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This full-featured suite makes friends easily

To call TuneUp Utilities 2007 useful would drastically understate the situation. The app provides users with a powerful, well-designed utility that accesses the entire Windows maintenance tool set and more in a fast, organized, and easy-to-use series of connected modules.

Temp file management, registry cleaners and start-up program controls are the bread-and-butter of these utilities, and these basics work in TuneUp more quickly and easily than most. However, the app also sports great add-on tools you don't usually see in a utility program. It offers a variety of Internet and program-acceleration tweaks as well as Windows performance enhancers. The … Read more

This full-featured suite makes friends easily

To call TuneUp Utilities 2007 useful would drastically understate the situation. The app provides users with a powerful, well-designed utility that accesses the entire Windows maintenance tool set and more in a fast, organized, and easy-to-use series of connected modules.

Temp file management, registry cleaners and start-up program controls are the bread-and-butter of these utilities, and these basics work in TuneUp more quickly and easily than most. However, the app also sports great add-on tools you don't usually see in a utility program. It offers a variety of Internet and program-acceleration tweaks as well as Windows performance enhancers. The … Read more

This full-featured suite makes friends easily

The word utility is far too utilitarian for TuneUp Utilities 2006. The program provides the basic Windows maintenance toolset, including temporary files, Registry cleaners, and start-up program controls, and these tools work more quickly and easily than most. However, it also sports great add-on tools you don't usually see in a utility program. The module-based program does more than clean, offering a variety of Internet and program-acceleration tweaks as well as Windows performance enhancers. The crash-preventing MemOptimizer, a file shredder, and a respectable uninstall utility round out this suite. You even can automate maintenance tasks with the scheduler or … Read more

This full-featured suite makes friends easily

The word utility is far too utilitarian for TuneUp Utilities 2006. The program provides the basic Windows maintenance toolset, including temporary files, Registry cleaners, and start-up program controls, and these tools work more quickly and easily than most. However, it also sports great add-on tools you don't usually see in a utility program. The module-based program does more than clean, offering a variety of Internet and program-acceleration tweaks as well as Windows performance enhancers. The crash-preventing MemOptimizer, a file shredder, and a respectable uninstall utility round out this suite. You even can automate maintenance tasks with the scheduler or … Read more

Preserve your digital photos

This program makes it easy to create photo albums and share them as Web albums or through e-mail. FotoFusion launches with a dialog that provides options for creating collages. Templates lay out various sizes of photos on an 8-1/2 by 11 grid. Free-form collages let you move photos freely, while grid collages let you set up your own grid. You can increase the size of your collages with a roll of your mouse wheel. In the upper left of every collage are buttons that can rearrange the images and skew them jauntily. The program can even publish your collages … Read more

A shot of uTorrent for BT

BitTorrent hadn't seen a major update in about two years, but that was before it bought out uTorrent. Now, adopting its new sibling's interface has completely reinvigorated the original BitTorrent client.

Previously, BT had lacked features that other torrent innovators had spent time testing and investing in. Now, in one fell swoop, BT has access to everything it lacked. You can pick which files in a torrent you want to download, throttle your Internet connection to suit your whims, muck about with the Web UI and, basically, do everything that uTorrent can do.

There's an RSS tracker … Read more

A shot of uTorrent for BT

BitTorrent hadn't seen a major update in about two years, but that was before it bought out uTorrent. Now, adopting its new sibling's interface has completely reinvigorated the original BitTorrent client.

Previously, BT had lacked features that other torrent innovators had spent time testing and investing in. Now, in one fell swoop, BT has access to everything it lacked. You can pick which files in a torrent you want to download, throttle your Internet connection to suit your whims, muck about with the Web UI and, basically, do everything that uTorrent can do.

There's an RSS tracker … Read more

You've been framed

Though some image-editing tools provide a few options for virtually framing your digital photos, IdFramer takes the concept to a whole new level. The logically arranged interface isn't likely to befuddle most users, and the large preview window lets you see every detail of your new image. IdFramer provides you with many user-adjustable templates for framing your image. If you're not a fan of the included ones or you have a creative streak, you can make your own by selecting frame style, color, size, and texture. Folks who want to get extra fancy can layer several custom frames … Read more

You've been framed

Though some image-editing tools provide a few options for virtually framing your digital photos, IdFramer takes the concept to a whole new level. The logically arranged interface isn't likely to befuddle most users, and the large preview window lets you see every detail of your new image. IdFramer provides you with many user-adjustable templates for framing your image. If you're not a fan of the included ones or you have a creative streak, you can make your own by selecting frame style, color, size, and texture. Folks who want to get extra fancy can layer several custom frames … Read more