Alert+ Weather a simple to use application that adds weather alerts, current conditions, and forecast weather to your desktop. Automatically updates weather information for your area via the Internet. Places temperature, alert, and current conditions icon in your system/notification tray.

Lightning makes Thunderbird soar above Outlook for home use, and places it on nearly equal ground in the office. It includes an overhauled interface with easy-to-use buttons for jumping between email and your calendar, LDAP directory support for event invites, and Sun Java Calendar Server support.

Work on the plug-in is now handled by Mozilla as they prepare to integrate its code into Thunderbird for the big version 3 update coming later this year, but that doesn’t mean the plug-in isn’t ready for prime-time now. A menu bar for switching between mail and calendar views can live either above or below the folder tree on the left. On the right side of the main pane is a new panel for quickly viewing and managing events and tasks. Option-heavy, it can show only events, only tasks, both, or hide the pane completely, as well as make changes to and create new events and tasks.

Events are searchable at the calendar top. Just below it is a hideable pane showing upcoming events in a spreadsheet format. There are built-in presets for the next seven, 14, and 31 days, and they can be arranged by start date, end date, title, location, and calendar. Lightning supports multiple calendars, including iCal, and has bidirectional support for Google Calendar with the Provider for Google Calendar plug-in.

There is also support for Exchange servers, although for enterprise use fans of Thunderbird/Lightning will likely have to talk to their tech support teams to get the servers configured properly. That, of course, is the biggest drawback compared to Outlook. Old bugs relating to timezone management and invitation responses have been eliminated, though, making this add-on an absolute requirement for all users, both at home and in the office.

Lightning is an extension for Mozilla Thunderbird and Mozilla SeaMonkey that adds an integrated calendar. It is based on the standalone Mozilla Sunbird calendar application, and includes interoperability with Microsoft Exchange servers, Google Calendar, and other calendaring apps.

Enigmail Version 1.0

An extension for Thunderbird and SeaMonkey, Enigmail is a must-use for anybody who’s concerned about sending e-mail that can be read by anybody, including your Internet Service Provider. It’s not intended to encrypt all of your mail, although you can certainly do that. Rather, it’s best used for ensuring that even remotely sensitive e-mails don’t get read by the wrong person.

It uses the OpenPGP standard to digitally sign your e-mail, and can be configured to accommodate multiple e-mail accounts. One hang up is that it’s impossible with the current version to permanently decrypt e-mails, which can prevent them from being found by the otherwise-powerful Thunderbird search tools. Enigmail is an invaluable resource for messages containing sensitive information. An installation guide, which is essential for all but the most advanced power users, is available at the Enigmail Web site.

Enigmail adds OpenPGP message encryption and authentication to your email client. It features automatic encryption, decryption and integrated key management functionality. Enigmail requires GnuPG (www.gnupg.org) for the cryptographic functions, which is not included in the installation.

CNET Editor’s Note: The Download Now link will prompt a local download of the Firefox extension. To install the extension directly, open the file using your Firefox browser.

RPictureResize is a simple and useful utility. It provides following features with just few clicks operation: Scan folders recursively and save pictures(JPG, BMP,GIF,PNG). Resize multiple pictures with given resolution in batch mode. Save resized pictures from different folders into single one. Save resized pictures to an new folder which is under original pictures. Override resized pictures.

PageNest Free Edition offers users an opportunity to download entire Web sites to their computer. While the navigation of this program is occasionally confusing, the results are great.

The program’s interface is tangled and confusing, but ultimately not impossible to manage. Its very plain layout leads to some confusion, especially when attempting to download a site. However, if people are willing to experiment with the options, they will soon understand this program’s quirks. In addition, there is a comprehensive Help file available to walk users through most options. Once we learned how the program was to function, we were pleased with the speed and overall quality of the program. Entire sites were instantly on our hard drive and could be surfed just as if they were connected online. Users sort through the downloaded pages with a simple-to-manage tree that takes them to the page with a single click.

The program’s special features mainly revolve around customizing your download. For users who want to save space on their hard drive, limiting the pictures, graphics and Web site layers, this is an excellent tool. While this program could stand to be a bit more intuitive to operate, we were pleased with its results. Anyone interested in surfing their favorite Web sites offline will enjoy this free download.

Copy your favorite webpages to hard disk with PageNest. Give PageNest the address of a website and it will copy either the page, or the entire site (whichever you prefer) to your hard disk. It will create an exact copy of what you see in your browser including the text, html, images and css.

Use PageNest to create a ‘cache’ of pages you read regularly. Use PageNest to store copies of websites so you can read them when you are not connected. Use PageNest to archive sites before they change or disappear.

Price: Free

MAGIX Photo Manager 9

Discover a new world of free photo management and optimization. Take advantage of the countless options ranging from easy import, effective image management and practical optimization options to impressive presentations on your PC or online. Complete photo workflow made easy.

Gym Master is a health club membership system that is easy to use. Gym Master will help you look after your members, and their activities and memberships. It is designed for gyms, health clubs, recreation centers, swimming pools, clubs, churches and any organization that deals with memberships. You can control access to your facility with gates and and RFID card access. Know which members are in the gym, and make certain only paying members are using your facilities. With a complete point of sale system and booking system it is the perfect complete tool for running a health club or gym.

Version 2.7 adds more different types of membership support

Tunebite is the best solution to remove copy protection from music, audio books, and films & then convert it to one of 100 file formats. Since 2004, Tunebite has been mentioned and singled out for excellence in more computer trade publications than any other legal software solution that removes DRM copy protection. Tunebite legally removes the audio DRM copy protection from music & audio books by re-recording it at up to 54x the speed. With either the playback software or Tunebite, additional copyrighted music & audio book files can be copied by using the virtual CD-burner. Tunebite has one of a kind quality control with “PerfectAudio”, guaranteeing error-free audio output. Tunebite turns the PC into a high-performance, Video DRM converter and ensures the synchronicity of video & audio while the copyrighted video files are played back. In the process, Tunebite legally photographs, frame by frame, the replayed, copyrighted films & saves them in the desired format. Tunebite informs you of the expected output quality of the files to be converted based on the operating system and PC performance & also warns of a loss in quality before converting files on PCs with weaker performance. The quality is also inspected during conversion. After the conversion is complete, Tunebite provides tips, in the rare event that problems do arise, to avoid such problems that may occur. Lots of extras: audio recorder for recording music from web radios (e.g. Last.fm), video recorder for video portals (e.g. Youtube) & automatically finds ID3 tags, album artwork & song lyrics. Files can be played using your own player or with Winamp, Apple iTunes or Microsoft Windows Media Player. Music can be dubbed by synching cell phones, MP3 players, Apple iPods & other portable devices. There is a generator for individual cell phone ringtones. CD burning capabilities for audio CDs, audio DVDs and MP3 CD are also included.

Price: Free

WinMend Folder Hidden is an interesting security utility that can safely hide any file or folder on a Windows partition or removable device, which covers most users’ hard drives and external drives as well as flash drives, memory cards and sticks, micro devices, and anything else you can store a file on. Your files and folders stay safe and hidden even if they’re reinstalled on another computer, and they can’t be seen or accessed by other programs and operating systems. You can enable password protection for specific files and folders or whole volumes of data. WinMend claims that “safety first” was a guiding principle in developing Folder Hidden and promises it will never damage the files and folders it secures.

The program’s interface is fairly basic, just a tabbed window with directory-style list and a few simple commands, but there are some customization options, such as the ability to change the layout’s colors. One of the advantages WinMend claims for Folder Hidden is its ability to quickly hide virtually any size folder or file, up to dozens of gigabytes. It certainly performs its duty quickly and effectively, hiding folders from view and retrieving them when you enter your selected password.

There are lots of reasons to hide data, not the least of which is that it’s part of a general PC security regimen that could head off a hassle some day. WinMend Folder Hidden is freeware. It works with 64-bit versions of Windows, including Vista, so Windows 7 shouldn’t be a problem.

WinMend Folder Hidden is a file and folder hiding tool. While ensuring the absolute system safety, this application can quickly hide files and folders on local partitions or on removable devices. The hidden files or folders will be safely hidden whether the drive is accessed in another operating system on the same computer or reinstalled on another computer. You can set a password for this application. Hidden data can be displayed and unhidden only when the user enters the valid password. The data is completely invisible to other programs or on other operating systems.

Price: Free

Polyglot 3000 is automatic language identifier that can detect the language used in a text, phrase, or even a single word. The program features over 400 languages. Input text files utilize both Unicode and ANSI encodings. Polyglot 3000 features recognize more than 400 languages. It supports Unicode texts and has a nice user interface. It has quick and correct language identification. Recognize language just among popular languages with multilingual interface.

Price: Free