ANT 4 MailChecking   
http://ant4.com

ANT 4 MailChecking is an e-mail checker that lets you know when you have new email messages. It's very easy to set up and use and even includes support for spam filtering. It allows you to set up as many separate accounts as you like and checks for new messages at a regular interval of your choosing. A tiny window (optionally always-on-top) remains on your desktop, displaying the number of messages waiting for you on your server. You can hide the window, if you prefer, in favor of audio notification. ANT 4 MailChecking also allows you to set up a variety of spam filtering rules, based on sender, subject, message size and date. You can preview mails, assign custom icons, and delete them directly from the server. You can even shutdown your PC by email.

Adds for Outlook   
http://www.brigsoft.com

Adds for Outlook is a plug-in component for Microsoft Outlook. This is a collection of nice improvements. (*) You can use Outlook as an alarm clock. But if you exit it by mistake alarm will not work. Adds for Outlook allows prevent Outlook from exiting. Instead it hides Outlook and sets an Outlook icon into the systray. So Outlook is always at hand and no alarm messages will be lost. (*)The Reminder of Microsoft Outlook can play only wav-file alarms. This Outlook Add-In component allow to play as alarms any music and video files ( mp3, mpg, avi, etc. ) (*) There is a Microsoft mistake in some outlook versions: only the first copy of the running application can execute scripts and plug-ins. Adds for Outlook can prevent multiply starting of Outlook. (*) When you receive advertisement in the html format you often need to wait while images are loaded. Adds for Outlook can delete such images from letters. (*) Html scripts can be dangerous. This plug-in can also remove them. (*) It can puts / removes the Outlook Shortcut to the System Startup folder. (*) Any feature can be switched off. Adds for Outlook does not work with Outlook Express.

IconForge Icon Editing Tool Kit   
http://www.cursorarts.com

A complete graphics suite for creating, extracting, and modifying icons, cursors, animated icons or cursors and other images. Use for creating bookmark and favorites icons for your web pages, filmstrip animation sequences, stitching together panels of icons, and editing other images. A PARTIAL LISTING OF FEATURES INCLUDES: * A full set of painting tools; * Transparent and Inverse paint; * Extract icons and cursors from EXE, DLL, ICO, ANI, ICL, or CUR format files (including OS2, XP Alpha-channel icons and cursors, XBM, XPM, WBMP and Palm Datebook icon files); * Read/write most common image files (such as BMP, JPEG, GIF, PCX, TIFF, etc.); * Capture icons from the screen; * Clip and/or scale on import; * Save in icon/cursor formats, store in Library files; * Insert icons into program files (including EXE, DLL, VBX, OCX, CPL and DRV); * Special Effects filters (including User Defined and PS-style plugins); * Automatic creation of common animation effects, such as Dissolves and Fades; * Import/export animated GIF, FLC, FLI and AVI files; * Export animations as .BMP filmstrip panels; * Icon Wrapper utility allows you to wrap programs and scripts which do not contain icon resources into an executable with your own icon; * Change system icons/cursors (including animation of desktop icons); * Allows you to create and distribute icon and cursor library EXE programs, complete with installation program, image preview applet, and other options; * Can also edit photos and larger images; * Support for TWAIN scanners and cameras; * Support for pressure-sensitive Stylus and Tablet devices; * and much more...

Icon Catcher   
http://www.helexis.com

Finding necessary icon images for your shortcuts/documents is not easy task. Before downloading one of those gigantic icon collections, consider that one probably already exists on your hard drive! Average computer contains hundreds, even thousands of different icons "hidden" in a variety of files on your drives and you can get them all with Icon Catcher! Icon Catcher 4.0 is a high-speed batch icon extractor and processor capable of scanning over 3000 icons in one minute. The program supports 32-bit XP-style icons with alpha channel. Icon Catcher can process icons with custom sizes, from monochrome to true color formats. Extended filtering options let the users select the color palette or size or combination of those parameters to make search for necessary icons easy and fast. The program extracts icons from any source files, including .ico, .exe, .icl, .dll, .scr, .ocx, .vbx, .dpl, .bpl and others, and allows users to later save the icons in libraries or separate .ico files. The new version of software has a brand new improved user interface that is intuitive and very easy to navigate through large icon collections. The program does not require any special skills or knowledge and can be used by virtually anybody. Best of all, the BETA version is distributed free of charge and can be downloaded from our website. Download your copy now!

IconCool Editor   
http://www.iconcool.com

IconCool Editor is a powerful icon editor to edit icons, cursors and web graphics. It comes with all the functions for creating and editing ICO, CUR, ANI, ICL, GIF, JPG, BMP, EMF, WMF, TGA and WBMP image files. In addition, it offers more than 50 image filters, including Blurring, Sharpening, Embossing, Diffusing, Color Balance... as well as 20 image effects, including Linear Gradient, Redial Gradient, Rectangular Gradient, Wave, 3D Shadow, 3D Button, Text Gradient Effects, Noise, Arbitrary Rotation and more. IconCool Editor is also a smart image capturing tool can be used to capture images of various sizes from desktop or any other software. You can convert images in 25 formats to icons, You can extract icons from EXE, DLL, ICL, OCX or any other files and then edit or re-save them. In addition, it offers a 100-level Undo/Redo function, support for non-standard icons sizes and more. Supports XP 32bit icons. . A powerful icon maker, icon creator, small image editor and small graphics maker.