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DigiGuide
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Interactive TV Guide
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Free trial, then £6.99 per year
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A replacement for your paper based TV/Radio guide, covering a minimum of 2 weeks, set reminders for
favourite programs, print out customized listings, customize your channels to include / exclude
which ever ones you want. Customize the colours used by each program type (sports, drama, news etc)
so they stand out from the rest .
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Munnin
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Auction Search Tool
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Free Trial Version / Various Versions starting at 10€
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eBay browser & offline database tool.
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MOOBay
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Auction Monitor / Analysis
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Free
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eBay auction monitoring and analysis tools.
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TextPad
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Text Editor
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Nag Screens / £16.50
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A powerful, general purpose plain text editor. Multi Document Interface. Macros.
Complex Search & Replace.
Hex Mode. Recognises HTML & a number of programming languages and colours key words and tags.
Spell Checker. This website is created / edited using this program
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Zone Alarm
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Internet Fire Wall
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Free Version / Pro Version $49.95
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Both the Free and Pro versions of Zone Alarm protect your PC from Hackers trying to
break in
and from spy-ware and Trojans on your PC trying to phone home. The free version should be
suitable for most home users.
If you are in any doubt about if you need a fire wall on your PC visit
GRC Shields Test
and perform the "test my shields" and "probe my ports" tests.
A PC with a fire wall should be undetectable by these tests.
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Ad-aware
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Spyware Detection & Removal
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Free
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Scans you PC for programs which include spyware, malicious cookies and registry settings
and will remove any found.
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Buzof
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Pop-up Window Killer
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Trial Period then $15
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This Program will close pop-up windows and will also click on specified buttons in any
program (useful for those "are you sure" dialog messages where you always press the yes button)
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ThumbsPlus
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Image Management
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Free (with some features disabled) / Full $79.95
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ThumbsPlus is a highly customisable image database / graphics editor application that makes it
easy to catalog and locate, as well as, maintain and modify all your graphics and multimedia files.
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AnalogX Proxy
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Proxy Server
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Free
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The AnalogX Proxy Server allows multiple, networked PC's to share a single Internet connection.
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AVG Anti-Virus System
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Virus Protection
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Free
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Free Virus Protection System, including e-mail scanner on incoming & outgoing e-mails
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CiDial
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Dial-Up Network Connection Manager
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Free
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CiDial will automatically redial your Internet connection, repeatedly retrying until it makes a connection
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distributed.net
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Distributed Computing
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Free
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Distributed.net is one of many Internet projects where
the spare processing power of thousands of
PC's worldwide is used to work on complex problems. The sort of projects which are found typically
involve the testing of a vast amounts of data looking for a single match. The data is split into
individual packets and each PC involved requests a packet of data, works through it, reports its findings
and requests the next packet. Distributed.net is working on a number of complex mathematical problems.
Other distributed computing projects include the Seti Project which is analysing radio telescope data looking
for radio signals from other planets, a human genome project & projects looking for new drugs.
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MailWasher Pro
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Incoming Mail Checker
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30 Day Trial then $29.95
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MailWasher checks your incoming e-mail server(s) looking for junk e-mails. If / when junk mail is
detected you have the option of deleting it from the server or deleting and bouncing it back to the
sender as an invalid e-mail address.
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WS-FTP LE
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FTP Program
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Free
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An FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program is used to copy files to / from a web site. This is an essential tool when creating
web sites or for auction users who host their images on their own web space.
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WinZip
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Zip File Manager
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Free Full Function Evaluation Version
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WinZip can be used to create zip file archives and to extract files from downloaded zip files
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Copernic 2001
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Web Search Tool
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Free / Full Version $39.95
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Copernic 2001 is a Web search tool. Your search is automatically submitted to a number of
web search engines and the results from all the search engines are automatically combined
and prioritised. All searches are automatically saved and can be automatically updated when
the program is next run if required.
The free version can search 'The Web', 'The Web - UK', 'Newsgroups'.
'E-mail Addresses', 'Buy Books', 'Buy Hardware' & 'Buy Software'.
The full version has over 80 more search categories which include 'Auctions', 'Encyclopedias', 'Images', 'MP3' & Many other categories.
Each time the program is run the categorise lists and the sites contained in the current category
are checked and updated if necessary.
The shopping categories in the free version and many of the categories in the full version
are only useful for American users. (For those of you who are like tweaking their programs
elements of this program can be customized via downloadable skins)
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Gif Construction Set
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Animated GIF Maker
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Evaluation / Full Version $20
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Turn a series of images into an animated gif, dozens of options and effects.
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Gutcheck
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eBay Feedback Analysis Tool
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Free
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When you right click on a userID or feedback rating in eBay and take the Gutcheck option in the pop up
menu the program launches and brings up a report on the users feedback which can be sorted / filtered.
An option I use a lot shows only the neutral & negative feedback comments
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Launchmate
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Program Launcher
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Free
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I use Launchmate to provide a simple to use menu system for my children's games, each child has
their own page which shows their games. A useful feature of Launchmate is that it can change the
screen display settings to suit each game and restore the setting back to normal after it is
closed down.
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Password Corral
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Password Manager
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Freeware
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Password Corral keeps all your passwords in its encrypted database, with its own password protected access.
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Winamp
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Media Player
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Free
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Player for many types/formats of multimedia file
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Paint Shop Pro
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Graphics / Photo Editor
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30 Day Evaluation then $99
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A fully featured Image / Photo editing program.
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Photo Resizer
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Photo Resizer
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Free
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This program does just what it says on the box, load a photo and change its height, width & jpg compression level and then either save it or email it
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PhotoGenetics
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Image Manipulation
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Free
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QBeo's PhotoGenetics instantly lets anyone dramatically improve digital images. Enhance
your under-exposed, low contrast, colour-biased, hazy or faded photographs by simply comparing the
original against variations created by PhotoGenetics
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WebMon
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Web Page Monitor
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Free
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This program monitors web pages to see if they have changed.
For auction users it can be set to monitor your items for sale page.
Other applications include
monitoring a sites what's new page, your favourite chat board, a software site for program updates etc etc.
Each monitored page has its own recheck interval of between 1 minute and 30 days and additionally you can specify that the program only checks
part of the page for changes.
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MSGTag
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eMail Read Confirmation
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Free Version / $19.95 / $59.95
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MSGTag Free attaches a 'tag' to your outgoing eMails, when the eMail is opened the
MSGTag service is informed
and they send you an eMail giving you the date and time it was opened. MSGTag Plus ($19.95)
allows you to customize, or hide, the Tag. MSGTag Status ($59.95) has a Dashboard which shows you all
your Tagged
emails which is automatically updated when the message is read and allows you to alter the appearance of the Tag for different recipiants.
Both paid for versions also include Unlimited email technical support.
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ePrompter
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Email Retrieval and Notification
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Free
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Checks and retreives emails from pop3 & web based email services
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