Top 10 Freeware - September 2008

Top 10 Freeware
(September 2008)

Programs listed alphabetically

Coollector
Version 2.22, release date: September 25, 2008
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 (16.4 MB)

Fact200
Version 1.10, release date: September 1, 2008
Fact200 is both an Internet search client and a news feed reader that concentrates on finding, sifting, and browsing information while filtering out noise and junk. It is ideal for browsing through massive amounts of web pages (e.g., browsing news feeds) or for researching esoteric subjects.
Features:
Pre-Fetching
Ensures that web pages actually exist and downloads them in parallel. Pre-fetched data also feeds into the preview, index, and library mechanisms.
Previews
Pre-rendered previews allow you to quickly view web pages through hover browsing or slideshows and to view thumbnails of any size.
Indexing
Web pages are indexed (with support for non-latin based languages) so that they can be easily retrieved or sub-filtered.
Library
Stores web pages along with their previews on your computer for quick retrieval, portability, independence, and privacy.
Customizable Sources
Allows you to query or retrieve web pages from a variety of sources including search engines, usenet, and RSS feeds.
Real-Time filtering
Results will appear as you type when searching through the Libary providing a more fluid search experience that allows for more experimentation.
Real-time term suggestions
Allows you to find the correct spellings, misspellings, or variations that will yield results.
Unicode support
Search in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Russian or any other language that Windows supports!
No Frills
Cookies, ActiveX, and javascript are disabled to prevent tracking, malware, and popup ads from interfering with the search experience.
Personalized Search
Search history, favorites, and browsing patterns are all stored to provide a personalized search experience. All data is stored on your computer/disk and never transmitted over the Internet to maintain privacy.
Sorting
Sort web pages by last viewed date, content date, load dates, or score.
Saving
Save result sets to preserve a specific list of web pages.
Screenshot | Download (453 kB)

FastStone Image Viewer
Version 3.6, release date: September 15, 2008
FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG).
Screenshot | Download (zip 4.0 MB)

HTTrack
Version 3.43, release date: September 28, 2008
HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.
Screenshot | Download (3556 kB)

IObit SmartDefrag
Version 1.0, release date: September 9, 2008
What’s the primary cause of slow/unstable PC performance? It’s disk fragmentation. Smart Defrag helps defragment your hard drives more efficiently than any other product on the market - free or not.
Features of this powerful, award-winning defragmenter program include:
- An 'Install It and Forget It' feature that works automatically and quietly in the background on your computer.
- The ability to constantly keep your hard drive safe, error-free and running at its top speed and optimum performance.
- Eliminates slow downs, freeze-ups and crashes.
- Smart Defrag is 100% FREE award-winning software that’s for personal, home and small business.
- 100% safe from any spyware, adware and virus.
- Designed for Windows Vista, XP, and 2000.
- Distribute it freely, copy it, or include it as part of a package - as long as it is left completely intact and unchanged.

NetSetMan
Version 2.5.0, release date: September 10, 2008
Are you tired of changing your network configuration every day on your notebook or computer?
The same procedure every day?
On the go : changing..., at home: changing..., at the Internet café: changing..., visiting a friend: changing...
Then NetSetMan is your solution. It will do the work for you.
(Non-Commercial Freeware)
Screenshot | Download (1359 kB)

Orbit Downloader
Version 2.7.6, release date: September 19, 2008
Orbit is an indispensable tool for download acceleration. It based on P2P downloading techonology and support HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, MMS and RTSP protocol. It is a light-weight, powerful and easy-to-use application.
Orbit can download Flash videos, including stuff from Youtube, Google, MySpace, MetaCafe, DailyMotion, etc. And Orbit support downloading files from RapidShare.com.
Orbit was written with efficiency in mind -- typically using less than 3MB of memory, allowing you to use the computer as if it weren't there at all. Additionally, the program itself is less than 3.2MB in size.
When hover your mouse on the flash or streaming media file in the webpage, Orbit can apperceive the flash or streaming media automatically and display a small button on it. You can download the flash or streaming media file with the small button easily.
Screenshot | Download (2253 kB)

PC Wizard 2008
Version 1.86, release date: September 21, 2008
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 (2924 kB)

SeaMonkey
Version 1.1.12, release date: September 23, 2008
Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple -- all your Internet needs in one application.
Download (13 MB)

Stellarium
Version 0.10, release date: September 23, 2008
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
Screenshot | Download (39.8 MB)

August 2008