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post #1 of 10
8/10/11 at 9:16am
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Adobe Flash Player 11 Beta 2 now supports native 64-bit

Note the word Beta ...

Having tried a previous 64-bit version I am letting this one go for a bit longer winknudge.gif

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post #2 of 10
4/22/12 at 3:56am
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PREDATOR (2.4.0.694) locks your PC when you are away, even if your Windows session is still opened.

It uses a regular USB flash drive as an access control device, and works as follows:

. you insert the USB drive
. you run PREDATOR (autostart with Windows is possible)
. you do your work...

. when you're away from your PC, you simply remove the USB drive:
- once it is removed, the keyboard and mouse are disabled and the screen darkens
when you return back to your PC, you put the USB flash drive in place:
- keyboard and mouse are immediately released, and the display is restored.


Free

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post #3 of 10
6/4/12 at 4:46am
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The program is designed to help users to easily convert Adobe PDF documents to Word DOC, RTF format with original layouts, tables, text, images, graphics and hyperlinks in PDF files preserved.

First PDF converts PDF files into editable MS Word Documents, Rich Text Documents, Plain Text Files, Images. The true beauty of Firts PDF is its simplicity and ease of use. Running the program displays an easy-to-follow wizard that asks what format the user wants to export to: Word, Image, TXT. To begin the conversion, the user needs to load what he wants to the program, choose the output folder and click a button labeled "Start Converting". It'll export the file to a new format quickly and in excellent quality. When the conversion is over, the file can be loaded into the editing software like Microsoft Word in order to make changes or to copy text and reuse it in another document.

and it's free

http://pdftoword.us/first-pdf-free-converter.html

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post #4 of 10
6/13/12 at 3:19am
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DNSCrypt (Preview Release)
Background: The need for a better DNS security

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of the Internet. It's used any time you visit a website, send an email, have an IM conversation or do anything else online. While OpenDNS has provided world-class security using DNS for years, and OpenDNS is the most secure DNS service available, the underlying DNS protocol has not been secure enough for our comfort.
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There have been numerous examples of tampering, or man-in-the-middle attacks, and snooping of DNS traffic at the last mile and it represents a serious security risk that we've always wanted to fix. Today we can.

Free for Mac and Windows ...
http://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt/?utm_source=nl0612&utm_medium=em&utm_campaign=home

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post #5 of 10
8/25/12 at 4:48am
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Managing your day-to-day life is not an easy job to do. There are so many things to concern for - housekeeping, shopping, children... And what about cousin's birthday you always forget or important phone numbers? Undoubtedly your working place is covered with dusty yellow (or blue, or pink) sticky notes. If so - PNotes is right for you. Throw the physical stickies away and replace them with virtual ones on your desktop.

PNotes (Pinned Notes or Portable Notes, use what you prefer) is written entirely in C and Windows API (with Pelles C for Windows IDE) - therefore it is fast and light-weight.

- Ease of use - no installation, just unpack the downloaded archive to any location and run PNotes.exe.
- Portability - PNotes does not require installation, it can be started from any drive (fixed or flash) and leaves no traces on host computer after finishing.
- Scheduling - use various schedule types to be reminded about significant events by many different ways. Using this feature you may just hide notes and don't worry, you'll be notified in time.
- Speaking notes - instead of sound files you may force the notes to speak with you reading their text aloud - isn't it a cool feature?
- Notes' exchange over local network - keep in touch with your colleagues and friends.
- Overdue notes tracking - stay alerted even with overdue reminders.
- Tags - add any number of predefined tags to each note for further searching and sorting.
- Password protection - prevents unauthorized access to program.
- Encryption - allows all your notes to be stored as encrypted files, so nobody could read their content, even in case you lose your USB stick.
- Password protection for single note/group - protect your notes even more strongly.
- Synchronization - local or on-line via FTP protocol - always stay synchronized.
- Ability to pin notes to selected window - all you need appears in time.
- Control Panel - this is your central command post. All management is put into effect here.
- Groups - divide notes into groups of your choice, create new groups and subgroups, control all by mouse click or drag-and-drop.
- Diary group - special group of notes with its own settings, which allows you to maintain diary-like set.
- Formatting - format and design each note as you wish, using all the advantages of rich text formatting.
- Skins - there is a variety of skins for PNotes but if you wish, you can run the program in skinless mode, in which case you can stretch notes to any reasonable size.
- Transparency - you can set notes’ transparency level from opaque to fully transparent. If you enable this feature each note can have its own transparency level.
- Images - you can add images to notes, making them more expressive.
- Smilies - besides image files, the set of predefined smilies is at your disposal.
- Docking - dock your notes to any side of the screen, forcing them always to be straightened and look like a panel.
- Searching - search for (or replace) text fragments in all notes, including hidden or in each separate note, or find notes with specified title, or notes modified within specified interval.
- Quick search in web - select any word or phrase in note and search for it in web using you preferred search provider.
- Favorites - access intensively used notes by a single click.
- Custom fonts - use your custom fonts which are not installed on current machine.
- E-mailing - send notes via e-mail as mail body text or as attachment to any target with PNotes running and open attached note on target machine.
- Recycle Bin - you decide how you want to delete the unneeded note: completely or send it to Recycle Bin with ability to restore it later.
- Backing up - you decide whether to make backup copies for changed notes and what is the deepness of backup levels. Also you can manually make a full backup copy of all notes (and restore from it of course).
- Internationalization - PNotes is fully Unicode supported and translated into many languages.
- Other features - of course there are many other unmentioned features in program, but I suggest you to discover them by yourself, these are delights of any new program, aren't they?
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post #6 of 10
9/1/12 at 10:25am
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^^ PNotes 9.1.0 updated ... Free

http://www.desktopforums.com/post3112462.html#post3112462

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post #7 of 10
9/4/12 at 12:53pm
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I try not to announce bad freeware smile.gif

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post #8 of 10
9/10/12 at 2:28pm
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Good alternative to Power Point Presentation ...

PDFrizator

PDFrizator is an advanced and reliable application intended to help you to create PDF presentations, with the possibility to setup the PDF page transition effect, page advance time, and background music.

This can be done for already existing PDF's, or from the various file type formats supported, that can all be converted, and visually combined, in the same project.

Because of the possibility to convert multiple file formats, the PDFrizator is also a handy tool to rapidly, and visually, create PDF files.

Here are some key features of "PDFrizator":

· Create PDF presentations, setting up the page transition effect, automatic page advance time and the presentation background music.
· Convert multiple file type formats (e.g. .gif, .jpg, .png, .tif, .cbr, .cbz,...) to PDF.
· Add supported file typed to project using the command line, Shell drag and drop, or paste from the Windows clipboard.
· Easily view and convert .cbr and .cbz Comic Books to PDF.
· Acquire from TWAIN sources, with timed acquire function.
· Auto deskew pages, even from already existing PDF's.
· Visually merge, delete, rotate, rearrange and set result PDF pages size.
· Possibility to install in portable mode.

Free

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post #9 of 10
9/22/12 at 1:31pm
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Originally Posted by qhn View Post

DNSCrypt (Preview Release)
Background: The need for a better DNS security
DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of the Internet. It's used any time you visit a website, send an email, have an IM conversation or do anything else online. While OpenDNS has provided world-class security using DNS for years, and OpenDNS is the most secure DNS service available, the underlying DNS protocol has not been secure enough for our comfort.
...
There have been numerous examples of tampering, or man-in-the-middle attacks, and snooping of DNS traffic at the last mile and it represents a serious security risk that we've always wanted to fix. Today we can.
Free for Mac and Windows ...
http://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt/?utm_source=nl0612&utm_medium=em&utm_campaign=home
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So I have been using this for few months ... Can safely now say that it is worth using, well I haven't seen any side effects, so hopefully the extra security does something

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post #10 of 10
10/8/12 at 7:26am
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Multi Commander is a multi-tabbed file manager that is an alternative to the standard Windows Explorer.
It uses the very popular and efficient dual-panel layout.

Multi Commander has a everything you need in your daily works with files to make your work fast and efficient.

It has all the standard features like a file manager has like copy, move, rename, view. But Multi Commanders big strength is the special features that allow you to do advanced task with ease. Like Auto-unpacking , Auto-sorting , Browse inside archives, registry and FTP, Search for file, View files and pictures and the Scripting support let you automate many task. And it allows you to do everything from the keyboard using shortcut so you can work fast and efficient.

Features

- Tabs allowing you to have multiple folders open.
- Caching that enable fast file browsing.
- Show files in Detailed, List, or Thumbnail list modes.
- Background work for all tasks that takes time to finish, allowing you to continue working without interruptions.
- Customize the layout and colors to fit your styling needs.
- Extensions and plugins that will increase the functionality of Multi Commander.
- FTP, Registry , Zip, 7-Zip, Rar , Tar , GZ , Bz2 , Jar Support
- View and Change file permissions, Take ownership of files.
- Picture tools like Convert / Rotate Pictures, View/Remove EXIF tags, Adjust EXIF Date of pictures.
- Internal picture viewer for Jpg, Png, Gif, Png, Bmp, Tiff and many RAW formats.
- Show Movie information from IMDB/Rotten tomato as extra columns on you movie files.
- Audio tools like View Audio file properties, View/Edit MP3 Tags.
- Open API for developers to create extensions and plugins.
- Remember selections when you get back from another location when browsing the filesystem.
- Use mouse and drag and drop or use quick keyboard command for all the task.
- FileOperations plugins that can automatically sort / unpack files when they are moved or copied.
- MultiRename tool for fast and safe rename of multiple files/folder, Rule based and supports Undo.
- File viewer that lets you view files of any size, as ASCII/Unicode/UTF8/Binary and Hex.
- Take over the file type association from windows. Configure view, edit and open action based on file type and path.
- Both 32bit and 64bit versions available.
- Handle folders with many thousands of files with easy, And use power full filters to limit what you want to view.
- Compare folders and select the files and folders that are different, that are the same and many other options.
- Powerfull script engine allowing you to create script that automate tasks.
- Portable. Can be installed and run from portable (USB) device. Will not write any settings/session info on host computer.
- Multi Language support. English, German, French, Czech, Dutch, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Polish and Japanese is supported.
- And a lot more....
- Full supports for Windows Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 2008 and can be installed without any Administrator rights.



FREE

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