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Apps Depot weekly update #4

30 July 2010

We did not issue the weekly update last Friday. It does not mean that there were no updates. On the contrary! See for yourself! Lots of apps were added, some were updated.

Youtube Downloader HD is a free tool to download videos from YouTube, convert them to .avi or to .mp4 (compatible with iPod, iPhone). The main distinguishing feature of application is ability to download High Quality, High Definition and Full HD videos. Can be found under Internet – Download Managers and Accelerators

DriverBackup can be found under Utilities – Backup and Synchronization – A tool for backing-up, restoration and removal of system drivers with command line options, automatic restoration from CD\DVD and path formatting.

Two applications were added under Utilities -> System Tools category,

Watch4Folder is a small portable tool to monitor folders and file activities. It can monitor 15 different types of events and execute different actions in case of an event. It is possible to write to a text log file and to watch a live log running.

Process Hacker (Utilities -> System Tools) is showing and providing comprehensive information for and offers full control over all processes running on your computer, even processes protected by rootkits or security software. Its kernel-mode driver has unique abilities which allows it to terminate, suspend and resume all processes and threads, including software like IceSword, avast! anti-virus, AVG Antivirus, COMODO Internet Security, etc

Three more tools were added to the System Information sub-category under Utilities

BatteryEaterPro (Utilities – System Information) – A very useful testing tool for those of you who use notebooks. The tool reveals the potential of a notebook battery. It can measure the minimum, maximum and average operation time of a notebook without recharging the battery.

CPUTrueSpeed - this tool for estimates Actual CPU frequency, which is not the same frequency reported by CPU manufactures. The reported frequency is one, the CPU is designed for. The actual frequency, on the other hand, is the frequency at which the processor works under particular hardware and software configurations on a particular computer. If you need to know it for sure – use this free tool provided by Igor Zenkov.

HDDScan – offered by another Russian developer, Artem Rubtsov, - a freeware utility for hard drive diagnostics (RAID arrays and Flash USB drives are also supported). The program can test storage device for errors, show S.M.A.R.T. attributes and change some HDD parameters such as AAM, APM, etc. HDDScan can be useful for performing the regular "fitness test" and predicting your drive degradation. It can be also used as the hard disk temperature monitor and reading/writing benchmark. Unfortunately the HDDScan does not work under Windows 7 and Vista.

dirhtml – Dirhtml a tool, provided by Eric Nitzsche, builds customizable html files from a folder branch using the GUI or command line. It runs on Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/Win7 The tool can be found under Utilities – Other

TakeStock -> Office – Financial Use this software to track US and international stocks and mutual funds, get real-time quotes and historical prices, view and compare stock charts, obtain company information, and read business news. And all this for free.

The next portable application added to the Apps Depot under Development – Editors, is useful for software developers. Notepad++ Portable 5.7 is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages generously provided by Dan Ho. It is running in the MS Windows environment, including Win 7 and Vista.

SQLiteSpy – Development – Database management, is a fast and compact GUI database manager for SQLite. It reads SQLite3 files and executes SQL against them. Its graphical user interface makes it very easy to explore, analyze, and manipulate SQLite3 databases. Brought to you by Ralf Junker.

XCALC – Development – Misc- This hobby of Mr. Bernt Ribbum from Norway turned to be a nice free calculator, distributed under Spiceware License Agreement.

You can get instant access to these and hundreds more apps with Apps Depot, which is available with CodySafe Sigma, CodySafe Protect, or CodySafe Solid Crypto

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CodySafe Protect Beta

28 June 2010

We launch CodySafe Protect ^Betatoday. It was worth waiting till the date, because Beta means free and CodySafe means great...

CodySafe Protect is the software tool that prevents unauthorized access to your files by setting password protection to your flash drive and dividing it to several partitions. Your files on the protected partition will be available only after you provide correct password.

This partitioning process involves significant changes to the structure of the memory. It is worth mentioning that the industry of portable drives is very large and continues intensively growing. There are many vendors and manufacturers of USB flash drives. And therefore, there is a chance that the drive that is currently in your hands cannot be upgraded to the protected one. Never mind.We will offer you anothersolution soon. Codyssey continues development. Meanwhile – the free Beta release is open.

Those who were interested to set password on their flash drives, those who wanted to protect their files at home or at work and those who is willing to prevent access to their sensitive information, all of you are welcome to download and to install CodySafe Protect ^Beta.

More to Apps Depot

18 June 2010

This week was pretty fruitful. Here are more programs added to the Apps Depot:

CintaNotes - a lightweight and user-friendly PIM (personal information manager). CintaNotes can become an assistant in the daily task of organizing information, registering your own thoughts and ideas, for the history, quotes from famous people other than you, research data, curious facts, Wikipedia entries, you name it. PIMs can be found in the Apps Depot under Office - > Other Category.

Block Pusher - a puzzle game that plays rather similarly to Sokoban, in which you solve puzzles by pushing one block at a time and being very careful not to trap yourself into a corner while doing it. There are items to collect in certain rooms, although the game doesn't actually reward you with anything even if you do manage to acquire them all. Pressing the F4 function key switches between full screen and windowed mode, while the R key can be used to reset a puzzle whenever you're stuck.

Imagine - a lightweight, easy to use yet powerful images viewer with basic editing capabilities. The application can be found in the Graphics and Design category of the Apps Depot

GetFoldersize - great utility that allows determining which programs are taking up your hard disk space, to determine the size of folders and sub-folders on your hard drive. For each folder, you can display the total file size and the number of files and subfolders in the folder.

ProduKey - like any other software program designed by Nir Sofer, this tool can be extremely useful tool that displays the ProductID and the CD-Key of Microsoft Office (Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007), Windows (Including Windows 7 and Windows Vista), Exchange Server, and SQL Server installed on a computer. The application can be found in the Utilities - >System Info category of the Apps Depot

Just to remind - Apps Depot and all of its portable applications is available with CodySafe Sigma, Protect, Solid Crypto or other paid version of CodySafe. Enjoy!

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Apps Depot weekly update

16 June 2010

This week additions to Apps Depot included several useful portable applications that are useful mostly to those of you who deal with graphics and design.

AMP Font Viewer - an easy to use but powerful font manager, which allows getting a quick overview of both installed and non installed fonts, install and uninstall fonts, and organize them in categories.

JPEGView is an images viewer designed to view images from digital cameras in full screen mode and with highest quality possible. It also allows correcting typical problems as color cast, high/low contrast and under- or overexposure.

MobaPhoto is a nice freeware for managing your digital photos allowing to resize, crop, correct red-eyes also in "batch-mode". In addition it allows easy creation of photo galleries and uploading them on a website.

Zzoom - A free screen zoomer, color picker and image grabber was also added to graphics and design category.

Dynamic Draw, a small and simple vector graphics editor. It is useful for making flowcharts, line drawings, org charts, buttons, etc. The application was added to the Office category (“Other” subcategory) of Apps Depot, but it can be also found under Graphic and Design category

We have also added a Rapid Typing Tutor to the Educational software category of the Apps Depot. Actually it could be added to games as well. Rapid Typing Tutor is designed to teach adults and kids to use their computer keyboard more efficiently than ever. Learning to type is fun with its typing game. The application offers extensive training statistics and customized lessons.

Reminder: Apps Depot is a feature available with CodySafe Sigma, CodySafe Protect, CodySafe Solid Crypto - every payware version of the CodySafe.

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Apps Depot novelties

27 May 2010

CodySafe Apps Depot was recently extended with new portable apps. We have noticed that the games section has gained the tremendous interest. It is quite clear that employees enjoy playing portable games rather than installing them to the workstation at work. It is obvious. Portable games keep scores and scenes on a flash drive, allowing user to continue playing at home from the same point. From the other side, in emergency (when the boss is coming close) user can always kill the running application and clear all history and traces with one “emergency” action. You can always click on CodySafe’s “Exit” or “Eject” button or even unplug the drive (though we do not recommend doing it) and all the games running from the drive will disappear along with all the chats of the instant messenger, web pages with browsers and all other applications running from the portable drive will disappear leaving no trace on the workstation. When at work you keep working… or at least pretend working.

So, since portable games are of the highest interest we have added some games to the Apps Depot, the essential feature of CodySafe Σ. Those of you who already possess Sigma may enjoy the feature right away.

The great new feature

11 May 2010

We have recently added the great new feature that raises CodySafe platform to another unbounded level. The feature allows instant access to the online collection of portable applications, download and installation of desired application with virtually one-click.

Hundreds of portable applications are constantly available for instant access, which means that user does not even need to install them all. User may keep the extra space on the USB stick for important files and documents. But when it turns out to be necessary it is a matter of few seconds to find application, to download and to install it on the USB flash drive.

Currently this feature is presented as the integral part of the CodySafe Sigma. It will be later added to other extensions of CodySafe.

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Another new version

23 April 2010

The new version of CodySafe was released yesterday. We wanted to make a big News article devoted to this specific version 1.0.0135, but there is actually not much to write about. This version incorporates lots of very useful features and includes some significant changes in the program code. But the end-user will hardly notice them. Well, maybe just the link to the portable applications depot in the bottom of the main menu. It is much easier to get portable apps installed to your drive now. All rest changes are in the background.

We foresee some howl from the audience: “Boooo! Where is the promised password protection?! Where are nested folders and run as administrator features? Where is the encryption that we are expecting too long…”

We have to admit, that you are right. It took us longer than expected. But wait! Just a bit more! We are going to launch the next version with great features very soon… even sooner than you can imagine.

Anyway, before you hear about the next major update, we suggest using current version of CodySafe, which is obviously the best one.

The next one is coming! Stay tuned!

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