If your business or your job depends too mucho on your computer, you’ll probable want to keep it update with the latest versions f your favorite software.

With Update Checker you can quickly scan your computer for installed software, check the versions and then get informed on the new software releases.

You require only 100Kb in your PC and only takes seconds to run.

The Update Checker works on any Windows PC running Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 or 98.

It requires that the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 is installed.

One of the programs I mostly use to program web pages is Dreamweaver. This is a terrific tool fordoing this job and is part of Macromedia (now Adobe) suite. The program itself it’s perhaps a expensive if your budget is low. In this case, I recommend you NVU, another great.

NVU is a complete Web Authoring System for Linux desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Nvu (which stands for “new view”) makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.

NVU includes an FTP administrator in order to publish online your works; It also comes with a WYSIWYG editor and helps you validating the code while you write it down.

The other good reason for choosing NVU is because is Open Source. Go ahead, test it!.

Do you need to create professional layouts ready for the press? The most common options for this are Illustrtator or Quark, well known programs that helps you with this issue. But, if you a starting a business with really low budget, Scribus is a very good option for this task.

Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout.

Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.
I tested Scribus and it’s really easy to use. Go ahead, test it yourself…

Many times I was asked about an online application that let us create business presentations. I just find PrezentIt, a community where someone can create (by himself of in group), share and show business presentations.

This endeavor, created in Peru, allows users to create up to 30 presentations and store up to 30 MB of images.
 
Ah, by the way, PrezentIt is totally free. You only need to register. Nice tool, but, IMO, needs to make some extra improvements and increase the storage per user.

No doubt, Avant is the browser I mostly like. Even if uses the MS Internet Explorer engine, Avant Browser has many features that historically other browser didn’t have (in the last version some of these features were added to them). I’ve been using this browser for many years, since its first version, and I feel frustrated when I have to browse in a PC without this fantastic tool.

Avant Browser was one of the first in implement the tabs navigation, maintaining only one program window in the task bar, but with many tabs in it (one foe each opened webpage).  Another great feature is the Alias one: You can set shortcut keys for those WebPages that you frequently visit. For instance, I type gg and automatically opens Google… and have more than 50 other alias. It’s fantastic.
 
You can discover many other features that Avant Browser have (and other brosers will include in their future version), just visiting http://www.avantbrowser.com/