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SAN FRANCISCO, CA, April 11 2006 InstallAware Software Corporation today announced the release of Setup Squeezer, an intelligent application to recompress Windows Installer (MSI) and InstallShield (EXE) setups using the most advanced algorithms available today.
With LZMA compression technology, and BCJ2 compression pre-processing, Setup Squeezer is able to make already-compressed setups smaller by an additional 15% to 50%. For instance, Setup Squeezer for Windows Installer reduces Microsofts Windows Defender MSI setup down to 3.2MB from 6.5MB.
Delmont, Switzerland - March 16, 2006 (Xtreeme) - The fourth incarnation of a search engine creator has been released. This software makes creation of search engines easier than ever! Whether for an offline CD-ROM/DVD distribution or local disk, or for a web server (Intranet/Web server), a search engine can be created within minutes with this software. A wide range of features allows for a high level of customization.
IconLover 4.10 is a comprehensive suite of icon tools with a telling name. Essentially, its a full-cycle software package that takes care of anything and everything that has to do with icons and other types of small graphics.
First, IconLover 4.10 can be used to search PC for icons and cursors, including the ones inside executables. The software is also capable of extracting icons from other applications and libraries.
Second, IconLover 4.10 comes with a fully packaged icon editor can be used to create new icons or tweak the existing ones. The editor has a very familiar image-editor interface and a standard set of tools and effects, like drop shadow, opacity, smooth, negative, grayscale, colorize, rotate, roll and mirror. It can even be used to create animated icons.
Finally, IconLover 4.10 can be used as icon manager to take care of icon libraries and image lists. The application has an option to download icons from the Internet. There is also a batch processing option that allows users to apply effects or convert multiple icons at the same time.
The program converts all popular image file formats (including Adobe Photoshop PSD files) to icons or cursors and visa-versa. Folder icons and Mac OS icons (ICNS and RSRC files) are supported as well.
This fully supports Microsoft Vista icons and is capable of creating 265×256 icon files containing PGN images that are only 25 KB or less. This is very important, because new Microsoft Vista OS requires realistic 265×256 images that normally take up to 400 KB in Windows XP.
IconLover 4.10 is available at http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/ for free evaluation. The price of registering the program is 49.95 US Dollars
Aha-Soft is a well known maker of icon and cursor processing applications. Besides IconLover, the company developed and actively markets AhaView, Any to Icon, Icon to Any, ArtCursors, ArtIcons, ArtIcons Pro, CustomIcons, IconUtils and IconXP.
If you would like to get a comment, request a reviewer copy, have a businesses proposal, want to become an authorized reseller or have any other inquiry, please contact Aha-Soft support team.
System Requirements
Operating system: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP
RAM: 64 MB
Hard Disk: 8 MB
Company Website
http://www.aha-soft.com/index.htm
Product Page
http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/index.htm
Lingobit now provides solution for every development platform and every company.
New York, NY March 10, 2006 Lingobit Technologies, a leader in the software localization tools market, today announced the release of a new version of its flagship product, Lingobit Localizer. Lingobit Localizer is known for its software localization simplification of .NET (C#, VB.NET), MFC (Win32) and Java applications. With the launch of the products updated version, Lingobit Localizer has added support for Delphi, .NET 2.0 applications and text-based files.
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Build reports instantly with DTM Schema Reporter.
DTM Schema Reporter, as the name implies, is a reporting tool for database schema. This utility helps technical writers and database administrators create a report of any complexity level within seconds. And importantly, it supports all common database interfaces, whether it is ODBC, IDAPI, or even Oracle Call Interface.
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By a few easy steps you can make your PC run faster, cleaner and error-free with the help of a new award-winning tool Smart PC. The software fixes stubborn errors, cleans-up space-wasting junk and debris making your PC more efficient and reliable. Special features of the new software ensure your personal privacy while surfing through the Web and protect your PC from information theft.
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Today, Fastream released version 8.2.6 of NETFile Server.
Secure, ultra-fast FTP server and robust multi-threaded Web server for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista, featuring XML-based GUI remote 2-level administration scheme, CGI/ISAPI, separate upload/download speed limits, storage quotas, dynamic DNS, and compression. The easiest NT-based server!
BROSSARD, Canada, March 8, 2006 Visicom Media Inc. today announced the release of VMN Toolbar Wizard, an online application that allows Web publishers to create their own branded toolbars. In about 10 minutes, publishers can deploy their toolbars on their Web sites.
The browser has now become the most wanted and strategic real estate on a PC. A toolbar is the best tool for a Web publisher to achieve high visibility in users’ browsers and create top-of-mind awareness.