Whether you are a student or you have a son or daughter that is a student, you know that resources are invaluable when it comes to writing reports and preparing for tests. Encyclopedia Britannica knows this as well, and they have created some of the best reference materials available for the computer that are now on the market.

If you need help with your English course, Encyclopedia Britannica has reference software for Shakespear as well as software that includes a computerized version of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. If you need help with your history course, Encyclopedia Britannica gives you the chance to purchase their software references on US Presidents, Black History, Hispanic Heritage and World War 2. There are also such titles as “Birds of the World” and “National Parks” for you to reference.

These are some of the best reference materials out there, and they include more than just page after page of information. They also give you the opportunity to access a list of the most important events pertaining to that subject, video and audio clips, as well as many pictures, photos, and historical essays on the topic. The best part is that you don’t have to spend a ton of time searching for relevant information because you can now do a simple keyword search and the computer will automatically tell you where to find the information that you are looking for. This is great for last minute essay writing and test crunching.

Arranging Bookmark at times becomes a hassle when you need to deal with a large number of links. To help with your task the BixBookmark 2.1 comes across as a capable tool since it allows you to manage the links along with the screenshots. It also supports the function of opening the links directly from the program, in any of the popular browsers. You can keep each link saved specifically according to their different categories. The software also supports the features like setting the thumbnails, searching, checking the duplicates, password protection, etc. In short with this utility you can put as many bookmarks as you can and get all favorite sites with single click.

BixBookmark 2.1 displays the categories on the left side panel with an expandable folder menu. The containing links are shown on the right side on selecting the folder that you can access to the site with any of the famous browser like MS Internet Explorer, Opera, Maxthon, Mozilla, Firefox, etc. For creating and adding the link you need to set required information in the dialog box. The tool helps you to store, arrange, sort and so on, the links for the required website pages. If you’re having official links that are important and need to be secured so that nobody visits it, you can use the software to protect the folder having such links by setting the password. It also supports creating the thumbnails for the WebPages so that you can have the view of the content of the page. Even it supports creating the back up and restoration of the bookmark collection. You can search the required link easily with the context search features fro the large list of the links.

BixBookmark 2.1 helps managing links in an easy way and it also supports visiting the relating site directly through the program.

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Today a large section of people use different mailing accounts which they simultaneously try to access using their Outlook email client. While using a number of them, one might face confusion and might forget the password of any of your mailing accounts. The Password Recovery Toolbox for Outlook Express 1.1.5 is designed to solve such an issue with effortless ease. This software can help the users to get their passwords recovered in an easy manner.

The Password Recovery Toolbox for Outlook Express 1.1.5 provides us with some simple steps to get the password recovered. The program starts working instantly at the startup and displays the recovered password and the related information of the mailing accounts. The email account and the settings are shown on the right side of the screen. With all the shown features you get the information relating to the Server features like incoming mail, POP3, and Outgoing SMTP server. It also shows the Incoming Mail Server setting relating to the Account and the Password. You can also know which features for Outgoing mail server are enabled like the server authentication and to log in using Secure Password Authentication. The software easily recovers the passwords and visualizes the mail and account settings. The additional feature of the program provides you with the feature that helps you to save the configurations relating to the Outlook Express identities in a text file. Likewise the software is capable of managing current users several identities. You can even have the data recovered for another user also. You would find the software easy to use and also easy for installation as it is compatible all the Windows versions except Windows 95.

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Linkstash is a program for managing your bookmarks. It has surprisingly cool and useful features, considering most “bookmark manager” things don’t really do anything too amazing or especially useful. It manages all your bookmarks and works with all the main browsers, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape and Opera, very useful if you like to use more than one browser. It also opens and closes with the browser.

It has lots of features including :

• Dead links checker and updater,
• Favorites sync,
• Color highlighting of folders/links,
• Fields for comments, ratings, etc.,
• Secure encrypted password safe with automated password control for auto website log-on.

Its even available in a portable version!

I was very impressed with this program, definitely the best bookmark manager I’ve come across yet. Multiple backups, option to encrypt the whole bookmark file, even configure certain sites to open in certain browsers. Lots more features than I can go into detail with here.

Like the sound of it? More information at the homepage here

Feed Submitter is a semi-automated blog promotion tool that helps increase traffic and RSS feed subscribers. The feed subscriber quickly submits your feed to 200 of the top blog and RSS feed directories.

Pros: The Feed Subscriber is a semi automated submission tool for blog and RSS feed directories. The application knows about 200 odd such directories and can submit to them automatically. The user need not hunt for such directories and submit manually one by one. It’s possible to submit multiple feeds at a time.

Many blog readers follow these directories to find what’s new in a specific keyword category. Besides the first visit, a majority of these readers subscribe to update feeds to follow a blog if they like it. That simply means repeat visitors or traffic. It is this traffic that is the basis of many a follow up activities. Without traffic none of those actions make sense. So, to increase the probabilities of more and more people visiting you virtual enterprise, you’ll need to get your content known widely. So submission to more directories that guide readers to blogs in specific niches is the starting point for many a venture.

To avoid the tedium of manually submitting details individually, the feed submitter does it automatically, with the option to do it manually still, if you prefer that. Any number of RSS feed submissions can be done with the application filling in the submission details automatically. The submitter has a up to date list of directories that number more than 200. Podcast or Videocast submissions also can be made optionally. The user interface is easy to use and easy to understand. No significant learning time is required.

Cons: Final effectiveness of any such tool is if traffic can be built up effectively. It’d depend on the popularity of the directories too. That will depend on other factors however, including quality of your blog of course. What can be assessed is whether submissions get done alright.

Overall a definite 4 star application.

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While searching for the perfect candidates for your organization you need to surf many sites and get the ones that suit to your organization needs. Employees form most important part of the organization and selecting the efficient ones is much crucial task. But now you can directly find the resumes of capable candidates with the suitable qualification. With the ResumeFinder 2008 you can search for candidates and it carries out resume search with Google. You can find resumes using the filters like the keywords, location, years of experience, etc. With it you can also send the automatic or bulk emails to the candidates by using the pre-defined templates.

ResumeFinder 2008 helps you to find the resumes based on various aspects like location, job portals, etc. The toolbar is set with the explorer window that makes the search easier and the results are shown in the explorer window itself. It work with best search scripts and makes your work easier. For making the search perfect you need to set the Options given with the program. First you need to set the Search Settings; select the Search Engine, Regional Settings and Search Settings for searching in the updated WebPages. Script Settings are there for creating and selecting script, etc. Job Portals Settings allow you to search resumes with specified job portals or websites. You can set the URLs for the sites with the Site Settings features for using them in the portal search. Even if you’re looking for someone from the same location them you can have the search conducted by the location. Set the location with the settings and then make the selection of the desired ones for the resume search. You can also select the location filter for having more specified search. So set your preferences and start searching for the resumes.

With ResumeFinder 2008 you can also save the search setting for use in future and also search for the resumes that have been updated or posted in recent time.

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As soon as I saw this program, I knew that I was definitely going to download it and take it for a spin!

Why is that, you ask?  Well, it’s because now that I am starting to earn more and have more credit and bills to take care of, having a personal piece of software that really helps me keep track of it all is exactly what I need. And that is exactly what Buddi will do for you. Buddi is a free piece of software (open source, to be exact) that will allow you to keep track of all of your personal finances and allow you to set up different accounts and categories while at the same time recording transactions that they happen to do. If you want a program to keep you honest about spending, then Buddi is exactly the program to do that for you.

Oh, and the absolute best thing about Buddi is that it happens to be a program created for people with no financial background and little experience in keeping track of their finances. It is the perfect program for the average Joe that just wants a little help with their financial existence.

More information is available at http://buddi.thecave.homeunix.org/en

Threatfire is a behavior based malware detector.It guards against malware such as trojans, spyware, rootkits, keyloggers, and buffer overflows, based on behavior patterns consistent with these threats. This means that it doesn’t just rely on a signature database to compare the files on your computer against, although it has one too.

This is always a limitation in signature based scanners (most virus and malware scanners) as they can only find known threats and can be useless against unknown or new threats (so-called ” zero-day” threats). Instead, Threatfire analyzes the activity of everything on your system for any suspicious behavior, which it then warns you about for you to take further action on. 

According to test results published at the Threatfire website, it can increase the safety of your computer a great deal compared to just using an antivirus program.

It doesn’t seem to use up much resources and is very easy to use, as no complicated configuration is required. It’s available in a free and a pro version, the only difference being that the on-demand scanner in the free version is partially disabled,so it’ll scan for rootkits only.

The realtime protection is fully functional though, meaning you’re still fully protected against all known threats in the database as well as unknown threats that it may detect.

This is a neat program and good as an extra layer of protection and peace of mind. Click here for more details and download

Wouldn’t it be good if you could have one program that would do several useful things for your computer? Things such as optimizing it, cleaning it, and improving speed, reliability, privacy and security?

If this sounds good to you, then you might wanna take Glary Utilities for a test drive. While the name may not sound too exciting, it seems to be a very good, well programmed, well thought out, and most importantly of all, useful piece of software.

Its an all in one utilities suite that has some very useful things that most computer users are sure to find useful at some stage. This includes a disk cleaner for scanning for and removing junk temp files from your computer to free up valuable space. It also has a registry cleaner which so far seems pretty good compared to most ones i’ve tried out, just be careful and try not to delete anything you’re not absolutely sure about. If in doubt, you can make a backup first. Other features enable you to delete empty folders and dead shortcuts. (more…)

Are you looking for a great way to find all kinds of different recipes for cooking?  Well, if so, then the Recipe4win 1.1 software is exactly what you need.  This handy piece of freeware was released on January 4th and has quickly become a fan favourite amongst people that have taken the time to download it and install it on their computer.   It also comes with an uninstaller, which is more than can be said for many of the freeware programs that are available in today’s world.
 
This program is actually quite simple, but at the same time is quite effective.  All it does is link up with the central database available at recipe4all.com and it allows you to browse through all of the different recipes available for that website until you find one that will work for you in whatever situation you happen to be in.   For example, you can search by specific keywords for a specific recipe, you can search by ingredients that are used in the different recipes or you can even search by geography and the region of the world that a specific recipe comes from.   These are all excellent modes for you to use to find that perfect recipe for any occasion and the Recipe4win software engine allows you to do that in record time.
 
More information about this program is available at http://www.recipe4all.com/software/