Web surfers, whether hardcore business professionals or amateur Web site creators, frequently find images online either through search engines or Web page browsing. However, in most cases, these images are not free to use. Maybe the photographer who created the image would be open to selling rights for a small fee; perhaps he or she only wants attribution but no pay. In any case, the Internet lacks a standardized method to ensure that intellectual property owners get the recognition and/or payment they are due.

Today’s enterprises are clamoring for software applications that run in a wide variety of environments — everything from physical to virtual to cloud. If you are a software vendor, how do you make it easy to give them what they want? You could hand customers your software on a CD and let them figure it out. However, in this environment, independent software vendors that find ways to help their customers get where they need to go earn big dividends in terms of market adoption and revenue.

Less than a week after Google released the code for its Chrome OS, Dell announced that it has succeeded in getting the operating system up and running on its Mini 10v netbook. “Without a network connection, ChromiumOS is not very interesting,” company blogger and technology strategist Doug Anson wrote on the Direct2Dell blog last week. “With a network connection, ChromiumOS shines. The Chromium browser is extremely fast and makes for a great web-centric browsing experience.”

Image Resizer is a handy freeware that resizes images and converts them between different formats. With Image Resizer you’ll be able to send photos via email, move them from one folder to another or free space on your hard drive.The utility will convert any image (bmp, jpeg, gif, png) into any formats (from 320×200 to 1600×1200 and even Ipod photo and video, Sony PSPS, HDTV and DVD). The reduced file size of images enables faster loading, better management of the pictures and saves space. You will be able to send your images with a smaller size (weighing less) by email, something that was hardly possible with the original files. Depending on your needs, you can choose the resolution and the quality of the images you want to compress. Whether you want to send, move, shrink or enlarge a single picture or a whole batch, Image Resizer will do the job in one click.

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This cutting-edge backup software allows you to make a backup of your PC with the OS and apps. The brand-new Acronis True Image 2009 is the solution youve been waiting for. In case of a system crash you’ll be able to restore your hard disk and particular files in minutes. Your docs, music, photos, Outlook e-mails just all your data and configurations will be recovered. No reinstallations, only a few mouse clicks and there you are up and running again. With ATI 2009, data loss is no threat anymore.

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Desktop Earth is a wallpaper generator for Windows. It runs whenever you’re logged on and updates your wallpaper with an accurate representation of the Earth as it would be seen from space at that precise moment. Images are created from high-resolution textures (2560×1280) so it’s perfect for that QSXGA display – but they work on anything, even on SVGA. There is an image for every month to accurately depict snow and foliage changes, and the night view is simply stunning.

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Capture it all – images, scrolling areas, video and audio. Innovative features make it fast and easy. You’ll love our pop-out capture bar, speedy predictive capture tool, fully automatic bi-directional scrolling, and flexible full-screen preview. Simple tools, visible over any background, guide you through the three quick steps. Time-saving innovations include sticky notes, a thumbnail viewer, a precision frame tool, and programmable hot keys.

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Snagit: Capture your digital lifestyle. Capture anything you see on the screen. Edit and combine those captures. Share them via your favorite applications. Organize and find them again later. The more you use Snagit, the more ways you’ll find to use it! Want to get a laugh? Add a speech balloon to that photo of your cat and fire it off in an instant message. Need to make an impression at work? Capture that sales chart and point out important details with a sleek-looking arrow.

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