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I love free software. Can there be anything better?

Recently I installed a basic email monitor that sits in the system tray and monitors multiple servers, notifying you when there is new mail, and allowing you to view the header, delete the email, or retrieve the email and read it. And it's free. Check out Magic Mail Monitor.

The Canon Elph S230 is a great little digital camera, which I keep with me at all times. What good is a gadget if you don't have it with you? And it's so liberating to be able to snap any shot that takes your fancy without worrying that you might be wasting film and development. When I want prints I just print them myself on my photo printer. The best part is that digital photos are so easy to share. Rather than fuss with emailing pics to friends and relatives, which is made problematic by the size of high-res images, I post them on a web server, and create photo albums with ImageWalker, which is uncrippled shareware.

A great companion application is cam2pc, an uncrippled shareware product that can download the images from your camera automatically when you connect it, optionally renaming images and optionally storing them in different folders based on the date you took them.

When you have a web site with a lot of pages, it can be painful to make changes that apply to every page. A great tool for doing search-and-replace across multiple files is InfoRapid Search & Replace, a fine piece of freeware.

ZoneAlarm Pro was the firewall I was using on one of my systems, but then they upgraded to 5.0 and it started blocking the server software I was running. Turns out they hadn't adequately tested it, and when people complained they made you email them for a private reply to get instructions on how to work around the problem or revert to an older version. Not very user-friendly. I'm now using Sygate Personal Firewall and so far it's been reliable and easy to use, and it's free for personal use.


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