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Offline CD Browser – index and catalog removable drives

http://hem.spray.se/anders.peterson/

Offline CD Browser allows you to index and catalog your removable drives to get your files organized and categorized. By indexing your drives (or folders), you can quickly locate files stored on CDs without having it inserted in your drive. You can also browse through the content of disconnected network drives or simply email an image of your hard drive to a friend. The create catalogs can also be encrypted.

License: Freeware
Price: Free
Windows: windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
File size: 2851 kb
Author: Anders Petersson
Version: 3.1.15
Last update: Jul 24, 2002

CD Reader – Recover corrupt cds

http://alievrenkut.sitemynet.com/cdreader/id1.htm

This program written for recovering datas from corrupted cds. It
can reread for recovery, but main goal of program is doing this
very fast, also prevent computer become non-reacting. For this
you must use CD-ROM drive thats data cable must not share hdds
cable. Using a CD-RW drive also speed up, and can recover more
data.

Disk Investigator – raw access to harddrive

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

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.

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Textpattern easy-to-use content management system for all kinds of websites

http://textpattern.com/faq/119/what-are-the-system-requirements

Textpattern A free, flexible, elegant, easy-to-use content management system for all kinds of websites, even weblogs.

When it comes to publishing on the internet, beginners and experts alike are met with a bothersome paradox: word processors and graphics applications allow anyone to do a pretty good job of managing text and images on a personal computer, but to make these available to the worldwide web – a seemingly similar environment of documents and destinations – ease of use vanishes behind sudden requirements for multilingual programming skills, proficiency in computer-based graphic design, and, ultimately, the patience of a saint.

Those who soldier on anyway may find themselves further held back by the web’s purported inflexibility with written language, with its reluctance to cope with all but the plainest of text, or by the unpredictable results brought about by using ‘WYSIWYG’ web editors.

LifeType is an open-source blogging platform

http://www.lifetype.net/

pLog, one of the world’s leading open source Weblog platforms this week announced its change of name to LifeType. LifeType is a multi-user, multi-weblog platform equally suited for blog-hosting and personal weblog installations based on PHP and MySQL.
The steadily growing popularity of pLog through out the last year made Amazon.com aware of the weblog project. Amazon has registered the word “plog” as a trademark before the pLog weblog project started back in 2003.
They contacted the project team, kindly offering them support for registering new domains and re-branding their whole project.
On November the 1st, the official transition from pLog to LifeType started with the going public of three project websites: LifeType.net is the main project site providing support forums and documentation through a wiki, LifeType.de for the German community and LifeType.org.tw for the Chinese speaking community.
It doesn’t look like anything was lost in the transition from pLog to LifeType either. There are still many great features, no mater what the name might be.
Some of these include: a user friendly interface, integrated media management, an anti spam filter and more. So give LifeType a shot and let me know what you think about this great open source project.

Cascade DTP – visual style sheet creation

http://www.price-media.demon.co.uk/

Cascade DTP lets you visually design a CSS driven page layout, complete with font selections, colors, background and more. You can visually arrange the text areas and position graphics as you go – Cascade DTP will generate the style sheet code for you and can save it as complete HTML page or let you copy the CSS code to be used with your favorite HTML editor. Additional features include optional design grids, scrollbar scheme editor, browser preview and more. License: Freeware Price: Free Windows: windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP File size: 2132 kb Author: Price Media More: 1 other programs from this author Version: 4.0.20

CommandBurner – command-line CD/DVD burner

http://www.commandburner.com/

CommandBurner is a simple CD/DVD burning utility that offers burn functionality via the command-line for integration with other programs, scripts and batch files. It also offers a simple user interface as alternative to the command-line usage. You can choose to burn either a single file or an entire folder. License: Freeware Price: Free Windows: windows NT/2000/XP File size: 2780 kb Author: Cortex It Version: 3.3.1

CloneCD 5.2.6.1 – Copy any CD raw read

http://www.slysoft.com/clonecd.html

CloneCD is the ideal tool to make backup copies of your music- or data CDs, regardless if they are copy protected or not! CloneCD’s award-winning user interface copies almost any CD in just a few mouse clicks! CloneCD allows you to create excellent 1:1 copies of your valuable original discs. E.g., should your copy protected music cd not play in your car audio, the backup created with CloneCD will! Combine experience and innovation: choose the classic of the CD copying applications. Many years of experience, direct communication with customers and constant optimisation of the Copy-Kernel makes CloneCD the highest quality copying application around.

Active Query Builder Free Edition – Delphi Component

http://www.activequerybuilder.com/featurematrix.html?show=vcl

Active Query Builder is a query builder component suite for Borland Delphi 6, 7, 2005 and C++ Builder 6 that allows your end-users to build complex SQL queries via an intuitive visual interface. It differs from other query builders by its powerful SQL parser that correctly handles SQL queries containing multiple nested joins and other fine points of SQL syntax. Another feature is the powerful graphical engine that allows you to build queries involving unions, nested joins and sub-queries.

The interface of Active Query Builder for Delphi is similar to either MS-Access or SQL Server visual query construction interface, but is much more powerful compared to other similar components. The unique features of Active Query Builder for Delphi such as the ability to build queries with unions and subqueries make it the best solution for professional developers.

Active Query Builder supports SQL Server, Oracle*, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Interbase/Firebird, SQlite and ANSI-92 SQL dialects. The sophisticated Active SQL parser can translate any valid SQL statement into it’s visual representation. You can use BDE, ADO and ZeosDBO database connectivity components and Generic event-driven metadata provider to get metadata information from any data source.

The component may be integrated into a Delphi or C++ Builder application with just a few lines of code. Unlike many other query building solutions for Delphi, Active Query Builder does not force the programmer to use the embedded data grid, SQL editor or anything else. Instead, it allows you to integrate any accompanying tools into your application as quickly and easily as possible. The product is shipped with detailed help system and a demo application to help you quickly master the product.

There are two editions available: the Standard Edition and the Free Edition. The Free Edition is fully functional, but supports only the ANSI-92 SQL dialect. Output filters in RTF and HTML are also not included in the Free Edition.

VisualSniffer 2.0 – Report spyware

http://www.biovisualtech.com/vindex.htm

Downloads: 172
Developer: BVTech Inc | More programs by this producer
License: Freeware
Price: FREE
OS: Windows All
Size: 3.07 MB
Download time: 56K: 7m 29s 64K: 6m 32s 128K: 3m 16s 768K: 32s
Last Updated: November 25th, 2005 09:01 GMT
Category: C: Network Tools Protocol Analyzers/Sniffers
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VisualSniffer is a powerful packet capture tool and protocol analyzer (ip sniffer or packet sniffer) for Windows system. VisualSniffer can be used by security professionals and LAN administrators for network monitoring, network traffic logging and intrusion detection.

VisualSniffer can also be used by network programmers for checking what the developing program has sent and received, or others to get a full picture of the network traffic. For example, parents may want to know what kids are doing online. If you stored important data in your PC, you may need to detect whether your data is sending out by some “Adware” or “Spyware”. If you are a student, you may want to know how your network is working and the mechanism of each network protocol.

Codec Pack (Standard)

http://www.cole2k.net/?display=CP-S

The Cole2k Media standard codec package features a collection of codecs and filters for encoding/decoding a large variety of video/audio formats. Components include: ffdshow Video Codec 20051115. On2 Technologies VP7 Video (Decoder) Codec 7.0.8. On2 Technologies VP6 Video (Decoder) Codec 6.4.2. InterVideo DVD Filter 7.0.27.130. InterVideo Audio Filter 7.0.27.130. CyberLink DVD Video/SP Filter 6.0.0.1006. CyberLink AC3 Filter 6.0.0.1027. RadLight PVA Splitter 1.0.0.0. AVI AC3/DTS Converter + DTS/AC3 Filter. Core FLAC Filter 0.4.0.46. Core WavPack Filter 1.0.3. RadLight APE Filter 1.0.0.4. RadLight MPC Filter 1.0.0.4. RadLight OFR Filter 1.0.0.1. RadLight TTA Filter 1.0.0.0. Sony ATRAC3 0.98 ACM (MDLP2). DivX ACM Audio Codec. DSP-worx MOD Filter 0.60. DSP-worx MP3 Filter 1.30. Haali Media Splitter 14/11/2005 – For MP4, MKV and AVI carrier files. 4Front Headphones plugin 1.0c. VSFilter 2.33 (Unicode) – Subtitle Reader. XCD Filter – Also known as Form 2 Mode 2 CD.

Aurora Password Manager – secure password manager

http://www.animabilis.com/

Aurora Password Manager is a secure password manager that lets you store all your logins, credit cards and other personal information in a AES-256 encrypted database. You can organize your accounts in categories, mark them with different icons and quickly copy username and password to the clipboard. The program includes features such as expiration dates, a random password generator, password history tracking, automatic backup and more. Does not yet include documentation.

License: Freeware
Price: Free
Windows: windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
File size: 1156 kb
Author: Animabilis Software
Version: 1.1

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/downloads/trial-software.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editions/express/redistregister.mspx

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition is free to download, has no time limits, and is freely redistributable (with registration). With a database size limit of 4 gigabytes (GB) and support for 1 CPU and up to 1 GB of RAM, SQL Server 2005 Express Edition is suitable for application embedding or lightweight application development.

Cobian Backup – backup tool

http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/

Cobian Backup is a small and simple utility to backup files and directories from some place in your computer to another place in the same computer or to a shared drive in another machine.You can set the program to automatically make a backup within regular intervals of time, for example daily, weekly etc. Cobian Backup offers additional support for PKzip compressions and can be run as a service under NT/2000/XP.

License: Freeware
Price: Free
Windows: windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
File size: 5742 kb
Author: WebSite
Version: 7.4.0.323

MicroBackup2005 – backup tool

http://www.sadhusystems.com/

MicroBackup2005 is an easy to use folder backup tool for basic backup demands. It offers ZIP compression to created dated archives and can create automatic backup in regular intervals, or manually on demand. The program can store your backups in a single (incremental) backup archive, or create new archives for every backup.

License: Freeware
Price: Free
Windows: windows 98/ME/2000/XP
File size: 2209 kb
Author: Sadhusystems
More: 4 other programs from this author
Version: 1.1.3.3

Excel Invoice Template a billing software & invoice software based on Excel

http://www.office-kit.com/free-invoice-template/

Excel Invoice Template, a billing software & invoice software based on Excel, provides a Fill In The Blank invoice form and is capable of creating and calculating invoices. The template shows quantity, description, unit price, taxable status, and amount per line. Sub-total, tax and total amount are computed from the line items automatically. The template offers a What You See Is What You Get invoice form. If you know how to use Microsoft Excel, you know how to use Excel Invoice Template. As an Excel template, all Microsoft Excel features are available to you, from simple formatting, such as replacing default fonts and colors, to more advanced moving and merging cells.

VH Screen Capture Driver v1.3.0 – DirectShow filter screen capture

http://www.hmelyoff.com/index.php?section=4

VH Screen Capture Driver is a DirectShow filter, which emulates Video Capture card and captures screen activity. The filter can be used with any DirectShow-based application (which you like) as capture source.

CoffeeCup Privacy Cleaner 2.0 – erase Internet tracks

http://www.coffeecup.com/privacy-cleaner/

CoffeeCup Privacy Cleaner allows you to clean your Internet and computer usage history, either on demand or automatically. The cleaning options include cookie management, history, visited websites, typed URLs, Temp folders and more. You can optionally run the program in stealth mode and on a regular schedule, and it also provides an option to securely erase the files rather than using the conventional delete method. Additional features include IE Home Page protection, Boss Key, and more. It offers support for Internet Explorer, Opera and Netscape browser.

License: Freeware
Price: Free
Windows: 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
File size: 2829 kb
Downl.Time: ~9 min. or less
Author: Website

Rename Master v2.6.1 – Mass Rename of files

http://www.joejoesoft.com/rm.php

Rename Master is a FREE utility for renaming large groups of files with a few clicks. Anyone that has worked with websites, file archives, or collections of music, videos, or pictures has probably spent way too much time renaming hundreds of files.

This utility will add, remove, or replace parts of the filename with ease and also supports renaming via file properties, MP3 tags, JPEG JFIF and EXIF tags. Batch renaming that’s simple to use, yet still very powerful.

Periodic Table XP

http://www.mskprathap.com/periodictablexp.html

Periodic Table XP is a simple but effective digital version of Modern Periodic Table. Periodic table is the most important chemistry reference which arranges all the known elements in an informative array. It contains an enormous amount of important information. This program was written mainly with an intention of providing help to students of chemistry at all levels. Using Periodic Table XP, one can quickly determine a significant amount of information such as Atomic Weight, Oxidation State, Boiling Point, Melting Point, Density, Electron Configuration, Acid/Base Properties, Atomic Volume, Atomic Radius, etc. of an element. It uses IUPAC approved naming Scheme.

Desktop Calendar XP – Desktop Calendar

http://www.mskprathap.com/desktopcalendarxp.html

Time is an important value for each and every one of us. We are always looking at a clock, looking at a watch, looking at a calendar. Time is money. So if time is money, wouldn’t you rather spend your time with a desktop calendar that is worth that time? I’m not going to ask for any money though, because Desktop Calendar XP is totally free.

Screamer Radio 0.3.7 – Internet radio player and recorder

http://www.screamer-radio.com/

Screamer Radio is a simple to use Internet radio player and recorder. Supported stream formats include Shoutcast/Icecast (mp3 and ogg) and Windows Media Audio. Latest Changes: * Balloon popups in tray * New copy to clipboard option, copy the playlist URL * It's now easier to select language file, Settings -> Language * Single song recording mode, enable it in the recording menu * Updated BASS binaries * Bug fixes and tweaks

Visual CD – disk cataloging tool

http://boozet.xepher.net/

Visual CD is a disk cataloging tool to index data CDs, floppy disks, hard drives and even folders. Once indexed, you can explore the CD catalogs, search files and folders without having the physical disk in the drive. A built-in favorites manager allows you to easily manage multiple catalogs, and a powerful search feature lets you search across multiple catalogs. The program comes with several additional options, you can split files into smaller pieces, extract ZIP, RAR and CAB archives, rename files, copy the entire CD to a new location and more. Visual CD provides a clean and attractive interface and optional Explorer integration from the right click menu. License: Freeware Price: Free Windows: windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP File size: 1990 kb Author: Budy Setiawan Kusumah Version: 2.0

DivX2Mp4 v1.5 – Convert MPEG4 to XVID 3ivx divx4-5

http://www.risingresearch.com/en/divx

Small utility for converting AVI-files of a format MPEG4, compressed Microsoft MPEG4 codec in a format DivX or Angel Potion and back, XviD, 3ivx to DivX 4&5 and back. At converting in a AVI-files is only replaced the heading without any changes data.

Time Calculator Pro v2 – utility to perform arithmetic on time units

http://www.m-azlan.com/software/tcpro/index.html

Time Calculator is a useful little utility to perform arithmetic on time units. Unlike ‘regular’ calculations, time values are different. Sixty seconds make a minute, sixty minutes an hour etc. Adding, subtracting, dividing and multiplying time units can be a tedious task. Not anymore! With Time Calculator, you can do all those things easily using a graphical interface that looks just like a calculator. It’s an excellent and useful addition to your software utility collection.