Google has just announced its new program dedicated for mobiles under the name Adsense for Mobile, through which the publishing partners of Adsense will earn from their mobile websites through the mobile text ads.

Google explains how it’ll work: “Advertisers can connect with the growing number of mobile publishers, ultimately providing users with an enhanced mobile experience that helps them find what they are looking for more quickly and efficiently on the go.”

The category of users on which Adsense for Mobile has focused on, is the one formed by users that have websites dedicated specifically for mobile browsers, and who intend to embrace the idea of earning from contextual advertising.

The text ads will run in the same way as Adwords, on an auction model.

AdSense for Mobile will first be available in US, England, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Russia, Ireland, India, Netherlands, Japan, China and Australia.

Vizioncore Inc., the market leader in management tools for virtual infrastructure environments, announced today the releasing of a new enterprise-class version of its virtual machine optimization utility, vOptimizer v4.0, which reduces Microsoft and VMware virtual machine virtual hard drive size by up to 80% which is the smallest possible size for improving the portability and performance.

Version 4.0 comes with two new editions and several key features including Desktop Edition to enable unlimited optimizations of local VMs; Network Edition for enabling unlimited optimizations of VMs located anywhere across the LAN or WAN, and the ability to automate and schedule jobs to optimize entire repositories in batch mode; improved optimization processes which besides delivering up to 80% reductions in VM size increases the optimization speed 10 times more.

David Bieneman, founder and CEO of Vizioncore declared that “Virtualisation makes it so much easier to provision new servers, but from a networking and storage perspective, this can lead to a whole new set of demands as the number and size of virtual machines increases.”
He added that “Our vOptimizer utility allows organizations to create much leaner virtual machines which in turn makes them far easier to distribute, reduces virtual infrastructure storage demands, and increases their operating performance.”

According to Trond Brande, a Microsoft Regional Director with Objectware, "The new enterprise capabilities of vOptimizer are extremely powerful. Using the new scheduler I can now setup overnight jobs to optimize VMs located locally or around the network, and wake up to a repository of freshly optimized virtual machine images. It’s a very innovative tool and a great time saver.”

Most of my friends know that I'm a big supporter of two-panel file managers, and they don't even bother to tell me about different ones, no matter how good are these programs. In time, I finally accepted that some people can't have their tastes changed, allthough they seem to be completely wrong in your eyes. "If you can't beat them, join'em!", you know what they say... so today I'll review one of the best Windows Explorer-like file managers in the wild, according to the general opinion: XYplorer.


Setup

XYplorer's setup package comes in a ZIP archive and it's very small, having about 900KB in size. The full version is priced at $29.50, and you get updates for life once you have purchased it. Even better, the trial period has been extended to 30 days now, while earlier versions were available for only 21 days of free testing. Of course that a nag screen and some minor limitations are present in this trial release, but they won't spoil your experience with XYplorer at all.











Installing the program is very easy, and if you are really in a hurry, you can download one of the two no-install packages available on the official site. Depending on your favorite archiver, you can get a ZIP package or a RAR one, unpack the files to any folder on your hard drive and just run the application.
No matter what you choose, you shouldn't have any problems with this part, so let's move on...


Interface

XYplorer's interface is basically inspired by Windows Explorer, but has a lot of improvements, like tabs and a panel that serves to display file previews and additional information about the currently selected file. This program has a very large number of keyboard shortcuts available that grant you quick access to most operations you could think of, and its interface and display filters are highly customizable. While I can't say that everything is very easy to use (we'll talk about multiple file renaming later), XYplorer's overall look and feel seem to be well chosen for any average Windows user.


Features

I know it may sound strange, but I'll leave file management aside and jump straight to the mass renamer, since I just mentioned it. While working with this program, I noticed that there's no mass renaming tool. Since XYplorer seems like an application carefully done, I said "this is not possible", and thought about it a while. I selected some files, and used the Rename command (F2 on the keyboard). The Batch Rename window appeared, but what you have to do is enter a pattern for renaming your files. Doesn't look like something for beginners, isn't it?

Now, moving quickly from a folder to another is pretty easy, since there are plenty of different ways to do it. First, you have the file tabs, and you can use as many of them as you wish (of course there may be a limit, but I don't see anyone using more than 10-15 tabs at once). Next, there's the Hotlist, that contains the most frequent used locations, but you also get a very good Favorites menu, with quick access to the system folders such as My Computer, Desktop or Windows Folder, as well as customizable locations.











The Info Panel I mentioned already has 6 areas - Properties, Version, Preview, Raw View, Find Files and Report. While the Report area allows you save the current folder list to clipboard, a TXT or CSV file or send it straight to the printer, the file finder tool is excellent, and I must say it's one of the best I've seen so far, easily surpassing Total Commander's file search capabilities.At last, I have to tell you that even video and audio files can be previewed, with some format limitations, of course. Anyway, it's pretty good to know that your file manager can easily play your MP3 or AVI files without having to install any additional plugins, isn't it?


The Good

XYplorer is highly customizable, has an incredible amount of file filters and other settings, while managing to remain pretty easy to use. The trial version is very close to the real thing, so trying it is a pleasure, giving you an accurate preview of the full program, and if you worry about compatibility, then you should know that XYplorer is Vista compatible.

The Bad

The volume control of the audio preview changes the Wave volume of the system, and there's no chance to switch between the Windows Explorer-like interface and a classic two-pane view. Some operations are rather complicated, since the power of this program comes with some expenses in terms of ease of use, after all.

Conclusion

For me, XYplorer can't match Total Commander, but I think that if I spend enough time with it, I can use it to accomplish everything that I am currently doing without losing too much time. Anyway, there's still a problem - while some users may consider that paying 30 bucks for this piece of code is worth it, I would advise my friends to drink one or two beers less and get Total Commander or Frigate.

Developer: Donald Lessau
Price: $29.50
Trial Link: Download

Movavi VideoSuite is a set of tools for Windows used for capturing, editing and processing video and audio files. With it you can capture video from a digital or web camera and convert it in mobile device compatible format, like PSP, iPod, PDA, Zune or cell phone.Edit videos using splitting/slicing functions; add special effects with Magic Enhance tool, or filters.
The program uses latest splitting technology that saves AVI and MPEG formats without re-compression or loss of quality for high-speed results.

It also supports also DVD ripping, backup, copy, CD and DVD burning. Exception to this make copy-protected and encrypted CDs and DVDs.

If you like to publish your movies on YouTube use the Video Message module.
Movavi VideoSuite supports all popular video and audio formats: AVI, DVD, VOB, IFO, MPEG, MPEG4, 3GPP, 3GPP2, MOV, WMV, ASF, RM, MP3, WAV and FLV.
The latter comes in the latest version, 4.6.3 which also has a few bugs fixed.



What I like most at this program, is that I can get my favorites songs from Step Up movie’s soundtrack and listen them on my cell phone.
I can do this by separating the soundtrack of the movie from the video and then save it as MP3 or WAV.


The number of features doesn’t end here.
If I’d like to, I could also manually capture frames from Step Up to create my gallery with images from the movie, or i could use the Gallery feature directly which will capture shots automatically for me.
My part will be only to save them in graphic formats that i want.

Movavi VideoSuite 4.6.3’s licence is shareware so you can buy the Personal or Business versions for 59.99$ or download the trial together with the PDF manual.

No matter how much I hate cleaning up my house, removing junk from my computer will always be a cleaning job that I enjoy. Even more, system cleaning and maintenance software is one of my favorites, but today we'll talk about an application that doesn't claim to tweak, clean and help you troubleshoot your computer the way suites like System Mechanic do. Today, the time has come for another uninstaller, and its name is Absolute Uninstaller.

Setup

Absolute Uninstaller is a product that I came across for the first time today, but it's not that new, after all. Its current version is 2.3, and the trial can be used for as long as 30 days without any limitation. The only difference between the registered version and the trial is, apart from the 30 days limit, the nag screen that appears each time you start the trial.












Of course that before starting Absolute Uninstaller, you have to download and install it, but you don't have to worry about this part. The setup package has almost 2.5MB in size, and the installation was really quick and without any special problems to take care of.

Interface

Absolute Uninstaller has a well organized interface, without any useless elements, that can also be slightly customized to take out what you don't need and use all the space available to view the list of programs installed in your system. While the main window is used to view this list and uninstall programs or change their properties, there are also some useful cleaning tools located in the Tools menu, but that's something we need to talk about in the next part of the article already, so let's move on...

Features

If you're already bored by these uninstallers I got here so far, this time I found a really interesting feature in Absolute Uninstaller. If you didn't figure out that yet, I have to tell you that I'm talking about the Batch Uninstall feature. So, what's so special about this feature?

While most uninstallers allow you to select more than one programs to uninstall at a time, when you launch the uninstall process, all uninstallers are simultaneously executed, and this leads to errors, in most cases. This time, the programs you have selected are uninstalled one by one, minimizing the chances to get errors (although I still got an error that made me uninstall a program manually, launching its uninstall program from its data folder).

The tools I mentioned above are the following: Registry Cleaner, Disk Cleaner, Startup and Process Manager. Each of them opens a new window, and apart from the Disk Cleaner, which is pretty basic, the rest of these tools are well done and very useful. I know that some people may consider them just a way to inflate the price of the program, but I think these tools add more to the power of the program and increase its features per buck ratio.

The Good

Absolute Uninstaller is lightning fast, well featured and extremely easy to use. While its trial version is fully functional for 30 days, the price required for the registration of this software is also pretty good.

The Bad

I expected the Help system to be more detailed, and have some screenshots included, to make things easier to understand by absolute beginners.

Conclusion

Absolute Uninstaller was a pleasant surprise for me, and I only hope to see it getting better and better in the future. Since everything seems to be great, apart from the Help system, I think you should hit the download link below and give this program a try as soon as possible!

Developer: Glarysoft Inc.
Price: 29.95$
Trial Link: Download