Top 10 Freeware - April 2005

Top 10 Freeware
(April 2005)

Programs listed alphabetically

Alleycode
Version 2.15, release date: April 25, 2005
Alleycode is a fast, sleek and highly productive award winning HTML editor with unique features. If you are new to HTML, Alleycode's great tutorial will walk you through your first coding steps... If you are an established coder you will find a refreshing, non-bloated infrastructure with fast and accurate delivery. Beyond HTML, Alleycode's wizardry focuses on PHP and CSS interaction for professional and easy management of your projects.
Screenshots | Download (1542 kB)

Belarc Advisor
Version 7.0k, release date: April 20, 2005
The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server. Free for personal use.
Download (801 kB)

Copernic Desktop Search
Version 1.5, release date: April 1, 2005
Copernic Desktop Search brings the power of a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use search engine right to your PC and allows you instantly to search files, e-mails, and email attachments stored anywhere on your PC hard drive. It executes sub-second searching of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, Acrobat PDFs, and all popular music, picture and video formats. CDS also searches your browser history, favorites, and contacts.
Screenshot | Download (2628 kB)

FileZilla
Version 2.2.13b, release date: April 24, 2005
FileZilla is a powerful FTP-client for Windows 9x, ME, NT4, 2000 and XP. It has been designed for easy use and for support for as much features as possible while still being fast and reliable.
The main features of FileZilla are:
Ability to resume Uploads/Downloads, Custom Commands, Site Manager with folders, Keep Alive system, Timeout detection, Firewall support, SOCKS4/5 and HTTP1.1 Proxy support, SSL secured connections, SFTP support, Upload/Download Queue, Drag&Drop, Multi-language support, GSS authentication and encryption using Kerberos.
Download (3297 kB)

Free Download Manager
Version 1.7, release date: April 6, 2005
Using power of this free download accelerator and manager you can downloads files and complete websites up to 600% faster than before. It utilizes complete bandwidth of your internet connection even if you download from slow web sites. Features of the download manager include: easy integration with Internet Explorer, Opera and Netscape, powerful scheduler, antivirus integration, adjusting traffic usage, resuming downloads, downloading websites, browsing web and ftp folders.
Screenshots | Download (1312 kB)

IrfanView
Version 3.97, release date: April 21, 2004
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2k/XP/2003.
It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerfull for professionals.
Some IrfanView features: Many supported file formats; Multi language support; Thumbnail/preview option; Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD); Drag & drop support; Fast directory view (moving through directory); Batch conversion (with image processing); Multimedia player; Change color depth; Scan (batch scan) support; Cut/crop; IPTC editing; Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Photoshop filter factory); Capturing; Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs; Lossless JPG rotation; etc.
Screenshot | Download (875 kB)

Miranda IM
Version 0.4, release date: April 9, 2005
Miranda IM is a multi protocol instant messenger client. Miranda IM is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use. It uses very little memory and requires no installation. Just unzip and run! This also makes it ideal for users that want to run their messenger client from a removable storage such as an USB memory stick. It can even be stored on a floppy disc if not too many plugins are used. (Windows NT4, 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP & 2003)
Screenshots | Download (995 kB)

Mmm FREE
Version 1.99b4, release date: April 27, 2005
Every program these days seem to put an extra item or 2 in your context-menu. It is all under the guise of being helpful, but often it is to get the company name (or product name) in the menu. They see it as a place to advertise. And of course it is difficult or impossible to remove these items in an easy way.
Take your menus to the cleaner. Mmm...
- Lets you modify almost all explorer context-menus!
- Works on the desktop!
- Very easy to configure - just drag & drop
- Lets you hide items you don't use
- Lets you move rarely used items out on a sub-menu
- No nag-screens that interrupt you. No Adware! No Spyware! No support! ;) (Windows XP)
Download (669 kB)

SuperEdi
Version 3.7, release date: April 1, 2005
SuperEdi is a text editor with syntax coloring and build-in FTP client. The build-in directory tree helps you locate files quickly without opening the Windows Explorer. Context sensitive information is available via keyword lookup in any Windows help file. The editor is extendable using executable programs, text clips and automation scripts. SuperEdi supports Unicode UTF-8, UTF-16 as well as many locale- specific encodings.
Screenshot | Download (1.18 MB)

XP SysPad
Version 6.0.5.9.4, release date: April 22, 2005
XP SysPad is a launcher which makes access to Windows system utilities its specialty. All of the prime Windows system info and utilites such as the individual control panel applets, can be launched with the click of one button, which makes it easier than hunting around the explorer pane or waiting for menus to fold out. For convenience, it also can minimize itself to the system tray. It launches over 145 functions in all!
The program is very small with a minute memory footprint, and makes no changes to your system registry whatsoever and comes with uninstaller. So, if for any reason you are unhappy with this program, just run the uninstaller. Hope you find it useful!
Download (723 kB)

March 2005