For those who listen to internet radio and find themselves going to the stations page and clicking ‘listen now’, then this little free application could be useful…

Screamer Radio is an internet radio player with hundreds of preset stations which can also be recorded to your hard drive. Designed not to be intrusive, Screamer Radio will not slow down your computer and will hide itself in the system tray.

The main pionts to know about this one -

# A small application that takes very little resources, perfect for running in the background and listening to the radio while doing something else.

# Supports hundreds of internet radio stations from all round the world.

# You can browse dozens of presets by genre, region or langauge…and also set your own favourite presets easily

download from -

www.screamer-radio.com

A question that comes up a lot from computer users with younger children who access the net is ‘what child protection is good, easy and affordable?’

Well, I think I may have a contender to fit the above criteria

It’s good {been using it on various machines for months now}, it’s extremely easy to use, and its free {which should cover affordability }

The software I speak of is K9 Web Protection – www1.k9webprotection.com

K9 Web Protection is a free service…I say ‘service’ because the way it works is the sites you visit are filtered through their servers as opposed to being checked by something that’s installed on your computer…also, another good thing is that K9 doesn’t slow down your web surfing, which similar softwares sometimes suffer from.

You can manually enter sites into its settings to have them blocked or allowed, and if you happen to land on a site that is blocked but you don’t think it should be, you can override K9′s decision for 15 minutes by entering the administrator password or choose to override it permanently.

All-in-all I consider this an excellent piece of software, doing exactly what it says on the tin…for those in need of such software, grab it while its free, as it may not be free for too long.

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K9 Web Protection is -

Free !

Easy to use

Blocks images from sites that are known for hosting offensive material but still allows a site using that service to be viewed {unless the site is offensive enough to be blocked completely}

Provides one set of internet filtering configurations to be set for all users {not individual profiles}

A web-based service with always up to date detection database

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www1.k9webprotection.com

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