Top 10 Freeware - July 2005

Top 10 Freeware
(July 2005)

Programs listed alphabetically

Amaya
Version 9.2.1, release date: July 12, 2005
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.
Screenshot | Download (5.8 MB)

Copernic Desktop Search
Version 1.6, release date: July 26, 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 (2763 kB)

CCleaner
Version 1.21.130, release date: July 12, 2005
CCleaner is a freeware system optimisation tool. That removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing it to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it's fast! (normally taking less that a second to run) and Free. (Windows 98/NT4/ME/2000/XP/2003)
Screenshot | Download (473 kB)

FileMon
Version 7.01, release date: July 27, 2005
FileMon monitors and displays file system activity on a system in real-time. Its advanced capabilities make it a powerful tool for exploring the way Windows works, seeing how applications use the files and DLLs, or tracking down problems in system or application file configurations. Filemon's timestamping feature will show you precisely when every open, read, write or delete, happens, and its status column tells you the outcome. FileMon is so easy to use that you'll be an expert within minutes. It begins monitoring when you start it, and its output window can be saved to a file for off-line viewing. It has full search capability, and if you find that you're getting information overload, simply set up one or more filters.

Firefox
Version 1.0.6, release date: July 19, 2005
Mozilla Firefox project is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages over other web browsers, such as the tabbed browsing and the ability to block pop-up windows. Firefox is the most customizable browser on the planet. Customize your toolbars to add additional buttons, install new Extensions that add new features, add new Themes to browse with style, and use the adaptive search system to allow you to search an infinite number of engines. Firefox is as big or small as you want.
Download (4.7 MB)

HTMLAsText
Version 1.04, release date: July 23, 2005
HTMLAsText utility converts HTML documents to simple text files, by removing all HTML tags and formatting the text according to your preferences.
Screenshot | Download (28 kB)

MediaMan
Version 2.2.1, release date: July 29, 2005
MediaMan let you create and organize your own media catalog for free. MediaMan is capable of managing all kinds of media in your collection, including books, DVDs, CDs, VHS tapes, software and game titles.
Import items to your collection by downloading information from Amazon United States, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Canada, and France. Use the webcam barcode scanner to make the process even faster. Item status management let you keep an eye on the lent items, and never pay extra for the rented ones. All items can be divided and re-divided into nested categories according to your wish. And finally, the collection can be exported for printing or synchronizing with your PDAs. (Win XP/2K)
Screenshot | Download MediaMan (last freeware version) (5.12 MB)

RegScanner
Version 1.20, release date: July 29, 2005
RegScanner is a small utility that allows you to scan the Registry, find the desired Registry values that match to the specified search criteria, and display them in one list. After finding the Registry values, you can easily jump to the right value in RegEdit, simply by double-clicking the desired Registry item.
Screenshot | Download (45 kB)

TaskSwitchXP Pro
Version 2.0.7, release date: July 27, 2005
TaskSwitchXP is an advanced task management utility that picks up where the standard Windows Alt+Tab switcher leaves off. It provides the same functionality, and adds visual styles to the dialog and also enhances it by displaying thumbnail preview of the application that will be switched to. TaskSwitchXP also has a powerful process and window management capability that allows you quickly to close/minimize applications and their groups. The unique capabilities of TaskSwitchXP make it useful for tracking down multitudinous windows, and provide insight into the way Windows and applications work. TaskSwitchXP works only on Windows XP/2003 based operating systems.
Screenshot | Download (153 kB)

Winguard Pro 2005 Free Edition
Version 5.8.4, release date: July 27, 2005
With Win-Guard Pro 2005 you can password protect your programs, windows and web pages in one easy to use program. It lets you lock features of your system so that nobody can use them while you are away. The program lets you specify a password and then choose from a variety of options - what features to lock, for example, the find tool, backing up, desktop, etc. All the options are listed within one window and they are self-explaining, so there is no need to wade your way through dozens of sub-folders and weird registry key values.
Download (650 kB)

June 2005