July 2007 Archives

Ad-Aware PE edition Free — search www.download.com. Spybot Free but requests donations – search www.download.com

AVG — www.grisoft.com.

Free for personal use. $37 for 2yr license vs $50 for 1yr of Norton. Also network editions and supports Windows 98

Backup My PC www.stompinc.com $60 Less features backup995.com free or $10

Feature Rich but doesn’t make one file cobianbackup.htm free

Start->Run ntbackup free from MS but no compression. Download from www.ntbackup.msi

Backups for Workgroups

Open Office Word / Excel / Power Point replacements www.openoffice.org

Less expensive music from Russia but artist still gets his cut. mp3search.ru

PDF995suite www.software995.com free or low cost

PDF Factory – combine multiple documents fineprint.com $49

Find out more about PDF files here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format

Picassa2 www.picasa.com free software

Life Poster www.lincolnbeach.com $25

Handle spam issues for Outlook and Outlook Express www.spambully.com

Prevent unauthorized surfing

Net Nanny — search www.download.com

Cyber sitter — search www.download.com

Track user activities — Spector spectorsoft.com

Track where your stuff goes with GPS www.sparkfun.com $140

www.truecrypt.org — encrypt a whole drive/folder of stuff.