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HelpMaker from Vizacc - A Help Authoring Gem!

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I recently needed to write a simple help file for an application I had developed and spent some time looking for an affordable help authoring solution. After trying a few demos of commercial software I stumbled across this superb piece of freeware called HelpMaker from Vizacc.

http://www.vizacc.com/

As well as the text editing application it comes with a range of other tools such as a button maker, pdf creator and so on.

It is so good, I cannot believe it is free and thought I must share this with you all. Appologies if this is old news and everyone already knows about it.

I just played with it briefly and it looks like an incredible tool.
It's not going to replace Help+Manual for me, but that's an expensive tool and this is completely free, which is hard to believe.

My only problem was it was erroring for me when trying to produce PDF files.  If they can get the PDF file generation to work and work well, this is going to be the must have free/low-cost help maker.  Outstanding !
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September 2007 Software Discounts and Giveaways

September 2007 Discounts and Giveaways

Supporting Members, you've got until September 15th to enter this month's Free Shareware Giveaway.  The Discounts run until at least September 30.

This Month's Special Discounts and Giveaways:

* - These programs/subscriptions are included in this month's giveaway

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Mr Uptime - a Firefox add-on

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Mr Uptime is an extension that will come in handy when you encounter a website that is not accessible.. Just add that website to this extension's list and it will keep trying to reach that website in the background and notifies when the website is accessible again. :)

• http://mruptime.pingdom.com/


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Adblock Plus: the nuclear plug-in (nice blog post)

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Interesting article and blog essay on Adblock Plus, a FireFox plugin to remove ads from web pages.

Adblock Plus: the nuclear plug-in
Adblock Plus, the Firefox browser plug-in that erases advertisements from web pages, is a killer of a killer app - or at least it would be if it became widely popular. Right now, it sits like a coyote at the edge of the net, quietly eyeing all the businesses it would happily devour.

The plug-in, writes Noam Cohen in today's New York Times, has the potential to be an "extreme menace to the online-advertising business model. After an installation that takes but a minute or two, Adblock usually makes all commercial communication disappear. No flashing whack-a-mole banners. No Google ads based on the search terms you have entered. From that perspective, the program is an unwelcome arrival after years of worry that there might never be an online advertising business model to support the expense of creating entertainment programming or journalism, or sophisticated search engines, for that matter."

Adblock Plus: http://adblockplus.org/
NY Time Article: http://www.nytimes.c...chnology/03link.html
Blog Essay: http://www.roughtype.../adblock_plus_th.php

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Fate by Numbers - sci-fi noir adventure game

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Fate by Numbers is a FMV adventure game, developed by a group of students from the Netherlands as their graduation project.

You assume the role of Alice Sanger, private eye, whose assignment quickly turns into a mysterious journey through the layers of a future metropolis influenced by the style of noir movies from the 1950s. Available for download in DVD image format as a big (1.2gb) and small (0.8gb) versions.

Fate by Numbers


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Switcher2: Expose Clone (Window Arranger) for Windows

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Cybernetnews heaps praise on this window-switching/arranging tool for windows.

There is no doubt in my mind that Switcher is the best Exposé clone ever made for Windows, and only Vista users get to bask in the features that this free program has to offer. Switcher 2 Beta has just raised the bar several notches by adding features Apple’s own Exposé doesn’t even have!

Among many other things the new Switcher has tremendously improved the smoothness of its animation.

http://cybernetnews....or-windows/#comments

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