Top 10 Freeware - February 2007

Top 10 Freeware
(February 2007)

Programs listed alphabetically

Blender
Version 2.43, release date: February 18, 2007
Blender, the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for Windows, Linux, Irix, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD or Mac OS X.
Screenshot | Download (8 MB)

CCleaner
Version 1.37.456, release date: February 1, 2007
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history.
Screenshot | Download (450 kB slim)

CellNet
Version 3.1, release date: February 17, 2007
CellNet is a very fast desktop application for keeping files organized on your computer. It can also play music, video, DVD, load documents and URLs, display and edit photos, run programs and keep shortcuts to Windows file system. You can write cells and files to CDs, extract music from CDs or make an audio CD. Other features include, photo slideshows, full editor to move and copy files within the CellNet system, keep playlists of photos, music and video and screen capture.
Because CellNet remains on the desktop it is possible to completely clear your desktop of icons and organize them within CellNet in neat labeled columns, you can do the same with documents, movies, music, programs, flash files, photos and favorite internet places. CellNet will park itself just behind the top of the desktop when not in use all ready to be pulled down giving you instant access to your computer.
Because of its unique interface CellNet is especially useful for finding files quickly. Anyone who needs almost instant access(even on slower computers) to their important files will soon discover the benifits of using CellNet.
Features:
- Organize files
- Play music
- Play video
- Organize and edit photos
- Photo slideshow
- Play DVD
- Store and open shortcuts to programs
- Store and open shortcuts to windows file system
- Store and open documents
- Store and open URLs
- Screen capture
- Internal search engine
- Full editor to copy, move and delete
- Keep playlists for photos, music and video
- Fully functional from a flash drive.

Coollector
Version 1.03, release date: February 12, 2007
MOVIES ENCYCLOPEDIA + VIDEO COLLECTION MANAGER + SHOPPING TOOL combined inside a child-play to use program.
In other words, Coollector blends 3 types of information into a unique interface:
1) your cinematographical culture (rated movies and persons)
2) your video collection (with technical details)
3) the videos available in store (with technical details too)
- Coollector is a large movie encyclopedia. Only 14 MB to download, and you get a database of 33,000 movies and 68,000 persons.
- You can personalize all that data. You can rate all the movies and persons that you know. You can tell which movies you own in your collection, with all the technical details. You keep track of the movies you loaned. You manage your wish list.
- Coollector shows what videos are available in stores, and links to them.
This innovative 3-in-1 concept offers a completely new experience to movie lovers because each part interacts deeply and naturally with the others.
Coollector's interface is extremely user-friendly.
Coollector is very fast and reactive (everything is instant).
Coollector includes a very powerful and innovative search feature.
Coollector is a surprisingly lightweight application with low resource usage.
Coollector is very easy to update (you just have to click a button).
Coollector does not contain any spyware or malware.
A must-have for movie lovers.
Screenshot | Download (14 MB)

FastStone Capture
Version 5.3, release date: February 12, 2007
FastStone Capture is a powerful, flexible and intuitive screen-capture utility. It allows you to capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web pages. It has innovative features such as a floating Capture Panel, hotkeys, resizing, cropping, text annotation, printing, e-mailing, screen magnifier and many more.
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Inkscape
Version 0.45, release date: February 5, 2007
Inkscape is an open source SVG editor with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc. Supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, node editing, svg-to-png export, grouping, and more.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully XML, SVG, and CSS2 compliant SVG drawing tool. Additional planned work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and establishment of a friendly, open, community-oriented development processes.
Screenshot | Download (42.2 MB)

NotJustBrowsing
Version 1.0.9, release date: February 27, 2007
Manage your browsing needs and protect your browsing links. Features:
1. Drag & Drop for visited links collection
2. Skin shades (5 boyish & 5 girlish) to choose from
3. Linear Browsing with web page access time
4. Multiple Browsing using tiled-windows, in a layout of user's choice
5. Auto Browsing
6. Tailored Browsing, combine pieces from different web pages to form your own Tailored Page
7. Uniquely defined Very Simple Syndication (VSS) and incorporated
8. Operate computer from within browser (Zero Point)
9. Unified referencing for local storage contents as well as contents on the world wide web
10. Colour coded browsing signals
11. Verbial Icons
12. Encrypted Picture Messaging
13. Configurable visual representation for group of web addresses.
14. Add notes with stored links
15. Share multiple web addresses with other users
16. Popups blocking
17. Publish user guides, manuals and help contents
18. View Lock: Protect your stored web links from being visited by someone else
19. Protection: Not let any body else modify your stored web page links
20. The ability to have multiple home pages. Each home position can be a single document link or multiple documents collection.
21. Use as Personal Virtual Library.
Amount of information that a user can browse through in minimum of time and the amount of links that can be stored and managed are distinguished features of this innovatively designed browser.
Screenshot | Download (4635 kB)

ReNamer
Version 4.50, release date: February 1, 2007
ReNamer is a small, yet very flexible file renaming tool, that offers all the standard renaming procedures, including prefixes, suffixes, replacements, case changes, as well as remove contents of brackets, add number sequences, change file extensions, etc. For advanced users, there is a PascalScript rule, which let users program their very own renaming rule. The program allows you to combine multiple renaming actions as a rule set, applying each action in logical sequence, which can be saved, loaded and managed within the program. In addition, ReNamer supports Meta Tags, such as: ID3, EXIF, OLE, AVI, MD5, SHA1, CRC32 and more; has an ability to rename folders, can process Regular Expressions, and supports Unicode filenames.
Screenshot | Download (1087 kB)

Send To Toys
Version 2.5, release date: February 10, 2007
Send To Toys is an enhancement of the Send To system menu.
- Send To Toys Control Panel Applet allows you to manage the Send To system menu content, and configure the various Send To Toys settings.
- "Add to Send To menu" and "Remove from Send To menu" allows you to personalize the Send To system menu for drives, folders, and programs.
- Send To "Clipboard (as name)" copies the name of the file or files to the clipboard. Hold down the CTRL key to change the settings for this extension.
- Send To "Clipboard" command line utility copies the output of a command to the clipboard. Type SENDTOCLIP /? at the command prompt for more information.
- Send To "Command Prompt" opens a DOS console window, setting the current directory to the selected folder. If the selection was a file, the folder containing the file will be the active directory and the name of the file will be typed for you at the prompt. Hold down the CTRL key to change the active directory to a different folder. Hold down the SHIFT key to force the use of the COMMAND.COM regardless of the Windows version.
- Send To "Default Mail Recipient" creates a new e-mail with attachments and predefined defaults for the recipients, subject, and message. Hold down the CTRL key to change the settings for this extension.
- Send To "Favorites" adds a shortcut to your Favorites list. Hold down the CTRL key for the "Add Favorite" dialog.
- Send To "Folder..." sends a file or files to another folder, you will be shown a dialog box that lets you choose where the files should be copied, moved, or have a shortcut created. To move the files press and hold down the SHIFT key. To create a shortcut hodl down the SHIFT and CTRL keys.
- Send To "Quick Launch" adds a shortcut to the Quick Launch toolbar.
- Send To "Recycle Bin" sends a file or files to the Recycle Bin. Hold down the CTRL key to perform a file shredding.
- Send To "Run..." sends a file or files to the Run command dialog.
Windows 2000, XP, 2003 Server, and Vista
Screenshot | Download (737 kB)

Universal Extractor
Version 1.5, release date: February 22, 2007
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 (like Wise or NSIS), or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package.
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 to create 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.
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January 2007