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

When you have a powerful dual core CPU and 2GB of memory or more, there's no real need to optimize your Windows to get more performance out of it, because I am sure you won't get a big improvement, but there are a lot of annoyances to remove, like the low disk space warning. Also, you can always tweak your network interfaces to get the best out of your Internet connection, and it doesn't stop here.

Anyway, we'll talk about the features later, because I didn't even name the program I have under my scope so far. Since we're having a system optimization suite here, this is more than just "a program", and its name should say it all: TweakNow PowerPack 2006.

Setup

Don't worry, this is not an old program, despite its name. The last version of TweakNow PowerPack 2006, 1.80, was released 2 days ago, so this application is really hot. The 15 days trial version available for download on the official site allows you to experience the registered version's features for this period, and the only annoyance I found are some nag screens that appear here and there, but not as often as I've seen in other trial/demo programs.












<-125x125 Button - left->The setup package has almost 5MB in size, and it also includes TweakNow RegCleaner Pro, a program that can be launched from within PowerPack's main window, or by using its own entry in the Programs group, located together with TweakNow PowerPack 2006, of course. While installing this suite I had no problem, as you can see above. The only strange thing I found is a useless install mode selection screen - the Full, Custom and Compact modes install exactly the same files and need the same amount of free space...

Interface

Most optimization suites look great, and that's what can be said about TweakNow PowerPack 2006...but only at first sight. In my opinion, it would have been much better to have a menu with all the areas of the program in the left side, where the Special Tools and Miscellaneous Tools are located now. In the Main Page, icons that link directly to various tools (Process Manager or Startup Manager) are mixed with the ones that lead to other pages, like Windows Enhancement or System Optimizer, making the entire interface a bit confusing. Also, the banner above the workspace is too large, taking up precious space that could be used to organize the tools better.

Features

The feature that beginners should love is the one called 1-Click Windows Optimization. Despite the fact you'll have to click more than once to finish optimizing your computer, you'll save a lot of time, compared to the classical approach. Using this quick optimization mode, you have to select a single button to enable Windows optimization, choose the method of network optimization to apply and, at last, select the temporary files to clean (Windows temporary folder and IE temporary folder are the only options available). When you are happy with your choices, just hit the "Optimize Now!" button. Pretty easy, after all, don't you think?

Of course that the power of a system tweaking suite is not given by its quick optimization or cleaning tools, but by the power and amount of additional tools that allow you to change system settings manually.

Apart from features that I consider "normal" to such software suites, like the Process Manager of RAM Optimizer, I was happy to find that TweakNow PowerPack 2006 lets you enable virtual desktops, allowing you to have up to 4 desktops active at once.

The System Information area doesn't provide information as detailed as EVEREST, but it's pretty good, and you can also use it to save reports about your hardware, but only to TXT files.

While working with the program, I noticed the workflow problems I mentioned already in the "Interface" section. Each time you pick a tool, a new window opens, and sometimes you have to move through various tabs to find what you're looking for. All in all, I've seen better, as well as worse, so there's nothing to be extatic about or worry too much, either. Let's draw the conclusions now, shall we?

The Good

TweakNow PowerPack 2006 is a worthy system tweaking and cleaning suite, considering its price and good amount of features. Despite its minor interface issues, everybody should be able to use it without getting a headache.

The Bad

While the features and price are more than OK, what pulls down this program is its interface. I would like to see a better one in the future, because I am sure TweakNow can do it! Also, I don't think it's fair to pay 15$ more only to get support for Vista and Windows 2000 Professional.

Conclusion

TweakNow PowerPack 2006 is available in two versions, XP and Professional, the only difference being the support for different Windows versions, as I just mentioned above, and my final thoughts about it are closely related to this fact. While I consider that the XP Edition is worth its price and can prove really helpful for Windows XP users, I think that the Professional Edition is not worth its money yet. Anyway, it's always good to try before deciding to buy, so go ahead and give TweakNow PowerPack 2006 a try!

Developer: TweakNow
Price: 34.95$
Trial Link: Download