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Monday, March 26, 2001
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Ring-Leader Answer It

Life has become rather hectic in the present day world. Business has grown globally and so due to the time difference there is always a need to be in touch with clients round the clock. However it is difficult to answer all calls round the clock. Moreover there could be occasions when you are not available or busy during your working time. In all such cases, call management is a big problem. However, now with Ring-Leader Answer It program, you can do away with a majority of problems as it can always work for you as your digital answering machine. This is a wonderful program and does not require any extra hardware. The working of this program is simple as just like a regular answering machine, it receives all incoming calls and after a pre-determined number of rings, it plays custom greeting and records the incoming message. Answer It offers several advantages over the regular answering machine. First, it conveniently logs and displays all current messages on its interface. All messages are time and date stamped, just in case the caller doesn’t leave information. However, this is not the case with the regular answering machine, where you do not get to know when a caller calls up. Similarly, Answer It uses digital audio playback that makes listening of messages easy, as you’ll not have to wait to rewind and fast-forward through messages to listen them. All you need to do is simply click buttons to quickly play through the recorded messages and delete them. This program also features a Silence Detector, which directs this software to automatically stop recording when there’s no sound coming from the caller’s end. Well! That’s not the end of the features of this software as it also works as a call screener and it can take messages while you’re working on the computer. This shareware version can be downloaded from http://html.hughestech.com

 

CyberBuddy

Man is a social animal and even in this world of virtual reality, this definition has not lost its meaning. However, the concept has changed a bit. Now, in Cyber world, you can have Cyber buddies, who can be with you all the time in cyber world and also help you by doing some important works. "Cyber buddy" is a multipurpose program that can perform many functions for you. This program not just works from behind the scene but uses an animated character, which works as an interactive guide for information and communication on the Internet. This buddy can read out the text for you from any application including clipboard, while you do other work on the computer. In addition to this, it can also announce news headlines, and custom stock quotes that can be customised as per the needs. Like a real friend it can also crack a joke and even an occasional compliment, which can even make you smile in stressful working environment. There are many more functions that this buddy can perform. It can check and announce the time for you at regular interval defined by you and can even check up to 50 different e-mail accounts at scheduled time or after specific time interval. This program may also be configured to read mail and automatically filter spam. Further, you can use it to monitor the Internet speed as well as to inform when a favourite Web site has been updated. The list of features of this buddy is non-exhaustive and yet another important feature is a flexible alarm system, which announce a reminder message at the scheduled time or any time interval specified by you. Nowadays this feature has become important in a majority of Internet based programs and using this feature you can send quick messages to friends online as well as offline. Moreover if you get replies from your friends, this buddy can also read the replies for you. CyberBuddy is a basic personal information manager and features most standard options such as a contact list and on-line status indicators. You can download this freeware from www.thecyberbuddy.com

AVX for ICQ

The day is not far when you would ask a person for his number and in turn he gives you his ICQ number instead of the telephone number. ICQ is one of the most popular instant messaging programs on the Internet and has the largest community of members. At any given time thousands of persons exchange messages or chat using this wonderful program. It is even being used for exchanging files that includes photographs and other files, which are being transferred directly from one person to another. However, it also carries a big risk of virus attacks as the viruses normally attaches themselves with the file and carry them through from one computer to another. Thus many people felt that ICQ could prove to be a security disaster waiting to happen. Most persons are concerned about ICQs use of the TCP/IP protocol and how, among other things, culprits can intercept the data as it travels the Internet. There is good news for the ICQ users as there is a security tool called AVX for ICQ, which is probably the first security tool that blocks the malicious files attacking the computer. AVX for ICQ is basically an anti-virus program that scans and detects malicious codes, which might have been attached with the files, before they enter your computer system. Right now, this program is capable of scanning and identifying over 47,000 viruses, Trojan horses, scripts and other files, which could be harmful to the computers. This program works by scanning a file that you receive by ICQ file transfer before you open it. Thus if there are any malicious codes attached to the files, this program swings into action and cleans it. This program thus provides you the long over due solution to the need safe guarding your computer from the attack of viruses. This program is thus an essential item for all the ICQ users and the best part is that it is a freeware. You can download this program from http://www.avx.com.

Human Click

No matter, how automated the things may become, but the need of human touch would always be felt and would be a prominent part of even the virtual world. There is no doubt that the future is the Internet and the real world would be virtual world, but the role of real humans would not diminish in the virtual world. Even today, in e-commerce, the customer support is essential, which was a difficult part. But now, it is easy to interact with your Web site visitors and provide them necessary customer support. This is possible by using the program called HumanClick. This program utilises instant messaging to facilitate real-time feedback with your customers, who visit the Web site. This program can be used right on the existing Web site. Thus it’s easy to implement. All you need to do to use this technology is to post Human Click icons by inserting a pre-generated JavaScript into the HTML. Then you can use a desktop-based window to chat with visitors. All they’ll need is a standard Java-enabled browser, such as Internet Explorer or Navigator. This software also helps you in keeping a check on your visitor by alerting you and helps you monitor them. Using this software you can also know the programs IP address and also the browser type. Moreover you can also find out which pages he or she has visited and for how long. Further at any time during a user’s visit, you can initiate a chat to offer assistance. Otherwise, the user can send a chat request whenever you’re online. Download this from http://www.humanclick.com

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