Friday, October 31, 2003
Quick Favorites Search is a tiny program that fast searches on the "Favorites" directory for a string in the name (or in the URL) of your Internet's shortcut files. It can also read Netscape Navigator and Opera bookmark files.
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
JetLinks is a program that manages internet bookmarks, links, URL collections, favorites or whatever you may call them. It does this in a way that isn't specific to any internet browser, but instead tries to be as compatible as possible all the time.
Sunday, October 26, 2003
PsychicMP3 is a straightforward, fast, and easy-to-use MP3 renaming utility that features the world's first algorithm that retrieves MP3 titles directly from a CDDB database. Forget about spending time on finding the right filename for your MP3s ! It takes only one click to PsychicMP3 to rename them all automatically. It calculates a diskid from your MP3 directory, and then queries FreeDB to get the associated disk information and ID3Tag/Rename the files. If the disk is not found in FreeDB, the program will query a search engine to get the right disk information and then requery FreeDB with the right DiskID.
Saturday, October 25, 2003
Cool Beans System Info is a small but powerful program that monitors your computer's CPU, physical memory, and swap memory usage. Version 2 was rewritten from scratch, and adds network monitoring, a task manager, dual-processor support, and enhanced visual effects.
Friday, October 24, 2003
VisualZone is an intrusion analyser and report utility for all versions of ZoneAlarm. It displays a clear overview of all intrusion attempts and allows you to analyse the information in lots of different ways.
Thursday, October 23, 2003
TreePad Lite is very intuitive, small yet powerful personal database programs, only 465 Kb in size. It allows you to store all your notes, emails, texts, hyperlinks, etc. into one or multiple databases. With the look and feel of the familiar Windows explorer, editing, storing, browsing, searching and retrieving your data can not be easier!
Wednesday, October 22, 2003
MyIE2 is an Internet Explorer based web browser that adds a lot of new features as well as a fresh new look to your standard Internet Explorer browser interface. Among the added features are a tabbed interface that allows you to quickly switch between multiple web pages and create groups of pages that you can launch with a single click. In addition, it offers several privacy features like cookie and history cleanup as well as an option to delete the typed address bar URLs (either all or only selected). There are many other features, most of them small, but very handy.
Monday, October 20, 2003
MP3Gain analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume. It does not just do peak normalization, as many normalizers do. Instead, it does some statistical analysis to determine how loud the file actually sounds to the human ear. Also, the changes MP3Gain makes are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because the program adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and re-encoding.
Saturday, October 18, 2003
w.bloggar is an application that interfaces between the user and his blog(s), in other words, is a Post and Template editor. Edit posts without being connected to the Internet, saving locally one or more texts to be posted in the future. Currently w.bloggar is compatible with Blogger API, metaWeblog API, MovableType API and b2 API all based on XML-RPC definition.
Friday, October 17, 2003
Mihov Picture Downloader lets you download a lot of pictures from one page, without having to click every thumbnail or link to that picture, and then save it. This program scans a page that you specify for each and every picture, that is linked from that page. Then it displays all pictures found and you can select only the pictures, that you would like to have downloaded. One click and download of all pictures starts.
Thursday, October 16, 2003
MRU-Blaster detects and cleans MRU (most recently used) lists on your computer. These MRU lists contain information such as the names and/or locations of the last files you have accessed. But they are located ALL OVER your registry, and for almost ANY file type. By looking at these MRU lists, someone could determine what files you opened/saved/looked at, what their file names were, and much more!
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
Agent Ransack is a tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack displays the text found so you can quickly browse the results without having to separately open each file.
Monday, October 13, 2003
SendTo FTP is an easy-to-use file transfer program for sending files from your local PC to a remote host, very handy and time saving for web page publishing and updating. Simply select the files you want to send in Windows Explorer, click right mouse button to popup the popupmenu, and choose SendTo FTP in Send To submenu. SendTo FTP window will then open.
Sunday, October 12, 2003
NoteTab Light is a Notepad replacement and and HTML editor. Open and edit many documents at once using tabs and Capable of editing huge text files.
Saturday, October 11, 2003
Audacity is a audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings.
Friday, October 10, 2003
Star Downloader is a download accelerator that can increase download speeds by splitting the file being downloaded into several parts and downloading these parts at the same time. You may automatically resume broken downloads and may also automatically connect to your ISP and/or hang-up upon completion of downloads. Star Downloader can integrate with unzipping utilities and your antivirus program to automatically install and/or scan files upon completion of the download.
Thursday, October 09, 2003
ZoneAlarm Free is the one firewall that I trust above all others. Can block inbound and outbound traffic. If you are on the internet, you need to have a firewall, and XP's doesn't cut the mustard.
Wednesday, October 08, 2003
Google Toolbar lets you search the web from any website using the power of Google (Internet Explorer Only). It also has a popup blocker. If you are using Mozilla, you won't be left out. The people over at Mozdev (Mozilla Development) has their own version for Mozilla.
Tuesday, October 07, 2003
IP Address is a tiny utility that checks your IP address and lets you copy it to the computer's clipboard. You can then paste it from there into whatever application or document that requires it.
Monday, October 06, 2003
WinPatrol will sniff out Worms, Adware, Spyware, Cookies, Trojan horses and other virus type, malicious, nasty programs that may attack your computer. For me the best part is it watches the startup programs for new additions. Once they are found you can keep, delete or disable.
Sunday, October 05, 2003
Aida32 is the best system information tool I have ever found. Aida32 shows hardware (CPU, Motherboard, memory, ect) and software information (including Microsoft hotfixes).
Saturday, October 04, 2003
mp3Trim can remove the silence from the beginning and the end, volume normalization and fade-in/out of your MP3s. The most important feature is it keeps the music quality intact, no matter how many times you process an MP3, because it works directly in the MP3 format without having to decode/re-encode.
Thursday, October 02, 2003
Check your system for SPYWARE and Trojans with these two must have programs. AdAware: Standard Edition and SpyBot Search & Destroy both do a great job of searching and removing the spyware and a multitude of Key loggers, Dialers, Trojans and Viruses.
Wednesday, October 01, 2003
AM-DeadLink detects dead links and duplicates in your Browser Bookmarks. If a Bookmark has become unavailable you can delete it from your Browser. I use it with Netscape, Explorer, Opera and Mozilla. A must have.
