PC World September 2004 CD Edition

FotoFinish Basic Edition, Full Program, as sold for £38
Having trouble finding the digital photo you need? Fotofinish organises your images into albums, where thumbnail previews make it much easier to locate those missing shots. And you can view the contents of your album as a slide show, or set it as your screen saver, in just a couple of mouse clicks.

e-txt v2.01, Full Program, as sold for £15
Enables you to send and receive text messages via your PC. The program works much like an email client, so you’ll start off by creating a list of contacts. These can be saved individually, or you can sort them into groups, making it easier to send a text message to just your family members, say.

Ashampoo Privacy Protector
Full Program, as sold for £21
Your PC might have a firewall and anti-virus tool installed, but does that mean its data is really safe? What happens when you’re emailing confidential information to a colleague? Strong encryption is the only way to guarantee your data stays private, no matter what happens.

ArtRage
Freeware – superb natural painting tool
Painting package that lets you play around with realistic painting tools in a simple, intuitive environment. ArtRage lets you paint your own picture from a blank canvas, or load an image to ‘trace’ using any of its painting tools, letting you recreate your own paintings.

TaxCalc 2004 Lite
Full Program
Autumn is coming and it is finally time to complete your tax return? Hold on, don’t turn the page, it really isn’t that bad. Especially with a little help from Taxcalc Lite 2004. The program uses an easy step-by-step approach to walk you through every part of the return, helping you calculate your tax.

Ashampoo WinOptimizer Suite
Full Program, as sold for £23
Does your PC appear to have slowed down recently? Could be it’s weighed down with junk, ‘temporary’ files that have been created by your applications, but somehow avoided deletion. Launch the Drive Cleaner option in Winoptimizer Suite and it’ll track down many of these files, making them easy to delete.

Maxivista SE
Full Program, special edition
Maxivista makes the sharing of your desktop, across two machines, regardless of the video card you’re using. All that you need is a network connection to a nearby PC. Install and launch the Maxivista SE Server on your main PC, the Maxivista Viewer on its neighbour and you’re ready to go.

AceBackup 2003
Full Program, as sold for £17
Backups can be fun. Well actually, no, they can’t. We made that up. They don’t have to be a tedious hassle though, especially with a tool like Acebackup. Choose the Backup project type if you’re saving files individually, or Archive to compress them all into a single file.
AceBackup 2004
Trial
Create completely secure backups of your data. Store your data on any local storage device, on CD, DVD or on your remote FTP server. Smart Restore restores your backups quickly and easily, three integrated compression levels.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

Actinic 7
Trial
This is a complete store management solution that includes everything a small business needs to control its own secure web store. Actinic Catalog enables the merchant to maintain his online catalogue and store content, while continuing to allow design changes to be made by the web developer.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

Aladdin Internet Cleanup 4
Trial
Protecting your identity is very important in today’s world. Block access to your personal information and stop unauthorised transmission of your account numbers, address, email and chat addresses, and more.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

Acronis Disk Director 9
Trial
Complete disk management suite: reorganize your PC for better performance and data safety. Resize, copy and move partitions without losing your data. Install and boot multiple operating systems. Auto and manual modes for beginning and advanced users.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

Adobe After Effects 6.5
Trial
Award-winning motion graphics and visual effects software. Significant new features, including Animation Presets, an advanced clone tool, and tighter integration with the other Adobe video products, help professionals meet production challenges and demanding deadlines.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

Steganos Secure Filesharing 6
Trial
Do you use Kazaa™ or other file sharing programs? Finally, you can relax when you swap files. Now more than ever. Do not take any unnecessary risks: especially when sharing files. Downloaded music, films and images are your business only!
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

e-Trust Anti-Virus 2005
Trial
Developed by a world leader in internet security software, so you can take comfort in the complete virus protection. eTrust EZ Antivirus provides complete protection, detection and elimination of thousands of computer viruses, worms, and Trojan Horse programs.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

Avast Home v4
Trial
Anti-virus package designed exclusively for home users, non-commercial users. Both conditions should be met! Our company offers Home Edition free of charge, since in our opinion, it is possible to avoid global virus spreading by efficient prevention.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

Panda Titanium 2004
Trial
The ideal solution for users who need security combined with ease of use: it detects and resolves security holes, includes self-diagnosis and can reinforce itself against virus attacks. The most advanced security technology ensures maximum speed with minimum resource use.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

F-Secure Internet Security 2004
Trial
Viruses spread very rapidly over the Internet causing damages to computer users. Home users are not an exception to this. If you are connected to the Internet, it is very important to protect your PC against computer viruses. In addition, when you are connected to the Internet your computer is exposed to hackers.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

AVG Professional 7.250
Trial
Protection for personal computers. The unique combination of detection methods (heuristic analysis, generic detection, integrity checking) ensures that your computer receives the maximum protection possible.
Requires: Windows 98SE or higher

Sophos Anti-Virus
Trial
Protects your network, desktop and even remote laptop computers from the latest viruses. The quality of its award-winning technology has been confirmed time and time again by independent bodies such as West Coast Labs, ICSA Labs and Virus Bulletin.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

McAfee Viruscan Home v8
Trial
Scans your email, attachments and downloads, then immediately starts to clean infections. Easy to download, install and use, automatically checks for virus updates whenever you go online, so your protection stays up-to-date against the latest Internet threats.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

PC-cillin Internet Security
Trial
Detect and remove viruses.  The enhanced firewall helps prevent intrusion network viruses. Trend Micro Damage Cleanup Services can now be triggered as soon as a virus is caught to keep your system functioning properly.
Requires: Windows 98SE or higher

BitDefender Pro 7.2
Trial
Ensures unmatched antivirus protection as well as data confidentiality, active content control and Internet filtering. The Professional Edition of BitDefender protects users’ data on all levels, both in an office environment and at home.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

Norton Anti-Virus 2004
Trial
Protects email, instant messages, and other files by automatically removing viruses, worms, and Trojan horses. New built-in features also detect certain non-virus threats such as spyware and keystroke loggers.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal v5
Trial
Your PC is under constant attack by viruses, Trojans, Internet-worms and other malware. Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal monitors all virus entry points leaving you with a clean and safe machine.
Requires: Windows 98SE or higher

Zone Alarm with Antivirus v5
Trial
Internet security solution that provides Zone Labs robust firewall protection and antivirus in an easy-to-use package for home and small business users. ZoneAlarm with Antivirus is ideal for users who want a powerful best-of-breed firewall and antivirus.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

Attribute Changer 5.23
Freeware
Acts as a Windows shell extension and simplifies changing file and folder attributes by adding itself to the context menus for drives, folders and files. Filters and exceptions can be used to fine tune the update process.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

FWD eyeP Phone Lite
Trial
Quickly transforms your PC or Laptop into a multi-function SIP softphone client. You can make calls using either product between any two points which have Internet access. Can connect to any other SIP telephone including standards-compliant SIP softphones and hard phones, allowing quality voice communication over the Internet
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

Hitachi Drive Fitness Test 3.73
Freeware
This download creates a self-booting DOS diskette to run the DFT utility. The Drive Fitness Test (DFT) provides a quick, reliable method to test SCSI and IDE hard disk drives, including Serial-ATA IDE drives. The Drive Fitness Test analyze function performs read tests without overwriting customer data.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

Flash and Pics Control 2.0
Freeware
IE add-on that allows you to easily enable or disable flash animation and pictures. Adds a new button to the IE toolbar that allows you to easily enable or disable flash and pictures. Having flash and pictures disabled lets you reduce the amount of incoming traffic.
Requires: Internet Explorer 5 or higher

Gimp 2.01
Freeware
The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

IRAssistant 3.5
Freeware
Software for controlling your PC remotely. You can execute macros with remote controllers, joysticks, GSM short messages etc. If you do not have any remote controller devices, you can still execute macros with customisable button panel! With IRAssistant you can control almost all Windows applications.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

NetRemote 0.99
Shareware
Application which functions as a remote to control a HTPC via TCP/IP, allowing for bidirectional communication with no line of sight issues. Will also support consumer IR on the Pocket PC in addition to supporting IR passthrough to a server side application.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

UnCHK 1.3
Freeware
If you’ve lost your entire hard drive and you already tried fixing it with ScanDisk, then UnChk may be your only hope. Once you run scandisk or do anything else to a bad drive, you make changes to the “File Allocation Table” (FAT) that helps track where the files are (were) actually stored.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

Virtual Dub 1.5.1
Freeware
Video capture/processing utility. It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000 or XP

Total Commander 6.03
Shareware
File manager for Windows, a program like Windows Explorer to copy, move or delete files. However, Total Commander can do much more than Explorer, e.g. pack and unpack files, access ftp servers, compare files by content, etc.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

Vfapiconf 1.05
Freeware
VFAPI acts like a regular video compression codec except that it isn’t a codec, but more like a wrapper. A brief explanation on how it works: VFAPI gets uncompressed RGB data from the serving application (DVD2AVI, AviUtl or TMPG) and wraps it into an AVI so that the file can be opened in any application which supports the AVI format.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

X-Lite
Freeware
Premium SIP softphone with many PBX-like features. Open standards-based design allows for maximum network interoperation and integration. VoIP networks are expanding at a blistering pace, X-Lite is ready.
Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

This CDROM contains even more applications, freeware, trial, shareware, demos and full versions.