Active Desktop Calendar is fully customizable calendar features notes, tasks, alarms, and displays its data on your desktop through blending with existing wallpaper. You can organize your data in layers and share them with other people on a local area network. The program can integrate with Outlook and show its appointments and tasks on the desktop. If you synchronize your PDA device (Pocket PC, Palm, smartphone) with Outlook then through this connection you also get a synchronization with PDA as a side effect.
There are options for changing calendar icons, fonts and colors, marking weekdays of choice and marking dates with notes and/or alarms. You can have a text only version of the calendar and choose between displaying one, two or three months on the desktop.
Recurrence patterns are available for both notes and alarms. An alarm can be stand alone or attached to a note. If interactive desktop option is enabled, the program accepts direct clicks on dates, notes and tasks displayed on the desktop.

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Ashampoo PowerUp 3 is the solution if you don’t want to waste endless hours learning how to configure and maintain Windows®, including Windows® Vista. It’s a single control center for all your Windows® settings and explains everything in simple language. And the new version adds more protection against incorrect settings, more control, more configuration options and makes the whole process easier than ever before. And it comes with a beautiful new graphical design for Windows® Vista!

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Is a powerful network scanner and IP monitor for your home network. It displays your network computers an easy to read, buddy-list style window that provides the machine names, IP addresses, MAC addresses, shared resources and other technical details for each computer. It is able to monitor IP and show notification when states of some computers change. You can also view and access shared folders, terminate user sessions and disable shared resources. Easy to install and use, has friendly and beautiful interface
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Almost all modern computers have at least two processors, which are generally referred to as “cores”. Some even have four. Unfortunately, Windows often doesn’t manage your multiple cores very well, so you’re not actually getting the full multi-processor power you paid for.

Ashampoo Core Tuner enables you to use the full power of all your cores. For instant results you just need to select Auto-Optimize to optimize all the programs you are running or Boost to give more power to a single program.

You can also fine-tune individual processes, display a live view of the current workloads of all your processor cores and enhance the overall performance of your system with additional tools.

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Beautiful Calculator 3 is a handy replacement for the standard Windows calculator with many additional features. It has a skinnable interface and many beautiful skins! This calculator uses new skins technology. The skins can have different sizes and forms. They are not standard skins (like WinAmp or NeoPlanet). They are super-skins.

You can use Calculator to perform any of the standard operations for which you would normally use a handheld calculator.

- ‘Always on the top’ feature added
- Scientific calculation added(engineering functions)
- Resizing of Log window
- Double click on number in log window put this number to calculator display
- Transparency of skins (Only Windows 2000/XP)
- ‘Allow multiple instances’ feature added
- All skins redesign for Scientific calculation
- Optimized skins engine
- General code optimization
- New options dialog
- New icon of program
- New design of dialogs
- Loading progress bar added
- Full support of Windows XP interface
- Currency converter
- Printing of log
- New beautiful skins

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Puran Defrag description

An easy to use defragmentation and optimization utility that provides revolutionary PIOZR and Automatic Defragmentation.
Puran Defrag is a very easy to use defragmentation and optimization utility. It provides many features which include revolutionary PIOZR, Automatic Defragmentation, Boot Time Defragmentation, Low Priority Defrag, Individual File/Folder Defrag, GUI and Console Command Line, Restart/Shutdown after Boot Time Defrag, Native support for 64 Bit Systems and many more… All these features smoothly combine together in order to give your system a significant speed boost.

Here are some key features of “Puran Defrag”:

· Boot Time Defragmentation to
defrag system files like MFT, Pagefile, Registry, Hibernation File etc.
· Automatic Defragmentation which means you will never have to worry about fragmented disks
· Low priority defragmentation which means you can now work on your system while defragmentation is going on.
· System Optimization, which means it moves frequently used files to the faster disk area, which improves performance.
· Directory Optimization, which means it moves all directories to the faster disk area, which improves performance.
· Optimization by Freeing Space, which means it frees some faster disk area for temporary files created while Windows is running.
· Once defrag is over, it can shutdown or restart your computer.
· It can defrag individual files by simply right clicking on the file and selecting ‘Puran Defrag’
· Scheduling of defrag by Windows scheduler is supported
· Even if a file cannot be defragmented due to low space, it tries to defrag it to atleast some extent.
· It performs a disk check before starting defragmentation after restart
· Command Line defrag supported

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