Alf and Halftone Search For Google Desktop Software for Windows

RoyalFTp
$0 - RoyalFTP.com

Transfer files with ease using this intuitive and powerful FTP client. RoyalFTP is a multithreaded FTP client for Windows that's easy for beginners to use and has enough features to be useful to power users as well. Using its intuitive drag-and-drop Explorer-like interface, RoyalFTP lets you update a Web site with a single click and resume interrupted downloads or uploads.

RoyalFTP features included Crash recovery--no more lost transfers due to power outages or system crashes, support for new firewall/proxy and host types, SOCKS 4.0 and 5.0 support, remote file viewing and editing, corrections to FTP servers for year 2000 compliance, Input Command, which allows you to directly input any command an FTP server supports, complete recursive directory upload/download/overwrite or delete. a progress rate display, default transfer mode option in session parameters, prompts for file overwrites and preserving file date and time, a favorites list similar to that of Internet Explorer, resume broken downloads or uploads, background transfers, time-outs, the ability to delete to the Recycle Bin, port numbers and passive file transfers.

RoyalFTP also includes transfer panes, Smart Reconnect, and advanced file-filtering parameters. RoyalFTP's Connection Manager comes preloaded with lots of popular FTP sites and adding your own FTP sites is easy.

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Alf Interactive Talking Character
$15 - The Bot Factory

Alf makes putting an interactive talking character on your site a fun and inexpensive experience. Alf is Flash, which means it will run in virtually every web browser. It is also text file based and so can be installed on any server configuration. Alf "speaks" recorded sound in wav or mp3 format, which is pre-processed to generate seamless lip synchronization. Its response patterns can be programmed in a simple syntax called Nascent Artificial Intelligence. Alf works with a character template system and is fully customizable: face, mouth, text fonts, colors, backgrounds, text-decoration, heights and widths can all be set to your preferences. The interaction interface also includes an optional 0 to 5 item menu system to present your user with input suggestions. Alf is easily configurable to a non- interactive character (but why would you want that?) and runs in your own server space, so there are no monthly fees and no limits to your audio streams. Features * Can be installed anywhere (text file based). * Easy 3 step install. * Works with any web browser. Extensively tested with IE, Firefox and Opera. * Download new character templates or * make your own templates from a master template. Design your own faces and mouths. Add eye and head movement if you like. * Use existing wav or mp3 files for your bot's voice or record your own. * Program your bot's responses with Nascent Artificial Intelligence. * Fully customizable interaction interface: font faces, colors, sizes, italics, bolds, underlines, text field x and y coordinates, heights and widths, border colors and background colors. * Fully customizable 0 to 5 item menu system. * Configurable to a non-interactive talking character. * Runs in your own server space, so no monthly fees and no limits to your audio streams. * One-time price: $15.

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ViralFriendGenerator InfoNowBrowser (tm)
$0 - www.do-not-buy.com

ViralFriendGenerator InfoNowBrowser (tm). Self-contained inforamtion about viral marketing and the program ViralFriendGenerator.

The InfoNowBrowser is a self contained browser that can be pre-loaded with text, images, audio and video to deliver training or information. It can be delivered via disk, download, or email and can be configured to allow users to delete, add or modify content.

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ALFTP
$0 - ESTsoft Corp.

User-friendly FTP client and server. The convenient ALFTP Client and Server Explorer lets you browse or drag and drop files just like in Windows Explorer. Transfer queues simplify file management.

Share files with friends and family in less than 10 seconds with the easiest FTP server. Just turn it on and set a couple preferences.

Resume broken transfers, Direct Edit files on servers, quickly connect through the Site Map, or send direct FTP commands.

ALFTP is designed for maximum ease while still offering a full feature set for more advanced users.

The default interface has a top server and bottom client (your PC) explorer complete with folder tree view for easy navigation. A simpler left and right arrangement with no folder trees is available for those who prefer.

Just drag and drop files between your PC (client) and the server to upload or download. Selecting large numbers of files from different locations is easy with a transfer queue much like an online shopping cart. Uploading and downloading ("checking out") is just a matter of clicking "Start queued transfers".

The transfer queue also lets you keep track of current transfers. More details in the status bar keep you informed about disk size, percent complete, bytes transferred, transfer speed, and estimated transfer time.

The basic FTP server is ideal for quickly sharing and transferring files like home videos, photo galleries, and backup archives that are too large for email. Again, simplicity makes it usable by even 1st time FTP server operators.

Direct Edit is ideal for web developers to directly open and edit files on FTP servers. Simply open a file as normal, make your edits, save as normal in your editing program (e.g. Photoshop, the GIMP, Dreamweaver, Visual Studio, UltraEdit, Notepad, etc.) and confirm saving it to the server.

More advanced users can directly issue RFC 959 or custom commands.

Download the ALFTP FTP client and FTP server for free today at www.altools.net.

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Halftone Search for Google Desktop
$0 - TrieTech

Google Desktop is a free tool available for download from the Google web site. This powerful instrument is intended as a cross-platform solution that allows you to make searches on your local PC the same way as you search the WEB with Google. But what is good in general cannot be absolutely perfect for every particular case. Halftone Search from Trietech is a free Google Desktop add-on that offers some advanced Google Desktop functionality to MS Windows users.

Google Desktop uses an HTML interface. It's fine for the net, but on your local desktop you would certainly prefer an application that uses native Windows controls. Halftone Search solves this problem by offering you an alternative Google Toolbar UI. With the Halftone Search, you can highlight search terms in the results, customize fonts, etc. The program can extract compressed files on-the-fly and show their contents. It also provides several ways to make searches. You can choose from a pop-up menu in your Windows tray, a form or a dockable toolbar in the main program window.

In addition to the interface enhancements, Halftone Search also extends the Google Desktop search engine itself. As you may know, Google Desktop uses "drivers" to collect searchable data from your local files.
"Drivers" are plugins that allow it to understand specific file formats.
Halftone Search installs drivers for compressed file archives (rar, zip, arj, tar, gz, bz2, etc.), chm files, MS Help v.2 files (just imagine a searchable index of all the help files on your disks), plain-text files with unicode support, web archives (mht) plus all the drivers you may have installed by MSN Desktop Search. With Halftone Search you can also manage all the installed drivers.

With all of the above in mind, we are quickly driven to the conclusion that Halftone Search is a must-have add-on for every Google Desktop user
with a Windows powered PC.

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SQL Server Comparison Tool
$99 - AlfaAlfa Software

SQL Server Comparison Tool is a Windows program for analyzing, comparing and documenting SQL Server databases. It's an ideal tool for Database Administrators (DBA) and Developers. With SQL Server Comparison Tool you can take full control of your databases: analyze, compare and document structure of tables, procedures, functions, views, triggers and relationships, compare data stored in tables, generate detailed reports.

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