DeKnop (“The button” in dutch, in case you were wondering) is a freeware graphics editor that lets you create buttons for your web site. This makes it extremely easy as you don’t need any particular graphic designing knowledge.

Its interface provides a step by step way to create simple buttons for your web page, and why not being particularly advanced looking, it could still be useful for people who want basic buttons on their website for web links, navigation, etc.

Some of its features include automatic up/down effects for use in mouse over java scripts,gradients, ability to save button images as PNG, JPG, BMP or GIF(non LZW) format. DeKnop also supports projects, allowing you to save your work and continue on it later or reuse it for other jobs.

You can check it out here.

Here is a cool billing and invoicing software for you, it is called kBilling. kBilling is a billing & invoicing software that helps you create, print and email invoices, create recurring billing cycles, and manage customers and contacts easily.

One thing I really love about kBilling is the fact that it was made with the user’s needs in mind. It has an easy to us interface that will allow you to make your own invoices without having any detailed knowledge of accounting.

It doesn’t matter what you need to do, tracking your customers, maintaining their balances, including your logo on invoices, managing payments of different types; kBilling will help you get it done easily.

The publishers, K Software are so sure of their software that they are offering it free for you for 30 whole days. So you don’t have to pay a dime until you are sure of how good it is.

Go check it out! CLICK HERE!

Here is a software that is very useful for classrooms and network groups.

AB Tutor Control was designed in response to requests from teachers and trainers who need to interact effortlessly with their students on an individual, group or full classroom basis using a very simple and reliable user interface.

The fact that no prior experience of computer-based training or networking is required makes this software very easy to use. The software enables a tutor or network administrator to control a number of student workstations in a computer training room – or remote location – from a tutor workstation. Classroom groups can be created by network managers to maintain security on large networks.

This software is also very useful for network administrators and help support staff. Want to try it out; It’s a shareware with a 30 day time out trial version.

CLICK HERE for more info and trial download.

Bluebottle Freemail is the free version of the paid service, but you still get a lot of the cool features. You get a Spam Free Email, what they call “Trusted Delivery Anti-Spoofing” which filters out spam, access via webmail, POP3, and smtp, around 250Mb of storage and up to 10 Mb worth of attachments.

For a mere $9.95 you can sign up for virus checking and bigger limits, and for $24.95 you can go top of the line with 1Gb of storage, phone support and 30Mb file sizes. All sounds very nice, and I love the interface. Try the free opne for a while and see how you go.

Check it out at Bluebottle.com

Genie Soft has a great program which solves a problem I’ve had many times in my tech support career: how to back up Outlook Express. Yes, you can search the folders for where the files are hidden and copy them to another computer. But that’s a pain.

This super little program supports backing up the data of all the identities in Microsoft Outlook Express in the same backup file. You can even backup as a self-executable EXE file that can be run on any machine even if the main Genie Backup Manager isn’t running or installed. That’s very cool.

Unlike other backup methods you can copy Multiple Identities, Message Rules, and All accounts and Preferences, as well as Signatures, Stationery, your Address Book. It’s a marvel.

Take the high road to Genie Soft for more…

Based on the excellent Ewido Anti-Malware package, this new AVG offering is a do-it-all solution against viruses, worms, trojans, spyware and adware.

The software is active for 30 days, so you can try out all the features before you buy, and buy is what you will probably do. It’s not wildly expensive and as far as I can see is very effective against keeping spyware threats at bay. Some of the threats I tested it on, like Spy Sheriff and Brave Sentry were not completely removed, but I think more needs to be done to free your machine of those nasty bugs.

Head over to Grisoft for more…

In need of a software that can help you come cool slideshows and screensavers? gPhotoShow may be just the right tool for you.

With gPhotoShow, you can easily make your own photo slide show or screensaver. This easy to use software can display an unlimited number of jpeg, png, tiff, avi, mov, mpg, panorama, flash animations (.swf files) and web pages. gPhotoshow can also create professional looking standalone slideshows/screen savers that can be sent by email or cd and run on any Windows based computer.

The latest version has these changes incorporated into it:

• Added support for PlugIns
• Fixed a problem with automatic image rotation
• Now images are displayed correctly also when exif tags are corrupted
• Removed duplicated maker name in exif info display
• Now gPhotoShow loads default image properties from the file gprop.ini in the folder where the image is stored (format is the same as .gprop files)
• Added command to add/remove the windows explorer menu item “Start slideshow with gPhotoShow”
• Now in the windows display properties gPhotoShow displays a preview of the slideshow
• Fixed a problem in the skip to previous image function when all monitors displays the same image
• Added support for InnoSetup 5
• Added an option to display the slideshow only on secondary monitors
• Added support for AAC files (*.m4a,*.m4p). In order to play them you need to install iTunes or WinAmp with M4P plugin
• Added support for Apple iTunes
• It is now possible to specify additional file extensions for sound and music files

AND SO MUCH MORE!
I’ve got your attention? CLICK HERE

Daily USB Backup is a little program to help you backup your important info or synchronise it with an external drive. It has a file and folder filter so it only backups what you want backed up and it can Monitor the source files automatically and synchronize only the files new or changed. It can also encrypt zipped backup files for added security.

It has USB drive binding support, which means it can be set to recognize only your drive, that way it won’t just start backing up to just any drive that gets connected. The program will monitor the change of system disk letter and recognize the new letter of USB driver. It can recognize the bound disk with several USB disks connected. Which will help the program synchronize files with the right USB driver. If your USB drive isn’t connected, the program will remind you to connect it at the scheduled time. After the alert, it will automatic perform the task in the next 10 minutes.

This is a pretty cool idea for anyone who has say, a laptop that they want to keep synchronized or backed up on an external drive.

You can get more info and download the demo here.

MediaMonkey is software to help you manage your Mp3 collection, and they sure cater for a large one! They say it can handle 50,000+ music files, but don’t worry, it works just as well on smaller collections!

It includes portable audio device synchronization that allows you to quickly synch tracks and playlists with iPods and other portable audio devices. Its player automatically adjusts volume levels so that you don’t have continually fiddle with the volume control and supports hundreds of Winamp plug-ins and visualizations; or if you prefer, it can use Winamp as the default player.

On top of all this it does much more, It can automatically identify tracks who’s tags are missing and look them up online, it also looks up album covers from Amazon. It can also arrange playlists with ease and rip and burn, for a full list of features check out the site here and you can grab the free version!

I’d recommend this for anyone who’s a big music fan and has a large mp3 collection.

If you’ve been looking for a nice software to archive digital photos into DVD, you’ll love this cool tool; IphotoDVD.

IphotoDVD is a useful tool to archive digital photos into DVD/SVCD/VCD compatible MPEG files with hundreds of transition effects. That’s not all, the transformation includes photo to DVD, photo to VCD, photo to mpeg, jpg to mpg and jpg to mpeg.

You are going to love the fact that you can create photo video, photo show on DVD/SVCD/VCD easily. The good thing about it is that these files can also be viewed on computer. The real beauty of this powerful but easy to use utility is that it is now audio enabled.

Trial Download and more info available HERE! Check It out!