Need an easier way to check the latest updates on your favorite websites? This software does just that and much more in a quick and easy way.

Check&Get is a handy and powerful bookmark manager and web monitoring program that lets you check your favorite Internet pages and detect if their content has changed or has become unavailable. Not only that, it can notify you of changes or web-server downtime by bookmark highlighting, by pop-up message, by playing a sound file or by sending you e-mail message with the updated web page. And what really makes this software a delight is that it can even download the updated file from the Internet and save it to the specified folder on your hard disk. So you can browse it offline.

A new updated version of Check&Get has just been released version 3.1.0.440. The latest changes in the new updated version:

• Compatibility with Internet Explorer 7 added
• Additional Proxy settings added
• Usage of memory and performance optimized

Want to try it out? Click HERE!

There is this really cool tool I’d like to recommend to you. You’ll love it. It’s Konvertor. It is a cool multimedia viewer and converter that gives you the power to organize all your pictures, graphics, videos and even music with personalized descriptions, so that you can find them without stress.

Konvertor is a picture viewer, thumbnail browser, graphic, audio, video, and text converter. Konvertor gives you professional-quality imaging tools to get, view, modify, organize, enhance and print your images quickly. With Konvertor you get to enjoy a great user interface, and get fast operation with superior quality image display. It also allows the conversion between many file formats.

This software works best with Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista. So you can’t use any earlier version of Windows with this software efficiently. Though it costs some money to get the full version as it is not a freeware, you can still get an evaluation version and see for yourself whether it is worth it or not before committing your money to it!

Click HERE for more info on its features and trial download!

Most people at one stage or another decide to try their hand at making their own website. These usually end up looking incredibly amateurish with maybe just a couple of pictures, some text, and some links. But to have a decent page usually involves wrangling with some html code and that’s when things can get complicated.

But there’s a simpler way! Namu6 Is a freeware WYSIWYG ( what you see is what you get) webpage creator that gets the job of building a website done incredibly easily.

It’s fully compliant to the W3C (The World Wide Web Consortium, the organization that’s responsible for agreeing on technical web specifications) HTML 4.01 specification. This means that your website is fully compatible with all web browsers that are HTML 4.01 compliant. That’s the majority of the main ones people use these days.

If you can type, use a web browser, and click buttons, then you’re qualified to use Namu6! It’s very simple to use as its a visual editor, meaning “what you see is what you get”, there’s no confusing html to deal with. It even comes with some prebuilt themes to get you started and give your website that professional touch.

It includes built in previewing so you can see exactly how your site is going to look to the outside world. It even includes one click publishing, for uploading your website to your webspace, with simple instructions on how to do this.

I recommend checking this out to anyone who’s always wanted to make a website but who was put off by the technicality of it all. You can grab it for free right here!

Loop Recorder is an audio application which is deigned for recording radio programs and isolating songs which are played. It loops as it records and allows you to clip the songs from the loop as you go. Once you’ve cut the song you can save it as a useful format, like MP3, OGG or ASF.

You can perform a variety of functions on the file as you record , like normalize, fading in and out etc. All the treatments you could wish for all in real time and all while still recording the loop. Genius.

For more information got to the Loop Recorder web site.

Google Pack is a suite of software, some original software and some bundled third party software, all of it designed to enhance your productivity. Google Desktop is billed as a desktop companion, but basically what it is a search facility for all your “stuff”, emails, files on your computer, your web history etc. Oh and by far the best gadget, if you’ll pardon the pun, you also get the facility to add Google Gadgets to customize your desktop and the Google Sidebar. Gadgets are a bit like Widgets on the Mac, and are little programs which do one job that are easy to access from the desktop.

Also as part of the package you get Picasa, Google’s Photo organiser and editor, Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer (for those of us who don’t have Firefox), plus you get the Google pack photo screensaver. For your fix of Google Gadgets, go here for all the details.

HotRecorder for VoIP is a way to record your Skype or other internet phone conversations. This simple program installs easily and works with almost any VOIP or Voice Over IP software on the PC. You can use it with Skype (of course) even the new 3.0 Beta, also Google Talk, AIM, Net2Phone, Yahoo! Messenger, FireFly and many others. Best thing to do is try the download and see if it works before you buy it to run it with some other software.

The demo version allows 2 minutes of recording, and saves audio in the ELP format which isn’t readable by anything else. If you pay the fee the included Audio Converter Tool converts the ELP format into MP3, WAV or OGG files for storage or editing.

Other extras include what they call Emotisounds, a way to to add humorous sounds to your online conversations. Listen I make enough humorous sounds when I’m on Skype as it is. For more info and a download go to the HotRecorder web site.

Yes it’s true you can get Skype on a mobile phone. In the UK, on the 3 network, you can run a copy of Skype for mobile on your phone and make free calls to other Skype users. You can’t as yet do SkypeIn or SkypeOut calls, but then what phone network in its right mind would let you do that?

As I say it works through the 3 network in the UK, but while the Skype software and calls are free, the network and the phone are not. You have to be on a pay monthly scheme, and paying probably up to £30 a month. Oh yeah and the only phone it works on at the moment is the Nokia N73. But still, be happy; it’s real Skype on a mobile phone and that has got to be a good thing. More phones, more networks and more Skype facilities are obviously going to be rolling out in 2007 so watch this space. For more details and downloads of the software, see the Skype web site.

Are you in need of a software that enables easy and fast detection, backup and restore of all hardware device drivers on your system? Then My Drivers is perfect for you, because it does all that and more. With this software, you can even find the latest drivers for your hardware and install them into your computer. With just a couple of mouse clicks, you will have all your hardware devices extracted and backed-up to any folder you want.

At times so many devices are lost during an upgrade but with My Drivers, when you reinstall or upgrade your system, you can restore your drivers easily [all the drivers]. Once after a reboot, all the drivers will be re-installed and will function well. You may also choose to backup a particular driver or all the drivers with an EXE automatic installer.

Oh do you have a stubborn or troublesome item of hardware? Just remove the driver with this software.

Want to check it out? CLICK HERE!

If you want to try one of the world’s TOP 3d programs for free you can do that right now. NewTek have released a trial version of their world class 3d modeling, rendering and animation package, Lightwave 3D in a freely downloadable 30 day trial version.

The software is fully functional so you can try out all the features of the new version 9, the same software used to make special effects for TV shows like Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Smallville, and Stargate Atlantis. You can make 3D objects, texture them, light them on a virtual sound stage, and render them in 3D to a very high level of realism, allwithin this one program.

Okay so if you want to use it after 30 days you have to pay for it, but to get to learn how to use it for free? You got to love that price.

Go to the trial web site for details. Works for PC and Mac.

Back in the mists of time when most worthwhile music software was mostly shareware or freeware because nobody could afford the thousands of pounds for the high end stuff, packages like Rubberduck reigned supreme.

The ultimate bass synthesiser, Rubberduck had a sequencer based loosely on an ancient but still well thought of Roland product called the TB303. This was a great parping old bass synthesiser and was instrumental, if you’ll forgive the expression, in creating a lot of hit beats in the 80s and 90s.

Time passes and these things sound a little bit retro. But still the TB303 manages to fetch high prices on eBay and elswhere. You can’t get them just anywhere, so being able to download Rubberduck for free has got to be a better bet. It still has a lot to recommend it, and even in spite of its age I’d say it’s an essential tool in any computer musician’s arsenal. Get all the rubber you can handle at the new d-Lusion web site.