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AKS Image Comparer

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AKS Image Comparer is a utility that allows comparing two .jpg files and show differences between two images. For instance, this tool allows to compare two versions of the same image, chart, diagram or scheme. In version 1.0 was released the plain image comparison algorithm, that allows to compare images that have just a little changes. For instance, if some parts of the picture were deleted or added Image Comparer will find and highlight these differences with blocks or colors. It is so-called “by pixels” compare algorithm. When Image Comparer will not be so efficient? If images were changed a lot, for instance, if image was rotated or if it was scanned with different options or there were a lot of modifications. In this case more complicated algorithms are needed. Let’s try to compare two images where the actual pictures are moved relatively to each other. This is not a problem for Image Comparer, it will and highlight differences anyway. AKS Image Comparer costs $14 for a single-user license. For more information and to download the evaluation version visit product website at http://www.comparesuite.com/solutions/image_comparer/image-comparer.htm About the author: AKS-Labs is an producer and published of another compare-related utility called Compare Suite. Compare Suite tools allows to compare texts in various popular formats.

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AKS Text Replacer

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AKS Text Replacer will provide full control over search and replace process. It will allow defining various search conditions and will ask for confirmation before replace. It is not another silent replace utility; this software will show the text as it is and as it will be after replacement. This feature-rich utility will be useful for software developers, web-masters, anyone who works with plain text documents. The first step of replace process in AKS Text Replacer is specifying the folder to search in and files to search for. The program is very flexible will allow to specify not just one folder to search in, but several folders or even exclude some folders from the search. The same idea is behind files to search. User can specify a single file mask, a list of file masks or specify the link to the file with masks list. If necessary files with some masks can be excluded from the search. On the second step the text search and replace group should be specified. There might be any number of search and replace groups combined. Moreover, the program is not limited to just a single line text, user is free to use multiline text for search or replace. Certainly, there is an interface to specify file size and date filters. On the third step user can specify the size of files that should be found, the creation or modification date for the file. The one feature that software developers like about date filters is that it is possible to specify there exact time, e.g. hours, minutes and seconds, sometime it is crucial to the search and replace task. What the program will do when it will find necessary text in file which meets certain conditions? It is up to user! AKS Text Replacer can overwrite the original file and replace text there directly or it can place a modified file in some other folder. It is good idea to check \"Create backup\" checkbox, so the program will create a copy of files before replacing text in them. What will happen when user will click \"Start\" button? The program will not work silently; anyone wants to see what happens there and to have an ability to change something. Once the AKS Text Replace will find text in the file, it will should Replace Dialog, where user will see how the file looks now and what it will be like after replacement. There is a possibility to abort the process immediately, if something is wrong, also there are several buttons which make the process easy controllable. User can agree or disagree on this very replacement in this very file or on any replacement in this file or on any replacement in the folder of the file or, if everything looks properly, user can agree on this and all future replacements. The resulted log file will show how many replacements where made, how many files where browsed and replaced.

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BackupChanges

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The BackupChanges software is automatic software for backup of changed or new files. The variety of settings allows specifying what files to backup, where put them and how to run backup quickly every time you need. The software is great choice for changed files management, in a case there is a need to backup files, upload changed documents to the web or send changed files to colleague. With BackupChanges one can specify files that need to be copied into archive. Typically, it is enough to specify the source folder and nothing else. There are also many options to fine-tune the backup, for instance, user can specify the include and exclude file mask. Resulted files will be packed into archive, so there is also an option to specify how to keep files in archive, e.g. using relative path or absolute path. As the program focuses on changed and new files niche, there is a possibility to specify the time period for which changed files should be copied to archive. The easiest way is to use some predefined intervals, for instance for last 3 days. If necessary, the precise date and time interval can be specified. The predefined choices include minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years. Resulted file archive is a zip file, which can be managed with any popular archiving software or server-based file manager. The name of resulted file can be generated automatically using the source folder name and date/time stamp. As for destination directory user have an opportunity to add more than one record. This is useful, if the changed files should be sent to flash-drive for emergency backup, to hard drive for long-term backup and a copy to the desktop, for future uploading online or sending to co-worker. All these features might sound complicated to use every day, so there is one extremely useful feature. Once user fine tuned the backup project as needed, the batch file can be generated. Next time the user will need a backup, he or she will simply run the batch file. All necessary parameters will be passed to the program automatically. In this way managing new or changed files is as easy as one click. What possible applications are there for this program? Who might need this software? The BackupChanges software will find useful anyone who involved in document management process. For instance, software developers might exchange some source codes, while powerful CVS system might not be suitable for project scale, the automated exchange of changed files will significantly simplify the process. Web-masters or web-designers use web authoring software to manage files off-line. Actually, there are a lot of files, pictures, scripts, pages, and so on. Most of them are small, but still required to be uploaded to the web-server. With BackupChanges the upload process is much easier, as uploading one big archive and then unpacking it online is less time consuming than uploading smaller files.

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Balanced Scorecard Designer

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Balanced Scorecard Designer (BSC Designer) is software that simplifies the process of creating and managing Balanced Scorecards or KPI groups. With BSC Designer you will be able to create a set of key performance indicators, define relationships between groups, goals, and specify the importance of indicators. BSC Designer gives provides a flexible way to calculate performance values depending on indicators\' settings, such as min/max values, target values, measurement units. The resulted Scorecard can be exported into MS Excel file for further processing. With BSC Designer you can create a set of Key Performance Indicators and group them into categories. Each category and each indicator (goal) have a relative weight, which tells about importance of this indicator. You can define your own relative weights or use balancing function, so BSC Designer will calculate the values itself. The indicator (goal) also has a current, min and max values. Depending on optimization strategy these values are involved in calculation of the performance within metrics\' category and the total performance of the Balanced Scorecard. Once the scorecard was designed it could be exported into MS Excel for further usage and integration with businesses systems, such as CRM or ERP. A better option is saving the designed scorecard and sharing it with co-workers both as a .bsc file (native BSC Designer file type) and MS Excel file. Starting version 1.3 Balanced Scorecard Designer supports exporting to Excel using command line interface, this features helps to integrate with third-party tools.

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iTestBot

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ITestBot is an interface automation testing software. It allows to create scripts to test interface of software systems just like human testers would do it. ITestBot does not just emulate mouse clicks or button clicks, the ITestBot allows user to specify some image sample to be found n the screen and do some action with this sample. For instance, it can find image sample and then focus mouse on it or move the mouse relatively. The program is represented by two modules - one is ITestBot Designer and another is ITestBot Interpreter. The ITestBot Designer helps user to design visual testing scripts, while ITestBot Interpreter allows to execute these scripts. The ITestBot was designed for visual software interface testing. You can run the ITestBot in a batch and process a set of tests. The software will: -- return results of each test -- process possible error or warning messages -- close test on timeout if they hang-up ITestBot allows to emulate actions that user normally does: -- Run and close applications -- Focus mouse on some image sample -- Emulate Click, Doubleclick, MouseUp and MouseDown events -- Emulate ScrollUp and ScrollDown actions -- Move mouse to absolute or relative coordinates -- Enter some text or emulate pressing some keys on keyboard The interface of ITestBot Designer is divided in to parts. The first part allows to take some picture samples from the screen, the second part shows the script text with highlighted syntax. The usage algorithm is very simple. First, click «Make snapshot» button. You will have 5 seconds to move the mouse to appropriate position on the screen. Then, click «Select and crop» button to get the image you want to use. Then click «Save sample button» to save the sample. On this step you might wish to put some comments. Then use «Select Action» to add action to the script. If the action you want to add doesn\'t involve the image you can go directly to the Script section and click «Add action». Once the script is ready you can test it. Go to the Script section and click «Run Script» button. If you like the way script works you can save it to the file. The ITestBot can also help to generate BAT file for future execution of the script, there is a «Prepare bat file» in the Tools menu for this purpose.

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MeasureProductivity

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MeasureProductivity is a program designed to help measure and improve productivity. It is a not a spy program, it will not tell how do other people work, it will not record keystrokes; it is a self-examination program, which helps to measure and control user’s own productivity. There are some key concepts behind MeasureProductivity which make it really useful. First, there are “Groups”. Users should think about groups as roles they play when work with computer. There might be a role of webmaster or there might be a role of manager responsible for finances. When user works as a web-master he or she uses some web-page editing software, some graphical tools. With MeasureProductivity user can associate certain software tools with his role using various filters. For instance, it is possible to filter by application’s caption, executable path or name. One can associate any keyword with any role. For instance, if user has a word “finance” or “money” in caption of any window, the program might consider this as a role of Finance Manager. User don’t need to specify all relationships before starting program, instead, first it is good idea to run the program for some time and only then assign any special associations between programs and roles. The program doesn’t require to setup just one profile, it is possible to setup more different profiles. For instance, one profile specific to manager’s role and other specific to the role of researcher. There are three report types available in the program. First, advanced report, it will contain all the data about processes that user run, including applications’ captions and details associated with roles. The Standard report will have only the most important information about roles user played and time that was spend on the role. This report is great, if the goal is to share it with someone else. Invoice report will contain only information that is useful for billing customers. If user will specify the hour rate, the program will be able to tell how much should the customer pay for this kind of work. What can user do with reports he have from the program? The first and the easiest is to check report and find out what tasks require more time, probably there is a good idea to think about optimization of these tasks. The second possibility is to benchmark reports from different users against each other. The evaluation copy of MeasureProductivity is available for download from measureproductivity.com as a 30-day trial version.

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RecentCleaner

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RecentCleaner is a personal privacy tool designed to clear recent files lists of various software tools. Clearing of recent files list makes impossible for intruder to recover any traces of recently accessed files, making it’s really hard to find important files quickly. RecentCleaner is a plug-in based utility; authors will be able to improve it continuously by adding support of new programs. Now RecentCleaner supports cleaning of recent file records in popular MS Office applications, such as Word, Excel, Power Point, FrontPage, Windows Recent files are supported. Also, RecentCleaner supports WinZip and WinRAR utilities. At official web-sites authors of RecentCleaner suggest people to contact them with requests for a new plug-ins. RecentCleaner interface is divided into three parts – Applications, Items and Commands. Application list is represented as a tree, where the root elements are groups, such as Office, Utilities, System. Opening each element gives access to a list of recent records for every specified program. Items section shows what information is accessible for possible intruder. With RecentCleaner it’s easy to protect privacy. One can run RecentCleaner and click “Clear All” button. After this program will scan all supported programs for recent files and clear all records. It’s possible to delete only some records by checking certain items in Items list. RecentCleaner has reporting feature, which provides users with a detailed report about what records are available for cleaning and what recent files were cleaned. This report could also help to locate some file that was access recently. A 30-day fully-functional evaluation version of RecentCleaner can be downloaded from www.recentcleaner.com, full version can be purchased on-line for 14 US$.

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