Shareware Today

Organizing the ever-growing collection of DVD and CD disks is the biggest challenge for any movie collector. Those users who often find themselves frustrated not being able to recall where they put the disk, might want to consider installing movie collector software like All My Movies, which is now coming in a major upgrade.

Bolide Software today announces All My Movies 5.0, the major version of its award-winning product for movie collectors. The program allows the user to organize and catalog a collection of DVD, CD, VHS, or movies on the hard drive into a computer database, which makes it incredibly quick to find a film.

All My Movies can help movie collectors in putting together a detailed movie database with little efforts. To add a new movie, the user needs to put a disk into the computer drive, and the program will look it over automatically, match up the disk with one of the online sources and download all the information, including the cover art, summary of the movie, director, actors and many other details. Currently, All My Movies can search in 15 online sources, including Internet Movie Database, Amazon, and DVD Empire.

With the same simplicity the movie can be inventoried by typing in its barcode or loading the movie into the database from file on the hard disk drive. If the user has time and access to all information about the movie, he may as well fill in the blanks manually, without barcode or disk scans.

Once added to the database, movies can be viewed on the main screen. Each movie entry may contain a large amount of details - title, front cover, genre, cast names, crew, studio, release year, plot, genre, rating, screen ratios, subtitles, audio tracks, and that’s just the beginning - All My Movies has it all. Movies can be given additional tags for further identification: “Wishlist”, “Unseen”, “Loans”, “Overdue”, etc.

It’s a pleasure to immediately find the information on a movie by using several convenient methods. The movie collector can simply browse the list in the main window, or use quick filters to sort the database, search on a movie title, director, actor or other parameters. The user can also find a movie quickly using the quick movie finder that displays the movie you’re looking for as you type the first letters in the search box.

The program helps the movie collector to keep track of movies lent to friends so they are never forgotten.

With just two clicks, the database can be exported to a variety of formats, including plain text, HTML, CHM, Microsoft Excel or a mobile device (PDA or smartphone). The user can also print the movie collection.

What’s new in All My Movies 5.0?

New to version 5.0 is an ability to print a collection of movies using the editable templates. The user will be able to create templates and edit them with ease. The new version can also print jewel case inserts for DVD boxes.

Available now, All My Movies 5.0 costs $39.95. A free 30-day trial is available.

Read more at: http://www.bolidesoft.com/allmybooks.html.

Wondering how to hide sexy photos from people who’re not supposed to know? SoftOrbits offers a new simple solution - Private Photo Album - a photo album application that keeps personal photos protected.

SoftOrbits today announces Private Photo Album, a new application that creates a hidden storage place on the computer where the user can hide private photos. The photos are stored in a single executable file, which is protected by 256-bit encryption, password access and completely out of sight. Snoops have no chances to discover photos or hack Private Photo Album so the user may rest assured the photos are safe.

Private Photo Album includes a built-in image viewer and slideshow capabilities, so that the owner can view images without stepping out of the program. Viewing photos inside the program means the user does not leave any traces behind as it is with standard image viewers that store history of recently viewed files so anyone can find it out.

Creating a protected photo album is fairly easy. The user can drag and drop files from Windows Explorer or use a special wizard. Digital camera owners have an ability to download photos from the camera into the program directly. Supported image formats include TIFF, PNG, GIF, JPEG, and PCX. Images are exported along with EXIF data.

Once the photos are in Private Photo Album, they can be organized into albums. Albums can be public with open access or private. Private albums are invisible and can be accessed only by the user with a valid password. For more convenience and peace of mind, the program allows creating a separate password for each album.

The executable file that stores photos is portable. The user can easily copy the file from one computer to another, or save it to a USB flash drive and carry protected photo albums in the pocket.

Who can benefit from Private Photo Album?

Private Photo Album can benefit almost anyone who keeps secret photos on the computer. The following is a short overview of its benefits for different people.

- Parents. Hide intimate photos from children. Nothing is more embarrassing than a teenage kid uncovering private photos of their parents. With Private Photo Album, it has become easy to protect children from the horror and embarrassment of discovering graphic content improper for their age.

- Teens. Teens can safeguard their romantic relationship and its digital photo evidences from parents. Private Photo Album is a true helper when parents start playing KGB and look through your computer files on a regular basis. Not all secrets are to be told, some are meant to be private.

- Anyone. Make hackers get big nothing. With hackers and viruses causing havoc on a regular basis, everyone should take care of their computer privacy. Private Photo Album will help users avoid the theft of their personal photos and possible blackmail even if a hacker manages to crack the computer.

Available now, Private Photo Album costs $55 (USD). A free trial is available.

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

Recovering a corrupt DBF database can take days, if not weeks for a database administrator to re-input data or it could cost $1,000 to hire a data recovery expert to repair the lost file. A database recovery utility from HiBase provides a more economical and instant alternative for those with broken databases.

HiBase Group today announces DBF Recovery 2.20, a wizard-driven tool that repairs corrupt DBF databases automatically. With its do-it-yourself approach to data recovery, DBF Recovery enables anyone - a home user or a database administrator - to bring the database back from the dead with no effort at all. The newest version of the product repairs large databases much faster than in earlier editions.

With increasing dependency on computers, the loss of data has become one of the worst nightmares of any company or organization. Data loss due to human error or malfunction accounts for more than $18 billion a year only for U.S. businesses. 54% of companies admit that being without their data would cost them more than $50,000 an hour. All businesses are looking for ways to prevent the loss of data and recover what is already lost. HiBase’s DBF Recovery gives the confidence and hope to repair corrupt DBF databases quickly and reliably.

The best in HiBase’s solution is that recovery is completely automated and can be done by anyone. DBF Recovery repairs a database in three easy steps. First, the user selects a source file (or a folder) that needs to be repaired. Second, he chooses the destination folder to save the output. Clicking the “Start” button initiates the recovery process. The recovery is completely automatic. It doesn’t get much easier than this.

Another advantage of DBF Recovery lies in its ability to access a damaged database directly. As distinct from similar software, the application does not rely on external ODBC or BDE drivers. Direct access to a database means data records and database structures are analyzed more accurately, and there’re more chances for all data to be recovered. Unlike competitors, DBF Recovery scans and repairs actual data records, as well as the headers.

DBF Recovery natively supports the applications used to create a DBF file, including dBase III/IV, FoxPro, Visual FoxPro, Clipper, Foxbase and others. The program can automatically identify which application was used to generate a DBF file and load this file without any compatibility errors.

Batch mode and command line are supported.

Today the entire well-being of a business depends on computers and business data. When a database gets corrupted, the typical solution is to hire an expert to recover data or re-input everything by hand again. The first solution is expensive - on average $1,000. The second solution takes days and even weeks depending on the size of data in the lost database that one has to re-input. DBF Recovery with its $89 price tag and instant recovery is the most convenient solution for businesses that want their data back quickly.

Available now, DBF Recovery runs on all versions of Microsoft Windows, including Vista. A trial version is available.

Read more at http://www.dbf-recover.com