This week’s Deal Of The Week at your Softwareload Shop is the very popular Uniblue RegistryBooster 2010, the first choice in registry optimisation and error detection. Uniblue RegistryBooster cleans, repairs and optimises your PC system, freeing it from registry errors and fragmented entries. Advanced error-detection technology, comprehensive registry optimisation and swift registry error solutions are some of the few things Uniblue’s RegistryBooster has to offer. Get your download copy now for the massive sale price of £11.90 (£15 off the RRP!) at Softwareload today, and for more information, read more

This week’s Deal Of The Week at your Softwareload shop is Perfect PDF 6 Premium, the definitive all-rounder for PDF-related tasks. Convert different documents into PDF files, change their properties, edit content, annotate documents, design, password-protect and digitally sign them, as well as create and fill out forms. Perfect PDF 6 Premium creates PDFs from any application that can print, as well as directly from Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office. Get your download copy this week from your Softwareload Shop for the discount price of £39.90, saving you £30 on the RRP! For more product information, read more

Microsoft is preparing to release a bumper sized patch bundle for the latest ‘Patch Tuesday’, fixing security holes and vulnerabilities in a broad spectrum of software across a large amount of the company’s operating system product range, listed in a bulletin update on its tech support site on the 2nd August.The record breaking update is scheduled to include a whopping 14 security bulletins, fixing a MS best-of amount of 34 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, Internet Explorer and Silverlight. Microsoft hasn’t addressed this many vulnerabilities in a single month since June 2010, but only released 10 bulletins. read more

Just when Adobe thought the worst was behind them, latest security research has discovered that the floodgates to Adobe Reader’s previous vulnerability issues in Adobe Reader are far from closed. The latest issue allows intruders to inject computers with malicious code by luring users to open rigged files. read more

Good news for forbidden fruit enthusiasts – Microsoft Office for Mac should be available at the end of October at impressively low prices, comparable to those of its Windows OS counterpart. Users buying Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac between now and Office 2011 for Mac’s launch will also qualify for a free upgrade post-launch. read more

Microsoft has released an emergency patch ahead of schedule rectifying a critical vulnerability being exploited to install malware on a wide selection of supported versions of the Windows operating system. There has been much pressure for the past 3 weeks to provide users with more than just a quick fix for the vulnerability, especially due to its critical nature, manipulating  infrastructures such as gas, refineries, power plants and much more. read more

This week’s deal of the week is a great opportunity for Mac users looking for a solid answer to NTFS compatibility problems to get their hands on a powerful piece of software for a really low price. Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X 8.0 is one of the only NTFS drivers on the market that provides full read/write access to NTFS with the same high speed as native HFS+ files, with a built-in “HFS+ for Windows” for  effective two-way communication between Mac OS X and Windows. Get your copy at the Softwareload Shop this week for just £14.90! For more information on Paragon’s NTFS for Mac OS X 8.0, read more

Microsoft has released a beta version of its first Service Pack for Windows 7 . SP1 beta, including a beta download for Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 to save on individual download and deployment time. Another justification why both SP betas were released in one bundle could be the actual lack of really new updates. The Windows 7 SP beta release is a compilation of all released updates to date and is also advised by Microsoft as not being of great use Home users, with the only “new” features included in the service pack being Dynamic Memory Overview and RemoteFX Overview, tools focussed on Windows Server platform advancement for improving virtualisation in 2008 R2. read more

The end is nigh for Windows XP Service Pack 2, with support from Microsoft ending next Tuesday, as scheduled. Users should be aware that this means there will be no more updates or security patches for the products, compromising future protection of systems running XP SP2. Users are advised to ensure they download SP3 as soon as possible, with some support still being provided. read more

There were a lot of mixed feelings about Thunderbird 3.0, and certainly a wealth of glitches, bugs and core issues that needed to be resolved for an otherwise more than satisfactory alternative to other paid solutions such as MS Outlook. Thunderbird 3.1 however promises its users that the days of bugged usage are indeed over. Not only is the new version far more Gmail friendly (avoiding several annoying and time-consuming hang ups), but it also comes with a more powerful and superior search tool, as well as a new Quick Filter tool for filtering messages. read more