Alert Calendar

Alert Calendar is a calendar with a blinking alert to advise you that an event has been scheduled for that day. It features a choice of once-only or monthly events, it is an easy to read monthly calendar, it can optionally start with Windows, Helpfile, and more. This is a neat little calendar with the provision to add once-only and/or monthly alerts. On the date of the event, the program's tray icon will blink so you know that there was an event scheduled that day. The blinking is extremely annoying after a short period, but it can be turned off from within the main window. However, Alert Calendar would have carried out its function by then, which is what is important. If you use it at an event reminder you will have to have it load automatically with Windows, but if you are just looking for a calendar, then you could place an icon on the desktop to launch the program. Alert Calendar requires no installation so is easy to remove should you decide it was not for you. Have it from here Alert Calendar....

MP3 Search Tool

Songr is a multi-engine MP3 search tool. It features results from up to 16 MP3 search engines, it grays out low bitrate & preview-only MP3s, has intelligent sorting of results, it downloads or plays the selected title, and more. If you like to grab MP3 songs from the Internet, then Songr is a tool you may find useful. Type in an artist's name, or the name of a song, and it will search all 16 MP3 search engines and give you the results. You can then listen to any selection using your default multimedia player, listen to a preview, or download your selection. It also links to YouTube, and will open YouTube pages in your Web browser, but its claim to be able to download YouTube videos, or extract audio from them, is not correct at the time of this review (we believe that YouTube regularly changes the way it works to prevent this from happening). Songr can also take a small portion of the lyrics of a song and, in most cases, offer you a selection of songs that use those lyrics. Grab it here Songr....

Partition Recovery Tool

MiniTool Partition Recovery is a partition recovery tool to recover lost & deleted partitions from IDE, SATA, SCSI & removable disks. It supports all major file formats (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS & NTFS5), has a Wizard interface, can scan selected parts of a disk or the entire disk, performs either quick or full scans, and more. Unfortunately, CFS was unable to review this program. The author says: "The partition recovery function can retrieve the lost partitions quickly & easily. MiniTool Partition Recovery [is] a must-have partition recovery software and free for home users." Download from here Partition Recovery....

Youtube Video Downloader

Super Free Youtube Video Downloader is a small program to download and save YouTube videos. It features support for multiple downloaded clips, save clips in either FLV (standard quality) or MP4 (high quality) file format, it is simple to use, and more. This is a nice little YouTube downloader. To download you just click on the "New task" button, paste the YouTube address of the clip you want to save into the dialog box, and the location and name of the clip, and click the OK button. Super Free Youtube Video Downloader will then download the clip to your computer, saving it as the nominated filename in the nominated location. When you open the program it asks you if you want to check for an update, but all it does is to open the company's Website in your browser (assuming you are on-line). You must still manually check if the version you have is the latest version. We were also a little critical of the requirement to nominate a filename for your YouTube clip -- it doesn't auto
matically take the name used by YouTube which is a shame. Fortunately, it does return to the last used folder on your computer (handy if, like us, you have a special folder just for YouTube videos). The best part of Super Free Youtube Video Downloader is that is it is really easy to use -- even a complete novice would have no trouble with this program. Get it here YouTube Downloader...

eBay Deal Hunter

Deal Hunter is a tool that searches & tracks ongoing deals on eBay, sending e-mail alerts a few minutes before the bid is closed. It features an alert only if the deal is less than the set amount, there is no limit on the number of searches, you can exclude items on your search, the only information required is your e-mail address (and then only if you want the alerts), and more. This is a handy tool if you like to bid on eBay and want some help in tracking searches. You can use Deal Hunter to perform a very precise eBay search by using the "exclude" function. Should you decide to use it to assist with your bidding, it can send you an e-mail notification at a set time prior to the auction finishing (default is 10 minutes for the first alert) assuming that the amount is still under your preset maximum. For non-US users, Deal Hunter has one major drawback -- it only checks US eBay and cannot be used to check eBay in other countries. However, even non-US users can get some benef
it from it if they are prepared to purchase from the USA. Have it here Deal Hunter...

Image Viewer

Imagina is an image viewer and editor (a virtual lightbox). It features either a 2D or 3D image display, it supports over 35 image & video formats, has a built-in slideshow with transitions, offers basic image editing (noise reduction, contrast/brightness, etc), offers quick image fixes, tagging, and more. This "virtual lightbox" is an excellent way to display your images and, if necessary, even carry out some basic editing. The 3D look is excellent, though it falls well short of being true 3D, and the slideshow has a number of transitions you can select. However, the best part of Imagina is the huge number of image formats it can display, plus quite a few popular video formats too. However, the video display suffers from a lack of control -- no "play", "pause", "rewind" or "fast forward" buttons -- when you click on a video it plays from start to finish. Videos can also be incorporated into your slideshow, enhancing the whole slideshow experience enormously, but it too suffe
rs from a lack of control. The slideshow can be stopped at any time but you cannot manually skip a video (or photo) during a presentation, only stop the whole show. That minor glitch aside, Imagina is without doubt one of the better image viewers available. Download from here Imagina....

Right-Click Extender

Right-Click Extender is a Windows enhancing tool that adds selected items to the right-click context menu. It adds up to 69 items in 4 categories (File/Folder, Desktop, Drives & MyComputer), it can optionally include an icon with the listing, includes a one-click System backup/restore (Registry & System Restore Point), and more. This is a great way to add some basic functionality to Windows by selectively adding items to the right-click context menus. Simply select the item(s) that you want and click on "Apply" to have them added to the appropriate context menu. Easy. The author says: "Right-Click Extender is designed for Windows 7, but should work with Windows Vista as well. While not designed for Windows XP some features will work with XP as well, but if you try it and you don't find the feature added, this is due to certain features not being available for XP." If you want to add some items to the right-click context menus then grab a copy of Right-Click Extender. Grab it here Right Click Extender