Top 10 Freeware - August 2009

Top 10 Freeware
(August 2009)

Programs listed alphabetically

Arachnophilia
Version 5.4.2395, release date: August 27, 2009
Arachnophilia is a powerful programming editor with some special HTML production and editing features. With it, you can:
- Create HTML pages using a suite of powerful tools.
- Upload your Web site to your Internet service provider using Arachnophilia's built-in FTP service.
- Fully customize Arachnophilia's menus, toolbars and keyboard commands. Arachnophilia lets you create or remove any commands, toolbars, or menus you want to.
- Beautify, and analyze the structure of, your Web pages, so they will be more likely to be error-free and work correctly with more browsers.
- Create working environments for many kinds of programming tasks using Arachnophilia's fully customizable menus and toolbars.
Screenshot | Download (1684 kB)

CDBurnerXP
Version 4.2.5, release date: August 14, 2009
CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.
Features:
- burn all kinds of discs
- audio-CDs with or without gaps between tracks
- burn and create ISO files
- data verification after burning process
- create bootable discs
- multi-language interface
- bin/nrg - ISO converter, simple cover printing and much more!
Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
Screenshot | Download (3.1 MB)

Defraggler
Version 1.13, release date: August 21, 2009
Defraggler is a free file defragmentation tool from the makers of CCleaner and Recuva. It differs from other defrag tools on the market, by enabling you to quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to process the whole drive. Simply run it, select the file and defragment in seconds. No more struggling with the Windows defragmentation tool.
Screenshot | Download (871 kB)

FuturixImager
Version 5.9.4, release date: August 29, 2009
FuturixImager is a compact and customizable image viewer. It is capable of opening more then 50 file types, including all most popular ones (GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, JPEG2000, raw, DNG). Imager can also print, scan, perform basic editing operations, make screenshots, show camera metadata, import raw camera photos, generate histograms, and much more!

Miranda IM
Version 0.8.5, release date: August 26, 2009
Miranda IM is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Windows. Very light on system resources and extremely fast, Miranda IM requires no installation and can be made to fit on a single floppy disk or USB drive. Featuring a powerful plugin-based framework and boasting over 350 plugins, Miranda IM is one of the most flexible and customisable messaging clients on the planet.
Protocol Support: AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), Gadu-Gadu, IAX (Inter-Asterisk Exchange), ICQ, IRC (Internet Relay Chat), Jabber, MSN, Netsend, Tlen, Yahoo, And more...
OS: Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / 2003 / XP / Vista / 7
Screenshot | Download (1679 kB)

Networx
Version 5.0.2, release date: August 23, 2009
NetWorx is a simple and free, yet powerful tool that helps you objectively evaluate your bandwidth situation. You can use it to collect bandwidth usage data and measure the speed of your Internet or any other network connection. NetWorx can help you identify possible sources of network problems, ensure that you do not exceed the bandwidth limits specified by your ISP, or track down suspicious network activity characteristic of Trojan horses and hacker attacks.
The program allows you to monitor all your network connections or a specific network connection (such as Ethernet or PPP) only. The software also features a system of highly customizable visual and sound alerts. You can set it up to alert you when the network connection is down or when some suspicious activity, such as unusually heavy data flow, occurs. It can also automatically disconnect all dialup connections and shut down the system.
Screenshot | Download (portable 1172 kB)

PC Wizard 2009
Version 1.90, release date: August 20, 2009
PC WIZARD 2008 is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis. It's able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. PC WIZARD 2008 is also an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, Cache performance, RAM performance, Hard Disk performance, CD/DVD-ROM performance, Removable/FLASH Media performance, Video performance, MP3 compression performance.
Screenshot | Download (4890 kB)

Secunia PSI
Version 1.5.0.1, release date: August 24, 2009
The Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) detects installed software and categorises your software as either Insecure, End-of-Life, or Up-To-Date. Effectively enabling you to focus your attention on software installations where more secure versions are available from the vendors.
Detects and advises on more than 4,200 applications!
Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
The PSI is only free for private use.
Screenshot | Download (700 kB)

Treepad Lite
Version 4.2, release date: August 23, 2009
TreePad Lite is a very intuitive, small yet powerful personal database program, only 465 Kb in size. They allow you to store all your notes, emails, texts, hyperlinks, etc. into one or multiple databases. With the look and feel of the familiar Windows explorer, editing, storing, browsing, searching and retrieving your data can not be easier! TreePad can be run directly from a floppy, if necessary, including data. To find any article you previously created or imported, you can browse the tree, in the same way as you browse directories/folders in the Windows explorer. You can also use the internal search engine to find any piece of information swiftly.
Screenshot | Download (1055 kB)

UnderCoverXP
Version 1.22, release date: August 22, 2009
UndercoverXP is a free program to easily print CD and DVD covers. It supports JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP formats and can automatically scale front covers, back covers, front + inside, inlays, DVD Boxes, Digital Pictures and CD/DVD labels to the correct sizes. Other formats can be easily added via a graphical format editor. UnderCoverXP is written in C++ using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and doesn't need a .NET framework or any other external libraries. UnderCoverXP is available in 25 languages.
Download (portable 806 kB)

July 2009