Monday, January 14, 2002		Downloads of the week

If you ask anyone who uses the Internet that what is the most common annoyance with the Internet users, the common answer would be popping Windows of junk advertisements. These Windows not only creates inconvenience for the users but also lead to system crash. However despite being of no use in most of the cases, it is difficult for the Internet users to avoid them. Now with the help of a software called Pop-Up Stopper, crushing the pop up advertisements is quite simple. Pop-Up Stopper is a simple yet efficient program, which can prove to be a boon for the Internet users. This program is not obtrusive, offers no unnecessary functions, doesn't maintain statistics and is thus quite safe to use. The working of this program is simple as it resides in the system tray, and swings into action before the pop-up window really pops up. It also provides a special hotkey to keep it from closing windows. Thus if you need to open a new Web page in a separate browser window, then simply press the Control or Shift key while you click the link. Moreover, this program doesn't prompt you to configure your Web browser, and also doesn't require you to use a proxy server for crushing the pop-up Windows. This software is useful for anyone and is very user-friendly. Moreover, it's a simple interface and also the sound feature, which can prompt the user that the pop-up Windows is being crushed, further adds to its usability. However, if you do not want to use this application at any point of time, then you can simply disable it from the system tray itself. However the best feature is that this program is free and can be downloaded from www.panicware.com

The Internet is an ocean of information and there are millions of Websites and Web pages on virtually any subject that you may think of. Sometimes the information available on the Internet is broad and is presented in multi-layered Websites. So often, you may find that is difficult to search the information you are looking for. However, this can be made simple with the help of the software called Site Tree. This program is basically a multi-functional Internet utility, which can display the complete directory structure of a Website. Using this software, you can retrieve all links of the Websites by simply putting the URL of the site, which you would like to explore. The results generated by this site are of maximum depth level and are very quick as it bypasses the unnecessary files, which may not be required and only downloads the HTML code of each page. Since this software presents the information in tree like structure so it is more or less similar to the Explorer window. Therefore using this software, you can directly jump to any link immediately, which you may think more important without actually going through the embedded links. Moreover, you can save the results of this software at a plain text or HTML document file to the disk and can use it for offline browsing also. Another great feature of this program is it is handy and feature-rich search tool. Therefore by using the search tool, all you need to do is enter the keyword or the phrase and the program will indicate its location in the file promptly. There's also a function that detects e-mail addresses on downloaded pages. This is a shareware version and can be downloaded from www.ddm-solutions.com

With the advancement of technology the old practices are giving way to the new and modern technology, where voice plays a major role. Now there are software using which you can use voice to give command to your computer to initiate a program. Similarly, there are many software, which rather speak to you the outcome or the final output of the task. TextAloud MP3 is one such software, which is very versatile and rich in features. This is basically a text to speech converter and it reads out any text including e-mails, Web contents, clipboards in computer-simulated voice. Though the default voice is in this software is robotic male voice yet you have the choice of using other voices also. You can also control the speed and pitch of the voice to suit you. Moreover this software also has a Pronunciation Editor, which lets you train the program how to say certain words. Thus you can actually train this program to read out the text in the ascent you understand better. This software monitors the clipboard and reads out the text from there. It also has a feature, where any specific information can be transferred directly to the clipboard; thus it eliminates the need of cutting and pasting information on clipboard. However, the best part is the looks and easy-to-use features of this software. Its looks resemble a VCR and has functions like play, pause, stop, rewind, forward for reading out the text. Thus for using this software you do not require any special skills or training as it is quite easy to use. Another great feature of this software is to save the audio contents in the wave or compressed MP3 file format, which gives you exceptional sound quality in small file size. Moreover the use of these file formats makes the file so versatile that it can be heard on virtually any good media player and can be easily distributable. This software can be downloaded from www.nextuptech.com