FREEWAREWEBLOG: November 2011

ConsoleTaskManager 3.0

Description: Artweaver lets you paint creatively with the help of a huge range of painting tools. You can create sketches from photos or just experiment with colors.

Artweaver is available in two versions: The Artweaver Free version for free and an Artweaver Plus version with costs which has more features than the free version. You can try Artweaver Plus for 14 days without restrictions before deciding to purchase Artweaver Plus.

Description: DriveGLEAM is a harddrive activity monitor application.

DriveGLEAM is a harddrive activity indicator and also include built in extensions for monitoring CPU and memory load. It works by immitating the harddrive LED on screen. This is a very useful if your computer case is hidden (under the table) or on another physical location (remote desktop). DriveGLEAM features independent indicators for each drive or partition and allows you to monitor both read and write access. As a option

Description: Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that can save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.

New in Version 0.3.8.7:
fixed bugs and compatibility problems with other extensions and themes.

Description: Windows Gadget To Display System Health In Real Time.

System Monitor II is famous because it is a powerful application that can show you (in an accurate mode) the CPU and RAM usage. System Monitor II comes with more features and options than the default Windows Task Manager andF it can provide you a better view of what is happening with your CPU and RAM.

Description: Top Process Monitor is simple Sidebar gadget shows the top processes on your system - the processes that are consuming the most CPU, Memory (Working Set), IO (Bytes read/written) and others. It does not require any 3rd party applications. Resizable! Save settings to file. (File will be created - Path: %APPDATA% File: gadgetname_Settings.ini). Color changeable for all gadget's elements, including background.

Description: Drives Monitor utilizes Performance Monitor data to visualize physical or logical disk activity. For each physical/logical disk, % active time and bytes read and written per second is displayed. It does not require any 3rd party applications. Resizable! Save settings to file. (File will be created - Path: %APPDATA% File: gadgetname_Settings.ini). Two modes. Color changeable for all gadget's elements, including background.

Description: Jailer is a tool for database subsetting, schema and data browsing. It exports consistent, referentially intact row-sets from relational databases. It removes obsolete data without violating integrity. It is DBMS agnostic (by using JDBC), platform independent, and generates DbUnit datasets, hierarchically structured XML, and topologically sorted SQL-DML.

Description: KeepNote is a note taking application that works on Windows, Linux, and MacOS X. With KeepNote, you can store your class notes, TODO lists, research notes, journal entries, paper outlines, etc in a simple notebook hierarchy with rich-text formatting, images, and more. Using full-text search, you can retrieve any note for later reference.

KeepNote is designed to be cross-platform (implemented in Python and PyGTK) and stores your notes in simple and easy to manipulate file formats (HTML and XML). Archiving and transferring your notes is as easy as zipping or copying a folder.

Description: Easy signature is a free digital signature software (e-signature) that allows digitally signing any type of file.
It is an excellent tool for intra security document management, document approval workflow and digital identification for companies and organizations.
It is an initiative to make the world greener and make everyday document management easier.

100% Free of charge for commercial and personal use. (no limitations)
100% AdFree.
100% Malware/virus Free.
Currently (2011-11-21) over 1600 unique downloads and active users around the world!

Description: A free, full-featured and fast stopwatch for Windows

Free Stopwatch is flexible digital stopwatch software. This stopwatch measures time intervals in hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds. The timer counts in increments of 0.01 seconds.

Just press a Start button to begin the count and press a Stop button at the finish line. You can also press a Lap button to monitor the times between laps. Free Stopwatch records an infinite number of laps.

Description:

Secure Folder is an easy-to-use free folder security software that lets you hide, lock and encrypt folders using 256-bit AES encryption through an intuitive and simple interface.

Features:

Unlimited number of folders can be protected.
Intuitive & easy-to-use interface.
NTFS, FAT32 and FAT volumes supported.
Implements 256-bit AES to encrypt files.
Effective password protection.
System Cleaner, File shredder, Virtual Drive.
Uninstalling will not uncover locked folders.
Windows Explorer integration.
Supports Drag & Drop.
Live update.
Compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7

Description: A simple turn-based artillery game and also a real-time strategy game in which players can counter each others' weapons with other creative accessories, shields and tactics. Test your skill in timing, aiming and judgement of distance, move around on the landscape, or outsmart your opponent economically.

Learning how to play is easy, just point the turret, adjust power and trajectory, select a weapon - and shoot!

Description: Free MP3 converter - convert WAV files to MP3 and MP3 to WAV.

Graphical interface (GUI) for the popular and very fast MP3 encoder & decoder - LAME. It offers easy access to all LAME parameters without the need for command line usage. The program offers a simple mode and an advanced mode which reveals additional expert options.
Lame Front-End can work in batch mode, so it can be used by external applications to encoding/decoding files, e.g. by Exact Audio Copy, CDex.

Description: A tiny, flexible, hard-working tool to automate sorting and filing data-files and folders.
When you need to organize files, DropIt can eliminate much of the drudgery of searching and manually opening folders and moving files around.
You can configure DropIt to do 9 different actions to your files and folders (Move, Copy, Compress, Extract, Rename, Open With, List, Delete and Ignore), filtering files by name, extension, location, size and/or date. You can even save sets of associations in profiles and associate a profile to each desired folder, to scan monitored folders at a defined time interval.

Description: ImBatch is the image batch processor for Windows. ImBatch features an excellent user interface that’s easy to use and understand.

It handles all popular image formats: BMP, DIB, RLE, TIF, TIFF, FAX, G3N, G3F, XIF, GIF, JPG, JPEG, JPE, JIF, PCX, PNG, TGA, TARGA, VDA, ICB, VST, PIX, PXM, PPM, PGM, PBM, WBMP, JP2, J2K, JPC, J2C, DCX, DAT, PSD, WDP, HDP.

Description: POP Peeper is an email notifier that runs in your Windows task bar and alerts you when you have new email on your POP3, IMAP (with IDLE support), Hotmail\MSN\LiveMail, Yahoo, GMail, MyWay, Excite, iWon, Lycos, RediffMail, Juno and NetZero accounts. IMAP supports allows you to access AOL, AIM, Fastmail and other services. Send mail directly from POP Peeper and use the address book to email your frequently used contacts. POP Peeper allows you to view messages using HTML or you can choose to safely view all messages in rich or plain text. Several options are available that will decrease or eliminate the risks of reading your email (viruses, javascript, webbugs, etc). POP Peeper can be run from a portable device and can be password protected. Many notification options are availble to indicate when new mail has arrived, such as sound alerts (configurable for each account), flashing scroll lock, skinnable popup notifier, customized screensaver and more.

Description: Make better HDR images.
You want the accuracy of HDRShop, with all the low-level control to squeeze out the maximum on image quality. But you you also want all the modern convenience features like exposure detection from EXIF data, image alignment and ghost removal? And you want a tone mapper where the final result looks exactly like the preview?

Description: Partition Logic is a free hard disk partitioning and data management tool. It can create, delete, erase, format, defragment, resize, copy, and move partitions and modify their attributes. It can copy entire hard disks from one to another.

Partition Logic is free software, available under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It is based on the Visopsys operating system. It boots from a CD or floppy disk and runs as a standalone system, independent of your regular operating system.

Partition Logic is intended to become a free alternative to such commercial programs as Partition Magic, Drive Image, and Norton Ghost.

Description: The xp-AntiSpy is actually nothing more than a tool that makes the system settings, which can, if you want to make it, can do it manually. It makes the whole thing automatically. These settings, which are made there are circulating on many boards under the user name 'Installation Instructions'. Is one of these installation instructions are available at NVinside.de. It's basically about features that are built into Windows components like Internet Explorer and are used to connect to other computers on the Internet. Mainly want to combine these features with Microsoft to send as error logs after a heavy program / system error or request for new updates. Unfortunately you can not say whether there really only error logs and update requests are sent, and what data the user will be sent along. I did not write these installation instructions, but I was busy, but to simplify this rather complicated steps. This is the xp-AntiSpy become. The settings made by this program are freely selectable and preset at the start to recommended. Users who know so more about this operating system and its requirements it can adjust these settings to their ideas. The program could just as well come along in the form of a batch file, only then would the operation have been much more complicated.

Description:
Nero DiscSpeed is an excellent easy-to-use benchmarking tool for testing the operational capabilities of a recorder. As multi-functional tool, Nero DiscSpeed also works for testing the speed of your CD/DVD disc drive as well as testing and benchmarking blanks and burned discs. It can be configured to run according to your desired results. Results can be viewed either as a graph or as a test log.

Description: With more users than ever before relying on free webmail providers, few consumers realize that their emails often are not being protected adequately. And, if a webmail provider has a sudden outage, few realize that they may lose access to their emails indefinitely. That is one reason why MailStore has introduced MailStore Home for personal use – helping home users to backup, archive and migrate their emails, free of charge. For more independence and a better safety.

Description: Free software to organize, fix, edit, and share your videos. Unbelievably good looking results in seconds, not hours. Award-winning technology in a beautiful and intuitive package.

Who is it for?

Everyone. First-time videographers. Soccer Dads. Seasoned video pros. vReveal may be your only video solution or just one step in a complex editing workflow. It's unique, and there is nothing like it. What are YOU waiting for?

Description: Access any local user account without knowing the password, using either of two methods. Does not allow logon to domain accounts. Works on 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 x86/x64. Requires re-setting the security system after you are through.

Description: NTPWEdit is a password editor for Windows NT based systems (like Windows 2000, XP and Vista), it can change or remove passwords for local system accounts. This program can NOT decrypt passwords or change domain and Active Directory passwords.

NTPWEdit changes passwords by direct modifying file C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SAM. When running, operating system blocks any access to this file, so password editor must be executed on another Windows copy.

Description: PasswordFox is a small password recovery tool that allows you to view the user names and passwords stored by Mozilla Firefox Web browser. By default, PasswordFox displays the passwords stored in your current profile, but you can easily select to watch the passwords of any other Firefox profile. For each password entry, the following information is displayed: Record Index, Web Site, User Name, Password, User Name Field, Password Field, and the Signons filename.

Description: SniffPass is small password monitoring software that listens to your network, capture the passwords that pass through your network adapter, and display them on the screen instantly. SniffPass can capture the passwords of the following Protocols: POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, FTP, and HTTP (basic authentication passwords).

You can use this utility to recover lost Web/FTP/Email passwords.

Description: When you connect to a network share on your LAN or to your .NET Passport account, Windows allows you to save your password in order to use it in each time that you connect the remote server. This utility recovers all network passwords stored on your system for the current logged-on user. It can also recover the passwords stored in Credentials file of external drive, as long as you know the last log-on password.

Description: TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data is automatically encrypted right before it is saved and decrypted right after it is loaded, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys. Entire file system is encrypted (e.g., file names, folder names, contents of every file, free space, meta data, etc).

Description: DiskCryptor is an open encryption solution that offers encryption of all disk partitions, including the system partition. The fact of openess goes in sharp contrast with the current situation, where most of the software with comparable functionality is completely proprieatary, which makes it unacceptable to use for protection of confidential data.

Originally DiskCryptor was conceived as a replacement for DriveCrypt Plus Pack and PGP Whole Disk Encryption (WDE). Now, however, the aim of the development of the project is to create the best product in its category. Moreover, in the future, considerable effort will be devoted to the creation of detailed documentation, explaining the internal mechanics of the program, which would be the best confirmation and demonstration of its security.

Description: IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7.

It is designed to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.

IrfanView seeks to create unique, new and interesting features, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 10+ years).

Description: Recovers files from disks with physical damage. Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made useable even if some parts of the file were not recoverable in the end.

The program can be used as a daily backup system using its batch mode functions. A list of transfers can be saved to a file and then run from the command line to perform the same batch of transfers on a regular basis without having to use the GUI interface. The program supports command line parameters which allow the application to be run from schedulers or scripts so it can be fully integrated into daily server tasks.

Description: GImageX is a graphical user interface for the ImageX tool from the Windows Automated Installation Kit v2.0 (WAIK). ImageX is used to capture and apply WIM images for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 desktop deployments. It uses the Microsoft WIMGAPI API for working with WIM files.

The ImageX GUI is a native application for the x86 and x64 platforms that will also work in Windows PE (WinPE). There is also a COM component version included that implements some of the basic functionality for direct use in languages such as VBScript.

Description: HxD is a carefully designed and fast hex editor which, additionally to raw disk editing and modifying of main memory (RAM), handles files of any size.
The easy to use interface offers features such as searching and replacing, exporting, checksums/digests, insertion of byte patterns, a file shredder, concatenation or splitting of files, statistics and much more.
Editing works like in a text editor with a focus on a simple and task-oriented operation, as such functions were streamlined to hide differences that are purely technical.

Description: EaseUS Partition Recovery, a free and easy-to-use partition recovery software to recover deleted or lost partition, takes up one of the best partition recovery software for you to keep owing to the following

Description: DataRescue's DD (in short DrDD) - is a graphical disk imager intended for data recovery and backup of partially corrupted storage devices. DrDD creates complete or partial images of disks or memory cards to files on another storage device, allowing multiple data recovery attempts on the raw data, thereby minimizing the risk of damaging the corrupted media further. DrDD is available for Windows PC and Mac OS X machines.

Description: MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition is a free partition manager software designed by MiniTool Solution Ltd. Our partition manager supports 32/64 bit Windows Operating System including Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. Home users can perform complicated partition operations by using this powerful yet free partition manager to manage their hard disk. Functions include: Resizing partitions, Copying partitions, Create partition, Delete partition, Format partition, Convert partition, Explore partition, Hide partition, Change drive letter, Set active partition, Partition Recovery.

Description:TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user with a lot of features.

Description: Delete files that are difficult to delete, such as some files left by viruses and trojans, or files with corrupted file names. This program can also delete files like the "index.dat" files, which store Internet history, by scheduling them for deletion upon system restart. Select a file to delete from the built-in file browser or drag a file to the application's icon or window from Window's Explorer.

Description: RRT Sergiwa Antiviral Toolkit is a set of handy tools that scan, remove malware and re-enables all what a virus had previously disabled (System Restrictions) and gives you back the control over your own computer, common behavior of a virus is to make some changes to the system restrictions in order to hide itself from easy detection.

Description: RootkitRevealer is an advanced rootkit detection utility. It runs on Windows XP (32-bit) and Windows Server 2003 (32-bit), and its output lists Registry and file system API discrepancies that may indicate the presence of a user-mode or kernel-mode rootkit. RootkitRevealer successfully detects many persistent rootkits including AFX, Vanquish and HackerDefender (note: RootkitRevealer is not intended to detect rootkits like Fu that don't attempt to hide their files or registry keys). If you use it to identify the presence of a rootkit please let us know!

The reason that there is no longer a command-line version is that malware authors have started targetting RootkitRevealer's scan by using its executable name. We've therefore updated RootkitRevealer to execute its scan from a randomly named copy of itself that runs as a Windows service. This type of execution is not conducive to a command-line interface. Note that you can use command-line options to execute an automatic scan with results logged to a file, which is the equivalent of the command-line version's behavior.

Author's Website: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897445

Download Size: 225.96 KB

Download Link: http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/RootkitRevealer.zip

Remove Fake Antivirus 1.81

Description: Remove Fake Antivirus is used to remove the most popular fake antiviruses. What is fake antivirus? This is a type of virus/malwares which disguises itself to be an antivirus. It infects your computer when you accidentally click a link in a website which will download the malware into your computer and run automatically when your windows boot. It scan the infected computer and produces fake alert warnings. It convinces you that your computer is in danger and urge you to purchase a useless copy of the fake antivirus. These fake antiviruses must be removed immediately.

Description: Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free utilizes Malwarebytes powerful technology to detect and remove all traces of malware including worms, trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware and more.

Description: Trend Micro HijackThis is a free utility that generates an in depth report of registry and file settings from your computer. HijackThis makes no separation between safe and unsafe settings in its scan results giving you the ability to selectively remove items from your machine. In addition to this scan and remove capability HijackThis comes with several tools useful in manually removing malware from a computer.

IMPORTANT: HijackThis does not determine what is good or bad. Do not make any changes to your computer settings unless you are an expert computer user.

Description: EzPcFix.exe is a very easy to use (and free) program that I've been working on to help you to cleanup your windows installation. It currently runs on 2k, XP and 2003 (some functions may not work or will be limited with Win95, 98 & ME ).

Ez-Pc-Fix is very helpful when trying to remove viruses, spyware and other troublesome advertising programs and malware from your computer because it shows you what's being started on your system and where it's getting started from (and it let's you remove them).

Viruses, spyware and other types of advertising junk are becoming a very painfull side-effect to accessing the internet today and this problem isn't getting any better as far as I can see.

Description: Trend Micro CWShredder is the premier tool to find and remove traces of CoolWebSearch – the name for a wide range of insidious browser hijackers– from your PC.

CWShredder removes these browser hijackers. CoolWebSearch installs dozens of bookmarks–mostly to porn Web sites–on your desktop, changes your home page without asking, and continually changes it back if you attempt to correct it. Furthermore, it significantly slows down the performance of your PC, and introduces modifications which cause Microsoft Windows™ to freeze, crash or randomly reboot.

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