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SpaceMonger is a tool for keeping track of the free space on your computer. Each file or folder on a given drive is displayed in a box in the main window whose size

is a relative comparison to all the other files in your system.

Version 1.4 will be available free even if the future version 2.1 is shareware.

December 1, 2005

TextHarvest http://members.aol.com/getmydata/pc-sample.htm

A handy utility that reads files and copies the information you want, based on a list of text strings you specify. You can keep certain lines of data while skipping others. (for example remove lines in text files containing a string)

FastStone 4in1 Browser http://www.faststone.org/FSBrowserDetail.htm

Has built in webserver which you can use to easily share a folder with password protection so you can serve a web page or share your files to friends over http://youripaddress/ try ports for example 8080 (http://youripaddress:8080/) or 8090 if port 80 doesn't work)

December 3, 2005

You spelt NetVeda wrong in Firewalls.

Comodo Personal Firewall

http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

4,972 · December 6, 2005

General Utilities

Outlook Linker http://www.teamscope.com/otherpro/utilities.asp#linker

Outlook Linker? provides the ability to generate links to other items in Outlook. It is a system tray applet that automatically generates a hyperlink for the current folder or item (message) and places it on the clipboard. The hyperlink can then be pasted into any MS Office document, Web page, e-mail message, etc This is fundamental to the efficient and productive use of shared items in a Exchange public folder system. Unfortunately, Microsoft has not provided a convenient way to get access to these links.

4,972 · December 7, 2005

Compression / Decompression

Zipfocus http://www.skaro.net/zip-reader/index.html

Zipfocus is a small, standalone, zip reader /viewer /extractor.

* It is suitable for all versions of Windows (95,98,ME, NT4,2000,XP).

* The download package below includes an installation program to add context menus and shortcuts but Zipfocus can operate without installation e.g. on a floppy disk.

* The executable program is only 60KB in size.

4,972 · December 9, 2005

Whitney Defrag http://www.whitneyfamily.org/Hacks/?item=Defrag

Command line and a bit slower than most, but ruthlessly efficient.

The zip contains Defrag.exe, DefragPS.dll- put these in a new folder anywhere

and bootdrg.exe which you put in System32.

For common defragging tasks, create a desktop shortcut of Defrag.exe and add the switch

Defrag.exe -d c

December 9, 2005

Someone "found" all this freeware on the web and contributed "his" list in this forum post:

http://www.techtodayonline.com/index.php/topic,287.0.html

No referral to this long running thread whatsoever...

4,972 · December 10, 2005

HTML Editors

PHP Designer 2005 and HTMLGate FREE

http://www.mpsoftware.dk/products.php

Both incredible packages with features galore.

Perhaps members and guests should be reminded, while perusing this list, that the developers of these fine products should be actively encouraged....that is, where they ask for PayPal donations or such, be generous.

December 12, 2005

You can't get DVD Decryptor anymore, at least not from there.

December 12, 2005

Photo manipulation and image design:

Recolored ( http://www.recolored.com )

Recolored is a software application that helps you with the otherwise difficult and time consuming task of colorizing black and white photos. Based on the latest developments in computer assisted image colorization, Recolored makes it possible for anyone to achieve professional looking results.

To add color to a photo, all you have to do is add markings to the different regions of the image, indicating how it should be colorized. Then click the Colorize button and let the software do the rest.

Currently in its BETA stage, Recolored is available for download free of charge for non-commercial use. A commercial version will be released in early 2006.

December 12, 2005

Someone "found" all this freeware on the web and contributed "his" list in this forum post:

http://www.techtodayonline.com/index.php/topic,287.0.html

No referral to this long running thread whatsoever...

I posted a reply on that thread saying that he shoud have given credit to his source and it was deleted by the administrator.

December 13, 2005

I have found a new tool that helps people quickly review many websites. In addition it helps prevent you from going to sites with spyware, adware, viruses, or even just poor content. The tool is the ReviewToolbar which allows users to rate sites, so that legitimate sites with good content are easily distinguishable from malicious or poorly designed sites. The program embeds site ratings directly in the search results of the web's most popular search engines. The best thing is that like all good tools, it is free. It is available for free at http://www.reviewtoolbar.com

4,972 · December 13, 2005

Anti Spyware

Watcher http://www.donationcoders.com/kubicle/watcher/index.html

Only 500 kb, takes a snapshot of curent setup and alerts you when changes are made to Start Ups, suspicious processes run or new directories are created.

Alert categories can be customized.

No cleaning provided, but the Alerts will offer a web search for the particular intruder.

Could be useful in conjunction with AdAware or Spybot, as a real-time spyware monitoring agent.

December 14, 2005

Any suggestions for a good alarm clock program for when my cellphone dies?

4,972 · December 15, 2005

Animation

Synfig http://www.synfig.com/overview/

Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources. While there are many other programs currently on the market to aid with the efficient production of 2D animation, we are currently unaware of any other software that can do what our software can.

December 17, 2005

Free wysiwyg web editor for HTML and SVG:

WebDwarf: http://www.virtualmechanics.com/products/dwarf/

4,972 · December 17, 2005

Audio and Video tools

http://www.tinytool.org/eng/main_eng.html

OUTI live audio loops player. It allows you to record and loop audio and use VST plug-ins.

CHACHACHA multi video loops editor.

13,214 · December 17, 2005

Someone "found" all this freeware on the web and contributed "his" list in this forum post:

http://www.techtodayonline.com/index.php/topic,287.0.html

No referral to this long running thread whatsoever...

:crazy:

December 19, 2005

Well, he finally gave credit to the Neowin forum!

:-)

13,214 · December 19, 2005

Well, he finally gave credit to the Neowin forum!

:-)

:D

4,972 · December 20, 2005

Maybe a new category needed, seeing as how there are so many requests

Video Converters

STOIK Video Converter http://www.softforall.com/Multimedia/Video..._ScreenShot.htm

Convert AVI, WMV, DV files in all possible combinations. Pick up one or multiple source video files, select output audio and video settings using preinstalled or custom profiles, and convert to single or multiple output video files.

PSP Video 9 http://www.pspvideo9.com/

It can convert regular PC video files (avi, mpeg, etc) into PSP video files, as well as manage/copy these PSP video files between your PC and PSP.

Video DVD Maker http://www.videodvdmaker.com/

Video DVD Maker allows ordinary users to get high quality outputs, even if they don't know the subtleties of recording technology.

The program enables you to capture video from various video devices, including TV tuners, web cameras, DVs, as well as imported video from any video files, including AVI, DIVX, XVID, MP4, MPG, WMV, ASF, MOV.

HDTVtoMPEG2 http://www.midwinter.com/~bcooley/

This program converts HDTV MPEG2 tansport stream files to standard MPEG2 video files playable (mostly) by media player.

Videora iPod Converter http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/

Convert your regular PC video files (avi, mpeg, etc) into the proper video format that your iPod understands

4,972 · December 20, 2005

And AVI2DVD http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareAvi2Dvd.html

Avi2Dvd is an All In One tool in order to convert with just few clicks an Avi/Ogm/Mkv/Wmv/Dvd to Dvd/Svcd/Vcd.

Supports multiple audiostreams and up to three subtitles. From the version 0.3.4 and later can support DV-AVI videos, so it can handle captured avi's from digital videocameras

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