Monthly Disk August 2005

Freeware & Shareware

MD0805 - Ubuntu - Ver: 5.04 (The Hoary Hedgehog)
Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for the desktop or the server that includes all of Debian as well as most of the packages of apt-get.org, with a fast and easy install, regular releases (every six months), a tight selection of excellent packages installed by default and a commitment to security updates with 18 months of security and technical support for every release. Licence: Free

MD0805 - Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 SP4
Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 SP4 was released June 28, 2005. This update rollup contains a list of security-related updates produced for Windows 2000 between the release of Windows 2000 SP4 and April 30, 2005. April 30, 2005 is the date when the contents for Update Rollup 1 were locked down for final testing by Microsoft, external beta testing sites, and customer sites. Additionally, this update rollup contains several important non-security updates. Licence: Free

MD0805 - Australia/U.S. Free Trade Agreement
On this month's Disc is a PDF file that contains an article about the intended changes to intellectual property law. The article was published in POLICY magazine and permission has been given for its distribution as a PDF file. All computer users will be affected by the Free Trade Agreement with America. Substantial changes are being made to intellectual property law as we now know it. All members should make themselves aware of what is coming; much of what you have been doing as your right (such as recording something for later viewing/listening) may be illegal.

MD0805 - 1st Security Centre Pro - Ver: 4.5.1.1
1st Security Center is a powerful security utility that allows you to restrict access to Windows important resources. If you set up the special list of allowed applications nobody will run unwanted programs. The powerful feature "User Working Time" allows you to limit working time for your children , office colleagues , students and so on. Licence: Shareware; Cost $24.95

MD0805 - A1 DVD Duplication
A1 DVD Duplication lets you make high quality backup of your favourite DVD movies using your own DVD burner. Now you can make backup copies of your DVD movies and watch it on your DVD Player. With the superior kernel, you can backup your entire DVD movie - including menus, trailers and special features to a single DVD disc. Licence: Trial; Cost $39.95

MD0805 - Backup To DVD/CD - Ver: 5.1.150
Backup To DVD/CD and Backup Made Simple will save anything on your hard drive to DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, CD-RW, CD-R, a hard drive folder, ZIP drive, or almost any other device. Licence: Trial; Cost $39

MD0805 - Burn4Free CD & DVD - Ver: 1.1.4
Burn4Free CD and DVD is a burning solution. It's compatible with more than 2,000 DVD and CD burners. Burn data and audio from different file types (WAV, WMA, MP3, OGG, FLAC, WavPack, and CDA). Burn and save ISO files, open and save your project to disk, verify content, print compilations, copy DVDs, and import your audio compilation from M3U and ASX play lists. Licence: Free

MD0805 - CDCheck - Ver: 3
The solution is to use a free program like CDCheck. It can scan most CDs in a few minutes to tell you if the data is OK - this way, you don't have to find out the hard way that there is a problem. If a CD or DVD is showing files with damage or you can no longer read a file in a drive, CDCheck can be switched to recovery mode and make a full sweep of the CD or DVD, recovering lost files along the way. When parts of a file can't be fully recovered, the program will still recover any salvageable fragments. Licence: Free

MD0805 - Complete Cleanup - Ver: 4.86
Complete Cleanup displays all your file statistics, improves PC performance, and cleans up all cookies, cache files, history files, ActiveX controls and Java applets, search-engine and autoform data, previous passwords and user-ID entries, index.dat files, and location URLs for all versions of Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox, AOL, Mozilla, and MSN Explorer. Licence: Trial; Cost $29.95

MD0805 - Digital Photo Recovery - Ver: 2.0.3
Digital Photo Recovery is a digital image recovery program designed for media recovery. Our digital picture recovery software recovers lost photos, audio, and video from removable media such as SmartMedia, CompactFlash, Memory Stick, MicroDrive, xD Picture Card Flash Card, PC Card, Multimedia Card, Secure Digital Card, Zip Disks, floppy disks, or any other media used in digital cameras, PDA's, cellular phones, or other digital media. Licence: Trial; Cost $29

MD0805 - File Recover - Ver: 4.23
File Recover is an easy-to-use file recovery and undelete program, designed to recover and restore accidentally deleted files. It supports hard drives formatted with FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS file systems (Windows-compatible), and will recover files on logical and physical hard drive partitions. Licence: Trial; Cost $29.95

MD0805 - Font Browser - Ver: 1.1.0
If you have lots of TrueType fonts, then this program will let you browse through them very quickly and find the perfect one for the job at hand. It will then install your selected fonts so that other applications can use them. Licence: Shareware; Cost $10

MD0805 - FreeSnap - Ver: 1.2
Manually resizing windows can be a pain, and getting them to line up along the side of the screen is an unwelcome dexterity test. With FreeSnap, you can move and resize windows with your keypad. Just fire up the program, and you can use hotkeys to centre windows or send them to all corners of the screen. Licence: Free

MD0805 - GetWebPics - Ver: 2.2
GetWebPics is picture download manager software. This application will easily allow you downloading pictures, digital photos, wallpapers, flash movies and image-galleries from Internet. It will help you to collect your own galleries of celebrities, babies, cars, sexy bodies and many others. Licence: Trial; Cost $29.95

MD0805 - ieSpell - Ver: 2.1.1
Of course you use a spellchecker on your word documents...you may even use one on your e-mail...but what about when you enter data on the web? IeSpell checks the spelling on text you enter into boxes on the web. If you're using web mail, posting to a newsgroup, or blogging, you could make your point come across more clearly, and save yourself a lot of embarrassment, by making sure you've spelled everything in good English. Licence: Free

MD0805 - KatMouse - Ver: 1.01
The prime purpose of the KatMouse utility is to enhance the functionality of mice with a scroll wheel, offering 'universal' scrolling: moving the mouse wheel will scroll the window directly beneath the mouse cursor (not the one with the keyboard focus, which is default on Windows Operating Systems). Licence: Free

MD0805 - KeyTweak - Ver: 2.1.1
Your hands are unique; your mind is unique. So why you be forced to conform to a standard keyboard? Remap your keyboard with KeyTweak. Chances are, there are a few keys that are inconveniently situated, and a few others that you don't use at all. This utility lets you change the function of almost any key. Licence: Free

MD0805 - Metapad - Ver: 3.5
Metapad is a small, fast (and completely free) text editor for Windows 9x/NT/XP with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepad's features and much, much more. Licence: Free

MD0805 - ObjectWipe - Ver: 1.3
ObjectWipe is a solution to keep your computer privacy: wipe files, disk drives / flash memory and unused disk space so your data Can Never Be Accessed Or Recovered. Program uses either fast or secure erase algorithms. Licence: Trial; Cost $19.95

MD0805 - PhotoEchoes - Ver: 1.0.08
PhotoEchoes is a digital Kaleidoscope that runs as a screensaver or as a stand-alone program. It generates dazzling images based on photographs stored in your computer. It will scan your collection of photos (from the folders you choose) and pick images randomly. Then it will process the images to enhance them and will project the result on screen in multiple animated reflections. Licence: Trial; Cost $17.95

MD0805 - Picture To Icon - Ver: 1.8
Picture To Icon converts images or any part on your screen into icons, resizes the icon and extracts icons from libraries. With Picture To Icon you make nice Windows icons of your pictures and digital photos quickly and easily. Picture To Icon converts BMP, JPEG, GIF, CUR, WMF formats into all sizes Windows icons. Licence: Shareware; Cost $19.95

MD0805 - Pop-Up Stopper Professional - Ver: 1.80.1
Pop-Up Stopper Professional blocks all pop-up windows and cleans tracking files in various browsers on Internet connections. Pop-Up Stopper Professional blocks or closes pop-up and pop-under ads in all browsers, including AOL, MSN, Netscape, Internet Explorer, SBCYahoo!, WMConnect, and Opera. Licence: Trial; Cost $29.95

MD0805 - QuickTime Alternative - Ver: 1.41
QuickTime is a common format, but QuickTime's player is huge. Avoid that space hog by watching your QuickTime files in QuickTime Alternative. This free codec works in a number of browsers, too. With QuickTime Alternative, you can watch QuickTime files over Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape, and Opera. Licence: Free

MD0805 - QuickWiper - Ver: 7.8
QuickWiper is a disk and file wipe utility that allows you to wipe sensitive files in handy manner. QuickWiper provides you with wipe free disk space function to wipe all previously deleted files, temporary files created by MS Office and other. Licence: Trial; cost $29.95

MD0805 - Rapid CSS Editor 2005
With Rapid CSS Editor you can quickly and easily create and edit cascading style sheets of any size and complexity. You can write the style sheet code manually or let the program do it for you. In each case it is easy because of various helpful features, including auto complete and code inspector. Results are shown instantly using built-in preview. Rapid CSS Editor is also an HTML editor and it makes CSS powered HTML editing a snap. Licence: Trial; Cost $19.85

MD0805 - Real Alternative - Ver: 1.32
Many audio and video files are offered only in Real Networks' formats. If you like the files, but you don't like being tied to Real, you may prefer Real Alternative. This player plays RealAudio (.ra and .rpm) and Realmedia (.rm, .ram, .rmvb, .rpx) files just like RealPlayer and RealOne Player do--but without the hassles of dealing with Real. Licence: Free

MD0805 - Super Ad Blocker - Ver: 2.0.0.1094
Super Ad Blocker blocks all forms of advertising, including Flash ads, rich media, fly-ins, slide-ins, pop-ups, pop-unders, spyware and adware ads, and messenger ads. The program blocks major spyware applications, sponsored search-engine ads, and Gmail-sponsored links, and it includes advanced privacy cleaning and automatic updates, so the product is never out of date. Licence: Trial; Cost $29.95

MD0805 - Text-to-Speech Master - Ver: 2.3
Text-to-Speech Master is very powerful and interesting program that lets you listen to documents, e-mails or web pages instead of reading on screen or even convert them to audio files. It can read texts with different voices, speeds and pitches, read clipboard content, convert text to WAV or MP3 files and much more! Just imagine, how it's easier to listen to texts rather than read them. Licence: Trial; cost $29.95

MD0805 - TrustToolbar
TrustToolbar lets you avoid phishing attacks by identifying the company behind the Web site you visit. The Internet Explorer toolbar consists of over 5 million commercial Web sites. The user's TrustToolbar Plug-in retrieves the digital certificate from a commercial directory, validates its integrity and displays its contents on the secure TrustToolbar interface. Licence: Free

MD0805 - Ultimate Troubleshooter - Ver: 2.53
This program is an essential tool for troubleshooting frustrating problems, as all the information you need to make an informed decision is right there in a clear and instantly understandable presentation using down-to-earth language that all users will understand whatever their level of technical competence. Licence: Trial; Cost $35

MD0805 - VideoInspector - Ver: 1.5.0.83
VideoInspector is a tools designed to provide you with as much information as possible about your video files. With VideoInspector you'll know why your video files has no sound or refuses to play correctly. VideoInspector will help you installing the required CoDecs (coder/decoder software) for an optimal performance. Licence: Free

MD0805 - WellGet - Ver:1.25 Beta
Even with a broadband connection, downloading files can still be a tedious process. WellGet, the self-described "download manger for a new generation," improves your download speed by dividing a software file into 128 parts which you can download simultaneously. Licence: Free

MD0805 - Windows Media Bonus Pack for Windows XP
This pack includes over a dozen new and updated PowerToy for Windows Media Player for Windows XP. It installs on your XP-based PC to let you make the most of your digital media. Some features, such as the MP3-to-WMA converter Plus! MP3 Audio Converter LE Sample, will need Microsoft Plus! For Windows XP installed. Licence: Free