With the advent of Photoshop CS5 photographers have access to a function of the new generation to create images with high dynamic range (HDR). Combining pictures with different exposures in one HDR-image, Photoshop CS5 accurately retains the full range of key scenes. New technology allows the HDR Pro to eliminate spurious distortions and provides more precise control of the tone mapping. With features HDR rendering, users can simulate HDR-images using a single image, claim the developers.

In addition, Photoshop CS5 includes revolutionary tools to enhance the creative potential of users. Brand new drawing tools include a tool Mixer Brush, who mixes an infinite number of colors on one brush tool Bristle Tips, creating the effect of this smear brush. With Puppet Warp tool, users can change the position or view of any element of the image, for example, straightened his bent arm on the photos or adjust an image of the landscape to create a new spatial perspective.

Nero Multimedia Suite 10 excels your multimedia power with a collection of three products bundled into one powerful suite. It’s loaded with advanced video editing features, media organizer and player, superior burning software, reliable backup technology, and special multimedia tools to enhance your music, photos and videos.

The Nero 10 package provides advanced video editing and HD movie creation, reliable backup and easy recovery and industry leading CD, DVD and Blu-ray Disc burning and copying solutions.

Video Editing with Nero Vision Xtra:

- Search quickly, play back and easily arrange all your music, photos and videos all in one place
- Utilize cutting-edge video editing tools (picture-in-picture, full keyframe control, master effect track and assorted special effects and transitions) in a true multi-track timeline to achieve advanced personal touches
- Create High Definition DVD, and Blu-ray Disc movies using SmartEncoding for faster HD video output, and author Blu-ray Discs with 24 progressive frame high-quality cinema-style format
- Media player for all most popular audio, video and photo formats such as AVCHD, MKV, FLV, FLAC, DVD, MPEG-4 AVC, (S)-VCD, AVCREC and Audio CDs, plus music playlists and slideshows
- Burn music, photos and videos to CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray Discs, or share to social communities

 Burning with Nero Burning ROM:
- Ensure your discs are readable regardless of scratches, age, or deterioration with SecurDisc technology
- Drag and drop files to burn and copy to CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs or save disc images
- Split oversized files to burn onto multiple discs
- Add extra security protection to your data by adding personal passwords and encryption
- Experience superior playback quality from your burned content
- Make flawless copies of your discs with reliable, uninterrupted burns

Backup with Nero BackItUp & Burn:
- One-click Autobackup without reconfiguring computer settings
- SecurDisc technology – Ensure data readability, increase the chance of retrieving your files,

Protect your data from unintended alterations, and verify the originator of the data
- Easily back up data to hard drive, CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, FTP, memory card and online storage
- Restore personal data after a computer crash or accident
- Recover damaged or deleted files from hard drives, CDs, DVDs, flash storage and floppy discs
- Back up files and folders to multiple devices at once

Size: 59 MB
Download Nero Burning Rom 10.0.13100 Portable

FairStars Recorder is a real-time audio recorder, offering professional recording features with full support for WMA, MP3, OGG, APE and WAV formats. It allows you to record sound directly from your sound card, including from a microphone or a line-in jack at high quality. It can be used to grab any sound, including music, dialogs from movies, game sounds, streaming audio or anything else. The captured sound can be saved directly to WMA, MP3, OGG, APE or WAV format, without the need for temporary files. In addition, the program includes a ID3 tag editor and recording schedule. Additional features include silent skip (Silence Detector), file size limits, recording wizard and more.

Main features:
* Record audio from sound card directly to WMA, MP3, OGG, APE or WAV format with high quality.
* Record sound directly from plackback device(only for Vista).
* Real-time sound monitor before recording, easy to select record device and adjust the volume(you may enable it on the Advance page of Record Option panel).
* Skip silent passages, stop recording or record to a new file automatically after a set time silence (Silent Detector).
* Stop recording or record to a new file automatically when reaching a set file length, size or time (File Limitation).
* Add files to File List automatially (File Append).
* Remove environmental noise automatically with the option Filters Setting.
* Support writing of ID3 tag when recording and showing when playback.
* Support ID3 tag view, import, edit, or transfer to the file in File List with TAG

Editor and Tag Option.
* Recording Schedule for automatic recordings.
* Easy Set feature for silent sensitivity.
* Recording Wizard for beginner.
* Easy-to-use user-friendly interface, and skin support.
* Record control with hotkeys.

Note: When you record from a microphone or a line-in jack, mark the option "Autosetting" in "Advance" page may remove the environmental noise automatically.

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Impressive perspective effects
- Now, photo montages stand out even more with the new deformation function. Whether it's funny distortions or perspective effects like making text disappear in your picture, you are sure to amaze your friends!

Improved object handling in various collages
- You can select background and objects in a picture by simply right-clicking on them. This way, you can orient yourself even in complex collages, and bring individual objects to front or to back by using buttons.

Create screenshots . its easy
- Making screenshots is easy as pie with the new multiple screenshot function . useful whether you want to take a beautiful website as a template for your own, or to document an online ordering process. You can make as many screenshots in succession as you like, and all will be saved as files in a specified folder.

Cropping is a child's play
- The completely redesigned cropping tool helps you get your picture to the size you want. If you are not happy with your selection, you can change the cropped area as you wish.

Your original files . always safe
- Accidentally overwritten your original file? Not with the new intelligent save dialog. Altered originals are recognized, and it is up to you to decide whether the original should be overwritten or a copy should be created instead. Of course, this safety feature can also be deactivated.

The all-round solution for beginners and ambitious photographers!
Have you a lot of ideas just waiting to be set free? We have the solution to make you creativity reality. Discover the options for pixel-precise photo optimization and creative picture design with
innovative tools and simple handling . lightning fast & ingeniously simple!

Easily import photos:
- MAGIX Photo Clinic 6.0 supports all standard picture formats as well as the picture import from TWAIN-compatible scanners, digital cameras, photo CDs or straight from your hard disk. With the clear picture browser you can quickly find photos from large collections or import many photos at once.

Edit with perfection:
- Whether its optimization, detailed editing, or creative photo design, with MAGIX Photo Clinic 6.0 you have a grip on your pictures. If you ever find yourself stuck, our Task Assistant will take you to where you want to go.

Impressive presentations:
- Present your masterpieces to your family and friends as personal greeting cards, comics, beautiful paintings, etc. Or optimize your pictures for Internet presentation, on your mobile phone, or on a portable viewing device . its all just a few clicks away.

Endless possibilities . simple to use
- Add gloss to your pictures or teleport yourself from your garden to the south seas with the photo montage function. Transform your photos into artistic oil paintings and convert your living room into a gallery with your own pictures. At last you can make your creative ideas reality in just a few mouse clicks. With MAGIX Photo Clinic you can easily get the very best out of your photos because professional results can be so easy.

Download Magix Photo Clinic 6 e-version Portable 14,4 MB

Steganos specialises in privacy products, so a traditional internet security suite looks like an afterthought in the product line-up. In truth, though, it's a mature package and, although the 2008 version was released too late for this test, we anticipate it will perform similarly.

In appearance, Steganos looks and feels much like Kaspersky Internet Security - on which it's partly built - and, not surprisingly, it provides a similar degree of protection: its excellent malware-detection

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score of 96% in our tests was just 2% behind and, like Kaspersky, it stepped in every time a website tried to foist malware upon us.

Its firewall proved robust as well: in the default mode, it didn't bother us with any notifications during our penetration tests, although you can turn event alerts on if you want them. The attacking computer was unable to find any vulnerabilities, and the only visible route into the computer was on port 21 (FTP). Our false-positives test went off without a single alarm being raised.

In resource usage, Steganos outshone Kaspersky, and most of the competition, with a remarkably light memory footprint - just 71MB above a pristine machine. This comes at the expense of peripheral functionality (there's no parental controls or special privacy features), but there's a lot to be said for keeping it lean and simple.

If you have lots of machines to protect then you may find a better deal elsewhere, but for single users who don't demand sophisticated add-ons Steganos Internet Security is effective and efficient.

By Darien Graham-Smith

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Key Technologies: Antivirus, Antispyware, Bot protection, Browser protection, Internet worm protection, Intrusion prevention, Pulse Updates, Recovery tool, Rootkit detection, Norton™ Insight, SONAR™ behavioral protection, Gamer Mode

Features
Lightning Fast and Light as a Feather Fastest and lightest virus, spyware, and rootkit protection available, optimized for gaming. Installs in under one minute on average. Requires less than 6 MB of memory-eight times less memory than the competitive industry average.
Opens only two processes.
Uses less than 50 MB of hard disk space (without definitions). Adds less than 3 seconds to boot time. Norton™ Insight technology scans only those files at risk, resulting in fewer, shorter, and faster scans of less than 35 seconds on average-almost five times faster than the competitive industry average.
Gamer Mode
Suspends alerts and notifications to avoid interrupting game play.
Option to suspend real-time monitoring activities and updates to reduce PC and network resource usage even further.
Automatically enabled when PC is in full-screen mode.
Turn it on manually with a simple click on the Norton system tray icon.
Protection
Automatically detects and removes the latest online threats.
Tiny, rapid Pulse Updates every 5 to 15 minutes-30 times more often than the competitive industry average.**
Norton Protection System delivers multilayered protection.
Patent-pending, industry-leading protection from Web-based attacks.
Real-time SONAR™ (Symantec™ Online Network for Advanced Response) technology detects emerging spyware and viruses before traditional definitions are even available.
Botnet detection prevents bots from taking control of your PC.
Norton Recovery Tool boots and repairs badly infected PCs.
Specialized deep-cleaning technology delivers our most complete scan possible.
Easy access to intelligance on Internet threats targeting gamers.
Control Without Disruptions
Smart Scheduler automatically schedules non time-critical activities such as scans and updates to occur while your PC is idle.
Comprehensive control gives you the option to customize your security settings.
Review the security status of every process on your PC.

Minimum System Requirements
Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Basic/Home Premium/Business/Ultimate***
Microsoft Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 Home/XP Pro/XP Media Center Edition
300 MHz or faster processor
256 MB of RAM (512 MB RAM required for the Recovery Tool*)
150 MB of available hard disk space.
Email scanning supported for POP3- and SMTP-compatible email clients
Browser support for Browser Protection feature:
Microsoft Internet Explorer® 32-bit 6.0 or later
Mozilla Firefox® 2.0 or later

Supported instant messaging clients:
AOL®, Yahoo!®, Microsoft, Trillian™