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Productivity Software: Best of 2010

2010-10-25T12:16:00.001+07:00

Get productive with our picks for powerhouse software, including Microsoft Office 2010, PC Tools Internet Security 2011, and Adobe Creative Suite 5.

Microsoft Security Essentials

Antivirus software; free When Microsoft jumps into a category, it's time to pay attention. And when the product is this solid, it redefines the category. This antivirus tool gives you everything you need, offering malware detection in an easy-to-use package with a well-designed interface--and it doesn't nag unnecessarily.

Google Chrome

Web browser; free The top pick in our tests is fast and well designed, has a clean and functional interface, supports plenty of add-ons, and provides strong security features. Chrome also offers extensive customization options for power users.

Microsoft Office 2010

Office suite; starts at $280 After years of ceding the online productivity world to Google Docs, Microsoft finally builds Web apps into the latest Office Suite Office suite. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint all have new features for collaborating online. In addition, PowerPoint gains built-in video editing and playback, smooth new transitions, and an easy-to-use tool for broadcasting slideshows across the Web.

Adobe Creative Suite 5

Design software; starts at $1899 For design professionals, this suite of tools remains a class act. Adobe's CS5 introduces fresh refinements alongside Web-friendly features.

Norton Antivirus 2011

Antivirus software; $40 one-year, single-PC license In our tests, Norton's software posted consistently high malware detection scores. Its well-designed interface is easy to work with, as well.

XMind

Productivity software; free and $49 versions If you're interested in mind mapping -- a visual way of recording your great ideas--you can pay $349 for the gold standard, Mindjet's Mindmanager, or you can pay nothing for the free edition of XMind. The free version has all the basics, and it works on Windows, Mac, or Linux computers.

PC Tools Internet Security 2011

Security suite; $50 one-year, three-PC license This suite's pricing makes it a great value, and it put up strong all-around malware detection scores in our tests.

Genieo

Browser add-on; free This downloadable add-on for Firefox or Internet Explorer keeps track of where you go and what you read on the Web, and then creates a newsy home page with stories you'll actually want to see. And don't worry: The index stays on your local machine.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3

Image software; $300 In addition to offering tools that sort, organize, develop and publish photos version 3 enhances Lightroom's flexibility with a new noise-reduction engine and improved RAW processing, as well as a streamlined workflow.

Ubuntu 10.10

Operating system; free Ubuntu Linux is a great way to breathe new life into an aging PC or just break free from the world of commercial software. Better still, Linux is arguably the most secure PC platform you can choose.

Download Accelerator Plus (DAP)

2009-05-18T16:22:00.011+07:00

Download Accelerator Plus (DAP)

is the world's most popular download manager, with over 170 million users worldwide. DAP accelerates your download speed so you can get all your favorite files, applications, and videos as fast as possible. Additionally, DAP features powerful privacy, security, and file management tools letting you download with confidence and flexibility. DAP is easy to use, working automatically with your web browser to provide the fastest download speed possible.

DAP 9.1 has been enhanced with the most requested features to provide an even better download experience. Downloading is safer in DAP 9.1 with innovative new download security powered by SpeedBit's Multi Antivirus (MAV) Analysis. In DAP 9.1 you can now choose your Download Style, with Internet Explorer style downloading, that lets you get files with Download Windows, and Firefox style downloading, that presents all your downloads in a Download list.

DAP is also being translated into multiple languages by users working on the DAP Wiki project, and support for Internet Explorer 8 and Windows 7 has been added. Additionally, expansions are available for DAP that provide for downloading and acceleration of your favorite videos from YouTube and other popular video sites.

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ReNamer

2009-05-15T17:03:00.007+07:00

ReNamer is a small, yet very flexible file renaming tool, that offers all the standard renaming procedures, including prefixes, suffixes, replacements, case changes and more. In addition, it can also remove brackets, add number sequences, remove digits or symbols and change file extensions.

The program allows you to combine multiple renaming actions as a rule set, applying each action in logical sequence, which can be saved, loaded and managed within the program.

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Ecofont

2009-05-15T16:44:00.015+07:00

The Ecofont is developed by SPRANQ, based on a hunch of Colin Willems.
With the Ecofont, SPRANQ hopes to increase environmental awareness. Some ideas are:

• End-users: print only when necessary, use a modern, efficient printer and use unbleached paper.
• Graphic designers: use modern colour separation techniques to avoid unnecessary wastage in ink. In paper choice, take the environment into account.
• (Offset) printers: avoid modern laser techniques that make ink indivisible from the paper. Keep an eye on innovations, such as plant-based ink.
• Printer manufacturers: invest in environment-conscious innovation.

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Sothink FLV Player

2009-05-15T16:05:00.005+07:00

Sothink FLV Player, is a 100% free FLV Player. This Flash video player can play all files with an FLV extension(*.flv). The powerful FLV Player can play FLV video files encoded by different codecs, including Screen Video, Sorenson H. 263 and H.264, on2 vp6, etc.
It's a small-sized & easy-to-use FLV Player. By double-clicking FLV files or dragging and dropping them to FLV Player window, you can enjoy Flash videos offline at any time you like.

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Microsoft Excel 2007 Patch for Math Bug Fixed

2009-02-18T09:57:00.016+07:00

Recently there was an issue with Microsoft Office Excel 2007 that showed a strange symptom during the multiplication calculation. The multiplication formula will show the wrong value when the resultant’s range fall around 65535 and 65536.

I wonder how these were discovered as the chance of seeing the problem is like hitting a lottery. Now the new patch has just been released officially by Microsoft to resolve the issue. However, the effect may not be ‘visible’ since most of the users are not really aware of such bugs when using Excel worksheet in daily work.

Not much information was disclosed on the actual root cause but it is suspected to be due to formatting and floating point calculation bug around 65535 and 65566. But why specifically only on these numbers is still unknown. You can try to experiment yourself by multiplying 850*77.1 using excel worksheet. Funny thing is that you won’t get the correct value of 65535 but instead, it will yield 100000.

The patch is downloadable at Microsoft. If you are not sure of the current Microsoft Excel version in your PC, try to follow the simple steps below to check it out. Go to Help Menu, then select “About Microsoft Office Excel” and click on it, you will able to see the version of the Microsoft Excel. There is a plan to put this hotfix into the first service pack of Office 2007 as well as Microsoft Update for future update automatically.

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World of Goo

2008-12-25T10:20:00.021+07:00

World of Goo is a physics based puzzle / construction game.

The millions of Goo Balls who live in the beautiful World of Goo don't know that they are in a game, or that they are extremely delicious.

Installation

Run World Of Goo Setup.exe and follow the instructions. World of Goo requires Windows XP or Vista, a 1GHz or faster processor, 512MB or more of RAM, a 3D graphics accelerator, and DirectX 9.

Controls
Everything is controlled by mouse and the left mouse button.

Creators
The two-person studio called 2D Boy (http://2dboy.com)

Kyle Gabler - design, story, art, music
Ron Carmel - programming, production

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WinRAR

2008-02-21T15:17:00.006+07:00

WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.

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CALCute

2008-01-28T15:40:00.004+07:00

Calcute

is more evolved than regular calculators. It is in fact an expression evaluator. Unlike limited hand-held devices where numbers disappear as soon as you enter the next one, Calcute lets you enter a complete expression as if you were using a regular text editor.

You can see what you are doing so you can easily make corrections. Type what you want to calculate, press Enter to get the answer. The calculator keypad can remain hidden or it can be shown if you prefer to click buttons with the mouse instead of typing.

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KaMuS 2.03

2008-01-28T14:10:00.001+07:00

Kamus 2.03 is an English-Indonesian Dictionary and vice versa.
This program is released as freeware for personal and non commercial used.
Even many dictionaries software available, this software is different from the others,
it tries to give you more easily translate words and also help in reading.

System Requirements:

* Windows 9x/ME/NT/Xp/2003 and maybe Vista.
* Pentium II or above with 32 MB RAM.

Descriptions :

The Caption. Double click to switch between compact and normal mode.
Language selections: Automatic will search English-Indonesian First, then if no word were found, it will try to find Indonesian- English. You can select individual languages.
Main Toolbar: See the Main Toolbar
Main Result: Contain the main search result with word before and after. The left if words list and the right is the definition. Specifies the number of word list from Program options.
Additional Result: Show the words that contain text that searched.
Phrases Result: Display the result that contain 2 words or more. The text is in upper list and the translation is bellow.
Status bar (Information): Show the additional information, such languages found and the number of phrases.

Key features of this software are:

Small size for easy distribution.
Simple and easy user interface.
Fast Searching.
Automatic search between English and Indonesian languages.
Clipboard monitoring.
Compact Mode.
Smart Finding.
Auto remove non alpha character such as !',:;.?"-)\(*/+, etc.
Highlight result for Indonesian.
Find exact word, contain text and Phrase.
Adding new word and phrase
More that 41.000 English-Indonesian word, 35.000 Indonesian-English word and more that 64.000 phrases.
20 nice skins with optimization.
Support Transparency (Win 2k, XP and Up).

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QUICKCalc

2008-01-28T12:56:00.003+07:00

QuickCalc is a simple calculator apps designed with a philosophy of refined elegance. Simply type. QuickCalc calculates as you type, it couldn't be simpler. If you want to calculate several values or compare several calculations, simply resize QuickCalc vertically -- no need to open multiple calculators.

QuickCalc supports flexible syntax so you don't have to think about it. Just type 1,500 x 22,450 or 1500*22450 - whatever you type, QuickCalc will usually understand!

Advanced functions supported:

Besides the 4 basic math operators (+,-,/,*,^), QuickCalc supports powers, exponents, parenthesis as well as a number of math functions: ln(), abs(), cos(), sin(), tan(), cosh(), log2(), log10(), sinh(), tanh(), arccos(), arcsin(), arctan(). Also, you can use a few constants (pi, sum and prev.)
And Hexadecimal too! Just add a $ before any number and it will be read as a Hex value.
The result will also be displayed with a Hex value.

Some of QuickCalc's Special Features:

Calculates as you type, no unnecessary calculation steps.
Advanced Math functions, use functions manually or auto-insert from context menu.
Intelligent Hexadecimal support (resultant has hex if hex value in equation).
Multiple calculations at once, with Excel-like field linking (sum, prev).
Flexible: syntax accepts layman-numbers ("1,500 x 22,450" or "1500*22450").
Polite: Remembers last equations, size and position.
Full copy/paste of both equation and resultant.
Quick: ESC to exit and CTRL-N for new iteration.
Easily scale display font for entire application to taste.
Full support for all relevant keyboard shortcuts and keyboard navigation.
Complete and easy install/uninstall.
Fast and Simple integrated updating of application from the internet -- free.
Embedded HTML help with complete examples and screen shots.
Flash-style animated demonstration embedded in Help.
CRC-guard prevents file corruption problems.
Auto-share features zips app up and attaches to email.
No messy DLLS to install (no OCX, VBX, VB, MFC, Flash, IE etc).
No bulky runtime libraries required (no VB, JAVA etc).
Anti-viral mechanism prevents trojan infection (safe to pass around).
Compatible with all 32-bit versions of Windows.
Best combination of ease and power of any Windows calculator.

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Stand UP

2008-01-25T18:07:00.001+07:00

Have you ever measured how long you’ve been sitting down?

Many busy people, especially those who are facing computer in their daily activities, stay sitting down in their comfortable (or not?) chair as long as more than they should.

Sitting too long is very unhealthy, especially for the kidneys, they’ll be pushed to work harder. The blood stream won’t flow smoothly either.
Stand Up will remind you to stand up (and drinkin’ some water may be?) for few moments, give your body opportunity to healing and your bloodstream to flowing smoothly again.

The program can be set up for minimum an hour and five hours max.
Although, it seemed to be trifling, the impact of sitting too long is quite serious.
It is much wiser to prevent our health rather than treat it after we’re ill.

System Requirements:
• Windows 9x/ME/NT/Xp/2003 and maybe Vista.
• Pentium II or above with 32 MB RAM.

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A Tribute for RONALDO

2008-01-25T17:40:00.001+07:00

Ronaldo Luis Nazário de Lima is a great football player.

He was born in September 18th, 1976 in Bento Ribeiro, a poor neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Ronaldo was born like many of his friends, he began to play football in the streets of his neighborhood.

The Brazilian currently plays as a striker for the Italian Serie A club AC Milan until today (January 25th, 2008). He has been nicknamed "The Phenomenon" (Portuguese: O Fenômeno, Spanish: El Fenómeno). Pelé named him one of the 125 greatest living footballers in March 2004. In 2007 France Football named him in their best starting 11 of all time.
Ronaldo has enjoyed success at the international level, winning the 1994 and 2002 FIFA World Cups with Brazil. Ronaldo has won three FIFA World Player of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2002). He and former Real Madrid teammate Zinedine Zidane are the only two men to have won the award three times.

On June 27, 2006, he broke the all-time World Cup Finals scoring record of 14, held by Gerd Müller after scoring his 15th World Cup goal against Ghana in the 2006 FIFA World Cup Round of 16. He also equaled a much less talked about mark: with his third goal of the 2006 World Cup, Ronaldo became only the second player ever (Jürgen Klinsmann being the other) to score at least three goals in each of three World Cups. Ronaldo is currently the third highest all-time scorer of the Brazil national football team, with 62 goals. He trails second place Zico, 66, and first place Pele, 77.

This program attempts to apreciate his achievements and contribution for world football. It shows his actions during Germany world cup 2006. Viva Ronaldo..!!!

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