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WebLog Expert Lite 3.6
Pawn is one
of the very best free chess games that you can have without graphics galore or
eye-candy. This is a simple, classic board game at its best. Pawn is a
single-player-versus-CPU game. A few customisation options allow you to change
board and piece colours. The AI in pawn has been designed to attract beginners
and is perhaps not best suited for advanced chess players. However, according to
the author, Pawn’s engine uses brute force algorithms with hash tables and a
selective approach that even average players will find challenging. Pawn’s
simple graphics make it compatible with legacy systems. Pawn is available in two
versions for download: the latest version (2.86) is available in both English
and German with a fixed window size, or an older version (1.76) with resizeable
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Unlike new
media players that bundle in some kind of ripping software or limited conversion
ability, Xilisoft Audio Converter can convert many different file formats such
as MP3, WAV, WMA, MP4, M4A, MP2, VQF, APE, OGG, AAC and FLAC. This nifty little
program can also extract audio from video files to be saved separately.
Furthermore, you can choose the conversion bitrate along with the desired
format. As a result, you can use lower bitrates to get smaller file sizes for
playback on your Flash drive or use the highest bitrate for optimal sound
quality. You can carry out batch conversions and the program supports
Hyper-Threading on Pentium 4 machines for fast encoding or decoding. The free
trial version has certain features disabled. 
RSS feeds make it simple to catch all the headlines
and reviews from your favourite websites and deliver them to an RSS aggregator
such as SharpReader. This program acts as a one-point stop for all your news or
blog browsing. Websites added are displayed in a panel on the left and clicking
on an item will display the respective feeds received from the site. The feed
abstracts describe in brief any new posts on a site and you can click on the
hyperlink to open the webpage and read the full story. SharpReader also supports
Atom and other feed formats. A system tray pop-up indicates newly received feeds
and SharpReader even supports third-party plugins.
What every webmaster needs are statistics about his website. These are generally
helpful in pinpointing errors, popular pages, file downloads, visits, broken
links, bandwidth and all sorts of data for monitoring the site and improving it
as required. WebLog Expert (WLE) analyses Web server logs and generates detailed
HTML reports in the form of tables and charts. WLE can also report which kinds
of browsers and user operating systems access the site as well as which search
engines direct traffic there, all of which can be used to fine-tune the site and
make it more secure. WLE can analyse compressed logs and supports both Apache
and IIS. The software is easy to use but the ‘lite’ version requires you to
download the weblogs on to your system from the Web server for WLE to analyse
them.
WordWeb is a
thesaurus and dictionary suite that contains more than 140,000 words and 115,000
synonyms that can be used for everyday lookups either at home or in your office.
Additionally, WordWeb contains many proper noun definitions, pronunciations and
can look up words from within many programs. 
Many people
believe once you empty the Recycle Bin, your documents are lost forever. But
this is not the case as Windows merely deletes the entries from the file
allocation table and points to it as free space. Until the file is not
overwritten, these data can be retrieved using free file recovery software,
compromising confidential or private data. What can be done about this? Simple
File Shredder (SFS) implements irrecoverable data deletion. Once installed,
right-click and delete files or folders using SFS and you can be sure that
they’re gone for good. SFS and similar programs do this by randomly overwriting
the hard disk area where the data was located, therefore destroying all record
of it. The program also shreds temporary files, history and cookies saved by
most Web browsers. A must have application for all users.
