Top 10 Freeware - March 2008

Top 10 Freeware
(March 2008)

Programs listed alphabetically

Asterisk Key
Version 8.3, release date: March 18, 2008
Asterisk Key shows passwords hidden under asterisks.
Features:
- Uncovers hidden passwords on password dialog boxes and web pages
- State of the art password recovery engine - all passwords are recovered instantly
- Multilingual passwords are supported
- Full install/uninstall support.
Screenshot | Download (454 kB)

Glary Utilities
Version 2.5, release date: March 26, 2008
Glary Utilities offers numerous powerful and easy-to-use system tools and utilities to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC.
It allows you to clean common system junk files, as well as invalid registry entries and Internet traces. You can manage and delete browser add-ons, analyze disk space usage and find duplicate files. You can also view and manage installed shell extensions, encrypt your files from unauthorized access and use, split large files into smaller manageable files and then rejoin them. Furthermore, Glary Utilities includes the options to optimize memory, find, fix, or remove broken Windows shortcuts, manage the programs that start at Windows startup and uninstall software. Other features include secure file deletion, an Empty Folder finder and more.
All Glary Utilities tools can be accessed through an eye-pleasing and totally simplistic interface.
Designed for Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista. The 64-bit versions of Windows XP/Vista are not supported.
Screenshot | Download (5.49 MB)

IcoFX
Version 1.6, release date: March 30, 2008
IcoFX is an award winning freeware icon editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. It is designed to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Macintosh icons supporting transparency.
With a wealth of tools and more than 40 effects at your fingertips, there’s virtually no limit to the icons you can create. You can easily convert your favorite images into icons, or icons into images. IcoFX gives you the possibility to create icon libraries or change icons inside exe files. Create a favicon for your website or blog.
Screenshot | Download (1.46 MB)

NetSetMan
Version 2.4.2, release date: March 27, 2008
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 (1175 kB)

Pugnax
Version 2.4, release date: March 30, 2008
Pugnax is an internet page watcher. It lets you organise many different website links in to separate categories, and will inform you when the content of the page changes. You don't have to keep checking your favourite sites to see if they've changed.
Features:
- scan any number of websites, in any number of user defined categories
- load and save configurations
- compare the 'before' and 'after' pages
- can be minimised to the tooltray
- four different scan modes
- autoscan at regular intervals
- supports access via proxy server
- stores details of the last 20 changes for each watched site
- import and export watches
- able to scan pages on the file system / network as well as over the internet
Now supports the ability to move the cache folder to another directory, PC or network available drive.
Screenshot | Download (990 kB)

Returnil Virtual System Personal Edition
Version 2.0, release date: March 5, 2008
The Returnil Virtual System Personal Edition is a powerful virtualization technology that completely mirrors your actual computer setup and it can create a virtual storage disk within your PC where you can save documents, data, and files while using the System Protection feature.
Returnil Virtual System's protection concept is very easy to understand. It provides a simple, effective, and smart way to prevent unwanted or malicious changes from being made to your supported Windows® Operating System and the drive where Windows® is installed. You operate your system in a virtual environment, so anything you do will happen in the virtual environment, not in the real PC. If your computer is attacked or gets infected with Malware, all you need to do is simply reboot the PC to erase all changes. Once restarted, your system will be restored to the original state, as if nothing ever happened! Meanwhile, Returnil Virtual System can create a virtual storage disk for you; the purpose of this partition is to provide a place for you to save your data when the Virtual System Protection mode is turned ON, and you can customize the size of this disk to meet your individual requirements.
When the Virtual System Protection is OFF, you can install or remove programs, save documents within the Windows® disk drive, install security upgrades and software patches, alter configurations, and update user accounts. All changes made will remain following a restart of the computer.
The Returnil Virtual System is designed to take the risk and worry out of exposing your computer to all types of software, downloads, websites, or anything else that might have adverse effects on your computer or infect it with harmful viruses, spyware and other malicious programs. Once you restart your system it will revert back to its original state and all changes to your primary partition will disappear.
All of this without sacrificing computer performance or usability while helping to reduce technical support intervention and the need for routine maintenance. By cloning your system in memory rather than on your hard disk, the Returnil Virtual System offers better speed and reliability than other virtualization solutions.
Screenshot | Download (1.95 MB)

Tiny USB Office
Version 1.0, release date: March 16, 2008
Tiny USB Office, which replaces the former FloppyOffice package, is an improved version of the small, portable productivity software suite which offers a collection of unique standalone free software applications. If you find yourself working on different machines and like the idea of having portable software that you can access hassle-free from any computer, then this is the package for you. Whether you need to create rich-text word processing documents, share files across multiple computers, transfer files, create MS Excel compatible spreadsheets, comma-delimited database files, email your contacts, talk to your friends or co-workers on MSN, create pdf files, or securely encrypt or delete files - this is the perfect software package for you!
Screenshot | Download (2368 kB)

Visual CD
Version 3.0, release date: March 5, 2008
Visual CD is a disk cataloging tool to index CD/DVDs, floppy disks, hard disks, and even folders. You can then explore the disk catalogs, search files and folders, create MP3 playlist file without having the physical disks in the drive. Upon insertion of the corresponding disk, you can open files, split files into smaller pieces, extract ZIP, RAR, and CAB archive, and more.
Visual CD is extremely easy to use! The Windows Explorer-like style ensures that you will not find any difficulties to use it. Visual CD also support full Windows XP visual style and user friendly interface. Just try it and love it!
Screenshot | Download (2.0 MB)

Wavosaur
Version 1.0.2.0, release date: March 25, 2008
Wavosaur is a free sound editor, audio editor, wav editor software for editing, processing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files. Wavosaur has all the features to edit audio (cut, copy, paste, etc.) produce music loops, analyze, record, batch convert.
Wavosaur supports VST plugins, ASIO driver, multichannel wav files, real time effect processing.
The program has no installer and doesn't write in the registry. Use it as a free mp3 editor, for mastering, sound design.
Screenshot | Download (200 kB)

WinSCP
Version 4.0.7, release date: March 4, 2008
WinSCP is freeware SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) and SCP (Secure CoPy) client for Windows using SSH (Secure Shell). Its main purpose is safe copying files between local and remote computer. Beyond this basic function, it manages some other actions with files. It can do all basic operations with files, such as copying and moving. It also allows you to rename files and folders, create new folders, change properties of files and folders. One of two selectable program interfaces allows user to manage files even on local computer. Most operations can be done recursively for files in folders.
Screenshot | Download (1972 kB)

February 2008