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... then I looked at the Sealtest and it too was manufactured by Kraft. This puzzled me. I thought that Breyers "believed" that natural was better, so what was this about them making Sealtest, that had artificial ingredients? -- Paul Mars

AntiCapsLock

This one is first because it's for everybody. tHE ONLY TIME i USE THE cAPS lOCK KEY IS TO turn it off after I accidentally turned it on and typed a half a sentence messed up. With this program you can disable Caps Lock so that will never happen again. On my computer I set it to allow Caps Lock if I hold Alt while pressing it. This way, I have it when I want it but I never get it accidentally. You can also disable the Num Lock key (so it's always on). At $10 this is the best software buy there is.

Beyond Compare

This one saves me countless hours. In the 1970's my friend, Jim Connell, wrote a program to compare two text files. It turned out so valuable we couldn't imagine how other programmers lived without it. After some time I wrote a program to compare two directory trees. This was before the days of DOS. These were command line utilities that we kept converting as we moved to new systems. A few years ago Jim discovered Beyond Compare and kept after me until I finally tried it. It was the same order of improvement all over again. I haven't used our old programs since. I had planned to put a list of things the program is good for here but it would sound silly. Just remember this the next time you wonder what changed or why two things don't match. Download it and try it.

xmlParser

When I needed to extract about five values from each of about a thousand xml files I started looking for a parser. After downloading and installing a few and learning how to use them and finding out they worked poorly, I gave up and started writing code. The next day I was about half done when I got a response to my request for xmlParser. I downloaded it, threw out most of my code, added a few calls to xmlParser, and finished the project way ahead of schedule. This program is simple to install, understand, and use. It did my job perfectly. If you have tried others and been frustrated, don't give up. You will be pleased with this one.

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