These programs, regardless of whether they are freeware or shareware, are the finest programs in their categories. They are programs that I use. Programs will be only presented to you if they meet the criterion of excellence AND they agree to give the Spywareinfo readers a discounted price. These programmers / companies do good work. I am hoping that you support them, as they are recognizing Spywareinfo readers with a special, time limited discount.

http://www.thinkman.com/dimension4/
Price tag: Free
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Do you really know what time it is? Do you miss the first few minutes of a show because your clock has wandered a few minutes off course? As advanced as computers have become in the last twenty years, you would think that they would be able to tell time properly. Sadly, this isn't so. Depending on the age of a small battery attached to your motherboard, the computer's clock can be running too fast or too slow.

Dimension 4 is a great time sync program that keeps your computer's clock accurate 24 hours a day without you ever having to think about it. It's free; it works in the background; it's no work for you; it's well written and has wonderful features. My buddy Noggie swears by it and talked me into using it on my computer and it hasn't caused a single problem.

http://www.spywareinfo.com/rd/notetab/
Price tag: $19.95 $14.99
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Get a 25% discount on NoteTab Pro -- NoteTab Pro is a leading-edge text editor and HTML coding tool, and an ideal Notepad replacement. Winner in the Shareware Industry Awards, the People's Choice Award, and many other top shareware industry awards, NoteTab Pro does it all.

Notetab Pro is the Swiss army knife of text editors. You can handle a virtually unlimited number of very large files with a tabbed interface, format text, use powerful system-wide searches, and do global multi-line replacements. You can even use a power-packed scripting language to create anything from a text macro to a mini-application.

Its Clipbook feature lets you create and organize clips, which can range from text macros to complete mini-applications, using a simple scripting language with enough features to satisfy any power user; a large number of very useful clip libraries are included.

This is the best text editor around in my opinion. I've built virtually my entire web site using Notetab. It has tons of features to help make building a web page quick and easy without having to open a bloated wysiwyg editor. It even has a thesaurus and spell checker (something that I am very much in need of). It also supports third-party web tools such as HTML Tidy, TopStyle, and CSE HTML Validator. You can even point it at a folder full of pictures, and it will automatically create a web page to display them.

Something that I find particularly useful is that way it allows you to color code different elements of html, CSS, and scripting. That makes it easy to determine what part of your web page you are viewing. The "match bracket" button is very useful, whether you are building a cascading style sheet or writing a script. There are literally dozens of little features that make your time in front of your computer as easy and efficient as possible.

For this week only (through April 30), Notetab Pro is available to SpywareInfo visitors for 25% off the normal price. Click here for more details

http://www.belarc.com/
Price tag: Free
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The Belarc Advisor is a wonderful tool to tell you what software and what hardware are installed on your computer. It is very detailed and is easy to read.

• It's FREE.
• It's EASY to use - just download, install and run.
• It provides a THOROUGH summary of your computer system.
• It's SAFE. No information is sent anywhere.
• It's good for Windows 95/98/Me/NT 4/2000/XP.
• It requires IE3 or Netscape 3 or above.
• It's just darn good - it's on my machine.

Did I mention that it was FREE? ;)