Many individuals may need to pin down a certain phrase or set of words from a website, but may find existing programs or applications insufficient for their detailed needs. This helpful application allows individuals to perform full-text searches throughout websites, including those personal websites that may need searching, or within an intranet as well. Equally helpful is the fact that the...

FontAgent (formerly known as Font Box) can help eliminate font problems by repairing corrupt, duplicate, and unmatched fonts and creating an organized font library to eliminate font headaches. Published by Insider Software, Inc., this product can build a new organized font library and provide complete font repairs. Click on the above URL to download the free Macintosh demo. The demo will test...

More and more individuals are turning to the Internet to communicate with colleagues, friends, and relatives and there are a number of helpful programs currently available for general use. This edition of the Global Communications Network application allows visitors to engage in video and voice chat and administer their own chat rooms, all within a secure format. This version is compatible with...

For anyone who loves OpenOffice, but is looking for something that is a bit leaner Go-OO may be just the help you need. Go-OO displays an enhanced interface and is much easier to use. The layout is easier to navigate and comes with an importer to handle DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX formats and natively supports SVG files. Graphics rendering is also improved, and Go-OO includes VBA support, Mono...

HardCopyPro is a screen-capture tool, but it has some nice bells and whistles that make it worth a closer look. Visitors can use the tabbed dialog box interface to pick images or even capture images at set time intervals. Also, users can preset the program to capture a certain rectangle, window, full screen, or even the window located under the mouse cursor. This version is free for 30 days, and...

Open source code has allowed for the proliferation of open source software that competes with the big guns of software development, like Microsoft. Tempers run high, with the key issues focused on differing philosophies on the best business model to use and disputes over copyright, leading to lawsuits and heated online discussions. This issue of Topic in Depth provides an overview of open source...

Jumbo: the "official" shareware site of the Web. This searchable archive contains over 24,000 shareware and freeware programs. Categories include: business, home and personal, programming, utilities, and words and graphics. Within each category, programs are cataloged by operating system. The entire archive is a searchable by program category and operating system. There is a short...

With all of the rapidly changing websites out there, it may be a bit time-consuming to keep track of those of greatest interest. Stepping into the fray is the webpage monitoring tool, Laughing Man. With this tool, users will be alerted each time a webpage changes, utilizing each individual web servers "last modified date," or otherwise merely generating a hash number based on the contents of the...

With summer in full swing, many individuals may be concerned about their ability to respond to emails while on vacation. For those persons, MacResponder 1.0 may be a handy and useful application. Fully customizable, MacResponder is an automated email responder that works with multiple email accounts and also features rule-based settings to customize what is sent. MacResponder 1.0 is compatible...

The Software Agents Group of the MIT Media Laboratory "investigates computer systems to which one can delegate tasks." Software agents are different from conventional software because they are "long-lived, semi-autonomous, proactive, and adaptive." Software Agents Group focuses on creating software that "acts as an assistant to the user rather than a tool, learning from interaction and proactively...