New Palm app: Strip (Secure Tool for Recalling Important Passwords) v1.0 [45k] {S} Password manager with 256 bit AES encryption.

A kind reader from Germany sends word of Searchy, a collection of simple .reg files that allow you to search various sites (like Wayback Machine, UPS tracking, Google, eBay, Daypop, Amazon, etc) quickly and easily through Internet Explorer's address bar. You can quickly add new sites via a handy plug-in generator. The German site apparently offers a version for Opera as well. Of course, Mozilla-based browsers (Netscape 6, Netscape 7, Mozilla, Beonex, Firebird, etc) have search plug-ins available through the Mycroft Project.

Pebbles Software has developed a number of applications that use PDAs (Palm or PocketPC) to communicate with PCs in novel ways. For example, SlideShow Commander allows PDAs to control PowerPoint, Remote Commander allows one or more PDAs to be used as if they were the PC's cursor and keyboard, and Shortcutter allows you to draw panels of controls (buttons, scroll bars, knobs and other widgets) on the handheld and then use them to control any PC application.

An anonymous reader sent in a link to RavenBlack, home to a number of tiny apps, including: Motepad (Notepad replacement), 'Peg It (image converter), RavenGet (download manager), and much more.

From Brian comes word of Weather Watcher Beta 5.0.28. This new non-installing version stores options in an INI file and is a 197kb download versus 1485kb for the installer version. Blurb: "Ad-free, spyware-free, hassle-free... Your weather, your way. View current conditions, hourly forecast, daily forecast, detailed forecast, severe weather alerts, and weather maps for almost any city world-wide!"

From the mail bin:

"I wrote some tiny apps I would like to share with you and your readers. Most of them are command-line utilities,
written in C/C++ using MS VisualC.
Of course, no reg, no DLL.

- chgcase (13 KB) [http://debrock.org/chgcase/]
can be used to change the case of dirname/filename

- launchat (17 KB)[http://debrock.org/launchat/]
launches programs from a list, waiting for a specified delay between each exec.

- msgbox (17 KB)[http://debrock.org/msgbox/]
displays a message-box, with specified text and caption (yet another one...)

- dumpver (5 KB) [http://debrock.org/dumpver/]
prints out version informations from given modules.

- dumplnk (6 KB) [http://debrock.org/dumplnk/]
prints shortcuts' properties (target path/filename, icon index, ...)

- notif (9 KB) [http://debrock.org/notif/]
Monitors one or more directories for specified events (file/dir name changes, file size changes, security attrib changes,...)

- OpenContainer (8 KB) [http://debrock.org/OpenContainer/]
Given a shortcut as parameter, opens the folder containing its target. Put it in the "Send To..." folder to
quickly find the target of a shortcut.

Have a nice day! And thanks a lot for TinyApps.org!

Best regards from Toulouse (aka Airbus City)/France
christophe debrock"

Audacity [1290k] {S}+ Audio editor that can record/play sounds, import/export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and much more. Windows, Mac, and *nix versions available.

The Meatrix (Flash required)

Many thanks to the anonymous reader who wrote in to alert us about Handy File and Replace, which was formerly listed on TinyApps. The software now includes NavExcel, a known browser hijacker and pest. This fact is not mentioned anywhere on Handy File and Replace's website; when contacted, the author replied: "NavExcel is NOT spyware. It is what it is - web navigation helper. 'Handy File Find and Replace' is freeware tool so we have an option to include any ad stuff in it. It is a common practice."