SC-QuickStart offers several superior methods for launching your favorite applications, opening documents/websites/folders/directories and starting common Windows tasks. Forget the cumbersome Windows start menu! Now you can launch your favorite tasks and programs using SC-QuickStarts convenient control panel, a system tray menu bar or with handy keyboard shortcuts called hotkeys. SC-QuickStart will allow you to simplify and speed up work on your computer considerably by providing you quick and simple access to the most frequently used actions. Create so-called QuickStart objects for the frequently used actions with an easy wizard. Organize the QuickStart objects in the control panel and the system tray menu to set up your own launching solution.

QuickStart allows you to quickly find items in your Start Menu, Favorites, Recent Files, Desktop and History, that match a typed keyword. In addition, you can specify a custom directory, as well as file extensions to look for. Just type in the keyword and press enter to be presented with a list of items that match your entry - you can then select and launch the program, link or file by selecting it from the list.

QuickStart allows you to quickly find items in your Start Menu, Favorites, Recent Files, Desktop and History, that match a typed keyword. In addition, you can specify a custom directory, as well as file extensions to look for. Just type in the keyword and press enter to be presented with a list of items that match your entry - you can then select and launch the program, link or file by selecting it from the list. This program is Freeware (no ads, no nag screens, no limitations). Features: - Launch applications, documents, etc, by simply typing a keyword. - Automatically load keywords from the Start Menu, Favorites, etc - Launch explorer by typing a directory path. - Launch the default browser by typing an url. - Runs in the system tray. - Define your own system hot-key. - Define your own custom search directory for keywords. - User defined ignore list for key words. - Provides useful memory information. - Low physical memory warning. - Many configurable options. - Uses a small memory foot print..

12Ghosts QuickStart 9.52 is a professional tool which has unlimitted hotkeys and tray icons for each entry. Fully customizable with a hierarchical structure and user definable descritpions and icons. Open programs, documents, websites, and special system folders like StartUp or SendTo, specific control panel pages, and even registry keys in RegEdit. 12-Quick comes with a wonderful variety of unrelated functions, like quick resolution changing, shutdown or logoff, remove formatting from clipboard text, set task sequence, or changing the middle mouse botton click to a double-click.

Access programs, documents, Internet sites, e-mail addresses, folders, commands, batch files, Windows tools, anything you need quickly! Access any command quickly in one of four different menus, add hotkeys (unlimited), create your own tray icons (unlimited), or define a screen edge activation area (unlimited, too). Combine commands to open several documents at once!

12-QuickStart can arrange the entries in a hierarchical structure, in submenus, with indentation, separators or in new columns. Add custom icons, change texts, compose your menu completely to your liking!

Major Features:

1. Easily access system folders
2. Redirect any key pressed to any other key or keys
3. Eject CDs
4. Screen resolution switching
5. Hide all windows even those that can't be minimized
6. Change clipboard contents to text-only or capitalize all characters
7. Bookmark registry keys
8. Clear folders
9. Shut down the computer

Requirements:

1. Windows XP
2. Pentium 4
3. 256 MB RAM

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SC-QuickStart offers several superior methods for launching your favorite applications, opening documents/websites/folders/directories and starting common Windows tasks. Forget the start button! Now you can launch your favorite tasks and programs using SC-QuickStarts convenient control panel, a system tray menu bar or with keyboard shortcuts called hotkeys. SC-QuickStart will allow you to simplify and speed up work on your computer considerably.

SC-QuickStart offers several superior methods for launching your favorite applications, opening documents/websites/folders/directories and starting common Windows tasks. Forget the start button! Now you can launch your favorite tasks and programs using SC-QuickStarts convenient control panel, a system tray menu bar or with keyboard shortcuts called hotkeys. SC-QuickStart will allow you to simplify and speed up work on your computer considerably.Use SC-QuickStart to quickly:Launch programs Open folders with Explorer Open websites (URLs) with the default browser Open documents/files with the default registered application Connect to/disconnect from the default internet dialup connection Empty the recycle bin Open control panel

by Adam C. Engst
226 pages, 14 MB download
PDF format, designed for reading online or printing
Publication date: August 2, 2006
Free 47-page sample available!

Master every aspect of iPhoto 6 with step-by-step, visual instructions!

If you've found yourself wanting a complete manual for iPhoto 6, look no further than Take Control publisher Adam Engst's iPhoto 6: Visual QuickStart Guide. Relying on concise, step-by-step instructions supported by numerous full-color screenshots (providing a behind-the-scenes glimpse into Adam and Tonya's life), this title first explains how best to import, organize, and edit your photos. Adam then shows you how to create slideshows and prints, along with stunning photo books, greeting cards, and calendars. Also covered are how to photocasting, burn CDs for Mac and Windows users, send photos via email, share an iPhoto Library with another person, and more. A troubleshooting chapter helps readers solve common problems, followed by a pair of appendixes, one covering background topics like aspect ratios, resolution, and color management; and another that provides lots of tips for taking better photos.

We encourage you to download the free 47-page sample to see what it looks like, since it is rather different from our Take Control design.

by Adam C. Engst
220 pages, 7.4 MB download
PDF format, designed for reading online or printing
Publication date: December 6, 2007
Free 50-page sample available!

Master every aspect of iPhoto 08 with step-by-step, visual instructions!

If you've found yourself wanting a complete manual for iPhoto 08, look no further than Take Control publisher Adam Engst's iPhoto 08: Visual QuickStart Guide. Relying on concise, step-by-step instructions supported by numerous full-color screenshots and photos, this title first explains how best to import, organize, and edit your photos. Adam then shows you how to create slideshows and prints, along with stunning photo books, greeting cards, and calendars. Also covered are how to make Web galleries, burn CDs for Mac and Windows users, send photos via email, share an iPhoto Library with another person, and more. A troubleshooting chapter helps readers solve common problems, followed by a pair of appendixes, one covering background topics like aspect ratios, resolution, and color management; and another that provides lots of tips for taking better photos.

We encourage you to download the free 50-page sample to see what it looks like, since it is rather different from our Take Control design.

Read this ebook to learn the answers to questions such as:

• How do I use new features of iPhoto 08 like events, keywords, and printing?
• What's the best way to create and switch among multiple iPhoto Libraries?
• How do I split and merge events so they contain the right photos?
• What happens when I adjust highlight and shadow detail in a photo?
• How do I create a Web gallery for publishing on .Mac?
• What's the best way to print a contact sheet in the new print interface?
• What's necessary to burn a CD of photos for a Windows user?

PostgresDAC 2.5.1 offers you an excellent and very useful software. PostgresDAC is PostgreSQL BDE replacement for Delphi/C++Builder. It allows to create Delphi/C++Builder applications with the direct access to PostgreSQL DB without BDE and ODBC.

This components set was developed for easy migration of existing projects from BDE/ODBC scheme to the native one. Interface is BDE-like and TDataSet compatible. TDBImageEx component for JPEG images in BLOBs support included in package for free (with sources). Royalty free product.

Major Features:

1. Help you create Delphi/C++Builder applications with the direct access to PostgreSQL DB without BDE and ODBC
2. BDE-like and TDataSet compatible Interface

Enhancements:

• Ability to specify library name and path for PostgresDAC added
• PostgreSQL v8.3.7 client libraries added (including pg_dump & pg_restore)

Requirements:

• Delphi 5-2006 or C++Builder 5/6
• PostgreSQL 7.x/8.x

nHancer 2.5.1 is a useful tool which is able to improve the usage of these features. Both normal and advanced users should find nHancer to be a big step forward.

nVidias own control panel is not always very intuitive to use. Especially the 3D rendering settings are very cryptic and difficult to navigate. Even the new control panel introduced with the 9x.xx line of Forceware drivers isnt a real improvements for these problems.Additionally, nVidia drivers include a unique feature, that allows them to define profiles for every game, which control various image quality, compatibility and optimization aspects. But in the standard control panel, this feature is even more cryptic to use, so most people never bothered about it.

But nHancer is such a powerful and handy utility, even for the average user. So another aspect of nHancer is to improve the handling of those profiles by adding many features that the normal control panel doesnt offer at all and improving the ones that it does offer.

Lately, this feature has received some new attention, since the new SLI technique requires nVidia to provide such a profile for a game to get any speed improvement. But these profiles are just as interesting even without SLI, just to enhance the gaming experience with any game.

Major Features:

1. Support of Forceware/GeForce drivers version 60 and later, including the new 180+ versions
2. Support of all GeForce cards, including the new GeForce GTX 2x0 lines
3. Supports Windows Vista and DirectX 10
4. Support for single card, SLI, Quad-SLI and DirectX 10 SLI systems
5. On-the-fly control of all global quality and performance-enhancing settings for all games
6. Create and manage fully automated profiles for all your games
7. Very easy to use, explains all options and their effects, like Anti Aliasing, Anisotropic Filtering, etc.
8. Special options for nVidias SLI feature, allowing you to to use almost every game with SLI even if nVidia doesnt support it
9. Offers additional Anti Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering modes, that are not available through nVidias control panel
10. Allows the modification of fixed settings included in nVidias predefined profiles.
11. Flexible user interface: change the size of the window and all sub areas
12. User interface and help texts available in various languages (right now English, German, Polish and Italian)
13. Coexists perfectly with nVidias own control panel and other tools, like aTuner or RivaTuner. nHancer will immediately detect any changes made by any other tool.

Requirements:

• Any nVidia GeForce graphic card
• Windows 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista (32 and 64bit)
• Forceware driver version 60 or higher (nHancer 2.4.5)
• Forceware driver version 182 or higher (nHancer 2.5.1 or later)
• MS .NET Framework 3.5 or later (download)

ClipboardCC 2.5.1 offers you a very good solution that you can select some text or an image that you want to save and copy it to the clipboard.

From time to time you may need to save images or text that you copy to the clipboard as files on your computer or instantly share them with your friends through the Internet.

If you for example are reading an interesting document and would like to save some text from it because it may be useful in the future or whatever. Or you have made an important screenshot or have got a funny picture and want to instantly share it with your colleagues or friends. It seems that this involves too many steps - select some text, copy it, open your text editor, paste, save... Who knows how many important ideas were lost for this reason?

This lightweight and easy to use clipboard utility will help you. Just select some text or an image that you want to save and copy it to the clipboard. And that's it! The program keeps an eye on the clipboard and immediately saves texts and images as files as you copy anything to the clipboard. Or if you want to, ClipboardCC can upload the images to Picasa Web Albums and the texts to Google Documents.

While working on MS Word documents, we need to deal with a lot of copy and paste activities for one or the other purpose. Manual copying and pasting activities are usually time-consuming, and when you need to copy and paste similar set of text, it can surely be an agonizing affair. Well, the snags involved in copying and pasting activities can be largely eased by trying it, which effectively completes such tasks in quick time. So the next time you are working on a document and want to avoid the manual chore of copy pasting; do give this remarkable utility a look.

Major Features:

1. When saving you can choose between several text and image formats.
2. Text from the clipboard can be saved as TXT, HTML or RTF (rich text format).
3. Images can be saved in the BMP, JPG, PNG and GIF formats.
4. If you need to keep the formatting of the source text, the HTML and RTF formats will allow it.
5. If you need to save all the text and images into a single file just select the RTF.
6. Using ClipboardCC you can simplify and make easier search on the Google. Just define the search hot key in the program settings. After that each time you press the hot key ClipboardCC creates a search query to Google using last text copied to the clipboard and displays search results in your browser.

Requirements: .NET 2.0 Runtime

Dolibarr 2.5.1 is a useful and powerful application which can be used as an open source tool to manage invoices, customers, suppliers, contracts and any other things a small or medium company needs.

You will find here a small "commercial" presentation of Dolibarr in a PDF file. It's a document, in French language only, offering an advertisement brochure of quality. It is available in pdf, rtf and odt format.

Major Features:

1. Products and services management
2. Stock management
3. Banq account managements
4. Customers, prospects and suppliers management
5. Commercial proposal management
6. Invoices managements
7. Orders managements
8. Contrats management
9. Payments managements
10. Shipping management
11. Member mangement for fundations
12. Emailings
13. bookmark management
14. Data export tools
15. Donation management
16. Synchronization of Webcalendar evenements
17. Synchronization of contacts with LDAP
18. Multi-users management
19. Permissions system on all features
20. Personalisable interface using themes
21. Use of modules
22. Works with Mysql 3.1 or higher
23. Works with PHP 4.3 and more
24. PDF generation
25. Easy to install
    
26. Easy to use
    
27. Easy to develop
    

Requirements: None

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