WorldBench 5 is the fifth generation of PC World's industry-standard benchmarking application. Designed to measure the performance of today's wide range of personal computers, WorldBench has been in continuous use at PC World for nine years and is regarded in the computer industry as one of the leading measures of PC performance. WorldBench 5 debuted in July 2004.

We use WorldBench 5 to test desktop, notebook, and tablet PCs, as well as to support our testing of graphics boards, hard drives, and other products. An important note: Because WorldBench 5 uses a completely new set of applications, and because we've updated WorldBench's baseline system, the scores you see our September 2004 and future issues cannot be compared in any way with scores from older versions of WorldBench.

An Up-To-Date Benchmark
WorldBench 5 runs on PCs using the Home, Professional, Media Center, and Tablet PC versions of Windows XP. Fifteen applications (counting the components of Office XP), listed below, make up the WorldBench 5 suite. We selected this group for their mass-market appeal, stability, market share, and variety.

PC World has always believed that application-based benchmarking is a better way to quantify computer performance than esoteric synthetic methods. WorldBench 5 runs--albeit in an extremely compressed way--many of the same tasks that average users perform on their PCs every day.

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Super Screen Recorder is a video screen capture software for recording screen activities into standard avi video files
Super Screen Recorder is a easy to use and powerfull video screen capture software for recording screen activities into standard avi video files. The file size is very small.
With Super Screen Recorder you will be able to record the full screen, window screen, fixed region or any part of the screen video. You can even record audio into the AVI, from the microphone, line-in, or speakers. You can Choose video and audio codec and quality. You can show, hide and use custom cursor and record voice from Options setting.
The screen recorder software is powerful for anyone who develops software
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Here are some key features of "Super Screen Recorder":

· More Than 10 Ways to Capture
Support full screen capture, sharp capture, windows capture, directx capture, video screen capture, sound record and etc.

· Easy-to-Use and Intuitive Interface.
You can arrange, resize and custom any intuitive interface.

· Powerful Image Editing Tools.
Super Screen Capture has an advanced image editing utility.

PC Icon Editor is a powerful tool designed to Create, Edit, and Manage Windows icons, cursors, and Icon Library files. Create Windows icon from digital photos and images. Export icons to bitmap file with ability to define transparency color. Also able to EXTRACT Windows icons from inside of EXE, DLL, DRV, SCR, and ICO files on your computer and save them into ICO and Icon Library file. The application has wizard and command line interfaces, it can completely support XP and Vista icons.

A fun and interactive software program for those who want to learn how to draw. It combines a classic learning technique with the power of a computer, creating a fun and interactive game. It offers 25 drawing exercises for your drawing practice. Best of all, the program acts as your personal art teacher - it will check each of your drawings and indicate which areas need further improvement. You can always return to the drawing to improve its score. You don't need any art supplies to start - just install the program and you are ready to go.

Okoker Optimize Expert is a professional registry optimizer that accelerates windows system, and enhances the performance of your computer. The software provides 6 kinds of schemes, it's easy to safely optimize, clean, and repair registry with the optimization scheme. Added memory optimization.

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Password Protect USB is a software program designed to protect an unlimited number of folders with your personal passwords. To protect your information, you do not have to move all your files to a special secure folder; you can set a password on any folder containing your sensitive data.

The first time you need to run Password Protect from the installation directory. After that, you can simply right-click the folder in Windows Explorer and
select Lock With Password Protect USB from the right-click menu.

You can protect folders on your hard drive, USB external and removable drives. If you install Password Protect USB right on your removable drive, you can protect/unprotect folders at any computers your drive is connected to. To unlock your folder, you do not need to run the program: just double-click the folder in the right pane of Windows Explorer and enter your password.

The program was designed with safety in mind. For example, if you try to protect a system folder, which is crucial for Windows to run properly, Password Protect USB displays a message explaining why you should not do that.

Password Protect USB supports Windows XP, 98, 2000, NT, ME, Vista. It is very user-friendly and easy to use.

Oracle Maestro is the best Windows GUI admin software created for Oracle databases management, control and development.
Oracle Maestro provides you with a number of tools allowing to perform all the necessary database operations such as creating, editing, and duplicating database objects; moreover, you can build queries visually, execute and optimize SQL queries and SQL scripts, view and edit data including BLOBs, represent data as diagrams, export and import data to/from most popular file formats, analyze your data summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies (OLAP cubes), and use a lot of other tools implemented to make your work with Oracle server comfortable and efficient.

We are proud of the GUI that unites the heavy-duty Oracle server scalability, associated with time-intensive tasks of Oracle database design and availability, in excellent performances of easy-to-use wizards and editors.


Key features:

· Easy database management
Oracle Maestro allows you to create and drop databases quickly. Database profiles give you the opportunity to connect to databases in one touch and work with the selected databases
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· Powerful database object management
Oracle Maestro provides you with an ability to manage database objects. For example, you can perform operations with a group of objects as well as with a single object in Object Manager, copy an object from one database to another by a drag-and-drop operation inside the explorer tree, use Windows clipboard to copy a set of objects and so on.

Learn more about network protocols, hosts, ports and packets with our network monitoring tools - "professional Look at Net", portable network monitoring utility for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003 OS. Portable features (run on flash-drive) possible only registered version. The Network scanning don't required network administrator privilege, only host administrator right require for silent scanning and IP packets capturing. IP packets filtering on IP addresses, ports, outgoings, incomings and more. Possible auto save 500, 2000 or 5000 capturing packets, with viewing saved and capturing packets in ASCII and HEX (hexadecimal) mode. Also possible viewed any other (no packets) source in HEX mode. Utility don't need third-party library such as WinPCap.

Free, Reliable Wi-Fi Security, 100% Security Through a VPN
Sure, public Wi-Fi hotspots are great. After all, what would life be without checking your email each morning at your favorite café?
But while you're enjoying your latte and a bagel, some hacker might be accessing your passwords, credit card numbers, sensitive company data and much more. And standard antivirus software won't protect you. That's why AnchorFree is pleased to offer Hotspot Shield. This free security software keeps your Internet connection secure at public hotspots, home or work.

Hotspot Shield creates a virtual private network (VPN) between your laptop and the wireless router. This impenetrable tunnel prevents snoopers and hackers from viewing your email, instant messages, credit card information or anything else you send over a wireless network. Which means you remain anonymous and protect your privacy. Hotspot Shield security software is free to download, employs the latest VPN technology, and is easy to install and use.

a great Collection of All In One application for adobe Photoshop installing various
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In just two clicks, WinBubble will help you to Customize and Tweak your Windows Vista easily. Its features cover Customization, Security and Optimization.

Scroll-down to see the complete features of Winbubble.
Unlocking WinBubble Part 1 Tips and Tweaks
Unlocking WinBubble Part 2 Icon Customizations
Unlocking WinBubble Part 3 Securing your desktop
Unlocking WinBubble Part 4 Screensaver Customizations
Unlocking WinBubble Part 5 Optimize your Windows Vista Experience
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Unlocking WinBubble Part 7 Miscellaneous Tweaks
Unlocking WinBubble Part 8 Changing Windows Vista Icons easily
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AUAU DVD to 3GP iPod Zune iPhone MP4 Ripper is fast and best DVD Ripper software that supports almost all portable video/audio players. It lets you easily rip DVD to Video iPod, Zune, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Xbox 360, PMP, MP4/MP3 Player, Smart Phone, Pocket PC, Mobile Phone and so on. Free Download it now and rip your DVD movies with just a few clicks.

An all-in-one DVD rip software which supports almost all popular video and audio formats, such as rip DVD to AVI, MP4, WMV, MPEG, 3GP, PSP, FLV, MOV, etc, and rip DVD to all popular audio formats including MP3, AC3, AMR, AAC, M4A, OGG, WAV. It can rip DVD for playing on portable video devices such as rip DVD to iPod, MP4, PSP, iPhone, 3GP Cell Phone, Apple TV, Zune, MP3, etc. With AUAU DVD Ripper, you can rip and convert DVD to what ever video and audio formats you want easily with super fast speed, just a few clicks to rip DVD!