Just found a new way to share files and chat with friends in complete privacy. All thanks to this software, Onshare.

OnShare is a free way to share files and chat with your friends in complete privacy. It’s a simple download that directly networks computers together. The fact that you get to control exactly what your friends can see and get their hands on really makes this useful tool. You only share files with people you invite so you know they’re from a trusted source and the files you share stay exactly where they are on your computer.

One cool feature that this software has is that its pioneering technology lets you reach into your friends’ computers, grab whatever you want and use it just as if it were on your own computer. And, if you have more than one computer, you can easily share between them wherever they are in the world.

The security of your files and chat is guaranteed as the file sharing and messaging is encrypted at 2048 bit, so secure that no one can intercept your chats and files. It is even said that the security model was conceived and developed by ex–military scientists. [I don’t know how true that is]

In case you are wondering how this works, your friends appear as drives on your computer, meaning you can access their shared files directly from within Windows. View, drag, drop, copy and paste just like you’re used to.

Click here to find out more and download it.

If you’ve had problems using plug-ins, tubes or other add-ons in a graphics, video or animation application then you might find this software, which I recently came across, very useful. It’s called Plugin Commander.

Plugin Commander is a tool for dealing with various image formats, plugins and effect types from various graphics applications. It allows you to manage and preview your plugin, tube and add-on collection quickly and easily. You can deactivate the plug-ins you rarely need and define how your favorite effects will appear in the host application.

There are two editions of this useful software, the commercial Pro Edition and the Light Edition, which is freeware. The light edition being freeware has limited features but to enjoy a fully-featured version, it’s best you go for the Pro Edition.

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In my unrelenting quest to get the best of the Internet and make “my PC life” as stress-free and easy as possible, I recently stumbled on this software. eprompter… 

eprompter is a freeware that automatically and simultaneously checks and retrieves your email messages from up to sixteen password protected email accounts and then gives you notification whenever you have new messages. eprompter also lets you know how many new messages you have in each account, once new messages have been retrieved.

What I love about this program is that it allows you to have access to your latest messages without opening your email conventionally i.e. without going to the website that hosts your account. It also retrieves your messages without disturbing the original ones in your email account.

Ain’t that cool? Not having sign in into different email accounts just to read your mail every time, eprompter lets you have access to your email accounts easily. If you have different email accounts and you are tired of signing in and out of all of them just to see whether you have a new mail or not, then this program is for you but if you have only one you may not really appreciate the need for this kind of program, it probably seems much easier for you to assess your mails conventionally. 

In case you are all for this software but you are not sure whether it supports your email account hosts or not, there is good news. eprompter supports AIM, AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Yahoo Beta, POP3, Earthlink, Excite, Juno, Lycos, Mail.com, Mindspring, MSN, MyWay, Netscape, Rediffmail, SBC Yahoo, USA.net, Windows Live Mail, and hundreds of other email domains.

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Pandora is an internet radio station site, but with a twist! It knows what you might like, before you’ve even heard it! You simply type in the name of a song or artist, and it generates a playlist of similiar sounding songs and artists! It bases its findings on musical similiarity, not popularity, only the music counts!

It’s part of the ‘Music Genome Project’ an attempt to group thousands of songs by musical similarity. Everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It’s not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records – it’s about what each individual song sounds like. You can even give a “Thumbs Up”, which makes that song and songs that sound like that song play more often or “Thumbs Down” bans that song from that station, and makes songs that sound like that song play less often.

It’s a great way to discover new music based on what you already know you like. I like how they even provide links to more info on each band or artist, so if you find something you like you can easily learn more info!

Start listening right now by going here!

Munnin is a desktop client for all eBay platforms, including USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It keeps itself fully synced with the online database of Ebay.

It allows you to watch desired items using drag-and-drop, manage your search favorites and repeat them at the touch of a button, calculate shipping costs using the integrated shipping costs calculator, plus many more features.For example,’Hot Items’ searches for items with more than 25 bids.

Its available in several versions, Light, Advanced, Professional and Business, Light being free, but this version has some restrictions when compared to the paid version of course!

It’s worth checking out for anyone who takes their ebaying really seriously or who makes a living out of buying and selling on it! For the rest of us its not really necessary.

Check out the site here for more detailed info.

Just recently released is this software in the league of BoldChat and LiveChat, called Chatstat 2.15 Beta.

ChatStat provides direct contact with your site’s visitors, Operator or Visitor Initiated Web Chat, Web Statistics with Moving Graphs, and Instant Messaging support for AIM, YAHOO, MSN, ICQ, JABBER, SKYPE, and SKYPE VOIP. The new VOIP CALLBACK allows you to call back your customers. The Quick Info fly out shows real time site usage, current chats in queue. The dialer flyout allows you to make VOIP calls through Skype. The Call Center lets you manage all incoming and outgoing Chat and Voice conversations.

It’s a nice program but it still needs some working on. Like there are bugs on the program especially on the user interface that need fixing. But I believe the publisher will improve on the software as time goes on. So don’t let that discourage you, it’s really a cool software to have. It’s even better than most of its contemporaries as it offers a wider range of features. Go check it out for free.

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If you are in need of a simple software that can effectively manage your downloads, you might want to check this out!

Web Downloader helps you to manage all your Internet downloads. With it you can drag and drop links to it’s window, copy from clipboard, choose how fast and how many simultaneous downloads, where to save files to, change file names, etc.

The fact that you can also stop and resume downloads at will, and even use multiple threads for faster downloads makes the freeware a very useful tool. This simple and easy to use software works with proxies and supports authentication and is compatible with all Windows OS.

Check it out! It’s Free!

It’s easy to see what side of the bread the code monkeys at Google have buttered, politically speaking. Type “failure” into Google and click “I’m feeling lucky.” Well yeah that just about says it.

I’m really curious as to how this was done. Usually search engine stuff is all drawn from the target page, spiderbots read all the text on the page (and more importantly IN the page) and catalogue this in the database. I’ve viewed the source of that page on the Whitehouse site and there’s nothing like that in the code. Obviously, putting comments like that in the Whitehouse code is a short way to get yourself fired…

So the only explanation is that someone put it directly into the Google database. Man, the power. It’s overwhelming, isn’t it?

Needing to stay in tune with up to date information, I’ve always had to check my favorite websites manually but then I discovered WebMonit and things took an automatic turn for the better.

WebMonit keeps you up to date and saves you time doing it. WebMonit is a powerful and easy to use web pages monitor tool. It can monitor web pages changes automatically. Monitor content could be the whole webpage or a part of webpage or just a field. A user-defined event could be triggered when change occurs. 

So if you need to watch the Stock Market, get the latest news, watch for software updates, latest movies releases and so on. This is for you. 

I quite agree with the publisher that this piece of software “saves you time”, “keeps you up to date” and “gives you peace of mind” all at the same time. If you need to watch a large volume of information, it can be overwhelming to do it manually. With WebMonit you can let the computer check the websites regularly and contact you as soon as soon as it detects a change. 

or more info and free download, CLICK HERE!

In need of a free tool that you can use to shut down or restart network computers? You might want to try this freeware I just discovered! RemShutdown.

It is a very simple freeware, designed with a user-friendly interface that allows remote shutdown or restart of network computers. It enables you to specify a delay during which a specified message can be displayed and applications running on the remote computer at the time of the shut down can be closed. The simplicity of its design makes it very easy to use.
 
It is worthy of note though, that it works best with Windows 2000 and above, any OS lower than 2000 will not work well with it. The file size is just 518 KB so having a free disk space of 1MB and at least 32MB RAM should give you a quick download.     
 
DO you need it? CHECK IT OUT!