ACDSee - the worlds #1 digital imaging software. ACDSee Photo Manager is a comprehensive application ideal for acquiring, organizing, viewing, enhancing and sharing your images. With the image browser, you can find, organize, and preview images and media files on your computer, and you can efficiently acquire images from digital cameras, scanners, and other devices.

A full-featured image viewer and media player quickly generates high-quality displays of your images and media files. You can run slide shows, play embedded audio, and display multiple page images. ACDSee supports over 100 image and multimedia file formats. Also, ACDSee includes a wide variety of image editing tools you can use to create, edit and touch-up your digital images.

Features :

Use tools such as red-eye reduction, crop, sharpen, blur, and embos to enhance or correct your images. Image management tools, such as exposure adjustment, convert, resize, rename, and rotate, can be performed on multiple files at the same time. The new user interface is completely customizable, and provides quick access to tools and features. You can customize the screen layout, the order of images, toolbar display, and many other options to suit your preferences. ACDSee Photo Manager is a fast, powerful, and easy-to-use image management system that everyone from novices to professionals can use and enjoy.

If you want to view, organize, find and share images quickly, ACDSee 10 is the perfect solution. Use keywords, categories and your own Windows® filing system to instantly locate the right image. Easily correct or improve those less than perfect photos. Share your favorites by email, on your free online album or as high-quality prints.

Instant Viewing
With ACDSee, you will never wait for another image to open. Get instant access to your photos with the fastest viewer on the market.
See your photos on a virtual calendar, fill your screen with images and quickly browse through your thumbnails. Plus, ACDSees Quick View mode is the fastest way to open an e-mail attachment or a file on your desktop. NEW! Mouse over your thumbnails for instant previews.

Get organized with ACDSee
With ACDSee, organize the way that works best for you. Organize your Windows® file folders, add keywords and ratings, edit your metadata, and create your own categories. Assign images to as many categories as you like without duplicating files.
NEW! Use multi-word keywords like Trip to Mexico to make finding images even easier.
Stay organized with smart features that automatically import, rename and categorize your new images when your camera, iPod, camera phone, or other device is connected.
Organize images stored on CDs, DVDs, and external hard drives without copying them to your computer with the time-saving PhotoDisc feature.
NEW! Unzip files and start viewing and organizing archived items right away, without leaving ACDSee.

Correct and enhance your photos
Correct common problems at the click of a button eliminate red-eye, erase blemishes and make colors true to life. NEW! With ACDSees advanced red-eye tool, get natural-looking results with custom eye colors to replace red areas.
Bring details back into photos that are too light or dark with ACDSees patent-pending Shadow/Highlights technology. It instantly corrects poorly exposed photos without affecting areas of the image that don't require adjustments. NEW! Apply effects like blur, saturation and color to selected areas of your photos.

Share your favorite photos
Send photos to family and friends by e-mail without worrying about resizing or switching to another application.
NEW! Simplify online photo sharing with integrated uploading to sites like Flickr and Smugmug. NEW! Post a photo widget on your website or blog, powered by your free ACDSee Sendpix online album.
Design your own stunning slide shows with transition effects and sound - mix audio tracks and synch songs to slides. NEW! Create PowerPoint presentations from inside ACDSee, including notes, captions and more.

Make home printing a breeze
With ACDSees print layout tools its easier than ever to print your photos from home. ACDSee works within your print margins and helps you print multiple 4x6 prints on a single page, fill an entire page for an 8x10, or create custom print sizes.

Protect your photos
ACDSee helps you keep copies of your images so you dont lose them if your computer fails. Use the Sync tool to synchronize your image folders with an external hard drive or networked drive. Or, use the Use the Database Backup feature to backup your photos and database information to CD or DVD. You can even schedule backups and reminders.

View, browse and manage over 100 file types
Get extensive format support for audio, video and images including BMP, GIF, IFF, JPG, PCX, PNG, PSD, RAS, RSB, SGI, TGA and TIFF. Take a look at the complete list of supported file formats.

Software requirements:
* Windows® 2000, Windows® XP and Windows Vista
* Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.0.0 (6.0.0 recommended)
* Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 - for Microsoft DirectX file format support, and to create slide shows and screen savers
* QuickTime 6.0 - for QuickTime file format support
* Ghostscript® 8.0 - for PDF support
* Windows Media Player 9.0

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Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) will accelerate the speed with which you can receive files over the Internet using FTP and HTTP protocols by simultaneously downloading several file segments from the same or different servers.

Download Accelerator Plus enables you to pause and resume downloads, and to recover from a dropped Internet connection.

In addition, DAP searches for mirrors and implements the downloads from the best or most responsive mirrors. It is configured by default to automatically Integrate into your Explorer or Netscape browser when it is installed, and to self-activate each time a download is performed.

Full Speed AND Security! Only with Download Accelerator Plus 8.6 !
Up to 400% faster downloads!
Get the ultimate speed with up to 10 connections per download!
DAP Premium privacy suite ensures your download activity remains discreet!
Direct download with fewer windows for extensive downloaders.
While downloading Zip files see what they contain!
And more . . .
Supported Browsers IE 7.x | 5.x | 6.x Netscape 6.x | 7.x Opera 5 | 6 Mozilla | Firefox
Supported Platforms Windows 98 / ME / XP / NT4 / 2000 / Windows Vista

* New security check by ZoneAlarm for every site & application you download!
* New Tabbed downloading!
* Up to 400% faster downloads.
* Resume broken downloads!
* Preview files while you download.
* NEW and improved interface!
* Daily downloads recommended by DAP users!

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One of the ever-popular "for dummies" series targeted exclusively at project managers in the software industry. Learn how to keep your project on a path to success;

use Microsoft Project to manage tasks, resources, and progress; keep control of builds, bugs, and beta releases; apply Software Quality Assurance (SQA) testing; and create customer-care programs. Includes a CD with trial versions of Microsoft "RM" Project 2000 for plans, schedules, and Gantt charts; Soffront TRACK for defect tracking; Cost Xpert for estimating cost and resources; and templates for Microsoft "RM" Project, Word, Excel, and others.

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Do you take the shortest route instead of the side roads when you're trying to get somewhere? Do you choose the streamlined model instead of one loaded with gizmos and gadgets? Do you value ease over extras? WordPerfect 12 is practical software designed to help you create great-looking, readable documents. Whether you're a recent convert from longhand (welcome to the modern world) or a word processing pro, WordPerfect12 For Dummies covers what you need to know, including: The basics, like using menus and toolbars, saving, editing, and printing files, getting help, and more Editing and formatting text, adding page numbers, charts, cool fonts, borders, backgrounds, and more Using templates to make your life easier Creating envelopes and labels and doing multiple mailings Using the compatibility toolbars, Workspace Manager, Office Ready template browser, and wireless office capabilities Creating and integrating columns, tables and graphics Creating Web pages, Adobe Acrobat Documents, XML files, and even Microsoft Office documents Publishing your document as a Web Page WordPerfect12 For Dummies was written by Margaret Levine Young, David C. Kay, and Richard Wagner, all computer gurus who have written or contributed to other For Dummies books and numerous computer books. After it shows you how to do what you need to do, it inspires you to do things you probably didn't know you could do, such as: Changing Workspaces to the WordPerfect Legal mode if you need to create legal documents Choosing from 26 different tool bars to fit the way you work and what you're working on Using WordPerfect Office Ready for 40 additional templates Printing bar codes Using Microsoft Outlook contact information in Word Perfect First you'll get comfortable with WordPerfect 12, and then you'll get confident and want to explore more. Whether you are a beginner, need a quick refresher, or want to take advantage of the advanced functions, with its complete index, WordPerfect12 For Dummies will be the reference you rely on.

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Photo Collage Maker

Photo Collage Maker is digital scrapbooking and photo collage software. It allows you to create and print scrapbook layouts quickly and easily. Automate your work with compositions, enhance photos with effects, spice up your creation with borders, frames, backgrounds and clipart. When you are finished with your work you can save it as digital file (jpg, gif, tiff, etc.). And each masterpiece can printed over and over again. Photo Collage Maker makes it possible to arrange your favorite photos on a digital canvas without actually having to cut up real photo prints and glue them to poster board. Read more...

Media Show ProMedia Show Pro creates presentation in stand-alone .EXE file. Using a clean-looking, intuitive interface, you select pictures from any combination of folders on your system. Then press the "Make EXE" button. In just moments, you've produced an .exe file that, when run, displays the images with the options you've selected. Options let you specify automatic or manual sequencing, pick the timer interval, adjust font and background properties, and decide whether you want the sequence to run once and terminate or to repeat continuously. You can also add a MIDI, or MP3-based soundtrack. Read more...

Framing Studio

Framing Studio is a photo embellishment tool that allows you to add stunning photo frames and various border effects to digital images. Program's intuitive user interface allows you to use its features quickly and efficiently. This photo framing software supports cropping, resizing and rotating photos. You may also use special effects. The distribution kit includes more than 70 frames. Framing Studio contains flexible printing options. Read more...

Greeting Card Studio

Greeting Card Studio is an easy-to-use application that enables users to make high-quality greeting cards featuring their own family photos and text. The program comes packed with professionally designed templates and matching graphics. Just supply the paper, choose your desired design, open the design template, personalize and print!

You may also create your own unique design and enhance picture with effects, spice up your creation with borders, frames, backgrounds and clipart. Zoom, rotate, and flip the photo inside the card until it looks perfect. When you are finished with your work you can save it as digital file.

AMS Photo Effects

Photo Effects is a new program for processing photos with the help of various filters. With it, you can completely transform any image. The program allows you to use more than 50 effects, including both traditional and original ones. You will be able to take a look at your photos in the rain and snow, in fog and up in the sky, add some sun light to it or swirl it in a typhoon...
You can combine effects and create truly fantastic compositions. It is possible to apply the selected filters both to the entire image and to its parts highlighting the most important fragment of the photo. Photo Effects will help to decorate your home photo album, website and will even allow you to create an original greeting card.

Photo Effects makes it possible to not only process, but also decorate photos. It offers you more than 100 frames and masks that will decorate portraits, landscapes and even simple casual shots. It is important that you can apply effects both before and after you decorate a photo. Combining effects and frames is one of the main features of the program. For example, you can apply a classic frame and then use lighting effects to add realistic sunlight to its contour. Try to use this feature more often and you will see how pretty the images Photo Effects creates are.

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Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 is a Totally New Approach to Data Security

Product contains 6 main subsystems, and each of those includes basic protection components:
1) System watch. System watcher (all-in-one system for registering events).
- HIPS (host intrusion prevention system - proactive defense, which is based on limiting application actions on a system)
- PDM (system of proactive defense, which is based on application behavior analysis for malicious/suspicious activities)
- Firewall (personal protection screen)
2) Malware protection
- Protection of files and memory (File-Antivirus)
- Protection of email and IM (Mail-Antivirus)
- Protection of WEB (Web-Antivirus)
3) Online Security
- Protection from Phishing (Anti-Phishing)
- Protection against network attacks (IDS)
- Protection from auto-dialers (Anti-Dialer)
4) Content zxcing
- Spam zxcing (Anti-Spam)
- Banner zxcing (Anti-Banner)
- Parental Control
5) On Demand Scanning (Scan tasks)
6) Updater

The main feature of the application is restricting the programs’ rights to access the system resources. It helps prevent unwanted actions by suspicious and hazardous programs. The application’s capabilities in the protection of user’s confidential data have been considerably enhanced. The application now includes wizards and tools which substantially facilitate execution of specific computer protection tasks.

Let’s take closer look at the new features in Kaspersky Internet Security 2009:

New Protection Features:
:: Kaspersky Internet Security now includes Application Filtering component along with Proactive Defense and Firewall which implements a new universal approach to the system protection against any threats including existing threats and threats that are unknown at the moment. Kaspersky Internet Security now requires considerably less input from the user due to the use of lists of trusted applications (whitelisting).
:: Scanning of operating system and software for vulnerabilities with their subsequent elimination maintains a high system security level and prevents sneaking of hazardous programs into your system.
:: New wizards ? Security Analyzer and Browser Configuration facilitate the scanning for and elimination of security threats and vulnerabilities in the applications installed on your computer, operating system’s and browser settings.
:: Kaspersky Lab now reacts faster to the new threats due to the use of Kaspersky Security Network technology that gathers data about infection of users’ computers and sends it to Kaspersky Lab’s servers.
:: New tools ? Network Monitoring and Network Packet Analysis - facilitate collection and analysis of information about network activities on your computer.
:: New System Restore wizard helps fix system damages after malware attacks.

New confidential data protection features:
:: A new component Activity Filtering effectively monitors access to confidential data, user’s file and folders by applications.
:: Security of confidential data entered from the keyboard is ensured by a new tool Virtual keyboardVirtual keyboard.
:: Kaspersky Internet Security structure includes Privacy Cleaner Wizard which deletes from the user’s computer all information about his or her actions which can present an interest to intruders (list of visited websites, opened files, cookies, etc.).

New anti-spam features:
:: Efficiency of spam filtering by the Anti-Spam component has been increased due to the use of Recent Terms server technologies.
:: The use of Microsoft Office Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, The Bat! and Thunderbird extension plug-ins simplifies the process of configuring the anti-spam settings.
:: Revised Parental Control component allows effective restriction of undesirable access of some internet resources by children.

New protection features for internet use:
:: Protection against internet intruders has been upgraded due to the extended databases of phishing sites.
:: ICQ and MSN traffic scan has been added which ensures security while working with instant messengers.
:: Security of the use of wireless networks is ensured through the scan of Wi-Fi connections.

New program’s interface features
:: The new program’s interface reflects the comprehensive approach to information protection.
:: High information capacity of dialog boxes helps user quickly make decisions.
:: The functionality of reports and statistics information about the application’s operation has been extended.

The possibility of using filters allowing flexible setup when working with reports makes this product irreplaceable for professionals.

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CSI: NY is a crime drama, spun off from CSI: Miami and inspired by the Number One drama series, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, about forensic investigators who use high-tech science to follow the evidence and solve crimes in the Big Apple.
The New York CSIs may have a different process than those in Las Vegas or Miami, but they are guided by the same steadfast determination. These skilled investigators, who see New York in a different light, follow the evidence as they piece together clues and eliminate doubt to ultimately crack their cases.

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