You thought you will never going to need it. However, when you lost it and require it, you cannot find it. Anyway, I am referring to the Product Key that comes with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office when you first purchased the softwares. So, while turning the house upside down searching for the 20-plus serial numbers and letters, alternatively you can try ProduKey which recovers your Product CD Key instantly.

ProduKey is a small utility that displays the ProductID and the CD-Key of Microsoft Office application, Windows operating system, Exchange Server, and SQL Server installed on your computer.

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Linux users can never not know what GCC means. GCC, GNU Compiler Collection, is a package that includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj,…).

The GCC developers and the GNU Project team have announced the latest release of GCC 4.1.1. The change log over the previous version of GCC 4.1 is found here.

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Nullsoft Winamp has released the next version of multimedia player, Winamp 5.22. Winamp is a multimedia player allowing users to playback audio and video files, supporting several file formats.

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Yes, if you look carefully at the naming, I find it strange myself too. It is called 2007 Microsoft Office Systems Beta 2, with the year 2007 in front. However, with all due respect, Microsoft has announced publicly that the long awaiting beta version of Microsoft Office 2007 is available to be downloaded for trial.

Microsoft perceives 2007 Microsoft Office system to take over its predecessor, Microsoft Office 2003 early next year when it is rumoured to be launched publicly at the same time with Windows Vista, the next generation Windows operating system.

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Enjoy taking lots of photographs? Do you like to have pictures that reveal a 360 degree image of the pictures? Some users may try to use image editing softwares to try and create a panorama view of the pictures, such as Photoshop. However, such softwares are not specialised in doing these works. If you are into panoramic pictures, then you should give a try on PanoramaStudio.

PanoramaStudio creates seamless 360 degree and wide angle panoramas from sets of photos, offering automatic stitching, enhancing and blending of the images. Thus, users do not need to undergo the pain of merging pictures themselves.

PanoramaStudio can also detect lens correction and focal length. The Exif data of the images will also be processed. Therefore more than 600 digital cameras are already stored in the internal database.

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Besides Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, the next most popular web browser software has to be Opera. Opera 9.0 Beta 2 has been released to public for download, since the last release I had reviewed.

Opera 9 Beta 2 includes Widgets, content blocker and BitTorrent.

So, if you don’t want to miss out these good stuffs, download it today.

Note: This is a beta release, and it may contains bug. Do not install on your production machine.

Besides MSN messenger and Yahoo messenger, the ICQ has been around more than a decade, and I considered ICQ to be one of the most popular Internet Messaging client ever since it was out in the public.

Unlike MSN messenger and Yahoo messenger which defines users by email address and a Yahoo user id, each ICQ user is given a number instead, to uniquely identify itself on the ICQ network. I’m not quite sure what’s the number length now for a new registered user, but mine was basically 7 digits long when I first registered, and the last person I know has a 9-digit identification number.

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It is time to give your Windows desktop a new look. Aston 1.92 Beta 3 is a new Desktop and Shell replacement just for your Windows operating systems. It replaces the standard Windows Desktop, and on top of that, provides you with a new features such as Sidebars, clock, weather monitoring capability, animated buttons and transparency effects.

With Aston, you are allowed to change the appearance and functionality according to your likings, with various different visual styles and themes.

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Are you an intending to set up an Internet Kiosk? Or do you have an Internet Cafe business. Do you find much difficulties to maintain and keep track of your customer using the computers and logging them on and off, as well as the rate you are charging per customer? Well, look not much futher, as CaféTimePro is a very useful software for anyone who wishes to have a Internet cafe business.

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Ubuntu is a really funny Linux distribution, in my opinion. For the past several months, Ubuntu Dapper Drake has 6 Alpha and 2 Beta releases, i.e. Flight 1 – 6 and Beta 1 & 2. Now, just published over the website, Ubuntu 6.06 is going to backward to Alpha version, Ubuntu Dapper LTS (Long Term Support) Flight 8!

The documentation is currently not available for Flight 8 but the release is already available. More information is available here.

CD Image Source: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/dapper/flight-8/

Note that this is still in developement stage, and it is advised that users do not install it into production machines.

This is reported to be in the final stage of the development, hence the final stable version will be released in June of 2006.