Download.com offers Infinite Software Variety

  By Bob Liddil

 http://www.download.com is a popular site for locating and downloading new and useful software. Simply go to the site and search for what you need. Some useful programs to look for include:

Publish-It 2.3

Publish-It lets you create newsletters, brochures, advertisements, and many other publications. Publish-It combines the best features of word-processing, graphics, and desktop publishing with features especially tuned for publishing. You can organize and format your material easily, and illustrate with your own images or clip art. Create newsletters, brochures, advertisements, and many other publications. Add text and graphics to each page. Master pages give your publication a consistent, professional look. Create your own custom templates. It includes examples and on-line help.

Book Writer 2.0

Book WriterTM is a Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP word processor and writing environment for creative writers. To give the writer a central hold on a project of multiple chapters, Book WriterTM provides a Project Manager and a Project Commander. With these, the project is more like a book or manuscript held in the hand than a number of files scattered in the dark of electronic space. Book Writer(tm) provides visual interfaces to manipulate a project’s files by dragging or clicking book and chapter icons. Book Writer(tm) can copy, move, and zip all or selected files in the project all at once. Book Writer(tm) can search all files in a project, replace text in all project files, index the project for instant text retrieval, and move from file to file to show the findings. Advanced search features include four ways to search files: plain-text search, regular expressions, approximate, and sound-alike. Find words even if they are misspelled. Instantly find all the lines in your project where you mentioned a particular name, or any word, and move from file to file, line to line by clicking on search results. Book Writer(tm) can organize and search the support files for a project, such as research documents or previous works. Just add such files to the project during development, remove later. After indexing, search all your support files instantly. You can use Book Writer(tm)’s editor and other features without using the Project Manager and Commander. Book Writer(tm) omits word processing features for business that are unnecessary for creative writing, such as mail merge and team development. Book Writer(tm) includes a complete dictionary and thesaurus. Turn Active Thesaurus(tm) on and double click any word to see dictionary and thesaurus listings. Book Writer(tm) can check spelling as you type. The program provides pop-up, context-sensitive help via the F1 key.

CoffeeCup Spam Blocker 2.0

Spam Blocker checks your email accounts and removes spam from the mail server so you never receive it. It scans HTML and Text email, and also looks for suspicious Attachments and removes them. It can block unwanted email by Country, Email Address, Domain, and Keywords using custom Blacklists and more. You can setup Spam Blocker to check multiple email accounts. It can even Import your address book from Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, or any .txt file so you don’t have to worry about people you trust getting marked as spam. Once Spam Blocker is running you can review the suspicious emails and choose to receive it or just delete it forever. You can customize Spam Blocker even further to block even more Spam too.

"Here are some other features of the CoffeeCup Spam Blocker 2.0: Stops 98% of unwanted e-mail (right after install!), stops Viruses before they get to your inbox, create your own word filters to stop bad e-mail, checks Multiple Email Addresses, import Friendly Addresses from Outlook & other programs, block entire countries from sending you mail, blacklist e-mail addresses and complete domains, create Friendly E-mail lists to protect wanted mail, reads both Text and HTML mail and can stop both.

Autorun Wizard 1.0

AutoRun Wizard allows you to configure the tasks that occur automatically when a CD/DVD is inserted into the CD/DVD drive. AutoRun Wizard takes advantage of the existing functionality within the Windows autorun.inf file and builds off of it. We support the option to run any file. For example you could run a PDF or HTML file as your autorun. You can also launch to a Web site or automatically use explorer to browse the root of the drive. You can configure your autorun to show a splash screen with a company logo or any image you want to display with a delay. You can also define a sound file that can be played during your splash screen.

"Additional features include the ability to define how the autorun is launched; maximized, minimized or normal. A user-friendly icon selector will help you to specify which icon to use within the autorun application file."

Tiny Cars 1.1

Tiny Cars is an arcade racing game with a top-down view and colored racing tracks. You pass them by choosing among several cars possessing different characteristics. Therefore, you can experience various driving styles. The game consists of successive passing of a series of championships. The championships differ from each other by complexity: each next championship is more complex and the number of tracks that have to be passed increases. <p>The 10 tracks are like 10 worlds that are drawn by hand. Nine cars possess different individual characteristics. It has an advanced championship passing structure. The depth of each world-track environment underlines some animated features/creatures. Tracks are painted with soft color solution. While bumping into a competitor’s car, you can push the competitor to the flank, as well as get some additional impulse for overtaking the other cars. The game has many soundtracks, and different champion- ships have their own music themes. The game contains no violence: the cars pull and push, but do not crash.

 

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