EZBack-it-up v2.0.1

http://www.rdcomp.net/

Just the backup, ma’am. EZBack-it-up doesn’t ask you bewildering questions–it just backs up your data where and when you tell it to do it. It can compare thousands of files in mere seconds. Check EZBack-it-up’s logs to see what it’s done. If even this much attention to backup is more than you can stand, just install the program and schedule regular backups.

EZBack-it-up is donateware. If you like the program, you may want to send the developer money to cover the cost of further developing EZBack-it-up. Download

PolderBackup v2.7 – file Backup

http://www.xs4all.nl/~philippo

It’s easy to forget to back up your computer–after all, no one else relies on your data like you do. PolderBackup not only helps you back up your files, it lets you contribute to a good cause. It lets you back up your data in .zip format. You can select all your data, or you can exclude certain files. PolderBackup can do incremental backup, so you back up only what’s changed.

PolderBackup is free–but if you like the program, you can donate to Polderweg Animal Welfare shelter in honor of the author’s cat, Chita. See the author’s site for details. In addition, the developer has chosen to no longer continue development of the program; however, it does work. Download

Mozilla Calendar

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/download.html

# Calendar for Mozilla Firefox
# Calendar for Mozilla Thunderbird

Welcome to the Calendar Project. We are striving to build a cross-platform fully standards based calendar client based on the open iCal standard. Our client is built using the XUL user interface language and is targeted at Mozilla-based browsers, including the Mozilla Application Suite, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird and the Netscape 7.x series of browsers.

Locked Files Wizard New or Updated

http://noeld.com/programs.asp?cat=misc

The Locked Files Wizard formerly CopyLock is a simple assistant that allows you to replace, to move, to delete and to rename one or more files or folders which are in use by the system or any other process. A command-line version is also available in the package so that you can use it from a Command Prompt or a script. This is the first release of this version so your constructive feedback and bug reports are welcome. This version is intended to replace the current CopyLock. Disclaimer: you can crash your system or make it unbootable if you are not careful, use at your own risk.

HobComment Explorer Extension v1.04 beta

http://www.dr-hoiby.com/CommentExt/index.php

To download this freeware: HobComment104.zip (13KB)
Dr. Hoiby is the author of this little freeware. Code written in C++.
He can be reached at webmaster@dr-hoiby.com.

What is HobComment ?

It’s a little extension for your Microsoft Explorer. It permeets you to add/edit comments for each one of your directories.

RS Somnifero – automatic task launcher

http://www.ricosoftware.net/

RS Somnfero enables you to schedule a single task to take place at a specific time, every X hours/minutes or triggered by CPU activity levels. It offers a choice of system reboot and shutdown options, as well as desktop screen capture, screensaver start, message popup, execute or close a program and more.

License: Freeware
Price: Free
Windows: windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
File size: 1028 kb
Author: Rico Software
Version: 2.7.2005.1397

PPWIZARD – HTML Preprocessor – HTML pre-processor

http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~dbareis/ppwizard.htm

Free powerful but easy to use multiplatform html preprocessor. Includes external files. Imports SQL (and delimited text files). Useful for automated web site development and ensuring a common look and feel. Supports extremely powerful macros and conditional compilation. Probably the most common use of ppwizard is to include external files (such as common bits of html) and to create macros that represent smaller fragments of text such as web or email addresses, logic or both. This allows you to keep common components or definitions in one place and reuse where required.

License: Freeware
Price: Free
Windows: windows 98/NT/ME/2000
File size: 1624 kb
Author: WebSite
Version: 05.115

Money Manager Ex – manage your personal finances

http://www.codelathe.com/mmex/

Money Manager is an easy to use software to manage your personal finances. You can keep track of multiple accounts, manage recurring or upcoming bills and payees, reconcile with your bank statement, create basic reports and more. The program supports checking accounts, savings and credit card accounts, as well as Fixed Deposit and Portfolio accounts. The Outlook-style interface provides an overview for all your accounts and total balance. You can transfer money between account, create custom categories to organize your income/expenses and more. Money Manager provides just the right amount of features to make it convenient, yet simple to manage multiple accounts.

MySQL Keeper – MySQL database backup

http://www.fonlow.com/mysqlkeeper/

MySQL Keeper is a tool to backup, restore, and optimize MySQL database tables. It creates a compressed backup set (zip file) and can be scheduled with Windows Task Scheduler to automate the operations. In addition, it provides an option to run SQL queries and view the query results.

License: Freeware
Price: Free
Windows: windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
File size: 1000 kb
Author: Fonlow
Version: 1.1

Force Delete

http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/W-P/files/fileio/article.php/c1287/

Have you ever tried to delete a file or folder, only to get a Windows error message saying no can do? Maybe you’re having a bad hair day, but more likely the file is being used by a program. Try downloading ForceDel, a utility that works with all Windows versions to force delete the stubborn file. The program runs from a DOS command window (click Start, Run, and type “cmd”). Enter forcedel filename to give the file the boot for good. Download

WhoLockMe Explorer Extension

http://www.dr-hoiby.com/WhoLockMe/index.php

If you're having problems deleting a file, you might consider using WhoLockMe. The program has a handy Explorer extension, which shows which Windows process is locking the file. One click kills the process (a virus, Trojan, spyware, or in my case, a dialog box enhancer), after which you can delete the tenacious hanger-on. Download

Restoration – File Recovery

http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html

There are lots of programs that permanently delete files and recover them, but doesn't just having one on your hard drive make you look like you have something to hide? Restoration can rescue your accidentally deleted files and permanently delete the files you want good-and-gone. It can live on a floppy, so it leaves no trace of its activities. Download

VirtualLab Data Recovery Software v4.8.8

http://www.binarybiz.com/vlab/

There must be fifty ways to lose your data. Whether you accidentally formatted your drive, deleted a folder, or got wrecked by a virus, this program can reunite you with your data. It connects to a powerful recovery server and uses artificial intelligence to compare your scenario to previous data recovery sessions. It works with FAT 12, FAT 16, FAT 32, and NTFS file-systems. It can find the disappearing data from Jaz disks, Zip disks, and digital camera media as well as from a hard drive.

Note: The program itself is free, but there is a charge for the use of the data recovery server. Costs vary with amount of data to be recovered. go to download site

PC Inspector File Recovery v4.x

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

Depending on how your files were lost, it may be hard to recover them. This data recovery program recovers lost files and finds partitions automatically, even when the boot sector of your machine has become damaged or erased. Even when a file's header entry is no longer available, PC Inspector File Recovery can recover the file. The program lets you save recovered files on network drives. It recovers files with the original time and date stamp, so maybe it'll be like nothing ever happened.

Pivot Stickfigure Animator – create animated cartoons

http://www.geocities.com/peter_bone_uk/pivot.html

Pivot Stickfigure Animator is a unique software, that allows you to create stick figure animations easily and without any artistic skills. You can move the sections of the sick figure and easily create a chain of animation frames that can be previewed as you go. You can use more than one stick-figure in the animation, and even create your own stick figures using an easy to use visual editor that lets you assemble objects out of lines and circles. In addition, you can optionally set animation size, speed and more. The result can be saved as animated GIF file. Fun and easy to use, surprisingly well featured. License: Freeware Price: Free Windows: windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP File size: 484 kb Author: Peter Bone More: 1 other programs from this author Version: 2.2.5

Context Menu Editor 1.0 – remove items from the right-click menu

http://www.bartdart.com/

Context Menu Editor allows you to remove non-standard items from the right-click menu of files, folders and Internet Explorer. The program can come handy if previous software installation failed to remove a context menu item, or if you wish to (permanently) remove an item that you dont need. License: Freeware Price: Free Windows: 98/ME/2000/XP File size: 737 kb Downl.Time: ~3 min. or less Author: Website Release: 04/19/2005

Azureus – Best Free BitTorrent Client

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ (4.4MB)
http://bittornado.com/ (3.3MB

It’s amazing how quickly BitTorrent has become one of the major download formats. With good reason, too: it’s fast, equitable and efficient. If you haven’t yet installed a BitTorrent client on your PC, you should as there are some great free clients available. I recommend the Open Source program Azureus. It’s beautifully implemented, well supported and, being Java based, is available for multiple platforms. Of course the Java code will eat up your CPU cycles so you need a reasonably fast PC. Those with older machines should check out BitTornado. It’s also cross platform and is fast and highly configurable as well. Both products are adware and spyware free.

Best Free WebMail Accessory

http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/ (1.3MB)
http://mrpostman.sourceforge.net/ (1.5MB)

http://2mod2.com/mohot/

Best Free Anonymous Surfing Service

http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html

http://tor.eff.org/

There are lots of reasons folks have for wanting to surf anonymously, ranging from simple paranoia to possibly being murdered by a malevolent foreign government. Whatever the reasons, commercial services that offer anonymity are doing real well. However one of the best services JAP, is totally free. In fact JAP is perhaps a little too good. That’s why the German Police insisted in 2004 that a backdoor be put into the product to allow interception of child pornographers. This was done but subsequently removed as a result of court action by JAP. An alternative to JAP is another system called Tor. However the US Navy origin of Tor gives rise to the suspicion that this system may indeed have a permanent backdoor. Whatever, both JAP and Tor offer a level of secrecy that is better than many commercial systems. However expect your surfing to slow down as you’ll be relayed through a chain of servers. You’ll also need to change your browser settings to work through a proxy.

ContentSpring 1.1 – create a web site from Word documents

http://www.contentspring.com/

ContentSpring enables you to create and manage a website directly from MS Word. It can convert selected Word documents, add them to your site structure and automatically upload them to your FTP account. The software includes a plug-in for MS Word, that allows you to convert and publish any document with just a click. You can optionally create templates for your web designs and incorporate them into the generated pages. The website can be published locally (Intranet) or online, and the management interface allows you to browse your site structure, add/remove pages and more. The free version is limited to the use of five folders, which should be suitable for personal use.

License: Freeware
Price: Free
Windows: 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
File size: 6260 kb
Downl.Time: ~20 min. or less
Author: Website
Release: 04/20/2005

Replay Music the best – Launchcast

http://www.replay-music.com/?AID=4135295&PID=1448936&SID=rm

(Shareware – $49/Windows)
Replay Music is a direct sound recording program like Total Recorder, but with a twist. It’s designed specifically for recording MP3 song files – it will take Rhapsody, Napster, iTunes, or internet radio like Yahoo Launch Cast, Music Match Radio, Radio@Netscape, AOL Radio, AccuRadio and make individual MP3 files from each song. Replay Music – record from internet radio stations and music jukebox services

Just play music from your favorite online radio station or streaming music service, and every song is saved on your PC as a high quality MP3 file or WAV file, automatically tagged with the artist and song title, and perfectly separated into individual tracks.

Unlike other recorders which just work with a few ShoutCast stations, Replay Music is the only product that works with ANY music station or streaming jukebox service that broadcasts over the Web.

Replay Music can record from LP’s and cassette tapes. You can even burn songs directly to CDs.
You may use Replay Music 2.0 on more than one PC.

ZeroTracks 2005 – privacy cleaner

http://www.kleinsoft.co.za/

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ZeroTracks 2005 is a privacy cleaner that allows you to remove PC usage history, as well as Internet history and cache files. The Windows cleaning options include all the common location, recent documents, temporary files, MS Office MRU lists and more, as well as an option to decrypt and remove the UserAssist database. In addition, Internet cleaning supports cookies, history, typed URLs, index.dat files and more. Most of the items can be previewed before deleting them, and temporary files can also be wiped by using multiple overwrites.

NetTracker Lite – analyze your website traffic

http://www.nettrackerlite.com/

NetTracker Lite allows you to analyze your website traffic and view reports for visitor statistics, page views, referrers, entry pages, error messages and much more. The program provides a sophisticated browser based interface to manage and view your reports, complete with (3D) pie graphs, bar and line charts and more. You can also export selected reports to .RTF or .CSV format, or send them by email. NetTracker Lite does not offer the advanced features of commercial NetTracker versions, however it offers a full set of features that are more than suitable for most small to medium size sites, that wish to analyze their visitor traffic in depth. It is limited to one website and 1 million page views per report.

License: Freeware
Price: Free
Windows: windows NT/2000/XP
File size: 6253 kb
Author: Sane Solutions, Llc
Version: 7.5

CCleaner – system optimization tool

http://www.ccleaner.com/

CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization tool. That removes unused and temporary files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it's fast! (normally taking less that a second to run) and Free. :)

Title Bar Reader – display test in titlebars

http://www.yayahoohoo.com/tbr/

Title Bar Reader is a freeware that can subtly display texts in the title bar of your foreground active window. There are ample short texts that come with the program by default: these include quotes, proverbs, funny jokes, health tips, language vocabularies, bible and more. You can easily edit existing files and add or remove information. The program is very useful when you want to give your mind a rest between tedious work. You can look at the title bar at any time you like. It doesn’t matter whether you can remember what you are reading, they will display circularly. The only thing you should do is looking at them when you are free and have fun. Moreover, title bar reading is very hard to be found by others. You can keep your reading privacy from people around you. Enjoy it!