Process Explorer

Process Explorer
Version 12.04
Updated June 10, 2010
Added Mar. 26, 2010
Homepage/developer
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
File size : 1.7 Mb
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From the developer, "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."

Amok CD/DVD Burning

Amok CD/DVD Burning
Version 1.04
Updated Jun. 5, 2010
Added Mar. 21, 2010
Developer /Homepage
File Size : 630 Kb
Compatibility : Windows 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP/Vista/7
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Alternate d/l locations

All in one small cd and dvd burning application.
Key features from the developer's site :
+ Burns CDs and DVDs
+ Supports all available standards: CD-R / CD-RW / DVD+R / DVD+RW / DVD-R / DVD-RW / DVD-RAM / DVD+DL
+ Burns your DVD and Backup with just 2 clicks
+ Recognizes dual/double layer DVDs automatically
+ Supports SCSI, IDE, EIDE, USB and Firewire CD or DVD Writers
+ Buffer Underrun Protection
+ Drag and Drop

Free Screen to Video

Free Screen to Video
Version 1.2
Added June 5, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 4.1 Mb
Compatibility : Windows XP/Vista/7
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From the publisher's website, "Free Screen to video is a freeware designed to record your computer screen activity in video. You can record the whole screen or only some areas of the screen in FLV, AVI, SWF (Flash) or WMV formats. Free Screen to Video is very easy to use and also records the movements of the mouse as well as the sound coming from your microphone. You can thus very easily create videos for help desk, online help, training, education and distance learning.

The video formats FLV and SWF do not need any additional CODECS installation. Everything is included in the software. You can automatically create web pages from your FLV videos, publish them on your web site and share them with the whole wide world

Since it is entirely configurable, you can adjust the parameters of recording quality to get videos which really suit you (Fps, bitrate, video size, audio frequency, channels)."

TSR Watermark Image

TSR Watermark Image
Version 1.6.9.2
Updated June 4, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 361 Kb
Compatibility : Windows XP/Vista/7
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Tool to add watermarks to your images.

From the publisher's website, "TSR Watermark Image software, is a free program for personal use that can add digital watermarks to all your images, photos and pictures with the transparency you decide. The program can also resize the images before the digital watermark is added.

When creating the watermark, you can use either text or another picture as the source of the watermark. If you want to add the watermark to the background, you can set the logo or the text to be more or less transparent, and define the transparency color on the image or select the first pixel in the upper left corner as transparency color.

Features :
* Add text watermark that is either normal, embossed, chiseled or watermarked with a border.
* Automatically rotate the watermarked picture based on the orientation EXIF tag - this is written to the image by many modern cameras.
* Add the text used to watermark the image to the EXIF information in the resulting file.
* Keep or drop EXIF information in jpeg files (Camera model/lense model/etc. etc.)
* Output the watermarked photo to JPEG, TIFF, PNG, BMP, GIF file format.
* Specify the quality of the watermarking output when saving as jpeg images
* Angle the text you use for your photo watermarking
* Insert background watermark in digital images, pictures, photos
* Resize images while watermarking the image/photo
* Watermark your photos using either another image, photo or picture
* Watermark your photos using your own text in the color and style you want to.
* Maintain directory structure in destination directory or combine all batch watermarked images into one directory
* Skip or overwrite existing watermarked images/photos in destination directory
* Automatically check for new version of the TSR Watermark Image Software"

OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org
Version 3.2.0
Updated June 4, 2010
Added June 3, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 149.4 Mb
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
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Secondary Download**
**The download link is not a direct link to the download, but rather will direct you to the download listings at the author’s site.
More download locations at Majorgeeks 

A multi-platform office suite that covers pretty much everything you need with a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software, equation editor and a drawing program.

It opens most major formats such as MS Office almost flawlessly (Macros aren’t converted), saves to PDF* , has comprehensive help, and spellchecking in many languages.

Google Chrome

Google Chrome
Version 5.0.375.55
Added June 3, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 550 Kb
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
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*The above download link is not a direct link to the download, but rather will direct you to Google's page that has a download link, that upon clicking requires you to agree to their EULA prior to d/l'ing.

From the publisher's website, "Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the Web faster, safer, and easier. Use one box for everything--type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and Web pages. Thumbnails of your top sites let you access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab. Desktop shortcuts allow you to launch your favorite Web apps straight from your desktop.

What's new in this version:
Security Fixes: Please see the Chromium security page for more detail. Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix.
Medium: Canonicalize URLs closer to the Safe Browsing specification.
High: Possible URL bar spoofing via unload event handlers."

Comodo Dragon

Comodo Dragon
Version 4.1.1.8
Updated June 3, 2010
Added Mar. 3, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 20.9 Mb
Compatibility : Windows (32 bit) 7 / Vista / XP
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From the publisher's website, "The Comodo Dragon has taken the latest Chromium technology and beefed it up in the one way necessary to make it the optimum Browser to use on today's malware plagued Internet. - Superior Security and Privacy. Comodo Dragon not only gives you the complete compliment of features offered by Chromium, it also gives you Comodo's unsurpassed security and privacy features. Comodo Dragon Security has privacy enhancements that surpass those in Chromium's technology, has Domain Validation technology that identifies and segregates superior SSL certificates from inferior ones, stops cookies and other Web spies, and prevents all Browser download tracking to ensure your privacy."

Opera Settings Import & Export Tool

Opera Settings Import & Export Tool
Version 0.9.9.3
Updated June 3, 2010
Added May 6, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 525 Kb
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
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A very handy tool that the author wrote to, "take some of the pain out of managing/migrating/backing up/restoring Opera profiles. It allows backup and restore of your bookmarks, mail, contacts, sessions, preferences, etc and enables easy transfer of them between Opera installations in different folders or OSes. Also good for finding and restoring lost settings if they disappeared after an Opera upgrade...

Features:
* Easy to use
* Lets you preview your settings before importing or exporting
* Allows cleanly transferring individual settings without the cruft that can build up in an Opera profile folder
* Available for both Windows and Linux, and your settings can be transferred between OSes
* Intelligently locates all the Opera profiles on a typical Windows system, so good for finding "lost" profiles
* Stores settings files in their original state in an open archive (tar.gz) format, so your exported settings can always be easily restored by hand should the need arise
* Corrects .ini paths on import so settings imported from a different folder/OS work correctly"

Avant Browser

Avant Browser
Version 11.7 Build 46
Added June 3, 2010
Homepage/developer
Compatibility : Windows 2000/03/08/XP/Vista/7
File size : 2.6 Mb
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Multi tabbed browser with many useful features/tools.
From the developers, “Avant Browser is a fast, stable, user-friendly, versatile multi-window browser. Pop-up Stopper: Eliminate unwanted pop-up pages automatically. Additional Mouse Functions: Click a link in the web page with the middle mouse button, the link will be opened in a new window. Hold the right button then click the left button, the current page will navigate backward one step. Hold the left button then click the right button, the current page will navigate forward one step. Browsing Options: Avant Browser provides options to block download of pictures, videos, sounds and ActiveX components. With these options users can efficiently use their bandwidth and speed up page loading. Multi-Window Browsing: Browse multiple web pages simultaneously. All opened pages can be easily stopped, refreshed, closed or arranged with one click. ”

Editor’s Note:
If you have any problems downloading Avant Browser using the above link, visit the author’s download page for other d/l locations here.

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox
Version 3.63
Added June 3, 2010
Homepage/developer
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
File size : 8 Mb
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From the developers, "Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser. Firefox includes pop-up blocking, tab-browsing, integrated Google search, simplified privacy controls, a streamlined browser window that shows you more of the page than any other browser and a number of additional features that work with you to help you get the most out of your time online."    

PicPick

PicPick
Version 2.30
Updated June 3, 2010
Added Mar. 28, 2010
Homepage/developer
Compatibility : Windows XP/2003/Vista/7
File size : 2.63 Mb
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**Link to the author's download page.

From the developer, "PicPick is user friendly and full of features for creating your image, suitable for software developers, graphic designers and home user.

It is an all-in-one program that provides full-featured screen capture tool, intuitive image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair and even whiteboard.

It has not only everything what you need, but it loads fast, sits quietly in the system tray until needed.

Furthermore, this software is distributed as freeware. So you may use this software on any number of computers for as long as you like."

Note: During installation you are given the choice to install the optional Bing toolbar unless you opt out.

Everything

Everything
Version 1.2.1.371
Added May 30, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 334 Kb
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7
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Locate files and folders by name instantly.
From the developer, "Everything is a search engine for Windows that replaces the normal Windows search with a much faster one. Unlike Windows search, Everything initially displays every file and folder on your computer. You can type in a search filter to limit what files and folders are displayed. Everything only uses file and folder names and generally takes a few seconds to build its database."

JAlbum

JAlbum
Version 8.8
Added May 30, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 13 Mb
Compatibility : Windows All
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From the developer, "JAlbum allows you to create nice-looking photo galleries for the Web. You simply select or drag and drop folders containing images or movie files onto JAlbum, and it creates thumbnails and HTML pages to publish your images as a gallery or as a picture slide show. The galleries are based on various templates, and their appearance can be further customized by advanced users. The application's additional features include support for IPTC/EXIF data, style sheets, lossless image manipulation, plugable image filters, a built-in FTP/SFTP client and a built-in web server that allows anyone to share Web albums straight from their own computers."
Note : Requires Java

AbiWord

AbiWord
Version 2.8.5
Added May 30, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 8.1 Mb
Compatibility : Windows All
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From the developer, "AbiWord is a lean yet full-featured word processor. It features a familiar-looking interface, basic character formatting, paragraph alignment, a spell checker, interactive rulers and tabs, styles, unlimited undo/redo, find and replace, and image support. It can also import Microsoft Word 97 and RTF (Rich Text Format) documents, as well as support headers/footers, superscript/subscript, widow/orphan control and newspaper-style columns. Many plug-ins are available."

DriveImage XML (Private Edition)

DriveImage XML (Private Edition)
Version 2.14
Added May 31, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 1.82 Mb
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
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From the developer, "DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives. The program allows you to backup logical drives and partitions to image files, browse these images, view and extract files, restore these images to the same or a different drive, copy directly from drive to drive. 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, so you'll never again be stuck with a useless backup. Restore images to drives without having to reboot. DriveImage XML also runs from a WinPE boot CD-ROM."  

Partition Wizard Home Edition

Partition Wizard Home Edition
Version 5.0
Added May 31, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 7.7 Mb
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
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Free partition manager.
From the developer, "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."

Note : Partition Wizard Home Edition is free for non-commercial home use only.

CleanAfterMe

CleanAfterMe
Version 1.37
Added May 30, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 38 Kb
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista
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From the developer, "CleanAfterMe allows you to easily clean files and Registry entries that are automatically created by the Windows operating system during your regular computer work.
With CleanAfterMe, you can clean the cookies/history/cache/passwords of Internet Explorer, the 'Recent' folder, the Registry entries that record the last opened files, the temporary folder of Windows, the event logs, the Recycle Bin, and more.

CleanAfterMe is a portable application. This means that you can run it without any installation and without leaving any trace in the Registry.
You can also run this program from a USB flash drive: In order to do that, simply copy the executable file of CleanAfterMe (CleanAfterMe.exe) into the USB flash drive, and run it from there."  

RBTray

RBTray
Version 0.41
Added May 30, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 61 Kb
Compatibility : Windows XP/Vista/7
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Allows almost any program to be minimized to the system tray by right clicking its minimize button.

Site of the Month - June 2010

"Digital Inspiration is an award winning technology blog that helps you in taking maximum advantage of the software tools and web technologies at your disposal so that you spend more time doing things you really love."

QuickClean

Quick Clean
Version 1.0
Added May 30, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 61 Kb
Compatibility : Windows Vista/7
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From the developer, "Quick Clean is a freeware tool which lets you clean up the junk files from your Windows desktop quickly.
In a click it allows you to access and run the in-built Disk Cleanup Utility and also clean additional junk files, which the Disk Cleanup Utility does not.

Click ‘Run Disk Cleanup Utility‘ to open and run the in-built Disk Cleanup Utility.

The ‘Clean more junk files‘ module cleans the following junk files:
*.tmp, *.temp, *.chk, *.old, *.gid, *.nch, *.wbk, *.fts, *.ftg, *.$$$, *.err, *.—, *.~*, ~*.*, *.??$, *.___, *.~mp, *._mp, *.prv, *.sik, CHKLIST.MS, *.ilk, *.aps, *.mcp, *.pch, *.$db, *.?$?, *.??~, *.?~?, *.db$, *.^, *._dd, *._detmp, 0*.nch, chklist.*, mscreate.dir, *.diz, *.syd, *.grp, *.cnt and *.~mp.

This module DOES NOT not delete any files from the Windows folder.

It also DOES NOT delete the following files:
*.bak, *.thumbs.db, *.log, *log.txt, *.pf files.

To uninstall the program, simply deleted the executable."

AutoHotkey

AutoHotkey
Version 1.0.48.05
Added May 30, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 1.99 Mb
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
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From the developer, "AutoHotkey is a free, open-source utility for Windows. With it, you can:
Automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. You can write a mouse or keyboard macro by hand or use the macro recorder.
* Create hotkeys for keyboard, joystick, and mouse. Virtually any key, button, or combination can become a hotkey.
* Expand abbreviations as you type them. For example, typing "btw" can automatically produce "by the way".
* Create custom data-entry forms, user interfaces, and menu bars. See GUI for details.
* Remap keys and buttons on your keyboard, joystick, and mouse.
* Respond to signals from hand-held remote controls via the WinLIRC client script.
* Run existing AutoIt v2 scripts and enhance them with new capabilities.
* Convert any script into an EXE file that can be run on computers that don't have AutoHotkey installed."
A very helpful quick-start tutorial from the author can be found here.
http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Tutorial.htm

AppRemover

AppRemover
Version 2.2.2.1
Added May 30, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 4.1 Mb
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
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From the developer, "AppRemover is a free utility that enables users to remove antivirus and other applications as well as left over files from incomplete uninstallations. There's no more need to mess around with your registry."

HotKeyz

HotKeyz
Version 2.8.2
Added May 30, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 1.33 Mb
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
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Hotkey creator.
From the developer, "HotKeyz is a keyboard utility that will boost your productivity and it is really fun to use. HotKeyz lets you easily create and maintain a categorized list of your hotkeys. Each hotkey, a key combination on your keyboard, will launch a command. You decide which commands go with which hotkeys. Some of these commands are internal HotKeyz commands and the rest are Windows commands. HotKeyz will help you to manage repetitive tasks on your PC with speed and minimal effort. The conventional way to open a program on your PC is by pointing your mouse to the Window start button, clicking on the Start button, then you will click on All Programs, your eyes must first look and search for your program icon, then you must click on it and only then it will be the program be launched. With a hotkey you simply press the key combination you have defined for your program and HotKeyz will launch it."  

FBackup

FBackup
Version 4.4.207
Added May 29, 2010
Developer/Homepage 
File Size : 12.63 Mb
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008/7
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** The above will take you to the author's site to select from a download location fronm a number of mirror locations
Download via listing at FileForum

From the developer, "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 plug-ins that will back up the settings and data of specific applications. FBackup has ZIP64 support (can create backups over 2GB) and creates standard ZIP files, meaning that you can access it with any zip compatible utility."  

Photo Print Calendar

Photo Print Calendar
Version 3.00E beta
Added May 29, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 17 Mb
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
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*Via SkyDrive


Outstanding customizable calendar creation tool.
This is a tool that allows you to use your own images to create your own customized calendars.

Editor's Note:
The developers no longer are making this available from their website as is noted on their website, "We have terminated our offering of Photo Print Calendar as of September 26, 2005"

PDFCreator

PDFCreator
Version 1.0.0
Updated May 29, 2010
Added May 6, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 17 Mb
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
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**You will be redirected to SourceForge.net to start the download.

From the developer, "PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.
Key Features:
* Create PDFs from any program that is able to print
* Security: Encrypt PDFs and protect them from being opened, printed etc
* Digitally sign your PDFs to ensure that you are the author and the file has not been modified
* Create PDF/A files for long term archives
* Send generated files via eMail
* Create more than just PDFs: PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS
* AutoSave files to folders and filenames based on Tags like Username, Computername, Date, Time etc.
* Merge multiple files into one PDF
* Easy Install: Just say what you want and everything is installed
* Terminal Server: PDFCreator also runs on Terminal Servers without problems
It is Open Source and released under the Terms of the GNU General Public License."

EMDB

EMDB
Version 1.06
Updated May 29, 2010
Added Mar. 20, 2010
Homepage/developer
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
File size : 1 Mb
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From the developer's site, "EMDB is a small utility to keep track of your DVD collection. With an automatic import from the database of IMDB, export to csv, text or complete website, thumbnail cover preview, a loan tracker, search function and multi-language user interface. EMDB is written in C++ using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and doesn't need a .NET framework or any other external libraries.

Transmute

Transmute
Version 2.07
Homepage/Developer
Updated May 28, 2010
Added May 23, 2010
Compatibility : Windows All Versions
File Size : 2.3 Mb
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A portable version of Transmute may be found on the author's downloads page here.

Handy tool for converting bookmarks between browsers.

From the developer, "Transmute is a bookmark converter that can import and export bookmarks, or favorites, between the latest web browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, Apple Safari, and Chromium in as little as one click."

Weather Center

Weather Center
Version 2.1.1.1
Homepage/Developer
Updated May 27, 2010
Added May 26, 2010
Compatibility : Windows XP/Vista/7
File size : 2.27 Mb
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From the developer, "Weather Center is a System Tray program that will display the current temperature near the clock and give you up to date weather information. This program will give you the current weather conditions for just about any where in the world, although you will only receive Weather Alerts for locations within the United States.
The program interface will change with your local sunrise and sunset times."

CCleaner

CCleaner
Version 2.32.1165 (Slim version > No Y! Toolbar option)
Updated May 26, 2010
Added Mar. 18, 2010
Homepage/Developer
File Size : 1 Mb
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
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** This is not a direct download link, but will send you to the listing for CCleaner at Majorgeeks, which has list of several download locations to choose from.
For a list of alternative download locations at the developer's site, please visit here.

From the author's description, "CCleaner is a system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware!

RadioSure

RadioSure
Version 2.0.886
Homepage/Developer
Added May 25, 2010
Compatibility : Windows XP/Vista/7
File size : 2.1 Mb
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You can also download a portable version of RadioSure on the author's download page here.

From the developer, "RadioSure features more than 12000 stations and a quick and reliable search for your favorite radio stations. It supports most of the Internet radio formats - MP3, WMA, OGG, and AAC. You can record what you are listening to and package it into separate song files. It also features Unicode support - all domestic stations are perfectly visible and searchable."    

YouChoob

YouChoob
Version 1.14
Homepage/Developer
Added May 25, 2010
Compatibility : Windows 9x/2000/XP/Vista/7
File size : 216 Kb
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From the developer, "YouChoob (YC) is an application that allows you to download videos directly from the YouTube.com website and save them to a location on your system. YC is the easiest way to download videos as all it requires is the URL address to the page that contains the video.

YouChoob supports downloading from all language versions of YouTube and will automatically download the highest quality version of all videos, if available."  

Jaangle

Jaangle
Version 0.98d
Homepage/Developer
Added May 24, 2010
Compatibility : Windows XP/2003/Vista/7
File size : 2.2 Mb
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Music player and Organizer.
From the developer's site, "Jaangle is a free music player and organizer software. It categorizes your mp3, ogg, wma, avi etc collection and displays it in easy to browse, user interface. It has a quality audio - video player and also an integrated tag editor.
You start by adding a folder which contains your music files (mp3, wma, avi, mpg etc). Jaangle scans and reads the available tag info. The artists appear in the tree like control. Each time you click on an artist all his tracks can be seen in the list pane, artist biography and image are automatically downloaded from the internet and displayed in the information pane. By double clicking a track in the list you hear the music playing. More info may appear (if available) in the info pane like lyrics or comments."  

Unlocker

Unlocker
Version 1.8.9
Homepage/Developer
Updated May 24, 2010
Added Nov. 30, 2009
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/2003/ Vista/7
File size : 216 Kb
Download** (**download link will take you to the author's site, so you can select from either the installation or 'portable' version.)
Allows otherwise "locked" files or folders to be deleted.

Some examples of errors that otherwise would not allow deleting a file or folder :
  * 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 use.

Note : During installation you can choose to optionally install the Bing toolbar (see below).

LiLi USB Creator (Linux Live USB Creator)

LiLi USB Creator (Linux Live USB Creator)
Version 2.5
Homepage/Developer
Added May 24, 2010
Compatibility : Windows XP/Vista/7
File Size : 2.3 Mb
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**The download link will take you to the author's downloads page

From the devloper's site, "LiLi USB Creator is a free software for Windows that allows you to create a bootable Live USB key with a Linux on it.

This software also offers an exclusive option of automatic virtualization to directly run Linux in Windows without any configuration nor installation.
create bootable Live USB of Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, PCLinuxOS, Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux and many others !
enable persistency of your data
launch Linux directly in Windows with a special Portable VirtualBox
hide created files on the key
multilingual : French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Norwegian, Swedish and Portuguese
Anybody can use LiLi USB Creator. It's really easy to use and you don't have to be a computer geek !"

RIOT

RIOT
Version 0.4.1
Homepage/Developer
Added May 24, 2010
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
File Size : 1.05 Mb
Download**
**The download link will direct you to the author's download page
Download locations via MajorGeeks RIOT listing page

From the developer's site, "Radical Image Optimization Tool (RIOT for short) is a free image optimizer that will let you to visually adjust compression parameters while keeping minimum filesize.

It uses with a side by side (dual view) or single view interface to compare the original with the optimized image in real time and instantly see the resulting file size.

It is lightweight, fast and simple to use, yet powerful for advanced users. You will be able to control compression, number of colors, metadata settings and much more, and select image format (JPG, GIF or PNG) for your output file."

The screenshot above from the developer's site very nicely shows how much optimization can be obtained using RIOT.

Instant Photo Sketch

Instant Photo Sketch
Version 1.0
Homepage/Developer
Added May 23, 2010
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
File Size : 5.2 Mb
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Converts any photo into a sketch.
From the developer's site, "This free photo sketching tool works in a very obvious way - all you need to do is open a photo and press one button. There is also one slider to adjust the level of detail - so you can decide if you want small details to be drawn or not.
The output of the photo is a pencil sketch - the picture that looks like it was drawn by pencil.
The program also has zoom and can save the result as .jpeg or .png."

The screenshot (above) is from the developer's site, as it better illustrates possible results using the program, than I have been able to do so far.

Fotografix

Fotografix
Version 1.4.1
Homepage/Developer
Added May 23, 2010
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
File Size : 353 Kb
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A very nice and lightweight, as well as portable graphics editing app.
Features :
* Painting tools including Brush, Clone and Gradient; support for custom brushes
* Selection tools including rectangular/elliptical selection and magic wand
* Transformation tools including scale, rotate and flip
* Support for a large number of file formats, including Photoshop and GIMP files
* Layers and channels, including adjustment layers and masks
* Editable text layers
* Easy-to-use scripting language

The author of , is also the same great programmer who brought you Snowbird (the very useful desktop search tool/app)!

Paint.NET

Paint.NET
Version 3.55
Homepage/Developer
Added May 23, 2010
Compatibility : Windows XP/Vista/7
File Size : 3.57 Mb
Download**
**The download link will take you to the developer's site so you may select from a list of downloads locations.

From the developer's site, "Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plug-ins."

Note : I used the screenshot (above) from the developer's site, as I haven't been working on, or created anything that would be worthy of showing my use of Paint.Net :)

Belarc Advisor

Belarc Advisor
Version 8.1.13.2
Updated May 23, 2010
Added Jan. 24, 2010
Homepage/developer
Compatibility : Windows All
File size : 2.14 Mb
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The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server.

Note : Free for personal use only.

Songr

Songr
Version 1.8.6
Updated May 23, 2010
Added Apr. 17, 2019
Homepage/developer
Compatibility : Windows XP (SP3)/Vista/7
File size : 4 Mb
Download**
**Link to the author's download page.

From the developer, "Songr is a free Windows application that lets you search, stream and download music from the Web, without p2p. Songr aggregates results from 14 search engines and sorts them by relevance, speed and reliability. You can type some words from the lyrics of a song and Songr will try to guess the name of that song, download YouTube videos (or just the audio track) and listen to song previews."

Author's FAQs page

Color Cop

Color Cop
Version 5.45
Homepage/Developer
Added May 23, 2010
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
File Size : 62 Kb
Download**
** The download link will take you to the author's download page where you may select to download either the installer or standalone version of Color Cop.

From the developer, "Color Cop is a multi-purpose color picker for web designers and programmers. It features an eyedropper, magnifier, variable magnification levels, 3 by 3 and 5 by 5 average sampling, snap to websafe, color history, and a 42 color complementary palette. Color Cop will convert RGB decimal values to Hexadecimal color codes. It has color code support for HTML Hex, Delphi Hex, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic Hex, and Visual C++ Hex. Color Cop is a multi-purpose color picker for windows."
If you'd like to donate to Color Cop, please visit here.

GSplit

GSplit
Version 3.01
Homepage/Developer
Added May 23, 2010
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
File Size : 1.5 Mb
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From the developer, "GSplit is a free file splitter that lets you split your large files into a set of smaller files called pieces, easier to copy to floppies, CD, DVD or any removable disk; distribute over the Internet, networks; send by email or with file hosting services; share with friends and colleagues. GSplit also generates small self-uniting programs when splitting files, so anyone even without GSplit may restore your split files automatically. GSplit can split very large files (larger than 4 GB) and it provides you with a lot of splitting options (in addition to five splitting methods, including functions for large text files like server logs). You can load/save settings into profiles, and also automate it. Finally it features an intuitive graphical user interface (with skin support) that makes operations easy and fast. Context-sensitive help and animated tutorials are also available."
A portable edition of GSplit may be downloaded from this location.

Photo! Editor

Photo! Editor
Version 1.1
Homepage/Developer
Added May 23, 2010
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
File Size : 7.9 Mb
Download

Nice set of image editing tools.

From the developer, "With Photo! Editor, you can remove red eye instantly, enhance the color of the image, make funny caricatures, add astonishing lighting effects, straighten, resample and crop images. The Denoise tool is one of the world's best to effectively remove luminance and color noise from digital images made under poor lighting conditions. You will also appreciate the Make Up tool that offers a complete set of retouching filters to make the best of your portrait photos."  

PhraseExpress

PhraseExpress
Version 7.0.159
Updated May 23, 2010
Added Mar. 23, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 3.79 Mb
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
Download** (**will take you to the CNET download location for PhraseExpress)

From the developer, "PhraseExpress eliminates repetitive typing and manages frequently used text snippets in customizable categories. Boilerplate templates can be stored together with bitmaps and RTF or HTML text formatting. The unique text prediction feature watches out for repetitive text patterns and offers to auto-complete such phrases. Smart algorithms analyze and learn your writing patterns, and suggest the most relevant ways to complete phrases and sentences. The Autotext feature allows assigning a frequently used text such as your address, your signature or a common phrase to a much shorter abbreviation.

Revo Uninstaller

Revo Uninstaller
Version 1.88
Homepage/Developer
Added May 23, 2010
Compatibility : Windows 2000/Vista/XP/7
File Size : 2.19 Mb
Download

“Uninstall, delete, remove unwanted programs and traces easily.

From the developer, “Revo Uninstaller helps you to uninstall and remove any unwanted application installed on your computer.

With its advanced and fast algorithm, Revo Uninstaller analyzes an application’s data before uninstall and scans 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.

DVD Flick

DVD Flick
Version 1.3.0.7
Homepage/Developer
Added May 23, 2010
Compatibility : Windows 2000/Vista/XP/7
File Size : 12.3 Mb
Download
Download link at FileForum DVD Flick listing page

From the author’s website : “DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. You can add additional custom audio tracks, subtitles as well as a menu for easier navigation.
Features :
* Burn near any video file to DVD
* Support for over 45 file formats
* Support for over 60 video codecs
* Support for over 40 audio codecs
* Easily add a menu
* Add your own subtitles
* Easy to use interface
* Burn your project to disc after encoding
* Completely free without any adware, spyware or limitations”

For a more detailed list of features, see the author’s Features page.
This page lists the Supported video codecs, Supported audio codecs, Supported container formats, and Supported subtitle formats

Spybot Search & Destroy

Spybot Search & Destroy
Version 1.6.2
Added May 23, 2010
Homepage/Developer
Compatibility : Windows 2000/Vista/XP/7
File Size : 15.7 Mb
Download**
**Download note : The download link for Spybot S&D will take you to the program’s author’s list of download locations.

Excellent spyware detection and elimination tool!

SpyBot-S&D searches your hard drive for so-called spy- or adbots; little modules that are responsible for the ads many programs display. But many of these modules also transmit information about your surfing behaviour and more to the net. If SpyBot-S&D finds such modules, it can remove them – or replace them with empty dummies in case their host software won’t run with its bot removed. In most cases, the host still runs fine after removing the bot. Another feature of Spybot S&D is the removal of usage tracks, which makes it more complicated for unknown spybots to transmit useful data. The list of last visited websites, opened files, started programs, cookies, all that and more can be cleaned. Supported are the three major browsers Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera. Last but not least Spybot-S&D contains some routines to find and correct invalid entries into the registry.

Spyware Blaster

Spyware Blaster
Version 4.3
Homepage/Developer
Updated May 23, 2010
Added Sept. 12, 2009
Compatibility : Windows 98/ME/2000/Vista/XP/7
File Size : 2.95 Mb
Download**
**The download link will take you to the author’s site that will allow you to select from multiple download locations.

Help keep your system spyware-free and secure, without interfering with the “good side” of the web.

From the program’s author, “Spyware, adware, browser hijackers, and dialers are some of the fastest-growing threats on the Internet today. By simply browsing to a web page, you could find your computer to be the brand-new host of one of these unwanted fiends! The most important step you can take is to secure your system. And SpywareBlaster is the most powerful protection program available.
Prevent the installation of ActiveX-based spyware, adware, browser hijackers, dialers, and other potentially unwanted pests.
Block spyware/tracking cookies in Internet Explorer and Mozilla/Firefox.
Restrict the actions of potentially dangerous sites in Internet Explorer.
SpywareBlaster can help keep your system spyware-free and secure, without interfering with the “good side” of the web.
And unlike other programs, SpywareBlaster does not have to remain running in the background.
SpywareBlaster is freeware for personal and educational use.”

Keepass

Keepass
Version 2.10
Added May 23, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 1.8 Mb
Compatibility : Windows 98/98SE/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
Download**
** Will take you to the author's download page, sp you may select between the installer version or portable version for downloading.

From the author's site, "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."

SDExplorer

SkyDrive Explorer
Version 2.1.0.102
Updated May 22, 2010
Added Mar. 17, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 2.0 Mb
Compatibility : Windows Vista/Windows Server 2003 and 2008/Windows 7
Download

From the author's site, "SDExplorer (formerly SkyDrive Explorer) is a free, easy-to-use, but very powerful extension for Windows Explorer. With SDExplorer you can make any every-day operations with your documents from Microsoft Live SkyDrive service using Windows Explorer, as if they were on your computer.

Sumatra PDF

Sumatra PDF
Version 1.1
Updated May 20, 2010
Added Nov. 28, 2009
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 4.21 Mb
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 **
**Windows 95, 98 and ME are not supported.
Download
Download** (**additional d/l links location)

From the author's site, "Sumatra PDF is a slim, free, open-source PDF viewer for Windows. Portable out of the box.Sumatra has a minimalistic design. Simplicity has a higher priority than a lot of features.
It's small and starts up very fast.
It's designed for portable use: only one file so you can run it from external USB drive. Doesn't write to registry."

WinTricks

WinTricks
Version 6.0h
Homepage/Developer
Added May 15, 2010
Compatibility : Windows All
File Size : 1.18 Mb
Download

From the author's website : "WinTricks is one of the largest and most up-to-date programs for Windows tips, tricks, and secrets available today!
WinTricks includes tips/tricks for all versions of Windows, plus the Registry, Desktop, AOL, Laptop, Internet, and more. You will find that this program is easy to navigate with complete instructions on all of our Tips and Tricks.

The latest release includes new Tips/Tricks for Windows 7, Mozilla Firefox and more. Also includes a new interface, a Favorites feature and minor bug fixes."

Irfanview

Irfanview v. 4.27
Homepage/Developer
Updated May 10, 2010
Added Nov. 29, 2009
Compatibility : Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/2008/Vista/7
File Size : 1.32 Mb
Download ** (**this download link will take you to the author's site where you can select from a large number of download locations - you can also download the 'Plug-ins for Irfanview here at Fileforum.)

From the author's website : "IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support.
One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support.
The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.

Some IrfanView features:
Many supported file formats (click here the list of formats)
Multi language support
Thumbnail/preview option
Paint option - to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc.
Toolbar skins option
Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
Fast directory view (moving through directory)
Batch conversion (with image processing)
Multipage TIF editing
File search
Email option
Multimedia player
Print option
Support for embedded color profiles in JPG/TIF
Change color depth
Scan (batch scan) support
Cut/crop
IPTC editing
Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
Capturing
Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
Lossless JPG rotation
Unicode support
Many hotkeys
Many command line options
Many PlugIns
Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired"
No registry changes without user action/permission!
and much much more"
Note : (again this is straight from the author's site) "IrfanView is provided as freeware, but only for private, non-commercial use (that means at home). IrfanView is free for educational use (schools, universities and libraries) and for use in charity or humanitarian organisations."

Note : During installation you have the option to install 'Google' components.

Disk Cleaner

Disk Cleaner
Version 1.6.1353
Added May 2, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 815 Kb
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
Download
More download locations at the author's site 

From the author's description, "Disk Cleaner is a free open source (GPL v2) tool to quickly and easily clean your hard disk from temporary files like those in the system temporary folder, the Internet Explorer Cache and Cookies folder, and the Recycle Bin. Disk Cleaner is absolutely free from adware and spyware.
It is very easy to use: select the items you would like to clean, press the clean button, and you're done!"
Supports Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera as well as various 3rd party applications.

i2pdf

i2pdf
Version 1.0+
Added May 6, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 1.0 Mb
Compatibility : Windows/XP/Vista/7
Download**
**The download link will take you to the author's site (scroll to bottom of page) to select your download location (32 bit or 64 bit versions)

From the developer, "i2pdf (image to pdf) is a fast and compact application built to create Adobe PDF documents from a collection of images, typically scanned from a paper source or in form of digital photographs.

In short, the basic usage of the program is as follow:
1. You drag and drop the images on the program window.
2. You click the Build PDF button.
3. You set the creation options accordingly to your needs and click"

XnView

XnView
Version 1.97.4
Updated May 4, 2010
Added Mar. 26, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 3.0 Mb
Compatibility : Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP/Vista/7
Download
More download mirror locations can be viewed here.

From the developer, "XnView is a utility for viewing and converting
graphic files.
Features :
Import about 400 graphic file formats
Export about 50 graphic file formats
Multipage TIFF, Animated GIF, Animated ICO support
Image IPTC, EXIF metadata support
EXIF auto rotation support
IPTC editing
Resize, rotate, crop support
Lossless rotate & crop (jpeg) support
Adjust brightness, contrast...
Auto levels, contrast
Modify number of colors
Apply filters (blur, average, emboss, ...)
Apply effects (lens, wave, ...)
Fullscreen mode
Slide show with effects

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CDBurnerXP Pro

CDBurnerXP Pro
Version 4.3.2.2140
Updated May 2, 2010
Added Jan. 21, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 6.28 Mb
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
Download
Author's Download Page

From the author's description, "CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.
Key Features :
* burn all kinds of discs
* audio-CDs with or without gaps between tracks
* burn and create ISO files
* data verification after burning process
* create bootable discs
* multi-language interface
* bin/nrg > ISO converter, simple cover printing and much more!"

Capture .NET

Capture .NET
Version 10.6.3771
Added May 1, 2010
Homepage/Developer
File Size : 653 Kb
Compatibility : Windows XP/2003/Vista/7
Download

From the author's site, "Capture .NET Free is an integrated, multi-functional, powerful and general-purpose System, Design, File, Desktop and Develop utility.

Includes many helpful tools:
Capture Screen
Image Editor
Capture Color
Post-It
Screen Clock
Screen Calender
Screen Reminder
Screen Ruler
Screen Pencil
Screen Magnifier
Converter
Backup Expert
Quick Launch
World Clock
Timer
... and much more.
All-In-One, Multi-language, Simple and Standalone (no install)."