Top 10 Freeware - December 2006

Top 10 Freeware
(December 2006)

Programs listed alphabetically

1by1
Version 1.59, release date: December 27, 2006
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 (102 kB)

Advanced WindowsCare 2 Personal
Version 2.3, release date: December 23, 2006
Advanced WindowsCare 2 Personal is a comprehensive PC care utility that takes an one-click approach to help protect, repair and optimize your computer. It provides an all-in-one and super convenient solution for PC maintenance and protection.
With "Install It and Forget It" feature, it works automatically and quietly in the background on your computer, constantly keeps your computer safe, error-free and running at top speed.

AutoIt
Version 3.2.2, release date: December 23, 2006
AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. It uses a combination of simulated keystrokes, mouse movement and window/control manipulation in order to automate tasks in a way not possible or reliable with other languages (e.g. VBScript and SendKeys). AutoIt is also very small, self-contained and will run on 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003 out of the box with no annoying "runtimes" required! You can even make compiled executable scripts that can run without AutoIt being installed!
AutoIt can:
- Provide a general-purpose scripting language for all Windows versions
- Simulate keystrokes (supports most keyboard layouts)
- Simulate mouse movements and clicks
- Move, resize and manipulate windows
- Interact directly with "controls" on a window (set/get text from edit controls, check boxes and radio buttons, select items in drop-down lists, etc.)
- Create complex user interfaces (GUIs)
- Work with the clipboard to cut/paste text items
- Provide a scriptable RunAs function for Windows 2000/XP/2003
Screenshot | Download (3.9 MB)

Calendar Magic
Version 16.4, release date: December 6, 2006
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 (2.12 MB)

FileMenu Tools
Version 5.0, release date: December 14, 2006
FileMenu Tools lets customize the context menu of the Windows Explorer. It lets configure the following aspects:
- Add some build-in utilities in order to do operations over files and folders.
- Add customized commands which let run external applications, copy/move to a specific folder or delete specific file types.
- Configure the "Send to..." submenu.
- Enable/disable the commands which are added by other applications to the context menu.
Screenshot | Download (3652 kB)

FlashGet
Version 1.80, release date: December 11, 2006
FlashGet is specifically designed to address two of the biggest problems when downloading files: Speed and management of downloaded files. If you've ever waited forever for your files to download from a slow connection, or been cut off mid-way through a download - or just can't keep track of your ever-growing downloads - FlashGet is for you.
FlashGet can split downloaded files into sections, downloading each section simultaneously, for an increase in downloading speed from 100% to 500%. This, coupled with FlashGet's powerful and easy-to-use management features, helps you take control of your downloads like never before.

Magic Mail Monitor
Version 2.94 b14, release date: December 22, 2006
Magic Mail Monitor (MMM) is a free POP3 mail monitor with multiple accounts support. It sits silently in your system tray, and notifies you about new messages in your mailboxes. Then you can preview messages and delete unwanted mail in order to avoid spam and viruses.
To help you fight spam, save time and traffic, MMM offers configurable filters, friends list, partial loading and other easy to use tools.
Screenshot | Download (174 kB)

Miranda IM
Version 0.6, release date: December 28, 2006
Miranda IM is a smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols. Miranda IM is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use while still providing many features including support for AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo, and more. Supplemented by hundreds of plugins and other content, Miranda IM is very flexible and provides many avenues for customisation.
Changes:
- Implemented UPnP support
- Core support for memory operations, strings, utf8 support, threading
- Tabbed options support
- ICQ: GDI resources optimization for extended status icons
- Jabber: Support for NTLM & MD5-DIGEST auth modes
- MSN: Support for WLM8 direct transfers
- MSN: File transfers added for the HTTP gateway mode
- MSN: Improved keep-alive packets sending
- Jabber: Ability to remove your account from the server
- Jabber: Ability to resolve nick names for transports
Screenshots | Download (1123 kB)

Opera
Version 9.10, release date: December 18, 2006
Surf the Internet in a safer, faster, and easier way.
The most full-featured Internet power tool on the market, Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat. You can customize the look and content of your Opera browser with a few clicks of the mouse.
Screenshot | Download (4.7 MB)

WebRipper
Version 1.31, release date: December 23, 2006
WebRipper is a free Internet scanner and downloader, which is easy to use, yet powerful and fast.
Download massive amounts of images, videos, audio, executables or documents from any website in just a moment. No need to waste your time clicking the links and saving every file manually.
WebRipper uses spider-technology to follow the links in all directions from the start-address. It filters out the interesting files on the way, and adds them to the download-queue for fast downloading by the multi channel download-engine.
Numerous filter-options ensure that downloaded files suit your needs perfectly. Restrict downloaded items by file type, minimum and maximum file- and image-size. Spidered and dowloaded links can also be restricted by keywords to avoid wasting your bandwidth.
WebRipper is integrated with major Internet search engines, giving you the ability to specify just a search word/phrase and category, and then let the program do the rest of the job. The result is loads of files "tailored" to your needs.
Password protected sites can of course also be ripped by specifying a username and password. Connection through proxy-server is possible.
The integrated image viewer allows you to browse the downloaded images, or preview them at the moment they are fetched.
SUPPORTED FILE TYPES:
Images: JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP
Videos: MPEG, AVI, QuickTime, Real Video, WMV
Audio: MP3, WAV, Real Audio, MIDI
Documents: DOC, XLS, PPT, PDF, TXT
Other: Flash, EXE, TORRENT, ZIP
Download (1081 kB)

November 2006