Brand new AKS-Labs projects

AKS Word Count freeware tool released. The product counts words, characters and paragraphs in PDF, Word, Excel, HTML, Open Office, PowerPoint, RTF
New niche-oriented blogs were started: Crisis Management Tools, Finance Scorecards and Metrics, CRM Metrics, Scorecard Reports and Case Studies Blog.
AKS Desktop Cleaner is a software designed to help home users and business professionals to clear their desktop from unnecessary files.
AKS Text Replacer - is a powerful text replace utility, before replacement it can show preview and ask for your confirmation
Detailed review of key aspects in HR: Hire, Train, HR Management, Holiday, Retire
How to do incremental backup or upload changed files online.
What is software interface test? Learn more about interface tests automation. RoutineBot is a software interface test automation tool.
Do you know where do you spend the most of your computer time?
Improve your HR department performance with Balanced Scorecard software
How-to guide on style, answers questions like how to match tie and shirt - joint project with our partners.
Review of software tools for image watermarking - protected and brand your pictures, screenshots.
Measure and control Call Center and Help Desk performance
Shred Agent file shredder is a completely new approach to file security, file shredder works in background mode now;
Reviews of compare and merge tools. AKS-Labs sponsored the professional reviews of compare and merge tools at difftuils.com;
Keyboard Layout manager for these who use more than two keyboard layouts.
EuroOut - non-profit project about exhibitions and art events in Europe and Prague
RecentCleaner - check and clear recently accessed files list;
Find and remove duplicates from the Excel list

Balanced Scorecard Designer - a Balanced Scorecard metrics support software.

BSC Designer is a balanced score card (BSC) support software. It was designed to help building balanced score card.

Balanced Scorecard is a conception that transforms strategy to action. Balanced Scorecard is a set of principles that facilitate the understanding of business strategy and goals. BSC is a methodology that converts strategy into real action.

BSC Designer software is a tool that supports building a Balanced Scorecard system for a company, department or for a sole person. This program helps to build a system that will make it easy to go from strategy to action. More information at metrics forum.

WatchOverEnergy - energy tracking and management software. This is a freeware tool that address energy lost problem. It will help to setup a friendly function to manage monitor stand-by mode.

Unless standard means in your system, it will not turn your monitor off when you just don't move your mouse or hit any key. You will be able to specify exception list programs, so it will not turn your computer off when you are watching movie.

Also, it's a great idea to know about how much dollars you save when your monitor is off. WatchOverEnergy program will calculate this for you too.

Compare Suite is a file and folder comparison tool with merge and reporting abilities.

It deals with plain text, binary files and office documents (.doc, .xls, .pdf, .htm files).
If you work with plain text, then you can edit compared documents, apply or decline changes.
Finally, you can bring comparison details to report.

Ask a question in Compare Suite forum or view Forum Archive. There is also a freeware version of Compare Suite.

QuickWiper is a file security solution that allows to keep your sensitive files secure. QuickWiper includes:

File wiper, designed to delete files totally so they could never be undeleted.
Wipe free disk space function that wipes all previously deleted files.
System Cleaner will erase your internet activity details - cookies, history, IE cache, typed URLs.

Additional information: QuickWiper Forum (Forum Archive)

Mind Pad - easy mind map software. Mind Pad allows to create mind maps basing not just on creating and linking text blocks. Mind Pad allows organize in mind maps objects with any properties set.

Learn more about mind mapping in Mind Pad Blog.

File Search Assistant is a file and text search utility with indexing ability. With Files Search Assistant you can search text in plain text files, htm files, together with office documents -- MS Office files (.doc and .xls) and Adobe Acrobat files (.pdf). How to save time with File Search Assistant.

Check file search blog for tips and ideas

Disk Search Assistant - utility designed to search for text files over hard disks and network. Supports Word, Excel, PDF and Web-Pages.

PDF Search Assistant - search for PDF files on local disks and across a network.

Index Search Assistant - Index Search Assistant, a Windows utility designed to search for text in index files.

PDF Index Assistant - PDF Index Assistant, a Windows utility designed to create and search in index of Adobe Acrobat PDF files.

Additional information:

Search Utilities Forum (Forum Archive)

Find Protected is a Windows utility designed to search for password protected files on local disks and across a network. This utility aims to protect your company from electronic data leakage and reveal inappropriate use of sensitive files. With Find Protected, IT administrators can do a deep inspection of employees' files to enforce an intelligent data security policy across their organizations.

Some ideas about making security audit. People must feel that company trust them and on the other hand company must control if all employees understand in what way security information must be kept and used. Read more...

Shred Agent is a hardware-level file shredder utility that runs in the background and allows to wipe even temporary files.

Shred Agent works on hardware level, thus wiping the files completely, eliminating the possibility of ever recovering them. What makes it different from most file wiping utilities currently available on the market is the capability to control the wiping of files in the background. For example you can configure the corresponding filters to wipe temporary file created by office programs.

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Applied Computer Security

Advanced PDF Manager is a set of PDF management tools. Advanced PDF Manager includes:

Compare PDF - this utility allows to company Adobe Acrobat PDFs and compare folders with PDF files;
PDF Search - this utility allows to search for PDF files on local hard disks and across the network;
PDF Index - this tool allows to create an index of PDF files and search in it;
PDF2TXT - converts Adobe Acrobat PDF to plain text files; Batch converting and command line interface supported;

PDF2TXT - convert Adobe Acrobat PDF file into text. Batch conversion and command line interface supported.

February 10, 2006 - Presentation Time Meter released. Use this tool to make sure your presentation speech is prepare well. Trace the time taken to comment every presentation slide. Use report to improve your total time and create more effective presentation speech.

August 9, 2005 - FindForum freeware tool released. FindForum is a freeware utility designed to find popular forum-based communities. We often need to ask for advice, for most cases on-line communities is a right place to go. With FindForum you can find forums and learn if they are popular.

The review of file comparison programs We downloaded and compared the latest versions of popular file comparison programs: Beyond Compare, Diff Doc, Compare It!, Merge, Compare Suite. We reviewed product's pricing, common and unique features. Read this review and to find out what is the best tool for your very needs.( PDF:163k).

Find key ideas and benefits of Compare Suite

Most comparison tools work as advertised, but with Compare Suite your work is getting interesting and pleasant. With Compare Suite you can concentrate on what you do best. Find key ideas and benefits are on our web-site.( PDF:19k).

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Compare PDF is a Windows program designed to compare Adobe Acrobat PDF files.

It supports similar and non-similar PDFs. Also, it can compare folder with PDF files and create a comparative report.

Task Export is a Windows utility designed to create a set of tasks from the Outlook task folder.

Do you ever get tired of your Task folder filling up with many records related to different projects or people? Can you afford the time to read all of these task items? It would be much simpler to arrange these tasks into a more structured sets of tasks.