Wildgrape NewsDesk is a simple, convenient, and fast RSS news and weblog reader for Microsoft Windows. NewsDesk updates headlines automatically and has lightning-fast keyword and age filters.

NewsDesk brings the web's latest headlines to your desktop. When you need to catch up on the latest in business, politics, technology, entertainment, and weblogs, NewsDesk is ready. Just subscribe to a channel, and within seconds you get the latest headlines updated hourly (some channels are updated every fifteen minutes). Add new channels for your favorite RSS-enabled blogs and other web sites.

Free Layouts

Hundreds of website templates for use for free.

PHP Knowledge Base provides a collection of more than 500 questions and answers regarding PHP programming. Its database is divided into Common Problems, Database Backed Sites, Function Libraries, General Information, Installation and Setup, Language and Syntax, and Not Quite PHP. If you have questions on PHP, you are likely find your answers here.

Comprehensive guide to .htaccess

Tutorial written and contributed by Feyd, moderator of the JK Forum. Please see tutorial footnote for additional/bio info on author.

I am sure that most of you have heard of htaccess, if just vaguely, and that you may think you have a fair idea of what can be done with an htaccess file. You are more than likely mistaken about that, however. Regardless, even if you have never heard of htaccess and what it can do for you, the intention of this tutorial is to get you two moving along nicely together.

If you have heard of htaccess, chances are that it has been in relation to implementing custom error pages or password protected directories. But there is much more available to you through the marvelously simple .htaccess file.

Also see online .htaccess tools and configurators

Em@ilEncoder 2.0

spam-proof your mailto links

Em@ilEncoder is an anti-spam tool for webamsters or people that own a web site and have their email address posted in public. It allows you to create a spam-proof email link that withstands the extraction tools, that many spammers use to gather email addresses from the web. Em@ilEncoder allows you to enter your email address, an optional subject for the email to be sent and the link text. It then generates a Java code that you can copy and paste into your web pages. The link will work fine with any browser and your visitors will not notice the spam-proof nature of the link, however spam robots will not be able to extract it.

Racoonworks SpeedTest 1.1

measure your internet speed

SpeedTest enables you to find out how fast your network transfer speed is. It allows you to measure transfer speeds between your computer and any website or networked computer. An optional server component can be run on the remote server, that serves a file to be downloaded to the client. The program displays graphical bar charts for each result, allowing you to easily compare the connection/ transfer speed between multiple web sites.

DupeLocater: Find duplicate files fast, easy, and free!

If you download and collect image files, or any other type of file, you may be wasting space on duplicates.

Now you can find them quickly, and easily, and it's free.

Speak Freely is a 100% free Internet telephone originally written in 1991 by John Walker, founder of Autodesk. After April of 1996, he discontinued development on the program. Since then, several other Internet "telephones" have cropped up all over the world. However, most of these programs cost money. Most of them have poor sound quality, and don't support some of Speak Freely's basic features such as encryption, the answering machine, or selectable compression.

Out of fustration in the shortcomings of the other programs, and even Speak Freely, I decided to implement what I thought were needed features myself, starting in August of 1997. I contacted John Walker, and he agreed to let me officially take over the project. In the spirit of Open Source SoftwareTM, I am licensing this program under the GNU General Public License.

Batch files still are a good way to get things done. As long as the things are simple, a batch file can be exactly the right way to do it: easily written, portable, and no need to install anything to get it to work. There is one big shortcoming of batchfiles though: interactivety. There is hardly a nice way to ask the user questions. In the old days, in MSDOS, there was no way at all to ask questions; then came CHOICE, a very primitive utility to ask Yes/No kind of questions and get an error level back. And that was it.

Now there is the Wizard's Apprentice. It will allow you to ask questions from a batch file, using Windows dialog boxes in the so-called Wizard style: large dialogs asking one question at a time, with a Back button, a Next button and a Cancel button

Splitter & Merger is a tool to split large files into smaller and easy to handle pieces. It offers additional file compression, disk-spanning, path creation, automatic part deletion and more. You can choose to have the program create a self-extracting exe file, that can automatically reunite the split pieces or select the split file from within the interface and merge it. Splitter & Merger comes with an easy to use interface. Download is less than 30k, no install required.

Advanced Survey is an account-based system that lets anyone with an email address create surveys and gather information online using email or a website. Advanced Survey provides the technology for easily creating online surveys for data gathering and decision-making.

NetPerSec measures the real-time speed of your Internet connection. Different types of connections promise different communication speeds, but what are you actually getting? Due to network traffic, actual speeds are often slower than what is promised. Cable modems are fast unless many of your neighbors are sharing the line; such modems can slow down considerably with a heavy load. How do you know when it's time to switch to DSL? NetPerSec lets you check your connection speed in real time. It monitors all TCP/IP activity to and from the Internet or other networks, and graphs the communication speed. Its dynamic tray icon shows send and receive activity with a bar graph or a histogram. For details, open the program's main window to view current and average send and receive speeds in a configurable, graphical display. You can adjust the sampling rate and the amount of data used to compute the average. NetPerSec was written by Mark Sweeney, and first appeared in PC Magazine January 16, 2001 (v20n02). Source code is included.

How to Improve Your Customer Service Email Responses: 5 Solutions to Common Problems [From http://www.emailsherpa.com - For Email Marketers & Email Newsletter Publishers]

Browser Cam: What if you could say goodbye to web site browser compatibility issues once and for all?
What if you could see screen captures of your web pages as they're going to look on any operating system platform? On any browser?
Now you can, with Browser Cam. We've designed Browser Cam to make life easy for you whether you're a web master, web developer, or QA engineer. Browser Cam creates screen captures of your web pages loaded in any browser, and on any operating system, so you'll be 100% sure your web pages look good-and work right-on any platform.

Free Search Engine Ranking Report
Find out where your web site ranks in Google and Inktomi, free! Discover your domain's page ranking in the results of a particular keyword search!
It's an easy to use, free tool. All you have to do is specify a keyword search, a domain to match the results against, and the number of results to match in the "result set".
Let's say, for example, you want to find out where the url "www.cnn.com" would rank in the top "50" results on google and inktomi if someone were to search for the keyword "news". Then you would enter the following data into the form:

EBCD is a bootable CD, intended for system recovery in the case of software or hardware faults. It is able to create backup copies of normally working system and restore system to saved state. It contains the best system software ever created, properly compiled and configured for the maximum efficient use.
You may download image (.ISO file) of EBCD disk and write it to CD-R or CD-RW, and then everytime you'll need convenient and powerful system tools they'll be just at hand.

EcoraŽ PatchLite

"According to the FBI, over 90 percent of all security breaches are a direct result of not having the latest patches installed. EcoraŽ PatchLite automatically discovers and analyzes security patches critical to workstations and servers, then quickly generates a report on the status of patch configurations and provides the necessary information and access to the latest security hotfixes and service packs. This free software features the most intuitive user interface on the market today, yet requires no agents installed on servers! "

Description of Windows XP System Information (Msinfo32.exe) Tool

[The information in this article applies to:Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Microsoft Windows XP Professional]

Summary: This article describes the System Information tool (Msinfo32.exe) that is included with Windows XP. You can use this tool to gather information about your computer, to diagnose issues with your computer, or to access other tools that are included with Windows XP.

wBloggar, the blog interface tool, is at version 3