Iraqi
Most Wanted Solitaire
Price: Free
Platform: Windows (all)
Site: www.iraqimostwantedsolitaire.com
Finally your chance to play with the infamous Iraqi Most Wanted
playing cards that detail the Iraqis the US military is searching
for. Yes, Silver Creek Entertainment have “done their part”
by bringing you the very same pack the troops got. Anyway, you
can contemplate what it all means while enjoying a game of Solitaire.


SPAMfighter
Price: Free (test version)
Platform: Windows (all) Microsoft Outlook 2000/2002,
2003 beta 2
Site: www.spamfighter.com
SPAMFighter is a somewhat unique Spam filter that compares your
received emails against a list of known Spam stored on the SPAMFIghter
server. When it finds a match it automatically removes the spam
to a folder of your choice. The best bit is when you receive a
Spam message that SPAMFighter doesn’t pick up. By clicking
a “block” button, the spam is moved to your spam folder
and added to the SPAMFighter online database. This means that
users all over the world are collaborating in fighting spam; as
soon as an email message is listed as spam by one person, it’s
automatically treated as spam by every other user in the world.
It works well with Outlook and allows you to create custom Black
and White lists, and automatically imports your address book into
your white list. Adding an offending email to your blacklist is
just as easy and whole domains can be blocked. A very handy tool
in the war against spam.



People
On Page
Platform: Windows (all)
Price: Free
Site: www.peopleonpage.com
This is a simple browser plug-in that allows people who are visiting
the same pages to chat with each other live. It also shows a history
of people who have visited the page previously, and you can send
them an email. To do all this you need to download the small plug-in
and create a membership profile. It’s free to join and filling
in a more comprehensive profile allows you to switch the plug-in
to Dating mode, where your perfect match may be found. The live
chat-in dating mode is US$19.95 a month, but all the other free
features add up to a fun way to meet like-minded folk.


Guardian Viewer
Platform: Windows
Price: Free
Site: www.guardiansoftware.info
Guardian Viewer is software that inspects your PC for objectionable
content you may have downloaded without realising. It can recognise
and scan Microsoft Office files, HTML files, image files, emails,
text files, and PDF files. This little baby is thorough, looking
for any reference to Adult Content, Drugs, Violence, Gambling
and after you’ve been frisked, it’s all the in the
report. The aim of this freebie is obviously to sell you the big
brother product, Guardian Monitor 8 (US$34.95). It’s basically
a supervision system for the Net; instead of trying to block stuff,
it simply monitors and records it in great detail, searching and
reporting on anything dodgy.


NoteTab
Light
Platform: Windows (all)
Price: Free
Site: www.fookes.com/notetab/index.html
If plain old Notepad is getting you down, here’s a whiz-bang
replacement. Note Tab handles heaps of files through a tabbed
interface and comes with so many functions you could spend a year
learning them all. The truth is this deceptively simple text editor
is actually a very powerful text-processing system with expandable
libraries of common text snippets you can drop into a document.
But it’s also more than that, allowing to you to store and
use libraries of “clips”, a clip being a pre-defined
set of text processing actions that have been created using the
built programming language. In summary, a free, sophisticated
and customisable text processing system that’s well worth
a look.


Sheer Power 4GL
Platform: Windows 98/NT/2000/ME/XP
Price: Free
Site: www.sp4gl.com
Welcome to the Next Generation Programming Language for Windows.
SheerPower is a full development language with an Integrated Development
Environment (IDE). In plain language, this is a program to write
other programs for Windows. It features an easy-to-learn extended
basic syntax, with a built-in database engine, and email and Internet
functionality.
“Write sexy applications in a snap,” claim the authors,
and since their software automatically takes care of: tedious
programming tasks such as complex menus, dialog boxes, database
access and memory allocation, this may be true. And the catch?
like Java, it requires you to also install a virtual machine to
run Sheer Power programs.


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