| | Software Recommendations |
| by Mark Kaprielian |
| 04-01-01 |
| Utility Applications |
| | Ecleaner | 2.01 | http://members.tripod.com/schin26/index.htm | $0.00 |
| | Last Reviewed 8/20/2000 | This is a must have program for anyone who takes email content and throws it into a web |
| | page. It will strip out headers, indents and most importantly, will strip out the hard returns so |
| | that the text will once again wrap as it should. What is particularly nice about removing the |
| | hard returns is that you can tell it to leave the blank lines so that it doesn't become one big |
| | block of text. I highly recommend this program. |
| | EditPad | 3.51 | http://www.jgsoft.com/ |
| | Last Reviewed 11/21/1999 | Super Text editor to use in place of Notepad or Wordpad and it is free. What is particularly |
| | nice is that you can multiple files open. Also, interestingly, it is the only program I've seen so |
| | far that resides completely in the tool tray when open and not in the active programs area. |
| | The only downside to this program is that it doesn't use button icons that look like those you |
| | are used to seeing. |
| | FullShot | 6.03 | http://www.inbit.com | $0.00 |
| | Last Reviewed 7/12/2000 | This program is an screen capture program. It came recommended to me by a professional |
| | technical writer as the program of choice by tech writers. It lets you capture parts of |
| | screens, pull down menues and more. The feature I like best is the ability to capture what it |
| | calls "long documents" You can make the program, by way of two simple mouse clicks, |
| | scroll a verticle scroll bar to capture all the contents of what is in the scrolling window! |
| | Another handy feature is the ability to merge images. This is an excellent program. |
| | PowerDesk 2000 | 4.0.12.6 | http://www.mijenix.com/ |
| | Last Reviewed 11/21/1999 | Replacement Explorer. Not a shareware. Gives you back two pane viewing and a bunch |
| | more. This program is a must on any PC I work on. |
| | ZipMagic | 3.5.5 | http://www.mijenix.com/ |
| | Last Reviewed 11/21/1999 | Often gets reviewed as the best Zip package. Lets you treat zip |
| | files as though they are folders. Just drag and drop in/out. Install |
| | from within like it was any other folder. I've used many of the zip programs out there. This |
| | one is the most powerful and easiest to use. The only drawback it has is that with Netscape |
| | email, you need to disable its view zips as folders feature, which is easy to do, before you |
| | can attached a zip file. With other email packages, it has a bunch of integrated features |
| | including automatic unziping, but I haven't tried out the product with those other mailers. |
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