Top 10 Freeware - February 2008

Top 10 Freeware
(February 2008)

Programs listed alphabetically

AM-DeadLink
Version 3.2, release date: February 27, 2008
AM-DeadLink detects dead links and duplicates in browser bookmarks and text files. If a bookmark has become unavailable you can verify and delete it permanently. Additionally you can download FavIcons for all your Favorites and Bookmarks.
AM-DeadLink can check the following resources:
- Internet Explorer Favorites
- Firefox bookmarks
- Opera bookmarks
- Mozilla and Netscape bookmarks
- URLs from tab delimited text files
- URLs from comma separated text files
OS: Windows 9x/Me/NT4/2000/2003/XP/Vista
Download (1167 kB)

Amaya
Version 10.01, release date: February 29, 2008
Amaya is a complete web browsing and authoring environment and comes equipped with a WYSIWYG style of interface, similar to that of the most popular commercial browsers. With such an interface, users do not need to know the HTML or CSS languages.
Screenshot | Download (7.1 MB)

File Organiser
Version 1.125, release date: February 28, 2008
Developed to replace 'Explorer', the main difference is that this uses 2 panes and has 'bookmarks'. To make life much easier, especially for teachers. Two windows makes it simpler to copy FROM and TO.
This is also several programs in one, see the screenshots to get some idea of these.
- Replacement File Explorer. On restart returning to where you were. (AND MUCH MORE!)
- More accessible 'find' or search function.
- Camera and USB pen detection. autodetects folder where your photos are.
- Info button, to find out where all the disk space is used.
- Extensive, flexible file renaming.
- Save file/ folder structure to a text file, so this can be printed.
- Save to an html document your favourite internet links. (from Internet Explorer) Thsi can then be uploaded to your Web site.

minipad2
Version 2.3.2, release date: February 10, 2008
minipad2 is a tiny, multi-page style windows program which integrates all the useful functions including text editor, calculator, reminder, dictionary, text template & clipboard-enhancement . All the contents saved in a single text file. It automatically restores the last state when re-opened. It can be set as start with windows and minimize to the system tray with very few memory take-up.
minipad2 is a single-exe green software. It can be directly used when unzipped to a random directory without installation. It adds no key to the system registry, except for the "Run" key when set as start with windows.
Screenshot | Download (307 kB)

PC Wizard 2008
Version 1.84, release date: February 24, 2008
PC WIZARD 2008 is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis. It's able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. PC WIZARD 2008 is also an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, Cache performance, RAM performance, Hard Disk performance, CD/DVD-ROM performance, Removable/FLASH Media performance, Video performance, MP3 compression performance.
Screenshot | Download (2.0 MB)

Process Explorer
Version 11.11, release date: February 27, 2008
Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.
The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle mode you'll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you'll see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded. Process Explorer also has a powerful search capability that will quickly show you which processes have particular handles opened or DLLs loaded.
The unique capabilities of Process Explorer make it useful for tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks, and provide insight into the way Windows and applications work.
Process Explorer works on Windows 9x/Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Server 2003, and 64-bit versions of Windows for x64 and IA64 processors, and Windows Vista.
Screenshot | Download (1.6 MB)

QT TabBar
Version 1.2.2.1, release date: February 23, 2008
QTTabBar is an Add-In that gives Tab Browsing Feature to your Explorer, Folder grouping, histories, etc.
System Requirements: Windows Vista, Windows XP + .Net Framework 2.0 or later.
Screenshot | Download (501 kB)

Replicator
Version 3.5.5, release date: February 25, 2008
Automatically backup files, directories, even entire drives! Karen's Replicator copies selected files from one drive/folder to another. Source and Destination folders can reside anywhere on your network.
Options include repeated copies at intervals as short as a few minutes, or as long as several months, copy only files that have changed, and the replication of folder and file deletions.
Screenshot | Download (2.1 MB)

Secunia PSI
Version 0.9.0.1, release date: February 7, 2008
The Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) detects installed software and categorises your software as either Insecure, End-of-Life, or Up-To-Date. Effectively enabling you to focus your attention on software installations where more secure versions are available from the vendors.
Detects and advises on more than 4,200 applications!
Windows 2000/XP/2003
The PSI is only free for private use.
Screenshot | Download (459 kB)

VLC media player
Version 0.8.6e, release date: February 27, 2008
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
- It is a free cross-platform media player
- It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs
- It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, ...)
Screenshot | Download (9.3 MB)

January 2008