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MAXA Crypt Mobile allows anyone to easily encrypt files, directory trees, and text. Multiple files can be encrypted and compressed into a single file. Uses the 256-bit AES algorithm.

Adware note: the program shows an "about" page at startup with advertisements for other MAXA tools.

RandomFill randomizes the collection of MP3s to be sent your portable player or software media player. It's most powerful feature is the ability to assign weights to folders: you can set some folders to be often selected from, rarely selected from, or ignored.

The program looks for MP3s in recursively scanned folders and/or M3U playlists, and either copies them for downloading into your portable player, or creates a playlist for your software player. The number of MP3s selected can be set to either a maximum size of them or a maximum playing time.

removableTrezor creates an encrypted data store (a so-called vault or trezor). These password protected stores may be stored in several places (located on several discs, or even several computers). It is a one-user application, and may only be run from one single computer.

Note: Main site is offline -- looking for site mirrors.

SeqDownload downloads an image file on a time scale you set to your local drive. Although this is primarily for "live" images updated frequently on the internet, it can also be used for other types of files.

With this, you can easily create a beautiful animation from the downloaded images or simply watch the historical images on your local download folder. On non-image files, you can make sure you always have the very latest file.

Deletist allows you to delete files and folders sourced from a text file containing their full paths.

Written in AutoHotkey.

Note: Both Deletist.exe and the Deletist process appear as a threat in Ad-Aware. This is believed to be a false positive.

PC Usage Viewer shows the times your computer has been active with no previous setup required. The software doesn't need to run in the background, because Windows tracks login and logoff times (working hours) by default, and the program analyses it.

HTML Batch Editor is a simple text file batch processor designed primarily for HTML files. It can do multi-file search and replace and can strip files of complex formatting and certain more advanced content. Very useful for dealing with folders full of scripts or web pages.

Site offline; linking to archive.org.

WebSiteZip Packer compiles HTML files into a single file (including all graphics, sounds, linked pages, etc.) with an integrated HTML browser. Ideal for e-books, product catalogs, site demos, manuals, and searchable information distribution.

Sites can be packed into a single EXE or viewed with the included, standalone viewer WSZView.exe for the .WSZ format. Also works as a standard HTML viewer.

BackStreet Browser - an automated tool for web sites download and offline browsing. Perform recursive, complete or partial web sites download including all linked pages, images, sounds and other elements.

Note: Version 3.2 appears to have gone payware so download has been redirected to rbytes.net

MoveOut uses rules to move files from the desktop to a subfolder, based on file type, part of a file name, or whatever. Have it ask to replace existing files, or rename them. It can also ignore files.

Written in AutoHotkey.

Visual Terrain Maker is a simple 3D-modeling program allows visually create landscapes (maps) for games or other purposes. The program can export to Direct X file format(*.x). The program is not critical to the video adapters and drivers. Suitable for DarkBasic developers.

Note: The main site no longer lists the program, listing a Softpedia mirror.

Plöp is a simple puzzle game where you jump pegs over each other until there is only one peg left. It includes four unique board layouts.

NoDrives Manager is a free, simple tool for hiding Windows logical
drives by modifying the registry. The hidden drives are still accessible but they are not visible in the Windows Explorer.

RunAsSvc runs normal programs as services so that they are running in
the background, even when no user is logged on.

ADS Manager allows you to open any file in a NTFS filesystem, and manage its alternate data streams, including creating, deleting, modifying, and renaming them. The program also allows you to search directories for files that have alternate data streams.

Streamosaur is an audio recording program that records directly to disk. Streamosaur can use any broadcast from the sound card including microphone, input lines from external mixer and more. Saves in uncompressed WAV format by default, but encoding directly to MP3 (128 kbps) can be enabled.

The advantage to this software is that recordings can be made faster and easier, without drawing from a temporary file in RAM like many other recording programs. Additionally, the only limit to recording time is your drive size.

From the makers of Wavosaur.

ImageBatch is a free lightweight batch converter for images, based on LibGD and EasyBMP graphic libraries. Currently supported image formats are JPEG, PNG, GIF and BMP.

With ImageBatch you can convert your images from one format to another, resize, crop, rotate, flip them and draw watermarks as well.

DVDsig scans all files in a directory structure to verify that files have not been changed or corrupted. Although named for checking external media (DVDs), the program can monitor any folder or folders for changes.

For use with CD/DVDs:

1. Place dvdsig.exe in the top-most folder you wish to check and run the program
2. Click "Scan" and wait for the check program to check all files
3. Burn the files (including dvdsig.exe and dvdsig.md5) to your disk
4. To check the results, run dvdsig.exe from the disk at any time to verify file integrity

Free Numerology Calculator application is a math calculator with numerology functions:

• Calculate Pythagorean and Chaldean
• Consonant Total and Result
• Vowel Total and Result
• Sum of Numeric Distribution of Vowels and Consonants
• Quick Report
• Date Calculator with Calendar
• Math Calculator with Numerology Functions

Generate Thumbnail will resize photos or images in a web image gallery. All the galleries created with Generate Thumbnail are ready to be published or upload on the web (your own site, photo sharing or networking sites such as Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, etc)

Note: Main site offline. Linking to softpedia (thanks juvera)

Manage My Fonts helps install, activate, deactivate, delete, and otherwise manage font files on a computer. Users can manage groups of fonts to activate/deactivate all at once, find fonts needed for newly opened documents, find all installed fonts in a computer system, check font integrity, print font/typeface samples, on-screen font previews, and supply information on font properties.

Functional in 64bit.

ViruClean is a simple virus scanner / cleaner. In short, it looks for and cleans viruses, malware and other unwanted files from your computer.

Note: this program has not been updated since 2010 and may not be effective in protecting against most viruses.

FindFatFolder helps you find folders and file types that are taking up the most space on your hard drive.

File Bucket copies or moves files, folders, and subfolders from one or more locations on your computer and sends them all to a single location. An unlimited number of filters makes for very specialized transfer of files. Potential uses include gathering a wide variety of different file formats (e.g. TXT, ODF, DOC, DOCX) from a large number of directories into one.