Daily Freeware Reviews

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.

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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)

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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

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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.

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FlashGet is specifically designed to address two of the biggest problems when downloading files: Speed and management of downloaded files.

If you’ve ever waited forever for your files to download from a slow connection, or been cut off midway through a download – or just can’t keep track of your ever-growing downloads – FlashGet is for you. FlashGet can split downloaded files into sections, downloading each section simultaneously, for an increase in downloading speed from 100% to 500%. This, coupled with FlashGet’s powerful and easy-to-use management features, helps you take control of your downloads like never before.

Quick ‘n Easy FTP Server is a multi threaded FTP server for Windows 98/NT/XP/2003 that can be easily setup even by inexperienced users. New users can be easily created by a wizard which is guiding you step by step in the process. The server handles all basic FTP commands plus a lot of special FTP commands like MDTM, NLST, FEAT, PSWD, XCRC and many more!

Key features:
- Simple, intuitive and cool looking user interface, with several pages for managing the users, configuration and security.
- Easy to setup using the build-in FTP Server Setup Wizard.
- Add new user accounts with the User Account Wizard.
- Security: Allow/block specific ip addresses/ranges.
- Support for virtual directories.
- Limit download/upload speed per user.
- Display average download/upload speed of online users.
- Support for systems that are a part of a network with a router and/or firewall.
- Configuration is saved in XML format.
- Realtime server trace, which displays every command and it’s reply on the screen.
- Everything can also be logged to a file.
- Users can send messages via their FTP client to the FTP Server’s messages console.
- Integrated upload/download statistics (saved in XML).
- Remote administration option.
- Disk quota
- FTP Server Events can be used trigger actions like playing a sound or execute an application.
- New: Automatically block IP addresses after a specific number of failed login attempts.

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