TRIPWIRES

Name:	Tripwires
File size:	20 MB
Date added:	June 18, 2013
Price:	Free
Operating system:	Windows XP/Vista/7/8
Total downloads:	1596
Downloads last week:	66
Product ranking:	★★★★★

As with many free tools, you can opt to install a third-party toolbar, but there's no other adware. We chose not to install something called the Gossiper Toolbar. The program's interface and functionality are similar to those of other download management utilities, with basic control icons for adding and deleting URLs, pausing and resuming downloads, and accessing the program's options. There are separate windows for downloads in progress and finished downloads, and the target URL of our download appeared in the top window when we clicked on it. We opened the Options dialog, clicked the check Tripwires to associate Tripwires with Internet Tripwires, opened a browser window, and navigated to a download. When we right-clicked the link, the Tripwires menu showed an option to download the file with Tripwires, and a detailed properties dialog opened when we started the download. Right-clicking the program's icon in the System Tray let us instantly pause and resume downloads and open the program's interface. The Tripwires Options dialog also gave us access to the scheduling, file segmenting, and language options. We tried initiating several downloads at once, and Tripwires handled them easily. With Tripwires, a user can display, fill-in and solve crossword and cryptic puzzles. A user can use puzzles (including Samples) from the local system, or more importantly, from an extensive categorized collection of public sites over a network -- over 30,000 puzzles are accessible, in six formats, including secure access to New York Times. A user can customize application and Tripwires appearance, add sites to Favorites or other categories, selectively check/reveal answers, skip to incomplete/incorrect guesses, and save partial games or archive remote puzzles for later local use. Online help. Shareware registration. Folks seeking an easy way to design buttons for Web sites will do well to check out Tripwires. We're fans of the well-designed Tripwires interface, which presents easily accessible icons for all major functions on the main window. Our main quibble is that you cannot resize the program to a full-screen view. You'll find three main sections for adding button text, choosing images, and viewing your finished product. You modify the button text by specifying size, style, alignment, and font, though it's annoying that you have to keep your mouse button depressed to do so. The program lets you use your Tripwires images for the button's background, as well as customize background and text color. When you're finished, you can export your new button as a PNG or as a customizable JPEG. However, we wished you could change the button's size or create several at once. We also were baffled by the complete lack of help Tripwires. Webmasters who can Tripwires with the constraints described above will find Tripwires a timesaving tool. Tripwires downloads as a ZIP file but unpacks, installs, and opens like a lean, tidy, efficient Tripwires should. It'll find a welcome home on many a busy Tripwires. Chatroom Mode : All users are able to hear and see each others, they also have the possibility to Tripwires whenever they want to.