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Stepping Out of Liquid Surf: Liquid Surf does a neat job of resizing text in Internet Explorer, and its window-splitting functions help power surfers work all the faster. But when my IE toolbar space reached critical mass, the smaller, less powerful (and free) EasyRead won my vote.Liquid Surf has a free 30-day trial, and costs $20 to keep.
Hey PC, What's for Dinner?No question, BigOven does a great job of finding, posting, organizing, and rating recipes--not to mention making shopping lists. That said, it's been more of a planning tool than an every-night helper; checking the cupboards is faster.Free 30-day trial, $30 to keep.
Slim Chances:It's hard to imagine a better food journaling tool than DietPower . This app gives you the calories and nutritional breakdown for everything you eat and can tells you how many calories you've burned in a given day. As with many health tools and computer programs, most problems come down to user error--in my case, a reluctance to fess up to all that mindless munching. Perhaps this New Year will bring me more resolve.Free 15-day trial, $50 to keep.
It's not a lot of fun to be the first person at a party, but it's great when the gang's all there. Here are some programs that work beautifully, provided you have the requisite number to tango.
I Meem, But Do You? Imeem --an Internet-based communication service--boasts a nice-looking, easy-to-use interface that makes it simple to share photos and keep track of various conversation threads with friends and/or strangers. Admirably granular privacy controls and peer-to-peer connections keep it safe. Trouble is, I just don't find enough fresh content on my favorite topics to justify frequent visits. It's worth swinging by Imeem now and then, but it'll be more worthwhile when I know more folks in the neighborhood.Free.
Can You See Me Now?Instant messaging apps are piling on video and voice features, but I haven't seen that magic combination of great lip sync and simple controls anywhere outside of SightSpeed . But while sending video e-mail is easy, getting friends and family to install a Webcam and some software for live conversation hasn't been--so far. Now that SightSpeed ships with Creative Webcams, however, maybe that'll change.Free.
Pleased to Meet With You: Raindance Meeting Edition proves itself with a great set of presentation features for meetings from a handful of participants to groups of up to 125. Perhaps the new version coming out in late January 2006 will garner new users as well.
On January 20, the free version of the Raindance Meeting Edition service will transition to a ten-meeting trial. If you want to give RME 11 run-throughs before deciding to buy, now's your chance.Express Pack of unlimited one-on-one meetings, $19.99/month. Full version, $100/month per reassignable seat, plus $.25/minute voice conferencing.
