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Archive for July, 2009

Foto-Mosaik-Edda Creates Stunning Photo Mosaics

Windows only: If you’re going to create a photo mosaic, you might as well invest the time to do it well. Foto-Mosaik-Edda is a powerful tool for creating impressive, detailed, finely-tuned photo mosaics.

To use Foto-Mosaik-Edda you need a pool of source images—the bigger the better, as they recommend 2000 or more—and the actual image you want to base the mosaic off. In the case of our sample image we used 1,800 images of Marilyn Monroe and ..read more

Qlock Pro If you often need to know what the time is in different parts of the world then you need Qlock Pro. It’s a Windows desktop world clock with alarms, sticky notes, currency exchange monitoring and an RSS feed reader. Go to Original Source

Google Announces “Chrome OS” (Operating System)

Google, with its somewhat successful (not really) launch of the Chrome internet browser has just made it publicly known they intend to enter Microsoft’s realm with Chrome OS.  The operating system is scheduled for release mid 2010.  Interestingly enough, they will be releasing the source code later this year.  The good news for Microsoft is that development has only been connected to Netbook laptops so far. But Google does plan on running this OS ..read more

Partition Master Server Edition Partition Master Server Edition is a powerful disk partitioning utility for systems administrators and anyone who needs to partition drives on Windows servers. It lets you easily and safely create, delete, format, resize and move disk partitions to make the best use of disk space. New in version 4.0: NTFS partitions can be extended without rebooting. Now supports drives up to 2TB. Go to Original Source

Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 gives you, your family and your PC the best possible protection from viruses, worms, adware, spyware, malicious websites and hacker attacks. It combines the top-rated Kaspersky Anti-Virus with a powerful personal firewall, anti-phishing tools, a spam filter and parental control of Internet access to protect your kids. It’s a total security solution for Windows – you won’t need any other product. Go to Original Source

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 is the best virus protector. It boasts one of the highest detection rates in the industry, consistently winning Virus Bulletin’s VB100% award for effective virus detection. It can also detect trojans, dialers, keyloggers and other non-virus malware, and blocks malware and phishing web sites. If you want the most state-of-the-art virus protection for your computer, this is it. Go to Original Source

Take Better Pictures by Studying Studio Layouts

Whether you’re interested in learning more about lighting to add to your photography skill set or you’re just curious how proper studio lighting works, this handy guide will provide some photo-enhancing insight.

Studio lighting can range from something as simple as a single key light for dramatic portraits to an array of hair, kicker, background, and fill lighting. While most amateur shutterbugs won’t be running out any time soon to outfit a garage studio with ..read more

This Week’s Top Downloads

WEP Cracking Redux: Beyond the Command Line (Windows/Mac/Linux) Last week we showed you how to crack a Wi-Fi network’s WEP key using a live CD and some command line fu. Today we’ve got other cracking options-but more importantly, clarification on the point of all this. VLC Hits 1.0 with Better Playback and File Support (Windows/Mac/Linux) VLC Media Player, the open-source solution to media players that can’t play your media files, reaches the 1.0 milestone today. What’s new? Support for HD ..read more

Speed Up Slow Firefox 3.5 Windows Start-Ups

Firefox 3.5 pulls data from certain file locations for randomized security purposes. Sometimes, though, that can lead to annoying slow start-ups in Windows. You can speed things up by cleaning out certain folder locations.

For whatever reason, having too many temporary, history, or recent document files sitting in your Windows locations slows down Firefox 3.5’s data generation processes, as has been reported as a bug. The Mozilla Links blog recommends cleaning out these folders to ..read more

BitZipper 2009 New BitZipper 2009 is the most powerful archive manager on the market, but it includes a friendly Wizard that makes it easy even for raw beginners to use. It supports Zip files, Cab files, Rar files, 7-zip files and just about any other compressed archive format you’re likely to come across. It can create archives using 8 of these formats too.

BitZipper 2009 can also open ISO files, Windows and Mac disk images. It can extract the contents of Microsoft ..read more