Monday, February 12, 2001		Downloads of the week

CuteMX Beta

This one is for all music lovers. It is software from the makers of cute FTP using which you can share the multimedia files with other Net users. Multimedia files sharing attracted the world’s attraction after the Napster’s legal troubles invoked a lot of interest from the intellectual property right experts. During this period GlobalScape discontinued this services amid Napster’s legal troubles. With CuteMX Beta you can enjoy the music on the Net which includes its "proprietary filtering technology" to protect intellectual property. This beta version of software though is fully functional yet its final version will have better interface and more efficient file management system. This software is well designed and has a user-friendly interface. It is also quite easy to use.

In this program you can find combined downloading and uploading panes, which makes the task of file transfer easy. Moreover it also features some god security features under which you can control the access to the users. This is a wonderful software utility and can be used for sharing music and other multimedia files on the Net. You can also use it to download graphics, video, and any other multimedia files that can be found on this platform. Other prominent features of this software also include an instant messaging system, which allows creating and maintaining friends list and you can chat with them live. Moreover, you will also get an instant alert of all friends online or as they come online. You can use this software’s default multimedia folder for file sharing and also use the browser mode to search or chat with others without downloading anything. Searching for the desired multimedia file using this software is quite simple and involves the use of key words and file types. Thus using strong search capability of this software, when you find your file, you can double click to send it to the download queue. This can be downloaded from http://www.cuteftp.com

Pop3Hot – e-mail transfer agent

E-mail is the lifeline of the modern world and touches the lives of all those involved in it in some or the other way. People now prefer to use e-mail to other conventional methods of communication and this has given rise to the need of more user-friendly and feature rich e-mail clients. There are mainly two type of e-mail accounts —. Web mails and POP mail. Though there are hundreds of software available for POP mails yet there are only a few feature rich software for Web mails. Pop3Hot is one such innovative e-mail solution that allows you to integrate your existing MSN Hotmail account with any POP3-compatible e-mail client. It makes the task of using Hotmail account easy. Using this software you can connect to your Hotmail account from any e-mail client, which you normally use to check your POP mails and can send and receive e-mails as if it was a POP e-mail account. You can also work offline and include attachments to be sent when you go online next time. This way this software allows you to merge your Hotmail account with other e-mail accounts and saves you from the botheration of logging on the Hotmail site whenever you wish to check your Hotmail account. A great software for all the Hotmail users as it allows you to access the account easily in a trouble-free manner. Have this software from http://communities.msn.com/Pop3HoteMailTransferAgent

This is a value-added e-mail software, which adds the power of speech to e-mail client, thus it reads out all messages when they arrive and also inform about the new e-mail that arrive in your mailbox. This is a wonderful software utility and works with Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, or any MAPI Compliant Mail Software. This program is comprehensive and has over 20 text to speech voices based on Microsoft Engine. You can also configure many accounts in this software and also set the time duration for checking the new mails automatically. Since this is highly customisable software, thus you can customise all major features of it like announcements, subject or message read out option and announcement of time. This software is simple and easy to use and rests in your system tray. On the whole this is an excellent software utility and can be downloaded from http://www.research-lab.com

Pad is a small word, but is great software especially for the programmers. This is a full functional text editor, which comes handy for the developers, Web masters, and other application users. Though there are many other text editors available today but Pad has some good features, which makes it preferable over others. Some of the good features of this program include a great interface, which makes it user-friendly for the users. Moreover, besides being a text editor, this software can also be used as word processor. It lets you create and modify files as large as 2 GB in size, and includes built-in image viewing capabilities. Moreover it is also comprehensive and supports a large range of image and text formats, with added options for working with animated GIFs and HTML documents. The best part of this software is its support for working in drag and drop environment. Thus files can simply be loaded by dragging and dropping in this software. You can also open files from any connected drives by using the browse feature. This software is convenient and allows you to store the files in bookmark and favourite section, which can be retrieved easily by click of a mouse button. Like any other word processor, you can work simultaneously in many open documents and can switch to the document, in which you would like to work in. It is also great for coding, the interface features a built-in "clipbook" that lets you quickly copy and insert common commands and characters. It is a freeware, which can be downloaded from http://come.to/hds