Top 10 Freeware - July 2009

Top 10 Freeware
(July 2009)

Programs listed alphabetically

Axence NetTools Pro
Version 4.0, release date: July 24, 2009
NetTools is a free and comprehensive set of host monitoring, network scanning, security and administration tools, all with a highly intuitive user interface.
Screenshot | Download (10.5 MB)

Best CashBook
Version 4.05, release date: July 30, 2009
Best CashBook is a blessing for cash management. Based on [cash + deposits - cards = net cash], it treats cash, deposits, credit cards and other financial accounts as one to give an insight of incomings, outgoings and fund changes. It will be very simple and easy to use once you overcome learning the entry principles. Developers can utilize its miraculous formula and frame when they develop their own software.
Screenshot | Download (4393 kB)

CCleaner
Version 2.22, release date: July 28, 2009
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner.
Screenshot | Download (1010 kB slim)

Coollector
Version 2.45, release date: July 28, 2009
Coollector is at the same time powerful and easy to use.
Even the non-geeky users will immediately harness the power of the program.
Coollector is both an encyclopedia of movies and series, and a database of existing videos.
You track not only the videos you own, but also all the movies you've seen, good or bad.
Contrary to other movie collection managers, you don't start with some dull empty database.
The whole encyclopedia is included with the program... you download... you have it all !
You can rate the movies and persons. You easily maintain a wish list.
You keep track of the videos you own, as well as those you've loaned.
There's price information, and tools to help you find the best bargains.
You can search the database in all possible ways.
The encyclopedia gets personalized with your personal collection and your ratings.
In the end, it reflects your whole cinematographic culture and taste.
Screenshot | Download (17.4 MB)

CPU-Z
Version 1.52, release date: July 20, 2009
CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.
CPU:
- Name and number.
- Core stepping and process.
- Package.
- Core voltage.
- Internal and external clocks, clock multiplier.
- Supported instructions sets.
- Cache information.
Mainboard:
- Vendor, model and revision.
- BIOS model and date.
- Chipset (northbridge and southbridge) and sensor.
- Graphic interface.
Memory:
- Frequency and timings.
- Module(s) specification using SPD (Serial Presence Detect) : vendor, serial number, timings table.
System:
- Windows and DirectX version.
Download (2.4 MB)

HeliosPaint
Version 1.3.9, release date: July 8, 2009
HeliosPaint is a freeware paint program for creating and editing images. Includes pencil, line tool, paint brush, spray can. Paint can with fill sensitivity. Shape tool for creating freehand, regular polygon and star shapes. Text entry with choice of font, style, underline and rotation. HSB/RGB/contrast adjustment. Image invert, gray, blur and sharpen. Image colour and brightness adjustment by gradients. Image flip, scale up, scale down, rotate, shear and perspective. Full colour pallet with transparency. Scissors, lasso and wand for selecting and moving image segments. Undo and redo. Printing with auto page fit. Reads and writes bmp, gif, jpeg, pict, pcx, pgm, png, ppm, psd, ras, tga, tiff, xpm.
Requires Java.
Screenshot | Download (1091 kB)

PSPad Editor
Version 4.5.4, release date: July 12, 2009
PSPad editor is freeware programmer editor, usable for people who:
- work with various programming environments
- like highlighted syntax in code
- need a small tool with simple controls and the capabilities of a mighty code editor
- looking for a tool to work with plain text
- want to save money and still have the functionality of professional products
Screenshot | Download (4.2 MB)

SIV
Version 4.00, release date: July 14, 2009
SIV (System Information Viewer) is a general Windows utility for displaying lots of useful Windows, Network and hardware info - CPU info, PCI info, PCMCIA info, USB info, Machine Info, Hardware Sensors, Networked computers, Operating System Information and more. I use Craig Hart's pcidevs.txt file for my PCI device display with my usbdevs.txt being used for the USB devices, mondevs.txt for monitor descriptions and pcmdevs.txt for PCMCIA device descriptions. SIV is designed for Windows XP/Vista/2003/2K/NT4. Windows 95, 98 and Me are also supported.
Screenshot | Download (1.6 MB)

Tux Paint
Version 0.9.21, release date: July 4, 2009
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 (10 MB)

Unstoppable Copier
Version 4.2, release date: July 31, 2009
Recovers files from disks with physical damage. Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made useable even if some parts of the file were not recoverable in the end.
Screenshot | Download (87 kB)

June 2009