VisualRoute – a visual tracing tool

Visual Route is a graphical traceroute, ping and whois utility that traces IP addresses and domains to their origin and displays the results on a graphical world map. It can identify the physical location of the address down to the city level and provide owner and contact integration via integrated Whois lookup. VisualRoute also helps to analyze Internet connectivity problems, allowing you to detect and document the cause for poor internet connectivity, so you`ll know for sure whether the problem lies within your ISP or is related to other network problems. Additional features include browser integration, zoom enabled world map, application port testing and more.

K-Lite Codec Pack Full 2.81

K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. This Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. You should be able to play all the popular movie formats and even some rare formats.

Ipod killer in 5th Place and even going down in coming days

Microsoft Corp.’s Zune device dropped to fifth place from second in the U.S. market for digital media players in its second week in stores, market researcher NPD Group Inc. said.Zune captured 2.1 percent of the market in the week ended Nov. 25, said Stephen Baker, an analyst at Port Washington, New York-based NPD, in an interview today. Baker said Apple Computer Inc.’s iPod remained the leader, with 39.4 percent that week, based on units sold.

Photoshop CS3 Beta Due Out Friday

Adobe customers will be able to test out the next version of Photoshop, as the company is releasing a beta on its Adobe Labs development site on Friday. The application, due in Spring 2007, will now natively support Intel Macs. Adobe said that only those with a valid serial number from Photoshop CS2 or Creative Suite 2 would be eligible to participate in the beta.