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Wednesday, Aug 28, 2002
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Software Review Columns - Netting a Catch Signs for mail
Tagging signatures to your email helps you leave a unique stamp on all your messages. Apart from adding a touch of originality to your personal mail, they can also be a lot of fun. This week's pick of programs are designed to spice up your mail with distinct signatures. Taglines! 1.75a This program is a manager for taglines that, once configured for your email client, can insert taglines from an editable library either manually or fully automatic. It requires an e-mail software that supports ASCII signature-files.
Windows: 9x/NT/ME/2K/
Filesize: 427 KBDownload
Location: www.snafu.de/{tilde}belushi
This is a small command line driven utility that modifies the signature file. It requires an email program that uses a text file for signatures (Outlook Express and others).
Windows: 9x/NT/ME/2K/
Filesize: 17 KB
Download Location: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/gjay/narsil.html
Create ASCII art email signature files using this software. It uses a gif, bmp or jpg image as input and generates a text `graphic' that you can use in your email signature.
Windows: 9x/NT/ME/2K/
Filesize: 386 KB
Download Location: http://software.design.tripod.com
Pick-a-Tag is a handy program which randomly picks a tagline from a large list of taglines. It creates a signature file from this tagline, which you can use with most mailer such as Outlook Express, Netscape Mail and Eudora.
Windows: 9x/NT/ME/2K/
Filesize: 176 KB
Download Location: http://home.
wanadoo.nl/jeroen/software.html
SmartBee is a powerful `fortune cookie' program that you can use to insert quotes and signatures into your email or copy them to the clipboard. These quotes are called `cookies', but have nothing to do with browser cookies. SmartBee contains more than one hundred thousand different cookies, everything from Murphy's laws, jokes, computer mimics, facts, stories, and of course, quotes from famous people. The program can automatically generate the cookie signature for most email programs and always add custom information to it, like your name, email address and whatever you would have in a regular signature. This enables you to add constantly changing quotes to your email without giving up your default signature. You can create your own cookies and specify exclusions based of keywords.
Windows: Windows (All)
Filesize: 5923 KB
Download Location: www.smartbee.org
SigChanger is a program that automatically inserts and changes your email signature. It uses a text or html file, which you can define or create as a base for your signature. You can alter the constant text in your signature as well as the file with quotes any other text, which means that you can have a constant part of the signature as well as a variable part. During the installation of SigChanger, a text file with 101 sayings is automatically installed, ready for use in your signatures. You can use multiple identities - different signatures for different email addresses.
Windows: Windows (All)
Filesize: 685 KB
Download Location: www.phranc.nl
Quotes is a fun utility that lets you manage your email signature files and categorise and use quotations in your email. You can left-click the system tray icon to see a random quotation drawn from a customisable text file database. Right-click to copy the quotation or your signature block with a quotation to the clipboard or a document. You can also run the quotations with a choice of animations as a screen saver, or simply click the icon for an occasional grin. The program includes sample quotation files on bumper sticker slogans, technology, facts, definitions, wisdom, definitions, and business. You can supplement these with more categories or add/delete within the sample file.
Windows: Windows (All)
Filesize: 1923 KB
Download Location: http://qliner.com
Compiled by C. Ramesh
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