Keep Your Applications Updated with Seven Update

Software developers usually release  their new versions after improving its features, GUI, removing some bugs or security weaknesses in earlier versions or for some other reasons.So with every update a software becomes more secure and more stable.Some software will have automatic updates,but many don't have.It is very difficult to keep all the software on your computer updated to the latest versions.Also you might find it difficult and time-consuming if you have many programs installed.That's where Seven Update is  useful.

 

Seven Update is an open source update platform for windows. It allows an easy way to keep your software updated. It offers automatic update notification and installation.It also provides end users with a clean and intuitive interface, and also provides a user-friendly way to easily update their applications.

 

 

Features

• Provides automatic updates for software
• Full update history
• Application Repository - a list of applications that can be updated with Seven Update
• Add an application to Seven Update by clicking a link on a web site
• Automatic search and download of updates (depending on settings)
• Hide & restore updates
• Intuitive user interface
• Hash verification, no corrupt files!
• Displays download counts and sizes.
• Informative progress, know exactly what Seven Update is doing.

 

SevenUpdate32-bit |5.3 MB  SevenUpdate64-bit |3.7MB|OS:Windows NT / 2K / XP / 2003 / Vista / XP X64 / Vista64 / 7|Open source

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Choose Your Preferred Browser With Browser Chooser

As the browser war  is in full swing ,ie Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and the latest Opera 10 , many of us are using more than one browser.I run three browsers on my computer.How many web browsers do you run on your computer?

 

Even though you have multiple browsers, Windows allow you  to keep only one as default.When  you try to open  a web page saved on your hard disk or click a URL on a PDF file the page will always open in the browser you have assigned as default.So it is hard for you to decide on which browser that you’re going to put as default browser.

 

 

Browser Chooser is a tiny tool acting as the default browser gives you the flexibility of choosing what browser to open the link in. It allows you  to choose what browser to use for any given task. It is developed in VB.Net and geared towards Windows Vista and Windows 7.

 

You have to  add all browsers you would like the ballot screen to show , manually first. You cannot add more than 4 browsers to the ballot screen.

 

After adding all  browsers, click on the “Miscellaneous” tab and then click the “Make default browser” button to add the default browser. So when you click on a URL this will  giving you the flexibility of choosing whichever browser you want to use for the session.

 

  Browser Chooser | 2.64MB | Open source

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Songbird

Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development.It is integrated with these Web 2.0 services: mashTape, SHOUTcast Radio, Last.fm Scrobbling, and Songkick concert tickets. You can enhance Songbird with community-contributed plugins like Media Flow.

 

 

Features

 

• Add media to Songbird by importing from your file system or iTunes.

• Songbird supports MP3, FLAC, and Vorbis on all platforms; WMA and WMA DRM on Windows; and AAC and Fairplay on Windows and Mac.

• Songbird uses  as the main media playback system, across all platforms.

• Skips padding data due to encoding and chains files for gapless playback experience. Adjusts the playback gain appropriately if a track's metadata contains replay gain information.

• Display the currently playing track's album art and write new artwork back to the file. Automatically fetch missing album art from the web.

• Automatically import media from a defined folder.

• Create dynamic playlists that automatically update based on criteria you set.

• Songbird includes an integrated web browser with features like bookmarking, tabbed browsing, and more.

• Songbird runs on Windows, Linux and Mac.

• Multi-language Support

• Always stay up to date using Songbird's built-in automatic updates.

• Quickly setup Songbird for the first time.

• Make Songbird your own by choosing from dozens of different skins feathers.

• Browse, organize, sort and search your media.

  Songbird |Freeware |12.8MB

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Top Tools for your PC

SparksSpace  brings you some  selected tools that will make working with Windows easy and ensure a fast, stable and secure system.This include Hardware, Optimization Tuning, Privacy,Backup and Recovery. Optimization of Windows makes your  system run faster and improves its efficiently. Many of these are open source software

• Copernic Desktop:Search for all documents.
• DirSync: Synchronize two folders.
• Gigabank Software: Upload files online.
• GImageX: Interface for WIM format.
• SelfImage: Create images of partitions.
• USBDLM : USB port auto-start actions.
• Z-Cron: Interface to control other tools.
• Drive Backup 9 Professional: Backup your drive securely.
• Titan Backup Professional: Full version program for drive backups.
• CrystalCPUID:Improves the multiplier of the AMD-CPUs.
• ATI Tool: Overclocks the graphic card.
• 8rdavcore: Boost the motherboard clock rate.
• WCPUID: Reads out processor data.
• ClockGen: Overclock Pentium and Athlon systems.
• SpeedFan: Regulate ventilator speed.
• PC Wizard 2008: Analyze entire system.
• CPUCool: Regulates voltage, frequency and temperature.
• CPU-Z: Sounds the system out .
• AMD OverDrive: Optimizes motherboards with AMD chip set.
• Registry CleanUp 2008: Registry fix-it.
• X-Setup Pro: Offers thousand of Windows-tweaks.
• Ashampoo WinOptimizer: One click optimization of Windows.
• EnhanceMyVista Free: Speeds up Windows Vista.
• Dexpot: Manage multiple desktops.
• RocketDock: Mac OS X like taskbar.
• Windows Blinds: New skins for PC.
• Crystal XP: Transparent windows in XP.
• DeskSpace: Projects several desktops onto a cube.
• WinFlip: Enables Vista’s Flip3D for XP
• Torpark: Secures Firefox.
• JAP/JonDo: Conceals your browser data.
• JonDoFox: Enables anonymous surfing.
• TrueCrypt5: Encodes partitions.
• Zfone Beta: Encodes VoIP conversations (SIP).
• Skype: Encodes VoIP conversations on Skype only.
• CookieCooker: Hides the user's surfing  data and characteristics.
• Proxomitron: Conceals information about the browser.
• Steganos Locknote: Protect text files.
• Exif Tag Remover: Delete EXIF metadata from camera RAW images
• DivFix++: Helps run damaged DivX films.
• IsoPuzzle: This tool repairs scratched CDs and DVDs.
• Object Fix Zip: This utility repairs corrupt data archives.
• PC Inspector Smart Recovery:Specializes in the recovery of photos and video files.
• PhotoRec: Recovers picture files.
• TestDisk: Restores hard disk partitions.
• Undelete Plus: Starts with USB sticks and recovers files.
• Unstoppable Copier: Retrieves data from scratched CDs.
• VirtualDub: Helps run damaged videos.
• Recuva: Freeware recovery tool.
• Partition Manager 2009: Manages partitions.
• Defraggler: Arranges the saved data.
• Gigabank Software: Allows online backup.
• HDCleaner: Removes junk auto-start entries
• HDD Health: Sounds alarm before data crash
• MHDD: Helps to search for hard disk errors
• O&O Drive LED: Reads out the SMART values
• PC Inspector File Recovery: Recovers data in an emergency.
• Smartmontools: Checks SCSI disks for errors.
• UltraDefrag: XP defragmentation and more.
• Z-Cron Scheduler: Automates data security
• 7-Zip: Creates archive and hides secret information.
• My Lockbox: Masks folders and directories.
• ShadowExplorer: Cracks folder lock in Vista.
• CyberGhost VPN : Anonymizes IP addresses.
• GnuPG : Encodes files and protects them.
• Thunderbird Portable: Bug-proof email.
• Enigmail: Interface for safe emailing.
• Tor: Conceals your identity on the Internet.
• Steganos Safe One: Caches private data.
• TorChat: Allows bug-free chatting.
• Exif Tag Remover: Removes metadata from image files.
• BeCyPDFMetaEdit: Deletes unnecessary information from PDF files.
• Abylon Basic: Encodes individual files or entire directories in a few clicks

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KeyNote- A RichText editor

KeyNote is a Tabbed notebook with RichText editor, multi-level notes and strong encryption, built on Marek Jedlinski's KeyNote.
Keynote is a flexible, multi-featured tabbed notebook, based on Windows standard RichEdit control. It's always accessible with a single keypress, even if you work in another application. Take a look at the screenshots page.
With powerful text formatting capabilities, easily navigable interface and additional features such as styles, macros, plugins, and templates, KeyNote is has become the favorite note keeper, diary, outliner, knowledge base and information manager for thousands of users.

 

 
Examples of use:

• personal information management
• personal diary or journal
• to-do items
• scratchpad for quick notes and ideas
• writing and structuring small articles or larger documents
• Creating and storing electronic texts (easily structure chapters or sections)
• outlines, projects
• project documentation
• reports
• recipes
• personal contacts (addresses, telephone numbers)
• accounts, passwords, PIN numbers (remember to encrypt the file!)
• Internet bookmarks (clickable hyperlinks)
• all kinds of lists! If you collect books, CDs, DVDs, or just your favorite quotes or jokes, KeyNote makes it easy to store them in one place and search through them quickly.
• email archives (you can use the separate, free KNTConvert utility to import your email archives into a KeyNote file)
• archiving documents, such as articles downloaded from the Internet or local files
• templates for creating documents with a standard format
• viewing log files (use virtual nodes to view log files without having to open each file separately)
• for teachers: class notes, student attendance and assessment notes

SysReq:32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP)|Freeware||6.5MB

 

 

   KeyNote | From Sourceforge.net

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jGnash: Accounting Made Easy

jGnash is a very simple accounting package that will take care of most of your personal and business needs.It has many features common among commercial finance applications, including Quicken. It was created in order to make tracking your personal finances easy, but also provides the functionality required by advanced users. jGnash is cross-platform and will run on any operating system that has a working Java 1.4.0 or greater Runtime Environment.

 

 

Main Features

• Double-Entry Based Transactions
• Account Reconciliation
• Report Generation in PDF Format
• Imports both QIF and GnuCash Files
• Fast Auto-Completion of Form Fields
• Schedule Recurring Payment Reminders
• Support for Multiple Currencies
• Track Investment Accounts and Transactions
• Online Updates of Stock Prices and Currency Exchange Rates
• Secure File Encryption
• Customizable User Interface
• Scriptable through BeanShell
• Advanced Server/Client Networking Architecture

In the setup  you have to add  the currency to be used for accounts and also you can add multiple currencies. It  has account summary, monthly reports and  you can export to excel and report in PDF format.

 

Freeware | 9.72 MB |Java 1.6.0 (or greater) Runtime Environment 

 

     Gnash-2.1.0.

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40 Open Source Tools for Protecting Your Privacy

You don't need to fork over big bucks – or even any bucks – to keep your online activities and identity secret. The open source community has dozens of privacy-related projects in development, and some of them have already proven themselves to be among the best privacy protection tools available.

Read more at: esecurityplanet.com

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Repair Your AVI Files With DivFix++

DivFix++ is an AVI video repair and preview utility.This program allows you to preview your AVI videos which are currently downloading from ed2k, kad, bittorrent, gnutella and any other network. Simply fix them and watch them.

 

DivFix++ has supports CLI tools, this means you can fix a file to temporary location, preview with a player, than delete temporary movie file after preview automatically via script by using argument parameters.

 

SysReq:Windows All|751KB|Freeware

 

DivFix++

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Oxite - Microsofts Open Source Blogging Platform

Microsoft have released an alpha version of its own open source content management system (CMS) platform – Oxite. Oxite offers everything you need -anonymous or authenticated commenting, comment moderation, gravatar support, RSS feeds, pingbacks, trackbacks, SEO optimized clean URLs, multiple blogs, group blogging and support for custom pages.

 

 

 

 

Oxite has  a "highly extensible content management platform that can run anything from blogs to big web sites."

 

  Oxite

 

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Use VirtualDub To Split Movie Files

What do you do when you want to resize or cut a large movie file—say an AVI file—into two or more parts, so that they can be written onto CDs? DVD ripping tools have inbuilt splitters, but one often ends up with problems such as sound lag and low volume in the ripped output file.

The ideal method would be to let the DVD ripping tool rip the entire DVD movie to a single AVI file, and then use VirtualDub, a tool for splitting such files into smaller chunks - and if need be,correct the volume and sound lag problems. VirtualDub is freeware licensed under the GNU General Public License. You can download it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdub.

You can also split files of other formats using VirtualDub. If you’re splitting a DivX file, note that problems have been reported with splitting older versions of DivX encoded video (DivX version 4.02), so it is advisable to upgrade to a newer version of the codec before proceeding with VirtualDub.

Step by step guide available here

1. How to cut/split/merge/effect/audio video files using VirtualDub
2. AVI Split With VirtualDub
3. How to CUT AVI files with VirtualDub
4. Merge Multiple Video Files With VirtualDub

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Wubi - Ubuntu Installer for Windows

Try Ubuntu on your Windows machine without partitioning your hard drive or creating a boot CD.

No need to burn a CD. Just run the installer, enter a password for the new account, and click "Install", go grab a coffee, and when you are back, Ubuntu will be ready for you.Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application, in a simple and safe way

  

 Wubi 8.04.1 

Requirements:  256 MB memory|  5 GB Harddisk Space|  Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista

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WinSCP 4.1.6 - Free SFTP, FTP and SCP client for Windows

WinSCP is an open source SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Its main function is the secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers basic file manager functionality. It uses Secure Shell (SSH) and supports, in addition to Secure FTP, also legacy SCP protocol.

Features

• PuTTY Portable integration
• Graphical user interface
• Translated into several languages
• All common operations with files
• Support for SFTP and SCP protocols over SSH-1 and SSH-2 and plain old FTP protocol
• Directory synchronization in several semi or fully automatic ways
• Integrated text editor
• Support for SSH password, keyboard-interactive, public key and Kerberos (GSS) authentication
• Windows Explorer-like and Norton Commander-like interfaces

SysReq: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server1.9MBFreeware

WinSCP

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Free Text File Merging Tools

Comparing and merging two files by hand can be quite tedious. Luckily there are file comparison applications available. They tend to work the same way: Start the application, choose two files to compare, see color coded differences between the files and copy code from one file to the other.

WinMerge is a Windows tool for visual difference display and merging, for both files and directories. It is in particular useful for comparing source codes, and offers optional support for Visual SourceSafe syntax highlighting, customizable highlight colors and more. The program allows you to go through all found differences and then merge each instance by either replacing them on the right or the left side.

 

WinMerge Features:
* Visual differencing and merging of text files
* Flexible editor with syntax highlighting
* Handles DOS, UNIX and MAC text file formats
* Unicode support
* Difference pane shows current difference in two vertical panes
* Location pane shows map of files compared
* In-line word difference visualisation
* File filters in directory diff
* Moved lines detection in file compare
* Shell Integration
* Rudimentary Visual SourceSafe and Rational ClearCase integration
* Archive file support using 7-zip The license of this file & disk software is  Freeware, you can free download and free use this File & Disk software.

SysReq:Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/2003/XP|Freeware

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TXTcollector 2.0.1 is another  File Management  Tool that can combine text files in a directory into a single file. It can read TXT, HTM, INI, INF, LOG, REG, CSV files and will give you the option to include your own custom separator between each of the combined files, as well as rows that identify the original file name.

Options/Features

• Grabs all .txt files from a directory and combines them
• Puts directory-, file name and separator between each text file
• Possibility to add your own extensions and separators
• Popup list with files ready to be merged
• Able to recursively search directories
• Allows continuous merging (without Carriage Returns)

Sys Req:Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/2003/XP|Freeware|679KB

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If you need a higher end tool for Windows, check out the  Araxis Merge .Use it to compare and merge source code, web pages, XML and other text files with native application performance. Directly open and compare the text from Microsoft Office (Word and Excel), Open Document, PDF and RTF files. Compare images and binary files. Synchronize folders. Perform code reviews and audits. Work with folder hierarchies containing thousands of files.

Three-way file merging is frequently used to merge two derived files into a common ancestor or base version.

The need to do this typically arises when more than one person is working simultaneously on a set of source files stored in a version control or configuration management system.

Merge integrates with a number of such configuration management systems. 

Three-way file comparisons can be launched directly from a three-way folder comparison, allowing efficient integration of entire branches of source code.

Merge Professional also supports Automatic File Merging, to speed up three-way merges.

Araxis Merge Professional | Araxis-Merge |Rapidshare Part1&Part2

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HandBrake

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

Supported sources:

• Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (encrypted or unencrypted, but protection methods other than CSS are not supported and must be handled externally with third-party software), and some .VOB and .TS files
• PAL or NTSC
• AC-3, DTS, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks

Outputs:

• File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM
• Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
• Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

Misc features:

• Chapter selection
• Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
• Integrated bitrate calculator
• Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
• Grayscale encoding

Freeware3.5MB

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Blender 2.46

Blender is the open-source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.It can be used to produce computer-generated images and movies. It is open source freeware, so it costs nothing to use.

Version 2.46 includes cloth and fur simulation, physics caching and baking, shading, glossy reflection and refraction, raytraced soft shadows, improved rendering features, and more.

Sys Req:Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista |8,910 KB | Freeware | Version:2.46

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Soashable

Soashable is an Open Source (on SourceForge) web-based, multi-protocol instant messaging client written in pure Javascript.

Besides the hosted Web app that supports three major IM clients, you can take Soashable and integrate it into your personal site by installing it on your server. The chat windows are currently full of all sorts of debugging gobbledy-goop, but I successfully had conversations with people on AIM and Yahoo without a hitch.

Homepage

Download from Sourceforge.net

Source:Mashable!

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