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McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme / VersePerfect allows you to enter any word to see rhymes, near-rhymes, similar terms, and more. The program even features a visually interesting "hyperbolic thesaurus" (visible in the screenshot).

Note: Main website links to download.com, which we recommend avoiding. Download link switched to Softpedia.

WifiInfoView scans the wireless networks in your area and displays extensive information about them. This includes Network Name (SSID), MAC Address, PHY Type (802.11g or 802.11n), RSSI, Signal Quality, Frequency, Channel Number, Maximum Speed, Company Name, Router Model and Router Name (only for routers that provides this information) and more.

When you select a wireless network in the upper pane of this tool, the lower pane displays the Wi-Fi information elements received from this device in hexadecimal format. A summary mode is also available that displays a summary of all detected wireless networks, grouped by channel number, company that manufactured the router, PHY type, or the maximum speed.

ColorConsole is an enhanced console with changeable font, style and color. Features include sizable window, multi-tabs, copy/paste/cut function, a fast folder switch, and export to RTF and HTML.

Enchanted Keyfinder (formerly Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder) retrieves the product keys for many products including Adobe, AutoCAD, Macromedia, Sony and more. Microsoft products include Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista, Server 03 and 08, Office 97, XP, 03, 08, and others. Keys are drawn from the registry or from an unbootable Windows installation. You can also copy the key to clipboard, save it to a text file, or print them for safekeeping.

WordWeb is a one-click English thesaurus and dictionary that can look up words in almost any program. It works off-line, but can also look up words in web references such as the Wikipedia. It includes full dictionary and thesaurus for the various English variants including American, British, Canadian, Australian, Indian and global.

A pro version available with additional features.

LockNote works in two ways: it is a notepad that encrypts everything you put inside and also creates copies of itself when you drag-drop a text file into it. You end up with a new EXE that displays the content of that text file when run using the correct password.

WipeDisk is a tool for secure wiping of hard disks (both logical and physical), USB memory sticks and floppy disks to prevent file recovery. By default, the program will wipe a disk and all it's content, but the program includes a "Free Space" wipe, which includes deleted but recoverable files.

Although the "Low 1x" setting should be sufficient for most security needs, it supports 14 wiping methods for very high security, including US Navy, Airforce, DoD and NATO standards. Higher settings are slower.

The developer also makes a program for individual files WipeFile.

Note: No longer listed on the author's website -- linking to Softpedia.

Blender is a powerful, integrated 3D creation software suite with character/solids modeling, animation, rendering, rigging, shading, motion tracking and post-processing tools. It lets users create high quality 3D graphics, movies and replay real-time, interactive 3D content. Its features can be extended with a variety of plug-ins, scripts, templates and more.

Cross platform (Mac, Linux). The program has been used for a wide variety of functions, including VFX, video edition, modeling etc.

Alternatively:

• Blender Portable from PortableApps (~25% smaller and segregates user scripts)
  
• Outdated X-Blender from WinPenPack

Iconus is an icon viewer that lets you view icons via drag-and-drop from various file types including .dll, .exe, .icl, and .ico types. You can easily switch between libraries, extract single icons, view at 16x16 or 32x32 pixels, and fetch the icon's ID.