For users of Windows 2000 and Windows XP, here is good tool for you, It is called XP SysPad.

XP SysPad is a launcher which makes access to Windows system utilities its specialty. The cool thing about this software is that it allows you to launch all of the prime Windows system info and utilities like the individual control panel applets with the click of a button, making things so easy.  So instead of navigating around the explorer pane or waiting for menus to open up, this tool makes it real easy for you to access your windows utilities.

You can also recover your Windows 2000/XP product key, get your IP address, execute web queries, monitor any running system process, launch any program,search files, and more. It launches over 200 functions in all.

Here are a couple of the great features you’ll get to enjoy with this software

Just some of the 200+ features of XP Syspad:

• Disk Partition Manager
• DDE Share
• Removable Storage Operator
• Windows Explorer
• System Memory Stats
• Find Files + Folders
• EmptyRecycle Bin
• Windows Sound panel
• Regedit
• Temp file sweeper
• Printers
• Multimedia Settings
• Java Plug-In Control Panel
• Capture Screenshot
• Windows Sound Recorder
• Command Shell
• Windows Help
• Open Windows Folder
• Open Windows System Folder
• Windows Scanner and Camera Wizard
• Program Manager
• Add Network Place Wizard
• Sql Client Config Utility

For a more detailed list of features CLICK HERE!! Want to give it a shot? Why not it won’t cost you a dime, it’s free!!!

Got multiple projects and finding it difficult to keep track of them and get all of them done accordingly? You need to check out Multi Project Planner. Built for Multiple projects competing for shared resources, Multi Project Planner helps you to get a lot done in a little time. The project activities are booked on a schedule, common to all work teams.

Using the project planner you get a far superior overview, as both resource allocation and the interrelationships between the activities of all projects are handled in one and the same view. You also have total control of the planning process. This one thing that may scare you away from this software is its price, $148 has to leave your wallet for it to be yours. But before you run away because of the price take time to consider the benefit to you on the long term.

Here are some highlights from the feature list:

• Hot potatoes are unresolved resource conflicts, kept by the program until you are ready to deal with them;
• Manipulation is performed with the look and feel of a planning board;
• Predefined projects (templates) can be dragged onto the schedule, and the program will try to make a best fit;
• Otherwise it will create hot potatoes;
• Just in Time means scheduling the project as close to the delivery date as possible, thereby minimizing your inventory – and maximizing your instant maneuverability;
• Brute force handling of resource conflicts, but only if you command it;
• Future resource conflicts that are not solved now are turned into hot potatoes, for later treatment;
• Decision points attached to project activities, and launching a warning when the decisions are due;
• Progress can be calculated automatically from employee reports or manually stated;
• Interoperability, i.e. integration with other software.

Check out http://www.adaptive-planning.com/multiprojectplanner.php for more info and trail download before you make up your mind

If you had fun with the slide puzzle as a kid, here is the software version for you to relive those days. The 15 Classic Slide Puzzle is a very simple but really interesting game. According  to the publisher it’s actually based on Sam Loyd’s impossible 1878 sliding number puzzle, but this classic puzzle game is a bit more forgiving as there is always a solution.

Because the software implements a shuffling algorithm that performs scrambling by random movement, not by random placement, every puzzle arrangement can be solved. If you use to enjoy it back then here is it in the digital format, if you’ve not played it before, well what are you waiting for?

It’s free so there is no financial commitment to be made. Except you love it and want to give a donation of course.

Check it out at http://www.playshot.com/logic_games_32/15_classic_slide_puzzle_26624.htm

Puzzle game fans may want to check this one out. It’s called Treasures of Persia and it is set in Persia backgrounds. In the game, you play as a treasure hunter and your mission is to put gem chips and other pieces on the board in the right order, so that they self-destruct and relieve place for ever arriving new pieces.

Twilight rooms of a Persian palace offer picturesque settings for Treasure of Persia, a tricky multilevel puzzle. Treasure hunters who correctly join gem chips will be amply rewarded. Their names will be marked in history to awe and inspire others. It’s a simple game with nice scenery, so it’s worth checking out. If you are not a puzzle fan don’t bother, you won’t find this any bit interesting.  Puzzle fans go try it out and see if it catches your fancy enough to call for your money.

Go to http://en.realore.com/treasureofpersia for trial version and more info.

If more often than not you type similar data day in day out, this software can help you reduce the effort and time spent on typing. Quick-Type automates your typing for you. You simply give Quick-Type all the common pieces of text you type, along with a keyword for each of them. Then whenever you type that keyword in future, it gets replaced with your text.

The only problem I have with this software is it that though it does a good job, I think it would fare better as freeware getting donations than expecting people to cough up $15 for this kind of  typing tool. Right now it’s a shareware, so a trial version is available for free, check it out, and be the judge of whether it’s worth your 15 bucks or not. But I must confess it does what the publisher claims.

Check it out at http://www.quick-type.com/

Here is a free tool that is actually worth a lot! HostsMan is a freeware application that lets you manage your Hosts file with ease.

With this application, you will enjoy online update of hosts file; and be able to enable/disable usage of hosts file. You will also be able to open Hosts file with one click; merge two hosts files; and use built-in hosts editor.

That’s not all HostsMan will help you prevent other programs of writing to the hosts; scan hosts for errors, duplicates and possible hijacks; easily install newly downloaded hosts file; create encrypted backups of your hosts file; resolve host names; keep log of latest blocked sites; exclusion list and more.

HostsMan 3.0.42 is the latest new updated version and it has these latest changes:

• Changed: GetVolumeInformation is now used to determine file system;
• Fixed: HostsMan doesn’t save settings when configuration file does not exist;
• Fixed: some settings are hidden when configuration file does not exist;
• Fixed: behavior of HostsServer window on Vista;
• Fixed: checking for Peter Lowe’s hosts update fails;
• Fixed: minor bugs

If you are interested in this software, it’s free, check it out at http://hostsman.abelhadigital.com/  

If you’ve tried different download managers/ accelerators but you haven’t really gotten the desired result, you may want to give this a shot. Internet Download Manager can help to accelerate downloads, [the publisher claims by up to 500 percent] schedule downloads, recover and resume downloads.

The cool thing about Internet Download Manager is that features a smart download logic accelerator with dynamic file segmentation and multipart downloading technology to increase ftp, http and https downloading speed.

A new updated version has just been released, Internet Download Manager 5.11, the latest changes in this new version include:

• Completely redeveloped IDM scheduler;
• Added periodic synchronization of files and the possibility to create new queues for downloading or synchronization;
• Added new features on starting and stopping queue processing;
• Improved user interface;
• Added processing of context menu key, fixed tabbing order on all dialogs, added mnemonic keys to the main menu and the menu of IDM Grabber;
• Bug fixes

Want to give it a try? Go to http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/

The gist about most software that are supposed to help you get downloads easily is that they are not ass fast as the publishers claim them to be but GSA Clip Spider is one software that lets you download movie clips easily. 

The cool thing about GSA Clip Spider is that it lets you download all the movie clips from a webserver automatically with or without sublinks. GSA Clip Spider is easy to use and gives you impressive results in a relatively short time. This cool download manager for movies searches all your favorite web links, spiders, parses, grabs, extracts and crawls all the movies you would have downloaded by hand.

GSA Clip Spider is a shareware so you can check out the demo version and see if it’s what you need. The demo version offers only limited functionality and does not include many functions available in the registered version, with the demo version you can to download  20 movie clips, so it’s enough to let you decide whether this is what your money or not.

Go check it out at http://www.gsa-online.de/eng/clip_spider.html

Good news for writers! Writers Project Organizer is manuscript orientated software for writers. If you’ve had problems with organizing our writing projects, this will put an end to such problems.

Designed to help you organize your writing projects to make you more efficient at your writing, this software is a must have for serious writers. This software organizes all aspects of your novel, short story or screenplay, from first draft to polished product. With Writers Project Organizer you can track word and page count, date started, date finished and date sold. Also included in the manuscript window are pages for character references, plot, outline, synopsis, theme/pitch, ToDo, notes, RTF notes and a submissions viewer.

One thing is worthy of note though, this is not a tool that will write your story for you, it’s not for lazy writers looking for a quick fix, it’s a tool for serious writers, it helps you coordinate your thoughts and writing events.

Want to give it a try? Check out the 15 day trial version and see if it can serve your writing needs. Go to http://pindersoft.com/wpo.htm

Need software to extract and save flash movies from the internet? Movie Extractor is up to the task.

Movies Extractor Scout allows you to save flash movies from Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera browsers.

This software allows you to save flash movies, flash videos and flash games extracted from major browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera browsers. You can easily save and store favorite flash movies on your computer using the “Favorites” feature.

Want to see if it’s what you need? Check it out at http://www.bytescout.com/moviesextractorscout.html