Freeware Alternative List

Snowbird is a small and fast file management and search tool. Unlike other similar tools, Snowbird was built from the ground up with performance rather than features in mind.

* Fully multi-threaded architecture ensures that the interface always remains responsive, even when accessing network resources or copying large amounts of data

* Can handle extremely large folders without noticeable degradation in performance

* Fast file operations (copy, move, delete) with the ability to pause transfers and to skip errors

* Integrated search tool that can find files (and even text within files) without indexing

4,972 · March 30, 2009

PDF Utilities:

Quick PDF Tools http://www.quickpdftools.com/

# Edit the Title, Author, Subject and Keywords property fields of single or multiple PDFs at the same time.

# Edit the initial view for PDFs on your desktop without opening them.

# Merge all selected PDFs together effortlessly.

# Convert images to PDFs.

# Add and remove open passwords on PDF documents.

# Remove all bookmarks in a PDF with one click.

3,512 · March 30, 2009

Anti Spyware

GeSWall http://www.gentlesecurity.com/download.html

GentleSecurityWall ensures safe use of internet and network services. It enforces mandatory access control policy, which maintains confidentiality of your data, prevents damage from intrusions and malicious software: viruses, worms, spyware, key loggers etc.

Underlying technology bridges strong GeSWall security with great usability. Being non-intrusive for a user GeSWall requires no or minimal configuration and enforces protection once installed.

* Prevents key loggers, rootkits, backdoors.

* Prevents confidential file disclosure.

* Prevents targeted intrusions.

* Prevents malicious software infection.

* Independent of attack techniques.

* Easy to use, non-intrusive.

* Central Management through Active Directory Group Policy.

It has a nag screen which asks you to try the pro version. But after a few times, a checkbox will appear "Do not show again".

3,512 · April 11, 2009

File Managers

Microsoft RichCopy http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazin...ht.aspx?pr=blog

Direct Download Link

RichCopy is a free utility that comes to us from Ken Tamaru of Microsoft. The tool was first developed in 2001 and has been updated regularly to keep pace with evolving needs. Trust me when I tell you, this is the answer to all your file copying needs. What you'll find most striking the first time you take RichCopy out for a spin is that it's a multithreaded copying tool. That means that rather than copying one file at a time in serial order, RichCopy can open multiple threads simultaneously, allowing many files to be copied in parallel and cutting the total time required to complete the operation several times over. You can also pause and resume file copy operations, so if you lose network connectivity at any point, you can just pick up where you left off.

Of course, these are really just the simplest features of RichCopy. As Figure 1 shows, you also get a vast array of granular controls that allow you to customize all of those fancy aspects of your file copying that I talked about earlier?filtering files, saving attributes, adjusting cache size, and so on. If you regularly copy lots of files over the network or between various storage devices, these features will significantly ease your daily life.

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FileTracker http://ftracker.sourceforge.net/

FileTracker is a true multithreaded file manager for Windows. It is designed from scratch to make optimum use of multicore processors, and at all times to provide a responsive UI. Even on single CPU systems this will be apparent.

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Nomad.NET http://www.nomad-net.info/

Nomad.NET is the successor of Nomad, a powerful file manager written by me a couple of years ago. It is completely rewritten (no single line of code was taken from previous Nomad) using best ideas and algorithms and implementing everything in a completely new way.

# Full Unicode support. As far I know it is the only file manager with full unicode support!

# One of the most powerful search engines on market (if I can say market, project is freeware). You can create very complex search rules, with ability to search in different encoding (complete encodings auto detect), use IFilter filters, apply custom text search rules (including regular expressions), search in hex, duplicates search and so on... For novices there is a simplified search that is not so scary at first sight.

# Powerful filtering system, based on the same core as search. You can use dedicated advanced filter dialog, or use simple toolstrip for quick filtering.

# Folder shortcuts were implemented in much more simple way that its predecessor.

# Much simpler, elegant and polished UI (program must look nice, right?) with support of themes, different toolstrip renderers and so on...

# Program layout was changed, too. You can use single panel or dual panel mode (horizontal or vertical). Each panel can have its own tree view that can be hidden or displayed horizontally or vertically.

# UI can simple scale according to your current system DPI settings, or manually (through Options).

# New breadcrumb folder toolstrip on every panel is much more powerful than simple folder name.

# Internal support for more archive types (using 7-Zip libraries). Program can also handle WCX Total Commander plug-in, even in more powerful way than Total Commander did. Currently only extracting is supported, no ability to create or modify them.

# FTP folders support added (with limitations yet, for example, only one http proxy allowed with no UI to configure).

# Many things were done more correctly - drag'n'drop from explorer, clipboard handling, shell file menus and so on.

# Support for shell shortcuts, url shortcuts (ftp only) and even shell folder shortcuts (rarely supported in other file managers).

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ADS http://tp.lc.ehu.es/jma/win32/ADS.html

ADS is a utility to help you finding, inspecting and (optionally) removing Alternate Data Streams from your NTFS disks.

4,972 · April 13, 2009

Video tools & converters:

Avanti FFmpeg GUI http://avanti.arrozcru.com/

Avanti GUI is a free front-end for FFmpeg

with the option to insert Avisynth as pre-processor.

It can be used with almost all Windows OS builds of FFmpeg.

It offers user friendly control over all basic and advanced FFmpeg options.

A number of template examples are included.

There's no need to be familiar with Avisynth to use the predefined

Avanti/Avisynth pre-processor options.

9,118 · April 15, 2009

3D Graphics

Don't know if it been mentioned before, but

3DVia Shape

3,512 · April 17, 2009

Audio Tools

winLAME http://winlame.sourceforge.net/

winLAME is an encoder for several audio formats, including mp3 (MPEG Layer 3), Ogg Vorbis and more. winLAME lets you set up the encoding process with an easy-to-use wizard-style user interface.

3,512 · April 21, 2009

Video tools & converters

Debut Video Capture Software http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html

Debut is a simple, easy to use video recorder that lets you capture video files directly from your PC using a webcam, or other input source.

Debut will also allow you to easily capture and record your computer's screen.

Behind Debut's incredibly easy to use interface lies many powerful features including the ability to record as .avi or .wmv (and more), the ability to automatically email your movies once recording has stopped, and the ability to record for specific periods of time.

? Automatically detects cameras connected to your PC

? Lets you record video in many different file formats including .avi, .wmv, and .asf

? Allows you to record movements on a PC screen, or "screen capture".

? Lets you record video for set periods of time (h:mm:ss).

? When recording period is over, you can either stop recording or create a new recording and continue.

? Lets you mirror recordings to a network or backup drive to keep your video files safe.

? Can be set to automatically send video via email once the recording is completed.

? Can automatically transmit video files via the internet using FTP.

? Debut Video Recorder has an incredibly intuitive and easy to use interface.

? Compatible with BroadCam Streaming Video server to distribute your recording.

I don't have a webcam so I was unable to test that. But this is the best free desktop recording software I've found. Most I've tried have had problems, like the video looks like crap or is real choppy. This one just worked, the video looked great and ran smooth.

After you install the program, it will create a couple of folders in your start menu with links to their other software. You can just delete these.

3,512 · May 4, 2009

System Information and monitoring

Process Hacker http://processhacker.sourceforge.net/

Process Hacker is an application which helps users to view and manage the processes and their threads, modules and memory from their computers. It can also search through process memory: for a sequence of bytes, using regular expressions, for strings, or for heap blocks.

It loads symbols from various libraries automatically and uses them when displaying the call stacks of threads (just like Process Explorer). It also has a disassembler derived from OllyDbg's which can be accessed when viewing PE files' exports.

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File Managers

SpaceSniffer http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

SpaceSniffer is a tool application that gives you an idea of 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 situated on your devices.

General Utilities And Other Applications

ImageSorter http://mmk.f4.fhtw-berlin.de/Projekte/ImageSorter

ImageSorter is an image browsing application, which allows an automatic sorting by color, date taken, name, or size.

The idea of ImageSorter is to find images of which you remember how they look but you forgot in which folder they were. If one or several folders are selected, all images from these folders will be visually arranged such that similar images are close to each other. In this sorted display it will be much easier to find a particular image. Selected images can be copied, moved or deleted (right mouse click).

ImageSorter does cache thumbnails and sortings, therefore after images have been loaded once, everything will be much faster.

3,512 · May 9, 2009

Compression / Decompression

Universal Extractor http://www.legroom.net/software/uniextract

Universal Extractor is a program do to exactly what it says: extract files from any type of archive, whether it's a simple zip file, an installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package. This is still a work in progress (see details below), but so far it's proven quite useful and I feel others can also benefit from it.

I should stress that this application is not intended to be a general purpose archiving program. It will never replace WinRAR, 7-Zip, etc. What it will do is allow you to extract files from virtually any type of archive, regardless of source, compression method, etc. The original motivation behind this project was that I wanted an easy, convenient way to extract files from installation packages, such as Inno Setup or Windows Installer packages, without pulling up a command line every time. In the process I got a little carried away and ended up throwing in support for every kind of archive format I possibly could find.

General Utilities And Other Applications

VSuite Ramdisk http://www.romexsoftware.com/

VSuite Ramdisk is a great solution to hard disk bottleneck. It can greatly reduce the work of hard disk by using computer's RAM to simulate a hard disk. Access time can be greatly improved to files held on Ramdsiks, and so the throughput of your computer may improve by many times. Besides the service life of a physical hard disk will be prolonged via reducing access. This is suitable for applications such as P2P download.

It can also detect the memory which is invisible to OS when your system has 4GB RAM or more.

General Utilities And Other Applications

SelfImage http://selfimage.excelcia.org/

SelfImage is capable of making an image file of a hard disk or hard disk partition, and can restore an image back to any drive or partition that doesn't have open files. Useful for making backups. Unlike dd for Windows (or cygwin), SelfImage is capable of creating an image of a partition that is currently in use.

SelfImage can even create images of partitions that Windows doesn't recognize (partitions that Windows doesn't have mounted on a drive letter). This is perfect for the dual-boot system, you can create an image backup of a Linux partition directly from Windows.

3,512 · May 15, 2009

General Utilities And Other Applications

Game Booster http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html

Designed to help optimize your PC for smoother, more responsive game play in the latest PC games with the touch of a button, Game Booster helps achieve the performance edge previously only available to highly technical enthusiasts. It works by temporarily shutting down background processes, cleaning RAM, and intensifying processor performance. That means you can keep all the features of Microsoft? Windows Vista? and XP? ready for when you need them, but turn them off when you are ready to get down to serious business ? gaming. Game Booster makes it simpler to enjoy the latest games and take your experience to a new level. All systems go!

General Utilities And Other Applicationss

ADS Manager http://dmitrybrant.com/adsmanager

ADS Manager allows you to open any file in a NTFS filesystem, and manage its alternate data streams, including creating, deleting, modifying, and renaming them. The program also allows you to search directories for files that have alternate data streams.

3,512 · May 18, 2009

Desktop Enhancements

Ultra File Search http://www.ultrafilesearch.com/

Ultra File Search is a Search Utility which is able to find quickly Files, Folders and Text on your Local, Network, DVD, CD-ROM, USB Hard or Flash Drives. Ultra File Search allows you to specify several File Mask and multiple Drives and/or Folders at the same time; it is able to sort out files and folders according to their properties (e. g. Modified Date) and find files which contain one or more specific words or sentences. The search results can be put in order by column (upward, downward or neither of them). The results window supports Windows? Explorer functionality (e.g. icons, context menus). Specific actions can be carried out on the results (e.g. Open Folder, Open Containing Folder), moreover they can be exported in various formats (Plain TXT, Tabbed TXT, CSV, HTML, XML).

This Utility does not use background indexing, does not waste system resources and does not use extra space on the disk.

Audio Tools>

Free Audio Editor http://www.free-audio-editor.com/

Handy Free Audio Editor is a visual multifunctional audio files editor. Handy Free Audio Editor allows you to perform various operations with audio data such as displaying a waveform image of an audio file, filtering, applying various audio effects, format conversion and more. Handy Free Audio Editor supports all major audio formats.

? Supports a number of file formats including wav (multiple codecs), mp3, ogg, wmv, vox, gsm and more.

? Edit functions include Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Insert, Silence and others.

? Effects include, Amplify, Normalize, Equalizer, Envelope, Reverb, Echo, Noise Reduction, Sample Rate Conversion and more.

? Supports sample rates from 6000 to 96000Hz, stereo or mono, 8, 16 or 32 bits.

? Includes a CD ripper to load audio direct from a CD-ROM.

? Player includes Scrub/Cue control for precise editing.

? Recorder supports auto-start-end and voice activated recording

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Ethervane ActiveHotKeys http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System...veHotkeys.shtml

ActiveHotkeys detects what global keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys) are currently registered on the computer by various applications. This helps you determine which hotkeys are in use, and which are still available.

3,096 · May 19, 2009

Audio Tools

Wavosaur - http://www.wavosaur.com

Wavosaur is a free sound editor, audio editor, wav editor software for editing, processing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files. Wavosaur has all the features to edit audio (cut, copy, paste, etc.) produce music loops, analyze, record, batch convert.

Wavosaur supports VST plugins, ASIO driver, multichannel wav files, real time effect processing.

The program has no installer and doesn't write in the registry. Use it as a free mp3 editor, for mastering, sound design. The Wavosaur freeware audio editor works on Windows 98, Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Go to the features page for an overview of the software.

All this and the download is just over 200kb in size :o

3,512 · May 25, 2009

General Utilities And Other Applications

TotalMounter http://www.kernsafe.com/Product.aspx?id=7

KernSafe TotalMounter is an advanced and powerful virtual CD/DVD-ROM/RW/RAM emulator, and it is full-featured free software for windows. TotalMounter is also a free full-featured iSCSI initiator, virtual disks emulator, and a client of INetDisk. Its goal is to mount everything, you can not only mount a CD/DVD images (such as iso, bin, cdi, mdf, ccd, nrg etc.) as a virtualized drive, and also make these images by creating a CD/DVD-RW virtualized drive and burning data into it by burning software.

Additionally, KernSafe TotalMounter has also provide virtual write technology into iSCSI Initiator and INetDisk Client, so that you can copy files into a read-only drive and do not affect the other peoples.

Most notable feature is the virtual CD Burner - Burn from any program to an ISO file. However, doesn't seem to support Windows 7 yet.

General Utilities And Other Applications

LockHunter http://lockhunter.com/

It is a free tool to delete files blocked by something you do not know. LockHunter is useful for fighting against malware, and other programs that are blocking files without a reason. Unlike other similar tools it deletes files into the recycle bin so you may restore them if deleted by mistake.

It's an Unlocker alternative which works on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7, Vista, and XP

General Utilities And Other Applications

Ramdisk http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/05/27/f...nd-2003-server/

Ramdisk or RAM-Disk is designed to be a virtual hard drive based on software abstraction that treats a segment of random access memory (RAM) as secondary storage which is similar to hard disks, except with advantage that ramdisk is a lot faster and access time is greatly improved. As there is no mechanical moving parts involved, there won’t be question of wear and tear too. Ramdisk has one obvious downside, that it’s volatile and not solid state. Contents in Ramdisk is stored in computer RAM, which will be lost when the power of computer is switched off.

With these benefits and limit, ramdisk can be used to store frequently accessed yet less important temporary data to speed up the system performance, such as swap space for virtual memory, temporary files used for programs such as Internet Explorer, BT client, P2P eMule, compression utility, translation software and etc, frequently accessed data from a database or used to hold uncompressed programs for short periods. From privacy point of view, Ramdisk is also a working drive for decrypted version of encrypted document, as all trace of the data will be wiped and deleted once power off.

I can verify this works on 32-bit Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7. Not tested on 64-bit.

Edited May 25, 2009 by Xinok

3,096 · May 26, 2009

General Utilities And Other Applications

Ketarin http://ketarin.canneverbe.com/

Ketarin is a small application which automatically updates setup packages. As opposed to other tools, Ketarin is not meant to keep your system up-to-date, but rather to maintain a compilation of all important setup packages which can then be burned to disc or put on a USB stick.

Great little tool for keeping your favourite utilities and definitions up-to-date at the click of a button.

3,512 · June 2, 2009

This post contains the best download managers for one-click-hosts like Rapidshare, Megaupload, etc.

Download Managers

Requires Java

jDownloader http://jdownloader.org/

JDownloader is open source, platform independent and written completely in Java. It simplifies downloading files from One-Click-Hosters like Rapidshare.com or Megaupload.com - not only for users with a premium account but also for users who don't pay. It offers downloading in multiple paralell streams, captcha recognition, automatical file extraction and much more. Of course, JDownloader is absolutely free of charge. Additionally, many "link encryption" sites are supported - so you just paste the "encrypted" links and JD does the rest. JDownloader can import CCF, RSDF and the new DLC files.

jDownloader is the most powerful of these downloaders. It has some bugs, but it's not nearly as buggy as CryptLoad, and IMO it's worth installing Java for.

Download Managers

Requires .NET

CryptLoad http://www.cryptload.info/home/

* Direct Download from One Click Hosters like Rapidshare.com

* Decrypting of links from Link Protector Sites via plugins

* Many Hoster- and Decrypt-Plugins

* Intelligent Download Control that gets the best from your bandwidth

* Parallel downloading from different hosters

* Part Download like FlashGet

* Automatic RouterReconnect

* Files are grouped in packages

* Supports CCF und RSDF Container

* Automatic Captcha Recognition

* Integrated AutoUpdate System

* Clipboard Observation for quickly inserting Links

* Options for Shutdown/Standby after finishing downloads

* Automatic Extraction of RAR-Archives with Password Support

CryptLoad has some good features, but it's very buggy and parts of the interface definitely need some work. Still, it's good if you'd rather have .NET instead of Java.

Download Managers

Requires Java

FreeRapid Downloader http://wordrider.net/freerapid/

It's a simple Java downloader that supports downloading from Rapidshare and other file-sharing services.

Simply copy and paste your links from a browser to this application. FreeRapid Downloader will handle the rest itself. No more clicking or uncomfortable waiting.

* support for concurrent downloading from multiple services

* downloading using proxy list

* download history

* smart clipboard monitoring

* automatic checking for file's existence on server

* auto shutdown options

* automatic plugins updates

* simple CAPTCHA recognition

* works on MS Windows, Linux and MacOS

* easy to use

* multilanguage interface - Arabic, Bosnian, Brazilian portuguese, Croatian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian is ready for you!

* looks amazingly

* simply works!

FreeRapid Downloader doesn't contain the more advanced features of jDownloader or CryptLoad, but it's very stable and the interface is easy to use. I didn't find any major bugs in this one, it simply works.

SkipScreen is a Firefox extension which automatically clicks all the buttons and starts the downloads automatically.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11243

June 4, 2009

Audio Players

A good low resource audio player similar to what winamp 2 used to be.

Download: http://aimp.ru/index.php

2,674 · June 11, 2009

Pdf Utilities

Pdf Xchange Viewer http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/P...ols/pdfx_viewer

* Add Comments and Annotations to any PDF file (subject to security settings) - unlike the Adobe Viewer which requires the PDF creation tool to be 'certified' by Adobe !

* Add & apply Custom Stamps from any Image or PDF File and even your Windows Clip board !

* Mark-up pages with text and objects

* Type directly on any PDF page, not just Adobe enabled forms documents - in Typewriter mode.

* Export PDF pages or entire files to any one of the supported Image formats including BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG and many more ...

* Extract text from a PDF page/File

* Make your navigation of large or complex PDF files both simple and enjoyable with the extended functionality of our 'Loupe' and the 'Pan' Window tools

* Fill and Save Adobe Forms to disk, email or 'post' !

* Full Javascript Engine included

* Updated JPEG2000 Compression support - improving speed.

* Plug-Ins for both MS IE or Firefox Browser's included

* Integrate seamlessly with your favourite translation software to translate text on the 'fly' - including : ABBYY Lingvo 12, Translate It!, Lingoes.

* Includes comprehensive Help file and PDF Manual - no extra downloads required to add features etc.

* Portable version also available - can be run from any suitable device such as a Memory stick/CD/DVD etc - simply unzip and use - no installation required - just 4MB download !

There's even a 64-bit version avaiable! :woot:

3,512 · June 12, 2009

Office Application

IBM Lotus Symphony http://symphony.lotus.com/

IBM? Lotus? Symphony? is a richly-featured set of productivity tools that are intuitive and easy to use and provided at no charge. There are three applications that make up Lotus Symphony: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, Lotus Symphony Presentations.

Office Application

Gnumeric http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/

Gnumeric for Win32 was developed with the single purpose of being the best existing spreadsheet.

We are not attempting to clone existing applications. However, Gnumeric can read files saved with other spreadsheets and we offer a customizable feel that attempts to minimize the costs of transition.

Audio Tools

Pazera Free Audio Extractor http://www.pazera-software.com/products/audio-extractor/

Pazera Free Audio Extractor is an absolutely free application that extracts audio tracks from video files without loss of sound quality or convert them to MP3, AAC, AC3, WMA, FLAC, OGG or WAV format.

The application supports all major video formats (AVI, FLV, MP4, MPG, MOV, RM, 3GP, WMV, VOB and other), moreover, allows the conversion of music files, so it can be used as a universal audio converter.

The program has a number of predefined settings (profiles) specially designed for novice users. While more advanced users can customize audio encoding parameters used by encoder: audio bitrate, sampling frequency, audio channels, audio volume. The application allows to extract/convert full audio track or selected range only.

Image Tools

JPEGsnoop http://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/jpeg-snoop.html

Every digital photo contains a wealth of hidden information -- JPEGsnoop was written to expose these details to those who are curious.

Not only can one determine the various settings that were used in the digital camera in taking the photo (EXIF metadata, IPTC), but one can also extract information that indicates the quality and nature of the JPEG image compression used by the camera in saving the file. Each digical cameras specifies a compression quality levels, many of them wildly different, leading to the fact that some cameras produce far better JPEG images than others.

General Utilities And Other Applications

Rhymesaurus http://www.rhymefree.com/

Rhymesaurus FREE Edition is the easiest free rhyming dictionary software for windows. Simply type in any word and press [Enter] to see a list of rhyming words, organized by syllablle-count, as well as English idioms, phrases, and cliches that rhyme with your word.

General Utilities And Other Applications

Stykz http://www.stykz.net/Home.html

Stykz is a multi-platform stick figure animation program

* Stykz is frame-based, letting you to work on individual frames of your animation

* Figures can be rotated, scaled, flipped, duplicated, colorized, and relayered.

* Figures can be created and edited directly in place

* "Draw" your figures by simply right-clicking and dragging, either directly on the Stage or from an existing node; segments are automatically drawn and added to your figure as you go!

* You can have multiple animation ?documents? open at the same time, and can cut, copy, and paste between documents.

* Arrow keys can be used to move selected figure(s) by 1 pixel; hold down the Shift key to move in 10 pixel increments.

* Test your animation in Stykz before you export it; export to QuickTime, Animated GIF, or a sequence of images.

* You can share your Stykz files with others, and even include information with the file that tells who created it, when it was last modified, and even provides a place to include usage instructions.

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Update Notifier http://cleansofts.org/view/update-notifier.html

The Update Notifier is a small utility that scans your computer for installed software and displays a list of updates. Also you can see the latest updates for applications from your Watch List.

3,512 · June 17, 2009

General Utilities And Other Applications

Helpinator http://www.helpinator.com/

Easy to use help authoring tool that produces CHM, PDF, RTF and HTML.

Helpinator's main focus is on making help authoring more productive. Helpinator eliminates double-work that you have to do using regular help authoring tools and simplifies complex tasks. You can compile professinally looking help files in 4 different formats, in multiple languages and for multiple editions of your product - all that from single source!

Desktop Enhancements

TrayEverything http://www.winapizone.net/software/trayeverything/

# You can minimize to tray ANY window

# You can completely hide the window, that is, no icon in the tray

# You can hide the window and protect it with a password

# You can group icons of the same application in one single icon - let's not overfill the tray too!

# You have FIVE different ways to minimize an application into tray:

* Double click on the window's caption in the TrayEverything main window

* TrayEverything can add a new button in the title bar of each window to minimize it

* TrayEverything can catch the click on the minimize button of the window and minimize it - no buttons added to the title bar

* You can choose an hotkey to minimize windows with a single key press

* Or you can let the application go by itself in the tray with the Autominimize feature - inactive windows will be autominimized by TrayEverything

General Utilities And Other Applications

File Synchronizer http://www.latshawsystems.com/ProductDetai...nchronizer.aspx

Designed for synchronizing large collections of media files such as MP3s, Videos, etc... between two different drives or folders without copying every file. Save time by only copying the files that are new or different. Use "Clone Mode" to synchronize a folder to match a master folder.

PDF Utilities

doPDF http://www.dopdf.com/

doPDF installs itself as a virtual PDF printer driver so after a successful installation will appear in your Printers and Faxes list.

General Utilities And Other Applications

BinJoin http://simonwai.com/developments/binjoin/

BinJoin merges previously split files back into one piece. Useful for those multipart .001 files you'd often find on binary newsgroups.

# Supports drag and drop of files from Windows Explorer

# File association: double click on a .001 file and BinJoin will automatically add the list of relevant files (.002, .003, etc) for joining for you

3,512 · June 23, 2009

Somehow, I've accumulated 17 new programs in the past week. So from now on, I'll limit myself to 3 programs per post. :p

Video tools & converters

XMedia Recode http://www.xmedia-recode.de/index.html (Translated)

The XMedia Recode application was designed to be an all-in-one video conversion and audio convertion tool.

Using XMedia Recode application you will be able to convert DVD, AVI, MP4, 3GP, WMV, ASF, etc. Profiles for most devices like iPod, iPhone, Samsung, SonyEricsson, Zune, PSP, Blackberry, LG, etc. GUI for FFMPEG.

Video tools & converters

Free Video Converter http://www.extensoft.com/?p=free_video_converter

The Free Video Converter allows you to convert, split, merge and edit your movie files. It supports wide variety of video formats from AVI to Flash (FLV) and high-definition movies (MTS) captured with new HD cameras. The simple and intuitive interface makes it easy to perform basic conversion tasks, while supporting additional features like joining and splitting movie clips, and batch conversion for converting multiple movies in one step.

General Utilities And Other Applications

Transmute http://www.gettransmute.com/

A bookmark converter for Chrome, Firefox, IE, Opera, Safari, Flock.

3,512 · June 25, 2009

HTML Editors

Amaya http://www.w3.org/Amaya/Overview.html

Amaya is a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. This follows the original vision of the Web as a space for collaboration and not just a one-way publishing medium.

System Information and monitoring

System Explorer http://systemexplorer.mistergroup.org/

System Explorer application was designed to give you information on your system application, process, startup.

? Detailed informations about Processes, Startups, Explorer, IE Addons, Uninstallers, Windows, Services, Drivers, Connections and Opened Files

? Action History for monitoring processes activities

? Making of Registry & Files snapshots for easy comparing of system changes. Result of comparation is displayed in tree view and text list. Can be used for analysation of product installers/uninstallers (like Total Uninstall)

? Performance graphs for monitoring usage of system resources in time

? Easy check of suspicious files via VirusTotal

? Easy search details about file/process via online databases

? Easy access to System Utilities

[/urGeneral Utilities And Other Applicationsons

SiteMonitor http://www.iannet.org/apps/SiteMonitor/

SiteMonitor is a tool to monitor your websites and notify you when they are down. SiteMonitor will check at fixed timed intervals that your website is still functioning correctly. It will also log activity to a log file for future reference.

3,512 · June 27, 2009

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Free Disk Analyzer http://www.extensoft.com/?p=free_disk_analyzer

Disk Usage Analyzer helps you organize your files and manage disk space by locating the largest files on your disk. You can quickly find where are your largest files, such as videos, photos and archives, and move them elsewhere, possibly to a backup drive. You may also decide to simply delete unneeded files. Disk Analyzer is fast and easy to use, summarizing your disk usage in a friendly format with visual graphs. Disk Analyzer is integrated with Windows so that you can view, open or delete files in the same way as in Windows Explorer.

System Information and monitoring

Free Extended Task Manager http://www.extensoft.com/?p=free_task_manager

The Extended Task Manager provides additional Windows process management features and information about disk activity and network port usage.

CD/DVD Burning/Cover creation

AVStoDVD http://sourceforge.net/projects/avstodvd/

AVStoDVD is a flexible tool to convert various media formats to DVD compliant streams and burn them into a highly compatible multiple tracks DVD. Features: Video/Audio editing, encoding, DVD Authoring and Burning, DVD Menu Editor with customizable menu.

3,512 · June 30, 2009

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FileAlyzer http://www.safer-networking.org/en/filealyzer/index.html

FileAlyzer is a tool to analyze files - the name itself was initially just a typo of FileAnalyzer, but after a few days I decided to keep it. FileAlyzer allows a basic analysis of files (showing file properties and file contents in hex dump form) and is able to interpret common file contents like resources structures (like text, graphics, HTML, media and PE).

General Utilities And Other Applications

RegAlyzer http://www.safer-networking.org/en/regalyzer/index.html

RegAlyzer is a tool to browse and change the registry. It was created because of a few features we missed in the original regedit tool, from support for exotic value types over background and regular expression search to better bookmarks, displaying .reg files in the accustomed style and a history view.

Audio Tools

MP3 Diags http://web.clicknet.ro/mciobanu/mp3diags/index.html

In a few words, MP3 Diags is a GUI-based application that allows end-users to identify issues with their MP3 files, fix some of the issues and make other changes, like adding track information. It also lets you "look inside" an MP3 file.

Unlike some programs that are designed to deal with a single topic (like fixing VBR headers or adding cover art), MP3 Diags is a one stop solution that identifies more than 50 different issues in MP3 files and provides the means to fix many of them (well, not everything is fixable; you can't make a 64kbps file sound like a 256kbps one.)

3,512 · July 2, 2009

General Utilities And Other Applications

FreeFileSync http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/

FreeFileSync is an easy to use open-source folder synchronization and comparison software. It is used for fast and easy configurable sync operations between two folders without restricted or overloaded UI interfaces.

General Utilities And Other Applications

Music Clock http://sourceforge.net/projects/musicclock/

Music Clock is an alarm clock designed to connect to Windows Media Player and iTunes, with several additional options for automatic or manual setup. It also includes a sleep timer, and several volume/music features.

General Utilities And Other Applications

PowerSlave http://polychromenz.com/products/powerslave/

PowerSlave allows you to define your working day start time and end time. It then lets the user choose one power scheme that will be used during the working day and a second power scheme that will be used at night.

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