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GSiteCrawler 1.23

Google (and Yahoo!) Sitemap Generator for Windows

Google Sitemaps allows the webmaster to help Google index their pages optimally. The GSiteCrawler will help you generate the best Google Sitemap file for your website. The GSiteCrawler uses different ways to find all the pages in your website and can generate all sorts of files, statistics and more. The sitemaps file format has lately been also adapted by Yahoo! - even MSN/Live.com is pledging it’s support.

Download: GSiteCrawler 1.23 Windows 95,98, ME, 2000, XP, 2003

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Double Commander 0.3 Alpha

Double Commander is a cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas.

Here are some key features of Double Commander:
- All operations working in background
- Multi-rename tool
- Tabbed interface
- Internal text editor (F4) with syntax hightlighting
- Built in file viewer (F3) to view files of ANY SIZE in hex, binary or text format
- Archives are handled like subdirectories. You can easily copy files to and from archives. Supported archive types: ZIP, TAR GZ, TGZ and also BZ2, RPM, CPIO, DEB.
- Extended search function with full text search in any files
- Configurable button bar to start external programs or internal menu commands
- Total Commander WCX plug-ins support
- And more…

Download: Double Commander 0.3 Alpha

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BestPractice 1.03

BestPractice is a tool to slow down or speed up music, either from a file or directly from a CD. The thing is, that ordinarily the sound is distorted when slowed down our sped up - you get the effect like when playing a 45 rpm record on 33 rpm speed. BestPractice tries to correct this, so you can slow down and speed up music, while keeping the original tune. Since version 0.3 you can also change the pitch of the music without affecting its length.

Download: BestPractice 1.03

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Vista Source Patcher 0.1 Beta

Vista Source Patcher is a small application that will patch your source files with new resources that Vize offers.

It replaces your Vista source file resources with Vista styled icons and bitmaps to ensure a complete visual finish to your Vista installation!
Vista Source Patcher needs Vize to work, all the resources patched with Vista Source Patcher come from Vize.
The installer simply automates the process of replacing resources in critical system files, making Windows Vista look even better!
The installer is very clean, it removes all temporary files created during the patching process upon closing the application.

Requirements: Windows Vista.

Download: Vista Source Patcher 0.1 Beta

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AOL to End Support for Netscape Browser

Once the dominant Web browser, AOL has discontinued development and active support for the Netscape browser.

An historic name in software will effectively pass into history in February as AOL discontinues development and active support for the Netscape browser, according to an official blog.

AOL will keep delivering security patches for the current version of Netscape until Feb. 1, 2008, after which it will no longer provide active support for any version of the software, according to a Friday entry on The Netscape Blog by Tom Drapeau, lead developer for Netscape.com. The Netscape.com Web site will remain as a general-purpose portal.

Full article: pcworld.com

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JkDefragTWGUI 1.70

JkDefrag is a disk defragmenter and optimizer for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/X64. Completely automatic and very easy to use, fast, low overhead, with several optimization strategies, and can handle floppies, USB disks, memory sticks, and anything else that looks like a disk to Windows.

JkDefragTWGUI (GUI for JkDefrag) is a GUI for a simple handling of multiple JkDefrag-jobs.

Download: JkDefragTWGUI 1.70

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ImageMagick 6.3.7-7

ImageMagick is a free software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a large variety of formats. Images can be cropped, colors can be changed, various effects can be applied, images can be rotated and combined, and text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves can be added to images and stretched and rotated.

ImageMagick is free software: it is delivered with full source code and can be freely used, copied, modified and distributed. Its license is compatible with the GPL. It runs on all major operating systems.

Most of the functionality of ImageMagick can be used interactively from the command line; more often, however, the features are used from programs written in the programming languages C, Ch, C++, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl/Tk, for which ready-made ImageMagick interfaces (PerlMagick, Magick++, PythonMagick, MagickWand for PHP, RMagick, TclMagick, and JMagick) are available. This makes it possible to modify or create images automatically and dynamically.

ImageMagick supports many image formats (over 90) including formats like GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, TIFF, and DPX.

Download: ImageMagick 6.3.7-7 | ImageMagick Beta

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BugHunter 2.2e

BugHunter is a DOS based malware scanner which has a frequently updated database of signatures as well as engine updates. The program is designed to quickly scan for and optionally disable/remove any malware found. BugHunter is able to detect Browser Hijackers (BHO’s), Rogue programs, Adware, Keyloggers, Spyware (including some commercial ones), Rootkits which are file based, malicious java/html/vb scripts, and various worms.

As BugHunter is DOS based and does not require installation of any sort, it can easily be copied to various media and used to disinfect other systems without those systems having potentially harmful code present in memory. BugHunter gets along fine with most memory resident programs, and supports being run from a boot diskette/cdrom, such as BartPE. BugHunter also contains Code Neutralizing routines to assist in the disabling and removal of known malware executables which are a bit more stubborn than previous ones. Users can turn this feature on or off inside the configuration file(s).

Download: BugHunter 2.2e

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PowerShell-V

PowerShell-V adds all the listed items to your context menus (right click).
Now you can re-start/shutdown, drop to dos, edit the registry and much more, faster!

PowerShell-V adds all these items to your context menus.
Right Click The “My Computer” icon.
Add/Remove Programs, Advanced Firewall, Backup and Restore, Calculator, Disk Cleanup, Control Panel, Command Prompt, Registry editor, Shutdown, Reboot, Security Center, System Properties, System Restore, Internet Properties, Reliability and Performance Monitor, System Config, System Information, Task Manager, and Windows Calendar.

In “New” property menus.

Batch File, HTML Document, Registration Entries, Cascading Style Sheet, Jscript, .Reg file, Vbscript.
Added Search Providers for the IE7 Search Box.
images.google.com, maps.google.com, news.google.com, Wikipedia, YouTube.

PowerShell-V will only work with Windows Vista.

Download: PowerShell-V

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FlashDevelop 3.0.0 Beta 5

FlashDevelop is a .NET open source script editor designed mostly for Actionscript 2/3 development. FlashDevelop is very quick to setup and easy to use as an external editor for the Flash IDE or as a complete open source development environment.

Main Features

- AS3 Project management with seamless and optimized Flex SDK integration
- AS2 Project management with seamless SWFMILL and MTASC integration (using a portable standalone command line tool)
- Advanced Actionscript completion & exploration with automatic classpath detection (even without project)
- MTASC code checking with clickable error results
- Integrated SWF player and socket logger

Download: FlashDevelop 3.0.0 Beta 5

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PIXresizer 2.0.3

PIXresizer is a photo resizing program to easily create web and e-mail friendly versions of your images with reduced file sizes.
The reduced files are saved in a different folder, so your original images are not altered at all. PIXresizer offers several different resizing methods to choose from and can automatically recognize image sizes to calculate the best fit. In addition, it can convert between image formats (JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and TIFF), rotate images, convert to grayscale and resize multiple images in batch mode. A great companion for webmasters and digital photographers.

Options/Features
· Simple Four-Step Workflow
· Easy ‘Apply recommended’ option to make it even more user friendly
· Works with single files as well as with multiple files all at once
· Option to convert between graphics formats (.bmp, .gif, .jpg, .png, and .tif)
· Can be used to create thumbnails (takes one move on a slider)
· Smart Ratio Calculation (image proportions can be overruled by the user)
· EXIF support, JPEG compression, TIFF compression, DPI settings
· Runs on Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/2003/XP/Vista

Download: PIXresizer 2.0.3

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Apple to control your iPod volume automatically

A new European patent lodged by Apple, points to the iPod manufacturer introducing ear saving volume control.

We all strive for a safer world, and now according to a report from the UK’s Telegraph , now Apple wants us all to lead healthier life, especially when it comes to our ears.

Future incarnations of the popular iPod MP3 player as well as the Apple iPhone may include an automatic volume control feature that will adjust after a determined amount of listening time.

Read more: itwire.com

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mpop 1.0.12

mpop is a small and fast POP3 client.

Features include:
- Header based mail filtering: filter junk mail before downloading it.
- Delivery to mbox files, maildir folders, or a mail delivery agent (MDA). Delivery with SMTP is possible by using an appropriate MDA, for example msmtp.
- Fast POP3 implementation using command pipelining.
- Authentication methods USER/PASS, APOP, PLAIN, LOGIN and CRAM-MD5 (and GSSAPI, DIGEST-MD5, and NTLM when GNU SASL is used).
- TLS encrypted connections (including server certificate verification and the possibility to send a client certificate).
- IPv6 support.
- Support for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN).
- Support for multiple POP3 accounts.

Download: mpop 1.0.12

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Memtest86 3.4a

Memtest86 is thorough, stand alone memory test for x86 architecture computers. BIOS based memory tests are a quick, cursory check and often miss many of the failures that are detected by Memtest86.

Memtest86 was developed by Chris Brady with a first release in 1994. However, the testing algorithms used have been under development since 1981 and have been previously implemented on Dec PDP-11, VAX-11/780 and Cray XMP architectures. Development and distribution of Memtest86 is now funded and supported by BradyTech Inc.

Memtest86 is released under the terms of the Gnu Public License (GPL).

Download: Memtest86 3.4a Windows, Linux and DOS

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hpObserver 0.1.0

hpObserver is a small program that allows you to monitor networks and website’s (or IP’s if you prefer).

Current features include;

- Monitor HTTP or UNC path
- Continuous or single pass monitoring
- Comparison validation
- hpHosts inclusion status
- Obtain Servers IP
- Obtain webpage size (in bytes)
- Print/Save results
- Send URL to vURL Desktop Edition or vURL online edition
- Send URL to SiteAdvisor
- Send URL to TrustedSource
- Server response code (i.e. 200, 404, 501 etc)

Download: hpObserver 0.1.0

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RootKit Hook Analyzer 3.02

RootKit Hook Analyzer is a security tool which will check if there are any rootkits installed on your computer which hook the kernel system services. Kernel RootKit Hooks are installed modules which intercept the principal system services that all programs and the operating system rely on. If any of these system services are intercepted and modified it means that there is a possibility that the safety of your system is at risk and that spyware, viruses or malware are active.

RootKit Hook Analyzer will tell you what kernel hooks are active on your system. It displays all kernel system services along with their base addresses, responsible modules as well as product names companies and module descriptions. If no hooks are active on your system it means that all system services are handled by NTOSKRNL.EXE, the principal base component of most Windows operating systems which is developed by Microsoft. All you have to do to find out what kernel hooks are installed on your system is press the Analyze button at the bottom of the screen. RootKit Hook Analyzer also allows you to view installed system modules and drivers with their base addresses as well as file and product information as well as the responsible companies.

The RootKit Hook Analyzer is for free and runs on Windows XP, 2000, 2003 Server and Vista on both 32 and 64 bit editions.

Download: RootKit Hook Analyzer 3.02

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AMD begins phase-out of X2 series processors

The infamous Athlon X2, which for a long while was king of dual core until Intel released Core architecture CPUs, is being phased-out. As AMD begins to focus on the Phenoms and the Athlon 6000 architecture, and starting soon they will no longer manufacture or take orders for the X2 series processors.

Read more: techspot.com

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Cuttermaran 1.69a

Cuttermaran is a cut program for MPEG1 or MPEG2 video streams. The advantage of this program is that it isn’t necessary to encode the videostream again. This saves time and allows a better quality.

This program supports Mpeg1- and Mpeg2- video and Mpeg1, Mpeg2 (Layer I-III) audio, AC3 audio, DTS audio and PCM audio.

Cuttermaran requires: Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 or later, DirectX 9.0c and an installed MPEG2 decoder (a software DVD player).

Supports Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

Download: Cuttermaran 1.69a

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i-Covers 2007.j

i-Covers is a free software, conceived to search and download on Internet all sleeves, pockets, jackets, covers and movie posters.

i-Covers connects to Internet to interrogate 14 data bases different and to display the result of your research in graphic form. i-Covers is the indispensable software for all fans of movies and amateurs of videos, Vhs, Dvd and Divx.

Certified without spyware, adware or other type of this kind. 100% pure. 100% free.

Download: i-Covers 2007.j Windows 98/NT4/Me/2000/XP/Vista

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