Free Software

Created By: andymelton
Last Modified: 10/02/06
Summary: Free software that looks interesting, possible reviews may be found at http://free.andymelton.netLink: AM-DeadLink
Summary: AM-DeadLink detects dead links and duplicates in your Browser Bookmarks. If a Bookmark has become unavailable you can verify it in the internal preview and delete it from your Browser. Additionally you can download FavIcons for all your Favorites and Bookmarks.
Link: BlogDesk
Summary: Blogging should be simple, but it gets complicated and time-consuming if you are serious about it. BlogDesk makes it easy to write, speeds up lavish processes and assists the author with smart features.
Link: Bobyte Software
Summary: //We enjoy making multimedia software...
Link: AWStats
Summary: AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages. It uses a partial information file to be able to process large log files, often and quickly. It can analyze log files from all major server tools like Apache log files (NCSA combined/XLF/ELF log format or common/CLF log format), WebStar, IIS (W3C log format) and a lot of other web, proxy, wap, streaming servers, mail servers and some ftp servers.
Link: ZD Soft Screen Recorder
Summary: ZD Soft Screen Recorder records screen activities to replayable video file. It uses unique screen recording technology to gain the best recording performance. It outputs lossless screen video in extremely small file size. It is very easy to use.
Link: EditPad Lite
Summary: EditPad Lite is a general-purpose text editor, designed to be small and compact, yet offer all the functionality you expect from a basic text editor. EditPad Lite works with Windows NT4, 98, 2000, ME and XP.
Link: TestDisk
Summary: TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery utility! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally erasing your Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.
Link: UsefulWindowsSoftware
Summary: This is an organized list of all the software mentioned in the most recent incarnation of the perennial "post some cool software" thread in SH/SC. In particular, the thread this list was based on was "Share your recent 'cool programs' that are keepers", which has recently been closed, and will soon be going to the great big archives server in the sky. A previous thread can be seen here [requires archives access], or here as an html document.
Link: Backup Your iPod: iPod Access
Summary: When you connect your iPod to a new computer, iTunes tries to erase the drive. It doesn't care that you just upgraded to a new machine. It doesn't care that your hard drive crashed. Your iPod might be the only existing copy of your music library and iTunes still erases the files. iPod Access is the answer. It's the best solution I found for transferring songs from your iPod to a PC or Mac, gathering accurate song information from the iPod music database. Stop hassling with ineffective solutions for moving your music where you want it and try iPod Access now.
Link: Access Manager
Summary: Access Manager lets you store multiple passwords easily from an intuitive, easy to use interface. Access Manager will suit most home users that have problems in remembering passwords such as ATM pin numbers, email account passwords, computer logon passwords and more.
Link: Aptana
Summary: Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications.
Link: PSPad
Summary: Full program version with English help file. PSPad doesn't need installation. You can simply unpack it into a selected directory and run PSPad.EXE. The archive contains subdirectories, so you must unpack it with the subdirectories option enabled. In the menu Settings/System, you can let PSPad create a link on the Desktop or in Start/Programs and integrate it into your System. All is under your control.
Link: Panic Button
Summary: Panic Button provides an icon in the Windows system tray. By clicking on this icon, a user may send a screen grab to a help desk or similar. This should make it easier for users to provide useful error/problem reports to support staff etc.
Link: HeatSeek
Summary: Keep your porn safe and secure from family & friends.
Link: MediaCoder
Summary: MediaCoder is an audio/video batch transcoder, putting together lots of excellent audio/video codecs & tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of transcoding among different audio/video formats with many extra features.
Link: Rss Readers
Summary: A directory of feed readers, which are used to scan or read many sites at once.
Link: GroupServer
Summary: GroupServer is a GPL open source collaboration server. It supports many-to-many interaction in groups and communities via email and an integrated web forum interface.
Link: PearBudget
Summary: PearBudget is a FREE budgeting program, written in Excel. It can be used by almost any spread- sheet program (Excel, Word, OpenOffice, etc.). Setting it up is a snap, and it takes less than half an hour a month to maintain it and see how you’re doing.
Link: XP drivers on one CD
Summary: You really have to see this to believe it. Some poor soul has decided to try to amalgamate the latest version of every known software driver onto one CD for the purposes of creating an unattended Windows XP setup disk that would work on literally any PC. And it looks like he's making extremely good headway on this project!
Link: Unlocker
Summary: Unlock files that Windows currently says are in use.
Link: XPlorer
Summary: XPlorer is a substitute for the Windows Explorer, adding multi tabbed features. So it is possible to have lots of locations opened at the same time, while we can manage them in an easy and eficient way.
Link: FreeSmug
Summary: OS X FOSS portable applications are packaged so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (or also on your internal hard disk).
Link: JGoodies
Summary: JGoodies focuses on Java look, UI design and usability. We provide articles, libraries, example applications, desktop patterns and a Swing application architecture.
Link: FaJo XP File Security Extension (XP FSE)
Summary: FaJo XP FSE allows a user of Windows XP Home to view/change the access rights on file system objects of NTFS file systems. The extension therefore provides the security tab known from Windows NT4, Windows 2000 and WIndows XP Pro at the property page of file system objects. For faster access it adds an additional menu item to the context menu of such objects (optional).
Link: Flickr and Webimager
Summary: Screen Capture -> Upload to Flickr
Link: Positron
Summary: Specially designed for cost-effective production. Positron is breaking new ground in non-linear editing by releasing the first fully-functioned, feature-comparable NLE that is totally, 100% FREE! Get it now!
Link: LClock
Summary: LClock is a very simple program that makes the Windows' clock look like a Windows Longhorn Clock. It also comes with a simple popup calendar with reminder feature.
Link: OverDisk
Summary: OverDisk is a disk usage browser. It can be used to quickly find out how a partition's space is distributed among the file system hierarchy.
Link: DShutdown
Summary: DShutdown is a freeware and useful stand-alone software which lets you to schedule the shutdown of a local or remote PC.
Link: Barracuda Drive
Summary: With BarracudaDrive, you can securely upload, download, and manage your files on your home computer from anywhere in the world. BarracudaDrive also bypasses firewalls and proxies since the communication protocol is HTTPS. The communication is protected by using SSL so no one can eavesdrop on your file transfer.
Link: jUploadr
Summary: a Flickr uploader for Linux, Mac and Windows
Link: Synergy2
Summary: Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).
Link: Bleezer
Summary: Blog from anywhere. Work on Windows, OS X, and Linux.
Link: ShrinkTo5
Summary: ShrinkTo5 is the new, powerful and fast DVD copying engine. ShrinkTo5 has been developed as a cross-platform engine available for free for anyone. To ensure a fast spreading to other platforms ShrinkTo5 is distributed as open-source.


