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For Handy Recovery software is a bit slow performance when scanning files and the results of his recovery was less satisfactory. After searching the reference until finally got nice info about the GetDataBack recovery software. From my experience it’s seem GetDataBack have better performance than other Data Recovery software I’ve ever used, for more details, please try by yourself.

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Proxy Switcher is free proxy software that lets you hide/change IP and stay anonymous when you visit web sites, download files, send emails, etc. You may download proxy lists from different proxy sites, check proxy lists, filter and switch proxies on fly per time or per request, change proxy chains, change User-Agent, Referrer field. Everyone from beginners to advanced users can setup and configure Proxy Switcher using Auto Configuration.

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Free YouTube Download is a simple tool that downloads YouTube videos to your hard drive, featuring several formats to choose from: AVI, 3GP, MP4 and the online native Flash video format, FLV.

Thanks to Free YouTube Download, you can take your favorite videos on your iPod, phone or any other portable device and and watch them while commuting to work.

Free YouTube Download is not only simple in design, but also in usage: enter the URL of the video you want to download, select your preferred format and let Free YouTube Download take care of the rest. The downloading process only takes a few minutes and you can then enjoy your YouTube videos locally straight away. Also, you can download several videos simultaneously to save time.

On the downside, there was something about Free YouTube Download I didn't like much. This was the fact that you must copy and paste the video addresses manually – it would be nice to have some kind of browser or clipboard integration.

With Free YouTube Download you can download any YouTube video to your hard drive and save it in several different formats.

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Adobe Dreamweaver is a web page editing program output Adobe Systems formerly known as Macromedia Dreamweaver Macromedia output. The program is widely used by web developers because of the interesting features and ease of use. The latest version is Macromedia Dreamweaver before Macromedia was bought by Adobe Systems which is version 8. The latest version is Dreamweaver Adobe Systems output is available in 10 versions of Adobe Creative Suite 4 (often abbreviated Adobe CS4).

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Total Video Converter is a comprehensive tool, which is by far the best conversion software on the internet with so many others already competing for supremacy. Total Video Converter has reached heights where no other could reach. If you don’t believe me then, take a trial of the software which will install on any Microsoft Windows Operating System from 98 until XP, and experience it yourself.

The software has many advanced features which makes it a fascinating video playback, conversion and burning model, released by iTinySoft. The best part of this software is its multiplexing feature using which you can combine two different file formats to get single output file. Along with that it also has a de-multiplexing feature which can allow the user to split the audio/video streams to capture them in separate files.

An awesome user friendly application interface makes is very easy to use program for all ages. Even a Mr. nobody can understand and make the most out of it. A Video conversion can be performed in very simple steps. The process goes in a sequence where you have the ability to select the desired codec followed by the video quality and finally the resolution of the output movie.

First you select your desired video file which can be one of many formats available today like for example, all supported known audio/video formats including MPEG, MPEG4 for Mobile phone & iPod, DivX/XviD AVI, WMV, RM, RMVB, FLV, FLI, ASF, MP3, DirectShow, DVDs .info, QuickTime, CVD, SVCD, and many others.

Note: You can also select multiple files with different video formats and encode them into one single output file.

Second step would be to select the desired output format. The option available for an output format are similar to the input format, like for example, you can choose an MPEG file and convert that into a DVD .info format. You can choose the encoder between the built-in encoder and the DirectShow encoder with Microsoft DirectX9. Both of them have been equipped with advanced feature where in the user can cut, crop and combine different video files.

The third step is to click on the ‘Convert Now’ button and watch the conversion process which would be done in much lesser time as compared to a standard DivX conversion.

Once the conversion is done, you will be prompted to either select the option to burn the file to a disc or leave it for some other time. This ‘Media Burner’ application is packaged along with Total Video Converter and uses the windows burning kernel or a 3rd party burning software installed on user’s computer like NERO BURN ROM etc to write the file to the CD/DVD disk.

Not only that, if today, you only want to watch a movie, then, you can use the ‘Total Video Player’ for movie playback no matter what the movie format is! As long as the movie format is compatible and supported for playback the movie will play. The Total Video player interface looks very similar to a Winamp interface giving a known experience. The software has no noticeable drawbacks.

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WordPress is the number one user-installed web app, and its growth is showing no signs of slowing. If you are a web host, and you don’t have a specific strategy for WordPress, you’re likely operating your service inefficiently, and may be opening yourself up to security issues. This is the year to adapt, or be left behind by nimbler upstarts.

Performance

WordPress does not currently ship with any output caching. First, because most blogs never get enough traffic to need it, so it’s not worth the added complexity and configuration that it would add to our relatively nimble core. But also because every environment is different, and what works on one web host may actually degrade performance on another. So we leave it up to the WordPress user to choose whether they need a caching plugin, and which one to run.

As a web host, you know what caching strategies will work best with your server architecture. You have the ability to roll out things like Memcached or APC. You can route image requests to a lightweight web server or a CDN. These changes will result in a better user experience, and they’ll save you money.

Security

All code has bugs. WordPress has had its share of security issues through the years. As a web host, you can help keep your users out in front of security issues instead of just being reactive when someone gets hacked. First, by encouraging, or even demanding that users upgrade their sites to the newest available version of WordPress. In practice, there aren’t any widespread attacks against the current version of WordPress. The large scale attacks you see from time to time are against old versions of the software whose users haven’t updated in a while. It is in a web host’s interest to encourage upgrades and reduce the incidence of exploitation.

Because WordPress is so widespread, it also is often the victim of attacks that originated against other software or server misconfiguration. So a bad guy gets in using something else, and then once in, they look for WordPress installs to exploit. You can help users recover from these attacks by aggressively backing up their data and by looking for suspicious files or suspicious code that could indicate that a bad actor is exploiting their WordPress install.

What you can do

Get your company to abandon the mindset that you’re just a dumb host who doesn’t care what software your users are running. Users want and are willing to pay for a more specialized experience. If you tell them that it’s not your problem, they’re going to go find a service that will support their web hosting needs.
Offer WordPress-specific hosting. Specially optimized, prodigiously backed up, with a more locked-down environment. And because it is a specialty service, you can charge more than you do for your regular hosting products!
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People ask me for hosting recommendations all the time. I have a few decent hosts that I’ll recommend, but I don’t have any hosts about which I can say “use them, because they know how to host WordPress, and they’ll support you.” I’d like nothing better than to have a dozen such hosts to recommend by this time next year. WordPress is here to stay, and it’s time for web hosts to adapt!

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Opera 10 maintains the program's tradition of striving to be the fastest, smallest, and most full-featured browser available. In this latest iteration, Opera replaced its JavaScript engine, remade the interface for Windows 7, and developed features that have solidified the company's position as an innovator.
Opera 10.60 is a minor update to Opera 10.50, which introduced multiple new features. The biggest is one most users won't see: Opera's in-house anti-malware has been bolstered by AVG's real-time threat detection network. The browser uses it to force users to see a warning page when they try to load sites that the network determines are in some way malicious. Version 10.60 adds more HTML5 support, including the next-generation video and audio codec WebM, geolocation compatibility, Web Workers, and App Cache.
The big news in Opera 10.50 was the new JavaScript engine, Carakan, that made Opera arguably the fastest browser around. It also debuted full compatibility with Windows 7, which includes Aero Peek, jump lists, and a design redo that emphasizes Aero's translucent window frames. Longtime Opera fans will notice that its menu bar has been hidden and replaced by a drop-down menu that compresses the options into a tree format. It has also highlighted the Closed Tabs box with a prominent tab bar icon styled on the Windows Recycle Bin, and its widgets have gained the capability to live on the desktop, separate from the browser. Opera has also introduced HTML5 video support in v10.50.
Opera is known for coming with an incredible number of features out of the box. It's the basics such as tabbed browsing and tab previews, a customizable search bar, advanced bookmarking tools, and native e-mail and chat client options. But it also has mouse-gesture support, keyboard shortcuts, password management, anti-malware protection from Haute Secure, and drag-and-drop functionality. Its more-exciting options include Opera Link for synchronizing bookmarks, your personal bar, Speed Dial, and Notes via My Opera. Opera Unite expands My Opera by letting you create an Opera-hosted Web server to share files and stream media. For users on slower connections, the toggleable Opera Turbo compression engine feeds sites through Opera's own servers for faster load times.
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Avira latest version is available for download by Avira GmbH, the developer of antivirus Avira. At this time the release of the latest Avira already equipped with the latest technology in banish the virus and repair the damage caused by computer viruses. The developer also conducts various bugs fixes from previous versions of Avira reported by Avira loyal users around the world.

Latest features at this time Avira include a fairly easy installation process, the ability to fix the registry and the file is infected and the Parental Control feature is very useful for parents to protect your children from Internet access to restricted areas.

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MAGIX Music Maker 14 Produser Edition is the latest generation of multimedia software and audio-visual professionals. With just move the sound samples and loops into the tracks of your choice with a very complete with effects and the addition of video editing then you can produce music that is truly beautiful.

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Nuendo 3 is one of the most flexible and technologically advanced post-production, recording and Surround systems available on the market today. Extraordinary sound quality and a host of unrivalled features, paired with a totally open architecture engineered to accommodate the audio industry’s prevailing software and hardware standards, make Nuendo the system of choice for discerning professional users. Its system performance is readily scaled using any standard computer components. This gives you the computing power you need to rise to the challenge of handling complex projects entailing hundreds of tracks, innumerable effects and even the most intricate mixer configurations .

Recording, editing and mixing with up to 192-kHz and 24-bit processing power (pristine 32-bit floating point internal resolution)
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Nuendo 3 marks another milestone advance in the evolution of Steinberg’s celebrated Media Production System. It offers a multitude of new features, including AAF support, optimized media management, Pull Up/Down and Warp to Picture, as well as numerous new recording and Surround production functions. And with the release Version 3.2, Nuendo even boasts a full-fledged control room section unlike anything found on any other software mixer

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Competition in the world of all-in-one music-creation suites has grown considerably since Fruity Loops first started breaking beats. With a new name and a new interface, FL Studio is reestablishing its place as a full-featured and affordable audio-production program.

The photo-realistic mixing-board interface, littered with small, unlabeled icons and burdened with a confusing file browser, makes the learning curve steeper than it should be. Once you clear that hurdle, though, this enjoyable product will have you making music in no time. The Fruityslicer makes short work of chopping up breaks, and the simple step-based drum machine lets you create your own. You can bind FL Studio to other programs via VSTi and DXi plug-ins. A full selection of software instruments is included so you can start playing immediately. All the usual suspects are there, from vintage, buzzy, analog imitators to wacky sound effects and generic voice samples.

FL Studio offers a tremendous value for what you get. Comparable products cost nearly twice as much. FL Studio's quirky sound generators and interoperability make it a great addition to any studio. Be warned, though: several versions of FL Studio are available, so more features are included as the price goes up.

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A download manager is a program solely for downloading files from the Internet. Download managers are a must if you download a lot. Not only do they keep your PC organized, they keep you productive. There are many download managers and today I’ll be reviewing Internet Download Manager.




Internet Download Manager

I’ve personally been using IDM for quite a while now, mainly because its user-friendly, and unlike some other download managers/accelerators – which are bloatware really – it has some really useful features.

Keeps Your PC Organized

In Internet Download Manager, or IDM, you can make categories and select which types of files will automatically be assigned that category. For each category, you can also choose the default folder where such files will be stored.

So, you can make a new category called “Images”, assign .png, .jpg, and .gif files to it, choose the “My Pictures” folder as the default folder, and IDM will download any image automatically to the “My Pictures” folder. You can do the same with any other file format.

As you can see, this keeps your PC organized and you don’t have to go on a PC clean-up mission every now and then.

Download Files Faster & Be Productive

IDM is also a download accelerator. Meaning that it splits the file into 4 or more parts and downloads them all the parts together, thus increasing your download speed. According to its website, it can speed-up download by up to 500%! Of course that’s only true if you have high-speed Internet – over 1 mbps. Otherwise, the download acceleration won’t be much.

Resume Files

Like most good download managers, IDM allows you to resume files. The great thing is IDM saves the file’s parts every few minutes, so you’ll be able to resume a file even if your PC crashed while it was downloading.

Scheduler & Queues

This is one of best features of IDM. IDM allows you to group files in queues so it’ll automatically download all the files in the queue, one after another, after you start the queue. You can also setup the scheduler so a queue will start at a certain time, say 1 AM. And you can even set it up to shut down your PC after the queue has been completed.

Speed Limiter

In Internet Download Manager, you can limit the speed at which files are downloading. This way your normal browsing won’t slow down to a crawl while you’re downloading stuff.

Browser Integration & Video/Audio Downloading

When you install IDM, it attaches itself to your browser. This enables you to download files using IDM in one click only, you don’t have to copy-paste the URL in IDM. So, whenever you click a download link, say a .zip file, IDM will start automatically and then ask you if you want to download it.

Another great thing about this download manager is that it can easily download videos and any audio on the web page. Whenever a web page has a video, IDM adds a “Download this video” button to the top-right of the video. This makes it very easy to download videos off YouTube in one click.



The Site Grabber

Site Grabber is a noteworthy feature of IDM. Site Grabber enables you to rip files from a website. You can download all the image files on the site, or videos, or the whole website itself. Although you won’t use it very often, it can be useful once in a while.

The Bottom-line

Sure, it might cost $29.95 but its well worth it. I’ve tested a lot of download managers – FlashGet, Download Accelerator Plus (DAP), GetRight, Free Download Manager (FDM), you name it. IDM trumps them all. With active developers and a boatload of features, you can’t go wrong with this one.

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Pressure has been building on established MP3 download services like iTunes. Rivals such as 7Digital and Play.com are now offering DRM-free content, and with more set to follow we could soon be seeing the end of audio encryption that restricts the way you use your music.

Easy MP3 Downloader is a new service that allows you to browse a catalogue of over 100 million songs collected from free legal music sources such as YouTube and Yahoo. It claims to be 100 percent legal and to offer clean, verified downloads of tracks, all of which are accessible through a small application you install on your PC.

This is quite simple and uses an iTunes style interface with a search bar at the top and a ‘What's Hot' list of current favourites. After entering some search criteria, results are returned in seconds and we were impressed by the range of tunes on offer. Not only did it return tracks from studio albums but in most cases you'll find B-sides, EPs, live performances, rare material and even interviews.

We were also impressed by the speed at which the tracks were saved to a location of our choice; on an 8Mb connection during peak hours it took little longer than a minute to retrieve an average sized song. Selections can be queued in a download list and incomplete tasks will be resumed if interrupted, resulting in a tidy and efficient service.

Importantly, the music is DRM-free and contains no restrictions on copying or burning to other media. Subscriptions to the service are available for periods from 6 months (at $3.33 per month) up to 2 years (at $1.66 per month) or you can grab a lifetime subscription for $49.95, with secure PayPal ordering available from the site. There are no limits on how many songs you can download during the subscription period and a free trial of the service will allow you to try it out by retrieving 50 percent of the track.

All of this sounds too good to be true and in fairness there are some issues that may put people off. Most tracks seem to be encoded at 64kbps bitrate, there's no facility to download complete albums and songs often contain incomplete ID3tag information. While the latter is easily fixable we can imagine that some users would consider the audio quality to be inadequate.

We're a little surprised that Easy MP3 Download found a legal way to offer such a product; such is the speed and convenience of the service and the extensive nature of the database. If you're not concerned with the relatively low bitrates you'll find it to be an excellent albeit basic way to build a large collection of your favourite tunes.

The latest version of Coffee Cup's WYSIWYG web site designer adds significant new features, including some which are overdue, like W3C compliance and support for web-friendly PNG image files.

Elsewhere the changes are primarily cosmetic, with new shapes and styles, a revamped interface and new themes intended to get design-challenged site creators up and running more quickly without needing to know a line of code.

The opening screen invites you to create a new blank web site, open an existing one or create a new one based on a theme; 10 themes are included and 40 more are available from Coffee Cup for $29.00. The included themes are billed as an improvement on those available in previous versions, but they still look stale and old-fashioned to us, and don't include things like alternative images and design elements which would make them more useful.

Visual Site Designer (VSD) lets you create web sites rather like pages in a printed newsletter. Thus, there are tools for creating shapes with solid fills, bitmap fills and gradients, lines, text boxes and so on which can be arranged, aligned and layered to create more complex and interesting visual elements.

You can then add navigation links, visual effects (like drop shadows and ‘glows') as well as rollovers from within the program; other features like photo galleries, forms, music and video players, calendars and even fancy Flash-based fonts are available at extra cost. More adventurous users can add HTML and Javascript by hand and there's built-in support for Google Analytics so you can track visitors to your site and see what they're doing.

The trouble is, VSD gets caught between two stools. On the one hand the included themes are uninspiring and don't do enough of the behind-the-scenes work for you: for example, adding a new page doesn't automatically add a new item to the navigation bar and it's also not possible to switch themes mid-way through designing a site.

On the other hand, the tools for building web pages from scratch probably require too many design skills from the target audience. Certainly, creating navigation bars is limited and long winded.

Elsewhere, picture re-sizing's not very intuitive - there doesn't seem to be a way of re-sizing by dragging a corner - and the properties dialogues take some getting used to because they're designed to stay open all the time, even when nothing's selected and all the options are greyed out. As a result, they always seem to be in the way.

Furthermore, pages are sorted alphabetically on the Show Page menu when it would make more sense to have them ordered in site sequence, and there's no neat way to get an overview of your site, apart from using Windows' tile feature.

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Google's attempt to muscle in on the browser market, and to take on the dominance of both Internet Explorer and the ever-growing Mozilla Firefox, certainly made a splash when it launched Chrome in 2008.

But that splash - and the millions of words written about the browser - failed to convert into anything more than 1 percent market penetration. Granted, that's no small feat in itself, but it's a certainty that Google is looking to fry bigger fish. As such it's readying Chrome 2, which it's now released in beta form pending a full release later this year.

At first the browser's characteristics and presentation appear the same, too. As with a growing number of applications, as part of the installation it asks if it can be your default program of choice, and then it goes about offering to transfer settings and suchlike. However, it's still a quick and breezy installation for a browser that retains a light system footprint.

Aesthetically the browser still keeps the same ethos, too. With no heavy menu at the top it's the address bar that handles the bulk of the work, from searching to direct navigation. More advanced menus are available via small drop-down icons, and tabs appear at the top of the screen, rather than a little way down it like Internet Explorer and Firefox. Furthermore, you can still make your home page a collection of thumbnails of your most visited sites, which, while borrowed from Opera, remains a nice and useful touch.

So what's changed? The most obvious initial difference is the speed of the browser, which contrasts well and currently gives it an advantage over its rivals. It zips around, only hindered really by the most Flash-heavy of sites, but even then it copes well.

Compared to the original Chrome, there's a slight but noticeable improvement, and not at the expense of that aforementioned system footprint. The full screen and zooming functionality is logical and tidy (although hardly radical) and it remains a friendly browser to use, with some solid thinking behind it.

But its flexibility, certainly against Firefox and Opera, is constrained by the lack of expansion possibilities thus far. There's no market for extensions and add-ons here, and while that keeps the core browser pure and slimline, it is nonetheless a notable restriction. There are other omissions, too, with RSS support still to be implemented, and we did pick up one or two small stability issues as we were using it.

Yet the problem Google may face here is that Chrome 2 simply feels more like Chrome 1.5. There are no big, necessary new features and it feels like a tuned up version of what we already have. Granted, new things have been added, but these are present in Chrome's competition, too.

Which leaves speed as the compelling reason to give it a try. That's not a bad reason, either, but as with the first version, it's a useful second browser to have on a machine but lacks the punch and possibilities of Firefox.

The budget end of website creation is quite well catered for these days, and Magix is one of the bigger software players here. The latest Website Maker, version 4, provides an easy introduction to the process of putting together a professional looking site. The idea being that it's professional looking because, unlike your average budget site construction program, Website Maker 4 produces Flash based sites bristling with multimedia goodness.

While Website Maker requires a small installation on the local hard drive, it actually runs online. When it's first fired up, the program has to be activated on the Magix website before the creative process can begin. The user is then given their own magix.net website address, a chunky 5GB of online storage space, and a voucher that comes with the package provides one free domain name of their choice (although it has to be .co.uk, and available of course).

Website Maker's simplest mode of operation uses an editing assistant wizard to help select and then modify an existing template site. There are the best part of two hundred different site themes here, divided into categories such as animals, sport, business and family. We had already decided that we fancied putting together a heavy metal themed site, and indeed under the music category there was a rock motif available.


Once the main template has been chosen, the program displays six pre-defined web pages - the homepage, contact page, about me, picture gallery, videos and music - allowing the user to edit them. Text can be entered simply by clicking on the text box and typing away, whereas the default pictures, videos or audio can be swapped for any file on your hard drive. However, the relevant file must be uploaded to your online Magix account before it can be placed on the site.

The basics couldn't be any easier, really, and Website Maker takes care of layout details such as automatically aligning text. However, we did run into some problems. After we'd written some text in a template box, including a list, and then returned to it later, the program had squashed the list all into one line. It was still displayed correctly on the site, but not in the template box. This wouldn't have been an issue, except we wanted to edit a couple of words, and when we clicked the update button the layout went awry on the website as well. It wasn't a huge issue, but slightly annoying nonetheless. Other oddities included the default volume for our site's music clip being set to zero.

More of a worry was the fact that the rock template had got its wires crossed, with the default image page set up to carry a video, and the default video page set up with a gallery of six images. There was no way to change this, either. The editing assistant function might make the program easy to use, but it's also quite inflexible. It isn't possible to swap pages (though you can delete them), or indeed change the number of images on the gallery picture page, for example. In other words, the level of customisation is very limited.

Of course, further tweaking is possible in the main project editing suite, outside of the spoon-fed confines of the assistant wizard. This allows you to play with more details such as changing font sizes, stretching and moving pictures, fiddling with the opacity of the menu text, or adding animations to your graphics, such as an expanding and contracting skull. Well, we liked it, anyway. We were also a fan of the media player that looked like a leather belt, so don't trust our taste too much.

Adding new elements, such as a picture, is as simple as exploring your uploaded files area on the bottom toolbar, and dragging the image onto the working project area. Everything is done with a standard desktop publishing style interface, using boxes and handles to re-size, rotate and so forth. It really is commendably easy to use, and producing something like a picture gallery, which a site viewer can use to enlarge and scroll through a set of photos, is a brief matter of a few clicks.

The only somewhat irksome facet of the interface is the object parameter window. This is used to add elements such as tint or animation to an object, but the window is quite large and rather gets in the way of the project desktop at times (it's static, and therefore can't be shifted out of the way, either).

It must also be said that designing a site completely from scratch is a trickier matter, at least when it comes to the background and framing of the page, as you're not given much help by the program on this score. It's then that a lot of fiddling and experimentation is necessary (not to mention the odd contribution to the swear-box).

But Magix certainly delivers on its promise of allowing beginners to design some fairly impressive looking Flash web sites. However, one potential bugbear regarding Flash in the future, which might be worth bearing in mind, is Apple's lack of support for the technology. The iPhone doesn't do Flash browsing, and neither will the iPad, and that could be problematic for Website Maker 4 pages, if the tablet makes as big a splash as Steve Jobs is hoping.

The idea behind WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web editing is a good one: you get all the flexibility of DTP-style layout without having to learn a line of code. Although this is an idea most of us can get behind, such products usually have some associated problems.

First, the graphic design tools tend not to be that good, in fact are hobbled by the very fact of producing something for the web rather than for print; second, the web bits (links, navigation bars, rollovers and so on) can be pretty clunky; and finally, the code that they generate errs towards loose and baggy so the resulting sites run more slowly than they should.

Xara Web Designer is the exception, the first program to fix all three problems at the same time. For less than £40 you get a web design program that has the same kind of graphical chops as the company's vector-based Xara Xtreme but includes good underlying web technology to generate XHTML and CSS code that validates properly; and for the terminally lazy it ships with dozens of high quality templates with all the navigation built in, for you to use as the basis for your original pages.

Web Designer 6 builds on the good work of previous versions but beefs up the web stuff still further. So, it's easier to build good navigation bars: buttons stretch to accommodate your text, sub-menus feature transparency and animation effects courtesy of Dynamic HTML, and new buttons are automatically added as new pages are created.

It's always been easy to change individual theme colours dynamically, but now the templates ship with ready-made colour variations which you can just drag out of the gallery and drop onto the working page to change the colour scheme at a stroke, and there's wide support for widgets to add things like PayPal and Google Checkout buttons, YouTube videos, contact forms, Google maps, newsfeeds and more.

For those of a more D-I-Y inclination, version 6 now recognises HTML snippets and when you paste them into a page, automatically creates a placeholder instead of asking you what on earth they are; similarly, adding external files like PDFs and Word documents has been streamlined. Some of the publishing issues from earlier versions have been usefully addressed here too. As well as cleverer FTP handling (settings can be stored with the web site and different profiles saved for later use), Web Designer now publishes sites incrementally so only the changes since the last save are uploaded to the site; an overdue improvement and big time-saver.

Other new features include slideshow enhancements, using drag and drop to populate photo galleries, fancier Lightbox-style effects for looking at photos, as well as more and better design templates. Text handling gets a helping hand too, with support for proper justification, bulleted/numbered lists and indents.

If you've seen previous versions you'll notice that version 6 has undergone a real makeover and now sports a new dark interface. We found this was a help when working on predominantly light coloured web pages because it distinguished the tools from what we were working on, but when the pages were dark it became a bit overpowering. Thumbs up for the new fly-out buttons on the button bar, but thumbs down again for not taking the opportunity to re-design the bits that ignore Windows design conventions, like those stupidly small scroll bars.

go to official web for more detail www.xara.com

Top internet accelerator (according to PC Magazine), a network settings optimizer to speed up your existing Dial-Up Modem, DSL, Cable, Wireless, LAN, High-speed internet connections.

SpeedConnect Internet Accelerator is a powerful Windows application designed to optimize your network connection and speed up all your internet activities. This translates into a faster internet connection, faster browsing and email, faster downloads, faster online gaming, improved Skype connection.

The speed of your network connection doesn't just depend on the speed of your hardware. Windows is an operating system that is designed to work on a variety of different hardware and network setups. Because of the abstract nature of the operating system, it cannot be optimized for user-specific hardware setups.

Depending on the type of network connection you have, you might be able to tweak your connection so that the speed of your Internet, as well as your local area network, will be faster. By changing the System Registry and optimizing the TCP/IP parameters, SpeedConnect can fine-tune the values to take advantage of more reliable, faster Internet connections.