The downside to having multiple computers is synchronization. Dropbox is the perfect solution for these situations.

With Dropbox you can seamlessly synchronize contents between several different computers – even mobile devices – no matter where you are. This means that you can use Dropbox not only to sync files between computers, but also to share photos with friends or collaborate in a common project with your workmates.

Dropbox is dead easy to use. All you have to do is install a small client and from that moment on, you'll have a special folder inside the My Documents folder. Anything you drop here will be synced in the background with your public dropbox profile – and therefore accessible online. Dropbox currently offers 2 GB of free storage, which should be enough to share quite a bunch of files.

Worried about privacy? Fear not. Only computers you link to your account will be able to access your files. Also, Dropbox keeps track of changes, so that you can access previous versions of a file. In a way it works as a backup tool as well, because it keeps copies of your files.

Dropbox has a main drawback though: it's painfully slow. Yes, it works in the background and yes, you don't have to be checking the uploading rate every ten seconds, but 30 minutes to upload three photos is simply too much for me.

Dropbox is an easy, handy tool with which you can sync files online, share them and have them always at hand.

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As soon as your friends and relatives find out that you know a bit about computers, it's all over. They'll be asking you for help with the most varied tech issues on a constant basis, as if you were a permanent, free customer support service.

Luckily you can count on TeamViewer 6 to lend you a hand. TeamViewer lets you gain access to the desktops of your friends, relatives or even customers in a snap. What's more, it doesn't require any technical skills on the remote side, making it incredibly easy to use.

A bit like Online Desktop Presenter, all you have to do is run TeamViewer and ask the other person to run it as well. Each time you run TeamViewer you'll be given a unique session number and password which you can use to enter the other person's PC. This means TeamViewer can be used for both entering a remote computer and letting another person enter yours in case you need remote assistance as well.

Beside viewing the remote desktop just as if you were sitting in front of it, you can also make use of the program's features: embedded chat client, file transfer tool, the possibility of recording the session, and more.

This version of TeamViewer is a stripped-down version of the paid application and therefore lacks some extra modules and functionality. Nevertheless it's still a great helper when you need to fix small problems in remote systems or show someone else how to do a certain task on the computer.

TeamViewer is an excellent desktop sharing tool that lets you manage remote systems in a safe way and without requiring a lot of technical knowledge.

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Features: Quick images sharing Multiple image upload at once The fastest way to do a customizable screenshot Global hotkeys to activate screen capturing instantly In 'Windows Explorer' select a file or group of files/directories you want to publish, click the right mouse button, select 'Send to -> Postimage'. And many more...

Postimage is a very simple, fast, reliable free image host. It's perfect for linking to auctions, message boards, blogs, and other websites.

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Support for multiple e-book formats. Now, Ultimate Ebook DRM Removal can help the commonly used formats on the market. Like Adobe EPUB, Adobe PDF, Kindle AZW, Kindle AZW4, MOBI, PRC and B&N Nook EPUB. Yes, it's All In One, so you can read your ebooks on other e-readers or share your ebooks with your friends more easily. Batch Conversion, save most of your time. You can add as many as 200 copies of e-books at one time. Then you only need to click the start button and wait for a few minutes. You can see that your ebooks have been converted. No matter they are under DRM protection of the Adobe Digital Editions, or Kindle, or B&N Nook etc.

The best conversion quality. The software will keep the best quality for users when you are converting your books. It will remain 100 percent resemblance with the original ebook files. It is just used to strip the drm of your books, and will cause no change on the style and structure of your books.

Epubsoft Ultimate DRM Removal is a software to help users read ebooks on different e-readers.

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Usenet used to be a complicated file-sharing network that only experts could understand. Then came along UseNeXT and blew the doors right open to anyone who's familiar with clients such as eMule and Limewire.

The difference being that UseNeXT is far more powerful in terms of the hits you'll find and the speed you can download them. UseNeXT provides anonymous and ad-free access to over 200 terabytes worth of MP3s, videos, games, pictures, and software. In addition, it's home to over 60,000 Usenet discussion boards and most importantly, the subscription system means it's legal and allows it to use it's own servers for super-fast downloads.

UseNeXT even comes with its own browser that can unpack and repair failed downloads as well as feature a built-in media player that allows you to preview files before they're downloaded. Using it is pretty easy. When you UseNeXT's the main interface, you have a list of 'Newsgroups' along the left-hand side where you'll find content organized by category. Beware if you're allowing minors to use it because there is a substantial amount of adult content, which you can choose to hide on first use.

Double clicking on any file will immediately take you to the download manager. Alternatively, you can use the search box in UseNeXT to hunt for specific content. By clicking on the newsgroups, you can see the most popular download content by category in an instant.

For those who don't want to waste valuable bandwidth, there is also a 'Free Downloads' section that allows you to download content without reducing your monthly download limit. Finally, the latest version of UseNeXT features coverflow for spectacular viewing of multimedia content and images.

UseNeXT is an extremely impressive network that might not be free, but offers significantly more content and speed than free P2P clients.

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It's easy to completely manage your contacts and text messages on your iPhone without using iTunes Import and export your contacts from and to vCard files, a Windows address book, Outlook, Windows mail or Outlook versions 2003, 2007 and 2010 Merge any duplicate contacts without the fear of data loss on your iPhone Use your PC to make backups of all your messages and contacts There's more: You can do automated conversions to iDevice compatible formats with any transfers. Photos can be copied between your computer and iDevices: You simply have to move any photos to your Apple device or keep them safe on your computer so that you can print them and share them.

Copy your iPhone; iPad and iPod back to your iTunes and your computer. You can now do what iTunes can't do! Have you lost your music due to a system reformat, iTunes crash, computer repair or any other unknown reason? Wish to transfer playlists to another computer? That shouldn't be a problem any longer. WondershareMobileGo for iOS makes the transfer of videos, music, photos, playlists, contacts and more from your iPhone, iPad and iPod to iTune and back to your computer as easy as pie.

As an iTunes alternative, Wondershare MobileGo for iOS enables you to manage Apple devices at ease. It can help you to transfer songs, videos, playlists, iTunes U, Podcast to iTunes/PC and manage photos.

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There are plenty of ways to download YouTube videos but Wondershare Free YouTube Downloader tries to make it simpler by providing an easy to user interface for its download manager. There are two components to Wondershare Free YouTube Downloader: its download manager and browser plugin.

The plugin is unobtrusive and shows a small download button overlay next to flash video. Wondershare Free YouTube Downloader has the ability to download video from different sites but only for its paid users. The free version is restricted to downloading from YouTube.

Downloading video using Wondershare Free YouTube Downloader is simple. Wondershare Free YouTube Downloader's plugin offers a choice of resolution but that's it. You can't adjust the codec or audio. We found that the audio in downloaded videos sounded compressed. The video quality is great but the poor audio really ruins the experience.

Wondershare Free YouTube Downloader allows multiple downloads and provides users with a handy download manager, but the quality of the audio in downloaded video is hard to recommend.

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The Visual Thinking tool for Understand Problems, Design Solutions and Express Knowledge. Outline a vision of your business by generating ideas and combining multiple information resources. Increase productivity and conquer complexity by better organizing your thoughts. Define a Visual Language to share a mutual understanding on your specialized Domain. Create Concept Maps, Mind Maps, Models and general purpose Diagrams, with detailed content.

Powerful Relationships: Single or multiple links of origin and target, with definable visual style and variants (arrow types).
Complements: Notes, Call-outs, Stamps, Regions (boundaries), Legends, background images, labels.
Export: Image formats (jpg, png,..), XPS.
Reporting: The information entered in the Composition (diagram view, descriptions, interrelations) can be generated as printable report.

ThinkComposer is beyond simple drawings:
- Objects are user definable in Domains for later reuse, having complete visual style, stock-data, versioning and semantics.
- Ideas (Concepts/Nodes and Relationships/Connectors) can be composed by a whole diagram inside.
- Ideas can incorporate rich details: Attachments, Links, Custom-Fields and Tables.

Professionals, students, academics, intellectuals or creative persons needing to create rich visuals+information documents beyond simple drawings to deal with medium to high complexity scenarios (express dozens to hundreds of interconnected nodes).

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Nero Multimedia Suite is comprehensive and if you are looking for a one-stop shop for your video editing, burning and back-up, it will definitely fit the bill. Although getting started is a bit of a mystery (the app installs lots of icons for features that can be managed via the StartSmart button), the various components are slick, easy-to-use and meet most basic to intermediate needs.

As in previous versions, Nero Multimedia Suite offers a range of quick burning/ripping tasks on the left and the complete range of features divided into tabbed areas at the top. When you choose an option, a window will open. You control the feature from there, choosing options and tweaking configurations.

The whole Nero Multimedia Suite experience is very simple. There are loads of online tutorials, wizards and step-by-step instructions for burning, ripping, backing up and editing - among Nero Multimedia Suite's most interesting features are the ability to digitize tapes and records, the file recovery application and, of course, Nero's famous burning skills.

Nero Multimedia Suite's critics will call it bloated and filled with unnecessary features. That's not entirely wrong, but what it brings in bloat, it makes up for in ease of use and centralization. Sure, you could carry out all of Nero Multimedia Suite's functions using other, cheaper software, and it's true that you may never use many of its functions, but users who will be interested in Nero Multimedia Suite won't care, because it allows them to do exactly what they want, when they want, and with minimal technical knowledge.

Nero Multimedia Suite 10 is bloated, but provides centralization and flexibility that many users will find irresistible.

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Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder is video capture software that will allow you to record your computer’s screen or audio. With only a few simple tools you can decide which parts of your computer are captured and converted. Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder is a great piece of software for screencasts, screenshots, and audio.

Features

With Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder you can record your desktop, take screenshots, or record audio. With the screen record option you can select from recording the entire screen, specific regions, focus around the mouse, or take web cam input. For audio you can pick to record desktop sounds, speak through your microphone, or combine both. Default formats for video is WMV, and for audio MP3, OGG, WMA, or WAV can be selected.

Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder can also set up tasks that automatically record for you. You may schedule a certain time of day, the duration of your recording or specific stop date, and if you are capturing video (including regions) or audio. You can also set if your computer shutdowns automatically after Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder finishes.

Usability

Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder has a very basic yet intuitive design. When the app is first opened and no files are in the output folder the file window will be hidden. After your first recording this window will expand, causing Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder to become larger in size. Each button has a simple drop down menu to adjust settings. There are rarely any detailed settings windows, except when scheduling tasks. One annoying aspect of Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder's UI are false buttons that you might expect to open new options and menus. Instead these are just fancy links to Apowersoft’s website placed in deceptive locations.

If you select region recording, an overlay will cover the screen, allowing you drag a desired rectangle sized space. If you’re unhappy with the rectangle size you can move it around, adjust pixel width and height, or select a preset from a drop down menu. Before recordings you can set up a countdown to prepare your screen, as well as audio beeps when a recording starts and stops.

Quality

Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder has a very minimal appearance, often times you may forget it is even open. When not recording it simply looks like a black and off-white bar. The miniature design works well as you rarely want a large abrasive UI while recording. You can also choose to hide most all of Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder’s toolbars to further increase its stealth.

Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder doesn’t cause any obvious slow down while it records, allowing you a smooth capture session as you open other programs and web pages. Quality of finished recordings is generally high and files are compressed to low sizes. There can be visual problems when using the area around mouse option, but only if you select a resolution under 640x480.

Conclusion

Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder is a great way to capture your screen for screencasts and audio. It only supports WMVs, but the quality of recordings is good with compact file sizes. Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder can set up captures at specific dates and automate shut downs, making handy for daily recording. Just remember that several buttons are links and not options.

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Usability

Complications arise later on when trying to share files between computers: you'll have to do it through network sharing on Windows because it's not a feature Hamachi itself supports. In the end, I have to admit we were unable to share files over Hamachi during our tests – you know how stubborn Windows folder sharing configuration can get. Oh well, at least we could have a chat – a very safe one, of course.

Quality

Hamachi features a simple interface that enables you to create personal safe networks in just a couple of steps. At first sight, it all looks very easy to use. Plus your connection is conveniently protected by an AES-256 encryption algorithm.

Conclusion

Hamachi is a great solution to establish safe, private P2P connections between two computers; unfortunately it's not as easy to use as it seems at first sight.

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OCR engine for over 50 different modern languages including most European languages (English, French, German), Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese etc), African (Hebrew, Arabic) and finally Ancient ones such as Egyptian Hieroglyphs or Ancient Greek. Users will have the opportunity to manage their translations from images and export them to different formats, like HTML for web publishing, along with the original image. Using this application will enable you to upload the translated files on your own site or on our Public Library page. For ancient texts users will be able to create/recognize words based on glyphs and symbols in the image, to link them with the generated translations for creating nice hover effects.

The first one is related to the amazing opportunity not only to translate the Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs, but also to use over 1,000 symbols for creating your own words. It almost looks unreal to translate words from and into Egyptian Hieroglyphs with ease. The translated work can be exported to both image and HTML format. The second option which deserves the full attention is the possibility to translate and publish directly the text which is the integral part of a certain picture.

GlyphViewer is equally opened for both amateur enthusiasts and hard-working professional translators. This fantastic tool can be used by researchers interested in Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs or marketing people for the expenditure of their business.

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share your books with your family or even convert or edit your books easily. 2)Batch stripping function, save your time. Batch conversion, it means you can add more than one DRMed files at one time, also you can convert many different formats DRMed files in one activity, in a word, don't hesitate to add all drmed books you'd like . You can find the wonder by clicking the Remove DRM Button. 3)High quality, no contents and effect losing, this powerful tool can help you get all the original contents and effect, just remove files' DRM header. Key features and functions: 1. Remove any DRM from all your eBooks with one click, so you can share your eBooks with your family more freely.

2. After removing DRM, you can edit or convert your eBooks more easily. 3. High quality, keep all the original contents, without any content lost. What's new ? 1) Update the decryption core, remove DRM from your eBooks faster and more stable; 2) Add drag & drop feature in the registered version; 3) Add right click menu in the registered version, which enables you to delete the item;

4) Add new supported formats: AZW1, AZW3, AZW4, TPZ, Topaz. 5) Improve the ability to fix ePub files; 6) Better support for ADE 2.0; 7)Add the support for Kindle Serial Number which starts with 9.

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This extension allows you to enrich your online content without slowing down your website or being prohibitively costly. In fact, Jquery Slider Shock is available for free for personal use. The basic version comes with one skin and ten different slideshow transition effects. There are also various other versions available which you can choose from depending on your requirements.

Jquery Slider Shock is a powerful and full-featured slider extension which works flawlessly with any website powered by WordPress or jQuery. Best of all, the extension is free for personal use.

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Features

These days, it's an app that attempts to be all things to all people - play DVDs, organize music, catalog photos, convert video, interact with social networking sites, browse internet multimedia....there's no end to what RealPlayer offers to its users. Even so, it's not an out-and-out success...

Usability

For a start, installation of RealPlayer is annoying - it takes a while, requires lots of "nexts" and tries to install and enable several features that users don't really need. Finally, when it starts, you're offered a chance to upgrade to paid versions of RealPlayer before you have to register yourself with Real Networks. If all this messing around doesn't appeal, check out a slimline app like UMPlayer.

When you're up and running, RealPlayer features a wide interface where you will notice ads and videos recommended by Real Networks. This looks cluttered and messy, and it's hard to know what the app actually offers. In reality, RealPlayer is ideal for playing and sharing video with your friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter and it works easily with BlackBerry, iPod, iPhone and other game systems. The new video converter allows you to copy online video to your iPod, Xbox, PS3 and other devices. Unfortunately, you can't rip DVDs with RealPlayer, although this is available as a feature if you upgrade to RealPlayer Plus.

Most recently, RealPlayer has been updated with far better mobile and social networking integration. You can now copy your favorite videos to an iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and dozens of other popular devices automatically. Downloading internet videos is faster, and for those of you with something to hide, RealPlayer offers a new Private folder. Social media has also been bumped up, with direct access to Facebook videos and usefully, a built-in feature to transfer videos to your mobile devices.

Quality

That said, RealPlayer isn't bad at all. It's comparable to Windows Media Player 12 as they both have some impressive ways of organizing your music. For me, the best feature is the CD burner which is something I've used from the early days of RealPlayer. The sheer quality of some of the media only available in Real formats makes RealPlayer an essential item in the toolkit of any fan of internet video and audio.

Conclusion

There's no shortage of media players theses days, and RealPlayer is by no means a bad option. It offers lots of features, good options and is a high-quality player that will do justice to your media. The only problem is that despite its modern features, it feels like a bit of a dinosaur. It's heavy and slow, looks chunky and takes an age to respond to clicks, and for many people - especially those who have experience of lighter options - it's just not the most comfortable player.

RealPlayer is a media player that, although powerful, has suffered from serious feature-creep over the years.

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Adobe Reader has been in existence for over a decade and has gone through various evolutions during this time. One result of this is that it has been increasingly loaded with plug-ins and extensions which mean that it's consistently criticized as being bloated and slow.

The truth about Adobe Reader's speed

It is true to a certain extent that the extra plug-ins and extensions can make Adobe run more slowly. Adobe Reader is still a PDF reader that has much to offer though. With the latest version of Adobe Reader, Adobe have addressed some of the speed issues and the memory footprint has been improved consistently throughout the development of Adobe Reader XI.

Interface and stand-out features

This version of Adobe Reader is not only slightly faster, but also displays a clearer, simpler interface that makes it easier to use. Adobe Reader XI still features the classic tools from previous versions (Zoom, Text selection, Snapshots and Read out loud), but now it also includes renewed features such as the ability to leave comments as sticky notes. A new feature you’ll find in Adobe Reader X is the Share tool, with which you can easily share the document by email or via the Adobe SendNow service.

Built-in security precautions

If you were worried about security issues in Adobe Reader, fear not: Adobe Reader XI is probably the safest version ever released, thanks to the new Protected Mode than loads images, code and 3D objects in a special area in memory, isolated from the system.

Adobe Reader XI is undoubtedly an important update in the history of this popular PDF reader – an essential tool to open, read and print PDF documents.

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Traditionally the first choice when it comes to compressing and uncompressing files, WinZip is one of the most popular downloads of all time. Despite the fact that its competitors have caught up somewhat, it remains a simple way to archive programs and reduce file sizes.

Much of WinZip's success has been down to its simplicity. From the outset, the program prompts you to choose between Classic mode and Wizard mode. The wizard is great for beginners, although even the classic interface is easily negotiated, giving you instant access to a range of features such as compression ratios, password-protection and a Favorites list.

While archiving files in WinZip is quick and easy, you can't help but thinking that the program has lost some ground on its competitors. For instance, the compression rates aren’t as high as they are in WinRAR, and you can only save files in Zip format rather than RAR, ISO or JAR.

Nevertheless, WinZip performs its function well, helping you archive files quickly and effectively.

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Features

Thanks to a straightforward, uncluttered interface BitTorrent appears as a user friendly torrent client that beginners will feel comfortable with. We particularly appreciated the integrated search box to look for files on the BitTorrent website. Once you’ve found the torrent you want, download it to your PC, open it up inside BitTorrent and let the client do the rest. The speed at which you download will depend on the number of seeds, that is people who have the complete file and are sharing it. The more seeds there are the quicker files will download.

You can set multiple torrent downloads and the downloading speed is fairly quick. It’s easy to configure the client and we suggest choosing the right port and setting upload and download rate limits to avoid hogging your bandwidth. It’s also good to set your downloads by priority to monitor more precisely how your torrents are doing.

Using BitTorrent

The file you want to download is cut up into small segments shared by users, creating what is called a swarm, and does not go through a central server, significantly reducing the bulk of file transfers. The BitTorrent client is actually the first P2P application to use this technology and became immensely popular when it was released. Torrents are considered by online users as a great way to download recently anything from movies to operating systems.

Competition

Compared to the exhaustive Azureus, BitTorrent is very simplistic. It doesn’t provide half as many statistics and doesn’t let you customize the interface. Integrating a search box is a great idea, but it limits searches to the BitTorrent website, not considered the most thorough source by torrent aficionados.

Conclusion

If you’re a newbie to the torrent world, BitTorrent is a good bet. It’s safe, stable and sharp. Associated with the huge database of legal torrents that is the BitTorrent website, it makes for a very rich P2P experience. Advanced users will probably frown upon its lack of options but others should give it a try.

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Features of uTorrent

uTorrent includes everything you would expect from a complete, reliable torrent downloader: highly detailed stats, support for RSS feeds, automatic shutdown, download scheduler and more. There are a couple things that uTorrent is missing though: a full torrent search tool and a built-in player to preview your downloads.

uTorrent 3 lets you play media in streaming as you download, rate and comment torrent files, drag and drop files to share them, and disable the UDP tracker.

Ideal for all user levels

Since version 3 uTorrent has sported a totally redesigned interface: more usable, easier to use and a perfect match for uTorrent’s web interface.

Just like previous versions, uTorrent 3 is easy enough to use for everyone no matter what their level of computer expertise is, but it also includes dozens of configuration settings that will please the most tech-savvy users. Also, this new version includes several beginner-oriented guides to make sure everybody can make the most of it.

Light on system resources

After a quick installation process (although there are quite a few prompts to install browser add-ons etc) and a handy built-in speed test to make the initial setting much easier, uTorrent is ready. The program takes up minimal hard drive and PC resources, which enables you to have a good amount of torrents downloading and still be able to use your computer without any lag.

Conclusion

If you're searching for a reliable, fast and lightweight torrent client, look no further: uTorrent is what you need.

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Greenshot provides a really convenient and effective way to capture screenshots in addition to editing them. It has four main hotkey combinations for the different ways of recording the image you wish to capture. These are: "Impr" to capture and share, "Shift + Impr" to select the region, "Alt + Print" for recording the active window and "Control + Impr" to capture the full screen.

Presumably, the program is called Greenshot because the selected area turns green once selected. In addition, you hear a camera shutter noise when an image has been taken. Once you've taken a shot, you can add arrows, signs, boxes, etc. It can also be preset to automatically save captures in a certain format i.e. JPEG, BMP, GIF and PNG. In addition, you can configure the program to save directly to the clipboard or send captures to the printer.

This is a nice little capture program that does it's job well although the green effects are not really necessary.

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