“Excellent free multi-format media player”

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Choosing a multimedia player used to be a real no-brainer. However, during recent times the raft of new features and updates added to classic media players like Winamp, Windows Media Player, and even iTunes have left the apps increasingly bloated. For those looking for a fresh alternative to these ballooning apps, KMPlayer could be your ticket. Like similar app UMPlayer, KMPlayer has a small desktop footprint and its minimalist interface makes video playback quick and hassle-free. The player's interface is fully skinable, and there are some nice aesthetic touches, such as the changing of colour on the player with every new track.

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There are all sorts of options to help you pimp and customize KMPlayer, such as visualizations, plug-ins and playback options. But the beauty of KMPlayer is that these are turned on at your request rather than being forced upon you at the outset. KMPlayer handles both audio and video, and supports a wide range of different formats, meaning that once installed, you should never need to touch another player. Video playback is particularly impressive thanks to the range of processing tools available that allow you to sharpen, change picture properties, apply filters and even make video captures from within the program.

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“Final version of the all-new free antivirus”

Avast! Free Antivirus is a popular free antivirus for Windows that has just been updated to version 6. Besides efficient protection against viruses and spyware, avast! Free Antivirus features eight real-time shields that keep your system safe from online threats in various areas: web browsing, email, instant messaging, P2P and more – plus the two new Script and Behavior Shields. The eight shields in avast! Free Antivirus! can be enabled or disabled individually, and have their own settings.

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Two new interesting tools in avast! Free Antivirus 6 are the Web reputation plug-in, which informs you about the reliability of the website you’re currently visiting, and the AutoSandbox, which enables you to test suspicious programs without any risk to your computer. Finally, avast! Free Antivirus 6 now includes a desktop gadget from which you can open the program’s main window, perform a system scan or force a database update.

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The interface in avast! Free Antivirus 6 hasn’t changed much from previous versions. The design is basically the same, only bigger – something that may not be comfortable for some users. Then again, the most important feature in a security tool is not looks, but being able to protect your system in an effective, non-intrusive way – jus like avast! Free Antivirus does. avast! Free Antivirus 6 is an excellent new version of an already outstanding antivirus tool. It includes powerful security features that protect your computer without compromising performance or stability.

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“Experience a rich new feature set for Photoshop”

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Adobe Photoshop is the world’s leader in digital imaging software. It has been the industry standard design application for years, and with each new version it pulls further ahead of its competitors. The new Adobe Photoshop CS5 keeps the same interface design introduced in CS4, with some slight changes. The application shows a minimalist design, with titles reduced to mere lines, nested tool windows and a tabbed working area that makes working with multiple files at the same time a lot easier. If you’ve already worked with the previous Adobe Photoshop CS4 you won’t have problems in switching to the latest version; if you haven't, you may find this menu arrangement a bit confusing at first.

The major new feature in Adobe Photoshop CS5, however, is an extraordinary set of completely new tools developed to improve the way you work with your images and create more attractive, professional-looking pieces of art. Among the new features in Adobe Photoshop CS5 we find the content-aware healing brushes, which let you remove any object or detail from an image while magically filling in the space left behind; the smart selection tool, thanks to which selecting difficult elements like hair or tree leaves will be much easier; the so called wet brushes, which behave like real life brushes in terms of paint mixes and and the fun puppet warp tool, with which you can move, stretch or warp selected elements in an image.

As usual, the interface in Adobe Photoshop CS5 is highly flexible, which means you can customize the menus, brushes, patterns, tools presents and almost everything you find on the program. We also recommend getting used to Adobe Photoshop's keyboard shortcuts, as they'll save you loads of time and mouse clicks. Adobe Photoshop is definitely an application for professionals and as such, has quite a steep learning curve. But this long process of learning does have a reward: the more you practice with all the tools, filters and effects included in Adobe Photoshop, the better results you achieve. Also, there is a huge quantity of web resources, tutorials and manuals all over the internet.

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Finally, don't forget that Adobe Photoshop CS5 is a powerful application that can get quite heavy on system resources, especially when you start opening more and more high-resolution documents with multiple layers. Though probably overwhelming for beginners, Adobe Photoshop CS5 is simply a must-have for anyone with an interest in imaging, particularly professional photographers and designers.

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