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This article was written on June 30, 2007 by CyberNet.

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WireNote is a free application that’s available which will manage your to-do list, sticky notes, reminders, and lots of other things. It has an overabundance of configuration options that are almost overwhelming at first, but you’ll come to grips with them.

After I got it up and running the first thing that I wanted to try out on it was the sticky note feature. It is unique because you can attach individual sticky notes to an application, and as you can see in the screenshot below doing so is just a click away. Attaching it to a certain program means that the note will only be displayed when that window is open, and if it isn’t attached to anything it just shows up on the desktop.

One thing that I quickly noticed was that you can create a new note via a customizable hotkey or the System Tray icon. As soon as the new note window popped up it automatically inserted whatever text is on your clipboard, which is a nice touch. With that I can quickly create notes of things I find online.

If that sounds appetizing take a look at some of the other things this can do:

• ToDos: You can prioritize your ToDos, calculate an exact time you spend for each ToDo, or can view a report with what was done during last few days.
• Reminders: Reminder can start any program you want, play a sound, shutdown a computer, send a net message to other users, show ToDo or Note, or just show a small window with text.
• Messages: WireNote can be used as LAN messenger application, instead of standard Windows messaging service for example.
• Address book: Address book can hold information about other users – their nickname, computer name and additional info.
• Links: This additional feature can be used for fast reaching different documents and locations. You can create any link (to the web-site or any document from your hard disk, for example) just by dragging file from any file manager or other program and dropping it near the corresponding ToDo or note (or independent "Links" folder) in main window.

This is a lot of stuff to manage, so WireNote includes a central Organizer that keeps tabs on everything for you:

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Thanks for the tip Radu!

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This article was written on October 20, 2006 by CyberNet.

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PhraseExpress is an amazing little free program that you can download for your Windows machine. It will save you so many keystrokes that you will probably be left wondering how you survived without it! It essentially lets you customize a list of phrases that are available to choose from. Just select the phrase from the menu and it will be inserted into whatever program you’re using.

There are also a lot of ways to insert phrases that are even quicker. The one that I like the best is the keyword expander which lets you type something like “btw” and it will automatically replace it with “By the way.” Microsoft Word has a feature like that called Auto Correct but now you can use it in any application…even when your instant messaging!

Here are just some of the features this free program has:

• Phrases can be pasted in three different ways:
  • Selecting a phrase from the system tray pop-up menu
  • Entering an Autotext which is expanded to the defined replacement text
  • Entering a hotkey to trigger a phrase
• Unlimited amount of phrases and folders
• Unlimited amount of numeric variables with customizable incrementor (e.g. for order numbering or support tickets)
• Date-/time stamp with customizable format and time-shift option (details)
• Support of nested phrases (e.g. to use a common footer template phrase for all email phrases) (details)
• Automatisation of repetitive tasks via the powerful macro language (details)
• Optional statistics showing you the accurate time savings when using PhraseExpress
• Optionally deactivation of the CAPSLOCK-key
• Two text paste methods: Via the Windows clipboard or by simulating individual keystrokes

I just started using this program and is absolutely great! So go ahead and download it.

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This article was written on August 03, 2006 by CyberNet.

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I have hundreds of feeds that I follow everyday and I don’t like the slow update frequency of many online feed readers, such as Bloglines. On my journey for finding the best feed reader I came across software like FeedDemon and Flock but neither felt like it was what I wanted. I eventually came across GreatNews which is currently being offered for free because it is in Beta testing.

I love the newspaper style reading with the two-columns and it does just that! You can also customize the look using custom CSS templates or you can use one of the built-in templates. I like the default style the best but they also have a style to make it look like the Sage RSS Reader for Firefox. One of the default templates is sure to please you.

It isn’t just about the looks…we need functionality! Boy does GreatNews have that! I’m able to setup a keyword watch for articles that contain “Google” in them and it will highlight them in yellow for me. If you are a Bloglines user then you can setup GreatNews to synchronize with your account so that you have a great news reader at home but you can still read your news wherever you are. Let’s not forget about the built-in tabbed browser which makes it easy to open the links without switching between the feed reader and a browser! If you have questions about the software then check out the very active forums where you can find most of your answers. They haven’t determined how they will charge for the software when it gets released, but they are pondering the thought of having a free version and a professional version. The professional version would support things like podcasts but will cost around $30. However, there is no need to think about dollar signs now because you can test it out for free!

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