Active DJ Studio 7.3.0.0 (Demo)

Written by Gabriela Vatu on February 5th, 2013

The music creation process requires a lot of talent and work. Active DJ Studio is an app that enables you to control audio and video playback, mix and manage playlists.

The program has a clean interface that should be easy to figure out, despite some of the advanced features that are included in the frame.

The app enables you to create a playlist and then mix the included tracks together. Active DJ Studio supports a wide variety of file formats, such as MP3, MP2, MP4, AAC, WAV, OGG, AIFF, WMA, WMV, ASF, AC3, M4A, FLAC and CDA.

Alternatively, you can load any playlist you already have on the computer. The app supports some formats, such as M3U, PLS, WPL or PDJ. Any of the songs in the list can be removed quite simply by using the buttons on the frame. Also, you may use the program to find out additional info regarding the tracks, such as the full title, name of the artist and album, year of release, genre, duration and sound frequency.

When playing the tracks you want to mix together, you can control the volume and use a ten-bar equalizer. Furthermore, you can modify the song’s tempo and playback rate.

Each player comes with configurable visual feedbacks, such as Spectrum Analyzer, Oscilloscope and Waveform.

All in all, Active DJ Studio is a nice program that can come in handy quite often. Inexperienced users should have no problems while working with it, thanks to the intuitive interface. 

Here are some key features of "Active DJ Studio":

· Playback of several audio formats: MP3, WAV, OGG Vorbis, MP4, AAC, M4A, AC3, FLAC, WavPack, ALAC, W64, AU, PAF, SVX, NIST, VOC, IRCAM, PVF, CAF, Speex, Musepack and Monkey's Audio (APE)
· Playback of PCM audio RAW formats
· Playback of Windows Media formats (requires the availability of Windows Media Player modules on the target PC)
· Playback of CD tracks
· Playback of MOD Music
· Playback of video clips whose DirectShow compatible codecs are installed inside the target system, with support for multiple output windows
· Mixing/blending of video clips inside a video mixer output window, with support for separate preview windows
· Support for customizable On-Screen-Display (OSD) on the video mixer window
· Playback of audio files stored on an Internet server (not available for MOD music files)
· Playback of Internet radios Shoutcast/Icecast streams
· Support for ASIO drivers with the possibility to directly playback the sound stream coming from ASIO input channels of the sound card
· Support for acting as a source for ShoutCAST, IceCast and Windows Media Services streaming servers
· Possibility to change the player volume and sound card volumes.
· Multi-player features: allow playing more sounds at the same time, each of them having separate volume, special effects and output redirection
· Possibility to mix songs at application level, through custom stream mixers, allowing to save mixing results through the integration with our Active Sound Recorder control or to send mixing results to a streaming server
· Support for PCM stream queuing, allowing to play sound streams coming from an external source
· Real-time embedded visual feedbacks (VU-Meter, Oscilloscope, Spectrum, Waveform display)
· Support for configurable normalization of sound level
· Support for reverse playback of audio tracks
· Sound card output choice and speakers assignment
· Support for volume automation with possibility to design volume curves
· Playlists support
· Support for new proprietary playlist format (PDJ), allowing to predispose mixing automation and volume automation on each single song and to play encrypted sounds
· CDDB database queries (through FreeDb servers)
· CD cover pictures retrieval (through Amazon Web Services)
· Load sound files from memory buffers
· Exporting of loaded sound in WAV format (on both disk file or memory buffer)
· Automatic Fader
· Pre-amplifier
· Advanced equalizer and auto-equalization of audio tracks through formatted XML files
· BPM (Beats Per Minute) detection
· Beats position detection
· Tempo, Playback rate and Pitch support
· Position triggers management
· Cue points management
· Support for DirectX Media Objects (DMO) effects
· Support for EAX effects
· Support for custom DSP effects
· Support for VST effects
· Sound waveform analysis
· Support for extraction of the audio track available inside a video clip, allowing to perform silence detection, BPM detection and waveform analysis
· Support for delayed playback of loaded sounds
· Support for encrypted sounds
· Lyrics synchronization through LRC files
· Creation of graphic bars for custom displaying of Vu-Meters, Spectrum and Progress bars
· Support for common filters (low-pass, high-pass, band-pass and stop-band)
· Integration with our Active Sound Recorder and Active Sound Editor controls

Requirements:

· DirectSound compatible sound card

Limitations:

· The demo only showcases the functionality of the ActiveX control.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

New features:
· Added support for downloading remote files from HTTP and FTP sites with the option to automatically load media files of supported format inside a player when download is completed

New properties:
· Downloader (COM object)

New events:
· DownloaderSessionStarted
· DownloaderSessionProgress
· DownloaderSessionStopped
· DownloaderSessionFailed
· DownloaderSessionCompleted
· DownloaderSessionInvalidFile

New COM objects:
Downloader:
Methods:
· Create
· Destroy
· SessionDataSizeGet
· SessionStartToFile
· SessionStartToMemory
· SessionStartToPlayer
· SessionStop
· SetTimeouts

Softpedia guarantees that Active DJ Studio 7.3.0.0 is 100% CLEAN, which means it does not contain any form of malware, including spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors. [read more >]

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Aml Pages 9.46 Build 2414 (Trial)

Aml Pages is a handy and powerful notes organizer that can help you keep all your notes in a tree structure.

The solution for all such problems and more now has name "Aml Pages". It allows you to store all your important information quick and easily. It helps you to organize it so, that you can always find what you need right now. Information is organized as tree - most comfortable way to store and group such type of information.

You could mark each node of tree as you wish - you could change it's font, size, style and color. You can easily insert tables, links, pictures, dates and times. URLs and mail addresses are recognized automatically and highlighted appropriately. You can capture and store a screenshot of any area of the screen directly from Aml Pages.

You have powerful search engine which allows you to set many parameters for searching: date of adding or modifying, data type etc. You could do a search through all tree or it's part. You can set adjustable filter to hide unnecessary parts and highlight only important data. You could put a bookmark to any place in the data tree.

All bookmarks are visible on a special panel. There is many way of navigation via bookmarks: mouse click, hotkeys, context menu. Have you ever found very interesting web page during web-surfing, and some days after can't find it anymore?

With Aml Pages you could save complete web-page or its part by one hotkey pressing. Drag-n-drop technology is also supported - just drag selected text from any text editor or web-browser.

You can also download Aml Pages Portable

Here are some key features of "Aml Pages":

· Flexible tree structure to keep all your notes in order.
· Plain and formatted text support within notes; HTML formatting support.
· 'Sticky' notes.
· External and internal hyperlinks.
· Import-export of pages and subtrees.
· Fully customizable notes tree (nodes sorting, font size, icons, colors, categories etc.).
· Advanced text search.
· Document autosaving and various modes of the backup copying.
· Document bookmarks.
· Encryption and password protection.
· Syntax text highlighting.
· Text character set conversion.
· Document saving with data compression to save disk space.
· Customizable autotext for frequent expressions.
· Formatting with styles.
· Alternate views of document as a tree (panel at the left) or as a selected folder (panel on the right).
· Internet Explorer integration.
· Customizable user interface.
· Plugin architecture.

Requirements:

· 250 MHz processor
· 64 MB RAM
· 5 MB of HDD space
· Mfc42.DLL

Limitations:

· 40 days trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· fixed: search of nodes in dialog for plugins;
· fixed: plugins engine (extended messageboxes);

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AdBlock 2.6.7 (GPL)

Online advertising is one of the most profitable activities for websites that display ad banners, but for the regular user, it can be quite annoying, since a single click on an ad can redirect the visited page to various other websites. Fortunately, there are several ways to avoid turning a simple browsing session into an 'ad stampede' and one of them is AdBlock.

AdBlock is a simple extension for Chrome whose main purpose is to hide unwanted ads on all the visited webpages, in order to avoid accidental clicks and accessing dangerous content.

Also available for Safari, this addon is designed to remove all the advertisements and banners while navigating on the Internet, enhancing the browsing experience and making sure that you don't get distracted from the actual content of the accessed URL.

In order to install it in Chrome, you have to drag and drop the CRX file onto the 'Extensions' section, which can be accessed from the main menu - Tools – Extensions. Once installed, a new button is added to the browser toolbar, enabling you to quickly activate or disable the extension.

AdBlock's filtering capabilities allows you to customize the extension's behavior, which means that you have the possibility to choose which ads to block and which not. For instance, you can block ads that contain a certain text, hide a section of a page or block ads by their URL. Additionally, experienced users can manually edit the filters, provided they are familiar with the filter syntax, since any mistake could make the filter useless.

If you don't want to bother creating filters for frequently visited webpages, you can simply subscribe to one or more of the official filter lists that AdBlock comes with. In this case, most of the ads and banners on the Web are removed by default and replaced with blank sections, thus allowing you to focus on the webpage content.

Although it is just a simple browser extension, Adblock allows you to decide what should be displayed on the visited webpages, thus making the browsing experience much more pleasant and secure.

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Dbvisit Replicate 2.5.08 (Trial)

Dbvisit Replicate is a powerful Oracle database replication tool that allows you to create a duplicate version of a database in real time. The program allows you to create a standalone database that can take the reporting burden off the online version.

The program includes a wizard that will take you through the steps of creating the configuration scripts. It also allows you to detect and solve data conflicts with the embedded tools.

Requirements:

· Oracle database

Limitations:

· 30 days trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Fix: unused/hidden commands not excluded for some cases of PREPARE command
· Ordering in Suppack's CSVs
· Fix prepare table issue when upgrading from previous version

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AnyDVD [DISCOUNT: 20% OFF!] 7.3.2.0 / 7.3.2.1 Beta (Trial)

Softpedia in association with SlySoft Inc offers you a special discount: Now, only from Softpedia, you can buy AnyDVD with a 20% DISCOUNT. Take advantage of this opportunity and press the "Buy Now" button; you'll surely notice the discount has been activated. No coupons, no codes, no questions, no hassle! Get it now, while it's hot!

Written by Elena Opris on April 20th, 2013

AnyDVD is part of the DVD decryption software category and its target is to remove copy protections in order to allow disc backups and other similar operations.

AnyDVD is able to decrypt CSS encrypted DVDs and it performs the job automatically in the background, so it won’t bother you from other tasks you plan on completing.

The installation process is not at all complicated, but a restart is required in order to fully enjoy the application’s features. The user interface is pretty much standard, with all the menus gathered up on the left side, while adjacent options are presented on the right side.

AnyDVD features built-in support for both NTSC and PAL-DVDs and is able to decrypt audio CDs as well. After processing your discs with AnyDVD, the result is a clean, free of region codes and restrictions DVD that can be further re-worked via a wide range of third-party tools such as CloneDVD, Pinnacle InstantCopy, etc.

With this tool you can remove annoying clips from menus (including intro and outro clips), titles shorter than a given number of minutes, and you can also configure subtitle transparency (thus, choosing 0 will remove it).

In addition, the application is able to clear first play title, adverts and trailers, user prohibitions or parental restrictions from discs. Speed control can also be enabled for a video DVD, audio CD, or other types of discs.

HD support is available in the AnyDVD HD version of the software. This special edition allows you to process HD DVDs and Blu-Ray discs and can rip movies to ISO format.

In conclusion, AnyDVD is a reliable choice when dealing with encrypted DVDs. It runs quietly in the background and outputs results of superior video and audio quality.

Here are some key features of "AnyDVD [DISCOUNT: 20% OFF!]":

· Works automatically in the background
· Removes encryption (CSS) and region code (RPC) from DVDs
· Removes analogue copy protection (Macrovision)
· Removes features such as forced subtitles and warnings
· Decrypts without the need to save the data onto your hard-disk
· Decrypts 'on the fly'
· Prevents automatic launching of 'PC-friendly' software on video DVDs
· Allows adjustment of your monitor refresh rate for both NTSC and PAL monitors
· Allows execution of external programs on disc insertion and removal
· Allows speed control of your DVD drives
· Compatible with all DVD media
· Works with all DVD-drives, regardless of region code
· Works with all DVD copying, such as CloneDVD, and all DVD player software
· Works transparently for the operating system: DVDs can be shared over the network and copied with the command prompt or with Windows Explorer, etc.
· Proven to be stable and fast and does not require an ASPI driver
· Provides its own Universal Disk Format (UDF) reader. Discs which cannot be read by Windows can be copied using the AnyDVD ripper.
· Features AnyCDDA: play, copy and rip protected audio CDs

Requirements:

· IBM compatible personal computer with a 500 MHz Pentium-Class Microprocessor.
· 64 MB RAM.
· Hard disk space needed: 1 MB
· You must be Administrator to install AnyDVD.

Limitations:

· 21 days trial
· Nag Screen

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· New (Blu-ray): Support for new discs
· New (DVD): Support for new discs
· Change: File extension of logfiles is now ".ziplog"
· Some minor fixes and improvements
· Updated languages

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Mozilla Password Recovery 5.6.2.470 (Demo)

Written by Elena Opris on July 9th, 2013

Mozilla Password Recovery is an intuitive program whose purpose is to retrieve lost or forgotten passwords to Mozilla products, as the name implies. It offers support for Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey, among others apps.

The interface of the application is based on a wizard-like layout, where you can follow a few simple steps to carry out a task in no time.

You can get started by selecting the recovery mode, as Mozilla Password Recovery provides several modules, such as “Automatic Firefox”, “Manual Mozilla” and “Miscellaneous”. If you're not satisfied with the default language, then you can get another one from the Internet, as well as enable logging mode.

The decryption attack method is based on AI, dictionary, brute force, mask, base-word, combined dictionary or passphrase mode, so you can select either one from the list.

It is possible to select an action to take when a password has been found, such as sending an email message, playing a custom sound file (WAV format), running a program, or taking a screenshot. You can also establish the attack priority.

Each decryption method comes with its own configuration. For example, the AI attack mode requires you to select the password mutation and indexing levels before initializing the task, while the dictionary attack mode lets you add and download dictionaries, enable smart mutation and set password filters.

Mozilla Password Recovery certainly comprises numerous useful functions for retrieving passwords in the aforementioned attack modes. It has a good response time, may take a while to complete a job, and uses a low amount of CPU and system memory, so it doesn't affect the overall performance of the computer. No error dialogs have been shown in our tests, and the utility did not hang or crash.

Here are some key features of "Mozilla Password Recovery":

· Recover all SeaMonkey, Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, K-Meleon, SongBird, Beonex, Flock, Pale Moon and Netscape AutoComplete data as well as e-mail account passwords;
· Recover lost User Master Password;
· Export passwords to text, html or excel files;

Requirements:

· Firefox 1.x
· Thunderbird 1.x
· SeaMonkey 1.x

Limitations:

· The unregistered version shows passwords that are not longer than 3 characters and for the longer ones it only displays the first 3 characters.
· Nag screen

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Some improvements in Master Key password recovery (Artificial intelligence attack).
· French language interface was updated.
· Minor interface bugs fixed.

Softpedia guarantees that Mozilla Password Recovery 5.6.2.470 is 100% CLEAN, which means it does not contain any form of malware, including spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors. [read more >]

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