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It also enables to select multiple files in a list and shift their date/time by a time slice - by single click you can increase/decrease seconds, minutes, hours, days, months or years.

1,286 · October 17, 2008

Screen capturing:

PicPick

PicPick is an all-in-one software for software developers, graphic designers and home user.
It has an intuitive interface and simple, elegant operation. After starting the software, you simply select one of the tool from the PicPick Tools trayicon menu when you want.

It features a powerful capture tool, image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and etc. You can use all these tools freely.

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3,512 · October 19, 2008

Desktop Enhancements

Everything http://www.voidtools.com/

Everything is a search engine for Windows that replaces the normal Windows search with a much faster one. Unlike Windows search, Everything initially displays every file and folder on your computer. You can type in a search filter to limit what files and folders are displayed. Everything only uses file and folder names and generally takes a few seconds to build its database. 1,000,000 files will take about 1 minute.

Desktop Enhancements

HotKeyz http://www.skynergy.com/hotkeyz.html

HotKeyz is a keyboard utility with hotkey control for executing other files, folders or RUN commands. Launch applications in a Normal, Minimized or Maximized State. The Parameter option gives you parameter control when launching another application like Internet Explorer and surfing to a specific site as parameter. For example (iexplore.exe) with the parameter (www.skynergy.com).

It also features default hotkeys for minimizing, maximizing, restoring or closing the active window. Launch your default e-mail window to compose a new email. Control your WinAmp without it being focused. Define memo type text and with a hotkey paste your text into your e-mails, documents etc. You can also paste special characters or the current date and time. Open and close your CD-Rom(s). Power off, shutdown, logoff or reboot your PC with a hotkey press. Start your screen saver, hide or unhide your desktop, taskbar or any desktop with a hotkey.

The HotKeyz tray icon will change to indicate a key press. The shortcuts work with the WIN, CTRL, ALT, SHIFT modifier keys and with most of the other keyboard keys. You can even enable or disable unwanted hotkeys without deleting them from the hotkey list. You can also categorise all your hotkeys. Print preview and then print all your hotkeys to have quick reference hard copy.

Audio Tools

LameXP http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#lamexp

LameXP is a graphical front-end for the LAME MP3, Ogg Vorbis and Nero AAC audio encoders.

It accepts WAV, MP3, MP2, Vorbis, AAC, AC3, FLAC, WavPack, Musepack, Shorten, Speex, APE, TTA and WMA.

The easy-to-use interface supports multiple languages, including English, German, Spanish and Italian.

Batch processing is implemented and multi-threading will be used, if several processors/cores are available.

The Nero AAC encoder is *not* included, but it's available from the Nero Website as free download.

System Information and monitoring

HWMonitor http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php

I checked, nobody has submitted this program to this list yet

HWMonitor is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors : voltages, temperatures, fans speed.

The program handles the most common sensor chips, like ITE? IT87 series, most Winbond? ICs, and others. In addition, it can read modern CPUs on-die core thermal sensors, as well has hard drives temperature via S.M.A.R.T, and video card GPU temperature.

Special hardware monitors such as abit? uGuru and Gigabyte? ODIN? power supplies serie are supported too.

Edited October 19, 2008 by Xinok

October 20, 2008

Educational Utilities:

speedcrunch - http://speedcrunch.org/en_US/index.html

Defrag Software:

ultradefrag - http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/

Compression / Decompression:

jzip - http://www.jzip.com/

Anti-Virus:

moon secure - http://www.moonsecure.com/

HTML Editors:

KompoZer - http://www.kompozer.net/

Instant Messengers:

digsby - http://www.digsby.com/

Instantbird - http://www.instantbird.com/

4,972 · October 24, 2008

Network Tools:

Vistumber http://vistumbler.sourceforge.net/

Another NetStumbler clone for Vista, shows Access Points on a Google Earth overlay.

4,336 · October 28, 2008

Can add Defraggler to the list of defrag utils. It's an awesome little program :)

7,776 · October 28, 2008

Linux version of a photoshop like application

also from industrial light and magic (famous george lucas studio) free file format for photographers

Edited October 28, 2008 by ChrisJ1968

4,972 · October 29, 2008

System Information and monitoring:

BlackBox http://blackbox.hardwaremania.com/en/

Great little system info/benchmarking utility from this Turkish hardware site.

BlackBox is a utility designed to deliver precise details on the core components of your computer to the maximum. As well as providing you with you with in-depth information about hardware such as the processor, memory modules, mainboard, hard drives and video card, it also offers the opportunity to assess critical parameters such as clock speeds and temperatures. BlackBox also presents Vista ? compatible tools to test your computer's performance under Microsoft Windows Vista.

BlackBox Forum

October 29, 2008

uh, are there any freeware apps for taking voice notes?

4,972 · October 31, 2008

Audio Creation:

LMMS http://lmms.sourceforge.net/home.php

LMMS is a free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio?, which allow you to produce music with your computer. This includes the creation of melodies and beats, the synthesis and mixing of sounds, and arranging of samples. You can have fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more; all in a user-friendly and modern interface.

* Song-Editor for composing songs

* A Beat+Bassline-Editor for creating beats and basslines

* An easy-to-use Piano-Roll for editing patterns and melodies

* An FX mixer with 64 FX channels and arbitrary number of effects allow unlimited mixing possibilities

* Many powerful instrument and effect-plugins out of the box

* Full user-defined track-based automation and computer-controlled automation sources

* Compatible with many standards such as SoundFont2, VST(i), LADSPA, GUS Patches, and full MIDI support

* Import of MIDI and FLP (Fruityloops? Project) files

4,972 · November 3, 2008

System Information and monitoring:

WinAFC http://affinitychanger.sourceforge.net/

WinAFC is a configurable program for controlling CPU affinities and priority settings of Windows applications.

Its main features are:

# Affinity and priority settings according to custom profiles defined by the user.

# Custom profiles specify application name, CPU mask, and optional attributes.

# Detection of asymmetrical CPU configurations such as the Intel Quad Core processors - it detects which pairs of cores share an L2 cache.

# CPU masks may specify logical CPU IDs to take advantage of asymmetrical CPU features depending on the architecture.

# Handles affinity settings for both processes and threads.

# For parallel applications CPUs can be assigned in a round robin fashion (random) or using a balancing strategy.

# Balancing can be done based on either memory or CPU usage.

November 7, 2008

CD / DVD Burning: DeepBurner

4,972 · November 11, 2008

Photo manipulation and image design:

photology http://www.getphotology.com/index.html

Available Search Filters

* Time of day and Date (month, year)

* Orientation

* Over/under exposed

* Inside or outside

* Text search of captions, file names, folders

* Coarse or fine color search

* Photo content: Plants, Sky, Faces, Beach, Flowers, Snow, Sunset, Water

Advanced

* Optimized for multiple processors

* Seamless handling of offline media

Photo Adjustment

* Auto-color

* White point

* Brightness & Contrast

* Red-eye

* Crop

* Rotate

November 13, 2008

Brilliant list .. a real eye opener and many thanks for the great compilation , Why didn;t you include Songbird though ??

7,404 · November 25, 2008

No mention of Digsby?

Http://digsby.com

Probably the best IM client around.

You create an account on their master server and it saves your contact list and you can download it on ANY OS and log on and talk to your friends.

I love it.

4,972 · November 26, 2008

Office Application:

GAS Address Book http://addressbook.gassoftwares.co.yu/

# Easily search for contact information

# Printing contact list

# Printing contact details

# Attaching photo

# Easy personal information management (PIM)

November 29, 2008

Haxfix Haxdoor Removal

#HaxFix is a tool that can be used to remove Haxdoor, Goldun en some SpyBanker Infections.

Home Page and Instruction :

http://users.telenet.be/marcvn/spyware/1970547.htm

Download :

http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/marckie/haxfix.exe

Excuse me if I wrote this post not in this category. I am only beginner.

PZDR

3,512 · December 1, 2008

General Utilities And Other Applications

ICE ECC http://www.ice-graphics.com/ICEECC/IndexE.html

ICE ECC is a file verification and repair tool. ICE ECC allows you to protect your important files and sensitive data against digital corruption using Reed-Solomon codes.

ICE ECC is easy to use. To protect a file against corruption, just select the file/files/directories with the program by navigating the explorer-style window and click Create. This creates recovery file/files of the original files. You can easily control the size and number of the recovery files.

When you want to verify whether the file has been modified or if the data in it has been corrupted, just select the appropriate .ecc file and click Verify. ICE ECC will then do a full analysis of the file and let you know if it has been corrupted, in that case ICE ECC will automatically recover it for you.

4,972 · December 3, 2008

3D Graphics:

OpenStages http://www.openstages.co.uk/

OpenStages is an interactive 3-D computer model of any theatre or performance space into which are placed the systems usually associated with performance; lights, sound, fly bars, revolves and trucks etc. It is possible to hang cloths on bars, position flats, floorcloths, rostrums and revolves on stage. There are building blocks of basic geometric shapes that can be resized and used as scenery and from a library it is possible to pull in custom made pieces of scenery. Period and modern actors can be costumed and blocked into scenes. All these elements can then be lit and manipulated in real time just as it would be possible with real scenery in a real theatrical space.

December 4, 2008

TrueCrypt

#TrueCrypt free and open-source disk encryption software.

Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.

Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication).

Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.

Provides two levels of plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:

1) Hidden volume (steganography) and hidden operating system.

2) No TrueCrypt volume can be identified (volumes cannot be distinguished from random data).

Encryption algorithms: AES-256, Serpent, and Twofish. Mode of operation: XTS.

Main TrueCrypt Window

TrueCrypt Volume Creation Wizard ? encryption algorithms

Home Page : b>

http://www.truecrypt.org/Download :b>

http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads.php

PZDR

3,512 · December 5, 2008

Programming

Construct http://www.scirra.com/

Construct is a free powerful and easy to use development software for both DirectX 9-based games and applications. It includes an event based system for defining how the game or application will behave, in a visual, human-readable way - easy enough for complete beginners to get results quickly. Optionally, advanced users can also use Python scripting to code your creations.

* Super fast hardware-accelerated DirectX 9 graphics engine

* Add multiple pixel shaders for special effects, including lighting, HDR, distortion, lenses and more

* Advanced rendering effects like motion blur, skew and bumpmapping (3D lighting)

* Innovative Behaviors system for defining how objects work in a flexible way

* Physics engine for realistic object behavior

* Place object on different layers for organising display, parallaxing, or whole-layer effects - also freely zoom individual layers in and out with high detail

* Debugger giving you complete control over all aspects of your game for testing purposes.

* Python scripting for advanced users - however, Construct's Events system is still powerful enough to complete entire games without any scripting.

* Smaller, faster specialised runtime for applications

* 60+ plugins ranging from Tiled Background to Windows controls and a C++ plugin SDK for custom development

December 6, 2008

Web Server (Apache)

#Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, SSI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, Virtual hosts, Authentication, on the fly encoding, Load Balancing, Apache compatible log files, Data Base Balancer, Reverse HTTP Proxy and much more.

Screen :

#1

#2

Home Page :

http://www.cherokee-project.com/

Download :

http://www.cherokee-project.com/downloads.html

Uniformserver

#Uniformserver The Uniform Server is a WAMP package that allows you to run a server on any MS Windows OS based computer. It is small and mobile to download or move around and can also be used or setup as a production/live server. Developers also use The Uniform Server to test their applications made with either PHP, MySQL, Perl, or the Apache HTTPd Server.

UniTray Plugin Screenshots

Admin Panel Screenshots

Uniform Server (Document Root)

Home Page :

http://www.uniformserver.com/

Download :

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53691

PZDR

December 6, 2008

Small but very useful tools: http://www.primitivezone.com

Primitive Disk Indexer

Primitive Duplicate Finder

Primitive Photo Resizer

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