Software Industry Announcements and News


Your Digital Camera Knows Much More!

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 11.25.09 under ASP Member Companies, Desktop Publishing, Graphic Apps

Two Pilots has released a new version of Exif Pilot. With Exif Pilot, you can see not only your photo image but also the accompanying metadata. You can view, edit, and create EXIF data.

Flash energy, aperture, exposure time, ISO, focal length… You may or may not be familiar with these technical characteristics, but you can adjust these camera settings, or you can simply photograph in automatic mode. In either case, these parameters define the quality of the photo images. Each time you take an image, your digital camera records date and time information along with technical parameters. This information is stored in a special format called EXIF. That is one of the advantages of digital photography.

In the new version of Exif Pilot, the list of supported image formats is significantly expanded. Now the program allows reading and editing the following file formats: JPEG, TIFF, PNG, DNG, NEF, PEF, CRW, and JP2. Read-only support is provided for these formats: PSD, RAF, CR2, MRW, ARW, and many others.

You can edit the date and time of your images. A necessary feature for crossing time zones while traveling, for instance. EXIF data are shown in a simple table without the need for difficult adjustment. The program also allows you to export data to an Excel table for analysis and storage. Batch editing is available with the Pro version.

With Exif Pilot, you can see what your digital camera knows and change the data as well.

Exif Pilot product line includes Exif Pilot Lite (free version), Exif Pilot, and Exif Pilot Pro. Exif Pilot Pro price is 39.95.

More about Exif Pilot: http://exifpilot.com/exif-software.html
Download free trial version of Exif Pilot Pro: http://www.exifpilot.com/load/exifpro.exe
The programs work on Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7 platforms.

Hidden Magic: the First-Ever Hidden Object Game Featuring Battle Mechanics!

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 11.24.09 under ASP Member Companies, Games & Entertainment

November 24, 2009: Dekovir Entertainment has announced the release of Hidden Magic, a game that combines Hidden Object tasks and magic battles. The player needs to find necessary ingredients to cast spells and defeat the enemies. The battles alternate with puzzles and more relaxed hidden object tasks, which add new spells to the player’s magic book. Besides the unique gameplay, Hidden Magic is remarkable for good graphics, which makes the search process quite challenging, and for special effects of magic battles.

Actually, Hidden Magic is a combination of several game genres: hidden objects, adventure, strategy, puzzle, arcade and action. The plot of the game is the following: two magicians lived happily together on the edge of the woods, but one dreadful night a troop of goblins kidnapped one of them. The player chooses whether to play as the sorcerer or the sorceress and starts on a journey to rescue the kidnapped spouse. The only clue is the scattered map fragments left by the goblins, and the only weapon is magic (the hero takes magic ingredients, the cauldron, and the book of spells).

On the way to the castle of a Demon the player has to fight various enemies. In the course of a battle it is possible to cast spells using the cauldron and numerous ingredients arranged on the shelves. Below the shelves there are the lists of required items (e.g. Meteor Shower: grasshopper, black spider, gold nugget…9 items left), and the player must pick the necessary ones.

Sometimes the battles alternate with vague visions of magical places – a certain picture shows through the thick fog and breaks into pieces. The player should work out the puzzle to get to that place and complete a hidden object task to add more powerful spells to the book.

As for the graphics, all the sceneries and items are depicted in detail and thus contribute to the reality of the game. But the special effects certainly deserve special mention: each spell is shown with unique visual and sound effects. The perfect examples of special effects are the sparks of Thunderbolt, the flame of Fireball or the disastrous Meteor Shower.

Features:

- 60 battle challenges, 36 monsters and 21 powerful spells;
- Unique battle mechanics based on Hidden Object tasks;
- Adventurous plot;
- Advanced graphics;
- Impressive special effects.

Pricing and Availability

Hidden Magic runs under Windows ME/XP/Vista and costs 9.99 USD (7.99 EU). Further information on the product is available at http://www.dekovir.com/hidden-magic.html

About Dekovir Entertainment

Founded in 2003, Dekovir Entertainment is a game developer specializing in high quality casual games. For more information, please visit the company’s website at http://www.dekovir.com

SharewareRadio.com interviews ZeBAze

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 11.24.09 under ASP Member Companies, Web Sites

SharewareRadio.com interviews ZeBAze

SharewareRadio.com interviews Matt Cazaux

News Reports:

Microsoft adds Wolfram Alpha to Bing
AMD lays out 2011 PC roadmap
Adobe lays off one in 10 workers
HP in deal to buy 3Com for $2.7bn

The Kiss My Butt Award of the Week
This week it goes to Rupert Murdoch.

This week’s Interview
This week’s guest is Matt Cazaux. Matt’s company is ZeBAze.

This interview was held in Berlin at ESWC 2008.

Heaventools Software releases PE Explorer 1.99 R6

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 11.23.09 under ASP Member Companies, Security & Privacy

Heaventools Software is pleased to announce the PE Explorer 1.99 R6 maintenance release. PE Explorer provides software engineers the necessary tools for disassembly and inspection of unknown binaries, modifying the properties of executable files and customizing and translating their resources. With PE Explorer, they can apply a professional approach to research and reverse engineering of 32-bit PE executables.

Leveraging the power of PE Explorer Disassembler, IT security specialists can rapidly analyze the procedures and libraries a malware executable uses without ever activating the executable itself – a great advantage over debuggers where malicious code needs to be run to be analyzed. New features include the options to mark blocks as Byte, Word, DWord, QWord and GUID in the Disassembler, and the options to create the Windows 7 Compatibility and DPI-Aware sections in the Manifest Wizard, easily manifest the applications as Vista-enabled and opt out of the DPI virtualization by declaring your application as DPI-aware.

PE Explorer is available for download and purchase with the (USD) price for a single-user personal license starting at $129, a single-user business license is $229.

PE Explorer runs on Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7. A 30-day free trial may be downloaded from: http://www.heaventools.comdownload-pe-explorer.htm

About Heaventools Software

Since 2000, Heaventools Software is dedicated to providing and supporting the highest quality PE file editing software available for Windows. Our software solutions are affordable to the single professional Windows developer, yet powerful enough for large corporate projects. Visit Heaventools on the Web at http://www.heaventools.com

SharewareJunkies.com reviews FinalUninstaller.com’s Final Uninstaller

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 11.22.09 under ASP Member Companies, System Utilities, Web Sites

FinalUninstaller.com’s Final Uninstaller was given 5 Stars in 4 categories by SharewareJunkies.com reviewer Dan W.

All in all, it’s good piece of software. It did remove the remnants of the programs I selected without any side effects at all. I also love the “Special Uninstall” feature that has a preset list of programs that it can remove completely.

To read the complete review go Here.

Dr.Batcher 2.0 Creates Batch Files

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 11.21.09 under System Utilities

Mental Works Computing Software announces Dr.Batcher 2.0, the new version of the award-winning utility for creating and editing batch files. Using this version of Dr.Batcher the user can create full-featured batch scripts without knowing their syntax and commands.
Though batch scripting is quite an old scripting technique came from the age of DOS, today batch files are still popular among home users, programmers and system administrators. Batch scripts provide users with the simplest but yet powerful scripting language available for Windows platform and helps to automate the work. With the help of Dr.Batcher 2.0 creating and editing batch files become simple as it has never been before.

Dr.Batcher 2.0 is designed both for users that have never created batch files before and for those who have experience in batch scripts creation. In addition to professional source code editor supporting syntax highlighting, tooltips on command parameters and bookmarks, now Dr.Batcher also has visual editor of batch script which allows user creating powerful batch script in a few mouse clicks. Visual editor delivers creators of batch scripts from remembering dozens of commands and hundreds of their parameters, and allows focusing on the script’s behavior instead of its syntax. While editing a batch file, user can switch between visual editor (Simple mode) and text editor (Professional mode) at any time he wants.

Dr.Batcher supports more than 140 commonly used commands. In this version users can extend the list of supported commands creating XML files of special format. Version 2.0 of Dr.Batcher also provides the user with improved interface. Search features of new version provide one-click search in Google, Bing or Yahoo! for information on commands. With the help of information from favorite search engine user can solve problems regarding the usage of any commands in fast and easy way. Redesigned ‘Environment Variables’ dialog now allows to view even very long variables, and new help system contains detailed information about the process of batch files creation in Dr.Batcher.
New version of Dr.Batcher allows exporting batch files to HTML, RFT and TeX formats saving syntax highlighting in output files. The utility is tested for compatibility with Windows 7 and can run under this operating system.

About Mental Works Computing Software
Mental Works Computing Software is an independent software vendor offering products of high quality for home users and enterprise customers. Founded in 2005, today award-winning tools from Mental Works Computing Software have thousands of customers all over the world. The company’s efforts are directed to continue developing its products and increasing the experience to make them better.

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