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Friday, April 23, 2010

iMonitorPC Enterprise 4.0

iMonitorPC is the equivalent of a digital surveillance system for your computer. It records the users activity, such as programs used, websites visited, social network usage, chat room activity (MSN, YM, GTALK, AOL, Skype, ICQ). It also includes website blocking, activity reports, screen shots, user warnings, and program usage limits. It is easy to use and configure, intuitive, and password protected; it allows you to define and enforce usage rules.
What's new in this version:
  • Version 4.0 includes Send reports in new format and ComputerLocks

ManagePC 2.5.0.21

ManagePC is an open source .NET application for PC management aimed mainly at Windows Active Directory environments. Using ManagePC you can retrieve information on many aspects of a PC including hardware, software, services, hot-fixes, processes, local users and groups and more. ManagePC also lets you take control of PCs through familiar interfaces such as Remote Desktop, VNC & Remote Assistance. You can also perform various admin tasks such as rebooting, start/stop services, uninstalling software, creating scheduled tasks.
ManagePC can also run on non-AD machines. This means standalone users can use the tool to retrieve detailed information about their machine.

Free PDF To Word Doc Converter 1.1


Converting PDFs to Word-compatible formats while not paying for the privilege nor getting scammed can feel a bit like herding cats. Free PDF to Word Doc Converter gets a few things wrong, but eventually will land you the DOC output you want.
Impressively, it offers one of the cleanest and most accurate free PDF-to-DOC conversions around. Users can change the output path and name, convert an entire document or just specific pages, and ditch images in the source PDF if need be. From there, it goes a bit downhill. The option to open the output DOC in WordPad didn't function when we tested it, nor did the All Pages button. The program autodetects the number of pages in the PDF, though, so when you choose Page Number you're presented with essentially the same feature as All Pages.
The other big frustration is that while the program is free, after five conversions you're asked to answer a math question a bit harder than the average human-input detecting security feature. There's also no support for batch conversion, nor for PDFs locked behind passwords. These frustrations are not minor, but neither was the pitch-perfect conversion that the program put out. If you're planning on using Free PDF to Word Doc Converter, prepare for a bumpy ride but a smooth landing.

PDF to Excel Converter 2.4


Phoenix Word Recovery works in Vista and Windows 7 and supports Word versions from 2000 to 2007. It has a fully indexed Help file as well as online support and a knowledge base. The registered version is available in a variety of licensing options. If you depend on Word, it's worth it to check out Stellar Phoenix Word Recovery.
Convert PDF document to excel document. Render text, images to one or more excel worksheets. Choice what you wand to transfer (text, image, or both). No needed third party components.You can select fontname and fontsize to fill cells.
Version 2.4 is a bug-fixing release.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.4 is a bug-fixing release.

Stellar Phoenix Word Recovery 3.1


This program's job is to find Word docs gone on walkabout in your system and, if they're damaged or corrupted, restore them to a previous state, including all links, OLE objects, and document information. The clean but very basic interface opens with quick-start instructions in the main display and a small pop-up for adding files to the left-hand tree view. Tabs display full documents as well as Filtered and Raw text. The program won't do its thing if Word is running, a minor annoyance. Clicking the Repair button almost instantly prepared our Word doc for saving, though a pop-up in the trial version noted that we'd need to register the program to save the recovered document. A log view recorded the action, a helpful feature when recovering multiple documents.

ESET's NOD32


ESET's NOD32 is practically unimpeachable. Version 4 of the popular and effective antivirus and anti-spyware builds on that rep, emphasizing its community-sourced Threat Sense for preventing attacks before they occur, a slick interface, and some of the highest independently-tested detection rates married to low rates of false positives.
Installation is clean and straightforward. Greatly improved from its humble beginnings as separate scanners that once littered the desktop, NOD32 can be toggled between standard features and more advanced options. Scans were neither blazingly fast nor excruciatingly slow, but the real-time defenses produced no noticeable drags on system performance. NOD32 has consistently scored near the top of several independent antivirus testing organization ratings for finding the most malware. An un-installation option is available, requiring a reboot. However, we found residual system files and Registry settings that had to be deleted by hand.
If you're confident in your clicking habits, you might not necessarily miss the firewall and spam filter that ESET built into its Smart Security suite that's based on NOD32. Even without them, though, NOD32's speed, accuracy, and lack of impact on resources make it a must.
Microsoft Word documents are susceptible to corruption and loss from a variety of causes, including viruses and other attacks, system crashes, software incompatibility, and even media read errors and other inexplicable events. Stellar Information Systems' Phoenix Word Recovery Software can help users recover and repair damaged Word documents. It doesn't promise to recover every lost document, but it can undo a wide range of damage

Avast Free 5


Avast Free 5, an A-list freeware antivirus app, provides the same steadfast protection of well-known, pricier antivirus programs. Avast is remarkable for both its effectiveness and arguably providing the most complete free antivirus on the market.
Avast Free 5, formerly known as the Home Edition, protects you with multiple guards. The antivirus, antispyware, and heuristics engines form a security core that also includes multiple real-time shields. The adjustable mail and file system shields join the pre-existing behavior, network, instant messaging, peer-to-peer, and Web shields. The behavioral shield is a common-sense feature, as security software publishers leverage their large user bases to detect threats early and warn others. Other new features include a silent-gaming mode and an "intelligent scanner" that only looks at changed files after establishing a baseline. The biggest change in Avast 5, though, is the interface. Gone is the music player default look, which was skinnable but confusing. In its place is a sleek UI that new users should find far more manageable. It's also Aero-friendly, with Explorer-style navigation buttons in case you can't remember where you tweaked a particular setting.
Avast's recent independent third-party testing has been notably solid, able to hold its own against better-known programs from Symantec and Microsoft. Avast 5 Free lacks features in the paid upgrade including antispam measures, a testing sandbox, a Script shield, and a firewall. Even without those, Avast Free 5 is probably the strongest, free antivirus currently available.
What's new in this version:
  • Scanning and virus chest features now accessible even from Windows Safe Mode;
  • Enhanced compatibility with various Winsock LSPs;
  • Various improvements in the avast! sandbox;
  • Improved cleaning of file infecting viruses;
  • Added compatibility with screen readers;
  • avast! should now be reasonably accessible to visually impaired users;
  • Minor improvements in the installer, especially when upgrading from avast v4.8;
  • avast! Screen saver