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12/18/01

Tired of all that spam in your mailbox? There are several handy little utilities available for free that will help you manage spam mail. Visit NoNags AntiSpam page to find out more about these programs. I'm personally using PureMail and I'm in the process of testing and training it now. When I say training, I mean that I have to let the program run and watch it carefully in read-only mode (the default) so that I can tell it which email messages (from mailing lists) I want to receive. Once I've approved all the mailing lists then I will let it run in normal mode and it will automatically delete spam messages from the server.

11/26/01

WormGuard - A small utility for blocking worms. Free for 30 days to try, $29.99 to purchase.

VCatch - A free email virus scan program. It does not work well with McAfee, but if you need a free email scan program and don't use McAfee this is it!

AVG Antivirus - A free fully functional anti-virus program.

HouseCall - A free web site that allows you to scan your system for viruses and remove the viruses.

Inoculate IT - This is my personal favorite free virus program. The program is no longer produced, but they still make virus definition updates and you can download the full program from this link.

11/15/01

MrKrax URL Submitter - This link has been removed. The software is a pirated version of SubZero Submission software.

Xenu's Link Sleuth - Checks web sites for broken hyperlinks. It's one of the fastest link checkers available.

Eyedropper 3.01 - Eyedropper is a handy utility that shows the RGB, HEX and CMYK values of any area of your screen (desktop, programs, web pages, etc.) It's a must have utility for web designers. Free

11/8/01

CD2HTML - Will automatically create a links page to all HTML files in a folder. This is an awesome utility for creating a quick links pages to many html documents! $20.00

Small Letter Friend - Small Letter Friend is a great utility for renaming files and folders to lowercase letters and removing any forbidden characters from HTML documents. If you plan to upload your web sites to a UNIX based web server, your files and folders must be in lowercase and cannot contain spaces or forbidden characters (*/.). It will even correct your HTML coding to reflect the casing changes. Freeware

11/6/01

Font Lister - Is a font utility that allows you to view and install fonts on the fly. You can also print all of your fonts installed on your system. This is a very handy program! There is both a freeware version and a shareware version that costs $5.00.

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