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Analysts are using the recent announcement by Microsoft of a February 29, 2012, Windows 8 Consumer Preview event to predict that the company's next operating system (OS) should become commercially available late in calendar 2012. The forecast is ... based on timelines from previous Windows releases. On Wednesday, February 8, Microsoft revealed the date for its Windows 8 Consumer Preview in Barcelona, Spain: February 29, 2012. Journalists invited to the event, which coincides with the World Mobile Congress in that city, will get the first official look at a beta version of the upcoming operating ... (view more)

System Restore Explorer 0.0.5 Beta System Restore Explorer is a tool which allows you to browse system restore points on your computer and select individual ones for deletion, which is helpful for freeing up disk space. It also allows you to mount ... the contents of a restore point into a folder so you can browse and copy individual files, without the need to perform a full system restore. http://nicbedford.co.uk Foxit Reader 5.1.3.1201 The Foxit Reader is a small, fast, and feature rich PDF viewer which allows you to open, view, and print any PDF file. Unlike other free PDF readers, Foxit ... (view more)

MailStore Home 5.0.1.6919 With more users than ever before relying on free webmail providers, few consumers realize their emails often are not adequately protected, or that they may lose access to their emails indefinitely if their webmail provider ... has an outage. MailStore Home for personal use helps users avoid these problems through backup, archives and migration, free of charge. http://www.mailstore.com TeamViewer Beta 7.0.12008 TeamViewer connects to any PC or server (with appropriate permission) around the world, and gives you remote control over that other computer as if you were your ... (view more)

Scribus 1.4.0 RC6 Beta Scribus is a desktop publishing system, sort of like a word processor on steroids (example: MS Word). It's an open source program that is compatible with Windows, Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation with a ... combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page design. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and Spot Color support, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation. http://wiki.scribus.net Mozilla Lightning Project 1.0 Final Mozilla Lightning brings ... (view more)

Firefox Portable 8.0 Beta 5 Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser bundled with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you. For help ... getting Firefox Portable up and running, visit Firefox Portable Support. http://portableapps.com CPU Speed Professional 3.0.4.4 CPU Speed Professional will accurately benchmark your PC processor speed. It uses software records and reviews thousands of processor speeds which are added daily to the worldwide CPU ranking website. The CPU comparison ... (view more)

Intel Solid State Drive Toolbox v3.0 Manage and keep your Intel SSD running properly with Intel SSD Toolbox. The Intel Solid-State Drive Toolbox (Intel SSD Toolbox) provides the following functional capabilities: Accessing Intel SSD management ... features (Intel SSD Optimizer, System Configuration Tuner and Secure Erase); Reporting the drive identification data for Intel SSDs, as well as other drives; Accessing the Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) attributes for Intel SSDs, as well as other drives; Checking the SMART thresholds and viewing recommended actions for Intel ... (view more)

A new rumor making its way through the Internet's tubes suggests that we might actually see a commercial release for Windows 8, Microsoft's next operating system (OS), as early as next August. What's even more surprising is that Microsoft is said to ... have a Windows 9 release for late 2014. The rumor comes to us in the form of a leaked roadmap available through the minimalist tech blog "MS Nerd." The roadmap reveals Microsoft's tentative plans for future releases and, as usual, the greatest interest has been drawn to the company's popular operating systems. The roadmap shows a Windows ... (view more)

GMail Drive 1.0.18 Beta GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google Gmail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your Gmail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new ... drive to your computer under the My Computer folder. http://www.viksoe.dk Microsoft Process Explorer 15.05 Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. The unique capabilities of Process Explorer make it ... (view more)

Network Notepad 4.8 Network Notepad is a freeware program for creating interactive network diagrams. Network Notepad CDP Tool is an add-on auto-discovery program that works with Cisco network products, and products from other manufacturers which ... support CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol). Right click an object in your diagram and select "Discover Neighbors", and it will use SNMP to gather information from the device's CDP table, what is connected to the object and the interface names it connects with. Click the paste button in Network Notepad to add the discovered objects to your ... (view more)

iPhone Explorer 0.9.26.1 With the iPhone Explorer can you view the file system of your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch and download and upload files by USB connection, regardless of file format. With this function users can use their iPhone / iPad / ... iPod as an external disk. The program supports direct access to the photo, email, SMS, and video directories. http://www.software4u.de Rainmeter 2.1 r895 Beta Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform. Through Rainmeter, you can enhance your Windows computer at home or work with skins: handy, compact applets which float freely on your desktop, ... (view more)