Free Exam v1.0 – Create your own exams

http://www.freeexamproject.net/

You should never stop learning or at least trying to learn. There is so much information out there in the world today that is just begging for you to dive into it and pick it up as a hobby or for a career. How can you quiz yourself on these topics of information, though? You can do it with Free Exam, a new freeware application that will allow you to create tests for yourself….

Icon Restore – Restore and Save the Icon Order

http://users.rcn.com/taylotr/icon_restore.html

Icons don't stay put like they should. With Icon Restore, you can order them back to their places. After installing Icon Restore, you can save the icon layout. Then even if you change the screen resolution, you can call your icons back from their wanderings.

Planetarium

Freeware

http://www.free-planetarium.com/

See where Planets are in the sky now, in the past or in the
future. Ideal for students and astronomy beginners.

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CSS Tab Designer – create navigation tabs

http://www.highdots.com/

CSS Tab Designer allows you to easily create a tab style navigation bar from a selection of templates. It includes horizontal designs, as well as some vertical ones, and offers a wide selection of color schemes, as well as several different tab design styles. All you have to do is add your menu items, and save the HTML code to be used in your pages. The program offers preview in multiple browsers, and includes several samples to get started.

License: Freeware
Price: Free
Windows: windows 98/ME/2000/XP
File size: 1064 kb
Author: OverZone Software
More: 1 other programs from this author
Version: 1.0

Webmaster Password Generator – generate strong passwords

http://www.tropicdesigns.net/password-generator.html

Webmaster Password Generator is a powerful and easy to use tool to generate large lists of random passwords. The passwords can be based on different criteria, including length, upper and lower case letters, numbers, special characters and even custom strings. The generated passwords can be copied to the clipboard or saved in a text file (one password per line). The program is suitable for home users to generate a few passwords, but it can also create lists containing thousands of passwords to be used with ISPs, web sites etc. License: Freeware Price: Free Windows: windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP File size: 694 kb Author: Tropic Designs More: 1 other programs from this author Version: 1.20

Keyword Crawler – analyze website keywords

http://www.webkeysoft.com/

Keyword Crawler enables you to explore your website from the view of a search engine. It crawls your pages and generates a list of keywords that were found and list them in order of occurrence. In addition, it can count and display internal links and broken links, word density, and retrieve the Google page rank for each page. Keyword Crawler can also generate a Google XML sitemap for you.

License: Freeware
Price: Free
Windows: windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Requires: .NET .NET Framework
File size: 414 kb
Author: Webkeysoft
Version: 1.1

Daphne – process manager debugging processes

http://www.drk.com.ar/daphne.php

Daphne is an extended task manager, that offers features for killing (terminating), controlling and debugging processes. It allows you to terminate a process by simply dragging the mouse over the window, or by right-clicking the process in the main process list. In addition, you can also terminate multiple processes by using a keyword, or by creating custom kill-lists. Other features include a windows property inspector, options to keep a window on top, set transparency, start/stop services and more. License: Freeware Price: Free Windows: windows 2000/XP File size: 1027 kb Author: Drk Version: 1.16

Firefox + mboverloadPAK – One Firefox Tab Extension to Rule Them All

http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=2291

Firefox’s tabbed browsing is wonderful but the base browser
provides limited control over how the tabs work. There are
several free extensions available that offer more tab
functionality but none gives full control. That’s why, until
recently, I used three tab extensions to get what I wanted:
TabBrowser Preferences, Tab Clicking Options and UndoCloseTab.
Following a suggestion from regular contributor Leib Moscovitz,
I’ve replaced all three with just one that does pretty well the
same thing as the other three combined. It’s called Tab Mix
Plus. It’s a must-have for all Firefox users.

SyncToy v1.0 – copy move rename and delete files between folders and computers

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/synctoy.mspx

SyncToy v1.0 is available as a free download on the Microsoft Download Center. The easy to use, customizable application helps you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers. There are new sources of files coming from every direction: digital cameras, e-mail, cell phones, portable media players, camcorders, PDAs, and laptops. Increasingly, computer users are using different folders, drives, and even different computers (such as a laptop and a desktop) to store and retrieve files. Yet managing hundreds or thousands of files is still largely a manual operation. In some cases it is necessary to get copies of files from one place; in other cases there is a need to keep two storage locations exactly in sync. Some users manage files manually, dragging and dropping from one place to another and keeping a mental card catalog in their heads. Others use one or more applications to provide this functionality for them.

Citrus Alarm Clock – Alarm Scheduler varys by day

http://www.ornj.net/software/citrus/

Freeware

This month’s nifty little freeware for the Windows platform, 95
and up, is a computer alarm clock par excellence. Developed by
Canadian computer graduate student Mark MacIntyre, it is
particularly useful for anyone who has a morning schedule which
varies from day to day.

Easy Duplicate File Finder 

http://www.easyduplicatefinder.com/

Having two of the same file twice doubles the space and adds a dash of confusion. Duplicate File Finder locates duplicate files and folders on all drives and removable devices. This utility lets you compare files and preview graphics files. It also tells you how much space you'd free up by deleting marked files. Duplicate File Finder lets you add search filters–something many duplicate finders don't allow. You can speed up your searches by having it hit only the likely targets. Protect your data by excluding important folders from your searches.

Screenshot Captor – screen capture tool

http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/screenshotcaptor/index.html

Screenshot Captor is a screen capture tool that offers some unique features in addition to the standard screenshot options. You can capture active windows, selected regions, fixed regions, or the entire desktop. The capture can then be enhanced with several blur and shadow effects to emphasize parts of the capture, and you can also add a drop shadow to the entire image. Additional features include automatic saving of files, support for external tools, and more. Screenshot Captor can save images in gif, png, jpg, tiff and other formats. Nagscreen requires free registration.

XPlanner is a project planning and tracking tool

http://www.xplanner.org/

XPlanner is a project planning and tracking tool for eXtreme Programming (XP) teams. If you are not familiar with XP software development practices, the links page contains pointers to relevant resources. To summarize the XP planning process, the customers pick the features to be added (user stories) to each development iteration (typically, one to three weeks in duration). The developers estimate the effort to complete the stories either at the story level or by decomposing the story into tasks and estimating those. Information about team development velocity from the previous iteration is used to estimate if the team can complete the stories proposed by the customer. If the team appears to be overcommitted, the set of stories are renegotiated with the customer. The XPlanner tool was created to support this process and address issues experienced in a long-term real-life XP project.

Encaps2sms – Send Emails to SMS Device

http://powerdev.com.ru/products/2sms/

Version: 0.5.3 (version history)
Size: 102 576 Byte
Date: September 9, 2005
License: Freeware
OS: Win 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Interface: English

Encaps2sms checks your mailboxes, when you leaving computer, and sends
notifications about new messages onto your mobile by sms. You may setup leave
timeout, mailbox access settings, sms sending. After starting, program hides
its main window to

Simple File Joiner – marge files and MPEG movies

http://www.peretek.com/

Simple File Joiner is a simple tools to join multiple files into one. It can be used with many formats, including text and MPG movies as long as they are encoded the same. It can optionally insert a divider between the merged parts.

License: Freeware
Price: Free
Windows: windows 98/ME/2000/XP
File size: 168 kb
Author: Peretek, Inc.
Version: 2.0

Attachment Enabler for Outlook – modify Outlook security settings

http://www.veign.com/download_app.asp?app=109

Attachment Enabler for Outlook is a simple tool, that enables you to modify the Outlook attachment security settings, and add or remove items to the list of protected file extensions.

Requires Outlook 2000, XP, 2003 or later.

License: Freeware
Price: Free
Windows: windows 98/ME/2000/XP
File size: 1312 kb
Author: Veign
More: 4 other programs from this author
Version: 1.0.0.0

ClamAV For Windows – command line anti-virus http://www.sosdg.org/software.php ClamAV For Windows is a Windows command line version of the GPL licensed anti-virus solution. It includes a set of command line tools, including a high speed scanning daemon, that can be used to scan computers for viruses, or used by mail servers or proxy servers (via command line) to clean incoming messages. The program offers free definition updates and comes with detailed (PDF) documentation. Suited for advanced users only. License: Freeware Price: Free Windows: windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP File size: 5989 kb Author: The Summit Open Source Development Group Version: 0.87-1

Process Patrol – advanced process manager – auto termination

http://www.processpatrol.com/

Process Patrol is a process manager with the ability to handle annoying programs that keep restarting themselves, even after they are terminated. Unlike regular TaskManagers, it kills the process and then immediately renames the file, so that additional attempts to relaunch the file will fail. It provides a task manager that shows currently running processes and allows you to mark selected items as safe, or add them to the Stop List. The program can run in the background and scan your running processes every X minutes. If a Stop List item is found running, it will stop it and automatically rename the process for a specified time period (then restore the original name). Another handy feature allows you to quickly retrieve Google information for any running process, using a built-in browser view. The program is mostly useful for users that try to keep particular adware or other annoyances from starting, without having to remove the entire package. This is not a spyware/adware scanner, nor a removal tool. Process Patrol is intended for advanced users that know what they are doing. License: Freeware Price: Free Windows: windows 98/ME/2000/XP File size: 2339 kb Author: Grand Bytes Software Version: 1.02

GB-PVR – Personal Video Recorder

http://www.gbpvr.com/

What is GB-PVR? GB-PVR is a fully featured Personal Video Recorder (PVR), allowing you to schedule TV recordings and view and pause live TV. In additional to this PVR functionality, it also acts as a media center allowing you to watch movies, listen to music, view pictures and listen to FM radio. GB-PVR also hardware decoders like Sigma Designs XCard, Hauppauge PVR350 and Hauppauge MediaMVP. GB-PVR supports multiple tuners.

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License: Freeware
Price: Free
OS: Windows2000,WinXP
File Size: 5.68 MB
Company: GB-PVR
Version: 0.94
Last Update: 2005-09-17

VisualHash – hash calculator

http://www.dominik-reichl.de/

VisualHash is a hash calculator that enables yo to calculate hash sums of files and text snippets. It offers a drag and drop interface that can process multiple files at once. The program is fairly simple and does not allow you to compare or validate hashes, however it supports a large number of algorithms, and you can choose to generate as many of them as you need. The list of computed hashes can be copied to the clipboard. Supported algorithms include Adler-32, Cksum-32, CRC-16, CRC-16-CCITT, CRC-16-XModem, CRC-32, CRC-32-MPEG2, CRC-64, ELF-32, FCS-16, FNV-32, FNV-64, GOST, MD2, MD4, MD5, PJW-32, SDBM-32, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, Sum-32 and XUM-32 and many more. (Open Source)

License: Freeware
Price: Free
Windows: windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Requires: .NET .NET Framework
File size: 72 kb
Author: Dominik Reichl
Version: 1.0

XML Viewer – view and edit XML files

http://www.mindfusion.org/product1.html

MindFusion`s XML Viewer lets you examine the contents of an XML file and also make make modification to the XML code. You can insert, edit and delete items as well as add and delete properties to existing items. Additional features include drag and drop support and a search function.

License: Freeware
Price: Free
Windows: windows 98/ME/2000/XP
File size: 1678 kb
Author: MindFusion Group
Version: 2.0

ShellMenuView- view and disable shell extensions

http://www.nirsoft.net/

ShellExView lets you view all installed shell extensions. If available, it displays the description, as well as version details, company information, location, file name and more. You can optionally disable/enable any item, which can be very useful to disable an extension, that you don t need or that has been left behind in your right click menu from a previous software install.

ShellMenuView, Shell Menu View, shellexview, shellex view

Home Ftp Server – ftp server

http://downstairs.dnsalias.net/

Home Ftp Server is an easy to use FTP server, intended for personal usage, that allows you to share files directly from your PC. You can set up user accounts, specify directory permissions and monitor access to individual files. It supports virtual directories, banned IP addresses and offers a web based administration interface that lets you add users and view current statistics. License: Freeware Price: Free Windows: windows NT/2000/XP File size: 1354 kb Author: Ari Pikivirta More: 2 other programs from this author Version: 1.0.7.46

XMPlay is an audio portable player

http://www.un4seen.com/

XMPlay is an audio player, supporting the OGG / MP3 / MP2 / MP1 / WMA / WAV / CDA / MO3 / IT / XM / S3M / MTM / MOD / UMX audio formats, and PLS / M3U / ASX / WAX playlists. A load more formats are also supported via plugins. When XMPlay was first released in 1998, only the XM format was supported, hence the name “XMPlay”.

Linux, Mac OSX or PocketPC user? Want to enjoy the same quality MOD playback as XMPlay users? You can… BASSMOD

Foxit PDF Reader Free – Portable

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/

A free reader/viewer/printer for PDF documents. Unlike Adobe® Reader, this one has size less than 1M, needs no installation and opens up immediately.