MozBackup

MozBackup
Backup tool for Firefox and Thunderbird

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WinDirStat

It's a neat program that shows the detail of every single directories (like sizes, number of items/files/subdirs, date and time of last change, percentage etc). These data can be shown in a treemap or even a analytical picture. It is helpful for organizing tons of files and directories in an efficient and easy way.

Faxzero

Free Internet Faxing - Send faxes to anywhere in the US and Canada for free.

• Free!
• Ad on the cover page
• Fax 1 document—maximum 3 pages
• Maximum 2 free faxes per day

BeoPlayer

Beoplayer has an unique interface, which is pretty cool but it could takes time to get used to it. It is well-known for the quality of voice/sound outputting. The installation file is quite large - almost 28MB. Maybe it can be my excuse for not using this powerful guy and stick with my Foobar alien.

How to enable and configure the Fax service in Windows XP

I've never tried to do fax with computer, but it seems this is the best answer given by Microsoft.

Universal Extractor

Universal Extractor is a program do to exactly what it says: extract files from any type of archive, whether it's a simple zip file, an installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package. This is still a work in progress (see details below), but so far it's proven quite useful and I feel others can also benefit from it.

RaimaRadio 1.46

RaimaRadio allows you to listen to and record radio stations from around the world. While listening to your favorite radio station you can record it anytime you want. Browse through the radio stations or just select a random station and enjoy Internet radio! You have total control over your radio stations allowing you to add or delete a station anytime you want. Need to play a station from another application then just enable global hotkeys and control it anytime. If you need to listen to or record a station at a certain time then you can. Just schedule it, sit back and relax. It will also show album art and station logos where available. It's totally free so give it a try and download it today.

Key Features:

* Listen to and record multiple stations simultaneously
* Create a schedule for automatic recording
* Show album art for each song
* Save tag information to music files
* Ability to add more stations
* Use WinAmp audio plugins
* Access frequently used stations from the toolbar
* Play random station
* Play your recorded files
* Information Panel
* Cover Art Panel
* Limit Recording Size
* Check for new stations online
* Recording Options

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ScreenSwift

ScreenSwift helps you create installable flash screensavers from any Flash movie. Package and deliver a professional flash screensaver. Screenswift allows you customize preview, settings and installation window to give you maximum promotion and brand visibility. Create interactive flash screensavers with full sound support and control. More features and benefits or download Screenswift to start creating your own flash screensaver. Screenswift is free for personal use and $69.95 for commercial use.

Top 10 Features of Screenswift

• Convert any .swf file into a flash screensaver.
• Supports latest flash formats including Flash 8 and Flash MX.
• End users don't require plugin to install the flash screensaver.
• Specify additional resource files required by the Screensaver E.g. swf, txt, xml, mp3 etc.
• Add your logo and url in Windows Display Property's Settings Windows.
• Save confguration for every screen saver that you create as projects.
• Single click preview of actual screensaver.
• All bitmaps, text files and SWF files are encapsulated within the screensaver, hence avoiding further re-use.
• Support for Quiet Installation (No UI Installation).
• Create shareware style flash screen savers

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Pandora Radio

Pandora Radio is an automated music recommendation and Internet radio service created by the Music Genome Project. Users enter a song or artist that they enjoy, and the service responds by playing selections that are musically similar. Users provide feedback on the individual song choices — approval or disapproval — which Pandora takes into account for future selections.

While listening, users are offered the ability to buy the songs or albums at Amazon.com or iTunes Store. Over 400 different musical attributes (see List of Music Genome Project attributes) are considered when selecting the next song. These 400 attributes are combined into larger groups called focus traits. There are 2,000 focus traits. Examples of these are rhythm syncopation, key tonality, vocal harmonies and displayed instrumental proficiency.

The Pandora media player is based on OpenLaszlo, allowing for simple cross platform portability; it plays through a browser. Pandora can be listened to through any Slim Devices' or Sonos[1] product(s). MSN Radio stations now run off Pandora.com and use Pandora accounts rather than Windows Live IDs.

Audacity

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

* Record live audio.
* Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
* Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
* Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
* Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
* And more! See the complete list of features.


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DupKiller

DupKiller is for searching and removing duplicate or similar files on your computer. Complicated algorithms, built in its searching mechanism, perform high results — rapid file search. A lot of options allow to flexibly customizing the search.

The program will find unneeded copies of files in those locations where you even would not consider to search. There is comparison not only by name, last modification date or size. One can compare files by their contents, and what's more, to set what per cent they must match; one can search different-length files, include or exclude files by mask, etc.

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gmms: an MMS-stream downloader

gmms is a simple MMS-stream downloader based on mmsclient that works on both Windows® and Linux. MMS-streams are multimedia streams broadcasted on the Internet, following the MMS-protocol. The simple explanation is that with gmms, you can save every kind of stream having mms:// at the start of the download URL to your hard-disk. The stream can be and audio or video stream, as long as it's URL starts with mms://.

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Rainlendar

Rainlendar is a customizable calendar that displays the current month. It is a very lightweight application that doesn't use much system resources or take much space on your desktop.

Features:
* Different type events can have different appearence
* Supports Windows transparency
* Synchronizes events between several clients
* Localized for multiple languages
* Shows an alarm when an event is due
* Supports iCal files.
* Shows Outlook's appointments
* Includes a todo-list
* Works also as Litestep plugin
* Displays the current date in tray icon
* Can stick to the desktop (i.e. doesn't hide with Show Desktop)
* Hotkeys for quick access
* Easy skinning with an UI

Version 2 (Pro Version) adds Outlook and network calendar support.

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imgburn

ImgBurn carries on from where DVD Decrypter left off! (Well, for the burning part anyway!)

ImgBurn can write most types of CD / DVD images and it supports all the latest writers (including booktype / bitsetting on many of the major ones - i.e. BenQ, LiteOn, NEC, Plextor, Sony). You can even use ImgBurn to erase / format your rewritable media!

ImgBurn burn your DVD-Video double layer images using the layer break you've specified in the IFO files, but it can also calculate the best place for you, to save you the trouble.

PC INSPECTOR File Recovery

PC INSPECTOR™ File Recovery 4.x is a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems.

Some of the new features:

» Finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged

» Recovers files with the original time and date stamp

» Supports the saving of recovered files on network drives

» The "Special Recovery Function" supports the following disk formats:

ARJ AVI BMP CDR DOC DXF DBF XLS

EXE GIF HLP HTML HTM JPG LZH MID

MOV MP3 PDF PNG RTF TAR TIF WAV

ZIP

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Recuva (File Recovery)

Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!

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DAEMON Tools Lite 4.12.2

WARNING from filehippo.com: This software contains an optional adware toolbar. We recommend you deselect this option during installation.

DAEMON Tools is a virtual cd/dvd-rom emulator and is able to emulate nearly all known copy protections on the market today.

The application mounts ISO images to a virtual drive without having to burn them to a CD.

It is further development of Generic Safedisc emulator and incorporates all its features. This program allows running Backup Copies of SafeDisc (C-Dilla), Securom, Laserlock, CDCOPS, StarForce and Protect CD (and many others) protected games. Also included is a Virtual DVDROM drive (Generic DVD-ROM) enabling you to use your CD images as if they were already burned to CD! DAEMON Tools works under Windows9x/ME/NT/2000/XP with all types of CD/DVDROM drives (IDE/SCSI) and supports nearly any CD protection.

DAEMON Tools supports the following image files:

• cue/bin
• iso
• ccd (CloneCD)
• bwt (Blindwrite)
• mds (Media Descriptor File)
• cdi (Discjuggler)
• nrg (Nero)
• pdi (Instant CD/DVD)
• b5t (BlindWrite 5)

Notes:

• DAEMON Tools needs a 1:1 Copy to run!!
• DAEMON Tools is used to RUN GAMES, NOT TO BURN THEM!!! Means emulation must be active while you want to play a game, not while burning the copy (except for you want to use DAEMON Tools' "fastdump" feature on a safedisc protected CD).
• If you want to run a copy protected application from an image mounted to a Generic DVD-ROM enabling the copy protection emulation(s) is NOT necessary!!
• Generic DVD-ROM is able to run nearly every protected or unprotected CD image (Safedisc®, Securom®, Laserlock®, Lockblocks® etc.) like it was the original CD! Just do an image file using one of the supported burning programs and mount it with Daemon Manager!

Gimp

The GIMP is a multiplatform photo manipulation tool. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

Note that, if this is the first time you're installing The GIMP, you will also need GTK+ 2 Runtime Environment from here. Note that the Gimp help files are also available from the same place.

This is only a brief list of GIMP features:

• Full suite of painting tools including brushes, a pencil, an airbrush, cloning, etc.
• Tile-based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
• Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high-quality anti-aliasing
• Full Alpha channel support
• Layers and channels
• A procedural database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs, such as Script-Fu
• Advanced scripting capabilities
• Multiple undo/redo (limited only by disk space)
• Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
• File formats supported include GIF, JPEG, PNG, XPM, TIFF, TGA, MPEG, PS, PDF, PCX, BMP and many others
• Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, bezier and intelligent
• Plug-ins that allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters

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XnView v1.93.1

XnView is freeware software that allows you to view and convert graphic files. It's very fast and easy to use. But more importantly it supports more than 400 graphics formats!

Features:

• Import about 400 graphic file formats
• Export about 50 graphic file formats
• Multipage TIFF, Animated GIF, Animated ICO support
• Image IPTC, EXIF metadata support
• EXIF auto rotation support
• IPTC editing
• Resize, rotate, crop support
• Lossless rotate & crop (jpeg) support
• Adjust brightness, contrast...
• Auto levels, contrast
• Modify number of colors
• Apply filters (blur, average, emboss, ...)
• Apply effects (lens, wave, ...)
• Fullscreen mode
• Slide show with effects
• Batch convert, batch rename
• Create WEB page easily
• Screen capture
• Create contact Sheet
• Create or edit Multi-page file (TIFF, DCX, LDF)
• TWAIN & WIA support (Windows only)
• Print support (Windows only)
• Drag & Drop support (Windows only)
• Compare image side by side
• Filmstrip layout
• 44 languages support (Windows only)

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Stellarium

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.

Splashup

Splashup, formerly known as Fauxto, bring the power of Photoshop/Paint.net/GIMP/your favorite image editor to your browser. With layers, integration with popular photo sharing services (Facebook, Flickr, Picasa), brushes and lots more, Splashup looks and feels just like any regular desktop image editor.

But it beats the offline competition with its ability to open/save images from/to itself, Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, any image URL, your own computer or webcam. The only obstacle I faced was the lack of keyboard shortcuts. Other than that, Splashup is great for quick image edits. In fact, the Splashup logo used here is edited with Splashup (although I forgot to resize it). :)

Nirsoft FileDate Changer

The FileDate Changer utility allows you to easily change the Created/Modified/Accessed dates of one or more files. You can use this utility in all 32-bit Operating systems (Windows 95,98,ME,NT,2000,XP) with Internet Explorer version 3.0 or above.

I use this to modify the access date of folders or files, in order to have them compressed by cleanmgr.

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FastStone Capture V5.3

FastStone Capture is a powerful, flexible and intuitive screen-capture utility. It allows you to capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web pages. It has innovative features such as a floating Capture Panel, hotkeys, resizing, cropping, text annotation, printing, e-mailing, screen magnifier and many more.



Note by portablefreeware.com: FastStone Capture appeared to have gone payware starting from V5.4. Since the license agreement does not prohibit redistribution, I have made the last freeware version (V5.3) available for direct download.

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Free Commander

Free Commander is an easy-to-use alternative to the standard windows file manager. The program helps you with daily work in Windows. Here you can find all the necessary functions to manage your data stock. You can take FreeCommander anywhere - just copy the installation directory on a CD, USB-Stick or even a floppy disk - and you can even work with this program on a foreign computer.

Main features in FreeCommander:

* Dual-panel technology - horizontal and vertical
* Tabbed interface
* Optional tree view for each panel
* Built in file viewer to view files in hex, binary, text or image format
* File viewer inside archives too
* Built in archive handling: ZIP (read, write), CAB (read, write), RAR (read)
* Nested archive handling
* Easy access to system folders, control panel, desktop and start menu
* Copy, move, delete, rename files and folders
* Wipe files
* Create and verify MD5 checksums
* File splitting
* File properties and context menu
* Calculation of folder size
* Folder comparison / synchronization
* Modification of file date and attributes
* Folder / program favorites
* File searching (inside archive too)
* File filters for display
* User defined columns for detailed view
* DOS command line
* Multiple language support

* Unicode support

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Free commander (installer)

Free commander (U3)

Free commander (Portable)

Stickypaper 1.3.2 release. + 1.3.3b

Stickypaper is a tiny powerful tool. You can make colorful memos or to-do lists with it. Also, pictures can be posted on the desktop with Stickypaper, not to mention sketch or word can be added on it. There are also unique widgets for Stickypaper. As Stickypaper is written based on D-monkey, scripts can be also written by users and shared at the Script Library section in the official webpage.


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Hamana graphic viewer

Features:

• Direct Graphics by fast zoom and various effects (required DirectX 9.0c)
• Read ahead by a comfortable slideshow file
• 2-screen mode
• Susie corresponding plug-ins
• Zip (cbz) / 7z / rar (cbr) / cab / arj / decompression without lzh Browsable
• Pdf support
• Powerful Key customization
• Unicode support

The zip-support feature is really nice for reading packed comics!
It is a must-have software for manga fans. =)

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FileAnt

FileAnt is a Windows File Manager (like explorer) on tabs, it is also a cool Ftp Client and has nice features such as folder pie charts, and a viewer for commonly used file formats. It loads quickly from the tray and uses very little memory to achieve what it does. The Ftp Client is semi-intelligent, multi-download (you can keep browsing while downloading lots of files) and written from scratch by me using the winsock. The Pie Chart features 2D telescopic browsing. Advanced tools let you modify file dates, sync folders, and change file attributes en masse. There is also a nice little mp3 player in the tray.

FileAnt supports XP themes. FileAnt does not interfere with explorer and does not attempt to do any strange or annoying stuff to your pc. FileAnt will use some of the same settings as explorer, such as 'show extension'. You can configure many extra settings such as background and font colors. It also has some 2000 advanced file manager features, such as thumbnails (which will even work on Win9x).

The most useful feature to me is the multi-panels which allows us to view several folders at the same time; it is much easier and efficient to manage files and folder with FileAnt.

JkDefrag v3.34

JkDefrag is a disk defragmenter and optimizer for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/X64. Completely automatic and very easy to use, fast, low overhead, with several optimization strategies, and can handle floppies, USB disks, memory sticks, and anything else that looks like a disk to Windows. Included are a Windows version, a commandline version (for scheduling by the task scheduler or for use from administrator scripts), a screensaver version, a DLL library (for use from programming languages), versions for Windows X64, and the complete sources.

This is the best defragment freeware I've ever seen. Don't miss out on the defragment tips in their official homepage too!

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http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/