There are all sorts of tools on this month's cover CD to help make your online life easier. From our Hot Downloads section we have an assortment of free programs including spell checkers, a Web page source code viewer and a personal firewall for added protection – see 'This Issue'. To help you out we've included code files for the Projects in this month's issue.

Also for your privacy and security, check out Window Washer and MacWasher, designed to brush away your tracks. Complete Internet Cleanup does a similar thing. Don't forget to install the latest versions of our two regular free Windows anti-virus apps, AntiVir and AVG Anti-Virus, if you haven't already. (See the 'Toolbox' page for all the security applications.) For an enterprise anti-spam solution, look no further than GFI MailEssentials For Exchange/SMTP, now in version 9. Mac users try the demo of SpamX to beat off that unwanted junk mail heading for your inbox.

Among the many must-have apps on your cover CD are updates to some of your favourites, including a trial version of the fantastic major upgrade to Jasc's Paint Shop Pro (version 8.1). Other multimedia highlights are the Flash creator SWiSHmax, VCW VicMan's Photo Editor (version 7.5), GraphicConverter for the Mac and the highly rated Mac Webcam application EvoCam (version 3.2).

We're always on the lookout for files you'd like to see on your cover disc and for programs that you, our readers, have written and developed, so please mail us and visit our forums with your ideas. We look forward to hearing from you.