Camtasia Studio is a complete solution for recording, editing and publishing rich screen video presentations. With support for a variety of video standards, you can ensure your content delivery now and in the future.

 

Features

• Record Anything: Easily create training, demonstrations, presentations, online courses... the possibilities are endless. Connect with your audience by including screen recordings, audio, voice narration, PowerPoint, Picture-in-Picture and webcam video.
• Edit and Enhance: Edit and enhance your video with callouts, titles, credits, zooming, panning, quizzes and additional audio tracks. Camtasia Studio's extensive editing options are at your fingertips.
• Share: Publish in Flash, QuickTime and a variety of video formats, then share on the Web, CD or DVD. You can use the Production Wizard to assist you in choosing the best format and settings for sharing with your audience, or you can have complete control over audio and video codecs and quality, frame rate, color depth, and inclusion or exclusion of special effects.

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Foxit PDF Editor is a tool for modifying page contents in Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. Unlike other so-called "PDF Editors", which are designed only to work with "Notes" and limited page contents, Foxit PDF Editor allows you to modify any kind of page contents within any existing PDF documents, then save back to same or new PDF documents. It' lightweight and easy to use unlike many PDF authoring tools out there.

Features

• Make any kinds of modification to page contents of any PDF files
• Convenient and reliable editing- What you see is what you get
• Simple and clear user interface, requires no knowledge of PDF
• Fast and perfect PDF displaying, supporting multi-language
• The only affordable solution for PDF page content modification

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Sri lanka Telecom (The incumbent fixed line operator in Srilanka), in its latest drive to boost subscriber base, has re-branded SLT ADSL as SLT Broadband and launched a new budget ADSL package to capture new market segments. Is the new package as beneficial as it sounds?

New ADSL packge Features and conditions

• Monthly rental Rs.1000/=
• Usage Allowance 1GB and additional usage will be charged Rs.250/= for each 250MB blocks
• Connection fee Rs.500/=
• Download 512Kbps and upload 128Kbps
• Available in all current ADSL areas 

Usage allowance term simply means that you will be charged extra if your usage (Web surfing, e-mail checking, downloading, TV/radio streaming or basically anything which you do using SLT ADSL connection) exceeds 1GB.

In our opinion, the package is not worth it. What can you do with a 1GB limit on your ass? 1GB might have been a huge amount some years back but this is the information age for fucks sake! Even a simple login to Windows Live Mail is bound to consume more than 2MB per try. Your 1GB limit will exceed before you know it and you might even end up paying a rental higher than for ADSL Home Express (You download 2.25GB --> You pay Rs 2250 which is the same amount as the monthly rental for Home Express package)

Don't even think about downloading torrents or software using this connection as you will end up with a huge monthly bill due to additional usage charge.

The Internet evolves, file sizes increase, traffic consumption goes up, web services are born, everything is downloadable, SLT puts a 1GB limit to its budget 'broadband' connection. It just doesn't make sense.

Conclusion:

Stay away from the Rs 1000 package. It's basically a faster dial up connection. If you are planning to upgrade to ADSL go for the Home Express package (512K Up/ 128K Down, Rs 2250 per month, unlimited usage) and experience Internet without restrictions or fear of exceeded bandwidth limitations.

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After team Paradox broke Windows Vista's activation system with an ingenious BIOS emulation crack, many other crackers have been updating and adding enhancements to Paradox's crack. One such popular crack (which added automation to the whole cracking process) was released by cLoNy. Now, STRO has released another new version which features a sleek UI and more options!

Latest enhancement to the Paradox crack allows the users to select the brand of the computer which's BIOS they wish to emulate. Enhanced crack also lets you choose OEM logos of your choice. Also included in the package is the Windows Vista Product ID Checker tool.

Does this crack involve any BIOS modification?

No, It does not flash or modify your BIOS in any way. The crack adds a software driver which runs as a background process in Windows Vista environment. This driver will emulate the BIOS of an OEM (branded) computer of your choice.

Does this work on 64 bit versions?

There is a high chance that this crack will work on 64-bit Vista versions. However, it has failed on 64-bit versions occasionally due to unknown reasons.

Does this work on Ultimate version of Vista?

This should work on all versions of Vista including the ultimate version. In rare occasions, it has failed to activate Vista versions which were not clean installed (upgraded over XP).

Will my BIOS information display change?

The emulated BIOS information will be shown in software environments. If you installed an OEM logo, it will be displayed in My computer just like in branded personal computers.

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Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows. Winamp supports MP3, CD, Audiosoft, Audio Explosion, MOD, WAV and other audio formats, custom appearances called skins, plus audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins. Winamp 5 comes in three versions. Lite and Full are freeware, and Pro requires registration. The Lite version has far less functionality (largely supplementable with plugins) while still replicating most of Winamp 2's feature set in a far smaller installer. The Full version offers a richer feature set, excluding only music ripping and CD burning (available in the Pro version).

(Picture: Winamp 5 featuring the popular MMD3 skin)

Features (Pro version):

• MIDI, MOD, MP1, MP2, MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WAV, WMA, Chiptunes and many other audio formats supported.
• AVI support, which is played through the appropriate DirectShow filters installed on the user's system; MPEG; and NSV (Nullsoft Streaming Video).
• Plug-in support for additional input and output formats, sound effects (via DSP plugins), and visual effects (notably Advanced Visualization Studio, or AVS, and MilkDrop).
• Support for both Winamp 2's "classic" skins and Winamp3's more flexible "modern" skins(via official plugin provided in "Full" install).
• Freely available access to many types of streaming media, including:
  • Internet radio and Internet television (via the SHOUTcast technology).
  • XM Satellite Radio.
  • Music Tracks.
  • Music Videos (not available in all territories).
  • AOL Video Content.
  • In2TV classic television programs.
  • SHOUTcast Wire (podcast directory and subscription functionality).
  • Singingfish audio/video search engine.
• Support for ripping data from audio CDs, optionally with CD-TEXT, into MP3 or AAC formats, a feature enhanced in Winamp Pro.
• Support for burning music to CDs, a feature enhanced in Winamp Pro.
• True alpha channel (per-pixel transparency).
• Support for winshade mode as well as docking, which allows Winamp to operate as an always-on-top media bar.
• Support 5.1 Surround where formats and decoders allow.
• Support Gapless playback for MP3 and AAC.
• Replay Gain support.
• Support Unicode metadata for media files.
• Extendable Portable media player support, currently offering device plugins for:
  • Apple iPod.
  • Creative NOMAD Jukebox.
  • Microsoft PlaysForSure.
  • Mass Storage Compliant devices.
  • ActiveSync devices, such as those running Windows Mobile.
• Support Global hotkeys.
• Customized install options packaged with NSIS.
• 24-bit playback.
• Format conversion (transcoding).

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The DivX Player plays every DivX video ever created, including purchased or rented DivX movies, DivX HD files, and videos created with advanced features such as menus, subtitles and more. In addition, the DivX Player now allows you to publish videos directly to Stage6. Of course, you can also still burn your DivX movies to disc to play them directly on your TV using a DivX certified device.

This package includes:

• DivX Player
• DivX Community Codec 6.5.1.1 (Full Encoding + Decoding support)
• DivX Web Player

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A portable version of WinRAR has finally surfaced. Now you can take your favorite compression utility anywhere with you. You can carry it in your USB hard drive, USB flash drive or in whatever you like. It's lightweight, efficient and secure and you can use it in any public computer even without administrator rights.

Features

• Use WinRAR anywhere
• Complete storage and backup solution
• Safe and secure - When you remove the device with WinRAR Unplugged, all your information is secure and leaves with you.
• Your personal license key for WinRAR is also valid for WinRAR Unplugged!
• International Support

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USB Flash drives have become vastly popular during recent times. Almost everyone who work in the IT industry (and many other industries) nowadays possess one of these magic sticks. Ease of use, good performance and large capacity have made the flash drives a must have for most individuals who work with computers. But one should be extremely careful when plugging your flash drive to public computers. Uninvited visitors may sneak into your PC through USB flash drives and may screw your computer and destroy data.

Judging by the emails we get, one of the most common viruses that spread through USB drives is the 'New Malware.j' (McAfee detection) virus. you'll know that you have this virus when folders in your flash drive (or hard drive) are converted to .exe files which cannot be opened in explorer. Hold on to your testicles. Your data is not lost. You can recover the folders using a simple attribute command.

1. Open start menu --> run. Type cmd and press enter. Command Prompt will open.

2. Navigate to the drive/folder which contains the screwed up folders (.exe files with folder name), using the command prompt. Note: Don't execute the command on your system drive, on which Windows is installed. (you will not be able to do so even if you tried)

3. Execute the following command to restore folders.

X:\attrib -S -H *.* /s /d 

(Where X is the name of drive which was affected by virus)

4. Browse to location using my computer. You should be able to see the lost folders now. It is now safe to delete the .exe files with folder names.

If only one folder is affected, you can use the following attrib command to recover it:

X:\attrib -S -H C:\ScrewedLocation\Foldername /s /d 

(Where ScrewedLocation is the parent folder and Foldername is the name of affected folder.)

What this virus does is simple. It doesn't delete any of your folders. Instead, it uses the attrib command with +S and +H switches to make the folders hidden, system folders. Once a folder is given +S, it will not be visible in explorer (even with hidden files on) because Windows File Protection will treat it as a protected system folder.

Another virus that circulates via flash drives is the RavMon virus. Symptoms of infection will be that .exe files with the same name as folder names created in every directory  of flash drive including inside subdirectories. You pendrive's autorun menu will default to a program named "Auto". You will not be able to double click and open the pen drive from my computer.

Usually, a format of the pen drive should get rid of the virus. but before that, make sure you use an AntiVirus app to scan and clean the infected exes or delete them manually.

Recommended Anti Virus application by FILEnetworks is: McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i + AntiSpyware module enterprise 8.5i or later. Whatever the AntiVirus app you sure, make sure you keep it updated with latest definition files.

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Babylon translator is a handy tools which can acts as a dictionary,  multi language translator and a currency converter. You only need to highlight the word you need translated (in any windows environment, let it be inside word docs or in web pages) and press the shortcut key (Default: Ctrl + right click) and babylon will pop up with the translation or the dictionary  meaning of the selection. It's light on system resources, neat and does what it's supposed to do without flaws. See a screenshot here.

 

Features

• Text Translation
• Better results on the first click
• Encyclopedias including Wikipedia
• Improved spelling corrections
• 3 million new terms

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WinRAR is a compression and archive utility for Windows. It supports a vast array of compression formats including (but not limited to) .RAR, 7-Zip and Zip. RAR file format supports better compression ratio than Zip formats and have gained huge popularity during recent times.

 

Supported file types and features

• Complete support for RAR and ZIP archives, and unpacking of CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7z and Z archives.
• The ability to create self-extracting and multi-volume (split) archives.
• Data redundancy is provided via recovery records and recovery volumes, allowing to reconstruct even damaged archives.
• Support for advanced NTFS file system options and Unicode in file names.
• Optional archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a 128-bit key.

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