Monthly Disk April 2004

Freeware & Shareware

MD0404 - 2nd Speech Center - Ver: 1.50
This program converts any text into spoken words, or MP3 or WAV audio files. You can listen to documents, e-mails or Web pages instead of reading them. It supports dozens of male, female and robotic voices in more than 11 languages. The program can monitor the Windows clipboard and automatically process its contents. Other features include a talking alarm clock, talking reminders and command line support. Licence: Shareware; Cost $39.95

MD0404 - Ace Utilities - Ver: 2.3
This collection of system maintenance utilities includes a duplicate file remover, a Registry cleaner, a history eraser, a dead shortcut utility, installation and tweak utilities, a disk analysis tool, and a cookie manager. Licence: Shareware; Cost $20

MD0404 - Album Generator and Viewer - Ver: 2.2
You can use this program to organize images into digital scrapbooks and photo albums with titles, descriptions and music. Pages can contain up to four images, arranged in a number of auto-layout options. You can also create layouts manually and save them for reuse. You can customize the colors, backgrounds, fonts and frames for each album, or choose from a variety of pre-defined styles. Licence: Shareware; Cost $38

MD0404 - All-in-One Secretmaker - Ver: 3.8
All-in-One Secretmaker's Spam Fighter Pro combines several processes to recognize spammed e-mails and works with Outlook, Outlook Express, Hotmail, Yahoo with an unlimited number of POP3 accounts. It improves the Outlook 2003 built-in Junk-Email filter. Licence: Free

MD0404 - Antechinus Draw Magic - Ver: 2.2
This flowcharting, diagramming and drawing program comes with a set of extensible clipart libraries. You can use it to create organizational charts, forms and connection charts, flowcharts and diagrams, mind maps, networks, maps, and calendars. Licence: Shareware; Cost $35

MD0404 - Bongosoft AntiSpam 2004- Ver: 4.0
This patent-pending product authenticates the sender of each incoming e-mail message. During installation, your e-mail address book is imported by Bongosoft AntiSpam to form a foundation of "allowed" senders. If an e-mail arrives from an unknown sender, Bongosoft AntiSpam automatically sends a "challenge" message to that sender asking them to reply with your AntiSpam passcode. The AntiSpam passcode is sent along with the "challenge" message in a graphical file. When the reply message is received and the passcode is found to be correct, that sender's original e-mail and all subsequent e-mail from that sender are passed to your inbox. Licence: Shareware; Cost $29.95

MD0404 - Cheetah DVD Burner - Ver: 1.17
The Cheetah DVD Burner provides an easy to use interface for burning audio and data CDs and DVDs. This also includes the ability to burn and make ISO files. Enhanced features include shortcuts to your favorite folders and different file view settings like thumbnails for viewing photos. In addition the Cheetah DVD Burner will burn DVD+R/W, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-R/W, and DVD-RAM DVD formats. Licence: Trial; Cost $25

MD0404 - Diary Studio - Ver: 1.123
This is a secure record-keeping tool that includes text formatting options, an advanced search feature, and an integrated publishing tool that allows export to HTML, plain text, and Word formats. Diary entries can be updated, deleted, merged, marked as landmark events, locked from publishing and even bookmarked. Licence: Shareware; Cost $29.95

MD0404 - Firefly Softphone - Ver:1.3
Firefly is a fully featured softphone with instant messaging and voicemail for Home, Business, Schools or anyone wanting to communicate around the world for free. The term softphone is short for software telephone. Firefly is a VoIP Softphone, that's just a fancy way of saying Internet Telephone. A softphone is essentially an Internet telephone that allows you to make free phone calls to other people who are also running Firefly on their computers. Licence: Free

MD0404 - Folder Lock - Ver: 4.297
Folder Lock is a fast file-locking program that lets you password-protect your personal files, folders, and pictures away from family, friends, and coworkers. It can lock gigabytes of files in a second, unlike slow encryption programs. With a simple drag-and-drop, your files can be locked and unlocked. Once locked, your files cannot be renamed, deleted, read, or even seen. Licence: Free

MD0404 - HTML-Optimizer Pro - Ver: 2.95
This tool optimizes both HTML and script code on your Web pages, including JavaScript, PHP, ASP, Lasso and CSS. It also checks your web pages for dangling tags, missing attributes and broken links. Only the pages that you have changed are processed, and the program creates a duplicate site folder for optimized files. The original files are left untouched. Drag-and-drop functionality is supported. Licence: Shareware; Cost $20

MD0404 - Icon Restore
Icon Restore installs LAYOUT.DLL (along with the required registry entries) from Microsoft. Two new options are added to the pop up menu that opens when any Windows system icon (ex. My Computer) is right clicked. These options are "Save Desktop Icon Layout" and "Restore Desktop Icon Layout". Licence: Free

MD0404 - Kerio Personal Firewall - Ver: 4
Kerio Personal Firewall is designed to protect your PC against attacks from the Internet as well as other computers in the local network. The program controls all data flow in both directions - from the Internet to your computer and vice versa - and it can block all attempted communication, allowing only what you choose to permit. Licence: Free

MDC0404 - MailBell Email Notification - Ver: 2.07
This utility resides in your system tray and periodically checks e-mail on POP3, IMAP4, MAPI, Hotmail and MSN accounts. It works on LANs and permanent Internet connections as well as dial-up connections. When new mail arrives, the program can automatically start your mail reader, play a sound or display an unobtrusive notification window. Licence: Shareware; Cost $15

MD0404 - Moffsoft FreeCalc - Ver: 1.0
Moffsoft FreeCalc is a great replacement for your existing Windows calculator. We took the standard Windows calculator functionality and added a printable/savable transaction tape, sizeable display, tray icon, digit groupings, color schemes, double and triple zero keys, visible memory value, "always on top" setting, and much more. Licence: Free

MD0404 - Optimal Desktop Standard Edition - Ver: 3.0 r141
Save thousands of mouse clicks and keystrokes. This program allows you to access files, folders and Web pages from the same window, using tabs that act as user-defined portals. You can create graphical tabbed shortcuts with drag-and-drop and manage multiple portals, each of which can contain hundreds of links. Portals can also be shared with other users. Licence: Free

MD0404 - Picasa - Ver: 1.6
If you still have a drawer stuffed with photo prints waiting to be placed in albums, chances are your hard drive is equally full of digital photos waiting to be placed in albums. Picasa automatically finds photos on your camera or photo CDs and organizes your pics. This photo organizer lets you browse photos and watch slideshows. Licence: Trial; Cost $29.99

MD0404 - Pixie - Ver: 3.1
Pixie is an easy-to-use, fast and tiny utility designed especially to fit the needs of Webmasters and Designers. Its a colour picker that includes a mouse tracker. Run it, simply point to a colour and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that colour. You can then use these values to reproduce the selected colour in your favorite programs. Licence: Free

MD0404 - Polyphonic Ringtone Wizard - Ver: 2.3
This software allows you to add MIDI files, pictures and Java midlets to your polyphonic cell phone without using cables. All you need is your PC, your phone and this software. Most makes and models are supported including Audiovox, Alcatel, Ericsson, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung, Sharp, Sony and Siemens. Licence: Shareware; Cost $19.95

MD0404 - Pop-up Defender - Ver: 6.0.2j
Pop-up Defender is an aggressive pop-up blocker. The pop-up blocker has 4 types of pop-ups blocking: 100% pop-ups blocking, pop-ups block list, pop-ups block list with keywords, limit windows opened. Licence: Trial; cost $14.99

MD0404 - Pop-Up Stopper Basic - Ver: 2.40
Don't want the bells and whistles of a full-blown browser protection program--but need better pop-up protection than a freebie can provide? Pop-Up Stopper Basic covers the middle ground, eliminating pop-up and pop-unders without separating you from much of your cash. Licence: Trial; Cost $20

MD0404 - Post-it Software Notes Lite
Is your monitor covered with little sticky notes? Forget the paper: Use virtual Post-its instead. Post-it Software Notes Lite by 3M works just like the real thing--and it's free. Click the program's small window to create an off-the-cuff reminder, then stick it to your desktop. Change the font and color of notes, print or e-mail notes, and trash them when you're done. Undeleted notes reappear after you reboot your PC. Licence: Free

MD0404 - Registry First Aid - Ver: 3.2
Registry First Aid seems to find and safely fix more errors than most other registry utilities we've seen, resulting in a speedier and more stable computer system. If you've moved your programs from one drive to another, you can break the file links that a program needs. Registry First Aid will find these files and folders that you've moved on your hard drive and help you correct the registry entries that point to them. Licence: Trial; Cost $21

MD0404 - Space Hound - Ver: 32 3.0.563
This program finds duplicate, obsolete and unused files on your hard drive. The program builds a specialized file list that can be examined by the user, in order to recover wasted space. Licence: Shareware; Cost $40

MD0404 - Startup Mechanic - Ver: 1.0
Startup-Mechanic will hunt down and remove junk and obsolete programs running, freeing up RAM and significantly increasing your system performance. Licence: Free

MD0404 - TurboCrypt Disk Encryption(BPP Disk) - Ver: 6.5
This program allows users to keep sensitive files encrypted but accessible to you. Similar to a firewall or a virus scanner, TurboCrypt works in the background. Once the program is started, you enter your password once to unlock the encrypted drive, and you can then access all encrypted files stored on that drive. Licence: Shareware; cost $34.95

MD0404 - UltraISO - Ver: 6.55
UltraISO is a powerful and easy-to-use utility that can extract, create, edit, and convert CD/DVD image files. It can directly edit ISO files, make images from CDs and DVD-ROMs, or build a new one from files and folders on your computer. You have the option to make the newly created image bootable and to specify the boot loader. Licence: Trial; Cost $29.95

MD0404 - VCDEasy - Ver: 2.0.1
VCDEasy is an authoring tool that allows you to play/watch your videos (from DV camcorder, DivX, DVD,...), your pictures (from digital camera, scanner,...) and your audio files (music, audio comments,...) directly on most home DVD players without having to buy a DVD Writer and DVD discs. Licence: Trial; Cost $24.95

MD0404 - Web CEO - Ver: 4.2.2r13
Provides tools to maintain your Web site, optimize it for high rankings in search engines, and measure and analyze traffic to your site. Find which keywords fit in well with your search engine optimization strategy. Analyze how well your site is optimized for search engines and find recommendations how to improve your rankings. Licence: Free

MD0404 - YESolo on the Keyboard - Ver: 8.2
This typing tutorial consists of 100 sessions that take into account the psychology of distance education. The author guides you through the whole course, encouraging you to continue the studies and reach your goal. Licence: Shareware; Cost $15


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