The Horchows advise listeners on meeting and making new friends, building foundations for lasting friendships, and managing "advanced friendships." Though their "rules for connecting" are indeed simple, they're often overlooked. In his excellent introduction, Malcom Gladwell explains that the Horchows mean to demystify friendship which, like crime, is simply a matter of "means, motive, and opportunity." Though the book is narrated mainly by Holter Graham, who conveys the message without sounding preachy, the Horchows weigh in frequently. Roger, who has a gravelly Texas accent, and his daughter, Sally, pert and urbane, read the many sidebars. Their friendly voices and entertaining stories enhance this production--which would make a nice gift to a friend.

Your office suite is the most important application on your PC for document creation, both at work and for personal tasks.

Choose the right office suite, and you will become more productive immediately. Choose SoftMaker Office 2008, and you will get the job done in less time, with better results, and at a drastically lower cost than with Microsoft Office.

If you need to exchange Word documents, Excel sheets, or PowerPoint presentations with colleagues and business partners, you are no longer dependant on high-priced Microsoft Office: SoftMaker Office 2008 reads and writes all your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files seamlessly.

Everything speaks for SoftMaker Office 2008:

Powerful: Sophisticated office software for beginning and professional users alike.

Compatible: Reads and writes all Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files seamlessly.

Fast: Starts and works blazingly fast. Slow is out.

Reliable: Does what you want. No nasty surprises.

Adobe® Acrobat® 8 Professional software enables business professionals to reliably create, combine, and control Adobe PDF documents for easy, more secure distribution, collaboration, and data collection.

Now works with Windows Vista and Office 2007.

New features in Acrobat 8.1 .2 Professional

Combine multiple files into a PDF package
Combine multiple files into a searchable, sortable PDF package that maintains the individual security settings and digital signatures of each included PDF document.

Auto-recognize form fields
Automatically locate form fields in static PDF documents and convert them to interactive fields that can be filled electronically by anyone using Adobe Reader software.

Manage shared reviews
Easily conduct shared reviews—without IT assistance—that allow review participants to see one another's comments and track the status of the review.

FineReader Professional Edition is an intelligent OCR and PDF conversion application that turns PDF files, scanned images and digital photographs into truly editable and searchable formats with optimal accuracy and layout retention. This latest version of award-winning FineReader line features revolutionary Adaptive Document Recognition Technology (ADRT) that analyzes the entire document rather than individual pages and precisely reproduces an editable and format-able file with true text flow as well as original layout, style and formatting attributes. Its enhanced CameraOCR automatically identifies digital camera images and adjusts image distortion for best OCR results without the needs to change settings prior to the processing. The product comes with a Results-Driven interface and QuickTasks automation to make your conversion easier, faster and more accurate than ever before. In addition, FineReader recognizes 179 languages, the most languages in todays market.

HQ digital wallpapers collection in JPEG format contains 81 different photo in size [1600x1200].

Zoom Player is the most Powerful, Flexible and Customizable DVD and Media Player for the Windows PC platform.[/b] Using our powerful Smart Play technology, more media formats play with less hassle, improved stability and greater performance.

Zoom Player’s fullscreen navigation interface is based on a simple 5-Key system (up/down/left/right/select). The 5-key system allows easy access and navigation to such interfaces as Media Library, File Browsing, Playlist, Color Control, Audio Equalizer, Chaptering, Play History and many more. The system’s simplicity makes it ideal for users with no previous computer experience.

Supported Media Formats:

Video:
DVD, AVI, QuickTime (MOV), XVID, DIVX, Windows Media (WMV/ASF), Flash Video (FLV), Flash (SWF), Cellphone 3GPP (3GP), Ogg Movie (OGM), Real Media (RM/RMVB), VideoCD (VCD), Super VideoCD (SVCD), MPEG (MPG), MPEG2 Program (M2V/VOB), MPEG2 Transport (TS/TP/TSP/TRP/M2T/PVA), MPEG4 (SP/ASP), MPEG4 AVC (H.264), MPEG4 ISO (MP4), Matroska (MKV), Media Center DVR (DVR-MS), VP3, VP6, Digital Video (DV), Motion JPEG (MJPEG), FLIC (FLI/FLC).

Audio:
MP3, Windows Media (WMA), Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), OGG Vorbis (OGG), SHOUTcast (Streaming), Free Lossless Audio CODEC (FLAC), CD-Audio (CDA), Dolby Digital (AC3), Digital Theatre Surround (DTS), LPCM, Monkey Audio (APE), Real Media (RA), MusePack (MPC), OptimFROG (OFR), Shorten (SHN), True Audio (TTA), WavPack (WV), Apple Lossless Audio Coding (ALAC), MIDI, Matroska (MKA), Wave Audio (WAV), MO3, IT, XM, S3M, MTM, MOD, UMX.

Easy DVD Creator provides you a handy tool to convert[/b] AVI/DIVX/XVID/DIV, MPEG/MPG/DAT, WMV/ASF/ASX, RM/RMVB, MOV/QT, 3GP/3G2, MP4/M4V, and FLV into DVDs that you can watch in your home DVD player.With Easy DVD Creator, you can easily turn the vacation, wedding and family movies into DVDs that you can burn and share with your friends and family! Easily create DVDs in your own home! Just add video files into the file list, click "Start" and it's done!.

Key Features of Easy DVD Creator:
• Creates DVD from AVI/DIVX/XVID/DIV, MPEG/MPG/DAT, WMV/ASF/ASX, RM/RMVB, MOV/QT, 3GP/3G2, MP4/M4V, and FLV files and burn to blank DVD disc.
• Generate DVD image and save to hard disk
• Burn hard disk DVD image to blank DVD disc
• Super fast conversion speed provided as it full supports Intel Pentium D Dual-Core Processor and AMD Athlon? 64 X 2 Dual-Core Processor which ensures full use of your CPU
• Merge up to 3 hours of multiple movies or episodic files to one DVD
• Multithreading and batch conversion are supported and the more files you convert the faster Easy DVD Creator works than other DVD creators
• So easy to use that only ONE click is enough to burn a DVD after you loaded the video files
• Supports device types include DVD-R/ DVD+R/ DVD-RW/ DVD+RW
• Support NTSC and PAL
• Support 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratio
• Add letterbox to keep the original aspect ratio

CDRoller is a powerful, easy-to-use and low-cost toolset for CD/DVD data recovery.[/b] CDRoller supports industry-standard ISO 9660 file system, including Microsoft's extensions for long file names support, so-called Joliet extensions. CDRoller also supports the discs formatted in UDF file system, including versions 1.02, 1.50, 2.0, 2.01 and also so-called UDF Bridge format. Support of wide set of CD, CD-R, CD-RW and DVD formats such as: CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-WO, CD-ROM XA and Mixed-Mode CD, Stamped multisession CD, CD-MRW ("Mt. Rainier" CD-RW), DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM.

Features:
• Effectively retrieves the data off the discs created by "drag and drop" CD/DVD writing software, such as well-known Roxio (Adaptec) and Ahead Nero software packages, CeQuadrat's PacketCD, Sonic Solutions DLA, B's CLiP and others.
• Recovers DVD video and photos, created by a wide set of standalone devices that record directly onto disks, including Hitachi, Canon, Panasonic, Samsung and Sony DVD camcorders as well as standalone video recorders.
• Includes a built-in Video Splitter. Splits the recovered VOB or VRO files into a several clips (scenes), automatically converting a "raw" DVD-video into MPEG files without loss of quality. Specially tested on the discs, recorded by Hitachi DVD camcorders.
• Burns a new DVD with recovered video that can be played back in the most DVD players.
Recovers CD data written by Sony Mavica CD digital cameras.

ConvertXtoDVD (formerly DivXtoDVD) is a software to convert and burn your videos to DVD. With ConvertXtoDVD and in a few clicks you can backup your movies to DVD playable on any home DVD player.
ConvertXtoDVD supports most popular format such Xvid, MOV, VOB, Mpeg, Mpeg4, MP4, AVI, WMV, DV and stream formats. It converts your files into a compliant DVD Video set of files and burns it on a DVD media.
The aspect ratio can be automatically selected or forced to a specific format. The program works for NTSC and PAL video formats and creates chapters automatically. Multiple audio tracks are supported. Version 2 uses a completely rewritten interface with subtitles support and a lot of new settings.

FEATURES:
* Video formats supported: avi, divx, xvid, mov, mkv, flv, mpeg-1, mpeg2-, mpeg-4, nsv, dvr-ms, tivo, ts, ifo, vob, asf, wmv, realmedia, rm, rmvb, ogm, existing files from digital camcorders, TV/Sat, capture cards, etc. No external codecs needed like avi codec download
* Create DVD menus with different templates available, possibility to add background video, image or audio, have chapter and audio/subtitle menus
* Conversion advisor wizard, control of the conversion speed vs. quality
* Fast and quality encoder, typically less than 1 hour for converting 1 movie, and supports Multi-Core processors!
* Included burning engine with burn speed control choice of SAO or packet writing methods, supports all DVD formats
* Custom and or automatic chapter creation with markers and preview window
* Advanced file merging possibilities
* Audio formats supported internal and external: AC3, DTS, PCM, OGG, MP3, WMA and more...

World's most popular multimedia player! Ever since the very beginning in the year 2000, the BS.Player™ has been one of the world's most popular multimedia players. It is popular for many reasons, one however should be pointed out: BS.Player™ is the first player ever to enable its users to focus on watching the movie instead of dealing with poor computer capabilities or running around looking for a proper setting and codec.

BS.Player™ is a Windows ® player that plays back all kinds of all sort of media files ( avi / mpg / asf / wmv / wav / mp3...) and specialises in video and divx playback. It can also display subtitles. Also available are different skins for this player.
The BS.Player™ 2.0 does not only play, but with the BS.MediaLibrary™ it also manages your multimedia content. You can sort the content in playlists, which enable you to work with files faster and more easily. Playlists may be created through the BS.MediaLibrary™ module or directly through the primary BS.Player™ 2.0 module.
Last but not least - BS.Player™ is a product for the world public so it is equipped with a treasury of subtitle options which enable the users to watch multimedia files in many of the world's languages.

Main features of BS.Player are:
* Sound Equalizer
* Fully skinnable windows (Media list, Play list, Equalizer)
* Bookmarks support (add, edit)
* Chapters support (create, move to, skip)
* Custom aspect ratios

Folder Lock is fast file-security software that can password-protect, lock, hide, and encrypt any number of files, folders, drives, pictures, and documents in seconds.

Locked files are undeletable, unrenamable, unmovable, hidden, and inaccessible. You can lock, scramble, or encrypt depending on speed and security. Folder Lock is fully portable, so you can protect your files on USB flash drives, disks, CD-RWs, notebooks, and hard disks, and it doesn't require installation on another PC. Folder Lock protects files in Windows, DOS, and Safe modes, even when you change your OS or boot from a disk. Folder Lock doesn't let you delete its own program folder, and it can't be uninstalled without the correct password. Additional options include Stealth Mode, Hacker Attempt Monitoring, Shred files, AutoLock, Auto Shutdown PC, Lock your PC, Erase PC tracks, 256-bit Blowfish Encryption and Context Menu in Explorer.