Filehand Search

Filehand™ Search 3.0 brings the power of internet-style searching to your personal computer. Using Filehand Search you can find information stored in your computer system with the same ease and speed that you find information on the internet using search engine sites such as Google and Yahoo.

If you have tried other programs to find files on your computer, you were probably disappointed by the performance, lack of flexibility, and complicated interfaces. Even worse, other search tools can consume all of the processor and memory resources of your computer.

Filehand Search is designed from the ground up to respect the fact that you have other uses for your computer. It uses a modest amount of memory and runs at the lowest available priority. Yet Filehand Search typically handles search requests in a fraction of a second.

If you know how to search for information on the internet through web sites such as Google or Yahoo, you already know how to use Filehand Search. If you haven't used such web sites, don't worry. Even though its powerful, Filehand Search is very easy to use.

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CDBurnerXP - Free CD/DVD Burning

CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.

Key Features
burn all kinds of discs
audio-CDs with or without gaps between tracks
burn and create ISO files
data verification after burning process
create bootable discs
multi-language interface
bin/nrg → ISO converter, simple cover printing and much more!
Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista

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CoolPlayer - Free Audio player

Features:
GNU General Public License
Freeform Skins
Simple User Interface
Advanced Playlist editor
Internet streaming
ID3 Multitagger
File Renamer
Fast mp3->wav converter
MAD mpeg engine
OGG Vorbis support
Winamp input plugins support
Smallest executable programmed in blazing fast 'C'
Continuous play
8 band convolution equalizer
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a-squared - Free Antivirus

Security must not be a privilege. Under this motto, Emsi Software provides the Malware scanner a-squared Free completely free of charge for private use. But it is not a very limited version, it is a full tool to clean your computer from Malware. Not only Spywares, as detected by classic Anti-Spyware programs, but also especially Trojans, Backdoors, Worms, Dialers, Keyloggers and a lot of other destructive pests, which makes it dangerous to surf the web.

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Anim8or - free 3d animation software

Anim8or is a 3D modeling and character animation.While it is far from a complete professional level application like 3DStudio MAX or Lightwave, it has enough capability to be of use to others.

Version v0.95 is now available. Anim8or has come a long way since the first release called v0.1. There are still may areas that need improvement, primarily the renderer.

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Eraser (Free secure data erase tool)

Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Windows 2003 Server and DOS.
Eraser is Free software and its source code is released under GNU General Public License.

Most people have some data that they would rather not share with others - passwords, personal information, classified documents from work, financial records, self-written poems, the list can be continued forever.

Perhaps you have saved some of this information on your computer where it is conveniently at your reach, but when the time comes to remove the data from your hard disk, things get a bit more complicated and maintaining your privacy is not as simple as it may have seemed at first.

Your first thought may be that when you 'delete' the file, the data is gone. Not quite, when you delete a file, the operating system does not really remove the file from the disk; it only removes the reference of the file from the file system table. The file remains on the disk until another file is created over it, and even after that, it might be possible to recover data by studying the magnetic fields on the disk platter surface.

Before the file is overwritten, anyone can easily retrieve it with a disk maintenance or an undelete utility.

There are several problems in secure file removal, mostly caused by the use of write cache, construction of the hard disk and the use of data encoding. These problems have been taken into consideration when Eraser was designed, and because of this intuitive design and a simple user interface, you can safely and easily erase private data from your hard drive.

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Fresh Download (Free Download manager)

Fresh Download is an easy-to-use and very fast download manager that turbo charges downloading files from the Internet, such as your favorite freeware and shareware, mp3 files, movie files, picture collections, etc. Unlike any other similar utilities, this software is 100% free, no charges, no banners (which steal your bandwidth), no spyware inside it.

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ClamWin - Free Antivirus

ClamWin is a Free Antivirus program for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003 and Vista.
ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge. It features:

* High detection rates for viruses and spyware;
* Scanning Scheduler;
* Automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database.
* Standalone virus scanner and right-click menu integration to Microsoft Windows Explorer;
* Addin to Microsoft Outlook to remove virus-infected attachments automatically.

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Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free (free as in "free speech", but also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.

This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.

CCleaner

Cleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! :)

Cleans the following Windows components:

* Internet Explorer
- Temporary File Cache
- URL History
- Cookies
- Hidden Index.dat files
- Last download file location
* Firefox
- Temporary File Cache
- URL History
- Cookies
- Download manager
* Recycle Bin
* Clipboard
* Windows Temporary files
* Windows Log files
* Recent Documents (on the Start Menu)
* Run history (on the Start Menu)
* Windows XP Search Assistant history
* Windows XP old Prefetch data
* Windows memory dumps after crashes
* Chkdsk file fragments

Advanced Options allow cleaning of:

* Menu Order cache
* Tray Notifications Cache
* Window Size and Location Cache
* User Assist history
* IIS Log Files
* Custom Folders

Application Cleaning:
As well as cleaning up old files and settings left by standard Windows components, CCleaner also cleans temporary files and recent file lists for many applications. Including:

* Firefox, Opera, Safari, Media Player, eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, Microsoft Office, Nero, Adobe Acrobat Reader, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and more...

Registry Cleaning:
CCleaner uses an advanced Registry Cleaner to check for problems and inconsistencies. It can check the following:

* File Extensions
* ActiveX Controls
* ClassIDs
* ProgIDs
* Uninstallers
* Shared DLLs
* Fonts
* Help File references
* Application Paths
* Icons
* Invalid Shortcuts and more...

Safety:
CCleaner was designed from the ground to be safe and secure to use. It has multiple levels of checks in place to ensure that it cannot delete any useful information or documents you may still need. We also certify that it contains no Spyware or Adware.
High Security:
For the super cautious users we also offer secure file erasing. By overwriting the files before deleting them, making it impossible to recover the data.

Celestia - free space simulation

The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.
All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.
Celestia is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that's not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects.

AppRocket - The keyboad launchpad

AppRocket is a very natural way of accessing all types of files and information on your computer. Just type a few letters of what you are looking for and AppRocket finds it. It's fast, beautiful, and easy-to-use.

Stylish

Approcket has a small uncluttered interface that fits in with any desktop. Dress it how you like with any one of the 8 specially designed styles.

Powerful

Don't let its style and ease-of-use fool you, this is one mighty application. Built with speed and power in mind, AppRocket is solid and will keep up with any power user.

Intelligent

At its heart lies the intelligent AppRocket search engine. This engine actually tunes itself as you use it so that later searches are much more precise.

FSUM 2.52

A fast and handy command line utility for file integrity verification. It offers a choice of 13 of the most popular hash and checksum functions for file message digest and checksum calculation.

Major Features:

Possibility to calculate a file message digest and/or a checksum using any of the 12 well-known and documented hash and checksum algorithms: MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2( 256, 384, 512), RIPEMD-160, PANAMA, TIGER, ADLER32, CRC32; Support of a custom hash algorithm (MD4-based) used in eDonkey and eMule applications; Possibility to act recursively. FSUM can operate not only on files from a specific directory, but also on files from all subdirectories of the specified directory; Work with large size files. (Tested on file sizes of up to 15 GB); Full compatibility with md5sum utility; Full .MD5 and .SFV file formats support; Automatic recognition of checksum file format (.MD5 or .SFV) while checking; Generates/verifies hashes/checksums for files of any type: music, audio, sound, video, image, icon, text, compression, etc., with the extensions: .mp3, .wav, .avi, .mpg, .midi, .mov, .dvd, .ram, .zip, .rar, .ico, .gif, .pif, .pic, .tif, .tiff, .txt, .doc, .pdf, .wps, .dat, .dll, .hex, .bin, .iso, .cpp, .dss, .par, .pps, .cue, .ram, .md5, .sfv, etc.

Details:

The most common use for FSUM is checking data files for corruption. A message digest or checksum calculation might be performed on data before transferring it from one location to another. Making the same calculation after the transfer and comparing the before and after results, you can determine if the received data is corrupted or not. If the results match, then the received data is likely accurate.

ABYSS - Free web server

What is it?
ABYSS aims to be a fully HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Its main design goals are speed, low resource usage and portability. ABYSS works on most UNIX based systems and on Win32 systems (Win95/98/2000/NT).

Why bother writing another HTTP server?
HTTP servers used nowadays are too complex and/or system dependant. This can be explained by two facts:

* They are based on old software (CERN httpd or NCSA httpd) which was written in the beginning of the 90's with no portability or modularity in mind.
* They are getting bigger from version to version as they need to support evolution of standards.

Started as a personal challenge, ABYSS project tries to avoid the mistakes found in the design of other servers. ABYSS characteristics/features are:

* Built from scratch
* Modular
* Customizable: you can build a version which includes only the features you need.
* Highly portable: it is written in ANSI C.
* Low memory use.
* Low system load.
* Tiny: on Linux, the executable size is about 35kB.
* Fast: On stable developement releases, it is 70% as fast as Apache. When using threads, this rate is 130%.

CPU-Z - Free System Information gatherer

CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.

CPU

• Name and number.
• Core stepping and process.
• Package.
• Core voltage.
• Internal and external clocks, clock multiplier.
• Supported instructions sets.
• Cache information.

Mainboard

• Vendor, model and revision.
• BIOS model and date.
• Chipset (northbridge and southbridge) and sensor.
• Graphic interface.

Memory

• Frequency and timings.
• Module(s) specification using SPD (Serial Presence Detect) : vendor, serial number, timings table.

System

• Windows and DirectX version.

Dev-C++

Feature
* Support GCC-based compilers
* Integrated debugging (using GDB)
* Support for multiple languages (localization)
* Class Browser
* Code Completion
* Debug variable Browser
* Project Manager
* Customizable syntax highlighting editor
* Quickly create Windows, console, static libraries and DLLs
* Support of templates for creating your own project types
* Makefile creation
* Edit and compile Resource files
* Tool Manager
* Print support
* Find and replace facilities
* Package manager, for easy installation of add-on libraries
* CVS Support
* To-Do List
* CPU Window

ConTEXT - Free text editor

ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful freeware text editor, developed to serve as a secondary tool for software developers.

• unlimited open files
• unlimited editing file size, 4kB line length
• powerful syntax highlighting for:

• C/C++
• Delphi/Pascal
• Java
• Java Script
• Visual Basic
• Perl/CGI
• HTML
• CSS
• SQL
• FoxPro
• 80x86 assembler
• Python
• PHP
• Tcl/Tk
• XML
• Fortran
• Foxpro
• InnoSetup scripts

• powerful custom defined syntax highlighter
• multilanguage support

• English
• German
• French
• Croatian
• Chinese
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• Estonian
• Esperanto
• Spanish
• Galego
• Italian
• Hungarian
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Russian
• Slovakian
• Polish
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Slovenian
• Turkish

• project workspaces support
• unicode UTF8 support
• code templates
• customizable help files for each file type
• file explorer with favorites list
• file compare
• export to HTML/RTF
• conversion DOS->UNIX->Macintosh file formats
• editing position remembering across files
• macro recorder
• commenting/uncommenting code
• text sort
• normal and columnar text selection
• bookmarks
• search and replace with regular expressions
• search and replace text in all open files
• incremental search with text emphasizing
• C/Java-style block auto indent/outdent
• customizable color printing with print preview
• exporting configuration stored in registry
• customizable syntax highlighter colors, cursors, margin, gutter, line spacing...
• user definable execution keys, depending on file type
• capturing console applications standard output
• compiler output parser for positioning on error line
• powerful command line handler

Crimson Editor

Crimson Editor is a professional source code editor for Windows.

This program is not only fast in loading time, but also small in size (so small that it can be copied in one floppy disk).

While it can serve as a good replacement for Notepad, it also offers many powerful features for programming languages such as HTML, C/C++, Perl and Java.

Syntax Highlighting for HTML, C/C++, Perl, Java, Matlab and LaTeX. Also, it can be extended for other programming languages based on custom syntax files.

ActivePerl - Free Perl distribution

ActivePerl is the industry-standard Perl distribution, available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. Developers worldwide rely on ActivePerl's completeness and ease-of-use, while corporate users protect their infrastructure and stay competitive with quality-assured ActivePerl business solutions.

Complete ActivePerl Package

• Perl
  Binary of core Perl distribution
• Perl Package Manager
  ActiveState's Perl extension installer and manager; allows for easy installation and management of modules and extensions
• Installers
  A variety of installers are available for quick installation of ActivePerl:
  • Windows: Microsoft Windows (MSI) and ActiveState installer packages
  • Mac OS X: Disk image containing the installer package
  • Solaris: Sun and ActiveState installer packages
  • Linux: Redhat, Debian and ActiveState installer packages
  • HP-UX: ActiveState installer packages
  • AIX: ActiveState installer packages

ColorPic

Ever tried using a color picker on a high resolution monitor? It's impossible. That's why this color picker has a magnifier attached. Grab palettes of up to 16 colors at once and use four advanced color mixers to select a spectrum of possibilities.

Features:

• Easily pick any color from the screen
• Totally 100% Free!
• No popup adverts or spyware, it really is free
• Colors shown in hex and decimal
• Adjust Hue, Saturation, Value, Red, Green and Blue values
• Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black percentages shown
• Easy to use with any other program
• Resizable magnification area
• Overlay a grid for quick colorpicker alignment
• Use arrow keys to nudge mouse pointer
• Save multiple palettes of colors automatically
• WebSafe Colors and names displayed
• Snap to nearest WebSafe color
• Point sample, 3x3 or 5x5 pixel color sampling
• Adjust color with four advanced color mixers
• Edit colorpicker values after selection easily
• Easy to use collapsible sections
• Works with Firefox, Internet Explorer, Photoshop and any other application

Partition Resizer

The first free program to resize and move partitions without data loss, is now more complete, with support for disks up to 2TB of size.

New features include:

Int13 extensions support allows handling of disks up to 2TB (2048GB) of size.
New Resizing/Moving engine with simpler inerface. Move and resize your partitions in one step.
Transparent extended partition resizing (no more confusion with extended partitions).
Command line parameters for accessing advanced options (read-only operation etc.).

Partition Resizer is a small DOS executable, which requires no installation, and can perform, all these tasks in a short while, giving you the opportunity to re-arrange your partitions safely, quickly and fuss-free.

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Ethereal Protocol Analyzer

Ethereal® is used by network professionals around the world for troubleshooting, analysis, software and protocol development, and education. It has all of the standard features you would expect in a protocol analyzer, and several features not seen in any other product. Its open source license allows talented experts in the networking community to add enhancements. It runs on all popular computing platforms, including Unix, Linux, and Windows.

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