There is a new chess program for Windows and Linux, it is arasan. Arasan is copyrighted, but permits free distribution, with certain restrictions.

Arasan 11.1 which is the newest model was released in December, 2008. The Windows version runs on Windows 95 or more recent versions. The Linux version comes in source only, and requires GCC to build (version 4.0 or greater recommended).

This program has both a native Windows user interface and a console-based chess engine for use with Winboard or xboard. It also functions with Arena, another free chess interface, and with UCI-compatible programs like Shredder.

The Arasan package includes an opening book with over 100,000 moves.

This is a simple and easy to play game. If you love heavy graphics you probably won’t like this as it is a very simple game. But it is still a delight for chess fans, check it out and see if it is your kind of game.

Check: www.arasanchess.org

This is an employee time recording system. This is used by company who needs to track several employees’ time entry on one or more computers. Employee Project Clock is good for companies involved in automation, manufacturing, control engineering, tool and die and other job shops.

PROS:

• It keeps accurate time logging records by making it possible for each employee to easily log time in and out.
• It gives the time spent by employee on different projects.
• It checks employee time logging by shift.
• It assigns rates by employee or project for time charging purposes.
• It also tracks the project costs and schedules with the project management and expense features.
• It access data from other database programs using the ODBC driver.

CON:

• Price- $75. Too high in my opinion

But a new version just hit the market- Version 6 and the basic difference in this version is the new time server feature. In this case there is no chance of user tampering.

So it is definitely worth checking out.

For more info check it out at http://cyber-matrix.com/epclock.html

Microsoft Office Outlook Connector offers a good access to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 which collectively makes it possible to access and manage your Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail or Microsoft Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages, contacts and calendars for free!

This program allows you to use your Live Hotmail accounts within Outlook:

• You can read and send your Office Live Mail/Windows Live Hotmail e-mail messages.
• Manage your contacts in Windows Live Hotmail.
• Apply better methods to block junk e-mail messages.
• Manage multiple e-mail accounts in one place.
• Manage, and synchronize multiple calendars, including shared calendars to Windows Live Calendar from Outlook.

Take note if you are currently using MSN Calendar service, the Outlook Connector 12.1 will automatically migrate your calendar to the new Windows Live Calendar service. Once you are upgraded to Windows Live Calendar, you will be able to synchronize multiple calendars, including shared calendars to Outlook but you will now be prevented from accessing MSN Calendar through Microsoft Office Outlook.

In ensuring that that all of your calendar items on the MSN Calendar service are correctly migrated to the Windows Live Calendar, you should follow these steps:

• After installing Outlook Connector 12.0, synchronize your calendar in Microsoft Office Outlook with the MSN Calendar service one last time.
• After synchronization is complete, do not create new items on the MSN Calendar site. If you do, you will have to synchronize again using Outlook Connector 12.0 before migrating to Outlook Connector 12.1.
• Install Outlook Connector 12.1.
• Start Outlook. At this point, the Outlook Connector 12.1 will upload all of your appointments and meetings to your new Windows Live Calendar.

Pls note that not all OS is supported, the supported ones include Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista; Windows XP

It also works well with:

• 2007 Microsoft Office system
• Microsoft Office 2003
• Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
• Microsoft Office Outlook 2003

Get more information from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9a2279b1-df0a-46e1-aa93-7d4870871ecf&DisplayLang=en

CNStats Standard is a system designed to ease the collation and analysis of site usage statistics. This software is flexible and versatile. Over 50 basic reports are available via web-interface. CNStats STD functions to maximum at any hosting which supports MySQL and PHP.

This software suits to upcoming projects perfectly and gives you room to control your visitors’ actions online, evaluate advertising effectiveness, as well as to consider ROI. The program can be conveniently installed and to set up, and it also allows the counting all the visitors of your web-site.

WIth Features like

• Fast and easy installation
• Autonomy and safety – statistics is stored on your site and does not call the external sources while working;
• Time-proved accuracy and reliability;
• Unique interface – multi-functional, user-friendly, multi-lingual, fast;
• Built-in system of goals tracing – who, when, where from. The term “goal” may imply payment for products, registration on a site, photograph upload, message sending etc;
• Analysis of advertising campaigns effectiveness, counting of jumps, and calculation of goal achievement cost, selection of advertising sites;
• etc

This is a tool really worth having.

Visit  www.cnstats.com for more info and download.

Webshot is a program that allows you to take screenshots of web pages and save them as full sized images. It can be found in the JPG, GIF, PNG, or BMP formats.

The freeware edition does color screenshots via the graphical user interface and the freeware command line interface is limited to grayscale screenshots.The freeware version also has a demo of the command line interface, which can be bought, and used to streamline the screenshot process on whole websites. The server edition of WebShot comes with a DLL that will allow you to embed WebShot technology in your own applications.

It is a really cool tool with Basic Features like

• Automatic determination of page width and height that captures the whole page accurately.
• Frame dimensions are known and calculated on pages that have them.
• Browser size specification allows you to capture the whole page ure operation
• and lots more

You will love the fact that with this tool, Image thumbnailing reduces the final capture image easily

All in all it is really worth checking out! For more details, visit: www.websitescreenshots.com

Baby Diary keeps a multimedia album for every record of your baby’s milestones.

With Baby Diary, you can keep files like notes, photos, and videos of prenatal development, delivery, first steps or custom categories for multiple children. The diary content can be arranged in a blog style with help of built-in calendar. Each diary entry displays the corresponding baby age.

Your baby’s growth process can be controlled by creating weight, length, and head circumference charts from birth to 36 months of age. Dental and vaccination schedule charts are included as well. This program offers you the possibility of creating your own percentile enabled charts of the baby development.

Baby Diary can also quickly and easily transform its multimedia album into the complete baby web site ready to be published on the web or stored on CD. Information on the Baby web site can include photos, videos, notes, age calculations and charts.

Conclusively, Baby Diary makes it possible to create your own web site templates. So, the possibilities of baby web site design using Baby Diary are virtually unlimited.

Features of Baby Diary:

General

• Easy to use drag & drop user interface.
• Can keep diaries for multiple children.
• Allows creating custom hierarchy of notes’ categories.
• Sortable list of notes with drag & drop support for each category.
• Trash node in category tree that holds recently deleted notes.
• Ability to arrange diary content in a blog style with help of built-in calendar.
• Date range filter for notes

Get more on: http://www.aktisoft.com/BabyDiaryAbout.htm

Petal Palace is game that takes you to an enchanted palace, surrounded by beautiful scenery where flowers grow in great abundance. Interestingly, there isn’t nearly enough space in the garden, so there’s only one thing to do and that is picking the flowers by arranging them in lines, to keep the palace from being overgrown. Use any tools you may find to overcome obstacles.

Picking the flowers as supposed offers you bonuses and rewards that will help you in your task. In Petal Palace you get lots of game variations with varying surroundings and gameplay.

Special features:

• Stunning 3D graphics.
• Lots of different game variations.
• Endless replayability!
• Supports both mouse and keyboard.
• Easy to learn (gameplay somewhat similar to games like Columns and Tetris).
• Hard to master, since every game variation requires different tactics and skills.
• Customizable keyboard keys.
• Customizable mouse buttons.
• Mouse scroll wheel support.
• Import/export highscores OpenGL support*.

Petal Palace always uses OpenGL on Mac OS X, but the Windows version may use DirectX if OpenGL-compatible hardware can’t be found.

Get more info from: http://www.norbyte.com/PetalPalace.html

There is a new diagnostic tool for Windows NT based systems and that is ESET SysInspector. It is free and state of the art. It provides details like running processes, registry content, startup items and network connections. Whenever a snapshot of the system is made, ESET SysInspector applies heuristics to assign a risk level for each object logged.

The graphical user interface enables the user to gain access to the large volume of data. ESET SysInspector is a convenient for all users.

Basic Features:

• Ability to generate and save a detailed log to be used by an IT expert or uploaded to an online forum for diagnosis
• Option to exclude private, personal information from being saved in logs
• Integrated Anti-Stealth technology allows discovering hidden objects (e.g. rootkits) in MBR, registry entries, drivers, services and processes
• Ability to compare two existing logs for differences makes it easy to detect changes over time
• Log entries are assigned a color code risk level for easy filtering
• Intuitive hierarchical navigation of logs
• Fast and compact single file executable, ideal for first responders to run from a USB drive without lengthy installation

For more information check: http://www.eset.com/download/sysinspector.php

You can now automatically process all emails you have in your POP3 mailbox (including Gmail) or in Mozilla Thunderbird, Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Vista Windows Mail email client with the use of an email parser called Process Them. The email parser can do the following instantly:

Process web forms you receive by email, extract common data and save it to a database (Excel, Access, MS SQL or MySQL) or to a text file. This is a must have tool for Ebay sellers or anyone who has online store and get order notifications by email.

• Save attachments to dedicated folder and remove these attachments from emails
• Send emails using extracted data. For example, it can be used as autoresponder with custom parameters
• Launch files with parameters using extracted data. So you can pass extracted data information directly to other applications
• Start Process Them as Windows Service if you want to use it on a server and it will process all your email automatically and unattended 24/7
• Delete, move or copy messages between folders. This feature can be used as perfect antispam filter or just to sort email according to your needs

More information is available on http://www.kadmy.com/process.html

Here is a modern, portable and fast Linux operating system that has a modular approach and outstanding design, it is called slax. In spite of its small size, Slax offers a large range of pre-installed programs for daily use, which has a well organized graphical user interface and useful recovery tools for system administrators.

The modular approach it has provides the ability to include any other software in Slax easily. Other programs like text editor, networking tool or game can be simply added by downloading a module with the software and copy it to Slax, without a need to install and to configure.

For beginners or busy people, there is a step by step method to build your own customized operating system by using web-based interface.

For more details, visit: www.slax.org