FREEWAREWEBLOG: December 2010

AM-DeadLink 4.4

Description: AM-DeadLink detects dead links and duplicates in browser bookmarks and text files. If a bookmark has become unavailable you can verify and delete it permanently. Additionally you can download FavIcons for all your Favorites and Bookmarks.

AM-DeadLink can check the following resources:

Internet Explorer Favorites
Firefox 3.x bookmarks
Opera bookmarks
Chrome bookmarks
HTML files
URLs from tab delimited text files
URLs from comma separated text files

Description: An advanced Wake-on-LAN utility, that is ready to work in networks of any scale, to power up one or any number of remote PCs with one mouse click. No manual work is required to wake up PCs. The application automatically detects MAC addresses using four different methods and send WOL packets to one or multiple PCs. Professional version also allows to create reusable WOL tasks and schedule them for an automatic execution.

Description: A robust ping monitoring tool for automatic checking connection to network hosts. By making regular pings it monitors network connections and notifies you about detected ups/downs. EMCO Ping Monitor also provides connection statistics info, including uptime, outages, failed pings, etc. You can easily extend functionality and configure EMCO Ping Monitor to execute custom commands or launch applications when connections are lost or restored.

Description: A free utility for backup and export Windows registry keys from remote PCs, located in the local network. It allows you to export a whole registry or extract specified registry keys from remote PCs in automatic mode and save them as .reg files. Registry export tasks can be launched on demand or by schedule and can be executed on multiple remote PCs simultaneously to let you make a centralized registry settings export and backup.

Description: EssentialPIM is a personal information manager that allows you to keep all your information in electronic form. All your appointments, tasks, notes, contacts, password entries and email messages are stored in a graphical and easily accessible form.

EssentialPIM editions overview.

EssentialPIM comes in several editions to satisfy any of your organizing needs:

Description: A simple and free utility for Windows registered information management across the local network. It allows you to scan remote computers to check what registered owner and registered company information is specified, to ensure that it's correct and up-to-date. If required, you can change registered owner and registered organization remotely on particular computer or group of computers in the local network by one mouse click, without physically attending them.

Description: Fresh Download is an easy-to-use and very fast download manager that turbo charges downloading files from the Internet, such as your favorite freeware and shareware, mp3 files, movie files, picture collections, etc. Unlike any other similar utilities, this software is 100% free, no charges, no banners (which steal your bandwidth), no spyware inside it.

Description: JShot is a free and multiplatform screen capture and uploader application which allows you to capture and annotate a part of your screen and share it via the Internet in one step. It lets you to upload screenshots to the Web or send to an Instant Messaging partner. JShot works on almost every operating system, no matter you are using Windows, Linux or Mac OS X. JShot is completely free to download and use for personal usage. Enjoy!

Description: Element Mail is a full featured Windows E-Mail client designed for use in the home, office and corporate environments.

Element Mail is a full featured E-Mail client designed for use in the home, office and corporate environments. Its an E-Mail client designed to cut costs and work efficiently with your home and work emails. If you ever get tired of waiting for your old, slow email client to start itself out, or get sick of the 100+ spam emails a day, make the switch to Element Mail.

Description: Sandboxie runs your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer.

The red arrows indicate changes flowing from a running program into your computer. The box labeled Hard disk (no sandbox) shows changes by a program running normally. The box labeled Hard disk (with sandbox) shows changes by a program running under Sandboxie. The animation illustrates that Sandboxie is able to intercept the changes and isolate them within a sandbox, depicted as a yellow rectangle. It also illustrates that grouping the changes together makes it easy to delete all of them at once.

Description: NetRouteView is a GUI alternative to the standard route utility (Route.exe) of Windows operating system. It displays the list of all routes on your current network, including the destination, mask, gateway, interface IP address, metric value, type, protocol, age (in seconds), interface name, and the MAC address.

NetRouteView also allows you to easily add new routes, as well as to remove or modify existing static routes.

Description: BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn't know was there. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 90 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari,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. Better than free, BleachBit is open source.

Description: Stickies is a PC utility I wrote to try to cut down on the number of yellow notes I was leaving stuck to my monitor. It is a computerised version of those notes.

The design goal behind Stickies is that the program is small and simple. Stickies will not mess with your system files, or write to the registry. Stickies stores information in a single text-based ini file.

Stickies will never support animated dancing figures, or play "Greensleeves". They are instead yellow rectangular windows onto which you can put some text notes. Once created, they will stay on screen until you take them away. Just like a real sticky piece of paper.

Description: This application is small, portable and plays almost every movie format out there. It is capable to play movies in high resolution even on old computers. The player is packed with effects you can use: adjust picture/sound, equalizer, OSD layers, Text etc, along with several filters. Not only can you watch a movie, join several movies into one, split videos, extract audio from a movie, combine audio and video, make movies out of your desktop (or parts of it), Create movie out of pictures, decode a movie frame by frame, create snapshots and thumbnails of movie files, create movies from webcam + much more.

Description: Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform. Through Rainmeter, you can enhance your Windows computer at home or work with skins: handy, compact applets which float freely on your desktop, much like Windows Sidebar gagdgets, or dashboard widgets for the Mac.

Rainmeter skins provide you with useful information at a glance. It's easy to keep an eye on your system resources, like memory and battery power, or your online data streams, including email, RSS feeds, and weather forecasts. Many skins are even functional: they can record your notes and to-do lists, launch your favorite applications, and send your tweets to Twitter - all in a clean, unobtrusive interface that you can rearrange and customize to your liking.

Description: Boost Firefox in a single click with SpeedyFox absolutely for free!
You get:

Boost Firefox startup in up to 3 times!
Speed-up browsing history
Quicker operation with cookies
Available for both Windows and Mac OS

Description: Travel across the planets of solar system and destroy bases of the aggressive aliens with your heavy weaponed and armored truck.

Description: 3D combat racing game in postnuclear setting. Daredevils from different corners of the world drive to victory through wrecked cars of their competitors in this deadly racing.

Description: Offroad Racers Contest is the event where monster trucks, rally cars, pickups and buggies compete with each other. Opponents can try to stop racers on their way to finish in three different racing modes. Complete 18 stages to win the contest!

Description: Metalogic Finance Explorer 5.0.1 is our flagship product. It's an easy to use personal finance software that packs enough features for those of us that don't need the overload of features that the big commercial packages offer. It's small yet powerful.

Description: With more ways to connect and a lighter look and feel, AIM for Windows is the best way to talk to friends, family and coworkers from your Windows computer.

Connect to Facebook friends and Google Talk contacts
Update Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, foursquare and more using the built-in Lifestream features
Send photos with "drag & drop" sharing
Customize your buddy list with new themes

Description: DarkWave Studio is a free, open source, Digital Audio Workstation for Windows. Featuring a modular Virtual Studio, Pattern Editor, Sequence Editor and Multitrack Hard Disk Recorder. It has support for VST/VSTi instrument and effect plugins. The virtual studio has a modular design allowing machines to be connected in an ad-hoc fashion. The pattern editor enables the quick creation and modification of patterns by clicking to add or delete notes and dragging notes to move or resize them. The sequence editor allows you to queue patterns to play for each control track in any arrangement, enabling reuse of patterns and quickly remixing projects. The Multitrack Hard Disk Recorder allows you to record the output of any machine and record it to 16-bit Integer of 32-bit Floating Point PCM encoded .WAV files for full-quality post-production editing or for conversion to MP3/FLAC/etc.

Description: CleanMem is a memory cleaner that do force windows to free up memory by using up all the available memory. Sets to run every 30 min via the windows task scheduler. The program doesn't run in the background and doesn't run until the task scheduler runs it. The program will run and clean the memory out of all processes it can. The programs, which are protected by some anti viruses, are not cleanable by cleanmem.

Description: ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit!

It has several 'Modes', each one for performing a different task:

Read - Read a disc to an image file
Build - Create an image file from files on your computer or network - or you can write the files directly to a disc
Write - Write an image file to a disc
Verify - Check a disc is 100% readable. Optionally, you can also have ImgBurn compare it against a given image file to ensure the actual data is correct
Discovery - Put your drive / media to the test! Used in combination with DVDInfoPro, you can check the quality of the burns your drive is producing

Description: System Ninja is a lightweight program designed to clean your computer of unwanted junk, constantly slowing your entire system down. System Ninja features a fast and powerful file cleaner, Startup Manager, Process Manager, plus several useful tools such as CCEnhancer, FileAnalyzr and MalRunDestroyer.

Powerful System Cleaner
System Ninja features a powerful scanning engine designed to locate junk files on your computer, wherever they are hiding. System Ninja looks at a files creation time, file extension, location and many other factors to determine whether it is needed by your computer.

Description: Starting developing on PHP, probably you often face the problem which IDE to choose. Whereas most companies sell it at high price (100-500$), we offer our multifunctional IDE absolutely FREE all standard features: PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript highlighting, advanced PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript autocomplete, Powerful PHP debugger, SQL autocomplete, Context and Dynamic.

Our IDE streamlines and simplifies php development process. You don't need to keep in mind names of functions, arguments, tags and their attributes; methods etc - we've implemented it for you in the autocomplete feature for PHP, HTML, JavaScript and even CSS. Also, you can always get necessary help information by F1 or using special Help control.

Description:

Difference between LCD and CRT text output

CRT monitors' pixels are formed by several dots of different color. On small resolutions a single CRT display pixel can consist of more than 9 colored points. If the screen resolution is huge, the CRT tube pixel contains only 3 colored dots. Moreover, pixels standing side by side can share the same dots! So, on CRT screens low-contrast transitions are blurred, but high-contrast junctions obtain geometric distortions.

LCD displays have square pixels of fixed size. Each pixel consists of 3 rectangular (usually vertical) nonintersecting colored areas. So, diagonal lines and text characters, which are automatically smoothed on CRT monitors, become jagged on LCD screens.

Description: Why settle for a basic build of your Firefox browser on Windows Operating Systems when you can have one that performs 25% faster? Mozilla does not provide optimized browser packages for Windows, while many Linux ("from scratch") users get the advantage of a browser built specifically for their system. That needs to change! So, here is the Pale Moon project: Custom-built and optimized Firefox browsers for Windows Operating Systems. Make sure to get the most speed out of your browser!

Description: Browse and do any internet activity comfortably even when your download manager or torrent client downloads huge files from internet - just lower their network priority with NetBalancer.

NetBalancer is an internet traffic control and monitoring tool designed for Windows XP/2003/Vista/Win7, both x86 and native x64.

You can use NetBalancer to set download/upload transfer rate priority for any applications and monitor their internet traffic.

Applications with a higher network priority will gain more traffic bandwidth than those with a lower one.

Description: TeamViewer connects to any PC or server around the world within a few seconds. You can remote control your partner's PC as if you were sitting right in front of it. Find out why more than 100 million users trust TeamViewer!

TeamViewer is our solution for easy and friendly desktop sharing. You can remote control a partner’s desktop to give online assistance, or you can show your screen to a customer - all without worrying about firewalls, IP addresses and NAT.

Description: Using Fly Free Photo Editing & Viewer software, freeware runs on windows with Mac style skin, you can view, edit, enhance and manipulate your pictures easily. It provides a much easier way to view, edit and share multiple photos simultaneously in multiple tabs.

Key features include batch resize, batch photo slideshow PowerPoint, upload Flickr/Google/Facebook, convert entire web page from HTML to image and powerful editing tool like crop, resize, RGB, gray scale, bright, contrast, rotate, add text, remove red eye and more.

Description: IECacheView is a small utility that reads the cache folder of Internet Explorer, and displays the list of all files currently stored in the cache. For each cache file, the following information is displayed: Filename, Content Type, URL, Last Accessed Time, Last Modified Time, Expiration Time, Number Of Hits, File Size, Folder Name, and full path of the cache filename. You can easily save the cache information into text/html/xml file, or copy the cache table to the clipboard and then paste it to another application, like Excel or OpenOffice Spreadsheet.

Description: 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...

Description: Stinger is a stand-alone utility used to detect and remove specific viruses. It is not a substitute for full anti-virus protection, but rather a tool to assist administrators and users when dealing with an infected system. Stinger utilizes next generation scan engine technology, including process scanning, digitally signed DAT files, and scan performance optimizations.

Description: WirelessNetView is a small utility that runs in the background, and monitor the activity of wireless networks around you. For each detected network, it displays the following information: SSID, Last Signal Quality, Average Signal Quality, Detection Counter, Authentication Algorithm, Cipher Algorithm, MAC Address, RSSI, Channel Frequency, Channel Number, and more.

Description: A powerful multimedia technology with a built-in media player, QuickTime lets you view Internet video, HD movie trailers, and personal media in a wide range of file formats. And it lets you enjoy them in remarkably high quality.

Features:
It’s a multimedia platform.
Video from your digital camera or mobile phone. A movie on your Mac or PC. A media clip on a website. No matter what you're watching or where you're watching it, QuickTime technology makes it all possible.

Description: 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.

Description: It is a Web-browser, advanced e-mail, newsgroup and feed client, IRC chat, and HTML editing made simple -- all your Internet needs in one application.

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.

Description: Totally Free DVD Transcoder is a high quality, high speed DVD video transcoder. It transcodes original DVDs into 4 GB movie files that are compatible with burning devices. Totally Free DVD Transcoder is based on new transcoding engine which transcode DVD and burn DVDR discs without any quality or feature lost.

Description: BatteryCare is a software created to optimize the usage and performance of the modern laptop's battery

It monitors the battery's discharge cycles and helps increasing it's autonomy and improving its lifetime

Features:

Battery's discharge cycles monitoring

The advanced algorithm accurately records when a complete discharge cycle is performed.

When the configured number of discharge cycles is reached, a notification balloon pops up to remind that a full discharge is required.

Complete battery information

It calculates the statistical remaining time in laptops that don't support the battery time left information and only list the charge percentage.

Description: Driver Magician offers a professional solution for device drivers backup, restoration, update and removal in Windows operating system. It identifies all the hardware in the system, extracts their associated drivers from the hard disk and backs them up to a location of your choice. Then when you format and reinstall/upgrade your operating system, you can restore all the "saved" drivers just as if you had the original driver diskettes in your hands. After one system reboot, your PC will be loaded and running with the required hardware drivers.

What's more, Driver Magician has a built in database of the latest drivers with the ability to go to the Internet to receive the driver updates. It saves lots of time to find the correct drivers and mature drivers will obviously increase the performance of hardware. If there are unknown devices in your PC, Driver Magician helps you detect them easily and quickly with its built in hardware identifier database.

Description: Miro is a free HD video player. It can play almost any video file and offers over 6,000 free internet TV shows and video podcasts.

Miro has a simple, gorgeous interface designed for fullscreen HD video. Since Miro downloads most videos, you can take your shows with you, even on an airplane. Quite simply, Miro is a better way to watch all the video you care about.

Best of all, Miro is 100% free and open source, developed by a non-profit organization and volunteers around the world.

Description:

PC Tools AntiVirus Free Edition provides world-leading protection against viruses, worms and Trojans with rapid updates and IntelliGuard real-time technology.

With PC Tools AntiVirus Free, you are protected against basic cyber threats attempting to gain access to your PC. Don't risk going online without protection. Dangers include contracting malware or getting your identity stolen - download PC Tools software today for enhanced protection!

Description: CCEnhancer is a small tool which adds support for over 270 new programs into the popular program CCleaner. The tool uses the winapp2.ini system built into CCleaner to easily add new rules and definitions for programs. The rules were sourced mainly from the Piriform Support Forum, with several sourced from other places around the internet. Directly download the winapp2.ini file here.

Description: Task Coach is a simple open source todo manager to keep track of personal tasks and todo lists. It grew out of a frustration that most task managers do not provide facilities for composite tasks. Often, tasks and other things todo consist of several activities. Task Coach is designed to deal with composite tasks. In addition, it offers effort tracking, categories, and notes. Task Coach is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and iPhone and iPod Touch.

Description: LiveContactsView is a small utility that allows you to view the details of all contacts in your Windows Live Messenger. For each contact, LiveContactsView display the following fields: Email address, nickname, quick name, first name, last name, and more. You can easily select one or more contacts and then export them into text/xml/html/csv file, or copy them into the clipboard and then paste them into Excel or to other spreadsheet application.

Description: MozillaCacheView is a small utility that reads the cache folder of Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape Web browsers, and displays the list of all files currently stored in the cache. For each cache file, the following information is displayed: URL, Content type, File size, Last modified time, Last fetched time, Expiration time, Fetch count, Server name, and more.

Description: Mixxx is free, open source DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes.

Mixxx is free mixing software for DJs, providing everything needed to create live mixes. It allows you to beatmatch songs and crossfade them together, like you would with turntables and a mixer.

Description: The fastest browser on Earth is even faster. But that is not all. Use Opera Turbo to double your page-download speed on slow connections. Download Opera now and get more from the Web.

Features:

Lightning fast
Make your web browsing faster. Everything from loading webpages to opening tabs is optimized to happen almost instantly. You can even speed up browsing on slow connections, with Opera Turbo.

Description: The system registry is one of the most important components of the operating system. The stability of the system's operation depends upon it being in working order, and the speed of the applications you work with depends upon the volume of data contained in it.

Registry Life helps correct errors in the registry and optimizes it, increasing the working speed and stability of the system. It's a compact, simple to use, and FREE solution for servicing your system registry.

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