Saturday, October 31, 2009

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Friday, October 30, 2009

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SmartFTP Client (64-bit) 4.0.1060 (Windows)

SmartFTP allows you to transfer files across the Internet. It features an Explorer-like, customizable interface and supports drag-and-drop functions. Multiple FTP connections can be opened at the same time, and you can copy files from one remote host to another (FXP). Remote-host directory information is cached for future viewing, and... Read more

Core FTP Server 1.0 build 317 (Windows)

Core FTP Server is a secure FTP server with SSL/TLS/FTPS, SSH/SFTP, HTTP/S support virtual paths, access rules, and certificate authentication. Quick and easy setup, start sharing files in minutes. Read more

ESF Database Migration Toolkit Professional Edition 6.1.33 (Windows)

ESF Database Migration Toolkit lets you transfer data across various database/file systems. With this toolkit, you can reduce the effort, cost, and risk of migrating to/from any of the following database/file systems: Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, Visual Foxpro, SQLite, FireBird, InterBase, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Paradox, Lotus,... Read more

VueScan 8.5.37 (Windows)

VueScan is a scanning program that works with most high-quality flatbed and film scanners to produce scans that have excellent color fidelity and color balance. Its very easy to use, and also has advanced features for restoring faded colors, batch scanning and other features used by professional photographers. VueScan changes... Read more

Password Manager XP Professional 2.3.483 (Windows)

Password Manager XP is a program specially created to help people systematize and store securely valuable information. It rids computer users of headaches caused by lost passwords, forgotten access codes and other sensitive information. With this program, you safely store all your logins, passwords, PIN codes, credit card numbers, access... Read more

TextPipe Standard 8.4.2 (Windows)

Slam-dunk the most challenging code or Web site edit tasks with TextPipe - a powerful text-processing utility that combines more than 100 conversion, translation and filtering operations on multiple text or binary files. Update text using search and replace, which supports perl pattern matching, sounds-like matching, edit-distance matching and search/replace... Read more

Snagit 9.1.3 (Windows)

Capture anything you see on the screen. Edit and combine those captures. Share them via your favorite applications. Organize and find them again later. The more you use Snagit, the more ways you'll find to use it! Want to get a laugh? Add a speech balloon to that photo of... Read more

Gladinet Cloud Desktop Starter Edition (32-bit) 1.3.208 (Windows)

Gladinet Cloud Desktop (GCD) supports both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows. This is the 32-bit package. The Starter Edition can mount web storage as local folders. Users can access their web files in Windows Explorer. It delivers Web applications to desktop. To make web experience easier, it provides single sign-on to... Read more

Navicat for Oracle 8.1.5 (Mac)

Navicat Oracle tool is an intuitive GUI tool lets you create, edit databases, run SQL queries and connect to remote Oracle in an easier way. Also, Navicat provides a number of tools allowing to perform all the necessary database operations such as creating, editing, and duplicating database objects. It also... Read more

Navicat for MySQL 8.1.5 (Mac)

Navicat is an ideal solution for MySQL administration and development. This is an all-inclusive mysql front end provides a powerful graphical interface for databases management, development and maintenance. Easy installation and intuitive interface make it an irreplaceable tool for mysql on the web or your local desktop. Navicat supports all... Read more

Navicat Premium 8.1.5 (Mac)

Navicat Premium is a multi-connections Database Administration tool allowing you to connect to MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle databases simultaneously within a single application, making database administration to multiple kinds of database so easy. Major Features in Navicat Premium version 8.1include: Support of multi-connections to MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle servers.... Read more

OpenOffice.org 3.2 Beta (Mac)

This office productivity suite for Mac OS X includes desktop applications such as a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation manager, and a drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to that of other office suites. OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including... Read more

VirtualBox 3.0.10 (Mac)

innotek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of... Read more

Portable Offline Browser 5.7.3126 (Windows)

Portable Offline Browser is an offline browser/downloader. It can be installed to a Flash/USB drive and run directly from it. You can plug the drive with the installed Portable Offline Browser into any Windows system and use it with no need to adjust settings. All your Projects and downloaded files... Read more

Microsoft Word Secrets for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

Microsoft Word Secrets for iPhone contains some of the features of this software you may overlook in everyday word processing. This book just points them out and elaborates on how you could use these features for your business. This program for small business because there are so many hidden features... Read more

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

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