What you are about to read is the result of testing ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 under Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 7. In order to introduce ACDSee, I may tell you that it is a powerful image viewer with a classic appearance, inherited from its illustrious predecessors. ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 is undoubtedly a solid option to view, edit and organize not only photographs but also video and audio files. As a graphics viewer, ACDSee is unsurpassed in its ability to decode and display images as quickly as possible, even several times faster than many other viewers.

ACDSee is compatible with an impressive number of formats and it comes equipped with many useful tools, it also runs surprisingly smooth and quickly in most PCs. Some improvements were applied to this version such as copying or recording original versions on CD / DVD, which, I think, are really interesting developments.

ACDSee's excellent support for metadata joins fairly advanced editing capabilities, with a lot of filters and a series of wizards that create from thumbnails of all photos contained in a folder to Powerpoint presentations. A series of filters can help you to organize your content in different ways: category to which the image belongs, personal value, information stored in metadata (author, camera, date …), size, file format, etc. If you work with compressed files, you will appreciate how easily ACDSee Photo Manager allows you to browse them as folders. So, let’s see how it behaves when installed and run under Windows 7 environment.

Installation & First Run
The setup procedure was not complicated but somewhat long and implied too many decisions to take and some additional options to choose from. Anyway, regarding what we want to test today, which is incompatibilities and hitches, ACDSee installation, presented not a single one. Read the rest of this entry »

Google Chrome has released a new build 4.0.203.2 on the dev channel. This new build is currently being delivered to users on Windows and Linux operating systems. The biggest highlight in this Chrome is its support to Linux 64Bit. See the following upgrades for all the operation systems:

- Fix some hangs/crashes.
- Fix hang with video and audio tags.
- When safe browsing alerts for a page, Chrome doesn't allow that page to redirect until after the user has dealt with the alert.
- Prevent time/slider from jumping around during and after seeking in video and audio tag content.
- Reduce Omnibox flicker.
- Unicode text could sometimes produce garbled Omnibox dropdown entries.
- Fix problems with plugin z-order.
- Fix a crash on Windows and Linux.
- Fix regression where some gzipped files (e.g. script) were not unzipped before evaluation, making them unusable.
- Faster startup with custom themes
- Graphical errors with some themes

Windows
- During uninstall, if Chrome was the default browser, prompt user to choose a new default.
- Fix clicking/noise when playing video/audio tag content with 48 or 96 kHz audio.
- Remove "Clear browsing data" and "Import bookmarks & settings" from Tools menu since they are now available in the Options Read the rest of this entry »

Fraps is a universal Windows application that can be used with games using DirectX or OpenGL graphic technology. In its current form, Fraps performs perfectly in benchmarking, screen capturing, real-time video capturing and so on. Now Fraps updates to 2.9.9 from 2.9.8 with the following bugs fixed:

Fixed missing audio in Adobe Premiere and Sony Vegas
Fixed benchmarks not being written to benchmark folder
Fixed loading crash when attempting to start Fraps
Fixed stalling/stuttering after first 4 gig AVI segment
Fixed mouse cursor image/transparency corruption
Fixed mouse cursor offset in some applications
Fixed crash when recording above 1920×1200 for some users
Fixed crash after stopping video capture in Windows 2000
Fixed crash in some DirectX10 applications
Fixed random windows crashes with fraps.dll
Fixed missing systray icon if explorer restarts
Fixed frapsvid.dll and frapsv64.dll crashes when importing/playing video
Fixed Run Fraps when Windows starts option
Fixed Starcraft stalling during video capture
Fixed limited CPU affinity of main Fraps process
Fixed yellow corruption displayed in Plants VS Zombies
Fixed capture speed of many older DDRAW games

And the fixed Fraps 2.9.9 could be of free trial on Brothersoft.com.

MacFamilyTree 5.6.1
License - Shareware
Publisher - Synium Software

MacFamilyTree is a modern and highly popular genealogy application. With MacFamilyTree users can create family trees and display them in multiple ways. MacFamily helps you to generate vivid views and diagrams: Ancestor and Fan Charts, Virtual Tree and Virtual Globe complement Statistics and Timeline for analysis. New: A huge Internet-based library of geographic places provides MacFamilyTree with over 1.5 million names and coordinates for locations worldwide.
MacFamilyTree 5 has been completely redesigned and rewritten to leverage Apple's powerful programming and database technology Core Data to host a practically unlimited number of family members over time and space.



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Nokia's new N900 will be about to come out with the latest Maemo 5 technology. Maemo is in fact a computer architecture platform based on open source components, aiming to provide an innovative technology for mobile handset applications. The release of Google Android platform actually launched a big shock to iPhone. Meanwhile, making a general survey of mobile market, it’s easy to find out that presently Nokia's using Maemo trying to get rid of the shadow from iPhone, further to re-establish the overlord in the field of intelligent machines dominance.

So hereafter, we next discuss in details between Maemo and iPhone OS:

Browser:
Maemo ：
The fast Mozilla engine is Maemo browser supporter and gives users the full access to rich interactive content; this is really like a browser on your home computer.

iPhone Safari is definitely the most advanced web browser ever on a mobile phone. Use it to surf the real web, really fast. Read the rest of this entry »

Postbox 1.0
License - Freeware
Publisher - Postbox, Inc

Email is our command center for getting things done. But let's face it, email tools haven't kept pace with the practical ways we use our inboxes — storing files, managing information, reminders for things to do, etc.
Postbox lets you work with email the way you've always wanted. Powered by an ultra-fast email engine and a sharp-looking, intuitive interface, Postbox will help you focus, save time, and get more done.

Key Features
Powerful Message Search
Compose Sidebar
Inspector Pane
Contacts Panel



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Miranda 0.8.5 is coming out containing bug fixes from 0.8.4. Miranda is a smaller, faster, easier and more convenient instant messenger supporting multiple protocols, now its 0.8.5 is coming out with several bugs fixed from 0.8.4. AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo and more could be available in one Miranda. Moreover, with hundreds of plug-ins, icons, sounds and other contents, Miranda IM gives you the fullest fresh experience to your ability to modify, customize and extend functionality to make it your own. See the Miranda IM 0.8.5 bugs fixed below:

Bugs fixed:
• Auto away did not respect locked protocols
• Fixed possible file transfer crashes with Windows 9x
• Fixed deleting accounts for not loaded protocols
• Fixed minor selection issues with the profile manager
• ICQ: Incorrect behavior of error messages when popup was unloaded
• ICQ: Improved file transfer resume
• ICQ: Improved status message handling
• ICQ: Improved change info module accessibility
• MSN: Fixed address book migration from 0.7
• MSN: Fixed phones in the contact list
• MSN: Fixed removing IM contacts
• MSN: Fixed blocking contacts not on contact list

It is highly recommended that users upgrade to take advantage of the latest Miranda 0.8.5 on Brothersoft.com

OmniDiskSweeper 1.6.1
License - Shareware
Publisher - The Omni Group

OmniDiskSweeper is a utility for quickly finding and deleting big, useless files and thus making space on your hard disks. When you start OmniDiskSweeper, it presents you with a list of disks attached to your machine. Double-click on one, and a new window opens with a “column” view listing every folder and file you can access, which it sorts by size as you watch.
You then simply browse through the folders and files and delete the large ones which you are no longer using. If a file is part of the system, it'll say so on the panel (in the list of Packages the file belongs to), so you won't accidentally get rid of something that would make your system stop working. The free space on the disk and the ordering of the folders are automatically recalculated. If you aren't sure what's in a file, you can open it by double-clicking on its icon or dragging its icon onto another application. It's that easy!



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As famous freeware gathering information of CPU and other system device, CPU-Z 1.52.2 released with previous advantages and further improvements presently. CPU-Z nearly supports all kinds of CPU, meanwhile, the startup and scanning speed is quite fast. Main board and memory information could also be available by CPU-Z. See the CPU-ZA 1.52.2 new features as follows:

* New design with "Graphics" tab.
* New 64-bit version.
* NVIDIA nForce 980a chipset support.
* Intel Core i5 and Core i3 processors.
* Intel Atom Z530, Pentium DC E6300 (2.8GHz) and Core 2 Solo processors.
* Intel P55 and US15W chipsets preliminary support.
* AMD Phenom TWKR support.
* AMD Phenom X2 "Callisto" and Athlon X2 "Regor" processors.
* AMD Opteron 6-core "Istanbul" processor.
* Improved support for Windows 7.
* New Intel logos.

Now the CPU-Z 1.52.2 is free of trial on Brothersoft.com!

Opera has just released its major new version of web browser, which is Opera 10 and its final version would be ready on 1st, Sep. This has been the significant Opera era.

This version contains series of interesting updates, for example, the faster browsing on slow connections, new interface design, an improved tab bar, personalization of Speed Dial, and, of course, overall faster work.

Additionally, Opera Turbo is specially aiming for those web linkages with low speed, Opera mail still functions as the build-in mail client.