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I downloaded Nero Lite Micro from the website posted, when I tried to install it my antivirus Nod32 kept telling me there was a virus. Has anyone else had this issue. I would like to know if this program was infected and also if there is a clean version.

4,985 · February 16, 2007

Hello,

What computer virus did NOD32 report when you tried downloading Nero Lite Micro from the updatepack.nl web site? Also, which version of NOD32 were you using and what was the version number of its signature database?

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

Edited February 16, 2007 by goretsky

5,904 · February 17, 2007

I made an interesting Free software list as well

http://www.michaelgriswold.com/N221L/index.html

S2

6,000 · February 17, 2007

KO/Pi

that has to be one of the worst interfaces I've ever seen, especially for an enhancement.

February 18, 2007

sorry i didnt reply back sooner about nero lite micro, i guess it wasn't a virus, i have the newest version of nod32 with the most recent definitions. the problem i guess is caused by a file that is run to circumvent the registration process of nero or something, i found info on it in the nero lite forums. I guess it was just coming up as a flagged item because of how it was working.

4,972 · February 19, 2007

Small Business

Contact Managers

Contact http://www.isaacboy.com/contact.htm

Kurlo http://www.kurlo.com/

Time and Chaos http://www.chaossoftware.com/chaos32-legacy.html

February 25, 2007

RSS Readers:

"i-Fetch"

http://ideafarms.com/products/ifetch/ifetch.zip

or

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/106385

4,972 · February 26, 2007

HTML Editors:

Freelabs WYSIWYG Web Editor http://freelabs.info/htmlEditor.aspx

* All standard editor functions

* Intuitive Interface

* Imports pages compatible with today's browsers

* Absolute positioning of HTML elements

* Drag & drop interface

* Support for current Internet technologies

* Imports all major image formats including PNG & JPEG

* Syntax highlighting for HTML

* Assistants for tables, forms, links, images, color

* Shortcuts for commonly used tags (bold, italic, underline, paragraph,center)

* Easy to use, customizable interface

* Support for multiple documents

4,972 · February 28, 2007

Anti Spyware:

No More Cookies http://www.nomorecookies.com/freedownload.html

Cookie control for Internet Explorer, similar to Firefox Cookie Culler.

4,972 · March 3, 2007

Video tools & converters:

EMDB http://www.emdb.tk/

EMDB is a small utility to keep track of your DVD collection. With an automatic import from the database of IMDB, export to csv, text or complete website, thumbnail cover preview, a loan tracker, search function and multi-language user interface. EMDB is written in C++ using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and doesn't need a .NET framework or any other external libraries. And best of all... it's free!

March 4, 2007

Someone asked for a stock quote program. I use QuoteTracker. It does have an ad, but it doesn't get in the way. It's a really high quality program.

http://www.quotetracker.com/index_nn.asp

4,972 · March 4, 2007

File Managers:

NDN (Necromancer's DOS NAVIGATOR) http://ndn.muxe.com/info/

# Long File Names Support

# Multi-windowed interface

# Disk utilities

# Comprehensive File Manager

# 26 types of archives supported

# Powerful customizable editor with 3 code pages support

# Hex-editor with code pages support

# Huge strings support

# Regular expressions

# Spreadsheet communications

# Fully 32 bit version

# Multiconfiguration

# Very often updates

3,512 · March 5, 2007

Programming:

Digital Mars D Compiler

http://digitalmars.com/d/dcompiler.html

4,972 · March 6, 2007

Small Business

EverNote http://www.evernote.com/en/products/evernote/

With EverNote 1.5 you can easily capture, store and quickly access typed and handwritten memos, webpage excerpts, emails, phone messages, addresses, passwords, brainstorms, sketches, documents and more!

2,780 · March 9, 2007

KompoZer - http://kompozer.net

Nvu's unofficial bug-fix release, or you can call it a fork. Which fixes

some of the problems Nvu's has.

March 9, 2007

FFDShow is still being developed...

Video codecs

FFDShow - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/

Worthy media player (English forums and player interface)

Video players

KMPlayer - http://www.kmplayer.com/

Zoom Player Standard - http://www.inmatrix.com/

Edited March 9, 2007 by Gus_Valentine

1,286 · March 13, 2007

What about Sylpheed for eMail?

1,286 · March 13, 2007

One more thing:

Media Coder - http://mediacoder.sf.net

An open-source multi-format media converter.

4,972 · March 14, 2007

Desktop Enhancements:

ActiveClick http://www.activeclick.com/about.htm

ActiveClick automatically Clicks the Mouse, can Drag Windows & Text without using your Hands, and Makes You Take Stretch Breaks to Help Relieve the Pain of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Tendentious, & RSI.

ActiveClick works with any mouse, trackball or pointing device.

March 14, 2007

Download Managers:

Orbit Downloader

www.orbitdownloader.com

It is a great download manager. Highly recommended.

4,972 · March 14, 2007

Small Business

Contact Managers

VORG Express http://www.vertikalsystems.com/en/products...vorgexpress.htm

VORG Express the personal information manager designed for individual users provides an integrated solution for managing and organizing schedules, tasks, notes, contacts, documents and other information.

4,972 · March 17, 2007

Anti Spyware and Privacy:

PrivacyWatcher OSR http://www.managebytes.com/pw/

PrivacyWatcher is one of the very few privacy protection utilities that goes beyond ordinary protection tasks, like erasing Internet tracks, cleaning cookies, etc. While PrivacyWatcher does all of that (for Mozilla, Netscape, Opera and other browsers, in addition to MS Internet Explorer), the program offers a number of options, other software lacks.

Among them are desktop lockout (a feature that prevents unauthorized access to one's computer), secure file deletion (that makes "undeleting" impossible), and 448-bit Blowfish encryption. Another handy additional option is a startup manager - a small internal tool that prevents unwanted software applications from loading on startup.

The unique feature of PrivacyWatcher is that it is capable of erasing the list of recently used or accessed documents for Windows, Internet Explorer, Opera browser, Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Microsoft Visual Basic, Allaire HomeSite, Naviscope and other programs. Importantly, PrivacyWatcher comes with scripting support, so it can be easily set up to automatically "clean" certain files, folders or registry entries.

4,972 · March 21, 2007

Image viewers:

FreeVimager http://www.contaware.com/component/option,...tpage/Itemid,1/

* View & Edit graphics file of type: jpeg, bmp, gif, tiff, png and pcx

* Works with all Windows versions from 95 up to Vista

* EXIF is displayed and all data are kept when editing and saving images

* IPTC & XMP single file / batch editing support for jpeg and tiff files

* Batch Processing and CD / DVD Slideshow creation

* Recursive directory slideshow to view all files in a directory and it's subdirectories

* Print Preview with image positioning by dragging

* Size optimized Email sending of image(s)

* Well known editing features like: rotate, crop, resize, brightness, contrast, sharpen, ...

* Live configurable Redeye removal tool

* Transparent borders tool (save the result to the alpha channel for png, tiff or bmp)

* Multi page tiff support

* Twain interface for image acquisition through a scanner

* Avi video player has draggable borders in full-screen mode

* Live audio / video time shift slider (to fix out of sync. videos)

* Choosable GDI or DirectX video rendering in YUV or RGB mode

* Basic Audio player

* Zip extraction (context menu entry available)

4,972 · March 22, 2007

3D Graphics:

CreaToon http://www.creatoon.com/index.php

Create "South Park" style animation.

CreaToon? is a powerful software solution for the PC to create 2D animation in the cut-out style.

Its main features are:

* real-time editing previewing,

* automatic in-betweening,

* freedom of graphical style,

* combining bitmaps with vector graphics.

March 25, 2007

Well i recently recommended Orbit Download manager, but i've found out that it has a huge bug, it simply "minimizes" 3d applications to the taskbar somehow, and it really isn't compatible with Windows gui, slows it down.

So you might wanna use "Free Download Manager", which i switched to use right now. It doesn't have these problems. And it catches rapidshare links like Orbit does.

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