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Text Editor Anywhere is a small tool that allows you to edit text anywhere with one or more text editors. This allows the use of advanced features (like auto-completing, spell checking and syntax highlighting) available in various external editors.

Quick Checksum Verifier checks file integrity with standard algorithms like MD5 and SHA-1. Also supports command-line arguments.

64-bit version available from website.

Xenu's Link Sleuth checks websites for broken links. Verification is done on "normal" HREF links, as well as images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts, and java applets. It displays a continuously updated list of URLs which you can sort by various criteria. A report can be produced at any time.

WinSock Repair resets the Windows Sockets API (WinSock for short) configuration to defaults or clean state. This service defines how networking software should access network services. Many users come into contact with Winsock after experiencing connection problems that are usually related to this API. The connection problems Winsock Repair can solve include losing network connections, DNS lookup problems, websites becoming unavailable, limited network connections plus many more.

Note: New version has a new name: Complete Internet Repair. Linking to Softpedia for old version.

Lacuna Launcher uses a single shortcut with a list of files to open all at once. Applications (.exe), shortcuts (.lnk), internet shortcuts (.url), images, music, movies, etc.

DialogMove moves small dialog windows to the cursor position. This saves time and annoyance resolving frequent small window prompts. It supports multi-monitor setups, and is very customizable with the ability to ignore windows based on user defined settings.

Written in AutoHotkey.

Extreme Editor is a tabbed programmer's text editor. It has a minimalist interface without eye candy or color buttons. The program includes a full-screen mode, syntax highlighting for many different languages, text formatting, and a simple hex viewer.

Note: Main site offline - linking to Softpedia.

Playthrough is a small windows application which allows you to route an incoming audiostream to the output of another soundcard. Usually you can only enable playback on the same soundcard.

Metapad is a small and fast text editor designed to replace Notepad with features including persistent window placement, dirty file notification, intelligent Find and Replace, external viewer support, usable accelerator keys, dual customizable font support, auto-indent mode, seamless UNIX text file support, no file size limit under Win9x, hyperlink support, etc.

Calcute is an unobstrusive scientific tape calculator. Calcute lets you enter complete expressions as if you were using a regular text editor. You can see what you are doing so you can easily make corrections. Type what you want to calculate, press Enter to get the answer. The calculator keypad can remain hidden or it can be shown if you prefer to click buttons with the mouse instead of typing.

Firstobject XML Editor (or "Foxe") loads multi-megabyte files quickly and lets you format and edit HTML, or any other loosely formed markup language such as XML. The tree view is customizable for useful navigation.

Other features include syntax coloring, word wrap, Go To Line, show XML path, Microsoft global IME, and MSXML based DTD validation.

Open++ is a context-menu shell extension that allows you to quickly open selected files or folders with customizable commands.

Note: Main site offline -- linking to archive.org.

Square Privacy Cleaner is a fast, powerful, and easy to use privacy protection tool, able to remove all the unwanted history data on your computer.

NOTE: Program has gone commercial but the last available freeware version is still linked.

Flexible Renamer is a file/folder renaming utility that supports regular expressions and ID3/EXIF tags.

WinSorter is able to manipulate highlighted text by selecting text and clicking on the TrayMenu icon. Changes include converting text to upper case, lowercase, and many variations in between. Can sort text alphabetically, numberically, remove duplicates, word count, and even do basic math operations.

Drag two files, or folders, and swap their names.

NETTIME communicates with time servers over the Internet, used in many countries for accurate date/time information, kept correct according to observatory/GPS data. The program tries to connect to each of these servers until it finds the date/time information and then asks you to correct your clock (automatic correction available).

NETTIME contains more than 100 predefined time servers and servers may be added or modified by editing the INI-file. An up-to-date server list is available.

Card Creator makes greeting cards from your own photographs. Drag-and-drop your photos onto one of the built-in templates and save the resulting greeting card for emailing or printing. Additional custom templates are available for download from the website.

minipad2 integrates many useful functions into one program including notepad, calculator, reminder, dictionary, launcher, address list, text template, and clipboard enhancement. All the contents are automatically saved while minimized or closed, and will re-open to the same state. The program can be freely switched between two styles: multi-page style and treeview style. When no longer used, it can be minimized to the system-tray, or hidden outside the desktop. Additional features include password protection and encryption.

MiniReminder is a small and simple program to remind yourself of important yearly events, like birthdays, anniversaries, renewals, etc. You can add short comments, customize the colors, and choose the font type and size. It can start automatically and hide in the system tray until the day a reminder is due.

Fomine LAN Chat is tiny and easy-to-use instant messaging software to connect with other users on the same local network. Note that the program does not function over the internet unless used with VPN software. The program creates a chat room with other chat participants and allows for setting your status to online, away or disconnected.

Imagicon converts images to icons or smaller images. When set to save to ICO format, users can drag-and-drop regular images to create square icons in 16 x 16, 32 x 32, 48 x 48, 64 x 64 or 128 x 128 with transparency support. For images, BMP, JPG or PNG image files can be saved to smaller, higher-compression versions with basic transformation effects (flip vertical or horrizontal, conversion to black and white), useful for creating thumbnails.

NOTE: Site offline, linking to archive.org.

3D Traceroute is a handy tool that is loaded with essential network utilities. Its most notable feature is plotting traceroute as a rotatable, zoomable 3-D graph. It also has a built-in network scanner, pinger, telnet client, connection viewer, atomic clock synchroniser, name server lookup and more.

SnapTimer is a simple countdown timer. Alarm options include message box, balloon in tray, audio file (20+ loop-friendly wav files included) or running a separate program. Font size and color are customizable.

Functional on 64-bit systems.

Battery Eater is a testing tool intended to reveal the potential of a notebook battery pack. Battery Eater can measure the minimum operation time of a notebook (when all power-saving options are disabled) under conditions close to the maximum workload (Classic mode). Battery Eater will show a result closest to the maximum possible in the "Idle" and in the "Reader's Test" mode (when all power-saving options are fully enabled).

Battery Eater also draws the battery discharge graph where you can see the dynamics of the charge level.

Version Info will view, export and import version info of executable files. It completely supports multilingual version info structures (Windows file properties dialog does not show multiple languages). Files can be open by using Open file dialog box, history list, or using mouse drag and drop. Support The following file types:

Application (*.exe)
MS-DOS application (*.com)
Application extension (*.dll)
Screen saver (*.scr)
Device driver (*.drv)
System driver (*.sys)
Audio compression manager driver (*.acm)
Audio/Video codec (*.ax)
Service provider (*.tsp)
Type library (*.tlb)
ActiveX control (*.ocx)
Object library (*.olb)
Control panel library (*.cpl)
Font (*.fon)
Borland package (*.bpl)
Delphi package (*.dpl)

Limitations: Import option and "Memory on Demand" options available only if using NT, 2000 or XP.

CPU TrueSpeed will run a frequency calculation algorithm (speed test) to determine at what internal speed (frequency) the processor (CPU) is actually running.

Note: Will not work with i486 and older CPUs.

DriveBackup is a fast and simple tool to backup, restoration, and removal hardware drivers. Includes command line options, automatic restoration from CD\DVD and path formatting. DriverBackup! includes also an interactive command line builder.

v.1.0.3 seems to be the last release that does not require the dotNET 2.0 framework.

Sea Battle is a computer version of popular battle ship board game. One can play against the computer on different skill levels. The sound effects can be easily turned on or off. The game has some interesting enhancement such as mines, customized battle ship count, and high scores record table.

Autumn NetSpy is a tool for testing network connectivity. It allows one to create a list of Network Addresses, IP addresses, URLs (domain names), etc. and then quickly see if they are connected to the network.

XCALC is a highly configurable calculator that can be used for simple calculations using decimal or complex floating point, or hexadecimal, octal or binary integer numbers. The program uses RPN (Reverse Polish Notation), similar to the classic Hewlett Packard handhelds. You can choose from anything between a small window consisting of a single number display only (which you can float above other programs) to a full-fledged big display with all colors, buttons, bells and whistles.

Gunners File Type Editor allows you to you to create/modify various properties for file extensions for the currently logged in user.

OELC will munge your email address for use in web pages so spammers will have a harder time grabbing your email.

Opera Settings Import and Export Tool allows backup and restore of bookmarks, mail, contacts, sessions, preferences, etc. and enables easy transfer of them between Opera installations in different folders or operating systems.

The program can find all profiles on your system, useful when searching for "lost" profiles, and then allows preview before importing or exporting. Additionally you can cleanly transfer individual settings and store settings files in their original state so exported settings can always be manually restored.

Also available for Linux.

NOTE: site offline; linking to archive.org and softpedia.

1D Stock Cutter (1DSC) is the length cutting optimizer - fast, powerful, compact and easy to use software tool to optimize cutting to length of any linear (one-dimensional) material: profiles, bars, extrusions, pipes, tubes, channels, angles, rods, lineal wood boards, beams, lumber, and so on. The freeware version has limits on the number of pieces and stock types.

- customizable optimization goal
- customizable cutting/technology settings
- support for stock material inventory
- support for part order/reference lists
- automatic update of the inventory lists
- data import and export in many formats
- Metric and Imperial length/size units

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.

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

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.

Safe Calculator is a fully operational calculator that also holds a hidden file accessible via a code entered in like a regular number and then added to the calculator memory.

PastIconsFlusher will clean out the 'Past Icons' area in the 'Customize Notifications' menu in Windows.

Flush Flash is a simple way to remove all Flash cookies and improve your privacy. More advertisers are using Flash cookies in wake of more users removing those normally on the browser. The program is a much faster and easier way versus Adobe's own Settings Manager.

AddToRun is a small utility that will allow you to open any file or application from the Start Menu's Run Command dialog box (WIN+R). It has a very simple interface which will allow you to select a file and assign it an alias or friendly name.