Picture2Email   
http://www.troegersoft.de

Picture2Email is a program which helps you to illustrate your emails. Now you can insert Pictures into your email with just two mouseclicks. In the freeware version there are 150 Pictures which can be transferred to your running email program. An upgrade to the pro version increases the number of pictures to 1000 and the possibility to link your own pictures into the program is unlooked. At the moment Picture2Email supports the following email programs : Incredimail, Netscape Mail and Outlook Express.

VentaFax & Voice   
http://www.ventafax.com

VentaFax is a full-featured fax and answering machine software with color fax support. It sends and receives faxes and turns your PC with a fax modem into a versatile answering machine with remote control and email integration. You can retrieve your fax and voice messages from any touchtone phone and also have your email messages and faxes forwarded to you as email attachments (in the Business versions). VentaFax also supports Caller ID (if available) and allows you to record a telephone conversation in one click. The user interface is friendly and intuitive, resembling a regular fax machine with buttons and controls. It even shows you the image of a fax page travelling through this fax machine's slot as you transmit and receive faxes. Ventafax is the one of a handful of software products that supports high-speed (up to 33600 bps) V34 Fax (Super G3) protocol. Ventafax also supports the TTS (Text-To-Speech) engines and will employ them to convert text files to speech. You can keep your announcements and outgoing voice messages as the sound (.WAV) files as well as the text files. Distinctive Ring service (if supported by your modem) is available even in Windows XP! Additional features include support for voice mailboxes, automatic voice/data/fax mode recognition and more. VentaFax is accessible from any Windows application, via a virtual printer driver. Need unlimited automated message delivery? Need mass fax and voice mails broadcasting? Find this and even more in VentaFax Business version. The Ventafax Business version expands the Home version's functionality with fax and voice messages broadcasting. You can automatically send a fax or voice message to as many destinations as you need. Need more? Multiline Business versions do their job using 2, 4 (up to 32) fax modems simultaneously. The best choice for the SOHO (small office / home office) user.

Virtual Painter   
http://www.virtualpainter5.com

Turn your favorite digital photos into realistic looking paintings such as watercolor, oil painting, etc. with a few simple mouse clicks! No difficult setup is required. Your photos are turned into paintings in front of your eyes in a few seconds. Virtual Painter 5 could not be any easier to use. All you need to do is to open a digital photo, select one of the 16 painting styles, then click OK to let the application do the work for you. There are three versions of Virtual Painter 5, Standalone, Plug-In and Deluxe version. The Standalone version of Virtual Painter 5 runs by itself. It does not require any other applications. You can start enjoying the world of Virtual Painter once it is successfully installed with your computer. The Standalone version would be a great choice for most PC users. The Plug-In version of Virtual Painter 5 runs as a "plug-in" to popular graphic applications such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop™ Pro®, etc. The Deluxe version of Virtual Painter 5 is a package which includes both the Standalone and the Plug-In version of Virtual Painter 5. This is a complete package for advanced graphic users who want to take full advantage of the program. Virtual Painter 5 is not a painting tool that you must master to create your own works of art. Rather, the filters it offers are like agents, virtual artists who have their own characteristic techniques and methods. You can preview their art and even request a few changes, but you can leave the hard work to them. Sit back and watch them paint. You are sure to be pleasantly surprised, time after time. Happy virtual painting!

A.I.Studio WatzNew   
http://a-i-studio.com

Personal web portal software that keeps you informed of web site updates, forum postings, incoming mail in POP- and web-based mailboxes, software releases, weather conditions, stock rates, bid prices. Define search patterns and message templates to retrieve specific portions of web pages and present them in visually appealing way. Several actions can be defined and launched for each event. Proxy support, atomic time synchronization, fully customizable multilingual user interface, integration with Perl. Create and share channels with friends or distribute a channel for you own web site to keep your customers informed of updates.

ImageForge PRO (Deutsche Version)   
http://www.cursorarts.com

German language version. See http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_imf.html for English version. Whether you want to put your company logo up as wallpaper, do something creative with those photos from your new digital camera, or create graphics for your web site, ImageForge PRO is an inexpensive, yet powerful, suite of image editing tools which will have you turning out digital art in no time. Packed with high-end features, such as support for drawing tablets and Photoshop-style plug-in filters, ImageForge PRO is simple enough for kids, but with the all the power you'll need to produce high-quality artwork. Click a second time on the basic tools in the ImageForge toolbar, and you will find variations on each. Paint with oils or watercolor brushes, create stars and polygons, smudge out wrinkles, clone between images, drag out 3D text and other objects, and much more. You can experiment with creating your own custom brushes, painting with clipart brushes, or even producing your own animations. Once you have created your images, you can generate stand-alone album "Library" programs to give to friends and family. Add special effects transitions between images, or even create slide shows with an audio background. If you prefer, you can turn your slides show into a Windows screen saver. For the budding webmaster, an Internet layer allows you to split images across HTML tables, create clickable image maps, and add special effects to images for your web pages. HTML code is automatically generated, ready for you to insert into your web documents. Supports most common web image formats: .JPG, .PNG, and .GIF (normal, transparent, animated). Other options include: conversion of groups of image files, printing multiple images per sheet of paper, adding grids to your printouts, image merging and masking tools to combine images seamlessly, scanner and other TWAIN device support, distortable text, etc. A complete digital art studio which almost anyone can afford.