The Auslogics Disk Defrag software is a popular hard disk defragmentation tool and many users who like it will probably also find the Registry defragmentation tool useful. The Windows Registry is not defragmented during hard disk defragmentation because it is not possible to defragment files that are open for exclusive access.

Auslogics Registry Defrag reduces the size of the Registry by defragmenting it which has the effect that the Registry will take up less memory when Windows is running which does increase system performance including boot time. The tool initially scans the Windows Registry and displays a report of the fragmentation level of the Registry afterwards.

It is recommended by the application to close all open applications to maximize the effectiveness of the Registry scan. Once started the mouse cannot be moved outside of the program’s interface and even the usual ALT TAB or Windows keys are disabled. The user has the option to quit the application at any time or proceed with the defragmentation which requires a system restart.

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Do you want to take a bomb and destroy the whole of Flickr? Well, no luck then, but if you want a cool way to navigate through your pics and even download them, Destroy Flickr is a great Adobe Air based application to try.

Once you enter and verify your information, you can immediately access some basic information about your profile, latest added, and whole photo database. You can choose to view a load of your photos on one page, or just go one by one. A skew is randomly applied to each pic, which some people will find cool (I do), others won’t be thrilled, but it’s small enough not to matter if you don’t like it.

What I love about Destroy Flickr is that it gives you an easy way to download an upload files. Just punch up the upload menu at the bottom, or drag and drop pics into the download box in the corner. It also syncs to your account with the push of a button, so if you upload stuff from the main page you can still quickly refresh.

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Resolution Changer is a neat software for Windows that can change the screen resolution temporarily or permanently. The author created the application at first for his children who were playing around with software that required a resolution of 640×480 and he did not want to change the resolution manually whenever they wanted to run their application.

The software has grown since then and some interesting features have been added to it. Resolution Changer can now change the desktop height, width, color depth and refresh rate on single or multi-monitor systems temporarily or permanently via the command line.

There are two main applications for this software. The first is if the monitor is always starting in the wrong resolution. This can happen with LCD TVs that the computer is connected to for instance. Just run Resolution Changer at startup to force the right screen resolution.

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Something that is more fun than anything else is a function to convert images to html. I cannot think of any other reason but to post it on some forums or websites as entertainment. It is definitely looking nicely and the program that I’m going to introduce right now has a lot of additional options that affect the html output.

Image 2 HTML is a software that can process any number of images and convert them directly into HTML files that can be posted on websites. The quality of the output is excellent, you can take a look at a small sample gallery here. The image is converted into a fully colored HTML file using chars defined by the user. This would probably make an excellent surprise for the misses if you convert an image showing the both of you with the chars Iloveyou or something similar.

Back to the tool. The background color, width, char size and char-set can be defined as well as some additional effects like mirroring the image or inverting it.

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Skype just recently the first beta of their new Skype 4.0 client that is currently only available for Windows. The focus of this release is to receive user feedback to work further on the client and provide a release version after the summer. Major changes have been made to the interface which comes completely redesigned and provides fullscreen access to the features.

Skype 4.0 is missing several essential features when it is compared to the current release version 3.8 of the VOIP client for Windows. Among other functions Skype Prime, the History, Sending Contacts and Skypecasts are missing in the initial 4.0 release of Skype. A full list of features currently missing from the beta release can be seen at the Skype announcement of this version.

This essentially means that if one of the features is a requirement for your work you should wait with the upgrade until they have implemented it. The new version overwrites the old one and there is no obvious way to go back to the old version of Skype once the beta has been installed on the system.

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