Monday, July 2, 2001		Downloads of the week

Registry Healer

Registry is one of the most critical things of your computer system and is often responsible for majority of irresponsible behaviour of your computer. Normally, due to regular installation and uninstallation of programs on your computer, the registry gets enlarged and often it contains entries of the program, which no longer exist on your computer, which in turn creates many problems. Thus it is essential to keep the registry always trim. Though it is quite possible to manually trim down the registry, but it requires high level of technical expertise to handle registry. The registry editing requires an expert like Registry Healer. Registry Healer is basically a tool for scanning your system's Registry for invalid references to non-existent folders and files. Thus using this program you can keep aside the worry of registry getting fatter by installing new programs as this useful software will clear all the junk from your computer. This program is quite safe, as it does not remove the items from the registry. However, it tries to correct the invalid entries by finding matching folders and files that may have been moved. It is excellent software both for novice and advanced users as it is a feature rich yet user-friendly program. It provides easy one-click access to a registry key in Windows RegEdit tool. Moreover this program also gives you an option to create a back-up copy of your registry entries, which can be restored in case something goes wrong. Overall it’s a good shareware to try and can be downloaded from www.jetutils.com

In the virtual world Window shopping is passé. Online shopping is in. Since Internet know no boundaries, therefore you shop anywhere in the world sitting at your home. Moreover, there are many deals available on the Internet, which you can avail by shopping on line. But in online shopping, there are many things like the purchase orders, delivery schedule etc, which are essential to keep a track of. However, you need not worry as you can have a personal money manager with you while shopping online. This personal money manager is MaxManager, which is much more than a money manager as it also works like your shopping assistant. This program keeps a track of all receipts and saves them in a way, which is easily accessible whenever recalled. However, the best part of this program is its user-friendly interface, which makes it easy to use as it can download all transactions that you've made in the past also besides the current transactions. All you need to do in order to use this software is simply enter your username and password to a site, and your database of transactions is completely up to date. Since this data is critical, thus it needs good security and privacy. This software directly records all data in your hard disk, thus providing good safety and privacy to your information. This software also provides integration with almost all major on-line shopping sites ranging various categories, thus it gives you a lot of options. Moreover, it also has compatibility with programs like Quicken and Microsoft Money. Thus besides easing shopping online it also eases managing your shopping by tracking your order right from beginning to end. This software updates the purchase's shipping status automatically, and suggests when the item might arrive on your doorstep. However, the best feature of this software is that it is free and can be downloaded from www.maxmanager.com

Over the years Networking has seen many generations of change. Earlier it referred to connecting two computers, then it included whole lot of computers and now the whole world has become a network of computers using the Internet. Networking through the Internet is becoming fast popular and especially after the huge success of Napster, peer-to-peer network is becoming a craze. Direct connect is one such software, which allows peer-to-peer networking using the Net to share your files with others. This program uses standard TCP/IP settings and for using this software you do need any user name and password. You can share your files by simply putting them in a specified directory, which would be available to other users on the network. Likewise you'll be able to download files that are in other users' directories. This way you can share any type of file including songs, videos, documents and projects over the Internet. Using this software you can also chat with other users besides searching the file you want. Chatting could be initiated with any specific user or in public forum. This is an excellent software and is quite safe also as it allows other to download the file from your computer only once to allow them, otherwise without your permission, they will not be able to download the files. However, you can create a perfect network with your friends and relatives over the Internet by allowing them to share your files always. This software can be downloaded from www.neo-modus.com

Man is a social animal and communicating with others is his basic need and necessity. However with distances playing major hindrance, communication has become a problem. But, now using the Internet the communication is no more a problem as you can easily communicate with your nears and dears over the Internet. One form of the communication is voice over Internet or Net telephony. However, other equally popular mode of communication over the Internet is text messages to alphanumeric pagers or cellular phones. In fact, now you can give free text messages to anyone in the world, who has a mobile phone or pager and all this can be done through the software called NotePager. Note Pager is basically an alphanumeric dispatch pager program, which allows you to send messages to alphanumeric and numeric pagers right from your PC. That’s not just all about this software as you can send same message to many persons at the same time. So, it’s a kind of Web broadcasting your message to all your contacts at one go. The best part of this software is that despite being feature rich, it is easy to install and operate and does not require any training at all. This software can even be organised to send deferred messages or messages at a particular time. Therefore this software could be useful for anyone who has to communicate with a lot of persons regularly. Download from www.notepage.com