Convert is a free and easy to use unit conversion program that will convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions!
Convert is FREE (even for commercial users).
The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe.
Choose from a growing number of guided tours of the sky by astronomers and educators from some of the most famous observatories and planetariums in the country. Feel free at any time to pause the tour, explore on your own (with multiple information sources for objects at your fingertips), and rejoin the tour where you left off. Join Harvard Astronomer Alyssa Goodman on a journey showing how dust in the Milky Way Galaxy condenses into stars and planets. Take a tour with University of Chicago Cosmologist Mike Gladders two billion years into the past to see a gravitational lens bending the light from galaxies allowing you to see billions more years into the past.
WorldWide Telescope is created with the Microsoft® high performance Visual Experience Engine™ and allows seamless panning and zooming around the night sky, planets, and image environments. View the sky from multiple wavelengths: See the x-ray view of the sky and zoom into bright radiation clouds, and then crossfade into the visible light view and discover the cloud remnants of a supernova explosion from a thousand years ago. Switch to the Hydrogen Alpha view to see the distribution and illumination of massive primordial hydrogen cloud structures lit up by the high energy radiation coming from nearby stars in the Milky Way. These are just two of many different ways to reveal the hidden structures in the universe with the WorldWide Telescope. Seamlessly pan and zoom from aerial views of the Moon and selected planets, as well as see their precise positions in the sky from any location on Earth and any time in the past or future with the Microsoft Visual Experience Engine.
WWT is a single rich application portal that blends terabytes of images, information, and stories from multiple sources over the Internet into a seamless, immersive, rich media experience. Kids of all ages will feel empowered to explore and understand the universe with its simple and powerful user interface.
Microsoft Research is dedicating WorldWide Telescope to the memory of Jim Gray and is releasing WWT as a free resource to the astronomy and education communities with the hope that it will inspire and empower people to explore and understand the universe like never before.
Simply the most powerful FREE (Non-Commercial Use) backup solution!
Take complete control of your PC’s safety. Based on solid commercial backup and recovery software from Paragon, the new Backup & Recovery 10 Free Edition will give you a rich set of features that you can trust.
Smart people backup; Backup & Recovery is smart backup.
Full Features
Backup Features
Support of all present day techniques to store backup images,
Disk backup to save not only all on-disk information but also the system service structures. It is ideal for making a backup image of an entire hard disk or system partitions to guarantee the operating system’s working capability
Differential backup to a sector image to only archive changes since the last full sector-based image, thus considerably saving the backup storage space. To restore this kind of backup you will require a full image and one of its differentials
Restore Facilities
Restore an entire disk, separate partitions image
Restore with Shrink to restore a backup amount of actual data of the image
Create bootable USB Flash drive, CD or DVD to recover your PC on demand
Advanced Backup Tasks
Differential Partition Backup (Create a differential image of a partition)
Supplementary Tools
Recovery Media Builder: builds a new “recovery media” to boot from in case of an unbootable system
Check Recovery Discs: checks the recovery media for integrity and boot ability
User Friendly Fault Minimizing Interface
Graphical representation of the data to gain a better understanding
Comprehensive wizards to simplify even the most complex operations
A context sensitive hint system for all functions of the program
Previewing the resulting layout of hard disks before actually executing operations (so-called virtual operations)
Partitioning tools
Create Partition
Format Partition
Delete Partition
Assign/Remove Drive Letter
Hide/Unhide Partition
Mark Partition as Active/Inactive
Modify: change volume label,Test Surface
Check File System Integrity
Operations with Archives
Add an archive to the database
Delete the archive from the database
Restore from the selected archive
Restore File From Archive
Differential backup
Check Archive Integrity
Mount/Unmount the archive
System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems
Windows 7 (32/64-bit)
Windows Vista (32/64-bit)
Windows XP Professional SP2 (32/64-bit)
Windows XP Home SP2
Windows 2000 Professional SP4
Supported Hard Drives and Removable Media
Parallel ATA (IDE) HDD
Serial ATA (SATA) HDD
External SATA (eSATA) HDD
SCSI HDD
All levels of SCSI, IDE and SATA RAID controllers
USB 1.x/2.0 and IEEE 1394 (FireWire) devices
PC card storage devices
GUID Partition Table (GPT)
Supported File Systems
NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1)
FAT16
FAT32
Linux Ext2FS
Linux Ext3FS
Linux Ext4FS
Linux Swap
HPFS
Limited read/write access to Apple HFS+ partitions.
System Requirements
CPU: Intel Pentium or compatible, 300MHz or higher processor