Top 10 Freeware - February 2003

Top 10 Freeware
(February 2003)

Programs listed alphabetically

7-Zip
Version 2.30 ß 28, release date: February 16, 2003
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. The program supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB formats. Compression ratio in the new 7z format is 30-50% better than ratio in ZIP format. It also compresses to ZIP 2-10% better than PKZip and WinZip.
(Win 98/ME/NT/2k/XP)
Download (1109 kB)

Ad-aware SE
Version 6.0.160, release date: February 4, 2003

Ad-aware Standard Edition is the award winning, free (for non-commercial use only), multicomponent detection and removal utility that has consistently lead the industry in safety, user satisfaction, support and reliability.
With its ability to comprehensively scan your memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known datamining, aggressive advertising, and tracking components, Ad-aware will provide the user with the confidence to surf the Internet knowing that their privacy will remain intact. Let Ad-aware protect your privacy.
Download (1.45 MB)

Color Cop
Version 5.3, release date: February 23, 2003
Have you ever wanted a color picker that is professional, but easy to use and loaded with features, well here it is Color Cop 5.0. This little program features a eyedrop color picker, you can convert RGB decimal values to HTML hexadecimal, convert hexadecimal to RGB decimal values. A magnifier control that will allow the user to magnify any part of the screen, including magnification with levels of 1x-16x. 3 by 3 and 5 by 5 average sampling instead of sampling just one pixel, a 3 by 3 or 5 by 5 area of pixels will be averaged to get a color. This is important when sampling colors from photographs because you can get closer to the color the human eye sees. Many more features are included give it a try!
Download (47 kB)

foobar2000
Version 0.52, release date: February 23, 2003

foobar2000 is a very recommendable media player. It is developed by Peter Pawlowski, who used to work on Winamp3. It uses a plain and simple UI - no skins, no fuss. While in playback mode, it approximately consumes 1.9 megabytes of RAM.
Supported formats: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, FLAC, Ogg FLAC, WAV, MOD (needs foo_mod.dll), SPC (needs foo_spc.dll), monkey's audio (needs foo_ape.dll).
Download (win 9x 227 kB, winnt 244 kB, installer 716 kB)

Iconoid
Version 3.1.7, release date: February 14, 2003

Iconoid is a small program that helps reduce the clutter and confusion of the Windows desktop. With Iconoid you can:
- Automatically hide and display desktop icons
- Remove the colored box behind icon text
- Automatically set the colored box behind the text to an optimal color for your desktop picture
- Quickly and easily minimize all of the windows on your screen
- Save and restore the positions of icons
- Insure that icons do not move when you change screen resolutions
- Save icon locations for each screen resolution individually
(Win 95/98/ME/NT/2k/XP)
Download (387 kB)

MELMS
Version 0.92, release date: February 6, 2003
MELMS (Multiple E-mail List Management System) is e-mail list management software that facilitates the easy creation and management of an almost unlimited number of e-mail lists. Each list can contain up to 30,000 e-mail addresses making it suitable for all small to medium sized mailing list requirements. MELMS features automated e-mail address acquisition through POP3 and clipboard capture and utilizes validation techniques to prevent invalid or duplicate e-mail addresses from being stored.

mp3DirectCut
Version 1.29, release date: February 12, 2003
mp3DirectCut is a small tool for editing MPEG audio directly. You can remove parts, change the volume, split files or copy regions to several new files. All without the need to decompress your MP3 into a PCM format. This saves work, encoding time and disk space. And there is no quality loss through any re-compressions!
Download (85 kB)

NeoTweak XP
Version 1.0 ß, release date: February 17, 2003

NeoTweak XP is basically a Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000 and Windows XP customisation software. It allows you to tweak some hidden Windows settings with ease in one easy-to-use and neat interface complete with mouse-over descriptions.
One of the special features that NeoTweak XP has is the ability to add your own custom tweaks. This allows you to add your own personal tweaks for your own use or expand the tweaks that can't be found in the main core program.

SigJenny
Version 0.93.1, release date: February 10, 2003
SigJenny turns your PC into a flexible and powerful audio signal generator for free.
It can create sine, triangular, square, and other wave shapes which can be inverted, swept or arranged as single or repeating tone bursts and display the test unit's response!
Download (2.12 MB)

SpamPal
Version 1.19 ß, release date: February 24, 2003

SpamPal is a mail classification program that can help separate your spam from the mail you really want to read. Features:
- Check your mail against the freely-usable DNSBL lists (aka 'blocking lists') of your choice.
- The list of available DNSBL services is automatically updated, so new DNSBL lists can be used as they appear! ... (Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2k/XP)

January 2003