2009-10-26T02:03:44Z 97697 0 I paid for AI Roboform years ago and loved it. When I found LastPass for free I gave it a try. Lastpass is better than the best. The availability of your passwords from anywhere on the web wins out. The IE & Firefox plug-ins work well. There are concerns about having our information on the web but prudent use of the master password This is a pleasure to use and is security made simple. I cannot recommend highly enough 42306 2008-08-22T19:07:35Z 138747 2009-11-27T12:51:32Z Lastpass 187 2009-11-21T02:10:12Z http://lastpass.com http://wakoopa.com/software/lastpass http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/157/052/normal.png?1256041390 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/157/052/thumb.png?1256041390 36850 Lastpass http://wakoopa.com/developers/lastpass Manage and tweak your network 54 Network Tools http://wakoopa.com/categories/utilities/network-tools win lastpass is an online password manager and form filler that makes web browsing easier and more secure. Features include: - Create strong passwords, knowing you only have to remember one. - Log into your favorite sites with a single click - Fill forms in a second; stop pulling out your wallet to get your credit card number - Access and manage your data from multiple computers seamlessly - Securely share logins and notes with friends and let others share with you 2009-07-02T12:25:38Z 72026 0 Easy to use small business finance package. Tracks finances, inventory, payroll and some customer details well. Easier to use than Quicken/Quickbooks although both have their strengths. Ongoing updates, such as the Australian Tax tables require a yearly upgrade or subscription. Subscription includes telephone support although the one time I used it they were hopeless 790 2009-06-29T11:06:40Z 252349 2009-09-08T01:59:35Z MYOB Accounting Plus 2 2009-09-15T10:30:16Z http://myob.com http://wakoopa.com/software/myob-accounting-plus http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/094/695/normal.jpg?1246537269 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/094/695/thumb.jpg?1246537269 30098 MYOB Technology, Pty Ltd. http://wakoopa.com/developers/myob-technology-pty-ltd Finance and Accounting 56 Finance http://wakoopa.com/categories/office/finance win MYOB Accounting Plus is business, payroll and time billing software that’s ideal for businesses with up to 20 staff. Streamline pay runs, calculate PAYG withholdings and bill for time the way you want to. 2009-02-21T05:05:09Z 43182 0 A small software provided by Australian ISP Exetel to allow users/subscribers to send SMS direct from their desktop has options for specifying the from Number (which could be abused I guess) as well as individual, bulk & group sending from the internal address book Very effective and easy to use and a real bonus to users of the Exetel services 10375 2007-09-16T23:31:12Z 63504 2009-11-19T16:00:59Z eXeSMS 2 2009-03-02T09:41:27Z http://exesms.montarotech.net/ http://wakoopa.com/software/exesms http://wakoopa.com/images/avatar_software.gif http://wakoopa.com/images/avatar_software_thumb.gif 15214 Montaro Technologies http://wakoopa.com/developers/montaro-technologies Communicate with others via chat or instant messengers 5 Messengers & Chat http://wakoopa.com/categories/internet/messengers-chat win eXeSMS is a standalone application that acts as an interface and transport layer for the Exetel "SMS via DSL" Application Programming Interface (API). In short, eXeSMS allows a customer to store mobile numbers in an address book and use them for sending extremely inexpensive (currently; 5c/SMS) SMS text messages to mobile devices all around the world. It's as simple as point, click and type your message. It also contains many other features which you might not expect from a regular SMS sending application, for a full list of features please visit the Features page. 2009-02-21T05:01:42Z 43181 0 Good free service for searching the internet for images Just be aware that most images are copyright. You should get the owners permission to re-use. For free images you can reproduce try www.everystockphoto.com or search.creativecommons.org or even Flickr.com (as many of the pics there are licensed under CC) Oh and parents, make sure the safe surfing filter is turned ON at Google search and Google Image search otherwise you or the kids might find more than you bargained for 114520225 2008-10-09T10:53:34Z 150867 2146-01-02T05:09:20Z Google Image Search 29275 2009-11-24T01:47:44Z http://images.google.com http://wakoopa.com/software/google-image-search http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/127/680/normal.png?1249169136 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/127/680/thumb.png?1249169136 10267 Google Inc. http://wakoopa.com/developers/google-inc Tools that will find what you're looking for online 61 Search Engines http://wakoopa.com/categories/internet/search-engines web Google Image Search is a search service created by Google which allows users to search the Web for image content. The keywords for the image search are based on the filename of the image, the link text pointing to the image, and text adjacent to the image. When searching for an image, a thumbnail of each matching image is displayed. Then when clicking on a thumbnail, the image is displayed in a frame at the top of the page and the website on which that image was found is displayed in a frame below it, making it easier to see from where the image is coming. 2009-01-27T02:13:16Z 38607 0 Gives Hex code of colours for use in web design Copies to clipboard and saves recent colours I would have liked an 'eyedropper' so you could select colour from an existing object or webpage and have the hex code displayed 12434 2007-09-19T17:24:08Z 64305 2009-11-23T15:10:51Z ColorPicker 79 2009-08-14T13:10:52Z http://colorpicker.riaforge.org/ http://wakoopa.com/software/colorpicker http://wakoopa.com/images/avatar_software.gif http://wakoopa.com/images/avatar_software_thumb.gif 15 Unknown developer http://wakoopa.com/developers/unknown 29 Desktop Publishing http://wakoopa.com/categories/design/desktop-publishing mac win colorPicker is a widget-like AIR application that lets you either choose a "web-safe" color from a color grid or design a color using sliders to adjust the red, green, and blue values of the color. Once you have the color you want, you can click on the corresponding "Copy to Clipboard" button to copy the hexidecimal color code for the color and then paste it into your HTML code or your IDE. colorPicker also keeps a list of all of the colors you've copied to the clipboard during your session so that you can review them and copy the hex code to the clipboard again. 2009-01-27T01:14:12Z 38603 0 A great way to track your books and reading habits. They even have a monthly book giveaway (although not many come to Australia). I actually wasn't aware of a cost - obviously I haven't added enough books.Seems like other sites might be better for interaction like discussion on books 1347111 2008-10-11T10:42:21Z 151726 2009-11-27T18:46:09Z LibraryThing 1705 2009-07-28T00:48:27Z http://librarything.com http://wakoopa.com/software/librarything http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/094/940/normal.png?1246577384 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/094/940/thumb.png?1246577384 35874 Tim Spalding http://wakoopa.com/developers/tim-spalding 23 Social networks http://wakoopa.com/categories/internet/social-networks web LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth. 2009-01-26T12:44:34Z 38490 0 Great free archiving tool Seems as powerful as 7zip but with much nicer (more user friendly) GUI and in Vista - much nicer icons Now I can't seem to make either IZarc or 7zip work perfectly with Vista due to UAC restrictions e.g. when unzipping to restricted area, like c:\progrma files rather than prompting for Admin privileges both programs hang If someone can tell me a Zip program that works well with UAC then count me in :) 915176 2007-05-02T11:39:33Z 966 2009-11-27T22:17:38Z IZArc 735 2009-08-29T18:09:56Z http://www.izarc.org/ http://wakoopa.com/software/izarc http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/019/557/normal.png?1239775836 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/019/557/thumb.png?1239775836 458 IZSoftware http://wakoopa.com/developers/izsoftware Managing your files 58 File Management http://wakoopa.com/categories/utilities/file-management win IZArc is a freeware file archiver for Microsoft Windows. This software handles a wide variety of archive formats, including some of the commonly used ones like zip, rar, gzip, bzip2, and 7z. 2009-01-23T05:55:12Z 37846 0 This app is free and runs on the Air (Adobe) platform It provides a much better interface for the Twitter platform than the native Twitter webpage. Features include: * Grouping of contacts & their messages Groups can include Favs, New, All & Direct messages as well as custom groups of friends you select * Multiple columns - 1 column per group * Interface is customizable with colour and what groups/columns are shown * Updates regularly but keeps within the Twitter posting limits to remain functional * Minimise to tray and has a small notification on screen for a new message * Ability to Retweet, Reply or Fav a tweet with one click * Mark all tweets as read &/or clear read tweets Only downside for performance is resource usage - it's eating 97,000kb on my Vista Laptop - That's more than iTunes! - and it doesn't reduce when minimized If it doesn't slow your PC too much then I definitely recommend trying it out :) 212195780 2008-07-04T21:54:26Z 127332 2017-09-17T01:48:18Z TweetDeck 6536 2009-11-23T19:34:09Z http://www.tweetdeck.com http://wakoopa.com/software/tweetdeck http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/155/842/normal.png?1255649469 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/155/842/thumb.png?1255649469 30732 Iain Dodsworth and Alison Dodsworth http://wakoopa.com/developers/iain-dodsworth-and-alison-dodsworth Applications that let you interact with your content on websites 11 Desktop clients http://wakoopa.com/categories/internet/desktop-clients mac win linux TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in public beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information (i.e twitter feeds), and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces. TweetDeck enables users to split their main feed (All Tweets) into topic or group specific columns allowing a broader overview of tweets. To do this All Tweets are saved to a local database. The far left column will always contain All Tweets. The GROUP, SEARCH and REPLIES buttons then allow the user to make up additional columns populated from the database. Once created these additional columns will automatically update allowing the user to keep track of a twitter threads far easier.