Top 10 Freeware - August 2008

Top 10 Freeware
(August 2008)

Programs listed alphabetically

1by1
Version 1.65, release date: August 28, 2008
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
Download (115 kB)

Dirhtml
Version 4.831, release date: August 28, 2008
Dirhtml builds customizable html files from a folder branch using the gui or command line.
Sample generated files: (gray, green, blue with white borders, background image with graphic caption, two columns).
Dirhtml runs on Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista and via Wine on most Linux distributions.
Screenshot | Download (424 kB)

DriveImage XML Private Edition
Version 2.01, release date: August 27, 2008
DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives.
The program allows you to:
- Backup logical drives and partitions to image files
- Browse these images, view and extract files
- Restore these images to the same or a different drive
- Copy directly from drive to drive
- Schedule automatic backups with your Task Scheduler
Screenshot | Download (1.7 MB)

Glary Utilities
Version 2.6.1, release date: August 19, 2008
Glary Utilities offers numerous powerful and easy-to-use system tools and utilities to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC.
It allows you to clean common system junk files, as well as invalid registry entries and Internet traces. You can manage and delete browser add-ons, analyze disk space usage and find duplicate files. You can also view and manage installed shell extensions, encrypt your files from unauthorized access and use, split large files into smaller manageable files and then rejoin them. Furthermore, Glary Utilities includes the options to optimize memory, find, fix, or remove broken Windows shortcuts, manage the programs that start at Windows startup and uninstall software. Other features include secure file deletion, an Empty Folder finder and more.
Screenshot | Download (5945 kB slim)

Image Analyzer
Version 1.30, release date: August 28, 2008
Advanced image editing, enhancement and analysis software. The program contains both most image enhancement features found in conventional image editors plus a number of advanced features not even available in professional photo suites.
Features:
- Automatic brightness, contrast, gamma and saturation adjustment
- Build-in conventional and adaptive filters for noise reduction, edge extraction etc.
- Deconvolution for out-of-focus and motion blur compensation
- Easy red-eye removal
- User specified filters in spatial and frequency domain
- Resize, rotate, crop and warping of images
- Scanner, camera and printer support
- File format support: Read/write BMP, ICO, CUR, WMF, EMF, PNG, MNG, GIF, PCX, JPEG and JPEG 2000 images Read RAS, PNM, PGM, PPM, HIPS and Matlab files
- Morphological operations
- Color model conversion: RGB, CMY, HSI, Lab, YCbCr, YIQ and PCA
- Distance, Fourier and discrete cosine transformation
- Math expression module for creating and transforming images and advanced "pocket" calculator with equation solver
- Plugin system for adding more specialized features.
Screenshot | Download (820 kB)

Periodic Table
Version 3.7, release date: August 24, 2008
The application contains all the elements of the Periodic Table along with images of the elements in their natural state, as well as lots of other information and interactive displays.
The periodic table now comes in three versions. They all contain the same amount of information.
Standard Version
Designed to be used on desktops set to 1024x768 or better. Contains many small images of most of the elements.
Mini Version
This version contains the same smaller images that comes with the standard version, except that it's designed to be used on desktops of 800x600.
Features:
- Detailed information on each element
- Details of isotopes and allotropes
- Details of important compounds
- Details of reactions with water, air, halogens and acids
- Images for each element (126 images in total) including valence and crystal stucture diagrams
- Glossary of terms
- Graphs of important element properties
- Biographies for the important scientists and element discoverers
- View the states of the elements at any temperature (from 0 - 6000k)
- XP style support
- Search through all content
- Electron shell diagrams of each element
- Atomic width diagram
Screenshot | Download (19.5 MB)

Recuva
Version 1.18.344, release date: August 28, 2008
Recuva (pronounced 'recover') is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!
Screenshot | Download (806 kB portable)

SIV
Version 3.33, release date: August 14, 2008
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 (1235 kB)

TXTcollector
Version 2.0.1, release date: August 15, 2008
TXTcollector grabs all .txt files from the directory of your choice and combines them into a new (larger) text file.
Features:
- Grabs all .txt files from a directory and combines them
- Puts directory-, file name and separator between each text file
- Possibility to add your own extensions and separators
- Popup list with files ready to be merged
- Able to recursively search directories
- Allows continuous merging (without Carriage Returns)
- Runs on Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/2003/XP/Vista
Screenshot | Download (679 kB)

Wavosaur
Version 1.0.3.0, release date: August 26, 2008
Wavosaur is a free sound editor, audio editor, wav editor software for editing, processing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files. Wavosaur has all the features to edit audio (cut, copy, paste, etc.) produce music loops, analyze, record, batch convert.
Wavosaur supports VST plugins, ASIO driver, multichannel wav files, real time effect processing.
The program has no installer and doesn't write in the registry. Use it as a free mp3 editor, for mastering, sound design.
Screenshot | Download (214 kB)

July 2008