Top 10 Freeware - July 2006

Top 10 Freeware
(July 2006)

Programs listed alphabetically

Version 2.4.5, release date: July 8, 2006
AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to MS Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, etc. It is designed to integrate perfectly with the operating system it runs on. It will take advantage of the functionality provided by the system, such as image loading or printing capabilities.
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Version 2.42, release date: July 15, 2006
Blender, the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for Windows, Linux, Irix, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD or Mac OS X.
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Version 1.4, release date: July 10, 2006
CHM Encoder may decompile your CHM file (Compiled Windows HTML Help) or e-book and extract all source files. This tool free for use and work easily and quickly. Want you convert CHM to HTML and view that in your PocketPC or in your web pages? CHM Encoder can help to you. The program supports command line. Using batch mode, you can convert several documents simultaneously.
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Version 2.6, release date: July 19, 2006
FastStone Image Viewer is an image browser, viewer, converter and editor with an easy to use interface and a nice array of features that include resizing, renaming, cropping, color adjustments, watermarks and more. It also includes an intuitive full-screen mode that provides quick access to EXIF information and thumbnail browser via hidden toolbars that emerge when you touch the edge of your screen with the mouse. Other features include a high quality magnifier and built-in slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image frames, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA.
| (2.9 MB)

Version 0.5, release date: July 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.
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Version , release date: July 28, 2006
NoAds stops Internet popup ads from getting in the way of your web surfing. NoAds is fully configurable, allowing you to specify which ads you want to be destroyed automatically. It supports most popular web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and America Online. The program is very easy to use, and stays running in the system tray for quick access.
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Version 2.64, release date: July 8, 2006
Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Server 2003. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
It started development at Washington State University as an undergraduate senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with a small amount of C++ for setup and shell-integration related functionality.
| (3.32 MB)

Version 5.0.1, release date: July 12, 2006
TED Notepad is a freeware editor for true plain-text. It looks like the original Windows Notepad, but provides many features and tools for quick, easy and advanced editing. The light-weight application fits on a floppy or USB and loads instantly with no installation required. Offers many text-processing functions and tools, many hotkeys and clipboards. You will find several inovative features too. TED Notepad is designed especially for daily writing of plain-text documents and lists. Creating of scripts and html-like files is a joy as well.
Quite extensive set of features covers entire MS Notepad, Metapad or Win32Pad and includes:
- Enhanced searching and replacing; second search;
- Plenty of hotkeys and some extra clipboards;
- Several kinds of word and phrase completion;
- All unicode characters and bi-directional support;
- Unicode, UTF-8, Unix and Mac file types;
- Text auto-indentation;
- Extensive text statistics;
- Recent and Favourites menu;
- and many, many other timesavers.
Variety of text tools covers most of the text-based functions including:
- All types of case conversions;
- Advanced text replacing and character translating;
- Line indentation, unindentation, closing and tabifying;
- Columns cutting and adding numbers;
- Reversing of text, lines and words;
- Full-scale line sorting;
- Searching for line duplicates;
- Word wrapping commiting and unwrapping;
- File inclusion and exclusion;
- and Filters Architecture for any user-defined plugins.
| (113 kB)

Version 2.06, release date: July 6, 2006
Vibe Streamer is a MP3 Streaming Server that allows you to listen to your music anywhere using only a standard Web browser. Vibe Streamer provides functionality for you to easily manage your users, groups and your shared directories as well as the security settings for your server. Easy installation and configuration.
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Version 6.6.1, release date: July 2, 2006
WPanorama allows you to display panoramic pictures by letting scroll horizontally or vertically on the screen. You can use this software to view the gorgeous 360° swiss panorama included with the program or your own pictures in .jpg or .bmp format. The program includes many features, such as:
- 360° continuous scrolling
- Full screen view
- Mini slide show (one sample of it included with the program)
- Back and forth scrolling for non 360° pictures
- Mirror function for special interesting effects
- Vertical scroll in addition to the horizontal one
- Misceallenous stretch filters
- Variable scroll increment and speed
- Automatic or manual scroll orientation setting (horizontal or vertical)
- Screen saver module
- Screen saver able to display a new picture every time it is trigged or at a given time interval
- Possibility to insert scrolling panoramas into movies by the means of multiple bmp files or avi files
- Much, much more...
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June 2006