Top 10 Freeware - December 2009

Top 10 Freeware
(December 2009)

Programs listed alphabetically

ALShow
Version 1.8, release date: December 29, 2009
The ALShow Codecs Included Movie Player lets your watch all your videos, movies, and DVDs without searching for video codecs or audio codecs.
From AVI to XviD, playing movies is first-click easy with codecs for all popular video, audio, and movie formats.
If you do not have the right codecs or video filters, ALShow can recognize them and automatically help you download the right codecs and filters quickly. So you do not have to search the Internet for video codecs.
And ALShow is fast. It loads movies fast and plays movies smoothly. No more video playback stuttering. With ALShow you have clean, smooth video to watch your DVDs and movies in comfort.
Screenshot | Download (10.21 MB)

Auslogics Disk Defrag
Version 3.1.2, release date: December 22, 2009
Hard disks are by far the slowest component in your computer. Therefore fragmented disks often become a bottleneck of the system performance. Besides causing slowdowns, fragmentation makes the disk drive heads move too much when reading files which leads to freeze-ups and system crashes. Auslogics Disk Defrag was designed to remedy system sluggishness and crashes caused by disk fragmentation. It will help you get the maximum performance out of your expensive hardware investments.
Screenshot | Download (1.5 MB portable)

Calendar Magic
Version 17.4, release date: December 30, 2009
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 (2.4 MB)

Click-N-Type
Version 3.03.391, release date: December 29, 2009
Click-N-Type is an on-screen virtual keyboard designed for anyone with a disability that prevents him or her from typing on a physical computer keyboard. As long as the physically challenged person can control a mouse, trackball, touch screen or other pointing device, this software keyboard allows you to send keystrokes to virtually any Windows application or DOS application that can run within a window.
Screenshot | Download (1.35 kB)

Eusing Free Registry Defrag
Version 1.5, release date: December 8, 2009
Eusing Free Registry Defrag is a free registry defragmentation software that optimizes registry by removing gaps, fragments and wasted space in Windows registry files.
Screenshot | Download (1.07 MB)

Merge
Version 2.1, release date: December 13, 2009
Merge is a freeware graphic utility for overlaying two images in any relative position prior to saving the result to a file. You can merge the two images in many different ways. No need to worry about relative positioning or image size/scaling differences.
Batch merge files from a directory with a single image file of your choice. Useful to watermark all your images in just one hit.
Screenshot | Download (2.59 MB)

Orbit Downloader
Version 2.8.20, release date: December 21, 2009
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.
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 (2.44 MB)

Resource Hacker
Version 3.5.2 beta, release date: December 19, 2009
Resource Hacker has been designed to:
- View resources in Win32 executable files (.exe, .dll, .cpl, .ocx) and in Win32 resource files (.res) in both their compiled and decompiled formats.
- Extract (save) resources to file in: .res format; as a binary; or as decompiled resource scripts or images. Icons, bitmaps, cursors, menus, dialogs, string tables, message tables, accelerators, Borland forms and version info resources can be fully decompiled into their respective formats, whether as image files or .rc text files.
- Modify (rename or replace) resources in executables. Image resources (icons, cursors and bitmaps) can be replaced with an image from a corresponding image file (.ico, .cur, .bmp), a .res file or even another .exe file. Dialogs, menus, stringtables, accelerators and messagetable resource scripts (and also Borland forms) can be edited and recompiled using the internal resource script editor. Resources can also be replaced with resources from a .res file as long as the replacement resource is of the same type and has the same name.
- Add new resources to executables. Enable a program to support multiple languages, or add a custom icon or bitmap (company logo etc) to a program's dialog.
- Delete resources. Most compilers add resources into applications which are never used by the application. Removing these unused resources can reduce an application's size.
This software is not to be used in any way to illegally modify software.
Now decompiles/compiles 64-bit executables too.
Screenshot | Download (717 kB)

RSSOwl
Version 2.0.2, release date: December 29, 2009
RSSOwl is a powerful application to organize, search and read all your RSS, RDF and Atom news feeds in a comfortable way. Highlights are saved searches, clean-up, notification from tray, filters, fast fulltext search and a flexible and clean user interface.
Screenshot | Download (6.1 MB)

XMPlay
Version 3.5, release date: December 22, 2009
XMPlay is an audio player, supporting the OGG / MP3 / MP2 / MP1 / WMA / WAV / MO3 / IT / XM / S3M / MTM / MOD / UMX audio formats, and PLS / M3U / ASX playlists. A load more formats are also supported via Winamp plugins.
The best audio quality of any I have heard...
Screenshot | Download (318 kB)

November 2009