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Monthly Disk August 2010
Anti Virus
Immunet Protect - Ver: 2.0
As reviewed by CNet :-
Immunet's latest update introduces new scanning tools, detection engines, and support in a bid to persuade users that the program is the spackle they need to plug the holes in their security wall.
Installation and setup
Immunet opts you in to the Ask toolbar and default search engine switch, so users who don't want them should go through the install process carefully. Otherwise, the installation process is straightforward and simple.
The new Immunet interface puts a lot of information at hand, but navigating within it could be smoother. (Note that the screenshot is from an release candidate and the yellow 'RC2' won't appear on the version you can download.)
Annoyingly, much of the interface uses text that comes in varying shades of blue, which can make it harder to read than it should be. We also found that switching screens within Immunet, as well as tooltips, were slow to respond to clicks and mouse-overs.
Features and support
On features alone, there's no doubt that Immunet 2.0 is a better product than its predecessor. The free version offers a new cloud-based detection engine called ETHOS, a heuristics engine that offers on-demand scanning, in-product updates, a visual representation of the Immunet community, a silent gaming mode, and a stream from the Immunet security blog.
Immunet also offers a bit of exploration of the program's community network, with an interactive visual representation of the friends that you're connected to. (Note that the screenshot is from an release candidate and the yellow 'RC2' won't appear on the version you can download.)
There's also an unusual amount of attention paid to user-support issues for a free program, with free 24-7 telephone support. The service includes installation problems, assistance with potential virus issues, and sluggish computer performance that may not be virus-related. E-mail support has been dropped from this version in favour of online forums.
The new scanning tools come in the three standard flavours: the quick Flash scan, Full, and Custom. The Flash scan, which checks out only processes and the Registry, took just more than one minute to finish, while the full takes much longer because it checks your entire computer. Immunet doesn't lock you into a running scan, so you can hide it and use other parts of the program. However, Immunet restricts rootkit scans to its paid upgrade, sacrificing some of your security.
Immunet's new scans give the program much more appeal than before, but they do limit rootkit scans to the paid version. (Note that the screenshot is from an release candidate and the yellow 'RC2' won't appear on the version you can download.)
The History window, under the Computer column, provides a reasonably in-depth accounting of what Immunet's been up to. This includes an option to view by all file events, which essentially acts as an Internet traffic log. We're fans of exposing as much data as possible about security behaviour to users, but this could be improved by allowed users to access the folder location where the activity took place.
Minimum requirements: Windows XP/ Vista/ 7
Norman Malware Cleaner - 2010
Norman Malware Cleaner is a Norman program utility that may be used to detect and remove specific malicious software (malware).NOTE : This program should not be used as a substitute for running normal proactive antivirus protection, but rather as a reactive tool to handle systems that are already infected.
By downloading and running the program below it will clean an infected system completely :-
Minimum requirements: Windows XP/ Vista/ 7
Zillya! Antivirus - Ver: 1.1.2781.0
Zillya! Antivirus is a fast and reliable antivirus program. Security specialists created Zillya! Antivirus to let users get high quality, simple and reliable product.
Zillya! Antivirus detects and eliminates all kinds of viruses, worms, trojans and rootkits along with other malware that might make computer fail, cause system errors, reduce performance and might even destroy or expose to 3rd parties users' data.
Zillya! Antivirus has a separate module that detects and removes spyware and adware applications. This way Zillya! Antivirus reliably protects users from programs that are installed in a stealth way to collect personal information and / or display aggressive advertising.
Guardian is a real time monitoring system that detects viruses and other malicious programs that are trying to infect computer. Guardian is monitoring running processes and blocks and deletes 'on the fly' newly detected threats. Zillya! Antivirus scans and cleans e-mail attachments to make sure no malware is spread with e-mail. Zillya! Antivirus provides users with free customer support. Give Zillya! Antivirus a try to fully assess its capabilities!
Here are some key features of "Zillya! Antivirus" :-
Protection from spyware and adware:
Real-time protection:
Scan modes and scan scheduler:
Mail scan:
Office documents scan:
Downloaded information scan:
Advanced Tools:
aTunes - Ver: 2.0.1
aTunes is a full-featured audio player and organiser. aTunes supports mp3, ogg, wma, wav, flac and mp4 files and allows users to edit tags, organise music and rip audio cds easily.Features :-
Minimum requirements: Windows all
Free MP3 Joiner - Ver: 3.5
Free MP3 Joiner is designed to merge multiple MP3 files into one larger MP3 file within seconds. It gets selected audio files joined efficiently, without recompressing or quality loss.It converts audio files to MP3/WAV/WMA/OGG with high quality. Precise parameter adjustments & format presets are provided for professional or casual use. The operation of the tool is simple and straightforward.
You can use the file adding button or just drag the audio files to the main window, adjust the sequences of each files and then click "Merge".
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista/ 7
Kat CD Ripper - Ver: 3.5
Kat CD Ripper is an all-in-one music device designed to extract Digital Audio tracks from an Audio CD into either WAV files or directly to compressed files like MP3 or OGG preserving the original quality of the sound.
This application meets the preferences of both advanced users and beginners due to an attractive user friendly interface and an increased ripping speed which requires only a few minutes for a complete CD extraction.
NOTE : This program will install the Download Energy Toolbar unless you opt out.
Minimum requirements: Windows all
MP3 Quality Modifier - ver: 1.3
The main purpose is to change the bitrate of your mp3 music collection in a really simple but intuitive way so that the file size can be dramatically reduced while the audio quality stays the same.
With this advantage it's possible to put more music on your mp3-player or just to save some disk space.
Even advanced tasks are possible: Downsampling, changing the used channels and so on. With the included presents it's simpler than ever before to manage all the provided settings.
Helpful for the concluding quality comparison is the generated summary that comes after a process because it truly points out the made change by illustrating the file size modification.
Features :-
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista/ 2008/ 7
Spectrum Lab
Spectrum Analyzer with Waterfall Display and real-time audio processing Spectrum Lab started as a simple FFT program running under DOS a long time ago, but it is now a specialized audio analyzer, hum filter, frequency converter, data logger etc.
Spectrum Lab will help you analyse the spectrum of an audio signal via the PC's soundcard. The program also enables you to observe how the spectrum changes over the time by means of a "waterfall" display. It is intended mainly to be used for amateur radio experiments.
Here are some key features of "Spectrum Lab" :-
Minimum requirements: Windows all
Directory Compare - Ver: 3.34
Keep copies of your important directories in a backup hard disk any other storage system as well as in a compressed .zip file.
The Directory Compare application was designed to help you keep copies of your important directories (documents, programs under development and so on) in a backup hard disk or any other storage system (like 100Mb diskettes), as well as in a compressed .zip file. The backup may be made automatically (in unattended mode) or by using a friendly user interface.
Directory Compare is a kind or GUI version of cpy: it has far less options but its visual interface makes easier selective copies. For instance, modern compilers generate an incredible amount of auxiliary data, which speeds up compilation, but takes a lot of storage space. (For instance, the source files of Directory Compare are less than 100 Kb, but the auxiliary files generated by the compiler occupy 7,500 Kb!).
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista/ 7
Dmailer Backup - Ver: 3.1
PC World Editorial Review of Dmailer Backup :-
If you think about it, you shouldn't really be backing up to an internal drive anyway, as it's subject to the same physical dangers - shock and electrical, mostly - as the rest of your system. The program also includes 2GB of free online storage which, unlike with popular freebies Mozy Home and Fabrik Ultimate Backup Home, you can access via a Web browser. You may of course increase your online storage capacity to the tune of $35 per year for 30GB or $70 per year for unlimited data.
Dmailer Backup installs software both to the USB-connected external drive you define as the backup drive, and your PC. Obviously, the external drive must be present for the backups to transpire. Unfortunately, the program crashed once or twice when the external drive was removed and the manager software wouldn't launch until the drive was reinserted. This is understandable as the software is installed on the drive, but especially with the newer online component, it's both unintuitive and inconvenient. Dmailer-the-company claimed the crashes were due to conflicts with other backup software, however, I had no other backup software present on the test bed. The company also says it's working on a version that will launch when the external drive isn't present.
Other than the few non-replicable crashes and the decision not to launch the program when a external backup device isn't present, I found Dmailer Backup extremely competent. I like the fact that it uses the same data set you define for local backup as the starting point for your online backup and the way the program automatically selects common data files. Dmailer Backup also lets you filter by date, and by size. I find the date filter particularly useful as I've taken to backing up online only those files that I haven't backed up locally to an image.
Dmailer is well worth a look. It's far friendlier than Mozy or Fabrik, and it offers 2GB of free online storage that you can access from any Internet connection. The pay plans are competitive as well, so if you need to upgrade, there's little to complain about."
Minimum requirement: windows XP/ Vista/ 7
Really Slick Screensavers - Ver: 0.2
From Major Geeks :-
As he has updated all his screensavers, this download has all of his screensavers included :-
Minimum requirements: Windows all
SliderDock - Ver: 1.16
Review by PC World -
After SliderDock's quick installation, you'll be looking at a small circle, called the IconSeeker, on your desktop. To get started, drag and drop files or shortcuts onto the IconSeeker. Your first icon will sit in the middle of the IconSeeker, while additional ones will begin to form up a ring around it. The rear-most icons shrink in size to create a nice perspective effect.
Rotating the ring pulls a different icon into the IconSeeker, where it can be launched with a double-click or a configurable hotkey. Alternatively, you can right-click an icon in the ring and choose a SliderDock menu option to run it without having to rotate it first.
You can pack all your shortcuts into one giant ring, or instead create additional rings. For example, you might create one ring that contains only documents, and another for programs. A click of the middle mouse on the IconSeeker switches you to the next ring, as does a configurable hotkey (the up or down arrows by SliderDock default).
The simple but efficient SliderDock allows for changing the size of the rings and the icons, as well as icons used for the IconSeeker and shortcut backgrounds. You can also set your preference of hotkeys for about anything it does, and of course have it automatically hide until you call it forth. Some online tutorials will guide you through its features.
While SliderDock doesn't have advanced features such as automatically populating a ring with the current contents of your Desktop or a particular folder, it's a good-looking and easy-to-use option for quickly getting to your most-used programs and files. For another free launcher with a similar approach, see CircleDock.
NOTE : To uninstall this program cleanly, make sure to close it down before running the uninstallation process in Windows. It will not prompt you to do so."
Minimum requirements: Windows XP/ Vista/ 7
Vector Flower Patterns Theme - Ver: 1.0
This pleasant Windows theme provides five high-quality floral wallpapers and turns your window borders a nice rose colour. That's pretty much it... the theme uses Windows default sounds and doesn't affect icons or fonts.
Installation is simple; just download the theme pack file and double-click it to launch the Windows Personalization dialog box. You can customize the theme by selecting how long each wallpaper will appear in a slideshow, or choosing just one to use.
If you want to dress up your desktop with some original artwork rather than canned Microsoft themes, give Vector Flower Patterns a try.
Minimum requirements: Windows 7
ZScreen - Ver: 22.214.171.124
ZScreen application was designed to be a screen capture program that will allow you to capture region, window, full-screen screenshots.
It can upload screenshots, pictures, text & files and put the URL in your clipboard in a single keystroke.
Here are some key features of "ZScreen" :-
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista/ 7/ NET Framework 3
Digital Imaging
Fotografix - Ver: 1.5
An image editor that can be used for image enhancement and graphic design. Enhance photos, compose rich artwork, automate frequent tasks and more.Features :-
Minimum requirements: Windows all
ImageConvert - Ver: 1.9
Reviewed by: CNET staff on September 21, 2009
The program's interface is very simple, with all of its features displayed on one screen. The only time users have to open anything else is when they select the directory that contains their images. Once that's done, the program shows a list of file names, and users can convert all the images at once or work with them one at a time. From there, users can flip images vertically or horizontally, select color, black and white, or grayscale, and rotate images 90 degrees to the left or right. Select the dimensions if you want to resize your image, and then just click on the button for the appropriate file format; ImageConvert offers PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP, ICON, TIFF, and WMF. The program converts the image and you're done.
ImageConvert is free. It installs politely and uninstalls cleanly. We recommend this program to all users who need a fast and simple way to resize and convert their digital images."
Minimum requirements: Windows XP/ Vista
VSO Image Resizer - Ver: 184.108.40.206
The VSO free image resize software organises your photos by shrinking their resolution or moving them within your hard drive.
VSO Image resizer is the perfect tool for those who store their digital pictures and images on their PC and who want to resize, compress, convert, create copies, import or organise photos.
With this free resize image software, you can create e-mail friendly versions of your images, load them faster, move them easily from folder to folder, change their format, edit large numbers of image files/batch image resize and thus save space on your hard drive.
Minimum requirements: Windows all
Zoner Photo Studio Free - Ver: 126.96.36.199
Zoner Photo Studio Free is a handy photo manager that also includes a few editing tools to give your images that special final touch.
The interface in Zoner Photo Studio Free is divided into three main tabs: Manager, Viewer and Editor – all of them pretty self-explanatory. The Manager area works like Windows Explorer, with a tree-like structure of your image folders that helps you browse the contents with comfort. The Viewer is the perfect tool to view your photos in full screen, making use of the automatic slideshow function if you want to.
Last but not least, the Editor in Zoner Photo Studio Free includes a nice selection of editing, fixing and optimising tools, from basic ones such as like resizing, flipping or adjusting levels, to more advances ones, like a collection of artistic filters and effects.
Zoner Photo Studio Free is fairly easy to use and has a complete configuration menu that enables you customise just about any detail in the program. Having such an array of tools and options in Zoner Photo Studio Free may be overwhelming a first, but it's really worth the effort.
With Zoner Photo Studio Free you can manage, view and edit your photos, all from a single application with a nicely-designed interface and lots of configuration options.
Minimum requirements: Windows XP/ Vista/ 7
Disk Tools
Acronis Drive Monitor - Ver: 220.127.116.11
Acronis® Drive Monitor™ is a free, downloadable software application developed by Acronis to monitor server, workstation and PC hard disk drives.We all depend on instant access to data stored on our hard drives – buried inside PC laptops, workstations and servers – but those disks are vulnerable to severe failures that can cause you to lose business and personal data.
Acronis Drive Monitor alerts you to problems that may indicate an imminent failure so you can be prepared to handle it without data loss.
Minimum requirements: Windows XP/ 2003/ Vista/ 7
Auslogics Disk Defrag - Ver: 22.214.171.124
Get the best performance out of your expensive hardware investments, improve your PC's performance and stability.
Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startup and shutdown and sometimes to system failures.
Auslogics Disk Defrag is designed for fast optimisations of today's modern hard disks. Get the maximum performance out of your expensive hardware investments. And it's absolutely FREE.
Hard disks are by far the slowest component in your computer. CPU and memory work much faster than hard disks because they do not have moving parts. Therefore fragmented disks often become a bottleneck of the system performance.
Besides causing slowdowns, fragmentation makes the hard drive disk heads move frequently when reading files which leads to freeze-ups and system crashes. It is important to keep your disks defragmented and optimised as much as possible.
Here are some key features of "Auslogics Disk Defrag" :-
NOTE : Unless you opt out, the program will install it's own toolbar and will change your home page.
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista/ 2008/ 7
S.M.A.R.T. Vision - Ver: 4.0
This program monitors S.M.A.R.T. values of your hard drive and will issue an alarm in case of a dangerous disk state.In addition, S.M.A.R.T. Vision can show you comprehensive information about the drive itself.
Minimum requirements: Windows all
G-Lock SpamCombat - Ver: 3.0 Build 1000
Spam emails have become an ever increasing problem, and nowadays it is practically impossible to use email without receiving spam in large amounts. G-Lock SpamCombat is your powerful solution for clearing your Inbox from spam, virus, and junk emails.
G-Lock SpamCombat is email filtering software that lets you eliminate all unwanted messages at the server level without receiving them with your email client.
One of the particularities of G-Lock SpamCombat is the capability to determine an email's "country-of-origin" and use this information to block messages from any specified country.
With the "Country-Of-Origin" filtering capability of G-Lock SpamCombat you can block all email originating from these countries with one mouse click. You can select yourself which countries to block and instantly reduce spam volumes.
Minimum requirements: Windows all
TrulyMail Client - Ver: 2.6.0
TrulyMail Client is an application that offers users the basic options of an email client.
Here are some key features of "TrulyMail Client" :-
NOTE : You can buy some additional functionality, like encryption. Free accounts get all the benefits of TrulyMail without encryption.
Minimum requirements: Windows all/ .NET Framework 3.5
CopyTrans Manager - Ver: 0.906
Manage iPod and iPhone without iTunes: add, edit, organise and play your songs, videos and playlists.
Add songs to iPod and iPhone without iTunes: drag and drop songs and videos to iPod and iPhone; synchronise iPod instantly; apply changes immediately or at any desired moment.
Manage and create playlists on iPhone and iPod Touch. Create new playlists on any iPod, rename existing playlists, drag and organise songs into playlists. Play songs directly from iPod on any computer. Installable directly on iPod (except iPhone and iPod Touch). Compatible with all iPod models: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, iPhone, iPod Touch 2G, iPod Touch, iPod Nano 1-5G, iPod Video, iPod Classic, iPod Shuffle 1-3G.
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista/ 2008/ 7
Mahjongg II - Ver: 1.1
Mahjongg games may not be all the rage, but that doesn't mean you can't play them. In fact, that might result in a bumper crop of free mahjongg games - and this simple, straightforward version of the game is a good example.Mahjongg on the PC is very different from the real-life game, in which several people play in a fast-paced competition, often with gambling involved. In the single-player PC game, you're given artfully arranged piles of tiles, and you must remove available matching tiles until you've removed them all - or until you wind up with no legitimate moves and you lose, which is a far more common occurrence.
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista
Stained Glass - Ver: 1.1.0
Create a stained glass with matching colours.
In this game you need to put the tiles together to construct a stained glass. There's only one rule: when two tiles touch each other, the colours of the touching sides of the tiles must be the same.
There are a total of 3 stages, with increased number of tiles for each new level. Use the mouse to drag and put the tiles.
Minimum requirements: Windows all/ Flash Player
AceMoney Lite - Ver: 4.1.1
Reviewed by: CNET staff on June 08, 2009
The program has an eye-friendly interface that is also fairly intuitive to use. To begin, just open the application, click on the account button for your one account, and provide all of the particulars as prompted. Once your account is set, you can manage your budget and set up categories from a
Although AceMoney Lite enjoys all of the features of the nonlite AceMoney, its disadvantage is that it is truly "lite" in that you can only manage one account. But for that one account, AceMoney Lite rivals well known (and often pricey) financial management programs in function and style, and is fairly easy to use, conserves your computer's resources, and steers well clear of pesky adware."
Minimum requirements: Windows all
Buddi - Ver: 188.8.131.52
Below is the author's description:-
In making this software, I have attempted to make things as simple as possible, while still retaining enough functions to satisfy most home users.
Here are some key features of "Buddi" :-
Minimum requirement: Windows all/ Java 5.0
Google Earth - Ver: 5.1.7894.7252
Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean.
You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others.
Google Earth features :-
Minimum requirements: Windows all
MetarWeather - Ver: 1.64
MetarWeather will decode METAR weather reports from around the world, and display them in a very simple weather report table.
You can save the weather report into text, HTML or XML files.
MetarWeather can decode METAR reports from a text file, or download the latest reports directly from the Internet.
METAR ("Aviation Routine Weather Report") is an international standard for reporting the weather conditions in thousands of airports about the world.
The METAR weather reports are usually issued once per hour, but when there are significant changes in weather, the METAR reports are issued more frequently.
Each METAR report contains essential information about the current weather conditions: Temperature, Dew Point, Barometric Pressure, Wind Speed and Direction, Visibility, Clouds Cover, Current Weather (Rain, Thunderstorms, Hail, Snow and so on...), and more...
This utility is a standalone executable. You don't have to install anything, just run the executable file (mweather.exe) and start using it.
Minimum requirements: Windows all
Microsoft Small Basic - Ver: 0.9
Microsoft Small Basic is a project that is aimed at making computer programming accessible to beginners.The project comprises a simple programming language that gathers inspiration from the original BASIC programming language; a modern and attractive programming environment; and rich, extensible libraries. Together they make programming fun for kids and adults alike.
Minimum requirements: Windows XP/ Vista/ 7
PreviSat - Ver: 184.108.40.206
PreviSat is a satellite tracking program designed for observation purposes.Very easy to use, it shows the positions of satellites in real-time or manual mode. PreviSat is able to make predictions of their passes and also Iridium flares.
Minimum requirements: Windows NT/ 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista
Free YouTube Downloader Converter - Ver: 1.8
Free YouTube Downloader Converter allows you to download videos from YouTube. You also can convert YouTube videos to AVI, 3GP, MP4, MOV, WMV and other formats.
With Free YouTube Downloader Converter downloading + converting one-step solution, you can easily download YouTube FLV videos and convert them to play on your iPod, PSP, iPhone, Mobile phone, etc. Free YouTube Downloader Converter contains no spyware or adware. It's clearly free and absolutely safe to install and run.
Key Features :-
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista/ 7
GINternet Explorer - Ver: 22.214.171.124
GINternet Explorer will enable you to easily and safely browse the Internet and also listen to your favourite music from a single interface!
Here are some key features of "GINternet Explorer" :-
Minimum requirements: Windows all
Lunascape - Ver: 6.1.5From the producer :-
"Lunascape is the world's first and only triple engine browser. It has been downloaded over 15 million times and it's available globally in 11 languages. Try it yourself the new kind of speed and versatility.
Lunascape is now compatible with the expanding array of Firefox add-ons in addition to the already supported Internet Explorer add-ons and Lunascape plug-ins, achieving the greatest degree of extensibility and flexibility among Web browsers. Transferring your add-ons from Firefox is very easy.
Lunascape6 achieves the utmost extensibility without compromising one of the fastest speeds in the market. You can browse lightning fast while enjoying ample add-ons. We've also made special effort in ensuring fast launch even with many add-ons.
A new interface mode, ORION, is added to version 6 as a default. This sleek minimalist interface has all the basic functions and will get you going in no time. You can still customize many aspects of interface to your liking.
Our unique Triple Engine keeps evolving. To better support web designers and developers, we have implemented "split tab display". You can view a web page in 3 rendering engines side-by-side to easily check the browser compatibility."
Minimum requirements: Windows XP/ 2003/ Vista/ 7
MP3 Torpedo - Ver: 5.6.5
Reviewed by: CNET staff on March 08, 2010
MP3 Torpedo is yet another entry into the P2P field, and while it works just fine, we can't say that there's anything about it that makes it stand out. In fact, it's virtually identical to several other P2P clients we've reviewed recently.
The program's interface is plain and intuitive, and it will look familiar to anyone who's used any other mainstream file-sharing programs. MP3 Torpedo connects users to the popular Gnutella file-sharing network, which has plenty of users and media of all types. We found it very easy to search for and download a variety of different files with MP3 Torpedo, and we liked that the program offers a built-in audio player for previewing audio tracks. MP3 Torpedo doesn't have a ton of features, but it does have the standard P2P basics, including options for managing download speed and system performance. The program has no Help file, so P2P newbies are out of luck if they have questions, although everything is really pretty easy to figure out.
MP3 Torpedo is free. It installs a desktop icon without asking but uninstalls cleanly. We recommend this program to all users."
Minimum requirements: Windows all
Songbird - Ver: 1.7.3
Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web. Songbird is committed to playing the music you want, from the sites you want, on the devices you want, challenging the conventions of discovery, purchase, consumption and organisation of music on the Internet.Songbird is a player and a platform. Like Firefox, Songbird is an open source, Open Web project built on the Mozilla platform. Songbird provides a public playground for Web media mash-ups by providing developers with both desktop and Web APIs, developer resources and fostering Open Web media standards, to wit, an Open Media Web.
Minimum requirements: Windows XP/ Vista
WebCruiser Web Vulnerability Scanner - Ver: 2.3.2
WebCruiser - Web Vulnerability Scanner, a compact but powerful Web security scanning tool that will aid you in auditing your site.It has a Vulnerability Scanner and a series of security tools. It can support scanning Web site as well as POC(Proving of concept) for Web vulnerabilities: SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting, XPath Injection etc. So, WebCruiser is also an automatic SQL injection tool, a XPath injection tool, and a Cross Site Scripting tool.
Minimum requirements: Windows all
AutoRuns - Ver: 10.0
The AutoRuns utility has the most comprehensive display of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor. It shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them.
These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP.
Autoruns' Hide Signed Microsoft Entries option helps you to zoom in on third-party auto-starting images that have been added to your system and it has support for looking at the auto-starting images configured for other accounts configured on a system. Also included in the download package is a command-line equivalent that can output in CSV format, Autorunsc. You'll probably be surprised at how many executables are launched automatically!
Minimum requirements: Windows all
ClickOff - Ver: 1.83
ClickOff is developed to be the swiss knife for window handling, not just a simple popup blocker. Get ClickOff and take it for a test drive in order to fully assess its capabilities!
Here are some key features of "ClickOff" :-
Minimum requirements: Windows all
ClipboardFusion - Ver: 2.0.2
The ClipboardFusion application was designed to be a handy little tool that sits in your system tray and monitors your clipboard. When it finds any text on the clipboard it will "scrub" (or "clean") that text, to remove all formatting.
This is great for copying and pasting text into emails, documents or anywhere else. You can also (optionally) remove all HTML tags from the clipboard text, which is excellent for copying and pasting things from the web, without getting all the extra markup. Anyone that uses notepad to scrub their text will love this application.
You can have ClipboardFusion automatically scrub text as it detects it, or you can manually scrub it by right-clicking on the system tray icon. When ClipboardFusion is scrubbing text the system tray icon will change, just to let you know it's hard at work. ClipboardFusion can also display a handy popup that helps you preview the contents of the clipboard.
Here are some key features of "ClipboardFusion" :-
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista/ 2008/ 7/ .NET 2.0
Comodo Time Machine - Ver: 2.6.138262.166
Comodo Time Machine (CTM) is a powerful system rollback utility that allows users to quickly restore their computers to an earlier point in time.
CTM 'snapshots' are a complete record of your entire system (including the registry, critical operating system files and user created documents).
In addition, this application comes with an user-friendly interface that will provide easy access to all the functions of Comodo Time Machine. Additionally, it also features a sub-console that can be accessed before Windows starts and a Quick Operation console containing shortcuts to important and commonly executed tasks.
Here are some key features of "Comodo Time Machine" :-
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista/ 7/ Intel Pentium III Processor or higher/ 128 MB RAM/ 4 GB Disk Space
Core Temp - Ver: 0.99.6.1
Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature.
The uniqueness of it is that it shows the temperature of each individual core in a each processor in your system! You can see in real time how the CPU temperature varies when you load your CPU.
Intel and AMD recently published detailed, public information about the "DTS" (Digital Thermal Sensor), which provides much higher accuracy and more relevant temperature reading than the standard thermal diode sensors do.
Core Temp will also offer you a logging feature that allows a user to easily record the temperature of his processor cores over any period of time and features easy exporting to spreadsheet based programs.
Minimum requirements: Windows all
EventGhost - Ver: 0.3.7.r1462
EventGhost is an advanced, easy to use and extensible automation tool for MS Windows.It can use different input devices like infrared or wireless remote controls to trigger macros, that on their part control a computer and its attached hardware. So it can be used to control a Media-PC with a normal consumer remote. But its possible uses go much beyond this.
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista
Fresh Diagnose - Ver: 8.40
Fresh Diagnose is an utility designed to analyse and benchmark your computer system. It can analyse and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, hard disk performance, video system information, mainboard information, and many more!
Key features of Fresh Diagnose :-
System Information:
System Benchmarks:
Use this free software to learn more about your computer and its components, detect/diagnose any problems in your computer, and increase your computer's performance!
Minimum requirements: Windows all
MemInfo - Ver: 2.2
MemInfo Displays the current memory (RAM or Page File) usage of Windows in the system tray. With a small gauge graphic and the value updated in real time, MemInfo gives a fast feedback to current memory usage in Windows.
Highly customisable. Choose when MemInfo should warn you about high memory usage, show physical memory or Windows page file, show free or used memory, choose the font that looks better.
Built in memory Defragmenter to allow speed up your computer by maximizing the available free memory
Minimum requirements: Windows all
Memory Improve Master Free Version - Ver: 18.104.22.1681
Memory Improve Master Free Version is an easy-to-use software which allows users to optimise their computer's memory. Sometimes computer systems becomes slow because of large and heavy sized applications are running simultaneously, it takes more memory space and makes the system works slowly.
Memory Improve Master Free Version improves computer's performance by freeing memory. The software helps you, when :-
Minimum requirements: Windows all
NovaBench - Ver: 3.0.1
Test the main components of your computer quickly with NovaBench. Testing generally takes only 1-2 minutes, and produces detailed information and an overall system score.
Compare your computer's score and system component results to others.
All results submitted to NovaBench.com are verified for authenticity.
Build a profile of your NovaBench results, and link it easily on social networks.
You can also create an image for your forum signature, blog, or website.
Minimum requirements: Windows XP/ 2003/ Vista/ 2008/ 7
Oracle VM VirtualBox - Ver: 3.2.4 r62467
Oracle VM VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualiser for hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, Oracle VM VirtualBox is now the only professional-quality virtualisation solution that is also Open Source Software.
Oracle VM VirtualBox is a package of strong x86 virtualisation software for enterprise as well as home use.
NOTE : The binaries from the download section are all released under the Oracle VM VirtualBox Personal Use and Evaluation License (PUEL).
Here are some key features of "Oracle VM VirtualBox" :-
Minimum requirements: Windows Windows XP/ 2003/ Vista/ 7
QRM Plus Manager - Ver: 1.0
QRM Plus Manager is a very easy to use tool designed to enable you to create restore points, carry out system restore operations and selectively delete system restore points in your Windows computer.
You can also add these options to your right-click context menu.
QRM Plus Manager now gives Windows users additional options for System Restore :-
Minimum requirements: Windows Vista/ 7
RAMMap - Ver: 1.0
Have you ever wondered exactly how Windows is assigning physical memory, how much file data is cached in RAM, or how much RAM is used by the kernel and device drivers?
RAMMap makes answering those questions easy. RAMMap is an advanced physical memory usage analysis utility for Windows Vista and higher. It presents usage information in different ways on its several different tabs :-
Minimum requirements: Windows Vista and Up/ 2008 and up
ScanDefrag - Ver: 5.7
ScanDefrag is a small utility program that configures and runs Microsoft's or Norton's disk utilities as part of the next Window's startup process. This can result in less restarts and cleaner runs.
Some features include :-
Minimum requirements: Windows all
Soluto - Ver: 1.0.2 Beta
Soluto is a great application that allows you to analyse your boot time, view which applications are slowing it down and improve it as you like. Soluto's goal is to bring an end to the frustrations PC users encounter.
Soluto's PC Genome is a knowledge base of PC frustration data built automatically through the usage of Soluto software. It's objective and statistical information, gathered and analysed by Soluto, is also editable by the community.
NOTE : Beta or prerelease software is not intended for inexperienced users, as the software may contain bugs or may potentially damage your system. We strongly recommend that users exercise caution and save all mission-critical data before installing or using this software.
Minimum requirements: Windows XP/ Vista/ 7/ .NET Framework 3.0
System Monitor II - Ver: 8.5
The System Monitor sidebar gadget will display all core CPU usage (Single Core, Dual Core, Triple Core, Quad Core or Eight Core) and RAM (both physical, page file and full, includes virtual) usage.It also displays all cores and RAM usage history. Doubleclick on gadget - run Taskmanager.
Minimum requirements: Windows Vista/ 7
Tidy Start Menu - Ver: 3.441
If you feel tired of searching for programs in the long "Start Menu" list, then this program is for you. Tidy Start Menu allows to arrange all shortcuts in the Start Menu.
As a result, the start menu will look neat, and you easily and quickly can find any program you want.
For example, you can create a special "Games" category, and when opening the Start Menu you thus will see a "Games" section, (instead of a list of the games) in which you will find the game you need.
Here are some key features of "Tidy Start Menu :-
Minimum requirements: Windows all
Watch 4 Folder - Ver: 2.0
The Watch 4 Folder application was developed to be a simple, small and portable tool to monitor folders and files activities. You can set a monitoring process with just 4 simple quick steps and then minimize the tool to the system tray.
It can monitor 15 different types of events, execute a program or batch file, or show a popup message in case of an event. it is possible to write to a text log file and to watch a live log running.
There are four steps To start a monitoring process :-
2. Select the monitoring events you want to monitor, the available monitoring events are :-
A single event can create several Monitoring events, for example selecting File Change event and File Rename event will create two events in case of file rename, because the file was renamed but also changed. So it is better to select specific events or general event but not both.
3. Select the actions on event, this is an optional step, here you can select the actions to take in case of an event, the available actions are :-
4. The last step is to click Start Monitoring, at this point you can watch the live log running at the bottom of the application or you can click on the "Tray" button to minimize the monitor to the system tray.
A click on the Watch 4 Folder icon on the system tray will restore the application to the desktop. If you didn't select to write to a log file and you still want to save the log, just select all the text from the Live Watch window, copy and paste to where you want.
Licence: Free
WinOMeter - Ver: 1.5
WinOMeter is a small freeware utility that measures your Windows computer's activity. It counts the keyboard/ mouse presses & computes trajectory that you have arrived by your mouse. It also measures the computer up-time.
You can easily set it up to be automatically loaded on startup if you would like to have captured all your activity.
Every day is saved into history, so you can make statistics of your activity.
You can also export your whole history to a CSV file (comma separated values) which may be used later in e.g. MS Excel. You can do it using the right click menu or directly from the command line; e.g. winometer.exe /exporthistory history.csv.
Minimum requirements: Windows all
X-Setup Pro [GIVEAWAY] - Ver: 9.2.100
A complex and very useful tweaking utility.
In order to activate X-Setup Pro, please use the following registration key: XSA092-11TA9R-8K12YT
X-Setup Pro covers all types of options and has many useful features - for more information please read the rest of this section or browse to the authors homepage link.
From simple boot options up to server settings and hardware settings, internet settings or Office options, X-Setup Pro allows you to change more than 1500 (!!) settings with some simple button clicks. This makes X-Setup Pro the most complete hacker/tweaker ever available!
Because these settings change often and fast, X-Setup Pro uses plug-ins - they are very small (2-4 kB) so updating them is easy too. X-Setup Pro can even download updated or new plug-ins directly from the X-Setup Pro web site. Best of all, you can always view the source for any plug-in! And with the also available information inside X-Setup Pro SDK you can even create your own plug-ins or wizards and use them in X-Setup.
Although it offers lots of features, X-Setup Pro is extremely easy to use. It has an Explorer-like look and the famous back and next buttons you already know from your Internet browser. Plus, X-Setup Pro offers wizards that assist you when changing the configuration - there has never been an easier way to hack your Windows!
For network administrator X-Setup Pro can be a huge help. Simply turn recording on, change the settings you want and it generates a *.REG file on the fly that can be deployed to thousands of computers without installing X-Setup Pro. You may also chain-install X-Setup Pro.
A quote from one of the more than 850,000 users of X-Setup Pro: "X-Setup Pro is to all other tweakers like a truckload of bricks is like to a pebble..."
Here are some key features of "X-Setup Pro [GIVEAWAY]" :-
Minimum requirements: Windows all
AHD Subtitles Maker - Ver: 126.96.36.199
AHD Subtitles Maker is a useful application that was designed in order to help you create and edit subtitles for your movies.
Here are some key features of "AHD Subtitles Maker" :-
avi.NET - Ver: 126.96.36.199
From the producer :-
One movie converted at a QF of 0.20 which looks great may not yield the same results on another movie, all movies are different, and there have been many debates on this but I use it because it give you a place to start. 'OUT' selects the destination folder/name of your converted file, by default the file will have the same name and be in the same folder as the input file. 'ADD' puts the conversion into the job list awaiting conversion. 'LOAD|SAVE' refer to the job list. Once any jobs are awaiting conversion the 'START' button will become enabled.
One quick word about the input files... If your source is a DVD which has numerous files as part of the movie, example: VTS_01_1.VOB, VTS_01_2.VOB, VTS_01_3.VOB, VTS_01_4.VOB, don't load each file in! You only need to load in the first, all the other files as part of that set will automatically be processed. So remember, only load in the first file, the one that ends with _1.VOB."
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Source: Ho Mei
Known for its "vibrant flavours" (Broadsheet), Ho Mei -- meaning "delicious" in Cantonese -- is offering Travelzoo members a 6-course Asian banquet for just $39 for two, saving 54% off regular prices.
Valid until October 31
Source: JPB Dining by Swissotel Sydney
In an expensive city like Sydney, $39.50 doesn't often get you very far when it comes to fine dining. That's why we're happy to announce that Just Pure Bistro, the "exciting" signature restaurant of Swissotel, situated in Sydney's "vibrant heart" (De Groots) is offering members a 5-course dinner for two for just $79. Including a glass of McWilliam's wine each, this offer saves 58% off the usual price.
Valid until September 30
Source: Crossroads Bar by Swissotel Sydney
A Chocolate High Tea at the 5-star Swissotel Sydney is now just $59 for two people with a choice of cocktail or sparkling wine -- this works out at under $30 per person. Dining at Crossroad's bar, Travelzoo members will save 55% off the regular price. Alternatively, for just $10 more, opt for an unlimited weekend buffet high tea that includes a wide selection of sweet and savoury treats.
Source: Alegrias
Alegrias Spanish Tapas "delights Balmain diners with authentic Mediterranean cuisine" (Australian Good Food Guide) so we are pleased to give Travelzoo members the chance to dine at this suburban gem for just $49 for two. This deal includes a 3-course tapas lunch with a frozen sangria cocktail upon arrival and dessert wine to finish, saving members 64% off the normal price.
Valid for lunch or dinner until October 31
Source: Melting Pot Bar & Bistro by Mantra
Conveniently located within Mantra Chatswood, Melting Pot Bar & Bistro is offering Travelzoo members the chance to dine on modern Australian cuisine for just $49 for two people. Including a bottle of Mortar & Pestle Australian wine, this offer saves members 54% off the regular price.
Source: Donny's Bar & Restaurant
The "trendy" Donny's Bar & Restaurant (Good Food Guide) is offering Travelzoo members an exclusive 2-course meal for $49 for two. Including a glass of wine each, this offer saves members 52% off the usual price.
Source: The Balmain Hotel
Two people can dine at The Balmain Hotel with a main meal and beer or wine now just $29, saving 53% off the usual price. Headed by Brad Sloane (Chef of the Year, 2012 AHA Awards) the varied menu features traditional pub fare alongside dishes from Southeast Asia and USA.
Valid until September 25
Source: Deviate Cafe & Restaurant
Situated in the picturesque Clovelly near the bay, Deviate Cafe & Restaurant is offering an exclusive 2-course lunch for $39 for two people. Including a glass of red or white wine each, this offer saves Travelzoo members 52% off the regular price.
Valid weekdays for lunch 12pm-2:15pm, weekends 1pm-2:30pm until September 13
Source: Georges Mediterranean Bar & Grill
Dine with water views over Darling Harbour with a 2-course Greek feast for just $49 for two people. Georges Mediterranean Bar & Grill is located on King Street Wharf and is open seven days for lunch and dinner.
Valid from June 10 until September 10
Source: Baia The Italian
We know that food and wine go well together but it's becoming increasing popular to match food with cocktails. For the first time, Travelzoo members can enjoy a cocktail pairing experience at Baia the Italian, in Darling Harbour, for just $29 for two people -- that's a saving of 59% off the regular price.
Valid until September 8
Source: Dragoncello
Lauded as "exciting" and "vibrant" by the Australian Good Food Guide, chef-hatted Surry Hills establishment Dragoncello is offering Travelzoo members an exclusive one-night-only, 4-course winemaker dinner for just $99 per person. Hosted by Kate Giles of Dell'uva wines, the evening features a unique, brand new 4-course Dragoncello menu paired with a variety of specifically matched Dell'uva wines.
Valid 7:30pm, Thursday August 6 only
Chef-hatted Surry Hills establishment, Dragoncello, is celebrating the opening of its upstairs dining venue with a unique culinary experience, exclusively to Travelzoo. For just $99 per person, diners will receive a cocktail on arrival, followed by four courses paired with a specifically chosen beverage. Hailed by the Australian Good Food Guide as purveyors of "exciting" and "vibrant" modern Australian food, Dragoncello is headed up by former Guillaume at Bennelong chef, Roy McVeigh.
Valid 7:30pm, Saturday July 25 only
Source: Tokkuri
Located on Sydney's Lower North Shore, Tokkuri is offering 60% off a modern Japanese dining experience. For just $79, two people can share in a 9-dish banquet which also includes either saké, sparkling wine or a cocktail each.
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I made these slippers from scratch, but you could definitely mod some slippers and skip most of the sewing.
Step 1: Materials
-2 coin cell batteries
-2 coin cell battery holders
-2 slide switches
-fleece, furry material anything you want to make the slippers out of.
-sugru to make treads(optional)
Step 2: Make pattern and cut out pieces
For the top of the slippers, I used the technique they used in the this instructable. Cut out two tops from the fleece and two from the fur is at least two inches longer than the fleece. This will be folded over and your LEDs will be inserted.
Step 3: Put together circuit
Solder together your circuit in a compact way using a soldering iron and make sure everything is well insulated so there is no chance of a short.
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continued Anyone interested in being part of the community Christmas parade or volunteering on the Lights On Committee may call: Lisa Thomas, 251-0815 (Trimmers) or Laurie Arnheiter, 251-4461 (Hudson River Trading Company).
Friday, Nov. 30
•Community Bank open house: The Community Bank Christmas Open House will be held from noon to 3 p.m.
•Tolling of the bells: At 5 p.m. tolling of the Methodist Church Carillon will officially will sound the beginning of "Lights On" for the 2012 holiday season.
•Tree-lighting ceremony: The lighting of the community Christmas tree, which was made available by Rob Wing and family and Volt Landscaping, will be preceded by welcome comments from Supervisor Ron Vanselow at 5 p.m., a candlelight service dedicated to our service people led by Pastor Wayne Schoonmaker, and caroling lead by Denise and Frank Conti. I t will end with the playing of "Taps" by a lone bugler. Open houses and refreshments will follow the tree lighting at local businesses.
•Owens House reception: Everyone is invited following the lighting to the Owens House Educational Center for their annual open house to enjoy punch and cookies with Santa and Mrs. Claus. Bring your camera to photograph your children talking to this well-known couple.
•Dinner specials: Restaurants will be featuring a "Lights On" dinner special following the tree lighting.
Saturday, Dec. 1
•Breakfast with Santa: This event will once again be held at the North Creek Firehouse from 7 to 11 a.m. All children are welcome from the surrounding area not limited to residents of Johnsburg. Pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon, cereal, milk, juice and coffee will be served. Adults are $5 and children are $3. Breakfast for children 3 and under are free, and Santa will be on hand with presents for all the children. The area fire companies participating in the parade invite children to ride on the fire trucks as long as they are accompanied by an adult.
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Perdomo Habano Robusto
5 x 52 - Maduro - Single
Perdomo Habano Robusto cigars are worth every penny. Nick Perdomo Jr. created this special, full-bodied blend using Cuban-seed tobaccos grown in the Esteli, Condega, and Jalapa regions of Nicaragua. 'The beautiful Cuban-seed Corojo and triple-fermented Nicaraguan Maduro wrappers complement this unique filler blend by adding rich, bold flavors with a smooth, satisfying finish', says Nick. And tasting is believing. Whichever size and wrapper you prefer, one thing is certain: these cigars will enthrall you.
Just received a Wingman 10 pack containing 5 of these Perdomos. After toasting and lighting with wooden matches the first inch or so burnt very hot. A lot of pepper at first but it mellowed out for the remainder. It had an easy draw with a bit of an uneven burn. All in all; a decent smoke.
Nice, smooth smoke.Burn was slow and the ash held together really well. It did keyhole a little towards the finish, but only slightly.That might have been because of a strong cross breeze. Will definitely keep this one in my humidor on a regular basis.
My previous review was meant for the Perdomo Habano Robusto Connecticut, not Maduro.


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The Fort Walton Beach Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a new administrative team.
President Michael Patrick Roberts of Crestview has been called to supervise eight congregations covering Okaloosa County and parts of Walton County.
After study and prayer he chose his counselors, Joseph A. Anderson of Niceville, First Counselor; and Craig Miller, also of Niceville, Second Counselor.
Roberts is a doctor of internal medicine who practices at Main Street Medical Center and is affiliated with the North Okaloosa Medical Center.
Prior to being called as the new stake president, Roberts was the acting bishop of Crestview Ward 2.
In the church, he's served a two-year mission to Catania, Italy, was an Italian interpreter at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah, and was a counselor to bishops, branch presidents and elder's quorums, Young Men's President and High Venture Scout Leader.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has an unpaid ministry; those serving in any capacity continue with their regular professions.


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Creating a successful newsletter means spending less time on repetitive tasks and more time creating the design. In Designing a Newsletter, graphic designer and Adobe Certified Instructor Nigel French teaches effective design and production techniques. He uses Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Bridge to create an eight-page newsletter that's eye-catching and impactful. Nigel establishes an efficient workflow using multiple programs, examines the aesthetics of integrating text with images, and teaches best practices for outputting a final document. Exercise files accompany the course.
Okay, here is the story so far. We are in newsletter09 and we have mapped out the different parts of our page for content and we have drawn our frames on the relevant layers and if we move through the document, we can see those frames. The blue frames are to contain text, the red frames are already filled with pictures which have been fitted, cropped, scaled where appropriate and there are also some green frames which will contain repeating content that's going to stay pretty much in the same place from month to month.
Before we place our text files, we want to make sure that we are on the text layer and that the text layer is unlocked. Just to make sure I don't interfere with the pictures layer, I'm going to lock that layer. There is a text file that is also going to go on this layer, the page furniture layer so I'll leave that unlocked for now. To access my text files, I'm going to use Bridge. So I could either come here or just click on the Bridge icon up here on the control panel. Here in Bridge, I see the content of my text folder. If you don't automatically come to this folder and frankly, it's unlikely that you would, here's how you navigate to it.
From the Desktop if your exercise_ files folder is on the Desktop, open that, newsletter_final > text. We see the text files have been named alphanumerically just to make it easier for us to figure out what file goes on what page. I'm now going to switch my Bridge mode from Full Mode to Compact Mode. That will collapse all of the other panels with the exception of the Content panel, which I'm now going to resize and reposition off to the right.
Then I'll get the first of my text files, the main article on Page 01 and drag that into the frame waiting for it. Now when I do this, the text just comes in, in the basic paragraph style i.e. the default style. We haven't controlled the appearance of the text at all at this point. So the text is coming in. We are just dumping the text on our page. We are not particularly concerned with how it looks at the moment. That's something that we are going to address in a later step. For now, I might just want to do this though.
If I select this text frame, obviously, this one needs to go to three columns. I can change the number of columns up here using the column divider on my control panel. If you don't see this, because maybe you have a smaller monitor, you will get the same option on to the Object menu > Text Frame Options. Number of columns, 3. In addition to that, there are going to be some stories that need to be threaded from one page, or from one path of one page to another text frame. This being a case in point, this opening article begins on Page 01, it ends on Page 08. So I need to click on that red plus symbol.
Now move to Page 08 and I can come and click down here to move to the last page, where I have two empty text frames waiting for it. I could now click in this first one on the left, reload my cursor and then click in the one on the right. To save myself one step, I'm going to hold down the Option key that will reload my cursor for me. Then move over to this one and I'll hold my Option or Alt key again, it reloads my cursor for me and the remainder of the text, the over-matter for now, I'm going to put on to the pasteboard, just so we have an idea of how much we are running over.
But we are not overly concerned about this yet because the text has come in 12 points. We are going to make it 10 points. So we are going to do other things to it. So we know that it's going to occupy less space than it currently is occupying. So having done that, I'll now return to my first page and repeat that process until I place all of these text files. You don't need to see me do all of that, but let me show you how when you have multiple files that go on the same spread, you can do a multiple drag-and-drop from Bridge.
I will just quickly finish off page 01_ news in brief. I'll drag down to there. The TOC is going to go up here. Now the TOC needs to be threaded from this one into this one and then into this one and any over-matter, I can just click on the pasteboard and there is no over- matter in that case. It's just created an empty frame for us, which I'm going to delete because we don't need that. The news in brief section down here, if we just pop back to the finished version for a moment, we can see it actually runs in four columns as opposed to three.
So I'm going to select that and make that into a 4-column text frame. Now I'll move to the next spread, Option+Page Down or Alt+Page Down, and here is where we want to do the multiple drag-and-drop because we have this story, this story, this story, and this story that all go on this spread. So I'm going to drag over from Bridge into my InDesign layouts into the first of those frames, the editor's letter and then when I click on my InDesign layout, that first file is placed.
Now if I move my cursor just to the right, we can see that to the right of the cursor itself, we have a number in parenthesis and that's how many text files that cursor is loaded with. The second of them is the letters, just going to go there and the third is the masthead, which will go there, and the fourth, our second article, which is going to go there. Once again, we need to determine the number of columns. This one needs to be changed to 3 and these two need to be changed to 2 and because they both get the same treatment, I'm going to do a multiple selection by holding down the Shift key and this time I'll do it using the menu items just for a bit of variety. Object > Text Frame Options, we'll make that 2. Okay, so I'll continue to do this. Join me in the next movie where we have all of our text files in place.
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I think the only solution is to get rid of all rules in MMA, and have convicted death row felons fight to the death.
they can use modern weapons, have ancient gladiatoral type of combats and even have "anti-grapple" matches where they can cover the arena floor with broken glass and cyanide laced thumb tacs. we can also have ground fighting only matches where devices will cut off thier heads if they rise above a certain level.
so no more need for pesky scorecards and judges decisions. the winner lives, the loser dies. its that simple.
no more "did kimbo tap?" or "its only sport, it doesn't work in real life".
personally I just want to see madison square garden turned into a collusium for use in better sports than basketball.
Style: MCMAP, Judo, sex appeal--Originally Posted by Bluto Blutarsky
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JiNXeD you have no soul.
I wouldn't say so exactly. I'm more emotionally touched by more real-time tragedies. Like when I left Curly to die the first time I played Cave Story, and then when I realised that I could've saved her. I just felt guilty. Katawa Shoujo is a pretty slow-paced novel, and I don't get that touched from reading, unless it's something personal. I still wouldn't cry over a game, unless it was something very special that had something which made me very interested in it.


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California's Proposition 37, the nation's most promising measure to date in the effort to label genetically modified organisms (GMOs), ended in defeat in November. But labeling advocates say the fight is far from over.
Biotech industries and food manufacturers mounted a $46 million campaign to crush the California voter initiative. The measure's intended goal was mandatory state labeling of genetically engineered ingredients, but the opposition won 53 to 47 amid concerns that the proposal would result in frivolous lawsuits and skyrocketing food prices.
Nearly 50 countries have GMO labeling laws—with some banning bioengineered foods entirely—but efforts in the United States have so far been unable to take hold. Attempts in 20 states (and one federal bill) have all failed.
Americans have pushed for GMO labels since the early 1990s, and the defeat in California isn't likely to put the matter to rest. Recent polls show that over 90 percent of Americans support GMO labeling, and new labeling campaigns in 30 states are already underway.
In the meantime, many are boycotting the brands that contributed to the defeat of Prop 37, and consumers are taking the fight to social networks.
Since the election, companies such as Kellogg and General Mills (who contributed $632,000 and $520,000 respectively to the No on 37 campaign) have seen their Facebook pages littered with angry comments from consumers who blame these manufacturers for keeping GMO ingredients secret.
Whether a label will make its way on genetically modified foods is yet to be decided, but the issue is far from resolved.
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Info on the next generation M3 lineup comes courtesy of insider SCOTT26. Expected in the M3 lineup will again be the M3 coupe and cabrio, but the M3 sedan will supposedly be replaced by the M3 Gran coupe (a 4 door version of the F32 M3 coupe). Also for the first time there will be an M3 touring wagon. Finally, the X3M and an X4M (based on a future X4 SAV model) are speculated. Full details inside.
An E91 M3 Touring was never in the cards for this generation of M3s, but that hasn't stopped wagon fans from undertaking their own custom conversions. We previously featured an M3POST member's full E91 M3 custom build (both mechanicals and bodywork), but here's yet another one.
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"Jesus for President" Pomona College Lecture on a Constitutional Amendment on Age Qualifications for Federal Office
John Seery, Pomona College professor of politics, will examine the case for a constitutional amendment eliminating age qualifications for those elected to federal office, as part of the Pomona College Fall Faculty Lecture Series on Wednesday, October 5.
Seery, who is working on a book about the subject, notes that current law sets minimum age requirements for federal office at 25 for the House, 30 for the Senate and 35 for the Presidency.
Seery has twice won the College's Wig Distinguished Teaching Award and was recognized in Who's Who Among the Nation's Teachers in 1998. His research covers a range of topics — from the hotly contested issues of abortion and the right to die movement to irony and comedy in politics. His books include titles such as Political Returns: Irony in Politics and Theory from Plato to the Antinuclear Movement and Political Theory for Mortals: Shades of Justice, Images of Death.
The lecture begins at 12:10 p.m. in the Frank Dining Hall Blue Room (260 E. Bonita Avenue, Claremont). Lunch is available for purchase. For further information contact: (909) 621-8328.
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Freshman Ben Wagland will face UVa's Jarmere Jenkins in the first round on Wednesday.
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URBANA, Ill.-----Four members of the Georgia men's tennis team will begin play in the singles and doubles portion of the NCAA Championships Wednesday and Thursday at the Kahn Outdoor Tennis Complex.
Georgia's four selections to the field is tied with Virginia for the highest total of any team.
The 64-player singles field will include freshman Ben Wagland (26-7) and sophomore Nathan Pasha (32-14), who played Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, in the last five dual matches for the Bulldogs. The 32-team doubles draw includes the pair of Wagland and Hernus Pieters (27-9), who were selected as a No. 5-8 seed, in addition to Pasha and Garrett Brasseaux (19-8).
Wagland will take on the No. 3 seed Jarmere Jenkins of Virginia in a rematch of Monday's contest, won by Wagland in straight sets. Pasha will face Michigan's Evan King in the first round. In the doubles draw, Wagland and Pieters will open play against UNC Wilmington's Kosta Blank and Chris Cooprider, while Pasha and Brasseaux will face Florida State's Dominic Cotrone and Blake Davis.
According to the latest ITA singles rankings, Wagland is No. 33, while Pasha is 47th. In doubles, Wagland and Pieters are ranked fifth, while Pasha and Brasseaux are 15th.
Singles play begins Wednesday, while the doubles draw begins Thursday. The finals for both will be held Monday.
Georgia players have won the NCAA singles title four times: Mikael Pernfors in 1984 and 1985 and Matias Boeker in 2001 and 2002. Pernfors beat teammate George Bezecny for the crown in 1985. The Bulldogs have won three NCAA doubles titles including Ola Malmqvist and Allen Miller in 1983, Boeker and Travis Parrott in 2001, and John Isner and Antonio Ruiz in 2005.
In singles, players can achieve All-America status by reaching the round of 16 of the NCAA Tournament. Additionally, players who finish in the top-20 of the final ITA singles rankings or are seeded in the top-16 of the NCAA Tournament also earn All-America honors. In doubles, players who reach the quarterfinals, finish in the final 10 of the ITA rankings or are seeded in the top-eight of the NCAA Tournament will be recognized as All-Americans. Pieters earned All-America honors in 2011.
Georgia reached the semifinals of the team tournament, falling narrowly to Virginia, 4-1 on Monday.


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The fiscal cliff deal hits close to home for local businesses. That's especially true for a Rock Island firm that works closely with the military.
For the Mandus Group, the deal is more of a cease-fire than a solution. But it does soften significant cuts that could have hit all at once.
On Wednesday, workers represent the front lines in Rock Island. They're building hydraulic repair units for the military.
"Companies that rely just on government are going to be in trouble," said Fred Smith, who co-owns the company.
The fiscal cliff actually reached Mandus Group in September 2012. That's when defense cuts forced the company to downsize, slicing its payroll from 60 to 40 local workers.
"As a small business owner, you're always concerned when you have employees, trying to maintain the workload and to keep those employees," Smith said. "The last thing you want to do is to have to let people go."
Favorable reaction on Wall Street sent stock prices soaring on Wednesday morning. As financial advisor John Miller monitors the numbers, he calls the fiscal cliff deal extremely critical.
"It gives us some certainty, at least near term, of tax rates and things of this nature both for individuals and for businesses," he said.
Like other employees, Mandus Group workers will have 2% restored to payroll Social Security taxes. Still, this deal will delay severe cuts that would slice deeply into the economy.
"There's going to be more cuts coming," Smith continued. "At least hopefully now, they can find a way to do it more intelligently."
At Mandus Group, a lot of good local jobs are depending on it.
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Federal regulators told at least 100 AFN delegates attending a breakout session Thursday that they are about to make revisions to the controversial federal-contracting program behind the huge growth of many Alaska Native corporations this decade.
For several years, the U.S. Small Business Administration has been working on significant revisions to its federal contracting program for minority-owned firms. SBA officials attending the Alaska Federation of Natives convention in Anchorage said the draft regulations will be published next week, starting a 60-day comment period.
The proposed changes are coming just months after U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., launched an investigation of Native firms' contracting privileges. Her investigation found that Native companies landed nearly $24 billion in work over the past eight years. She said she plans to seek changes to the SBA 8(a) program, which allows qualified Native firms to obtain federal contracts of any dollar amount without competitive bidding.
The SBA's proposed regulation changes are substantial enough that they would affect how minority contractors do business in the future, said John Klein, an SBA attorney based in Washington, D.C.
He said one of the significant changes will involve joint ventures -- minority-owned firms teaming with non-minority firms to obtain federal contracts. The proposed changes are meant to prevent abuses in those joint ventures, such as when a larger firm takes more than its proper share of the contract's financial benefits, he said.
The Thursday session at AFN was billed as a tribal consultation on government contracting but the Native organizations that sponsored the session did not allow reporters to attend it. The Native American Contracting Association said it didn't want reporters in the room because it wanted AFN delegates to feel comfortable speaking their minds freely.
However, before the session, the federal regulators talked to a reporter for a few minutes about the contracting program, without having time to get very far into details of the proposed changes, and why they think the program is beneficial to Alaska Natives. They said they planned to address delegates' questions about the program during the breakout session.
It's frustrating that the Native firms are getting criticized now that they are generating revenue from federal contracting, said Maver Carey, president of The Kuskokwim Corp., a village corporation based in Anchorage.
Carey said her company has been working with villages in the Kuskokwim region to show them how they can benefit from contracting opportunities. This week, Carey took several SBA officials on a tour of Kalskag, one of the poorest villages in her region.
SBA director of Native American Affairs Clara Pratte went on the tour and noticed that there were only five full-time jobs in the village.
Contracting could be an economic boon for Alaska villages, she said.
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I'm not that in to dynamic programming languages but I've written my fair share of JavaScript code. I never really got my head around this prototype-based programming, does any one know how this works?
var obj = new Object();
obj.prototype.test = function() { alert('Hello?'); };
var obj2 = new obj();
I remember a lot talk I had with people a while back, I'm not actually sure what the hell I'm doing. As I understand it, there's no concept of a class, it's just an object, and instances of those objects are clones of the original, right?
But what is the exact purpose of this ".prototype" property in JavaScript? How does it relate to instantiating objects?
Update: correct way
var obj = new Object(); // not a functional object
obj.prototype.test = function() { alert('Hello?'); }; // this is wrong!
function MyObject() {} // a first class functional object
MyObject.prototype.test = function() { alert('OK'); } // OK
Also these slides really helped a lot.


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By John J. KruzelAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17, 2009 Defense officials have chosen Perpetual Technologies Inc. to receive the department's employer-support award for providing exceptional financial and emotional support to its employees who deploy as National Guard or Reserve members.
PTI will receive the Freedom Award along with 14 other companies in a ceremony here next month. The Freedom Award, instituted in 1996 under the auspices of the National Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, recognizes exceptional support from the employer community.
"PTI has been very supportive of my military career over the years, and has fully supported my annual training as well as other National Guard conferences," said Chris Zeis, a PTI employee who is now serving in Afghanistan's Khost province as a sergeant first class in the Army National Guard.
Zeis, who nominated the Indianapolis-based PTI for the Freedom Award, said when he learned of his upcoming deployment, PTI leadership simply said: "We will take care of you."
"Without their support and financial commitment, I might not have taken this deployment and would have retired from the National Guard altogether," he said.
Ten percent of the veteran-owned company's payroll consists of current or former Guard and Reserve members. For these employees, PTI, which provides management and consulting services, offers differential pay between employees' military pay and PTI's salary during deployments.
In the past, PTI has paid a differential of up to $40,000, said Ted Utley, PTI's human resources manager. The differential pay is available for each of the dozen or so National Guard or Reserve members on staff if they are called up to active duty.
"We've got to take care of the person and make their life as minimally interrupted as possible. We can't stop the fact that he's in Afghanistan, or Iraq or Kosovo for a year," Utley said. "But we can make it so the long-term financial impact is minimized.
"Plus, it's better than free coffee!" Utley said of the salary accommodation. "Some things are bigger than just profits -- like defending our nation."
Additionally, the company regularly ships care packages to deployed employees and invites their family members to company functions throughout the year. The company sends birthday cards to family members of deployed employees that include a $5 bill for children and a $25 gift certificate for spouses.
"When someone's deployed, we include the families in our newsletters [and send them] to their home address, invite them to company cookouts we have once or twice a month," Utley said. "We encourage the families to show up, bring the kids, and hang out with us."
Utley said PTI modeled its family outreach efforts on similar programs already within the military. "We kind of just borrowed from their handbook, which says, 'Don't forget the people back home.'"
But the support of their military-civilian staff members does not stop with the mission. Upon returning from mobilization, PTI recognizes military members at public events and prominently displays yellow ribbons throughout the company's facilities.
The company contributes to the military in other ways too, including annual support of the Indiana National Guard Relief Fund and sponsorship of a military charitable golf outing in Indianapolis.
The Freedom Award recognizes U.S. employers that rise above the requirements of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act. PTI previously received the ESGR Pro Patria Award for its support of National Guard and Reserve employees.
Zeis said he was excited when he learned that his nomination had culminated in PTI receiving the Freedom Award.
"This award and the caliber of support it requires clearly illustrates the character and the identity of a company," he said. "I do look very forward to rejoining the PTI team when I get home."


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I agree, it doesn't need to be remade....I won't watch it!....well, maybe only once, just to see how awful it'll be.
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I agree, it doesn't need to be remade....I won't watch it!....well, maybe only once, just to see how awful it'll be.
It would be interesting to see who is at the helm, and who is cast in it too
I will give it a fair chance though, I think that's only fair :)
...I want the re-boot to feature a teacup Yorkie...that would just be hilarious....
does the world really need another Cujo? No! No it doesn't.
and it won't be a Yorkie. It'll be a pit bull. Which will just lead to more of the bad owners buying them.
Uggh! I need my own little island to live on.
I don't mind remakes. If they suck *pardon my French* then I just don't watch 'em again. But I like seeing new takes on stories.
I wonder if they'll let thein this one.
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But, nah, this one don't need no stinkin remake. The original is a great flick, even though they changed the ending. Great book, great flick, don't need no stinkin remake. Bah.
It'd be one thing if it were one of a handful of Hollywood reboots in say, the last five or ten years, but Hollywood has been reboot happy for little over a decade now...
didn't like the first go...won't mind a remake...don't care if it ends up sucking the wind outta hoover bag: it'll never mar the book...
just hope to god they do not use cgi...
and, they need to follow the storyline far closer...it is good enough as it is it does not need 'hollywood' embellishment
if done right...it could be a brutally moralistic picture
and...if they must recast the 'lead' role (yorkie ? really ?!?)...i vote they go in an entirely new direction...
what with the popularity of pot bellied pigs in the last few years...a cross between cujo and a pig might just be the horror comeback for our swinian friends 'razorback' never was !


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Okay, hear me out. I took a lot of heat regarding my last 'demolition' thread (PeopleMover tracks), but this time I offer a proposition; a 'trade'.
The question posed is this: Would you be willing to trade Splash Mountain and the surrounding Critter Country (plus a possible alteration of the ROA) for a (albeit truncated) Thunder Mesa and Western River Expedition attraction?
The addition of this massive project would excuse that 'dead-end' of Disneyland, and provide a true western flavor to a slowly disappearing Frontierland.
This massive full-scale project was in the final design stages in 1972 (?) for WDW when demand for another 'water-ride' (POTC) put the WRE's fate on permanent 'hold'.
Is the WRE an 'Impossible Dream'? Maybe; but this thread's purpose is to explore not just the feasibility of such an undertaking, but the prevailing attitudes towards the addition of such an attraction at the cost of an already popular water attraction, a popular restaurant, and a not-so-beloved kiddie DR (and, of course, the sacrifice of 'Critter Country' itself).
While I am not Splash Mountain's biggest fan, I do appreciate the strong feelings some of you feel towards it. But I say 'get over it' (at least for the duration of the discussion ), and I further say, 'if you wanna make an omelet, you gotta break some eggs'.
Would this be a 'good' trade for DL in the long run? I know it would be a fortuitous turn of events for Frontierland, but how do you all feel? SM fans and non-fans alike are encouraged to agree with me...uhh...I mean discuss their opinions.
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Breakfast dilemas
April 12th 2012 08:39
I don't know about you guys, but I sometimes feel a bit overwhelmed by the prospect of interesting breakfasts. I think it has to do with the lack of time before work, a need to eat enough to keep me going until lunch and wanting something to warm me up - especially with the colder mornings at the moment.
My favourite cereal alternative from last year was Bircher Muesli but when the Summer edition of Donna Hay landed in my mail box, it was the roasted muslie which caught my eye. I think it is the addition of chocolate in this that really makes it special, somewhere between cocopops and something much healthier.
Roasted chocolate and almond muslie - adapted from Donna Hay Magazine, Summer edition - makes 8 cups
1/2 cup water
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup golden syrup
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
100g dark chocolate, chopped
5 cups rolled oats
1 cup puffed rice
3/4 cup dessicated coconut
1/2 cup whole almonds
2 tablespoons cocoa
milk, chopped fruit to serve
Preheat oven to 170 degrees. Place the water and sugar in a saucepan over medium heat and stir until the sugar dissolves. Bring to the boil and cook for 1 minute. Remove from the heat add the golden syrup, oil and chocolate and whisk until well combined.
Place the oats, puffed rice, coconut, almonds and cocoa in a large bowl and mix until well combined. Pour over the hot sugar syrup and mix until well combined. Spoon onto a 30cm x 42cm baking pan lined with non stick baking paper. Bake for 30 minutes until crisp and golden. Set aside to cool completely on trays, Serve with milk and fruit.
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I live in the country and have never seen a dead bird unless having been run over by traffic. Has anyone else seen many ? A good soaking with warm water and using a stiff brush will shift any dirt in seed containers I find.
I live in the country and have never seen a dead bird unless having been run over by traffic. Has anyone else seen many ? A good soaking with warm water and using a stiff brush will shift any dirt in seed containers I find.
Lupin, exactly my thoughts! Bleach is too harsh, even for cleaning cat trays(totally different matter, sorry). Hot water. Dettol maybe a little. Bleach and washing liquids and god knows what else - too dangerous
Holedigger - how on earth do the seeds sprout?! i have never heard of that before... if you put away the tables over the summer months when they are not needed, thus closing them off from sunlight ... crikey, why don't you just pull out the sprouting seeds when it happens?!
Ms Bradbury - fair point. But you'd be surprised how well they cope. And it does not necessarily mean, that all the birds that come to your table, actually live in the close surroundings. Animals adapt, and birds are extremely clever. Living in close surroundings hasn't harmed them for decades yet.
Of course, I see the point that some of the larger birds get at the food that was destined for the smaller ones, but who is to say that the larger ones are well fed anyway? Maybe they are just as hungry as the small ones?? I cannot say. As with the cleaning, do they actually poop all over the feeder? I cannot believe that. Cleaning detergents are unnatural, and definitely contribute to the diseases that exist today. Use plain water and soda crystals and a good scrubbing brush. What dirt stays, stays. Birds don't complain. They just want/need the food.
I think you may be worrying too much. All this cleaning and disinfecting will harm the birds and the environment more in that you reduce their natural ability to fight diseases and infections. The same rule applies to households. Of course, if you do actually genuinely see an ill bird, do clean but otherwise I wouldn't even think about it. We've been putting sunflower seeds out on simple bird tables hanging from trees and our balconies, for years, and it's a sight to behold! Can't recall the last time we cleaned them. Birds are not that dirty, its the holders. I'd recommend sticking to simple bird tables with a low roof cover if you want, and hang them in places away from trees if you have a problem with squirrels...
Honestly, just put everything in the compost. We have dogs and cats and chickens and etc. so basically whatever that was not eaten is put on the compost heap. Even bones - although those don't actually break down. If you have newspaper - shred it and put it there. If you've just eaten fish and have the leftover bones and skin - put it in the compost heap. People worry too much!


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