APOD Wallpaper is an application to update the Windows desktop wallpaper from the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) web site. The APOD site has cool pictures of stars, nebula, galaxies, space missions, and planets along with descriptions like the one below. The APOD WallPaper application changes the Windows desktop wallpaper everyday so that you don’t miss any of the APOD images.
4Media iPod Video Converter is powerful and useful iPod video converter. It helps you to convert all popular video formats such as AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV, MP4, VOB, DivX, XviD to iPod MP4 video; and convert MP3, AC3, AAC audio files to iPod MP3, M4A. Furthermore it supports iPod 30GB and 80GB and iPod touch with resolution of 640 by 480 pixels for MPEG-4 Video. 4Media iPod Video Converter has the following features: It provides super fast conversion speed. It supports multithreading and batch conversion.
System Monitor is designed to monitor and manage Microsoft Windows computers on a network. It can monitor the usage of CPU, Memory, Disk Drives and Network Adapters and notify you when a certain resource exceeds a certain value.
You can set it up to log events and create usage reports to databases located anywhere on your network. You can also search remote computers for files, folders or running processes and delete or terminate these with ease.
After you install the program, it will automatically connect to any network drives you specify, storing your passwords in an encrypted format on your computer, so if your login onto windows is password protected, that will be the only password you’ll need to remember. Just run the program, and it instantly shows you the network connections you’ve set up. You can also directly map a network location to a drive letter if required.
Even better, the program doesn’t litter your screen with a pop-up thats winking at you from the taskbar. The program connects to the network, and then exits, letting your computer get on with the job you want it to. To add a new connection, just double click a blank area, and enter the details of the connection. Its as simple as that.
The program scans hardware and software configuration of network computers, generates various reports, tracks and displays hardware and software changes. Find network computers and add them to the inventory database. View remote computers’ hardware configuration. Find out which processors are running in network computers, how much memory is installed, who uses flash drives (iPods, etc.). View remote computers’ software configuration. Get information on installed software (including information on operating system, hotfixes, and programs included in the startup). Generate and save reports in Ms Word, MS Excel, HTML, text file formats.
A free multi-threaded IP and NetBIOS scanner with a modern interface and several advanced features. It is intended for both system administrators and users who are interested in computer security. The program pings computers, scans for listening TCP ports and shows what types of resources are shared on a network (including system and hidden). In addition, it allows you to mount shared resources as network drives, browse them using Windows Explorer, filter the results list and more. SoftPerfect Network Scanner can also check for a user-defined port and report if it is found open, resolve host names and auto-detect your local IP range.
A set of free 32-bit and 64-bit codecs that enable full support for raw image formats from 12 manufacturers, covering 300 digital cameras in Windows 7, Vista and XP. Provides thumbnail support in Windows Explorer, along with viewing and slideshows in Photo Gallery / Photo Viewer and Window 7’s Media Center. Also enables image metadata display and search integration.
Additionally, all applications based on the .NET Framework 3.x or based on Windows Presentation Foundation, along with all other WIC-enabled application gain the ability to open and view raw files.
Despite its simplicity, this application offers all the features necessary for securing your sensitive information. The straightforward interface lets you drag and drop folders and files into a password-protected archive that you can place anywhere on your PC.
SmartEncryptor gives you two secure algorithms for locking down files and it can automatically delete the source file for additional safety. When we performed the latter action, we were glad to find several shredding methods, including a governmental standard. In our tests, this utility performed quickly, securing 600MB of data in just a few minutes.
The downside to this speed is your PC’s overall performance may take a hit while SmartEncryptor is running. Still, we feel comfortable recommending this application to folks dealing with even the most top-secret data.
Guardian Password Manager is a program made to keep your passwords safe. You might have a lot of passwords to remember, for every site you have an account on, every mail you have, you might also have software licenses that you do not want to lost. Here comes Guardian Password Manager: you can store all your passwords, so you won’t have to remember them all. In case security is your problem, and you do not one anyone to break into you accounts, Guardian also has a password generator that can create you a completely customizable random password, so that nobody can hack into your accounts unless he has your Guardian Password Manager account’s password. That would be the only password that you will ever need to remember, with Guardian Password Manager.
A1 Website Analyzer provides users with a way to see how a Web site operates, especially its HTML. Although the program takes a while to compile data, the impressive results are worth it.
This program is not a work of art by any stretch of the imagination thanks to tons of white space and tabs, but the navigation is intuitive. Some of the terminology used will only be familiar to those who have researched computers, so a trip to the Help file is a good idea for novices. The program’s functionality was fairly simple, but very slow. Users input any Web site they would like to see and the program easily scans it. Small personal pages were interpreted instantly, while larger news sites with a lot of content took several minutes. The Web site analysis was the best part of the program, allowing users to take a close look at the page. From the number of images, HTML errors, and the actual HTML code that comprises the site, users can shuffle through and learn from all this information.
A1 Website Analyzer is so focused on its functionality that it doesn’t offer much in the way of special features. Users can operate the program in one of a dozen languages. You have 30 days to give the program a try. While it takes a few minutes to finish, this program is a great download for users looking to understand how their favorite Web sites work.