ByteWedge Professional   
http://www.fogsoft.com?adv=subm

There are many scientific, engineering, medical devices and instruments that use the RS-232 (serial port) interface to send data to a computer for further logging and analyzing. It works well when you can plug your device into your computer with a serial data cable. But, what if you need to gather information from remote devices that cannot be plugged into your PC directly? Even having a device located in the next room can became a real problem. Needless to say, that it is a BIG problem if you need to obtain data from a mobile instrument used to make measurements in different locations in your city or even in a wider area. This is where ByteWedge Professional can help. In addition to the normal RS-232 data processing operations, the program also allows you to transfer data from remote devices across TCP/IP networks. Just plug a device into a laptop connected to your local network or to the Internet and receive data on your server as if it were directly connected to the server's serial port. You can easily process data from multiple devices on the same server saving the results into the same database. Sometimes you cannot get your laptop connected to a network. ByteWedge can help you in this case too. ByteWedge comes with a freeware utility called Serial-File. This allows you to save data from a device to your laptop disk. The server where your copy of ByteWedge professional is installed, will be able to read data from this file as if it were a serial port. ByteWedge Professional includes a vast range of tools to process data from various devices. You can parse data on-the-fly, apply filters and load the results into databases or other applications. The program supports ODBC, OLE, DDE and other data interchange protocols. The program allows you to receive data from up to 255 local or remote devices simultaneously.

Antechinus Photo Magic   
http://www.c-point.com

Photo Magic is an image editing tool that is great for: * Musical slide shows. Select and organize images and music files to create standalone slide shows or for viewing in Photo Magic. Also, with one click you can create a slideshow of all the images in one folder, with or without sub-folders. * Image effects. There are over 20 filters and effects with preview, allowing you to quickly create drop shadows, buttons, embossed images, mosaic, blended images... * Screen and resource capturing. Capture anything of any shape you see on screen, manually or automatically, or capture images, icons, and cursors embedded into executables (.exe) and dynamic libraries (.dll). Supports precision polygon and freehand capturing with zoom preview. You can also capture output from TWAIN-compatible devices such as scanners and digital cameras. * Batch processing. In a single go you can process a set of images to change their size, color resolution, and file format.

EdTech MASSGraphics   
http://www.edtech-corp.com

EdTech MASSGraphics is intended for simultaneous processing of images in great numbers. It boasts a wide variety of image editing tools including resizing, rotation, cropping, adding watermarks and captions, that can be performed on multiple files. Also, MASSGraphics allows you to convert any number of images from more then 10 image formats and organize them in HTML galleries. Key features: + Easy interface. There is no scripting language, MASSGraphics is user-friendly and you will find that most of its features are logically grouped into multiple wizard-like pages. If you do not require a certain feature, just leave the default value in a parameter and it will suit for your needs most likely. + Excellent processing speed. MASSGraphics can process even hundred images per minute. + Automated creation of HTML galleries. This feature allows you to share your images by posting them at Internet. You do not need to understand HTML to use it + Saving and loading of projects. Web designers often get bogged down in repetitive tasks, such as resizing images to fit within certain constraints. Part of the power of MASSGraphics is its capability to save and load action patterns. + Windows XP and Windows.NET compatibility takes advantage of latest operating systems. MASSGraphics is an ideal application for photographers, web designers and artists.

Email2DB   
http://www.parker-software.com

Email2DB is an email parser and auto responder. It parses email messages and extracts field data to update back end databases and to send auto-response emails and SMS text messages. Email2DB is ideal for any form-based emails such as orders, payments and web site feedback forms etc. Email2DB can read emails from POP3, IMAP and Exchange Servers plus directly from Microsoft Outlook 2003 folders. It also has a built-in mail server allowing emails to be sent directly to it. Email2DB can update any data source available on your PC, including: SQL Server, MySQL, Access plus any ODBC compliant database. Email2DB can also run additional actions in response to emails including: - Run custom reports and save reports to PDF, HTML, RTF, TIF and Excel files. - Save attachments to specific folders. - Send multiple custom emails to any addresses extracted from the original. - Send multiple custom SMS text messages. - Send scheduled email follow up messages on pre-defined dates in the future. - Update Outlook 2003 Contact records. - Post data to a web page. - Run custom actions using the built-in Visual Basic compatible scripting language. The Email2DB Server runs as a service on your PC and does not interfere with the normal email flow.

TEXTools   
http://www.fireflysoftware.com

While the other guys are still declaring variables, get the job done with TEXTools -- the powerful, pipe-based text processing workbench for Windows that allows you to morph text into other forms by simply combining filters. Do things to text like you've never done before with a minimal number of lines of code. Easier to develop, maintain and debug than traditional code, pipes are the ultimate solution to those everyday text editing problems. TEXTools' streamlined user interface seamlessly integrates 69 text translation filters, giving you the power to easily accomplish the most challenging editing tasks. Search and replace text in web pages, convert between CSV, comma-delimited, tab-delimited and fixed-width files, extract logfile data, manipulate XML data, convert between PC, Mac and Unix text files, edit mailing lists, extract email addresses, maintain lists of keywords, format source code, automate interactive processes -- all this and more by simply combining filters! Filters can do things like change text case, sort lines, remove duplicates, output unique lines, truncate lines, pad lines to a given width, trim spaces from lines, justify text, add or remove lines or columns, reorder columns, join or split lines, perform base conversions, total columns of numbers, perform math operations on numeric data, count lines, add line numbers, etc. You can even extend TEXTools by creating your own user-defined filters (UDFs) from 32-bit console executables, VBScripts, JScripts and by combining other TEXTools filters! Filters fully support regular expressions and they can either operate on the entire input text or be limited to just isolated blocks of text. TEXTools can be invoked from batch files using TEXTools Command Line (TCL), or automated from languages such as VBScript, JScript, Perl, Python, Visual Basic, Delphi, C++, etc. Why write code to process text when you can "pipe" it?