Find Sounds Palette. Billed as the ‘ultimate software program for finding sounds!’ You can search by description, key, genre, resolution, tempo…well you name it. Priced from $19.99.  Search for audio files by name, description, category, genre, source, copyright, format, size, number of channels, resolution, sample rate, duration, key, and tempo. For any example sound, a sounds-like search can automatically find similar sounds on the Web and in your sound collection. Audition sounds using the built-in audio player. Record your own…

Video Framer. Interesting idea. Grab frames from your video footage to create standalone photos. $58.70 though, for a fairly specialised application.   Video Framer provides for ‘one touch’ automatic extraction of distinct high quality photos, from a Video file – no manual picking of frames is required – Video Framer’s image matching technology automatically looks for unique pictures in the video stream, and creates a shortlist of photos which the user can pre-view, then selectively print or discard – ideal…

Putting Windows XP on your USB flash memory Thumb Drive. A nice tutorial from the master of lists, Fred Langa.

Win Tel. Pentium emulation for your Apple Mac.Oooh, run Windows 98 instead of that horrible OSX stuff. Whoop-didoo!  WinTel is our popular Cocoa graphical user interface used to control the included powerful underlying open-source “Bochs” x86 emulation software (Bochs is pronounced as Box). We now include both PowerPC and Intel optimized binaries. We have successfully tested this version of WinTel/Bochs running Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows XP Professional in addition to the included…

PSGw (Personal Skype to SIP Gateway) connects Skype and SIP networks. Which means that least *least* cost routing takes one giant step closer to consumer reality. Think the very cheapest calls, all the time, from anywhere. $29.95.  PSGw 2.0 uses SIP protocol version 2.0 and is compatible with most of SIP applications and devices. Note for Asterisk users: PSGw 2.0 is compatible with Asterisk.

If you’re running a small business I can think of no act more likely to endear you to your loyal band of employees than installing a Staff on Time Starter Kit with biometric fingerprint scanner. Can you? Around £112.00.  Staff on Time Retail Starter Kit is a specially priced system with an economical fingerprint reader for companies with up to 15 employees. Staff on Time is a Time and Attendance control system based on a biometric fingerprint scanner and an…

Move Me! Software utility lets you move your programs, data and files from one computer to another. Yep, tweaks the registry settings too to make sure it all works. $39.95.  Enter Move Me! It will whisk your old programs and data to the new computer quickly and easily, giving you the best of all worlds: the performance and excitement of a new computer along with the familiar feel and functionality of your old, loyal system. Move Me copies all of the programs…

FlashBoot. A self-contained software tool to quickly and easily create bootable USB flash drives. If you’ve ever fancied carrying around your own computer on a keychain, this may be what you’re looking for. $26.00/€19.95.  And the most important thing is that you can use bootable USB Flash Disk almost everywhere, on any PC that has USB port. Are you going to repair your PC at your work without CD-ROMs, floppies or other media? No problems anymore. Or you have a…

The Talking Headline News Alarm Clock. $10.00. This has got to be the most fully featured alarm clock program in the known universe. Check it out – Wakes you by reading the news from an Internet source using headlines or RSS. Automatically wakes you early if there’s bad weather in your area. Can activate X10 appliances like lights, curtains, radio etc. Knows about holidays automatically. Take a look also at the $10.00 Cellular Alarm Clock which you can set up…

Magnetic Time. Listen to your Word documents or emails in audio MP3 format on your iPod, mobile phone or Pocket PC. The idea is pretty cool, but the price is a tad high at $54.99.  SPACE: Will it take up much Space on my iPod (Phone/PDA)? No! We use 4-5 times ‘less’ space (per email or document page) than a typical song on your iPod. THE VOICE: Is the Voice like those tinny ones in bad sci-fi movies? No! Advances…

CopyPod. Backup and recovery for your iPod. $19.95 (extra for VideoPod version).  You are one click away from retrieving your music, ratings, playlists, playcounts to your PC. CopyPod is a lifesaver when sending your iPod for repair, in cases of computer/hard drive crash, or just to backup up to a different drive. CopyPod will do the job effortlessly.