Archive for August, 2008

29
Aug

Picks of the Week HomePage 8.29.2008

Posted in All Categories, Picks of the Week  by Shawn


Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2
License - Freeware
Publisher - Microsoft Corporation
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008


Key Features
1 - Accelerators
Accelerators let you efficiently complete your everyday browsing activities like mapping directions, translating words, emailing your friends, and more in just a few mouse clicks.

2 - InPrivate Browsing
Now you can shop for that special gift with confidence knowing your family won't accidentally find out or use a shared computer without leaving a trace

3 - Web Slices
Add a Web Slice and you won't have to go back to the same website again and again for updates on news, stock quotes, online auctions

4 - Search suggestions
Search smarter with detailed suggestions from your favorite search providers and browsing history. See visual previews and get suggested content topics

5 - SmartScreen Filter
Pprotect you against deceptive and malicious websites which can compromise your data, privacy and identity.

Download Internet Explorer 8 Vista NOW!
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Find Desktop Standard 1.82

License - Demo
Publisher - IdeaSolutions S.r.l.
Full-text indexing, OCR, highlight of the serached terms on files (image also)


Key Features
1 - Powerful Search Engine
2 - Document scanning
3 - Multipage document management

Why the software is Picked by Brothersoft Editor
1 - You can write Annotations on scanned document
2 - Support for Search in Zip compressed files

Download Find Desktop Standard NOW!

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29
Aug

Make Nice Looking CD and DVD Covers Quickly

Posted in DVD & Video, MP3 & Audio, Reviews, Utilities  by Maya

I have a lot of music and video files downloaded from the Internet or from my friends. Usually I love to enjoy music in CD and video on DVD, but I could not find an easy-to-use software to create my personalized CD/DVD covers until CD-Cover Editor appears in front of me.

CD-Cover Editor is a powerful, yet easy to use program that allows you to design and print labels and insert it in your CDs and DVDs. Whether you are making music CDs, backup discs, or video DVDs, CD-Cover Editor is the ideal program for creating great looking covers.

With the feelings of excitement, I tried this software. It supports standard CD jewel cases, standard DVD cases, slimline CD jewel cases, and slimline DVD cases. First I can choose one kind of CD labels, then just insert text, images as you like.

The most important thing is that make music or video lists using CD-Cover Editor you don't need to do any typing yourself. It is so magic. With just a few clicks you can import tracklists from either MP3 files or other files, directly import track information from music CDs, or playlists created with programs as Winamp, Windows Media Player, or other similar programs. Supported types are M3U, ASX, PLS, WPL. The songs information arranged neatly really with your no typing. Of cause, text-style editing lets you select the font type and font color you want.

In addition, CD-Cover Editor supports both standard and slimline CD and DVD cases. Furthermore it lets you align the labels on the printout. This means that you can use any paper brand you like, including Avery, Memorex, Neato, TDK, and others.

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29
Aug

Picks of the Week for DVD & Video 8.29.2008

Posted in DVD & Video, Picks of the Week  by Shawn




Cool DVD Player 7.0.2.0
License - Shareware
Publisher - Coolsoft (Sweden) AB
Cool DVD Player is a high-definition DVD player software which supports multiple video formats.



Key Features
1 - DVD Player
2 - Multimedia player
3 - DVD copy
4 - VCD and DVD navigation

Why the software is picked by BrotherSoft Editor
1 - Compatible with Windows Vista
2 - Support the HDTV video files
3 - Can determine disc type

Download Cool DVD Player NOW!
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AnvSoft Photo Flash Maker 4.82

License - Freeware
Publisher - ANVSOFT Inc
Convert Photo collection to SWF Flash slideshow with templates



Key Features
1 - Convert Photo collection to SWF Flash slideshow
2 - Flash album creator
3 - Flash to video converter

Why the software is picked by BrotherSoft Editor
1 - Easy to Use
2 - Powerful Slideshow maker
3 - Cool Style Flash Themes
4 - Stunning Banner Builder
5 - Emebed Mode or XML driven mode

Download AnvSoft Photo Flash Maker NOW!

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28
Aug

Turn Your iPhone into Instruments

Posted in Games, MP3 & Audio, Reviews  by Leo

I just posted about the iPhone games. Today, let us check some interesting apps about music, if you like music and can play instruments, or if you wanna study how to play instruments, I’m sure that iPhone is yours very good first teacher.

Ok, I remember when I just bought the iPhone, I’m so excited with its technology and wanted to find some interesting applications which can use its multi-touch screen. One day I stumble upon a video on YouTube, a man was playing piano on his iPhone, oh my god, is it true? Playing piano on iPhone? Then I started to find this application and I finally got it, it is iAno (native Pianist). Just install it into iPhone and it turns iPhone to a piano, the sound quality is awesome, and the keyboard is no difference with the real piano keyboard. iAno’s keyboard has four octaves that you can play, with iPhone’s multi-touch screen, you can also play chords. But here comes a problem, compared with piano, the iPhone’s screen is to small to play, so you have adjust the keyboard, so it will effect the speed of your playing, but I think it doesn’t matter, we just use it on iPhone and it is a perfect application anyway.

Another small application I want to introduce is Guitarist. It turns iPhone to a virtual guitar. “This application brings a full guitar fretboard to the iPhone, and allows the users to play complex solos via an emulation of the guitar ‘hammer-on’ technique.” The publisher MooCow Music says. Click the icon of Guitarist on iPhone, and then you will see the wonderful interface, it is a guitar fretboard and you can scroll it up and down to play the high or low tune, according to the multi-touch, you just tap the string and you can play the note, not only play solo, but also you can play the open chords. About the sound, right now, it just supply the acoustic guitar sound with high quality, I think it must be better if they can add the electronic guitar sound into this application.

With these applications about music, iPhone has become more useful to me. At the beginning, I just give attention to its iPod function, but right now, my mind has been changed with these funny instruments. I really like to play piano and guitar in my life, so when I am on the road to go to work or back home, it will spend the time with me.

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28
Aug

Beneton Movie GIF - Create Perfect Animations with Your Imagination

Posted in Photograph & Graphics, Reviews  by Tina

Thanks Beniot Rouleau for developing such an easy GIF animation creator tool for us. I am sure that I can make a quality animated gif with this software since its intuitive user interface and its fine designed functions.

When opened Beneton Movie GIF's main window, I found several "faces" are smiling to me. In fact, they are not only smiling but also showing us the animation effects of BMG in an ease way. Such as color blend, overlay, rotate and so on. There are animated effects reverse, moving path, change HSB and distortion as well.

Loading a file means adding frames to the timeline. You can insert a single or batch image files. I imported some pictures of the firework performance on Beijing Olympic Games closing ceremony. BMG numbers these pictures with the name Frame 1, Frame 2, etc. You can change delay of each frame by right clicking it. However, only 5 frames could be shown at the same time on timeline. Don’t worry, there are ways to display them: scrollbar, scroll buttons the mouse wheel or even the play bar at the top-right corner.

Click the Option button on the toolbar and you can choose to use Beneton Movie GIF build-in frame editor or external frame editor. Just double click the frame on the timeline to get into the frame editor.

I would like to remind you to add a comment to your animated GIF. The comment will be included in the first frame. You can also save your work to a single GIF file or batch BMP or GIF files. It may help if you want to save every action of the animation. Following picture is the GIF animation I created with the firework pictures above. The Olympic Stadium – the Bird's Nest was looking so beautiful that night, wasn't it?

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28
Aug

Picks of the Week for Utilities 8.28.2008

Posted in Picks of the Week, Utilities  by Jacky


Active@ Hard Disk Monitor FREE version 1.2
License - Freeware
Publisher - LSoft Technologies Inc.
Monitors and alerts administrator of hard disk SMART attributes and bad sectors.



Key Features
1 - Provides background hard disk performance monitoring and control over the disk's state.
2 - Based on Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.)
3 - Able to scan and display bad sectors on a disk's surface.

Why the software is Picked by Brothersoft Editor
1 - Performance Monitoring and Control
2 - Scanning Disks for Bad Sectors
3 - System Tray Icon
4 - E-mail and Popup notifications

Download Active Hard Disk Monitor NOW!__________________________________________________


Uninstall Tool 2.6
License - Shareware
Publisher - CrystalIdea Software Inc
Quick, powerful and reliable applications uninstaller.




Key Features
1 - 3 Times Faster than Add/Remove program!
2 - 3 Applications Categories: Software, System, Hidden
3 - Force removal of uninstall related entries in the registry.
4 - Navigate to a selected program's Registry Entry, Installation Folder and its Web Site.

Why the software is Picked by Brothersoft Editor
1 - Completely remove any software installed!
2 - Remove Programs that automatically run at system startup
3 - Uninstall Programs that could not be removed by Add/Remove program.
4 - Easy to use and modern User Interface allows to work comfortably with Uninstall Tool.

Download Uninstall Tool NOW!

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28
Aug

Exposing Microsoft IE8 New Features

Posted in Internet, News  by Forrest

Microsoft revealed its next-generation browser IE8 provides a number of new features. IE8 allows you to more easily control and free to delete Web browser historical information.

As one of the IE8 new features, "InPrivate Browsing" is very eye-catching. When users close the browser window, IE will not store any Cookies, passwords, Web address, search query, Internet temporary files or data.

While InPrivate Browsing is active, the following takes place:

-New cookies are not stored
    * All new cookies become "session" cookies
    * Existing cookies can still be read
    * The new DOM storage feature behaves the same way
- New history entries will not be recorded
- New temporary Internet files will be deleted after the Private Browsing window is closed
- Form data is not stored
- Passwords are not stored
- Addresses typed into the address bar are not stored
- Queries entered into the search box are not stored
- Visited links will not be stored
- Delete Browsing

Another new feature is for solving the current IE design problem. Currently, when users delete their browser history, Cookies stored in the local terminal data will be deleted at the same time. Using IE8, even if you deleted the Web history, you can still retain its Cookies. Of course, you need to add the URL of these pages to the "Favorites" Lane. When a user does not want to set their own pages, "InPrivate Blocking" can help users shielding these pages.

Microsoft IE8 Beta 2 has been released on August 27, expected the final version will be released at the end of this year. You can download IE8 Beta 2 HERE.

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27
Aug

Microsoft Released Virtual Desktops 1.0

Posted in News, Utilities  by Forrest

Do you remember the Sysinternals? The Microsoft-owned companies, the famous Windows blue screen saver is from this company. Sysinternals' powerful tool sets were given a lot of praise by users.

Now Sysinternals has released a Windows virtual desktop procedure - Desktops 1.0, which is like the default Multi-desktop environment of Linux system. But the Microsoft desktop environment Sysinternals need less resources, with only 4MB memory, and users can use shortcuts to switch quickly, the same with Linux.

The default button switch is Alt + number of 1-4; Of course, you can configure other key switch. Switching Desktop smoothly almost has no delay.

In addition, the same system with Linux, all the desktop shortcut icons can be copied; each virtual desktop is just like each of the different environment. You can download it HERE.

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27
Aug

Ubiquity - Make Web Surfing Easier

Posted in Chat & E-mail, Internet, News  by Kevin

Imagine you have invited a friend to the place that neither of you has ever been to. You may want to write an email including a map, so you search the address on a search engine, map it on a map site, and finally copy all links into the email being composed. It's a very simple Web task, but you find it cockamamie to carry out. And actually, you haven't sent a map or any useful information to your friend - only links. A new product of Mozilla Labs - Ubiquity can help us make Web surfing easier.

What is Ubiquity
Ubiquity dedicates to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily.

The overall goals of Ubiquity are to explore how best to:

- Empower users to control the Web browser with language-based instructions. (With search, users type what they want to find. With Ubiquity, they type what they want to do.)
- Enable on-demand, user-generated mashups with existing open Web APIs. (In other words, allowing everyone–not just Web developers–to remix the Web so it fits their needs, no matter what page they are on, or what they are doing.)
- Use Trust networks and social constructs to balance security with ease of extensibility.
- Extend the browser functionality easily.

With Ubiquity, a user can, for example, type a restaurant name in an email, select the name, option-click to bring up the Ubiquity command line, type "map" to generate a Google Map centered on the selected restaurant, and then drag that map to embed it into the email so it can be shared.

Initial Ubiquity Released
Mozilla Labs has released an early experimental prototype - Ubiquity 0.1, which is to demonstrate some of the concepts of Ubiquity and the possibilities that it opens up. This release is meant as a illustration of a concept and mainly focuses on the platform. The next release will explore interfaces that are closer to features that might make it into Firefox.

Features of Ubiquity 0.1
- Lets you map and insert maps anywhere; translate on-page; search Amazon, Google, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Youtube, etc.; digg and twitter; lookup and insert yelp review; get the weather; syntax highlight any code you find; and a lot more. Ubiquity "command list" to see them all.
- Find and install new commands to extend your browser's vocabulary through a simple subscription mechanism

All of the code underlying the Ubiquity experiment is being released as open source software to appeal more developers into the development. The image below is image is the goal of what kinds of language-based services Ubiquity hopes to inspire people to create.

If you want to know details about features of Ubiquity, the video below will give you a reference. You can download Ubiquity HERE.


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27
Aug

Picks of the Week for Home & Education 8.27.2008

Posted in Home & Education, Picks of the Week  by Maya


eBookCollector 0.1.0
License - Freeware
Publisher - Valentin Valchev
eBookCollector is a Java program to manage your book collection.


Key Features

1 - Thinlet based XML UI with skinning support
2 - Advanced searching capabilities
3 - Supports multiple categories for the books
4 - Amazon Web Services enabled

Why the software is Picked by Brothersoft Editor
1 - This softwaree is a Java program to manage your book collection.
2 - Press the search tab and select from the options.
3 - It's simple it's easy, it's fast.
4 - This Software is very powerful.
5 - Safely and no spyware.

Download eBookCollector NOW!
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Super Memory 1.1
License - Shareware
Publisher - Mike Brain Team
Virtual trainer for memory enhancement.



Key Features
1 - Super memory will help you easily memorize the following:
2 - Passwords and e-mails
3 - Addresses and telephone numbers
4 - Dates and events
5 - Names and looks
6 - Formulas and terms

Why the software is Picked by Brothersoft Editor
1 - This software is a unique program for memory training and improvement.
2 - Super memory will help you easily memorize
3 - Wide target audience: from students to corporation managers.
4 - This Software is very powerful
5 - Safely and no spyware

Download Super Memory NOW!

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