncing Service Web page, which acts as an online storage repository, allowing you to access them from any Web browser.
SugarSync excels when you begin making changes to your documents. Any time you make a change to a file, the changes are automatically saved to the original version of the document on the computer on which it was created. SugarSync automatically saves those updates to your Web-based storage space, and also sends them to the original document on your office PC. Unfortunately, once you edit and save a file, only the newest copy is preserved.
Unlike many online storage services, SugarSync isn’t free. A nifty feature for camera phone users allows them to have any pictures taken with their phones sent directly to their PC.
SugarSync provides a cost effective and easy-to-use solution to manage files on several devices.

Easeus Partition Manager Server:
full review:-
If you believed that space on your hard disk can be better utilized, then you are right. How many times have you wanted to be able to save more files on your E: drive and reduce the space allocated to your C: or D: drive? When you click on “My Computer” on the Windows desktop, the “drives” that you see such as C:, D:, and E: are all usually “partitions” of a single larger hard disk. By itself, Windows offers very little in the way of partition management without losing data, so people use applications made especially for this purpose. This is where Easeus steps in, with its Partition Manager Server Edition 1.6.4 currently standing at version 1.6.4. It features an easy to use interface – after all, you don’t really dabble with partitioning everyday, you just use it when you need to, and don’t want to go through a steep learning curve that day. Easeus Partition Manager helps you with partition tasks such as creating, deleting, resizing, moving, hiding, and setting-active. Its task-based interface lets you visualize a “map” of your hard disk, showing you which partition is positioned where. For instance, let’s imagine this situation. Your C: drive is sized at 20 GB, there is a D: drive of 40 GB placed next to it, and then an E: drive of 50 GB at the end of the drive map. You want to delete everything on drive E: and use that space for your C: drive instead, so here’s what you’d do. First delete the partition named E:, then move the partition named D: to the end of the drive map, which leaves behind 50 GB of unallocated space in the middle of the map. Then resize C: so that it fills out the unallocated space, and apply the changes. Why apply the changes? That’s because when you make changes to the drive map, Partition Manager holds these changes in abeyance, so that you can undo any accidental damaging changes. But once you apply the actions you had lined up, you cannot revert back to how it was. There are many other operations you can carry out on your partitions. You can even set a password so that you don’t accidentally make changes that you didn’t intend to. It supports FAT, FAT32, and NTFS file systems on all consumer-level internal and removable types of storage devices. Easeus also claims support of hardware RAID, SCSI, and Firewire drives. However, this product currently does not support hard disks over 800 GB in capacity, dynamic disks, or a system with over 32 installed disks. There are multiple editions of Partition Manager on offer by Easeus. The one we have looked at here, is the server edition, which will install and work on server versions (eg: Windows Server 2003 Web Edition) as well as consumer versions of Windows (such as Windows 2000, XP, Vista, etc.), including 64-bit versions of Windows. It is priced at $149 (approximately Rs. 6, 705 at current exchange rates) for installation on one physical machine. A license to install on an unlimited number of machines is also offered, at $399 (approximately Rs. 17, 955). Easeus offers a 30-day money back guarantee, for use if the product you purchased does not meet your needs. More details about this product, and purchases of the same, can be done from the developer’s website .















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