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• Today's downloads for Windows, Mac and Mobile
  Windows: Panoramic photos may seem quite difficult to create, but the truth is that if you have the right app, it's easy as pie. Pos Panorama Pro is one of those apps, providing you with an easy, intuitive wizard-style interface where you can create your own panoramas in just a few clicks. Give it a [...]
• Top 5 blogging widgets for your Mac
  One of the great things about blogs is that they're often a great source of the latest news before it's officially been announced. Time is therefore of the essence when blogging and one way to significantly speed-up your blogging response time is by adding a blogging widget to your dashboard. Mac users are spoilt for [...]
• Today's downloads for Windows, Mac and Mobile
  Windows: Photoshop is undoubtedly the industry standard in digital photo editing software. Its latest version, Photoshop CS4, includes a beautifully redesigned interface plus tons of new features, such as suppor for 3D object editing, new Adjustments and Masks panels, fluid canvas rotation, smoother pan / zoom and the amazing content aware resizing, among others.
  iPhone: Do you often [...]
• Get ZoneAlarm Pro 2009 for free
  ZoneAlarm is one of the world's longest standing security and firewall solutions but a one year license for the pro version usually costs a hefty $ 40. Tomorrow however, developers Check Point will be giving away ZoneAlarm Pro 2009 absolutely free for one day only to celebrate their 15 year anniversary.
  At the moment, the ZoneAlarm website [...]
• Things to do on (Google) Earth
  This week Google announced the release of Ancient Rome in 3D for Google Earth. This new layer loads a 3D model of Emperor Constantine's Rome, 1688 years ago.
  Switching the layer on is relatively straight forward, just open the 'Layers' tag in the side panel of Google maps, open' Gallery 'then tick Ancient Rome in 3D. [...]
• Today's downloads for Windows, Mac and Mobile
  Windows: Do you miss having video in Google Talk? You can now have it in a couple of clicks! Simply install the Google Voice and Video Chat plug-in and you'll be able to have video chats with family and friends right in Gmail 'S interface. You'll enjoy a high quality of image and crisp clear sound, [...]
• How to: Apply a sketch effect to your photos
  Sometimes you don't need to apply highly complicated effects to your photos to make them stand out. A simple sketch look like the one explained in this tutorial is more than enough to make a dull image look fancier and more original. Plus it's really easy to apply! Want to learn how? Follow these simple [...]
• Why does the games industry insist on making the consumer suffer?
  Alongside fighting piracy, games companies are widening their targets to include the rental, and second-hand game markets.
  In an interview with Gamesindustry.biz, Epic Games' (makers of Gears of War) President Michael Caps complains that piracy has stopped them making PC games altogether, and the second hand market is pushing developers towards solutions that stop it. Recently, and [ ...]
• Video chats enabled in Google Talk
  Google Talk started out as a minimalist chat client that was soon successful among people precisely due to its simplicity in functions and design. It grew in popularity together with Gmail, to the extent that it was later on embedded into the webmail interface and also began offering support for voice chats. The next logical [...]
• Today's downloads for Windows, Mac and Mobile
  Windows: Here again to ruin the lives of many an armchair soccer fan is Football Manager 2009. The latest release of the oh-so addictive football management simulation is the most in-depth ever. As well as updating the huge player and team database, the latest version adds a new 3D game view, improved transfer system, heightened [...]
• Add features from other browsers to Firefox
  A while ago, when Google Chrome came out, we found a way to add Chrome's best features to Firefox by using certain add-ons that mimic Chrome's new tab page, download manager and Incognito mode. But the truth is that this trick can be extended to other web browsers as well. That is, you can [...]
• The dangers of mobile app stores
  Few would be foolish enough to say that Apple's iPhone App Store hasn't been a roaring success. Users have flocked to the store in their millions and there are now thousands of applications available for users to download. Virtually all the other mobile systems operators have now wised up to this closed-market approach too. Google [...]
• Today's downloads for Windows, Mac and Mobile
  Windows: Whether you're a regular screencast producer or just need an easy tool to record video on your screen, Camtasia Studio is the perfect choice. This complete suite helps you record, edit, produce and share videos in a simple way. The latest version, Camtasia Studio 6, features support for HD video, MOV video editing, finer [...]
• Time waster: How much do you know about Geography?
  Geography was a hard nut to crack for me when I was at school. I had lots of trouble to memorize all those capital cities, monuments and famous places all over the world, together with their correspondent location on a map. I'm sure everything would have been much easier if I had known this game [...]
• Today's downloads for Windows, Mac and Mobile
  Windows: If you want to be fully protected while browsing the web, either you install several different software tools or you choose Comodo Internet Security. This comprehensive application includes a firewall, an antivirus tool and a spyware monitor which will protect your privacy and your whole system from any online threat.
  Mac: The developers claim the [...]

New Freeware List

• Super Free Youtube Video Downloader 3.0

  

  Super Free Youtube Video Downloader is a tool to download YouTube video and save YouTube video to your pc. It allows you to download multiple videos from YouTube with easy.

  Using Super Free Youtube Video Downloader, You can easily download YouTube video and save them as flv (for Standard Quality) or mp4 (for High Quality) format.

• Intel Processor Identification Utility 4.0

  

  The Intel ® Processor Identification Utility was developed by Intel Corporation to identify the processor inside a system, assuring the processor contains intended technologies and is operating at the tested and rated frequency intended by Intel Corporation.

• FLV-Media Player 1.71

  

  The free FLV-Media Player is a standalone Flash-Video-Player which allows you to watch any downloaded FLV-Video-Media-Content. This utility can come in handy when viewing many FLV and / or H.264 files, as it doesn 'T require a pre-installed Adobe Flash OCX Plugin. The player has an easy and intuitive interface with many options.

• Argente Registry Cleaner 1.5.0.4

  

  With Argente Registry Cleaner you can safely clean and repair problems in the Windows registry with just a few clicks of the mouse. Problems with the Windows Registry are one of the common causes of failures of the system and error messages from Windows.

• Mouse Recorder Pro 2.0.1.0

  

  Mouse Recorder Pro is an input recording application (mouse and keyboard input), with this application you can create script's of recordings you have made (moving your mouse, clicking on a button, pressing keys), now all of these annoying repetitive tasks will be done easily.

• SMPlayer 0.6.5.1

  

  SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more.

• NetWorx 4.5.2

  

  NetWorx is a simple and free, yet powerful tool that helps you objectively evaluate your bandwidth situation. You can use it to collect bandwidth usage data and measure the speed of your Internet or any other network connection. NetWorx can help you identify possible sources of network problems, ensure that you do not exceed the bandwidth limits specified by your ISP, or track down suspicious network activity characteristic of Trojan horses and hacker attacks.

• Free YouTube Download 2.2.2.3

  

  Free YouTube Download. Download video from YouTube to your computer hard drive with one mouse click. Video from YouTube will be saved as AVI, MP4, 3GP or FLV files. You'll be able to play AVI with any video player on your computer.

• FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 2008-11-14

  

  FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DIVX movies, picture postprocessing, and show subtitles. It uses libavcodec from ffmpeg project or for video decompression (it can use xvid.dll installed with xvid codec too), postprocessing code from mplayer to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies, and is based on original DirectShow filter from XviD, which is GPL'ed educational implementation of MPEG4 encoder.

• Haihaisoft Universal Player 1.2.0.1

  

  Haihaisoft Universal Player is a powerful media player which supports almost all popular digital media formats and can also play digital media files protected by DRM-X platform.

  Haihaisoft Universal Player can play WMV (Windows Media Video), WMA (Windows Media Audio), ASF, WMS, DVD, VCD, SVCD, MOV, RM, RMVB, AVI, MPEG, WMV, 3GP, FLV, SWF, MP3, AMR , M4A, ACC, OGG, MIDI, GIF and JPEG file format.

• SpeedFan 4.36

  

  SpeedFan monitors fan speeds, temperatures and voltages in computers with hardware monitor chips. It can even access SMART info for those hard disks that support this feature and show hard disk temperatures too, if supported. It can even change the FSB on some hardware. At the lowest level, it is a hardware monitor software, but its main feature is that it can control fan speeds according to the temperatures inside your pc, thus reducing noise and power consumption.

• Quick Media Converter 3.6.0

  

  Quick Media Converter is a powerful and completely free video and audio Universal Multi Formats conversion application.
  Converts to and from:

  FLV AVI DIVX XVID MPEG
  MPEG 2 MP3
  MP4 MPEG4
  Real Media TS Quick Time PSP
  Ipod Iphone WMV VCD 3GP 3G2
  M4A AMR H264 H263

• Sysinternals Suite November 12, 2008

  

  The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files. It does not contain non-troubleshooting tools like the BSOD Screen Saver or NotMyFault.

  The Suite is a bundling of the following selected Sysinternals Utilities:

• Kantaris Media Player 0.4.1

  

  Kantaris is an all new media player based on code from Videolan client (VLC) and Bass audio library. Kantaris has a graphical user interface similar to that of Windows Media Player. Kantaris works with Windows 2000, XP and Vista.

• Ultra Defragmenter 2.0

  

  UltraDefrag is powerful Open Source defragmentation tool for Windows NT. It is very fast, because the defragmenting is done by kernel-mode driver. They are three interfaces to them: graphical, console and native. The GUI is very useful, because it represents your filesystem visually as a color coded cluster map. The console is another option for those that prefer the command line. It is also allows you to run UltraDefrag from the task scheduler and scripts. Finally, the native executable will run at boot time in a manner similar to chkdsk.

Portable Ftware Latest software entry

• [UPDATE] USBDeview V1.28

  USBDeview is a small utility that lists all USB devices that currently connected to your computer, as well as all USB devices that you previously used. For each USB device, extended information is displayed: Device name / description, device type, serial number (for mass storage devices), the date / time that device was added, Vendor ID, Product ID etc. USBDeview also allows you to uninstall USB devices that you previously used, and disconnect USB devices that are currently connected to your computer. You can also use USBDeview on a remote computer, as long as you login to that computer with admin user.

  

• [UPDATE] X-WinMerge V2.10.2

  WinMerge is a visual text file differencing and merging tool. It can be used to determined what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions. It comes with a built-in editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers and word-wrap, and handles DOS, UNIX and MAC text file formats. X-WinMerge is a portable wrapper for WinMerge.

  
  
  

  An alternative is WinMerge Portable.

  

• [UPDATE] Infra Recorder V0.46.1

  Infra Recorder is a CD / DVD burning app that facilitates the creation of data, audio and mixed-mode CDs. Projects can be recorded to either physical discs or disc images. It also supports erasing rewritable discs using one of four different methods, and copying an existing CD or DVD to another physical disc or disc image.

  

• [UPDATE] DivFix + + V0.30

  DivFix + + checks and repairs broken AVI files by rebuilding its index. This is very useful when trying to preview movies with missing or broken index.

  

• [UPDATE] Q-Dir V3.33

  Q-Dir is a quad-pane file explorer that is capable of displaying 4 Explorer panes simultaneously. It supports favorites, file / color filtering, export to XLS / CSV / TXT / HTML, screen magnifier, quick preview etc.

  

• [UPDATE] WinSCP V4.1.7

  WinSCP is a SFTP client for Windows using SSH. Legacy SCP protocol is also supported. It allows for secure copying of files between a local and a remote computer. It features a Windows Explorer-like and Norton Commander-like interfaces. It also has a built-in directory synchronization tool to synchronizes changes between local and remote directories.

  

• [UPDATE] File Navigator V1.7.3.592

  File Navigator is a Norton-Commander clone with a dual-pane text-based interface with a command prompt for you to enter DOS commands directly. Though the website is in Russian, the program itself is entirely in English.

  

• [UPDATE] Artweaver V0.5.6

  Artweaver is an image editor that tries to simulate natural brush tools eg. Chalk, charcoal, pencils. It supports common image formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, PNG and PSD, in addition to its own format ( AWD). Image editing functions includes selection, gradient, crop, fill, transparency, layers, effects (sharpen, blur, emboss, mosaic etc.).

  

• [UPDATE] PhonerLite V1.52

  PhonerLite is an SIP softphone for making and receiving VoIP calls. It supports multiple SIP profiles, integrated phone book and call logging.

  
  
  

  Note: PhonerLite is a stripped-down version Phoner, with a different but more user-friendly GUI. They use the same DLL and configuration data (sipper.ini) and can co-exist in the same folder.

  

• [UPDATE] ComicsViewer V1.36

  ComicsViewer is an image viewer specially tailored to viewing scanned comics. It has a rotated view mode that allows you to view the images with your screen in portrait orientation. It is also able to directly display images stored in ZIP and RAR files without prior extraction.

  

Portable Ftware Forum Topics

• RE: gauging interest level:: Portable Freeware Discussion
  Author: webfork
  Subject: Scale problems.
  Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:32 am (GMT -8)

  
  > I don't think you can judge how often is application to be used so easily, ie. Registry cleanup may be a part of one's job. IMO as long as it may make a noticeable difference, speed should go before size.

  > In general, I strongly believe that in many cases compression * should * be used to speed things up. CPU power is cheap and HDD speed - expensive.

  Ah yes - both excellent points.

  > Both OpenOffice and MS Office formats use zip to store their files. I hope we'll be seeing more such uses.

  Agreed.

  > Some like AngelWriter more than notepad.

  I'll check that out.
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• RE: gauging interest level:: Portable Freeware Discussion
  Author: m ^ (2)
  Subject: Re: compression scale
  Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:00 am (GMT -8)

  
  

  webfork wrote:

  > I'm disappointed by application's slowness if it doesn't show up instantly. After 1 second I get bored. After 3 - I'm getting angry. It changes with application's complexity, but slightly. Agreed. Instead of just leaving this all to user preference, let me make a recommendation using this scale: Often used / creative (low) <-> Rarely used / system management (high) Further, for at least a hundred programs on here, even high compression would marginally impact their already immediate startup time. Those hundred different programs run by hundreds of different developers who may or may not have knowledge of how to further internally compress libraries and executables. An ideal example is registry tweaking software, which used only rarely and is perfect for very high compression. For those programs that do not start up that fast (especially Firefox, GIMP and other tools m ^ (2) mentioned) instant start up mimics our own responses. When you think of a topic or an idea you want the tool that will make that idea come into play as fast as possible.

  I don't think you can judge how often is application to be used so easily, ie. Registry cleanup may be a part of one's job.
  
  IMO as long as it may make a noticeable difference, speed should go before size.

  In general, I strongly believe that in many cases compression * should * be used to speed things up.
  
  CPU power is cheap and HDD speed - expensive.
  
  Executables are very bad kind of data for doing this because they are accessed randomly. However in case when data is being accessed in reasonably big chunks and you know this when designing an application, you can gain a lot. NRV2E running on 4 cores would give you 400 MB / s. With a modern CPU 600-800.

  Even compressing data that your program saves is often good. I play with compressors quite a lot and for almost all data that I tried, there are packers that work faster than XCOPY.
  
  Actually it's being used already, ie with Office documents. Both OpenOffice and MS Office formats use zip to store their files. I hope we'll be seeing more such uses.

  webfork wrote:

  For example, I seem to be unable to leave WordPad behind - even though its an ancient and very featureless program - simply because of its fast startup time. Often its the ability to write down an idea before I get distracted is more important than using one of the hundreds of tools (like PSPad) that's portable and 100x better.

  Some like AngelWriter more than notepad. It's just as fast and has a few more buttons.
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• RE: gauging interest level:: Portable Freeware Discussion
  Author: webfork
  Subject: compression scale
  Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:56 am (GMT -8)

  
  > Can any moderator join the 2 topics?

  Please.

  > I'm disappointed by application's slowness if it doesn't show up instantly. After 1 second I get bored. After 3 - I'm getting angry. It changes with application's complexity, but slightly.

  Agreed. Instead of just leaving this all to user preference, let me make a recommendation using this scale:

  Often used / creative (low) <-> Rarely used / system management (high)

  Further, for at least a hundred programs on here, even high compression would marginally impact their already immediate startup time. Those hundred different programs run by hundreds of different developers who may or may not have knowledge of how to further internally compress libraries and executables. An ideal example is registry tweaking software, which used only rarely and is perfect for very high compression.

  For those programs that do not start up that fast (especially Firefox, GIMP and other tools m ^ (2) mentioned) instant start up mimics our own responses. When you think of a topic or an idea you want the tool that will make that idea come into play as fast as possible. For example, I seem to be unable to leave WordPad behind - even though its an ancient and very featureless program - simply because of its fast startup time. Often its the ability to write down an idea before I get distracted is more important than using one of the hundreds of tools (like PSPad) that's portable and 100x better.
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• RE: Automated update discovery programs:: Portable Freeware Discussion
  Author: webfork
  Subject: Portability of appupdating
  Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:27 am (GMT -8)

  
  > Hippo uses. NET.

  Yes - as far as I can tell, only AppUpdater has even the potential to be portable. Either because it slipped past or because its not really portable, it never got accepted.

  > If sb. Cares, here'sa long list of such programs.

  Very cool - even better.
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• RE: gauging interest level:: Portable Freeware Discussion
  Author: webfork
  Subject: Topic Pollution
  Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:22 am (GMT -8)

  
  > I'm pretty sure webfork was trying to respond to m ^ (2) 's thread regarding "Executable packers unpacking performance tested", and hit "New Topic" instead of "Post Reply" on accident.

  Yeah ... sorry about that. I edited my initial message to hopefully cut down on the confusion.
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• RE: CleanAfterMe v1.25:: Portable Freeware Submission
  Author: m ^ (2)

  Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 6:53 am (GMT -8)

  
  

  AlephX wrote:

  Hi Cornflower, you have not to worry, Actually I thank you, because you have let us notice this useful program, which was "forgot". I took a look and it is portable, but not stealth.

  
  
  Cleanup tool that adds own rubbish.
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• RE: CleanAfterMe v1.25:: Portable Freeware Submission
  Author: AlephX

  Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 6:11 am (GMT -8)

  
  Hi Cornflower,

  you have not to worry, Actually I thank you, because you have let us notice this useful program, which was "forgot".
  
  

  I took a look and it is portable, but not stealth.
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• RE: Portable Mathematica:: Portable Payware Discussion
  Author: perwhis

  Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 4:14 am (GMT -8)

  
  A very good Matlab clone that is portable you can find here: http://qtoctave.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/qtoctave-portable/

  As simple replacements for Maple I use the programs Euler (older version) and Eigenmath. Euler is also very similar to Matlab, and it is very small.

  I also have a portable version av FreeMat, which also is a Matlab clone, but I don't know how good it is, since I use Octave most of the time.

  To make any of the programs you mention portable I doubt is legal, but I think you never needs them, as there are so good freeware and open source software out there!

• ICE ECC V2.6:: Portable Freeware Update
  Author: Checker
  Subject: ICE ECC V2.6
  Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:44 pm (GMT -8)

  
  TPFC: http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=310 is on V2.5.0

  V2.6 available.
  
  Download: http://www.ice-graphics.com/ICEECC/DownloadE.html

• Tux Paint V0.9.20b:: Portable Freeware Update
  Author: Checker
  Subject: Tux Paint V0.9.20b
  Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:38 pm (GMT -8)

  
  TPFC: http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=122 is on V0.9.19

  V0.9.20b available.
  
  Download (Windows 2000/XP/Vista): http://www.tuxpaint.org/download/windows-zip/

  V0.9.20 available.
  
  Download (Windows 95/98/ME): http://www.tuxpaint.org/download/windows9x-zip/

Digg.com Software News

• New Firefox app lets users pimp their browsers
  Mozilla Corp. Today unveiled a Web application that speeds Firefox customization by offering users several sets of pre-selected add-ons.Dubbed "Fashion Your Firefox," the online application provides nine sets of Firefox extensions, each with a catchy label and some descriptive text.
• Slick data-visualizer launched for QuickBooks users
  A free and very pretty 'heat map' can show you where your customers are-and aren't.
• Adobe Debuts Flash Catalyst At MAX Conference
  A year ago at the annual Adobe MAX conference, the company demoed an application codenamed "Thermo" that drew plenty of praise for its ability to take static images and convert them to working RIA user interfaces with just a couple of clicks. This year, the app is official as Flash Catalyst.
• 11 Useful Open-Source Apps You Should Know About
  You may not find them between the top of the list projects and many of projects are not listed here but over all the list has variety of projects for every one to run their business process in a much cost effective way. This is the list of 11 Useful Open-Source Apps You Should Know About.
• How to Ditch Your Old E-Mail Address and Move to Gmail
  A useful guide to replacing your old email address with: the real thing. Gmail-a real email 2.0 application.
• 20 Great Online Image Editors
  The online image editing space has grown rapidly in the past year, providing great free and subscription-based options for users of all levels. These well-rounded services let you import images from your social networks, touch up photos, promote your work, and more.
• Net Neutrality on Deck
  There has been a sea change in Washington since then, as the wonks, tech pundits and lobbyists align themselves with new leadership and the likelihood that Net Neutrality could become law soon.
• Mozilla to Firefox Add-On Developers: Stop Being Lazy
  Mozilla evangelists are starting to develop tools to track Firefox's very healthy add-on ecosystem, primarily with regard to how they adapt to upcoming Firefox versions ...
• Try Internet Explorer Mobile 6 on your desktop
  The Windows Mobile team has publicly released Internet Explorer Mobile 6. There's just one catch: You can't run it on your Windows Mobile phone yet. Instead, the download lets you run Windows Mobile 6.1.4 on your Windows system in an emulator.
• Firefox 2.0.0.18 and 3.0.4 security updates now available
  As part of Mozilla Corporation's ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 3.0.4 and Firefox 2.0.0.18 are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux as free downloads