Free Fully Working Software
Ashampoo WinOptimizer 2007 – Magazine Edition
Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Licence: Full version (Online registration available)
Minimum system requirements: Full administrative rights, 20M RAM, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
Web: www.ashampoo.comÂ
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Clean up, tune and optimise your system to maximum capacity with Ashampoo WinOptimizer 2007 – Magazine Edition. Valued at $US39.99, it’s free to PC User readers this month, thanks to Ashampoo.
Ashampoo WinOptimizer 2007 – Magazine Edition contains a range of tools, including cleaning and tuning tools that help you to fix problems that may be affecting the speed of your computer. There is also a ‘One-Click-Optimization’ option designed for novices, which makes it easy to re-charge your system and give it a new boost of life.
Please note the Magazine Edition of software does not include the Dll Cleaner, Internet Tuner, Disc Space Explorer, Tweaking, Task Planner and Expert-Mode features.
Registration
To register the full version of Ashampoo WinOptimizer 2007 – Magazine Edition, click ‘Get Free Key’ on the registration screen that appears when you first install the program. You will be directed to the Ashampoo Web site to register your details. Your free full-version key will then be sent to your nominated email address. Return back to the Registration Screen and click the ‘Enter Key’ button and enter the Registration Key you were emailed to obtain the full version of software and click the ‘Check Key’ button to obtain the full version of software. Please note that you must be connected to the Internet to register the software.
Special upgrade offer
NetGuide readers can upgrade to Ashampoo WinOptimizer Platinum Suite 3 for only
$US9.99, saving 80% off the retail recommended price of $US49.99, thanks to Ashampoo. To upgrade visit www.ashampoo.com/shop/1306/upgrade_edition and follow the onscreen prompts.
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Ashampoo WinOptimizer Platinum Suite 3
Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Licence: Trial version (40-day limit)
Minimum system requirements: Full administrative rights, 20M RAM, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
Web / trial download: www.ashampoo.com
Upgrade to Ashampoo WinOptimizer Platinum Suite 3 and take advantage of additional modules, increased functionality and an even more user-friendly interface. There are four completely new modules including Tweaking Tools that customise and optimise your Windows system settings. You can now defragment your hard drive, display disk space usage for entire disks and password protect your program so unauthorised users cannot ‘tune’ your system.
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Genie Backup Manager V5.0
Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Licence: Full version (Online registration available)
Minimum system requirements: Pentium processor or above with, 64M RAM, 8M free disk space
Web: www.genie-soft.com
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Backup files, documents, emails, settings, programs and more with Genie Backup Manager V5.0. Valued at $US50.00, it’s free to NetGuide readers this month, thanks to Genie-Soft.
Genie Backup Manager V5.0 allows you to back up files to virtually any local or remote device including internal and external hard disks, FTP sites, across a network, CD/DVD discs, USB keys, as well as tapes.
Registration
To register the full version of Genie Backup Manager V5.0, visit www.genie-soft.com/magazines/netguide.aspx. You will be directed to the Genie Backup Manager V5.0 Web site to register your details. Your free full-version key will then be sent to your nominated email address.
Special Upgrade Offer
If you liked Genie Backup Manager V5.0, then you'll love Genie Backup Manager Pro 7.0. Upgrade to the latest version and receive 35% off the full retail price of $US69.95. To redeem this offer visit www.regsoft.net/purchase.php3?productid=77646&pc=6H61I
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Genie Backup Manager Pro V7.0
Operating system: Windows 2000/XP
Licence: Trial version (15-day limit)
Minimum system requirements: Pentium processor or above with, 64M RAM, 8M free disk space
Web / trial download: www.genie-soft.com
Upgrade to Genie Backup Manager V7.0 and take advantage of great new features including online backup, easy integration, SSL support for email notifications, an enhanced tape backup engine and new 64-bit ZIP compression — so your data takes up less space.
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Ultra Hal Assistant 6.0
Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Licence: Full version (online registration required)
Minimum system requirements: 700MHz processor, 128M RAM, 150M free hard disk space, 3D accelerated graphics card (16M video RAM recommended), sound card
Web: www.zabaware.com
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Ultra Hal Assistant 6.0 acts as your personal assistant and online companion. Currently sold for $US29.95, it’s free for NetGuide readers this month, thanks to Zabaware.
Use Ultra Hal Assistant 6.0 to remember phone numbers, email addresses and street addresses, and to remind you of important dates such as doctor’s appointments, meetings and birthdays. It can automatically dial phone numbers and start emails for you, run programs and even perform an Internet search. Ultra Hal Assistant 6.0 has built-in speech recognition, so you can talk to Hal instead of typing and Hal will speak back to you, drawing from its huge vocabulary and conversational database. In time, Hal will learn every sentence you want, and be able to talk about the same topics as you.
Registration
To obtain the full version of Ultra Hal Assistant 6.0, visit www.zabaware.com/products/netguide.asp and follow the instructions. An activation code will be sent to your nominated email address. Install Ultra Hal Assistant 6.0, click the ‘Purchase Hal’ button that appears onscreen and the Zabaware Product Activision Wizard will start. Click on the ‘I have already purchased Ultra Hal Assistant 6.0 and wish to activate this product' option and the ‘Input/Activation Code’ screen will appear. Type in your serial code (starts with a UH) in the 'Serial Number' field and leave the 'Activation Code' field blank. Click the Next button and choose the ‘Activate automatically over the Internet’ option. You will need to restart your computer to complete the activation procedure. You must register the full version of the software by April 30, 2007.
Special offer
NetGuide readers can receive 15% off the recommended retail price of the following products: Ultra Hal Character Expansion Pack ($US15); Ultra Hal Text-to-Speech Reader with NeoSpeech VoiceText voices ($US24.95) and the Speech Recognition Microphone sold for $US15. To claim your 15% off discount, visit www.zabaware.com/products and add the products you want to your shopping cart, follow the onscreen prompts to continue and enter the coupon code ‘PCU33’.
Ultra Hal Text-to-Speech Reader
Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Licence: Trial version
Minimum system requirements: 700MHz processor, 128M RAM, 50M free hard disk space, sound card
Web / trial download: www.zabaware.com
This application can read your documents out loud in one of its many high-quality voices. It can also be used for reading ebooks, reading clipboard content and reading instant messages. You can save the output as a WAV file, which can be converted into an MP3. The program is also available for purchase by NetGuide readers with a 15% discount, bundled with NeoSpeech VoiceText voices, which are natural sounding and almost indistinguishable from a real human speaker.
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Fine Tuning Tools
XP Tweak Mechanic
Operating system: Windows 98SE/ME/NT/2000/XP
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.xptweakmechanic.com
XP Tweak Mechanic is the best tool designed to improve the performance of your Windows XP operating system by speeding up the start-up process and making the process of shutdown faster.
RegToy
Operating system: Windows XP
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 x86
Web /download: greenfield.kn.googlepages.com/home
RegToy is designed for Windows XP, is used to Tweak Windows XP, plus some utilities.
SpeeDefrag 4.1
Operating system: Windows XP
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.vcsoftwares.com
SpeeDefrag optimises Windows XP defrag by restarting your computer and resetting the RAM, and loads just the defrag.exe program. This imposes minimum load on the system and therefore defragmentation speed is increased. This small software will also shut down or restart your computer automatically once defrag is over.
XtraTools 2006
Operating system: Windows 2000/XP
Licence: Trial version
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.xtratools.com
XtraTools 2006 is a set of applications consisting of more than 20 independent system utilities that are complementary to the standard MS Windows utilities.
TweakNow PowerPack 2006 1.1.8
Operating system: Windows 2000/XP
Licence: Trial version (30-day trial)
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.tweaknow.com
TweakNow PowerPack is a fully-integrated suite of utilities that lets you fine-tune every aspect of your computer's operating system and Web browser.
WinXP Manager 5.0.1
Operating system: Windows XP
Licence: Trial version (15-day trial)
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.yamicsoft.com
WinXP Manager is a system utility that helps you to optimise, tweak and clean up your Windows XP.
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Backup Tools
Allmydata 1.7.5 Beta
Operating system: Windows 2000/XP
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.allmydata.com
Store your data online.
Serial Key Manager 1.5
Operating system: Windows Me/2000/XP
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.dc-studios.net
Serial Key Manager does it all. With an extremely simple GUI (Graphical User Interface) anybody can master it! After using Serial Key Manager, you'll never have to find those pieces of paper or those CD cases with your serial keys on them.
CPPBackup 1.4.5
Operating system: Windows 2000/XP
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.cpplab.net
CPPBackup Software is an easy-to-use program designed to back up your critical data to a local disk, the Network neighbourhood or remote FTP servers.
DirDup 1.0c
Operating system: Windows 2000/XP
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements: Java Virtual Machine
Web /download: www.mishell.ca
Directory duplicator.
Mozy
Operating system: Windows XP
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements: Online registration
Web /download: mozy.com
Mozy Free will safely back up 2GB of your most important documents on two remote computers.
Smart Data Recovery
Operating system: Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.smartpctools.com
Smart Data Recovery is a free data recovery tool for Windows operating system that supports the FAT and NTFS file systems. The software easily recovers data from hard disks, digital cameras, and any type of storage media - flash drives, USB drives, memory stick, PC card, multimedia card, secure digital card and diskette.
Nice One! Backup
Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Licence: Trial version (Limited-use trial)
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.solidsoftware.co.uk
Nice One! Backup is a simple three-step data archiving program that maintains a record of the folder structure of the original files.
UltraSync
Operating system: Windows XP
Licence: Trial version (14-day trial)
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.imaginelan.com
UltraSync is a peer-to-peer, bi-directional PC synchronisation application for synchronising files, folders, Outlook® email, and Internet favourites between any two XP/SP2 PCs via wired or wireless LAN.
Removable media data recovery software
Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Licence: Trial version
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.datarecoverybook.com
Removable media data recovery Software is a data recovery utility which is used in recovering your lost audio video and music files from different media, even when it is corrupted and cannot access directly.
USB drive data recovery software
Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Licence: Trial version
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.datarecoverybook.com
USB drive data recovery software is a non-damaging read-only data retrieval function provider. It is designed to recover missing directories, folders and files information from logically crashed portable drives.
Outlook Express Backup Restore 2.0
Operating system: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Licence: Trial version
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.softstack.com
Create backup archives of all your Outlook Express data and restores the data when it is necessary with just a click of your mouse. This simple easy-to-use utility lets you not only restore your Outlook Express data after a crash, but also transfer your data between different computers when you upgrade hardware. Outlook Express Backup Restore supports multiple user accounts and identities, and allows you to put your data on virtually any storage media including CD and DVD.
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Games
Air Command 3.0
Operating system: Windows
Licence: Demo
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.shrapnelgames.com
Are you ready to take on the air traffic at the toughest airports in the world?
Sid Meier's Railroads!
Operating system: Windows
Licence: Demo
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.sidsrailroads.com
The Golden Age of railroading is back with Sid Meier's Railroads! Combining the best of real-world and model railroads, Sid Meier's Railroads! puts you in charge of building your own railroad empire, running everything from steam-powered locomotives to more modern diesel and electric trains, managing cargo and your bottom line, all while engaging in corporate warfare against rival tycoons, slick entrepreneurs and robber barons.
MEDIEVAL II: TOTAL WAR
Operating system: Windows 2000/XP
Licence: Demo
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.sega.com
Travel to South America and wage war against the Aztecs in the awe-inspiring Battle of Otumba!
Blast Miner 1.05
Operating system: Windows
Licence: Demo
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.blastminer.com
Blast Miner is a physics-based PC arcade game where you use explosives to blast though the earth in search of gold. Taking the role of a crazed miner the player must use TNT, gas cans and stones to set off chain reactions that rip through the ground, exposing and collecting chunks of sweet gold.
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Goodies
Internet Explorer 7
Operating system: Windows XP SP2 or later
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.microsoft.com
The latest version of Internet Explorer featuring a new look, tab browsing, improved printing, and better security.
Forest Clock Screensaver 2.3
Operating system: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/2003
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.clock-desktop.com
This screensaver will carry you away from a bustling ambience of your work to a relaxing forest, where nature is always ready to give you a warm welcome.
Holiday Lights Designer
Operating system: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.holidaysoft.com
Design your own holiday display or just have a lot of fun!
Desktop Christmas Tree
Operating system: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.drive-software.com
Get free Christmas tree for your desktop, then decorate it!
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Mac Stuff
Fine Tuning Tools
AppDelete 1.0.1
Operating system: Mac OS X 10.2 or later; Universal
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: reggie.ashworth.googlepages.com
AppDelete is an application for Macs that will delete the application you choose and any associated items (files and folders) that belong to that application.
You Control 1.4.1
Operating system: Mac OS X 10.4 or later; Universal
Licence: Trial version
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.yousoftware.com
You Control allows you to turn a corner of your Mac into a one-stop information centre. In fact, You Control lets you create custom menus in the menu bar, a corner of your screen or anywhere your mouse is that gives you access to the information that means the most to you.
OnyX 1.7.5
Operating system: Mac OS X 10.4 or later; Universal
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.titanium.free.fr
OnyX is a multifunction utility that allows you to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure certain hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Safari, Dashboard, Exposé, Disk Utility... to delete cache, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome, to see the detailed info of your configuration, to preview the different logs and CrashReporter reports, to check the Preferences files, and more.
Maintenance
Operating system: Mac OS X 10.4 or later; Universal
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.titanium.free.fr
Maintenance is a System Maintenance and Cleaning utility. It allows you to run misc tasks of system maintenance: repair permissions, run periodic scripts, reset Spotlight's Index, rebuild the LaunchServices database, delete Application, Font and System cache, check the status of the Hard disk.
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Back Up Tools
FileSync 1.1
Operating system: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.designersdomain.com
FileSync is a file synchronisation utility. FileSync provides for selective folder and volume synchronisation with networked Macs, external disks, USB flash drives and disk images.
iBackup
Operating system: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later; Universal
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.grapefruit.ch
iBackup is a simple-to-use backup/restore utility. It supports scheduled backups of files, folders and applications.
FoldersSynchronizer 3.6.1
Operating system: Mac OS X 10.4; Universal
Licence: Trial Version
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.softobe.com
FoldersSynchronizer is a nifty and popular utility for Macintosh (Classic and Mac OS X Jaguar, Panther and Tiger) which synchronises and backs up files, folders and disks. The user can choose one or more pairs of files/folders/disks and then they will be synchronised/backed up exactly.
SyncupX 1.6.3
Operating system: Mac OS X 10.4; Universal
Licence: Trial Version
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: freeridecoding.com
SyncupX is a backup application to efficiently sync your files to a backup folder.
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Games
GeoParty! 1.0.2
Operating system: Mac OS X 10.3 or later
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: homepage.mac.com/jonn8/as/html/GeoParty.html
GeoParty! is a great party game but could also be used by teachers to help motivate students by presenting questions & answers in a fun and exciting format.
FizzBall 1.0
Operating system: Mac OS X 10.2 or later
Licence: Trial Version
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: grubbygames.com
Why has everyone fled the islands? There's not a person in sight! Who will feed the animals and find out what scared the people away? Professor Fizzwizzle, of course! Bounce bubbles, rescue hungry animals, and solve a mystery, all at the same time!
Bone: Out from Boneville 1.0
Operating system: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later; Universal
Licence: Demo
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: www.vanbrio.com
As our story opens, Fone Bone is separated from his cousins, Phoney and Smiley, and lost, far from home. His quest to find his cousins and get back to Boneville takes Fone Bone ever deeper into the mysterious valley, encountering new friends, strange creatures, and increasingly dangerous foes.
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Goodies
Star Fire Bubbles
Operating system: Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: homepage.mac.com/coryxrx
A cool screensaver with weird bubbles moving around.
Worldviewer 1.1.2
Operating system: Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Licence: Trial Version
Minimum system requirements:
Web /download: pliris-soft.com
See the world on your desktop with real-time cloud maps, recent earthquakes, current tropical storms, and your local weather forecast.
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Downloads - Windows Tune-Up
WinPatrol - 10.0.5
Price: Free
Platform: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Web / download: www.winpatrol.com
Although WinPatrol is free, it's a powerful aid to keeping your Windows system problem-free. The program acts as a watch-dog, letting you know what programs and processes are running, and alerting you if any of them seem to be suspicious. You can open WinPatrol to see what programs run at StartUp, and disable those you don’t need – you'll find that this alone will speed up your computer, because many programs run "fast start" versions of themselves at startup, without you being aware. Each time a change occurs on your system, WinPatrol will let you know.
Registry Mechanic 5.2
Price: Trial, then USD $29.95
Platform: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Web / download: www.pctools.com
Every program on your PC writes information to the Windows Registry (a database which tracks all the programs on your computer), and over time, your Registry becomes very cluttered and slows down your computer. If you've been experiencing crashes and slow-downs, the problem may lie with the Registry. Registry Mechanic takes charge of your Registry, cleaning it with a few mouse clicks. The program requires no special knowledge, so it's ideal for novice users. In addition to cleaning, it fixes Registry errors, and optimizes your PC's performance.
Advanced WindowsCare Personal 2.01
Price: Free
Platform: Windows 2000/XP
Web / download: www.iobit.com/AdvancedWindowsCarePersonal/index.html
Advanced WindowsCare Personal is a free, all-in-one optimizing and protection utility for your computer. The program removes spyware and adware, and repairs and speeds up your system, with a one-click solution. Just open the program, press Start, and your PC is protected and optimized. If you're a new computer user, the program will show you errors on your system, and take care of them for you. If you're an experienced user, Advanced WindowsCare Personal saves you time – no need to tinker with your system.
TweakRAM - 5.8.10.13
Price: Trial, then USD $19.95
Platform: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Web / download: www.elcor.net/tram.php
TweakRAM optimises your Windows memory. It's a valuable computing aid because so many Windows programs either hog memory, or don't close properly – when you close them they leave libraries open, causing a drain on your system and making Windows either slow down, or hang. TweakRAM defragments available RAM in the background as you work, and ensures that when you close a program, all the bits and pieces are closed with it. TweakRAM speeds up your system and minimises problems, so it's ideal not only for older systems, but also new ones.
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Downloads - Recipes/Fun/Games
Easy Recipe Deluxe 1.6.257
Price: 30-day trial, then USD $30
Platform: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Web / download: www.wensoftware.com/EasyRecipe
Easy Recipe Deluxe is a complete recipe and cooking management system which includes a nutritional database. You can view recipes in various ways: by cooking style, or by ingredients, for example, and can add images to them. Choose the recipes you want to cook for the following week, and a shopping list is automatically created for you. You can create as many cookbooks (files) as you wish, and transfer recipes between them. One of the program's most useful features is the print options: print on any size of paper, including index cards.
Dannon Recipe Box - 1.0.0.27
Price: Free
Platform: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Web / download: tinyurl.com/a99x4
Dannon Recipe Box looks just like a real recipe box, with cards that contain your recipes. The cards are large, and easy to read, so you can take your laptop to the kitchen, or you can print out the cards as you need them – you can even send recipe cards to your friends from within the program. You can search your recipes in many different ways, including: by name, course, ingredients, and season. Although this program doesn't have all the features of a shareware program, it's useful, attractive, and free.
WordBanker VB English 1.0.1
Price: Limited trial for seven days, then £9.95
Platform: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Web / download: www.catalyst-projects.com/index.htm
WordBanker VB English helps you to improve your vocabulary: it tests you in sessions of 20 words. This version of the program is meant for people who are learning English as a second language. If you're learning another language, it's available in French, Spanish, German, and several other languages: you can download these versions from the developer's Web site. The trial version is limited to 240 words, while the full version has 1500. Since all words can be edited, you can enter your own words.
ChinaFood Recipe 2.2
Price: Free
Platform: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Web / download: www.chinarecipe.net
Although ChinaFood Recipe is a work in progress – some of the functions like printing a cookbook and creating a Web page don't work – it's an excellent free program if you love Chinese cooking. The recipes are easy, and suitable for home cooking, even if you're completely new to Chinese cooking. The recipes include many popular dishes like garlic prawns, spring rolls, and pork in sweet and sour sauce. There's an excellent range of desserts too, with unexpected dishes like Custard Tarts and Sweet Potatoes in Syrup.
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Downloads - Internet
Copernic Desktop Search - 2.01 Build 2513
Price: Free
Platform: Windows 2000/XP
Web / download: www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/index.html
Copernic Desktop Search brings Internet-style searching to your Windows desktop. The program maintains an index of all the information on your computer: document files, email messages, contacts, and music and video files. Once your data has been indexed, search results are almost instant. The program even searches your browser bookmarks and history. This latest version of the program offers significant speed enhancements, a new "All" search category, so that you can search all file formats, plus image thumbnails, so you can view images in the search results browser.
Notefish Firefox Extension 1.0.1.8
Price: Free
Platform: Windows 2000/XP
Web / download: www.notefish.com
Notefish helps you to stay organised. You can save any snippets of information that you find on any Web page onto a single page. It's ideal for developing information that you want to share with others, or that you want to organize. When you install it, this extension is always available, and you can create as many Notefish pages as you need. You can customise your pages by moving snippets with drag and drop ease, tagging them so that they're easy to find. You need to create a free account at Notefish to use this extension.
Avant Browser 11.0 build 21
Price: Free
Platform: Windows 98/ ME/NT/2000/XP
Web / download: www.avantbrowser.com
This is the latest version of the Avant Browser, a small, fast browser which comes with built-in Yahoo and Google search engines, making it ideal for students and business users. You'll love this browser if you're on an older machine, because you can turn off Flash animations with a Flash animation filter, you can also turn off pictures, sounds, and can block ActiveX components. Avant Browser offers multiple-window browsing, plus built-in feed reading with an RSS/ Atom Reader. The program's best feature: the full-screen mode, so you can see more of the Web pages you're browsing.
Ad Annihilator 2.4.7
Price: 15-day trial, then USD $29.97
Platform: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Web / download: adannihilator.com
If you're really sick of ads, or are on an older computer and ads are destroying your browsing, Ad Annihilator may provide a solution. It kills all kinds of advertising: flash, images, popups, and banners. You can block specific kinds of ads with keyword strings, and can save these, so that you'll never see these kinds of ads again. The program includes an offline browser, which is just a way of browsing your cache, but this can save time when you're on an older machine, or if you don't currently have a connection. A bonus for Web developers, Ad Annihilator lets you save document versions.
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Downloads - Consumer/ Productivity
Papel - 6.10.10
Price: Free
Platform: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Web / download: homepage.ntlworld.com/michael.odonnell617/index.html
Papel is a unique, free writing tool. It's ideal for creative writers, but it's also useful if you need to write regularly for work, whether to create presentations, or to write reports. Papel uses a workspace metaphor, with your writing taking place in "papels" icon-spaces that you can arrange and rearrange, as you link, merge and compile them. Papel mimics the way your brain works, and allows you to free-associate between the various sections of your work, which makes you more creative. The biggest benefit of Papel is that the program makes writing fun.
101 Clips - 6.72
Price: Free
Platform: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Web / download: 101clips.com/freeclip.htm
101 Clips is a simple free utility which saves the last 30 items that you've copied to the Windows clipboard. It's very handy if you're collecting information from the Internet, or copying from different documents. In addition to text, 101 Clips copies screen captures and graphics. The program is Outlook compatible, so to send a image with an email message, just paste the image into the message. If you need more, the Pro version offers clipboard cataloguing – you can create clip databases to reuse information.
Free MP3 Recorder - 1.0
Price: Free
Platform: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Web / download: www.wordaddin.com/mp3recorder
As its name suggests, Free MP3 Recorder records computer audio to mp3 or WAV files. You can record almost anything – game sounds, VOIP chats via microphone, online radio, CDs, etc. The major benefit of the program is that the audio is recorded on the fly, without a temporary file. The interface is attractive, and intuitive. Just make your recording choices via the Record From and Record To buttons, and press Record. Both students and business people will find Free MP3 Recorder useful – it's a simple and elegant solution if you want to record quickly and cheaply.
BookDB - 2.1.55
Price: Free
Platform: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Web / download: www.spacejock.com/BookDB.html
Although BookDB is a simple database, it's ideal for tracking your books, whether because you just have a lot of books, or you're studying and need to track your research library. You can enter all important book details: title, author, publisher, and category, and can print them out. You can also add lender details to each book – who borrowed the book, and when – which may help you to round up all the books you've lent to people over the years. The program has been designed to catalogue large libraries, so you can easily enter thousands of books without the program choking – it's been tested on a library of 30,000 books.
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