Top 10 Freeware - August 2010

Top 10 Freeware
(August 2010)

Programs listed alphabetically

Best CashBook
Version 4.31, release date: August 25, 2010
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 (4.36 MB)

Calendar Magic
Version 17.6, release date: August 30, 2010
Calendar Magic is a feature packed calendar tool that supports a variety of date calculations, specialized calendars, alarm reminders, as well as calculators, unit conversions and more. It also includes a pregnancy due date calculator, an option to look up the current time in various parts of the world, a global distance calculator and other mathematical toys. You can even generate a report that will provide you with interesting (calendar) details about your life and biorhythm. Other features include calendar comparison, time between dates, observed holidays, religious festivals, sun/moon data and more. Calendar Magic supports multiple languages and calendar systems and all results can be printed.
Screenshot | Download (2.8 MB)

Glary Utilities
Version 2.27, release date: August 5, 2010
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 (portable 7.7 MB)

HeliosPaint
Version 1.4.4, release date: August 27, 2010
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 (1.56 MB)

Iconoid
Version 3.8.6, release date: August 21, 2010
Iconoid is a small program that helps reduce the clutter and confusion of the Windows desktop. With Iconoid you can:
- Automatically hide and display desktop icons
- Remove the colored box behind icon text
- Automatically set the colored box behind the text to an optimal color for your desktop picture
- Quickly and easily minimize all of the windows on your screen
- Save and restore the positions of icons
- Insure that icons do not move when you change screen resolutions
- Save icon locations for each screen resolution individually
Screenshot | Download (590 kB)

Inkscape
Version 0.48, release date: August 23, 2010
Inkscape is an open source SVG editor with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc. Supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, node editing, svg-to-png export, grouping, and more.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully XML, SVG, and CSS2 compliant SVG drawing tool. Additional planned work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and establishment of a friendly, open, community-oriented development processes.
Screenshot | Download (34.4 MB portable)

MiTeC InfoDesk
Version 7.7.0, release date: August 18, 2010
Versatile tool not only for programmers but also for ordinary users!
Screenshot | Download (1.25 MB)

SE-MediaPlayer
Version 1.7.2, release date: August 10, 2010
Features:
- A single player for audio, video, flash files, CDs and DVDs
- Support of all modern multimedia file formats
- Embedded media library with powerful filtering feature
- Customizable view with lots of compact mode skins
- Build-in audio and video codecs management utility
- Clear multilingual interface: English, Deutsch and Russian
- Portable version is available.
Screenshot | Download (portable: 10 MB)

SiteMonitor
Version 1.70, release date: August 28, 2010
SiteMonitor is a tool to monitor your websites/hosts at regular intervals and notifies you when they are down.
Screenshot | Download (66 kB)

Speccy
Version 1.04, release date: August 23, 2010
Speccy is an advanced System Information tool for your PC. At first glance, Speccy may seem like an application for system administrators and power users. It certainly is, but Speccy can also help normal users, in everyday computing life.
Screenshot | Download (3.2 MB portable)

July 2010