Wichio 1.1

CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff

This Internet Explorer-based browser adds a number of tools to the shell, as its name suggests. Perhaps it's inevitable that the interface of 27 Tools-in-1 Wichio Browser bewilders, with its 30-plus buttons, but it does let you choose to display fewer buttons. Wichio comes packed with a huge number of features, some of which we found useful, such as its network tools; others, such as the ability to add random sounds to mouse clicks, are just silly. We appreciated the tabbed-browsing feature, which let us quickly switch among sites and save groups of tabs as a bookmark. The most useful tool is the download manager, which resumes stopped transfers. The application's features include notification of e-mail and Web page updates, an alarm clock, a pop-up blocker, and automatic connecting and disconnecting. Another group of utilities offers searching, a dictionary, song lyrics, and weather lookups, but you can't customize the links for online resources. We like the new Private Surfing feature that lets you create private URL lists specific to your username that remain hidden when other users log in. The Lyrics Finder, which finds the lyrics to your currently playing song on Winamp, seems frivolous, but some people might find it useful. More advanced surfers will like the Whois, Traceroute, and DNS query tools. All these enhancements make Wichio eat much more memory than Internet Explorer, but high-end Internet users might deem it worth the extra load.

Publisher's description

From Revopoint :

Wichio, an Internet utility suite, consists of 27 utilities in 1 program. 27 utilities serve all kinds of Internet users, from ordinary to power users. The program is very easy to use with one button for one utility. Open only one program (Wichio) to work like IE plus extra 27 utilities such as: IP-URL Checker - check IP and URL by Whois, Trace route and DNS lookup. Download Manager: download a group of files at once and resume broken download. E-mail Alerts: notify when you have new mails from POP3 or Yahoo. Web Update Alerts: notify when selected Web pages are updated. Block Pop-Up windows: close annoying pop-up windows automatically. Voice After Download Complete: notify by voice speaking your specified words. Auto Connect: reconnect your Internet online at many events. Auto Disconnect: disconnect your Internet online at many events. Show My IP Address: show your external and internal IP address when online. Show System Resources: show % of free system resources and notify you before your computer freezes (available only Win9x and ME).

Pre-fetch: speed up Web pages surfing by pre-fetching your favorite or selected Web pages. Delete History, Cache and Cookies: only one click, no one can trace where you’ve been before. Close All Windows: only one-click to close all open windows. Weather: check and forecast worldwide weather. Dictionaries: translate words into many languages. Click Sounds: different sounds when you click on links of a Web page.(Add more from our Web). Hyperlinks & Buttons and Images: different effects when moving mouse over hyperlinks & buttons or images on Web page. Background and Text Color: change background or text color of Web page to read easier. Skins: provide built-in 2 skins and add more from our Web. Voice: provide 19 voices to notify you by speaking any words you specified. (See Wichio's Voice options to download MS Voice engine for free.) And much more..

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