Top 10 Freeware - July 2010

Top 10 Freeware
(July 2010)

Programs listed alphabetically

1by1
Version 1.70, release date: July 7, 2010
Tired of creating and updating playlists? 1by1 is a small, fast and handy player which is not only small: It provides powerful tools to handle your file collection and listen to your tracks.
Directory Player (needs no playlists) · Extensive file navigation · Full resume play (remembers last track and position) · ACM (mp3) and mpglib (mp3/mp2) support · Winamp input plugin support · Audio dynamics and stereo enhancer · Gapless/track mixing · Directory finder (plays whole drives) · Cue sheet support · Playlist support · Favorites
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BonkEnc
Version 1.0.15, release date: July 27, 2010
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.
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CPU-Z
Version 1.55, release date: July 9, 2010
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.
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HWiNFO32
Version 3.56, release date: July 27, 2010
A powerful system information tool for Windows.
- Comprehensive hardware information
- System health monitoring (Thermal, Voltage, Fan, Power)
- Basic benchmarks
- Text, CSV, XML, HTML, MHTML report formats
- Periodical updates
- OS: Windows 9x/2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista/Server 2008/Windows 7
- Platform: 32-bit (IA-32), 64-bit (x64, IA-64)
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Notepad++
Version 5.7, release date: July 5, 2010
Notepad++ is a free source editor (supported languages : c, c++, java, html, xml, php, javascript, makefile, asp, VB, SQL, Objective-C...) with the syntax highlighting and syntax folding. It gives also the extra functionality to the general user : colourise the user defined words. You can print your source code in color (or whatever you want) if you have a color printer (WYSIWYG). Furthermore, Notepad++ have the multi-view feature, that allows user to edit the different document in the same time, and even to edit the same document synchronizely in 2 different views. Notepad++ support the fully drag and drop : not only you can drop the file from explorer to open it, but also you can drag and drop a document from a view to another. With all the functionalities, Notepad++ runs as fast as Notepad provided by MS Windows.
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Q-Dir
Version 4.31, release date: July 9, 2010
Q-Dir makes your files and folder easy to manage.
Fast and easy access, with an amazing Quadro-View technique.
You don't have to renounce the usual, Drag and Drop, all Views, and other functions of your system.
No! Q-Dir gives you other nice functions, that make you happy.
One can save many hand moves and also time!
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SearchMyFiles
Version 1.50, release date: July 20, 2010
SearchMyFiles is an alternative to the standard 'Search For Files And Folders' module of Windows. It allows you to easily search files in your system by wildcard, by last modified/created/last accessed time, by file attributes, by file content (text or binary search), and by the file size. SearchMyFiles allows you to make a very accurate search that cannot be done with Windows search. For Example: You can search all files created in the last 10 minutes with size between 500 and 700 bytes.
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SoftPerfect Network Scanner
Version 4.4.8, release date: July 17, 2010
SoftPerfect Network Scanner is a free multi-threaded IP, NetBIOS and SNMP scanner with a modern interface and several advanced features. It is intended for both system administrators and general users who are interested in computer security. The program pings computers, scans for listening TCP ports and displays which types of resources are shared on the network (including system and hidden).
In addition, it allows you to mount shared folders as network drives, browse them using Windows Explorer, filter the results list and more. SoftPerfect Network Scanner can also check for a user-defined port and report back if one is open. It can also resolve host names and auto-detect your local and external IP range. It supports remote shutdown and Wake-On-LAN.
FEATURES:
- Pings computers.
- Detects hardware (MAC) addresses even across routers.
- Detects hidden shared resources (normally invisible on the network) and write accessible shares.
- Scans for listening TCP ports and SNMP services.
- You can mount and explore network resources.
- Doesn't require administrative privileges.
- Supports Wake-On-LAN and remote shutdown.
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WinSCP
Version 4.2.8, release date: July 14, 2010
WinSCP is freeware SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) and SCP (Secure CoPy) client for Windows using SSH (Secure Shell). Its main purpose is safe copying files between local and remote computer. Beyond this basic function, it manages some other actions with files. It can do all basic operations with files, such as copying and moving. It also allows you to rename files and folders, create new folders, change properties of files and folders. One of two selectable program interfaces allows user to manage files even on local computer. Most operations can be done recursively for files in folders.
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Xinorbis
Version 5.0.1, release date: July 25, 2010
Xinorbis is a simple but powerful hard disk analyser. Using a sophisticated mix of graphs, tables and tree displays, it gives the user a complete overview of the contents of a hard disk (or directory). It makes it easy to see the contents, structure and file distribution and file composition of a whole hard disk, directory, or mapped network drive. Includes full report creation.
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June 2010