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http://www.irfanview.com/

Irfanview is a free image editor for Windows. It allows you to convert from many formats, and allows you to crop, resize, change the brightness, cropping, etc. of your images. Its very easy to use, and its free!!

Many people new to scanners and digital cameras discover that both of these can make HUGE files. Irfanview can reduce these huge files to a more managable size, so that they can be emailed and uploaded, all without reducing quality.

Also with a scanner, many people forget to "crop" or remove the white part that borders the picture. With Irfanview, you just drag & drop a rectangle, and select "Edit" then "Crop Selection".

http://www.lavasoftusa.com

Unless you have some type of ad-ware or spy-ware removal software, I would be willing to bet money that your computer is already infected with some type of program that you are not aware of.

"Ad-ware" and "spy-ware" are hidden programs that are installed covertly on your computer. It is like a virus in that deceptively gets installed on your computer, by simply clicking on a particular web site.

What some of these ad-ware programs do is to monitor your surfing activities, and if you are searching for "Flowers", in the background, their software kicks in and redirects your web browser to the "Flower" website that THEY want you to see, which happens to be the one that pays this ad-ware company lots of money.

Spy-ware is worse... it watches for your personal information.

The personal edition of Lavasoft is free.

http://www.cloudmark.com

If you use Outlook or Outlook Express, this is by far, the BEST spam fighting system there is that I've ever found, bar none.

The traditional spam blocking software programs looks for key words like "Mortgage". Well, the spamers find a million ways to mis-spell (ie. M0rtgage, m.o.r.t.g.a.g.e., etc...) so its impossible for these traditional spam blockers to keep up with these sophisticated spammers.

Instead of this approach, Cloudmark's uses the power of many thousands of users help identify the spam.

I tried it starting in November 2004. My spam instantly went from about 50 to 100 spam email messages per day, down to maybe 1 or 2 per week !! On those 1 or 2 per week spam messages that get through, I click on "Block" and it automatically moves the spam to my "Spam" folder, and it transmits that spam email to the Cloudmark server, so that the other thousands of users don't receive that same spam.

It is a subscription service... $3.99 per month, with a 1 month free trial. Its less if you pay by the year. Its worth every penny in saved time and frustration.