VirtualLab Data Recovery

VirtualLab Data Recovery Software is like six data recovery programs in one! While other programs just recover deleted files or camera cards, VirtualLab recovers everything from deleted files, corrupted or formatted drives, CD & DVD-ROM Disks, RAID, flash drives, thumb drives, camera cards, USB/Firewire drives, Outlook & Thunderbird E-mail and even Mac Volumes. VirtualLab will even make a sector-by-sector disk image of a failing hard drive so a recovery can be performed safely. Supports many file systems in one application including FAT 12/16/32, NTFS, NTFS5 (VISTA), NSF, Mac HFS/HFS+, Ext2FS.

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Registry Mechanic™ 6.0 for Windows

With Registry Mechanic you can safely clean, repair and optimize the Windows® registry with a few simple mouse clicks! Problems with the Windows® registry are a common cause of Windows® crashes, slow performance and error messages. By using a registry cleaner regularly and fixing registry errors your system should not only be more stable but it will also help improve your system performance without expensive hardware upgrades. Learn more about the importance of a clean registry with our registry insight.

Registry Mechanic uses a high-performance detection algorithm to quickly identify missing and invalid references in your Windows® registry. These problems can occur for many reasons including being left-behind after the un-installation or incorrect removal of software, by missing or corrupt hardware drivers, or orphaned startup programs.

With a few easy steps Registry Mechanic will scan your entire registry for any invalid entries and provides a list of the registry errors found, you can then choose to selectively clean each item or automatically repair them all. For your convenience and protection Registry Mechanic can also make a backup of any repairs made so that you can easily recover any changes if required.

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Inside Bill Gates House - Pictures of Bill Gates Home

Picture Gallery of Bill Gates house - Virtual tour of Bill Gates house in Media overlooking Lake Washington. Bill Gates Family resides in this home.

Take a virtual tour of the Bill Gates Mansion where he stays with his family. Watch the beautiful neighbourhood of Bill Gates house.

The Bill Gates family lives in the exclusive suburb of Medina, Washington, in a huge earth-sheltered home in the side of a hill overlooking Lake Washington.

Billionaire Bill Gates home is a very modern 21st century house in the "Pacific lodge" style, with advanced electronic systems everywhere. In one respect though it is more like an 18th or 19th century mansion: it has a large private library with a domed reading room. While it does have a classic flavour, the home has many unique qualities.

Lights would automatically come on when you came home. Speakers would be hidden beneath the wallpaper to allow music to follow you from room to room. Portable touch pads would control everything from the TV sets to the temperature and the lights, which would brighten or dim to fit the occasion or to match the outdoor light.

Visitors to Bill Gates House are surveyed and given a microchip upon entrance. This small chip sends signals throughout the house, and a given room's temperature and other conditions will change according to preset user preferences. According to King County public records, as of 2002, the total assessed value of the property (land and house) is $113 million, and the annual property tax is just over $1 million.

According to the National Association of Home Builders, the median American house size is slightly more than 2,000 square feet. Microsoft founder William Gates III house is more than 30 times that size.

Bill Gates Mansion satellite view from Google Maps

Bill Gates House Aerial view from MSN Virtual Earth

There has been lot of speculation that the home of Bill Gates on Lake Washington was designed on a Macintosh. Pictures of the Gates' complex are both private and copyrighted, so in order to see what this place really looks like you need to go to BCJ's website. Following the "residential menu" click on the forward arrow key at the bottom of the pictures to advance to the house entitled, "Guest House and Garage, Medina, Washington".

USNews.com provides an interactive tour of Bill Gates home that covers the Pool building, Exercise facilites, Library, Theater, Formal dining room. Microsoft's own Seattle Sidewalk site has a birds-eye view of the project under construction. (Medina Washington project)

It took seven years to build the 40,000-square-foot Bill Gates mansion on a wooded five-acre compound in the moneyed Seattle suburb of Medina. [Bill Gates House Address: 1835 73rd Ave NE, Medina, WA 98039 map - arial photo] Much of the Bill Gates house is built underground into the hill, so the house looks smaller than it actually is. Unfortunately the hidden section underground did not escape the taxman's view; Bill paid over a million dollars last year on property taxes.

Earlier, Bill Gates organized a private party at his waterfront mansion. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced a "temporary security zone" around Gates' Lake Washington home which locked down all of Lake Washington south of the Highway 520 bridge and stayed in effect for two days. Gates' homestead is approximately 48,000 square feet with a garage that reportedly accommodates 30 cars.

The architects who designed Bill Gates' famous residential compound in Washington were James Cutler Architects and the architectural firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson (BCJ).

Inside Bill Gates' Garage, you'll find a 1999 Porsche 911 Convertible and 1988 Porsche 959 Coupe. Steven Ballmer drives a 1998 Lincoln Continental. In fact, due to the 959’s questionable emissions and unknown crash ratings, it took a federal law signed by President Clinton for Bill Gates to legally drive his 959 on American roads.

Read this interview with James Cutler, FAIA, the best-known architect of Northwest Style and the designer of the Bill and Melinda Gates residence on Lake Washington near Seattle. Firm: Anderson Cutler Architects (formerly James Cutler Architects), on Bainbridge Island, off the Seattle coast.

IT Spending Shifts Away From Security

Over the next year IT managers will focus their spending on infrastructure rather than security, risk management, and compliance.
Denise Dubie, Network World

IT executives in the next 12 months will be focusing their budget dollars on projects such as server consolidation and network upgrades, as previously high priorities such as security, risk management and compliance fall off their Top 10 lists.

Goldman Sachs this week released its most recent survey of 100 IT managers, and it shows that while budgets remain flat and spending moderately steady, the technologies IT buyers are investing in most heavily have changed. For instance, IT initiatives such as server consolidation and server virtualization jumped from the middle of the pack to the first and third spots, respectively. More than 40 percent of respondents listed consolidation as a high priority for the next year, and just under 40 percent said virtualization is more directly on their radar. The financial services firm predicted the shift when server unit sales stalled last year.

"The big move upward coincides with an increasing number of comments from CIOs about the deployment of virtualization in production and test environments and the recent dislocation between industry-standard server unit and revenue growth," the report reads. But that doesn't mean all equipment makers will see a loss. "We expect blade growth to remain strong relative to stand-alone or rack-mounted servers, highlighted by HP's c-Class offerings, which grew by 45 percent in the January quarter," the firm says, adding that HP beat out its primary competitor IBM in that market.

Another significant advance could mean more money for Cisco. Both VOIP and network upgrades landed in IT decision-makers' Top 10 lists, with more than 30 percent planning to invest in voice and another third indicating a LAN or network upgrade would be on the road map in the next 12 months. According to the firm, for every US$1 spent on VOIP gear another $3 is spent on network upgrade equipment, which can be seen as nothing but good news for the network gear vendors -- in particular Cisco.

"Increasing VOIP demand would have positive pull-through effects for Cisco's enterprise network infrastructure business, particularly switching, as well as Cisco's VOIP equipment business," the report reads. "We expect to see significant market share shifts away from Nortel and Avaya to Cisco."

Investments in PC hardware could be driven by a growing trend toward laptop adoption, Goldman Sachs says, but the firm does not credit the release of Microsoft's Vista as the driving factor for about 25 percent of respondents indicating an upgrade in client machines as a top priority. And for software, survey respondents indicated ERP and business intelligence would remain high priorities going forward. ERP landed in the No. 2 position, with more than 40 percent planning projects with it, and more than 35 percent said they were looking into business intelligence software -- positive signs for software makers SAP and Oracle, which recently spent $3.3 billion to acquire Hyperion Solutions.

On the downward slide were security, practically a constant in the top three priorities in recent years, and compliance and risk management, which also fell out of the Top 10 lists probably due to previous work done to get ahead of regulations. Goldman Sachs attributes the slide to mature products and confident buyers.

"A slippage in security may indicate some increased comfort with security issues in the enterprise," the firm writes. "It could also be partially a result of few high-profile security breaches or highly disruptive malware incidents in recent memory."

Camfrog Video Chat 3.92

Camfrog Video Chat allows you to join real streaming video chat rooms where you can hear, see, and chat with many people at a time. Instant message a user to get to know them before you Webcam chat, and add them to your contact list. This videoconferencing software also works behind most firewalls and routers. Camfrog Video Chat allows multi-user videoconferencing where you can join a room with up to 1000 users and just click a user name to begin seeing someone. Press the 'talk' button to talk to the entire room with audio. The video chat rooms are hosted by broadband users who are running the Camfrog Video Chat Room Server software so any user can set up their own multi-user videoconference for other users to join. No Webcam is required to see people, but some rooms might not allow users without Webcams. Camfrog Video Chat is optimized for broadband users so it has fast video.

Version 3.92 includes multimedia and IM messaging enhancements.

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Folder Lock v5.7.3

Folder Lock is a fast file-security program that can password-protect, lock, hide and encrypt any number of files, folders, drives, pictures and documents in seconds. Protected files are hidden, undeletable, inaccessible and highly secure. It hides files from kids, friends and co-workers, safeguards them from viruses, trojans, worms and spyware, and even protects them from networked PCs, cable users and hackers. Files can also be protected on USB Flash Drives, Memory Sticks, CD-RW, floppies and notebooks. Protection works even if files are taken from one PC to another on a removable disk, without the need to install any software. It locks files in Windows, DOS and even Safe Modes. Additional Options include Stealth Mode, Hacker Attempt Monitoring, Shred files, AutoLock, Auto Shutdown PC, Lock your PC, Erase PC tracks, 256-bit Blowfish Encryption and Context Menu in Explorer. It is Windows Vista/2003/XP/2000/NT/Me/98/98S compatible and works on all kinds of disk types like FAT16, FAT32, NTFS. Folder Lock is the most downloaded file-security program in the market today.

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Ringtone Media Studio 2.20

Make your own ringtones from your own CDs and MP3s. Ringtone Media Studio gives you the tools to personalize your cell phone with your own creations. Ringtones, wallpaper and mobile videos. Transfer digital

Make your own ringtones from your own CDs and MP3s. Ringtone Media Studio gives you the tools to personalize your cell phone with your own creations. Ringtones, wallpaper and mobile videos. Transfer digital media to your phone instantly…in a single click. No cables requred!