Beyond Compare is a powerful time-saving utility for comparing files and folders on your Windows system. Use it to manage source code, keep folders in sync, compare program output, and validate copies of your data. Beyond Compare can create a snapshot of a live directory structure, and compare it against the live copy at a later date.

Beyond Compare helps you analyze differences in detail and carefully reconcile them. It commands a wide range of file and text operations, as well as script commands for automating tasks.

compare text files
compare folders, zip archives, ftp sites
update websites
merge code changes
compare program output
and more...

If you run complex games, simulations and applications or if you simply use your computer for everyday regular use, UltimateDefrag significantly reduces the effect of the main performance bottleneck of your PC, your hard drive. It gives you the capability to place your files and applications in the position on your hard drive that will give you the best performance possible.

Ordinary defraggers are a dime a dozen. UltimateDefrag is NOT just a defragger. It's totally unique software that is both a defragger AND a file placement optimizer.

UltimateDefrag is the ultimate defragger and File Placement Optimizer. Defragging hard drives helps to restore your hard drive performance. File placement optimizing on the other hand, boosts your theoretical hard drive file access performance by up to 300% of manufacturers quoted averages (typical performance increase you'll experience is between 25 and 100%) by placing the files you want performance from onto the faster performing (outer tracks) areas of your hard drive. With UltimateDefrag - you can specify which individual files, programs or games you want the best performance from. The "Archive" function places all of your unused files out of the way and onto the slower performing areas of your hard drive.

Dr. Hardware covers the whole machine and includes not only the common stuff (like processor detection etc.) but also some more sophisticated tests like hardware sensor, ATA/S-ATA/Atapi and network analysis. Also it comes with 7 benchmark tests and provides full support for all 32 and 64 Bit Windows desktop versions: Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, 2003, XP and Vista.

Detects and analyses the latest processors, mainboard chipsets, PCI devices and much more.

New: Windows Vista support! Fixed Windows x64 support.

New: Support for Intel P35, G33, 945GU and 945GC chipset, AMD 690G/V and 580X chipset; detailed information for Intel chipsets featuring ICH7, ICH8 and ICH9

New: Detects Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad and Quad Core Xeon processor; AMD Turion 64 Mobile; AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor; latest AMD Dual Core CPUs (socket AM2, F etc.).

UndeleteOnClick is a very simple to use file undelete utility for Microsoft Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP/2003 and Vista. Any type of file can be undeleted / unerased, including NTFS compressed & NTFS encrypted files.

UndeleteOnClick can undelete files from any NTFS or FAT (FAT 12, 16, 32) drives, including: hard drives (internal and external); floppy disks; flash cards; Smart Media (SM); SONY Memory Sticks; IBM Micro Drives; Multimedia Cards (MMC); Secure Digital Cards (SD); Zip disks etc.

What UndeleteOnClick can do
Recover deleted files and directories from NTFS, and FAT 12, 16, 32 drives.
Recover compressed (NTFS based) files.
Recover encrypted files on NTFS drives.
Recover alternate data streams (ADS).
Restores using the correct creation & modification date & times.
Very fast MFT and FAT scanning algorithm, fast file undelete.
Undelete files on any valid logical drive visible by Windows.

Absolute MP3 Splitter Converter is an audio editor which features three functions: file splitter, file joiner and file converter.

The splitting process can be completed in four steps: first, you need to input the file which is about to be split. Once the file is loaded, the program can show you the audio information (e.g. ID3 tag for MP3s) which can be subject to editing. During the next step, you can choose the target format altogether with the output format settings, and, of course, the target path. The third step prompts you to select the splitting mode: by amount, by time or by custom settings, while the fourth step is the splitting process itself.

The file merging operation is as easy as a walk in the park. Simply load up the designated audio files, specify the output file name, path and format and hit 'Merge'. You can also change the output file settings, if you like, or enable the ID3 tag for MP3s.

The conversion process is very similar to the merging process, only instead of 'Merge', you need to hit 'Convert'. Both merging and the conversion processes can be applied to a batch of files; the audio formats supported by the program are as follows: MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG. Depending on the file format, you can set the bitrate, frequency, channel, profile or quality of the output files.

Mind Hacks: Tips & Tricks for Using Your Brain By Tom Stafford & nbspMatt Webb
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Pages: 394
ISBN: 0596007795

The brain is a fearsomely complex information-processing environment--one that often eludes our ability to understand it. At any given time, the brain is collecting, filtering, and analyzing information and, in response, performing countless intricate processes, some of which are automatic, some voluntary, some conscious, and some unconscious. Cognitive neuroscience is one of the ways we have to understand the workings of our minds. It's the study of the brain biology behind our mental functions: a collection of methods--like brain scanning and computational modeling--combined with a way of looking at psychological phenomena and discovering where, why, and how the brain makes them happen. Want to know more? Mind Hacks is a collection of probes into the moment-by-moment works of the brain. Using cognitive neuroscience, these experiments, tricks, and tips related to vision, motor skills, attention, cognition, subliminal perception, and more throw light on how the human brain works.

Security Warrior By Cyrus Peikari, Anton Chuvakin
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Pages: 552
ISBN / ASIN: 0596005458

When it comes to network security, many users and administrators are running scared, and justifiably so. The sophistication of attacks against computer systems increases with each new Internet worm. What's the worst an attacker can do to you? You'd better find out, right? That's what Security Warrior teaches you. Based on the principle that the only way to defend yourself is to understand your attacker in depth, Security Warrior reveals how your systems can be attacked. Covering everything from reverse engineering to SQL attacks, and including topics like social engineering, antiforensics, and common attacks against UNIX and Windows systems, this book teaches you to know your enemy and how to be prepared to do battle. Security Warrior places particular emphasis on reverse engineering. RE is a fundamental skill for the administrator, who must be aware of all kinds of malware that can be installed on his machines -- trojaned binaries, "spyware" that looks innocuous but that sends private data back to its creator, and more. This is the only book to discuss reverse engineering for Linux or Windows CE. It's also the only book that shows you how SQL injection works, enabling you to inspect your database and web applications for vulnerability. Security Warrior is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book covering the art of computer war: attacks against computer systems and their defenses. It's often scary, and never comforting. If you're on the front lines, defending your site against attackers, you need this book. On your shelf--and in your hands.