Altarsoft Image Viewer 1.1

View, manage, resize, print images. Main graphical formats are supported. Slide show is available. Features: view images; preview images in folder; copy, move, rename, delete; resize images; rotate images; slide show; red eyes removal; print images.

Vista Start Menu does away with Vista’s translucent aero theme, making it opaque, and builds it out with several levels of features and customization. It prevent programs from jumping around, as is their wont sometimes in the standard Vista Start menu, and it throws in a basic zoom feature accessible via CTRL Plus and CTRL Minus. It adds loads of keyboard support, so if you access the menu via the keyboard button, programs, folders, and sections of the Start menu are clearly labeled with hot-key numbers and letters.

Making cosmetic changes and surfacing directories is much easier with this app, since right-clicking anywhere from your username icon to any program will reveal a list of choices that include opening the host directory. Even though the program can be set to run as Vista starts, its uninstallation is boilerplate and easy.

However, we encountered a few snags. There’s a Pro upgrade available, but it’s unclear whether some features–such as search tabs and power up and down options–weren’t accessible to us because they’re restricted to the paid version or because of a software bug. Still, if you’re a die-hard keyboard user or just looking to make the Vista Start menu a bit more customizable, we recommend you give Vista Start Menu a try.

Vista Start Menu was specifically designed to replace the often confusing menu in Windows XP and Windows Vista. For your convenience, the interface has been developed with human psychology taken into account. Solve tasks in a simpler and quicker way.

Vista Start Menu offers many new features not available in the system Start menu. You can start a program or open a document in a couple of keystrokes, without having to take your hands away from the keyboard. Easy-to-use zooming allows those with large monitors and people with poor eyesight to work with comfort. If you have many programs, they will all fit onto the screen because you will be able to stretch the Start menu and resize it any way you like. Vista Start Menu supports tabs and each menu item can contain any number of them. Start searching the Internet or your local computer right from the Start menu with just one keystroke. Those who use the extended version will also be able to use the features of one-click launch and quick un-install.

Tutors and students for logic and computer programming will find this application for minimizing, simplifying and reducing Boolean equations and digital logic circuits a handy box of tools for increasing understanding.

Simple Solver launches a rather plain but functional interface. The large, mostly empty window includes a selection of buttons and check boxes accompanying two medium-size panes or sections, depending on the process being performed. The two panes or sections serve as an editor for inputting equations or criteria and for displaying output from the processes performed on the specified equations. The lack of clutter on the interface provides clarity that helps focus the user’s attention on the app’s operations–flashy colors and intricate designs don’t affect the black-and-white facts of mathematics.

This free toolbox performed very well during our tests. It responded quickly to all our clicks and commands. We liked the array of example equations built into Simple Solver, which provide tutors a nice basis for exploring Boolean equations, the permutation function, random numbers, the simulation function, and the synthesis function. Selecting a process to run was a very straightforward matter of choosing a check box: minimize, invert and minimize, truth table, sort names, and show only last for Boolean processes, and similar simple choices for the other processes. We also liked that we could print either the input or output, allowing teachers to build a study guide or test very easily. We wished we could save items in more formats other than just text, but at least text-formatted files can be converted to other formats.

Simple Solver provides five separate functions: synthesis, boolean, permutation, random number, and simulation. These tools can be used to minimize, simplify and reduce Boolean equations and digital logic circuits. The synthesis function performs automatic design and simulation of digital logic circuits from truth table or waveform inputs for all circuit types: combinational, sequential, synchronous, and asynchronous. The Boolean function provides minimization and truth tables for one or a series of Boolean equations. Boolean operator formats are supported for a variety of languages including ABEL, C, C++, PALASM, Verilog, VB, and VHDL. The permutation function generates ermutations of numbers for a specified number of digits and width. The random number function produces random sequences of numbers in the range of -9999 to 9999.

IMVU is a cool new way to hang out and have fun with your friends online. Just like an old-school text-based messenger, you download IMVU’s software onto your PC. But with IMVU you create your own avatars who chat in killer 3D scenes. Check it out and experience 3D chat for yourself.

CNET Editor’s Note: The IMVU 3D instant messenger requires free registration at the IMVU Web site.

EAV Antivirus Suite can detect and eliminate spyware, Trojans, key loggers, adware programs, browser hijackers, cookies, spy bots, trackware, and other malware, even new and unknown ones, on your PC. EAV Antivirus Suite is able to block ARP attacks. EAV Antivirus Suite can recover all damages with Internet Explorer caused by JavaScript and ActiveX viruses. And it can also help you to fulfill anti-hacker Windows settings. EAV Trojan Firewall: Protect password inputting and block trojan connections to network.

DG2FloCal Lite 2.01

Instrumentation engineering calculation software for orifice plates, flow nozzles, venturi tubes and restriction orifice. Calculation are based on ISO 5167-1, ASME MFC-3M, AGA-3 (ANSI/API 2530 Chap. 14 sec. 3) and ASME MFC-14M Standards. The software can calculate the size of Orifice Plates, Flow Nozzles, Venturi Tubes and Restriction Orifice for Liquid, Gas/Vapor and Steam Flow Rate. Saving, Printing and Units Converter are not included on DG2FloCal Lite version. Version 2.0 includes: AGA-3 (ANSI/API 2530 Chap. 14 sec. 3) and General Standard is added for Square-Edged Oriface Plates with Flanged, Corner and Radius Taps.

The Requirements Management Database is a project management scope tool that helps capture, refine, prioritize, and track the development of a detailed list of product or project requirements in a living document. The output is a Market Requirements Document (MRD), a Product Requirements Document (PRD), a Request for Information (RFI), a Request for Proposal (RFP), or a Project Specification.

Requirements track milestones and use cases, and are linked to issues, test cases, history (captured automatically), and a host of other requirement attributes including customer discussion notes and end-user personas.