Amazon challenges Apple's 'app store' trademark

Apple had long back coined “App Store” as a trademark to sell their products. But the recent claim by Amazon that the term “app store” is generic has not been accepted by Apple And Apple is doing everything to protect their trademark.
However Amazon feels that ‘apps store’ indicates a store to buy and download applications. Apple denied this claim and feels that their trademark has been copied. Microsoft and Google have opted for different brand names like Windows Marketplace or Android market for their application stores.

Although Apple dragged Amazon to court for stealing their trademark Amazon fought back by arguing that Apple cannot exercise right over words when put together mean something general and not exclusive to a company.

With the fight still on both the companies have the necessary resources to not withdraw and while most people are not aware of the difference between Android and iPhone, Amazon is just trying to cash on people ignorance to sell themselves. Amazon are well aware of the power the name has and are doing anything to gather power and position. In the end it is only the lawyers fighting for both the companies who are actually making money.

CCleaner

CCleaner Software

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history.


Ccleaner Cleans the following in Internet Explorer:

• Temp files

• URL history

• Cookies

• Autocomplete form history

• index.dat files

In Firefox:

• Temp files

• URL history

• Cookies

• Download history

In Opera:

• Temp files

• URL HIstory

• Cookies

Ccleaner cleans the following from your Windows Operating System:

• Recycle Bin

• Recent Documents duplicates and short cuts

• Temp files

• Log files

Ccleaner also backs up and cleans out unwanted registry clutter with its advanced options:

• Unused and old entries

• File extensions

• Activex controls

• ClassIDs

• ProgIDs

• Uninstallers

• Shared DLLs

• Fonts

• Help Files

• Application Paths

• Icons

• Invalid Shortcuts

Third party applications it cleans include:

• Temp files

• Recent file lists (MRUs) from popular apps including Media Player, eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, MS Office, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and many more.

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Avast Free Antivirus

Avast Free Antivirus Software


avast! Free Antivirus is perfect for people who send e-mails and surf popular websites.

• Antivirus and anti-spyware engine

• avast! Intelligent Scanner

• Silent/Gaming Mode

• Behavior Shield

• Real time anti-rootkit protection

• Smart virus updates

• avast! Community IQ

• Behavioral Honeypots

• Green computing

• avast! iTrack

• File System / Mail Shield

• Web Shield

• IM / P2P Shield

• Network Shield

HijackThis

HijackThis - Free Anti virus software

Trend Micro HijackThis is a free utility that generates an in depth report of registry and file settings from your computer. HijackThis makes no separation between safe and unsafe settings in its scan results giving you the ability to selectively remove items from your machine. In addition to this scan and remove capability HijackThis comes with several tools useful in manually removing malware from a computer.

IMPORTANT: HijackThis does not determine what is good or bad. Do not make any changes to your computer settings unless you are an expert computer user.

Advanced users can use HijackThis to remove unwanted settings or files. Not an expert? Just save the HijackThis report and let a friend with more troubleshooting experience take a look. A large community of users participates in online forums, where experts help interpret HijackThis scan results to clean up infected computers.

Using HijackThis

To analyze your computer, start HijackThis and run a scan. See the Quick Start Guide [link to Quick Start, FAQs and Feedback] for help in running a scan. HijackThis will display a list of areas on your computer that might have been changed by spyware. Do not change any settings if you are unsure of what to do. There are many popular support forums on the web that provide free technical assistance by using HijackThis log files to diagnose an infected computer.

HijackThis Features:

• Built-in tools to scan and remove problems with your PC registry and settings.

• Built-in malware security tools

• Excellent support in walkthroughs, forums and FAQs

• Free

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SilverFast DC SE Digital Camera Software

SilverFast DC SE Software is specially designed for those who want to enter the world of creating and optimizing images from a digital camera. Images will be mainly benefit from SilverFast's intelligent automatic functions which help to make the process of adjusting much easier. Numerous online QuickTime Movies can be started as a guide tutorial about SilverFast DC SE.

The Virtual Light Table VLT is an essential work base for photographers who like to organize, manage and resume images in an easy way. The extended print dialog offers the ability to print images or image areas selected by the frames in the preview. The selected images can be scaled, rotated or positioned manually on the print sheet. SilverFast DC SE can be upgraded to SilverFast DC VLT or the SilverFast DCPro versions with RAW data conversion.

Silverfast supports the following camera manufacturers: Canon, Epson, Fuji, JenOptik, Kodak, Konica, Leaf, Leica, KonicaMinolta, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, PhaseOne, Sigma, Sinar, Sony. (Actual camera models supported varies by application.)

WinRAR

WinRAR is a 32-bit/64-bit Windows version of RAR Archiver, the powerful archiver and archive manager. WinRARs main features are very strong general and multimedia compression, solid compression, archive protection from damage, processing of ZIP and other non-RAR archives, scanning archives for viruses, programmable self-extracting archives (SFX), authenticity verification, NTFS and Unicode support, strong AES encryption, support of multivolume archives, command line and graphical interface, drag-and-drop facility, wizard interface, theme support, folder tree panel, and multithread support.

Designed to work on Windows 98/NT/2000/ME/XP/2003/Vista/2008/Windows 7 WinRAR provides complete support for RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack and convert CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, Z, 7-Zip archives.

WinRAR is ideal for multimedia files. WinRAR automatically recognizes and selects the best compression method. The special compression algorithm compresses multimedia files, executables and object libraries particularly well.

Autodesk 3ds Max

Autodesk 3ds Max 2009 software is a full-featured 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and visual effects solution used in the creation of top-selling games and award-winning film and video content. Quickly and efficiently generate convincing characters, seamless CG effects, and jaw-dropping environments.


Precise Visual Feedback and Professional Final Renders

Reveal rendering streamlines and accelerates literative workflows by providing precise control over what is rendered in the viewport or framebuffer. 3ds Max 2009 also provides access to a ProMaterials library for the award-winning mental ray® rendering engine, with materials for creating real-world design and building surfaces.

Streamlined Character and Mapping Workflows

Biped now offers animators a more efficient workflow for rigging quadrupeds, together with other features that facilitate the character animation process. The release also delivers new UV editing features, including a UV spline mapping tool, and enhanced Pelt and Relax toolsets that streamline the UVW unwrap workflow.

Fast and Accurate Data Transfer

Get the information you want, the way you want it. Greater OBJ file format translation fidelity and more import and export options mean more accurate data transfers between 3ds Max and Autodesk Mudbox™ software or other digital modeling packages. 3ds Max 2009 also delivers improved FBX memory management and new import options that support interoperability between 3ds Max and other products such as Autodesk Maya and Autodesk MotionBuilder software applications.

3ds Max 2010 Features:

There are over 350 new and improved additions to the 2010 3ds software. Highlights include:

• A new Graphite modeling and texturing system, which introduces at least 100 new creative tools, to explore and rapidly iterate ideas.

• A new Containers toolset to facilitate collaboration and flexible workflows by enabling the collection of multiple objects into a single container when dealing with complex scenes.

• Render animation sequences in mental ray with indirect illumination calculations (Final Gather), greatly reducing or eliminating traditional flickering issues.

• Updated Review technology to take the guesswork out of final renders with render-like viewport display supporting: ambient occlusion, High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI)-based lighting, soft shadows, hardware anti-aliasing, interactive exposure control, and the revolutionary mental mill® shader technology.

• New Material Explorer simplifies interaction with objects and materials. Navigate all rendering-related assets in the scene, perform operations on multiple objects, or inspect individual materials. The Material Explorer also allows for the replacement of materials-making iterations much easier, even in highly complex scenes.