Monday, January 22, 2001		Downloads of the week

A large number of persons today use computer for the purpose of e-mail and instant communication with others. Though there are several software for this purpose but most of them are either e-mail clients only or instant messenger. However, there are only a few e-mail clients, which are instant communicators also. E-Popup is one such e-mail and network popup consolidator. This software is basically a one-stop instant communications solution and can be used on the Intranet as well as Internet and thus supports instant communication, both in office environment and with other computers located anywhere in the world through the Internet. Using this software, you can receive even large messages with ease as it has its own text editor where you can create messages of any size. Moreover, you can also use text editor for highlighting hyperlinks. It also has handy paint editor, where you can make and edit pictures and images. This software also supports the printing function; thus images created and edited in this software can also be previewed and printed. Moreover, it also has Image capture feature and supports the PrintScreen, Alt+PrintScreen keys and capturing arbitrary area from desktop or any program or application running on Windows. Living upto the expectation of a complete e-mailing software, you can configure in it SMTP and POP address to send and receive e-mails. Furthermore you can also use this software for checking unlimited Web mail accounts. These days the auto answer feature in e-mail has become an essential feature to ensure that in your absence your mail does not remain unanswered. This program has e-mail auto answer feature, where you can customise it to answer your incoming messages in your absence. One of the outstanding features of this software is remote administration, which not just eases the remote administration of your e-mail but also enhances power of e-mailing. This software can be downloaded from http://www.greatis.com

E-mail besides being an extremely effective tool for communication can also have some security problems. Normally, other persons can access the e-mail, if you are not careful. This is especially true where many persons share one computer or if other persons are aware of the password of your e-mail account. However, having mails encrypted, one can brush aside the fears of security problems. Encryption plus for e-mail is such software, which gives the power to safeguard e-mail from others. This program is in the form of one-step e-mail encryption plug-in for MS Outlook 97/98/2000 and not Outlook Express. This handy little program gives the option to encrypt outgoing messages with "just one click!" And your recipient does not need any special software — just the password. However, the best part of this software is that it is a freeware, and is supported by advertisements. This freeware version supports the well-documented blowfish algorithm with 56-encryption. However the upgrade to the full version includes stronger 192-bit encryption and advanced features such as automatic encryption password management. This gets easily installed on any Windows-based platform. However, it has only one limitation that the person receiving e-mail should be using the Windows operating system only as it may not work in other operating systems. This software can be downloaded from www.pcguardian.com/software/emailfree of cost.

It was only 4 to5 years ago that India was being explored as a potential for transcription work. However, within a short span, transcription in India is a fully-grown industry. Transcription, both medical and legal, offers good career opportunities as well as business opportunities. However, for doing the transcription work, a person is required to undergo some special training, which as a part includes orientation of terms and definitions used in the transcription work. With the help of programs like Medic words & Law words the task of transcription could be made easy as you can incorporate a powerful spell checker in one of the most popular word processors – Microsoft Word and Corel word perfect. Medic Words is a spell checker, which deals with the terms related to the world of medicine and is especially useful for transcriptionists, medical students and insurance companies. This program correctly spell checks over 1,00,000 medical terms and can be installed on any version of the Windows, including Windows 98/ME/NT/2000. It is easy to install and use, as after setting up, a person is ready to spell check any medical document by simply spell checking as one normally does in Word or word perfect. This clearly eliminates the need for learning new software and technologies. Similarly a Law word is an effective tool for the legal transcription as it can be used for spell checking legal terminology. These wonderful software utilities can be had from http://notypos.com/medicwor.htm

These days computer is not just limited to doing work or playing games. It’s a reliable personal secretary also. Though you can derive infinite number of uses from a computer yet some of these uses and applications are critical and useful. One such application is using the computer as an alarm. Though there are many programs available on the Internet, which may work as alarm, but WakeUp! Alarm is a feature-packed software program, which can transform a computer into a complete alarm system. It’s a desktop alarm clock, which allows you to play an MP3 or WAV file, as well as a CD as your alarm sound. You can have the program play individual CD tracks, the entire CD, or in looped mode at specific time or on the happening of a defined event. This software also features a snooze button, and a text message can be displayed when the alarm is sounding. This software rests in the system tray and swings into action on the happening of a defined event or at a particular time. The latest version of this software includes multiple alarms, a new user interface, alarm summarisation, variable snooze length, variable colours, and time synchronisation via the Internet. This software can be downloaded from http://www.ejinnovations.com/wakeup.htm

Hyper Terminal is a powerful Windows feature, which can be used for connecting two computers through dial-up networking for the purpose of transferring files between them. Now you can add more to the Hyper Terminal by installing the HTPE or HyperTerminal Private Edition. HTPE is a more powerful version of the HyperTerminal dialling and telnet package that comes with Windows. The new features of Hyper Terminal Private Edition are automatic re-dial of busy phone numbers; ZModem crash recovery for resuming interrupted file transfers; VT220 and VT320 support; and better support for foreign characters. It also includes a Telnet client that has file transfer capabilities, a scrollback buffer, key macros, and pass-through printing. This version of HTPE fixes a security hole that was found in the previous version and is fully compatible with Windows 2000, it also supports VT320 terminal emulation, and offers enhanced printing control by allowing to print through a Windows print driver or directly to a printer. You can download this from www.hilgraeve.com/htpe/index.html