Windows

Billed as "the smallest backup utility on earth," Backup Genie is a program for automatically backing up selected files to a ZIP archive. The user can select the time of day that the backup is performed, and can activate options that send the backup file via email (SMTP) or to an FTP server. The user can decide to launch external executable with parameters before and/or after the backup process. Incremental archive naming with counter,date and/or hour and automatic delete oldest file option.

Licence: Free.
Online: http://www.backupgenie.fr.st/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/NT/2K/XP.
Requires: None.

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When you delete a file from Windows, Windows just marks the file as deleted in file allocation table, but the data of the file is still in your hard disk. There are many tools available which can let others easily recover your sensitive files even if you format your hard disk. By overwriting the portion on the hard drive that was previously allocated to the files several times with junk data, CHAOS Shredder will completely erase files from your disk, without the possibility to recover it by any practical software or hardware methods.

Licence: Free.
Online: http://www.safechaos.com/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/NT/2K/XP.
Requires: None.

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Check Domains provides fast, easy to use, new and efficient way to find unregistered domains on the Web. Check Domains will allow you to scan entire text files or Web pages for unregistered domains/words in a matter of seconds. While scanning your documents, the program displays real time results showing you which domains are available for you to register. Advanced features include: suggest a cool name, filter unwanted words, ignore duplicates, cache results, ping, advanced whois, com net org biz info and co.uk support.

Licence: Free.
Online: http://www.im-software.co.uk/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/NT/2K/XP.
Requires: Network connection.

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Customizer XP is a comprehensive and easy-to-use Windows NT, 2000 and XP utility that lets you finetune Windows and Internet Explorer. Whether you want to tweak your Windows registry, clean up your hard drive, or increase your multimedia and game performance, Customizer XP's integrated suite of programs can get your system running at peak performance levels.

Licence: Free to try; $26.00 to buy.
Online: http://www.tweaknow.com/
Operating system: Windows XP.
Requires: None.

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If you use QuickBooks to do your company accounts you will find eBilling a very useful add-on utility for QuickBooks. It allows you to automatically send invoices, estimates, statements, receipts and purchase orders via email in HTML format. If your client has a recent version mail client such as Outlook or Euroda they will see the document in the body of the email, not as an attachment.

Licence: Shareware (7-day trial).
Online: http://www.ouresolutions.com.au
Operating system: Windows 95/98, Windows NT/2000.
Requires: Pentium 133, 32MB RAM, 25MB hard disk space, a registered version of QuickBooks 7 or 8 installed, valid email account, Internet Explorer 4, printer.

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Fruityloops lets you create you own audio loops. It comes with hundreds of sound effects, tweaking instruments, automated tools and much more. Features for this program include: Piano Roll, Enhanced MIDI support, VST and VSTi support, DX and DXi support, Extra generators and Plug-in support.

Licence: Free to try, $99 to buy.
Online: http://www.fruityloops.com/English/frames.html
Operating system: Windows 95/98/NT/2K/XP.
Requires: DirectX 7.0 or better.

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NJStar Communicator is Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) communication software, as NJStar Communicator gives you both easy viewing capabilities and allows for CJK character input in normal Windows applications. It also comes with a universal code converter, which converts between all CJK language codes (including the new Unicode) as well as the GIF picture format. (It can automatically detect CJK code and convert a whole Chinese, Japanese, or Korean book into GIF picture files.) NJStar Express Mail, which is bundled with the software, allows users to send Chinese (both simplified and traditional), Japanese, and Korean email messages with no corruption by using automatic text encoding. You can even attach CJK message in GIF picture format so that the receiver can read the message instantly without the need for a multilingual support program. What's New in V2.3: full Korean Hangul support; added Chinese GB18030 code; run native CJK games/programs on Western Windows; Cantonese input; Hong Kong special characters; stand-alone SMTP server; code convertor command line option.

Licence: Free to try; $99.00 to buy.
Online: http://www.njstar.com
Operating system: Windows 95/98/NT/2K/XP.
Requires: None.

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Power Menu is a small app that adds "Always On Top", "Minimize To Tray", "Priority" and "Transparency" sub menus to all top level system menus. As of version 1.4.0, you can now perform most PowerMenu actions by specifying command line arguments to PowerMenu. This allows you to automate things like the hiding of windows from the command line.

Licence: Free.
Online: http://www.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/powermenu/
Operating system: Windows 2K/XP.
Requires: None.

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SMSDemon is an SMS gateway server for sending and receiving SMS, ringtones, logos, flash SMS and unicode characters via a mobile phone or GSM Modem from your PC or server. It will control and manage an unlimited number of GSM modems or mobile phones simultaneously and runs in the background as a Windows service with a professional management console. SMSDemon allows you to develop multiple messaging services and interactive applications that receive and send SMS such as; emergency alerting, information alerting, promotions, information retrieval, surveys, payment gateways, notifications, email integration, mobile communication and anything else you can think of. It is a completely scalable solution that will allow you to start with a small number of devices and quickly expand with your business or personal use.

Licence: Demo.
Online: http://www.smsdemon.com
Operating system: Windows NT/2000, Windws XP.
Requires: N/A.

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		Windows

TW-Renamer is an efficient utility for simultaneous renaming of several files in one step. Different options are available and the renaming modifications are displayed in a preview. These are all explained in the help file. TW-Renamer is particularly helpful with the administration of picture or music collections. Both German and English-language versions of the program are available.

Licence: Free to try, $5 to buy.
Online: http://www.tw-software.de/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/NT/2K/XP.
Requires: None.

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