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.”

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.

Microsoft has released a new security patch for Windows Live and MSN Messenger.
This is available for MSN Messenger versions 6.2, 7.0 and 7.5, and Windows Live Messenger 8.0.

When users login to their account on Windows Live Messenger they are guided through the upgrading process to obtain the 8.1 version.

Similar to Yahoo Messenger and Skype, Windows Messenger is confronting with malicious code in chat invitations.

Windows highlighted in its security bulletin, the fact that "If you do not upgrade to a non-affected version of the MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger client, depending on your platform, you will be notified to upgrade on each attempt to sign on" and "If you do not accept the upgrade, you may not be allowed access to MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger service."

On September 8, AliveMedia published Alive YouTube Video Converter, a professional tool for download videos from YouTube.com and Google and convert them into usual formats like AVI, MPEG, MP4, DivX, XviD, 3GP, WMV, VOB, QuickTime MOV, ASF, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, Mobile Phone, Archos, iRiver, Creative Zen Vision, Sandisk Sansa, MP3, AAC, M4A, AC3.



You can also burn the videos on CDs and DVDs and you have also the possibility to copy the videos to another computer or upload them onto portable devices like iPod/iPhone, mobile phone, PocketPC, PDA and PSP.

After you become an advanced user of the program, you can use other features for your videos to be modified, like width, height, video size, bit rate, and frame rate.

The software costs 29.95$ but you can get the evaluation version for free to see if you like it.
I advise you to buy it instead, because the trial version can convert only 60% of your each video.

ACD Systems has just released a new version of the well known ACDSee toolset for viewing, processing, editing, organizing and publishing your pictures.



<-120x240 Vertical Banner - left->With ACDSee Pro 2 you can import, rename or categorize your photos, and view, sort, cull and compare them in its fully customizable interface.
You can also view pictures in full screen or browse in thumbnail mode between 100 file formats like JPEG, BMP, GIF, PSD, PNG, TIFF, TGA, RAW NEF and CRW.
The Visual Tagging tool allows you to examine thousands of pictures for choosing the one you want to use, while Image Compare helps you to select the best captures allowing for viewing up to 4 images at once.
The Quick Search bar helps you in finding the perfect picture with the use of keywords, captions, file and folder names, or IPTC data.
You can highlight the hidden details in dark and light areas of your picture using the Shadow/Highlights tool and fix defects with Photo Repair.

After finishing the adjustments, share your perfect picture through e-mail, web galleries, slide shows and prints.
Don’t forget to optimize your photos, create slideshows with special effects like transition and multiple audio tracks, and even add watermarks.



Save your work in ZIP folders, CDs or DVDs and take into account the possibility to synchronize multiple folders and schedule when the synchronizations occur.

Another interesting thing about ACDSee is the possibility of preserving the metadata by embedding it in industry-standard portable Digital Negative Format.

What you will need for working with ACDSee 2 are: 1GB RAM recommended, 1GB hard disk space recommended, a High Color display adapter at 1280 x 1024 recommended resolution, Internet Explorer 6 recommended, TiVo Desktop Software, Microsoft DirectX 9.0, QuickTime 6.0, Ghostscript 8.0, Windows Media Player 9.0 and Windows 2000/XP/Vista.

The languages available are: English, French and German.
You can buy the software for 129.99$ or try it for 30 days.