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RSS Builder – create RSS feeds

http://home.hetnet.nl/~bsoft/rssbuilder

RSS Builder is an easy to use program to create one or more RSS feeds for your web site. It provides a simple interface that lets you add topics, links and content, and then upload the .rss (v 2.0) file to your web server, using the built-in FTP client. License: Freeware Price: Free Windows: 98/ME/2000/XP File size: 414 kb Author: W. Bokkers Version: 1.1 Added: Oct 26, 2004

Tweakomatic

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=bd328d1e-6c01-4447-bd7c-c09646d722c8&displaylang=en

The Tweakomatic is a nifty new utility that writes scripts that allow you to retrieve and/or configure Windows and Internet Explorer settings.
The Tweakomatic is a nifty new utility that writes scripts that allow you to retrieve and/or configure Windows and Internet Explorer settings. So what, you might ask. Well, think about it. Because these are WMI scripts, they can be used to configure settings on remote computers. Need to change something on a remote machine? Then haul out the Tweakomatic. And think about this: because the Tweakomatic writes scripts, you could do something like run these scripts as logon or logoff scripts. In other words, you could quickly, easily, and automatically configure settings on any or all the computers in your organization.

Stealth Web Page Recorder – record web sites visited

http://www.blazingtools.com/swpr.html

Stealth Web Page Recorder is a simple but effective tool, that allows you to record all Internet Explorer web sites that were visited, including contents of password protected pages and web pages which use secure HTTPS connection. It also enables you to record e-mail messages that are viewed, using online email services like HotMail and others. The program logs and records all text on visited pages (not the images), and sorts them by date and site for easy review. It runs completely hidden, and you can configure the program to record all web sites visited, or only the ones you specify. License: Freeware Price: Free Windows: 2000/XP File size: 112 kb Author: BlazingTools Software More: 4 other programs from this author Version: 1.0 Added: Apr 21, 2004

Any Password – organize your passwords

http://www.romanlab.com/

Any Password is an easy-to-use tool that lets you store and arrange all your passwords, UserIDs, and related information in a tree form. The program saves this information in encrypted files which can be protected by password. So, the only thing you need to remember is the password to the file. Any Password can also generate random passwords with specified parameters (length, used characters, etc.) and comes with a search feature to find any stored information using incremental search feature. user and password info can be copied to the clipboard and an associate web URL can be launched in your browser.

License: Freeware
Price: Free
Windows: 98/NT/ME/2000
File size: 610 kb
Author: RomanLab Software
Version: 1.4
Last update: Oct 18, 2004 version history

Baby Album – Basic Edition

http://www.virtualsoft.biz/en/products/babyalbum_basic.html

This software lets you create a complete multimedia baby album for your child by adding pictures, drawings, video clips and even audio clips directly into your pages.

In a few clicks of your mouse, you can create your child’s web site and publish it to the Internet. You can also export your baby album to an executable file to make CD-ROMs you can give to your loved ones, or print it on paper.

This software is the ideal tool to record, keep and share the memories from your child’s life without needing extensive computer knowledge and skills:
- Discover over 40 pages organized in chapters to fill in as your child grows: health record, dental chart, ultrasounds, growth and pregnancy curves, pregnancy calendar, family tree, first Christmas,

BillSniff 1.0.1 – network protocol analyzer

http://ciapek.uci.agh.edu.pl/~kwlodarc/billsniff/

BillSniff is a network protocol analyzer (sniffer) that provides detailed information about current traffic, as well as overall protocol statistics and more. It supports various protocols including ip4, TCP, UDP, IEEE 802.2 frame, Ethernet II frame, NetBios, IPX and others. In addition to real-time monitoring it includes a extensive array of filter options that allow you to limit capture based on IP, Port, Protocol, MAC address, packet size and other criteria, as well as graphical statistics for network layers. You can also use BillSniff to send packets and script custom protocols.
Requires WinPCap

License: Freeware
Price: Free
Windows: 98/ME/2000/XP
File size: 1499 kb
Downl.Time: ~5 min. or less
Author: Website
Release: 10/21/2004

Flash Movie Extractor Scout LITE – extract Flash from the IE cache

http://www.bytescout.com/freeware.html

Flash Movie Extractor Scout LITE allows you to view and save Flash movies (.swf), flash videos and flash games extracted from your Internet Explorer cache. Just open the program and it will automatically list all Flash files that were found in the IE browser cache, click on one to play it, copy the URL or save it as a new file. License: Freeware Price: Free Windows: 98/ME/NT/2000/XP File size: 720 kb Author: Bytescout More: 1 other programs from this author Version: 1.50 Last update: Oct 21, 2004 version history

The Free Medical Dictioanry

http://www.free-medical-dictionary.com/

The Free Medical Dictioanry is a searchable glossary of medical terms from almost all specialties and fields of medicine, including: general medical terminology, pharmaceutical drugs, healthcare equipment, health conditions, medical devices, medical abbreviations, and more.

Some features include: built in spell checking, free updates, easy installation and easy uninstallation. Also, the Free Medical Dictionary does not cause any pop-ups or contain any spyware.

The Free Medical Dictionary is perfect for doctors, researchers, medical students, medical transcriptionists, nursing students and anyone else with medical questions or a need for precise medical information.

Isaac
Freeware

Isaac creates animations, rollover effects, interactive tools,
menus, presentations, site intros, and any other thing your
imagination could suggest. And it does all this by simply
manipulating some images with a visual interface, without writing
code. Isaac produces HTML files that are ready to be copied or
inserted into your web sites. Isaac can also generate animated
GIFs. The animated GIF is now included when exporting, along with
an HTML map for the links, as an alternative if the user disabled
Java.

SharpReader is an RSS/Atom Aggregator

http://www.sharpreader.net/index.html

Main features
Handles all RSS versions, ATOM, modules like dublin core, content:encoding, xhtml:body, etc.
Advanced threading support allowing you to view connected items together in a threaded fashion. SharpReader detects and shows connections between items if they have same link, if one item links to another, if two items both link to the same external webpage, or if an item has comments (for feeds supporting the standard).
Group subscribed feeds into custom categories.
Feed settings like refresh-rate and purge timeout can be set per feed or per category. Category-wide settings apply to all feeds in that category that are still set to “Default” for the setting in question.
Dialog-less way of subscribing to new feeds – just drag a link from your browser into SharpReader, or enter the url into the address-bar at the top.
Feedster integration to easily search weblogs and newssites for specific terms, and even subscribe to such a search to be notified of new results.
Support for proxy-servers and proxy authentication.
Reduces bandwidth by using HTTP Conditional GETs and gzip/deflate encoding.
Minimizes to the system-tray.
Systray popup when new items arrive (can be disabled on a per-feed or per-category basis through the properties pane).
Easy keyboard navigation to go the next or previous unread item.
Import and export your subscriptions using OPML.
Filter items.
International Character-set support.
HTTP Authentication support.

Google Desktop Search BETA
Freeware

http://desktop.google.com

Google Desktop Search is how our brains would work if we had photographic memories. It’s a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, chats, and the web pages you’ve viewed. By making your computer searchable, Google Desktop Search puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails, and bookmarks.

HTMLGate powerful web-editor FREE

http://www.mpsoftware.dk/htmlgate.php

The most efficient and powerful web-editor, whether you're an experienced web professional or just a novice starting with your first web site, it is the complete set of features and tools you need to design, build and publish web sites in less time and with great results! Advanced coding features with syntax support enables you to quickly and instantly create, edit and publish HTML 4, XHTML 2, JavaScript 1.2, VBScript, DHTML, CSS 2.0, PHP 5, ASP, XML, JSP, SSI, WML 1.1, HDML 3.0, SMIL, PERL, SQL and WebTV pages. The FastEdit (WYSIWYG) takes you one further step into better design and the W3's HTML Tidy helps you to easily check and reformat your web-documents after the W3 standard. The TaskPanel includes 7 different code libraries, tag inspector, project manager, 2 file browser, HTML parser and other useful task tools. Nothing less than 100 script samples including DHTML, JavaScript and VBScripts. Other features includes FTP, ToDo Manager, HTML compressor, image effects, image converters, GIF animator, GIF SizeOptimizer and many other exciting features and tools. Finally customize the interface after your mood with 8 new XP themes and change the editor preferences after your needs

PHP Designer 2005 – PHP editor

http://www.mpsoftware.dk/

PHP Designer 2005 (formerly MPS PHP Designer) is an editing environment, specialized for PHP coders. It offers syntax highlighting and an extended code library for PHP, HTML and SQL as well as file browser, built-in FTP, project support and more. The strongest feature is the large number of ready-to-insert functions, that are available for database queries, FTP, file system and many other uses, as well as a full library of PHP resources. A built-in Task Manager allows you to maintain a Todo list of scripts that you are working on. Even though it lacks support for execution and preview of PHP scripts Unless you have Apache installed), the program provides a comfortable environment with many time saving features.

License: Freeware
Price: Free
Windows: 98/ME/2000/XP
File size: 1311 kb
Author: Michael Pham
More: 1 other programs from this author
Version: 2.2.1
Last update: Oct 14, 2004 version history

Outlook Express Freebie Backup – backup OE mail and settings

http://www.oehelp.com/

Outlook Express Freebie Backup allows you to backup and restore your Outlook Express user identity and email (dbx files). The backup can include various registry entries, the blocked sender list, message rules, address book, signatures and more. In addition, it offers several tools to customize OE settings, find DBX files, clone an identity and more.

License: Freeware
Price: Free
Windows: 98/ME/2000/XP
File size: 1075 kb
Author: David Guess
Version: 2.9.0.9
Last update: Oct 12, 2004 version history

Access Manager – password manager

http://www.accessmanager.co.uk/

Access Manager provides fast, easy and secure storage for all your passwords. You can organize passwords into types and categories for easy access and keep notes, web site links and e-mail addresses with each password. Email addresses or web site URLs can be automatically launched from within the program. The program is easy to use and uses a clean MS Outlook style interface and can be protected with a master password. Also included is an option to generate random passwords, search functions, printing of password lists and more. Very nice! Free for personal use.
License: Freeware
Price: Free
Windows: 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Requires: .NET Framework
File size: 1635 kb
Author: Citi-Software Ltd
Version: 2.0.53
Last update: Oct 12, 2004 version history

FLAC Frontend -FLAC is a free, open source, multi-platform, lossless audio compressor

http://members.home.nl/w.speek/flac.htm

FLAC sounds like the ideal audio compression format: Lossless, multiplatform, and open source. To use FLAC files, you’ll need a FLAC compressor. FLAC Frontend makes it easy to encode and decode FLAC files in a drag-and-drop interface.

Version: 1.7
Price: Free

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ActivIcons
Freeware

http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_aifw.html

Change Your Windows Desktop’s Default Icon and Cursor Properties

ActivIcons makes it simple to change properties for various icons
on your Windows desktop and in Explorer, plus attributes for many
other desktop settings. You can save and restore the desktop
layout, repair corrupted icons, increase the size of the Windows
icon cache to prevent future problems, and much more.

You can substitute your own icons for the standard Windows icons
and cursors. In fact, ActivIcons goes through your Registry and
lists out all of the icons found there, so that you can change
those as well. You can even use ActivIcons to display animated
icons on your desktop, or make the icon text labels transparent.

Halloween Colors

http://www.multimedia-ebooks.com/halloween.html

This freeware coloring book lets your kid color Halloween drawings and print them to use as decoration or simply for fun.

Keep the kids busy with this easy to use coloring book. Includes scary music, animation and a collection of 21 drawings to choose from.

Requires a soundcard, color printer and Windows Media Player 6.4 or better with DirectX installed. Version française disponible sur le site.

HashCalc – compute multiple hashes

http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc

HashCalc enables you to compute multiple hashes, checksums and HMACs for files, text and hex strings. It supports MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA1, SHA2 (SHA256, SHA384, SHA512), RIPEMD160, PANAMA, TIGER, CRC32, ADLER32, and the hash used in eDonkey and eMule tools. You can input data from a text string or hexadecimal string, or simply drag a binary file onto the interface. HashCalc can quickly generate all selected hash values, but offers no way to way to easily compare them to an existing value. License: Freeware Price: Free Windows: 98/ME/NT/2000/XP File size: 436 kb Author: Slavasoft Inc. Version: 2.01 Added: Sep 25, 2004

Cerberus FTP Server – FTP server

http://www.cerberusftp.com/

Cerberus FTP Server is a multi threaded Windows FTP server that is designed to use little CPU and memory. it comes with an easy to use interface and can be accessed from the system tray. The server is able to listen for connections on multiple interfaces (Multi-homed PCs), resume failed transfers and offers an easy-to-use manager for controlling user access to files and file operations. Connections limit and timeout and IP access can be controlled by the administrator as well as thread priority settings. In addition, Cerberus FTP Server offers statistics on connections as well as logging abilities. The server adheres to to RFC959 and RFC1123.

License: Freeware
Price: Free
Windows: 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
File size: 633 kb
Author: Grant Averett
Version: 2.22
Last update: Sep 23, 2004 version history

Folder Creator – create multiple folders from a list

http://home.tiscali.no/tonyhome/index.html

Folder Creator is a simple tool that allows you to create large numbers of folders, based on file names in a directory, or folder names defined in a text file. If you want to generate folders based on file names in a directory, you also have the option to exclude the extension from being used in the folder name (will truncate the last 3 characters of any name in the list).

License: Freeware
Price: Free
Windows: 98/ME/2000/XP
File size: 136 kb
Author: Tonys Freeware
Version: 4.197
Added: Sep 30, 2004

EzDNS v1.70

http://www.frantzensoft.com/ezlite.htm

EzDNS publishes your IP address (both local and outside address) and connection information to a remote web page or text file.

Disk Investigator
Freeware

http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/dskinv.html

What is Disk Investigator? – Disk Investigator helps you to
discover all that is hidden on your computer hard disk. It can
also help you to recover lost data. Display the true drive
contents by bypassing the operating system and directly reading
the raw drive sectors. View and search raw directories, files,
clusters, and system sectors. Verify the effectiveness of file
and disk wiping programs. Undelete previously deleted files.