Webby Toolbox for insiders
Check out these Resources and Essentials.
We use them and can highly recommend them.
Caution! Some of these programs are fairly large and may take
some time to download!
Crap
Cleaner Safely get rid of tons of useless crap left over from old, obsolete
updates, temp files, lost file fragments, etc.
To protect yourself against spyware,
I recommend
Spybot-Search&Destroy
To deal with spam,
I recommend MailWasher
PUTTY Secure Shell Telnet. Free SSH program,
much better than Telnet and perfectly safe.
Belarc Advisor This program
does a fast but thorough inventory of your computer and shows all installed hardware
components like make and model of each drive, and of all software installed, and
it's location in your computer. Not just essential for troubleshooting or for a
pre-repair inventory, but also handy to file with your insurance.
PDF readers for reading e-books, manuals, forms
Foxit PDF reader
ADOBE Reader
Strip >>> from
forwarded mail
Icon
Hider from JC Matt. This program puts an icon into your task bar. One click
of it hides the icons on your desktop. Next time you click that taskbar icon,
all your desktop icons return in their old places.
Anfy
Java Applets Anfy Java applets and applet manager for
easy configuration and customization of the applets.
NOTEmaid Handy
clean editor for anything from CGI to quick notes to HTML pages.
Works in clean ASCII.
UltraEdit Advanced CLEAN
text editor. Lots of options, for example editing in UNIX standard without converting
to DOS standard. Highly recommended.
Webedit 3.11 Excellent web page editor
for advanced webmasters.
EUDORA Excellent
and easy, full featured e-mail program. 4.5MB
Note: This download is an older and smaller version than you can get at http://eudora.com ,
but it will work fine on older PCs. Ideal when travelling. If you have room, I
recommend Eudora 6
Pegasus Excellent,
full featured, advanced e-mail program. Only 2MB !
Or try the Newest version of Pegasus
FTP
Programs
LEAP FTP Full featured,
rock solid. 30 day trial, then $30
WS_FTP LE (limited) is free,
PRO 30 day trial, then $40. The WS_FTP PRO is nearly as good as LEAP
FTP Auto Free, but awkward compared
to Leap or WS_FTP
Magnifier A
handy magnifier to use on pages with small print or small graphics.
Real
Time Automatically checks accurate real time sources and sets your computer
clock.
Winzip with info All instructions included.
DisKeeper The best defragment program for
the newer versions of Windows
Software
Post-it-Notes Programmable pot-it-notes for the computer. You can set alarms
for them to pop up before somebody's birthday or appointment. The PRO version
works across a LAN. Stick a Post-it-note on somebody elses screen. Life saver
for sending messages across the LAN when the Internet is down.
Jenn's
Midi Paradise Best collection of great midi files.
Colour This
is the good old credit card sized color calc that lets you select a colour and
paste the Hex number into an HTML file. Indispensable.
PaintShopPro I
have used this one for everything from web graphics to circuit diagrams. And still
do. Good enough that I cheerfully sent in the registration money.
(That's when it was still voluntary, for version 2. I have since then bought six
upgrades) Highly recommended!
Animated Gif
construction Set
Resolve DNS of visitors,
ideal for spot-checking or doing a whole week at a time. Runs on Win95. Just download
your access log and run RESDNS32 on it.
HTTP-ANALYZE for Windows Lets
you run your stats yourself at whatever intervals you want.
The Cool Archive A goldmine of neat stuff
for your websites.
ArtTodayPictures and Clip-Art. You can subscribe
and get unlimited access to tons of pictures. Sometimes they have specials where
you can access parts of their site for free. Normal subscription is under $30 per
year.
Fotos Search Stock Graphics and Clipart
Wowspill
Chinasea
ALERT
If you received a phony postcard pick-up notice,
claiming to be from a family member, or other vague source,
then that is just an illegal spoof and NOT from us.
Just like Elvis, Ebay and PayPal, we too suffer from impersonators. Such is the price
of fame.
Mypostcards.com sells postcard SOFTWARE,
but does
NOT send postcards.
Do not click on anything in the spoof. Just dump it.
Since your spoof did not come from us,
we can not unsubscribe you from anything.
You can send the spoof to the Spamcops at
http://www.spamcop.net/
They will analyze it and show you where it really came from.
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