KillKeys: Disables specified keys

KillKeys disables specified keys, preventing programs from picking them up.
The default behavior is to disable both windows keys and the menu key when in fullscreen windows to prevent accidentally pressing them when playing games.
Program made by Stefan Sundin. If you feel this program is useful, please consider donating money. Send me an email and tell me what you think, or if you want to translate the program.
Released 1.0. Bumping the version to 1.0 since I think KillKeys now accomplishes what I set out for it to do. KillKeys is now available in Spanish thanks to Fabrizio Ferri. I have also opened a forum which I hope you'll use to discuss KillKeys and my other tools, let me know what's good and what's bad. I have also gotten some reports that my tools show up on some antivirus scanners, these are all false positives! I will try to report it to the antivirus vendors.

Download Link: http://code.google.com/p/killkeys/downloads/list

PDF Tools

PDFTools is a free tool that can perform a wide range of PDF editing functions including ones that you would expect such merging, splitting and extracting of PDF pages, as well as many other less common functions such as stamping PDFs with a text message or image, rearranging PDF pages in a document, as well as decrypting a PDF document or encrypting/editing the document's user permissions.
#Encrypt PDF :
This option allows you to password protect any PDF file. Also, you can specify additional features for protected PDF.
Note: Some of the features are only available if you select 128 bit encryption.

#Decrypt PDF :
This option allows you to create a protection-free version of a encrypted PDF file.

#Join PDFs :
This option allows you to create a PDF file by joining multiple PDF files.

#Split PDF :
This option allows you to split a PDF file in multiple ways. You can split each page to new PDF, split even pages to new PDF, split odd pages to new PDF, split after given page number, split at every given page count or split a range of pages to new PDF file.

#Stamp PDF :
This option allows you to overlay (or stamp) a Text or Image over a PDF file.
You can overlay Text/Image at pre-defined location in pages or at any custom location by giving its X and Y position.
For text, in custom position you can define angle (in Degrees) for text.
For Image, you can define the scaling for image. Scale option is available for both pre-defined location and custom location.

#Rearrange PDF :
This option allows you arrange pages in a PDF file. You can reverse all pages, copy multiple pages on single page or create handout style pages.

#Create PDF :
This option allows you create a PDF file from xml file. For more information see PDFTools's XML to PDF guide.

Download Link: http://sheelapps.com

GOM Media Player

It can be hugely annoying when you cannot watch a video because WMP or another default player cannot find an appropriate codec. GOM Player is a free media player that has the most common video codec support built in. If a rare codec is required it's Codec Finder Service will find what you need and show you were to download it.

Codec Finder
GOM Player includes many codecs (XviD, DivX, FLV1, AC3, OGG, MP4, H263 and more) so you won't need to install separate codecs for most videos. For those videos that require a separate codec, GOM Player will find one and direct you to a place where you can download an open source version of the codec. That way, you won't get stuck with unnecessary codecs on your system.

Play Broken AVI Files (Patented)
AVI files can't be played if the index is broken, or if the file isn't completely downloaded. This is because the index is located at the end of the file. GOM Player's patented technology enables users to view files with broken indexes or that are still being downloaded.

Powerful Subtitle Support

GOM Player supports SMI, SRT, RT, SUB(with IDX) files for subtitle. You can specify margin, location, size, resolution, font and others. You can also enable shadow, view ASF files with subtitle, karaoke subtitle mode. You can even synchronize subtitle and video if there's any mismatch.

Convenient Playlist

If you run a video file and there is already a file with a similar name in the directory, it will be automatically added to your playlist. GOM Player has a similar playlist format as M3U, PLS, ASX and you can also include and edit different media formats on that playlist as well. It's easy to create and edit your own multimedia playlist with GOM Player.

Support Different Media Types
Along with different media format such as AVI, MPG, MPEG and DAT, GOM Player also supports streaming Windows media format (WMV, ASF, ASX). You can also watch DVD-quality videos with 5.1 channel audio output.

Screen Capture
Screen capture allows you to take a screenshot of your video directly from GOM Player. Using the Burst Capture feature, you can take continuous screenshots up to 999 shots.

Advanced Features
There are an endless number of advanced features. Customize brightness, contrast and saturation. Sharpen and add noise to your video. Try the audio equalizer. Repeat a section of your video with our A-B Repeat feature. Fast forward/rewind a few seconds using left/right keys. And much more for you to discover!

Download Link: www.gomlab.com

Easy File Locker

Easy File Locker is a light-weight and easy-to-use security software product that can protect your private files and folders. With its great protection, users will not be able to open, read, modify, delete, move, copy the locked files/folders, or even not be able to see it. The hidden files/folders will be totally invisible to all users and to any program.
Easy File Locker will keep protecting the files/folders even under Windows Safe Mode. It is designed for protecting files/folders on your local computer. it doesn't change the protected files and folders, it will not slow down the system speeds and it will never have the chance to destroy your data.
Download Link: www.xoslab.com

Free Mp3 Editor

Mp3 Editor for Free is multifunctional audio editing freeware. It's completely charge-free and you can get a fully functional version through a free download without any fussy registration. With its easy and clean interface, it is perfect for home-studio recording and for people just getting started with audio editing. It has dozens of audio effects, audio filters, and tools for converting audio files into formats including MP3, WMA, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, VOX, audio CD tracks, etc. Its powerful recorder control would help you recording any sound from your microphone or streaming audio from the Internet.

Download Link: www.mp3-editor.net

Arduo File Splitter

Arduo File Splitter is a simple and usefull software that permit to split a file in multiple chunk with any size, and then merge it to obtain the original file.

It include an advanced MD5 hash check, so you can be sure to obtain the original file without losing time with a corrupted one.

Is also present a compare function between two files, and a hash check, so you can check your files to be sure that are not corrupted.

Download Link:

Arduo File Splitter
Arduo File Splitter [Portable]

Arduo PDFMerger

ArduoPDFMerger is a lite,freeware tool that:

• can split a pdf file into many pdfs
• can extract pages form a pdf file
• can merge multiple pdf (or only a part) into a new pdf

ArduoPDFMerger is in alpha verion: only some of the final version are completerd. In this moment suggests and bug reports are foundamental to the application grwoth.

This application requires .NET Framework 2.0. The application installer check its presence. If it is not installed, ArduoCss' installer try to download and install it. If you get some error during installation, due to the missing framework or everything else, please contact us. If the description of the error will be enough detailed, we'll try to solve the problem. Vista user hve to run it as administrator to  handle protected files.

Download Link: www.arduosoft.com

ArduoRenamer freeware batch file renamer tool

UltimateReNamerJG is a small and simple software that permit to batch-rename multiple files depending to a set of rules. You can insert an unlimited number of rules that can delete a part of the file name, or replace soma character with another one, change extensions, insert text to a specific position and many more. You can save your current session or file list or rule list separately, as you wish.
There's the possibility to restore old file names via backup done every time you rename some files, but note that if the file has been moved or deleted after the rename their old name cannot be restored.

Brand new feature: with 1.1.3.0 version you can read ID3 tag, EXIF tag, general file info and SWF file info! Enhance your rename possibility!

Note: If you are a Vista user you'll need to run the application as an administrator to make it work properly.

UltimateReNamerJG join arduosoft project on March 2009. In the nex relase will be fully integrated with arduosoft standards and renamed to ArduoRenamer.By now enjoy UltimateReNamerJG.

Download: www.arduosoft.com

ArduoCss Freeware CSS Editor

ArduoCSS is a Css editor with an intuitive and easy-to-use interface.

With it simple interface you can edit or build a css file.

This can be done with the classic text editor with syntax higlight or with the user friendly managed interface.

In every moment you can test your work in an test page with all html elements, shown in the preview area.

Don't worry If you need to test the css in a particular page, because ArduoCss can show the stylesheet in external html pages.

If your stylesheet is too mach heavy, or if your code is not optimised you can use a simple wizard that optimise and clean the sheet. This feature use the CSSTidy tool made by Florian Schmitz.

This application requires .NET Framework 2.0. The application installer check its presence. If it is not installed, ArduoCss' installer try to download and install it. If you get some error during installation, due to the missing framework or everything else, please contact us. If the description of the error will be enough detailed, we'll try to solve the problem.

Download: www.arduosoft.com

Enlarge Photos as you like

Hundreds of different solutions exist to reduce the resolution of photos. These solutions are available as software programs but also online services. Quality is usually not an issue when reducing the resolution of a photo. It does becomes problematic on the other hand to find a solid computer program to enlarge photos. Enlarging photos meaning to increase the resolution of the photo so that it becomes available in a higher resolution. This can be very useful in situations where low resolution photos have been created by a digital camera or cell phone.

Smilla Enlarger is a portable software program for the Windows operating system that can be used to enlarge photos. The results depend on the resolution and quality of the source photo and the resolution increase entered by the user. They do look pretty good on average though making Smillar Enlarger one of the few valid one-click solutions to enlarge photos.

Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/imageenlarger/

Winsock Repair

Most of the Internet connectivity problems arise out of corrupt Winsock settings. Windows sockets settings may get corrupted due to the installation of networking software, or perhaps due to Malware infestation. You will be able connect to the Internet, but the packets won't transfer back and forth. And errors such as Page cannot be displayed may occur when using Internet Explorer. Rizone Winsock Repair helps you to reset/repair the Winsock configuration to defaults or clean state. It will help if you are having any of the following problems:

• Internet or network problem after removing adware, spyware, virus, worm, Trojan horse, etc.
• Loss network connection after installing/uninstalling adware, spyware, antispam, vpn, firewall or other networking programs.
• Unable to access any webpage or can only access some WebPages.
• Pop-up error window with network related problem description.
• No network connectivity due to registry errors.
• DNS lookup problem.
• Fail to renew the network adapter's IP address or other DHCP errors.
• Network connectivity issue with limited or no connections message.
• Other networking problems.

Download Link: www.rizonetech.com

Free Registry Fix 1.6

Registry errors accumulate in your PC and cause Windows errors. Free Registry Fix will optimize your system registry by finding and removing errors and invalid entries. After fixing the invalid entries, your system will be more stable and run faster. For maximum safety, Free Registry Fix will make a backup of the repaired entries. You will be able to restore any changes made using the software by choosing Restore registry backup.
Most applications today use registry to store configuration and other important data. When you install an application, a new registry entries will be created. These entries will automatically be deleted when you uninstall the application. Unfortunately, it does not always work that way. Sometimes, you will find that some applications fail to remove their own registry entries. These entries will become obsolete.
After a long period, after installing and uninstalling a lot number of applications, your Windows registry will contain a large number of obsolete entries. These will significantly increase the registry size and thus will slowdown your computer, because Windows will need more time to load, search, and read data from registry.
Run registry cleaner software like Free Registry Fix to get your computer working smoothly again.

Download: www.cleanersoft.com

Internet Privacy Eraser 2.0

Every time you use the Internet, your activities are recorded by your own computer with programs like Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox, and many others. Anyone else can see where you have been on the Internet and the images, movies you have viewed, even everything you did on your computer would leave trace on your computer. Using Internet Privacy Eraser you can easily protect your privacy and keep your surfing private with a single click.

Internet Privacy Eraser allows you to erase common Internet and computing tracks, including browser cache, cookies, visited websites, typed URLs, recent documents, index.dat files and more. You can also easily erase the tracks of up to 100 popular applications. It also includes an option to overwrite deleted data multiple times, so it cannot be easily recovered. The cookie cleaning feature allows you to specify which cookies to keep, so that you don't erase your important login cookies. You also can schedule automatic erasing for any time you like and use boss key to hide all browser windows in one quick keystroke!

Download Link: www.cleanersoft.com

Privacy and Registry Cleaner 3.0

Privacy and Registry Cleaner is a safe and easy-to-use privacy protection tool, that allows you to erase common Internet and computing tracks, including browser cache, cookies, visited websites, typed URLs, recent documents, index.dat files and more. You can also easily erase the tracks of up to 100 popular applications. It also includes an option to overwrite deleted data multiple times, so it cannot be easily recovered. The cookie cleaning feature allows you to specify which cookies to keep, so that you don't erase your important login cookies. You also can schedule automatic erasing for any time you like and use boss key to hide all browser windows in one quick keystroke!

In addition, the program comes with a registry scanner to optimize your system registry by finding and removing errors and invalid entries. After fixing the invalid entries, your system will be more stable and run faster. For maximum safety, Privacy and Registry Cleaner will make a backup of the repaired entries. You will be able to restore any changes made using the software by choosing Restore registry backup.

Download Link: www.cleanersoft.com

Free Hide Folder

Free Hide Folder is a free computer security software to hide your private folders. It is very useful to keep your personal data away from others. Others will not know where your personal files exist and they will not be able to accidentally view them. You can hide folders simply with a few mouse clicks. Free Hide Folder is protected by a password that you can change or remove at any time.
Most people have many files or folders on their computer which they do not want to others see or use them. If you are interested in protecting your personal information, Free Hide Folder is just what you are searching for. With Free Hide Folder you will protect your files avoiding them to be being modified, seen or erased by other users.

 Platform: Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista
 File Size: 745 KB
 License: Freeware

Using Free Hide Folder

It's actually very easy to hide a folder with Free Hide Folder. It takes only a few mouse clicks. First, you need to run Free Hide Folder, locate and select the folder you want to hide, and then click Hide Folder button to hide folders.

Key Features:

•  Hide your folder completely. Unless you unhide it yourself, nobody can find it.
•  Password protection when running program.
•  No file system structure modifications needed.
•  Any number of folders may be hidden at the same time.
•  Easy-to-use user interface.
•  100% Spyware FREE. This software does NOT contain any Spyware, Adware or Viruses.

Download Link: www.cleanersoft.com

Android Live CD

Want to give Google Android a try, but don't feel like buying a T-Mobile G1? LiveAndroid lets you download a LiveCD disc image of the Google Android operating system. Just burn the image to a disc, stick it in a CD-ROM drive, and reboot your computer and you can check out Android without installing it or affecting any files on your PC.

You can also use the disc image in a virtualization application like VirtualBox, VMWare or Microsoft Virtual PC if you want to try the operating system without even rebooting your computer.

Download Link: http://code.google.com/p/live-android/downloads/list

Partition Wizard

Partition Wizard Home Edition is a free partition manager designed by MT Solution Ltd. It supports 32/64 bit Windows Operating System including Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. Home users can perform complicated partition operations by using this powerful but free partition manager to manage their hard disk partition such as Resizing partitions, Copying partitions, Create partition, Delete partition, Format partition, Convert partition, Explore partition, Hide partition, Change drive letter, Set active partition and Partition Recovery.
Partition Wizard Home Edition is designated for home user only, to use Partition Wizard in a business envirnoment, Partition Wizard Business Edition is required.

•   Support Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows7 (32 bit & 64 bit) operating system.
•   Support RAID.
•   Extend system partition to improve computer performance to maximum.
•   Manage the hard disk to get the best performance of computer.
•   Create , Delete and Format partitions with simple steps.
•   Disk Copy to protect or transfer data.
•   Support disk and partition size larger than 2 TB.
•   Convert partition format from FAT to NTFS.
•   Partition Copy: Copy the entire hard disk to another one.
•   Copy Disk Wizard: Copy the entire hard disk to another one without windows reinstalling.
•   Disk Map - Visually demonstrate your disk/partition configuration; preview the changes before applying.
•   Hide/unhide partition, set active partition, etc. - Change partition properties.
•   Explore FAT/NTFS partition.

Download Link: www.partitionwizard.com

Tech Toolkit 2.0

Based off of the idea of Bryce Whitty's "Computer Repair Utility Kit" from Technibble.com. The downfalls of Bryce's idea was that he had the complete package with all the tools offered for download on his site, which of course sucked up bandwidth, and some authors of the applications, while freeware, wanted the only download of their software to be at their own sites.

To bypass these problems Tech Tools uses Ketarin, which is an application downloader that checks to see if an application has been updated and downloads it if so.

So I've compiled a list of apps that that were part of the original tool, and either
subtracted or added them due to their portability. i.e. if the program had an installer i didnt include it, I used mostly standlone executables for this first package.

You use Ketarin to first download all your tools and it will automatically extract them to their categorized folders.Once Downloaded you can then open Pstart.exe ,its menu is already configured to show the downloaded tools. You would then use Ketarin weekly to auto-update all these tech tools so you would always have a fresh copy of the program on your USB.

Download Link: http://www.whatsmypass.com

SystemExplorer

Detailed informations about Tasks, Processes, Modules, Startups, IE Addons, Uninstallers, Windows, Services, Drivers, Connections and Opened Files.
Easy check of suspicious files via VirusTotal or Jotti service.
Easy search details about file/process via online databases.
Security Extension for automatic check of processes,modules and selected files.
"New Task..." dialog with integrated AutoSearch and AutoCompletion.
Action History for monitoring processes activities.
Performance graphs for monitoring usage of system resources in time.
System Snapshots for easy finding of system changes.
System Report builds rich text report containing major informations about your System.
Multilanguage and Plugins Support.
Can be used as Task Manager replacement.

Download Link: http://systemexplorer.mistergroup.org/

IESnapshot: Capture web pages

Accalio IESnapshot is a tool to capture web pages as they appear on the user's monitor. The application can grab webpages and save them in PDF, JPG, GIF or BMP file formats.

Full PDF file capture solution

The application fully supports single and miltiple page web-capture to a PDF file format. IE Snapshot is 100% WYSIWYG - it does not save the page as text but as a picture (archive format).

Top features include avoiding printing errors and missing images

Each snapshot stores all background images, even images inside the style sheets or dynamic content (Flash,Java ..).

The application has been tested with Microsoft Internet Explorer ver. 6 and 7 on Windows (r) XP Professional and Vista operating systems.

Main IESnapshot features

• Save almost any webpage - for archiving or multimedia presentations
• Create multiple page PDF or singlepage GIF, JPG or BMP files
• Unique file naming ability - automatic or manual
• Compression ratio settings (quality vs. size)
• Capture any portion of the viewed webpage - automatic or manual
• Captures full pages, capture longer pages than screen resolution (whole page / scrolling) in to one picture or PDF page.
• Ability to capture the web page at specific moments - capturing pictures from live action animations
• Capture pages from URL lists
• Application is fully compatible with Microsoft Internet Explorer(r)

Note : Due to the terms of the non-profit freeware license policy, Accalio s.r.o. takes no responsibility nor guarantees for the full functionality of the software or the achieved results of he usage of this software.  In some countries it may be a violation of law to save local copies or portions of webpages.

Download Link: www.accalio.com

Foobar: Media player

foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.

   *  Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND... and more with additional components.
   * Gapless playback.
   * Full unicode support.
   * Easily customizable user interface layout.
   * Advanced tagging capabilities.
   * Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component.
   * Full ReplayGain support.
   * Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
   * Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player.

Download Link: www.foobar2000.org

RSS Xpress: Desktop RSS Reader

RSS Xpress is a freeware (which will remain free!) created by Bull allowing to read RSS feeds versions 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 1.0, 2.0.1 and atom 0.3, 1.0. The application includes the essential functionalities for using RSS feeds and even more:

• A very easy interface but complete
• Possibility to organise your feeds in folders
• New messages are saved locally so that you can browse them offline
• You are informed about new messages by a popup windows and a sound
• Possibility to import and export feeds in the OPML format
• A search engine to find easily old messages in your feeds
• An auto-update (the application verify if any new version is available when launching it)
• A tab-browsing navigation
• Possibility to customize the application (size and fonts color, notifier, template for the news preview)
• Compatible with feeds protected with a username and password
• Support proxies (protected with a username and password)
• And even more!

It has been developped in VB.net and uses the following class:

• Taskbarnotifier which allows to make pop-up like in the famous MSN Messenger

The Free Microsoft Framework .net 2.0 is necessary to run RSS Xpress. You can download it here.

The autor of this application has wanted to keep in touch with the users of his software to have their feedback (via the forums of the website) in order to keep improving it. So don't hesitate to post new messages on the forums to give some comments, ideas or inform about bugs.
Cheers

Download Link: www.rssxpress.net

Recuva: File Recovery

Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted from your iPod, or by bugs, crashes and viruses!

• Simple to use interface - just click 'Scan' and choose the files you want to recover
• Easy to use filter for results based on file name/type
• Simple Windows like interface with List and Tree view
• Can be run from a USB thumb drive
• Restores all types of files, office documents, images, video, music, email, anything.
• Supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, NTFS5 , NTFS + EFS file systems
• Restores files from removable media (SmartMedia, Secure Digital, MemoryStick, Digital cameras, Floppy disks, Jaz Disks, Sony Memory Sticks, Compact Flash cards, Smart Media Cards, Secure Digital Cards, etc.)
• Restores files from external ZIP drives , Firewire and USB Hard drives
• It's fast, tiny and takes seconds to run!

Download Link: http://www.recuva.com/download

NTFS Undelete: Recover deleted files

NTFS Undelete is free and open source software that allows you to recover deleted files. It recovers files directly from hard drive, and it will work even if you empty Recycle Bin.

Before downloading NTFS Undelete, please consider the following:

When you delete a file, its content physically remains intact on the media, but the occupied space becomes marked as free. Next file saved to the disk may overwrite the contents of the deleted file.

It is very important to make sure that no application writes to the drive or partition where deleted file is located since every new file (even a small one) may overwrite the deleted file.

Tips. What you should do, when you realized that the file you need is deleted:

1. Do not open or close files and applications.
   Many applications create temporary files which may overwrite and corrupt your deleted files.
2. Depending on your system configuration, you should perform one of the following actions:

   1. If deleted files were located on the system disk (usually disk "C:"), or if you have only one logical disk in the system, you should not install any software into the system since it will most likely overwrite your deleted file.

      We provide an ISO image with NTFS Undelete. You will have to use another computer to burn that image to a CD or DVD. Then just run NTFS Undelete directly from CD.

   2. If your deleted files are not located on the system disk, then you can use NTFS Undelete Windows Installer to install the software as usual.

3. Run NTFS Undelete application and locate deleted file you'd like to restore.
4. Always recover files to another disk or partition. Do not recover files to the same partition they were located, otherwise files you are recovering may get corrupted and unrecoverable.
5. That's it, now you have your files back!

Download Link: http://ntfsundelete.com/downloads/

TestDisk: Data Recovery Software

TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.

TestDisk can

• Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
• Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
• Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
• Fix FAT tables
• Rebuild NTFS boot sector
• Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
• Fix MFT using MFT mirror
• Locate ext2/ext3 Backup SuperBlock
• Undelete files from FAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
• Copy files from deleted FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3 partitions.

TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further analysis. Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery.

Operating systems

TestDisk can run under

• DOS (either real or in a Windows 9x DOS-box),
• Windows (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista),
• Linux,
• FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
• SunOS and
• MacOS

TestDisk can find lost partitions for all of these file systems:

• BeFS ( BeOS )
• BSD disklabel ( FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD )
• CramFS, Compressed File System
• DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
• Windows exFAT
• HFS, HFS+ and HFSX, Hierarchical File System
• JFS, IBM's Journaled File System
• Linux ext2 and ext3
• Linux LUKS encrypted partition
• Linux RAID md 0.9/1.0/1.1/1.2
  • RAID 1: mirroring
  • RAID 4: striped array with parity device
  • RAID 5: striped array with distributed parity information
  • RAID 6: striped array with distributed dual redundancy information
• Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2)
• LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager
• Mac partition map
• Novell Storage Services NSS
• NTFS ( Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 )
• ReiserFS 3.5, 3.6 and 4
• Sun Solaris i386 disklabel
• Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/...)
• XFS, SGI's Journaled File System

Download Link: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

Eraser: Permanent Delete Hard Disk Data

Eraser is an advanced security tool for Windows which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Works with Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Server 2008.

Why Use Eraser?

Most people have some data that they would rather not share with others - passwords, personal information, classified documents from work, financial records, self-written poems, the list can be continued forever.

Perhaps you have saved some of this information on your computer where it is conveniently at your reach, but when the time comes to remove the data from your hard disk, things get a bit more complicated and maintaining your privacy is not as simple as it may have seemed at first.

Your first thought may be that when you 'delete' the file, the data is gone. Not quite, when you delete a file, the operating system does not really remove the file from the disk; it only removes the reference of the file from the file system table. The file remains on the disk until another file is created over it, and even after that, it might be possible to recover data by studying the magnetic fields on the disk platter surface.

Before the file is overwritten, anyone can easily retrieve it with a disk maintenance or an undelete utility.

There are several problems in secure file removal, mostly caused by the use of write cache, construction of the hard disk and the use of data encoding. These problems have been taken into consideration when Eraser was designed, and because of this intuitive design and a simple user interface, you can safely and easily erase private data from your hard drive.

Eraser Features

• It works with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
• Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000 can still be used with version 5.7!
• It works with any drive that works with Windows
• Secure drive erasure methods are supported out of the box
• Erases files, folders and their previous deleted counterparts
• Works with an extremely customisable Scheduler

Download Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/eraser, Portable Version

RightThumb: Create image thumbnail

RightThumb enables you to quickly create thumbnails from your images via the Windows Explorer right-click menu. You can set default conversion options that allow you to specify the thumbnail dimensions, format and file name postfix or prefix as well as compression setting and algorithm to use. Then simply select one or more images and click on the newly added menu option to generate the thumbnail images. RightThumb supports Bitmap, JPEG, GIF and PNG formats and can also copy the thumbnail to the clipboard.

Download Link: http://chesterway.co.uk/software/rightthumb14.zip

Hard Disk Serial Number Changer

"Hard Disk Serial Number Changer" is one small freeware to change the hard drive serial number, this disk serial number is generated by Windows when you format a disk partition, many software and programs be bind to this serial number, with this small disk tool, you can get a new hard drive volume serial number right now, without reformatting your hard drive. The standard serial number format is XXXX-XXXX, using HEX symbols 0-9, A, B, C, D, E, F. after program change serial number; you need reboot PC to apply it correctly.
This program can work with file systems: NTFS, FAT, and FAT32, it is available for Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows 2000/2003/NT server, Windows server 2008, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Download Link: Hard Disk Serial Number Changer

Link Encoder

The Link Encoder enables you to encode your email and other links on your website.
So they can't be extracted by rogue internet spiders looking for email addresses to add to junk mailing lists.
This will help prevent you from getting huge amounts of spam.
The Link Encoder will generate links and text you can copy and paste into your web pages and emails.

Download Link: http://www.itsamples.com

TCP Monitor

TCP Monitor is a Windows program that will show you detailed listings of all TCP endpoints on your system, including names of remote servers and state of TCP connections.
Under Windows XP and Vista TCP Monitor allows you to display all network processes and kill them, if needed.
Additionally, you can use the "BlackList" option for controlling any TCP endpoints.

Using TCP Monitor
When you start TCP Monitor it will enumerate all active TCP endpoints, resolving all IP addresses to their domain name versions. You can use a toolbar button or menu item to toggle the display of resolved names.

By default, TCP Monitor does not to do update, but you can use the Stop/Start Autoupdate button to start autoupdating and the Settings dialog to change the rate. Endpoints that have different states are highlighted in different colors; those that are established are shown in light green, listening endpoints are shown in yellow, e t.c.

Additionally, you can save TCP Monitor's events to a file using the Save menu item (or appropriate toolbar's button).

Download Link: www.itsamples.com

RAMRush: Optimize Memory, Free Up RAM

RAMRush is a free memory management and optimization tool. It can efficiently optimize memory usages of your Windows system, free up physical RAM and make your system work better. RAMRush uses an intelligent way to manage the physical memory and lets the RAM work in a better performance. It will help you to prevent system crashes, memory leaks and keep your computer running more efficiently.

RAMRush is easy and powerful to use for both beginners and experts. NO Experience Or Computer Skills Necessary!

RAMRush is a FREEWARE, you could download and use it free of charge. 100% CLEAN! No Spyware or Adware!

RAMRush Main Features

• Increase system performance
• Increase the amount of memory available
• Defragment system physical memory
• Recover memory from Windows applications
• Remove memory leaks
• Prevent system crashes caused by memory problems
• Display the real-time usages data of CPU and RAM
• Hotkey to do optimization
• Click to do optimization
• Quiet mode in Windows tray
• AutoOptimize mode support
• Command line mode support (eg: 'PATHOFRAMRUSH/RAMRush.exe -AutoOptimize')

Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008 and Windows 7 1MB disk space and 5MB to 8MB RAM, GDIPLUS.DLL for Win98/ME system

Download Link: http://www.fcleaner.com/downloads/ramrush.exe

Bitlets: Simple text organizer

Bitlets is a simple organizer to manage text snippets. It can store any type of text entry and optionally monitor the clipboard and keep track of your recently copied text snippets. The text can be printed, saved to a text file, send by email or stored encrypted using RC4. The program also provides a simple keyword search function.

Download Link: http://chesterway.co.uk/software/bitlets2.zip

Distortit: Simple image distortions

Distortit is a simple image morphing tool, that allows you to create funny variations of pictures by applying magnification effects to selected areas. You can select the level of magnification and simply click your mouse to apply the effect. With some imagination and suitable images, you can create some funny effects and save the new image as BMP or JPG file.

Download Link: http://chesterway.co.uk/software/distortit.zip

Digi-Annotator: Add annotations to your photos

Digi-Annotator is an easy to use tool that allows you to add annotation notes or labels to your digital images. You can customize the label in various ways, choose a label color or transparency, specify text color, font and more. You can save the settings for up to 4 of your labels as templates so they can be easily re-applied to other images. The program can also be used to resize your images by simply resizing the viewer window, and you can sharpen, rotate and print your photos. Standalone software, no installation required.

Download Link: http://chesterway.co.uk/software/digi_annotator.zip

RightThumb: Create image thumbnail

RightThumb enables you to quickly create thumbnails from your images via the Windows Explorer right-click menu. You can set default conversion options that allow you to specify the thumbnail dimensions, format and file name postfix or prefix as well as compression setting and algorithm to use. Then simply select one or more images and click on the newly added menu option to generate the thumbnail images. RightThumb supports Bitmap, JPEG, GIF and PNG formats and can also copy the thumbnail to the clipboard.

Download Link: http://chesterway.co.uk/software/righthumb14.zip

Backup And Restore Web Browser bookmarks, history and other settings

FavBackup is a simple solution for you to backup and restore web browser settings and other data on Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000 systems. No installation required. Don't forget to check our help section.

Supported Browsers

• Internet Explorer 8
• Internet Explorer 7
• Internet Explorer 6

• Firefox 3.5
• Firefox 3
• Firefox 2

• Opera 9

• Safari 4
• Safari 3

• Google Chrome 3
• Google Chrome 2
• Google Chrome 1

Changelog

• 1.0.2: Fixed different Windows path issue

Various optimizations: less RAM and disk space usage

• 1.0.1: Fixed Firefox safe restore function
• 1.0.0: initial release

Known issues

• General: Regular (non safe) backup/restore will save default/first profile only. If you have multiple same browser installations, please use safe backup instead.
• General: Restoring backups directly from DVD/CD drive can give error. Copy backup to your PC first..
• Internet Explorer: Won't restore some of the settings.
• Opera: Moving backups from XP to Vista/7 will require manual changes, see here.

Download FavBackup 1.0.2

• .exe (3.5 MB) (RapidShare.com) | Mirror #1 (FavBrowser.com)
• .zip (1.9 MB) (RapidShare.com) | Mirror #1 (FavBrowser.com)

RSS Screensaver

The RSS Screensaver is a screensaver that lets you subscribe to one or more RSS feeds, and select a directory for background images. The Screensaver loops through the list of RSS items and shows the contents of the feed in the right hand side.

When the screensaver is active; use the left/right arrow keys to navigate between feeds, use the up/down arrow keys to navigate between feed items, use the spacebar to open a browser window with the current feed item.

What's new in the RSS Screensaver

• July 15, 2005
  Version 1.2 released. New features include:
  • Support for displaying multiple feeds
  • Support for a variety of feed formats (RSS, ATOM, RDF)
  • Ability to customize additional options (how often to change the background, how often to change feed items, how many items to display for a feed)

Free for non-commercial use

This software must be purchased if it is to be used in commercial endeavors, but may be used free-of-charge for other purposes.

Download Link: http://www.nuparadigm.com

Free RSS Screensaver for Windows

RSSMore is a free rss screensaver that lets you subscribe to any number of RSS/XML feeds and view them in your rss screen saver. You can also specify a folder (including its sub folders) to provide background images. The RSSMore rss reader screensaver loops through the list of feeds and shows the items and their contents in transparent text boxes over your background images. You can also click/browse any news headlines directly from the rss feed screensaver.

RSSMore is the only RSS feed screen saver which DOES NOT require the Microsoft .NET Framework.

with this windows rss screensaver , through the Style window, you can change the colours, colour solidity, text size, and column layout.

RSSMore rss screensaver for windows is supported by donations from users. Individual, non-commercial users are encouraged to make a donation (any amount) to receive a registration number. This will help us continue to release and support RSSMore screensaver for windows .

Organisations wishing to use RSSMore in a commercial context should contact web8@rssmore9.com (remove both "8" and "9" in the address) to request a quote for a site license.

This software is developed by Leong Software, specialists in information sharing and emergency notification software.

Download Link: http://www.rssmore.com

TinyTalk: LAN Voice Chat

"TinyTalk" is like a tiny internet phone, or intercom system. For direct IP to IP voice communication.
It's a quick effective way to talk to other pc's users over your local network, or the internet.

Features and Details:
• Very tiny single exe streams 8 bit PCM voice data at 11.025KB/s in Full Duplex operation.
• Automatic Silence Detection; audio transmission will pause after 3 seconds of silence occurs.
• Hold to Talk, and Toggle to talk keys allow easy control over possible feedback conditions.
• Single TCP port operation, the port is user configurable.
• Docks to system tray for easy background running operation.
• Automatically stores IP's of connected and Received connections.
• Send and Receive audio level meters for visual monitoring.
• -m switch will minimize the application to the system tray on startup.

Compatability:
Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and Up. (not tested on Win98)
Download Link: www.brooksyounce.com

Free Video Joiner

• Quickly join and without any quality loss
• Support join AVI, WMV, MOV, MPEG, MPG files
• Support save as AVI, WMV, MOV, MP4 (MPEG4) video format
• Support save as DVD, VCD compatible mpeg
• Support save as iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP video format
• Join unlimited number of video files in different formats
• Includes all video encoders and decoders
• Simple and very EASY to use
• FREE software

With Free Video Joiner you can join several videos into one large video file, it is a powerful tool and easy to use, works fast and keep the quality of video, supports video formats include: AVI ((Divx,XviD,MPEG4), WMV, MPEG (MPEG1 and MPEG2), MP4, MOV, DVD, VCD and other formats.

This free tool does not require any technical experience and is very easy to use, you just need click "Add" button to add your video files in same or different formats, then click "Join" button, you will get one single file of these video files. Free Video Joiner includes all video encoders and decoders; it can be used as AVI Joiner, MPEG Joiner, WMV Joiner, RM Joiner, MP4 Joiner and Movie Joiner.

The default width and height of video are same with the first video file that you choice.

Download Link: http://www.freevideojoiner.com

AniTuner: Animated Mouse Pointer Creator

AniTuner is a free software to create, edit and convert animated cursors (.ani files). Animated cursor files contain an animated mouse pointer like this one:and are recognized natively by Windows.

Learn more about the animated cursor format here.

AniTuner makes the creation and edition of these animated cursors easy. Everyone can now create his/her own animated cursors and animations in a snap:

• Make animated cursors from animated GIF, AVI clips, bitmap strips, or by importing existing image files (BMP, JPEG, PNG, GIF, PSD, ICO, CUR) as cursor frames.
• Create animated GIF, AVI clips, Adobe Flash movies, bitmap strips from animated cursors or any other image set.
• Resize and edit frames, set frame duration, change color depth, create 32-bit XP and Vista cursors with partial transparency (alpha channel).

Replace the default mouse pointers of Windows by animated cursors made with AniTuner. Or use AniTuner to produce animations for your web pages, blogs, instant messaging applications, e-mails, presentations, video clips or even programs...

AniTuner features an easy-to-use interface that lets you visually edit and convert all of your animated cursors in a snap. AniTuner is the successor of our old product called AniToAvi Wizard, and is a full freeware program.

Available with a standard installer (and uninstaller) or as a portable edition with no required installation: you can run AniTuner from any removable storage device like a USB stick, and without leaving traces on the computer.