Beyond Compare is a powerful time-saving utility for comparing files and folders on your Windows system. Use it to manage source code, keep folders in sync, compare program output, and validate copies of your data. Beyond Compare can create a snapshot of a live directory structure, and compare it against the live copy at a later date.

Beyond Compare helps you analyze differences in detail and carefully reconcile them. It commands a wide range of file and text operations, as well as script commands for automating tasks.

compare text files
compare folders, zip archives, ftp sites
update websites
merge code changes
compare program output
and more...

If you run complex games, simulations and applications or if you simply use your computer for everyday regular use, UltimateDefrag significantly reduces the effect of the main performance bottleneck of your PC, your hard drive. It gives you the capability to place your files and applications in the position on your hard drive that will give you the best performance possible.

Ordinary defraggers are a dime a dozen. UltimateDefrag is NOT just a defragger. It's totally unique software that is both a defragger AND a file placement optimizer.

UltimateDefrag is the ultimate defragger and File Placement Optimizer. Defragging hard drives helps to restore your hard drive performance. File placement optimizing on the other hand, boosts your theoretical hard drive file access performance by up to 300% of manufacturers quoted averages (typical performance increase you'll experience is between 25 and 100%) by placing the files you want performance from onto the faster performing (outer tracks) areas of your hard drive. With UltimateDefrag - you can specify which individual files, programs or games you want the best performance from. The "Archive" function places all of your unused files out of the way and onto the slower performing areas of your hard drive.

Dr. Hardware covers the whole machine and includes not only the common stuff (like processor detection etc.) but also some more sophisticated tests like hardware sensor, ATA/S-ATA/Atapi and network analysis. Also it comes with 7 benchmark tests and provides full support for all 32 and 64 Bit Windows desktop versions: Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, 2003, XP and Vista.

Detects and analyses the latest processors, mainboard chipsets, PCI devices and much more.

New: Windows Vista support! Fixed Windows x64 support.

New: Support for Intel P35, G33, 945GU and 945GC chipset, AMD 690G/V and 580X chipset; detailed information for Intel chipsets featuring ICH7, ICH8 and ICH9

New: Detects Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad and Quad Core Xeon processor; AMD Turion 64 Mobile; AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor; latest AMD Dual Core CPUs (socket AM2, F etc.).

UndeleteOnClick is a very simple to use file undelete utility for Microsoft Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP/2003 and Vista. Any type of file can be undeleted / unerased, including NTFS compressed & NTFS encrypted files.

UndeleteOnClick can undelete files from any NTFS or FAT (FAT 12, 16, 32) drives, including: hard drives (internal and external); floppy disks; flash cards; Smart Media (SM); SONY Memory Sticks; IBM Micro Drives; Multimedia Cards (MMC); Secure Digital Cards (SD); Zip disks etc.

What UndeleteOnClick can do
Recover deleted files and directories from NTFS, and FAT 12, 16, 32 drives.
Recover compressed (NTFS based) files.
Recover encrypted files on NTFS drives.
Recover alternate data streams (ADS).
Restores using the correct creation & modification date & times.
Very fast MFT and FAT scanning algorithm, fast file undelete.
Undelete files on any valid logical drive visible by Windows.

Absolute MP3 Splitter Converter is an audio editor which features three functions: file splitter, file joiner and file converter.

The splitting process can be completed in four steps: first, you need to input the file which is about to be split. Once the file is loaded, the program can show you the audio information (e.g. ID3 tag for MP3s) which can be subject to editing. During the next step, you can choose the target format altogether with the output format settings, and, of course, the target path. The third step prompts you to select the splitting mode: by amount, by time or by custom settings, while the fourth step is the splitting process itself.

The file merging operation is as easy as a walk in the park. Simply load up the designated audio files, specify the output file name, path and format and hit 'Merge'. You can also change the output file settings, if you like, or enable the ID3 tag for MP3s.

The conversion process is very similar to the merging process, only instead of 'Merge', you need to hit 'Convert'. Both merging and the conversion processes can be applied to a batch of files; the audio formats supported by the program are as follows: MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG. Depending on the file format, you can set the bitrate, frequency, channel, profile or quality of the output files.

Mind Hacks: Tips & Tricks for Using Your Brain By Tom Stafford & nbspMatt Webb
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Pages: 394
ISBN: 0596007795

The brain is a fearsomely complex information-processing environment--one that often eludes our ability to understand it. At any given time, the brain is collecting, filtering, and analyzing information and, in response, performing countless intricate processes, some of which are automatic, some voluntary, some conscious, and some unconscious. Cognitive neuroscience is one of the ways we have to understand the workings of our minds. It's the study of the brain biology behind our mental functions: a collection of methods--like brain scanning and computational modeling--combined with a way of looking at psychological phenomena and discovering where, why, and how the brain makes them happen. Want to know more? Mind Hacks is a collection of probes into the moment-by-moment works of the brain. Using cognitive neuroscience, these experiments, tricks, and tips related to vision, motor skills, attention, cognition, subliminal perception, and more throw light on how the human brain works.

Security Warrior By Cyrus Peikari, Anton Chuvakin
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Pages: 552
ISBN / ASIN: 0596005458

When it comes to network security, many users and administrators are running scared, and justifiably so. The sophistication of attacks against computer systems increases with each new Internet worm. What's the worst an attacker can do to you? You'd better find out, right? That's what Security Warrior teaches you. Based on the principle that the only way to defend yourself is to understand your attacker in depth, Security Warrior reveals how your systems can be attacked. Covering everything from reverse engineering to SQL attacks, and including topics like social engineering, antiforensics, and common attacks against UNIX and Windows systems, this book teaches you to know your enemy and how to be prepared to do battle. Security Warrior places particular emphasis on reverse engineering. RE is a fundamental skill for the administrator, who must be aware of all kinds of malware that can be installed on his machines -- trojaned binaries, "spyware" that looks innocuous but that sends private data back to its creator, and more. This is the only book to discuss reverse engineering for Linux or Windows CE. It's also the only book that shows you how SQL injection works, enabling you to inspect your database and web applications for vulnerability. Security Warrior is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book covering the art of computer war: attacks against computer systems and their defenses. It's often scary, and never comforting. If you're on the front lines, defending your site against attackers, you need this book. On your shelf--and in your hands.

Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours, Third Edition By Matt Zandstra
Publisher: Sams
Number Of Pages: 500
ISBN / ASIN: 0672326191

Think of all the things you could do in 24 hours. Go sightseeing. Read a book. Learn PHP. Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours is a unique learning tool that is divided into 24 one-hour lessons over five sections. Starting with the basics, you will discover the fundamentals of PHP and how to apply that knowledge to create dynamic websites with forms, cookies and authentication functions. You will also find out how to access databases, as well as how to integrate system components, e-mail, LDAP, network sockets and more. A support website includes access to source code, PHP updates, errata and links to other relevant websites. Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours is a quick and easy way to learn how to create interactive websites for your end user.

Consisting of 24 one-hour lessons, Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours is divided into five sections that guide the reader through the language from the basics to the advanced functions. The first section of the book teaches the fundamentals of PHP. And then, building upon what has been taught in the first section, sections two through four shows the reader how to apply that knowledge in order to interact with the user by creating and managing forms, cookies and authentication. It also teaches how to access databases and how to integrate system components, e-mail, LDAP, network sockets and much more.

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Number Of Pages: 304
ISBN: 0201794292

The knowledge of what constitutes a successful, end-to-end software testing effort is typically gained through experience. In this new book, noted testing expert Elfriede Dustin imparts the best of her collected wisdom. She presents fifty specific tips for a better testing program. These fifty tips are divided into ten sections, and presented so as to mirror the chronology of a software project. Using this book as a guide and reference, quality assurance professionals will be better able to insure the quality of their next application. While testing has historically been viewed as an afterthought in the grand scheme of software engineering, the success of an application, and possibly an organization, can rest on the shoulders of the testing team. That's because the testing program functions as the final "quality gate" for an application. Testing allows or denies the transition of an application into the market. There are a multitude of seemingly minor tasks that must be performed and managed by the testing team.

Think of this book as a 300 page checklist that uncovers gaps in the testing process, some glaring and some more subtle. From that perspective you are not getting yet another book on how to test software, but insights into the author's extensive experience and knowledge. Therein lies the value of this book, and why it is applicable to not only software QA professionals at all experience levels, but to project managements, application support professionals, and developers.

DTweak is a complex tweaker and optimizing tool especialy designed for Windows Vista. DTweak has a lot of tweaks, and even more are plannet.

The most important of them are:
- Disk: Intelligent Disk Cleaner and Safe Defragmenter.
- Drives: Smart Hard Drives Monitor.
- Registry: Backup, Restore, Intelligent Cleaner and Registry Safe Defragmenter.
- Security: Firewall, IE, Wnidows Update and other thweaks.
- UAC: User Account Control tweaks
- Mail Tweaks: Outlook and Windows Mail
- Optimizations: Autorun Manager, StartUp, Cache and Visual Effects tweaks
- Customizations: Start Menu, Media Player, Control Panel and IExplorer tweaks
- Virtual Drives creator and remover
- and many other important tweaks

Publisher: Nova Press
Number Of Pages: 159
ISBN / ASIN: 1889057150

English offers perhaps the richest vocabulary of all languages, in part because its words are culled from so many languages. It is a shame that we do not tap this rich source more often in our daily conversation to express ourselves more clearly and precisely. Many a vocabulary book lists esoteric words we quickly forget or feel self-conscious using. However, there is a bounty of choice words between the common and the esoteric that often seem be just on the tip of our tongue. Vocabulary 4000 brings these words to the fore.

All the words you need for success in business, school and life!

Features:
* Word Analysis section
* Idiom and Usage section
* 200 Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes
* Concise, practical definitions

HDD Observer is the absolute monitoring and repairing tool for your hard drives. HDD Observer can detect a lot of hard drives troubles and give a solution for them:
- Monitor hard drives health, performance and temperature
- Monitor hard drives activity and show it in a system tray icon
- Check file system fragmentation and registry fragmentation
- Defragment file system and registry
- Automatically and real-time find and remove un-needed files and registry values
- Windows XP/2003/Vista compatible
- Low memory usage

HDD Observer is not only a high technologic product - it is one of the most intelligent soft for hard drives monitoring. And this is because it has some unique technologies implemented by us especially for this program. One of them is SmartBehavior - the most complex behavior technology implemented in monitoring tools.

PowerMP3 will turn your S60 smartphone into powerful MP3, OGG, AAC and M4A player.

PowerMP3 includes a lot of features:
* Play music in MP3,OGG, AAC and M4A audio file formats
* Create custom Playlists to organize your music
* High quality skins
* 10-Band Graphical Equalizer for all kinds of music
* Graphical Spectrum analyzer
* Adjust the Balance while song playing
* Background Playback
* PowerMP3 resumes playback after incoming or outgoing calls
* Set the playing position with Fast forward and Fast rewinding
* Powerful Equalizer presets management.

Java After Hours: 10 Projects You'll Never Do at Work By Steve Holzner
[b]Publisher: Sams
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: 2005-06-08
ISBN / ASIN: 0672327473

Take your Java programming skills beyond the ordinary. Java After Hours: 10 Projects You'll Never Do at Work will make Java your playground with ten detailed projects that will have you exploring the various fields that Java offers to build exciting new programs. You'll learn to:

- Create graphics interactively on Web servers
- Send images to Web browsers
- Tinker with Java's Swing package to make it do seemingly impossible things
- Search websites and send e-mail from Java programs
- Use multithreading, Ant and more!
- Increase your Java arsenal by taking control of Java and explore its possibilities with Java After Hours.

The Economics of Banking
By: Kent Matthews John Thompson
ISBN: 0470090081
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons - 2005-07-18
Paperback 256 Pages

The Economics of Banking describes and explains trends and operations in banking within an accessible microeconomic framework. It incorporates theory with the practical aspects of banking so as to set banking within the economics paradigm. A primary section on trends within banking leads on to chapters on the microeconomics of banking, market structure and regulation. The overall objective is to provide a mathematically accessible microeconomic context that will help students understand and analyze trends and operations in banking.

This book presents a balanced and timely introduction to space-time processing for MIMO communications, including highlights of emerging trends, such as spatial multiplexing and joint transceiver optimization. Includes detailed coverage of wireless channel sounding, modelling, characterization and model validation. Provides state-of-the-art research results on space-time coding, including comprehensive tutorial coverage of orthogonal space-time block codes. Discusses important recent developments in spatial multiplexing, transmit beam-forming, pre-coding and joint transceiver design for the multi-user MIMO downlink using full or partial CSI. Illustrates all theory with numerous examples gleaned from cutting-edge research from around the globe.