Comodo IceDragon 26.0.0.2

Comodo IceDragon is a Firefox-based web browser that delivers great security and blistering browsing speeds. Upon downloading IceDragon, you are given the option to set your internet connection to use Comodo's SecureDNS service, which provides you with even faster page loading speeds.

IceDragon is fully compatible with all Firefox plugins and extensions so you can still have all the functionality of Mozilla's Firefox browser but with Comodo's superior privacy and security features. One such feature is the SiteInspector, which will scan a web page and check whether it is malicious before you actually visit the page. Once the scan is finished, you are given a full report of the site's safety, domain registration details, administration contacts and a history of all malicious scans that have been performed on the website.

Getting started with IceDragon is quick and easy. Once you are up and running you will notice the look and design is very similar to Firefox, with the addition of IceDragon's blue dragon logo. If you are looking for a fast and secure browser, then you certainly won't be disappointed with Comodo IceDragon.

Comodo IceDragon's main features include:

• Websites load faster than if you continue to use the DNS server provided by your ISP
• SiteInspector's link scanning feature allows you to check whether a web page is malicious before you actually visit that page
• SecureDNS provides a malware domain filtering feature
• SecureDNS references a real-time block list (RBL) of harmful websites
• Social media button means you can easily share your web-finds on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn

Photoshine Mini 4.0

Photoshine is a photo editing and manipulation tool to easily create collages, frames and magazine style layouts with fancy effects such as sticking your favorite photograph on a cup or flower, or decorating it with a pink picture frame. Photoshine has 9 theme categories: Baby, Dream, Festival, Frame, Girl, Love, Magazine, Simulation and Other. The free version includes 230 templates while the full version comes with a whooping 680 templates. Creating a framed picture or funny effect is easy. After opening the picture in Photoshine you simply select a template to use with it. You can then fine tune it in through moving and rotating the picture within the template, for example to precisely position it within a mirror frame. You can add additional photos to the same template to create a collage. Photoshine also lets you change the color to black and white, sepia or a line drawing effect.

Paint.NET 4.0 Beta 5

Paint.NET is an image and photo manipulation application.

Every feature and user interface element was designed to be immediately intuitive and quickly learnable without assistance. In order to handle multiple images easily, Paint.NET uses a tabbed document interface. The tabs display a live thumbnail of the image instead of a text description. This makes navigation very simple and fast.

Usually only found on expensive or complicated professional software, layers form the basis for a rich image composition experience. You may think of them as a stack of transparency slides that, when viewed together at the same time, form one image.

Many special effects are included for enhancing and perfecting your images. Everything from blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal, distortion, noise, and embossing are included. Also included is our unique 3D Rotate/Zoom effect that makes it very easy to add perspective and tilting.

Adjustments are also included which help you tweak an image's brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, curves, and levels. You can also convert an image to black and white, or sepia-toned.

DesktopCal 2.0.4.2888

Did you know that you could integrate some applications onto your desktop and use them directly from there? One application that helps you extend the functionality of your desktop is DesktopCal, a free desktop calendar that will help you manage your days with relative ease. It is a full-featured calendar that includes such details as anniversaries and festivals.

Features:

• Recording events and reminders directly from the desktop
• Setting different background colors for different days
• Moving data to different devices
• Printing calendar pages with wallpaper
• Available in several languages

Using DesktopCal

DesktopCal has a simple user interface that makes it easy for you to handle its various features. We could customize the interface of our application as we wanted. Some of the things we could change included transparency level, background color, gaps between cells and font.

As its name indicates, DesktopCal appears directly on the desktop, but it allows you to view other things on the desktop. You can adjust the transparency to the level you are comfortable with.

When we wanted to record something, we double-clicked on the relevant date and the cell changed into a text editor where we could directly type what we wanted. We also changed the cell´s color to make it easier to view the information.

The ability to record things directly on the desktop makes it easy and fast to save required details. You also do not need to worry about forgetting an event simply because the program where you recorded it is either closed or minimized: a simple glance at the desktop allows you to see the recorded events.

In addition to displaying the entire monthly calendar, DesktopCal shows the current date and day at the top of its interface. On the top left part of the interface are buttons that allow you to change the application´s appearance or the month displayed. Right-clicking on the hovering toolbox opens a context menu that gives quick access to the application´s features.

The icon on the system tray provides more options to control the application. Some of the ways in which you can change DesktopCal include:

• Displaying week numbers
• Showing floating months
• Resizing the application interface to cover either the entire or part of the desktop
• Changing the sizes of particular cells
• Changing the numbers of columns and rows

We also had the option to use the background color on cells or choose images to display, which could be tiled, centered, stretched or made to fill the entire interface. We could also choose the number of minutes we wanted to elapse before the pictures changed.

Conclusion

DesktopCal is an intuitive free desktop calendar that makes it easy to manage schedules, to-do lists and appointments. You can customize the application to blend in with your desktop or contrast it as you wish. If you do not want the calendar to appear on the desktop for some time, you can disable it from the floating toolbox. However, it does not hinder you from manipulating your desktop.