Top 10 Freeware - January 2009

Top 10 Freeware
(January 2009)

Programs listed alphabetically

AbiWord
Version 2.6.6, release date: January 16, 2009
AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to MS Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, etc. It is designed to integrate perfectly with the operating system it runs on. It will take advantage of the functionality provided by the system, such as image loading or printing capabilities.
Screenshot | Download (5.6 MB)

Auslogics Registry Defrag
Version 5.1.18, release date: January 24, 2009
Auslogics Registry Defrag is an extremely useful program to keep your registry as compact as possible. As a result of keeping the registry defragmented and as small as possible, your computer performance will be much improved.
Features:
System Optimization
Microsoft Windows and various program access the registry a few hundred times a second. By keeping your registry optimized you improve your computer performance.
Complete Registry Defragmentation
Data is frequently removed from the registry, but the allocated space remains. The program will scan through the registry to remove this space, reducing the size of the registry.
Ease of Use
Registry Defrag is incredibly easy to use even for a novice user. The program provides stunning visual representation of the fragmented areas in your registry.
Detailed Reports
Upon defragmenting the registry on your computer, the program prepares an HTML report with comprehensive details about registry defragmentation process.

Cobian Backup
Version 9.5.1.212, release date: January 22, 2009
Cobian Backup is a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your network. FTP backup is also supported.
Cobian Backup supports several methods of compression and strong encryption.
Cobian Backup exists in two different versions: application and service. The program uses very few resources and can be running on the background on your system, checking your backup schedule and executing your backups when necessary.
Screenshot | Download (9.8 MB)

HeliosPaint
Version 1.3.7, release date: January 17, 2009
HeliosPaint is a freeware paint program for creating and editing images. Includes pencil, line tool, paint brush, spray can. Paint can with fill sensitivity. Shape tool for creating freehand, regular polygon and star shapes. Text entry with choice of font, style, underline and rotation. HSB/RGB/contrast adjustment. Image invert, gray, blur and sharpen. Image colour and brightness adjustment by gradients. Image flip, scale up, scale down, rotate, shear and perspective. Full colour pallet with transparency. Scissors, lasso and wand for selecting and moving image segments. Undo and redo. Printing with auto page fit. Reads and writes bmp, gif, jpeg, pict, pcx, pgm, png, ppm, psd, ras, tga, tiff, xpm.
Requires Java.
Screenshot | Download (943 kB)

Magic Mail Monitor
Version 2.94 b19, release date: January 28, 2009
Magic Mail Monitor (MMM) is a free POP3 mail monitor with multiple accounts support. It sits silently in your system tray, and notifies you about new messages in your mailboxes. Then you can preview messages and delete unwanted mail in order to avoid spam and viruses.
To help you fight spam, save time and traffic, MMM offers configurable filters, friends list, partial loading and other easy to use tools.
Screenshot | Download (966 kB)

mp3DirectCut
Version 2.10, release date: January 9, 2009
mp3DirectCut is a fast and extensive audio editor and recorder for compressed mp3. You can directly cut, copy, paste or change the volume with no need to decompress your files for audio editing. This saves encoding time and preserves the original quality, because nothing will be re-encoded. The built in recorder creates mp3 on the fly from your audio input. Using Cue sheets, pause detection or Auto cue you can easily divide long files
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NetSetMan
Version 2.5.2, release date: January 22, 2009
Are you tired of changing your network configuration every day on your notebook or computer?
The same procedure every day?
On the go : changing..., at home: changing..., at the Internet café: changing..., visiting a friend: changing...
Then NetSetMan is your solution. It will do the work for you.
(Non-Commercial Freeware)
Screenshot | Download (1386 kB)

Revo Uninstaller
Version 1.80, release date: January 19, 2009
Revo Uninstaller is not just a replacement for the standard Add/Remove applet of Windows operating system it also includes other tools that will help you to clean your Windows based computer system.
With its unique 'Hunter mode' it offers you some simple, easy to use but effective and powerful approaches to manage (uninstall, stop, delete, disable from autostarting) and to get information about your installed and/or running applications. Many additional tools are included in Revo Uninstaller.
Here are the list of all tools and utilities included:
Auto Start Manager, Windows tools manager, Junk Files Cleaner, Browsers history cleaner, Office history cleaner, Windows history cleaner, Unrecoverable delete tool and Evidence remover.
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SIV
Version 3.35, release date: January 14, 2009
SIV (System Information Viewer) is a general Windows utility for displaying lots of useful Windows, Network and hardware info - CPU info, PCI info, PCMCIA info, USB info, Machine Info, Hardware Sensors, Networked computers, Operating System Information and more. I use Craig Hart's pcidevs.txt file for my PCI device display with my usbdevs.txt being used for the USB devices, mondevs.txt for monitor descriptions and pcmdevs.txt for PCMCIA device descriptions. SIV is designed for Windows XP/Vista/2003/2K/NT4. Windows 95, 98 and Me are also supported.
Screenshot | Download (1277 kB)

WinMerge
Version 2.10.4, release date: January 13, 2009
WinMerge is an Open Source (GPL) visual text file differencing and merging tool for Windows. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions.
Screenshot | Download (3.1 MB)

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