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Bitcrowd.com has announced GetTubeVideo 2.0, a download manager for Windows OS, letting users download video from YouTube, or other video-sharing websites, convert it to a wealth of popular formats, including MP4 and 3GP, extract audio and play video. Now you can enjoy social video offline on your computer, or take it with you on a handheld, or cell phone whenever you go. Now you are truly one with your video and music.

Social Video Downloader for Home and Travel

Social video websites are one of the most popular of the Web 2.0 trends, and YouTube is apparently the largest archive of the kind. YouTube is used by actors, singers, politicians, promoters, and, of course, ordinary people to share professional or amateur movies, TV shows, cartoons, documentary or fiction, long and short, funny and shocking. But one problem with YouTube and most any other website is that you have to load and see all the videos in the browser online. And it could be a pain for the users with slow Internet, when you want to show video to someone else, it is a pain when you pay the bills for the consumed bandwidth. Fortunately, there is GetTubeVideo from Bitcrowd.com and it can save a day for you.

In terms of functionalities, GetTubeVideo is truly Jack of all trades. In just a single mouse click, it downloads video from YouTube, XTube, Google Video, or any other similar website - there are no restrictions. In case the program cannot find the video, you can select the needed file on your own from the ‘Page Items’ panel, showing all the files that can be downloaded from the page. Once the video is downloaded, you can convert it to other formats, including 3GP and MP4, which are good for cell phones and iPod, respectively.

Another best thing in GetTubeVideo is the ability to extract audio from video and save it as MP3, WAV, WMA. Needless to say that these formats are especially good for mobile devices, so you can upload your favorite song or music to a cell phone and listen to it on the move.

Included into the distribution package is a FLV Player, letting you watch YouTube FLV files.

Downloading video from YouTube is a breeze. Start GetTubeVideo, paste the URL of a video file, then click “Get Tube Video” and you are done!

GetTubeVideo is a lot of fun when you start using it.

Read more at www.bitcrowd.com.

BluestSoft, Inc. has announced DiskDeleter Pro 3.0.0, a Windows application that lets users erase hard drive data permanently. The new version allows the user to install DiskDeleter Pro onto up to 10 machines.

DiskDeleter Pro is pretty easy to use. Just download the utility from the BluestSoft website and run the execution file on any computer. In around 20 seconds, the program is able to erase 1 GB of hard disk data, including the Windows operating system. DiskDeleter runs faster and more reliably than any similar software because it is designed based on BIOS, which accesses hard drive directly without using any drivers. To ensure a secure and clean operation, DiskDeleter Pro uses a special erasing method based on the US Department of Defense DOD5220.22-M data clearing and sanitizing directive. The data previously contained on the hard disk is rendered completely unrecoverable even for the most advanced recovery software.

Another amazing function in DiskDeleter Pro is saving the delete report on the hard drive. It may be helpful when you erase data on the hard drive and take it to somewhere where there is no way to check if the data has been erased or not.

DiskDeleter Pro comes in very handy not only for home users who want to erase their personal information before selling or disposing of the aging hardware but also for enterprises that, for example, keep financial information about their clients on hard disks. In many countries, there’s a law regarding accurate credit transactions that requires businesses that possess or keep consumer personal information for a business purpose to take measures to protect against unauthorized access to the information. Consumer credit and personal information must be destroyed, and DiskDeleter Pro can help enterprises do it well.

If you store sensitive data on hard disk drives and you have a need to totally destroy it from time to time or before selling the computer, there’s no better way to insure the most secure and fast destruction than by using DiskDeleter Pro from BluestSoft. It is $39.95, including DiskDeleter CD (a CD bootable version) and DiskDeleter Floppy (a floppy bootable version).

Read more at www.bluestsoft.com

Oxygen Software has announced the availability of Oxygen Forensic Suite 2, which is designed for forensic extraction of electronic evidence from cell phones, smartphones and other mobile devices. The tool is intended for law enforcement officers, computer forensic examiners, corporate and private investigators. The users of the suite may have minimal computer skills and may be new to the field of mobile phone forensics.

Oxygen Forensic Suite 2 enables forensic extraction of electronic evidence from cell phones

Oxygen Forensic Suite extracts all possible data from the device memory, including the SIM card, contacts list with all contact fields; incoming/outgoing/missed calls; receive and delivery reports log; GPRS traffic counters log; calendar events; SMS, MMS, E-mail messages; multimedia (photos, pictures, videos, melodies, text documents, applications); voice records; Life Blog. You can see the deleted messages that have not been written over. The amount of extracted data depends on the model of the phone. The software extracts data in the forensically sound manner without altering it in anyway so it can be presented as evidence in court.

A built-in interface for exploring and analyzing data distinguishes Oxygen Forensic Suite from competitors that only read HEX memory dump and then the investigator must analyze it manually, which is very inconvenient and takes quite some time. With Oxygen software, all evidence can be explored in one window: you can see the phone properties, case details, its status and much more. For archiving purposes, it’s possible to export retrieved data to most common formats, such as Microsoft Excel, PDF, RTF, or print reports to paper. You can make a snapshot of the data from the seized device and load it to another copy of the program installed on the remote computer.

The program has a powerful built-in search engine that allows you to search through all retrieved data quickly and find the necessary information in seconds. The search results are saved between sessions.

Oxygen Forensic Suite supports and parses more than 500 of the most common mobile devices from Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung, RIM (Blackberry smartphones) plus Windows Mobile 5/6 smartphones and communicators, with more devices being added on a regular basis.

Top 5 new benefits of Oxygen Forensic Suite 2

Building on the success of the previous version, Oxygen Forensic Suite 2 delivers many new features and benefits that can help investigators collect digital evidence more efficiently.

• The suite integrates the power of two versions of Oxygen Forensic Suite: the one for Nokia phones, the other for smartphones powered by Symbian OS.
• The suite acquires data from smartphones and communicators powered by Windows Mobile 5/6 without the need for ActiveSync (the latter may potentially modify the data).
• Blackberry smartphones produced by RIM are added to the list of supported devices.
• The suite introduces a smart search for all data associated with a specific contact, including calls, SMS and MMS messages, calendar events, etc.
• The suite has a single database to store all the data from smartphones, which is convenient for searching throughout the database.
• The suite reads Nokia LifeBlog that records all main events happening with the phone, as well as their geographic coordinates.

“We are proud to be at the cutting edge of the forensics market, and I believe we have exceeded the expectations of the customers with this latest release,” says Nike Golubev, PR Officer, Oxygen Software. “Oxygen Forensic Suite has been the tool of choice for forensic investigators for quite some time. Now its second generation takes performance to the next level by extending the tool’s applicability to challenges faced by forensics professionals.”

Read more at http://www.oxygen-forensic.com

Jasob.com has announced Jasob JavaScript and CSS Obfuscator 3.1, a new update of the popular tool, enabling JavaScript and CSS driven webpages to be compressed and obfuscated into supertight, bandwidth-optimized code.

When the web code is not optimized, it makes your visitors waste bandwidth and wait longer for the page to load. Besides, it makes your hard work easy to steal and reverse engineer. Jasob software is designed to help you meet these challenges. Featuring several compression technologies such as comment removal, whitespace stripping, newline stripping and variable substitution, Jasob obfuscator can reduce the overall size of the code by 70% (according to internal tests), making pages extremely quick to load in browsers. Obfuscated code also becomes less transparent and even impossible to understand for hackers.

The mechanism of obfuscation is pretty simple. The obfuscator parses files with JavaScript code and replaces descriptive variable and function names, such as ‘Customer’, ‘Salary’, ‘FirstName’ with meaningless names: ‘d’, ‘g’, ‘m’. It also removes comments and unnecessary whitespace characters (space, tab, carriage return, line feed). The functionality of the code remains the same but source code changes dramatically. The same mechanism is used to compress and protect Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) code.

Jasob’s compression engine is intelligent in the meaning that it has language syntax, statement and keyword awareness and it optimizes code flawlessly even without breaking sloppy code with intermittent semicolon usage and other common errors.

The product is reliable and adopted by many companies worldwide, including Cisco Systems, Autodesk, Saxo Bank A/S, Swisscom AG/ Innovations and many others.

Jasob JavaScript and CSS Obfuscator 3.1 includes many new changes added to its functional core since the last major release (information about all changes is available at www.jasob.com). The newly updated version of the product (3.1) allows users to specify maximum number of characters each line in the obfuscated code can contain.

Luxand offers the owners of photo-sharing and dating websites a new type of search engine that relies on the latest facial recognition technology to find photos of people and organize them for quick retrieval.

New Photo Search Engine for Photosharing Websites

Luxand has announced Luxand Face SDK 1.7, a unique facial-mapping engine that enables a website to find people by faces. Until recently, most searches worked by searching the text description surrounding the photo or the meta data. The engine from Luxand uses the latest face recognition technology to find all photos with the same person by the face, rather than words.To enable the facial search, the library scans and indexes all faces found in the photographs on the website. Then when the user wants to find someone, he needs to upload a photograph with this person to the website and the engine goes to work. It analyses the uploaded photo, detects the face, extracts its feature characteristics and matches them against thousands of other photographs in the picture database. In a matter of a few seconds, the engine displays all images, in which that exact person was found.

Unique to the Luxand’s engine is its outstanding matching accuracy. Unlike similar technologies, the library matches every single feature of the person’s face with its counterpart on the photographs from the database. The comparison accuracy of the algorithm has been checked in FERET tests and found to be the best in the category as compared to the face recognition implemented in competing commercial systems.

In addition to the facial search, the algorithm can be used to organize a large collection of photos by automatically tagging all the pictures where it finds one and the same person. The user simply needs to upload a photo and tell who the person is in this image. Then the algorithm will find all other pictures where this individual appears and tag them automatically. Automatic tagging is a great time saver for users who share hundreds of photos online as there’ll be no need for them to spend time adding tags manually.

“Our engine is an incredibly useful tool for anyone who needs to find the person but doesn’t know the name or cannot find him by textual queries,” says Alex Konoplev, CEO of Luxand. “Automatic labeling of photos using face recognition is also a great feature for the users of photo-sharing, dating or social sites like Facebook or MySpace, who demand more creative and easy ways to share and enjoy their photos with others.”

Luxand FaceSDK 1.7 is cross-platform and available for Windows, Linux and Macintosh. For more information about the product, technical details about its implementation and advice, visit http://www.luxand.com/facesdk/.

Perpetuum Software has announced the availability of .Net ModelKit Suite 3.8, a suite of four components that enable .NET developers to create BI applications for reporting, data processing and visualization. Tight integration between components of the suite ensures fluidity in every aspect of your workflow, providing similar design-time and runtime customization facilities, common data management and appearance customization. All suite components are written in C# and contain only 100% managed code.

Create Business Intelligence Applications for Reporting, Data Processing and Visualization

The suite combines new versions of OLAP ModelKit^TM and Report Sharp-Shooter^TM, the use-proven Business Intelligence components for intelligent data handling and feature-rich presentation. Another component is the Instrumentation ModelKit^TM which is ideal for creating digital dashboards and KPI, offering an unmatched collection of over 130 ready-made gauges and other visual controls. Also included in .Net ModelKit Suite is the Chart ModelKit component which is designed for creating interactive charts and graphs. The components delivered in the suite minimize the coding required and provide full design-time customization.

Top 5 new benefits of .Net ModelKit Suite 3.8

The suite has been evolving over the last two years and has seen many technological improvements. The following is an overview of just some of the many exciting features and benefits you’ll find in .Net ModelKit Suite.

#1: Work with the latest Microsoft tools - Experience a new level of performance and speed using the .Net ModelKit Suite components with Visual Studio 2008.

#2: Expand your reporting with new amazing abilities - Report Sharp-Shooter offers QR Barcode, which is very popular in Japan due to its efficient encoding of Kanji characters.

#3: Reduce time for templates development - Reports Sharp-Shooter offers master style support that eliminates the need to duplicate styles. Now, styles specified in the master report are available in sub reports, and they can be assigned to any report element. The unified style of master reports and sub reports makes your reporting system more professional.

# 4: Evaluate the product with new attractive samples - New to this version is a set of sample charts and gauges with attractive styles for Instrumentation ModelKit and Chart ModelKit.

#5: Enjoy efficient application development - The re-designed user interface in all designers and viewers, new icons on the toolbars make your application even more professional.

Find out more at www.perpetuumsoft.com

MagneticSoft today announces the availability of Folder Castle 4.0, the major update of the popular security tool for protecting computer files and folders from snoops and thieves.

Protect your personal files and folders from curious people

In version 4.0, MagneticSoft has introduced an additional layer of protection against network snoops. Now users can be sure no one can ever see their hidden files if they are stored in shared folders, for example, My Documents. The other major change is an automatic check for updates. When this option is enabled, the program will go online to check for a new update automatically. Checks can be set to run every day, week or month. If an update is available, the user clicks the Download button and downloads the installer. Additionally, one can check for an update manually at any time simply by clicking the Check Now link in the Preferences window.

Folder Castle lets the user conceal personal folders or files so that other people who can log on the same computer do not have any idea that something is hidden away. In case of confidential or particularly sensitive documents, the program allows the user to go one step further and drag and drop files into a secure locker, which works as a mountable virtual drive with on-the-fly 256-bit AES encryption. This locker can be created anywhere on the local hard drive, or a USB stick if one wants to take the files with him to the office or any other place he is going to. Once the files are in the locker, they cannot be seen or accessed unless the user provides a valid password.

Who can benefit from Folder Castle?

Folder Castle can benefit almost anyone who has to share the computer with other people and wants to keep some files private. The following is a short overview of its benefits for different people.

• Students. Most students live with one or two roommates in an apartment or dorm. That’s not to mention about many other people who visit them, their roommates or simply hang around. Besides, most campuses have a local network, so that students can browse the Web, chat, play and share local resources with each other. Roommates and campus networks often represent a security threat - some geek may get access to the computer of the victim to snoop around for personal information. Therefore, it’s a good idea to use Folder Castle to protect private documents, photos and video from prying eyes.

• Office workers. Protection of confidential documents is the important first step in keeping the computer safe at work. The biggest risk comes from co-workers who share the same computer and the IT people charged with maintaining a corporate computer system. Folder Castle installed on the office machine will prevent co-workers, IT people or anyone else with a physical access to the computer or the administrative password from browsing through the sensitive files, documents, or projects. This data could be stolen or used against the owner if it remains unprotected on a shared corporate computer.

• Home users. Home computers often become a target of hacker attacks. Anything of value is for grabs - financial information, bank account details, personal letters and even more intimate data like private photos and video. Then there are kids and spouses who may accidentally stumble on some personal files they are not supposed to see. Folder Castle is the best way to ensure that sensitive and confidential information will not fall into the wrong hands. In just a few clicks, one can hide and encrypt personal data so that no one finds it. It’ll safeguard the user from the pain of discovery and restore his peace of mind.

Available now, Folder Castle costs $39.95 (USD). A free trial is available.

Read more at http://www.magneticsoft.com/.

Do you know how to avoid getting caught in the financial crisis? This question addresses one of the biggest fears most everyone has today. If giants like Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers get shaken to their foundations, how can an average person resist getting caught? The answer is simple: spend less than you earn. The era of blithe consumerism is coming to an end, and we should prepare for lean times. It’s time to keep track of all income and expenses and cut down unnecessary expenditures.

Personal Finances will help you survive the financial crisis and step into better times!

Part of the survival strategy is organizing your financial life using a good personal finance manager. It will help you to see where your money goes without the hassle of doing everything manually. There are many money management tools out on the market today. One of them is Personal Finances.

Overview

Personal Finances is a personal finance manager that will help you to control your budget better than ever. With a glance at its summary view and reports, you will understand where your money goes, pinpoint areas of excessive expenditure and cut down unnecessary expenses. The program also provides future planning you can project expected spending and income and find out how much money you will have at a future date.

Personal Finances puts the financial details, tools and options that matter most to you up front.

The program is ideal for beginners as it keeps budget management simple and intuitive. The program has a simple, uncluttered interface and a lack of advanced features, which are rarely used by ordinary users. For example, Personal Finances has no college or retirement planner. However, when it comes to managing financial accounts, designing and tracking a family budget, the program outshines many others.

Getting started with Personal Finances is a matter of a few minutes. Simply click around to familiarize yourself with the functionality and refer to the program help file if there’s anything you do not understand at first glance.

You’ll also be pleased to discover no advertising “bells and whistles” that could be found in other money management software. Personal Finances is calm and keeps you that way as you focus on organizing your budget.

Getting Around the Interface

When you run the program, it opens into the main window that puts the financial details, tools and options that matter most to you up front. At the top of the window you can see the main commands. A list of transactions - income and expenses - is displayed in the central area of the window and all accounts are in the left area. The icons at the top of the main window let you quickly go to any part of the program, create an account, category, view calendar and create reports. In the left area, there are buttons that let you add, edit or delete transactions.

There are two views for transactions - Account and Summary. By default, the program opens into the Account tab where you can see the transactions associated with a particular account. However you can click on the Summary tab and see all the transactions, regardless of the account they are associated with.

Setting Up Accounts

Accounts in Personal Finance describe where money comes from. The program supports different accounts, such as real bank account, credit card, cash and pocket money. Setting up an account is a breeze to do. Click on the Accounts icon at the top of the main window, click the Add button, then enter the properties of a new account - name, currency, comment. Personal Finances also allows you to set up an account budget for any period of time, so that the user doesn’t overspend. Existing accounts can be edited or deleted.

Entering Transactions

Entering transactions is just as easy. It requires a click on the Add button in the right area of the main window. In the dialog that opens, you need to select the type of transaction - income, expense or transfer between accounts, then enter all details associated with this transaction such as the account, amount of money, and date that will appear on the calendar or in the list of transactions that are due. Transactions can be defined with categories, family members, and tags. Tags provide a way to differentiate between similar transactions that fall into the same category. Categorization by family members will tell you about spending habits of each member of your family.

Transactions can be scheduled, which makes Personal Finance very handy for repeating transactions - tax payments, electricity bills, etc. The frequency for which you can set up a scheduled transaction is weekly, monthly, and annually. When the due date for the scheduled transaction comes, you should select the transaction in the scheduler list, right-click its record and select the Apply Now option to enter the scheduled transaction into the account used to pay the bill. You should also remember to make this payment in the physical world.

Reporting

Personal Finances helps you to understand the flow of your money and control expenditures with handy graphs and reports. You can see the reports generated by categories, family members and tags. Clicking on any item in the report you can drill down to transactions associated with the item. You can generate reports that cover any period of time. Results can be printed out or saved to HTML, CHM, or TXT.

Security

For your peace of mind, Personal Finances allows you to protect the budget database with a password so that no one will get access to your confidential financial information except you.

Portability

If you want to keep tabs on your budget on the move, you can get a portable version of Personal Finances that will run from a USB flash drive. The program can be run from any computer, without leaving any tracks behind.

Personal Finances has a free version and a full-featured commercial version with a 30-day free trial, so you can download the program to see if it will meet your personal finance management needs.

Keeping a budget with Personal Finances provides big benefits in the form of savings and elimination of unnecessary expenses. This will definitely help you to survive the financial crisis and step into better times.

Read more or download Personal Finances at http://www.financessoftware.com/

New e-library and e-book creation package from SunRav Software lets you enjoy the fluid e-library creation and maintenance experience from concept to completion.

Enjoy a new e-library and e-book creation package

SunRav Software announces the integrated package of two products that addresses the growing demand of colleges and universities for the online e-learning - SunRav BookOffice.WEB 2.0. The package is comprised of two components: BookEditor.WEB and BookOffice.WEB that let you create electronic books and documents in XLS or HTML, set up a web-based library and provide instant online access to your e-books.

“The goal of SunRav BookOffice.WEB is to help consumers in content-heavy environments such as education to create and deliver effective learning content in the e-book format and provide students with access to e-books online through the e-library,” says Ravil Sungatulin, CEO of SunRav Software. With SunRav BookOffice, you don’t have to worry about intricate code and high costs of outsource. Now, anyone can set up a powerful e-library with a minimum amount of effort and technical knowledge. Our product is also ideal for creating a single point of reference information in the enterprise. You can put technical reference materials, sales documents and other information that employees often require into e-books and set up an enterprise-wide reference library online.”

WHY SUNRAV BOOKOFFICE 2.0 IS GOOD FOR YOU?

- Create multimedia rich e-books quickly and easily - SunRav BookEditor offers modern word processing options with sophisticated yet intuitive e-book layout design that enable professionals and amateurs alike to produce multimedia rich electronic textbooks, manuals and documentation right out of the box. Quickly create chapters, indexes, pages, add text, tables, pictures, hyperlinks and spice it all up with audio, video, GIF animations, and Flash movies for a richer experience. The choice of editing options is so great that you can even create various types of tests! Once everything’s done, you can export the project to the format of your choice: CHM or HTML.

- Deliver e-books to anyone, anytime, anywhere - Create an e-library or a distant learning center using a set of PHP scripts - SunRav BookOffice.WEB. Make your electronic textbooks, technical manuals and tests immediately accessible to thousands of users in the Web. There are no limitations on the number of e-books to upload to the e-library and members who can access the e-library. Installation of the scripts is a breeze to do. The installation wizard will guide you through the installation without complexities.

- Stay in full control of the e-library and members - Take advantage of the intuitive, yet powerful admin center. In just a few clicks, register new members, create member groups and add members to groups. With the same point-and-click simplicity, you can set up courses, upload e-books, add them to courses and enroll member groups to courses. The flexible system of permissions lets you specify permissions and access rights for a particular member group - enable its members to read e-books, run tests, and more.

Enjoy the fluid e-library creation and maintenance experience from concept to completion!

More detailed information can be found at http://www.sunrav.com/.

Eterlab today announces EyeDefender, a freeware rest reminder designed to prevent Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) resulting from working on a computer for hours. CVS symptoms include eyestrain, blurred vision, delayed focusing, headaches, back and neck aches, dry and burning eyes.

EyeDefender will help you avoid eye strain

CVS is impossible to get rid of but you can reduce most of its symptoms. The recommendation is simple - take a short rest break from your computer every hour. The difficulty lies in scheduling a regular break and keeping to it. That’s where EyeDefender can help you. It’ll remind you to take a break and relax eyes at fixed intervals.

Once installed, EyeDefender sits in the system tray and displays the time left until the next break. When the time for a break comes, the program does one of the following:

• Displays a predefined picture;
• Runs the visual training to relax the eyes;
• Runs a default screensaver;
• Displays a popup timed reminder in the system tray.

EyeDefender can also help you prevent other problems related to computer use, which require a computer user to take short breaks. These problems include Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) or Occupational Overuse Syndrome (OOS), also known in the USA as Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) and in Europe - Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSD).

Read more at http://eterlab.com/eyedefender/