BearWare's rating system is simple: Each of the programs listed are best in category.

In some cases, multiple programs are listed for a category for specific reasons and best or most comprehensive is listed first and others in decending order.

• [Webware] Polls  Polls.io Create simple polls you can easily share with your friends. No sign up required. No sign up required. View recent polls. Type a poll question below: Enter up to 8 poll choices below. One per text box. Nothing fancy here. Certainly there are more sophisticated polling services around but if you just want a basic poll that is running within seconds, this might be the way to go.
• [File Management] File Extension Changer  ezXTN is a very simple drag and drop file extension changer and will rapidly convert thousands of files. You simply type in the original (input) and desired (output) extension and then drag and drop the files or folders you wish to convert. The software will then search recursively through any subfolders and change the extension of any file that has the original extension. This program also remembers your preferred extensions between uses; this means that, if you drop a folder (or files) onto the icon for the program, it will offer to perform the last rename you did with it. Portable Stealth. Size: 120KB.Win XP/Vista/7/8. 32/64bit.
• [File Management] Renamer  Flexibe Renamer is a very powerful file renaming tool and uses an Explorer-like user interface. It features Unicode Strings. Wildcard or Regular-Expression (Perl Compatible) for substitution of file name. Multiple file-filter, Real-time preview, Undo. Sub-directories process-able recursively. Designed for processing a large quantity of files. Copy (Move) & Rename to another folder. Distribute into the folder by using relative path. Consecutive numbers to every classified group (folder, date, tag). Saving search/replace settings by Preset function. FUNCTIONS: Rename (Copy/Move/Create shortcut/Create hardlink) object (file/folder). Insert a Number or a String(the file's Timestamp/Folder name). Remove a Number or a String(Shortcut to, Copy (n) of, [n], (n)), Supported 8.3 Format. Translate Letters (upper/lower-case, capitalize). Replace String. Other flexible rename using pattern matching. Direct-editing of target name. Extending function by script (New!!). Rename (Copy/Move) using tag information. ID3(MP3/WMA/APE/MPC/OGG), EXIF, IPTC, Document(MS-Office(also 2007)/PDF), HTML. File-property information (Added tags by Shell Extensions are also available) (New!!). Extending function by script (New!!). Modify object (file/folder) attributes and time-stamps. Specify date/time, Shift, Random generate, Make the Same. Create numbered object(sized file/folder).Windows XP/Vista/2008/7. (Need downoad executabe moduel for Windows 2000/XP(RTM,SP1).
• [Security] Firewall - Windows  Windows Firewall Notifier is a small portable tool that works in tandem with the Vista or Win7 firewall and sets it to block outgoing traffic. It will set the rules in the firewall simply by clicking to allow or not when it displays it's notification of a program attempting to call out. It doesn’t always run in the background, instead, it hooks into the existing Windows Firewall infrastructure. Double-click "Console.exe" to run and enable Windows Firewall Notifier which enables the Windows Firewall (if its disabled) and sets it to block outgoing traffic by default. Then it enables the outbound connection logging feature in the WIndows Firewall and creates a scheduled task linked to the Windows Firewall events. When the Windows Firewall blocks an application from connecting, the firewall logs the event to the event log, which causes Windows Firewall Notifier to launch and display a notification, requesting your input. Windows Firewall Notifier also comes with a console (which you can use without enabling the features) which allows you to see network connections, rules, exceptions and the log. Before you delete the program folders to "uninstall," click the "Notif. Settings" button in the console window and it will give you options to revert to default settings as before you used the program or keep them. Portable. Size: 146KB. Win Vista/7.  Details
• [Education] Language  Language Immersion for Chrome is an experimental extension that aims to simulate the experience of being immersed in a foreign language. By switching certain words and phrases from English into a language of your choice, the websites you already visit can provide a way to experience the world from a different perspective.
• [Android] File Transfer  SoShare Unlimited sending of photos and videos of any size. Create custom groups for you and your friends to add files. Access and manage the same files from the SoShare website. Post and receive comments on photos and videos. Take pictures and videos directly with SoShare, or choose any that are already on your phone, and send them to friends using their email addresses or by adding them to custom groups.
• [Web Development] Website Stats  AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages. It uses a partial information file to be able to process large log files, often and quickly. It can analyze log files from all major server tools like Apache log files (NCSA combined/XLF/ELF log format or common/CLF log format), WebStar, IIS (W3C log format) and a lot of other web, proxy, wap, streaming servers, mail servers and some ftp servers.
• [Utility] Optimize Win 7/Vista/XP  Mz 7 Optimizer allows you to tweak your CPU, HDD, Memory, change network settings, clean your registry, defragment your drive, schedule backups, and change security settings. The amount of things Mz 7 Optimizer can do are immense. Mz 7 Cleaner has an automated optimization mode which simplifies maintenance on your machine. There are a handful of options you can check and Mz 7 Optimizer will perform those tasks in bulk. Mz 7 Optimizer's main purpose is to maintain a PC, though it also features interface tweaks that are hidden by windows. When you visit the website, all the tools listed are contained within Optimizer. Size: 2.7MB. Win 7. 32/64bit.
• [Webware] Email Header Analyzer  IPTrackerOnline Submit suspicious email headers to IPTracker which not only makes it easy to read the useful information from an email header, but also help you quickly find the originating IP address location. Just copy the entire email header text to the Email header analysis input box (for Gmail click the dropdown menu and choose "show original"), and click Submit header for analysis. It will show the email header analysis report, containing All valid IP address found in header data, Originating Info (IP, hostname, Organization, Country, City), Email Info (From Subject, Date Sent, Message ID) and Geographical Info (Continent, Latitude, Longitude, Time zone and GMT offset).
• [FileManagement] Uninstaller  GeekUninstaller displays all installed applications, listing program names, size on the disk and the installation date. Simply double click the Program you wish to remove. This triggers the software’s native uninstaller first, before GeekUninstaller starts its scan for leftovers, offering to delete those to complete the uninstallation. Use Force Removal for stubborn and broken programs. On x64 Windows, GeekUninstaller is running as a native 64-bit application. Portable single EXE. Size: 1.8MB. Win 7/8/XP/Vista. 32/64bit.
• [Webware] Website Change Detection  ChangeDetection.com provides page change monitoring and notification services to internet users worldwide. Anyone can use our service to monitor any website page for changes. Just fill in the form below, we will create a change log for the page and alert you by email when we detect a change in the page text. A free account is required (email/password).
• [Video] Video Player/Home Theater  XBMC is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media. This tool is for the serious media enthusiast and has incredible features well beyond what most media players can do. While XBMC functions very well as a standard media player application for your computer, it has been designed to be the perfect companion for your HTPC. Supporting an almost endless range of remote controls, and combined with its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, XBMC feels very natural to use from the couch and is the ideal solution for your home theater. Currently XBMC can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically any protocol available. XBMC can play CDs and DVDs directly from the disk or image file, almost all popular archive formats from your hard drive, and even files inside ZIP and RAR archives. It will even scan all of your media and automatically create a personalized library complete with box covers, descriptions, and fanart. There are playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast feature and many audio visualizations. Once installed, your computer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox. XBMC is available for Linux, OSX, and Windows.  Note
• [Webware] Word Cloud  WordCloud is a text analyzer that will create a word cloud representation as an image of RSS Feeds, Webpages, Local files, Wikipedia, Blogger, Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.
• [Video] Screen Recorder  BB FlashBack Express is an easy-to-use free screen recorder creates compact, high quality movies for tutorials, demos and presentations. With only a few clicks of the mouse BB FlashBack Express can record everything that happens on your Windows desktop. It uses different way of recording the screen than other screen recorder programs. It can produce high frame rate recordings with minimal impact on PC performance even on older PCs and netbooks. It allows the user to add text effects, cut and paste movie footage and edit mouse movements. Record a commentary or PC sounds while recording the screen. Record a window, region or full screen. Screencast Sharing one-click upload to YouTube, Blip.tv, Viddler and Revver. Save recordings in Flash or AVI formats with full control over file size and quality. Customizable, media-player style playback controls in Flash exports. Picture-in-picture webcam video records from your webcam while it records your screen. Size: 11.2MB. Win XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
• [Office] Employee Monitor  ExtraSpy lets you monitor employees' performance, check what they are doing during their working hours, easily and unobtrusively see which applications they launch on their computers and which web sites they visit, detect and prevent violations of your working policies, and do many other things. Client and Server programs. Win 2000/XP/NT/Vista/7/8. 32/64bit.
• [Webware] Scripts  ScriptSearch.com serves the Internet community as the largest and most well-known programming directories anywhere. Rating features allow you to find the most popular and most useful resources according to the rest of our visitors. Categories are: ASP, Flash, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Python, Remote, Tools, and XML.
• [Graphics] Cliplets  Microsoft Research Cliplets is an interactive app that gives users the power to create "Cliplets" a type of imagery that sits between stills and video, including imagery such as video textures and "cinemagraphs". The app provides a simple, yet expressive way to mix static and dynamic elements from a video clip. The desktop app for creating cinemagraphs - GIF style images that combine animation and photography. The app lets you select an object from a video clip so that only that object is animated, while the rest of the scene remains static. The result is sort of like a GIF, only more artsy. Size: 2.6MB. Win 7. 32/64bit.  Video
• [Graphics] Image Viewer  freeVimager is a nice little portable image viewer with some standard editing capabilities + redeye and other features. It will view jpeg, bmp, gif, tiff, png, pcx and emf and play avi video files, ordinary audio files and audio CDs. Multi-page file the Scan to Tiff, scan to Tiff and/or PDF, save as PDF, email, batch process, slideshow, file info with comments, Touch screen gestures support, View image location in Google Map, Jpeg lossless rotate and crop, All metadata (EXIF, IPTC, XMP, ICC, ...) are kept when editing and saving images, EXIF date / time adjustment in batch mode (it's a lossless adjustment). IPTC and XMP single file / batch editing support for jpeg and tiff files (it's a lossless edit), Avi video player with snapshot functionality and draggable borders in full-screen mode (integrated mpeg4 (divx), mjpeg, theora, vorbis and ADPCM codecs), Ansel Adams Zone System Histogram and more. Portable Stealth. Size: 6.6MB. Win 98 thru 8. 32/64bit.
• [Internet] Downloader  JDownloader is designed to automatically download files from popular exchangers as RapidShare.com, RapidShare.de, Depositfiles.com, Filefactory.com, Uploaded.to, Megaupload.com, Megashares.com, Vip-file.com, upshare.net, letitbit . net, Youtube.com, Myvideo.de, Imagefap.com, files.to etc. It's almost perfect automation and it can read many captcha's but allows you to fill in the ones it can't. It will unpack rar files and avoid third party installs. Size: 26.5MB. Win XP/Vista/7/8. 32/64bit.
• [File Management] Unlocker  Free File Unlocker is a new free software application that unlocks files or folders and stops error messages from appearing when trying to delete them. It can also be used to terminate malware. It works with all 32bit and 64bit versions of Windows and Windows Server and unlocks files or folders. It is fully integrated with Windows Explorer right click context menu. Moreover, it can also be executed from the command line and has the ability to provide locked file input lists, copy destination lists, move destination lists and rename lists. Portable Stealth version. Size: 310KB. Win XP/Vista/7/8. 32/64bit.
• [Audio] MP3 Editor  MP3 Toolkit is a free and powerful Windows app includes MP3 converter, CD ripper, tag editor, MP3 cutter, MP3 merger and MP3 recorder for users who want to handle MP3 files easier. Besides standard MP3 format, MP3 Toolkit supports most of popular audio and video formats and, also supports high quality audio like FLAC and APE. With MP3 Toolkit, you are able to convert, cut, merge, rip and record MP3 free. You can use MP3 Toolkit to convert audio for mobile devices, make ringtones, fix tag information, rip Audio CD, record sound or merge audio pieces to a complete MP3 file. Input Audio/Video Formats: AAC, AC3, AMR, ASF, APE, AVI, FLAC, FLV, MP4, M4V, M4P, MOV, M4A, MP3, MPG, MTV, OGG, RM, WAV, SWF, WMV, WMA. Output Audio Formats: MP3, AC3, AAC (Apple Audio), OGG, AMR, WMA, FLAC, APE, WAV, MPG (Audio). Size: 10.4MB. Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
• [Audio] DJ Software  VirtualDJ Home is a very powerful DJ program not really geared toward newbies that is a free for non-commercial use version. The 90-minute video course from Digital DJ Tips gives you all you need to know to play your first proper DJ gig! It is also recommended to read the manuals and their Wiki to learn more about the full potential and powers of VirtualDJ. Size: 35MB. Win XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
• [Web Development] Web Authoring  MarkdownPad is a full-featured Markdown editor for Windows. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).Markdown formatting can be applied (and removed) with handy keyboard shortcuts and toolbar buttons. Color schemes, fonts, and sizes are all customizable. You can also modify the CSS stylesheet of the rendered HTML right within the application. Want to make something bold‘? Press Ctrl + B. How about italic? Press Ctrl + I. Write a quote with Ctrl + Q. A real-time preview allows you to see how your content will be rendered in the browser as you type. Once you are finished with your page, you can export the content to regular HTML/CSS code. MarkdownPad uses a style sheet that determines how the HTML code is rendered. You can freely customize the CSS to make it match your site design and also customize some of the rendering options.Size: 419KB. Win XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
• [Web Development] Web Publisher  Pancake.io is the easiest way to create and maintain a web page. All you need to do is create a text file, and save it into the special Pancake folder in your Dropbox account. Pancake will turn that file into a web page for you. The best part is updating your page is as easy as opening the text file up in Notepad, TextEdit or your favorite text editor, making the changes you want, and saving the file. Your website gets updated automatically. Pancake will even take care of the formatting for you if you follow a few of their simple rules. When you connect your Dropbox account, Pancake will request permission to create a single, new folder. Pancake cannot access anything outside of that folder so the rest of your Dropbox files are secure. Supported file types: Text (.txt), Markdown (.md), JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg), PNG (.png), GIF (.gif), Adobe PDF (.pdf), Word doc (.doc, .docx), Excel spreadsheet (.xls, .xlsx), and Powerpoint (.ppt, .pptx).
• [Internet] Online Television  Online TV Access to the TV show streams is only granted for users connecting from specific regions of countries. If you live abroad, or are on holiday, you may not be able to access the TV streams. There are options available to bypass streaming TV site restrictions abd some are listed in the link.
• [Android] Usenet Reader  Groundhog Powerful, easy and fast app to read Usenet newsgroups, International charsets. Online/Offline mode. Colored quoting. MIME/uuencoded attachments. Threading. Starring and banning of authors and threads
• [Android] Usenet Reader  NZB Leech is a very simple native usenet download client for android. Import nzb files into NZB Leech and download on the go! You need a newsgroup provider to use this app. Supports multiple simultaneous connections and binary files from your favourite usenet provider. SSL supported. Background downloading supported, even when phone is sleeping.Indicates which files are incomplete files (in red text). Use Opera (but not Opera mini) or Firefox to download nzb files because the android browser has issues downloading nzb from some sites.
• [Web Development] CSS Editor  TemplateShaker is WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) xhtml/css template generator. Using this tool is pretty simple: just click and customize the look and feel of the template on the fly, in complete WYSIWYG environment. Save the template and it is done – just open the template generated with your favorite html editor and use it for your sites. It is free of charge – both for non-commercial and commercial use. You are free to use the templates on all your sites and all your client’s sites. is designed to give web designer quick and easy way to modify the look of predefined template layouts. You can change the images, backgrounds, text colors, page background etc. This initial release comes with 3 templates predefined but you can produce hundreds of templates by playing with the different customization settings. Size: 20MB. Win XP/Vista/7/8. 32/64bit.
• [Web Development] CSS Menu  CSSMenuMaker CSSMenuMaker.com is here to provide the average webmaster with tools to create custom, cross browser compatible website menus. Our menu generator makes it easy to create custom CSS menus without having to know all the complicated HTML and CSS. If you are a more experienced web developer we provide the sources code for all our CSS menus so that you can download, tweak, and integrate as much as you want.
• [Utility] Clipboard Watcher  ClipTrap ClipTrap is a simple clipboard watcher instead of a full blown clipboard manager. It is best suited for collecting text snippets, one after another perhaps, in one location to save and use later. Clipboard watching or monitoring can be toggled on or off. If it is toggled on ClipTrap will collect all copied text and append each new clipboard item to existing ones. The collected items can be separated (or not) by any number of – configured – blank lines, or simply a space. Portable. Size: 1.5MB. Win All.
• [Utility] Clipboard Manager  Ditto is an extension to the standard windows clipboard. Many features, unlimited clips, fast search, multi-user network sync, excellent cursor-only navigation. It saves each item placed on the clipboard allowing you access to any of those items at a later time. You can then select all captured in Ditto and paste all at once or individually. Ditto allows you to save any type of information that can be put on the clipboard, text, images, html, custom formats, etc. Portable. Size: 3.1MB. Win 2000 - 7. 32/64bit.
• [Webware] Cloud Storage  Google Drive is the new name for Google Docs, and where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff. That stuff includes Google Docs, videos, photos, PDFs and more. Google Drive offers 10GB free storage to existing users and some services that the smaller cloud storage services can't offer.
• [Android] Spell Check  Spell Checker plus voice input for Android will automatically check and correct your spelling and send your text by e-mail, Facebook, twitter, SMS and more. Multiple languages supported. Best Spell Checker for Android! More than a million and a half downloads! You may also input your text via voice. For fast access, keep it in the notification bar, always one click away, and for even faster access, long-press the search button to open the spell checker right away.
• [Email] Gmail Contacts CRM  Rapportive is a CRM tool works inside of Gmail to help you track your contacts. You can see who your contacts are at a glance. Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox. Rapportive is free for FireFox, Safari, Mailplane, and Chrome. Gmail gets a slick social CRM tool.
• [Webware] Online Meeting  vyew is continuous meeting rooms for real-time and anytime visual collaboration. The free forever version (ad supported) allows you to meet with up to 10 people and share content. Upload images, files, documents and videos into a room. Conferencing features - whiteboarding, video conferencing, screen sharing, Voice-over-IP. Collaboration features - continuous rooms are always saved and always-on. Contextual discussion forums, voice-notes, track and log activity.
• [Education] Education Democracy  Udemy enables anyone to take and build educational courses online. Their goal is to disrupt and democratize education by enabling anyone to learn from the world's experts. It offers an incredible platform that makes it easy for anyone to build an online course. Instructors can use video, PowerPoint, PDFs, audio, zip files and live classes to quickly build a course and share their expertise. Students can take courses across a great breadth of categories, including: business & entrepreneurship, academics, the arts, health & fitness, language, music, technology, games, and more. Most courses on Udemy are free, but some are paid.
• [Webware] Teleprompter  CuePrompter.com is an Online Teleprompter/Autocue service. Your browser works like a teleprompter and no extra software is needed. Free for any use (both commercial and non-commercial). Adjustable speed, forward, stop and reverse scrolling buttons, normal and mirrored display (mirror with Kcab font installed), two screen sizes, and two font sizes.
• [Webware] Business Card  MakeBadge allows you to create Instant Business Cards, name tags, name badges, ID badges, or buttons with custom templates and your design. It is a full-featured badge maker application. Diversity of in-built design templates such as classical square or nontrivial round ones. It has no time limited sessions, functionality restrictions or badge quantity quotas so users can create as many cards as desired. Create a custom template by means of drag-and-drop or select a ready-made card style. Add text and images, apply optional decorative elements. You can add your email, your phone number, your Skype ID, the URL of your company’s Facebook page, logo or anything that would let clients get in touch with you more quickly.
• [Video] Full Featured Editing  VideoPad is designed to be intuitive to use, and a fully featured video editing program for creating professional looking videos in minutes. Over 50 visual and transition effects to add a professional touch to your movies. Burn to Disc - DVD, CD, Blu-ray Discs, HD-DVD. Export Video File - avi, wmv, asf, mpg, 3gp, mp4, mov, YouTube, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Mobile Phone. Upload to YouTube - save login credentials to upload videos directly to YouTube from VideoPad. Input: 3GP(Mobile), AVI, FLV, JPG, MKV, MOV, MP4(IPOD,PSP,ZUNE), MPEG1, MPEG2, OGM, PNG, RM, SSA, WMV/ASF. Output: 3GP(Mobile), AVI, DVD, FLV, ISO, MOV, MP4(IPOD,PSP,ZUNE), MPEG1, MPEG2, RM, SWF, WMV/ASF. Size: 3.6MB. Win XP/Vista/7.
• [Video] FLV Cutting  Video Dub is a free video editing software which lets you delete unwanted parts from video files without re-encoding. That means that the program preserves original quality of the input video files and deletes their parts easily and fast. All you have to do is to set a start and an end point for the unwanted part, delete it and press the button to save the video. The edited video is saved as a new file. Input: AVI, FLV, MOV, MP4(IPOD,PSP,ZUNE), MPEG1, MPEG2, VOB. Output: AVI, FLV, MOV, MP4(IPOD,PSP,ZUNE), MPEG1, MPEG2, VOB. Size: 21.8MB. Win XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
• [Video] FLV Joining  Andy's FLV Joiner is a very simple Flash Video flv file joiner. No recoding of the file, no quality loss, able to handle VBR files without audio sync problems. Supports FLV with FLV1, VP6F and H264. Try and join same file formats. i.e. same resolution, fps, and general properties, otherwise the joined file will revert to the first file's properties. This program can join FLV videos seamlessly and losslessly without having to re-encode. Portable. Size: 62KB. Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7/8. 32/64bit.
• [Audio and Video] Full Featured Editing Studio  Studio 5 is all-in-one package which bundles all 47 free multimedia applications developed by DVDVideoSoft. Free Studio Manager has 8 sections for easy access to any application: YouTube programs; MP3 and Audio; CD, DVD and BD; DVD and Video; Photo and Images; Mobiles; Apple Devices; 3D programs. Convert video and audio files between different formats and to iPod, PSP, iPhone, BlackBerry and all popular mobile phones and devices, Burn and rip DVDs and audio CDs, Upload and download YouTube videos and music to your computer, iPod, PSP, iPhone and BlackBerry, Perform basic editing of audio and video files, Record videos and make snapshots, Create 3D videos and 3D images. Requires .NET 2. Size: 69MB. Win XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
• [Graphics] Editor  PicBear is a beginner-friendly image editor with layer support and a lot of downloadable filters and brushes. It has been implemented with the Layer function that can fuse photographs together by overlaying images, and can modifiy colors. A vast range of expressions are possible by combining the layer effect in different ways. It is possible to use the undo command an unlimited amount of times. Because all operation are recorded, even after performing hundreds of operations, it is possible to go back right to the beginning, and start over again. PictBear supports pbx, tiff, pcx, ras, tga, wmf, gif, j2k, jpg, jsf , bmp, png and psd. By adding brushes to the brush palette in PictBear, it is possible to further increase the range of expressions available. Size: 3.4MB. Win 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/7/8. 32/64bit.
• [Webware] Webcam Test  Testmycam.com once you are inside this website, allow abode flash plugin to use your webcam and that's it. If your webcam is functional it will show your webcam and the name of the webcam and framerate will be shown top left. Great way to test your webcam if you are setting it up for the first time or think something is amiss.
• [Webware] Typing Tutor  Keybr.com is a very straight forward online flash based typing instructor. You can choose from three basic lessons that start with a certain number of keys on the keyboard, and then, as you progress through the lessons, more keys are introduced to the mix to make things a little tougher. As an added bonus, our software keeps track of all your mistakes and your words-per-minute (wpm) and even creates graphs of your day-by-day performance.
• [Android] Panoramic Pictures  Panorama will create seamless panoramas in seconds with a single tap to the Capture button and move your phone slowly and steadily from left to right. Once done capturing, the frames will be stitched into one awesome panorama automatically. Amazing effects are also provided for taking a panoramic image. Select the effect you like before capturing, Four Seasons, Crossprocess, Old Photo, Sketch, and dozens of magic effects, and your panorama becomes a masterpiece immediately after taking. Panorama supports one-tap upload to the most famous social networks in the world: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and sending email.
• [Android] Panoramic Pictures  Photaf Panorama will allow you to create beautiful, seamless 360 panoramic photos easily by utilizing the camera and the orientation sensor to know the exact angle each picture was taken. When done, you can move your phone around to see the complete panoramic view by using the phone's compass or the touch screen. Automatic Image Stitching 360 Panorama creation, Upload to Photaf.com website and view it from your computer, Facebook Share - Share panoramas with your friends, Pinch to Zoom and Move to SD.
• [Online Service] File Transfer  WeTransfer will allow you to send files up to 2GB. Simply click GO, add the files you wish to send, enter the recipients email address and your email address, and an optional message if you like.
• [Android] Vehicle Data  aCar will manage and keep track of your vehicles: Fillups, Fuel Mileage, Maintenance, Expenses and Trips. You can keep records of your cars, trucks or even your bikes, and have all of them under control.
• [Security] Virtualization  Toolwiz Time Freeze makes virtualization very easy to use. When you run the program, it virtualizes your system and you have two exit options after your session: reject all changes, which requires a reboot, or accept all changes, which can take a few minutes. It's an effective Instant system restores software to keep your system safe and protect your computer from unwanted changes.It can also protect your files and folders from changes and provide password protection.It makes virtualization very easy to use. It clones your system, creating fully working copies that you can use normally (or abnormally) without risking your "real" system.It puts the actual system under protection and creates a virtual environment for system partition, on which you run applications and surf the internet. It provides higher-level security to computer protection, and greatly improves the efficiency of virtual system. Size: 1MB. Win XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
• [Video] AVI Freeze Repair  DivXRepair is an Open Source program that can repair corrupt avi files and eliminate freezes. This program automatically detects and eliminates bad frames. You can add the files which needs to be repaired and start the process. The app will scan through the video files and then eliminate the bad frames. DivXRepair cuts off the bad parts and re-assembles the avi file. The bad parts of the avi are undecodable frames or the freezing frames. Once the repair is complete, the app will save a new file in the same directory with the old file. It generates a report on the repair done and also the number of bad frames and their location. Portable Stealth. Size: 899KB. Win XP/Vista/7/8. 32/64bit.

Two of my favorite tools for collecting data as I research are ClipTrap, and Capture2Text.

I use ClipTrap which is a simple portable and versitile clipboard watcher tool which captures an unlimited amount of text and connects that text as you configure it to do so. It is very easy to configure to make the captures connect to each other the way you want them and when finished, click the button to copy all and paste it where you want it.

When you come across a picture that contains text you want to OCR, use Capture2Text which is a image OCR program which works unbelievably well. Simply place your cursor where you want to start the capture, press Win+q and click and drag a blue screen over the text you wish to OCR and click Win+q again. That OCR'd text can be sent to a file, clipboard or in the case of having ClipTrap running, simply be captured straight to ClipTrap as you perform the operation.

Music Society is a public and open forum from musicians for musicians of all styles dealing with every aspect of music, especially electronic music produced with the aid of MIDI. Other topics are allowed but shall not outweigh or distract from the originally intended content of the forum.

MusicSociety allows its users to upload their own songs to the forum to present them and offers developers to host their music related programs (VST, VSTi, FX). Unregistered users (guests) might be excluded from specific services, e.g. internet links and download links for huge files.

MusicSociety is a privately operated forum of the webmaster Djuro “Bam“ Dorner. His contactdetails can be found in the imprint. The webmaster is allowed to delegate functions of the forum to other persons.

The membership is voluntary and free of charge. The user can apply for admission which will be granted or denied by the webmaster. There is no entitlement for a membership or for an explanatory statement in case of denial.

UNITED STATES v. VLADIMIR TSASTSIN, ET AL.

The FBI is seeking information from individuals, corporate entities and Internet Services Providers who believe that they have been victimized by malicious software (“malware”) related to the defendants. This malware modifies a computer’s Domain Name Service (DNS) settings, and thereby directs the computers to receive potentially improper results from rogue DNS servers hosted by the defendants.

Information on how to determine your DNS settings, along with other technical details about DNSChanger, can be found here.

You can check if you are infected here.

Note: If you are infected, you should still be fine though you should change your DNS back to your ISP's DNS Server or a DNS service of your choice as the FBI has redirected all of the rogue servers (maybe) to good servers.

Google Drive is the new name for Google Docs, and where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff. That stuff includes Google Docs, videos, photos, PDFs and more. Google Drive offers 10GB free storage to existing users and some services that the smaller cloud storage services can't offer.

In addition to integration across Google services such as Gmail, Google+, and search, the service includes maturing technologies such as Goggles, which makes photographs of famous sites, newspaper clippings, or street signs instantly searchable.

Google also is integrating optical character recognition (OCR) technology that can transform a PDF or TIFF into a searchable document.

To coincide with the release of Google Drive, Google is boosting the free storage for Gmail users to 10GB and counting.

Files from Google Drive on the web, including Google Docs files, will sync to your Google Drive folder. Choose Advanced setup to change what will sync.

Once you sign up, you can download Google Drive and log in. Your Documents link will be changed to Drive on the Chrome browser tab bar. Also a Google Drive folder will be created on your computer (C:\Users\UserName\Google Drive).

Files in your Google Drive folder are available on all your devices. Now all of your files are on your computer as well as the cloud and all of your devices, and opening them will go to your browser.

If you have Google Docs on your Android, it will automatically change to Google Drive when you install Drive to your PC, the Docs icon will disappear and you will have to apply the Drive icon to your Android screen in it's place.

Cloud Storage Comparison Chart

The cell locations can be any cells however you must change the object cell(s) in the formula. You can add as many cells as you like, just change the formula by adding cells in succession with no spaces or commas: &A2&b2&c2 etc. Enlarge the cell that contains the image to increase the QR Code image size.

• 1. Open a GDocs spreadsheet.
• 2. In cell A2 type in a favourite URL (e.g. http://cnn.com)
• 3. In cell B2 drop the following line of code: =image("https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=150&chl="&A2)
• 4. Presto: the QR code for the CNN site appears.

Neil Gaiman's novelette, The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains, won the Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette. And it's now available online in text and audio. You can find more great tales by the fantasy/sci-fi author in our collection of Free Stories by Neil Gaiman, as well as in our ever-growing lists of Free Audio Books and Free eBooks.  Also don't miss our recently-published collection of Free SciFi Classics on the Web, which includes great works by Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, C.S. Lewis and others.

THIS ARTICLE instructs how to easily become self reliant towards recovering from any disaster that may happen to your computer. Once you enable this process, you will never need anyone's help to recover ever again, and you will not lose anything of any significance ever again. It is very easy to do and anyone can do it. It only takes minutes (not hours) to actually accomplish and maybe a couple of hours to learn it, which is well worth your time to attain self-reliance.

There are two phases of managing self-reliance with this process:

• 1. Creating and maintaining images of your operating system. (Requires an external Hard Drive.)
• 2. Setting up real-time automatic backup of your portable programs and data files. Many types of media or services are available for automatic real-time backup.

I discuss two types which are my preference:

• 1. A good automatic real-time backup program to an external hard drive.
• 2. Cloud storage services which allow automatic real-time backup of your files online.

While you are at it, why not go all the way and read BearWare's Comprehensive Security Plan and secure your entire computing environment!

Monitor your Website's Uptime with Google Docs courtesy of Amit Agarwal who is a personal technology columnist at WSJ India, author and founder of Digital Inspiration, a widely-read tech and how-to blog.

Build your own site monitor with the help of Google Docs. The one big advantage with Google Docs is that it can be configured to check your website status every minute and thus you'll instantly know if your site is down.

It will take a few minutes to configure Google Docs as an uptime monitor for your website.

• 1. Assuming that you are signed-in to your Google Account, click here to make a copy of the Google Docs sheet.
• 2. Put your website's URL in cell E3 and your email address in cell E5. (This is the address where you wish to receive notifications for downtime and uptime.)
• 3. Go to Tools -> Script Editor -> Resources -> Current Script's Triggers and set a Time-Driven trigger for every minute (or 5 minutes).
• 4. Save the Trigger and Google Docs will show a big red warning asking for authorization. Just accept it and Save the trigger again.

That's it. The Google Docs sheet will monitor your website in the background at all times and will send an email alert whenever it has trouble accessing the website. If the issue is resolved, you'll get another notification saying "all's well."

Also, the downtime details (including the server responses) are logged in the Google Docs sheet itself so you can later analyze the downtime in greater detail. You can browse the source code to understand how monitoring works behind the scenes.

Wherever possible, I use portable programs rather than full install programs for many reasons. The most important advantage for me is the ability to keep these programs sync'd off computer to an external drive or online storage enabling the ability to quickly recover all files, settings and data if and when you re-stage or re-image your system. Simply re-image and then mirror the portable folders back to the new image and you are back in business. If you use online real-time sync such as with SugarSync, it will automatically update your portable folders after you reimage and you can also keep these folders sync'd across all of your devices which is very useful (no more packing around a USB stick to update all of your devices.)

I also utilize a Toolbar on my Taskbar to quickly access or manage these folders and launch the programs (no external program launcher required.)

First create a single folder that contains all of your portable programs. You can see the structure I use in the above screenshot. I named the root folder "Portable."

To create the Toolbar, Right Click your Taskbar -> Toolbars -> New Toolbar and point it to the location of your portable folder. The toolbar will be created on your taskbar named after the folder which contains your portable programs. That's it.

You can use the toolbar by clicking on the ">>" which pops up the menu structure.

As you can see from the screenshot, I've done something similar to manage all of my bookmarks. Simply create a folder named Bookmarks and drag n drop all of your bookmarks into that folder. You can set up subfolders for categories just like what is done in the Portable folder and sync them the same way with the same advantages. They will work with any default browser. Never have to import or export bookmarks again.

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Have you ever wished that you had a way to practice typing so that you could become a more efficient and capable keyboard jockey? Typing at the speed of thought? Enter Keybr.com - the flash-based typing instructor you've been waiting for!

Keybr.com is very straight forward. You can choose from three basic lessons that start with a certain number of keys on the keyboard, and then, as you progress through the lessons, more keys are introduced to the mix to make things a little tougher. As an added bonus, our software keeps track of all your mistakes and your words-per-minute (wpm) and even creates graphs of your day-by-day performance.

But, things get even better! Once you have determined that the lessons you have completed have reached their maximum result, get ready to play with custom mode, where you can edit and personalize the text that you wish to practice! Very bare-bones, but oh, so functional.

Finally, to up the entertainment level of your typing lessons, you can import content from a web site or blog into Keybr.com to type it out.

But why even bother to learn touch typing? The answer is simple - it is healthier for you, faster and more accurate. Blogging, writing long documents and emails, instant messaging with your friends, and even coding sophisticated computer programs will become much easier and more enjoyable once you eliminate distraction of hunt-and-peck typing.

How long would it take for you to develop a good typing speed? It would probably take you weeks to polish your skills up to a top level, but really decent speed can be achieved in a matter of hours with daily training. We promise that we can teach you to type at a speed of above 50 words per minute in less than ten hours with our course. And who wouldn't benefit from that?

How does Keybr.com work?

Unlike much of the teaching typing software available out there, Keybr.com does not force you to type random characters over and over again, that is simply boring and contributes very little to your learning. Instead, Keybr.com generates readable random words using the phonetic rules of your native language. These words look almost natural, and often they really are. Typing sensible text is much easier than random letters, and it helps you to remember frequent key combinations. For example, it's almost impossible for the letter W to follow the Z in English, and you will never type this combination in Keybr.com. Instead, you will type more common words, such as 'the' 'that' and 'with'. Keybr.com lets you introduce as few keys as possible to the lesson, adding more keys later when you feel that you are competent and fast enough on the current level. So, if you start with the keys from the Caps Lock row, then add keys form the Tab row, and then from the Shift row, you will eventually end up typing real text with capital letters and punctuation.

Keybr.com is a web-based software that runs directly in your browser. You don't have to download or install anything! The most recent and up-to-date version is always with you. You can use it from any computer connected to the Internet, and your typing statistics are kept on the web site and available on-demand.

BearWare indirectly began development in 1980 when I purchased my first computer, born from a file I've maintained ever since. One of my interests has always been free applications or services for PC's and I've maintained due vigilance to find, research and document the very best for my own personal repository.

Friends, family and coworkers discovered I maintained such a list and requested that I send the file to them every time I updated it. As I frequently updated the list, I decided to create a website for those who wished the information. Thus BearWare was born with a theme based on listing only the very best freeware and services in category, easy navigation, no ads, and no pop-ups or monetization of any kind. It's primarily a tool for my use which I share as others may find it useful as well.

Not only are these listings the very best freeware in category I've found, experimenting with these programs and services will help keep you abreast of this technology and learn more about your computer.