How To Use Your Mind and Halftone Search For Google Desktop Software for Windows

Mind Pad
$60 - AKS-Labs

Mind Pad is a .NET mind and concept mapping software for Windows.

If you ever asked for simplicity of mind or concept mapping and for map topics with some properties that are right for your business needs, then Mind Pad is a great tool to start with.

Creating and linking text blocks is easy with Mind Pad. But it can do more. Mind Pad allows you to organize in mind map objects with any properties set. With Mind Pad scripting you can create your own rules for data management and representation.

For instance, with Mind Pad Model Editor you can easily create an object called ?Contact Person? and assign to it some really useful properties, such as Person name, Company name, Next time to contact date. Then you can create a mind map using ?Contact Person? frame object and link new objects with each other showing the relation between your contacts.

You can create your own knowledge management system using Mind Pad scripting and macros functions. For these purpose Mind Pad supports Visual Basic .NET.

Managing objects? and links? formatting is easy with Mind Pad object-oriented approach. You can use a frame or link styles, specify colors, text settings and other. When you need to create a new object you just tell Mind Pad what style it should use for this object or link.

The most great idea of Mind Pad: Mind Pad is easy to use software. As long as it supports powerful object oriented-methodology and scripting, it?s very simple software. It?s easy to use it for every day mind mapping.

If you really want to make use of powerful object-oriented mind mapping, then you should spend some time and learn how to create a frame objects using Model Editor. This object should have all properties you need to represent some data in mind map.

If you ever asked for a simple looking mind map with ability to create some editable properties for your topics then Mind Pad is what you was looking for.

Please, visit www.mind-pad.com for more information.

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Total Network Inventory
$95 - Softinventive Lab: Network Inventory

Inventory computers on a network in a few minutes with Total Network Inventory! Total Network Inventory is a PC Audit and Network Inventory program for office and large scale enterprise networks.

Total Network Inventory interrogates all PC's on a network and reports back with complete information about OS, service packs, hotfixes, hardware, software, running processes, etc. on remote machines. This information is added to a centralized database and network administrators are able to generate reports about each or all PC's on a network.

The program is agent-free and requires no special software installed on remote machines. Total Network Inventory has been designed with the user in mind, which is reflected in its interface that provides quick and unobtrusive navigation throughout the program.

Total Network Inventory starts with a Welcome window with six large, image-coded buttons: "Run Scan Wizard", "Scan this PC", "Show Main Window", "Scan Other PC", "Visit product homepage", and "View help contents". Depending on what you want to do, you simply click on the required button and immediately find yourself in that section of the program.

Total Network Inventory includes a Report Builder, which lets you generate reports with just a few clicks. Reports are great because they present the information about networked machines in an easy to read and understand manner. Report Builder allows you to generate a report on any topic that interests
you ("Single category report"). For example, you can create a report with the information about a network adapter, IP-addresses, MAC-addresses, DHCP, DNS and WINS settings for any number of computers.

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Talking Reminder
$29.95 - Software River solutions, Inc

Never forget another event again with this great looking reminder and calendar that even talks to you!
Talking Reminder will keep track of your important events and remind you about them using speech, sound, alert window, email, or file execution. Talking Reminder is fun and easy to use.

With this program you will not be spending time in figuring out how to use it. It takes no time to enter a new reminder and it will even offer to pre-remind you automatically before the main event.
For example - when you enter a new birthday - Talking Reminder will automatically enable the option to pre-remind you a few days prior to the actual event and tell you to remember to buy presents for upcoming birthday.
Of course - you can always change and customize this behavior as well as use it with any other type of event.

Great looking calendar with customizable background image shows you exactly what kind of events will be happening for specific days with a specific icon for different types of event.

New version includes a reminder type/category editor which allows you to completely customize the type of reminders that you use!

Simply drag and drop event icons on the calendar to move the event few days back or forth.
You can schedule events on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis or as a one time occurrence.

Pre-defined event categories will automatically select the most appropriate recurrence option for you. For example - a bill payment will show a nice dollar sign icon on your calendar and pre-select a monthly recurrence option. You can change the recurrence at any time.
Automatic fail-over mechanism will make sure you get the message. You can set it up so that if you are not around to see the alert pop-up - it will send you an email if it fails the specified number of times.
Change the application skin with a simple menu selection and choose from many choices to personalize the appearance even further

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Directors NotePad 2
$29 - Directors NoteBook Software

Designed specifically with iLife users in mind, Directors NotePad is an ultra lite version of the popular professional director's tool Directors NoteBook. Directors NotePad helps amateur film makers organize their ideas shot by shot, and view them on screen in slide show form and as printed lists organized in edit order (scene order), and in shot setup order. It's also a wonderful tool to pre-visualize edits before you start. Print out 3X5 cards of your shots and juggle them around to experiment with different story telling techniques, and see if any shots might be missing, or are now unnecessary to capture. Plan vacation movies ahead of time, to make sure no shots are missed. Directors NotePad shows users the importance of preplanning shots for their home movies and slideshows so they get the absolute best results from their digital hub. Key Features in Directors NotePad Easy-to-learn push-button interface allows you to be creative and organized from the start without being a techhead Effortlessly keeps you organized. Leaving more time to be creative. Search and sort all shot specific details any way you want. Directors NotePad has 4 different printouts Import digital storyboard images with one mouse click Data entry short cuts such as: Using text already entered in another shot , pull-down menus and pop-up lists Present your "boards" in a digital slideshow with one click. Record Voice Memos Bluetooth support for certain Bluetooth enabled cell phones to remote control presentations

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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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Smart Reminder
$39.95 - Smart Reminder

Smart Reminder is an advanced personal information manager that helps you organize your life. Some of Smart Reminder's key features are:
* Organize your personal or business contacts in multiple contact groups.
* Assign a specific view style to each contact group.
* Export your contacts to Symbian based mobile phones.
* Store all your contact data in the address book (including birthdays, addresses, home, mobile and work phones, e-mail, most popular instant messengers and pictures.)
* Keep your information private by using password protection;
* Smart Reminder has multi-user support so that all the users of a computer can have individual databases and settings.
* Quickly search any item using just a few letters from its name.
* Quickly find and print all available information of any contact.
* Create web pages containing the profile of any contact.
* Set reoccurring reminders for birthdays and anniversaries, appointments and meetings.
* Your personal calendar is only one click away, showing reminders for today or months ahead.
* Quickly move all your data between two computers.
* There are many keyboard shortcuts allowing you to easily grab all information you need or execute a task.
* Add notes with only one mouse click without having Smart Reminder active.
* Send e-mails and notes to any contact with only one click.
* Import all the contacts from your windows address book.
* Easily attach files to any contact in your database by dragging the files into that contact's profile.
* Export all contacts to your Outlook or Yahoo address book.
* Built-in image editor to create small pictures for the profiles.

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