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Ad Muncher Reviewed December
2003, Issue No. 48.
Utility for blocking advertisements on Web pages, pop ups and background
music.
Agent Ransack
Reviewed September 2004, Issue No.
56
Agent Ransack is a free tool for finding files and information on your
hard drive. It does what the Windows Search should
do but doesn't! With Agent Ransack you can search by file name or look
for text inside files on any area of your hard drive. Agent Ransack "does
not consider any file too small or insignificant to examine".
AM-DeadLink Reviewed
June 2004, Issue No. 54
A free program that detects dead links and duplicates in your browser
bookmarks. Checks favorites, hotlists and bookmarks from Internet Explorer,
Opera, Mozilla
Anonymity 4 Proxy
Reviewed June 2000, Issue No. 11
Enables you to surf the Net anonymously. Anonymity 4 Proxy includes a
database of hundreds of anonymous proxy servers located around the world
and also has options for blocking cookies and modifying the information
sent out by your browser.
Copernic Reviewed July/August
2001, Issue No. 23
A meta-search tool that you download and install on your PC. As
well as enabling you to search across several search engines at once it
also has categories of specialist search tools such as online bookstores,
encyclopaedias and gardening sites. The priced version also enables you
to "track" searches - that is rerun a search on a regular basis
- and to monitor Web pages for changes.
Copyscape Reviewed
July/August 2004 Issue No. 55
Copyscape finds copies of your content on the web. You can use Copyscape
to identify sites that have copied your content without permission or
to find out who is quoting your site.
Customise Google Firefox
Extension Reviewed July/August 2005
Issue No. 64
Allows you to add or remove elements from Google results pages.
eCloaker
Reviewed October 2002, Issue No. 36
E_Cloaker 2.0 is a simple utility that converts the characters of email
addresses and text into browser-readable Unicode, making it more difficult
for spam extractor 'bots to harvest email addresses from your web page.
DUN Manager Reviewed
September 1999, Issue No. 2
and October 2003, Issue No.46
DUN Manager enables single click start-up and hang-up of a dial-up
networking connection from an icon in the Windows system tray and monitors
the call status of up to nine simultaneous connections. The user can redial
if the initial connection speed is poor, or alternate numbers/ISPs can
be automatically dialled if busy. A session log keeps details of calls
including cost, ISP usage and data volumes. DUN Manager also has a spam
processing option.
Eraser Reviewed June 2005,
Issue No. 63
Eraser is a security tool that allows you to completely remove sensitive
data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times.
Google Toolbar Reviewed
March 2001, Issue No. 19
Hijack This Reviewed
January 2005, Issue No. 59
A free utility that lists all installed browser add-ons, buttons, startup
items and allows you to inspect, and optionally remove selected items.
It examines key areas of the registry and hard drive looking for anything
that could hijack your browser.
HTTrack Web Site Copier Reviewed May 2006, Issue No. 70
A free "a standalone project aimed to help web archivists to easily build caches based on websites downloaded by HTTRACK. Can save an entire site with just two or three clicks”.
Kwout Reviewed December 2007, Issue No. 82
Enables you to quote a part of a web page as an image with an image map.
Mailwasher Reviewed
May 2004, Issue No. 53
Identifies Spam and blacklisted email addresses and deletes them from
the mail server.
NetMeter Reviewed July/August 2006, Issue No. 72
NetMeter is a free program that will monitor your upload and download traffic, and total your usage by day, week and month. If you are already using a capped service you can set up a volume alert that is triggered when the traffic over your connection approaches the ‘danger zone'.
Pawsense Reviewed
February 2003, Issue No. 40
PawSense is a software utility that helps protect your computer
from cats. It quickly detects and blocks "cat typing", and also
helps train your cat to stay off the computer keyboard.
Process Library Reviewed
April 2005, Issue No. 61
Identifies the "processes" that appear in Windows Task Manager when you
hit Ctrl-Alt-Del
Rapid Feeds Reviewed December 2006, Issue No. 75
Rapid Feeds generates code for RSS feeds enabling you to display them on your web pages. You can then change the style and colour, number of items to be displayed, and whether or not to display a description of each item. Rapid Feeds can generate code in PHP, ASP, Javascript and iFrames.
Recycling CD-ROMs - gardening applications. Reviewed March 2000, Issue
No. 8
Resurrect Pages Reviewed November 2006, Issue No. 74
This is the prefect Firefox add-on for the dreaded 404 message, or if you want to see which version of a page the search engines have in their cache. You can try five page cache/mirrors in turn: CoralCDN, Google Cache, Yahoo! Cache, The Internet Archive and the MSN/Live Cache.
ScrapBook
extension for Firefox. Reviewed October 2005, Issue
No. 65
ScrapBook helps you save Web pages and manage your collection. You can
save a single web page, a snippet of the page, or "save web site".
You can add comments and edit the saved page, organise the collection
in the same way as a Bookmarks tree, and search and filter the collection.
SpamGourmet Reviewed January
2003, Issue No. 39
"Self-destructing disposable email addresses, titanium strength
spam blocking".
SpyBot Search and Destroy
Reviewed November 2003, Issue No.
47
Seeks out and removes spyware from your computer. Also "immunises"
your machine against future attack.
Thumbshots Ranking Tool
Reviewed April 2004, Issue No.
52
Primarily intended as a means of comparing how a site is ranked by different
search engines but can also be used to compare page overlap of search
tools.
TweakUI. Reviewed September 2002, Issue
No.35
TweakI is part of Microsoft's Powertoys suite and enables you to quickly
customise many aspects of the Windows interface. You can change menu animation,
menu fading, toggle on/off the "beep on errors", change your
mouse sensitivity, remove the arrows from your desktop icons and choose
whether or not to prefix new shortcuts with "Shortcut to". TweakUIs
are version specific so you must make sure that you have the one that
is appropriate for your operating system. The one for Windows XP can be
found at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp
Twittinesis Reviewed January 2010 Issue No, 87
Publish your tweets and to a blog.
WinPatrol Reviewed November
2004, Issue No. 57
WinPatrol is an excellent free utility for controlling startup menus
and dodgy tasks that have managed to infiltrate your PC.
Xenu Link Checker
. Reviewed April 2000, Issue No.
9
A fast, reliable and free program for checking links on Web pages, bookmarks
etc.
Zone Alarm Reviewed
July/August 2000, Issue No. 12
Personal firewall.
Zone Log Analyser Reviewed
July/August 2000, Issue No. 12
Reads and displays the log file generated by ZoneLabs' ZoneAlarm and ZoneAlarm
Pro
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