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AltDesk Portable
$15 - Gladiators Software

Modern computers' power is enough to let you run numerous applications at the same time. You can surf the Internet, listen to the music and chat with your friends at the same time, but the more tasks you launch, the harder it gets to manage them. Second monitor may seema s way out, but AltDesk gives you a better choice. It creates several Virtual Desktops you can easily switch. Switching from an office application to your favorite Internet browser can be done in a blink of an eye without maximizing and minimizing numerous windows manually or switching them by means of the Taskbar. With AltDesk you can create as many Virtual Desktops as you want and switch them with ease. You don't even need to remember, where you've put a certain application's window as its icon is displayed by AltDesk. You can also easily swap tasks between Desktops, using Drag and Drop.

But let's say you travel a lot, or you have to work on several computers located in different offices, or just use Internet cafes or kiosks very often, but regardless of that you want your personal registered copy of AltDesk always to be at hand. Impossible? Not at all!

Gladiators Software company has released portable version of AltDesk, which can be stored on any removable data medium (CD, USB flash drive, etc.) and used on any computer you need. Just plug in the removable drive, start AltDesk, work (or play:)) and take your AltDesk with you after you finish.

A brief list of AltDesk features includes:

* Easy task managing
* Simple, user-friendly interface, translated into more than 40 languages
* Little resource consumption
* Hotkeys for any actions
* Skins for changing the program's appearance
* Reliablity: even in case of a failure you'll be able to recover the lost application's window.
* Numerous advanced features, like setting unique wallpapers for each Virtual Desktop, sticky apps, autorun and so on.

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RightClick
$14.95 - Stardock Systems

RightClick enables users to extend or even completely redesign the Windows desktop right-click mouse menu. When a user right-clicks on their Windows desktop, RightClick's custom made menus comes up. Users can add short-cuts, tasks, system commands, and much more to the menu. It's also fully skinnable and can be set to automatically inherit the user's current WindowBlinds visual style. For users who normally have their desktop covered up, a hot key can be set up so that will activate it at any time.

RightClick supports displaying running tasks, the Start menu, the system tray and virtually anything else one might imagine having on there allowing the user to replace the Start bar if they so chose (and in fact RightClick supports hiding the Start bar).

A trial version is available for download. Users can purchase it stand-alone for $14.95 or as part of Object Desktop, Stardock?s premiere suite of desktop enhancement programs that let you customize Windows to look, feel and function how you want it to. Object Desktop is only $49.95 and includes RightClick, WindowBlinds, DesktopX, IconPackager, ObjectBar, WindowFX, SkinStudio and much more! For more information visit: .

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vOptimizer FreeWare
$0 - Vizioncore

With over 10,000 users, vOptimizer is the recognized industry-standard VM optimizer for fast, easy, and reliable optimization of Windows virtual machines for VMware and Microsoft platforms.
vOptimizer is an advanced optimization solution that quickly and easily reduces a virtual machine's virtual hard drive to the smallest size possible while optimizing Windows guest operating systems for speed and performance.vOptimizer Desktop Edition enables unlimited optimizations of local VMs while Network Edition enables entire repositories of VMs located anywhere on the network to be optimized via scheduled automated jobs. vOptimizer FreeWare is a reduced version of vOptimizer Desktop.

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emboot MBA on Disk for VM
$12 - emBoot Incorporated

emBoot's boot agents for Virtual Machines are client-based 'virtual' firmware that allows VM client created with VMware and Connectix (Microsoft) to do a 'network boot' using the virtual NIC. Our boot agents for Virtual Machines (VM) are fully compliant with the Intel Wired for Management - Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) specification. PXE is the defacto industry standard protocols/APIs for network booting.
* Multi-protocol network boot disk / virtual floppy image for VMware and Connectix (Microsoft)
* Functions as PXE / DHCP / BOOTP, RPL or NetWare Boot ROM
* Fastest way to PXE Boot your VM Guest Operating System! Generated floppy can be converted to a .FLP file into your image files directory. Point your floppy device to the .FLP and then set your VM to boot from the floppy device.
* Extra features and options over PXE Boot Image
* Ideal for quickly installing guest operating systems using WfM-enabled desktop tools like emBoot NBT

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PXE Boot Image for VMware, floppy image
$9 - emBoot Incorporated

emBoot's boot agents for VMware are client-based 'virtual' firmware that allows a VMware client VM to do a "network boot? using the virtual NIC. Our boot agents for VMware are fully compliant with the Intel Wired for Management - Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) specification. PXE is the defacto industry standard protocols/APIs for network booting.

By working closely with VMware and key VMware customers, emBoot has overcome limitations with 'other' PXE implementations that simply do not work under VMware virtual machines (VM).
* PXE Boot Image for VMware - Bootable floppy image functions as a PXE Boot ROM
* Fastest way to PXE Boot your VM Guest Operating System! Simply extract the provided .FLP file to your image files directory, point your floppy device to the .FLP and then set your VM to boot from the floppy device.
* Ideal for quickly installing guest operating systems using WfM-enabled desktop tools like emBoot NBT

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e2eSoft VCam
$29.95 - e2eSoft

VCam is a virtual software camera, which simulates a webcam in your system and works just like a real one. It can be used in most of the applications which use webcam, such as IM software - MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Paltalk, Skype, QQ, UC and many others. You can use it to set images, animations, video clips, flash movies, DVD and even your desktop screen as the output of webcam.

Already have a webcam? VCam can enhance it - replace its background, perform face tracking, add video overlay, text overlay or cool special effects to it, let it be able to be used by several applications at the same time, and make your video chatting more interesting!

Main features:
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- A WDM driver, supports all the VFW and DirectShow applications;
- Support multi-stream output, with different resolutions in good quality;
- High performance algorithm, low CPU usage;
- Based on DirectShow, more media formats supported, higher performance;
- Play list support, user-defined program management, flexible configuration;
- Split up webcam, DV, digital cameras into multi-stream easily;
- Support Image, flash, video file, video capture device and text transparent overlay;
- Many cool video special effects support;
- Webcam background removal;
- Face tracking & smart move effect;
- Screen capture, support hotkey, zoom, full screen capture and using custom cursor;
- Camera default image support, default resolution and frame rate adjustable;
- Enable/Disable/Install/Uninstall the virtual camera driver in the application;
- Easy to use, skin, color scheme support;
- Multi-language support;
- Professional and easy-to-use setup program;
- Automatically check for new version and get latest news of VCam;
- Professional forum for technical support.

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