Vista Manager is a powerful software tool to tweak, optimize, maintain and tune up your Windows Vista, it bundles more than 20 different utilities in one. It will help your system to be stable, fast, secure and personal.

Information

Get detailed system and all hardware information on your system; show all detailed information of running processes and threads on your machine; Vista Manager offers 1-clicking and cleans your system automatically.

Optimizer

Tweak your system to improve windows startup and shutdown speed; tweak your hardware to increase system speed and performance.

Cleaner

Find out which files or folders engross your disk space and shown with chart; Find and clean junk files to increase Hard Disk space; Duplicate Files Finder can scan your computer for files with the same size, name and modification time; Registry Cleaner can easily checks your registry and repair incorrectly linked registry entries, automatically remove invalid entries; Registry Defrag rebuilds and re-indexs your registry to reduce application response time and registry access time.

Customization

Control what is started on Windows startup; edit context menus of mouse Right-Clicking; customize system desktop, menus, toolbar and notifications settings; automatically change your desktop wallpaper on background.

Security

You can improve desktop, menus, Windows logon securities, and enable numerous hidden performance options of system, disable system updates and error reports; hide and restrict to access drives, specify which applications are not allowed to be executed on your computer; encrypt/decrypt and shred files, change the location of system folders; Privacy Protector can maintain your personal privacy by eliminating the tracks that you leave behind; create lots of randomization password once.

Network

Optimize your Internet connection speed, manage all shares items; tweak your Internet Explorer easily.

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Controlling the amount of spending or outgoings from your household can be a full time job, especially if you have a large family.

That's why iMoney is an interesting application (despite to geeky sounding Apple name) which can help even those who are bad with money to control what's going in and out of their accounts and what they're spending and where. Everything is done for you so all you have to do is enter data such as your income, expenses and then the program automatically shows you where most of your money is going. In this way, you can easily identify areas where you need to tighten your belt or perhaps be careful with what you're spending.

The program generally monitors most kind of spending from bills to direct debits although you can create special fields for unusual costs and expenses. Ultimately, the pie charts and graphs are very useful in helping you manage your money. You can even track and analyse the performance of your investments and how they relate to your household spending.

For anyone who finds they've always got more going out than coming in but can't work out why, iMoney is an ideal tool for the non accountants out there.

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DownloaderXL downloads free historical stock, index and mutual fund data from Yahoo! Finance. Historical data is available from exchanges in the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, India and more.

DownloaderXL provides advanced charting capabilities, generating candlestick, bar, and line charts from downloaded data quickly and easily - just click the Chart icon and select your desired chart type.

The software can download data for a list of tickers, but is not optimized for this task. If you are interested in downloading data for tens or hundreds of tickers, we would recommend BulkQuotesXL, which is optimized for simultaneous downloads.

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MusiFind Pro is the premier application for managing your music collection. Whether you're a home enthusiast or a professional DJ, you will enjoy finding your music easily and quickly, and you will be amazed at how much useful information you can gather about your collection.

Current features include:

• Internet Database support for easy entry of CD album information, plus 9 other import sources allowing you to gather information with little or no typing!
• Multiple search methods
• Fields for all common music-related data (eg. artist name, song title, BPM, composer, release date, chart number, explicit content warnings, MP3 file bit rate, and so on), and open-ended "custom detail" lists for any fields we may have missed!
• Fully customizable "dictionaries" for lookups and entry validation. For example, do you need a category not provided? Simply add it! Is there a category you never use? Remove it!
• Professional, flexible reporting
• Many handy "little features"
• Manage your collection with an intelligent assistant
• MP3 cataloguing including artist, title, bit rate, and more. The scanning wizard lets you easily clean up any incorrectly named tracks, and format the information the way you want it.
• Multiple collection support; easily import and export a subset of a collection, or select a completely different collection.
• Backup and restore utility included at no extra charge (ZIP file compatible).

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Build better iTunes™ and iPod™ playlists using beaTunes. By analyzing the songs in your existing library beaTunes is capable of finding songs that simply match. Could your last mix CD's song order use some improvement? Let beaTunes re-arrange your playlist for you!

Always wondered how you could take advantage of the BPM (beats per minute) field in iTunes? Let beaTunes fill in the blanks and help you while DJ'ing at your next party.

Here are some more examples of what you can do with beaTunes:

• Automatically determine BPM (beats per minute) and store the result in iTunes
• Manually determine BPM and store the result in iTunes
• Sort existing playlists so that matching songs succeed each other
• Create matchlists, i.e. playlists based on one or more sample songs
• Browse songs from your music collection that match the currently selected song
• Discover albums that aren't in your music collection, but would complement it
• Keep up to date through Amazon™ album charts
• Automatically set start and end times of songs based on their volume
• Categorize songs by their sound color
• Build playlists per drag and drop
• Create blog entries on blogger.com with your favorite playlist or songs
• Inspect and fix your music library
• Add tags to your songs

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eMule stands out from most of its rival P2P clients in the fact that it is open source. The great thing about this is that you’re free of pesky spyware and adware, leaving you free to get on with your downloading in peace. What’s more, eMule doesn’t rely on one central server like many older clients. By using a multitude of different servers, eMule's network is virtually impossible to shut down, and proves very robust and secure.

A simple user interface goes a long way to making eMule a cinch to use. This doesn’t mean it lacks depth though, and its features are some of the most advanced we’ve seen in a P2P client. For instance, eMule lets you view all manner of information on machines you’re downloading from, call up charts outlining downloading stats and check download status through an advanced progress bar.

The fact that eMule uses a large network of servers means the search results are abundant, but there’s one major annoyance with the client – it’s very slow at downloading files. This is largely because of the way it handles download priority, which takes into account the number of servers you’re connected to, the connection speed, and size of the file. eMule also relies heavily on a ‘credit scoring’ system, whereby people who use the service a lot are rewarded with faster downloads. While some may champion this as being in the true spirit of file sharing, the system makes it awfully frustrating for users new to eMule who are penalized with ultra slow downloads.

Having said this, it’s not difficult to see why eMule has become the most popular P2P app, and if you’re prepared to break the law and download music over a network it makes for the perfect accomplice. If you love downloading, you'll love eMule.

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We all know about the importance of getting your site ranked as high possible on search engines and Website Popularity provides a very comprehensive set of tools for analysing your performance in this area. The program provides you with the ability to track all manner of statistics from Google ranking to the number of diggs on Digg.com.

Of course, displaying all this information could get a little confusing but thankfully Website Popularity presents it in a very accessible manner through a series of tabs, charts and windows. You can add pages very quickly and sort the data in a wide variety of ways simply by checking or unchecking search criteria. We were frustrated than some of the web pages we searched for were not listed, but all in all this software represents a great way to track the performance of your site on search engines.

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Even though external hard drive sizes are increasing at a rapid rate, you can always find more space on your drive if you just look hard enough.

SpaceObServer is a sophisticated and effective hard disk space manager which scans directory trees using a background service, and stores their structure, sizes and properties in an SQL database. Why would you want to do this? Well, for one, it automatically allows you to see - in pie chart form - what's taking up most space on your hard drive at any one time. In addition, if you're interested in tracking your hard disk usage across several months or a long time period, then it allows you to do so instantly. For Windows users, it's very effective because it presents the data in a very easy Explorer style format - in 3D bar, pie charts and tree maps. The good thing is you can see at a glance which files are obsolete and which files are essential so that when it comes to cleaning up your drive, you don't get rid of anything important. It's surprising, using this program, how many files you'll find that are simply taking up space and are absolutely useless.

Easy to use and very effective, SapceObserver is an excellent app that will have your hard drive gleaming again in no time.

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Stock Spy is a groundbreaking software application which unleashes the potential hidden within stock news . It enables you to easily visualize and pinpoint important company events directly on a stock chart to make smart investment decisions, faster. You can quickly see where a stock has been, where it's going and why. It gives you the edge, whether you are a professional trader, an individual investor or brand new to the stock market.

Stock Spy's unique NewsChart technology makes it easy to see correlations between stock news and stock price activity directly on the stock chart . This is extremely useful for finding catalysts for short and long term trends. "Cause-and-effect" analysis is literally dead easy when you see the news plotted together with the stock price. This means it easy to quickly bring yourself up to speed on what is happening in a new potential investment.

Researching and analyzing stocks is boiled down to a simple procedure of clicking and selecting dates which catch your attention by simply glancing at the chart (For example: days with higher than average news volume, trading volume, or which immediately preceded a substantial price move). Once you visually select the dates on your screen, relevant headlines are instantly displayed for your selection. Then, if you want to have more in-depth information, you can click headlines to directly access the source story with your internet browser.

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Nowadays, most people use PowerPoint to create presentations and graphs for statistical data.

However, sometimes PowerPoint is not enough to give you the full control over statistical data that you need, especially if you need to create complex charts. In addition, it's expensive, as it comes as part of Office but this package is totally free.

The main purpose of TeeChart-Office is to allow you to easily create both basic and complex charts while linking them to the original data. In a few clicks, you can modify and change the chart appearance (for instance from pie chart to bar chart), export charts to their native format, insert image files, print them, share them with others and lots more.

The program offers 17 main chart types with a huge number of customisations options. You can just about anything from labeling your charts to inserting complex mathematical formulas. Some of the more advanced plotting features are only available if you upgrade to the Pro version although you won't need these unless you are designing scientific graphs. You can also easily export graphs and images to another format using a simple wizard.

The look of TeeChart-Office is not exactly great - it looks rather blocky and basic compared to PowerPoint but it's incredibly powerful, customizable and best of all, free.

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SolSuite 2008 is a high-quality collection of 449 solitaire games. All your favorite games are implemented: Spider, Klondike, FreeCell, Pyramid, Golf, Busy Aces, Canfield, Forty Thieves, Four Seasons, Carpet, Flower Garden, Rouge et Noir, Monte Carlo... and original solitaires that you cannot find elsewhere.

Each solitaire has more than nine trillion possible shuffles to play, so the game remains fresh no matter how many times you play. Enjoy the detailed statistics of each game with graphs, 3D charts (pies and bars) and tables to estimate your skill level (by total, current session, series of wins and losses, players' games won, players' score, hi-scores...), statistics for All Games, Won games, Not Won games, Over Average, Under Average...

For solitaire lovers, SolSuite 2008 is a guaranteed pleasure. Each of the games is fun and exciting and will keep you entertained for hours. If you like solitaire games, then you'll want to add SolSuite 2006 to your collection.

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Home Bookkeeping has all the necessary features to help you calculate and analyze your cash flows. A built-in reporting engine helps you to focus on various aspects of your budgeting. Graphical diagrams make it easy, even for non-experienced users. Income and spending planners will help you to stop wasting money and to start saving.

Useful features:

• Multi-user support. Many users can run Home Bookkeeping, each logging in using their own password-protected username. Adding/editing/deletion of users is handled through the User Manager
• Expense record keeping
• Income record keeping
• Made/repaid debts records keeping
• Partial debt repayment
• Interest rates
• Debt repayment monitoring
• Debt reminder feature
• Expense planning
• Income planning
• Accounts
• Up to five different currencies supported
• Currency exchange
• Search
• Filtering and Quick Search
• Export data to fifteen various formats
• Transferring/moving data
• Database synchronization
• Backup copies creation
• Database compression
• Database clearing
• Print
• Reports and charts creation
• User interface settings
• Auto start-up schedule manager
• Program update via the Internet
• Tips

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Fortora Fresh Finance is destined for those of you looking to manage their money. The application allows you to get a daily overview of your finances and stay in control of upcoming expenses.

I enjoyed how the personal finance program guided me through the setup process, from the addition of multiple accounts, to the setting up of a budget and finally preparing reminders. Once all this is done, you get an overview of your balance and can see what upcoming expenses are in store. From the left side of the interface you can quickly reach sections like payees, budget or accounts.

Elements in Fortora Fresh Finance are displayed in a tree view, which is great to isolate and focus on one account or budget, however lacks a bit of flexibility.

I liked the number of detailed reports the application can generate though: cash flow, income and expenses and an expenses chart are the basic but necessary graphs you'll need to look at to make sure your finances are healthy.

It's a shame the program only imports documents in QIF format, and I sometimes feel the application gets a little cluttered, but on the whole, Fortora Fresh Finance will give you a clear overview of the state of your finances.

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Some people like to have absolute control over the way they spend time. Some other people simply have to, because their wages depend on the amount of hours they work.

In either case, ManicTime is a very useful application to control how and where you spend time while sitting in front of a computer. This program sits unobtrusively in the system tray and keeps track of absolutely anything you do with your PC: websites you open, e-mails you send, documents you write, etc. It doesn’t record what you actually write or read; it just controls the applications you use and the time you spend on each one of them.

With all the collected data, ManicTime generates nice, colorful timelines and charts with which you can have an accurate view of how you spend your time, either if it's for work reasons, because you want to put an end to your procrastination habit or just for fun. You can browse the list of activities, filter it to search for a certain element and also tag the information to make it easier to handle. It's a pity the program doesn't include an option to export data to other formats and create reports with it.

If you need to track the time you spend on the computer, be it for works reasons or just for curiosity, ManicTime is the tool you need.

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In the beginning was Microsoft Office. Then OpenOffice appeared as an open-source alternative. And now IBM makes a new move and offers its own productivity suite, all free of charge. The idea is not new: there have been a few free suites launched lately, but all of them were online. IBM Lotus Symphony is the only desktop suite that, together with OpenOffice, can offer a free alternative to Microsoft's proprietary apps.

IBM Lotus Symphony offers three tools: word processor, spreadsheet and presentations. It's true that other productivity suites are usually more complete. However, Lotus Symphony stands out for a convenient, single-windowed interface from which you can launch the three apps. Simply click on the "Open" button and select the kind of document you want to open: the program's toolbar will change accordingly. What's more, you can have as many opened documents as you want at the same time, no matter which type, and switch between them in the top tab bar.

The suite includes all the basic tools that you could expect in such an application: spell checker and tables for documents, predesigned templates for presentations and charts for spreadsheets - to name a few - besides the usual configuration options as regards fonts, colors and the like.

In my personal opinion, I'm glad to have another possibility to choose from when deciding which suite I'm going to use. A little rivalry is always good and usually produces better and wider options for computer users. And it seems IBM is beginning to take the suite competition quite seriously.

IBM Lotus Symphony has left the beta stage behind and now offers a stable, highly functional productivity suite that, despite not being as complete as other suites, may perfectly fit your needs.

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There are a few utilities out there which can make your life so much easier, you wouldn't contemplate living without them. As someone who works on the web, I'm taking screenshots all the time and SnagIt is the only tool I'd use for this vital element of my job.

In its latest incarnation, SnagIt has added a lot of new features and a jazzed-up interface. While the old familiar 'big red button' remains, much of the UI (particularly in the Editor window) has been completely overhauled. Gone is the XP blue of previous versions, replaced with a Vista-friendly charcoal look which works pretty well.

The program's key features (taking and editing screenshots) remain pretty much unchanged. You still have a huge amount of power of just what type of screenshot you can take, with timers, cursor settings and profiles all still playing a major role. I was pleased to see that my profiles from the last version of SnagIt were kept as it would have been a real nuisance to have to re-program them.

The biggest improvements to this new version are certainly connected to the Editor window. For example: whereas previously, you had to take a capture, work on it, save it and then take your next one; now you can take as many screenshots as you like, using whichever profiles, and work on them all as you wish. This is a huge time-saver and a very welcome addition to the program.

Another feature that has been added is of less obvious use. SnagIt now supports meta-tagging and labeling of captured images. The idea behind this feature is that you start to use SnagIt to categorize your images as well as capture them. I can understand the thinking behind this addition but I'm not sure if it's really much more than feature-creep. I can't see myself changing my workflow to fit with SnagIt, nor do I want to lose the capability of moving image files around at will (if you use Windows Explorer to move tagged images, the tags and labels are lost).

SnagIt 9 represents a big step forward for a great utility. While some of the new functionality may not appeal, the most significant changes are major improvements to what was already a very good piece of software. Strongly recommended.

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Saving Flash videos is the one way to ensure that you never lose content on YouTube or other video websites as it may be taken offline.

Flash Capture is an Internet Explorer add-on that enables you to save snapshot Flash (.SWF) and video (.FLV) in just one click. In addition, it includes a small and basic Flash player which can play your captures from such sites as youtube.com, video.google.com, dailymotion.com, myspace.com, vidmax.com and tetesaclaques.tv. The capturing process is extremely quick (depending on your connection) and it allows you to save Flash and video in a single click, instead of having to search for them in your Temporary Internet Files folder which can prove absolutely impossible. The other big advantage is that you can save video without even leaving IE for one second as it simply allows you to right click and save the Flash at any time.

Alternatively, you can save videos via a floating button which can become a bit annoying when it pops up over every Flash video although you can deactivate this. Once saved on your hard drive, the program also allows you to categorise your clips to prevent you losing them or getting confused as to what they are.

If you regularly save Flash videos or don´t want to risk losing online content, give Flash Capture a whirl.

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Sothink SWF Catcher for Firefox is a lightweight and powerful downloader of Adobe Flash for a wide range of Flash videos and presentations.

Although most people think of YouTube and video sites when they think of Flash, Sothink SWF Catcher enables you to save multiple Flash based charts, presentations, e-cards, games and Flash movies all at the same time. This means it's incredibly powerful at saving embedded Flash videos and movies from just about any source. It's incredibly well integrated into Firefox - the program simply adds a button to your toolbar and whenever you hit a page with Flash embedded, just click the button and the program goes into action. What's really useful though is the fact that it can support several downloads at the same time - just line up the Flash content that you want saved and watch it go! The program lacks some of the features in Sothink's Web Video Downloader for Firefox (such as resuming of downloads) but it's completely free and very easy to use.

Sothink SWF Catcher is an excellent solution for anyone that needs multiple Flash files downloaded in Firefox.

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Sothink SWF Catcher for IE is a slightly stripped down version of Sothink's Web Video Downloader for Firefox.

Although it doesn't have all the options associated with the Firefox version, it is very similar with very few changes and of course, tailored for the special needs of IE7. Although most people think of YouTube and video sites when they think of Flash, Sothink SWF Catcher enables you to save multiple Flash based charts, presentations, e-cards, games and Flash movies all at the same time. This means it's incredibly powerful at saving embedded Flash videos and movies from just about any source. It's incredibly well integrated into IE - the program simply adds a button to your toolbar and whenever you hit a page with Flash embedded, just click the button and the program goes into action. What's really useful though is the fact that it can support several downloads at the same time - just line up the Flash content that you want saved and watch it go!

Now IE users don't need to feel left behind by those on Firefox - Sothink SWF Catcher is an excellent solution for anyone that needs multiple Flash files downloaded.

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FlowChart.NET is a .NET programming component, which provides professional diagraming and charting capabilities to any software written in C#, VB.NET or Delphi.NET. The control is easy to integrate into your applications and requires minimal programming efforts from your side.

You can quickly learn to use FlowChart.NET thanks to the detailed documentation and the examples available in a variety of programming languages. FlowChart.NET offers numerous features, which range from XML serialization and path-finding to automatic layout algorithms.

FlowChart.NET gives graphical presentation to:

• Workflow processes
• Object hierarchies and relationships
• Graphs and networks
• Entity-relationship/database diagrams
• IVR systems
• Industrial automation processes
• Genealogy trees
• Algorithms and flowcharts
• Organizational charts
• XML documents
• Classification hierarchies

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