Top 10 Freeware - November 2006

Top 10 Freeware
(November 2006)

Programs listed alphabetically

Version 1.44, release date: November 28, 2006
See the brightest 2500 stars, all 88 constellations, all nine planets and the moonphase from 1600 AD to 9999 AD from any location on earth. Click star on screen for detailed information. Geocentric and heliocentric views also available. Define your own five locations for quick switch. Tiny program, but great planetarium, especially for teachers and students. Print todays night sky! Nice visuals, smooth animation, simple controls, good planet data.
| (805 kB)

Version 2.0 b116, release date: November 21, 2006
Do you have to run the same tasks over and over again, each and every day? Why not use BuildIT to automate those tasks, whether it is the final packaging of a product, an automated daily build, maybe sending out a mailing list, even backing-up files.
- Easy to use interface utilising drag 'n' drop and context menus
- Many specific tasks ranging from file management to executing JavaScript
- Use the supplied command line tool, for scheduling tasks
- Assign administrators to receive progress reports, and owners for each task
- Output to a log file or output window in two different ways
- Customise e-mail messages...
| (3325 kB)

Version 2.2.3, release date: November 28, 2006
DataRecovery is freeware and written by TOKIWA to undelete accidentally deleted files even from recycle bin. But DataRecovery doesn't assure that all files deleted can be recovered successfully. It mostly depends on your system/configuration.
Features:
- FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS undeletion
- undelete NTFS compressed files
- undelete EFS encrypted files
- runnable from floppy disk
- search by partial string in the file name
- undelete whole files in a directory
- undelete multiple files by selecting them with Shift/Ctrl key
- sort items displayed by clicking column headers
OS: Windows 95/98/Me/NT4.0/2000/XP/2003
| (152 kB)

Version 2.2, release date: November 16, 2006
Dependency Walker is a free utility that scans any 32-bit or 64-bit Windows module (exe, dll, ocx, sys, etc.) and builds a hierarchical tree diagram of all dependent modules. For each module found, it lists all the functions that are exported by that module, and which of those functions are actually being called by other modules. Another view displays the minimum set of required files, along with detailed information about each file including a full path to the file, base address, version numbers, machine type, debug information, and more.
| (597 kB)

Version 1.1, release date: November 21, 2006
Folder Guide is a free handy utility that provides fast access to your frequently used and favorite folders. It can operate as the part of your context menu in your Windows Explorer. After quick install it will appear in context menus of Windows Explorer and Open/Save dialogs as "Folder Guide" item.With Folder Guide, you no longer need dozens of mouse clicks to navigate to your desired folder. Now reach your favorite folders in just 2 mouse clicks. Select from right click menu "Folder Guide" then click on your desired folder. Folder Guide runs automatically as part of the Windows Explorer context menu, so you will never need to start the program otherwise you want to edit the list of folders. It also works from the desktop, the Start button.
| (752 kB)

Version 1.0.1, release date: November 20, 2006
InstantStorm is a Windows freeware tool for creating Flash based screensavers with many advanced features. All you have to do is to choose a SWF file, set screensaver parameters and compile an executable installer. All 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows are fully supported, including Windows 95 and Windows Vista. And the best of all - there are no nag screens or other annoying stuff. Unlike many other tools, InstantStorm allows you to fully customize your screensaver's about box, installer and uninstaller including all texts
| (2.5 MB)

Version 3.99, release date: November 16, 2006
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2k/XP/2003/Vista
It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerfull for professionals.
Some IrfanView features: Many supported file formats; Multi language support; Thumbnail/preview option; Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD); Drag & drop support; Fast directory view (moving through directory); Batch conversion (with image processing); Multimedia player; Change color depth; Scan (batch scan) support; Cut/crop; IPTC editing; Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Photoshop filter factory); Capturing; Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs; Lossless JPG rotation; etc.
| (zip 983 kB)

Version , release date: November 2, 2006
IZArc is the ultimate archive utility supports many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO. With a modern easy-to-use interface, IZArc provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools. It allows you to drag and drop files from and to Windows Explorer, create and extract archives directly in Windows Explorer, create multiple archives spanning disks, creating self-extracting archives, repair damaged zip archives, converting from one archive type to another, view and write comments and many more. IZArc has also build-in multilanguage support.
| (3487 kB)

Version 1.0, release date: November 20, 2006
PortableApps Suite^TM is a collection of portable apps including a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, sudoku game, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably. Just drop it on your portable device and you're ready to go. All versions of the PortableApps Suite include the integrated PortableApps Menu and the PortableApps Backup utility along with a set of custom icons, an autoplay configuration, folders and a quick start shortcut.
| (30-90 MB)

Version 5.2.1, release date: November 13, 2006
TED Notepad is a growing freeware editor for true plain-text. It looks like a small Notepad, but is more and more fertile in innovative features, text-processing functions and other tools. All of them on hotkeys; all designed for quicker and advanced editing. The light-weight portable application fits on USB drive and loads instantly with no installation required. TED Notepad is designed especially for daily writing of notes, lists, scripts and html files.
Get ready for a simple text editor, yet full of new features and text tools - you will never learn them all. Don't type, ted it!
| (174 kB)

October 2006