WinRAR 4.00 Beta 5

The WinRAR application was developed to be a powerful compression tool with many integrated additional functions to help you organize your compressed archives.

WinRAR puts you ahead of the crowd when it comes to compression. By consistently creating smaller archives, WinRAR is often faster than the competition. This will save you disc space, transmission costs AND valuable working time as well.

WinRAR supports all popular compression formats (RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, Z and 7-Zip).

WinRAR is ideal for multimedia files. WinRAR automatically recognizes and selects the best compression method. The special compression algorithm compresses multimedia files, executables and object libraries particularly well.

WinRAR allows you to split archives into separate volumes easily, making it possible to save them on several disks for example.

WinRAR is also ideal, if you are sending data through the web. Its 128 bit password encryption and its authenticated signature technology will give you the peace of mind you have been looking for.

Features:

• WinRAR introduces an original compression algorithm. It provides high compression ratios on executable files, object libraries, large text files, etc.
• WinRAR offers an optional compression algorithm highly optimized for multimedia data.
• WinRAR supports files and archives up to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 bytes in size, about 9000PB. The number of archived files is unlimited for all practical purposes.
• WinRAR provides complete support for RAR and ZIP 2.0 archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, Z, 7Z archives.
• WinRAR supports NTFS file security and data streams.
• WinRAR offers both a classic interactive Windows interface and the command line interface.
• WinRAR provides functionality for creating a 'solid' archive, which can raise the compression ratio by 10% - 50% over more common methods, particularly when packing large numbers of small files.
• WinRAR offers the ability to create and change SFX archives using default and external SFX modules.
• WinRAR offers the ability to create a multi-volume archive as SFX.
• WinRAR offers a number of service functions, such as setting a password, adding archive and file comments. Even physically damaged archives may be repaired and an archive may be locked to prevent further changes.

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Folder Marker Home 3.1.0.0

Lets you change folder icon (mark folder) with color-coded and image-coded icon

Folder Marker Home is a powerful helper utility especially designed for home work. It enables you to quickly change folder color or mark folders to indicate priority (high, normal, low), level of project completeness (done, half-done, planned) by work status (approved, rejected, pending) and type of information stored in folder (work, important, temp and private files).

The icons in Folder Marker are self-explanatory and include many colors, dark and light colors, many categories, and they carry letters and numbers. Of course, the default set of icons can be expanded with the unlimited number of new icons that you have downloaded from the internet, or created in the icon editor yourself.

How to change folder icons in the Folder Marker's way? Select an icon from the right-click menu of a folder. That's it! Only one step to change a folder icon! Isn't that cool or what? Using Folder Marker Home couldn't be simpler.

The application's designers wanted to make the ability to change a folder icon or a folder color as painless as possible and they've done an outstanding job. Folder Marker is #1 folder color and icon changer in Internet!

Users can take advantage of great customization flexibility. You can, for example, modify a right-click menu of a folder by adding new menu items and categories and assigning icons to them.

The user can select to make folders, customized with Folder Marker Home, distributable. This means a color-coded icon remains unchanged even if the folder is copied onto a new computer or the system has been re-installed. Also, you can apply a selected icon for all subfolders in a given folder.

Folder Marker Home is a cute little desktop enhancement tool that's worth its virtual weight in the agony and frustration it may save you from when you find it difficult to find the folder you need. Many people use the program to change folder icons just because Folder Marker Home made it fun.

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DAEMON Tools Pro Advanced

DAEMON Tools Pro Advanced is the best product for optical media emulation.

All DAEMON Tools features are available in one solution — DAEMON Tools Pro Advanced.

Use full DAEMON Tools Pro functionality: create images using preset profiles, make necessary changes to image data if needed, compress data, split image files, protect your image information, burn to CD/DVD, emulate not only CD/DVD but also HD DVD and Blu-ray drives.

Plus get even more virtual CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray drives. With DAEMON Tools Pro Advanced you have ability to create 32 virtual devices.

With a special DAEMON Tools Pro Advanced feature users can emulate not only SCSI but also IDE devices.

Do you have collection of different disc images types where each has some specificity? Can’t you protect some images due to their format restrictions? Do you want all images in catalog to have a single format? — Convert your image files to new MDX (Media Data eXxtended) format. It is DAEMON Tools native format that allows you to use full program functionality. Feel free to use variety of tools and possibilities with MDX format for disc images.

DAEMON Tools Pro supports the following media types image files:
b5t (BlindWrite images)

1. b6t (BlindWrite images)
2. bwt (BlindRead images)
3. ccd (CloneCD images)
4. cdi (DiscJuggler images)
5. cue (Cue sheets)
6. iso (Standard ISO images)
7. mds (Media Descriptor Files)
8. nrg (Nero images)
9. pdi (Instant CD/DVD images)
10. isz (Compressed ISO images)

Features:

• Graphical user interface [GUI] - to make mounting of CD/DVD images and other operations more convenient
• Capability to make CD/DVD images to back up your data
• Command line interface
• SCSI adapter emulation
• CD/DVD Image mounting to virtual devices
• CD/DVD Image compression
• CD/DVD Image mounting to the physical folders
• CD/DVD Image password protection
• CD/DVD Image collection's management
• Shell Extensions
• System Tray Agent
• Virtual devices' properties monitoring
• Perpetual software license

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Use Wikipedia OFFLINE!!!

Wikipedia is a great encyclopedia and many of you use it every day. But what if you don’t have internet access, it is possible to use Wikipedia offline without internet connection? Yes, it is. Here’s how.

How To Download Wikipedia For Offline Use:

Important: There are many files on the “dump” sites, the file that you need is pages-articles.xml.bz

First, grab a copy of WikiTaxi (link given below), then head over to dumps.wikimedia.org and you can download the very simple wiki, which is a great choice if you are new to Wikitaxi, because it’s so small (less than 100MB). The full Wikipedia download can be more than 100GB of data.

Downloading the actual files for offline use is not so complicated. There are many downloads available: Wikipedia is also available as localized versions for different countries. So, what you want to do now to use Wikipedia offline is to go to “simplewiki” (full links below) click on the latest version (by date!) and download the file pages-articles.xml.bz2.

• http://dumps.wikimedia.org/simplewiki/

Importing Pages-Articles.xml.bz2:

Again: Download pages-articles.xml.bz2

1. Download pages-articles.xml.bz2 file if it’s done – simplewiki file is 61MB large (bz2).
2. Extract the simplewiki-xxx-articles.xml.bz2 file
3. Open WikiTaxi_Importer.exe in WikiTaxi_1.3.0 (included in download).
4. Click on Browse and locate the XML dump file that you downloaded from simplewiki, keep in mind it has to be the articles.xml.bz2 file!
5. Enter a path to the database file that we will create. You have to enter this MANUALLY, do NOT click on browse. Simply enter something like C:/Wikidatabase/simplewiki.taxi.
6. Select how much RAM you want to use to import the database. I used 524MB, but you can use more. It will only use that RAM to create the Wikipedia database for offline use.
7. Open WikiTaxi.exe (it’s in the same folder as WikiTaxi_Importer.exe, wherever you downloaded the program to
8. Click on Options, then on Open *.taxi Database …
9. Locate the database that we created in step 5. e.g. simplewiki.taxi
10. Done!
11. You can now search for whatever you want and use Wikipedia OFFLINE! Let’s do a search for Windows 7:

NOTE: Since, wikipedia is regularly updated. So, if you too want to be updated, download the latest ‘dump’ file.

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(THANKS TO sOliver)

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Total Video Converter 3.7

Total solution for the video conversion

Total Video Converter is a complete solution for video conversion which supports reading, playing all kinds of video and audio formats and converting them to the popular video formats.

Total Video Converter includes a powerful media conversion engine internally so that you can convert media files with very fast speed. Total Video Converter is very easy to use.

Total Video Converter supports generating the following file formats:

Video Formats:

• MPEG4(.mp4)
• 3GP(.3gp, 3g2)
• Game Psp(.psp)
• MPEG1(.mpg, mpeg)
• NTSC, PAL DVD mpeg
• NTSC, PAL SVCD mpeg
• NTSC, PAL VCD mpeg
• Ms Mpeg4 AVI(.avi)
• Divx AVI(.avi)
• Xvid AVI(.avi)
• H264 AVI(.avi)
• Mjpeg AVI(.avi)
• HuffYUV AVI(.avi)
• Swf Video(.swf)
• Flv Video (.flv)
• Gif Animation(.gif)
• Mpeg4 Mov(.mov)
• Apple Quicktime(.mov)
• FLIC format(.fli, .flc)
• Gif Animation(.gif)
• DV (.dv)

Audio Formats:

• MPEG audio(.mp3, mp2)
• Ms WAV(.wav)
• Ms WMA(.wma)
• OGG(.ogg)
• Amr audio(.amr)
• AC3(.ac3)

Features:

• Convert all kinds of videos to mobile videos or audios (mp4, 3gp, xvid, divx mpeg4 avi, amr audio) which are used by cell-phone, PDA, PSP, iPod, iPhone, Xbox360, PS3 etc.;
• Photos slide show combines multi-photos and musics with more than 300 photos fantasy transition effect;
• High compatibility and high efficiency for Importing RMVB or RM video/audio;
• Convert various videos to MPEG videos compatible with standard DVD/SVCD/VCD;
• Burn the converted videos to DVD/SVCD/VCD;
• Rip DVD to popular videos of all sorts;
• Extract audio from various of videos and convert which to all kinds of audios (mp3, ac3, ogg, wav, aac);
• RIP CD to audios of all sorts directly;
• Support using with command line;
• Combine several video and audio files to one video file;
• Demultiplex or extract video and audio;
• Multiplex video and audio to one file;

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Microsoft PDF Add-on

Overview by Microsoft:

This download allows you to export and save to the PDF format in eight 2007 Microsoft Office programs. It also allows you to send files as e-mail attachments in the PDF format in a subset of these programs. Specific features vary by program.

This Microsoft Save as PDF Add-in for 2007 Microsoft Office programs supplements and is subject to the license terms for the 2007 Microsoft Office system software.

Personal Review:

Personally, I have used this add-on and found it really useful. It is very simple to use. You don’t have to use pdf-printer applications. Just go to File->Save As-> (Select pdf in file type) Give Name and enter. Simple na!

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Classic Menu for Office 2007

 

Show Classic Menus and Toolbars on the Ribbon of Microsoft Office 2007

Classic Menu for Office 2007 is an application that display menus and toolbars of Office 2007.

Could not see the menus in the last version of MS Office? Just download and install this software, you will see and enjoy classic menus and toolbars of Office 2007(include Excel, Word and PowerPoint), as in the Office 2003/XP.

The familiar Office 2003 interface has been replaced by the Ribbon. It is cool and powerful, but many users can't find some of the features because they are hidden or moved to other places. If you install Classic Menu for Office 2007, these menus and toolbars will be retrieved and shown.

All new features items of Microsoft Office 2007 have been added into the classic menu and toolbars. You can add the menus and toolbars to Quick Access Toolbar, then you can minimize the Ribbon and finish all operations without Ribbon.

Features:

1. Easy to enable or disable the menus and toolbars.
2. Easy to install and uninstall.
3. Quickly find and execute the command that you need.
4. The Menus tab can be shown on the left of Home tab, or shown as the last tab.
5. Just press Alt-Q-Q, to use the familiar keyboard shortcuts to browse the whole menu.

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Microsoft Compatibility Pack for Office 2003

Read the MS Office 2007 files (*.docx/*.xlsx/*.pptx) in MS Office 2003 with ease!

Although it’s been more than 3 years since Microsoft launched the Office 2007. But still, there are many computers that are presently using MS Office 2003. In MS Office 2007, Microsoft had introduced a new format which includes an ‘x’ at the end of extension, e.g., ‘docx’ in MS Word etc. So, here comes the problem of most of the older computers: How to read MS Office 2007 file in MS Office 2003? The answer is simple! Install the Microsoft Compatibility Pack for Office 2003 and you can read/edit the MS Office 2007 file in MS Office 2003 with ease!

By installing the Compatibility Pack in addition to Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003, you will be permitted to open, edit, and save files using the file formats new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007.

The Compatibility Pack can also be used in conjunction with the Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003, Excel Viewer 2003, and PowerPoint Viewer 2003 to view files saved in these new formats.

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Folder Protect 1.8.8

Protect, hide, delete proof, write proof and block access your data

Folder Protect is a new concept in Data Security. It lets you password protect and set different access rights to your files, folders, drives, installed programs and popular extensions.

Folder Protect goes beyond normal file locking and encryption by letting you customize your security and choose between making files inaccessible, hidden, delete-proof or write-protected.

The program uses Windows Kernel level protection that even works in Safe Mode ensuring complete security of protected folders. You can lock, hide, access block and even prevent data from being deleted or modified. This can help you give access of your data to others without worrying about it getting deleted or modified.

Folder Protect can't be uninstalled without a correct password. Furthermore, the program can work in complete stealth and you can choose an idle time when the data gets protected automatically.

Folder Protect offers an easy and uncomplicated way to select security type and make your files inaccessible, hidden, write-protected and delete-proof by choosing No Access, No Visible, No Write and No Delete respectively. You can also set a combination of these protection types according to their needs; e.g. No Delete and No Write can be selected simultaneously to make your files delete-proof and write-protected.

Folder Protect's Masking Protection is another valuable feature that protects all popular extensions like *.avi, *.gif, *.jpeg, *.bmp, *.mp3, *.wmv, *.mpeg, *.doc and many more. It lets you protect all the files of a same format with a single mouse click.

Furthermore, Folder Protect's Context Menu allows you to password protect your files directly from the Windows Explorer without the need to start the program first.

Features:

• Data in Use Protection
• Access Protected Items
• Hide Files and Folders
• Maximum Protection
• Make your Data Loss-proof
• Make your Data Write-protected
• Stealth Mode Feature
• Auto-Protection

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Power System Analysis by John J. Grainger, William D. Stevenson (inc. Solutions)

Publisher's Note:

Based on William Stevenson's classic, Elements of Power System Analysis, this new senior/graduate text offers a completely modern update of this popular textbook. Covering such topics as power flow, power-system stability and transmission lines, the book teaches the fundamental topics of power system analysis accompanied by logical discussions and numerous examples.

When John Grainger began revising William Stevenson's classic Elements of Power System Analysis, he realized that a complete modernization was in order. By the time he finished, an entirely new book was written, re-titled Power System Analysis. Covering such topics as power flow, power system stability and transmission lines, Power System Analysis teaches the fundamental topics of power system analysis using logical discussions and numerous examples. The new chapter on power system state estimation incorporates the latest developments in the field, and the discussion of system control covers economic factors of line losses and penalty factors. The loyal following earned by Stevenson will surely enjoy the modern power system analysis presented here.

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NOTE: This download contains the book in PDF format as well as its solution manuals!!!

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Simpo PDF Converter Ultimate 1.1.5.0

A 6-in-1 PDF converter

Simpo PDF Converter Ultimate is a professional application designed to enable users to convert PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, Images and Text.

It supports batch conversion and you can easily convert PDF to Office in the fastest speed to save your time. With this allsided PDF converter, your PDF files can be converted to other formats with high output quality, images, graphic and tables will be preserved precisely.

Features:

• Best Convert PDF to Word Converter:
  When you convert PDF to Word with this PDF Converter Ultimate, all contents including origianl formmating, graphic objects and hyperlinks, even the tables could be reserved accurately from PDF to Word.
• Easy PDF to Excel Converter:
  You can easily convert PDF to Excel in two methods. If you want to extract only data tables, you can choose Partial method; or convert the whole PDF file to Excel with text content and number data preserved.
• Cute PDF to PowerPoint Converter:
  PDF Converter Ultimate allows you to convert PDF to PowerPoint to present your PDF files in PowerPoint slides show. It supports to convert each PDF page into a PowerPoint slide and you don't need to reformat the converted PowerPoint for presentation.
• Convert PDF to HTML with Bookmarks:
  If you want to view a PDF in HTML ebook format, just use this PDF converter to convert PDF to HTML for you. It enables you to use the PDF bookmarks and hyperlinks which is still active when converting to PowerPoint documents.
• Save PDF to Images in 5 Types Format:
  With Simpo PDF Converter Ultimate, you can extract the Images from PDF and save PDF to Images in 5 types - PDF to JPEG, PDF to TIFF, PDF to BMP, to PNG and to GIF, which are the 5 most often used images type can fulfill your need to save PDF to Images.
• Convert PDF to Plain Text:
  This PDF Converter Ultimate can extract plain text content from PDF to Text. So, just drag and drop a batch of PDF files to the PDF converter, all your PDF files are converted to plain text documents and you can reuse PDF text now.

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NOTE: This is the portable version. Just extract and use. No installation!

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