avast! 4 Home Edition is a free complete ICSA certified antivirus software for home noncommercial use. avast! obtained VB100% awards in 2002/4 Virus Bulletin comparative reviews under Windows.

avast! Home Edition includes the following components:

* On Demand Scanner - with Skinnable Simple Interface - just select what do you want to scan in which way and press the Play button.
* On Access Scanner - resident scanning of all files being opened, read and written and behavior blocker monitoring dangerous actions of viruses.
* E-mail scanner easily integrates with most mail clients and it checks both incoming and outgoing mails, it provides heuristic analysis of mail content to protect against new Worms.
* Network Shield - scans traffic for malicious content - lightweight Firewall.
* Resident protection for IM programs (e.g. MSN Messenger, ICQ) and P2P programs (e.g. Kazaa, DirectConnect).
* Boot Time Scanner - scans disks in the same way and in the same time as Windows CHKDSK does (on NT/2000/XP only).
* Explorer Scanner - right click on the object allows you to scan it.
* Screen Saver Scanner - scans PC during your coffee breaks.
* Virus Chest - safety isolated folder to store infected, suspicious and even some system files - to restore them.

True incremental updates of size under 100 KB are available at least twice a week and within couple of hours in the case of emergency of new virus. avast! automatically checks for new updates - downloads, installs and loads them without restart or logoff. Program upgrades are available time to time, they are incremental too (about 300 KB).

avast! 4 Home is available in English, French, German, Italian, Japaneese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and other languages - check http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html to download avast! in your language.

Version 4.6 adds Web Shield, NNTP (Newsgroup) Scanner, Lower Memory Footprint, three new Languages.
You will download a 60 days fully functional demo. You will obtain the FREE license key by E-mail after the registration at http://www.avast.com/i_kat_207.php?lang=ENG.

Posted on December 5th, 2007 by Jim Roz | Category System Security | No Comments »

A Christmas Tree is the most indispensable attribute associated with the celebration of Christmas. It´s difficult to imagine this wonderful holiday without the green beauty with Christmas lights and colorful ornaments on it. This amazing Christmas Tree 3D Screensaver will decorate your screen for the coming Holiday! Just put it on your monitor and watch flickering lights of the Christmas Tree standing in a park and funny rabbits jumping around.

Posted on December 5th, 2007 by Jim Roz | Category Business/Organize | No Comments »

Imagine an application which does everything VirtualDub can do, but runs on various platforms, supports a lot of containers, comes with all Codecs you need built-in and doesn´t use the nasty VfW interface. That applications is Avidemux!

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It´s graphical user interface looks pretty similar to VirtualDub and most features known from VirtualDub are available too. Avidemux supports a great number of file types, such as AVI, MPEG/VOB/TS , MP4, ASF, OGM, MKV and FLV. At the same time it supports a wide range of Video and Audio formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ASP, H.264/AVC, DV, HuffYUV, MP3, AAC, AC-3 and Vorbis. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities. Video-DVD or (S)VCD compliant streams can be created with easy-to-use “Auto” wizards.

What encoders are supported by Avidemux?

Avidemux comes with a great number of video encoders built-in, such as Xvid, x264, libavcodec MPEG-4, MPEG-2, MPEG-1 and DV. Also it includes various audio encoders, like Lame, FAAC, Aften and OggVorbis. Please note that Avidemux does not support the platform-specific and outdated ´Video for Windows´ interface and there is a great chance it never will! This means there is no way to use DivX (or other VfW Codecs) with Avidemux! So please don´t ask for DivX support. Nevertheless files encoded wit DivX can be edited in Avidemux and MPEG-4 files created by Avidemux play with the DivX decoder.

What video filters are supported by Avidemux?

Avidemux comes with a wide range of video filters built-in. Most of those filters were ported from MPlayer, VirtaulDub or Avisynth. There are filters for Cropping, Resizing (including Lanczos), Deinterlacing (Yadif, TDeint, KernelDeint, DGBob, etc), Denoising (fluxsmooth, (hq)denoise3d, stabilize, etc), Color Correction and many more. Also there is a new plugin system for ´external´ video filters now!

Package Notes

# Updated x264 to SVN revision 708.

Changelog

# 3718 - [PowerPC] CMake support for PowerPC + fixes
# 3717 - [UI] Fix seeking out of boundaries
# 3716 - [Lav] Try to avoid corruption decoding mpeg4/xvid
# 3715 - [GTK] Fix jog (oops)
# 3714 - [CMake] remove unnecessary file from libavcodec build
# 3713 - [Mac] disable custom memory management
# 3712 - [CMake] remove unnecessary file from mpeg2enc build
# 3707 - [MKV] Completed switch to 64 bit-ness, not tested much

See the Changelog for a complete list of all changes.

Important Web-Links

# Avidemux Homepage
# Avidemux Support Forum
# Avidemux Wiki (Documentation and Guides)
# Avidemux at Doom9´s Forum

Posted on December 5th, 2007 by Jim Roz | Category Audio & Video | 1 Comment »

Total Organizer is a Personal Information Manager, so, as you can expect you can store contacts, notes, to-dos in it. But, what is different is that:

* everything is organized into categories (”folders”) - as a hierarchical tree.
* each item (be it a note,task,contact etc) may belong to _several_ folders. This is known as “Tags” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tags). Additionally, those “tags” may be hierarchical (tree view), that´s why, in the “Total Organizer”, they are called “folders” not “tags”.
* if you´re in the “parent” folder, you can see the contents of this folder and its all subfolders.

Download the Stable version. Total Organizer 2.1.

Posted on December 5th, 2007 by Jim Roz | Category Business/Organize | No Comments »

NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) enables you to change the sign-on message text and color, GPU and memory clocks, hidden features like SBA (Side Band Addressing), FastWrites and much more.

NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) will support all BIOSes as of the GeForce FX 5xxx Series up to the latest, namely the GeForce 7xxx Series. It does not require any .dll, and will work under any version of Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP…

Supported BIOSes:

* 6800/U/GT/LE
* 6800 Go
* 6600GT
* 6600
* 6200
* 5950U
* 5900/U/XT/ZT
* 5800/U
* 5700/U/LE/VE
* 5600/U/XT
* 5500
* 5200/U

* Quadro FX4000
* Quadro FX3400
* Quadro FX3000
* Quadro FX2000
* Quadro FX1400 Go
* Quadro FX1100
* Quadro FX1000
* Quadro FX700

* PCI-E 7800GTX
* PCI-E 6800U
* PCI-E 6800
* PCI-E 6600GT
* PCI-E 6600
* PCI-E 6200 TC
* PCI-E FX5900
* PCI-E FX5750
* PCI-E FX5300
* PCI-E Quadro FX1300
* PCI-E Quadro FX540

Posted on December 5th, 2007 by Jim Roz | Category Utilities | No Comments »

If you have started redecorating your apartment for Christmas and New Year, you may want to do the same to your computer desktop. Get free Christmas tree for your desktop.

Posted on December 5th, 2007 by Jim Roz | Category Desktop | No Comments »

Free your media and enjoy advanced interactive features with DivX for Windows. DivX for Windows includes the DivX Codec, the DivX Player, the DivX Web Player and the Stage6 Content Uploader Utility as well as 15-day trials of the DivX Converter and the DivX Pro Codec. All components are free and no adware is included in the package.

The latest DivX Codec, available as part of the DivX for Windows download, offers new improvements so your media can reach its full potential. The DivX Codec has been updated to provide even better performance and quality when shrinking large video files down into lean, mean DivX videos. The DivX Codec can compress digital video 5 to 10 times more than the MPEG-2/DVD format and hundreds of times over raw digital video.

The DivX Codec also gives you the ability to encode high definition (HD) videos at resolutions of 720i, 720p, 1080i, and 1080p. Combining high performance and strong compression, you can enjoy better picture quality and a silky smooth video experience with DivX for Windows.

The latest DivX Codec offers:

* Video compression 5 to 10 times more than the MPEG-2 format and hundreds of times over raw digital video
* Encoding of high definition (HD) video at resolutions up to 1080p
* Better picture quality from MPEG-2 and live capture sources
* New mobile video profiles to help you bring your video with you
* Lower CPU use or better deblocking during playback thanks to a 10% increase in decoder performance

This package supports English, French, German and Japanese languages. The DivX Player plays all .avi and .divx files that contain DivX video and MP3 audio including rented and purchased DivX content.

The DivX Player is optimized to play every DivX file with full support for all the advanced features including scene selection menus, chapters, subtitles, video tags and alternate audio tracks.

The DivX for Windows download also includes the optional Google Toolbar for easy web searches and pop-up blocker.

Posted on December 5th, 2007 by Jim Roz | Category Audio & Video | No Comments »

Joost is a new way of watching TV on the Internet. You get all the things you love about TV, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping. Joost features more than 15,000 TV shows and 250+ channels.

You get great internet features too, such as search, chat and instant messaging, built right into Joost - so you find shows quickly and talk to your friends while you´re watching them. And with no schedules to worry about, you can watch whatever you want, whenever you like - as often as you want. Joost is completely free and works with most modern personal computers and Intel Mac-based computers with a broadband connection.

What will you watch?
More than 15,000 shows … and more added every day. So there´s always something to watch.

Choose your own adventure
You´re the channel director, the boss of TV land. Slice and dice to create your own channels. Watch what you want, when you want.

Play with your feed
You can sit back and watch on your own if you´d like, or you can jump and get involved. Chat, IM, share, rant and rave freely – horsing around is encouraged.

Posted on December 5th, 2007 by Jim Roz | Category Audio & Video | No Comments »

Lupo PenSuite is a completely free suite of portable programs and games (doesn´t need to be installed). This Suite is designed to simplify the user´s life, by collecting the best suites and portable programs available on the Web.

Optimized to be loaded on a PenDrive and brought always with you, this Suite works perfectly well on any Hard Disk. It includes over 150 programs and lots of games. You can also easily customize your suite adding programs from our broad software database.

Features:

* all-in-one for every needs
* completely free and portable
* no spyware, adware or viruses
* with 9 different icon sets
* easy to use and to personalize
* more than 150 programs and 30 games included
* more than 1200 programs and 140 games available

Important: some antivirus programs may report the presence of viruses in Lupo PenSuite: they are false positives (caused by the presence of files compressed with UPX). The Suite is checked with different antivirus programs and is completely clean. You can send the suspicious file to Virustotal and verify its dangerousness. Contact the developer to report it.

Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and Java Runtime Environment.

Posted on December 5th, 2007 by Jim Roz | Category Desktop | No Comments »

Drag´n´Crypt ULTRA is a small file encryption tool with strong TEA algorithm. It´s very simple to use with Drag&Drop. Protect your important files! The application needs no installation and can be use from portable devices.

Features:

* Quickly encode or decode a file via drag and drop.
* Encode and/or decode via context menu entry.
* Any kind of file can be coded.
* Particularly safe deletion of the source file after the coding procedure.
* Is not necessary to install DCU. Just download, extract, and run.
* DCU can be used from a mobile data medium (e.g. USB stick).

Posted on December 5th, 2007 by Jim Roz | Category System Security | No Comments »