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IntelliProtector.com today announces the official launch of its new software licensing and activation service. Targeting small and medium-sized shareware companies, IntelliProtector.com offers them a convenient online platform to control license management process and activation, as well as a wide range of anti-piracy features in the desktop protection client to prevent a form of theft known as casual copying.

Activation and licensing services for shareware developers

Casual copying is the unauthorized copying or distribution of copyrighted software. It is characterized by sharing and installing multiple copies of the product onto home and office computers, which infringes on the software’s end-user license agreement. Casual copying is very widespread today and accounts for a large portion of the economic losses in the shareware industry. According to the findings of the fifth annual study conducted by the Business Software Alliance and International Data Corporation, the worldwide software piracy rate in 2007 increased by 3 percentage points to 38%, leading to nearly $48 billion of lost revenues for software vendors.

All shareware developers are looking for effective ways to secure their software from pirates and ensure a smooth licensing and activation experience for end users. IntelliProtector’s licensing and activation service gives software vendors the confidence to securely distribute their products online and manage software license usage with ease.

With IntelliProtector services, shareware vendors can:

• Achieve rock-solid protection against piracy through encryption of software code, internet activation and delivery of the license code to the end user. IntelliProtector provides the vendor with many customizable hardware binding properties and anti-crack settings to protect software products from piracy and eliminate its unauthorized use with a minimal impact on licensed users.

• Create time-limited or feature-limited trials. Lock up a license code automatically if there are too many attempts to activate the product using one license code.

• Integrate licensing and activation with almost all popular registration services, such as Regnow, 2Checkout, BMTMicro, Plimus, Swreg, Emetrix and ShareIt.

• Track license codes, manage and search for orders, manage account information, buy extra services, submit tickets to the technical support and do many other operations from a single “command center” - the IntelliProtector online panel.

• Gain insight into software usage and fine tune marketing efforts with summarized or detailed statistics delivered in various reports and charts.

• Put software in the hands of more customers with the help of resellers. Enable resellers to generate license codes for the software and monitor this process.

“We are very delighted to be launching our brainchild - IntelliProtector.com and hope it will be a success,” says Serge S. Levin, CEO of IntelliProtector.com. We have a knowledgeable, energetic team to support this project, and our programmers are dedicated to delivering world-class licensing and activation services focused on making our customers successful. We are open for business and looking ahead toward an inspiring future.”

IntelliProtector services are available today.

Read more at www.intelliprotector.com

Now you can turn your wait time into a quick escape watching YouTube video and music anywhere, assuming you have an iPhone, iPod, PSP, MP3 Player or a cell phone. You should also have YouTube Music Downloader to download YouTube clips to the portable device.

YouTubeMusicSoft.com today announces YouTube Music Downloader 1.1, a wizard-driven download manager specifically designed to download video from YouTube and do the conversion to a desirable format, including the portable ones. With YouTube Music Downloader, you’ll watch favorite video and listen to music anywhere.

YouTube Music Downloader makes the process of downloading video from YouTube as simple as it gets. All you do is find the video you want to save in the built-in browser, copy and paste its URL into the Add New Video wizard, choose the output settings and hit the Download button. Or, you can browse to the video clip in your web-browser and drag and drop the link onto the program’s floating dropzone. It doesn’t get much easier than this! The program allows you to download more than one video simultaneously and resumes the download if it’s disrupted by lost internet connection. Once the video is on the computer, you can watch it when you want in the offline mode without paying a penny for bandwidth.

The output can be set for conversion to the format of choice, such as AVI, WMV, MOV, MP3, MP4, or 3GP. You can fine tune audio and video parameters, such as video bitrate, frame rate, audio rate, screen size, audio bitrate and channel. Once downloaded, the video is ready for playback on the local computer or portable players including Apple’s iPod, Microsoft Zune and many other brands and models of portable devices, MP3 players and cell phones.

Take YouTube’s Music and Video on the Road

The following is an overview of just a few of the endless possible applications and benefits you’ll gain by choosing YouTube Music Downloader.

- Learn languages on the go - Want to learn a foreign language but have no time to do it in the classroom? No problem. Download language lessons from YouTube and learn vocabulary and grammar on your PDA, PSP, iPhone, or cell phone.

- Get in shape with MP3 songs - Want to do jogging to your favorite songs? Nothing is simpler! Use YouTube Music Downloader to offload and convert music video to MP3. Load the records to your MP3 player and get in shape with your favorite MP3 songs!

- Entertain yourself on the road - Bored on a lunch break or a cross-country flight? Now you can turn your wait time into a quick escape. Download funny videos, movies, music clips from YouTube onto a cell phone and watch them right in the palm of your hand.

Available now, YouTube Music Downloader 1.1 costs $29.95. The product runs on Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 2000 and requires DirectX 8.0 or higher. A trial version is available.

Read more at www.youtubemusicdownloader.com

Innovative Solutions today announces Advanced Uninstaller PRO 9.0. This is a major upgrade to its popular “junkbuster” software for boosting PC performance without hardware upgrades. Now, users can enjoy a totally new interface, better speed and full support for Windows Vista.

Computers become outdated in a year or two. If it takes longer to load Windows, browse the sites and run applications, it’s probably the time for you to buy a few hardware upgrades or even a new machine. However in most cases a good old cleaning you give your system may be enough to solve a performance problem and save hundreds of dollars, pounds, marks, you could throw at a “hardware” solution.

Advanced Uninstaller PRO 9.0 will help you to clean the clogging junk out of Windows and applications to make your machine run better than it does now. Priced at only $39, the software integrates over 20 different modules into a simple, nice-looking interface. Each of these modules starts with a wizard, making cleaning easy to do even for inexperienced users. Below are just a few “junkbusting” operations from the arsenal of Advanced Uninstaller PRO that will help you to put off buying new hardware upgrades for months if not for years.

• Scrub out Uninstall Junk - The problem with the uninstaller in Windows is that it relies on the vendor’s uninstall routine. As a result, bits and pieces of the uninstalled applications may remain on your computer. It can be a couple of entries in the registry or a folder full of junk files. Advanced Uninstaller PRO scrubs your system clean when uninstalling a program. It uses the proprietary Monitored Installation technology to record a log of all the actions a new program does on the computer during the installation and then relies on it to uninstall the application without any leftovers.

• Clean out the Registry - Over time, your registry gets fragmented and cluttered with useless or erroneous entries - deleted files and programs, orphaned shortcuts, etc. The larger the registry, the longer your computer takes to boot and applications to launch. Advanced Uninstaller PRO can do a through job scanning your registry and repair all broken entries. It will also help you to defrag and compress the registry to make applications and Windows run faster. The best results are achieved on slow computers.

• Erase Browser and PC Usage Junk - The junk that comes as a result of installing and uninstalling applications, using them and surfing the Web clogs up the hard disk space, harms computer performance and causes frequent system crashes. What makes matters even worse is that this junk contains some personal data about you and your computer habits that can be found by anyone you share you computer with. Advanced Uninstaller PRO can help you erase all this private junk with a touch of a button.

• Eliminate Auto-Loaders - Each time your start your computer, it loads a lot of auto-start programs. Each auto-loader slows your Windows startup and robs you of a bit of performance because it continues to run in the background and even goes online to look for updates. Advanced Uninstaller PRO can help you to disable or eliminate auto-loaders.

• Get rid of disk-filling dupes - Duplicate files take up much drive space, making your computer slower. Advanced Uninstaller PRO can help you to search for dupes and get rid of them. It can also ferret out zero-length files and empty folders.

Advanced Uninstaller PRO with its modest price tag is an easy, affordable alternative to throwing hundreds of dollars at the bells and whistles of the latest computer models. More so, if you use your computer only to send e-mails, edit documents in Word and surf the Web rather than do professional CAD design that requires much computer power.

More detailed information can be found at http://www.innovative-sol.com/uninstaller.

The complexity of corporate networks continues to grow as enterprises add new communication technologies and equipment. Network asset management software, such as 10-Strike Network Inventory Explorer, becomes a critical piece of the network management architecture that can help admins visualize and understand complex networks better.10-Strike Software today announces version 2.2 of its network inventory solution for Windows platforms - Network Inventory Explorer. Targeting small and medium-sized businesses, Network Inventory Explorer offers a broad range of features that allow users to take control over hardware and software inventory.

10-Strike Network Inventory Explorer automates device and software discovery, which is important to catalog accurately and update what the network actually contains. Available inventory methods include an agent-free on-demand audit using the WMI technology (Windows Management Instrumentation), agent-based audit, and client application audit. The first method doesn’t require installation of additional software on remote machines. The collected information is put to a central database repository and can be viewed at any time, even if the admin’s computer is not connected to the network. At any moment, you can see a clear picture of hardware and software configuration of the network computers remotely, track and watch configuration changes in real time and generate reports.

By using Network Inventory Explorer you can get detailed software, hardware and licensing information from remote machines within seconds. Powerful report builder helps you save a lot of time for preparing asset reports on paper. The reports can be in various file formats (HTML, DOC, RTF, XLS, TXT) for a single computer or a group of computers. Using the report templates, you can configure the groups of data to be included in the reports.

Having this information, you can easily detect unwanted applications and applications that require an upgrade. You can take the guesswork out of software purchases as you’ll know exactly how many licenses are needed. The program is also good for keeping hardware under control. With Network Inventory Explorer, you’ll have up-to-date hardware information to be able to plan upgrades more accurately. For example, you can generate reports on machines with insufficient RAM or disk space and use this information to plan upgrades.

Recent additions are aimed at usability. Now, users can right-click on any item in the information pane and from the context menu select to copy data about the item to clipboard, send it to print, or save to multiple formats (.html, .doc, .xls, .txt, .csv). You can also use the Search Online option from the menu to search for the device online. For example, you can right-click on the printer record and search for a driver for it online.

Available now, 10-Strike Network Inventory Explorer is priced per audit node. Pricing for 50 computer node license is $199.95. A trial version can be used for 14 days.

Read more at www.10-strike.com

Have you ever been humiliated and embarrassed when your most private files were discovered by a snoop? Would you like to protect your files and folders from discovery by nosy family members, jealous co-workers, rivals and thieves? Folder Castle 2.2 is everything you need to protect your files and peace of mind at home and in the workplace.

MagneticSoft today announces Folder Castle 2.2, the newest upgrade of the security software for protecting computer files from snoops and thieves. Now, Folder Castle can hide files and folders automatically when you log off, shut down the system, or switch to another user. The latter capability is available on Windows XP and Vista. Another new feature enables you to change the hot keys to personal preferences.

Folder Castle provides two methods to keep computer files away from prying eyes. You can lock away files and folders, which literally gets confidential materials off the screen in a moment. Or you can put files into a secure container called Secure Storage with on-the-fly AES-256 encryption. Secure Storage works in much the same way as an ordinary drive: it can be mounted or unmounted, defraged, checked for errors, formatted. Once the files are protected, they cannot be seen in Windows Explorer even if the computer is re-booted in Windows Safe Mode. For more security, you can step into Stealth mode, which instantly hides the presence of Folder Castle itself. In addition, a password protection scheme ensures that only the user can restore access to the protected files as well as the control panel.

The following is an overview of just some of the many exciting benefits of Folder Castle.

- Keep your files hidden away from snoops -

Statistics show that over 90% of all people today have to share their computer with other people: family members, co-workers or roommates. Sooner or later some private file will be found by someone who has no business seeing it. Folder Castle will help you protect your business documents, personal finances, passwords and dozens of other private items of which you have no desire to share with anyone. Once hidden, the files become undetectable, so no snoop will ever be tempted by their sight and get the hands on them.

- Protect the files on a stolen laptop from thieves -

The theft of a portable computer continues to be on the rise. The loss of the equipment due to theft is only part of the problem. The real value of the stolen computer lies within the data it contains, which are literally hundreds if not thousands of times more valuable. When you protect and hide your laptop’s information with Folder Castle, the software turns the files invisible so that it is almost like the files do not exist at all.

- Take your protected data with you on the USB drive

Folder Castle lets you use one of those USB flash drives, ZIP drives or any other removable device to store your protected data. Just create Secure Storage on the removable device, put files in to it and you’re free to roam the planet without the fear of data loss or theft. To get access to the files, plug the USB drive into the USB port, mount the drive and open the storage. The only condition is that another computer should also have Folder Castle software installed.

People are nosey. They’ll read your newspaper over your shoulder if given the chance, listen in to your side of a cell phone conversation and pry into computer files. Information in these files is something identity thieves and jealous co-workers need to make your life miserable for months if not for years to come. So why treat your computer any differently than you do your other valuable property, for which you probably have some kind of protection like a safe?

If you are ready for some affordable, state-of-the-art protection, then you are ready for Folder Castle 2.2. It’ll protect your computer files and peace of mind.

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

The screensaver no longer does what its name says, namely saves screens. It educates! And it does so in a fun, unobtrusive manner, which is appealing to kids and adults alike.

CoolEducationalSoftware.com today announces Cool Educational Screensaver, a whole different class of screensaver that downloads educational videos from the internet server and plays them when the computer enters the idle mode. All videos are grouped into channels, such as Astronomy, Science or History. Each channel contains courses with lessons, for example, the Solar System course offers lessons about the Sun, the Earth and the Moon. You can choose to download any lesson and educate yourself in your spare time.

“We see screensavers as an opportunity not only to individualize computers but also satisfy the passion of many users for self-education,” says Alexander Mozgovoy, CEO of Cool Educational Software. “The latest research shows that screensavers work for about 40% of the time the computer is on. Displaying educational information via a screensaver throughout the day is 4-5 times more effective than traditional learning methods at ensuring people remember. It’s what we call incidental learning and our screensaver is all about it. It shows some principle scientific and cultural information in geography, biology, astronomy in a casual way. If the person is constantly exposed to this information, there is no other chance but to absorb it!”

Once installed, Cool Educational Screensaver opens into Content Wizard that lets you set up the delivery and playback of video. You can, for example, change channel preferences, select the next course to learn, disable background audio, play the default soundtracks or play any audio residing on your hard disk drive. Then you update the index of lessons from the internet, choose the subject you’re interested in and run the first lesson. The database of lessons is updated regularly - every day there is a new lesson ready for download!

A sample lesson about Mars presents basic planetary data, such as distance from the Sun, dimensions and information about satellites, atmosphere, temperature and internal composition. There are also some interesting cultural facts about Mars, pictures and photos of the planet.

If you want something that’s very different and compelling running on your computer when you’re not working, then go visit www.cooleducationalsoftware.com for the educational experience that will never end. The free trial offers only the first courses of each channel just to give you an idea of what to expect from the screensaver. Subscribed users gain access to all courses without limitations. Subscription is available for 1, 3, 6, 12 and 24 months.

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

Perpetuum Software today announces 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.

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 new features and benefits you’ll find in the newest version of .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.

Please, explore http://www.perpetuumsoft.com/ to find out more information about the product.

Have you ever tried to edit data in a pivot table only to discover that standard Excel does not support this operation? Wouldn’t it be nice if something would make things easier? How about just setting the cursor on any cell and editing its value directly? Sounds easy and it is, if you install Excel4U Add-in from Excel4U.Net Solutions.

Excel4U.Net Solutions today announces Excel4U, an add-in for Microsoft Excel that enhances it with a new feature - editable pivot tables. With Excel4U, any pivot table, using an Excel sheet as source data, will grow into a powerful tool for planning, calculations or form of data entry. All the power of calculations and planning “FROM ABOVE-DOWNWARD” will become readily accessible without complex and costly software.

Today Microsoft Excel is one of the most widely used spreadsheet applications. With it you can create just about any kind of spreadsheet along with an impressive list of formatting options, including the ability to create pivot tables. A pivot table is a data summarization tool that, among other functions, can automatically sort, count, and total the data stored in one table or spreadsheet and create a second table displaying the summarized data.

One weakness of Microsoft Excel comes from the missing option to enter or change the data directly in the data area of a pivot table. The pivot table is linked to the source data, and what you see in the cells of the table are read-only amounts. However, Excel4U Add-in makes a pivot table editable. Install the add-in and you’re on the way to easy editing of pivot tables.

Once Excel4U is installed, you simply begin using it. Click on the ‘Add-Ins’ tab of MS Excel and select ‘Pivot4U On’. Voila! The pivot table is editable. Now set the cursor on any cell in the pivot table and change the value in the cell. When the value is changed, all totals are recalculated automatically. As you see, the add-in is fairly easy to use right out of the box.

Editable pivot tables - mission is possible!

Read more at www.excel4u.net

Being a photographer or designer, you’ve no doubt noticed that what you see in reality and on your display are quite different. Much of this is due to the fact that your display is not calibrated. If you care about high fidelity of your monitor but cannot afford to buy a $300 hardware calibrator, there’s a very clever piece of software called Atrise Lutcurve. Once it calibrates your display, the results are amazing to watch.

Atrise.com today announces the immediate availability of Atrise Lutcurve 1.0, a unique software tool for calibrating LCD and CRT displays without any hardware calibrator. The calibration process takes into account several factors and allows you to fine tune the fidelity of the display to achieve these desirable values: Gamma - 2.2, White Point - 6500K, Luminance Level - 80 cd/m2, Color Space - sRGB.

Having the software calibrator like Atrise Lutcurve offers a number of advantages. Firstly, it’s the price. There is no doubt professional hardware calibrators are the best in every way except when it comes to their price tag. Atrise Lutcurve is a software alternative to calibrating that won’t burn holes in your pockets. Secondly, the program, unlike freeware software tools, ensures highly precise calibration, which is typical of hardware. For example, gamma correction utilities can only bend the gamma curve to make the monitor display an image with an accurate gamma value. Atrise Lutcurve lets you correct nonlinearity of the display, especially noticeable on LCD monitors. The count of calibration points is not limited, which means you can calibrate even an aging display. Thirdly, if you expect to add a second or third monitor, Atrise Lutcurve is also a good choice as it can calibrate multiple monitors. You can even set up your displays to show the same colors! The quality of the calibration depends on your carefulness and may be very approximate to hardware calibration results.

With Atrise Lutcurve, calibration is easy and accurate. The program walks you through adjustments in a step-by-step manner. All values are adjusted by numerical values using the Up / Down button controls. The whole process takes about 5 minutes to complete. Once the display is calibrated, it takes a bit of time to get over the gee whiz factor that comes from seeing that the images on your display closely match reality.

Go to the Atrise website, download the trial of Lutcurve and see the results for yourself.

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

Have you ever wanted to know what’s going on in your computer, why is it running so slow and whether you need to worry about it all? A process explorer and security tool from AnVir Software demystifies processes running on your computer, assigning security ratings to them.

AnVir Software today announces AnVir Task Manager Pro 5.1, a process explorer and security tool for Windows. The program displays detailed information about all running processes, such as applications, DLLs, BHOs and services, providing file name, directory path, security risk rating, description, start time, CPU usage, embedded hidden functions, such as keyboard monitoring, browser manipulation and process type, including visible window, systray program, startup service. Using its updatable database of over 70.000 startup programs and services, it detects spyware, adware, malware, keyloggers and other background processes that cannot be authenticated by the Windows task manager.

“Today there’s so much bad stuff out there just waiting to find your computer and all your passwords, credit card numbers and the like, that having only a firewall and antivirus is like venturing out into the jungle with just a can of insect repellent,” says Ilya Kheifets, CEO of AnVir Software. “Antivirus tools need frequent updates to work effectively and they cannot stop a piece of spyware that they haven’t seen before. Your computer always suffers a period of vulnerability between the time when a new infection hits the internet and the time when the antivirus definition to clean it is released. With AnVir Task Manager monitoring every process running on your computer, you can feel safe at all times. Its defensive list now contains over 70.000 descriptions of bad things but even without it, if you see a process that doesn’t identify itself and doesn’t seem to serve a purpose, it’s most likely the time to make a kill.”

See what’s going on under the hood and clean infections -

Right out of the box, AnVir Task Manager does a pretty good job of highlighting harmful or suspicious processes with red and yellow colors. At this point, you can select a process and see its description, company name, command line information, DLLs that the program uses, hard-drive location of every program. If there’s no description or it leaves you scratching your head, you can dig a little deeper and check the process against Virus Total’s antivirus database. Once you are sure the process is harmful, you can easily remove it with a click.

Enhance Windows, speed up system boot -

AnVir Task Manager Pro is not all about hunting down malware. As a multipurpose tool, it offers some interesting system enhancements, such as “Delayed Startup” that lets you set up any startup item to run one or more minutes later after Windows startup. This lets you begin using the computer without waiting for Windows to load all startup applications. The program also makes it possible to minimize selected application windows to the tray to save the taskbar space from clutter, pin windows always on top. It also puts several icons to the tray that will show current usage and temperature of the hard drives, speed of data transfer over the network, use of physical memory, and amount of CPU resources that are currently used.

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