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Not everyone was cut out to follow in the footsteps of others. Some desktop users march to the beat of their own drums, and for these rebels we recommend looking into desktop customization software. These programs allow to you configure and organize your docks and home screens in ways that best suit your workflow. Here are the top five on the market:

Fences—Developed by Stardock, this Windows software creates translucent boundaries on your desktop that helps you to organize your icons. It offers the ability to customize your desktop. The user can double-click on the screen in order to hide the selected icons. A Pro edition allows you to create categories for the fences and there is also a free version available. Fences has over 3 million downloads.

ObjectDock—Another Stardock product, this dock also comes in free and Pro editions and was offered for the last several Windows released. ObjectDock creates shortcuts for users in their docks and simulates Mac OS X in functionality. It is utilized as a program launcher or as a taskbar replacement and can be optimized by plugins for a variety of additional functions. A recent version supports Vista, a resources search engine, and improved features all around.

RocketDock—PolyVector and Skunkie of Punk Labs released this application launcher under a creative commons license. Borrowing from ObjectDock’s Docket API, the animated, alpha-blended software can also be used to show updates of live windows. It is compatible with multiple skins, easily customizable and features multiple monitor support, unicode compliance, bilingual users, and positioning and layering options.

Winstep Nexus Dock—A hot desktop customization utility, Winstep prides itself on its versatility, offering icons for a variety of functions, including CPU and RAM meters, time and date, and a Screen Capture Tool. There are also many options for tabs, the highlights of which are Position and Behavior, Appearance, Effects, and others. The newest version is enhanced by a weather module, new ‘launch’ and ‘attention’ features, a Flip3D command, and new language files. Winstep has garnered over 800,000 downloads and is considered a rising star.

VistaGlazz—Simple but essential for Windows Vista users,VistaGlazz allows you to alter your Vista setup in whatever way you choose. With a basic, no frills interface and no skins to confuse you, this app will help you to configure your desktop so that it’s optimal to your workflow. The last download count had VistaGlazz inching closer to 2 million.

These are the top picks for desktop utility software. They are by no means the only options, but for customizing your Windows desktop these five pieces of software can be extremely useful.

MindGems Inc. has released a Professional version of the famous Free Fast Duplicate File Finder. The new version can find similar files regardless of their file types, beside finding 100% duplicate files. Such feature is very handy for finding multiple versions of the same word or excel document, for finding similar text documents, archives or any other type of file.

You can scan local files, removable media such as USB drives, flash cards, optical discs, external drives, and network drives with Fast Duplicate File Finder.

There are a lot of useful feature like the option to automatically mark the older of the two duplicate files as the one that will be deleted or moved. Shortcut to immediately jump to the actual folder where a duplicate you’d like to examine is residing is also available. The protection of system and program files will grantee the you will not end up with a blue screen by accidentally deleting a system file.

The in-program preview lets you easily check the duplicate image, video, music, text and binary files. The duplicate files can be dumped into the recycle bin, deleted permanently, or moved to a folder preserving their folder structure until you’re certain you want them permanently deleted.

Fast Duplicate File Finder has a very low resource requirements and will work smooth even on a Windows 98 system with a Pentium-233 MHz processor. In addition to that it supports: Windows 7/Vista/XP/NT/ME/2000/2003/98

If you are looking for a free way to easily find duplicate files on your computer or network, Fast Duplicate File Finder is definitely the right application for you.

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Nowadays, DVD software are very popular on the market for their common use and availability. Faced with varieties of DVD products, customers are now at a loss about how to choose the best and right DVD copy software.
The ideal DVD copy software should not only design for experts. In fact, the most ideal DVD copy software should provide more suitable for beginners. Software installation should be no dispute and DVD copy software installation should be simple and easy.
DVD-Cloner is the latest version of the world’s most reliable DVD/Blu-ray copying software. This easy-to-use yet powerful burning software, gives you the freedom to make perfect 1:1 DVD copy, movie-only copy and customized copy, whatever you want. DVD-Cloner VII will be released soon, with its innovative ERT technology, you can backup of the latest movies with ease. For beginners, its intuitive and wizard-style interface provides easy, guided steps for DVD copy. For more information, you can go to http://www.dvd-cloner.com/ . If you are using a Mac computer, there is DVD-Cloner for Mac for your convenience. DVD-Cloner for Mac is the definitive DVD copy software for the Mac operating system. Based on the award-winning current DVD-Cloner platform, it is the most powerful and versatile burning application available for Mac.
During the high definition optical disc format war, Blu-ray disc finally gains more support from media companies. For this, there is Blue-Cloner. Blue-Cloner is a professional Blu-ray too, to make quality Blu-ray backups easily. It can copy Blu-ray movies to BD-R/REs or to the hard disk drive with absolutely the same quality. Its fast copying speed and friendly user interface makes the Blu-ray copy easier than ever. You can go to http://www.blue-cloner.com/ for more information. Moreover, there are Blu-ray to DVD Pro for you to copy your Blu-ray movies to DVD or AVCHD with only one click and Blu-ray to HDD for you to convert Blu-ray movies to mkv or ts files. With it, you can enjoy any Blu-ray movie on PC with software player (like KMplayer, Mplayer and PowerDVD), or on TV with a HDD player (MVIX, TVIX).
If you want to enjoy your movie on your iPod, you can an iPod-Cloner. iPod-Cloner is a one-click solution to convert all kinds of DVD to iPod compatible format. Or you can have a DVD-Cloner Platinum. It has all the features of DVD-Cloner plus the ability to convert all your DVD movies to iPod Nano, Classic and Touch. It’s a user-friendly program with excellent output quality, but costs a little more than DVD-Cloner. If these still can’t satisfy you, you can go to http://www.opencloner.com/ to choose your favorites.

A lot of applications are available on the market and claim to be able to find similar and duplicate images. Most of those applications are just variations of standard byte-to-byte duplicate finders that can find only 100% identical files.

We did some performance tests choosing only the applications that can find similar images besides finding duplicates. We tested the applications on AMD X2 5000+, 2GB RAM which is an average machine and scanned 5000 files as some of the applications could not handle large volumes.

The results that we achieved were varied.

A nice surprise was the application at the top of the list which is our choice in this review. Besides the performance Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder gave accurate results and did not have issues with large volumes of images. It also has a corporate version that is used in online stock photography web sites – we are not surprised by that fact as it managed to scan 50 000 images in several minutes. The PRO version also provides support for 300+ RAW camera image formats.

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Free tool for creating thumbnail web video, image and picture galleries.

MindGems Inc. Easy Web Gallery Builder creates high quality HTML image or video galleries for the web, CD or local viewing. One of its biggest powers is that it can create thumbnails from video files directly which cuts down the time needed to build video gallery to just few minutes.

You can freely redistribute and publish the galleries created with the demo version as long as you do not remove the small link at the bottom of the gallery that points to the product web site. The demo also limits the photos to thirty per gallery which is usually sufficient. Of course you can always order a license and get rid of that small limitations for as low as – Buy Easy Web Gallery Builde for $29.95. You also get free updates and you can suggest features to be included in future releases.

In addition to the web video gallery generation the application can also build slideshow galleries and add image frames to photos. You can find some examples and tutorials below:

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Gallery – how to create thumbnail pages from video galleries and embed a video player into your gallery pages.

Interactive Slideshow Gallery – Interactive slideshow gallery using random image transitions. Uses image names as descriptions.

Image Frames (Masks) Gallery – how to add stylish frames to thumbnails in a web gallery.

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In our technological era most people store their audio collections on a digital media. Unfortunately duplicating data on a digital media is a very quick process and often we make copy of our audio files, download them several times in different formats and quality and then forget to remove them. Finding duplicate mp3 files or other audio formats in a vast collection is a tedious task as you have to first locate the duplicate files and then compare the quality and remove the one that is not needed. Having in mind that multimedia files are often quite large even terabyte sized storage can go out of space very quickly.

Audio Dedupe by MindGems Inc. is a tool that is very handy in such situations. Unlike the standard duplicate file finders on the market, the tool is designed specifically to  find duplicate mp3 files and other audio file formats. What is even more interesting is that it does not need audio tags like ID3 in order to accomplish that. Audio Dedupe performs a real audio scan using complex algorithms in order to find audio files that sound alike. Due to that fact Audio Dedup can recognize a song even if it is stored in several different file formats – MP3, MP2, MP1, MPA, WAV, OGG and AIFF.

Once the scan process is complete Audio Dedupe will list all the duplicate audio files sorted by groups of two or more files. It provides a handy auto-mark feature that can mark files choosing files with lower quality, older date or smaller size for deletion. You can also listen to the files using the internal audio player and compare them. The embedded audio player has a continuous playback feature that lets you switch between the duplicates while they are playing. Once you are done with the review of the results you can choose weather to move the files to a certain folder (backup), delete them to the recycle bin or completely remove them from your hard drive. If your files are organized in folder Audio Dedupe will also maintain the folder structure of the moved files in the target location.

It is easy to keep your audio collection clean as Audio Dedupe will also remember the already scanned songs and every consequential scan will be even faster. Cleaning up duplicate audio files can save you gigabytes of valuable disk space and using a similar tool is a must.

You can download a FREE demo of Audio Dedupe here.

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Free Boss Key – Hide your inappropriate computing.

Free Boss Key is a version of Anti-Boss Key with some limited features.
Free Boss Key lets you hide and restore the windows (programs) from your screen with the press of a hot key or a mouse shortcut. It will cover all the tracks of the running programs by hiding them also from the task bar and the system tray. In addition to that Anti Boss Key will not close the applications but keep them hidden in the background thus preserving your data at the point of interruption. All you need to do when the threat has passed is to hit the bosskey shortcut again to restore your work at the point of interruption. In addition to all that the application can mute the sound, switch the display resolution (if you was playing a game), start (bring to top if running) an application (the one you are supposed to work with) and many more. Please take a look at the features list for more details.
By hiding windows you have the freedom to protect your privacy and hide sensitive information from praying eyes.
Developed by the best software engineers at MindGems Inc., Anti Boss Key perfectly fits in our collection of “MUST HAVE” software products. It is designed to work perfectly on a vast variety of operating systems and hardware configurations. Bosskey’s size is diminished to reduce memory usage without making compromises to the features in order to run without disturbing your usual work. It’s speed is brought to maximum to allow you react as quickly as possible to any threat that appears. You won’t feel even a slight difference in the performance of your home or office computer after installing it.

Anti Boss Key – Features

Instantly hide windows with a secret key combination
Set selected volume level or mute the sound
Restore all applications exactly to the same state
Anti-Boss Key will switch display resolution to the one that you usualy use (Useful when playing games or watching a movie)
Don’t cover chosen applications
Bosskey will Automatically start the application which you are supposed to work with ( For use at work )
Anti-Boss Key will work invisibly in the background for additional privacy
Easy to use ‘Drag and Drop’ interface
Customizable hot keys
Context sensitive help
Anti-Boss Key is extremely fast with low system resources consumption
Cover task bar
Hide desktop icons
Hide newly created windows while in hide mode
Close the window that was active before hiding
Anti-BossKey will hide tray icons in the tray notification area.
Hide wallpaper
Bosskey will keep the applications running to allow them perform the necessary tasks while they are hidden
Bosskey hotkey to lock workstation and start screen saver automatically
Password protected access to the bosskey application
You get all of the above features in a single bosskey application that will help you to quickly hide windows and protect your privacy!

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Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder version 2.5.0.1 is available for download. Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder is the only product of this kind that supports almost all common RAW digital camera image formats – Camera RAW (*.crw; *.cr2; *.nef; *.raw; *.pef; *.raf; *.x3f; *.bay; *.orf; *.srf; *.mrw; *.dcr; *.sr2; *.dng; *.erf; *.mef; *.arw) (only in Pro and Corporate versions)

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The new version also provides a new Photo Search feature that will find similar images by a given sample.

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Here is a list of the supported digital cameras:

Supported Digital Cameras

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RAW digital images are supported only in Pro and Corporate versions of the software.
You can always use the DEMO version if you want to try this feature.

Note: Digital cameras not on the list below might be supported too. Please download the demo version in order to test your images.

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Sometimes when you have a lot of different types of data on a hard drive, it’s easy for files to get mixed up and you forget which files contain which information. Hard drive space is valuable, but sometimes it’s very easy to get multiple files that contain the same information. Normally, your system won’t recognize this, nor will it do anything to cut down on the use of hard drive space. All the system really looks at is the filename, rather than the contents. This is done because sometimes people want to create backup files, but often it ends up just using more space than is needed. Fast Duplicate File Finder is a program that can help to find duplicate files on your hard drive.

Fast Duplicate File Finder works by looking at the binary code – all the 0s and 1s that make up your file and searching for similar code instances between files. It’s a simple matter of specifying file extensions and previewing the contents of the files. Fast Duplicate File Finder supports plenty of different file types – text, video, image and music files can all be previewed within the easy-to-use interface. After you scan for a particular file, the program will pull up a menu, informing you of other files that matched its own code and marking them to be deleted. You can specify which file types or subfolders should be excluded from this marking, which means you don’t have to worry about accidentally deleting files you wanted to keep. Mainly, this applies to system folders where most of your operating system files and drivers are kept. If these are accidentally deleted, the machine would malfunction and Fast Duplicate File Finder protects those files by default.

When duplicate files are found, you can move them to the Recycle Bin, move them to their own folder or simply delete them from the hard drive entirely. Not only can this software can find duplicate files on standard hard drives, it can work with network folders and removable storage devices such as CDs, DVDs or USB Flash drives.

This doesn’t have to interfere with your work either – the software is capable of scanning your computer during idle time by setting its process to the lowest priority. Fast Duplicate File Finder will run on all Windows operating systems. To install the program, you should have minimum 128 MB of RAM and 2 MB of hard drive space.