Monday, January 29, 2001		Downloads of the week

Normally you can find persons using printers to printing letters and only a few of them print envelopes. The most common reason for not printing envelopes is that they are not of normal paper size and people find it difficult to format envelops. However, now you can print letters and envelopes with the help of the software "Envelope Printer", without bothering at all to format the envelope in your computer. Using this software you can print addresses and return addresses on any size envelope, in either landscape or portrait mode, and using any system’s fonts. Moreover, you can also create a database of addresses using this software and can also print documents in colour. In order to print envelopes, you just need to enter the receiver’s name and address along with the return address at the specified place in this software. This is all that is required to print. This is good software, which adds a professional touch to the professional, business and personal correspondence. You can download this software from http://www.thegrid.net/sorsoft.

In today’s fast life, the most important thing is to manage the information well. Normally, in case of business or profession, there is information that is critical and needs proper handling. The management of information on paper is an age-old phenomenon, and the management through software is haute. One such software, which can free you from botheration of management of information, is Memoirs 2000 pro. This software offers a secure way to gather and store notes. The program includes handy templates for maintaining diary and organising business-related information. However, the important feature is that you can also hide vital information from other persons’ prying eyes, as this software has the option of using strong, 128-bit encryption. Moreover you can also protect the information with a password so that no one else may access it. The beauty of this software is, however, its ease of use and user-friendly interface. The security feature of this software is also unmatched, as you can finish a document without leaving a trace. This software also has a text-editing tool, where you can write notes, information and other diary entries. This software has some advanced features like OLE support. Thus, you can also store information in a secured environment, which automatically gets updated, when the information in the source file is changed. This software also supports graphics interface, thus you can create and import graphics, diagrams, maps and charts into this software and can even edit it. The information in this software gets stored in tree-like style, where it can be stored in user-defined folders. You can download a shareware version of this software from http://www.secureaction.com

Taking the photocopies, without having a photocopier was never so easy. Till now, there were photocopiers and Xerox machines for making copies of printed documents. Now, you can use scanner, along with computer to take photocopies, without any need of having a photocopier. However, you can add a lot of value to your photocopying experience by using software like CopyNook as it is a perfect substitute for a photocopier. This software also has certain features like editing, which are not available in a normal photocopier. Thus, you can even edit a document or a graphic before taking its copy. Though the basic requirement is a Twain-compatible scanner, yet you can also use devices like digital camera to take an image or text in order to make copies of it. Using a digital camera you can even make copies of the photographs, add effects to it like rotating, trimming, changing colours and also cut it to a size that meets your requirement. You can also convert a colour image to a monochrome image and even convert it into a negative. Under some advanced features, this software also has support for printing mirror images on the paper or on any print media. Another advanced feature is that it also lets you annotate copies with text notes and time-stamps. Moreover, you can also use this software to directly e-mailing the scanned image to anybody. The list of features is unending as you can also use this software for the purpose of uploading files on the Web. This feature packed software can be downloaded from http://www.copynook.com

This is a must-have utility that works both as a screen-saver and a desktop utility. My Corkboard is basically a PIM, which tracks down your appointments, and schedules and shows it on the screen as screen-saver. The appointments and schedules are notified on stylish sticky notes. It also has a thing-to-do list, which can be created and edited in this software. However, the best part of this program is a user-friendly interface, which allows it to be customised to suit personal needs and preferences. For breaking monotony, you can also include pictures, decorations, virtual pets and other gizmos on your desktop. However for serious kind of users, who would like to have some utility instead of pictures, this software has a lot of stuff like multi-year calendars, digital or analog clock. Thus, when it will be activated either as a screen-saver or desktop, it’ll display the choice of add-ons like calendar, clock. This software also includes a sophisticated alarm option for setting recurring and on-time reminders. These alarms play your own sound files and display special pop-up messages. Since this is a highly customisable program, you can edit it at any point of time and make necessary changes. For workaholics, it reminds you to take a break either at a specified time or after a particular time interval. This freeware can be had from http://www.pcdynamics.com