MediaMonkey 4.0 now plays friendly with video as well as music

Ventis Media has overhauled its music management tool to add full support for video. MediaMonkey 4.0, available in free and Gold editions, allows Windows users to manage and organise their media collection with a set of powerful tools. Version 4.0 also adds support for library sharing to and from UPnP/DLNA devices, improves automatic synchronisation capabilities with Android mobiles and introduces a new portable installation option, allowing MediaMonkey to be run from USB drive. The standout feature in MediaMonkey 4.0 is the fact it now supports video as well as music – the media manager currently supports AVI, MP4 and WMV videos only, with support for MKV promised at a later date. Video support is exactly the same as music support, allowing the user to quickly play, sync, tag and update video art and metadata over the internet. As with music files, video files will also be capable of being quickly renamed and organised according to their metadata, and there are video-conversion capabilities too. Additionally, video libraries can be segmented into separate collections, allowing the user to organise video into various categories such as recorded TV, movies and home video. Version 4.0 also adds support for library sharing with UPnP/DLNA devices such as xBox, PS3 or compatible televisions and media streaming boxes. Automatic sync support allows you to sync with a wide range of compatible devices via profiles, which can be fine-tuned as required. Other changes in version 4.0 include a new “secure ripping” system, that aims to improve CD ripping accuracy by slowing down the disc’s rotational speed whenever inaccuracies have been detected. The software also claims to offer improved audio quality via the Windows Session Audio API. The app’s user interface has also been tweaked to make it simpler to use, with a number of improvements that start with a setup wizard after installation and include a new tabbed interface and integrated file monitoring features. Version 4.0 also includes a wide number of bug fixes that resolve a number of issues. MediaMonkey 4.0 is available now as a free download for PCs running Windows XP or later. A Gold license, which includes a number of additional features and performance improvements, is also available, with prices starting from $24.95. The upgrade can be performed within the Free edition of the software.

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Hurry! Get Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6, worth $89, for free with Downloadcrew Giveaway!

Have you been keeping an eye on our amazing software giveaways this year? Hot on the heels of our first two amazing deals comes this, a free and fully functional copy of Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6. This universally acclaimed design tool runs on Windows PCs and is capable of photo-editing, drawing, graphics design and even desktop publishing, all rolled into one super program. And the best news of all? For a 48-hour period from midday GMT, Saturday December 29th, you’ll be able to download this amazing app, worth $89, for free thanks to Downloadcrew Giveaway. Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6 basically becomes your one-stop shop for design, allowing you to do away with a hotchpotch of tools and concentrate on honing your skills within one easy to use program. Version 6 debuted a brand new interface, attractively styled in dark and grey, boasting new icons, flyout tools, dockable panels and a much more intuitive feel than previous versions. Get a multitude of design apps in one with lightning fast Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6. What tools you see depend on what you’re doing with the application. Open a photo, for example, and you’ll find the usual gamut of photo-editing tools from red eye correction and other adjustment options to clone and perspective correction tools. Fancy doing something creative? Fire up the Designs Gallery and take your pick from a range of projects from greetings cards and brochures to Flash animations and photo albums. Pick one you like and then download it to your hard drive for use now and in the future. And then there’s the vector design tools, with 3D extrusions, transparency and blending controls, shadows, bevels, contours and more. A Page and Layer Gallery replaces the old Objects gallery, providing you with an easy way to order your objects by hierarchy, helped with the thumbnail previews. Look out for the Solo mode, which makes it easy to isolate elements for working on without affecting the rest of your image or publication. One of Xara’s standout features is its raw power and speed, delivering amazing results even on older machines. Even complex drawings don’t slow it down, so you can go to town on your designs without worrying about your PC grinding to a halt in the background. It’s so fast Xara is even capable of filling and stroking objects and paths as you add them. One final standout feature: Content Aware Scaling. This basically lets you focus in on the important parts of a bitmap image when scaling, while Xara automatically – and intelligently – removes distracting and unwanted elements. Upgrade offer If you’re suitably impressed with Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6, then you’ll love the latest version of Photo & Graphic Designer 2013. New features include support for text styles, a new Share menu for quickly sharing your content online and improved colour selection, hue adjustment and shape eraser tools. Still undecided? Check out our review for a more indepth look. Suitably impressed? Excellent. You can upgrade your copy of Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6 to 2013 for just $59, a saving of $30 on the MSRP. Just visit the Xara upgrade page. So there you have it. Download Giveaway continues to amaze and excite with the very best in free software giveaways this holiday season. Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6 requires a PC running Windows XP or later, and registration for your free product key is handled within the program, so all you need to do is make sure you visit Downloadcrew Giveaway from  midday (GMT) Saturday December 29 until Monday December 31 to download your free copy.

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LastPass launches Windows 8 app, provides automatic security score with LastPass 2.0.20 update

Browser password manager LastPass 2.0.20 has been released for all major web browsers. The new release, also available for 64-bit versions of Windows is accompanied by the LastPass for Windows 8 app, which gives users access to their Lastpass account directly from the Modern UI interface in Windows 8. Version 2.0.20 now automatically calculates the user’s security score and displays it next to the Security Challenge link in the user’s vault. It also extends support – albeit in beta – to the Maxthon web browser. The new build also adds a new preference that permits users to clear login credentials filled in automatically by LastPass on logging out of the service. Also added is faster login through performing hashes through binary components of the app, while password iterations are now recommended to be at 5000 for greater security. LastPass for Windows 8 works in much the same way as iPhone and Android apps. Also improved is accessibility to the Generate Secure Password tool from the LastPass toolbar, while the LastPass Sentry online test now offers an option for checking usernames to see if they’ve been used as part of browser hacks. There’s also a fix for NTLM authentication in Internet Explorer. A number of new Enterprise features have been added, including the extension of SAML Support to include Box.com, Zendesk and SalesForce among others. Enterprise users can now see security scores for all users in the organisation to see which ones aren’t following the best practices. The new Windows 8 app works in much the same way as the standalone LastPass Tab Browser app for iPhone and iPad, providing users with full access to their vault, plus bundling a built-in browser for quickly accessing websites on the go. Users can also opt to copy passwords to the clipboard for manually logging into other web browsers. LastPass 2.0.20 is a free download for all major browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. Also available are standalone tools, LastPass for Windows 8, LastPass for Android and LastPass Tab Browser for iPhone and iPad. Users can upgrade for additional tools, including the ability to access their LastPass vaults from mobile devices.

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Quick Tip: Speed up and maximise your web search results

Most of what we do on the web involves searching for information, whether it’s through a web site’s own search bar or using one of the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo! or Bing. Web browsers have evolved to make searching the web that much quicker and easier, It’s easy to stick with the status quo when it comes to web searching, but if you find yourself frequently using multiple engines it can be a little frustrating having to switch between them. In this quick tip we’ll show you how to quickly access your search engines of choice using the tools provided by Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox. 1. Use your favourite engine Set up the search bar in IE8 or Firefox to point to your favourite search engine and enter your search terms from there; IE9 and Google Chrome users can simply type their search terms into the Address Bar itself (IE9 users will first need to select Turn on search suggestions from the drop-down menu that appears when you start typing). 2. Create search engine shortcuts All three major browsers enable you to create shortcut keys to your favourite search engine, but they work in different ways. In Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox, click the down arrow button in the search bar to start; IE9 users should start typing some search terms, then click the Add button that appears. 3. Set up Firefox Either browse to your chosen site and see if an option to add it appears when you click on the down arrow button in your search bar, or choose Manage Search Engines and click Get more search engines to see if your favourites are available from the 550-plus on offer. 4. Configure Internet Explorer In IE8, choose Find More Providers and either pick from the list or click Create your own Search Provider and follow the instructions given. Once done, switch between search providers by clicking the arrow key to the right of the search box and selecting your provider from the list. Things are a lot quicker in IE9: first, you’ll be taken to a page listing various search providers: click Add to Internet Explorer to add one to your selection, ticking Make this my default search provider if you want it to be the default choice when typing your search terms. Once done, as you type your search terms you’ll see your installed engines appear as a series of icons beneath the search suggestions – just click one to view the suggested search terms from that engine. 5. Add engines to Google Chrome Browse to the search engine in question, enter “dummy” as your search term and click Search. Copy and paste the address from your browser into Notepad. Locate the term “dummy” in the URL and replace it with %s. Click the Spanner icon in Chrome and choose Options, scroll down and click Manage next to Default search. Click Add to set up your shortcut using the URL you’ve created.

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Malwarebytes announces Secure Backup service

Malwarebytes has unveiled its new Secure Backup product, an online service created in conjunction with SOS Online Backup, which automatically scans your files before they're uploaded to the cloud. This ensures that, if you're ever hit by a virus, you'll know you can restore a backup without any danger of reinfection. And if you want to share a file with others, then, again, you can all be confident that it's clean. The current Secure Backup download is a beta offering 5GB of online storage, which will expire after 14 days. If you like the idea and decide to upgrade, though, there are 100GB ($59.95 per year), 200GB ($119.95) or 500GB ($299.95) packages available. The backup client is simple and easy to use. It automatically scans for documents, pictures, music or videos on your system, and can upload those in a click or two. But if you need more control, there's also an option to select whatever individual files and folders you'd like to protect. Backups may then be scheduled to run at intervals of anything from an hour to a month, with an option to receive email reports whenever a backup job ends. A clean and simple interface ensures the program is very easy to use A Secure Backup console provides some useful configuration settings, including include and exclude settings. (No option to limit bandwidth use, though, which we always like to see in online backup tools.) And there's also a web portal which allows you to access and restore your files from anywhere, as well as share particular files or folders with others. How useful might this service be? In an ideal world your PC would be set up to detect malware as soon as it arrived, not just before you're despatching it elsewhere. In practice, though, it's not uncommon common for people to reinfect their systems via backups, so having this second layer of protection certainly isn't a bad thing. And if you regularly share files with others, then using Secure Backup should reassure everyone that their downloads are clean. We'll need to run more intensive tests to see how Malwarebytes Secure Backup performs as a backup tool, then, but in principle this could be a useful service. If you'd like to try it for yourself then a 14-day trial version is available now, but keep in mind that it is still flagged as a beta: don't rely on it as your sole backup program just yet.

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Which is the best cloud-based sync service?

Computing has become increasingly portable and mobile, with the internet playing an ever-increasing role in allowing people to avoid being tied to a single computer or location for work or personal purposes. One key factor in working here, there and everywhere is being able to access the latest version of your data quickly and promptly: if you work on a document in one location, will you be able to access those changes later on from another? The emergence of the cloud has seen an opportunity for online backup services to evolve to meet the needs of people who need to either access their data from multiple locations, or who wish to be able to share files quickly and easily over the internet. We take a quick look at three such services – Dropbox, Wuala and Windows Live Mesh – in this feature. The basics of synchronisation While tools for synchronising folders are nothing new, the likes of the Windows Briefcase or a file-sync tool like Allway Sync rely on either both computers being switched on and connected to the same network, or an intermediary device such as a USB drive. It’s workable, but it’s not intuitive and relies on you remembering to synchronise each time. Far better then, to utilise a cloud-based service: this automatically backs up or synchronises selected folders to the internet as they’re updated. Then, when you log on at another machine, the service in question silently downloads those updates to your current computer, ensuring you always have access to the latest versions of your files without having to remember they’re there. An added bonus of this approach is that your files are also being backed up to the cloud, so they’re in a minimum of three places at once, making it less likely you’ll suffer from data loss. The downside is how much online storage space you get as part of your service. Windows Live Mesh There are both free and paid-for services offering this cloud-based sync feature. Windows Live Mesh is the most visible free service, offering 5GB free online storage that can be shared across both Windows and Mac computers. Folders can be synced directly between computers as well as via the cloud, thus allowing you to rationalise your storage space for those folders you access frequently. Windows Live Mesh also allows you to access your files from the web – giving you universal access to them – and it features Remote Connection, allowing you to access your computer from another location if it’s switched on and connected. It’s installed as part of Windows Live Essentials, so make sure you choose the selective option unless you want all the other Windows Live apps too. It also requires Windows Vista or 7 on the PC, so XP users are locked out. Dropbox Dropbox offers a cross-platform solution with mobile and Linux options in addition to Windows and Mac. It offers similar features to Live Mesh – online backup, sync, web access – but only provides 2GB storage space as part of its free Basic package. Paid-for solutions are expensive (US$9.99/month for 50GB, US$19.99/month for 100GB). Dropbox does have several features not found in Windows Live Mesh, and these are available to Basic as well as premium accounts. First, online backup stores multiple revisions of files, allowing you to restore older versions. And second, you can share folders or photo albums with selected people or the wider internet, allowing others to not just access your files but collaborate on them too. There’s also an “undo” option – as all changes are quickly synchronised with the Dropbox server, you might find you’ve accidentally deleted the wrong file or made a change you’re not happy with. Don’t worry: Dropbox stores up to 30 days of revision changes, allowing you to undo them quickly and easily. Wuala Wuala’s service comes in free and professional versions. The free version offers a rather basic 1GB package, principally for media streaming and sharing. Other features – backup, sync and file revisioning – are restricted to Pro accounts, but these cost a lot less than Dropbox, with prices starting from just €19/year for 10GB storage space. There's no undo feature as found in Dropbox, but all deleted files are sent to the Trash, so you can recover anything you accidentally delete. Wuala also boasts a rather unique feature: the ability to trade storage. If you’re online for a set number of hours per day, Wuala will offer to give you a Pro account with a set level of storage in return for using the equivalent amount of storage space on your hard drive for encrypted backups. Once you’ve been running Wuala for a short while – and assuming you pass muster – this offer will be made to you or you can click the “Go pro” link within the main program window and select Trade. This way, it’s possible to get all the pro-level features without having to spend a penny in hosting fees, but read all the terms and conditions before you start. Which service is for you? Windows Live Mesh will appeal most to those with relatively small demands who merely want to synchronise files between two or more computers without having to pay a penny. Dropbox's 2GB account is enough to get familiar with the service, but the high cost of upgrading to its professional features will be off-putting to many, particularly when compared to Wuala. It does, however, support multiple mobile devices including Android and iPhone, something neither Wuala nor Live Mesh currently do. Ultimately, however, we’d have to say that Wuala is currently our cloud-based sync and sharing service of choice: the desktop application works well, and its range of features and comparatively good value (exceptional if you’re able and willing to trade storage space on your computer) make it well worth considering if you’re looking for online backup, sync and sharing in a single service.

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Flutter gives you (basic) gesture control of media via your web cam

Gestures are here it is at these days, with the Kinect add-on for Xbox 360 and the motion controls of the Wii allowing for direct interaction with games and other software. Even mobile devices such as Android and iOS phones and tablets are making more and more use of gestures rather than menus and buttons. Touch screen displays are available for Mac and PC that make this possible in Windows and OS X, but Flutter enables you to use your web cam to interact using gestures. As you can tell from the version number (currently 0.1.185), this is a very early version of the software and thins are a little limited at the moment – but that’s not to say that it is not still worth taking a look at. At the moment Flutter can be used to control your media player, enabling you to use basic hand gestures to start and pause music or video playback. Flutter Currently this is the only supported gesture – a simple holding of the hand in front of your web cam is used to both pause and resume playback – but there are plans to add more. It can be used with Spotify, Windows Media Player, iTunes. QuickTIme and VLC, and in future releases support will be added for YouTube, Netflix, Pandora and Hulu. The great thing about the app, despite its obvious limitations, is the fact that the program you are controlling does not have to be in the foreground. Next time you receive a phone call while you are working and listening to music, there’s no need to bring to media player in front of every other running app before hunting for the pause button. Instead you can just hold you open palm in front of your web cam and playback will pause until you repeat the motion. Once gestures for track skipping and volume control are added this will be a great app, but for the time being it is still a curiosity that’s worth investigating. You can find out more and download a free copy of the app by paying a visit to the Flutter review page.

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