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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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
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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
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**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
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**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
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**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
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** 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
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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**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
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**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
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** 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."