Top 10 Freeware - July 2008

Top 10 Freeware
(July 2008)

Programs listed alphabetically

AbiWord
Version 2.6.4, release date: July 14, 2008
AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to MS Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, etc. It is designed to integrate perfectly with the operating system it runs on. It will take advantage of the functionality provided by the system, such as image loading or printing capabilities.
Screenshot | Download (5.9 MB)

AM-DeadLink
Version 3.3, release date: July 14, 2008
AM-DeadLink detects dead links and duplicates in browser bookmarks and text files. If a bookmark has become unavailable you can verify and delete it permanently. Additionally you can download FavIcons for all your Favorites and Bookmarks.
AM-DeadLink can check the following resources:
- Internet Explorer Favorites
- Firefox bookmarks
- Opera bookmarks
- Mozilla and Netscape bookmarks
- URLs from tab delimited text files
- URLs from comma separated text files
OS: Windows 9x/Me/NT4/2000/2003/XP/Vista
Download (1167 kB)

BonkEnc
Version 1.0.6, release date: July 26, 2008
BonkEnc is a CD ripper, audio encoder and converter for various formats. It can produce MP3, MP4/M4A, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Bonk and FLAC files. More formats are available through plug-ins. It makes it easy to convert your audio CDs to MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files which you can use in your hardware player or with your favorite audio software. The program supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database and CDText and automatically writes song information to ID3V2 or Vorbis comment tags.
Screenshot | Download (2937 kB zip)

FormatFactory
Version 1.40, release date: July 29, 2008
FormatFactory is a multifunctional media converter.
Provides functions below:
- All to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF.
- All to MP3//WMA/MMF/AMR/OGG/M4A/WAV.
- All to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/....
- Rip DVD to video file.
- MP4 files support iPod/iPhone/PSP/BlackBerry format.
- Source files support RMVB.
FormatFactory's Feature:
1. support converting all popular video,audio,picture formats to others.
2. Repair damaged video and audio file.
3. Reducing Multimedia file size.
4. Support iphone,ipod multimedia file formats.
5. Picture converting supports Zoom,Rotate/Flip,tags.
6. DVD Ripper.
Screenshot | Download (14.5 MB)

IrfanView
Version 4.00, release date: July 16, 2008
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2k/XP/2003/Vista
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 (portable 1147 kB)

Tiny USB Office
Version 1.2, release date: July 21, 2008
Tiny USB Office, which replaces the former FloppyOffice package, is an improved version of the small, portable productivity software suite which offers a collection of unique standalone free software applications. If you find yourself working on different machines and like the idea of having portable software that you can access hassle-free from any computer, then this is the package for you. Whether you need to create rich-text word processing documents, share files across multiple computers, transfer files, create MS Excel compatible spreadsheets, comma-delimited database files, email your contacts, talk to your friends or co-workers on MSN, create pdf files, or securely encrypt or delete files - this is the perfect software package for you!
Download (2822 kB)

Total Organizer
Version 2.41, release date: July 17, 2008
Total Organizer is a Personal Information Manager software that allows you to store all of your contacts, tasks, notes, and to-do lists divided into tree-structured categories. What's unique about the app is that each item (be it a note, task, contact etc) may belong to several categories (tags).
Screenshot | Download (1.3 MB)

Tux Paint
Version 0.9.20, release date: July 5, 2008
Tux Paint is an easy-to-use drawing program for kids ages 3 and up. It includes bright colors, fun sound effects and a helpful cartoon mascot. An add-on collection of 'stamps' provides over 200 images which can be pasted into drawings. Tux Paint is completely free, Open Source software, which runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and has been translated into nearly 70 languages!
Screenshot | Download (11.8 MB)

UltraShredder
Version 4.6, release date: July 8, 2008
UltraShredder is a standalone, USB portable file shredder which deletes sensitive files by overwriting them with random characters, saving it to disk each time, and then bypasses the recycle bin, thus acting as your personal, portable file shredder. If the file were to be recovered by a data recovery program, they would only be able to see unintelligible characters on disk where the file used to be. The program is a great tool to destroy sensitive data, and is very small with a minute memory footprint, and makes no changes to your system whatsoever.
Download (262 kB)

VLC media player
Version 0.8.6i, release date: July 12, 2008
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 (9.1 MB)

June 2008