FREEWAREWEBLOG: May 2011

metapad 3.6

Description: Metapad is a small, fast and completely free text editor for Windows (95/98/NT/XP/Vista/7) with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepad's features and much, much more.

Description: Chasys Draw IES is a suite of applications including a layer-based image editor with animation, icon editing support and super-resolution via image stacking (Chasys Draw IES Artist), a multi-threaded image file converter (Chasys Draw IES Converter), a fast image viewer (Chasys Draw IES Viewer) and a RAW camera file processor (Chasys Draw IES raw-Photo). The whole suite is UAC aware and is designed to take advantage of multi-core processors, touch-screens and pen-input devices.

Chasys Draw IES Converter is the batch file converter program in the IES suite. Chasys Draw IES Converter is a high speed, multi-threaded conversion application that is capable of utilizing dual/quad/multi-core processors for extra speed.

Chasys Draw IES Viewer is the viewer program in the IES suite. Chasys Draw IES Viewer is a high speed viewer application that is capable of viewing all image files that can be loaded by the IES suite, including Chasys Draw Image Format (cd5) and animated GIF.

Description: The Web Blocker is now a 100% free internet parental control program! It is an easy-to-use, powerful free Internet Filter brought to you by Webstart Studios, LLC. Download your free Internet Parental Control. The Web Blocker can block any site on the Internet with one click of the mouse button. The internet parental control software can block Facebook, MySpace and any other site on the net. It’s one of the only free internet parental control programs on the web!!

Is your child abusing his or her Internet privileges by watching obscene videos? Are your employees spending too much time on recreational sites? If so The Web Blocker is for you.

Description: At LogMeIn, we take the security and protection of your important files, data, and personal information very seriously. Our products are architected with security being the most important design objective. As part of this commitment our datacenters and source code are continually reviewed by independent, accredited third party audit firms to ensure data that your information remains confidential.

All communications by LogMeIn products use industry-standard algorithms and protocols for encryption and authentication. Nobody will be able to see or access the data transmitted between your computers - not even us.

Description: EasyBits Media is dedicated to providing a world class Game channel to the expanding global Skype community.

In 2006, in collaboration with Skype, EasyBits Media created the Skype Extras framework – one of the world’s first ever Apps store.

Skype Extras are Apps that allow users to extend Skype functionality. For example, our Skype Extra is called "Play Games" which is bundled with the Skype client for Windows and installed on over 100 million PCs. It allows users to play a host of free classic and cutting edge games with friends and family through Skype.

Description:

Support for ATI Control Center
Ability to change the regime "Theater"
Low-level overclocking with the ability to create profiles, including the management of cooler video card
Automatic overclocking when application required 3D mode
Temperature monitoring chip video card and a second temperature sensor, usually referred to Environment.
Artifact Tester with ability to find maximum stable clocks for GPU and memory.
Game profiles with the ability to create shortcuts on the desktop.
Direct3D settings with templates as a separate form and in the tray area
OpenGL settings with templates as a separate form and in the tray area

Description: Lansweeper is an automated network discovery and asset management tool which scans all your computers and devices and displays them in an easy accessible web interface.

There is no need to install any agents on the computers, all scanning is done by standard build-in functionality.

Description: Best MP3 Cutter to Cut and Split MP3 Audio Fast and Easily

Description: No more typing common phrases again!

Organize frequently used text snippets.
Expand abbreviations as you type.
Launch programs with text shortcuts.
Auto-complete repetitive phrases.
Quick access to the Windows Clipboard History.
Correct spelling mistakes in any application.

Description: ServiWin utility displays the list of installed drivers and services on your system. For some of them, additional useful information is displayed: file description, version, product name, company that created the driver file, and more.

In addition, ServiWin allows you to easily stop, start, restart, pause, and continue service or driver, change the startup type of service or driver (automatic, manual, disabled, boot or system), save the list of services and drivers to file, or view HTML report of installed services/drivers in your default browser.

Description: With Dexpot you may have separate virtual desktops for different applications. One desktop might feature applications for graphic design, for example, and another might feature your business applications.

Switch between virtual desktops in order to keep track of your open windows. Using Dexpot, you'll considerably increase your workflow.

Description: EVGA, once again, sets itself apart from the rest with the EVGA Exclusive Precision Overclocking Utility. This program allows you to fine tune your EVGA graphics card for the maximum performance possible, with Core/Shader/Memory clock tuning, real time monitoring support including in-game, Logitech Keyboard LCD Display support, and compatibility with almost all EVGA graphics cards.

Description: RogueKiller is a tool written in C, which scans the processes running, and kill those who are malicious. I developed this tool after seeing that some rogues (eg Security Tools) blocked the execution of disinfection programs, and some programs (eg Rkill) appeared ineffective in killing the rogue process. So I developed a tool based on speed of execution, which is to clean up the process and requested clean the registry to make a sanitizing faster and safer then with the usual tools.

Description: Hornil StylePix is a graphics editing program that allows you to draw pictures, edit photos and more.

StylePix is an acronym for "Style Picture". This means your pictures with nice style. StylePix helps you to create nice pictures easily and quickly. If you don't use the image editor or think it is difficult to use try StylePix. You can also become a graphic designer with a variety of tools and an intuitive user interface.

Hornil StylePix has intuitive user interface. It is designed to adjust the selected feature easy and conveniently. Even if you have no experience, you can easily learn how to edit image and retouching your photos. As a result, Hornil StylePix's intuitive UI reduces your time to work.

Description: StaxRip is open source video converter GUI with a wide range of supported source and target formats.

StaxMedia is the home of StaxRip. StaxRip is a MPEG-4 frontend useful to convert a wide range of source formats into MPEG-4.

Description: Ever since Internet Explorer was created, it has lacked an essential feature; real time spell check. Versoworks proudly brings you that feature, say hello to Speckie! The first and only dedicated real time spell check for IE.

Description: ProduKey is a small utility that displays the ProductID and the CD-Key of Microsoft Office (Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007), Windows (Including Windows 7 and Windows Vista), Exchange Server, and SQL Server installed on your computer. You can view this information for your current running operating system, or for another operating system/computer - by using command-line options. This utility can be useful if you lost the product key of your Windows/Office, and you want to reinstall it on your computer.

Description: Ensure you are private, secure, and anonymous online!
Secure your web session, data, online shopping, and personal information online with HTTPS encryption.
Protect yourself from identity theft online.
Hide your IP address for your privacy online.
Access all content privately without censorship; bypass firewalls.
Protect yourself from snoopers at Wi-Fi hotspots, hotels, airports, corporate offices.

Description: The Open Hardware Monitor is a free open source software that monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of a computer.

The Open Hardware Monitor supports most hardware monitoring chips found on todays mainboards. The CPU temperature can be monitored by reading the core temperature sensors of Intel and AMD processors. The sensors of ATI and Nvidia video cards as well as SMART hard drive temperature can be displayed. The monitored values can be displayed in the main window, in a customizable desktop gadget, or in the system tray. The Open Hardware Monitor software runs on 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / 7 and any x86 based Linux operating systems without installation.

New in version 0.3.2 Beta:

Fixed the message box that is shown when the Open Hardware Monitor is started without extracting all files from the archive.
Fixed a spelling error in the report submitting dialog.

Description: Wordweb is a feature-rich software that does much more than a paper dictionary or thesaurus. WordWeb is truly a Word Web - each set of synonyms is linked to other related sets. Look up "tree", click on the "Types" tab and you'll have a list of different types of tree. Click on "Part of" and WordWeb will tell you that a tree can be part of a "forest" or "wood".

WordWeb is free subject to licensing terms.

Description: Angry IP Scanner (or simply ipscan) is an open-source and cross-platform network scanner designed to be fast and simple to use. It scans IP addresses and ports as well as has many other features.

It is widely used by network administrators and just curious users around the world, including large and small enterprises, banks, and government agencies.

It runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, possibly supporting other platforms as well.

Description: ReConvert is an audio and video converter that uses FFMPEG.

All-in-One professional converter, convert audio and video files between all popular formats playable on your iPad, iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP and other portable device, with fast converting speed and excellent quality. You can choose the preset formats or manually set your configuration.

When you open the software is created automatically (in the same directory) the default folder "Media".

Description: Watch local TV, world TV, Live TV, satellite TV from countries of all world in different languages on your PC with anyTV not just at home, but at the OFFICE , work or wireless. Watch 2630+ Online TV, 6910+ Video clips. Listen to 4750+ Online Radio.
Using anyTV means you can watch numerous of international TVs without a television, TV Tuner Card or a satellite receiver. Watch anywhere you have your internet Online. No additional equipments required.

Watch news, entertainment, documentaries, music, sports, shopping, languages, cartoons, learning, culture, religious channels, live cameras etc .. from all over the world. Get immediate access to thousands of free streaming Internet TV channels, Online Radios.

Description: Switch is one of the most stable and comprehensive multi format audio file converters available and is very easy to use.

Supported Audio File Formats:
wav, mp3, wma, mp2, m4a, ogg, avi, mid, flac, mov, amr, aac, mpga, dct, au, aif/aiff, raw, dvf, vox, cda, gsm, dss, sri, shn, dss, msv, wmv, and more..

Description: Data Crow is the ultimate media cataloger and media organiser. Always wanted to manage all your collections in one product? You want a product you can customize to your needs? Your search ends here! Using Data Crow allows you to create a huge database containing all your collected items. You can use the excellent online services to retrieve the information instead of typing all the information yourself.

Description: Free and open source media player which plays almost all multimedia formats without the need for installing any separate codecs. Connects to an online subtitle database, finds subtitles that are a perfect fit to the played media. Plays RAR-archives without first extracting the media. Beautiful music visualizations.

Description: Antivirus software can be very hard to use, it often slows down your computer and seems to be built by engineers for engineers. We designed digital defender antivirus to be the opposite: easy to use, extremely fast and it should never slow down your computer. Simply put an antivirus designed for today and the future. Download it directly here or read more about it.

Description: Antivir is a free popular antivirus application. Advertisements are shown once the application downloads updates, the user has to close the ad-window by clicking "OK".
Most people using the free version do not intend to buy an advanced premium version of the application. Even those users are regularly confronted with the advertisements.
Inexperienced users are also often confused and annoyed by the ads.
There is a simple solution for all these problems. Antivir AD Disabler neither modifies files nor registry settings of Antivir.
It uses a simple function of Microsoft Windows to disable the advertisements.
This application is not meant to harm Antvir but to improve users' convenience.

Description:XMedia Recode can convert almost all popular audio and video formats including 3GP, 3GPP, 3GPP2, AAC, AC3, AMR, ASF, AVI, AVISynth, DVD, FLAC, FLV, H.261, H.263, H.264, M4A , M1V, M2V, M4V, Matroska (MKV), MMF, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, TS, TRP, MP2, MP3, MP4, MP4V, MOV, QT, OGG, PSP, (S) VCD , SWF, VOB, WAV, WebM, WMA and WMV.

XMedia Recode can only convert unprotected DVDs.

XMedia Recode converts: 3GP to AVI, 3GP to FLV, AC3 to MP3, AC3 to WAV, ASF to 3GP, ASF to FLV, ASF to MP4, AVI to FLV, AVI to 3GP, FLAC to MP3, FLAC to WMA, FLV 3GP, FLV to MP3, DVD to 3GP, DVD to AC3, DVD to AVI, DVD to MP3, DVD to MP4, DVD to MOV, DVD to SVCD, DVD to VCD, DVD to WMV, OGG to MP3, OGG to WMA, MPEG to AVI, MP2 to MP3, MP4 to FLV, MP4 to AVI, M4P to MP3, MOV to 3GP, MOV to AVI, MOV to FLV, WMA to MP3, WMV to FLV, WAV to MP3.

Description: PC Tools Firewall Plus is a powerful free personal firewall for Windows® that protects your computer by preventing unauthorized users from gaining access to your computer through the Internet or a network. By monitoring applications that connect to the network Firewall Plus can stop Trojans, backdoors, keyloggers and other malware from damaging your computer and stealing your private information.

PC Tools Firewall Plus is advanced technology designed especially for people, not just experts. Powerful prevention against attacks and known exploits is activated by default while experienced users can optionally create their own advanced packet filtering rules, including IPv6 support, to customize the network defenses. All you need to do is install it for immediate and automatic ongoing protection.

Description: Passkey Lite, a free version of Passkey, is a simple combination of Passkey for DVD and Passkey for Blu-ray. It is not any more a versatile and powerful decryption tool with some DVD/Blu-ray protections out of its domain. However, you can still freely watch any DVD, and use other software to access unprotected DVD/Blu-ray content.

Passkey Lite is a free and a simple two-in-one version of Passkey for DVD and Passkey for Blu-ray, and supports part of the functions they have.
It can still decrypt protected DVD and Blu-ray, but not for all of them. For example, it can't remove AACS V12+, BD+, BDAV, and AVCREC for Blu-ray, so you are not allowed to watch movies with those protections. It doesn't support CPRM for DVD, and PathPlayer is not enabled, so ARccOS, RipGuard, can't be removed. As a result, you can't copy those still protected DVDs , but you are able to freely watch them.
What adds punch to Passkey Lite is it can work with all the software that Passkey for DVD and Passkey for Blu-ray works with. You are enabled to use these apps to play/copy/rip the unprotected DVD/Blu-ray discs.

Description:
Create, customize and publish websites with WebMatrix

WebMatrix is a free web development tool from Microsoft that includes everything you need for website development. Start from open source web applications, built-in web templates or just start writing code yourself. It’s all-inclusive, simple and best of all free. Developing websites has never been easier.

Create your website

To get started creating websites, just download and install WebMatrix using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. You’ll be up and running less than 5 minutes! Once WebMatrix is installed, we make it simple to get and install the latest version of your favorite free web applications such as WordPress, Joomla!, DotNetNuke and Orchard.

Customize your website

Once you’re up and running, you will find that WebMatrix provides all the tools features you’ll need in a single unified interface. Say good-bye to switching between multiple applications just to perform common web development tasks. With WebMatrix, you’re always just a click away from easily editing your files, managing your database and modifying your server settings.

Publish your website

When you’re ready, WebMatrix provides a no-hassle way to show the world your website. Just access our hosting gallery from WebMatrix and you’ll find a hosting provider that is guaranteed to run your site smoothly while also allowing you to publish directly from WebMatrix.

For More Features:

Author's website: http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/

Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/web/handlers/webpi.ashx?command=getinstaller&appid=webmatrix

Download size: 92.3 KB

Ashampoo ClipFinder HD 2.18

Description: ClipFinder HD is a like a 3D web browser. You just enter search words in the Search bar and the search results from up to 15 video portals are displayed as clip thumbnails in the 3D Video Wall. You can search selectively in just some portals, just one portal or all portals. You choose. You can also create multiple searches in different tabs and switch between the results.

Click on a clip to play it, click again to save it to your hard disk and convert it while your saving. Zoom the video while you’re playing by turning the mouse wheel, another click plays in full screen mode with popup controls.

Description: IncrediMail 2 is a powerful, easy to use, feature-rich and fun email program. Better and smarter than ever before, IncrediMail 2 includes features such as a powerful and fast email search tool, taking less than a second for IncrediMail 2 to search through 10,000?s of emails. IncrediMail 2 also features an advanced Address book, enabling you to create contact groups in new convenient ways, see who your most popular contacts are, and assign a picture to each of your contacts. The unique attachments preview options provide a quick glance of the attachment file type you?ve received, may it be a photo, video, Word document, or any other file. IncrediMail 2 introduces a better, more attractive and user-friendly design, making browsing through your emails easier and more productive. IncrediMail 2 also includes a built-in dictionary and translation tool, a personal Display Picture option, and animated effects that are now a part of the user interface. In addition, IncrediMail 2 includes a large variety of Stationery, Email Backgrounds, Ecards, Animations and Sounds that can be easily added to your email messages. IncrediMail 2 is available for download in 10 languages, and is compatible with the leading web-based email services. Blazing fast and stable, IncrediMail 2 makes your email experience more productive even while you're having fun.

Description: Little Registry Optimizer is a part of Little Apps` Little Registry Cleaner. This project is aimed to analyze the windows registry and (if needed) optimize it so it will be smaller and run smoother when the computer is rebooted.

Features:

Decreases the registry's hard drive space
Increases the computers hard drive space
Increases Window's overall performance
100% Freeware
And Much More!

Description: TCPView is a Windows program that will show you detailed listings of all TCP and UDP endpoints on your system, including the local and remote addresses and state of TCP connections. On Windows Server 2008, Vista, and XP, TCPView also reports the name of the process that owns the endpoint. TCPView provides a more informative and conveniently presented subset of the Netstat program that ships with Windows. The TCPView download includes Tcpvcon, a command-line version with the same functionality.

Description: Ever had such an annoying message given by Windows: Cannot delete file: Access is denied. There has been a sharing violation. The source or destination file may be in use or 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. Unlocker is the solution. Unlocker is an Explorer extension that allows you with a simple right-click of the mouse on a file or folder to get rid of error message such as error deleting file or folder, cannot delete folder: it is used by another person or program.

Description:FrostWire is a fork of the very popular LimeWire PRO Gnutella/Bittorrent client. The purpose of FrostWire is to keep and maintain the freedoms that LimeWire LLC may be forced to withdraw. Share any type of file on Gnutella and the Bittorrent network.

Description: VMMap is a process virtual and physical memory analysis utility. It shows a breakdown of a process's committed virtual memory types as well as the amount of physical memory (working set) assigned by the operating system to those types. Besides graphical representations of memory usage, VMMap also shows summary information and a detailed process memory map. Powerful filtering and refresh capabilities allow you to identify the sources of process memory usage and the memory cost of application features.

Besides flexible views for analyzing live processes, VMMap supports the export of data in multiple forms, including a native format that preserves all the information so that you can load back in. It also includes command-line options that enable scripting scenarios.

VMMap is the ideal tool for developers wanting to understand and optimize their application's memory resource usage.

Description: Shell Extensions are in-process COM objects which extends the abilities of Windows operating system. Most shell extensions are automatically installed by the operating system, but there are also many other applications that install additional shell extension components. For example: If you install WinZip on your computer, you'll see a special WinZip menu when you right-click on a Zip file. This menu is created by adding a shell extension to the system.

The ShellExView utility displays the details of shell extensions installed on your computer, and allows you to easily disable and enable each shell extension.

Description: SpaceSniffer is a freeWare and portable tool application that lets you understand how folders and files are structured on your disks. By using a Treemap visualization layout, you have immediate perception of where big folders and files are placed on your devices. Treemap concept was invented by Prof. Ben Shneiderman, who kindly permitted the use of his concept into this tool.

Start a scan process and see the overall situation. Bigger are the elements on the view, bigger are folders and files on your disk. You need more detail on a big folder? Just single click on it. The selected element will be detailed with its content.

Description: Ainvo Disk Defrag is a small and very easy to use application that will automatically defragment your HDD. Thanks to it, thousands of people devote more time to what they really like.

Disk fragmentation slows down the operation of software. Start disk defragmentation using the "Disk defragmentation" link. If necessary, click the "Cancel" button and stop defragmentation.

Description: Use Defraggler to defrag your entire hard drive, or individual files - unique in the industry. This compact and portable Windows application supports NTFS and FAT32 file systems.

Description: Iconix eMail ID lets you see what's real before you even open the message. Iconix eMail ID works with your current email service such as AOL mail, AIM mail, Yahoo mail, Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail, Earthlink, and Outlook Express. Iconix eMail ID double checks the source of a message to make sure it's not a spoof. It then uses a simple visual indicator in your inbox, a gold lock with a checkmark to show that a message is real. E-mail from over 300 major senders is currently identified, companies such as eBay, PayPal, Citibank, Amazon.com, Expedia, MySpace, and the New York Times represent the top online sites for retail, travel, auctions, banking, e-cards, news, entertainment, and dating.

Description: RefreshPC is a utility to return select registry settings and all Windows services to their default state.

This can fix many problems with your computer.

RefreshPC is a very easy to use and safe utility for fixing misconfigurations in your services and in the registry itself.

Description: InstalledCodec is a small utility displays the list of all Codec drivers and DirectShow filters currently installed on your system. For each component the following information is displayed: Display Name, Type, Disabled Status, Installed/Modified Time, Description, Company Name, Filename, and more...
It allows you to easily disable or enable any Codec/DirectShow component or export the list into text/xml/html file.

Description: Patch My PC is a handy and reliable utility designed to check your system against the current version of Adobe Reader, Flash, Firefox, Java, and Quicktime.

When started it will scan your computer for the latest version of this software if your system does't have the latest version it will show up as red, and when you click update it will download and install the latest available updates for the software found on your computer. With the aid of this application, you will be always up to date!

Description: Don't Sleep is a small portable program to prevent system shutdown, Standby, Hibernate, Turn Off and Restart.

Especially when old Programs run on Windows-7 or Windows Vista. Here's more aggressive power-saving features with new rules.

But not only that, it also prevents loggin off the computer, and the deactivation of the monitor or activation of the screen saver.

Of course you can also manually disable all the options and then activate again, but with Don't Sleep one can save now many hand moves and also save time! And it's easier than ever.

Description: Free Disc Burner writes any files, folders (data) to any disc as well as writes multisession discs (there is a possibility to write up files to the same disc), erases information from a disc, supports Blu-Ray.

Supported Media Types: BD-R / BD-RE (Blu-Ray), DVD-R Double Layer, DVD-R Dual Layer, DVD+R / DVD+RW, DVD-R / DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, CD-R / CD-RW.

Description: If you think your PC is slow, help is at hand. 360Amigo System Speedup is a new PC optimization and error repair utility that dramatically improves the performance of your PC.

Regularly cleaning your computer could save you costly maintenance fees down the road. It’s common to fill space on a PC’s hard drive with games, productivity programs, or files, such as music, digital photos, video clips, and other Internet files. Some industry studies believe that we use less than 10 percent of the programs installed on our computer.

While deleting programs is relatively easy, many novice computer users believe they can be removed by simply deleting their icon on the desktop. This does not work, as it’s only a shortcut to the real program, which consists of many files. And keep in mind that you can do damage to your PC’s performance if you happen to delete a program folder that you don’t think you need from your hard drive. 360Amigo System Speedup is the utility you need to safely – and easily – remove old or unused programs and files from your Windows-based computer.

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