Powerful but comparatively cheap Image Editing
Adobe PhotoshopElements.
It's got many of full blown Photoshop's features but is only $89. Blows Paint Shop Pro away, in my opinion.
Here's a comparison of it and full Photoshop.
Backup Outlook Express Folders to easily readable files
I save everything... so use Outlook Extract to keep my OE folders cleaned up
From the site:
"OutlookExtract is a tool that helps you to extract your e-mail messages and Attachments contained in Outlook and Outlook Express either as Mime (*.eml), as Mapi (*.msg) or decoded as Text or Html Files. You can also convert them to Pdf format."
I tried a bunch before buying this one. It works great.
http://www.outlookextract.japler.com/index.htm
Fed up with adverts on web pages
I have been using Admuncher for about 18 months and I no longer suffer from website adverts of any kind !
Quote:
Originally Posted by Admuncher
Ad Muncher Usage Statistics for v4.6 Build 10270
Adverts removed by Ad Muncher: 819,369
Approximate bandwidth saved: 6,401 MB
Counter started: August 19, 2004
AS you can see I have 'saved' over 6 GIG of download just by not having adverts, makes for a lovely clean surfing environment.
It quite happily works with all browsers and hardly uses any resources.
I use this with Firefox with the adblock extension, its sweeeeeeet