Daily Freeware Reviews

Teen Spirit

Administrator — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:02:09 +0000

Teen Spirit (Conium) is an Audio-Video player and organizer with a very user friendly interface. It can retrieve info from internet such as lyrics, album reviews, album covers, artist biographies, artist pictures (more to come). Teen Spirit (Conium) keeps history of the files you play, lets you review statistics and generates a personal hitlist based on which songs you listen to most. It features an ID3v2 tagger (and mass tagger) and an easy to use renamer (and mass renamer) with preview.

It helps you discover tracks in your vast music collection with features like auto-continue or by playing the music quiz. As a music organizer it lets you catalog Hard Disks, Network drives, Data CDs/DVDs, AudioCD (with auto CDDB – FreeDB support), USB memory sticks, mp3 players (including iPod) in a friendly way. Teen Spirit (Conium) has been developed in C++ for speed and efficiency.

vLite

Administrator — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:31:54 +0000

Windows Vista from Microsoft takes a lot of resources, we all know that. vLite provides you with an easy removal of the unwanted components in order to make Vista run faster and to your liking.

This tool doesn’t use any kind of hacking, all files and registry entries are protected as they would be if you install the unedited version only with the changes you select.

It configures the installation directly before the installation, meaning you’ll have to remake the ISO and reinstall it. This method is much cleaner, not to mention easier and more logical than doing it after installation on every reinstall.

Copy PST for Outlook

Administrator — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:55:24 +0000

CopyPST is a program which repairs Outlook data files by exporting it to a new file, ignoring any error. It requires that the data file can still be opened in Outlook. Exporting a file also makes it much faster however you need to repair links, afterwards using OLfix.

You will use first SCANPST to repair a damaged file, if this does not help, you can use the export function in Outlook. However MS products like to abort any copy operation after the first error. CopyPST ignores all errors and therefore is able to copy the whole file.

Free Commander

Administrator — Wed, 16 May 2007 08:00:10 +0000

FreeCommander 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

Fresh Diagnose

Administrator — Thu, 10 May 2007 07:37:38 +0000

Fresh Diagnose is a utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, hard disk performance, video system information, mainboard / motherboard information, and much more…

Key features of Fresh Diagnose:

System Information: Scanning your system and give a complete report about your computer’s hardware and software, for examples: mainboard information, video system information, PCI / AGP buses information, peripheral (keyboard, mouse, printer, etc.) information, Windows registry settings, and network information.
System Benchmarks: Testing your system performance, such as CPU, hard disk, CD/DVD ROM, and compare it with other systems.

CurrPorts Check your Ports

Administrator — Mon, 07 May 2007 06:34:22 +0000

CurrPorts displays the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer. For each port in the list, information about the process that opened the port is also displayed, including the process name, full path of the process, version information of the process (product name, file description, and so on), the time that the process was created, and the user that created it.

In addition, CurrPorts allows you to close unwanted TCP connections, kill the process that opened the ports, and save the TCP/UDP ports information to HTML file , XML file, or to tab-delimited text file.

CurrPorts also automatically mark with pink color suspicious TCP/UDP ports owned by unidentified applications (Applications without version information and icons)

Metamorphose

Administrator — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:18:52 +0000

Métamorphose is a free, open source mass file and folder renaming program that combines great flexibility with an intuitive interface.

Allows many different renaming operations in a single utility, perfect for those of us that need to rename large numbers of files and/or folders on a regular basis.
However, the ease of the interface ensures a one-time user (I need to rename 5 gigs of mp3’s) will not find it too frustrating to use.

Cross platform for your pleasure, it can run on a variety of operating systems.

Samurize

Administrator — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:08:46 +0000

Samurize is an advanced system monitoring and desktop enhancement engine for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. IT professionals, overclockers, gamers and desktop modders alike use Samurize for system information, weather reports, news headlines and much much more. And best of all, Samurize is 100% free!

Samurize’s rich feature set includes:

• an unrivalled set of built-in meters (Disk utilization, CPU usage, network traffic, system temperatures…)
• ultimate customizing and skinning possibilities with no programming knowledge required
• monitoring your own computer or others over a network
• tiny memory footprint and CPU usage
• the first system monitoring tool with a true WYSIWYG editor
• full extensibility via scripts and plugins with a powerful plugin SDK/API
• minimal software requirements (no .NET or Service Packs necessary)
• multimonitor support
• many usage options (desktop, taskbar and clock clients, server outputting to XML or image formats, screensaver)

Bulk Rename Utility

Administrator — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:01:58 +0000

Bulk Rename Utility is a utility which allows you to easily rename files and directories, based upon extemely flexible criteria. Add date-stamps, replace numbers, insert strings, convert case, add auto-numbers, process folders and subfolders….plus loads more!

Bulk Rename Utility has evolved through a series of user-requests, one-off requirements, and general enhancements. Some of the features provided by Bulk Rename Utility include:

– Very easy to use
– Rename files, folders or both
– Remove or change a filename
– Perform string substitution
– Change the case of filenames
– Remove characters or words
– Remove digits or symbols
– Append or prepend text
– Append dates in many formats

Administrator — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:08:52 +0000

DM2 provides several Windows enhancements that may help in every-day work. One of the nicest and most popular features of DM2 is minimizing windows to floating icons® (unique feature!) freeing both task bar and tray bar space. Moreover, DM2 can manipulate windows in various ways: minimize to tray, make them standing always on-top over all other windows, roll to caption, resize, align to screen borders, hide, set the opacity etc. DM2 also helps with Open/Save dialog boxes, by providing user-defined menu with favorites and recent files and folders. Plenty of program’s settings options will satisfy most of requirements.