AllSync is the professional solution
for your data synchronization and backup needs on individual workstations,
laptops, or throughout your entire network. AllSync performs
synchronization, updating, duplication, archiving and backup of files and
directories under Microsoft Windows. It supports all file systems which can
be accessed via drive letters or an UNC path. With AllSync you also have the
option of previewing the copy operations
“Bacula is a set of Open
Source, computer programs that permit you (or the system administrator) to
manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network
of computers of different kinds. Bacula is relatively easy to use and
efficient, while offering many advanced storage management features that
make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files. In technical terms,
it is an Open Source, network based backup program.”"
Bulk Rename Utility is a free file
renaming software for Windows. Bulk Rename Utility allows you to easily
rename files and entire folders based upon extremely flexible criteria.""
Snafiles Description "
Cobian Backup is a small
and simple utility to backup files and directories from some place in your
computer to another place in the same computer or to a shared drive in
another machine. You can set the program to automatically make a backup
within regular intervals of time, for example daily, weekly etc. Cobian
Backup offers additional support for PKzip compressions and can be run as a
service under NT/2000/XP.
"Do you often download files from the Internet? Is your hard drive
crowded with these files? Have you ever asked yourself which files you have
downloaded more than once? Perhaps you have burned files to a CD and
retrieved them again? Do you want to find these files and eliminate the
duplicates? Maybe you want to find duplicate files without checking your
entire collection of backup CDs every time? Then CloneSpy is the right tool
for you!
CloneSpy can help you free up hard drive space by detecting and removing
duplicate files. Duplicate files have exactly the same contents regardless
of their name, date, time and location. Also, CloneSpy is able to find files
that are not exactly identical, but have the same file name. Perhaps you
have different versions of a file and you want to find all of them and
remove the older versions. CloneSpy can also find zero length files. These
are files that have no content.”
"FBackup is
freeware backup program for Windows. FBackup protects your important files
and folders from partial or total loss by automating backup tasks, password
protecting and compressing it to save storage space. Using FBackup you can
easily backup to any local or network drive or to external drives (such as
USB drives). FBackup can backup open/locked files and it can perform full
and mirror backups (backup type that does not compress the files). When
defining a backup you can also set file filters and schedule the backup for
automatic execution. You can run predefined backups, such as My Documents,
My Pictures or Outlook Express and load backup plugins that will back up the
settings and data of specific applications. FBackup has ZIP64 support (can
create backups over 2 GB) and creates standard zip files, meaning that you
can access it with any zip compatible utility. FBackup also allows you to
password protect your backup. FBackup tests the backup files automatically
to ensure the backup is safe and correctly executed (uses CRC32)."
"Rename all your files like with the
DOS command, but with a lot more options. You can numerate files
sequentially, batch rename, replace strings, change dates, etc. Also has
'undo' function. "
"GoodSync is an easy, fast, and reliable way to compare, synchronize,
and backup your business documents, emails, contacts, photos, iTunes, MP3s,
and other important files. GoodSync synchronizes files between desktops,
laptops, and external drives, and works over a network or the Internet."
A free utility that allows you to backup your Mozollia web
browser's profiles. This includes bookmarks, mail, contacts, history,
extensions, cache etc.
"The Microsoft
Download Manager enables you to download files simply and easily. It
also makes downloading large files such as application and multimedia files
quick and reliable. It was specifically designed to help users manage file
downloads from supporting Microsoft Web sites. Once started, the Microsoft
Download Manager’s easy-to-use interface displays the status of downloads
and enables you to suspend active downloads or resume downloads that have
failed."
"PC Brother System Care Free's
interface is more smart and vivid. We have reduced some pop-up windows and
buttons to help users catch the main point clearly, and easily find out the
desired button to operate. Still, we have added some more one-click buttons
for users to operate more clearly. This PC Brother System Care Free is
totally free software. Please enjoy the totally free software. "
"Accidentally deleted an important
file? Lost something important when your computer crashed? No problem!
Recuva recovers files deleted from your Windows computer, Recycle Bin,
digital camera card, or MP3 player. And it's free!"
A free backup utility that automatically
backup files, directories, even entire drives! Karen's Replicator copies
selected files from one drive/folder to another. Source and Destination
folders can reside anywhere on your network. Files larger than 2 GB are
supported.
"SpiderOak provides an easy, secure
and consolidated free online backup, sync, sharing, access & storage
solution for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora & openSUSE)"
"This straightforward backup utility
makes it a snap to safeguard and synchronize your files, and its freeware
price just sweetens the deal. Surprisingly flexible for a free program,
SyncBack can save your files anywhere: on external hard drives, in ZIP
archives, on network drives, on CDs (using UDF), or transfer them via FTP.
Recovering from a drive loss is also cinch, with a convenient restore tool
that replicates folder trees along with the files in them.
A great
alternative to Windows Explorer. I provides media player for quick
preview of WAV, MID, MP3, AVI, MPG and other supported file formats without
any need for opening separate applications. It also provides built in
file encryption and many other features
"Turbo Pad is a fast and feature rich text editor. It includes a tabbed
interface, syntax highlighting, syntax folding, bookmarking, unlimited
undo/redo, code templates, word completion and much more. It is written
using Scintilla and wxWidgets."
Unlocker enables you to delete, move or rename files or
folders that are locked by other processed (Access is
denied, Sharing Violation etc.). It integrates into the
Windows right-click menu, and opens a dialog that shows you
the processes that are currently locking the file, thereby
preventing it from being deleted. You can choose to
terminate and unlock the processes, or otherwise delete the
file on the next reboot.
"WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool
for Microsoft Windows (all current variants). WinDirStat
reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in
three useful views: the directory list, which resembles the
tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree
size; the treemap, which shows the whole contents of the
directory tree straight away; and the extension list, which
serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file
types."
"Annoyed by adverts? Troubled by
tracking? Bothered by banners?
Install Adblock Plus now to regain control of the internet and change
the way that you view the web. You can also choose from over forty
filter
subscriptions to automatically configure the add-on for purposes ranging
from removing online advertising to blocking all known malware domains."
"DownThemAll is all you can desire
from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases
speed up to 400% and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any
time!"
"Adds a find bar button that allows
you to search for a word or phrase on a web page and displays the results in
an easy to view list. Also displays the total number of results found."
"Toolbar button for temporary
disabling history (& address bar auto-complete except bookmarked sites),
which means improved privacy. Button has OFF/ON state, and you can decide
when you want to browse without history traces."
"HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox
extension produced as a collaboration between
The Tor Project and
the Electronic Frontier
Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major
websites."
"McAfee SiteAdvisor helps protect you
from all kinds of Web-based security threats including spyware, adware,
spam, viruses, browser exploits, phishing, online fraud and identity theft.
Our automated testers continually patrol the Web to browse sites, download
files, and sign-up for things with e-mail addresses. As you search, browse,
download or register online, SiteAdvisor's safety ratings help you stay safe
and in control."
Allow you to launch embed video of
website in an external application with a simple click. Support Media
Metafiles (ram, rpm, wmv, wm, wma, asx, asf, ...)
"Extra protection for your Firefox:
NoScript allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content only for
trusted domains of your choice, e.g. your home-banking web site.
This whitelist based preemptive blocking approach prevents exploitation of
security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of
functionality...
Experts do agree: Firefox is really safer with NoScript ;-)"
"Allows editing of the web page
content while in Print Preview mode. Editing the web page prior to printing
can compact the layout and remove unwanted content such as adverts, sidebars
and blank pages. Any element can be formatted, hidden or deleted."
"ShareMeNot is a Firefox add-on
designed to prevent third-party buttons (such as the Facebook “Like” button
or the Twitter “tweet” button) embedded by sites across the Internet from
tracking you until you actually click on them. Unlike traditional solutions,
ShareMeNot does this without completely removing the buttons from the web
experience."
"Instant access to the best sites
related to the one you are browsing! Vote if sites are similar or not and
personalize your results. Get related articles and live web comments for any
site. Easily share sites with friends through Facebook or Twitter"
"That status bar was removed in
Firefox 4.0. While some of the status bar items did find new homes, some did
not, and you might not like where they ended up. There were also some nice
innovations during the development of Firefox 4.0, such as
progress/links/status in the location bar, which unfortunately didn't make
it to the final release."
"Tabble makes it easy to keep tabs on
people and companies.
When you look them up on LinkedIn, Facebook, Crunchbase, Quora or TechCrunch
it shows you relevant emails from your Gmail™ and other profiles from all
your top cloud apps. Icons appear on the right of the screen and you can
hover over them to see the information from each source."
“Unplug is an extension for Firefox which
lets you save video and audio which is embedded on a webpage - it’s a video
download tool!
UnPlug scans web pages and tells you where media players are getting their
data from, and displays it as a simple hyperlink: in most cases, you can
then follow the simple download link to save the media file.†It is a must
if you like to save video from the net.
A great firefox extension that lets you
Download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion... and
other 60+ video sites ! And all embedded objects on a webpage (movies, mp3s,
flash, quicktime, etc).
"Thalia James, member of the Earth
Anti-Encroachment League for over twenty years, has contracted a bizarre
disorder during an inspection of a distant planet. Now it seems that danger
is always two steps behind her as she continues what she once considered a
relatively mundane job. It seems as if there is something rotten in the
state of the Milky Way.."
"Thalia James is back on duty in
Adventure: All in the Game, the sequel to Adventure: The Inside Job. When
the CGMS finds itself in desperate need of new agents, Thalia is given the
task of training a younger character for the job. Unfortunately, this
character is from a genre that hasn't been on the friendliest of terms with
Adventure in the past, and putting up with him may prove to be even more
challenging than the tasks she has to walk him through.
However, as is typical of Adventure, a much more serious problem is lurking
close at hand, and once Thalia becomes aware of it, she will need to keep
all her wits about her if she is to conquer it. "
"Taking inspiration from classics
such as Q-Bert, Pong, Space Invaders, Bomber Man, and Lunar Lander, The
Arcade brings the retro charm of classic arcade gameplay out of the games
cabinets and into your living room! 10 classic favorites brought to life
with 21st century technology, with 3D characters and all new soundtracks.
Addictive arcade gameplay. Single and two-player fun for every generation."
"The Escapist
is pleased to present The Art of Theft, the latest game from Ben "Yahtzee"
Croshaw. The Art of Theft is a mission-based stealth platformer, with
an emphasis on gameplay over story. Your goal is to infiltrate a variety of
buildings in Chapow City, steal loot, achieve objectives and get out again
with the subtlety of a flickering shadow in a ninja outfit."
"A Tale of Two Kingdoms is an epic
faerie tale, in the classic style of the famous Sierra and LucasArts
graphical adventure games. It is a full-length game with an atmosphere of
magic and intrigue. Featuring five different endings; several sidequests and
alternative solutions; teamwork with non-player characters; 75 minutes of
high quality music; and director's commentary. The ancient kingdom of
Theylinn is beset by enemies both from within and without. Within the castle
walls, nobles vie for the old King's favor, and not everybody is happy with
the sole heir to the throne, princess Rhiannon. Meanwhile, danger
approaches, in the form of an invading army, a hostile giant, and a
mercenary troop who are ancient enemies of the Theylann king. And there is
mystery yet."
"This
is a remake of Konami's Castlevania originally released as Vampire Killer
for the MSX. Use your steel weapon and kill every monsters that comes in
your path."
"CrimeCraft
is a Persistent World Next-gen Shooter (PWNS) that blends a gripping,
action-packed shooter experience with the best community and role-playing
elements found in massively multi-player games. CrimeCraft is set in a
gritty fictional city of the near future, following an ecological disaster
of unprecedented scale, where the price of life is far less valuable than
one's reputation. Join thousands of players online as you learn the rules of
the street, build your own gang and do whatever it takes to survive amidst
the chaos. Earn a reputation. Build a gang. Kill the competition."
"Cross Fire
is an online military first-person shooter for the PC, developed by
SmileGate and published by G4BOX. Players assume the role of either a Black
List or Global Risk operative, and then compete in modes including Team
Death Match, the exclusive stealth-action ghost mode and the brand new
Mutation Mode. Cross Fire also includes a persistent military ranking
system, in-game friends lists, a clan formation system, daily missions and
deep character customization options. Cross Fire will always be
free-to-download-and-play"
From CNET: "Destiny Online is a
MMORPG in which you will team with lots of nice people, raise the cutest
pets, and have lots of fun. Team up with friends to train, and get up to 5x
experience. Capture monsters and turn them into your pets, and train them to
become your best helpers in battle. Find a master/apprentice and share lots
of experience. This is the first MMO that Pays-U-2-Play, meaning you can
earn Gold Points by simply being online, and then you can use the Gold
Points to buy precious items from the Destiny Item Mall."
"A humorous zelda-like isometric RPG.
Help Dink kill ducks and save the world. One of the unique features of Dink
is its abilities to run Dink Modules (D-Mods) for unlimited adventures.
DinkEdit is included with the game so you can make your own."
“Driving Speed 2 is a free high quality racing game for your PC. Choose
from four high powered V8 muscle cars and race against up to 11 computer
controlled opponents on two touring car circuits. This game has realistic
graphics, realistic car physics and performance, high quality sound and AI.
Play against your friends over a LAN or internet* with 8 player Multiplayer.
Send your fastest lap records to the
online lap records where you can see your times against players from all
around the world. The latest version 2.0.11 includes championship mode with
series events, prize money to purchase cars, purchase upgrades and handling,
and pay for repairs.”
DX-Ball is a free arcade game by
Michael P. Welch. It is one of the best Breakout-style games. The object of
the game is to bounce your ball around the screen with your paddle, breaking
bricks, collecting points and power-ups as you go. Once all the bricks are
destroyed, you move to the next level. If you drop the ball, you lose a
life. The game has 50 different levels, lots of power-ups and in-game music
“Frogatto is an open-source “platformer” game, which means you’re given a
cross-section view into the world, and you help a small green fellow named
Frogatto walk and jump between solid footholds whilst you lead him through
his story. There’s a long history to the genre, so just by being in it
we inevitably have a lot in common with other games, however, we’re not
trying to clone any specific game.
Although frogatto is finished and fully-playable, we’re planning some
major additions to the game over the next few years. Don’t hesitate to
download it now, but keep an
eye on this site, because we’ll be posting some exciting new stuff over time
"Designed to help optimize your PC
for smoother, more responsive game play in the latest PC
games with the touch of a button, Game Booster helps achieve
the performance edge previously only available to highly
technical enthusiasts. It works by temporarily shutting down
background processes, cleaning RAM, and intensifying
processor performance. That means you can keep all the
features of Microsoft Windows Vista and XP ready for when
you need them, but turn them off when you are ready to get
down to serious business - gaming. Game Booster makes it
simpler to enjoy the latest games and take your experience
to a new level."
"Your name is Yerik Elnar. You are scientist working for
United States. In late 2009 ruins were found in the
Antarctica by Russian explorers. A year later a complete
research base was built to study the findings. Team
consisted of 7 Russians, 5 Americans and 2 Germans. One year
later USA send you as an additional help. You arrive with
the helicopter. But strange things begin to happen.."
"LaserAge
is a retro game similar to Galaxian and Galaga clones. This shooter features
power-ups and is highly detailed, combining nostalgia with 24-bit color.
Four levels have 100 waves of ships. Destroy 15 enemies with 13 power-ups.
You can play in windowed and full-screen modes; then show off your skills to
the world with Web-based high scores. Your ship can be controlled with the
mouse, which comes in handy when you're trying to dodge enemy fire. The Gold
version features a new interface and a massive list of bug fixes"
"Ever since a meteor landed in the
back yard of Dr. Fred and Nurse Edna’s Victorian mansion, bizarre things
have been happening. First, their mutant son, Weird Ed, dropped out of
school. Then patients started disappearing from Country Hospital. And now
this strange event is affecting the lives of innocent (and even some
not-so-innocent) teenagers. In fact, a girl named Sandy is being held
captive in that musty old mansion right now. Sandy’s boyfriend, Dave, has
lots of friends who need you help to sneak in - and sneak her out. Now
exactly how it all ends up depends entirely on which trio of friends you
send in there. And which inhabitants you encounter. In fact, the farther you
get inside the mansion, the more weird characters you’ll meet. There’s
Nurse Edna - who’s as nasty as she is ugly. There’s a disembodied
Tentacle who wants you to make him a rock star. And a host of others, who
all have their own crazy quirks you’ll have to deal with. Everyone in
there seems to be working for Dr. Fred. But the question is: “Who is Dr.
Fred working for?"
"Play as mighty and powerful Megaman
with guns in arms, Zero or Bass and make your way through the adventurous
action packed levels perishing the enemies using very powerful items and
laser beam cannon"
"This is the second and optimized
part of the Metroid fangames sequels - Metroid fangames are popular in
console games society. If you likes Metroid game from Super Nintendo, this
one should fit your thoughts - game idea is the same like in the Super
Nintendo console. You must collect special items, go through rocket
entrances, kill aliens, and find the mighty Metroid - the nightmare creature
capable to destroy and absorb all materia. Fight in many colorful sceneries
- from lava land from Metroid game, or caves. Use metamorph ball to complete
tight places and shoot the rocket to kill hard enemie
"Open Yahtzee is an open-source
(free) version of the classic dice game Yahtzee. Open Yahtzee is built to be
OS portable, that means you can run it on many kinds of different operating
systems and platforms. The portability is mainly achieved via wxWidgets
which also gives Open Yahtzee a native look on each platform. Open Yahtzee
is being developed by
Guy Rutenberg."
New generation 2D game. Full source
code including. Control your paddle by using your mouse or Left/Right
buttons. The speed and direction of your mouse movements determine the
action of your paddle. Press and hold the F1 key to more help information.
Press and hold the Shift key to shut targets.
"QBert, one
of the last great games produced during the heyday of imaginative and unique
game design, 1980 to '84 or so. You control QBert, a fuzzy, orange, limbless
and unbearably adorable character whose main distinguishing feature is a
large snout completely disproportionate to the rest of his body. Your
mission, is to hop QBert around the tops of a pyramid-shaped arrangement of
colored cubes using a four-way joystick, changing the tops of the cubes to a
specific color. Move Noser around his world and score points by hopping
around the pyramid and changing the cube colors but keep an eye out for
Qbert's springy nemesis"
"All is not well in the Valley of
Spielburg. Elsa has disappeared (again) and the sheriff has been murdered.
The rest of the valley is in chaos and the influx of heroes has done little
to calm it. Your job is not done. It's time to go back to Spielburg. "
Do you remember the classic game
Schorched Earth then checkout Scorched 3D. It is a game based loosely (or
actually quite heavily now) on the classic DOS game
Scorched
Earth “The Mother Of All Gamesâ€. Scorched 3D adds amongst other new
features a 3D island environment and LAN and internet play. Scorched 3D is
totally free and is available for both Microsoft Windows and Unix (Linux,
FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris etc.) operating systems.
"ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical
point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files.
The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped
with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were
never designed!
ScummVM supports many adventure games, including LucasArts SCUMM games
(such as Monkey Island 1-3, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max,
...), many of Sierra's AGI and SCI games (such as King's Quest 1-6,
Space Quest 1-5, ...), Discworld 1 and 2, Simon the
Sorcerer 1 and 2, Beneath A Steel Sky, Lure of the Temptress,
Broken Sword 1 and 2, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Gobliiins
1-3, The Legend of Kyrandia 1-3, many of Humongous Entertainment's
children's SCUMM games (including Freddi Fish and Putt Putt
games) and many more. ""
This game tells the story of Roger
Wilco after his return from Space Quest XII to Magmetheus. There, Roger
meets the Latex Babes of Estros for the first time, chronologically. He
visits another Galaxy Galleria, makes a pit-stop at Monolith Burger and
begins after some trouble with the Latex Babes his training at Starcon
Academy.
A fan made Space Quest game.
"Following hot in the footsteps of my team-made fan-game "Vohaul Strikes
Back" and IA's "SQ2 Remake", I'm proud to finally announce the release of
"Space Quest: Incinerations."
Based on the Sierra game series from Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe, SQInc is
an adventure game six years in the making. It re-imagines the SQ universe in
the style of a modern sci-fi action-thriller, featuring 3D-rendered sprites
and backgrounds, over 45 minutes of fully-animated cinematics, alternate
endings, trophies, and over an hour's worth of original music.
As an animator, this game has been a real thrill ride to make. I want to
thank everyone who's supported it, along with the talented people who've
contributed their efforts to making it happen. I also want to thank the
adventure game community for staying alive and staying strong"
"“After years of war with the
Dominion, Starfleet has run out of starships to defend against any
invasion. You are the sole starship located near the Neutral Zone, and have
detected a huge invasion fleet of Romulan Warbirds making their way to
Federation Space.
The future of the Federation is in your hands, defend against the
invaders.”"
"Mario Online is a game extremely
nice to play and proves to be a great anti-stress activity. It is also a
great choice for the players, who like to compete with others. This time you
don't have to race to the end of the levels nor fight against terrifying
king Bowser – this time your task is to beat as many enemies, as you can in
the shortest time possible. Apart from red fireballs known from Super Mario
Bros, in this Mario game there is a large choice of special weapons –
shotgun, blue fireballs, exploding spikey bombs and many other goodies,
specially created by engineer Toad for the brave plumber Mario, wait for you
to use them! Do your best to appear at the highest places of the online
scoreboard and fight to become the best player in the world! Download Mario
Online and play to compete or relax in the free time – the game is not as
hard and as other Mario games and has pretty graphics, as well as merry
music, so it's a game for everyone, perfect to play after a stressful,
tiring day!"
“Welcome, Play Sonic Pacman, play as
Knuckles powerful character from Sonic The Hedgehog series. He is the star
of this game. Collect colorful dots to complete the level, and try to avoid
the dangerous robots created by Doctor Robotnics. Good Luck.”
SuperTux is a classic 2D jump’n run
sidescroller game in a style similar to the original SuperMario games. The
Milestone1 release of SuperTux features 9 enemies, 26 playable levels,
software and OpenGL rendering modes, configurable joystick and keyboard
input, new music and completly redone graphics. Together with a little
story, we hope to provide a good gaming experince with this first Milestone
release. Click the link below to download this great gam
"SuperTuxKart is a 3d kart racing
game. You can play with up to four friends on one PC racing against each
other, or beat the computer. Race under water or in space, watching the
stars passing by. You can do a single race against other karts, compete in
one of several Grand Prix, try to beat the high score in time trials on your
own, and play battle mode against your friends.
"Super Mario Forever is really a
classic Mario remake. Once again you strap on your wrench and hardhat and
guide the chubby plumber through many skillfully made levels. The diversity
of the levels is very impressive. You will have to get through levels
ranging from underwater caverns to levels filled with hot lava."
"Join King Graham as he continues on
his quest to save his children from the mysterious spell that befell them.
Journey across new islands and exciting adventure as you search for the
ingredients of the druid's spell."
"In Warzone 2100, you command the
forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has
almost been destroyed by nuclear missiles.
The game offers campaign, multi-player, and single-player skirmish modes. An
extensive tech tree with over 400 different technologies, combined with the
unit design system, allows for a wide variety of possible units and tactics"
"Welcome to the world of Legend of
Zelda. Our brave hero, link, a little elf will defend beautiful princess
Zelda and her kingdom. Evil ghost sarcophagus comes to their planet and
wants to disrupt their peace and harmony. Enter the world of this colorful
logical game here everything is possible. Over 100 levels to complete,
enormous world map, secrets, and atmospheric music."
"Artweaver is a program to simulate natural brush tools. It is
therefore suitable to leave your creativity free run.
Artweaver functions: realistic imitation of brushes, chalks,
and charcoals; detailed adjustment possibilities for
altering existing brushes and creating new custom brushes;
common image processing tools like gradient, crop, fill, and
selection tools; countless file formats like AWD (Artweaver),
BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, and PNG; transparency and
layers; large number of filters like sharpen, soften,
emboss, and mosaic; many effect filters; editable text
layers (font, size, color, leading); support for pressure
sensitive pen tablets; history function to undo or redo last
working steps; support for plug-ins"
"BatchBlitz provides an intuitive and efficient way to manage
your batch photo editing tasks. While the workflow is very
simple and easy, the customizable user actions make.
Features: 1) simple and intuitive user interface; 2) savable
batch task; 3) highly customizable batch actions; 4) instant
preview; 5) drag-and-drop to re-order actions; 6) powerful
integrated photo editor..."
FastStone Image Viewer " is a fast, stable, user-friendly
image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of
features that include image viewing, management, comparison,
red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color
adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode
provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser
and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up
when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen. Other
features include a high quality magnifier and a musical
slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as
lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image
annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It
supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000,
animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular
digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW,
ORF, SRF and DNG). "
“Image Inc. 1.2 : The purpose of this
utility is to blend existing images in a very fast and easy way, using a
layer mask for transparency. The process is simple … load the base picture
followed by a top layer image, then add a mask and the program automatically
merges everything together. Ideal for anyone who doesn’t want to use a major
graphics application for this task. “
Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with
capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or
Xara X using the W3C
standard
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Supported
SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones,
alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and
grouping. Inkscape also supports
Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers,
complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path,
flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports
formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG
as well as multiple vector-based formats.
"Lightbox Free Image Editor is a
powerful but simple solution for those that need to optimise their photos
with professional results without having to learn or pay for professional
programs."
Another great free image editing
program " Paint.NET is image and photo
manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It
supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of
useful and powerful tools."
"PhotoFilmStrip creates movies out of
your pictures in just 3 steps. First select your photos, customize the
motion path and render the video. There are several output possibilities for
VCD, SVCD, DVD up to FULL-HD. Creates animated slideshows. "
"The program loads fast and possesses an interface completely
different from those familiar with Adobe's industry-leading
tools. Users are greeted by circular navigator complemented
by a tabbed nav on the top of the main screen. Most but not
all main features are accessible from either nav. It might
take some people time to get used to the unusual layout, but
it's only unusual for an image editor; otherwise it's
intuitive, fast, and lacks only the most advanced of image
editing features"
"SageThumbs is a powerful shell extension allowing to preview
enormous amount of image formats directly in
Windows Explorer by using Pierre-e Gougelet's GFL
library (XnView's
author). "
"Tux Paint is a free drawing program
for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux that is designed for young children (kids 3
and up). It has a simple, easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an
encouraging cartoon mascot who helps guide children as they use the program.
It provides a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help your child
be creative. Tux Paint has been translated into nearly 70 languages. An
optional Rubber Stamp collection provides over 250 images which can be
pasted into pictures, to help jump-start the creative process. A
configuration tool for parents and teachers allow Tux Paint to be adjusted
for a child's or school's individual needs.
"AdvancedDVDPlayer is a player to play DVDs, movies, songs,
and image files. It not only lets you play and navigate DVD,
it also plays popular file types such as DivX, MPEG, AVI,
WMV, ASF, MP3, JPEG, and GIF. AdvancedDVDPlayer includes:
the built-in explorer that lets you browse your computer for
favorite movie clips, songs, and images, then you can create
play list by drag and drop."
AoA Audio Extractor is a free program that provides you a
handy tool to extract audio/sound or background music from
video files.
With AoA Audio Extractor, you can easily extract
audio tracks from AVI, MPEG, MPG, FLV (Flash Video), DAT,
WMV, MOV, MP4, 3GP video files and save them as MP3, WAV and
AC3 formats.
It can also be used to save any portion of the audio of a
video file.
This program â€enables you to play and publish Flash video
files (.FLV). The programn cannot only be used to view
downloaded .FLV files, but also to publish them to your
website or blog, complete with an integrated player that can
be customized to match your color scheme. The program
generates the complete HTML output with a preview page and
the code to be copied and pasted into your page. Other
features include FLV meta data injection, drag and drop
support and customizable publishing optionsâ€
“Any
Video Converter Free version is an All-in-One video
converting tool with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast
converting speed and excellent video quality. It allows you
to effortlessly convert video files between every format!
This free version supports DVD NTSC, DVD PAL, MPEG-I,
MPEG-II, MPEG-4 and Flash FLV video profiles.”"
“As a renowned
free video converter, All Free Video Converter can
convert video files between various formats with fast
converting speed and excellent quality. This batch converter
simplifies batch
file conversion. It can convert almost all video formats
to your favorite audio & video formats, for example,
WAV, MP3, WMA, OGG, AAC, AVI, MP4, FLV,
3GP,
etc. And even more, convenient presets are provided
so you can convert with the perfect quality. Additionally,
wizard mode will guide you what to do next. The powerful
video converter makes video conversion quick and easy. Just
download the free tool now and experience better digital
life.”
“All
Free Video Joiner is an easy and free-to use-video
joiner for novices and professionals. There are several
video formats presets provided for improving your joined
files. You can join or merge multiple video files
into a large one (AVI, MP4,
FLV,
WMV, etc.) without any quality loss. It can also be
used to convert a
single
file. With super fast conversion speed, it saves you
much time. Additionally, wizard mode is provided to guide
you step by step. The program is absolutely a free-of-charge
video joiner without any limitation.”"
"Avidemux is a video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and
encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible
MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated
using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities. The program
was written from scratch by Mean, but code from other people and projects
has been used as well. Patches, translations and even bug reports are always
welcome."
"BB FlashBack is a screen recording software that enables you
to capture desktop activity in real-time, like a movie, and
then export it to Flash (FLV and SWF) or AVI file. You can
choose to capture the entire desktop, a specific window or a
framed region, and also include sound from a microphone and
even the video from an attached webcam as PIP image. Other
features include one-click upload to YouTube and other video
sharing sites, cursor highlighting and support for Vista
Aero effects. BB FlashBack Express requires free
registration after 30 days to remove a trial watermark."
Are you looking for a great 3D creation and do not have much money to
spend? If so checkout Blender. Blender is a free 3D creation tool, which
allows you to create great 3 dimensional images. Just check out the images
in
Blender’s image Gallery. You can get this amazing 3D creation tool
an easy way to put those video files on your computer onto a DVD then
checkout DVD Flick. It is an open source program which gives you an easy way
to put those videos that you download of the net on to a DVD.
"DVDStyler is a cross-platform free DVD authoring application for the
creation of professional-looking DVDs. It allows not only burning of video
files on DVD that can be played practically on any standalone DVD player,
but also creation of individually designed DVD menus. It is Open Source
Software and is completely free."
"FireAnt is an RSS video aggregator and media player that can automatically
download media content for you to watch and listen to. Features: plays back
any media format; supports RSS 2.0 enclosures and Media RSS; BitTorrent is
built-in; Yahoo video search is built-in; syncs with the iPod and Sony PSP;
imports/exports OPML."
"FormatFactory is a multifunctional media converter. Provides functions
below: all to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF; all to
MP3//WMA/MMF/AMR/OGG/M4A/WAV; all to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO; MP4 files support;
Pod/iPhone/PSP/BlackBerry format; Source files support RMVB. FormatFactory's
features: support converting all popular video,audio,picture formats to
others; repair damaged video and audio file; reducing Multimedia file size;
support iphone, ipod multimedia file formats; picture converting supports
Zoom, Rotate/Flip, tags; supports 65 languages."
"A free Videos To MP3 supporting all popular videos formats.
The easiest way to convert Videoto an MP3 audio file. The beauty of this
tool lies in its simple set up and clear interface:
Select the video file you would like to convert (supports all popular video
formats such as mpg, mp4, avi, wmv, mkv, flv), the output directory and
output format and press start - that's it!
The converted mp3 file will automatically be saved in the output directory -
by default, output files are saved into the same input files directory, and
they retain the name of the source video.
FoxTab Videos to MP3 lets you convert multiple files - add as much videos
files as you want. "
"Free and easy CD and DVD burning solution. Burn data, audio, video to your
CDs and DVDs is now very easy. Audio format supported : WAV, WMA, MP3, OGG,
FLAC, AAC, M4A. Burn and save ISO files, copy your DVDs. Burn your dvd-video.
Save your favorite audio CDs to mp3 with the internal grabber. Support for
dual-layer DVD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW. Standard ISO9660
and Joliet, buffer UnderRun protection, and Multisession support. "
"Free Studio bundles DVDVideoSoft's numerous free video,
audio, and image tools into a versatile suite. Despite its
many choices, a well-designed control panel makes it
extremely easy to access just what you need.
Free Studio requires at least 278MB of free disk space,
quite a substantial package for freeware. The check boxes
that set the developer's Web site and search engine as
defaults were already selected by the installation wizard
(can't blame them for trying); we unchecked them, of course.
Free Studio's unique interface is one of the most sensibly
designed we've seen. Aside from its attractive 3D graphics,
it's laid out in eight large buttons accessing important
features: YouTube, for Web video; MP3 & Audio, for your
tunes; CD, BD, DVD, for ripping, burning, dubbing, and
converting; DVD & Video, for playback; Photos & Images, for
your pictures; Mobiles, for cell phone vids and apps; Apple
Devices; and 3D, for making 3D videos and images. A slider
button on top of Free Studio's interface toggles the
animated intro on and off.
We were curious about the 3D items, so we started there.
The 3D button accesses two tools, Free 3D Photo Maker and
Free 3D Video Maker. The photo tool seemed very easy to use,
but it requires 3D glasses to view images, which we didn't
have handy, so we moved on to the Mobile selection, which
offered a page full of small apps designed for specific
brands, formats, and devices, such as Android, Nokia,
Samsung, Sony PSP, XBox, and Nintendo. Each shared a simple,
wizard-based interface, as did most of the other tools
bundled in Free Studio; for instance, the disc-burning
section contained not only audio and video disc burners but
also video and audio conversion tools like Free Audio CD to
MP3. The DVD & Video section offers 10 tools for recording,
converting, dubbing, and sharing video. Some tools, such as
the 3D video and photo apps, show up in more than one
section, which we think is fine since it makes them more
accessible.
DVDVideoSoft's multimedia tools are easy to use and good
performers. We'd like to see links to a Help file or other
assistance for the individual tools, though we encountered
nothing confusing or unclear. We think Free Studio is a
great idea, bundling together a full suite of competent,
straightforward video and audio freeware.
"“Free iPod video converter. You can convert all your videos to iPod video
format directly. Can process FLV (YouTube video format), DivX, Xvid, mpeg,
wmv, asf, mp4, vob, avi, and so more format. You will be able to download
your favorite videos from YouTube and convert it to iPod video format.”
“Free Videos To DVD is a video conversion software to convert and burn
your videos to DVD. Create a menu in a few clicks, backup your videos to DVD
playable on any home DVD player is really easy with this freeware. Free
Videos To DVD supports most popular formats like AVI (DivX, Xvid), MPEG,
MP4, VOB, and WMV. It converts your files into a compliant DVD Video set of
files and burns it on a DVD media or save it as ISO image file. Version 2.1
added menu creation and fixed bugs. “
Are you tired of having to download
the different codecs for the different types of media formats. If so then
check oot GOM. GOM is a FREE media player with popular audio & video
codecs built-in. This cuts down on the need to install different media
players to watch / listen to the different types of media formats.
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded
DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.
Supported sources:
Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD
(encrypted or unencrypted, but protection methods other than CSS are not
supported and must be handled externally with third-party software)
PAL or NTSC
AC-3, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks
Outputs:
File format: MP4, AVI or OGM
Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer
encoding)
Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of
several audio tracks)
"Hulu Desktop is a lean-back viewing
experience for your personal computer. It features a sleek new look that's
optimized for use with standard Windows Media Center remote controls or
Apple remote controls, allowing you to navigate Hulu's entire library with
just six buttons. For users without remotes, the application is keyboard and
mouse-enabled. Hulu Desktop is a downloadable application and will work on
PCs and Macs. It will initially launch as a beta product during which we
plan to gather and incorporate user feedback to improve the service."
“HyperCam captures the action and
sound from any part of Windows desktop and saves it to standard AVI movie
files. Captures cursor movements, menus selections, windows popping up, and
everything else you see on the screen. Correctly handles color palette
changes if recording in 256 color mode. Allow you to pan the recorded area
around the screen. Optionally annotates recorded movies with text.”
IDump allows you to get the
music that you have on your IPOD on to your PC. Remember to hit cancel in
ITunes, so you will not lose the music on your IPOD.
"Kantaris is an all new media player based on code from Videolan client
(VLC) and Bass audio library. Kantaris has a graphical user interface
similar to that of Windows Media Player."
Edit as fast as you can think...
Spend more time looking at the picture, and less time navigating menus and
buttons with an intuitive interface and a user-friendly toolset.
"Lightworks
has the most comprehensive support available, including native support for
MXF, Quicktime, AVI, RED R3D, DPX, Avid DNxHD, ProRes and many more formats,
transcoding files on import is something of the past."
"a FREE universal audio/video batch
transcoder distributed under GPL license, which puts together lots of
excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into
an all-in-one solution, capable of transcoding among different audio/video
formats. With many extra features and a expandable architecture, MediaCoder
is more than a GUI of a bunch of command line tools".
"Manage a movie / music library from 100 to 100,000+ audio/video
files and playlists*; whether Rock,
Classical, Audiobooks, or Podcasts; Movies, Home videos, or TV shows;
whether they’re located on your hard drive, CDs, or a network. Organize,
browse, or search music by Genre, Artist, Year, Rating, etc., and never
waste your time trying to find the files you know you have.
MediaMonkey is the movie and music organizer for the serious
collector."
"MediaPortal
is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC / TV into a very
advanced Media Center. MediaPortal allows you to listen to
your favorite music & radio, watch and store your videos and DVDs, view,
schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder and much much more.
You get MediaPortal as Open Source software. This means you can help in
developing MediaPortal or tweak it for your own needs with lots of
innovating plugins from our great community.
"You can put video on your phone or iPod. Miro Video Converter has presets
that will convert video to the correct sizes and formats for popular phones,
iPods, and other media players. Just convert your video and copy it to your
device. Supported Devices include Android phones (Droid / Milestone, Nexus
One, G1, Magic / myTouch, Droid Eris, HTC Hero, Cliq, Behold), Apple Devices
(iPhone / iPod Touch, iPod Classic, iPod Nano), and PSP. Miro Video
Converter can convert virtually any video file to MP4, Theora, or MP3 (the
audio only)"
"MoviePlus Starter Edition is the
amazing free movie editing software from Serif. This version is yours to
keep so
download it now and start creating your very own movies."
MPEG Streamclip is a powerful video
converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files,
not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for
authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut,
trim and join movies.
"MuseScore is a free
cross-platform WYSIWYG music notation program that offers a cost-effective
alternative to commercial programs such as Sibelius and Finale.
You can print beautifully engraved sheet music or save it as PDF or MIDI
file."
"With the FREE Power2Go 8 Essential
you can burn all your photos, videos, music and data to CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray
discs. Download Power2Go 8 Essential now and you can also copy discs, create
music CDs and enjoy easy drag and drop burning."
"Total Video Converter is a total solution for
video conversion which supports reading, playing lots of video and audio
formats and converting them to popular video formats. Total Video Converter
includes a powerful media conversion engine internally so that you can
convert media files with very fast speed."
A great free media
player that plays various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4,
DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various
streaming protocols.
"Windows Essentials Codec Pack is a
collection of audio and video DirectShow codecs and filters. With Windows
Essentials Codec Pack you should be able to play 99% of all movies and music
files that you download off the Internet, stay up to date with the latest
codecs with the Audio/Video Codec Update Service, and eliminate the many
conflicts and errors caused by using multiple codecs to decode the same file
types. Windows Essentials Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly near
complete solution for all your video and audio needs, with it you can play
audio CDs, DVDs, (S)VCDs, and XCDs on the fly, and it adds support for 3GP,
AAC, AC3, APE, AVI, DivX, 3ivx, DAT, h.264, x264, Nero Digital, DTS, FLV,
FLAC, HD-MOV, MPEG-1/2, M4A, MP3, MP4, MO3, MOD, MKV, OFR, TTA, OGG/OGM,
S3M, Vorbis, VOB, XviD, XM, WV, and UMX formats so you could play any
video/audio file with your favorite DirectShow media player or with the
(included) Media Player Classi"
"Search for videos in sites like
YouTube, DailyMotion, Yahoo, Megaupload, or Google at the same time. You can
watch, download, or save videos with just one click. Its embedded meta
search engine makes VDownloader different from other download managers. It
searches at the same time in the most popular video sites so you will easily
find the video you were looking for. Another strong point is the amount of
different output formats: It can download and save videos in: AVI, MPG, MP4,
iPhone-iPod, PSP, 3GP for mobile phones, DVD-VCD, MP3 (extracting audio from
videos). VDownloader is also a powerful video converter with multilingual
support (English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Czech, Slovak and
Japanese."
"With more than a million new downloads every months,
VirtualDJ is the most
widely used DJ software, and the uncontested leader of non-timecode digital
DJing. It has been used around the world for the past 10 years by bedroom
DJs and professional superstars alike to rock millions of parties, and has
been chosen by leading DJ brands such as Pioneer, Numark, Hercules, Denon,
Gemini, or Vestax, to be
included with most of their digital DJ controllers. With its cutting-edge
beatlock engine, your songs will always stay on the beat, and you can work
your mixes incredibly faster than any other DJ. The automatic seamless loop
engine and synchronized sampler will let you perform astounding remixes on
the fly. The video engine lets you mix and scratch music videos or karaoke
as easily as audio. With NetSearch and MusicGroups, you will stay on the
edge of the musical trends. And with the versatile VDJScript language and
hundreds of downloadable skins, you can tailor your software to your exact
needs. Whether you are a professional experienced DJ, or a music enthusiast,
VirtualDJ is all you need to get the party started.”"
"Wavosaur is a free sound editor,
audio editor, wav editor software for editing, processing and recording
sounds, wav and mp3 files. Wavosaur has all the features to edit audio (cut,
copy, paste, etc.) produce music loops, analyze, record, batch convert.
Wavosaur supports VST plugins, ASIO driver, multichannel wav files, real
time effect processing."
"Are you looking for an easy and fast
way to create home video DVD from video files, camcorder, webcam, Youtube
and personalize it with DVD chapter menu & subtitle (*.srt)? WinX DVD Author
is your ideal solution and it is totally free!
With step-by-step wizard built in, even novice can easily convert and burn
MKV, M2TS, M4V, MP4, FLV, MPEG, MOV, RM, RMVB, H.264, AVI to DVD, etc.
Equipped with fast and powerful decode encoder engine, this free DVD burner
software takes less than one hour to create a full 4.3 G high quality DVD,
while delivering 100% excellent audio and video effects. "
"It's software that allows you to
download videos from YouTube, including HD and HQ videos, and many others
and convert them to other video formats. The program is easy to use, just
specify the URL for the video you want to download and click the Ok! It also
allows you to convert downloaded videos for iPod, iPhone, PSP, Cell Phone,
Windows Media, XVid and MP3. Allows you to access YouTube videos for which
you need to be 18+ years of age. Now, plays videos downloaded."
Kingsoft Office Suite Free 2012 is a free office suite that offers a
number of features for creating, viewing and editing personal and business
documents. Kingsoft Office Free 2012 includes Kingsoft Writer, Kingsoft
Presentation and Kingsoft spreadsheets. These three reliable and versatile
programs are perfect for both personal use at home and for professional
businesses. They offer outstanding value at their listed cost compared to
competing office programs.
Kingsoft free office software suite is compatible with all of the latest
Microsoft Office file formats. It can easily open, read and write documents
created with Microsoft Office as well as a wide variety of other formats.
Microsoft Office can also open Kingsoft Office files without having Kingsoft
Office installed on the same computer.
It is fully compatible with Windows 7 (32bit,64bit)."
"LibreOffice is a productivity suite
that is compatible with other major office suites, and available on a
variety of platforms. It is free software and therefore free to download,
use and distribute. "
"Lotus Symphony was voted office
productivity software product of the year for 2008 by Datamation Magazine
readers. In what can only be described as an upset, relative newcomer, Lotus
Symphony, beat out Microsoft Office, OpenOffice 2.3.1, ThinkFree Office and
other nominees."
"PagePlus Starter Edition is an
amazing tool for designing fantastic print documents. This version is 100%
free and is yours to keep so
download it now and start creating fabulous documents!.
NeoOfiice is an open source office
suite for Mac OS X. NeoOffice is based on the source code of OpenOffice. It allows
you to edit MS Office documents as if you were using Office itself. Why pay
a lot of money for an office suite when you do not have to.
"Scribus is an open-source program
that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X,
OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new
approaches to page layout.
Underneath the modern and user friendly
interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK
color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation."
"Spicebird
is a collaboration client that provides integrated access to email,
contacts, calendaring and instant messaging in a single application. It
provides easy access to various web services while retaining all the
advantages of a desktop application. The application is based on projects
like
Thunderbird,
Lightning and
Telepathy
and adds more functionality and integration among its components."
“Ever forget about an important
message in your other e-mail accounts? Can’t find a message in the account
right in front of you? Zimbra Desktop is the next-generation email
application that makes e-mail easy again. Get e-mail, contacts, and calendar
all in one application. Easily set up Zimbra, Yahoo. Mail Plus, AOL and
Gmail email accounts with the Account Wizard. Any POP or IMAP email account
can be added to Zimbra Desktop, there’s no limit to the size of your email
storage, and Zimbra Desktop works online and offline"
"With AceMoney Lite, one can easily organize and track
spending, build budgets, track investment performance, set
up payment reminders and recurring bill payments, create
reports and pie charts, and so much more, for free."
“Avant Browser allows user to browse multiple Web sites
simultaneously and block all unwanted pop-up pages and Flash
Ads. Its comes with online profile storage. The AutoFills
help users to memorize web passwords. The integrated cleaner
helps user to clear all traces and keep privacy. Built-in
Yahoo search engine enables user to search for web pages and
images in Internet. “
Bitscast is an RSS reader/database/aggregator and a podcast
receiver/player. It handles all news feeds in RSS 0.9, 1.0,
2.0, ATOM 0.3 and 1.0; provides advanced supports for
multiple channels, subscription lists, and channel/list
management; supports OPML import/export and RSS feed
auto-detection. Bitscast also includes media (audio/video
software image) auto-downloader and local cache management;
podcast/video blog playback/cache, BitTorrent attachment
downloader; and database query tool, supported by Microsoft
JET engine. Version 0.13 added DHT support for BitTorrent
client.
“ClipCube is a tiny clipboard history tool under development
for Windows: it sits in the system tray, recording copied
text for later use. Allows viewing saved items and
re-copying them to the clipboard. It has an easy interface,
and fits in a pocket: a self-contained program that does not
need installation”
“Desktops allows you to organize your applications on up to four virtual
desktops. Read email on one, browse the web on the second, and do work in
your productivity software on the third, without the clutter of the windows
you’re not using. After you configure hotkeys for switching desktops, you
can create and switch desktops either by clicking on the tray icon to open a
desktop preview and switching window, or by using the hotkeys.”
"DraftSight is a professional-grade, open 2D CAD product for users who want
a better way to create, edit and view DWG files. DraftSight is easy to use
and is available for professional CAD users, students and educators to
download and activate for free.*"
“Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using
whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this
information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere. Use
Evernote to jot notes, create to-do lists, clip entire Web pages, manage
passwords, and record audio. Everything added to Evernote is automatically
synchronized across platforms and devices and made searchable. Evernote will
even recognize printed or handwritten text in photos and image”
"Floorplanner is the easiest, quickest, and best looking way to create and
share interactive floor plans. Using point-and-click, drag-and-drop tools,
you can make your house plan in minutes, and rearrange it as often as you
want. Then you can save, send, and print your designs to share them, or
place them on your own website."
Are you looking for a small and fast program that allows
you to view and print PDFS. If so check out Foxit.
This is a great alternative program to do just that?
Foxit offer the following advantages:
It launch very quickly
It is a lot smaller then Acrobat Reader. Foxit
Reader takes up only 2.1 Megabytes of hard disk space
compared to Acrobat Reader which takes up 20 Megabytes
of hard disk space.
It has a great Annotation tool which allows to
comment a PDF document when you are reading it. Foxit
Reader allows you to draw graphics, highlight text, type
text and make notes on a PDF document and then print out
or save the annotated document.
It allows you to easily convert a PDF into a text
file.
It does not call home without your permission, which
gives you more privacy.
"Free Pascal (aka FPK Pascal) is a 32 and 64 bit professional
Pascal compiler. It is available for different processors:
Intel x86, Amd64/x86_64, PowerPC, PowerPC64, Sparc, ARM. The
discontinued 1.0 version also supports the Motorola 680x0.
The following operating systems are supported: Linux,
FreeBSD, Haiku, Mac OS X/Darwin, DOS, Win32, Win64, WinCE,
OS/2, Netware (libc and classic) and MorphOS. "
"GnuCash is
personal and small-business financial-accounting software,
freely licensed under the GNU
GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and
Microsoft Windows.
Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful
and flexible, GnuCash allows
you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. As
quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is
based on professional accounting principles to ensure
balanced books and accurate reports. "
"InstantStorm is a powerful freeware Flash screensaver
creator that turns your Adobe Flash files (SWF)
into professional screensavers in no time. Unlike other
similar tools, InstantStorm is actually free of charge even
for commercial use and does not add any nag screens or other
annoying things to your output files. Apart from that you
can customize virtually anything: the settings dialog, the
installer (including all texts and images), the screensaver
behavior, and more. Need to build a complex corporate
screensaver, make your very own Flash screensaver for your
friends and family, or just convert your favorite Flash
movie to a screensaver for your own computer? InstantStorm
is the right program for you!"
A power toy for Window
XP, 2003 and Vista that allows you to burn to burn CD and DVD images, copy
disks, make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs and create ISO images
from a content of a disk folder.
“MonoDevelop is an IDE primarily designed for C# and other
.NET languages. MonoDevelop enables developers to quickly
write desktop and ASP.NET Web applications on Linux.
MonoDevelop makes it easy for developers to port .NET
applications created with Visual Studio to Linux and to
maintain a single code base for all platforms.” This
compiler is completely free.
“Miranda IM is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for
Windows. Very light on system resources and extremely fast,
Miranda IM requires no installation and can be made to fit
on a single floppy disk or USB drive. Featuring a powerful
plugin-based framework and boasting over 350 plugins,
Miranda IM is one of the most flexible and customisable
messaging clients on the planet."
"Nero BurnLite was great. But now it’s even faster and better
than ever as the new and improved Nero Kwik Burn app, which
is part of Nero Kwik Media. Get the same great features of
Nero BurnLite plus more from your burning, ripping and
copying activities with the all-new and free Nero Kwik
Burn."
From CNET:"Nero 9 Lite claims to be a full-service CD burning
program. While it looks like a great tool for burning data
and music disks, its trial limits kept us from truly finding
out what it can do."
Nitro's new free PDF reader takes the key features that you
want in a PDF reader, a familiar interface, and smooth
functionality and combines them into an eminently usable
program that doesn't get in between you and your documents.
Nitro has turned the free PDF alternative business model on
its ear by providing you with a smart selection of
watermark-free editing, drag-and-drop PDF creation, and
tabbed PDF reading.
To put it mildly, the feature set is robust. Users can
comment on PDFs using notes and text markup, fill out forms,
print to PDF, or create one by dragging an existing document
into Nitro, share and comment with others, and securely sign
a document. This may sound like standard PDF boilerplate,
but it's important to emphasize given that they're all free
here, and they all work well. The search utility isn't bad,
although it would be nice to see Windows 7-style federated
in-document searching. The drag-and-drop took a few seconds
to begin once initiated, but overall converting a four-page
Word document took about 2 minutes. The highlight tool will
switch automatically from box highlighting to character
highlighting, depending on whether you start highlighting in
an empty space or over some text. Nitro sports a
ribbon-style interface borrowed from the previously released
paid version of Nitro. This may still frustrate some users,
but it feels slick and connected to Microsoft Office. If you
don't like or need the ribbon, you can hide it with an arrow
that lives to the left of the search engine. You can also
customize the ribbon, placing your most commonly accessed
tools where you need them.
An open source program that adds the
capability to turn any document, picture, webpage, etc into a PDF that can
be read by Adobe Acrobat Reader by sending it to a PDF printer.
Would you like to have a set of applications that you can take where ever
you go. If so checkout
Portableapps.com.
This site contains many application that you can put on your USB drive and
take where every you go that you have access to a Windows PC.
Applications avaiable on the site include:
* 7-Zip Portable
* AbiWord Portable
* Audacity Portable
* ClamWin Portable
* FileZilla Portable
* Gaim Portable
* GIMP Portable
* KeePass Portable
* Miranda IM Portable
* Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition
* Mozilla Sunbird, Portable Edition
* Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition
* Nvu Portable & KompoZer Portable
* OpenOffice.org Portable
* PuTTY Portable
* Sudoku Portable
* Sumatra PDF Portable
* VLC Media Player Portable
One extra advantage about using Portable Applications is that all of your
personal settings stay on the USB drive. This helps to keep your
data private. To learn how to install Portableapps head over to
http://www.pcmechtv.com/2007/02/22/portableapps/
"PostBooks is a full-featured,
fully-integrated accounting, ERP, and CRM system, based on the award winning
xTuple ERP Suite. Built with the open source PostgreSQL database, and the
open source Qt framework for C++, it provides the ultimate in power and
flexibility for a range of businesses and industries." This is a frre
alternative to Quickbooks.
"RockMelt
is a new browser designed around you and how you use the Web. RockMelt does
more than just navigate Web pages. It makes it easy for you to do the things
you do every single day on the Web: share and keep up with your friends,
stay up-to-date on news and information, and search. And of course, RockMelt
is fast, secure, and stable because it's built on Chromium, the open source
project behind Google's Chrome browser."
The Sunbird Project is a redesign of
the Mozilla Calendar component. The goal is to produce a cross platform
standalone calendar application based on Mozilla’s XUL user interface
language. Sunbird is the standalone form of the Mozilla Calendar. Both use
the same base code so their functionality is the same and they share the
same bugs and bug fixes. The intended user is someone who uses Mozilla
Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird and wants a calendar application based on
Mozilla.
Mac/Windows/Linux “
"TeamViewer is a simple and fast
solution for remote control, desktop sharing and file transfer that works
behind any firewall and NAT proxy. To connect to another computer just run
TeamViewer on both machines without the need of an installation procedure.
With the first start automatic partner IDs are generated on both computers.
Enter your partner’s ID into TeamViewer and the connection is established
immediately. With over 100 million users TeamViewer is a standard tool to
give support and assistance to people in remote locations. The software can
also be used for presentations, where you can show your own desktop to a
partner.”
"UltraVNC
is a powerful, easy to use and free software that can display the screen of
another computer (via internet or network) on your own screen. The program
allows you to use your mouse and keyboard to control the other PC remotely.
It means that you can work on a remote computer, as if you were sitting in
front of it, right from your current location. If you provide computer
support, you can quickly access your customer's computers from anywhere in
the world and resolve helpdesk issues remotely! With addons like
SingleClick your customers don't
even have to pre-install software or execute complex procedures to get
remote helpdesk support. "
A great set of programs from
Microsoft that include a blogging program, email client, movie maker, photo
gallery,and several other programs. Check it out.
A download manager for Bittorrent
files which are files that allow you to download more than one source.
This often speeds up downloads, and cuts download on the amount of bandwidth
that any one provider must provide.
ZoomIt is screen zoom and annotation
tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations.
ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable
hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and
draw on the zoomed image. I wrote ZoomIt to fit my specific needs and use it
in all my presentations.
A great free program that searches your PC for programs that report where
you go on the internet back to a piece of software's author (Spyware), and
allows you to disable, or delete it.
"One of the first applications built to find and remove
malware and spyware, Ad-Aware's reputation has been
well-justified. The latest version adroitly addresses some
user concerns, yet performance-based annoyances remain. "
"All-In-One Tray v1.0 (AIOT) is a minimize to tray
application, but to think its for just minimize to tray is
not enough so I added more usefull feature, maybe more to be
added in the future. "
"“You probably know that you need a firewall program to use
the Internet safely. In addition to protecting you against
attacks from the Internet, a good firewall will also tell
you when programs installed on your computer are trying to
phone home and enable you to prevent them from doing it.
This is something that Windows® own firewall doesn’t do, and
it’s essential for identifying and stopping the activities
of many malicious virus and spyware programs. For example,
this enables you to prevent your computer from being turned
into a “zombie” controlled by spammers or destructive
hackers.”"
"Avast Home Edition is a complete
ICSA & Checkmark certified antivirus, Checkmark certified anti-spyware &
anti-rootkit package. Avast includes the following components: On demand
scanner with skinnable simple interface, just select what do you want to
scan in which way and press the Play button; On access scanner, special
providers to protect the most of available e-mail clients; Instant
messaging--ICQ, Miranda; Network traffic--intrusion detection, lightweight
firewall; P2P protection for Kazaa, BitTorrent; Web shield--monitors and
filters all HTTP traffic; NNTP scanner--scans all Usenet Newsgroup traffic
and all operations with files on PC; Boot time scanner--scans disks in the
same way and in the same time as Windows CHKDSK does."
"Bitdefender Free Edition uses the
same ICSA Labs certified scanning engines found in other Bitdefender
products, allowing you to enjoy basic virus protection for no cost at all."
"CopyWipe™ is a utility for copying or securely overwriting
(wiping/erasing) entire hard drives. CopyWipe can ease and expedite the
transition to a new hard drive by copying the entire contents of one drive
to another. CopyWipe can also help prevent confidential or private data from
being recovered, by securely wiping the contents of a drive. A number of
options are provided for wiping, most of which exceed governmental standards
(such as DoD 5220.22-M, NAVSO P-5239-26, etc.); this allows the user to
choose an optimal balance between security and duration of the wiping
operation."
Click on Delete is an easy to use file
shredder.
All you have to do is right click on the file , choose Securely Delete from
the context menu, and confirm deletion for the file to be permanently
deleted.
A free VPN client that
that allows you can organize two or more computers with an Internet
connection into their own virtual network for direct secure communication
"Malware Fighter’s user interface is
typical of system utilities, despite its unique colors scheme and design:
large fonts, rounded edges, and ads (someone has to pay; just be glad it’s
not you!) as well as tabs accessing the program’s Overview, Scan, Protect,
and Cloud features. Clicking Quarantine called up a dialog listing
suspicious files (if any). The Protect page offers 8 separate guard options:
Startup, Browser, Network, File, Cookie, Process, USB Disk, and Malicious
Action. The Cloud Security page lets users upload their data to IObit’s
Cloud security site. After updating the database, we scanned our system. By
default, the first scan is the program’s Smart Scan, but subsequently we
could choose it or Full or Custom scans. The scan took a little more than
three minutes and found no malware. A full scan took much longer, though. We
also ran Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware, which many consider the standard in
free anti-malware tools. But it found nothing that IObit’s tool missed."
"Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10is designed to scan and disinfect x86 and x64-compatible computers
that have been infected. The application should be used when the infection
is at such level that it is impossible to disinfect the computer using
anti-virus applications or malware removal utilities (such as
Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool) running under the operating
system. In this case, disinfection is more efficient because malware
programs do not gain control when the operating system is being loaded."
"KeePass Portable is the popular
KeePass Password Safe packaged as a portable app, so you can securely carry
your email, internet and other passwords with you. You can place it on your
USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any
computer, without leaving any personal information behind."
'KeePass is a free open source
password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way.
You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one
master key or a key file. So you only have to remember one single master
password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. The databases
are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently
known (AES and Twofish). For more information, see the
features page.
"
"LastPass
is the last password you will ever need. It allows you to: Create strong
passwords, knowing you only have to remember one. LastPass has addons for:
Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari (for Mac), Google Chrome, and works with
other browsers with Bookmarklets (e.g. Opera). LastPass uses Host Proof
Hosting techniques to synchronize your passwords all while LastPass never
has access to your sensitive data. LastPass offers a premium upgrade as well
for mobile access on iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Google Android,
Palm webOS, and Symbian phones. "
"Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is an
anti-malware application that can thoroughly remove even the most advanced
malware. It includes a number of features, including a built in protection
monitor that blocks malicious processes before they even start."
"The Microsoft Safety Scanner is a
free downloadable security tool that provides on-demand scanning and helps
remove viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. It works with your
existing antivirus software."
"Microsoft Security Essentials is a
free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and
always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the
latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re
green, you’re good. It’s that simple."
"Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper
Beta is not a replacement for a full antivirus solution providing ongoing
protection; it is meant to be used in situations where you cannot start your
PC due to a virus or other malware infection. For no-cost, real-time
protection that helps guard your home or small business PCs against viruses,
spyware, and other malicious software, download
Microsoft Security Essentials*."
Another security scanner Nmap
("Network Mapper") is a free open source utility for network exploration or
security auditing. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, although
it works fine against single hosts. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways
to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services
(application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating
systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet
filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. Nmap runs
on most types of computers and both console and graphical versions are
available. Nmap is free and open source
"Paragon Backup & Recovery 10.2 Free Edition - a disaster recovery tool for
stand-alone Windows-based PCs. Combining all the existing backup techniques
and exclusive recovery environments, this latest edition satisfies the needs
of even the most demanding user and is simply the most powerful free backup
tool available today"
"“Partitioning is not for amateurs. That is why millions of
people have trusted our safe, stable technology and
professional software solutions for over 15 years. Our
latest 11 version easily organizes your hard drive and
redistributes free space to enhance system performance.”
"
"When you browse the Web, changes occur to your computer
system. Some harmless, like recording the addresses of Web
sites you have visited, so the browser can help you complete
a Web address that you type in. Some more harmful, like the
unsolicited installation of malware. When you use Sandboxie
to protect your browsing session, it catches all these
changes just as the browser is about to apply them into your
computer system. Sandboxie does record these changes on
behalf of the browser, but it records them in a special
isolated folder, called the sandbox. Thus, with Sandboxie,
you can browse the Web securely while still keeping all your
browser's functionality for active and dynamic content, such
as Javascript and ActiveX. All undesired side effects,
including the removal of malware, can be easily undone."
"The Secunia PSI allows you to scan, detect, check, and secure
the applications installed on your computer. Get an
assessment of the applications installed on your computer
are they insecure, end-of-life, or patched. The Secunia PSI
enables you to secure your applications, and to quickly and
easily upgrade to new and secure versions of applications
installed on your computer. Providing a graphical
presentation of your performance week by week."
"Secure Password Manager (Free) is well designed to let you
store and track names, passwords, credit cards, software
serial numbers and confidential notes in an encrypted form
securely and easily. It can autofill in your login
information in any application (IE, Netscape, Opera, ICQ,
MSN...). "
A free program that searches your PC for programs that report where you go
on the internet back to a piece of software's author (Spyware), and allows
you to disable, or delete it.
"Spyware Terminator includes
Real-Time Protection, HIPS, and antivirus. Effectively remove spyware,
adware, trojans, keyloggers, home page hijackers, and malware threats even
dangerous threats like Conficker, Mail Skinner or Trojan Vundo. Spyware
Terminator is easy-to-use, requires minimal PC resources, and performs ultra
fast scans. Protect your computer with powerful real-time protection shield,
advanced system scanning and safe quarantine for found spyware. Scan your
computer manually or schedule full system sweeps. Perform in-depth scans of
your computer's hard drives, memory, process, registry and cookies to seek
out and remove all known spyware threats."
"SUPERAntiSpyware
will remove all the spyware, not just the easy ones. Quick, complete and
custom scanning of hard drives, removable drives, memory, registry,
individual folders and more. Includes trusting items, and excluding folders
for complete customization of scanning. Detect and remove spyware, adware,
malware, Trojans, dialers, worms, key loggers, hijackers, parasites, root
kits and many other types of threats. Light on system resources and won't
slow down your computer like many other anti-spyware products. Repair broken
internet connections, desktops, registry editing and more with our unique
repair system. Real-time blocking of threats. Prevent potentially harmful
software from installing or re-installin"
"Traditional antivirus solutions
cannot protect you until after they have discovered a new threat and
produced a signature to counter it. ThreatFire does not rely on signatures,
but instead provides behavior-based protection. It is designed to be used
alongside your existing antivirus software and it fills the gap in
protection between your antivirus signature updates. ThreatFire protects you
against major security threats including viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits
and even some spyware. Its advanced ActiveDefense technology intelligently
analyzes the behavior of processes and programs on a system and immediately
halts any malicious action. It continuously monitors all activities on your
PC at a very low system level and uses a proprietary combination of
analytics, risk algorithms, program histories and tolerance thresholds to
identify and shut down threats so you are always protected, no matter how
new the threat. ThreatFire is easy to use, instantly effective, and very
light on system resources
"True System Security Tweaker
is a freeware security utility for tweaking and optimizing Windows operating
system. It can simply be used as a portable application to customize and
secure your PC to meet your safety requirements. You can define access level
to lots of Control Panel applet functions including Desktop, Network,
Passwords, Printers, System, Add/Remove Programs, etc."
A program that tells
you in plain English what programs are started up when Windows loads. Also
tells you about browser helpers, Cookies and scheduled tasks. The program
barks when a program in memory behaves like spyware.
"If you think your PC is slow, help is at hand. 360Amigo System Speedup is a
new PC optimization and error repair utility that dramatically improves the
performance of your PC. 360Amigo System Speedup includes a System Cleaner, a
System Optimizer, and a wide range of System Tools designed exclusively to
boost PC performance. Both beginners and experienced users will enjoy the
available features and options and the simple application interface. With
the click of a button all common computer errors can be fixed. In a
nutshell, 360Amigo System Speedup offers a Registry Cleaner to detect and
remove all bad entries from the PC, it optimizes Windows for faster start-up
times and stops runaway Processes that may take up all of the processors’
cycles.”
"7plus is a free open-source program which aspires to make working with
Windows as comfortable as possible. The feature set it adds to Windows
ranges from interface extensions to the explorer to highly specialized
solutions for all common tasks, with the goal of reducing the work load for
the user. This feature-rich system, powered by Autohotkey, provides very
powerful configuration capabilities to suit the needs you have and those
that you have but not know of yet!"
"AIDA32 is a professional system information,
diagnostics and benchmarking program running on Win32 platforms. It extracts
details of all components of the PC. It can display information on the
screen, print it, or save it to file in various formats like HTML, CSV or
XML. For corporate users, AIDA32 offers command-line switches, network audit
and audit statistics, remote system information and network management. "
"Absolute Uninstaller is similar to standard
Windows Add/Remove program but more powerful. The standard Add/Remove
program can't uninstall applications completely which often leaves broken
registry keys, unnecessary files on the hard disk. The more junk files your
computer has, the slower it runs. Absolute Uninstaller can wipe off all the
junk files clearly in seconds. It offers a more user-friendly way to remove
unneeded applications and to improve your computer efficien"
"Autorun management has never been so easy! In just a few clicks, you can
put any program, file, folder, or Internet connection on a special list, and
then it will start automatically whenever you log into your system. Advanced
Startup Manager's user-friendly interface, its full support of drag & drop,
fast operation, and reliability make it your unfailing helper."
"Slow down, freeze, crash, and
security threats are over. Advanced SystemCare Free is a comprehensive PC
care utility that takes a one-click approach to help protect, repair, and
optimize your computer. It provides an all-in-one and super convenient
solution for PC maintenance and protection. All work will be done with 1
click and 1 minute. Compared with its nearest competitor, Advanced
SystemCare Free provides the more essential and practical formula for
Windows: Removing Spyware and Adware, Preventing Security Threats, Privacy
Protection, Fixing Registry Errors, Temporary Files Cleanup, Startup
Cleanup, Repairing Windows, Speeding up System and 1-click Mechanism."
"Disk
Defrag will speed up your computer by optimizing file system. It can
defragment files, consolidate free space and move system files to the faster
part of the disk. With Disk Defrag you'll get the maximum out of your hard
drive performance. It is supplied with a powerful engine and smart
algorithms which allow Disk Defrag to run much faster than similar tools.
And with its comprehensive reports you will always be aware of what have
been done. Disk Defrag features: fast and safe defragmentation of the disk
drives; optimization of clusters' structure and file system for even better
disk performance
A great program from Systeminternals
which allows you to to control which programs load at startup.
This is what they have to say about the program "This utility, which has the
most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup
monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup
or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them.
These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other
Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations,
including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects,
Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns
goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP."
"AutoSaver is a free portable tool that saves the file on
which you are working after an interval of time that you can set. It works
on all apps that support the hotkey CTRL + s."
Bart's PE Builder helps you build a "BartPE"
(Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the
original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very
suitable for PC maintenance tasks.
“The
Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of
your installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft
hotfixes, anti-virus status,
CIS
(Center for Internet Security) benchmarks, and displays the
results in your Web browser."
"BleachBit quickly frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and easily
guards your privacy. Erase cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history,
remove unused localizations, shred logs, and delete temporary files.
Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 70 applications
including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari,
Adobe Reader, APT, and
more."
Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such
as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide
traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make
it faster.
“The BootMed
Live CD
is an Ubuntu Remix for those new to Linux. It's main goal is to help the
average Windows user to recover a computer that will not boot. Besides
troubleshooting boot problems, there are many
other things
that BootMed can guide you through. The first thing you need to know about
BootMed is that it is a
live cd.
A live cd is basically a
boot disk
on a cd. You put BootMed cd in your computer, turn it on, and the computer
will load an operating system from the cd. The operating system on the cd is
completely independent of your hard drive, meaning that it will boot up even
if Windows cannot.”
“Boot Snooze will give you a choice to reboot and go into standby or
hibernation. It will then reboot your computer. After the reboot, a small
dialog with a countdown timer will begin. After the timer is up, your
computer will be put into the mode you chose. You can set the delay time for
these operations.”"
I âm very happy to report that Thomas Reimann and his crew have released a
new version of CachemanXP (and are apparently working on a Cacheman for
Vista, too - which I can’t wait to see). Here’s what’s new in this version:
Improved Dual Core processor support (Intel and AMD).
Several new Cache settings and Tweaks.
Extended Process information.
Sortable Process list.
Allows to change CPU Priority of all programs, including system processes.
Ability to hide Automatic Updates restart dialog.
Two, fully configurable Tray Icons.
Auto-Optimize finetuned for latest computer systems.
GUI redesigned to (optionally) take less screen space.
This has always been one of my favorite Windows tweaking tools (if only due
to its simplicity and ease of use). Fits in pretty well with tonight’s
discussion on “Dual Core†and what it means to the average userâ€
"CCleaner is a system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files
from your system--allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable
hard disk space. It cleans: Internet Explorer (temporary files, URL history,
cookies, autocomplete form history, index.dat); Firefox (temporary files,
URL history, cookies, download history); Windows (Recycle Bin, Recent
Documents, Temporary files, and Log files); Registry cleaner (advanced
features to remove unused and old entries, including file extensions,
ActiveX controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help
Files, application paths, icons, and invalid shortcuts. So comes with a
comprehensive backup feature."
"Classic Shell is a collection of features that were
available in older versions of Windows but are removed from Vista and
Windows 7. It has a classic start menu for Windows 7, it adds a toolbar for
Windows Explorer and supports a variety of smaller features. Look
here for the
full list.”
"Clonezilla is a partition or disk clone tool
similar to Norton Ghost. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard
drive. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla
SE (Server Edition).Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup
and restore. While Clonezilla SE is for massive deployment, it can clone
many (40 plus) computers simultaneously."
application from CNET that helps keep the software on your computer
up-to-date and secure. TechTracker works by scanning the software installed
on your computer and alerting you when updates are available. Keeping
software up-to-date is important because updates often contain patches that
make your computer more secure and new features that make your software
better.
TechTracker leverages the CNET Download.com software catalog -- the
largest catalog of software in the world -- to provide secure, spyware-free
software updates. TechTracker makes it easy to keep track of all your
software updates in one place and ensure you are running the latest
versions. “
"Clean your Windows registry with one click of the mouseMake your computer
more stable by repairing and optimizing your registry
Ever wondered why
your computer has got slower and slower as time passes? Problems with the
registry can make a Windows system slower, less reliable and in extreme
cases, totally unusable. That's why you need Comodo Registry Cleaner:
Eliminate junk registry entries that cause crashes, system slow down
and other errors
Schedule scans to run automatically at a time you prefer
Comprehensive backup system means you can easily undo any changes
Program Start Manager feature delivers even greater performance
boosts
Developed by Comodo - creators of the award-winning Comodo Firewall
Pro
Free!!
Maximize the stability and performance of your PC without paying a
penny!"
"Comodo Time Machine (CTM) is a powerful system rollback utility that allows
users to quickly restore their computers to an earlier point in time. CTM
'snapshots' are a complete record of your entire system (including the
registry, critical operating system files and user created documents)."
Console is a Windows console window enhancement. Console features include:
multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types,
alpha and color-key transparency, configurable font, different window styles
"Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 29000
packages, precompiled
software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine"
"Use Defraggler to defrag your entire hard drive, or individual files -
unique in the industry. This compact and portable Windows application
supports NTFS and FAT32 file systems."
"Device Doctor is a freeware Windows application that scans your
computer hardware and checks to see if there are new driver updates
available for your devices. It also locates drivers for "unidentified
devices" in the Windows Device Manager”
DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and
backing up partitions and logical drives.
The program allows you to:
Image creation uses Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Services (VSS), allowing
you to create safe “hot images†even from drives currently in use.
Images are stored in XML files, allowing you to process them with 3rd
party tools. Never again be stuck with a useless backup!
Restore images to drives without having to reboot.
DriveImage XML runs under Windows XP Home, XP Professional and Windows
Server 2003 only. The program will backup, image and restore drives
formatted with FAT 12, 16, 32 and NTFS. â€
Double Driver is a very simple and useful tool which not only allows you to
view all the drivers installed on your system but also allows you to backup,
restore, save and print all chosen drivers.
"From
Innovative Solutions : DriverMax is a powerful free utility which helps
you download, back up and restore the drivers installed on your Windows
Vista or Windows XP computer and check if newer versions are available.
Download all drivers from one place in just a few steps. Or back them up so
you will have all of them in a single place and will be able to reinstall
them in a few minutes. This tool can save you a lot of time when
reinstalling Windows, especially on older computers for which the original
CDs containing the drivers have been lost. You no longer have to track down
old driver installation CDs, insert one installation CD after another or
spend hours searching for drivers on the Internet. DriverMax is also able to
display a detailed report about all drivers (versions, release dates)
installed on your system. Identify unknown devices in your computer and get
Windows Vista rating information before you purchase new hardware.”
"“The Dude is a unique network monitor that incorporates an interactive map
of your network layout, that helps you visualize the structure of your
network and provides direct access to network functions specific to each
item. It can automatically discover your local network and draw a
preliminary layout that can be further customized and saved. You can
manually add items, customize the icons and captions used for each device
and connect nodes with lines and other drawing tools. The program supports
various network monitoring tasks from simple ping checks to port probes and
service checks. Other features include history logging, outage notifications
(email, beep, popup, eventlog), SNMP support, map export to PDF or PNG as
well as customizable interface layouts and more.”"
"This uninstaller is a fast, advanced, powerful, and easy-to-use replacement
for Windows' slow and user-unfriendly Add/Remove control panel applet. It
comes with functions such as multiple uninstallations in one go, an
uninstall list backup manager, and the option to delete an uninstaller key
entry."
"Windows 7 is fast and it is quite
satisfying in the role of replacing Windows XP and Vista, but you can make
it much faster and responsible with EnhanceMySe7en.
EnhanceMySe7en helps users to control many aspects of the system with
maximum convenience.
You will get everything needed for maintaining Windows 7 in a perfect
condition. The program offers tools that take care of the registry, disk
space and its defragmentation, installed software, HDD temperature and all
sorts of things related to system's health. Also there are lots of other
options helping to boost your system's performance.
With a clean and simple interface it brings you an All-in-One set of
powerful and neatly classified tools, settings and tweaks."
"Free and powerful data recovery software to recover 1 GB
data free of charge. It solves all data loss problems - recover files
emptied from Recycle Bin, or lost due to software crash, formatted or
damaged hard drive, virus attack, lost partition and other unknown reasons
under Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008 / 7. It recovers data from
formatted partitions with original file names and storage paths. Moreover,
the free data recovery software works well with dynamic disk, RAID and
EXT2/EXT3 file system."
"Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft's
Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft
Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference
between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run
Disk2vhd on a system that’s online. Disk2vhd uses Windows' Volume Snapshot
capability, introduced in Windows XP, to create consistent point-in-time
snapshots of the volumes you want to include in a conversion. You can even
have Disk2vhd create the VHDs on local volumes, even ones being converted
(though performance is better when the VHD is on a disk different than ones
being converted)"
"Disk Copy is a potent freeware providing sector to sector disk or partition
copy regardless of your operating system, file systems and partition scheme.
The sector to sector method assures you a copy identity to original. It can
be used for backup, cloning, or upgrading your original small hard drive to
a new larger drive. Simply speaking, it can backup anything from old hard
drive including deleted, lost files and inaccessible data."
"Eusing Free Registry Cleaner is a free registry repair software that allows
you to safely clean and repair registry problems with a few simple mouse
clicks. After scanning and fixing the invalid entries, your system will be
more stable and run faster. For maximum safety, Eusing Free Registry Cleaner
will make a backup of the repaired entries. You will be able to restore any
changes made using the software by choosing Restore registry backup."
"Fresh Diagnose is a utility designed to
analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark
many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, hard disk performance,
video system information, mainboard / motherboard information, and much
more..."
"FreeDOS is a free DOS-compatible operating system for IBM-PC compatible
systems. FreeDOS is made of up many different, separate programs that act as
"packages" to the overall FreeDOS Project."
"Fresh UI is a fresh solution for configuring and
optimizing Windows. Loaded with hundreds of useful hidden settings in
Windows XP/2000/NT/ 98/95/Me, this software covers the customizing and
optimizing techniques that you'll be glad to know, such as: Customizing
Windows User Interface (UI); Optimizing system settings; Optimizing hardware
settings; Customizing Windows application settings; Controlling user
environment with policies. Fresh UI is organized by section for easy
navigation and completed with detail descriptions for easy reference."
"One Click A Day For PC Maintenance, Keeps Any PC Problems Away. With
millions of worldwide users, the first-rank & free Glary Utilities is an
indispensable friend for your PC, with its 100% safe, thorough & quick
cleaning and worry-free restoration. Glary Utilities is a freeware with
registry and disk cleaning, privacy protection, performance accelerator and
amazing multifunctional tools. It can fix dogged registry errors, wipe off
clutters, optimize internet speed, safeguard confidential files and maintain
maximum performance. It is designed for both novice and professionals.
User-friendly interface shows clear & detailed directions."
"Hardware Freak is a small utility that will give you various information
about your system. You can view CPU, BIOS, Motherboard, RAM Memory, Graphics
card, Sound card, Hard Drive, External storage devices, Operating system,
Optical Media, Networking, Printers, Keyboard, Mouse, and USB Ports info
with ease. If you ever had any question about any of the listed components,
this utility will provide you with the answer, giving you the full picture
about your system."
"Input Director is designed for those folks that
have two (or more) Windows systems set up at home. Using Input Director,
position the monitors of your systems side-by-side and then you can control
them via one keyboard/mouse. To transition between systems is as simple as
moving the cursor off the screen on one system and it'll pop up on the next
screen (similar to a multi-monitor setup) or via a hotkey combo. You can
also share clipboards."
"JDiskReport enables you to understand how much space the files and
directories consume on your disk drives, and it helps you find obsolete
files and folders."
"JkDefrag is a disk defragmenter
and optimizer for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/X64. Completely automatic
and very easy to use, fast, low overhead, with several optimization
strategies, and can handle floppies, USB disks, memory sticks, and anything
else that looks like a disk to Windows. Included are a Windows version, a
commandline version (for scheduling by the task scheduler or for use from
administrator scripts), a screensaver version, a DLL library (for use from
programming languages), versions for Windows X64, and the complete sources.
"
“The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and
comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use.
Started in 2006, Linux Mint is now the 4th most widely used home
operating system behind Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS and Canonical’s
Ubuntu.
Some of the reasons for the success of Linux Mint are:
It works out of the box, with full multimedia support and is
extremely easy to use.
It’s both free of cost and open source.
It’s community-driven. Users are encouraged to send feedback to the
project so that their ideas can be used to improve Linux Mint.
Based on Debian and Ubuntu, it provides about 30,000 packages and
one of the best software managers.
It’s safe and reliable. Thanks to a conservative approach to
software updates, a unique Update Manager and the robustness of its
Linux architecture, Linux Mint requires very little maintenance (no
regressions, no antivirus, no anti-spyware…etc).”
"“The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is
a freeware utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install
windows from your registry. It works on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Server
2003, Windows Vista, Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007.”
"Macrium Reflect Free Edition. An
award winning disk imaging solution for free. A complete disaster recovery
solution for your home and office. Protect your personal documents, photos,
music and e-mails. Upgrade your hard disk or try new operating systems in
the safe knowledge that everything is securely saved in an easily recovered
backup file. Macrium Reflect supports backup to local, network and USB
drives as well as burning to all DVD formats."
"“MoveOnBoot is a simple utility that
helps you to manage locked file system resources. It allows you to rename,
move or delete any file and folder, locked by system or another application.
MoveOnBoot doesn’t terminate processes that hold locks, to unlock resources.
Instead, it utilizes a much safer approach – it uses standard Windows
mechanism for file system resources management immediately after the system
restart, but before launching services and applications. This approach
prevents resources locking by system processes and applications, so they can
be renames, moved or deleted with no problems.”"
"NetWorx is a simple and free, yet
powerful tool that helps you objectively evaluate your bandwidth situation.
You can use it to collect bandwidth usage data and measure the speed of your
Internet or any other
network connection. NetWorx can help you identify possible
sources of network problems, ensure that you do not exceed the bandwidth
limits specified by your ISP, or track down suspicious network activity
characteristic of Trojan horses and hacker attacks. "
"Optimized at approximately 45MB, the
Parted Magic OS employs core programs of GParted and Parted to handle
partitioning tasks with ease, while featuring other useful programs (e.g.
Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, and ddrescue) and an excellent
set of documentation to benefit the user. An extensive collection of
fileystem tools are also included, as Parted Magic supports the following:
ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs,
reiser4, and xfs."
A free alternative to
Partition Magic, and DriveImage. This program allows you to create,
delete, format, defragment, and move partitions and modify their
attributes. It can copy entire hard disks from one to another.
"Working as partition magic, Partition Wizard Home Edition is a free
partition manager designed by
MT Solution Ltd. This partition software supports 32/64 bit Windows
Operating System. Home users can perform complicated partition operations by
using this powerful but free partition manager to manage their hard disk
partition such as Resizing partitions, Copying partitions, Create partition,
Delete partition, Format partition, Convert partition, Explore partition,
Hide partition, Change drive letter, Set active partition, Convert Dynamic
Disk to Basic Disk, Surface Test, Change Partition Serial Number, Change
Partition Type ID and Partition Recovery."
"Paragon Backup & Recovery 10.2 Free Edition - a disaster recovery tool for
stand-alone Windows-based PCs. Combining all the existing backup techniques
and exclusive recovery environments, this latest edition satisfies the needs
of even the most demanding user and is simply the most powerful free backup
tool available today."
"Ubuntu is a great OS and undoubtedly the most popular and easiest Linux
based Distro to use but even with its default setup and chosen programs it's
still lacking functionality and ease of use for most new users. So what I
decided to do was build a Distro that looks good, could do everything most
user would ever want to do and that was very simple to use. "
“Portable Startup Utility is a small tool designed to start application
where your portable device is pluged in.Some features of Portable Startup
Utility: PSU will launch applications with optional arguments from your USB
drive; PSU will launch Portable Apps Menu from
PortableAppsPortableAppsMenuPortableAppsMenu.exe; PSU will optionally wait
for PAM to exit and automatically run cleanup option; PSU will optionally
set an environment variable you can use in config and ini file in place of
the drive letter; and PSU will optionally substitute a drive letter which
can be used for applications that need a fixed drive letter. B: is probably
the best choice since most PC's don't use B. This version is the first
release on CNET
Download.com.â€
"The PC Decrapifier is designed to remove a
specific list unwanted software in an unattended fashion. Before running,
the user may select exactly what software should be removed. Currently, it
is targeted for use on The PC Decrapifier is a program designed to remove or
uninstall a specific list unwanted software in an unattended fashion. It can
be used to clean off most of the annoying software that is typically shipped
with newer PCs."
"Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now
you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about
which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.The Process
Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always
shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their
owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window
depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle
mode you'll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has
opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you'll see the DLLs and
memory-mapped files that the process has loaded. Process Explorer
also has a powerful search capability that will quickly show you which
processes have particular handles opened or DLLs loaded."
The unique capabilities of Process Explorer make it useful for
tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks, and provide insight into
the way Windows and applications work.
"ProduKey is a small utility that displays the ProductID and the CD-Key of
Microsoft Office (Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007), Windows
(Including Windows 7 and Windows Vista), Exchange Server, and SQL Server
installed on your computer. You can view this information for your current
running operating system, or for another operating system/computer - by
using command-line options. This utility can be useful if you lost the
product key of your Windows/Office, and you want to reinstall it on your
computer. "
"Process Tamer is a tiny and efficient utility
that runs on your system tray and constantly checks the CPU usage of other
processes. When it sees a process that is overloading your CPU, it reduces
the priority of that process temporarily, until its CPU usage returns to a
reasonable level."
"Using a virtual desktop manager you will be able
to organize applications over several "virtual" desktops. Portable VirtuaWin
application was designed to be a simple, easy use yet still highly
configurable and extensible virtual desktop manager. Virtual desktops are
very common in the Unix community and once getting used to this, it is very
hard to manage without it."
"PhotoRec is
file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video,
documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the
Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the file
system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if
your media's file system has been severely damaged or reformatted. “"
"Puran Defrag Free Edition is a fully automatic disk defrag utility. Simply
install, do the initial automatic defrag setup and forget defragmentation
forever.Its features include directories consolidation for speed boost,
optimization by freeing space, automatic defragmentation for worry free
defrag,boot time defragmentation for system files like MFT,low priority
defrag for work while defrag experience,individual file or folder Defrag for
selective defrag, GUI and Console Command Line Defrag Supported, restart or
shutdown After Boot Time Defragmentation, file or folder Exclusion or
exclusion by wildcard facility"
"Rescue Kit professionally fixes boot problems as well as retrieves your
data when your system fails to boot. It even rescues deleted partitions.
All, you need to do to achieve complete control over any situation is burn
the software on your CD/DVD!"
"Resload Notifier is a mini tool that
allows windows users to set notification messages according to their CPU
usage. You can easily monitor your running processes and get alerted
whenever their CPU usage reaches a specific value. User can also select what
will happen to the application after the warning is shown: either bring it
to front or close it. With customizable notifications and the option to hide
the application to tray, it will neither be annoying nor difficult to use."
“Revo Uninstaller is a freeware
innovative uninstall utility much faster than Windows Add/Remove applet.
With its advanced and fast algorithm, Revo Uninstaller scans before and
after you uninstall an application. After the program's regular uninstaller
runs, you can remove additional unnecessary files, folders and registry keys
that are usually left over on your computer. Even if you have a broken
installation, Revo Uninstaller scans for an application's data on your hard
disk drives and in the Windows registry and shows all found files, folders
and registry items so you can delete them.”"
"Returnil's System Safe products
combine virus protection with powerful system restore feature which lets you
sleep at night knowing your computer is protected!"
"Recovers files
from disks with physical damage. Allows you to
copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors,
scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will
attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces
together. Using this method most types of files can be made useable even if
some parts of the file were not recoverable in the end."
“RocketDock is a smoothly animated,
alpha blended application launcher. It provides a nice clean interface to
drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item
completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from
the dock.Now with added Taskbar support your minimized windows can appear as
icons on the dock. This allows for better productivity and accessibility.”
A great program that gives you detail
information about your BIOS, chip set, the motherboard, and more. It
also allows to perform burn test ( to see if components will fail or not)
"Semper Driver Backup - great
freeware solution to easily backup your Windows driver files. Great
especially for re-installing or building Windows on multiple systems"
“If you’ve ever gotten a new PC and
it came loaded with promotional programs, toolbars, links to advertising or
trial offers, then you know how frustrating these things can be.
Community-powered feedback is the key to SlimComputer’s state-of-the-art
cleaning. In real time, SlimComputer assesses your new PC to identify
programs, toolbars, and startup entries that users vote "optional". You can
then use this data to decide what you want to keep on your computer.”
“Speccy is an advanced System
Information tool for your PC. Need to find out what’s inside your computer?
No problem! Speccy will give you all the information you need.”"
"Allows one to view and manage all the
programs that are starting automatically whenever operating system is
loading. It enumerates all the hidden registry entries, startup folders'
items and some of the initialization files, so that the user could choose to
temporarily disable selected entries, edit them, create new, or delete them
permanently.
Secondary purpose is to list all the running processes with possibility to
view extended process' information (such as used DLLs, memory usage, thread
count, priorities etc.), and to terminate selected process (even a Windows
NT service, having enough access rights). "
Another one is Windows' services (and drivers) manager with some advanced
features.
Starter is a real Freeware and is not crippled in any way among the similar
products. The user interface is pretty simple and has a lot of options that
are self-explanatory.
"Startup Delayer allows you to
configure which programs to start first and which ones to delay when your
computer is rebooted. You can set a custom delay for each one, even drag the
visual display graph which shows you exactly how your programs are starting
and allows you to easily modify the order or adjust delay times"
This program allows you to manage
shell Extensions. Shell Extensions are in-process COM objects which
extends the abilities of Windows operating system. Most shell extensions are
automatically installed by the operating system, but there are also many
other applications that install additional shell extension components. For
example: If you install WinZip on your computer, you'll see a special WinZip
menu when you right-click on a Zip file. This menu is created by adding a
shell extension to the system.
"Square Privacy Cleaner is a fast,
powerful, and easy to use privacy protection tool, able to remove all the
unwanted history data on your computer. With one simple mouse click, Square
Privacy Cleaner allows you to erase Windows traces, recent opened documents,
prefetch files, clipboard cache, MRU lists, temp folders, junk files, making
PC operation fast and smooth. You can clean Internet traces, like cookies,
history and cache of popular web browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox, Internet
Explorer, Opera, Google Chrome. Cleaning of third-parties applications is
also supported, is possible to erase WinRAR history, WinZIP history, Java
cache, Java logs, Java temporary folders, Media Player Classic history,
Borland Delphi history, Microsoft Office history, and many more."
"TestDisk is a powerful
free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover
lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again
when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types
of viruses or human error (such as accidentally
deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is
really easy. "
"TFC (Temp File Cleaner) will clear
out all temp folders for all user accounts (temp, IE temp, java, FF, Opera,
Chrome, Safari), including Administrator, All Users, LocalService,
NetworkService, and any other accounts in the user folder. It also cleans
out the %systemroot%\temp folder and checks for .tmp files in the %systemdrive%
root folder, %systemroot%, and the system32 folder (both 32bit and 64bit on
64bit OSs). It shows the amount removed for each location found (in bytes)
and the total removed (in MB). Before running it will stop Explorer and all
other running apps. When finished, if a reboot is required the user must
reboot to finish clearing any in-use temp files."
"Ubuntu is an operating system built by a worldwide team of expert
developers. It contains all the applications you need: a web browser, office
suite, media apps, instant messaging and much more. "
*
Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives. More and more PCs are
shipped without floppy drives these days, and it is such a royal pain when
you need to run diagnostic tools on them.
* Free yourself from the slow loading speed of the floppy drive. Even if you
do have a floppy drive, it is still much much faster to run your diagnostic
tools from the CDROM drive, rather than wait for the tool to load from the
floppy drive.
* Consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD.
Wouldn't you like to avoid digging into the dusty box to look for the right
floppy disk, but simply run them all from a single CD? Then the Ultimate
Boot CD is for you!
Virtual PC 2004 is a tool for
installing multiple copies of an operating system on one computer. This
program allows you the flexibility to run buggy software, beta software or
even software that might contain possible Spyware, Adware and even a virus.
The best part of running an OS in Virtual PC is that if an image is infected
or isn't working properly, all you have to do is trash it and use a
different image. No reinstalling, no data loss and you are back at the races
in less time then you can say "Virtual PC 2004."
Virtual PC 2007 is a tool for
installing multiple copies of an operating system on one computer. This
program allows you the flexibility to run buggy software, beta software or
even software that might contain possible Spyware, Adware and even a virus.
The best part of running an OS in Virtual PC is that if an image is infected
or isn't working properly, all you have to do is trash it and use a
different image. No reinstalling, no data loss and you are back at the races
in less time then you can say "Virtual PC 2007."
“VirtuaWin is an Open Source, virtual desktop manager for Windows which can
organize applications over several “virtual” desktops. For example if you use
two virtual desktops you can put a Web browser on desk 1 and by using a desktop
manager “switch away” the Web browser and it will seem like you have a new empty
workspace (desk 2) to put another application/applications on. The program
supports up to 20 desktops, configurable key/mouse control, user defined icons,
modules for additional features, and much more”
Run virtual machines on your Windows or Linux PC with VMware Player 2.0.
This free desktop virtualization software application makes it easy to
operate any virtual machine created by VMware Workstation, VMware Server or
VMware ESX Server, as well as Microsoft virtual machines and Symantec
LiveState Recovery disks. You can also use Player to evaluate one of the
many virtual appliances available from the
VMware Virtual
Appliance Marketplace.
Run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC
Experience the benefits of preconfigured products without any
installation or configuration hassles
Share data between host computer and virtual machineâ€
X-Setup Pro is not yet
another Windows Hacker; it is the ultimate tool for black belt system tuning
and tweaking, running on Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, 2000, ME, XP Windows2003
Server., and Vista.
"UBCD4Win is a bootable "live" CD
which contains software that allows you to repair/restore/diagnostic almost
any computer problem. All software included in UBCD4Win are freeware
utilities for Windows."
Have you ever had n annoying message
given by Windows? It has many other flavors:
Cannot delete file: Access is denied
There has been a sharing violation.
The source or destination file may be in use.
The file is in use by another program or user.
Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not
currently in us"
" With Windows Installer CleanUp
Utility, you can remove a program's Windows Installer configuration
information. You may want to remove the Windows Installer configuration
information for your program if you experience installation (Setup)
problems. For example, you may have to remove a program's Windows Installer
configuration information if you have installation problems when you try to
add (or remove) a component of your program that was not included when you
first installed your program. "
From CNET : For everyone who made the
big switch to Windows 7 here is the ultimate Desktop Tool. Windows7 in a
Box. Windows7 in a Box was designed to help guide you through the brand new
operating system from Microsoft.
"WinUtilities (Free Edition) is a
multi-functional system performance and optimization suite for Microsoft
Windows. This collection of tools lets you supercharge your PC's
performance, enhance its security, tweak and optimize its settings, and
customize and personalize your screens. Registry Cleaner makes your system
more stable by cleaning out the bad Registry entries that build up each time
you install and uninstall software. The program's Registry Optimizer
defragments and rebuilds your Registry, making your entire system run more
smoothly and quickly."
"Wise Disk
Cleaner is a free disk utility designed to help you keep your disk clean by
deleting any unnecessary files. Usually, these unnecessary, or junk files
appear as a result of program's incomplete uninstalls, or Temporary Internet
Files. It is best if these files are wiped out from time to time, since they
may, at some point, use a considerable amount of space on your drives. Wise
Disk Cleaner, with its intuitive and easy to use interface, helps you
quickly wipe out all the junk files. Using the program is indeed easy. It
also works fast when both scanning for files and deleting files."
"You can use
WSUS Offline Update to easily download patches and updates for your Windows
and Office without going through the whole procedure on Microsoft's Windows
Update website."
Steve Gibson's handy
utility that allows you to write scripts that do a wide variety of things
such as reboot a PC at a schedule time, put your computer into hibernation
mode or Stand By mode, control you CD / DVD drive, and many other things.
From CNET's Download.com "Free isn't
enough to turn our heads anymore, but a free, useful, and well-designed code
editor gets us every time. The clean, functional interface arranges projects
under folder tabs and sheathes the usual weaponry in useful groupings. The
internal browser feature and easy switching among error reports and source
code make editing a near-WYSIWYG process. The foreign-language encoding,
spelling checker, and paste-as-HTML function will make novices swoon with
imagined coding prowess."
"Aptana is the leader in web
application development, deployment and management solutions. RadRails is a
complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools
with tight integration with Aptana Cloud services. RadRails is built upon
the wildly successful Aptana Studio
product, which has been downloaded over 4,612,995 times."
"It allows you to download a World
Wide Web site from the Internet to a
local
directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images,
and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the
original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the
"mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to
link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing
mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully
configurable, and has an integrated help system. "
ooking for a free easy to use Webpage Editor. If so
checkout the one below.
MoreMotion Web Express is a WYSIWYG HTML editor that
enables users to develop Web sites and their pages without
knowing HTML. The program can be extended with compile-time
functions and library elements. MoreMotion Web Express also
allows experienced users to enter HTML code and ASP/JSP/PHP
tags to let them build professional dynamic applications.
The key features are real WYSIWYG design, powerful design
tools (align, size, dock, anchors, and usage restrictions),
extensibility and reusability through library elements, page
templates, advanced theme support, DHTML events, an
integrated JavaScript editor, an integrated image-map
editor, a Web-safe color palette, graphic text (especially
useful for creating buttons), compile-time functions,
broken-links checking, and an integrated FTP client.
“NetObjects Fusion Essentials, the newest member of the
NetObjects family. Fusion Essentials is a free web site
design software that offers many core features found in
Fusion 10. Features include: drag and drop design, full
website management, website asset management, built-in FTP,
form builders, photo galleries, e-commerce tool and more.
NetObjects Fusion Essentials is the easiest way to try your
hand at building web sites. Version 7.5 may include
unspecified updates, enhancements, and bug fixes
"PSPad – editor for developers for Microsoft Windows
systems.
The universal freeware editor, useful for people who:
work with plain text – the editor has a wealth of
formatting functions, including a spell checker
create web pages – as a web authoring editor, PSPad
contains many unique tools that save your time
want to use a good IDE for their compiler – PSPad
catches and parses compiler output, integrates external
help files, compares versions and much more…”"
"The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop
the SeaMonkey all-in-one internet application suite (see
below). Such a software suite was previously made popular by
Netscape and Mozilla, and the SeaMonkey project continues to
develop and deliver high-quality updates to this concept.
Containing an Internet browser, email & newsgroup client
with an included web feed reader, HTML editor, IRC chat and
web development tools, SeaMonkey is sure to appeal to
advanced users, web developers and corporate users.
Under the hood, SeaMonkey uses much of the same
Mozilla source code
which powers such successful siblings as Firefox,
Thunderbird, Camino, Sunbird and Miro. Legal backing is
provided by the
Mozilla Foundation.
"VisualLightBox is a free wizard program that helps you
easily generate web photo galleries with a nice Lightbox-style
overlay effect, in a few clicks without writing a single
line of code. Just drag your photos into a VisualLightBox
window, hit "Publish" and your own Web gallery with
beautiful LightBox effects will open in the browser
instantly. No JavaScript, CSS, HTML coding, no image
editing, just a click to get your gallery ready.
VisualLightBox supports numerous image formats: JPG, GIF,
BMP, PNG, PSD, TIFF."
