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.

Zoom is a free package for web developers to add a powerful custom search engine to their website, or CD/DVD, in a matter of minutes. No complicated server-side setup procedures, just index and upload from the convenience of your own Windows computer. Features include: “Google-like” context descriptions and recommended links, word stemming, image thumbnails in search results; custom meta fields, logging and statistic reports, sort by date options, spelling suggestions, ability to effectively index different file types (e.g. PDF, XLSX, ZIP, SWF). Available for PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, JavaScript or CGI platforms. Version 6 is the most powerful version of Zoom yet with features including a new, more intuitive and flexible interface; an improved Search Ranking Algorithm which produces more relevant results; Faster and more accurate exact phrase searches; Word Stemming which allows searches to match words which are similar or derivatives of each other; powerful Custom Meta Fields which allows you to add database-like search criteria without the need for a database; the ability to index MS Office 2007 and ZIP file types; Automatic login for cookie-based authentication; Improved Indexing Status Window; a real-time Search Statistics PHP script; and increased JavaScript, PHP and ASP capacity for unique words and pages.

Hex Editor Neo Standard 4.93.03.3402

Hex Editor Neo Professional 4.93.03.3402

Hex Editor Neo Ultimate 4.93.03.3402

Hex Editor is a full-featured easy-to-use product for professionals who need all the power to deal with binary data. It has ultimate product functionality and flexibility to do your job quick and easy. Hex Editor offers you all basic functionality of the award-winning Free Hex Editor as well as a number of extended features. They include multiple selection, powerful Find All and Replace All commands, Goto and Fill commands, Bookmarks and printing capabilities.

Price:

• Free to try (14-day trial); $24.99 to buy (Standard Edition)
• Free to try (14-day trial); $44.99 to buy (Professional Edition)
• Free to try $79.99 to buy, (Ultimate Edition)

MyLanViewer is a network scanner, file searcher, and IP monitor. It displays your network computers an easy to read, buddy-list style window that provides the machine names, MAC addresses, shared resources and other technical details for each computer. It is able to monitor IP and show notification when states of some computers change. You can also view and access shared folders, terminate user sessions, and disable shared resources.

Price: Free to try (14-day trial); $19.00 to buy

USB Monitor is a monitoring software tool, which allows you to view, log, and analyze Universal Serial Bus devices activity. This USB sniffer and analyzer utility captures all the Request Blocks transferred from the Windows device driver to the host controller and back. With this sniffing tool you can analyze the protocol between device and device driver. Useful for USB Device, Driver Development, and Debugging Software.

Packed Presentation Recovery recovers the original Microsoft PowerPoint presentation and all other files (audio files, other presentations, fonts) from any EXE (package) containing a presentation. The files are recovered regardless of the software used to convert the presentation to EXE. PPT to EXE Converter Enterprise and even Secure Pack are fully supported.

Don’t loose your time trying to re-create your lost presentation. How much time would you need to redo this cool effect, background or animation? The presentation recovery time is about same as the time necessary to start the protected presentation. You can use the purchased software on an unlimited number of presentations, work with confidence that you will never loose a packed presentation again, while getting free software updates forever.

Desktop Sales Office Release 9.9.3.2

Sales professionals and sales teams sell smarter and win more by mastering contacts, deals, campaigns, appointments, and tasks within a framework built from the ground up for selling: Desktop Sales Office. Plan and prepare by crafting your messages, scripted talking points, and anticipated results, then target prospects and create demand with integrated e-mail, print and calling campaigns. A unique integrated browser is pre-wired to help you research your prospects along the way. Keep critical information about each deal as you move it through the sales cycle: primary contact, product, price, discount, revenue, probability, weighted revenue, expected order date, age, date last modified, progress, rating, next step, next step date, stage, status, features, sales owner, and three time stamped journals.

e-STM8 Construction estimating software can help you gain a competitive advantage by facilitating your preparation of detailed, profitable bids while managing job costs and subcontractor bids. e-STM8 offers basic and advanced estimating features which allow the accurate construction of an estimate. The software enables you to set your default labor rates, plant rental cost and Material purchase prices. A small investment in a flexible construction estimating program that can handle your needs can increase your accuracy, speed up your bidding process and ultimately add to your bottom line. e-STM8 is most suitable for Ad-measurement contract tendering where an Un-priced Bill of quantities is provided by Employer and Contractors are required to price and submit their Tenders. The quantity takeoffs are assumed to have been made earlier by Employer.

Teleport Ultra is a larger, more capable version of Teleport Pro. It is an automated, multithreaded, link-following, file-retrieving Webspider. It will retrieve all the files you want and only the files you want from any part of the Internet. Teleport Ultra can create offline browsable copies of Web sites; search Web sites for files by type; and make exact copies of Web sites. Ultra has a larger database and a richer feature set than Pro.

Tree View Outliner 1.1

Do you spend a lot of time writing down notes to yourself only to loose or forget them. Have you always wanted a common place to keep all your thoughts, lists and other information. Tree View Outliner allows you to organize and keep all of your notes, thoughts, to-do items, lists, tasks, bills and almost any information you want to keep, in one location. It uses a familiar Tree View list for you to keep all of these items.