Software Tools, Programs & Utilities We Use & Happen to Like!
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Access Manager -  Access Manager is a FREE software solution that keeps all your passwords in one, simple to use list. It offers fast, easy and secure password management. One Master Password is all that is needed to access all your passwords and private information. (Professional Non Free Version available)
Ad-aware - Ad-aware is THE award winning, free, multicomponent spyware detection and removal utility that consistently leads the industry in safety, user satisfaction, support and reliability. -Support Forum- free only for home and non-commercial use
Avast! Antivirus Software - avast! antivirus software is based on the ALWIL Software Virus, Worm and Trojan horse scanning technology since 1988. This product is free for home non-commercial use after registration! If you are not a home user or you use your computer for profit, you should buy the commercial version here. - Download Link - Registration Link - VPS Update - VPS History - Skins - Support Forum free only for home and non-commercial use
Avast! Virus Cleaner - avast! Virus Cleaner is available free for every user. This tool will help you remove selected worm infections from your computer. If, despite all the security measures you take, your computer gets infected by a virus or worm, it is necessary to disinfect your system somehow. While for some viruses the only 100% realiable method of disinfection is restoring your system from backups, for many common infections this is not really necessary and the virus/worm can be removed quite easily. -Download Link- free only for home and non-commercial use
Audacity - Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. -Download Link-
- Dan Elliott's Audacity 1.2 Tutorial - During this tutorial, you will learn the VERY BASICS on how to use the Open Source sound editing program Audacity. During this tutorial, you will do some simple edits on a .WAV file and have the option of creating an MP3 from the finished product.
- Master your MP3s with Audacity - CNet how to article by By Jessica Dolcourt on 31 January 2007
- Noise Removal - How to (with dvreen shots) from podtopia.net
- Noise Removal - How to Video from podtopia.net
Audiograbber - Audiograbber is a beautiful piece of software that grabs digital audio from cd's. It copies the audio digitally-not through the soundcard-which enables you to make perfect copies of the originals. It can even perform a test to see that the copies really are perfect. Audiograbber can also automatically normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and send them to a variety or external MP3 encoders, such as Fraunhofers L3enc, or even use some MP3/WMA encoders internally for automatic creation of MP3's. Audiograbber can download and upload disc info from freedb, an Internet compact disc database. You can even record your vinyl LP's or cassette tapes with Audiograbber and make wav's or MP3's of them. There are a lot more functions in Audiograbber, but to put it simply: Audiograbber has the most features one can wish from such a program! Another great thing with this software is that it does not put a single file in your windows directories! No DLL's, OCX's, device drivers, spyware, adware or whatever else that messes up the computer. Not a single entry in the registry or win.ini. If you delete the Audiograbber directory it's all gone, that's it! -Download Link-
AutoStart Explorer - Autostart Explorer is a powerful application that lists all autostarted files on your system. Unlike other similar utilities, which may list autostarted files from only certain locations such as the registry Run keys, Autostart Explorer has been designed to show every autostarted file on your system, no matter how obscure the location it is started from. Free for personal use. -Support Forum-
Belarc Advisor - The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, including Microsoft Hotfixes, 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.
Burrrn is a little tool for creating audio CDs with CD-Text from various audio files. Supported formats are: wav, mp3, mpc, ogg, aac, mp4, ape, flac, ofr, wv, tta, m3u, pls and fpl playlists and cue sheets. You can also burn EAC’s noncompliant image + cue sheets! Burrrn can read all types of tags from all these formats (including ape tags in mp3). Burrrn uses cdrdao.exe for burning.
CCleaner - CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It is fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! :) -Support Forum- / -Download Link-
CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.
DVD Decrypter - The ultimate DVD ripper. Unprotect a DVD and copy it to your harddrive for playback with DVD software player. -Support Forum- -Download Link-
DVD Shrink - DVD Shrink is software to backup DVD discs. You can use this software in conjunction with DVD burning software of your choice, to make a backup copy of any DVD video disc. Shrink or reauthor your files to fit your dvd. Program has built in decryption. DVD Shrink is free! -Support Forum- -Download Link-
FileASSASSIN - is an application that can delete any type of locked files that are on your computer. Whether the files are from a malware infection or just a particular file that will not delete - FileASSASSIN can remove it.
Gallery Constructor 2 - Software for creating fully customizable web galleries / albums from your digital photos. Why get stucked on fixed gallery templates when you can customize them to your needs? Customizable templates using standard XSL-transforms. Saves projects using standard XML-format. Galleries can be viewed with any available web browser. Works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X (Requires Java 1.4.1. or newer from Sun Microsystems). Built-in FTP-client for publishing the albums / galleries. Slideshow for viewing your photos. Various plugins for image effect like watermarks, text and exif stamps, auto orientation, drop shadows, borders and you can also rotate and crop selected photos. -Support Forum- -Download Link-
HijackThis - HijackThis is a tool, that lists all installed browser add-on, buttons, startup items and allows you to inspect, and optionally remove selected items. The program can create a backup of your original settings and also ignore selected items. Additional features include a simple list of all startup items, default start page, online updates and more. Intended for advanced users.
HTTrack Website Copier - HTTrack is free and easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system. -Support Forum-
IE Spell - ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. It should come in particularly handy for users who do a lot of web-based text entry (e.g. web mails, forums, blogs, diaries). ieSpell is not spyware or adware. -Download Link-
Image Walker - ImageWalker allows you to manage your image files visually. It simplifies the process of viewing, cataloguing, and publishing digital images. Its features include; web page creation, thumbnail generation and printing, batch image conversion, slide show and screen saver. Additionally ImageWalker can generate over 20 types of Web Pages for your images from a simple and easy to follow user interface. This allows you to easily publish your Images on the web in minutes. It has an unlimited trial period with no obligations!
ImgBurn - ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit!
IrfanView - IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista. -Download Link-
JavaRa - JavaRa is a small program that checks for updates of the Java JRE and removes old potentially vulnerable versions. Simply click "Check for Updates" or "Remove Older Versions" to start the process. -Support Forum -
JPG Cleaner - JPG Cleaner is simple but powerful utility for cleaning JPG files from anything that is not picture data. Commonly used programs such as Adobe Photoshop are writing additional information into JPG file that isn't needed for correctly displaying the picture.
K9 Web Protection - K9 is a free Internet filtering and control solution for the home. K9 puts YOU in control of the Internet so you can protect your kids.
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is considered to be the next step in the detection and removal of malware. We compiled a number of new technologies that are designed to quickly detect, destroy, and prevent malware. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware can detect and remove malware that even the most well-known Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware applications on the market today cannot.
MetaPad - Metapad is a small, fast (and completely free) text editor for Windows 9x/NT/XP 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. "Metapad is a great choice for those who like their text editors small, fast, and free" - ZDNet Downloads.
Mp3 Tag Tools - Mp3 Tag Tools is GNU GPL free software, intutive ID3v1.1 and ID3v2.x mp3 tag editing utility, with several features such as Mass ID3 tagging, Write ID3 tags from Filenames and Rename Files from ID3 tags using Custom Formats, Copy/Synchronize ID3 tags, Cleaning Filenames and Correcting their case, Create ID3 tags using Directory Formats, Create Directories and organize mp3s from ID3 tag info, Export ID3 tag data, Lyrics and Picture tagging, accurately read all MPEG info and append bitrate and mode to filenames. All these tag operations can be carried out with or without directory recursion. -Download Link-
Maxthon Browser - A powerful multi-tabbed browser based on the IE core (IE5.x and above). It can open multiple web pages in just one window, with each page in a separate tab. Maxthon uses little system resources when surfing, has a highly customisable user interface and supports special plugins & IE extensions. Maxthon is freeware with no bound ads & needs no registration. -Support Forum-
MaxthonSkins is the site where you can download skins for Maxthon Browser.
Outlook Express Freebie Backup - Allows you to backup and restore your Outlook Express user identity and email (dbx files). The backup can include various registry entries, the blocked sender list, message rules, address book, signatures and more. In addition, it offers several tools to customize OE settings, find DBX files, clone an identity and more.
PC WIZARD 2008 is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis. It's able to identify a large scale of system components. It is also an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, Cache performance, RAM performance, Hard Disk performance, CD/DVD-ROM performance, Removable/FLASH Media performance, Video performance, MP3 compression performance.
Photoscape - Photoscape is the fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos. Photoscape is provided free-of-charge.
We are always upgrading Photoscape.
- Viewer: View your folders photos, slideshow
- Editor: resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal, blooming
- Batch editor: Batch editing multiple photos
- Page: Make one photo by merging multiple photos at the page frame
- Combine: Make one photo by attaching multiple photos vertically or horizontally
- Animated GIF: Make one animation photo with multiple photos
- Print: Print portrait shot, carte de visite, passport photo
- Screen Capture: Capture your screenshot and save it
- Color Picker: Zoom in screen on images, search and pick the color
- Rename: Change photo file names in batch mode
- Raw Converter: Convert RAW to JPG
Proxomitron - For those who have not yet been introduced, meet the Proxomitron: a free,highly flexible, user-configurable, small but very powerful, local HTTP web-filtering proxy. -Download Link-
RegSeeker - RegSeeker is a perfect companion for your Windows registry! RegSeeker includes a powerful registry cleaner and can display various informations like your startup entries, several histories (even index.dat files), installed applications and much more! With RegSeeker you can search for any item inside your registry, export/delete the results, open them in the registry. RegSeeker also includes a tweaks panel to optimize your OS! Now RegSeeker includes a file tool to search for duplicate files, bad shortcuts and more! RegSeeker is FREE for personal use only. -Direct Download Link-
RogueRemover FREE - is an application that can remove rogue anti spyware, antivirus, and hard drive cleaning applications with ease. Rogue applications provide false information about the safety of your computer as well as, give erroneous scan results or put their own malware on your computer. It has the ability to completely remove WinAntiSpyware/WinAntiVirus, SpyAxe, VirusBlast, VirusBursters, as well as a number of other rogue applications. In addition, we have implemented a threats center which will allow you to keep up to date with the latest rogue threats.
SpyBot Search & Destroy - Spybot Search & Destroy can detect and remove spyware, malware, hijackers of different kinds from your computer. Spybot-S&D can also clean usage tracks, an interesting function if you share your computer with other users and don't want them to see what you worked on. -Support Forum-
SpywareBlaster - 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. -Support Forum-
StartUpLite - Malwarebytes has created a safe, easy, and efficient way to eliminate these unnecessary applications that start when you turn on your computer - StartUpLite. StartUpLite is a lightweight and simple to use application that allows you to speed up your system startup, safely and efficiently. The program allows you to disable or remove unnecessary startup entries from your computer. By using StartUpLite, you can dramatically help shorten your startup time with only a few clicks of the mouse.
StartUp Manager - Startup Manager is freeware utility which search your system for programs that run automatically on Windows startup, after every system reboot. Startup Manager will find the startup programs (even if they are hidden in the system registry) and shows them in three startup lists: Startup folder, registry entries for Current logged user and registry entries for every user of current PC. You may add new or remove existing programs from the startup list, change their startup parameters or just enable / disable the entries to pervent a program from autorun using checkboxes at the left side of lists. Just copy to HD version available.
StartupRun by Nir Soft - An excellent freeware program for viewing, disabling and removing startup entries & browser helper objects.
The Tweaking Experience 3.1 - for Microsoft Windows XP/2000 and Windows 2003 Server. Brings together all Tweaks for Microsoft Windows XP/2000 and Windows 2003 Server such as Internet, Miscellaneous, System Performance, Windows 2003 Server and User Interface related Tweaks into a single, easy-to-use, centralized Windows .msi help file.
Unlocker - Helps to delete locked files
WinPatrol 2008 - WinPatrol is an all-purpose utility designed to increase the performance and usability of your computer. It's FREE and has been assisting computer users for over ten years.
WinSCP - WinSCP is an open source freeware SFTP client for Windows using SSH. Legacy SCP protocol is also supported. Its main function is safe copying of files between a local and a remote computer. -Download Link- -Support Forum-
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MassDownloader - $19.95 - MetaProducts Mass Downloader (MD) is a Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP program that allows you to download individual files (or lists of files) from the Web and FTP sites at the maximum available speed. Multiple channels technology significantly reduces download time. -Support Forum-
Total Commander - $32.00 - An excellent Norton Commander style file manager for Windows® 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP. Tons of features -Two file windows side by side, Enhanced search function, Compare files / synchronize directories,Quick View panel with bitmap display, ZIP, ARJ, LZH, RAR, UC2, TAR, GZ, CAB, ACE archive handling + plugins, Built-in FTP client with FXP (server to server) and HTTP proxy support, Parallel port link, multi-rename tool and much more. Ton's of third party addons. Author's own -Support Forum-
Club Total - Club Total is an online archive with information, tools, plugins and other utilities that can be used with Total Commander (TC), the great file manager made by Christian Ghisler.
TotalCMD.net - Unofficial Total Commander file support.
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October 22, 2008 |
