Rising Personal Firewall

Rising Personal Firewall 22.00.02.90 is a Firewall Software product from rising-global.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, Rising Personal Firewall offers firewall protection with an integrated Trojan shield that automatically protects you from common Trojan horse activities like password and account stealing. The firewall comes pre-configured to allow valid Windows processes and other common applications, so you will not be bombarded with a ton of warnings for essential process. For all other applications that try to connect to the Internet, you will be prompted with a confirmation dialog to confirm the activity. Advanced users can also create IP and port specific rules to allow or blacklist certain traffic. Other features include system vulnerability scanning for Windows patches and security risks, Internet Game Account Protection, automatic Trojan signature updates and more.

Firewall Detailed InformationRISING Firewall keeps your computer safe from data and privacy violation, protects against external threats as well as checks vulnerabilities or potential risks on your computer, plus blocks malicious network traffic.

Key Features :

Multi-Account Management by the Firewall

The firewall provides two accounts: an administrator account and a user account. A function is provided by the firewall which enables the switch between the two accounts. The administrator can execute all firewall functions, while the user cannot modify the firewall settings and rules, or to start/stop/exit the firewall. In addition, the user needs the administrator password when switching to the administrator account.
Trojan Identification Technology

Through heuristic virus scan technology, when a software is connected to the Internet, the trojan scanner will scan the program. If the process is suspicious, the user will be alerted. This technology enhances the capability to identify suspicious programs automatically.

IE Function Call Interception

As IE provides an open Com component call interface, it may be called by malicious programs. This function checks the software which needs to call the IE interface. If the software is detected as a malicious program, the user will be warned.

Anti-Phishing and Anti-Trojan Website

The website provides a set of strong and upgradeable blacklist rules, which contain a list of websites that are illegal, highly risky and/or highly hazardous. Using the blacklist rules, any access to the listed websites will be prohibited.

Module Test

The firewall can control access to the Internet by all modules. When an software accesses the Internet, the firewall will check the authorization of the module to see if approval has been given. If not, access to the Internet will be denied. Previously, we tested applications instead of the associated DLL. The module test will now prevent trojans from injecting into normal processes to gain access to the Internet.

Rising Firewall is available in Traditional Chinese, English,Russian,German . English version can be applied in Windows of all languages. More languages will be supported in the near future. The license of this antivirus & security software is Free Trial Software, the price is $19.95, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of Rising Personal Firewall, you can buy this firewall software software. 

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• Date: Feb 03, 2010
• Price: $19.95
• License: Free Trial Software
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Mobile Touch Screens Could Soon Feel the Pressure

A quantum switch could add pressure sensing to mobile screens.

Forget swiping or pinching--the next generation of portable touch-screen devices will be able to distinguish between a gentle touch and a hard poke.

Peratech, a U.K. company, has signed a $1.4 million deal to license its pressure-sensing touch-screen technology to Japanese screen manufacturer Nissha, which makes displays for companies including LG and Nintendo. Peratech's technology is one of several approaches that can be packed into portable devices. But it uses a novel quantum mechanism to sense pressure, and this promises to be more sensitive and more efficient than the other approaches.

Peratech, which was spun out of a research lab at Durham University in 1996, uses an electrically conductive material dubbed a quantum tunneling composite (QTC). Quantum tunneling occurs when electrons jump between two conductors that are brought close together, but remain separated by an insulating barrier. In Peratech's switches, a polymer acts as the insulating layer. It is embedded with spiky, conductive metallic particles, each about 10 nanometers in size.

"These are polymer materials that change their resistance as force is applied," says Philip Taysom, Peratech's CEO. So as force is applied, these particles are brought closer together. "As they come into proximity, they allow quantum tunneling," he says.

The approach allows Peratech's QTC sensors to be extremely thin: just 75 micrometers thick. The sensors line the perimeter of a display. When pressure is applied and the screen bends very slightly (as little as two micrometers), the switches detect this change. By comparing the readings from the sensors with sensory data from the touch screen, it is possible to tell precisely where, and how hard, the screen is being pressed.

Patrick Olivier, a human-computer interaction and computer graphics expert at Newcastle University, in the U.K., says that pressure sensing has largely been limited to large screens with cameras mounted behind them. An example is Microsoft's tabletop system, called Surface. This approach works by using a technique called frustrated total internal reflection, where the camera detects light from within the screen itself as it is refracted by a finger that makes contact with the screen.

Jeff Han, founder of New York-based Perceptive Pixel, a company that has pioneered the development of large pressure-sensitive, multi-touch interfaces, says that Peratech's approach is one of many that could bring pressure sensing to mobile devices. "There have been many efforts to augment touch screens with strain gauges or force-sensing resistor sensors situated at the mounting points of the screen," he says. 

However, Peratech says that using quantum tunneling means that its material is more sensitive to pressure than competing materials such as carbon composites. It also means that the sensors draw no power unless someone applies pressure. The company says the sensors can be fitted to existing screens relatively easily, and can be manufactured using standard printing methods.

Gadgets that use the technology should hit the market as early as April of this year, says Taysom. These devices could bring with them new interactive functionality. "The harder you press, the faster the screen will scroll or the faster a character will run in a game," says Taysom. This could also make it easier to drag and drop on-screen items, or to perform two tasks at the same time, such as simultaneously dragging and zooming an image, Taysom says.

What's Inside the iPad's Chip?

Cost and power efficiency may have pushed Apple to create its own microchip.

Despite widespread speculation, nothing beyond what Steve Jobs announced last week is known about the A4 chip at the heart of the Apple iPad.

Chip in: The iPad's A4 is Apple’s first homemade chip. Credit: Apple

Jobs described the chip with typical restraint during the unveiling of the iPad. "It's powered by our own silicon--the one gigahertz Apple A4 chip--it screams," he said, adding that the A4 chip includes an integrated CPU and graphics core on a single system on a chip (SoC).

Soon after the announcement, experts began speculating that the chip was based on the same ARM architecture as the iPhone and iPod touch.

"No official source that I can find has confirmed that the A4 uses ARM," says Tom Halfhill, senior analyst at Microprocessor Report. However, he says, it's logical to assume that the iPad is using a processor based on the ARM architecture. "It makes sense, [because] Apple wouldn't have to port the iPhone OS to a new CPU architecture."

Some have suggested that the chip may be based on the latest and fastest ARM designs, but both the slightly older and slower ARM Cortex 8 and the newer ARM Cortex 9 cores can run at a clock speed of one gigahertz, notes Halfhill. Boosting the speed of an ARM Cortex 8 core--the core thought to run in the Samsung-built chip that powers the iPhone 3GS--to one gigahertz would be possible because the iPad has more room for batteries, allowing engineers to drive the A4 at a higher voltage and therefore clock frequency.

Gene Munster, a senior research analyst at Piper Jaffray, says that Apple might have felt the need to develop its own chip for a simple reason. "One reason Apple did this is because they're saving money on the chip," says Munster. "On an iPhone, a Samsung chip is $15--it's the third most expensive piece of the phone. Going from $15 to $5 doesn't sound like much, but if you multiply it over 15 million devices, it adds up."

Raw speed has been cited as another reason for Apple to move to a new chip, but Munster doesn't buy it--not with companies like NVidia and Qualcomm offering similarly powerful designs for netbooks and other devices. "I just can't imagine Apple being able to build something themselves that's better than these companies," he says.

A more likely technical reason for Apple's custom silicon, Munster argues, is the need to keep power consumption to a minimum. "They could create something that's not as fast, but might be better at power consumption," he says. "If you look at the battery life they're talking about, the tablet is bigger than the iPhone but it seems like they've done a better job with battery life."

The A4's graphics core might also use the ARM architecture, but this would require on-the-fly translation of code for existing iPhone applications. Since "almost all" existing iPhone applications will run on the iPad, it's more likely that Apple is continuing to use upgraded versions of the same graphics cores present in the iPhone and iPhone 3GS, which were created from designs licensed by Imagination Technologies, based in the U.K.

Representatives of Imagination refused to discuss whether or not the A4 SoC uses an Imagination core. But Apple owns just under 10 percent of the company and all iPhone and iPhone touch models use Imagination's PowerVR MBC family of graphics cores. Imagination also recently confirmed that the iPhone 3GS uses the upgraded PowerVR SGX design. If the iPad continues this trend, it could take advantage of features of the Imagination graphics core that are uniquely well-suited to driving a screen as large as the one on the iPad.

For instance, Imagination uses so-called "tile-based deferred rendering," which helps drive a faster user interface. "You split a screen into little tile zones," says Kristof Beets, manager of business development for graphics at Imagination. This allows a chip's graphics cores to compute individual tiles of the screen--say, 32 by 32 pixels on an 800 by 480 screen, with data stored in on-chip caches. By avoiding the step where a full-screen renderer has to access RAM, the chip can render a screen full of images much faster.

A second feature of Imagination's technology that may be relevant is "deferred rendering." Normally, a 3-D algorithm will compute the location data of a given object after computing its shape and the lighting effects applied to it. This means that where pixels on a screen correspond to objects that are blocked by other objects, some of that computation is wasted. The same is true for objects in windows layered one on top of the other in a desktop environment. Imagination's chips, in contrast, compute the location data first, minimizing the number of computations that must be made and allowing for lower power consumption.

In April 2008, Apple acquired P.A. Semi, a chip manufacturer that specialized in power-efficient processors that use the PowerPC architecture--the same architecture used by Apple in its computers until it switched over to Intel CPUs in 2006.

"Some of [P.A. Semi's] engineers had ARM experience, and, of course, their chip-design knowledge would be transferrable to any CPU architecture," says Halfhill. "A highly integrated SoC like the Apple A4 would take at least 12 to 18 months to design, debug, and manufacture, however, making it unlikely that P.A. Semi engineers designed it from scratch."

In Halfhill's view, this makes it even more likely that the A4 chip is made primarily of designs that closely match existing ARM cores. "Apple would have had to move awfully fast to design its own ARM-compatible core and the A4 SoC in so short a time," he says. "That's why I think the A4 is built on existing cores from ARM."

Halfhill suggests that P.A. Semi engineers may have been brought on board for some project other than the A4 chip. "I wouldn't be surprised if many or most of the P.A. Semi engineers were assigned to another project--such as a future Apple A5 chip," he says.

Norton AntiVirus 2010 17.1.0.19

Symantec's Norton AntiVirus - Winning protection against viruses, spyware, and other malicious threats! Heuristically detects Spyware threats, detects blocks Internet worm attacks, and protects email.

Norton AntiVirus blocks viruses and spyware with advanced protection. It helps protect your entire computer by stopping viruses, spyware, and other security risks. Norton AntiVirus works in the background so you can surf the Internet, read the news, play games, and download software or music without disruption. It also scans and cleans all email and instant messaging (IM) attachments, preventing you from receiving viruses, or spreading them to others. With set-it and forget-it functionality, Norton AntiVirus checks for updates continuously and automatically blocks new and emerging threats from getting on your system. In addition to protection updates, Norton AntiVirus provides new product features as available throughout your service subscription.

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Apple iTunes 9.0.3.15

iTunes lets you create your own personal digital music library, allowing you to manage and play your music collection with drag-and-drop simplicity. iTunes, the software part of the equation that lets you pack 7,500 songs in your pocket, automatically synchronizes with the sensational new iPod at high speeds over FireWire. iTunes gives you the ability to generate dynamic Smart Playlists that reflect your preferences and listening habits. With iTunes it’s easy to create CDs that play back on in your car, your home stereo, Macs and on Windows-based PCs. iTunes 4 adds the ability to share music among your Macs, play and encode AAC files, and view album art.

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AnyDVD & AnyDVD HD 6.6.1.6 Beta

AnyDVD is a driver, which descrambles DVD-Movies automatically in the background. This DVD appears unprotected and region code free for all applications and the Windows operating system as well. With AnyDVD's help copy tools like CloneDVD, Pinnacle Instant Copy, InterVideo DVD-Copy, etc. are able to copy CSS protected Movies. You can remove the RPC region code, thereby making the movie region free and viewable on any DVD player and with any DVD player software. With the help of AnyDVD you can watch movies with non matching region codes with every DVD Player Software you like!
AnyDVD is capable of removing unwanted movie features, including subtitles and prohibition messages such as copyright and FBI warnings. It also allows you to launch an external application whenever you insert or remove a disc, or prevent 'PC-friendly'software from automatically launching when you insert a video DVD.
AnyDVD decrypts not just DVDs: AnyDVD allows you also to play, copy and rip protected Audio CDs! Decryption is not all that AnyDVD offers. You can control the drive speed of your DVD drive, allowing you to reduce the noise level when watching movies on your PC. You can even adjust the display frequency of your monitor for both NTSC and PAL displays.

Changes in version 6.6.1.6, 2010 01 31:
- New (HD DVD & Blu-ray): Faster response time when changing settings during scan in progress
* New (Blu-ray): Updated decryption keys
- New (Blu-ray): Added support for new BD+ protections
- New (Blu-ray): Added workaround for District 9 (US) playback problem with PowerDVD
* New (DVD): Added support for new protections
* New (DVD): CSS archive now stores layer break VTS key for increased performance
* New (DVD): CSS keys are always stored, regardless of the "Use CSS archive" setting
* New (DVD): Added workaround to AnyDVD ripper for "Angel & Demons (rental)", Japan
- New: Added more info to logfile
- New: Information window while AnyDVD is scanning discs
- New: Option to enable / disable this window
- New: Workaround for problems with some VMs and certain drives
- New: Create logfiles for empty drives
- New: Better handling of "files in use" during installation
* Change (DVD): CSS archive is enabled by default
- Change: Replaced AnyDVD "Safe Mode" with "Aggressive I/O Mode".
- Note: Aggressive I/O mode is disabled by default. It might be required with some 3rd party software. Please report which programs require it. Thank you!
- New: Added warning message, if applications requiring "Aggressive I/O Mode" are installed
- New: Added option to disable the "Aggressive I/O Mode" warning message
- Fix (DVD): A
I scanner removed non-existant copy protection from "Tomorrow Never Dies", US
- Fix: Driver verifier problem with ElbyCDIO.sys
- Fix: Various potential crashes
- Fix: Changing a disc could be missed while AnyDVD is scanning a disc in another drive
- Fix: Disabling power saving didn't always work
* Some minor fixes and improvements
- Updated languages

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