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I run multiple email accounts covering my personal needs, accounts for ProReviewer email, work email, a spam trap account for when I have to register but am unsure if the email details will be sold on, a hotmail account for Windows Live id, Google Gmail accounts  and others. These become difficult, or at least a lot of work, to check and manage. Just being able to view all emails from a single application without having to login to multiple accounts and websites is a real bonus.

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I wrote a post about a utility call PopMan a while back (PopMan 1.3 – Portable Email Management on Your Desktop and on the Move) I used this for a while but found that not being able to view HTML emails was too restrictive as so much email now is based on HTML. My search for a portable freeware email reader led me to find PopPeeper which I have used at home, at work and on the move for more than a year. The ability to be able to read all my emails and delete those I don’t want to keep from a single, fast acting utility is brilliant and a huge timesaver. The fact that it is portable so that I can transfer a single setup to all my computers and have it on a USB stick I can use on other PC’s is a great timesaver and means that I always see the same interface, the same colour codings, etc.

What’s is PopPeeper?

The PopPeeper website has a good description which I have repeated below. However PopPeeper is far more than just an email notifier. It allows you to:

Setup multiple accounts of all different types (Web/POP/IMAP/Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo?etc)

  • Be notified when emails arrive
  • Read emails in plain text or HTML
  • View emails from all or individual accounts
  • Delete emails*
  • Send emails
  • Keep an email address book
  • View linked WebPages in PopPeeper message window or default web browser
  • Allows attachments to be opened

*Some web based emails such as Google’s Gmail do not “play nicely” and emails cannot be deleted from the account using PopPeeper- however as Gmail has a large storage capacity this will not pose a major problem for the average user

Description from the PopPeeper website

  • POP Peeper is an email notifier that runs in your Windows task bar and alerts you when you have new email on your POP3, IMAP (with IDLE support), Hotmail\MSN\LiveMail, Yahoo, GMail, MyWay, Excite, iWon, Lycos.com, RediffMail, Juno and NetZero accounts.
  • IMAP supports allows you to access AOL, AIM, Netscape and other services. Send mail directly from POP Peeper and use the address book to email your frequently used contacts.
  • POP Peeper allows you to view messages using HTML or you can choose to safely view all messages in rich or plain text.
  • Several options are available that will decrease or eliminate the risks of reading your email (viruses, javascript, webbugs, etc).
  • POP Peeper can be run from a portable device and can be password protected.
  • Many notification options are available to indicate when new mail has arrived, such as sound alerts (configurable for each account), flashing scroll lock, skinnable popup notifier, customized screensaver and more.


More on Why You Would Want It?

 

What Does It Do – The Essentials?

Summary:

  • Handles multiple email accounts of different types
  • Handles all major email protocols (POP, IMAP, etc.)
  • Allows emails from multiple accounts to be viewed
  • Allows emails to be sent from multiple accounts
  • Delete emails from some accounts

Pros: What’s Good?

Features & Benefits

  • Freeware

  • Portable
  • Easy to set up accounts
  • Very Simple to Use
  • Small
  • Good Help
  • Regular software updates and improvements

Cons:What’s Not So Good?

  • Only a single message reader window can be opened at a time
  • Lack of a preview pane

More About What it Does in Detail:

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The PopPeeper website gives the following details:

Primary Features

  • Easy Setup – accounts are imported from your existing email client(s)
  • Supports POP3, IMAP (including GMail, AOL, AIM, Netscape, FastMail, mail.com, etc), SMTP, GMail, Hotmail\MSN\LiveMail, Yahoo, MyWay, Excite, iWon, Lycos.com, RediffMail, Juno, NetZero
  • IDLE is supported for IMAP accounts which allows instant notification when new mail arrives in your inbox
  • Support for RSS feeds is available with purchase of the Premium Add-on Pack
  • Read, delete, print and reply to Email without opening your email client
  • Send email directly from POP Peeper
  • SSL support for POP3, IMAP and SMTP
  • HTML email support
  • Password protection
  • Address book
  • Options to protect you from messages that contain viruses and web bugs
  • Send, save and open file attachments
  • Run POP Peeper off your portable storage device
  • No account limit — notifies you of an unlimited number of accounts
  • Many ways to receive new mail notification: skinnable desktop alerts, audio, flashing scroll lock LED and more
  • Specify how often all accounts are checked for new mail or set individual intervals for each account
  • Extensive help with useful tips and information

Email Notification Options

  • Sound notifications: single sound for any new mail, or a customized sound for each account
  • Tray icon notification that display the color and number of new messages for each account
  • Flashing scroll lock LED
  • Windows popup indicating which account(s) received new email
  • BalloonTip displays the subject and sender of the last email message received
  • Automatically open POP Peeper or launch your email client when new email is received
  • Skinnable popup (optional download)
  • ScreenSaver (optional download)
  • Chime can repeat a sound until acknowledged and\or launch another program when new mail arrives (optional download)
  • Snarl notification system plugin (optional download)
  • Voice Notification announces the subject and sender of your new messages (premium download)

 

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Borderline is a tiny utility program that simply moves any windows outside the screen area of your computer monitor (or monitors in a dual + monitor setup) completely within the screen area.

Why Would You Want It?

Sometimes Windows move off the screen area of your monitor. This may be for many reasons such as changing resolution of the monitor or changing from a multi-monitor setup to a single monitor. Whatever the cause it can be extremely frustrating and even worse, if the Window does not show in the Windows Taskbar area. This post on Recover Hidden & Off-screen Windows with this Simple Tip and Freeware Program ForceWindowVisible will give you more information with:

  • A way of moving windows on screen using “Windows Standard Move Function” (slow and requires the window to be shown in the Taskbar)
  • A small portable utility called ForceWindowsVisible

The advantage of Borderline over ForceWindowsVisible is that it is simple and quick. Also ForceWindowsVisible can cause problems if you hide or unhide windows that are not meant to be seen or not meant to be hidden by mistake (or maybe just “experimenting” :) )

When Borderline is run it moves al windows within the borders of the monitor screen(s) and then closes. This means you have to run it each time but has the advantage that it does not run in the background using memory and CPU.

What Does It Do – The Essentials?

Summary:

  • Moves all open Windows completely on screen of the monitor (or monitors in a multi-monitor setup
  • Borderline closes down after running

Pros: What’s Good?

Features & Benefits

  • Freeware

  • Portable
  • Very Simple to Use
  • Tiny
  • Handy Help file (html)

Cons:What’s Not So Good?

  • Option to run continuously in the background would be useful
  • Need to create shortcut to run conveniently

More About What it Does in Detail:

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The James’s Software website gives the following details:

Borderline v1.0.0
  • Moves windows to be within the screen borders. When changing the screen orientation on my Tablet PC, or when connecting from a single-headed client to a multi-headed host with remote desktop, some windows occasionally get left outside the screen.
  • For Windows 2000, Windows XP, or later.

The following description is taken from the included html help file:

 

Description

Some applications have a habit of appearing outside the screen. This can happen when applications remember their last window position between runs and if the desktop resolution or monitor configuration changed in the meantime. This is not uncommon with remote desktop when the client and server have different screen resolutions or monitor configurations. This sometimes also occurs if a system changes its desktop resolution frequently, such as when Tablet PCs change their display orientation.

Or some applications don’t behave well if the taskbar is docked to the top- or left- edges of the screen.

Or maybe you want an application window to be aligned exactly to a screen edge.

Borderline takes all windows that fall off the edge of the screen and moves them back into the screen bounds. For multi-monitor systems, each window will be moved to rest wholly on its nearest screen.

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What’s This About?

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Starter is a portable program that will list all your startup programs, running processes and windows services in a simple and well laid out tabbed window. It allows startup programs to be disabled/enabled as well as editing and adding new programs to startup on system boot. All Windows Services are also shown and these can also be edited or details shown. Finally, you can also manage all running processes in a similar way to the Windows Taskmanager. The program is simple and the user interface is well thought out for simplicity combined with good features. As a bonus you also get real-time information on CPU (by core and total) and memory usage in the statusbar area.

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Why Would You Want It?

Many Windows systems end up with a lot of programs added into the registry or Startup folder so that they are automatically run when the system ids first started (at system boot).  While this can be immensely useful and save time it can also slow down the boot process and the overall performance of the computer if too many programs and services are running. Often these programs are automatically added to be started by the installer (another good reason to use a portable program suite!). Quite often the program or service is really unnecessary for the day to day use of the compute and is just draining resources and slowing down everything else. Windows provides the msconfig utility to view and mange startup programs and you can also view or manage services through the Computer Management console. However, Startup provides a single, well thought out and easy to use utility to manage both of these as well as running processes.

 

What Does It Do – The Essentials?

Summary:

  • Identifies Startup programs in registry, startup folder and system ini files (win.ini, etc)
  • Allows startup programs to be:
    • disabled
    • enabled
    • edited
  • Shows details of programs in Tooltip or separate window
  • Identifies all Windows services
  • Allows services to be edited
  • Shows details of services in Tooltip or separate window
  • Identifies all running processes
  • Gives details of processes in main GUI (similar to Taskmanager)
  • Allows process priorities to be changed
  • Gives details of processes in separate window

 

Pros: What’s Good?

Features & Benefits

  • Freeware

  • Portable
  • Easy to use
  • Good information provided
  • Simple options

 

Cons:What’s Not So Good?

  • Lack of help*

 

* There is absolutely no direct help for the program either with the download or on a website. While the program is simple and intuitive the very minimum should be a list f the available options and functions

More About What it Does in Detail:

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What’s This About?

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CyberShredder is another very small portable application which is designed to remove all traces of old file data from your hard disks. It does not touch any existing files or the files in the recycle bin. This is very useful to ensure that files that have not been securely deleted cannot be recovered.

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Why Would You Want It?

As noted under the previous post Privacy – Use CyberShredder to Securely Delete Files & Folders :-

When Windows deletes files from your hard disk using the standard delete or cut/paste methods it does not erase all the file details, just the index entry. So the file is still there you just can’t see it. There are plenty of free, portable programs available to recover such files ( see Recuva – Easy and Quick Way to Recover Deleted Photos and Files). Over time the “deleted” file may be overwritten by new files but this could be slow and is a random process. If you need to make sure personal details or other sensitive information is erased, for instance if you want to sell a hard drive or your old computer, then you need a program like CyberShredder.

Disk Redactor provides the complimentary piece of software to CyberShredder by “wiping” the areas of the disk that may contain information from files not deleted by a secure method.

What Does It Do – The Essentials?

Summary:

  • Overwrites unused disk space
  • Securely erase single or multiple folders
  • Uses different methods depending on level of security

Pros: What’s Good?

Features & Benefits

  • Freeware

  • Portable
  • Easy to Use

Cons:What’s Not So Good?

  • Installer only download
  • Options are not available “grayed out” **
  • Can’t select multiple drives

** This was not a problem in an earlier version – see post for more details

More About What it Does in Detail:

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CyberShredder is a very small portable application whose only purpose is to delete files and folders on your hard disk and remove all traces of the file. It does this by overwriting the file with other characters and changing the file entries in the system file  index.

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Why Would You Want It?

When Windows deletes files from your hard disk using the standard delete or cut/paste methods it does not erase all the file details, just the index entry. So the file is still there you just can’t see it. There are plenty of free, portable programs available to recover such files ( see Recuva – Easy and Quick Way to Recover Deleted Photos and Files). Over time the “deleted” file may be overwritten by new files but this could be slow and is a random process. If you need to make sure personal details or other sensitive information is erased, for instance if you want to sell a hardrive or your old computer, then you need a program like CyberShredder.  However see the “Cons” and “What Could Make it Better” sections below.

What Does It Do – The Essentials?

Summary:

  • Securely erases single or multiple files
  • Securely erase single or multiple folders
  • Uses different methods depending on level of security

Pros: What’s Good?

Features & Benefits

  • Freeware

  • Portable
  • Easy to Use
  • Good Options
  • Installer Option

Cons:What’s Not So Good?

  • Only drag and drop addition of files or folders
  • Does not wipe previously deleted file space on hard disk

This means that if you have deleted files with the Windows OS CyberShredder can’t be used to overwrite the areas of the hardisk which may still contain sensitive information. However there are other programs that will do this for you :)

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ClipGuru is a semi Portable Application which monitors the clipboard and stores the information it finds there as text or images. This type of application is generally referred to as a “clipboard extender”. It stores this information in a database which provides a history of stored clips that can be reused. It has a variety of useful options for both storing and recalling the stored information

Why Would You Want It?

ClipGuru is a small, portable and light on resources. It allows you to store text clips or images (copied on there own without any text).So if you need to store text on it’s own, or images on their own, with the option to save different sets and paste multiple selections this could be very useful.

What Does It Do – The Essentials?

Summary:

  • Monitors the Clipboard for text or Images
  • Stores information in a simple database
  • Multiple storage sets
  • Clip text searching
  • Combine clips
  • Combined pasting
  • Manage clips

Pros: What’s Good?

Features & Benefits

  • Freeware

  • Portable
  • Versatile
  • Good Options
  • Good information through Tooltips

Cons:What’s Not So Good?

  • Limited format saving
    • Can’t save combined text and images
    • Can’t save HTML
    • Limited format retention as rich text

More About What it Does in Detail:

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What’s This About?

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DisplayFusion (Portable Freeware version*) provides the ability to move and resize windows between monitors in a multi-monitor setup. It also allows you to set wallpaper and backgrounds from photos on your computer or from Flickr. It is a great alternative to the shareware “Ultramon” program.

* There is a shareware upgrade to a Pro version however the Free version does everything that I need.

Why Would You Want It?

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If you use a multi-monitor setup (and for a serious computer user the only reasons I think you shouldn’t is lack of money or space) then moving windows, particularly maximized windows between the monitors is something you wan to easily do. The ability of DisplayFusion to move a maximized window from one monitor to another by dragging and dropping makes it worth installing for just this one feature. The addition of hotkey window operations and wallpaper/background management are just an incredible bonus :)

 

What Does It Do – The Essentials?

Summary:

  • Drag Maximized Windows between monitors/screens
  • Move, Size and Maximize Windows with Hotkeys
  • Set Separate Images as Screen Background/Wallpaper
  • Auto Snap Windows to Monitor edges

 

Pros: What’s Good?

Features & Benefits

  • Freeware

  • Portable
  • Installer version also available
  • Easy to Use
  • Good Options

 

Cons:What’s Not So Good?

  • Lack of Titlebar buttons to move or stretch windows

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Flexible Renamer is a portable program that will rename files and folders, change file attributes including dates, change tags for different file groups (music, photos, docs, etc.) It has very powerful rules and methods combined with a wide range of options, defined presets and methods as well as both simple and advanced ways of working.

Why Would You Want It?

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The need to rename batches of files in collections of photos, music tracks, documents, archives, websites, etc. can be met by many programs. However, Flexible Renamer offers this and more in a small portable program which includes comprehensive renaming rules, changing dates, changing attributes, changing tag information for most common tagged files and the ability to create batches of prenamed files. Sometimes you just want to add something to a file name, for instance you may want to add a place and date to the name of all the photos you took on holiday. You might want to add  something to a batch of documents that all relate to the same project. As you can use the file date for sorting in many file explorer programs you may want to change dates as a method of indicating that older dated files are part of a “most recent” set on a particular subject. This, combined with the ability to also change the folder names and tag information makes Flexible Renamer very powerful

What Does It Do – The Essentials?

Summary:

  • Renames Files and Folders
  • Provides comprehensive rules and rename methods
  • Changes Attributes including dates
  • Changes File Tag information for common tagged file types
    such as photos, music, documents, etc.
  • Adds Shell Extensions for Context Menus (Optional)

Pros: What’s Good?

Features & Benefits

  • Freeware

  • Portable
  • Very Versatile
  • Good Options
  • Combines Rename, tag, attribute and date changing
  • Included Help File

Cons:What’s Not So Good?

  • No File Filters for Tags and Attributes windows

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PicPick is a portable freeware screen capture program and a drawing program combined with some other useful drawing tools including a screen ruler, color picker on screen drawing and screen protractor. The capture and drawing utilities are very much like Faststone Capture which is no longer freeware.

I first saw this on winAddons.com a couple of days ago, since when it has “been doing the rounds” on many of the tech blogs. So read on if you are interested in some more detail and screenshots on the full potential of this great little portable program. The version reviewed here is PicPick 1.8

Why Would You Want It?

PicPick provides several tools in one small portable package, all integrated into a single main Manager window(GUI) and also accessible from the system tray menu.

The main functions can all be used independently of each other so you could still use it as a drawing and picture or photo annotation tool even if you don’t need screen capture. Of course you might just want it as a free, portable and very versatile screen capture tool. The fact that extra tools are included is a real bonus :)

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What Does It Do – The Essentials?

Summary:

  • Captures Screen
    • Full Screen
    • Active Window
    • Window Control
    • Region
    • Fixed Region
    • Freehand
    • Repeat Last Capture
    • Autoscroll (for pages longer than the on screen window)
  • Drawing Program/Image Editor with
    • Standard shapes, arrows, lines, etc.
    • Blur, opacity, hue, contrast, brightness, pixelate, etc.
    • Rotate, Flip, etc. (Whole or selected part of picture)
  • On Screen Drawing Tools (Whiteboard)
  • Color Picker
  • Color Palette
  • Screen Crosshair
  • Screen Protractor

Pros: What’s Good?

Features & Benefits

  • Freeware
  • Portable

  • Very Versatile
  • Good GUI
  • Good Systray Menu Access to Functions
  • Easy to Use
  • Intuitive

Cons:What’s Not So Good?

  • Very Little Help
  • Autoscrolling Capture Rather Limited

There are quite a few things that would make PicPick better which are listed at the end of this post. I hope the developer continues the excellent work so far :)

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What’s This About?

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Winsock XP Fix is a tiny utility whose only purpose is to simply repair Winsock and TCP/IP errors from errors or corruption of the registry, etc. It also makes use of the Freeware ERDNT Registry Backup Program so that you can make a backup copy of the registry before changes are made.

 

 


Why Would You Want It?

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Sometimes things just get messed up for no obvious reason, there are many reasons corruption of files and settings can occur. It may be a power failure or spike, a hardware malfunction or the action of some malware,virus or spyware. Maybe TCP/IP and Winsock settings are changed by mistake on the users part or installation/removal of software causes a problem. Firewall software may change settings or some sort of utility that needs proxy settings to work. The removal of Adware is a very common cause of these sort of problems. Whatever the cause it can be very difficult and time consuming to try and manually sort out the registry settings.

Winsock XP Fix provides a very simple and easy to use solution to the problem. It provides the means to backup the registry although, personally, I would prefer to create a Restore Point in Windows before applying.

So if you have Internet or Local Area Network Connection problems WinSock XP Fix is well worth a try

but create a Restore Point or backup your registry first

 

What Does It Do – The Essentials?

Summary:

  • Repairs Winsock and TCP/IP Registry Settings
  • Provides Registry Backup Facilities
  • Gives Access to System Information Dialogs

 

Pros: What’s Good?

Features & Benefits

  • Freeware

 

  • Portable (Single executable file)
  • Easy to Use
  • Registry Backup Option

 

Cons:What’s Not So Good?

  • No Longer Supported or Developed
  • Developers Website no longer active

 

of instructions available for a shareware product but it would be unfair to provide a link to these from a page reviewing a “competing” freeware product

More About What it Does in Detail:

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