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BrowsingHistoryView v1.31 Updated

Checker on 14 May 2013
  • 362KB (uncompressed)
  • Suggested by Checker

BrowsingHistoryView reads the history data of popular Web browsers Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Chrome Canary, SeaMonkey and Safari, and then displays the browsing history in one table. Includes Visited URL, Title, Visit Time, Visit Count, Web browser and User Profile. BrowsingHistoryView allows you to watch the browsing history of all user profiles in a running system, as well as to get the browsing history from an external hard drive.

You can also export the browsing history into csv/tab-delimited/html/xml file from the user interface, or from the command-line.

Category:
System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch BrowsingHistoryView.exe.
What's new?
  • Added option to get the history from Internet Explorer API, instead of reading the file directly. (Available only when loading the history of the current user).

JPEG & PNG Stripper v1.5.5.60

Andrew Lee on 12 Feb 2013

JPEG & PNG Stripper is a drag-and-drop metadata stripper/cleaner for one or more JPG/JPEG, JFIF and PNG files, saving disk space and protecting privacy. Metadata carries a variety of information about the camera or device used to take the picture, date it was taken, and other data primarily important for photographers. Because metadata increasingly carries more and more information about the pre-cropped original photo and on where the picture was taken (geo-location), metadata can represent a privacy risk. Deleting metadata usually saves between 1 and 10% of the overall file size.

Category:
System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: User profile folder. But given the nature of the application and the small number of settings it exposes, I think it can be accepted as portable.
Stealth: ? No
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Stripper.exe.
Latest comments
u64 on 2010-06-18 05:49

Smallest images possible without loosing quality.

jpg2jpg.bat
for /R .\ %%1 in (*.jp*) do jpegtran -optimize -perfect -copy none -progressive "%%1" "%%1"
jscl -d -j -n -r -s *.jp*
contig/s *.jp*

png2png.bat
cmd /c "start /b /low /wait cmd /c for /R .\ %%1 in (*.png) do for /L %%j in (1,1,5) do pngout /f%%j "%%1""
deflopt -abdr *
contig/s *.png

Carbonize on 2010-08-29 17:42

Metadata in images is just the same as tags in audio files. They are used to store useful information (OK some of the information is not not that useful to most of us like what camera took the pic). Would be better if this program gave you a list of common metadata and let you tick those you didn't want it to remove.

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Advanced Onion Router v0.3.0.18b Updated

SYSTEM on 5 May 2013
  • 10MB (uncompressed)
  • Suggested by Vector

Advanced Onion Router is designed to bypass various barriers with a secure, anonymous Internet connection. The program attempts to circumvent firewalls, website censorship, web tracking tools, and more. Allows user of almost any application that connects to the Internet. Unlike similar clients that require a configurable proxy, AOR is able to "force" a program to use the Tor network.

Note: instructions for making Tor editions of Opera, Firefox, and Chat are included in the "Help" directory.

Category:
System Requirements: WinAll / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Various Open Source
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch AdvOR.exe.

Optionally, go to the "System" menu in options and check "Try to write to disk less frequently". This is ideal for increasing the life of drives running from flash memory.
Similar/alternative apps: PortableTor
What's new? 2013-04-23 Advanced Onion Router 0.3.0.18b
  • corrected: the variable IdentityAutoChange was initialized with a wrong value (thanks to anonymous for reporting this error on sf.net)

2013-04-22 Advanced Onion Router 0.3.0.18a
  • corrected: a duplicate variable name "iplist" (a pointer in dlg_bypassbl.c and an array in routerlist.c) caused a pointer to be overwritten with the first IP address that was shown in the "Select IP" system tray menu (thanks to anonymous for reporting this error on sf.net)

2013-04-20 Advanced Onion Router 0.3.0.18
  • corrected: when updating some settings from the "Private identity" page with new language strings, a program restart was needed
  • new option on the "Bypass Tor blacklists" page: "Save node statistics to exclude nodes that were restarted and have the same IP"; the list of IPs of exit nodes can be saved to a file to better estimate their longevity at a later time, for detecting new nodes with a better accuracy (ExitSeenFlags)
  • new option on the "Bypass Tor blacklists" page: "Assume blacklists remove IPs that were not seen for [time_interval]"; IPs of nodes that were no longer seen for a long period of time can be automatically removed from AdvOR-iplist.dat to allow re-using IPs with websites that use blacklists that remove old entries (ExitMaxSeen)
  • the "Hidden services" configuration page now has checkboxes near all configured hidden services to allow enabling/disabling them during AdvOR runtime (requested by anonymous on sf.net); all checkboxes are enabled by default and their state is not saved to AdvOR.ini
  • updated language strings: 3260, 3261

2013-04-05 Advanced Onion Router 0.3.0.17
  • corrected: possible buffer overflow in GetConnInfo() (thanks to anonymous for reporting this error on sf.net)
  • the procedure initmemunits() was moved from dlg_connections.c to dlg_util.c
  • new configuration option: IdentityAutoChange
  • new option on the "Private identity" page: "Show a completion MessageBox"; this option can be used to disable the message box shown when the identity is changed (IdentityFlags)
  • new option on the "Private identity" page: "Every [time_interval] change my IP|identity"; this option can be used to automatically change the exit IP or the identity at a specified time interval (IdentityFlags, IdentityAutoChange); when this option is enabled, next IP is selected according to the configured exit selection algorithm (details in the help file)
  • geoip_c.h was updated with GeoIPCountryWhois.csv released on April 2nd; there are 169256 IP ranges having 455 ranges in the fake "A1" country; 451 ranges were approximated to real countries
  • updated language strings: 3247, 3248, 3249, 3250, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3254, 3255, 3256, 3257, 3258, 3259

2013-03-20 Advanced Onion Router 0.3.0.16c
  • corrected: if server mode was disabled while AdvOR was in hibernation mode, when reconnecting to the OR network the server identity key remained set while server mode was disabled, triggering an assert in get_server_identity_key() (thanks to anonymous for reporting this problem on sf.net)

2013-03-19 Advanced Onion Router 0.3.0.16b
  • corrected: when changing server mode settings, dns_launch_correctness_checks() could had been called before configuring the name servers (thanks to anonymous for reporting this problem on sf.net)

2013-03-18 Advanced Onion Router 0.3.0.16a
  • corrected: the "Hidden Services" page was initialized with the resource identifier of another page (thanks to anonymous for reporting this problem on sf.net)
  • the AdvOR.ini sample for Firefox was updated to work with the latest "Tor Browser" package from torproject.org
Latest comments
maxos on 2011-07-19 13:35

Yes, webfork. I need more info please. Here's the forum I'm posting in
http://nemesis.te-home.net/Forum/2350_Advanced_TOR/20110629_advOR_is_ingenius__Thanks_for_this_beauty__Add_a_d.html?post
Thank you
Hussein Maxos

Qoz on 2011-09-04 15:36

Opera 11.51 usb + AdvOR 0.3.0.1e
http://my.opera.com/Recheck/blog/opera-re-usb-international
Screenshot
http://ompldr.org/vYTc2YQ/en-03.png

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CCleaner v4.01.4093 Updated

Checker on 25 Apr 2013
  • 11MB (uncompressed)
  • Suggested by Ennovy

CCleaner is a system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused, temporary, and log files from your system, as well as cleaning traces of your online activities such as Internet history and flash cookies. Contains a separate registry cleaner and can optionally use wipe features for both deleted files and drive free space.

See the official documentation for information on generating a list of covered programs search for "Export". An unofficial set of community developed cleaning rules can be found here however it should be noted that many of these rules are alpha and the developers will not provide support for these rules, a thread in the users forum is dedicated to supporting the add-on rules.

A 64-bit version is available (within the folder).

Category:
System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Administrator rights under Windows Vista or above
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch CCleaner.exe.
What's new?
  • Improved History cleaning for Google Chrome.
  • Improved compatibility with Firefox v19 and newer.
  • Optimized Registry cleaning algorithm for Windows 8.
  • Improved Internet Explorer 10 compatibility.
  • Improved Duplicate File Finder tool.
  • Optimized System and Browser Monitoring (Pro Version).
  • Added cleaning for Adobe Acrobat XI, VSO Blu-ray and DVD Converter Ultimate, Oxygen XML Editor 14 and Connectify Hotspot.
  • Improved cleaning for Google Earth and MailWasher Pro.
  • Minor GUI improvements.
  • Minor bug fixes.
Latest comments
Shadeclan on 2012-09-14 19:02

Can't live without this app. I don't know how many problems I've fixed, with others' computers as well as my own, just by running CCleaner once.

guinness on 2012-09-26 12:40

WinApp2.com has just push the 1000 programs mark for cleaning additional applications that CCleaner doesn't.

Ganamyde on 2013-03-26 18:53

Here is an updater for it, it also has an option to update Winapp2
http://heilnizar.deviantart.com/art/CCleaner-CCleaner-Winapp2-Updater-312311257

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IECookiesView v1.75 Updated

Checker on 6 Apr 2013
  • 149KB (uncompressed)
  • Suggested by AlephX

IECookiesView is a small utility that displays the details of all cookies that Internet Explorer stores on your computer, view and search through them, deleting the unwanted cookies etc.

Category:
System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Windows registry. I am accepting this as portable because it can be used to quickly locate and remove unwanted cookies in a crunch. Be warned that all UI settings are written to the registry, so any UI configuration you make is reset when you run the app on a different machine.
Stealth: ? No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch iecv.exe.
What's new?
  • Added limited support for Internet Explorer 10.0. On IE10, the cookies index file (index.dat), which stores information about every cookie file, is no longer used. Instead, the information is stored in .edb database which is locked for reading/writing by another process.
    Due to this change, when reading the cookies of IE10, the upper pane displays only partial information and some of the other features may not work properly.
Latest comments
Shodan on 2007-12-31 06:15

Now this great little utility saves it's settings in the local folder making it totally portable. THANK YOU, Nir !

MiDoJo on 2008-01-23 13:43

1.71 works for ie7 (even though nirsoft does not claim it) it also works for vista (with the caveat that you cannot get rid of the signature warning even if you unblock in the file properties) 1.70 Works with Vista/ie7/portably but does write some items to registry

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