FREEWARE, SHAREWARE, TRIALS
Tiny Personal
Firewall
Protect personal computers against hackers with this free,
powerful firewall.
Tiny Personal Firewall (TPF) is a powerful and free utility designed to protect home cable and DSL connections. TPF provides multi-layer security protection in controlling which applications are allowed to transmit and receive data, MD5 Signature Support to ensure that Trojan horse applications cannot communicate, stateful filtering based on SRC/DST IP address, port and application to determine if incoming packets were requested, remote access to logs and statistics, and intrusion detection. This build corrects TDI errors.
Tiny Personal Firewall will not function properly if it is installed on a computer using WinRoute or Microsoft Internet Connection Sharing.
For directions on setting up TPF's security options, click here. To view TPF's online library, click here. To view or download the PDF support file, click here.
OS: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000 License: Free for home users
Virtual
Network Computing
Remote-control a computer using a different machine and platform
over the Internet.
Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a remote display system
that allows you to view and work on one computer's desktop using
a different computer and platform from anywhere on the Internet.
For example, you can use VNC on your PC to display a Unix
environment running on a large server in another room. It allows
you to control the mouse and keyboard input to the remote
computer as well as view its display. VNC also works as a
Java-client applet in a browser.
OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000 License:
Free
SmartFTP
Use a full-featured FTP client with a snazzy interface.
SmartFTP allows you to transfer files across the Internet. It features an Explorer-like interface that is fully customizable and supports drag-and-drop functions. Multiple FTP connections can be opened at the same time, and you can copy files from one remote host to another. Remote host directory information is cached for future viewing, FTP URLs are supported, and you can even view HTML pages within the client. SmartFTP also includes an interface for FTP-specific search engines such as FTPSearch and Filez.com. Other features include a Favorites list similar to that of Internet Explorer; the ability to resume broken downloads; a global history; background transfers; proxy support; a passive transfer mode; and the ability to perform recursive downloads, uploads, and deletes. Build 969 features Smart Keep Alive; 64-bit file size support; a new Global Settings dialog; and more enhancements and bug fixes.
Note: The Download Now link will download a small installer file to your desktop. Remain online and double-click the installer to proceed with the actual download.
OS: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP License: Free
WS_FTP LE (32-bit)
Transfer files over the Internet.
WS_FTP LE (limited edition) is a standard FTP client for
Winsock. It has an easy-to-use graphical interface and advanced
features. It contains profiles that can be set up to toggle
between commonly visited FTP sites. Newer features included
corrections to FTP servers for year 2000 compliance; a default
transfer mode option in session parameters; auto re-get; prompts
for file overwrites and preserving file date and time; support
for new firewall and host types; and other minor corrections.
This version is available free to government employees,
noncommercial home users, and students and staff of educational
institutions. Corporate users or those who do not qualify for
free use of WS_FTP LE must use WS_FTP Pro.
OS: Windows 95/98/NT License:
Free
FTP Explorer
Use an FTP client that resembles Windows Explorer.
FTP Explorer is an FTP client that provides a user interface
similar to that of Windows Explorer, including full 32-bit
capabilities. This includes drag-and-drop support for downloading
and uploading files, shortcuts, multithreading of transfers, and
a consistent Windows 95 look and feel.
OS: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000 License:
Free
Ad-aware
Scan your system for ad-supported software components (spyware)
and remove them.
Adware is known by many names--spyware, trackware, or even Big Brotherware. While producers of adware claim its purpose is merely to collect information about Internet habits in order to deliver ads tailored to a surfer's interests, privacy advocates are concerned about the potential misuse of this data. Where does it come from? Most likely it was installed alongside that free software widget that you downloaded just last week, without you even noticing.
Ad-aware identifies and removes these surreptitiously installed applications. Using updateable "reflists," which are sort of like antivirus DAT files, Ad-aware scours your system--including Registry and temporary Internet files--and looks for traces of recognized adware modules. When it's finished searching, it displays a list of what it found and lets you select the items you'd like to remove from your system. And when coupled with its companion program, RefUpdate, you're always assured of using the most comprehensive list of adware to search for. The main drawback is that some ad-supported programs, such as GoZilla Free, will no longer function if you remove their ad modules. If privacy is your main concern, Ad-aware will help keep you anonymous on the Web.
OS: Windows (all) License: Free
Fresh UI
Configure and optimize your system, hardware, and Windows
applications' settings.
Fresh UI is the fresh solution for configuring and optimizing
Windows. Loaded with hundreds of useful hidden settings in
Windows, this software covers the customizing and optimizing
technique that you'll be glad to know, such as customizing the
Windows User Interface (UI), tweaking hidden settings, optimizing
system settings, optimizing hardware settings, customizing
Windows application settings, and controlling the user
environment with policies. Fresh UI is organized by section for
easy navigation. This new version includes hidden settings in
Network environment
OS: Windows (all) License: Free
Fresh Download is an easy-to-use and very fast download manager software that turbo charges downloading files from the Internet, such as your favorite software, mp3 files, video files, picture collections, etc. Unlike any other similar utilities, this software is 100% free, no charges, no banners in the software, no spyware.
Fresh Diagnose is an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, hard disk performance, video system information, mainboard information, and more! This software is 100% free, no ads, no spyware. .
PCMark2002
Get professional-strength benchmarking for your home PC
PCMark2002 is a multipurpose benchmarking tool suited for all kinds of PCs, from laptops to workstations. It is also designed to be used across multiple Windows operating systems. PCMark2002 consists of a series of tests that represent common tasks in home and office programs. It also covers many additional areas outside the scope of other MadOnion.com benchmarks.
OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP License: Free
EasyDivX
Back up you DVDs with this rip pack.
From the developer: "Easydivx is a all in one
rippack or graphical user interface. Or what ever you want to
call it. The backing up of your DVD goes in a numbers of steps.
Easydivx supports decrypting the DVD and copying it to a
harddrive, making of a Divx .avi file, MP3 or AC3, 1 or 2 CDs.
You can download GUI language and GUIDE for your country from our
webpage.
OS: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP License:
Free
Click-N-Type
Use this virtual keyboard designed for people with disabilities
that prevent them from using a standard keyboard.
From the developer: "Click-N-Type is a free on-screen virtual keyboard designed for anyone with a disability that prevents typing on a physical computer keyboard. As long as the person can control a mouse, trackball, head-pointer or other pointing device, he or she can send keystrokes to virtually any Windows or DOS application. Click-N-Type is helpful for getting text into uncooperative places, such as browser Address fields, dialog boxes such as Open and Save As, and so on. Click-N-Type has an AutoClick feature for those who find clicking the mouse button difficult or impossible. Version 2.0 now has even more user customizable layout options including compatibility with the CNTDesigner keyboard designer available as an add-on, that allows you to design your own keyboard layouts. A QWERTY layout is now provided with the basic package.
To see more screenshots, click here, here and here."
OS: Windows (all)
License: Free
PrintFolders
Write the contents of one or more folders into the plain-text
file.
From the developer: "PrintFolders prints list of files and folders into plain-text file. The main features are: walking through all tree of folders, the filter to include or exclude particular files, sorting files by name, extension, size or date, integration into the Windows Shell context menu, the command line interface, writing files with or without extensions and paths, writing size, creation date and creation time for each file or folder, and more."
OS: Windows (all)
License: Free
ExamDiff
Perform visual file comparisons easily.
From the developer: "Use ExamDiff to perform visual file comparisons. This fine utility is attractive, easy to use, and best of all -- free! It features a double-pane view that allows for side-by-side (or top-to-bottom) comparisons with color-coded numbers that indicate whether each line is added, deleted, or changed. You can easily edit either file with Notepad or the text editor of your choice by selecting one of the numerous toolbar buttons. ExamDiff contains a number of options to establish default behavioral characteristics. Other features include drag-and-drop support, text search, and custom color and font settings."
OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000
License: Free
CD-i Filesystem Driver for
Windows
View CD-i files and their contents and play realtime MPEG
audio/video.
This software allows you to read the contents of any CD-i (Compact Disc Interactive) disc in Windows 95, 98, or Me. You can see all file names contained on it, look in text files that are available, and play real time MPEG audio and video files from all CD-i movie discs. You can also work with other CD-i titles such as games. The archive also contains the program sources.
Note: This is not a CD-i emulator. You cannot run CD-i titles on your PC, but it allows you to view its contents.
OS: Windows 95/98/Me
License: Free
Directory Toolkit
Get a directory and file comparison/synchronize utility with
archive support.
From the developer: "A multipurpose directory
& file comparison/synchronize utility with archive support.
Create archives from Explorer and compare files in archives
without extracting files first. Built-in synchronize functions
with optional summary report of the file operations involved.
Confirmations can be enabled/disabled. The program can also
display actual differences between files. Directory and path
comparisons can be listed to a configurable output file. The
program can use a saved report in a comparison against a live
path. Complex filters are available to include/exclude files by
location, size, date, and file type. Other features include safe
physical sort; View file version info for exe, dll, & ocx
files; Checksum, CRC32, & binary comparison; Encode and
decode email attachments; Split & concatenate (split is
configurable); Touch files (incl add/subtract from current file
time); Scripts and command line switches for automated
operations. Much more. International versions are
available."OS: Windows (all)
License: Free to try, $25 to buy
SetFileDate
Alter the time and date of specific files.
From the developer: "Utility to alter the time and date of one or more selected files. There's several such utilities available, but we've found most of them to be too large, too complex or too expensive. SetFileDate is small, easy to use, and free."
OS: Windows (all)
License: Free
Windows
Uptime
Display how long your system has been up since boot.
Displays how long time your system has been up as well as the exact time of boot. Ability to log all events to a log file and display statistics over computer usage. Windows Uptime can also check uptime for remote computers and batch-query machines in a network through commandline switches.
OS: Windows (all)
License: Free
ClipPath
"ClipPath is a Windows Shell Extension program which allows
users to copy full path of files to clipboard. Muliple Selection
is allowed. This is extremely useful for Java Programmers who
often have to set classpath and path environment variable."
OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000
License: Free
ReadPlease
2002
Have your computer read to you.
OS: Windows (all)
License: Free
AIDA32 - Worldwide Sysinfo
Tool 2.2
Get diagnostic information about your system and network.
From the developer: "AIDA32 is a system information and diagnostics program running on Win32 platforms. It extracts details of all components of the PC. It can display information on the screen, print it, or save it to file in various formats like HTML, CSV or XML. For corporate users, AIDA32 offers command-line options, network audit and audit statistics, remote system information and network management."
OS: Windows (all)
License: Free
Windows Commander (32-bit)
5.1 pop
Replace Windows Explorer with a feature-rich shell utility.
OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000
License: Free to try, $28 to buy
Recover
Recover lost data.
From the developer: "Allows for the recovery and
Undeletion of data on a hard disk drive, even with a corrupted
file system. You can retrieve data from drives that have been hit
with a virus, formatted or crashed. Simply scan the drive and
recover the files. Runs from a floppy!"OS: Windows
95/98/NT
License: Free to try
CDSpace
4.1
Make virtual CD-ROMs on your hard drive.
OS: Windows (all)
License: Free to try
Restorer2000
1.1
Recover accidentally deleted files and reconstruct formatted or
corrupted drives.
OS: Windows NT/2000/XP
License: Free to try, $30 to buy
