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Public Safety Group, Inc.
Cayere & Cayere CPAs
EP Women
Occoquan River Studio
Zeiders Enterprises, Inc.

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  • Anti-Spam
    • K9 - K9 uses intelligent statistical analysis to learn to recognize what you consider to be spam. We use this program and highly recommend it.
    • MailWasher® Pro - A nice program that is easy to use and fairly effective. We used this before K9. Mailwasher 5 has revised learning features which help it recognize spam.
  • Database Repair
    • Microsoft Access
      • Ontrack EasyRecovery FileRepair - Highly recommended! We have tested this program on Access databases that we were unable to repair any other way and brought them back. It’s not perfect, but it is by far the best method we've tried and you can purchase the software and do it yourself.
  • Encryption
    • TrueCrypt - Open-source on-the-fly encryption software for Windows XP/2000/2003.
  • File Compression
    • FreeZip - FreeZip is a small, fast and efficient Zip utility for compression and decompression of files and directories.
    • PkWare - Home of PkZip and PkZip for Windows.
    • RARLAB - Home of WinRAR and RAR archivers. WinRAR is sweet with small archives and a self-extractor that adds very little size! Highly recommended.
  • Graphics and Desktop Publishing
    • Adobe - Home of PageMaker, FrameMaker, InDesign and Acrobat and now Dreamweaver, Flash and Shockwave
    • Corel Corporation - Home of CorelDraw!, Ventura Publisher, and the new home of Painter
    • Digital Workshop - Home of Illuminatus Opus, an extremely powerful, yet intuitive, multimedia development tool. It simply leaves the others in its dust.
    • Equilibrium - Home of DeBabelizer. Awesome graphics and palette optimization.
    • Hash, Inc. - Home of Animation:Master. You may not have heard of Animation:Master, but you should check it out. You won't find better bang for the buck.
    • A:M Films - Have a look at some fantastic animation created with Animation:Master
    • Microangelo™ - The "Grand-Daddy" of icon software.
    • Quark Incorporated - Home of QuarkXPress
  • Music, Sound and Video
    • Adobe - Home of Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro)
    • Cakewalk - Home of Sonar and Project 5
    • RBF Software - Home of Med Sound Studio
    • Sony - Home of Acid Pro, Sound Forge and Vegas (all formerly from Sonic Foundry)
  • Must Have Utilities
    • Acronis - Home of Acronis True Image. An excellent way to backup your system. It also has a cool disk cloning feature that makes upgrading your hard drive a snap.
    • CCleaner
    • CROA - Clear Read-Only Attributes
    • DeliPlayer - DeliPlayer is a multi format, free audio player. This is fast becoming our new favorite.
    • Disable/Remove Windows Messenger
    • Disk State - From GeekCorp/Raxco. This valuable utility shows you the size of the folders on your drives, helps you delete duplicate files and cleanup temporary/unnecessary file. We use this to keep our computers clean and smooth.
    • Driver Cleaner - Helps you to remove parts of drivers that are left on your system after uninstalling.
    • Gibson Research Corporation - Home of the Spinrite Hard Drive Utility (the BEST) and the ChromaZone Screen Saver (the COOLEST). You'll also find some interesting security and computing information here.
    • Kookaburra Software - Home of Cookie Pal and 'Net Pal. We use Cookie Pal to take control of those cookies!
    • Magical Jelly Bean Software - Home of Keyfinder, a freeware utility that retrieves the Windows and MS Office Product Keys (cd keys used during installation) from your registry.
    • MetaProducts Corporation - Home of Mass Downloader (we use it AND it doesn't spy on you!) and some other small, cool utilities.
    • Microsoft PowerToys
    • Nullsoft WINAMP - Music player with many plugins for different music file types. Version 5 is excellent and uses old-style plug-ins.
    • Petges.com - Home of Attribute Changer. This utility allows you to change date/time stamps and other file attributes on groups of files. Very nice.
    • Power Quest Corporation - Home of PartitionMagic. You may be Wasting some of your Storage Capacity, Optimize those Hard Drive Partitions!
    • RAXCO Software - Home of the PerfectDisk defragmentation utility. This program is part of our regular system maintenance.
    • Removal Tool to Fix .NET Framework Install Failures
    • ShellExView - Displays the details of shell extensions installed on your computer. It also allows you to disable/enable each shell extension.
    • Startup Control Panel - A nice program that allow you to configure that programs that automatically start with Windows.
    • ToniArts - Home of EasyCleaner and many other cool programs. EasyCleaner is highly recommended.
    • Unlocker - Allows you to delete Windows XP files and folders when you get that annoying "cannot delete: in use by another person or program" message.
    • V-Com - Home of Partition Commander, System Commander and the new home of SystemSuite.

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