Top 10 Freeware - April 2009

Top 10 Freeware
(April 2009)

Programs listed alphabetically

AppCompactor
Version 1.1, release date: April 23, 2009
PortableApps.com AppCompactor allows you to easily compress application to decrease size on disk and increase performance when running from a slow media (like flash drives). It features:
- Proven UPX binary compressor
- 7-Zip compression of archives
- Multiple compression levels
- Automatic testing of compressed files
- Automatic skipping of <4k files (saves no space)
- Compression of DLL, EXE, ZIP, JAR, IRC, PYD and BINs in all directories
- Automatically skip launcher if selecting PortableApps.com Format apps' base directory
- Saving up to 50% or more installed space of many apps
- Faster application starts from flash drives
Screenshot | Download (705 kB)

Clipboardic
Version 1.10, release date: April 6, 2009
Clipboardic is a small utility that listen to the clipboard activity, and each time that you copy something into the clipboard, it automatically save the copied data into Windows clipboard file (.clp). Later, when you need the copied data again, you can simply select the right clipboard file, and Clipboardic will automatically insert it into the clipboard.
Clipboardic also allows you to easily share the clipboard data between multiple computers on your local network.
Screenshot | Download (37 kB)

Dirhtml
Version 4.84, release date: April 26, 2009
Dirhtml builds customizable html files from a folder branch using the gui or command line.
Sample generated files: (gray, green, blue with white borders, background image with graphic caption, two columns).
Dirhtml runs on Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista and via Wine on most Linux distributions.
Screenshot | Download (454 kB)

Execian
Version 1.0.0, release date: April 8, 2009
Execian executes documents one by one with an application. If no application is specified, the default action on each document is performed. This application helps you, for example, to compress files separately, to uncompress a large number of files, and to open text files successively. Compared to traditional batch files, tasks can be paused/resumed and execution results are automatically marked with error reasons.
Screenshot | Download (398 kB)

FastStone Image Viewer
Version 3.8, release date: April 28, 2009
FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG).
Screenshot | Download (zip 4.8 MB)

FeedReader
Version 3.14, release date: April 19, 2009
FeedReader is a lightweight open-source aggregator that supports RSS and ATOM formats.
Features:
· Supports all major syndication formats: RSS 0.9, 0.91, 0.92, 1.00, 2.0 plus Dublin core and Slashback extensions
· Pre-configured with hundred of quality feeds from leading syndicators such as NewsIsFree and Moreover
· Alerts about incoming feeds on taskbar
· Caches headlines for offline viewing
· Supports proxies
· Allows one-click subscription of Radio Userland and AmphetaDesk feeds
· Search support
· Multilanguage support
· OPML import and export.
Screenshot | Download (zip 6.05 MB)

HxD
Version 1.7.7.0, release date: April 3, 2009
HxD is a carefully designed and fast hex editor including raw disk editing, modifying foreign RAM and handling files of any size. Its clear interface offers searching/replacing, exporting, checksums/digests, insertion of byte patterns, a file shredder, concatenation or splitting of files, statistics and more.
Editing works like in a text editor with functions streamlined to hide differences that are purely technical. For example you can view a drive just as one stream, can open it under Windows 9x or Windows NT+, undo, search, save, export or whatever you could do with a file. There is no sector-limited editing that gets in your way. The same holds true for the file size (also > 4 GB), which doesn't affect editing speed and still supports undo. Or have a look at the RAM-editor that supports data-folding on every memory section and hides by default inaccessible memory, for a better overview but keeps the real offsets.
Screenshot | Download (852 kB)

RIOT (Radical Image Optimization Tool)
Version 0.3.2, release date: April 9, 2009
Saving images for web/email/other media with the best compression ratio and quality is a difficult task if you don't have the right tools. Choosing the right format then choosing the right parameters are the key factors of smaller files. Previewing the resulting image and the projected filesize will help the user choose the best settings. This kind of image optimization software is often called 'Save for web'.
Features:
- open multiple graphic file formats by looking first at the magic number (it does not need file extension to recognize format)including support for uncommon images types (up to 128 BPP, integer and floating point. EX: hdr images, 16 bit grayscale, etc). Adaptive logarithmic tone mapping algorithm (Drago) used for HDR images.
- save and optimize JPEG, GIF and PNG with a simple, clean user interface.
- works in dual view: (original - optimized image) or single view (optimized image). Automatic preview of resulting image.
- compress files to desired filesize threshold.
- fast processing (all is done in memory); see instant results including resulting filesize.
- decide if you want to keep metadata (comments, IPTC, Adobe XMP, EXIF profiles, ICC profiles).
- common tools: pan and zoom, rotate, flip.
- resize image by using well known resample filters (ex: Lanczos3, Catmull Rom, Bicubic, and others).
- in-place compare function (alternativelly display the original image over the optimized image to notice small pixel changes).
- the compression and the results are comparable to those of commercial products.
Screenshot | Download (zip 861 kB)

VLC media player
Version 0.9.9, release date: April 2, 2009
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 (16 MB)

Xenu's Link Sleuth
Version 1.3c, release date: April 25, 2009
Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on "normal" links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time.
Screenshot | Download (405 kB)

March 2009