Firewalls

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Firewalls
Stevens Software Showcase

• Steven Fuhrman Computer Consultant
• http//www.fuhrman-online.com
• 818-268-7868

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Clean Up Your Computer

• Remove Duplicate Files
• Get Rid Of Outdated Favorites
• Dump Unnecessary Temporary Files
• Remove Outdated Registry Entries
• Clean up Spyware and Adware
• Eradicate Viruses

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Doublekiller

• DoubleKiller searches single or multiple
  folders/partitions for identical files. Depending
  on the settings the files' names, sizes, dates
  and/or CRC32-checksums (which represent the
  content of the files) are compared with each
  other. Masks like .mpg or .dll define which
  files are (not) scanned. Files with certain
  flags, e.g. hidden files, may be excluded from
  the search.
• When the search is finished a list containing all
  duplicate files found is displayed and you can
  select the files which should be deleted or moved

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AM-Deadlink

• Detects dead links and duplicates in Browser
  Bookmarks
• Compatible With
• Internet Explorer
• Opera
• Mozilla
• Firefox

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Cleanup!

• Removes temporary files created while surfing the
  web, empties the Recycle Bin, deletes files from
  your temporary folders and more
• Instruct CleanUp! to securely delete files making
  it impossible to retrieve their contents using
  lower-level disk tools

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CCleaner

• Removes unused and temporary files from your
  system
• Removes unused entries, including File
  Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs,
  Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files,
  Application Paths, Icons, and Invalid Shortcuts.

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Spybot Search Destroy

• Version 1.4

• Periodically check to see if you are running the
  most recent version.
• Always use www.safer-networking.org as the
  trusted source of information for this product.
• Simply relying on the update features of Spybot
  Search Destroy is not adequate, as it does not
  upgrade the version of the application.

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Removing Spyware / Adware

• As with Spybot Search Destroy, always check the
  Lavasoft homepage located at http//www.lavasoftus
  a.com/ to confirm that you are running the latest
  version.
• Selecting update does not upgrade your
  application to the latest version.

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Avast!

• Excellent antivirus software package
• Requires free online registration

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Customize Your Environment

• Make It Pretty
• Make It Informative

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Konfabulator
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Konfabulator

• Runs small files called Widgets that can do
  whatever you want them to. Examples
• Alarm clocks
• Calculators
• Shows your Wireless signal strength
• Display the latest stock quotes for your
  preferred symbols
• Current local weather

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Konfabulator

• Widgets blend fluidly into your desktop without
  the constraints of traditional window borders.
• Widgets are compatible with both Windows XP and
  Mac OS X.
• Widgets can be easily be created by end-users.
• Users can modify the look, feel, layout, even
  functionality of existing Widgets.

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Konfabulator

• There are over 1300 Widgets available
• Widgets are FREE
• Konfabulator can be
• Useful
• Fun
• A waste of your precious time
• You Decide!

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Desktop Sidebar
The Desktop Tool That Lets You Have It All
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Desktop Sidebar

• Shows information such as
• Breaking News...
• Critical Appointments...
• Personal Photo Gallery...
• Convenient Toolbars...
• Favorite Cartoon...
• Instant Web Searches...
• Task Tracking...
• Music Library...
• Notes to File...
• Weather in Tokyo...
• Desktop Sidebar will show it all and more!

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Desktop Sidebar

• Changes Desktop Wallpaper per set schedule
• Includes sources from the Internet
• Skins
• Can pull information from Outlook

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Graphics

• Create and Modify Pictures
• View Pictures
• Manage Pictures in your library
• Make your it more difficult for others to edit
  your pictures

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• PhotoPlus 6
• Image and Photo Editing Software that lets you
  create, manipulate, and enhance photographs,
  bitmap graphics, and web animations.
• Includes all the tools you need are provided
  along with handy hints to enable you to achieve
  totally unique results

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IrfanView

• Many supported file formats
• Multi language support
• Thumbnail / preview option
• Create slideshows and burn to CD
• Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
• Fast directory view (moving through directory)
• Batch conversion (with image processing)
• Multipage TIF editing
• Email option

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IrfanView

• Multimedia player
• Print option
• Change color depth
• Scan (batch scan) support
• Cut/crop
• IPTC editing
• Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter
  Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
• Capturing
• Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
• Lossless JPG rotation
• Many hotkeys
• Many command line options
• Many PlugIns

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Picasa

• Picasa is software that makes it easy and fun to
  view, organize, edit and share the digital photos
  on your PC. Picasa won't delete your pictures or
  put them online without your permission.

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• CutePDF Writer
• FREE for personal and commercial use!
• No watermarks!
• No Popup Web Ads!
• Requires PS2PDF converter such as Ghostscript,
  which is an open-source interpreter for the
  PostScript language and the PDF file format.  

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Music

• Rip you own CD Collection
• Capture your analog music (vinyl, tapes) to your
  computer
• Create / Edit MP3 descriptive tags for your newly
  converted music
• Burn to CDs
• Track Your Library

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Easy CD-DA Extractor
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Easy CD-DA Extractor

• Copies "Copy-Protected" CDs
• Reads badly scratched CDs
• Reports errors on the disk
• Downloads disc data from the freedb
• Creates Cue Sheets (.cue)
• Creates Playlists (.m3u)
• Supports CD-Text, ID3, ID3V2, and other format
  specific metadata

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Easy CD-DA Extractor

• Converts audio files from one format to another
• Convert audio files from a format to another
• Advanced sound processing
• Splits Cue Sheets (.cue) and encodes them to
  individual files
• Supports ID3, ID3V2, and other format specific
  metadata

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Easy CD-DA Extractor

• Creates Audio CDs
• Writes Audio CDs that are compatible with all
  CD-players
• Writes CD-Text
• Supports Cue Sheet (.cue) files
• Supports buffer underrun prevention technologies

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Audiograbber

• Copies music from CDs or external sources such as
  radios, cassettes, or turntables
• Supports WAV, MP3, WMA, or OGG files
• Automatically split recordings from LPs into
  separate tracks
• Can rip karaoke (CDG) discs

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Audacity

• Recording
• Audacity can record live audio through a
  microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from
  cassette tapes, vinyl records, or minidiscs. With
  some sound cards, it can also capture streaming
  audio.
• Dub over existing tracks to create multi-track
  recordings.

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Audacity

• Import and Export
• Import sound files, edit them, and combine them
  with other files or new recordings. Export your
  recordings in several common file formats
  including WAV, AIFF, AU, and Ogg Vorbis files.
• Import MPEG audio (including MP2 and MP3 files)
  with libmad.
• Export MP3s with the optional LAME encoder
  library.
• Audacity does not currently support WMA, AAC, or
  most other proprietary or restricted file
  formats.

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Audacity

• Editing
• Easy editing with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete.
• Use unlimited Undo (and Redo) to go back any
  number of steps.
• Very fast editing of large files.
• Edit and mix an unlimited number of tracks.
• Use the Drawing tool to alter individual sample
  points.
• Fade the volume up or down smoothly with the
  Envelope tool.

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Audacity

• Effects
• Change the pitch without altering the tempo, or
  vice-versa.
• Remove static, hiss, hum, or other constant
  background noises.
• Alter frequencies with Equalization, FFT Filter,
  and Bass Boost effects.
• Adjust volumes with Compressor, Amplify, and
  Normalize effects.
• Other built-in effects include
• Echo, Phaser, Wahwah, and Reverse

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Audacity

• Sound Quality
• Record and edit 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit
  (floating point) samples.
• Record at up to 96 KHz.
• Sample rates and formats are converted using
  high-quality re-sampling and dithering.
• Mix tracks with different sample rates or
  formats, and Audacity will convert them
  automatically in real time

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MP3 Tag Assistant Pro
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Apple iTunes

• Listen to Music
• Watch Videos
• Download Podcasts
• Audiobooks
• Create Playlists
• Synchronize with iPod
• Share Stream
• Burn to CD

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MP3G Toolz
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MP3G Toolz

• CDG Ripping
• Encoding of audio files to MP3 or OGG
• FAST conversion to Bin for burning on CD-R
• Converts .bin files to .mp3, .ogg and .cdg
• Converts .mp3, .ogg and .cdg to .bin
• Zips and unzips karaoke AudioG files
• Renames filenames dynamically using an internet
  database.
• Creates .cue files for burning with CDRWin
• Fixes filenames with proper case and removal of
  underscores.
• Plays AudioG files from a .zip file with a -6 to
  6 step key changer

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Where Is It?

• Designed to help you maintain and organize a
  catalog of your computer media collection,
  including CD-ROMs, audio CDs, diskettes,
  removable drives, hard drives, network drives,
  DVDs, etc.

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Golden Hawks CDRWin

• Supports the recording of AUDIO, CDROM (Mode1),
  CDROM-XA (Mode2), CD-I, Mixed-Mode, and
  Multisession discs.
• Unique CUE SHEET scripting language gives you
  100 custom control over the disc layout. No two
  second gaps between tracks like other software!
• Powerful disc backup utility that preserves the
  exact layout of the original disc including all
  subcode information.
• ISO9660 disc mastering (with Joliet long filename
  support for Windows 95/98/NT).
• Supports Karaoke CDG discs (on compatible
  equipment).

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Golden Hawks CDRWin

• Automatic MP3 file decoding... MP3 files can be
  recorded to an audio disc without converting them
  to WAV files first.
• Supports CD-TEXT discs (on compatible equipment)
  and includes a graphical text editor.
• Bootable CDROM support.
• Only disc-at-once software that supports all
  CDROM types on the Philips/Kodak/HP family of CD
  recorders.
• Supports disc UPC and track ISRC numbers (on most
  recorders).
• Supports disc transporters/duplicators from Kodak
  and Discmatic for fast and unattended disc
  replication.

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Everest Home Edition

• Hardware Information
• Diagnostics
• Reporting

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Everest Home Edition

• Hardware Information
• Motherboard CPU
• Video adapter monitor
• Storage devices
• Network adapters, multimedia, input devices
• Misc hardware

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Everest Home Edition

• Diagnostics
• Hardware monitoring
• Benchmarking
• Tips suggestions

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Everest Home Edition

• Reporting
• Report Wizard
• Report formats
• Report e-mailing and printing

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QuadSucker News

• Designed to make downloading binary attachments
  from newsgroups easy and fast.
• Compatible with
• Graphics formats (jpeg, gif, etc)
• Movie Files (mpeg, mpg, avi)
• Music (mp3)
• Archives (exe, rar, etc)

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Sysinternals Process Explorer
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Opera

• Security Helps you to avoid spyware, viruses,
  and other malicious applications that silently
  attack your computer while you are surfing the
  Web. Opera 8 also automatically checks for
  security updates. More about security
• Speed The authors claim this to be "The Fastest
  Browser on Earth".
• Tabbed browsing and pop-up blocking - Opera
  pioneered tabs and pop-up blocking ages ago. But
  they're still key features that more and more
  people start enjoying.
• Integrated search capabilities
• Customization - You can make Opera look almost
  any way you want by moving buttons and search
  fields, add and remove toolbars, and so forth.
  Opera skins can change the look of your browser
  by giving it the icons and buttons of your
  choice.

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Opera

• Password manager - Opera's password manager, the
  Wand, remembers your usernames and passwords so
  you will not have to.
• Voice - Opera is the first browser to prepare for
  a future of Web sites offering interactive,
  voice-enabled shopping and booking systems. You
  can browse the Web using spoken commands, such as
  "Opera next link", "Opera back", or "Opera
  speak". The latter command will make Opera read
  Web page content and e-mail messages to you aloud
  ,adding usability as either a screen reader or
  advanced dictionary. Voice is currently offered
  in English and works on Windows 2000 and XP.

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Dariks Boot Nuke

• Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a
  self-contained bootable disc that securely wipes
  the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will
  automatically and completely delete the contents
  of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes
  it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency
  data destruction.

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WinPatrol
WinPatrol 9.8

• Detects registry changes that occur when new
  programs are introduced
• Increase Your Speed System Performance
• Protect yourself from Identity Theft
• Detects Neutralizes Spyware
• Detects Neutralizes Adware
• Detects Neutralize Viral infections
• Detects Neutralize Unwanted IE Add-Ons
• Detects Restore File Type Changes
• Automatically Filter Unwanted Cookies
• Avoid Start Page Hijacking
• Detect HOSTS file changes
• Kill Multiple Tasks that replicate each other, in
  a single step!
• Stop programs that repeatedly add themselves to
  your Startup List!
• Delete and Remove the most Stubborn Infections

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MAME32
Mame32 is the Win32 GUI version of the M.ultiple
A.rcade M.achine E.mulator, a program which
seeks to document the internal hardware and code
of arcade games.
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• http//www.download.com/
• http//www.tucows.com/
• http//www.filehippo.com/
• http//www.softpedia.com/
• http//www.pcworld.com/
• The Authors Homepage

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Questions
Steven Fuhrman
818-268-7868
http//www.fuhrman-online.com