Hostess 4.1

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Hostess 4.1

Company:	Ray Marron
Country:	United States of America, AZ, Gilbert
ASP member:	No
Company Web site:	http://www.raymarron.com
Site of program:	http://www.raymarron.com
Application info:	http://www.raymarron.com/hostess/

Author:	Ray Marron

Sales email:	ray@raymarron.com
Support email:	ray@raymarron.com

License type:	Freeware
Class:	Network & Internet::Other
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Categories:	Internet :: DNS Tools, Internet :: Security, Internet :: Online Privacy, Internet :: Tools & Utilities, Internet :: Miscellaneous, Internet :: Pop-Up Ad Killers
Platform:	Windows
OS:	Win2000, WinXP, Win7 x32, Win7 x64, Windows 8, Windows 10, WinServer, WinOther, WinVista, WinVista x64
System requirements:	Minimum Windows operating system requirements
Language:	English
Limitations:	No limitations

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Keywords: HOSTS, HOSTS file, manager, DNS, Ad-blocking

Hostess is a free utility for maintaining your HOSTS file. Unlike many HOSTS file utilities, Hostess is geared towards ad-blocking rather than IP address resolution. Hostess stores your host entries in a database that is indexed to eliminate duplicates and make searching fast and easy. It also allows you to group these hosts for efficiency and ease of maintenance.

Installing the program is also easy: just create a directory, extract the contents of the zip file into it and create a shortcut to Hostess.exe. No registry changes are made, and all program settings and data are stored in the program directory.

Messing with the HOSTS file is not for the inexperienced user. There is the possibility of undesirable and sometimes difficult to troubleshoot effects on your Internet and network connectivity. The documentation included with Hostess gives only a basic overview of how the HOSTS file works. Better sources of such information can be found by doing a web search for 'HOSTS file'. Hostess has been designed to make things easy for the experienced HOSTS jockey, someone that wants a fine degree of control over what goes into (and stays out of) their HOSTS file.

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Date	Version	Status	Release history
23 Mar 2008	4.1	Major Update	Hostess now supports imports and exports in plain text format! The command line options were reworked to allow for the new features, and the menu shortcuts were updated so they don't conflict with common text editing shortcuts like Ctrl-V for Paste.

Distribution permissions: Hostess can be freely distributed over the internet in an unchanged form, so long as attribution and a link to the author's website accompanies it.

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