WinRAR is a powerful archive-creation utility that remains the only way to create .rar files.WinRAR can create multiple-volume archives (popular with file sharers) and use 128-bit AES encryption to password-protect them. Like most of its competition, it also has an option to hide file names inside an encrypted archive: someone without the password won’t even [...]
Skype has announced a new version of its chat software as it moves to simplifying finding friends and setting up the software to make calls for its 309 million registered users. The new software, version 4.0, adds a number of new features including greater support for more hardware, video and letting people connect with friends [...]
Opera is hoping to steal some of Firefox’s thunder, with a launch timed to fall just before the open-source darling’s version 3 unveiling. Like the new Firefox, Opera 9.5 (code-named Kestrel) has revamped its address bar, simplified its download dialog, improved content blocking, sped up performance, and tightened memory use. Its updated interface gives the [...]
Consumers who want a video editor that has an extensive, highly usable feature set, works fabulously, and can input and speedily output all relevant formats should look to CyberLink PowerDirector 7 Ultra. This version represents an impressive improvement in the quality of the app, which, in a series of versions, went from a mediocre [...]
Plug a security flaw that lets hackers delete files from your hard drive.A flaw in Windows XP allows files on an XP system to be deleted if the user clicks on a certain links–which could be distributed by e-mail or on a Web page. Windows XP Service Pack 1 patches this bug, which may be [...]
Years ago, there were numerous competing utilities designed to combine and compress files, both for easy distribution and for security. Each used its own proprietary file format and naturally each claimed to be the best. These days you’ll be hard-pressed to find a SEA file or an ARC file, but ZIP files are absolutely ubiquitous. [...]
This application features all of the screens used in the OS X System Preferences application. Selecting the appropriate item, you will access Leopard-Style pages - from where you will be able to configure your windows preferences.
Because of the actual Mac application is designed to configure the system, this emulation does NOT attempt to take over [...]
This application features all of the screens used in the OS X System Preferences application. Selecting the appropriate item, you will access Leopard-Style pages - from where you will be able to configure your windows preferences.
Because of the actual Mac application is designed to configure the system, this emulation does NOT attempt to take over [...]
This CD/DVD burning program is effective, but it’s limited to basic tasks.Most computers or optical drives ship with some sort of burning software bundled. Whether it’s Nero, Easy Media Creator, or something similar, most users won’t need anything else. However, if you bought your new drive bare, or for some other reason don’t have anything [...]
After some years of lagging behind the market, Lavasoft got its flagship Ad-Aware product back on track in 2007. Lavasoft’s new Ad-Aware 2008 Pro ($39.95 direct, available for sale May 21 at 6:00 AM Eastern Standard Time) adds antivirus protection, and the combined virus/spyware scan is seriously effective at cleaning up malware-infested systems. But its [...]
