Tired of spam? Of course you are! Our recommendation for stopping spam in its tracks: MailWasher.

This is a freeware application with over 5 million downloads over its lifetime to attest to its usefulness. Features include:

• Ability to delete unwanted emails before you download the entire message.
• Blacklist – Automatically bounce back and delete blacklisted emails. Block entire domains.
• Friends List – Build you own custom friends list so that their emails always come through.
• Preview questionable emails before downloading the entire message.
• Custom Filters – Setup your own customer blocking filters and blacklists.
• Speed – MailWasher can download up to 25 message headers per second.
• Simple – This is an easy to use application. Very similar to Outlook Express in appearance.

Installation and setup is a snap. It’s much like your current email application, just without the spam. Just create your accounts and enter your mail server information (eg. pop/smtp server, username, password) and you are off and running.

Also See:
SpamBully

WordPress is the most popular blogging engine on earth.

It is a powerful and extremely flexible open-source platform and is the basis of thousands of blogs. But WordPress was developed for Linux, and uses the PHP language and the MySQL database, which aren’t native to Windows. So some people mistakenly believe WordPress cannot run on Windows or that getting it to run is difficult.

But nothing could be further from the truth. Microsoft actually provides an convenient and easy-to-understand installation package for WordPress which installs a PHP interpreter and the MySQL database package right along with it. Best of all, it’s all free!

To install WordPress on either a Windows desktop version or Windows Server, you must use the Windows Platform Installer, found here: microsoft.com/web/wordpress/. The installation is surprisingly easy. Just follow the simple instructions and you will be blogging like a pro before you know it.

Our pick for the best anti-virus & anti-spyware program currently available is Microsoft AntiSpyware.

The team at Redmond have really come up with a winner with this application. With a continually updated database (which is download automatically to your PC) of viruses and spyware we have found that Microsoft AntiSpyware has been able to detect and actually remove many malicious programs that other spyware removers could not handle.

In addition to being able to detect, block, and remove spyware this application comes with many other useful features. It features 3 real time security agents which continually monitor your Internet connection, your system settings, and your applications for any attempts to subvert your preferred settings.

Finally, you are also afforded a set of advanced tools which despite the name and incredible handy and easy to use. First you have your System Explorer which allows you to change many of the hard-to-find features of your PC. Second you have your Browser Restore. This one can be particularly handy when you find that your browser is not setup the way you like it. Finally, the Tracks Eraser which is a robust privacy tool that can remove all Internet History logs from your web browsing history as well as 50 other activity trails. It can even clean up trails from many other popular software applications such as your Instant Messaging software and media players.

Microsoft AntiSpyware really is your one stop application for PC Security and best of all, it’s free!

Other applications of interest include:

• Spybot
• Ad Aware
• Zone Alarm

LibreOffice, The Document Foundation’s new office suite, is a great choice for anyone that wants all of the functionality of Microsoft Office without the expensive price tag.

The office suite is an open source fork of OpenOffice.org that was created in 2010 in the aftermath of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

LibreOffice is a very fast install, and it has many improved features from its origins in OpenOffice.org. It supports the .Docx format which has become popular since Microsoft’s introduction of Office 2010, and it can also handle SVG graphics and a million rows of data in its spreadsheet application Calc.

With LibreOffice, it’s easy to open up the word processor and type away with the majority of features that Word has. However, the one downside is that it’s still not completely bug-free and it has the tendency to crash occasionally. But rest assured, that is only a minor annoyance because it does have autosave.

In the end, the pros outweigh the cons and the price is impossible to beat. It is hands down the best free office suite currently available and worth a try for anyone tired of paying hundreds of dollars for office software.

Cougar Mountain Software, a U.S. based accounting software company (based in Boise, ID), has recently introduced their latest product: Denali 3.0.

With this most recent release of the company’s accounting package, you will find many of the modules you are familiar with in their Denali line, which includes everything from Accounts Payable and Receivable to Purchase Order and Sales. In addition to the classic package, you will find a new, more streamlined interface. Similar to Microsoft Outlook in overall design, the navigation pane in each module presents users with an easier way to find and carry out their most commonly performed tasks. To stay loyal to veteran users, Denali has an option that allows users to work in the old interface, if desired. The product is easy to use and complete for small to medium sized businesses. The documentation is thorough, and provides new and old users alike with an easy way to familiarize themselves with the nuances of the software. Overall, this product is a great accounting solution that can compete with Sage and Peachtree as a leading accounting package for modestly sized industries.

With all of the Trojan viruses and spyware that are on the internet, it is mandatory to always have an active antivirus installed onto the computer. Many of the antivirus programs that are found on the market can be a burden on a computer system. Many of them slow down the computer while they run. AVG Antivirus is not one of those programs.

AVG can be found for free across the internet, but to get the most out of the software, it is important to purchase full protection. The small fee that is required to protect the computer is small in comparison to replacing the whole system.

With the free version of AVG being more effective than many paid software’s, it is fair to say that the paid version will only improve on the free version. With the full protection of AVG, a user will receive full antivirus and antispyware capabilities with the added feature of link scanner and e-mail scanner.

With the link scanner, a user will know for sure whether the link they are about to click is secure and will not provide any problems for them. Overall, AVG Antivirus is a very effective protection system and does its job faster and more efficient than many other programs on the market.