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It's a dangerous world out there. Porn sites, chat rooms, websites that want to install questionable apps on your system. You don't want keep your kids completely away from the Internet, but you don't want to give them free rein either. What's a parent to do?

While it's called "Crawler Parental Control", it might be better termed "Access Control". Not only will Crawler Parental Control help keep your kids away from seedy- or dangerous neighborhoods online, but it can also be part of your overall system security regimen. While preventing visits to places you'd rather not have your system go, but you can also block installation onto your computer of unauthorized applications–or the accidental removal of programs or data that you want to have on your system.

Crawler Parental Control also allows you to better monitor the amount of time spent online by setting limits for when users can use your computer and how long they can stay on. Detailed activity reports let you know exactly what's going on with your machine, helping you to maintain better control.

Crawler Parental Control is designed for Windows machines running Win2k or WinXP.

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SmallStock is a small app, with big ambitions. Running as a background process, SmallStock keeps an eye on your portfolio for you while you get on with your life.

Enter your portfolio into the app and let it take it form there. Real time quotes mean that you will always have accurate information at your fingertips, and customizable alerts make sure that you don't miss important opportunities. You can even define alerts on one machine and email them to a different system–useful if you tweak your alerts at home but monitor the market at work.

SmallStock is a beta-level application, so there may be the occasional hiccup, but the developers want to hear back from you on your experience with the app.

SmallStock runs under WinXP or Vista and requires ver 2.0 of the Microsoft .NET Framework.

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Why is a Swiss Army Knife so cool? Because it does everything, in one compact little package. Knife, can opener, corkscrew–it does it all. ForkLift may well be the Swiss Army Knife of Mac file manager apps.

ForkLift is a combination of the Finder and Spotlight, with a healthy dose of FTP thrown in for good measure. With a dual-pane main window, it's easy to move files from here to there. Smart folders let you better organize your work without the time-consuming tedium of manually locating and moving documents around on your system. FTP functionality allows you to not only put and get files, but you can actually edit files on the remote system without having to move them back to your machine. ForkLift will let you browse the contents of most archive files as if they were "real" folders, so no more unpacking archives only to find that they aren't the ones you're looking for. Manipulate documents on remote servers, or even mobile devices, as if they were stored on your computer.

ForkLift is a Universal Binary app and requires OS X 10.4+.

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Copy and paste, copy and paste. It's the order of the day. Whether text or images, we all copy and paste many times a day. Did you ever wish you could paste today what you copied yesterday? It's easy to bookmark a web page, but a clipboard item? Not so much.

Enter Clipdiary. With Clipdiary, everything you copy- or cut to the clipboard is saved off to a database. That means that the data you saved to the clipboard an hour ago, a day ago, or a year ago will be available to you now when you need it. Clipdiary loads on Windows startup and just sits there waiting to record your clipboard activity. Once recorded, your new clipboard contents are added to that database, and you can get them back when you need them. You can choose to have your saved text and images loaded back into the clipboard, or you can paste them directly from Clipdiary's "Select…" dialog.

Clipdiary is designed for Win2k/WinXP.

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Radiology Anatomy Atlas is an interesting application that allows you to look inside the human body. The app is available with a set of illustrations taken from A Cross-Section Anatomy, a classic anatomy book. The images are labeled to identify the various muscles and other body structures highlighted in them. The labels link to a database of additional information about those selected items.

The author suggests starting-out by downloading the documentation to get a better understanding of the program.

While there is currently only one additional image to download, the developer anticipates adding additional images over time.

Radiology Anatomy Atlas is available for Macintosh.

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What's the best rate you've seen for calls overseas? Fifty cents a minute? Twenty cents? How about free.

Yak4Ever is a free service that lets you call all over the place for nothing. Register your U. S. phone number and up to ten numbers you want to call, wait up to 24 hours for the telephone elves to set you up, and then you can start calling most anywhere. Their current list of countries includes much of Europe, Latin America, and a substantial chunk of Asia as well. The list of places they make available makes reference to "fixed [dialing] codes", so your mileage may vary if you include mobile numbers in your calling list. (Even in the "regular" telephone world calling rates to cell phones overseas are often higher than those to landlines.)

Yak4Ever uses your regular telephone, so there is none of the latency or cutting-out that you can experience with VOIP arrangements.

Yak4Ever promises that they'll never use your information for any nefarious purposes, and that your privacy is guaranteed.

Hey, you can't beat the price, so maybe you ought to give it a try.

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You use a highlighter when you read through dense documents. It makes it easier to pick out the important passages so that you can find them more easily next time. Many of your computer's apps let you highlight text in documents as well. What about folders when you're digging through Windows Explorer? Sure, Windows lets you tweak your folder icons, but wouldn't it be nice if you could do so quickly and easily?

Folder Marker Free adds this functionality to your context menus. by "right clicking" folders in Explorer, you can now customize the icons for one, many, or all of the folders on your screen. You can mark folders in different colors, to be able to quickly and easily spot them on-screen. Or you can flag them with icons to indicate priority and work status: high-, normal-, or low priority; planned, half-done, or finished work, etc. Along with the canned colors and icons, you can even add your icons from a number of different image types.

Folder Marker Free is licensed for free use on your home computer. It runs on WinNT, Win98 and later.

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The change in Macintosh architecture to use Intel processors opened a whole new world to Mac users. With BootCamp, you no longer had to go out and buy a Windows machine, for example, just because you had one or two mission-critical applications that just didn't exist on the Mac. You could leverage your hardware resources by running both Win and Mac apps on the same box.

With BootCamp, you can decide which environment to boot your Mac into: OS X, Windows, Linux, or conceivably anything else that will run on the x86 platform. By default, only an administrator can choose an alternate boot volume, and workarounds were complicated and potentially dangerous from a security standpoint.

Enter Mike Bombich, the guy who wrote Carbon Copy Cloner, the standard for moving bootable Mac drive images from one drive to another. His slick tool BootPicker makes it easy for a non-admin user to choose the environment to boot into. The selection screen can be customized to not only choose which operating system to boot into, but also to give a list of apps, for example, on each system, giving the user direction in making the appropriate choice.

For network environments, BootPicker can be managed remotely, so that things don't get out of hand.

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You know the drill: get a new machine, and zooms right along. But over time, as more and more apps are loaded onto your system, it slows as the system has to slog through more and more "stuff". This is especially true on start up. Every app that gets loaded onto your system thinks it's the most important one, and that it absolutely must be loaded when you boot up. After a while, it seems to take forever just to get up and running.

Magic Speed takes a long, hard look at your system and figures out what is getting between you and the zippy performance you miss. By cleaning up leftover temporary files, questionable registry entries, and programs that you really don't need to be loaded on startup, your system will speed up as if by magic.

Magic Speed is a Windows application and is compatible with systems running WinNT/Win2k or later.

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