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Astro Fury
$19.95 - Alawar Entertainment

Featuring hot arcade action and teeth-rattling audio, Astro Fury pits you against a veritable onslaught of alien invaders. Your only defense: a single ship armed with plasma bursts and a stash of wicked secondary weapons. The creators of Magic Ball 2 have put their talents to good use in Astro Fury, creating some of the most jaw-dropping enemy attacks and memorable deep space backdrops ever seen in an arcade shooter. Can you save the galaxy once again? Download Astro Fury today and strap in for the fight of your life!

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StyleSkin
$34.95 - Pollen Software

StyleSkin enables you to quickly create professional 3D/2D interface and menu style graphics from simple shapes.

Now with three new cutting edge button styles! Styleskin is dedicated template driven interface design software which enables anyone to easily design their own graphics. Simply layout your template using the provided shapes, choose your colors and style and almost instantly you have your very own unique skin. You could be designing a web site, a program interface or skin, creating your own menu application in our Autorun Maestro, promotional graphics, 3D text, 3D buttons... or any number of other uses. It offers revolutionary template driven rendering capabilities, over 30 texture styles (each adjustable), or you can import your own, specialized photo rendering capabilities (to turn your chosen image or logo into a skin), as well as a full range of skinning features. StyleSkin offers complete flexibility and control over your designs enabling you to optionally adjust every aspect of your skin including the illumination angle, 3D appearance, surface shine, weathering and much more. StyleSkin contains a range of advanced button styles, each adjustable, including transparent gel buttons, smoothly rounded dome buttons, translucent two-toned resin buttons, color gradient buttons and concave inset buttons! You can even create 3D text. With StyleSkin you will create jaw-dropping visuals without the time-consuming labor!

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Visual Money
$19.95 - Visual Money, Inc.

You feel that you need to bring your personal finances into order? Visual Money is a personal finance manager which allows you to control your finances and stay on top of your expenses. It proves that managing finances is as simple as a mouse click. Visual Money supports multiple accounts that reflect real-world bank accounts, credit cards accounts, cash money and investments.
You can put your income and expenses into different categories such as dinning out, clothes or automobile. Categorization makes possible to find out where your money are going. A large list of predefined categories is provided, however you can create custom categories and subcategories. Visual Money offers a variety of visual reports helping you to see your cash flow, expenses by categories and payees for any period of time.
Visual Money supports import & export data into QIF (Quicken Interchange Format) files. This feature can be useful if you used other personal finance software before or downloaded your transaction history from your bank.
Visual Money looks after your bill payment and notifies you in advance when the bill should be paid. Encryption and password protection makes impossible for unauthorized users to access your private information. Automatic back-up utility prevent from lost of your data.

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Visual Mind
$249 - Mind Technologies AS

Are you juggling many balls at the same time? Is your team struggling with 'information overflow'? Visual Mind is a flexible, clear and intuitive 'mind mapping' software that allows you to capture information and ideas, organize them, and present them in a visual manner. The result is clear and intuitive 'mind maps' that provides the easy-to-understand overview as well as bringing the details to your fingertips. Visual Mind is the ideal tool for all sorts of Organizing, Planning, Brainstorming, Note-taking, Outlining, Creative thinking, Studying and learning, Decision making, Knowledge management, E-learning, Presentations, Summaries, Mind mapping, Concept mapping, Internet favorites organizer and more.

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DB Visual ARCHITECT for Windows
$699 - Visual Paradigm International Ltd.

DB Visual ARCHITECT, a sophisticated Object to Relational mapping designer and code generator to you. DB-VA generate real executable persistence code, persistence layer and database (DDL or direct execute to the database). You can focus on developing business logic and user interface without care about the database issue. The persistence layer of the DB-VA is build on top of the most popular persistence layer, Hibernate.

There is no vendor lock on when adopting DB-VA. All generated code can run on all popular relational database (e.g. MySQL, Oralce, SQL Server, DB2) and Application Server (e.g. JBoss, WebLogic Server ...). To know more about how DB-VA can help, please visit the Java ORM resource page at


You can use DB-VA to:
+Design your object model by UML Class Diagram
+Design your database by Entity Relational Database (ERD)
+Generate Class Diagram from ERD
+Generate ERD from Class Diagram
+Generate POJO, DAO, Factory, Static method style persistence Java code
+Generate Database Schema (DDL)
+Reverse engineering of ERD from DDL
+Support Stored Procedure and Database Trigger (New Feature)
+Generate Hibernate annotations in ORM persistence
+Generate Hibernate version tag for optimistic concurrency control
+Create table directly from dialog box
+Shape editor
+Bookmark (New Feature)
+Handi-Selection (New Feature)
+Command-line operations (New Feature)
+Modeling collaboratively with VP Teamwork Server, CVS and Subversion (Enhanced)
+Interoperability with UML2 model (UML2.x metamodel for eclipse platform) through XMI
+Export diagrams to JPG, PNG, SVG, EMF, PDF
and more.

DB-VA home page:


DB-VA Quick Tour:


Programmer's Guide for Java:


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MindVisualizer Standard
$79 - innovationgear.com

MindVisualizer is the easiest way to visualize and organize your thinking!
With MindVisualizer you can:
*Capture idea easily
*Get thinking clarified
*Make plan quickly
*Solve problem smartly
*Make decision accurately
*Get information organized
*Present information visually

The download file is small and the performance is extremely high, with MindVisualizer you'll get both productivity and creativity!

Some of the unique features:
* Homemap as your information center Screenshot
* Free subtopic positioning Screenshot
* Freehand topic image drawing Screenshot
*Convert linear text to a mind map
* Curved text along the relation link Screenshot
* Full featured topic notes with OLE support Screenshot
* Task/GTD information support Screenshot
* Customizable windows layout Screenshot
* Spell checking support Screenshot
* Customizable UI look and feel Screenshot
* Multiple Hyperlink support Screenshot
* Icon library for topics
* Image library for topics
* Linked map creation
* Branch folding
* Unicode character support
* Document export (supports lots formats)
* Minimize to system tray

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