Top 10 Freeware - January 2008

Top 10 Freeware
(January 2008)

Programs listed alphabetically

Arachnophilia
Version 5.3.2191, release date: January 30, 2008
Arachnophilia is a powerful programming editor with some special HTML production and editing features. With it, you can:
- Create HTML pages using a suite of powerful tools.
- Upload your Web site to your Internet service provider using Arachnophilia's built-in FTP service.
- Fully customize Arachnophilia's menus, toolbars and keyboard commands. Arachnophilia lets you create or remove any commands, toolbars, or menus you want to.
- Beautify, and analyze the structure of, your Web pages, so they will be more likely to be error-free and work correctly with more browsers.
- Create working environments for many kinds of programming tasks using Arachnophilia's fully customizable menus and toolbars.
Screenshot | Download (1.7 MB)

BonkEnc
Version 1.0.6, release date: January 20, 2008
BonkEnc is a CD ripper, audio encoder and converter for various formats. It can produce MP3, MP4/M4A, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Bonk and FLAC files. More formats are available through plug-ins. It makes it easy to convert your audio CDs to MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files which you can use in your hardware player or with your favorite audio software. The program supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database and CDText and automatically writes song information to ID3V2 or Vorbis comment tags.
Screenshot | Download (2937 kB zip)

Comodo Firewall Pro
Version 3.0.15, release date: January 11, 2008
Comodo Firewall Pro - Secure your system against internal attacks such as Trojan viruses / malicious software and external attacks by hackers. With a user-friendly single click interface you can allow or block access to the Internet offering complete immunity to attacks and total protection of your personal information. Real time traffic monitoring enables you to react instantly to threats and identify bandwidth bottlenecks. Silent Security Technology means no needless alerts with out-of-the-box protection against hackers, Trojans and other unknown threats. Comodo Firewall Pro is the powerful and effective, easy to manage barrier that keeps hackers out and personal information in. Comodo Firewall Pro helps you connect in a secure way to the internet and global networks.
Download (9305 kB)

Defraggler
Version 1.01.050 beta, release date: January 23, 2008
Defraggler is a free file defragmentation tool from the makers of CCleaner and Recuva. It differs from other defrag tools on the market, by enabling you to quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to process the whole drive. Simply run it, select the file and defragment in seconds. No more struggling with the Windows defragmentation tool.
OS: Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista.
Screenshot | Download (375 kB)

FastStone Image Viewer
Version 3.5, release date: January 15, 2008
FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG).
Screenshot | Download (zip 4.1 MB)

FeedReader
Version 3.12, release date: January 29, 2008
FeedReader is a lightweight open-source aggregator that supports RSS and ATOM formats.
Features:
· Supports all major syndication formats: RSS 0.9, 0.91, 0.92, 1.00, 2.0 plus Dublin core and Slashback extensions
· Pre-configured with hundred of quality feeds from leading syndicators such as NewsIsFree and Moreover
· Alerts about incoming feeds on taskbar
· Caches headlines for offline viewing
· Supports proxies
· Allows one-click subscription of Radio Userland and AmphetaDesk feeds
· Search support
· Multilanguage support
· OPML import and export.
Screenshot | Download (4.5 MB)

Periodic Table
Version 3.4, release date: January 19, 2008
The application contains all the elements of the Periodic Table along with images of the elements in their natural state, as well as lots of other information and interactive displays.
The periodic table now comes in three versions. They all contain the same amount of information.
Standard Version
Designed to be used on desktops set to 1024x768 or better. Contains many small images of most of the elements.
Extra Version
This is identical to the Standard Version except it comes with 155 high resolution images of the elements in various physical states.
Mini Version
This version contains the same smaller images that comes with the standard version, except that it's designed to be used on desktops of 800x600.
Features:
- Detailed information on each element
- Details of isotopes and allotropes
- Details of important compounds
- Details of reactions with water, air, halogens and acids
- Images for each element (126 images in total) including valence and crystal stucture diagrams
- Glossary of terms
- Graphs of important element properties
- Biographies for the important scientists and element discoverers
- View the states of the elements at any temperature (from 0 - 6000k)
- XP style support
- Search through all content
- Electron shell diagrams of each element
- Atomic width diagram
Screenshot | Download (Standard 6.9MB, Extra 14.6MB, Mini 6.1MB)

Stellarium
Version 0.9.1, release date: January 17, 2008
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
Screenshot | Download (36.9 MB)

System Explorer
Version 1.3.0, release date: January 24, 2008
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.
Screenshot | Download (1.12 MB)

WPanorama
Version 8.3.3, release date: January 1, 2008
WPanorama allows you to display panoramic pictures by letting scroll horizontally or vertically on the screen. You can use this software to view the gorgeous 360° swiss panorama included with the program or your own pictures in .jpg or .bmp format. The program includes many features, such as:
- 360° continuous scrolling
- Full screen view
- Mini slide show (one sample of it included with the program)
- Back and forth scrolling for non 360° pictures
- Mirror function for special interesting effects
- Vertical scroll in addition to the horizontal one
- Misceallenous stretch filters
- Variable scroll increment and speed
- Automatic or manual scroll orientation setting (horizontal or vertical)
- Screen saver module
- Screen saver able to display a new picture every time it is trigged or at a given time interval
- Possibility to insert scrolling panoramas into movies by the means of multiple bmp files or avi files
- Much, much more...
Screenshot | Download (3.5 MB)

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