Viewing and managing multiple accounts – that sounds good

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.

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

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What’s is Borderline?

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

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A while back I posted on Daphne 1.32. A new version, 1.33 has now been released with some significant new features and improvements, these are:

• Fully Portable configuration using an “ini” file
• The ability to view a full list of installed software
• Display a snapshot of all current processes in a “Process Tree”
• Parent process name an PID at process’ properties
• Support for DRK’s database of process information

The original post review provides all the main details and can be viewed here Daphne – Modify, Control & Kill Processes with Your Mouse

There is also a follow up post with comments from Leo, the developer of Daphne here Daphne Update – Comments from Leo (Daphne Developer)

The original post noted:

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What Does It Do – The Essentials?

TaskSwitchXP provides an alternative way to switch tasks using alt-tab. Described as “an advanced task management utility that picks up where the standard Windows Alt+Tab switcher leaves off” by the developers ntwind software. Quoting them more fully adequately describes the essentials of the program:

TaskSwitchXP is an advanced task management utility that picks up where the standard Windows Alt+Tab switcher leaves off. It provides the same functionality, and adds visual styles to the dialog and also enhances it by displaying thumbnail preview of the application that will be switched to.

TaskSwitchXP also has a powerful process and window management capability that allows you quickly to close/minimize applications and their groups. The unique capabilities of TaskSwitchXP make it useful for tracking down multitudinous windows, and provide insight into the way Windows and applications work.

Summary:

• Provides preview snapshots of all running windows (alt-tab)
• Designed for XP with XP visual styles
• Allows for windows management (minimise, cascade, etc)
• Can select groups of windows
• Multilingual
• Process/task management capabilities
• Can be set to run automatically at Startup

Pros: What’s Good?

• Freeware

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Leo, the developer, sent me the following email answering some of the points I raised in the review. He has kindly given me permission to reproduce his comments (Thanks Leo!)

The bullet points in the email are my comments in the review and Leo’s replies are in blue.

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What Does It Do – The Essentials?

Daphne is a small utility that allows you to view and control the processes running on your system. The beauty of this utility is that it provides the ability to do this by dragging and dropping a target with your mouse. It also provides functions to modify, control and kill processes by name and to save these as rules. I had been looking for a “process manager” with the mouse capabilities for sometime so I am really pleased to have found this.

Summary:

• Lists all currently running processes
• Kill processes by name, from main window or by dragging a target onto the application window
• Control and modify processes in the same way as above
• Controls include hide application, always on top, hide , transparency, enable and disable
• Processes can be highlighted by colour in main window
• Shows full process path in main window
• Process priority can be changed in the main window
• Details of processes can be shown
• Access to database of process details (via web)
• Can be set to run automatically at Startup

Pros: What’s Good?

• Freeware

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