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Ashampoo Core Tuner ...

Almost all modern computers have at least two processors, which are generally referred to as "cores". Some even have four. Unfortunately, Windows often doesn’t manage your multiple cores very well, so you’re not actually getting the full multi-processor power you paid for.

Ashampoo Core Tuner enables you to use the full power of all your cores. For instant results you just need to select Auto-Optimize to optimize all the programs you are running or Boost to give more power to a single program.

You can also fine-tune individual processes, display a live view of the current workloads of all your processor cores and enhance the overall performance of your system with additional tools.

Instant one-click results

You don’t have to have a computer science degree to get all the benefits of Core Tuner. The program manages your processor cores for you to make full use of their power.

- One-click Auto-Optimize intelligently assigns the load of all the programs you’re currently running to make best use of all your processor cores.
- One-click Boost does the same for individual programs. Just select the program from the list and click Boost to give it more processor power.
- Live View shows you how all your processor cores are working in real time.

Fine-tuning for users who want more

If you want to really max out your machine’s performance you can manually fine-tune the core workload settings for every program you use.

You can set the “priority” in five levels to adjust the amount of processor power each program gets. You can also specify how many processor cores each program gets to use. This can deliver particularly good results with modern graphics and video editing programs and other applications that make full use of multiple processors.

Every time you change a program’s settings a “profile” containing your changes is saved automatically and can be reused whenever you want. You can quickly return to your original settings or reload the profile to activate the saved settings in a single operation.

You can also kill (terminate) programs that are stuck and processes that you suspect of malicious behavior.

Feb 04 2010

Ashampoo Magical Opt...

Over time, all PCs become cluttered with unnecessary Internet files and invalid entries are injected into system registry. If not maintained, computer performance significantly deteriorates over time.

Thankfully, Ashampoo Magical Optimizer can reclaim this lost performance. A single mouse click of the mouse is all that’s needed to begin an onslaught of cleaning – deep within the heart of the PC.

In spite of its complicated work, Ashampoo Magical Optimizer is especially easy to use. In only a few minutes time, Ashampoo Magical Optimizer removes stagnant and unnecessary files from the hard drive, deletes Internet tracks (thereby insuring privacy), and the registry is streamlined by erasing invalid and orphaned entries. Best of all, optimization can be tailored to the preference of every user!

Features overview

  • Lean & smooth tool: Quickly starts, insignificant use of storage capacity only
  • Easy to use: only a single click is needed begin cleaning
  • Three different cleaning modes:
    • Internet Cleaner: wipe out online tracks instantly
    • Drive Cleaner: clean hard disc of redundant an unecessary files
    • Registry Cleaner: streamline the registry – the central data base of Windows
  • Manual start of individual cleaning modules
  • Make Backups of deleted files
  • Statitistical History: shows which files were deleted and when
  • Updates can be downloaded via the Internet
  • Multilanguage support
Feb 04 2010

Ashampoo DVD Theme P...

The new Ashampoo Burning Studio and Ashampoo Movie Shrink & Burn 3 are the perfect programs for movie-lovers. These easy-to-use programs burn movies in a variety of file formats onto a classical video DVD which can then also be played in your own home theater. The software already includes a great number of templates for editing a professional DVD menu. If you want to have an even wider selection when editing your own film DVDs, Ashampoo now also offers the Ashampoo DVD Theme Pack 1. It contains ten additional menus which will bring even more variety to the presentation of your films.

Fully animated menus: DVD Theme Pack 1 rocks!

The ten new DVD themes are not static 2D templates but complex, animated menus which will surely awe the spectators in your home theater even before the actual movie starts.

  1. The Ocean theme, for example, shows a red buoy floating in a stormy 3D ocean. The self-playing movie previews circle this buoy and can be selected and started every time when they become visible in the menu.
  2. The next theme is all about the 70s and will bring the feeling of the seventies back to your screen. Colored spirals are spinning in the background while the blue bubbles of a lava lamp fall on the screen. Cool.
  3. The Skyline theme shows a colorful, illuminated skyscraper skyline of a fictitious city, with beams of searchlights sweeping over its buildings while the pictures of the displayed preview scenes reflect in the virtual water.
  4. A real eye-catcher is also the elaborate Comic theme which at first only shows the blank squares of an empty comic page and then gradually fills them with the preview pictures of the videos that are recorded on the DVD.
  5. For romantic videos, in contrast, the Hearts theme is particularly suitable. It changes the TV screen’s color to pink and colored hearts rain down. Even the movie previews are fitted into neat little hearts.
  6. The Romance theme can also be used for romantic movies. In the background, it shows a handwritten letter with a burn hole in the middle through which the video preview is shown. A red rose and a burning candle further increase the romantic effect.
  7. The Tower template is very impressive. It shows a glass skyscraper from the perspective of a small human being standing directly in front of it and looking up the facade into the animated cloudy sky. The movie preview is projected directly onto the building facade.
  8. The Bamboo theme takes us into nature. It shows a green bamboo wall including symbols from the Far East, with flower petals slowly raining down in the foreground. The movie preview can be seen through a gap in the bamboo wall.
  9. The Colors theme provides psychedelic effects and transforms the background of the DVC menu into a multi-colored plasma sea whose colors are constantly changing. In the midst of the wavering color mist the preview for the movie can be seen.
  10. The ten themes are completed by the Happy Birthday theme. It is particularly suited for home-produced birthday party movies. The preview movies are integrated into a real birthday card which lies on top of an envelope. In the foreground, confetti is raining down on the card. 

 

Feb 04 2010

Ashampoo Burning Stu...

Ashampoo Burning Studio 9 is already the fastest, easiest and most intuitive CD, DVD and Blu-ray design and burning package available. This new Theme Pack enables you to produce an even greater variety of professional results without any editing at all. Wow your friends and family with impressive animated DVD menus, great-looking slide shows with graphics and transitions and professional-quality disc labels and cases.

In addition to all this you get graphical logos and subtitles you can insert in your movies and images for your slide shows, plus a set of additional program skins that make Ashampoo Burning Studio 9 look even cooler.

All the themes and graphics are new and original – and we promise not to tell your friends that our designers made them for you!

Animated DVD menus

Don’t waste endless hours building menus and start screens for your video DVDs by hand. Just select a theme, select your movie clips and let Burning Studio do all the work for you. Click and burn, it really is that simple. And you’ll be amazed at how impressed everyone will be when your menu appears on your TV! 

Disc labels, cases and booklets

These themes make it easier than ever to make great-looking discs, disc cases and booklets, and Burning Studio 9 supports a huge range of label formats, direct-to-disc printers and LightScribe burners. Here too, you just select and go, nothing could be easier. 

Movies and slide shows

In addition to the animated DVD menus (see above) you can also add graphical logos and subtitles to the images and movies in your disc shows. The logos and subtitles can be moved around and resized and you can easily edit the subtitle text in each image or movie. 

Ashampoo Burning Studio 9 program skins

As a fun extra the Theme Pack also includes four “skins” for Ashampoo Burning Studio 9, with which you can pep up the appearance of your favorite disc burning package.
Feb 04 2010

Ashampoo Magical Sec...

Security for your PC is no longer a ‘maybe’, it has now become an absolute must. Experts estimate that it takes as little as 20 minutes before an unprotected computer is infected with an ‘internet contact’, whether it’s a virus, a Trojan horse or spy software, which stealthily accesses sensitive information before forwarding it to a hacker. For this reason, protecting data that is saved on the individual computer is extremely important.

Ashampoo Magical Security 2 encodes files with sensitive contents so that instead of text and numbers they simply contain an incomprehensible mix of letters. The algorithm is so strong that it isn’t possible for anyone to crack the code in a justifiable time period, even if they are able to draw on a very powerful computer. The security methodology isn’t only effective against the many confirmed hackers in the internet, but also against the spy who might be lurking in your own office and secretly copying files during the lunch break. With Ashampoo Magical Security 2, converting an encoded file back to its readable format naturally poses no problems.

An overview of the functions

  • Decoding and encoding of selected files with only one click of the mouse
  • Complete deletion of files
  • Seamless integration in the Windows Explorer
  • The use of the latest encoding technologies
  • Burning onto CD and DVD
  • Encoding and burning in only a single step
  • Encoding and Email dispatch in only a single step
  • Encoding files to EXE archives and burning them directly onto CD or DVD
  • Encoding of files to self extracting archives for Email dispatch
  • Integrated file manager for comfortable work within the application
  • Compression of the encoded files
Feb 04 2010

Ashampoo FireWall PR...

The free Ashampoo FireWall FREE gives you solid basic protection but if you want the full functionality of a modern firewall you need Ashampoo FireWall PRO. The Pro version includes all the strong features of the regular version – monitoring of incoming and outgoing Internet traffic, one-click protection and more – but it also gives you a whole range of powerful additional features.

Ashampoo FireWall PRO is like a trusty watchdog standing guard at the entrance to your property. It is always alert and checks everything going in and out of your computer, keeping out unwanted intruders and preventing unauthorized access to the Internet from your computer. And despite its impressive power it is so simple to use – in Easy Mode you just click and go for full protection.

Features:

  • Heavy-duty firewall protection: Monitors all your computer’s network activity and provides strong protection on both incoming and outgoing connections.
  • Easy Mode: Get full protection in seconds with Easy Mode and the Configuration Assistant. No expert knowledge required.
  • Expert Mode: Experienced users can activate this mode for powerful additional capabilities.
  • Simple and compact: Self-explanatory user interface, uses minimum memory and resources.
  • Learning Mode: Automatically identifies programs that try to make connections and lets you decide whether you want to allow them. Click and go protection in Easy Mode or full configuration options in Expert Mode.
  • Rules: Create rules for every program to control how they can access the network. One-click operation in Easy Mode or full configuration and the ability to define complex rules in Expert Mode.
  • Child protection: Control your children’s access to the Internet and the sites that they can view.
  • Traffic volume limiting: For volume-based accounts. Monitors your online traffic and warns you or closes the connection when you reach your limit.
  • Block All: One-click panic button for emergencies that lets you block all traffic, for example if you are under attack or suspect that a malicious program is active.
  • AutoStart Manager: Identify and disable unwanted auto-starting programs. Finds these programs in all the locations where they can be hidden.
  • System Processes Monitor: Check running processes and stop them if necessary. Allows you to display all processes, only system processes or only non-system processes.
  • Internet Cleaner: Delete all traces of your surfing activity. Includes support for multiple browsers.
  • File Wiper: Permanently delete files and folders so that they can never be recovered.
  • IP Spam Blocker: Stop annoying popup spam on your desktop.
  • Internet Accelerator: Analyzes and optimizes your Internet connection.
  • Online Updates: Updates to increase protection performance and security can be downloaded and installed from within the program with a couple of clicks.
Feb 04 2010

Ashampoo Toolbar 1.0...

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Feb 04 2010

Ashampoo Photo Comma...

View, manage, organize and edit your digital media in one intuitive and powerful program.

Ashampoo Photo Commander 7 is an all-in-one application for organizing, editing, sharing and presenting photo collections with additional audio and video playing and management capabilities.

All the photo editing tools you need are included. Enhance your images with the one-click optimizer. Remove the red-eye effect, adjust colors, contrast, hue and many other parameters, resize, crop, rotate, add a wide range of special effects.

After editing you can then use the integrated creativity tools to turn your photos into slide shows with music, web albums, photo collages, calendars and more.

Features:

  • 3D hardware acceleration:  The program now automatically uses the 3D processor in your computer’s video card to achieve a performance boost. If you have a 3D video card this significantly speeds up photo viewing and transition effects for smoother resizing and zooming, with additional smoothing for less “jaggy” images at high magnifications.
  • New, more efficient media database: The new automatic database that manages your media files is now both faster and more efficient, automatically updating when you’re uploading your media files on your PC. This means you can move files around without losing their tags (star ratings) and other data. The new database also makes scanning EXIF photo tags and MP3 audio tags much faster.
  • Drag & Drop virtual albums: The new Drag & Drop virtual albums (Favorites) organize your media files in folders without actually moving them – the same files can be included in multiple folders without creating multiple copies of the files. You can manipulate the files in virtual albums just like any other group of files: Add tags and star ratings, perform batch cut and crop operations, create slide shows and web albums and so on.
  • Create panorama images: This is a feature that many users have asked for. In version 7 you now have a tool for stitching together multiple photos to create a single large panorama image.
  • Slide shows with “Ken Burns” effect: The new quick slide show features the popular “Ken Burns” effect that zooms and pans on each image while it is being displayed. Just select the photos you want to include and press Ctrl+Space to start.
  • Digital camera and scanner importer: The new digital camera and scanner importer makes it quick and easy to import images directly from your digital camera or image scanner.
  • Improved Callout tool: A number of user suggestions have been implemented to improve the performance of the Callout (text bubble) tool, which now also includes the functions of the previous callout tool from Photo Commander 5.
  • Media browser enhancements: The media browser comes with many improvements, including advanced search by text, file type, file rating and age with a cut-off date. You can now also change the date and time of multiple files in batch mode and browse images without leaving Quick Fix mode – this makes it easier to apply quick fixes to multiple images. You can resize the thumbnail preview images in the media browser on the fly with a slider control.
  • Find duplicate images with different names: A powerful new function for finding duplicates will also find duplicate images with different names and images that are similar but not identical. You can enter the level of similarity in percent. 

Nov 13 2009

Ashampoo Magical Sna...

Ashampoo Magical Snap 2 is a screen capture tool with powerful and intuitive editing capabilities. It enables you to capture virtually anything on your screen – all or part of program windows, websites, the desktop and anything else displayed on your computer’s monitor. Then you can use the editing tools to enhance the screenshot and turn it into a really attractive image.

Interactive guides show you how to perform every operation. All features are also so simple to use that you can get results really fast. For example, the unique Mouse Tools editing tools display their options next to the mouse pointer so that you don’t have to search in menus. You have to try it to appreciate it, Mouse Tools are truly cool and make image editing amazingly easy!

The latest version of the popular Ashampoo Magical Snap screen capture program introduces a radical improvement: The ability to capture all the contents of a Window, including the parts that are currently scrolled off screen. This is something that most capture programs are incapable of and it is achieved with an advanced new capture technology.

Scrolling window capture works both with the content of web browsers and the content windows of most application programs. Using it couldn’t be easier – you just select the window to capture and Ashampoo Magical Snap 2 automatically “scrolls” the window contents into a single captured image.

Another major improvement is full support for capturing images on systems with multiple monitors. Many other screen capture programs cannot do this or produce unsatisfactory results. Ashampoo Magical Snap 2 automatically identifies multi-monitor systems and captures screenshots perfectly from any monitor.

Features:

  • Capture windows with off-screen content
  • Capture:
    • Entire text documents
    • Entire spreadsheets
    • Entire web pages and websites
  • Full support for multiple monitors
  • Full support for Windows Vista
  • New capture effects
  • Much easier and faster to use
  • Interactive guides show you how
  • New and improved editing tools
  • Enhanced user interface
Oct 23 2009

Ashampoo WinOptimize...

Microsoft Windows may have become more advanced but the need for effective maintenance is greater than ever. If you don’t houseclean your computer system regularly the digital garbage that collects over time makes it slower and can even cause inexplicable errors – usually when you need them least.

With the reliability of 11 years of experience, Ashampoo WinOptimizer 6 makes Windows maintenance fast and easy – and it works for Windows XP just as well as it does for Vista and Windows 7. The One-click Optimizer does what it says and you can even schedule it to run automatically so that you don’t need to think about it at all. It keeps your Windows computer running as fast and smoothly as on the first day you bought it.

In addition to efficient Windows maintenance you also get a whole suite of powerful, easy-to-use tools that enable you to configure and tune your Windows computer so that it works exactly the way you want it to.

 

New Features in Version 6
Defrag 3 Disk Defragmenter and Service As you use your hard disk the information on it becomes “fragmented”, making your computer slower. The brand-new Defrag 3 disk defragmenter does the best job ever of defragmenting your hard disks and it comes with a new background service that automatically keeps your hard drives defragmented whenever your computer is idle. The advanced new Boot Time Defragmentation makes Windows start faster. You can run Defrag 3 manually or schedule it to run at regular times or intervals. The continuous background service with a new predictive defragmentation algorithm actually prevents fragmentation before it can happen. It automatically cuts in and defragments your hard disk when your computer is idle, never interfering with your work or other programs. The result is hard disks that are always “freshly defragmented”.


New features:

  • Manual, scheduled and automatic defrag options
  • Completely new advanced defrag algorithm
  • New Boot Time defrag makes Windows start faster
  • Powerful, efficient and safe for maximum performance
  • Radically improved Windows Vista support
  • Exceptionally efficient, very low system load and memory use
  • Preview of current hard disk fragmentation with analysis
  • Include in One-Click Optimization
AntiSpy Module
This module provides a collection of settings for Windows services and other programs that like to “phone home” and tell Microsoft or their manufacturers about your computer and what you are doing. The settings let you control and stop this behavior to protect your privacy and security, for example for Windows Media Player, the Windows error reporting service and others.

Features:
  • Automatic configuration with selectable profiles
  • Additional individual configuration options for full control
  • Full support for both Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7

Context Menu Manager
The new Context Menu Manager enables you to view and manage the contents of right-click context menus in Windows, giving you full control. Popup context menus are displayed when you click the right button on your mouse. They’re useful and configurable and many programs add entries to them to allow you to give you direct access to special functions. The Context Menu Manager gives you detailed information on all the entries and enables you to activate or deactivate them for individual and multiple file types.

Favorites Tab
The new Favorites tab makes using WinOptimizer 6 even easier by giving you direct access to the functions and modules you use most frequently. The program automatically lists the functions you use in the Favorites tab so that you can return to them quickly. Once you’ve used a function or module it becomes even easier to use it again. In addition to this the tab also displays interesting information on how you use the program functions – date of use, frequency of use, last use and so on.

 

Sep 26 2009

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