Sony Imagination Studio Suite 2 Review

Sony media suite contains five sophisticated editing programs. Let’s find out how it’s worth the money.

With so much audio and video software available online, it might seem pointless to actually pay for media software. But while free programs are great for simple editing tasks, they lack the more sophisticated tools and effects found in paid-for-versions. 

Sony’s Imagination Studio Suite 2 brings together five of the company’s most popular editing products in one package. It contains a raft of advanced features, giving you the tools to create and edit video, audio and photos to an incredibly high standard.

First things first, Imagination Studio Suite 2 is absolutely bursting with features and contains a staggering amount of technical detail that will inspire advanced users.

Each of suite’s products –ACID Music Studio, photo Go, Sound Forge Studio, Vegas Movie Studio and DVD Architect Studio-can be used separately, but come into their won when used in combination. For example, to make photo-slideshow, we used Photo Go, ACID Music Studio and Sound Forge Studio for the backing track and Architect Studio to create a DVD.

Top-Quality Features

The Vegas Movie Studio’s Explorer panel links directly to your content, which means you don’t have to go through long menu paths when importing. The other editing panels are handily organized in easy-to-reach tabs on the left-hand side and there are dozens of outstanding customizable effects and transitions, plus a brilliant media generator for creating titles and credits. 

These top-quality features make it worth splashing out on Sony’ suite. Most free programs simply can’t complete, offering tacky and cheat-looking effects instead. Being able to add and edit slideshows effortlessly also sets it part from free versions and some other paid-for rivals.

Although importing media content and rendering projects drastically slowed down our PC, occasionally causing it to freeze, the status the timeline and adding transitions and effects was very quick and video playback was flawless, with no lag.

Tricky Music Editing

Unfortunately, editing with the ACID Music Studio isn’t as easy. You can create and mix tracks from live vocals and instruments, and import audio from CD’s and the web, but simple tasks such as adjusting the volume on a specific part of a track is unnecessarily tricky. The screen layout is cluttered and chaotic, and while the tutorials tell you in general terms what each section controls, we were completely overwhelmed by the array of buttons, tabs and faders.

This is probably why Sony included the much simpler Sound Forge Audio Studio as an audio alternative. It has enough easy-to-use features to satisfy most of your editing needs, presented in a way that doesn’t feel confusing.

Similarly, the Photo Go software is simple to use. It looks and works like Google’s Picasa, containing standard tools including red-eye reduction, hue, saturation, brightness and crop options. But it doesn’t have any features that you won’t find in free alternatives.

Finally, exporting your content with DVD Architect Studio is a breeze, whether you’re saving it to your hard disk or your phone, or uploading it to the web. However, it’s worth watching the video tutorials first to understand how to make changes to menus, themes and buttons.You can download its trial version.

Requirements of Sony Imagination Studio Suite 2

• Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 3), Windows Vista (Service Pack 2) or Windows 7.

• 1 GHz processor (multi-core or multiprocessor CPU recommended for HD).

• 1 GB of hard disk space.

• 2 GB of memory.

• OHCI-compatible i.LINK connector / IEEE-1394DV card (for DV capture and print-to-tape).

• Windows compatible sound card.

• DVD-ROM drive (for installation from a DVD only). 

• Supported CD-recordable drive (for CD burning only).

• Supported DVD-R/-RW / +R / +RW drive (for DVD burning only).

• Supported BD-R /-RE drive (for Blue-ray disc burning)

• Microsoft .Net Framework 3.0

Pure Music

Pure, which makes internet and digital radios, is launching its own music-streaming service to rival the likes of Spotify and Sony’s Music Unlimited from December, PURE Music subscribers will be able to stream millions of tracks online for 4.99 pound a month.  Like Spotify service, which costs the same price, it doesn’t contain adverts. Sony’s service is 1 pound cheaper, but it doesn’t let you create playlists.

On first impression, PURE Music doesn’t offer anything you can’t get from Spotify. But the two key attractions of PURE Music are its music store, where you can buy tracks (from 99p) and albums (from 3.99 pound), and the ability to play your music through PURE internet radios. You can also play music on your Smartphone and PC.

You can search for specific tracks, artists and genres, or browse ‘Top tracks’ and ‘top albums’. However, we found it much faster and easier to do this from the website than from our radio. You can create playlists on your radio, but because using the radio dials to search is such hard work, we made them all on the website, which has an easy drag-and-drop system. 

Buying tracks isn’t as simple as it is on iTunes. First, you have to tag tracks, which can only be done as they’re playing, and then go to My Tagged Tracks. Click each individually; click the checkout cart and only then can you buy them.

Once you’ve found a track, you can play it within the current browser window or in a pop-out player, add it to a playlist or buy it from the same screen. Spotify annoyed a lot users lately by forcing new members to have a Facebook account, so PURE may be a good alternative for anyone looking to jump ship. The addition of a store makes it an attractive all-rounder, and will appeal to people who don’t like streaming music on  one device and buying it on another. 

Windows 8 and Desktop PC Users

Microsoft has been criticized forthcoming release of Windows 8 operating system, with Pc experts saying that its touchscreen features focus too much on tablet devices and neglect the needs of desktop pc users.

Windows 8, which is due to launch in 2012, was previewed by Microsoft at the recent Computex trade show in Taiwan. One of the most significant new features is its ‘tiled’ touchscreen interface, similar to that used on Windows Phone 7, the company’s operation system for mobile devices.

Microsoft wants Windows 8 to work easily on all types of devices, from desktop PCs to laptops, tablets and smartphones. Though you won’t need a touchscreen computer to use Windows 8, you will need to learn new ’gestures’ with your mouse, such as quick sideways swipes, to navigate around the Operating System. 

Some Technology analyst’s doubt how easy or satisfying it will be to use Windows 8 on a desktop PC. An analytical web user said: “New Widows is targeted firmly at a touch screen interface. It will doubtless be possible to use new Windows with mouse, but you just know that the new user interface will really only be at home on a touch device, or a device with a touch interface- a largish trackpad on a laptop, or a desktop trackpad panel.” According to StatCounter 33.2% of computers worldwide uses Windows 7.

Technology blogger john Gruber, writing on his Daring Fireball blog, contrasted Microsoft’s approach to Apple’s which keeps its desktop operating system, Mac OS X, separate to its mobile platform, iOS5. “Apple’s radical notion is that touchscreen personal computers should make severely different trade-offs than traditional computers-and that you can’t design one system that does it all. Windows 8 is trying to have it all, and I don’t think that can be done,” Gruber wrote.

However, there is some good news for desktop PC users planning to upgrade to Windows 8, because many customers won’t need to upgrade their hardware, windows 8 beta  download  may be available for old customers.  Microsoft said. “We have extended the trend we started with Windows 7 of keeping our system requirements either flat or reducing them over time. So Windows 8 will be able to run on wide range of machines because it will have the same system requirements or lower as Windows 7, “said Mycroft’s Michael Angiulo.

Format Factory Review

Format Factory is a freeware multimedia files converter through this powerful converter you can easily convert your images, audio and video files from one popular format to another. It supports media files format use in portable devices like IPOD, IPhone, Blackberry and PSP and minimize the size of multimedia files. You can quickly repair your damage audio or video files. The software contains build in 50 different languages translation support and you can also rip your DVD.


Installation Wizard

The installation process is very simple. The overall installation required 2.4 MB disk space. The default installation settings automatically install ask.com search bar tool and you will see a shortcut icon of e Bay on desktop. It is better to deselect these options during installation wizard if you don’t want to install them.

Easy to Use

The software contain user-friendly interface and you don’t need to do any extra configuration or settings after installation process. The software has drag and drop it feature and there is no file menu available in Format factory software. The other way is to click on application left side buttons to select desire files. Once you select the file than simply open that file and modify output settings according to your needs like video & audio format, video and audio streams, and watermarks. You can also configure audio channels, amount of volume, birate, sample rate and work with subtitles.

The software saves your time and quickly done conversion process of your desire files. While you converting any file you can simply starts or stop the process without any problem. Format factory convert one image to a different format within a second. Similarly, by using the same tools you can convert your audios and video’s file with impressive speed.

The software is easy to minimize on system tray and run with full configured mode. Once your conversation process completed a popup on system tray notifies you about the finish task. You can easily configure different codecs with this application by using its advanced options.

Format Factory is a free to download and compatible with Windows XP / 2003 / Vista and Windows 7.

ImgBurn Software

Burning a CD or DVD image some times becomes quite complicated like other problems in the world of computer. Some peoples are quite familiar with the process of quick burning of their favorite audio or video CD’s / DVD’s or ripping their valuable data of hard drives while other thinks it’s quite difficult. There are different image burning software available in internet having different formats, so if you need quality image burning software than you have to surf your some valuable with Google. ImgBurn is very simple program that can do and handle anything which a perfect image burner can do.

The installation process of ImgBurn is quite easy and simple like other software’s its does not require any personal information during installation so install it within few seconds. The important thing of ImgBurn data recording software is uses very less system resources and but maxing out at around 20 MB. The whole installation of program requires only 2MB disk space.

It does not mater about the data image format; ImgBurn is quite different among other image burning software. If you have use Photoshop graphic software that can deal with any image format, similarly ImgBurn will deal and covered most image formats like NRG, MDS,PDI, GI,DVD, IMG and BIN files.

ImgBurn is not only use for simple CD or DVD image burning, you can also create high quality DVD, High Density DVD, or blu -ray disk of your favorite movies or songs and you can also make backup of your valuable DVD data’s. There are many other tools performing same operation but not all are freeware, of fever are less complicated or bloated.

ImgBurn has simple graphical interface but having in-depth configuration. You can check all the information about the file and or the disk like, choosing an ISO, speeds and verifying and test easily. If you take a tour of whole software this will reveals you every configuration and program settings option for burning and ripping images. 

It contain powerful features available with few clicks like layer break selection and burn queues. It is very simple and intuitive burning application. Overall it is a good tool for those who has going to experience with writeable drive.

Audacity

Audacity is use to record and edit audio’s. It is open source software. It support different sound formats including WAV, MP3 and OGG. The software runs on all the major operation system i.e. Windows 98 / XP / 7.

The Installation process of Audacity is very simple and quick. This is very tiny peace of software and the overall size is around 8MB. The other audio recording and editing available software’s are over 200 MB and take too much space on basic type installation. Audacity software is available on regular installer as well on zip format on restricted ftp for download. The required Ram for running this application is around 10-20 MB, but it will use more system resources if you going to edit heavy audio files.

The major features of Audacity are file conversion, multi track, pitch and speed editing, live audio recording, click and pop removal, and many more just like Adobe Audition.

There are no of audio recording and editing software available some are expensive like Sony, Adobe and Logic Audacity and also many freeware typically provides better quality and features. Audacity is perfect freeware audio editing software among world of competition. Although it have no many features like other priced software’s but this small peace of software quickly records and edits audios. It is hassle free software.

The software developer does not compromise on quality to make it light weight because you can edit audio’s on 16, 24, 32 and up to 96 KHZ bit floating point. If you don’t have any technical knowledge that how to record or edit audio’s than this is typically best software for you can run this software without any help of tutorial.

You can edit, record and mix unlimited audio tracks’ with unlimited Undo facility depend on your system specifications.

Audacity is perfect software for normal and basic audio or podcast editing occasionally. Although it has not powerful features like other competitors but it is a powerful application for normal use.

KMPlayer

KMPlayer is undoubtedly one of the best media player having rich features, easy to use and error free. You don’t need to change any default setting just locate and open your media audio or video file and enjoy with watching movies and listening audios. The KMPlayer supports most of the media file formats such as CD,DVD,AVI, MKV, WMV, MPEG-1,MPEG-2,MPEG-4,Real Media files,3GP,OGM and QuickTime. It supports various subtitles with text to speech reading subtitles features, plugins and internal and external filters.

KMPlayer has simple and user friendly interface and most of menus available on upfront. It has fast playback system. There are many skins available and you can customize and enjoy each skin and color scheme on each track. There are many customization features like plugins, visualizations and playback. You can enhance the picture quality while watching movie or video songs. It has different sharpening features, filters and picture quality options to improve the video quality and capture video while watching. The mouse over label options is very simple and hassle free than Windows Media Player and Winamp.

It has internal and external filters with total controlled setting with other video/audio decoders, splitters, rendering, transform filters without using Direct-show option. To keep it from being messed up with system filters internal filters are not registered to user’s system.

The installation wizards is so simple, download the installer file and double click the installer file to start the installation process, simply select either default which include bundle of tools and causes to change your browser search options or choose user define installation option to deselect un-necessary tools and options before finishing the installation. An optional setup wizard help you to configure the application to make some changes during initial run of the player, either you choose default option or current setting option.

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 KMPlayer is very simple to use and user would not face any problem, although it has many tutorial and helps files. To add a folder simply right click and click on add folder option and if want to open a file than right click and select top option. Press Alt+E and open playlist editor to manage your desire playlists. KMPlayer is very famous player as it plays almost all media types files and produce good quality of sound and picture .The best thing about this player is that it uses very less system resources. It also plays damaged avi files and you can slow down playbacks and handles wide range of subtitle formats, offers many skins and color schemes.

KMPlayer is a freeware and easily download from its official site. It work perfectly on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Effective Vista Register Cleaner

Windows Vista was only released a couple of years, and already, many people have already upgraded to this operating system and new cutting edge. The only problem is that even if Vista is totally new, it still relies on the Achilles heal that plagues almost all versions of Windows in the last 20 years. You can fix this with a registry cleaner, but which one is better?

The register can be described as the central database where Windows stores all your system files and settings of your operating system. Everything from your last e-mails to your desktop wallpaper is stored in the database, making it one of the most important parts of your system.

It is therefore essential that even small changes can easily damage your computer ... So it is not surprising to hear that this is one of the biggest culprits for a slow PC. Because this database is so important, Windows is still to add and update its files. Problems arise when these files are corrupted or lost, each of which makes your computer run slower and slower.

To correct this, we should simply use a registry cleaner software easily scan the registry and clean all the files damaged / lost. That's good, but with so many different registry cleaners available, it pays to find the most beneficial for you.

From our experience, the software most effective registry cleaner for Vista is a system called RegCure. Not only this cleaner was downloaded more than 60 million times, but it has many features very well be one of the best registry cleaners on hand. Features such as backup and recovery facilities (crucial), and an intelligent scanning engine (to help clean up more files than ever), are two of these characteristics that are unique to RegCure.

Zip File Repair Tools

The use of Zip files has now become so popular and useful for computer users and increases day by day. People going to search shared files on internet so it’s become more accepted on the Internet, the use of archive files has also become an essential part of our Web experience. Allow users to collect and compress files together, a Zip file is not only useful for sharing a bunch of files, it is also a brilliant technique to store files on your computer. As the Zip files are useful, it is a real headache when one day you try to decompress Zip files and find an error big look right to your face. While it may seem that nothing you can really do, the Internet is full of utilities that can help you repair your archive files without much hassle.

While there are different repair utilities Zip scattered across the Internet, reliability and efficient Zip Repair is an area that raises doubts about the serviceability of these tools. Using Zip Repair tools that are authentic and prove their worth by their advanced features and coding is important. Such Zip Repair Tool that sets new standards for the repair of archive files is a tool Zip Repair.

With Zip Repair Tool, you will not only be able to effectively repair your compressed files from a variety of issues such as corruption of files and index files off, you will also be able to repair the car -extracting (SFX) files with a few clicks. Invalid or incomplete CRC values ​​are a popular cause faulty zip files. This tool checks the integrity of data and corrections of incorrect CRC values ​​to provide you with clean files Zip archive. If the repair of large companies or SFX Zip files is what you need is the best tool money can buy. And advanced programming techniques used with Zip Repair Tool Zip Repair Advanced, allows this amazing software tool to easily repair Zip files up to 4 GB in size.

Users who frequently download content from the Internet in the form of compressed files, often complain of broken or corrupt Zip files. The ability to repair these files is reduced by the fact that many of these files are Zip files is divided into two or encrypted ZIP files. While other tools to repair Zip file face difficulties or do not support the repair of such files, this tool repair these files without effort.

Ultimately, Zip Repair Tool is an effective and easy to use repair tool of compressed files that offers much more than it's worth.

Recover Your Lost or Delete Files Easily

Imagine you are in the midst of a lengthy report that your boss is expecting her first thing in the morning table. It's well past midnight and you are nearing completion when suddenly your system crashes. Despite frantic efforts, your word processing application can not recover your files and it is lost! What are you doing now? Consider another example. As you work on your presentation and copy or move your slides, you realize that you are quickly running out of space. Allows you to quickly delete files, go to the Trash and empty the trash! You now have enough room to work with and you turn to your presentation to see that some important files missing. You have deleted them and that too from the Recycle Bin as well! And now? In fact, in both cases, a simple solution called Advanced NTFS Undelete is necessary to unerase files that are needed.

Advanced NTFS Undelete is essentially a recovery tool, but its main features are its versatility and ease of use. The application supports all versions of NTFS and helps to retrieve files is not simply deleted, but files emptied from the trash too. Advanced NTFS Undelete uses advanced technology that allows it to scan data on the disk first and search for files of more than 70 types. The expert system internally built into the program, it provides detailed knowledge on the structures and characteristics of different specifications of file type. As such, Advanced NTFS Undelete can recover and restore files types that many other recovery tools can not. Once the files have been found, it is easy to UnErase.

Advanced NTFS Undelete uses a simple user interface wizard-like for this purpose. This guide on the steps you need to first search for deleted files, and having found them, how to go about restoring them. As the files are restored, Advanced NTFS Undelete will automatically files or folders when renaming duplicates exist and to avoid confusion. In fact, once the program is finished scanning your hard drive for deleted files and folders, it will even indicate how the file or folder can be recovered. You can also filter or sort the search results to find files or folders.

All you need now is a click on the mouse button to start the action UnErase.

Microsoft Download Manager

After a successful overview of the Windows 8, Microsoft launched new excellent downloading software called "Microsoft Download Manager" that will really give tough contest to another tool that helps in downloading data from internet. That C ' is why Microsoft named as software giants as they complete domination in the field of software one is now able to stand in front of the day by the software giant it.And days is so strong by being swallowed by the software from other sources.

Microsoft Download Manager is a program to improve your Internet downloads. Sometimes, downloading a file via your browser is not good enough. If you download a large file and your connection is broken, you start downloading from the beginning.

This Download Manager software has resume capability and user is able to resume interrupted downloads right where they were discontinued; this is helpful to save a lot of time. You can configure it to try to download files constantly and occasionally. The program will use multiple connections to speed up the download process, by giving smaller parties to download for each of these connections, and join them in a single file at the end of the download process.

Microsoft Download Manager does not start when you try to download a file via your browser - you will have to enter the URL of the file in the program if you want it to do the download. It only supports downloads from Internet addresses starting with http://. Entering any other type of URL to make the program will refuse to do the download.

Microsoft Download Manager is a simple and practical tools, which allows your system to download files simply, easily and also allows the downloading of large files quickly and reliably as the media file and software.

Support system that have operating systems: Windows XP with Service Pack 3,Windows 7, Windows Vista Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 can use this tool simple and reliable.

ACDSee Photo Manager 12

ACDSee Photo Manager 12 is almost similar as picture album or photo graphics software that the organization is a image editor. By using some tools you can correct common mistakes like photo red eye, color and lighting. It provides many ways to share your photos as well. Overall, this a not an easy to use software little bit heavy too.

ACDSee is not very friendly. The options are extremely technical and, in some cases, there are too many things to settle. It could be intimidating for the average user. It seems that this program focuses more on functionality than form.

ACDSee starts by cataloging images on your hard disk to find them quickly next time. It can import files from a digital camera, scanner, removable storage and devices.ACDSee only offers tools to solve common problems in photos. There are no tools to add to an existing photo.

There is a creator of advanced slide shows you can burn to a CD or share with others. You can create a web gallery with several customization options. ACDSee gives 12 alternative file formats to save your images This is more than enough for the average user.

The organization and preview photos is one of the strengths of ACDSee. The file browser is divided into several tables. In a table, you can navigate to the folder you want to preview. In another, it displays all the thumbnails in the folder.

This product is a good way to organize your photos. If you want the ability to add creativity to your photos, this is not the program you need. It provides functionality for sharing, but the models are few and ugly.

Computer Slow Starting ?

Is computer takes too long to start? Is your computer showing unexpected error messages in the middle of any application? Is your computer restarts automatically by then? If you answered yes to any of these three questions, it is high time you do a registry repair. These are the most common errors that occur when your PC registry grows in size and huge clogged with multiple entries in error. The result is a slow machine and frequent system failure the system can not keep the information to the registry. This is a typical problem of the Windows based PC and only one registry cleaner window can easily solve this problem

How the registry blocked?

The registry file is used by the Windows operating system to store hardware and software configuration, system settings and network settings. In summary, an entry or a value is written to the registry for each of these components. When Windows starts, the system reads these registry values to initialize the components. This technique of storing information on resources has made the Windows operating system faster than previously, when such information has been stored in INI files.

But the problem with the Windows registry is that it can not remove the values of its own when a new entry in the register is generated when there are changes in system parameters. The result is the huge size of the computer registry and sluggish that system can not properly read the registry values. This situation becomes even more critical with fragmented entries, empty spaces that are created when a process for uninstalling the software remains incomplete. The keys generated by the integrated malware such as Trojans, viruses, spyware also create registry errors. To correct these errors you need is a register window that you can get from the Internet so easily. In fact, there are thousands of sites that offer free registry cleaner download.

What does the registry cleaner software do?

To ensure that the registry error free and organized and optimum performance of your PC you have to regularly scan your system with the Windows registry cleaner. It will automatically correct errors in deleting obsolete entries, embedded keys, traces of faulty installations and keep your PC clean registry.

Microsoft Office 2007

Microsoft is known for its computer operating system technologies. It has recently launched the most stylish OS named Microsoft Office 2007. It has complete software database efficiency and includes the 2007 versions of Publisher, Excel, Outlook, Publisher, PowerPoint, MS Access and Word.

Professional 2007 version allows you to develop specialized marketing resources for print, e-mail and surf the Internet. It produces very successful marketing campaigns and effective for you. Apart from that, you can also generate multi-purpose commercial documents, spreadsheets and presentations, and assemble databases, even if you do not have the manpower needed.

The best feature that Microsoft Office 2007 has achieved is its operating system quickly and efficiently. It gives you access to a wealth of options that save time and keep you organized. It also has an adequate system for contact management that allows you to combine all the customer information and views in one place. The menus present the right tools exactly when you need it most. It is certainly very stressful and difficult to keep track of daily appointments and deadlines of your important projects. Professional 2007 makes the process very smooth so you're always ready for all programs of the day are. For example, the taskbar in Outlook with Business Contact Manager improves your tasks, e-mail and follow-up appointments in a way more useful.

The success of any business depends on taking advantage of key opportunities that come your way. Office 2007 offers a number of features to help you prevent all links are lost or miss your important work. A customizable home page that helps you forecast sales and employment priorities every day is provided by Outlook with Business Contact Manager.

Microsoft Office 2007 is definitely a revolutionary product that will give a new dimension to the computer network system. It is capable of improving the work style prevalent in offices and other places. He promises more consolidation in the rest of the world leading applications than any previous update. The 2007 version combines power, ease of use and visual clarity that everyone in a group to leave behind previous versions.

Mozilla Firefox 4

The browser war heats up again. Just two days after Microsoft has lost their Internet Explorer 9 (free download IE 9 to all Internet users), the rival Mozilla has announced it will release the final version of Firefox 4 on March 22 (date of diffusion). The Firefox browser has steadily steal users away from Internet Explorer and Mozilla wants to maintain momentum.

Mozilla development team has released a Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of Firefox version 4 only last week, but the positive reviews from the community was convinced that there is no need to wait longer. All necessary features have been well tested and implemented in RC1, Mozilla people are just voting application as the final RC1 release of Firefox version 4 or twist it a little more.

"Firefox 4 RC1 has received a warm welcome, it's time to take a decision to ship," said Damon SICORE Mozilla. "For the moment, there is no known problem that will prevent us from shipping RC1 as final. At the end of our session Yard 11:30 AM, Wednesday, March 16, drivers will decide whether to press forward as a RC1 Firefox 4. "

Like the new web browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 4 is fully compatible with HTML 5, 3D hardware acceleration capable and also has an anti-privacy tool monitoring to protect against annoying users with targeted advertising. latest version of the Mozilla browser will load the video format and Google WebM WebGL for viewing stereoscopic content on the web.

More importantly, Firefox 4 now supports multi-touch when used with Windows 7. This experience will allow users a new way to surf the web on their Tablet PCs. There are so many other improvements in this latest version of the world's second most popular browser, but I really appreciate that, unlike Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 4 will still run on Windows XP!.

Google Chrome 10

Google recently launched a new version of Chrome that includes a synchronization feature new password, encryption, synchronized data, an improved interface settings, and promises 66 percent faster speeds JavaScript. The new version also has enhanced safety by improving functionality Chrome sandboxing, which prevents the malware to interact with the rest of your system, including Adobe Flash Player.

If you are already running Chrome you should be automatically updated to the new version soon.

In the interim, here's a look at the highlights of the stable version of Goggle Chrome 10.

When you go to your browser settings by clicking the blow icon in the upper right corner and selecting "Options" ("Preferences" on a Mac), your settings will now open in a new browser tab instead of a window pop-up. A benefit of this is that it makes it easier to navigate your settings and not having to keep track of a browser window floating lost in all other open windows in your application.

The latest version of Chrome includes password manager tool of the browser data synchronization that allows you to access the same settings on many computers Chrome. Now, Chrome facilitate you to synchronize Web applications, settings auto complete, bookmarks, extensions, passwords, preferences and themes.

Keep in mind that if you use a password to Google Sync, you must use this password to access your data on any PC that you have activated with Google Sync. If you lose or forget your password, you will need to reset your Sync via Google dashboard. This will erase all your data synced on Google's servers, but not on your desktop. So you have to reactivate Google Sync to retrieve your data between multiple computers after reset.

Facetime v1.0

FaceTime for Mac, it's easy to talk, smile and laugh with friends and family on their iPhone 4, Mac or iPod touch. Getting started is quick and easy simply enter your Apple ID and you're ready to go. Whether you're talking to someone on an iPhone or on another Mac, video calls with FaceTime look great. There is no better way to stay in touch with all your favorite faces.

Simple to start

Installation is quick and easy simply enter your Apple ID.
With one click, you can make a video call to an iPhone 4, iPod touch, or another Mac.

Easy to organize contacts

Make calls using your existing address book you do not have to enter your contacts from scratch.
Add the people you call most often to your list of favorites.
Quickly review your calls with calls.

High Definition Video

Receive video calls at up to 720p HD support, Intel-based Mac .*
A Mac with a camera offering standard definition video up to VGA quality for the Mac to Mac calls.

Elegant interface

controls the window and disappear if the reading emphasis remains on your conversation.
See smooth transitions when a 4 or iPhone iPod touch user switches from front to back or camera from portrait to landscape views.
wide aspect ratio FaceTime makes it easy for families and groups to participate in a call.
Enjoy your entire video call screen, using every inch of your beautiful Mac display.

Ring Anywhere, Any Time

Incoming calls ring on your Mac, even if FaceTime isn't running.
If you have more than one Mac, incoming calls ring on each so you can respond on the Mac thats the most convenient.
* Video calls require an integrated camera FaceTime, an iSight camera (built in or external), USB video class (UVC) camera or FireWire DV camcorder, and a connection to 128 Kbps upstream Internet and downstream . Make calls HD video requires a high-FaceTime HD camera and an Internet connection 1 Mbps upstream and downstream. Receiving calls requires HD video support Intel Macs

System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later

WinZip System Utilities Suite 1.0

PC tools for better performance and a faster computer! Accelerate your computer up and running at full capacity with WinZip Utilities System Suite, a comprehensive set of tools that are easy to use PCs designed to help you clean, protect and optimize your system. Free your computer from interference! WinZip System Utilities Suite includes several powerful tools that scan and remove the dead weight of your computer, all with a few simple clicks. With a variety of simple tools and easy to use, WinZip System Utilities Suite provides everything you need to speed up your PC and keep your system safe, clean and healthy! WinZip System Utilities Suite includes over 20 system utilities for improving computer performance. Features one-click features and easy, automated options. WinZip System Utilities Suite has a simple interface with an intuitive work flow. This suite also provides a unique solution for optimizing PC performance.

Organize your system to operate at full capacity without having to understand everything under the hood! WinZip System Utilities Suite includes tools useful PCs that do all the testing, tuning and reorder for you. The result? A computer system that works fully optimized, efficient, and much faster! WinZip features System Utilities Following extensive optimization can organize your registry, defragment your hard disk, freeing unused allocated memory, update to date drivers, settings and fine tune your system for the fastest speed PC and the best possible performance, all without the need for more than a few simple steps!

Avoid costly system problems and potentially irreversible! WinZip System Utilities Suite includes tools that are easy to use program that protects your computer against security threats, accidents and loss of data. With WinZip Utilities Suite system, you can check your disks for file system and disk errors, permanently delete private data, and remove privacy by exposing traces that can lead to data loss.

Worried about losing important information? Do not worry! WinZip System Utilities Suite comes with system backup and recovery protection widest important system files. There's even an "undelete" tool which recovers accidentally deleted data!

WinZip System Utilities Suite is a collection of over 20 tools PC, each providing a specific function to speed up your computer and keep your PC safe, clean and healthy:

• Registry Optimizers
• Disk Cleanup & Optimizers
• Windows optimizers (including the driver update)
• Security and Privacy Tools
• Backup and Recovery Tools
• Problem common fixatives
• Regular Maintenance Tools
• Health Smart PC

Blaze Media Pro 9.10

Blaze Media Pro is a multimedia product that can work equally well as a video editing and media management program as it can a program of audio editing software. The program itself has its fair share of merits, but with the additional video and multimedia capabilities, most of the missing features audio editing are done for.

Mystic Media also offers Audio Edit Deluxe, but for only $ 10 more, you can get Blaze Media Pro which does audio and video editing. The audio editing software can work with more formats than any other product and can record or take audio from any source. It can also help you burn CDs and DVDs.

Although this product is easy to use and a great package, it does not include as many audio editing tools that other programs. This program is the best mainly to the conversion, recording and burning.

Blaze Media Pro is a good product for those interested in converting files, recording or burning. It is well known because it is very versatile with many audio files, but it is a bit limited in its editing tools and features. If your main goal is the conversion and burning, then it would be a very good product for you.

LimeWire Pro 5.5.14

LimeWire is a program of the world's most popular peer-to-peer file sharing. It is open standard software running on an open protocol, free for the public to use. LimeWire allows you to share any file such as. mp3,. avi, jpg, tiff, etc., allows you to search for multiple files at the same time, available in several languages, and is best known for its ease of use and cross-platform compatibility. With more than 70 million unique visitors per month, the software is downloaded hundreds of thousands of times every day with millions of active users at any given time. LimeWire uses the BitTorrent protocol and the Gnutella network to provide unparalleled search and download speed for the user. Limewire is written in Java and run on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris, and other computing platforms. As always, LimeWire takes the security of its users very seriously and will never bundle spyware, adware, or viruses.

LimeWire is a fast application of P2P file sharing. Features include: clean install, no bundled software. "What's new?" network searches. Cleaner, updated interface with skins. Proxy.

Latest Features:

• AVG Anti-Virus for LimeWire
• LimeWire and AVG are now working together to bring you exceptional virus protection, so you can download with confidence
• New & Improved Media Player
• We inflated our built-in media player to play your files more easily
• Improved performance and stability

FlashFXP 4.0

FlashFXP is a powerful and popular FTP and FXP Client loaded with features for the current user. FlashFXP has an intuitive user interface and very comprehensive, allowing you to do all common tasks with just a few clicks. It also supports full drag and drop, so you can transfer files, synchronize folders, find files and schedule tasks with just one click. Using FTP, you can transfer files from remote servers to your computer, or even to another remote server. It makes it easy to update your Web site, download files from the company server, or even download files from the Internet, which always seem to fail using your Web browser. It allows you to transfer files between two sites (FXP), resume incomplete downloads, synchronize directories, schedule multiple tasks, and more. Available in over 20 languages. FlashFXP offer security, performance and reliability you can always count on to do your job quickly and efficiently.

Use FlashFXP publish and maintain your site, download and upload documents, photos, videos, music and more, share your files with your friends and work colleagues, or even use it to download other shareware!

FlashFXP Features:

• Good performance
• Fully tested and supports gigabyte speeds (including Jumbo Frames)
• MODE Z support for on the fly streaming compression.
• Support for FEAT and "stat-l" fast directory listing reduces overhead and improves compatibility.
• Download and upload speed limiting. Add a little of your bandwidth for browsing the web.
• Advanced Skip list.
• Caching option of remote directory lists.