Software Industry Announcements and News
Manage Tasks, Projects, Schedules, and Reminders with TaskMerlin 3.0
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 06.20.10 under ASP Member Companies, System Utilities
Interfathom has released TaskMerlin v. 3.0, an intuitive and easy-to-use Windows application that makes it simple to organize notes, tasks, and schedules, and share them with colleagues. Unlike other task managers that lock you into a fixed format, TaskMerlin offers complete flexibility for naming, structuring, and viewing your tasks. TaskMerlin’s flexibility makes it ideal for project and management teams’ collaboration, as well as for workers who follow David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) workflow methodology.
The major new feature of v. 3.0 is TaskMerlin’s Calendar. Create a new appointment with a single click or keystroke. Quickly add reminders to any task or appointment. To reschedule an appointment, you can drag and drop it, or use your mouse to change its size on the Calendar. TaskMerlin’s new Calendar is fully integrated with Microsoft Outlook, and provides scheduling, appointment, and reminder functionality with fewer keystrokes and less work.
With TaskMerlin, it is easy to store, organize, manage, and retrieve information. This information can be as simple as notes and appointments, or as complex as multi-person, multi-year projects. You can track due dates, the person assigned to each task, its priority, and the time spent working on it. It’s easy to retrieve and display tasks based on these attributes, or on any text found in the task descriptions.
You can become productive with TaskMerlin in minutes. Create project folders, and drag and drop tasks into them. Modify status information and content in place, with no need to navigate menus or open additional windows. You can even edit multiple tasks at once. There are many pre-defined task types and status descriptions to choose from, or simply create your own.
Use the built-in editor to create task information, or copy and paste text and images. Add hyperlinks to related tasks and to web pages. All of your information is fully searchable, and you can sort and filter the information that appears on your screen. Choose from more than 40 columns of information that are built into TaskMerlin. When creating a new task, its name is the only required field. It’s simple to fill in additional information when it is convenient.
In the Professional Edition, all users can log into TaskMerlin, and update the fields that they have been authorized to change. Each user has their own password, email settings, popup reminders, filter definitions, and display options.
Whether you’re a manager who needs to track deadlines and deliverables with your project team, a GTD enthusiast who wants task management software that conforms to the GTD structure, or an Outlook user who requires a Calendar that is more powerful and more convenient than the one provided by Microsoft, TaskMerlin has the tools that you need.
TaskMerlin v. 3.0 runs under Windows 7/Server 2003 and 2008/Vista/XP/2000/Me/98. The Personal Edition, for use on a single PC, costs $49(US). The Professional Edition, with multi-user simultaneous database access, costs $99 for a single-user license. Multi-user discounts are available. To learn more about TaskMerlin, or to download the trial version, visit http://www.taskmerlin.com/. Interfathom, New York, NY. Email: admin@taskmerlin.com
Souped Up Program Solution for Windows 7 Multi-Monitor Setup
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 05.19.10 under ASP Member Companies, System Utilities
Set to end the frustrations of all Windows 7 users who work with more than one monitor, Actual Tools has just launched a new version of Actual Multiple Monitors. It is the first multi-monitor management utility that provides the most complete emulation of Windows Taskbar on secondary displays.
The Taskbar is an integral part of the Windows user interface and has been significantly redesigned in Windows 7 with such handy features as Pin and Peek. But owners of multi-monitor Windows setups discovered rather quickly there were no proper tools to efficiently manage tasks on secondary monitors. Even the newest Windows 7 still does not provide a Taskbar for this scenario.
No Taskbar means it is necessary to drag the mouse to the primary display and back each time certain programs need to be activated via the Taskbar button. This is also the case when a new application is launched via the Start menu or a particular icon is accessed in the notification area. This “mouse shuttle” effect quickly annoys and distracts, greatly increasing the workload and mouse clicks which may lead to repetitive strain injury.
Actual Multiple Monitors 2.1 by Actual Tools is the first product on the market to offer equivalent implementation of the Windows 7 Taskbar on secondary monitors. When launched, the program adds a full copy of the main Taskbar onto each secondary display. Each Taskbar copy has a Start button, copy of the notification area, and shows live previews over the Taskbar buttons (with support for the Aero Peek feature). It provides the unique ability to pin buttons, which is the case with the main Windows 7 Taskbar.
“Efficient task management in a multi-monitor environment is impossible without habitual instruments,” said Michael Tretyakov, CEO of Actual Tools, “and our primary goal is to provide all multi-monitor Windows users with a task management tool fully identical to the main taskbar.”
In addition to the outstanding multi-monitor Taskbar, Actual Multiple Monitors has many other features to manage multi-monitor desktop in an efficient manner. An Alt-Tab Task Switcher is cloned on all monitors. There is a quick toggling of secondary displays on/off. The primary display can be assigned via the context menu of the notification area icon. A special button in each window’s title bar allows instant transfer of any window onto the required monitor.
Actual Multiple Monitors provides the ability to maximize any window to the entire desktop or implement horizontal/vertical maximization to its current monitor. It’s possible to store various desktop configurations as named profiles and switch between them in a single click. Furthermore, the current order and layout of desktop icons can be stored and fully restored.
All these features combined in a single product make Actual Multiple Monitors a must-have program for each and every owner of dual-, triple- or other multi-monitor setup. The streamlined product answers all the prayers of those running Windows 7.
Pricing and Availability
Actual Multiple Monitors runs on all Windows platforms since Windows 2000 (including 64-bit editions) and costs $29.95 (USD) for a single-user license. Discounts for volume buyers are available here http://www.actualtools.com/multiplemonitors/order/#volume_discounts . Additional information on Actual Multiple Monitors, a collection of tutorial articles and success stories, as well as a 30-day evaluation copy is available from http://www.actualtools.com/ .
About Actual Tools
Founded in 2001, Actual Tools is a software development company specializing in desktop enhancement applications. The innovative solutions provided by Actual Tools are created to meet the needs of the users and to make work with a computer fast, pleasant and convenient. For more information please visit http://www.actualtools.com/
SoftAmbulance Partition Doctor: Careful and Thorough Recovery of Hard Drives, Partitions and More
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 02.09.10 under System Utilities
February 9, 2010: SoftAmbulance data recovery company announces the release of a new version of Partition Doctor, a solution developed for recovery of hard disk drive. It is able to recover partition tables, corrupted files, boot records and directory structure automatically, fixing much more than the built-in Windows tool and considerably more than competing programs. It is quite easy to check the effectiveness of Partition Doctor, as the free evaluation version provides full pre-recovery preview.
No PC is secured from occasional data loss, be that accidental deletion, mistaken formatting, virus attack or hardware crash. Though the Windows tool is intended to fix such problems, it is actually not effective enough. To restore as much data as possible one should use a really advanced and thorough recovery solution – for example, SoftAmbulance Partition Doctor, which is able to recover severely damaged hard drives, lost partitions and directory structures even after formatting.
What is remarkable about Partition Doctor is that it does not require any specific knowledge from the user, yet being able to perform difficult recovery tasks. The wizard makes the recovery process clear and intelligible even for an inexperienced user. Partition Doctor carries out automatic hard drive scanning, defines and shows recoverable files and folders. The user should only select what to recover.
By the way, Partition Doctor provides a high level of data safety: when recovering damaged disks, the program employs low-level sector scan. In addition to this, Partition Doctor can work with a virtual image of a disk, without accessing it directly – such safety measures guarantee that important data will remained intact.
Before purchasing a license it is recommended to check if Partition Doctor is able to recover your data. The free evaluation version supports full pre-recovery file preview.
What can be recovered by Partition Doctor?
- Lost or deleted partitions;
- Damaged or formatted hard disk drives;
- Corrupted or deleted files;
- Boot records;
- File, folder, partition and system structures such as NTFS, NTFS4, NTFS5, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, MFT and MBR.
Pricing and Availability
Partition Doctor supports all major Windows versions and costs 139.99 USD for a single-user license. Further information on the product, as well as its free evaluation version, is available from http://softambulance.com
About SoftAmbulance
Founded in 2005, SoftAmbulance is a software development company specializing in convenient but powerful recovery tools for home users. The major products by SoftAmbulance are Partition Doctor, File Recovery and Photo Undelete. For more information on the company and its products please visit http://softambulance.com
E-Mail Recovery: the Mighty Solution to Fix Lost and Corrupt E-mail Databases
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 01.21.10 under System Utilities
January 20, 2010: E-Mail Recovery company announces the release of a new solution of the same name, quickly and comprehensively recovering deleted or corrupted e-mail databases. E-Mail Recovery supports such popular e-mail clients as Outlook, Outlook Express, Vista Mail, Thunderbird and The Bat!, recovering every single message, attachment, address book contact or calendar entry. In case of a hard drive crash or an accidental deletion, the program will automatically locate all supported files and provide the user with the pre-recovery preview of their contents.
E-Mail Recovery is an easy and effective way to recover lost or corrupted e-mails and e-mail databases. It should be noted that the decided advantage of this solution is that it performs comprehensive recovery, not missing anything – e-mails, attached files, address book entries, etc. All relevant files on all storage devices are detected automatically due to careful scanning carried out by E-Mail Recovery.
Any frequently accessed database is in danger of corruption; therefore, now and then e-mail databases get unreadable for e-mail client. But that is one of the problems E-Mail Recovery has been developed to solve. The program repairs the corrupt files so that they could be operable again.
E-mail databases may also get accidentally deleted, as well as hard drive may crash. In both cases E-Mail Recovery is able to recover the supported files, even if the hard drive is severely damaged. However, it is always possible to get a full preview of what will be recovered and to see if the solution is powerful enough.
As for the supported formats, E-Mail Recovery supports recovery of .PST, .DBX, .TBB, .DBF and .OST files and is able to export them to EML/MSG format for using such databases with Outlook Express, Vista Mail, The-Bat!, etc.
What can be recovered by E-mail Recovery?
- E-mails, attachments, contacts, calendar entries;
- Corrupted or deleted databases;
- MS Outlook, Vista Mail, Outlook Express, The Bat!, Mozilla Thunderbird databases.
Pricing and Availability
E-Mail Recovery is compatible with Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 2003 and 2008 Server, and supports databases produced with Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Vista Mail, The Bat!, Mozilla Thunderbird. A Personal license costs $99.95. Further information on the product, as well as its free trial edition, is available from http://e-mail-recovery.com.
About E-Mail Recovery Company
Founded in 2008, E-Mail Recovery is a software development company, specializing in e-mail recovery tools able to retrieve as much data as possible. Its major products are E-Mail Recovery, Outlook Repair and Outlook Express Repair. For more information on the company and its products please visit http://e-mail-recovery.com.
Ho ho ho! New Freeware for those who have been nice this year!
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 12.18.09 under System Utilities
December 18, 2009: Styopkin Software announces the change in its product line – Duplicate File Hunter, Delayed Shutdown and Perfect Screen Ruler will be distributed as freeware. These solutions have already proved to be quite handy, so that it is a wonderful Christmas present to all the users!
Three effective solutions by Styopkin Software are now available for free downloading! Duplicate File Hunter is a useful tool for finding and deleting unnecessary file duplicates, which sometimes appear and occupy hard drive space. The tool searches for them and provides the full list of duplicates stored on the PC. The user can check the chart and delete the duplicates in a couple of clicks.
Another free tool is Delayed Shutdown: it allows setting the time for the PC to turn off automatically. Isn’t it pleasant to fall asleep while listening to favorite songs with a wireless headset or right after watching an evening show? In comparison with the similar solutions Delayed Shutdown is acknowledged as the simplest one. No complicated settings, just a small window with the shutdown time slider and the “Start” button.
The last but not least tool is Perfect Screen Ruler, which enables the user to measure any item displayed on the screen or any distance between two points. The testimonials state that Perfect Screen Ruler is especially useful for civil engineering layout work. The key feature is the ability to zoom items while measuring.
Pricing and Availability
Duplicate File Hunter, Delayed Shutdown and Perfect Screen Ruler are distributed as freeware. They are compatible with MS Windows XP/Vista. Further information on the products, as well as direct download links, is available at http://www.styopkin.com/.
About Styopkin Software
Founded in 2001, Styopkin Software is a software developer specializing in simple, useful and affordable tools for home users. Its major products are Advanced Font Viewer, Font Manager, Digital Photo Organizer and File Structure Grabber. For more information on the company and its products please visit http://www.styopkin.com.
SharewareJunkies.com reviews Blitware’s Driver Robot
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 11.28.09 under ASP Member Companies, System Utilities, Web Sites
I downloaded Driver Robot and installed it. Right after that I imaged my disk. It’s a good thing I did that too. I don’t think Dan was too impressed with Driver Robot.
To read the complete review go to www.sharewarejunkies.com/09awy10/driver_robot.htm.