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Excite assistant is an excellent compact Internet utility which includes desktop radio, e-mail notification, news & stock information, search, sports scores, weather and TV. Using this software, you can listen to the Internet radio stations with QuickTime streaming media; receive alerts and summaries for your new e-mail messages; and get personalised news, photos, and stock performance streamed straight to your desktop. With the Excite assistant you can also see TV channels just like they appear on the TV. Just click the TV service provider that you use and the channels appear inside the assistant. This can be downloaded from http://www.excite.com/assist/html/download Mouse assist In a computer, the two most heavily used hardware components are keyboard and mouse. The mouse is used constantly as it is user-friendly and performs a lot of functions. However, the mouse is non-programmed and thus does not work to its optimum potential. With some imagination and mouse assist software, you can enhance the functionality of the mouse and increase the power and productivity of the PC. Using this software, you can train the mouse to recognise mouse clicks used to start and control applications, run various programmes, open files, opening favourite Web sites, and for other useful tasks. For example, if you draw a C using the mouse, then it can guide the mouse to open a calculator. Similarly, there could be several other gestures that could be customised for the mouse to perform a specific task. Thus, this software can really do wonders and add a lot of value to your work. Download this software from http://www.mouseassist.com Fax 2000 The Internet is not just limited to sending and receiving e-mails. In fact, you can also send and receive fax using the Internet. There are several software available on the Net for the purpose of sending and receiving fax. Fax 2000 is a software that is feature packed and offers lot of benefits to the users. Using this software, you can print documents from any application, then e-mail or fax the page images anywhere. You can also forward fax to e-mail addresses and e-mail to fax machines. It is also compatible with virtually any application that is capable of printing. Thus, it may help in saving a lot of communication cost. This software is fully customisable and has features like pulse dial option, wait to connect, wait time to retry busy numbers. You can use this software on Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000 and can download it from http://www.fax2000.com Wireless secretary This is your virtual secretary in the real world. Wireless secretary is extremely useful software, which transmits the Microsoft Outlook appointment, tasks and events, reminders to the hand-held, mobile phone or pager. So, no more missed appointments! No more forgotten tasks! No more missed birthdays and anniversaries as the personal virtual secretary is on the job all time. Moreover, this software can also forward e-mail received by the Outlook Express to the pager or mobile phone. Thus, you can always stay in touch with the office, no matter wherever you are. Using this software, you can send message to any pager or mobile phone and can query for contacts in Outlook. You can also send pages to contacts stored in Microsoft Outlook, and can create appointments in Microsoft Outlook from the Web. As yet another value-added feature, using this software you can query for contacts in Microsoft Outlook from the Web and get the contact business phone number and home phone number sent to your pager. You can download this software from http://www.jtechsoftware.com/WSPRO/WSPro.htm Virtual network computing Virtual network computing is a remote display system, using which you can view a computing desktop environment on any machine from anywhere using the Internet. With the help of this software, you can access a computer from a wide variety of platforms including Unix, Windows and Linux. Use this software to stay in touch with the desk or remotely operate a PC without any problems. This programme is powerful and is capable of delivering results like PC X servers. It has certain advantages. For example with a PC X server, if your PC crashes or is restarted, all remote applications will end. Whereas, with the VNC, they continue to run. This software is small, compact and simple. Moreover it also fully platform independent and above all is sharable. This feature-packed software is free and can be downloaded from http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc System mechanic Like normal machinery, your computer too requires regular grooming and upkeep. Normally, continuous and long use of computer makes it slow as loads of data is written and erased over a period of time. Thus, for regular maintenance of computer, you can use system mechanic. This is an excellent utility and helps you keep computer error free and clean, which in turns makes the PC run faster. This software also boosts up the Internet connection and in certain cases even doubles the speed by fine-tuning the system. It comes with a full suite of ss15 powerful tools, which allows finding and fixing problems with the system, ensuring reliability and speed. Some of the major features of this software are speeding up the Internet connection, clean and optimising the system registry, removing junk and unnecessary files, folders and drivers from the system, which eats up a lot of hard disk space and makes the computer slow and removing invalid uninstaller information among several others. This is a useful utility and can be downloaded from http://www.iolo.com Audiograbber Audiograbber is an excellent software utility, which grabs digital audio files from a CD and copies it onto the hard disk. This does not use the computer’s sound card for grabbing the audio from CD and thus it makes perfect copies of the originals. This software has a function by which it can even perform a test to see that the copies really are perfect. Audiograbber can also automatically normalise the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and send them to a variety or external MP3 encoders, such as Fraunhofers L3enc, or even use some MP3/WMA encoders internally for automatic creation of MP3’s. Using this software you can also download and upload disc info from the Internet compact disc database known as CDDB and can also record your own LP’s and audio cassettes from your Audiograbber and make wav’s or MP3’s. A must-have for all music lovers. Download from http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net Dub it This is multimedia software, which is actually an excellent tool for creative persons. You can add voice and music to videos, photographs and images and can create magic out of it. This software is easy and has a user-friendly VCR-style "media player" interface, which makes it possible for anyone to use it. Unlike other video editors and presentation authoring products, this software adds audio in real-time as you watch the movie or image. Thus it makes the task of dubbing easy even for those who are not very conversant with these kinds of software. Moreover, there is no complicated set-up or long learning curve with Dub it. Using this software you can add audio to the following file types: .avi, .bmp, .gif, and .jpg. The Dub it adds audio to any image copied on the Windows clipboard. It creates a standard .avi movie file that can be played on most Windows systems without any special software. Add your own special effects on the videos and photographs of special occasions in your family like marriages, anniversaries, birthdays etc. Download it from http://www.techsmith.com/products/dubit/default.asp |
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