We live in a generation where technology is the one of the greatest means of living -- well, most of it. Simple communication, security, business transactions are just a few of the things we do daily that connect us to the Internet and other technologies. Internet for one has been widely used from personal to business-related activities. Though we live in this technologically-advanced era, not all of us has the expertise in dealing with these things.
To help us all in our daily activities concerning the Internet, I would like to share this great find I encountered: 14 Internet Downloadable Tools (most of them freeware).
Security is a main concern when we go online, that is why Ad-aware is here to offer you protection from PC threats that includes viruses and spywares. It allows you to scan your PC and alerts you when it has detected threat(s). It also allows you to put these threats into quarantine and/or delete them. It is a good idea to have more than one protector, becuase not all scanners find all threats -- just make sure they are all compatible.
If you have a network at home or at work and is sharing a single Internet connection, this downloadable freeware is for you. It has a powerful scanning capabilities. You can use it for troubleshooting Internet connections, network configurations and even security purposes when connected to the Internet.
Are you a fan of downloading and/or uploading files? Bandwidth Monitor 2 Lite is for you -- it allows you to check your current bandwidth usage over time by displaying that usage in a constantly changing chart (it can also be displayed in text).
Comodo Firewall Pro protects your PC from inbound and outbound threats. It also protect selected files and folders so that malwares cannot get into them nor alter them in any way.
Communication is very essential from the very start and with different types of messenger popping up, we can't be thankful enough. Digsby is a universal instant messenger that allows you to interact with friends and family who uses other types of instant messenger (eg. YM, AOL IM). It also surpasses these other types of IM because it allows you to check your social networking sites and even emails from web-based mail site not associated with your IMs.
eMail Tracker Pro (Price: $29.95 (15-day free trial))
Unsure if the emails you're receiving are legitimate or not? eMail Tracker Pro gives you a set of tools for examining any email messages that pops into your inbox -- tracing back to its true point of origin and showing you the IP address and location of the sender, thus allowowing you to trace whether the email has been tampered. It also provides contact information for the domain from which the message was sent to that you can report any abuse.
Prompter (Free)
Are you the type of person who has multiple web-based mail accounts, just like me? Oh, yes! And it really takes my time opening one type of email to another -- I got Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Windows Live Mail (it's kind of required in my field of work). Well, ePrompter neatly solves our problem. It allows us to open all our web-based email accounts, check for new mails, compose and even deletes messages; and also tells us how many new messages we got from each emails.
Many individuals and businesses continue to use file transfer protocol (FTP) as a way to share files because it does not block large file transfers. FileZilla is an excellent FTP client that combines simplicity with a robust feature set and it's interface is easy to use.
Are you a fan of downloading? FlashGet is for you -- a great download manager that speeds up the process because it uses multithreading, keeps you safe and helps you organize your downloads, allows you to find downloads via many different protocols.
Most of online documents are in Adobe Acrobat format, thus you need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open such documnents; but Adobe Reader takes much time to download and is also prone to crashes. To help us with this, Foxit Reader is here -- it's small and loads much faster, thus doesn't take up much memory when used; it is also not prone to crashes.
Free Internet Window Maker (Free)
Familiar with cache files, browser history, auto-complete information, cookies? These are traceable trails you get to leave behind after an Internet activity, which might be critical in terms of security purposes. To ensure security and privacy when using the Internet, Free Internet Window Washer allows you to remove these traceable trails; it also removes traces of application activity, such as which files and/or folders were recently opened.
Pinging a website is like contacting this site to check if it's alive and responds to the ping request. PingInfoView allows you to ping multiple web sites simultaneously; on any schedule you set and displays the results in a graphical interface.
SMTP Diagnostics (Price: $12 (30-day free trial))
Are you handling SMTP servers? Are you encountering problems about it and have no idea what is wrong? SMTP Diagnostics is for you -- it performs a complete set of diagnostics on your SMTP connection and provides an in-depth report about any errors.
VisualRoute 2008 Lite is a command line tool which allows you to display the route you take to contact a web server or other Internet device in a visually appealing way. It also shows a map of every hop, and graphs it accordingly against a background that shows reponse times. Highlighting a hop allows you to see important details, such as pachet loss and speed.
What are you waiting for? Why don't you try these Internet downloadable tools and see how it can ease the burden of everyday encounter with technology. Just make sure to take the necessary actions to ensure the security of you and your PC. Happy downloading!
