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Needless to say, Amazon.com was there - bagging awards for commerce and technology, while Internet Movie Database won the best film site award for the third year in a row. IMDB was also chosen as the people's choice in the People's Voice Awards, chosen by more than 100,000 individual Internet users who registered to vote at The Webby Awards site. The main awards were decided by a panel of 220 judges including David Bowie, Francis Ford Coppola, Gillian Anderson, and Dilbert creator Scott Adams.
The other winners are as follows:
- Finance: The Motley Fool
- Humour: The Onion
- News: CNN Interactive
- Community: SeniorNet
- Games: Gamers Central
- Music: Sonic Net
- Weird: Superbad.com
For the complete set of nominees and winners log on to the Webby
Awards website
for an easy to use bookmark file of the 110 best
sites of the year. The site also has archives of the webcast so
that you can catch up with what you missed - bandwidth permitting
of course!
To help you get rid of those end-of-the-month blues, here are
some freebies for you to download and enjoy:
All-Purpose Spell Checker is a program that can check the
spelling of almost any document in Windows. The only shortcoming
is that this free version does not support custom dictionaries
(it won't recognise most Indian names for example) and it thinks
American English is the right English - not our Queen's English!
Little Memo Pad: Remember all those times when you're working
on your computer and think of something you just have to jot down
somewhere but can't find a scrap of paper to use? Well, Little
Memo Pad is an electronic version of our Post-It pads, so it's
just a click away…
You know that your computer keeps track of what you're doing -
which documents you've opened and read / seen etc. A quick look
at the Documents in the Start menu lets out all those details.
If, for some reason, you'd rather not allow your computer to keep
tabs on those files, try using DocLimit - a simple Windows
95/98 applet that keeps your recent documents list down to a size
that you specify - even zero. DocLimit resides on the system tray
while active.
Taskbar Clock Enhancement (TClockEx) is a download suggested
by reader Aalaap and is a significant enhancement over the standard
time display that Windows offers you. TClockEx not only changes
the boring look and feel of the clock in your system tray, but
it also puts a proper calendar at your fingertips. You can not
only customise the font and colour of the display, but also what
gets displayed and in what format - so instead of seeing just
the time, you can have the date, day, etc. Click here for webpage
Last, but not the least is one very handy program called WinTime
- a utility, which runs from your system tray, and puts a host
of features just a mouse click away. For starters, you can keep
track of how much time has elapsed since you last booted up, or
you can activate your screen saver the way you decide. Besides
that you can selectively close windows, quickly launch programs
you use most often, create hot keys, create customisable desktop
notes with a click, clear your desktop (and hide all those icons
cluttering it up). And if you don't want people messing with your
computer, hide the Start button and the task bar too! Chances
are you'll wonder how you managed without it for so long… Click here for webpage.
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