ISDNphone

ISDNphone, the powerful Software-ISDN-Phone, makes your PC ready for computer-telephony! Using your hardware ISDN-adapter, you can now make phone calls from your PC.

The graphical user interface is easy to use and can be controlled by mouse and/or keyboard. Make phone calls from the built-in phonebook (including speed dial), or from external applications using TAPI or the command-line. Voice data can be recorded and stored on disk.

WinZip Pro 2010

Building on the favorite features of a worldwide base of several million users, WinZip 12 adds new features for image compression and management, support for new compression methods, improved compression performance, support for additional archive formats, and more. Users can work faster, smarter, and safer.

Eraser

This free file shredder is by and large a solid find. Eraser's all-business interface won't win any design awards, but it's mostly convenient to use, allowing you to add files or folders to be deleted via drag-and-drop transfers. However, since the program lacks a dedicate deletion button or icon, you'll have to dig through the menu items to actually erase data. This misstep is somewhat negated by the fact that Eraser integrates into the Windows' context menu, letting you shred files via a right click. We're glad to see the program lets you choose from four secure government-sanctioned deletion algorithms, and we appreciate the inclusion of a scheduler, handy for routinely wiping free disk space. In our tests, Eraser got rid of a 1GB file in 10 minutes--impressive, considering we employed the most secure deletion method. Anyone seeking to eradicate documents for good should take a long look at this freebie.

Hotspot Shield 1.34

This freeware program promises to encrypt all your Internet connections, but since most public wi-fi access points in the U.S. are open, it's a bit hard to gauge Hotspot Shield's effectiveness. However, the connection itself is a bit wonky.

Once the program is installed, it creates an HTML link on your desktop. Double-clicking on it will open the application in your Web browser, and you'll be taken to a page detailing your Connection Status, IP Address, Server Address, Bytes sent and received, and the duration of the connection. Hotspot Shield is ad supported, so you'll get a big banner ad that lives at the top of every Web page, too. Closing the tab with the app's control panel doesn't disconnect the shield, though: for that, or to reload the control panel, you have to go through the green shield icon that gets loaded into your system tray. Also, there's a 5 GB transfer limit.

BlueGem Total Privacy

BlueGem Total Privacy Google apps Edition provides a patented, multi-layered, keystroke encryption and anti-theft protection to Google apps. It encrypts all keystrokes between the keyboard and the web browser (Google apps), which safeguards your critical information such as ID/Password, Gmail, Google Docs. The protection automatically recognizes when you visit Google domain; no need to tell the software. It is an automatic protection. The advantages of Total Privacy Google apps Edition include: encrypting every keystroke with a 128 bit encryption technology, no system reboot, the encrypted keystrokes routed through a secondary data channel and then is decrypted at the browser, provides protection deep in the OS kernel level against extremely stealthy malware. Total Privacy Google apps Edition is strong, fast, and easy-to-use and its encryption technology is used as a primary transaction security solution by numerous global companies. Now, you can experience this powerful anti-theft technology on your Google apps.