Firefox 13.0 Beta 5

The Web is all about innovation, and Firefox sets the pace with dozens of new features to deliver a faster, more secure and customizable Web browsing experience for all.

User Experience. The enhancements to Firefox provide the best possible browsing experience on the Web. The new Firefox smart location bar, affectionately known as the "Awesome Bar," learns as people use it, adapting to user preferences and offering better fitting matches over time. 

Performance. Firefox is built on top of the powerful new Gecko platform, resulting in a safer, easier to use and more personal product. 

Security. Firefox raises the bar for security. The new malware and phishing protection helps protect from viruses, worms, trojans and spyware to keep people safe on the Web. 

Customization. Everyone uses the Web differently, and Firefox lets users customize their browser with more than 5,000 add-ons.

 

VLC Media Player 2.0.1

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols without external codec or program.

It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

VLC can play:

• MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 / DivX files from a hard disk, a CD-ROM drive, and so on
• DVDs, VCDs, and Audio CDs
• From satellite cards (DVB-S)
• Several types of network streams: UDP/RTP Unicast, UDP/RTP Multicast, HTTP, RTSP, MMS, etc.
• From acquisition or encoding cards (on GNU/Linux and Windows only)

Vuze 4.7

Vuze (formerly Azureus) is a free BitTorrent client used to transfer files via the BitTorrent protocol. Vuze is written in Java, and uses the Azureus Engine. Vuze offers multiple torrent downloads, queuing/priority systems (on torrents and files), start/stop seeding options and instant access to numerous pieces of information about your torrents.

In addition to bittorrenting, Vuze allows you to view, publish and share original DVD and HD quality video content. You can see content through channels and categories containing TV shows, music videos, movies, video games and others.

If you publish your own original content through Vuze, you can charge for it and make money.

uTorrent 3.2

µTorrent is a small and incredibly popular BitTorrent client. 

Micro-Sized Yet Feature Filled

Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification (compatible with Azureus 2.4.0.0 and above, BitComet 0.63 and above) and peer exchange.

Resource-Friendly

µTorrent was written with efficiency in mind. Unlike many torrent clients, it does not hog valuable system resources - typically using less than 6MB of memory, allowing you to use the computer as if it weren't there at all. Additionally, the program itself is contained within a single executable less than 1 MB in size.

Skinnable and Localized

Various icon, toolbar graphic and status icon replacements are available, and creating your own is very simple. µTorrent also has support for localization, and with a language file present, will automatically switch to your system language. If your language isn't available, you can easily add your own, or edit other existing translations to improve them!

Actively Developed and Improved

The developer puts in a lot of time working on features and making things more user-friendly. Releases only come out when they're ready, with no schedule pressures, so the few bugs that appear are quickly addressed and fixed.

Nero 11 Platinum HD Multimedia

Nero Multimedia Suite Platinum HD 11.2.00700 Final Full Version

Now bring life to your photos and movies with new Nero Multimedia Suite Platinum HD 11. Create your own movie with your own style. Nero 11 has added many advance feature including very high quality video production. Edit your videos and add awesome effects available inbuilt in Nero.

It can create your own DVD movies and burn into a Blu-ray disk. Nero Multimedia Suite Platinum HD is the best multimedia tool ever in the internet.
Download Nero Multimedia Suite Platinum HD now and show your talent to the world.

Highlights:

• Integrated Nero MediaBrowser - From any project you can access your library of music, photos and videos with just one click.
• Create photo books - Create lasting memories with your family pictures in just seconds with personalized photo books, calendars and cards.
• Easy and Advanced Video Editing Modes - Easily switch from Express Editing to Advanced Editing with just one click.
• Nero LIVEBackup - 24-7 Peace-of-mind backup with one-click Nero LIVEBackup for all your digital files and even the entire system.
• Windows Live Movie Maker - Seamlessly import and enhance Windows Live Movie Maker projects directly in Nero 11 

 

Uniblue Powersuite 2012

Boost your PC and keep it running at its best with the award winning full performance solution.

Merging SpeedUpMyPC, DriverScanner and MaxiDisk under a single interface, PowerSuite boosts and protects your PC, giving you more speed and stability, as well as expert performance maintenance in an easy-to-use package. 

PowerSuite - is a complete solution to your computer's performance. Merging RegistryBooster, DriverScanner and SpeedUpMyPC within a single interface, PowerSuite increases and protection of vulnerable groups, but very important element of the system are tied to the speed and stability.

- Remove harmful registry entries to reduce the number of errors and data conflicts Defragment registry to improve the efficiency of data processing
- Updating the old drivers to improve hardware functions
- Boost the resource management system to reduce the delay
- Removing unwanted files to recover hard disk space
- Optimizing system settings for maximum speed
- User-friendly interface for centralized three awards programs
- Integrated performance analysis
- Powerful and comprehensive productivity
- Automatic and unobtrusive service
- Reliable technology from Microsoft Gold Certified Partner

SpeedUpMyPC - the program to speed up your computer. According to the developers increases the rate
even the most powerful machines. SpeedUpMyPC automatically determines the best installation for your
computer and manages system resources, providing better performance. With SpeedUpMyPC
You can create cleaning system, to monitor the use of resources and accelerate performance.

Features:
- Automatically scan the system performance
- Overview of CPU
- Improving the functionality of the processor
- Review the use of RAM
- Optimize RAM
- Review the use of disk space
- Analyzing and defragmenting hard drives
- Analysis and Optimization speed internet connection
- Startup Manager
- Task Manager
- Review of and recommendations for increasing its productivity
- Crawling on unnecessary or unwanted data
- Complete destruction of confidential data (optional)
- Manager to uninstall the program
- Nice and easy interface yuzersky

RegistryBooster - designed to optimize and clean registry Windows. With the technology of automatic error detection Registry Booster detects fragmented, damaged, or incorrect registry keys and corrects the detected errors, thereby enabling improved performance and overall system stability.

Features:
- Scan and find outdated system drivers
- Download the latest version of the driver
- Select the number of simultaneous downloads
- Displays the status of drivers
- Display the scanning process
- Create a backup installed drivers
- Restore the system after its collapse
- Easy and intuitive user interface

Avast 7

Avast has improved its installation process so it's faster than before. It's not the fastest on the market, not by a longshot, but a standard installation took us about three minutes.

Some items of note during the installation that will come up later in the review: to avoid the new Windows 7 and Vista desktop gadget, or the new WebRep browser add-on, you must choose the Custom install option and uncheck those here.

Automatic installation of these features is frowned upon, although Avast does provide a clear method for uninstalling them. It's just not as simple as a check box that gets its own installation window, since you have to go through the Customize menu, which makes the auto-install sort of surreptitious.

The current versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer both block forced add-on installation. When you run one of those browsers for the first time after installing Avast, they'll ask you if you want to allow the new add-on.

On the plus side, installing Avast doesn't require a reboot, and using its uninstall tool we detected no remnants in the Registry or on the desktop. Avast has said that the installer has shrunk for all three versions by about 20 percent, although it's still a large download at around 70MB for the free version.

A new Avast installation option, available only from the custom install menu, lets you sideload Avast as a secondary security program to supplement your main one. We're not big fans of this option from a security point-of-view, because it can bog down your system resources without actually making you safer. However, for seeing if you like Avast, it's not a bad thing as long as you remember to choose one security suite to go with.

SolidWorks 2012

SolidWorks - computer-aided design, engineering analysis and manufacture of products of any complexity and purpose.

SolidWorks is the core of an integrated set of enterprise automation, through which the support of the product life cycle, in accordance with the concept of CALS-technologies, including bi-directional data exchange with other Windows-based applications and the creation of online documentation.
Depending on the class of tasks customers are three basic system configurations: SolidWorks, SolidWorks Professional and SolidWorks Premium.
CAD developer SolidWorks is a SolidWorks Corp. (USA), an independent division of Dassault Systemes (France) - the world leader in high-tech software.

Development of SolidWorks Corp. characterized by high levels of quality, reliability and productivity, which in combination with qualified support for SolidWorks makes the best decision for the industry.

Autodesk Maya Entertainment Creation Suite 2013

Autodesk has recently showed off the new line of Media and Entrainment packages with 2013 updates to Autodesk Maya 2013, Autodesk 3ds MAX 2013, Autodesk Softimage 2013, Autodesk MotionBuilder 2013, Autodesk MudBox 2013, and Autodesk Flame 2013 in a media event that set the focus on Autodesk’s larger picture roadmap to cloud technologies as well as smaller and more portable tools to enhance desktop tools which would be aimed to liberate some workflows from desktop computers.

Autodesk Maya 2013 features include:

Enhancements to workflow with:

• Viewport 2.0 Enhancements: Evaluate your work in a higher fidelity interactive environment in order to make better creative decisions.
• New Node Editor: Create, edit, and debug node networks more easily with the new Node Editor.
• File Referencing Workflow Enhancements: Segment your scenes more easily, to work in parallel and better manage complexity, thanks to targeted improvements to both the user interface and the underlying architecture for file referencing.
• Heat Map Skinning: Enjoy a more accurate initial binding of geometry to skeletons, thanks to a new Heat Map Skinning method that is better able to assign skin to the intended bone as opposed to an adjacent but unrelated one and requires less manual refinement.

New Features in Dynamics:

• Bullet Physics: Simulate both soft and rigid bodies in a single system, with the high-performance open source AMD Bullet Physics engine.
• Maya nHair: Create stunning, highly realistic hair and other curve-based dynamics with the new Maya^® nHair module for the Maya^® Nucleus unified simulation framework.
• Alembic Caching: Read and write the Alembic open source computer graphics interchange framework format, co-developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc. and Lucasfilm Ltd.

… and Animation Improvements:

• HumanIK Enhancements: Gain the ability to map and retarget Autodesk® HumanIK® animation to and from a custom rigged character; a unified character context for increased usability; character views that can be customized to fit specific requirements; continuous rig alignment during manipulation and playback; and greater control over Roll Bone influences. Graph Editor Enhancements: Enjoy the increased efficiency resulting from a new interactive Retime tool, and a stepped preview mode for pose-to-pose animation in the Graph Editor.
• Trax Clip Matching: Visualize how Trax clips overlap in order to build complete character performances from individual animations.
• ATOM Animation Transfer: Transfer animation between characters via the new ATOM (Animation Transfer Object Model) offline file format, in order to repurpose existing animation data as new characters are created.

Adobe Master Collection CS6

Today Adobe officially launched its Creative Cloud and CS6 Suite. We have published about Creative Cloud when it was announced in October 2011, on the day Adobe launched its Touch Apps suite, a collection of creative application for Android tablets.

After paying a monthly fee of $49.99, Creative Cloud subscribers will be able to download and use (offline, on desktop) any CS6 tool or Touch App*, and access automatic cloud sync and storage (up to 20 GB) for viewing, editing or commenting on files from anywhere on multiple devices. A “Team” subscription will be available later for $69.99 per month and per user that will give access to more storage and allow IT management. Later this year, Creative Cloud will have its own community where members will have the opportunity to share projects, seek help and exchange tips and tricks.

Additionally Creative Cloud will include access to two new  HTML5 products, Adobe Muse and Adobe Edge preview that are not included in CS6.

The new Creative Suite 6  features new versions of 13 products including Photoshop and Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash Pro and more. Acrobat and Flash Builder do not get updates, and Adobe combined its Web Suite and Design Suite in one “Design and Web Premium” ($1899) that includes Acrobat X Pro, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash Pro, InDesign, Illustrator and Photshop Extended. The Design Standard Suite containing only InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop will be available for $1299.