| Business News |
Fed lowers growth forecast, raises inflation
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday
slashed its U.S. economic growth forecast for 2008 and signaled
that mounting concerns over inflation would make further
interest rate cuts unlikely.
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American Airlines to slash jobs, charge for bags
(Reuters)
 Reuters - American Airlines' shares
fell 24 percent on Wednesday as it said it will cut thousands
of jobs, retire old aircraft and charge passengers to check
bags in a move to counter record fuel prices and a weak U.S.
economy.
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Oil surges over $134 on supply woes, weak dollar
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Oil prices surged $5 to a record over
$134 a barrel on Wednesday after a U.S. government report
showed a surprise drop in crude stockpiles, reinvigorating
fears of a supply crunch.
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Stagflation fears send stocks sharply lower
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Stocks tumbled on Wednesday, posting
their biggest losses in two weeks, amid fears the U.S. economy
faces 1980s-style stagflation after the Federal Reserve slashed
its economic growth forecasts while raising estimates for
inflation.
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Boeing to cut workers at California satellite plants
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Boeing Co , passed over for a
potential $3.6 billion Air Force satellite deal, said on
Wednesday it plans to lay off about 750 workers in Southern
California because of a downturn in its satellite assembly and
integration business.
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Fed sees slower growth, higher unemployment in `08
(AP)
AP - Federal Reserve officials strongly suggested they won't be inclined to cut interest rates further even as they sharply downgraded their forecast for economic growth this year, citing damage from a housing slump, credit crunch and galloping energy prices.
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Icemark 1.2 |
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Using Icemark you can effortlessly identify your images from many others. Just add your personal watermark to the image, so you always know which images are yours. The added watermark is invisible and its detection is possible only by having the key, which only you have. Icemark is necessary for everyone, who works with graphics images and wants to prote... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Extreme Thumbnail Generator 1.11 |
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Extreme Thumbnail Generator is the best way to create attention grabbing web thumbnail galleries that stand out from thousands of boring look-alikes. ETG is jam-packed with unique templates and powerful tools for creating cool web galleries. The program can be used for a variety of applications - online catalogs, goods and services presentations, pictur... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Batch Picture Protector 1.2 |
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Batch Picture Protector is a powerful and easy-to-use batch image watermarking tool. It protects your digital images and artwork by adding professional transparent watermarks that combine text, illustrations and graphics. This watermarking software is particularly useful to designers, artists and banner makers who send artwork proofs to customers for eval... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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ClearImage DataMatrix 5.5 |
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Read DataMatrix 2D Barcode from PDF, TIFF, JPG, images from scanner, fax or camera, with high reliability and accuracy. Decode many ECC200 DataMatrix single or multi symbols, in any orientation, from poor quality images with .NET and COM APIs. Source code examples for VB, visual basic, visual C++, VB.NET, delphi, c++, c#, ASP and other development envir... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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CoolCollage 1.0 |
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With Cool Collage you can generate impressive compositions of your photos. The end result is a big picture with all your personal photos mixed up seamlessly in a visually stunning way! CoolCollage creates collages automatically, and can be used for any creative/graphic art purposes, like albums, prints, social network images, websites etc. Another feature... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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AllMedia Grabber 2.0 |
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Extract Thousands Pictures, Videos, Music, Sounds hidden inside programs / files on your computer with AllMedia Grabber.
AllMedia Grabber searches in files (executables, libraries, custom controls, data files e.t.c.) and extracts multimedia files.Features:Extract files stored in EXECUTABLES, LIBRARIES, CUSTOM CONTROLS, MICROSOFT OFFICE FILES, DATABASES... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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PhotoNote - Digital Whiteboard Software 2.3.19 |
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Turn any Whiteboard into a DIGITAL Whiteboard. PhotoNote is Microsoft Windows Vista/XP/2000 compatible software that converts images of your whiteboard into clear, high-contrast images. Try the free trial and discover how PhotoNote makes office life easier.Features:Never again copy notes by hand.Inexpensive. Compare with costly hardware based digital whi... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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EDGE Diagrammer 6.00.2005 |
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Professional diagramming, flowcharting, and design tool. Uniquely tailored for easy use with little or no training required. Create any type of block or flow diagrams. Use built in shapes and arrowheads or create your own. Contains all the features of expensive packages such as full zoom, OLE connectivity, poster printing, graphics import and export.Crea... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Vextractor 3.94 |
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Vextractor is a vectorizer program for transforming raster images into vector formats by building centerlines and outlines. This tool could be used for the vectorizing of charts, drawings, maps and schemes for input to CAD or GIS systems. You can also vectorize logotypes and other line art images for use in Vector Graphic Design software.Features:The prog... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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A2 Flash Php Photo-Gallery 1.0 |
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A2 Flash Php Multymedia Photo-Gallery is the easy way to design, organize, display, upload online fully-featured Php Flash Dynamic Photo-Gallery with thumbs. The gallery runs off advanced PHP with MySQL database, Actionscript code, No Flash PHP programming is required. Simply choose category, gallery and upload images. Thats all Features: Control Panel 5 ... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista,Linux] |
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CaptureXT Screen Capture 2.5 |
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CaptureXT Screen Capture is a screenshot taker and professional presentation software. Capture any part of your computer screen, edit it, apply edge effects with real-world shadow to enhance communication and share easily.Put shadowed text, lines, arrows, translucent shapes to illustrate your ideas effectively. Save your work in popular image formats (jpg... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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PJ Components AS3, Flash Text Effects 1.1.0 |
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Drag&drop text effect plugins for use directly in .fla files ( Flash CS3). Containing over 400 predefined effect variations from 60+ templates ... For users of any skill-level. PJ offers advanced customization, different start-directions, alignment, automatic positioning, dynamic input, quick preview and the unique features of multiple fonts and color per... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista,Macintosh] |
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Html2image Linux 2.0.2008.0308 |
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Convert html to bmp, png, jpg and jpeg on Linux Support command line parameters Support jpeg compression quality control Support saving the whole html page to image without scrollbars. Support batch convert a lot of url to images Provide a mini webserver to use html2image in php Support Red Hat Fedora 5 , Novell SuSE Linux 10.0, Red Hat Fedora 4,... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Linux] |
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ACA Color Picker 1.00 |
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ACA Color Picker is a color capture software, it pick color value of any screen pixel & display its value in a value of formats such as CMY, Decimal, Hexl, HSB/HSV, HSL, HSL(Win), HTML & RGB. With ACA Color Picker, you can get kinds of color code, just after click serveral times, it's very helpful for web designer, webmaster or programmer.Features:Realtim... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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RasterStitch 1.80 |
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RasterStitch is a utility for putting together multiple raster images (stitching). Use this program to create a panorama of several photographs or scan and join fragments of a paper document, which dimensions exceed the scanner workspace.Supported raster image formats:BMPPCXTIFFGIFJPGTGAPNG ... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Falco Annonce Maker 1.1 |
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Tired to make annonces for your customers? Maker resolves it in "2 clicks".Features:Loading from BMP, GIF, PNG, JPG files.Saving in JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, formats.Text Creation with color, bold, italic, underline, font.Figure Creation - colored circle, rectangle, line, floodfill.Picture pasting.Save as Image template.To put the text or Image on the template ... |
| [License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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PhotoEchoes 2.0 |
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PhotoEchoes is a digital Kaleidoscope that generates awesome animated images based on photographs stored in your computer. It can run as a stand alone program (windowed or full screen) or as a screensaver.With the ability to capture and save at high resolution the images and tileable patterns it creates either to a file or directly as the Desktop Wallpap... |
[License: Shareware, Rating:  , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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| Software News |
Microsoft says aids Office/open-source interaction
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Microsoft said on
Wednesday that starting some time next year it will make it
easier for users of an open-source rival to work with Microsoft
Office.
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Microsoft lures search traffic with cash rebates
(AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. is offering cash rebates when people make purchases after using its search engine as the software maker begins to reveal how it plans to take on Google Inc. following the failure of its $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo.
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McAfee likes small, not big, deals
(Reuters)
 Reuters - McAfee Inc, the No. 2 security
software maker, likes small and medium-sized acquisitions of up
to about $350 million and sees no need for a transformative
deal to challenge larger rival Symantec Corp.
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ZoneAlarm ForceField: Compromised in sixty seconds
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Check Point Software's new Web browser security software, called ZoneAlarm ForceField, integrates a host-based firewall, anti-spyware, Web site rating, anti-phishing, and keylogger-jamming into a limited virtualization environment with the elegant user interface you've come to expect from the ZoneAlarm brand. Its goal is to provide superior anti-malware protection against the increasingly prevalent and complex threats posed to Internet surfers.
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Codie awards go to Red Hat, Adobe, Salesforce.com
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Winners of this year's Codie awards, given by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIAA) Tuesday evening, include some familiar names in software as well as some lesser known and new companies.
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Startup Aster Offers Software For Clustering Commodity Servers
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - Aster says its technology can turn commodity servers into a massively parallel processing relational database for analytics.
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