Soft Gadgets
Lacuna Launcher is a soft gadget that gives you the possibility to launch many programs from a single shortcut. If you are a business person or a colleague student you need to launch multiple programs and you need them to do your work. If you don’t want to search from the programs you want in the star menu every time you need them, you can try this application.
Lacuna Launcher allows you to make a text file, you can make it in Work, Notepad other text editor program, where you have to list the programs you want to start from the single shortcut. You have to type them one per line and the first one you typed is the fist one that is going to be launched. Then you have to create a shortcut of the Lacuna Launcher application and rename it as the text file you created. After you did this, all your programs will launch from a single shortcut, but you need to know that launching many programs for computer will slow down.
Lacuna Launcher gives you the possibility to make a waiting period between the programs which means that the software will wait for a number of seconds before launching the next program. The application is free and it works with Microsoft Windows XP and Vista.
The next soft gadget is the PDFCreator – this program can make and print a PDF from any windows program. This is a free PDF creation program and it works with Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. This application is very easy to use; all you have to do is to select it as a printer in a Windows program that gives you the possibility to print and when you select the print option your document will be automatically converted to a PDF file.
You also have the possibility to save the PDF file anywhere you want on your hard drive. This great application has the following features: you can also protect and encrypt for PDF files from being printed, copied or opened. You can also digitally sign the PDF files and you can also create EPS, PS, PCX, BMP, JPG and PNG files.
Crawler Parental Control is a free application for the parents to control their children’s computer use. This is a great application for parents who want to prevent their kids to access inappropriate sites. This is a powerful and solid parental control application, but is not easy to use because you have to make a lot of configuration options. This soft gadget allows parents to: limit what type from the installed software the kids can launch, limit the access to folders and files, control the websites the kids can access, deny the installation of you software from the Internet.
The parents can also choose when their kids can access the Internet or other programs, so they cannot surf the web when they need to do their homework. As a parent you can also hide the folders and other data that you don’t want your kids to see. This application runs on Windows XP operating system.
