15 July 2011

Snagit review and Licenses to GiveAway

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Whenever we think of screen capture the first thing that comes to our mind is PrintScr button and windows paint. But there’s much more to a screen capture than just PrintScreen. What if you need to capture a scrolling window or what if you need to capture just the text portion? For these kinds of captures we need specialized screen capture tool. We can get many such tools if we search the internet but today I will talk about the best of them, Snagit by TechSmith. Many of you must be thinking that why I mentioned Snagit it as the best, for those people I will just say please continue reading you yourselves will find out why it is mentioned the No.1 screen capture tool.

Snagit Description & Analysis

Sangit is the most complete and powerful screen capture you would ever come across. Its sheer capacity to capture anything you see on your screen makes it No. 1. Not only can it capture images but it can also capture texts and video clips also. Easy to use and vast number of features makes it more popular. The best thing about Snagit is not only it is a screen capture tool but it is also an image editor. Yes, you heard me right, it does have a separate image editor of its own. So now you can capture and edit on the same tool and don’t have to open 2 or 3 programs for it. The image editor itself is feature rich and thus makes it a perfect combination.

Now let’s look at how it works:


The above screenshot shows the Snagit screen capture tool. It has basically 3 important sections Profiles, Profile settings and Capture button. The profiles section has many predefined profiles for easy capture. Out of all the profiles the All-in-one is the most used. By selecting this profile you can just capture anything. Its inbuilt settings make our job easier. But what if we need to change some settings or create a new profile for our day to day use. Snagit gives us a provision for that also through the profile settings sections. From here we can change various things or create a completely new profile. We can add a new input area, output location and even add effects also. There is also a profile creation wizard with which making profiles are much easier. The third and the most important is the Capture button, clicking which the snagit window minimizes to the taskbar and you can start capturing.


The above screenshot shows what happens when we click on the capture button. For the test purpose I tried capturing the logo of our site.

As soon as you leave the left click that portion gets captured and the image opens in the image editor.


The above screenshot shows the Snagit image editor. The image editor is filled with features to enhance your capture. It has the basic drawing tools and along with it has basic editing tools like crop, resize and rotate. Various effects like grayscale, blur and other color effects are also present. It also has various kinds of stamps and tags. You can even add hotspots, to focus on particular areas, in this editor.

But the 2 most interesting features of the editor are transparent canvas and the options of directly sending the capture to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, email etc...



After trying out different things I finally able to tear the leechermods logo and here it is.


The above screenshot helps you to understand why transparent canvas helps a lot.

I hope I was able to successfully guide you through the description and features of Snagit. Though it has much more things inside but this is the basic work flow. It is not possible to completely tell about Snagit in a single article so I would request you all to go through their learning center, where there are loads of article and videos for your guidance.

Conclusion & Verdict

In this article I just gave the basic work flow of Snagit. There are much more powerful things inside this 32 MB tool. Not only it can capture images it can also capture text, video and web pages. It can basically capture anything you can see on your screen. It is very easy to use and with few clicks you can get a professional look for your capture.
I started the writing by saying Snagit as no.1 screen capture tool and I will also end by saying Snagit as no.1…………………hope by now you all will agree.
Reviewed by: Alpha

We GiveAway 2 Licenses of Snagit for Windows, worth each $49.95.

To join the Contest post a comment include a screenshot from our Website and share the Screenshot on Twitter, Facebook, Blog or any other social media site. If you don't have a Twitter, Facebook account you can alternative just upload the screenshot to any image hoster, tag it and post the link in the comment.

We draw from all comments 2 winners and send them a license.
Your comment must be posted before Friday 22. July 2011

13 July 2011

Google Page Speed Bookmarklet

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Drag to Browser bar:
Page Speed

Homepage: http://pagespeed.googlelabs.com

Notepad2 Mod

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Great news today. I found Kai Liu's Notepad2 Mod where the development in 2009 stopped abrupt on his page:
http://code.kliu.org/misc/notepad2/

Notepad2 with Kai's patches for Code folding and more continue on this page:
http://code.google.com/p/notepad2-mod/

Description:
A modified version (fork) of Notepad2 based on Kai Liu's and other people's patches.

Changes compared to the official Notepad2:

  • Code folding
  • Support for bookmarks
  • Option to mark all occurrences of a word
  • Syntax highlighting support for AutoHotkey, AutoIt3, Bash, CMake, Inno Setup, LaTeX, Lua, NSIS, Ruby and Tcl scripts
  • Improved support for NFO ANSI art
  • Support for replacing Windows Notepad using a clean, unintrusive registry-based method
  • Other various minor changes and tweaks


32 and 64 bit versions can be downloaded here:
Download

12 July 2011

Multi Password Recovery Review and 6 Licenses to GiveAway

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Multi Password Recovery (also known as MPR) is an all-in-one Password audit, recovery and backup solution which supports more than 110 applications include latest Webbrowser such as IE 9, Chrome/Chromium Developer builds, Opera and nearly all FTP Clients. Moreover Instant messengers, E-mail clients, Download managers and many more... (see feature list)
It is the most advanced password program available today.

Multi Password Recovery is available as portable version and as installer.


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The program is easy to operate and the interface can be switched in 18 languages.
It is full compatible with all Windows versions include the latest Windows 7 64-bit.
Multi Password Recovery is compact coded in Delphi and require only about 3 MB disk space. For USD 29.95 it beats some similar password tools which cost up to 10 times more.

Homepage: http://passrecovery.com/
Softpedia: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Back-Up-and-Recovery/Multi-Password-Recovery.shtml


As by nearly all Password recovery tools (a few have exceptions), some Antivirus software products with a not so intelligent scan engine detect a Trojan.
See "False Positive" by Nirsoft.

Should your AV also detect the program as 'false positive' by a faulty scan engine or signature updates, submit it to the AV False Positive Websites for manual analysis to make your AV more accurate.

We analysed the software and there is no online activity as by Trojans.
The component UpdateChecker.exe which is already separate from the program exe, check on user request if program updates are available.

To join this contest write a comment include the AV program which you use and tell us about your experience with product support by false positive detection (response time for manual analyses requests, time till a false positive was solved with anti-virus definition updates).
It will be also great if you share with us what you do to make today's AV and security software better (member in AV and security related forum/communities/joining Beta tests, unpacking - manual analysis...)

6 Licenses we GiveAway to the best comments related to password recovery and security.
We will announce the winners this weekend.

Winners of a Network Monitor Professional License

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We announce the winners for a Network Monitor Professional License from our contest and product review:

A license have won:

Rui Fonseca and Grr

Congratulations!

The license will be send to your email from HDD Software

11 July 2011

TeraByte Image for Windows review and 5 licenses to GiveAway + 40% off for the first 20 purchases

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Image for Windows is an affordable and reliable drive image backup and restore solution that provides an easy and convenient way to completely backup all your hard drive's data, programs and operating systems. Your backups can be saved directly to external USB and FireWire™ drives, to internal or network drives, and even directly to CD, DVD, or BD. The Image for Windows package includes an easy-to-use MakeDisk wizard for creating a recovery boot disk. To restore your data, programs and operating systems back to the way they were when the backup was created, simply boot the recovery disk and restore the partition(s) or drive(s) you need to recover. It's that easy.


Image for Windows includes a copy of Image for DOS and Image for Linux. Image for DOS and Image for Linux support the same powerful drive image functionality without requiring a working Windows installation. It also includes a licensed copy of the TeraByte OS Deployment Tool Suite (TBOSDTS) Pro. TBOSDT Pro contains a set of powerful utilities that, among other things, will help you deploy Windows to completely different hardware.

Image for Windows is:
Compatible with Win64 (x64).
Compatible with all versions of Windows, including Windows Vista, Windows Servers, W7.


Homepage

Feature List

Review:

Here's my first impression of TeraByte Image for Windows.

After installing TeraByte Image for Windows v2.63a the computer needs to restart to setup the free PHYLock add-on that enables Image for Windows to create a consistent, reliable backup of a partition or volume that is in use.

The programs opens with a clean interface with the main program options. More info about the program can be found here, and the screenshots be found here.

I just run a full backup of my Win7-x64 OS partition, to another partition on another intern drive. First PHYLock uses some time to do his job, after which it took 8:52 minutes to backup my 28 GiB. This is about 3 GiB/min or 53 MB/sec.

I used already the DOS version, which always needs a restart of the pc. The Windows version can be used on a running system, which makes it more user friendly.

Reviewed by: TheDutchJewel

Together with TeraByte Unlimited we GiveAway 5 licenses and offer to our readers a special discount of 40% off for the first 20 users who purchase through BMTMicro link on the Product order page.

The coupon Code is: BWLK000R2

Conditions to join the contest:
Post a comment and tell us when you have last time formatted your harddisk and re-installed Windows.
If you have an Twitter or Facebook account it will be great if you share the news with your friends.

From all comments we draw random 5 Winners on Wednesday 20. July 2011.

We will need from the winners the Full Name and real email (no temp mail boxes) to forward for the personal licenses to TeraByte.

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