Utilities Roundup

Facility Master II version 6, from COMSEC, is a time scheduling system that allows organizations with extensive scheduling needs to reserve rooms, activities, resources or appointments. It permits the entry, update and retrieval of reservation information for up to 400 facilities, including equipment, resources and services. It also permits the user to schedule any special setups, services or resources at the same time as well as compute charges for a reservation.

Information: Reader Response no. 344.

Proj Clock 4, from CyberMatrix Corp., is project time tracking software application for individuals who must track time billed to different projects. It allows time to be billed by project, job code, and by client. It also allows multiple users to use the program over a network. Administrators may also setup the security option so that users can see and edit only their own time data, the company says.

Information: Reader Response no. 345.

IPCheck 2.9, from Paessler Tools, is a server uptime/downtime monitoring application. It warns Webmasters with a pop-up window; and can send messages across the network; play a sound file; issue warning e-mail; reboot the machine; and send notifications to cell phones and pagers. It also logs all results into a log file, which can be accessed at any time and displayed in a graph format, the company says. It runs under Windows 95/98/2000/ME.

Information: Reader Response no. 346.

Kill the Spams, from Atypie Software keeps users' inboxes free from unsolicited commercial e-mail, as well as attachments with viruses. It uses a custom algorithm to analyze e-mail to determine if an e-mail was sent by an individual via a bulk e-mail program. It includes a built-in Visual Basic Script detector.

Information: Reader Response no. 347.

ClickBook 2001 for Windows 2000 is a file converting application from Blue Squirrel Inc. It converts computer files into any size and type of booklet including brochures, greeting cards, planner pages, flip charts, CD covers, wallet books, and more, the company says.

Information: Reader Response no. 348.

SuperCACLS 3.0, from Trusted Systems Services Inc., is a command line utility for managing access control lists (ACL) for Windows 2000. It offers a suite of four utilities for printing, replacing and modifying the regular ACL's and Audit SACLS of both the NTFS file system and registry on local or remote hosts.

Information: Reader Response no. 349.

EZ Macros 5.0, from Fort Worth, Texas-based American Systems can record both keystrokes and mouse movements. It features both global and program-specific macros and users can schedule macros to execute at any time. It also features password protection.

Information: Reader Response no. 350.

BroadPage 3.2, from BroadPage Corp., is a multi-page browser for Windows that increases productivity by helping manage navigation and browsing of multiple Web pages, folders and files. It provides both tabbed and tiled multi-pane views which let's the user manage and arrange as many as 100 pages at a time and create new windows by grabbing and dragging window borders.

New features include docking toolbars and tab bars that can be positioned at either the top or the bottom of the main window, automatic form completion, a new link bar, integration with download managers, guide page customization, keyboard shortcuts, print preview and tab enhancements, and others.

Information: Reader Response no. 351.