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Smart Diary Suite 4
{rw_text}Giveaway of the day for November 24, 2008 is Smart Diary Suite 4.
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- Password protection.
- You can schedule tasks, events, write notes, and make diary entries.
- Good clean interface.
- Spell check for diary and note entries.
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- Too many features ‘disabled’ in Home edition (Home
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SpellQuizzer
{rw_text}Giveaway of the day for November 22, 2008 is SpellQuizzer.
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- You create your own spelling lists.
- You can make audio or visual ‘reminders’ to help the person using the list remember what word you want them to spell.
- You can import/export lists.
- Self-explanatory interface.
- You can password
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Wondershare Photo Collage Studio
{rw_text}Giveaway of the day for November 21, 2008 is Wondershare Photo Collage Studio.
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- Comes with many predefined collage templates and collage layouts.
- Has predefined templates for calenders, greeting cards, posters and
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Daniusoft Media Converter
{rw_text}Giveaway of the day for November 20, 2008 is Daniusoft Media Converter.
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- Very easy to use.
- You can convert to almost any format.
- Program can shut down computer automatically if you want to leave
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PDF to Image
{rw_text}Giveaway of the day for November 18, 2008 is PDF to Image.
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If you are getting “File not found: pdf2image.dll” error, try the following:
- If you are a Vista user, Run as Administrator (this fixed the problem for me).
- If you are a non-Vista user, or if the above
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mgLaunch ***May contain Trojan!
Giveaway of the day for November 17, 2008 is mgLaunch. ***Warning: May contain Trojan!
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I scanned mgLaunch.zip before upzipping it. Kaspersky picked up a trojan!

This may be a false positive, but it may not be. I am not willing to take the risk and I suggest you do [...]
Read More »eReminder
{rw_text}Giveaway of the day for November 14, 2008 is eReminder.
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When installing eRemindar, you have to choose Professional version. Registration for any other version will not work!.
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- Has a desktop widget
- You can add “notes”
- Has a predefined holiday list for Canada/USA
- Outlook Integration
- You can
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Color Picker Pro
{rw_text}Giveaway of the day for November 13, 2008 is Color Picker Pro.
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- Supports multiple format color codes.
- Has a “zoomed” in box to show you exactly where you are pointing.
- Has option to click + drag capture, or automatic capture.
- Can set it to capture more then
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Secure Evidence Scrubber
Giveaway of the day for November 12, 2008 is Secure Evidence Scrubber.
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When you run Setup.exe, it places SecureEvidenceScrubber.exe into your C: folder. If you have some security software like Threatfire, you might get a prompt that this might be malicious software. The security software is right in prompting [...]
Read More »SnapLogger
{rw_text}Giveaway of the day for November 11, 2008 is SnapLogger.
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- You can set the time interval, in seconds, between each screen shot.
- You can set the program to stop taking screen shots if your computer has been idle for X amount of minutes.
- You can set it
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ImagePut
{rw_text}Giveaway of the day for November 10, 2008 is ImagePut.
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- Has built in screen capture tool.
- Supports multiple free image hosting services.
- Can upload in bulk.
- You can save images to make an album.
- Has a built in image editor.
- Has advance album displaying tools/skins.
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Read More »List Management Software
{rw_text}Giveaway of the day for November 9, 2008 is List Management Software.
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- You can remove lines that contain words that you specify.
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- Only works with simple text files.
- What is the point of this software?
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Easy Calendar Maker
{rw_text}Giveaway of the day for November 8, 2008 is Easy Calendar Maker.
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- Can create custom calendars (duh =P).
- Can display monthly, yearly, or month + 3 next month calendars.
- Supports 5 different languages.
- Comes with 5/6 single-month calendar templates.
- Easy but ANNOYING customization.
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- Resizing
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Uconomix Encryption Engine
{rw_text}Giveaway of the day for November 6, 2008 is Uconomix Encryption Engine.
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For anyone getting the following error while trying to install this on Vista:

It is because you have to run the Setup.msi as administrator. You may notice that right click + Run as Administrator is not an [...]
Read More »NoteFrog
{rw_text}Giveaway of the day for November 5, 2008 is NoteFrog.
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- You can search your notes.
- You can password protect your notes.
- You can export notes in .rtf format.
- Fine text/replace text option.
- Has an “Insert Today’s Date” button.
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- Some icons are not as self
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Beyond Sync Pro
{rw_text}Giveaway of the day for November 4, 2008 is Beyond Sync Pro.
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- Multiple sync methods.
- Supports sync between desktop-network folders or desktop-external media.
- You can schedule a sync to occur at a specific time.
- Backs up/copies entire folder if desired.
- Has a ‘byte to byte’ file validity
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CaptureIt
{rw_text}Giveaway of the day for November 3, 2008 is CaptureIt.
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EasyCapture is 99.9% identical to CaptureIt (I have only found one difference – more on that below), but EasyCapture is freeware! (thx KSP797)

If CaptureIt does not register correctly, try the following:
- Uninstall via RevoUninstaller (or normals windows uninstaller
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Kid’s Coloring Book Creator
{rw_text}Giveaway of the day for November 2, 2008 is Kid’s Coloring Book Creator
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- Has built in instructions on how to work the program.
- Very user friendly GUI.
- You can transform multiple images at once.
- You can control how much black/white you want in your image.
- Program is
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Smart CD Catalog 2.53
{rw_text}Giveaway of the day for October 31, 2008 is Smart CD Catalog 2.53.
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- Small learning curve.
- CDDB online database support.
- The program is not very resource intensive, relatively speaking.
- Scans disks and records information, about what is on the CDs, fairly quickly.
- Has a built in system
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WinUtilities
{rw_text}Giveaway of the day for October 30, 2008 is WinUtilities.
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- Has almost every tool in the book needed to clean/maintain your computer
- Almost no learning curve
- Automatically Creates system backups before doing any changes to registry.
- Has an option to recover deleted files and to ‘securely’ delete
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Sax2
{rw_text}Giveaway of the day for October 29, 2008 is Sax2.
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For anyone getting this error:
The application has failed to start because MFC71U.DLL was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.
Download the .DLL file from here and place it in your C:/Windows/System folder.
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Read More »Reminder Commander 2.20
{rw_text}Giveaway of the Day for October 28, 2008 is Reminder Commander 2.20.
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- The ability to remind about an event on a preset designated time.
- Email reminders.
- The ability to create multiple reminder lists.
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- Adding/Removing reminders is not as easy as it could be.
- Cannot
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