Monthly Disc March 2006

Freeware & Shareware

MD0306 - 1- Click Answers - Ver: 1.1.1.377
Answers.com is an answer engine - the online reference library, with quick accurate dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, bios, tech terms, news, sports, weather. With 1-Click Answers, just Alt-click on any word in any Windows application (e-mail, browser, Office), and get a quick definition or explanation. Alternatively, type a topic into our AnswerBar. Licence: Free

MD0306 - Ant Movie Catalog - Ver: 3.5.0.2
Ant Movie Catalogue is neat piece of free software that lets you organise your collection of movies. You can organise by title, genre, director and more. User interface is easy-to-use and available in over thirty languages, including English. Licence: Free

MD0306 - AutoHotkey - Ver: 1.0.41.0
AutoHotkey is a simple yet powerful hotkey (shortcut key) scripting language for Windows. You can customize your keyboard, joystick and mouse with a free automation tool that is backward compatible with AutoIt v2. Make any key, mouse/joystick button, or combination into a hotkey. Create custom GUI windows and menu bars. Automate almost anything: Send keystrokes & mouse clicks; launch programs/documents; work with the clipboard, registry, & soundcard settings. Includes quick-start tutorial, automatic script writer, and comprehensive help file. Licence: Free

MD0306 - BCArchive - Ver: 1.06
With BCArchive you can encrypt a group of files or folders and compress them to an encrypted archive (a single file). You can create a self-extracted program containing encrypted archives and e-mail it to a friend, who will receive the archive and be able to read your files, either by using the correct password or public or secret key technology. Licence: Free

MD0306 - Blender - Ver: 2.41
Blender, the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for major operating systems under the GNU Public License. Licence: Free

MD0306 - DATA Unerase Personal Edition- Ver: 3.0
eDATA Unerase Personal Edition is software used to restore files that have been deleted through normal methods, including accidental deletions from the recycle bin. Licence: Free

MD0306 - dBpowerAMP Music Converter - Ver: 11.5
This program will convert your digital music from one format to another. The program handles music on audio CDs to WAV or MP3 format and vice versa. Optional software lets you convert LPs to digital format, and covert audio files to Windows Media Audio v8 or OGG format. Licence: Free

MD0306 - Distant Suns - Ver: 1.22
Distant Suns - Grand Tour 3D Screensaver is a high-speed, full-motion, solar-system simulator using OpenGL technology and accelerated graphics. The positions and rotations of each of the planets and its moons are accurate to the current date and time (making the program a clock of sorts). Licence: Free

MD0306 - ERUNT - Ver: 1.1j
When the Windows registry gets corrupted, it can mess up your entire system. Emergency Recovery Utility NT - but you can call it ERUNT - lets you back up your registry. With ERUNT's restore folders, you can restore your NT-based system to its full glory. You can set ERUNT to automatically backup and restore the folders, too. Licence: Free

MD0306 - Floppy Office - Ver: 3.2
Floppy Office is a collection of small, self contained no-install applications which enable the end use access to every tool, utility and program imaginable for home, business, and student users alike. All of the self-contained, standalone applications require no installation, whatsoever, and for this reason make the perfect companion software package for your USB stick. Licence: Free

MD0306 - GenesisIV - Modeling the Real World
You're a GIS professional, not a professional 3D artist, but you want to create great landscape visuals for your clients. Or you're a teacher trying to enthuse and educate your students about maps and landscapes. Or your a local historian who wants to see how you locality looked 5,000 years ago. What do you use? GenesisIV. It's landscape software written by professionals for people who've got other things to do than be professional artists. Licence: Free

MD0306 - GIMP - Ver: 2.2.9 - GNU Image Manipulation Program
Too much of a cheapskate to buy Photoshop? You're in good company, and luckily there are a lot of free tools that do a good job of manipulating images. The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. You can resize images, feather edges, erase, fill, magnify, and select portions of your images using the lasso tool. Licence: Free

MD0306 - Kudaz, Programmer's Editor - Ver: 1.4.0.1
Kudaz is a programmer's editor with syntax-highlighting capabilities that currently supports 45 languages/scripts all told. Major Features Syntax-highlighting for 45 languages/scripts as follows. (fully user-configurable) C/C++ , CA-Clipper, Cascading Style Sheet , COAS Product Manager Report, COBOL , CORBA IDL , Fortran, Foxpro, Gembase, GW-TEL , HP48, HTML, INI File , Inno Setup Script, Java , JavaScript, Modula 3, MS VBScript , MS-DOS Batch , Object Pascal, Perl, PHP , Python, SQL, Standard ML , Structured Text, Tcl/Tk, TeX, Visual Basic , x86 Assembly , XML , Modelica, Semanta Data Dictionary, Galaxy, Cache Object Script, KiXtart, Haskell, Unreal, Progress, UNIX Shell Script, C#, 68HC11, Assembler, AWK, Baan 4GL, Borland Forms. Licence: Free

MD0306 - Lexa Organiser - Ver: 3.5
Not too many people suceed in this world without getting organised. So, we have a solution for you. Lexa Organiser is an effective task manager that helps you organize your work and personal life. In a few clicks of the mouse you can create new tasks with reminders and long descriptions. It is extremely easy to use and has a friendly skinnable interface. Licence: Trial; Cost $19.99

MD0306 - OceanDive - Ver: 1.2
It goes without saying that you'd rather be exploring the mysterious depths of the ocean than staring at a computer screen. OceanDive plunges you into the ocean without risk or costly equipment. Immerse yourself in this 3D environment at nine different "cameras" in the screensaver. Licence: Trial; Cost $20

MD0306 - OutlookHelper - Ver: 5.6.0
With all the spam and those friends sending "chain" emails, it makes sense to bolster Outlook. OutlookHelper is a free add-on for Windows 2000 and above and Windows XP. It's like a turbo charger for Outlook, allowing you to more efficiently manage your email. It features several helpful functions, such as previewing images of multiple emails simultaneously without opening them (so technically you're not breaking that lucky chain email). Licence: Free

MD0306 - PagePlus SE
PagePlus SE is a high end publishing software, comparable to Corel, Publisher and PageMaker, but the size of the program is dramatically smaller. The layout window is similar to other publishing programs with toolbars, rulers, layout page and property sheets. Some of the features included in the package are: linked text frames, a tool for building logos, and a drag and drop feature called Portfolio, which holds images and design objects. Licence: Free

MD0306 - PDF ReDirect - Ver: 2.1
PDF reDirect is a fast, free, and easy-to-use PDF Creator. It has no restrictions, no watermarks, no spyware, no adware and no pop-up advertisements. Features include basic encryption and full merging. Licence: Free

MD0306 - Pdf995 Suite
The Pdf995Suite is a combination of three of our products (Pdf995, PdfEdit995 and Signature995 ) providing an integrated solution for your document publishing needs. Pdf995 makes it easy and affordable to create professional-quality documents in the popular PDF file format. Licence: Free

MD0306 - PSPad - Ver: 4.5.0
PSPad editor is freeware programmer editor, usable for people who work with various programming environments, like highlighted syntax in code, need a small tool with simple controls and the capabilities of a mighty code editor and are looking for a tool to work with plain text. Licence: Free

MD0306 - RightMark Memory Analyser - Ver: 3.6.1
RightMark Memory Analyser aims the detailed, stable and accurate measurements of the most important low-level characteristics of the CPU/Chipset/RAM subsystem of your PC. Seven types of tests are implemented in the current release of the RightMark Memory Analyzer suite, that allow you to determine the various low-level parameters of the platform. Licence: Free

MD0306 - SimpleOCR - Ver: 3.1
This is a fabulous piece of software, an Optical document reader that will turn your hand written notes and paper documents into an electronic file. Within seconds your notes and documents are converted into editable electronic text for use with any application including Word and WordPerfect. You will require a scanner with a Twain driver to input your documents. Licence: Free

MD0306 - SimplyBackup - Ver: 2.50
SimplyBackup is a fast, small, simple backup software program that lets you easily back up your documents and folders. It safely protects you from accidental deletes, overwrites, and viruses. Backups are stored in Zip files and can be created both manually and automatically (on the schedule). SimplyBackup can automatically back up Windows registry, Windows desktop, Outlook folders, e-mail messages, address book, and files of your favorite messenger: ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!, and AOL. SimplyBackup is designed to be suitable for both beginners and advanced users. Licence: Trial; Cost $29.95

MD0306 - SiteGenWiz - Ver: 1.5
Enersoft SiteGenWiz is a Web site generator for HTML novices and people who just want a Web site without the hassle of coding HTML. The program includes a full-featured photo-album/image-gallery generator. Select from various frameworks, define a menu structure for your pages, and choose colors, fonts, bullets, and background images. Create and edit your pages with the built-in editor. Licence: Free

MD0306 - SIW - Ver: 1.55
The Freeware SIW is a Read-Only / Display-Only System Information tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings. SIW is an utility that displays detailed specs for motherboard, BIOS, CPU, devices, memory, video, disk drives, ports, printers, operating system, installed programs, processes, services, serial numbers (CD keys), users, open files, system uptime, network, network shares, as well as real-time monitors for CPU, memory, page file usage and network traffic. Licence: Free

MD0306 - SpeedFan - Ver: 4.25
SpeedFan monitors voltages, fan speeds, and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. It can even access SMART information for hard disks that support this feature, and show hard-disk temperatures if that's supported. SpeedFan fully supports SCSI disks and can even change the FSB on some hardware (but this should be considered a bonus feature). Licence: Free

MD0306 - Starter- Ver: 5.6.1.45
As a primary purpose, Starter allows one to view and manage all the programs that are starting automatically whenever operating system is loading. It enumerates all the hidden registry entries, startup folders' items and some of the initialization files, so that the user could choose to temporarily disable selected entries, edit them, create new, or delete them permanently. Licence: Free

MD0306 - Startup Guru - Ver: 1.45
If your PC takes several minutes to start, it's probably starting more programs than you really need--and maybe even some you don't know about. Startup Guru helps you find out what programs are running when your PC starts. Licence: Trial; Cost $20

MD0306 - Startup List - Ver: 2.0 The new version shows a ton of new autostart locations in a nice treeview, along with help text for each section. The right-click menu of each item offers options to show the file or Registry key, or copy the information to the clipboard. Licence: Free

MD0306 Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition

MD0306 - ZTreeWin - Ver: 1.5

ZTreeWin is a text-mode file/directory manager for all versions of Windows. It has been developed as the successor to the legendary DOS file-manager XTreeGold (tm), which its owners have abandoned in today's GUI-centric computing world. Licence: Trial; Cost $29.95