Top 10 Freeware - June 2005

Top 10 Freeware
(June 2005)

Programs listed alphabetically

Belarc Advisor
Version 7.0p, release date: June 24, 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.
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Blender
Version 2.37a, release date: June 15, 2004
Blender, the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for Windows, Linux, Irix, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD or Mac OS X.
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CatsCradle
Version 3, release date: June 8, 2005
Fast and easy to use web page editor for professional language translators. Translate whole web-sites without having to worry about page layouts and HTML code.
CatsCradle grabs all the text that requires translating from a web page, puts it into a built in editor for you to translate alongside, then automatically integrates your translated text back into the web page - leaving all the sensitive HTML code untouched. To check all's going smoothly you can instantly preview your work in progress in a web browser at the click of a button. There’s even a real-time view where you can see the web page evolving as you translate
Designed for translators, CatsCradle is also an ideal tool for webmasters who want to edit the text content of existing web pages. Additionally, built in support for .hhc & .hhk files means it can also be used to translate .chm help files.
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FastStone Image Viewer
Version 2.12, release date: June 10, 2005
FastStone Image Viewer is an image browser, viewer, converter and editor with an easy to use interface and a nice array of features that include resizing, renaming, cropping, color adjustments, watermarks and more. It also includes an intuitive full-screen mode that provides quick access to EXIF information and thumbnail browser via hidden toolbars that emerge when you touch the edge of your screen with the mouse. Other features include a high quality magnifier and built-in slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image frames, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA.
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FlashGot
Version 0.5.9.6, release date: June 9, 2005
FlashGot is a free Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird extension, meant to handle single and massive (all and selection) downloads with several external Download Managers (FlashGet, Free Download Manager, Fresh Download, GetRight, HiDownload, InstantGet, Internet Download Accelerator, LeechGet, Mass Downloader, Net Transport, NetAnts, ReGet, Star Downloader, Thunder, TrueDownloader, Download Master, WellGet).
FlashGot turns every supported download manager in a download manager for Firefox!
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Free Download Manager
Version 1.8, release date: June 7, 2005
Using the power of this free download manager and accelerator you can retrieve files and complete websites up to 600% faster than before. It utilizes the entire 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, Mozilla, Netscape and FireFox, simultaneous downloading from several mirrors, adjusting traffic usage, ZIP file and audio/video preview, powerful scheduler, antivirus integration, adjusting traffic usage, resuming downloads, browsing web and ftp folders and more...
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Nero CD-DVD Speed
Version 4.0, release date: June 10, 2005
CD-DVD Speed is a CD-ROM and DVD benchmark which can test the most important features of a CD-DVD drive.
Tests include:
- Transfer rate
- Seek times
- CPU usage
- Burst rate
- DAE quality
- Spinup/spindown time...
Screenshot | Download (521 kB)

Nullsoft Installation System
Version 2.07, release date: June 20, 2005
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a tool that allows programmers to create such installers for Windows. It is released under an open source license and is completely free for any use.
NSIS can create Windows installers that are capable of installing, uninstalling, setting system settings, extracting files, etc. Because NSIS is based on script files, you can create both simple or advanced installers.
NSIS is created to be small, fast and and efficient. While other installers often add hundreds of kilobytes or several megeabytes to your installer data, a full featured NSIS installer has an overhead of only 34 KB.
Screenshot | Download (1322 kB)

NVU
Version 1.0, release date: June 28, 2005
A complete Web Authoring System for Linux Desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver.
Nvu (pronounced N-view, for a "new view") makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.
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Process Explorer
Version 9.12, release date: June 15, 2005
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.
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May 2005