Top 10 Freeware - April 2003

Top 10 Freeware
(April 2003)

Programs listed alphabetically

AlbumDIY
Version 1.11, release date: April 26, 2003

AlbumDIY is a tool to create digital photo albums that can be viewed on the local computer or distributed as .EXE file. The album looks like a virtual book, with background music ,text comments, clipart and more. Your pictures can be freely positioned on the pages, resized, stretched, rotated and adjusted. You can also add many artistic frames and masks to your photos, creating a unique and professional look for each of your album pages. The program is easy to use and offers wizard-style dialogs. Additional features include slideshow, full-screen viewing and picture-only mode.
(Win 98/ME/NT/2k/XP)
Download (7267 kB)

Amaya
Version 8.0, release date: April 23, 2003
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.
Download (4.7 MB)

CDex
Version 1.50, release date: April 27, 2003
CDex is a tool to do all sorts of things audio related. Mainly focused on ripping and converting, things like turning your home Compact Disc collection into an mp3 collection on your hard drive become extremely easy. With built in support for many encoders you wont find any shortage of options for your media files.
Download (1.9 MB)

DVD Decrypter
Version 3.1.6.0, release date: April 29, 2003

Ripping in DVD Decrypter is about as easy as it gets!
By default, the program will, where possible, automatically select the source (ie. the DVD drive) and the destination folder (by finding the drive with the most free disk space).
The 'Main Movie' files will have already been selected for you, so you really only have to press that big button to get the ripping underway!
In about 10 - 30 minutes (depending on the speed of your computer / DVD drive) it will finish and you will have lots of nice DeCSS'd VOB files on your hard disk. From there you can choose to watch them with the likes of PowerDVD and WinDVD or you can re-encode them to MPEG1 (VCD) or DivX.
Download (878 kB)

FixLinks
Version 1.14, release date: April 4, 2003

FixLinks is a unique tool which allows you to check and to repair broken URLs in HTML files automatically. You can use FixLinks to check and to prepare a web site for uploading to the Internet as well as to get rid of links leading to non-existing files. There are much more uses for FixLinks. Using FixLinks You can rename or move folders containing linked files and then restore the links to them without any manual work. You can also restore links between separate pages saved from the Internet (especially if they were saved using IE's "Save as..." function).

Inno Setup
Version 3.0.7, release date: April 14, 2003

Inno Setup is a free installer for Windows programs.
Features:
- Support for all 32-bit Windows versions.
- Supports creation of a single EXE to install your program for easy online distribution. Disk spanning is also supported.
- Standard wizard interface, including support for the latest Windows 2000/XP wizard style.
- Customizable setup types, e.g. Full, Minimal, Custom.
- Complete uninstall capabilities.
Download (921 kB)

K9
Version 1.01, release date: April 28, 2003

K9 is an email filtering application that works in conjunction with your regular POP3 email program and automatically classifies incoming emails as spam (junk email) or non-spam without the need for maintaining dozens of rules or constant updates to be downloaded. It uses intelligent statistical analysis that can result in extremely high accuracy over time.
K9 learns from it's mistakes and becomes better and better at being able to identify spam. More importantly it learns to recognize what you consider to be spam.
Download (52 kB)

Pegasus Mail
Version 4.11, release date: April 20, 2003

Pegasus Mail is a free, standards-based electronic mail client suitable for use by single or multiple users on single computers or on local area networks. A proven product, it has served millions of users since it was released in 1990. It is extremely feature-rich and powerful, yet remains small and fast.
Download (3.9 MB)

TIKSILAND
Version 1 ß 3, release date: April 17, 2003

TIKSILAND is a comprehensive integrated software tool for data capture, management and analysis. It provides intuitive, easy-to-learn interfaces to input and process data about objects of interest.
TIKSILAND allows you to represent data about your problem area (universe of discourse) in an unified, easy-to-use, visual format and supports many analysis tools including data visualisation (particularly graphs and charts), basic statistics, statistic tests and data mining tools. The wide range of functions makes it easy to process your data.

WinGet
Version 1.1, release date: April 6, 2003

WinGet is a download accelerator that can increase download speeds by up to 300 percent.
The acceleration is achieved by splitting the file being downloaded into several parts and downloading these parts at the same time.
WinGet is fully integrated into the browser, providing the best possible performance from any Internet connection (dial-up, cable, DSL/ADSL, T1 etc.).
Download (121 kB)

March 2003