A relatively small (900K) database application, Address Book enables you to sort and search your contacts according to categories which you can define, or 'marks' you can apply for a special purpose, as well as by the obvious name and address fields. Intelligent name entry permits the inclusion of titles and suffixes while preserving the ability to sort by any name part.

Address Book is one of the most flexible envelope formatters and printers in the business, and can also print labels, Rolodex cards and the like. You can specify fonts and sizes for your main and return addresses, and even add a PICT logo if you wish. If you prefer, address lists can be exported in standard merge file format for use with other programs.

This program is also a phone dialler and can maintain a log of your calls, with notes if you wish.

The essence of TypeIt4Me is that the typing of a user-defined abbreviation, followed by an 'expansion trigger' character (usually a space, but you can choose) results in the entry of a much longer or more complex text passage. Thus you could type 'ad<space>' to enter your complete company name, address plus phone and fax numbers, or a similar abbreviation to enter a whole block of boilerplate text in a professional document.

Anything you can type on the keyboard can be triggered by an abbreviation, and by including ASCII codes in your text you can even trigger arrow-key actions, backspaces and the like.

The advantage of TypeIt4Me over most built-in macro utilities and glossary functions is that you can define each abbreviation to suit yourself, not being confined to weird key combinations. You can also easily override the expansion function if you really want to type one of your abbreviations as such.

Without a specialist tool, these changes need to be made laboriously in a word processor. Most commercial tools are beyond financial justification for the occasional user. Enter Text Cleaner Lite.

To clean your text, copy it (up to 32K at a time) to the clipboard, then launch the Text Cleaner Lite application, or click its window if already open. You'll see an array of check boxes via which you can select the cleaning functions to be used. Click the Clean Clipboard button, switch back to your application where the selected text is still highlighted and paste your cleaned text to replace it.

To prepare for using JustMail, simply upload a small (42K) folder titled 'justmail' to your Web server directory (typically something like <isp.com/~user>). Then, use any browser to view <isp.com/~user/justmail/justmail.html>, and you will be presented with a dialog in which to enter your email account and password details. Only after entering these will you be able to read the first 32K of each email message waiting for you, in a neat window resembling that of a normal email client. This window loads quickly and if you wish, you can alternate between browsing and dealing with your mail.

You can reply to your messages or create new ones as usual, though you will not be able to view, retrieve or send any attachments. Read mail remains on the server, permitting you to recheck it and download attachments later, using your normal email client. Trashed mail is, however, deleted from the server.

Since the JustMail directory contains a Java applet which does the work, you'll need a v4.0 browser and your Web and mail servers need to be located at the same IP address. This is normal practice with most ISPs.