Native Instruments Guitar Rig 3.0

GUITAR RIG 3 is the ultimate all-in-one guitar and bass solution. Simply connect your guitar with your computer via the enhanced Rig Kontrol 3 foot pedal and you are ready to go. The on-board studio-quality soundcard routes the signal to your speakers, while the software grants you access to an incredible number of perfectly modeled classic amps, cabinets, mics and effects - all arranged in a super-simple drag-and-drop rack format. Any style, any time - the perfect solution for professional studio and live setups.

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Object Rescue AnyReader

AnyReader is great for copying files from scratched CD/DVDs or defective floppy/hard disks. Normally when your computer is unable to copy files from a damaged disk it will abort and delete the part of the file it has copied. AnyReader will continue copying the file right to the end; any data that hasn't been recovered after several retries is replaced with blanks. This will allow you to effectively read every byte of information that can be read at all.

Features

• Reads files from disks with physical damage.
• Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data.
• Reads data as much as possible.
• Reads data from the erroneous network connections.
• Supports resumed downloads from the remote PC if connection was broken during the copy process.
• Supports file sizes up to file system limits.
• Easy to use, intuitive wizard-driven interface.
  Supports all Windows versions, including Windows® 95/98/ME and Windows® NT/2000/XP/2003.

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ConvertXtoDVD v2.2.3.258

ConvertXtoDVD is a video converter software to convert and burn your videos to DVD. With ConvertXtoDVD and a few clicks you can backup your movies to DVD playable on any home DVD player.

Supported video formats: DivX, Xvid, MPEG4, MOV, AVI, WMV, WMV HD, DV, and more?

Supported sources: existing files from digital camcorders, TV/Sat, capture cards

Features

• Can merge up to 4 hours of material from several movies or episodes
• Supported audio formats: AC3, DTS, PCM, OGG, MP3, and more?
• Handles subtitles files (.SRT .SUB/IDX) with color and font selection, and supports tags (italic, bold)
• Video format choice: NTSC, PAL, or automatic and PULL-DOWN
• Picture output: Widescreen, Fullscreen, or automatic
• Create Automatic chapters or edit your owns
• Fast preview mode to check if the source is loaded correctly
• Save the DVD structure on hard drive or burn it to a blank DVD
• Reliable burn engine integrated (supports all DVD formats)
• Fast and quality encoder (typically less than 1 hour for converting 1 movie)
• Variable options and settings for advanced users
• Control of the conversion speed vs quality
• DVD Menu control (auto-start, loop etc)
• DVD Menu edition (background, fond, color)
• Customizable interface (themes, dockable windows)
• Multilingual support (available languages?)

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Sony Vegas Pro 8.0a Corporate

he Vegas Pro collection combines Vegas Pro 8, DVD Architect Pro 4.5, and Dolby^® Digital AC-3 encoding software to offer an integrated environment for all phases of professional video, audio, DVD, and broadcast production. These tools let you edit and process DV, AVCHD, HDV, SD/HD-SDI, and all XDCAM™ formats in real time, fine-tune audio with precision, and author surround sound, dual-layer DVDs.

Edit SD or HD video with drag-and-drop functionality, mouse and keyboard trimming, and ripple editing. Features include ProType Titling technology, multicamera editing tools, 32-bit floating point video processing, customizable window layouts, color-coded snapping, improved HDV/SDI/XDCAM support, Cinescore plug-in support, A/V synchronization detection and repair, and auto-frame quantization.

The Vegas Pro 8 interface provides a fully customizable workspace for accomplishing a wide range of production requirements. Dock multiple windows across multiple monitors, and save your layouts to fit specific editing tasks; nest Vegas projects within the timeline, customize and save keyboard commands, and use application scripting to automate repetitive tasks. System-wide media management produces maximum efficiency. Network rendering saves time by using multiple computers and networked drive arrays to render complex projects. Vegas Pro software also supports 24p, HD and HDV editing.

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NOD32 Antivirus System 3.0.414 Release Candidate 1

Note: The software featured in this post is still in its testing phase. Although we found it to be quite stable, we cannot guarantee that it is bug free. Proceed at your own risk.

SET NOD32 Antivirus System - Integrated, Real-Time Protection against viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, adware, phishing, and hackers. Best detection, fastest performance & smallest footprint.
NOD32 Antivirus System provides well balanced, state-of-the-art protection against threats endangering your PC and enterprise systems running various platforms from Microsoft Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / 2003 / XP, through a number of UNIX/Linux, Novell, MS DOS operating systems to Microsoft Exchange Server, Lotus Domino and other mail servers.

Although this software is still RC1, a group named "P2PCRACKERS" went ahead and cracked its protection. We are not sure if its a real scene group or just a P2P based release group. However their crack works.

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Mcafee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i - Patch 4

Note: This post features an update to a previously released product. You will need to have VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i main program installed in order to apply this patch.

Please ensure that your VSE 8.5i installation is updated to at least:

DAT Version:         5126, September 24 2007
Engine Version:      5.2.00

McAfee® VirusScan® Enterprise protects your desktop and file servers from a wide range of threats, including viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and potentially unwanted code and programs. McAfee® VirusScan® 8.5i takes anti-virus protection to the next level, integrating elements of intrusion prevention and firewall technology into a single solution for PCs and file servers. This powerful combination delivers truly proactive protection from the newest of today’s threats-including buffer - overflow exploits and blended attacks - and features advanced outbreak management responses to reduce the damage and costs of outbreaks. Everything is managed by McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® or ProtectionPilot™ for scalable security policy compliance and graphical reporting.

Features

• Support for 64-bit operating systems.
• Buffer Overflow Protection.
• Scanning of Lotus Notes databases.
• Alert Manager 4.7.1.
• Quarantine Manager Policy.
• 5100 series scanning engine.
• Detection of rootkits in memory.
• Enhanced Access Protection. 
• Access Protection rule configuration
• Protection levels.

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Resident Evil : Extinction (R5 LiNE)

Resident Evil: Extinction is a 2007 science fiction action horror film. It is the third installment in the series of film adaptations based on the popular Capcom survival horror game series Resident Evil. The film was directed by Russell Mulcahy and produced by Paul Anderson. It adapts several plot elements from Resident Evil: Code Veronica and features various characters and creatures from the game series. The film is a departure from the usually dark and drab locations of other zombie films as it takes place in the Mojave desert wilderness. Extinction was released in North America on September 21, 2007.

Pretty much inactive scene group POV crew released a R5 LiNE (DVD for Region 5 with external English audio source) of the movie yesterday. Video quality is excellent as usual with R5 releases and audio quality is similar to that of a TeleSync.

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Private Torrent Trackers that are currently open for signup

A private tracker is a tracker which restricts who can use it, often by requiring registration of a user account. Private trackers usually register how much the users upload and download and may enforce a minimum upload-to-download ratio. As a result their torrents usually offer better availability and speed compared to public trackers where leeching is more common.

The following private trackers are now open for signup:

• BitNation [BN] BitNation offers a wide variety of torrents, sofware TV shows, movies, music and more.
• TVtorrents The TVtorrents tracker specializes in TV-shows.
• BitGamer [BG] The name pretty much gives it away.
• Cinematic Cinematic is a great tracker for film fanatics.
• TorrentBits [Tbits] TV shows, Movies, Music, DVDs and more.
• IpTorrents [IPT] Again a tracker with TV shows, applications, movies, music and more.
• ILoveTorrents [ILT] ILoveTorrents indexes all kinds of torrents.
• GrabThe [GTI] Again a tracker with a wide variety of torrents.
• PureTNA PureTNA is for pronographic content, the biggest tracker in this list with over a million registered users.
• BitTorrents [BiTT] Another tracker with different types of torrents..

-List taken from TorrentFreak.com

Links Added: LankanTorrents.com and Gamer.LK

The following sites are now linked from FILEnetworks Blog. You can find the links in our Partners Section located in the right hand panel.

LankanTorrents.Com : LankanTorrents is an entirely Srilankan Bittorrent index. It facilitates torrent downloads of various local and international content and boasts a large and active file sharing community.  Unlike most other bittorrent sites, LankanTorrents maintains its own bit torrent tracker rather than merely maintaining a torrent index.

Gamer.LK : Gamer.Lk is a Srilankan gaming portal and a forum. This site features latest game releases, active discussions on gaming related topics, multiplayer competitions and many more. The site has been able to build up a large community (mostly comprising of Sri lankan gamers) in a very short time. If you are a gamer, this is the place to go.

Text to Speech Maker 1.6.0

Text to Speech Maker is an award-winning text-to-speech player that lets you listen to documents, e-mails or web pages instead of reading on screen. Text to Speech Maker it also allows you to convert text to WAV,MP3 orVOX files for listening later with your portable MP3 player. Text to Speech Maker supports dozens of female, male and robotic voices for Britain English, German and French.

Features:

• Powerful functions: Text to Speech Maker is a text-to-speech player that lets you listen to documents, e-mails or web pages instead of reading on screen. It also allows you to convert text to WAV, MP3 or VOX files for listening later with your portable MP3 player
• More Voice Support: Support dozens of male, female and robotic voices for Britain English, German and French. You can download more voices at http://www.microsoft.com/reader/developers/downloads/tts.asp .
• Fast Converting Speed: Reading and Converting is performed directly without any temporary files, and thus enables high converting speed and economy of hard disk space.
• Support Optional MP3 Quality: The “Output Sample Frequencies” and “Output Bitrates” options allow you to make a choice between the quality and the size.
• Copy and Paste: Support copy/cut to clipboard and paste from clipboard, that make it easy for you to read any text soucre, such as emails, web pages, documents, and so on.
• Support Font Settings: You can setup font(size, color and style) of the text easily. User-friendly interface, very easy to use.

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Ratatouille DVDrip

Ratatouille is a 2007 animated feature film produced by Pixar and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. It tells the story of Rémy (voiced by Patton Oswalt), a rat living in Paris who wants to be a chef. The film was directed by Brad Bird, who took over from Jan Pinkava in 2005, and it was released on June 29, 2007 in the United States.

Although a new scene group called SPiRAL released this first, it got nuked immediately for missing content (actually it was only 6 seconds but scene rules strictly prohibit such releases). This was PROPERed later but the PROPER too got nuked. Finally well known scene group MDP has released a good quality DVDrip of this popular movie.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End DVDrip

Scene group FXG brings yet another much awaited movie DVDrip; This time it's the 3rd installement of the Pirates of the Caribbean series.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is a 2007 adventure film, the third in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. Gore Verbinski directed the film, as he did with the previous two. It was shot in two shoots during 2005 and 2006, the former simultaneously with the preceding film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

Video and Audio quality are exceptional as usualy for a DVDrip.

From Group NFO:

TiTLE......  Pirates of The Caribbean - At World's End
YEAR.......  2007
GENRE......  Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy
RUNTiME.... 02:48:28
iMDB RATE.. 7.3/10 (64,254 votes)
iMDB URL...  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449088/

AUDiO...... MP3 48000Hz 117 kb/s CBR (2 chnls)
LANGUAGE... English
ViDEO...... 460 kbps XviD 23.976 FPS
RESOLUTiON. 672 x 288
SUBS....... None
SiZE....... 700 MB
SOURCE..... NTSC DVD

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HiDownload Pro 7.03

HiDownload is a multi-threaded download manager that allows you to download individual files (or lists of files) from web and FTP sites while maximizing the potential of your internet connection. It also supports multimedia streaming and and RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol) with optional resume, enabling you to download movies, music and capture streaming video and audio, record radio from Internet. HiDownload also offers a built-in Broadcast Manager. In addition, it provides all the standard features of a download manager, including scheduling, drop basket, download history, clipboard monitoring, download categories as well as zip preview and more.

  

Features:

• Accelerated Downloads: By splitting the files into several parts and downloading
• Support HTTP, FTP, MMS/MMST/MMSU, RTSP, PNM protocols
• Support rapidshare, megaupload and other similar sites(Premium Account)
• Record Streaming Video and Streaming Audio All the popular streaming formats are supported, including:
  • Windows Media™
  • Real Audio™ and Real Video™
  • QuickTime™
  • Flash Video (FLV)
  • Streaming MP3 (Shoutcast™)
• Record all kinds of great online media, including:
  • Music Videos.
  • YouTube, PutFile, Google Video and other Video Sites.
  • Live Internet TV and Radio.
  • Streaming Webcams.
  • Shoutcast™ and other Streaming MP3 radio.

BS.Player Pro 2.24

Ever since the very beginning in the year 2000, the BS.Player™ has been one of the world’s most popular video player. It is popular for many reasons, one however should be pointed out: BS.Player™ is the first movie player ever to enable its users to focus on watching the movie instead of dealing with poor computer capabilities or running around looking for a proper setting and codec. Also, it has very low CPU and RAM requirements.

Features

• Display subtitles - Support custom subtitles position, color, font, transparency,... Supported formats: MicroDVD, SubViewer, SubRip. The subtitles only appear on the computer monitor. Not on the television set hooked to the computer.
• Fully skinnable - Any shape, transparent skins...
• Resizable and borderless movie window
• Multilingual
• Drag-and-drop support
• Command line support
• Pan-scan and custom pan-scan option
• Custom aspect ratios
• Playlist support
• Resolution changing
• Frame capture
• AVI files with more than 2 audio streams supported (multilanguage)
• Support for OGM files, including more than 2 audio/video tracks, supports embedded subtitles/chapters
• External audio file supported
• External chapter file supported
• S/PDIF output supported for AC3 files (with Intervideo audio decoder)
• INI files
• Remote control support via WinLIRC
• Bookmarks
• Simple equalizer (DirectX 8 required)
• Playback rate (½×, 1×, 2×) and custom speed
• 3rd-party plugins
• Customizable Equalizer
• Support for Capture and Tuner devices (and Teletext support)
• Capture Video from capture device to file
• Integrated subtitle editor
• Network file buffering
• Support for Flash playback
• Improved subtitles
• Improved VMR9 support
• Sackmann PUT0 isn't supported
• Technical e-mail support
• DVD support (MPEG-2 codecs required)

Note: BS.Player freeware version came bundled with WhenU Spyware. However the Pro version which is featured in this post is a premium version which is completely free of spyware and any other threat so you need not worry.

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BWMeter 3.2.3

Some while back, we talked about the pros and cons of SLT's new ADSL package which has a 1GB download limit. Users of this limited ADSL package will find this software extremely useful as it makes life easier by keeping track of your bandwidth usage.

BWMeter is a powerful bandwidth meter, monitor and traffic controller, which measures, displays and controls all traffic to/from your computer or on your network. Unlike other products, it can analyze the data packets (where they come from, where they go, which port and protocol they use). This makes it possible to distinguish between local and internet traffic for example. BWMeter can also be used for traffic control by setting a speed limit for all kinds of connections or restricting access to certain internet sites. It creates statistics for all computers in your network, measuring and displaying all LAN traffic as well as download / upload from the internet. You can even define filters which show your transfer with certain internet addresses (e.g. to see how much data you download from your favorite news server). BWMeter is ideal for home users to get an overview of how much bandwidth they use, as well as small to large businesses, where one computer can control the traffic and maintain the statistics of downloaded / uploaded data of all computers in the network.

Features:

• Graphical and numerical display of bandwidth
• User definable filters for measuring bandwidth
• User definable graphs to visualize bandwidth
• Can monitor all network interfaces / adapters
• Can monitor and display all traffic on the network

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Beepa Fraps 2.9.2

Fraps (derived from Frames per second) is a benchmarking, screen capture, and real-time video capture utility for DirectX and OpenGL applications. It is commonly used to determine a computer's performance with a game, as well as record gaming footage. The program is very popular in the making of amateur machinima films. Fraps is only available for Digital Purchase (yeah right!).

Major features

• Benchmarking Software - Show how many Frames Per Second (FPS) you are getting in a corner of your screen. Perform custom benchmarks and measure the frame rate between any two points. Save the statistics out to disk and use them for your own reviews and applications.

• Screen Capture Software - Take a screenshot with the press of a key! There’s no need to paste into a paint program every time you want a new shot. Your screen captures are automatically named and timestamped.

• Real time Video Capture Software - Have you ever wanted to record video while playing your favourite game? Come join the Machinima revolution! Throw away the VCR, forget about using a DV cam, game recording has never been this easy! Fraps can capture audio and video up to 2560×1600 on dual-core CPUs (1152×864 single-core) at up to 100 frames per second!

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Stardock WindowBlinds 6.004 Enhanced

WindowBlinds is a one-of-a-kind utility that allows Windows users to completely change the look and feel of the Windows interface by applying a new skin. There are thousands of different skins to choose from that are freely downloadable from the WindowBlinds website. A WindowBlinds skin can change Windows to look like an alternative operating system, favorite sports car brands, favorite sports team, or virtually anything else. With modern video cards, WindowBlinds can do this without reducing performance. WindowBlinds 6 adds the ability to have “blurred glass” window borders on Windows XP which allows artists to make skins that could make Windows XP look virtually identical to Windows Vista.

New in version 6:

• New start menu animation support
• Category filtering on skins in wbconfig
• Tag filtering on wallpapers in wbconfig
• Random skin support
• The ability to save a re-coloring of a skin as a preset
• Advanced HSL re-coloring where you pick a single color and a range in a skin and you can just change that color instead of the entire skin
• Ability to edit the system colors from wbconfig
• Ability to change skin fonts from wbconfig
• Ability to control transparency and blur on start menu, menus, taskbar & window frames. Has some limitations on XP
• Ability to save such changes as a preset
• Vista-Ize me function which sets some defaults to have a more vista like look
• Ability to skin the sidebar
• Ability to edit a sidebar skin from within wbconfig
• Improved WB skin install when handling upgrades of skins
• Ability to alter the mouse over animation speed
• Ability to alter the default button pulsing speed
• Support for explorer background bitmaps
• Ability to use the Aero frames with the rest of the skin
• Blur support in title bars (and menus on vista)
• Lots of new sections for new Vista specific parts
• Including IE navigation arrows, IE tabs, start menu shutdown/lock buttons
• Skins virtually every aspect of the Windows GUI
• Clean and easy configuration dialog.
• Tons of configuration options for users
• Animation supported on titlebars, buttons, and many other elements.
• Change the color of any visual style on the fly
• Per-application visual styles
• Doesn't alter any system files
• Safe, reliable way to change the look and feel of Windows

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Trend Micro Internet Security 2008

Trend Micro Internet Security 2008 makes it easy to protect your home network, personal identity, and online activity. It guards against present viruses, spyware, and identity theft as well as the web threats of tomorrow. Confidently e-mail, shop, bank, or share photos online, knowing your privacy and files are well protected.

Image: Screenshot of the 2007 version. This post features the new 2008 version.

Features:

• Anti-virus
• Anti-spyware
• Email safety scan
• Protection against rootkits
• Proactive intrusion blocking
• Anti-spam
• Two-way firewall

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F-Secure Internet Security 2008

F-Secure® Internet Security 2008 provides a complete and easy-to-use protection against all Internet threats, whether they are known or previously unidentified. It includes an award-winning antivirus, an easy-to-use personal firewall, antispyware and F-Secure DeepGuard™ technology that constantly monitors the very heart of your computer, ensuring that no malicious programs can take over your computer even if you do not have all the latest updates. In addition, the product filters unwanted spam and so-called phishing attempts from your e mail, and with the parental control, you can block access to websites with questionable content.

Features

• Protects your computer against viruses, worms and unknown attacks
  With daily automatically updated virus protection from the world-renowned F-Secure Data Security Laboratory and F-Secure DeepGuard ^TM technology that protects you against zero-day attacks and other future threats, you can safely use your computer, now and tomorrow.
• Detects and removes spyware from your computer
  F-Secure Internet Security detects and removes secretly installed software from your computer better than ever before, ensuring that your system is running smoothly and clean of spyware.
• Protects your computer against hackers
  You can keep your private data to yourself with the personal firewall that stops hackers from breaking into your computer.
• Helps you stay free from spam e-mail and phishing attempts
  F-Secure Internet Security filters unwanted spam and e-mail schemes designed to steal your private information.
• Protects your children against unwanted Internet content
  F-Secure Internet Security ensures that your children or teenagers do not enter objectionable sites or surf the Internet when you are not around.

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Shrek the Third DVDrip

Although this Shrek the Third premiered months ago, a good quality rip was not around except for a few low quality camera copies (CAMs). The wait is finally over with scene group FLAiTE releasing a DVDrip today. The audio and video quality of the rip is excellent and it can be downloaded through popular bit torrent sites.

Shrek the Third is a 2007 computer animated comedy film of the Shrek series. It is the third film in the series, following Shrek and Shrek 2. It was produced by Jeffrey Katzenberg for DreamWorks Animation, and is distributed by Paramount Pictures, and was released in U.S. theaters on May 18, 2007.

IMDB Information

• Release Date: 18 May 2007 (USA)
• Genre: Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
• Tagline: Who's ready for Thirds?
• Plot Outline: When his new father-in-law, King Harold falls ill, Shrek is looked at as the heir to the land of Far, Far Away. Not one to give up his beloved swamp, Shrek recruits his friends Donkey and Puss in Boots to install the rebellious Artie as the new king. Princess Fiona, however, rallies a band of royal girlfriends to fend off a coup d'etat by the jilted Prince Charming.

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I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry (R5)

After being quite for a while, here comes another popular movie rip from scene group PUKKA. An R5 rip of the movie "I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry" is now available for download from various bit torrent sites across the world. The video and audio quality of this release is similar to that of a DVDrip's.

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (a.k.a. Chuck and Larry) is a 2007 comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler and Kevin James. The film was released on July 20, 2007 in the U.S., August 16, 2007 in Australia and on September 21, 2007 in the UK and Ireland.

Overview

• Director: Dennis Dugan
• Release Date:20 July 2007 (USA)
• Genre:Comedy
• Tagline: They're as straight as can be, but don't tell anyone.
• Plot Outline: Two straight, single Brooklyn firefighters (Sandler, James) pretend to be a gay couple in order to receive domestic partner benefits.

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Internet Download Manager 5.11 Build 7

IDM, or Internet Download Manager, allows users to automatically download certain file types, divides downloads into multiple streams for faster downloading and lists recent downloads for easy access to files. Its algorithm includes dynamic segmentation throughout the downloading process, which sets it apart from many other download managers. IDM contains no ads or spyware, and works with Internet Explorer, Opera, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla, and Mozilla Firefox.

Features

• All popular browsers and applications are supported!
• Easy downloading with one click.
• Download Speed Acceleration.
• Download Resume.
• YouTube grabber. Internet Download Manager can grab FLV videos from popular sites like YouTube, MySpaceTV, and Google Video.
• Simple installation wizard.
• Drag and Drop.
• Automatic Antivirus checking.
• Advanced Browser Integration.
• Built-in Scheduler.
• Includes web site spider and site grabber. 
• IDM supports many types of proxy servers.
• IDM supports main authentication protocols: Basic, Negotiate, NTLM, and Keberos.
• Download All feature.
• Customizable Interface.
• Download Categories.
• Quick Update Feature.

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ACDsee Photo Manager 10.0 Build 219

ACDSee Photo Manager is a comprehensive application ideal for acquiring, organizing, viewing, enhancing and sharing your images. With the image browser, you can find, organize, and preview images and media files on your computer, and you can efficiently acquire images from digital cameras, scanners, and other devices.

A full-featured image viewer and media player quickly generates high-quality displays of your images and media files. You can run slide shows, play embedded audio, and display multiple page images. ACDSee supports over 100 image and multimedia file formats. Also, ACDSee includes a wide variety of image editing tools you can use to create, edit and touch-up your digital images.

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