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QuuSoft Driver Smart allows you to easily detect and update the latest drivers for your entire hardware devices. It can also back up the existing drivers and restore the drivers in case that you needed to reinstall or upgrade your operating system. QuuSoft Driver Smart provides an easy-to-use interface through which only a few clicks can make driver updating completely done with ease.

Driver Smart, any driver problems or issues caused by the inappropriate drivers will be easily and completely fixed from now on. QuuSoft Driver Smart is superior driver update software which can exactly detect the outdated or broken device drivers, locate the latest versions available to your computer system from our massive online driver database, automatically download and install them on your computer system. It easily walks you through the entire driver update process even without your notice, making updating drivers a fairly painless task that you ever have.

Driver Smart is brought to you by Quuasoft. QuuSoft provides the industry-leading system utility and security tools for every computer users, including system care, registry cleaner, anti-spyware, driver updating tools and other system utilities.

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Aptana Studio is a complete world-class HTML, CSS, and JavaScript editor,

This software includes powerful authoring tools for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, along with thousands of additional plugins created by the community.

Aptana supports most popular libraries including jQuery, Prototype, YUI, dojo, Ext JS, MooTools, and others. Aptana Studio is cross-platform, 100% free, and open-source. The software is available for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.

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InfoWatch CryptoStorage is a reliable means of ensuring confidentiality of data with which you can:

• Protect the data stored and processed on a personal computer and local network resources;
• Ensure security of information stored and used on laptops and removable media.

InfoWatch CryptoStorage provides comprehensive capabilities for data protection. The solution provides installation of cryptographic protection for individual files and folders, logical drives, including system and boot areas, removable media (USB-drives, Flash-drives, memory cards for mobile devices, etc.), as well as allows the creation of secure data repositories – the designated container files.

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Have you felt helpless on finding the device drivers when they are corrupted or after re-installing your operating system? You are not accessible to printer, scanner, USB device, DVD player or new devices, getting warning messages that the computer does not recognize the devices. What’s worse, you are troubled with the blue screen, system crashing or freezing from time to time. Do you know your PC mysteriously slows down due to the outdated drivers?

Driver Checker represents the industry-leading technology at every step of its structures which is fashioning its functionality anywhere. Driver Checker is the safest, most efficient and trusty solution to solve these problems related to the issues of Windows Drivers, free it from driver errors, system slowdown and even system crash. It includes a presumptive diagnosis, automatic backup, update and restoration that can find and fix invalid & missing drivers.

Without proper drivers, your computer can not work; without drivers being kept in step with the Internet development, your PC may encounter a series of problems, like buggy and poor to perform devices. What is worse, you will face device malfunction, conflicts and even complete system crashes. Choosing and installing the correct device drivers for given hardware is often a key component of computer system configuration.

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If you have private information that needs deleting, you shouldn’t make do with just the Recycle Bin. You need to make more of an effort to ensure that your confidential details stay confidential.

Moo0 FileShredder is a handy program that does just that. The application opens a small interface that can be expanded to see the precise details of each deletion method. There is also a blank area, which is where you drag your unwanted files to. You chose from one of the four levels of deletion – from Shred Once to Vaporize – and drag over your file. Bear in mind that dragging it into Moo0 FileShredder is all you need to do in order to delete it forever, so make really sure that you’ve picked the right file!

Moo0 FileShredder hasn’t got many options, but the ones it does have are quite useful. You can set the program to close by simply clicking the middle mouse button, or expand or reduce the window by right-clicking. Moo0 FileShredder is also available in a variety of languages, and leaves a relatively small footprint on your machine. If you need to delete confidential files on a regular basis, it’s a very good bet.

Moo0 FileShredder – a slick program that does what it says on the tin.

Download Moo0 FileShredder 1.06 in Softonic

Mercury Messenger, also known as MM or dMSN, is a free alternative to MSN Messenger offering almost all the same features.

The IM client allows you to connect to your live or hotmail account and chat with your contacts. You can organize them by groups, use emoticons, send files and activate your webcam during chats. The interface itself is highly similar to that of MSN Messenger albeit a much less attractive one. I found that the different elements are placed a little clumsily here and there, making Mercury Messenger slightly unintuitive. Luckily the interface is interchangeable so if you find a good skin you can use that instead.

A big difference with MSN Messenger is RSS support. Mercury allows you to add and preview RSS feeds. I was a little skeptic of the idea at first, as I much prefer previewing RSS feeds on a whole screen, however I found it very similar to feed reading on a mobile device, which works in some way. Mercury Messenger has a tabbed interface which allows you to open and work with multiple accounts. Beware that having too many open simply ends up confusing though.

Although missing the most recent features of MSN Messengers and despite a weaker interface, Mercury Messenger is a good alternative with RSS and multiple account support.

Download Mercury Messenger 1.9.5 in Softonic

If Windows already features a tool to uninstall programs, why should you install a third-party tool for that same purpose? Easy: because with some of them, like KUninstall, you get extra features the Windows default uninstaller doesn’t include.

After extracting the program anywhere on your hard drive, KUninstall scans the system and displays a list with all installed applications. A right-click on any of these entries will reveal a context menu from which you can uninstall the selected app and view detailed information about it, among other options.

Another nice feature in KUninstall is the ability to identify any running process and perform different tasks with it. Simply drag the crosshair icon on top of any window or app and KUninstall will display a message with the process’s complete path and buttons to uninstall, locate or kill the process.

Besides not requiring installation, KUninstall is also much faster than the Windows default uninstaller and, as you can see, includes interesting functions that make it well worth a try.

With KUninstall you can not only remove unwanted apps from your system, but also obtain more information about them.

Download KUninstall 0.3 in Softonic

Since Google Reader came along, choosing which app to use to handle my RSS feeds has been a no brainer.

RSSOwl is however a very decent offering which I’d consider using if it Google hadn’t trumped the market. RSSOwl is all about organization – organizing your RSS feeds so that they’re easy to read manage and access. Although Google Reader now offers offline reading via Google Apps, RSSOwl has long allowed it’s users to read feeds offline. In addition, it’s a great solution for those that use both Macs and PC’s as it works across platforms.

The latest version of it incorporates many new important features that enhance it such as a full screen mode, support for searches and improved notifier and multi-tabbed browsing. You can now add a password to your feeds although this is hardly the most essential thing you need in an RSS reader. The overall look of RSSOwl is very basic but it keeps things simple in order to make feeds easy to find and navigate.

I still won’t be changing to RSSOwl but as a lightweight cross platform solution, it’s a very well developed RSS reader.

Download RSSOwl 2.0 RC1 in Softonic

We should all avoid printing web pages unless it’s absolutely necessary. But if you do have to print one, use Printee and try at least to save paper and ink.

Printee is an Internet Explorer plug-in that adds a new button to the browser’s interface and displays a new toolbar when you click it. This toolbar lets you remove certain elements from the web page you’re about to print – images, banners, superfluous text – that you don’t really need to print and would only waste paper and ink.

The buttons included in Printee let you remove the background, get rid of all the images on the page, change text size, adjust the page’s width and choose between different page styles. Also, if you click the ‘Mode’ button, you can manually select which elements of the page you want to keep, and which ones you want to get rid of.

Before actually sending the job to your printer, Printee lets you preview the page so that you get an idea of how it’ll look – and how much paper and ink you’re saving!

Printee is a nice browser plug-in that lets you save paper and ink by printing only those areas on a web page that are relevant. Too bad it only works with Internet Explorer.

Download Printee 1.6.0.1 (Internet Explorer) in Softonic

phpMyAdmin is one of the most popular tools written in PHP which allows you to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web.

You can use it to create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute SQL, manage user privileges and export data into various formats. Although it’s a remarkably simple SQL database, it’s obviously still beyond the grasp of most novices users, especially those that have no SQL database experience. However, the success of phpMyAdmin has been so great that the developers have even written a book about it!

If you are just starting in php however and can’t handle the complexities of the book, then the developers have also written an easy to use tutorial aimed at programmers, designers and analysts of dynamic websites that want to learn the basics of SQL. Of course, before you start anything you’ll need access to a MySQL server which you can host on any major web hosting platform.

phpMyAdmin is one of the benchmark programs for learning about PHP and SQL programming and it remains a popular choice with beginners and experts alike.

Download phpMyAdmin 3.2.2 in Softonic

As far as free PDF converters go, doPDF is one of the best out there saving you tons of cash on Adobe’s patented version and whatsmore, doing it in half the time.

The program is remarkably simple to use. Just open a document in Microsoft Word, WordPad, NotePad or practically any other text editing software, choose Print and select doPDF. The program asks you where to save the PDF file and when finished, the PDF file will be automatically opened in your default PDF viewer. This process takes less than a minute and you’ll be amazed at how accurate the PDF is. Occasionally, it can suffer with unusually formatted text and images and so they won’t come-out exactly as you want but this can be remedied.

Unfortunately, there’s also no option to print large web pages (such as long news articles or forum pages) without dividing it into separate pages so you’ll end up with lines dividing the article up throughout your PDF documents. The other slight downside is that it seems the PDF files it creates can be rather large although if you ZIP them up, this is not much of an issue.

An excellent PDF converter that’s fast, easy to use and serves as more than an adequate replacement for Adobe’s software.

Download doPDF 6.3.309 in Softonic

What better way to spice up your video chats than with a couple of effects? This is where a program like CamTwist comes into play.

The sofware package offers all sorts of original effects to add live to your webcam videos. It is a little difficult to set up, but once installed works with most video chat services like Skype, Yahoo! Messenger or uStream. However it won’t work with Apple’s very own iChat service.

CamTwist includes a Studio section, which will allow you to do a bit of live mixing, like adding overlays, switching cameras, or creating a live slideshow. This coupled with the effects on hand let you really get creative, without having to dish out a single penny, simply because CamTwist is completely free. If you like tweaking around with your Mac, you’ll also be glad to know that CamTwist offers AppleScript support, which opens the application up to all sorts of customizations.

Despite being a little difficult to set up and lacking iChat support, CamTwist is a very good free tool to add fun effects to your video chats.

Download CamTwist 2.1 in Softonic

Sometimes having a simple tool that’s specifically designed for a certain function is better than dealing with a massive application.

The guys over at Nirsoft have specialized in creating simple tools like this, and have managed to produce a impressive collection of standalone, highly efficient tools that get straight to the point and can help you solve many different tasks. The only problem is that up until now, you had to manually choose the ones you wanted to download right on the developer’s website.

Luckily you can now use NirSoft Installer, a special tool that shows the list of all available Nirsoft apps and lets you choose which ones you want to download and install. The program includes several ready-made filters – like the possibility of installing only Windows 95/98 programs only – but also lets you create a custom selection.

Once you have chosen a few apps, NirSoft Installer will take care of the job. The only drawback to this handy utility is the lack of data about the NirSoft tools: either you already know them, or you’ll have to check the developer’s site for more information about what each individual tool does.

If you’re a fan of NirSoft utilities, you’ll love this piece of software: an automatic installer for your favorite NirSoft tools.

Download NirSoft Installer 1.32 in Softonic

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Blue screens of death are a bit frightening, because they usually appear without prior notice and most importantly, because it’s hard to know what they really mean.

With BlueScreenView that last issue can be easily solved. This little app recovers the dump file created by any blue screen of death you’ve had lately and displays is again, so that you can look into the error message and look for possible solutions on Google.

BlueScreenView doesn’t require installation and is pretty straightforward – which is good, since it doesn’t include any documentation. The program can display the saved dump files as drivers list or just as the original blue screen, and also generate a report in HTML with all the info displayed on the interface.

If you’re getting frequent blue screens of death, BlueScreenView can help you find the solution by displaying those error messages on a more user-friendly interface.

Download BlueScreenView 1.11 in Softonic