Software and Web Sites

Mentioned on November 21, 2004
In my presentation to the Central Florida Computer Society on Sunday, November 21, 2004, I mentioned a number of products and web sites, and members contributed several more. For your information, here they are, in alphabetical order.
Acrobat Reader Speedup Helps you speed up the loading of Adobe Acrobat Reader version 6. Helps you remove many Reader plugins that you may not be using, thereby letting Acrobat Viewer load faster.
Google Toolbar Search for stuff on the Web without visiting Google. The toolbar also adds features allowing you to search within newsgroups, images and more.
LangaList Home Page Fred Langa is a former editor of Byte magazine, who now devotes his time to writing for InformationWeek and publishing a very valuable newsletter. You can get it free twice a week, or sign up for the PLUS version, for only $12 per year. Visit the site and look at some samples.
Registrar Lite A great editor for your registry. Remembers keys you've recently editied, lets you cut and paste data and keys from one key to another, and much more. Basic version is free, professional version is shareware.
SurfSaver SurfSaver lets you save, organize, and search the information you gather on the Internet, all on your own hard drive, whether you're connected to the web or not.
Toolbar Chest Set up your Internet Explorer toolbars and save the layout in Toolbar Chest. Next time IE mangles your toolbar layout, just run Toolbar Chest and choose Restore. Bingo! your toolbars are back.
VB Life Cycle Check this site to see how much longer Microsoft will support Visual Basic 6.
We also mentioned:
  • 4NT
  • Clipmate
  • FileBox eXtender
  • IrfanView
  • KeyTweak
  • PDF995
  • RoboForm
  • RoboType
  • TextPad
  • Total Commander
 		See all these and more at http://www.rugless.com/utilities.aspx.
Here are some products suggested by attendees.
ExtractNow ExtractNow lets you extract multiple archives with the click of a button. Supports ZIP, RAR, ACE, JAR, ISO, IMG, IMA, IMZ, BIN, MP3 (MP3> WAV), LHZ, LHA file formats. (Contributed by Arvin Meyer)
NoteTab NoteTab is a text and HTML editor. It can handle a stack of huge files; lets you format text to your heart's content; does system-wide searches, and multi-line global replacements. It even corrects your spelling mistakes. (Contributed by Arvin Meyer)
PDFCreator PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application. (Contributed by Tom Springall)
TreePad Organizer, PIM / Database, Personal Information Manager and Word Processor. (Contributed by Arvin Meyer)