Lavasoft PC Optimizer

Lavasoft

Lavasoft PC Optimizer is a great tool which allows you to keep your system performing correctly and maintain it optimally. This program is able to correct invalid references in your system as well as remove unnecessary programs that you no longer use and which are anchored to the Windows menu. It also erases your browser history and temporary files in just a few seconds, and you can do this easily without needing to have a lot of background knowledge. In one fell swoop you can get rid of all of the unnecessary deadweight that you no longer use, such as programs that no longer work, damaged files, shortcuts to programs that you no longer have, or any other type of file that just takes up space and slows down your PC. Get your system back up to speed with Lavasoft PC Optimizer.

Verity Parental Control

NCH Software

Verity Parental Control is an application that lets you track down and monitor other people's activity on your PC, so it's useful for parents who want to control what their children do on the Internet. It has an activity monitor that shows both online and offline activity, so there's nothing that you'll be missing out on. It blocks all the sites you think are harmful, as well as any applications you think your children shouldn't access. It also offers the option to log the time spent on each program, take screenshots of the active window every so often, and count keystrokes and mouse clicks. You can stop worrying every time your children are using the computer, and let Verity Parental Control do its job.

ubSpawn

Andreas Loeffler

ubSpawn is a utility to make it easier to access the folders that you most frequently use on your hard drive from USB devices. It's very easy to use, and allows you to add any route to link the folders, files, or applications that you want to be able to access from the device. You can organize your quick accesses in whatever way makes the most sense to you, since the menu it completely customizable. Just create the categories that you want and add folders and files within them to have everything better organized in the program window. ubSpawn generates a XML file with all of the information about these direct accesses so that they will always be just a few clicks away.

ViPNet Password Roulette

INFOTECS GmbH

ViPNet Password Roulette creates easy to remember passwords using certain predetermined parameters (which you determine) such as, the number of words which can go from 3 to 4. Add a mnemonic, humorous phrase to your password, formed with parts of several words, to help you remember it. For a list to appear, all you have to do is move your mouse or press random keys. Its main disadvantage is that it only creates passwords in English, German, and Russian, making it hard for speakers of any other language to remember them.

SmallUtils 2.0

AplicWeb

SmallUtils is a comprehensive software from which you can do a great number of tasks without needing to download any extra add-ons. It includes nine different functions, each of them for a certain daily task on your PC: - Converting text to MP3: You can choose from Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and English. You have to limit yourself to 100 characters. - Webshot: You can capture a screenshot of a website through its URL. Simply paste the link and click on Generate, and you'll get the image in PNG format and can change its name before downloading. - URL shortening: You can significantly reduce the length of a link. Before performing this task, you'll see the full link next to the short one so you can decide if you want to use it or not. - Writing tweets: Tweet while doing something completely different. Just insert the text, add a hashtag if desired, and click Post. The first time you do it, you'll see a Twitter tab where you have to log in. - Converting images: Convert images between popular formats. It's as easy as selecting the location of the file and then choosing one of the following five formats: GIF, JPG, TIFF, PNG, or BMP. - Text to PDF: Create a PDF without having Adobe installed. You'll have every font you can find in the software, along with different sizes for the text. It's worth noting, though, that even when you select different fonts the changes won't appear until you generate the PDF. - Currency converter: Find out the current values of the most-used currencies in the world. - Meme generator: Create your own memes from more than 100 templates, adding any text you want to it. - QR code generator: Use any text you want the code to include. SmallUtils 2.0 includes, in short, multiple functions that are commonly used in day-to-day tasks, now all in one program that greatly simplifies all of them.

FCorp - My Quick Launch

Fahmy Corporation

FCorp - My Quick Launch has been specially designed for users who work with a large range of features. The app lets you easily and comfortably manage them through keyboard shortcuts. With FCorp - My Quick Launch you can set a link to open any location through a key combo of your choosing. Access everything you need by clicking on a few keys so you never have to waste time opening files or searching through the menu to find whatever you're looking for. Storing the shortcuts is just as easy: choose which action you want to register and the sequence you want to assign to it and press the Accept button. Once you’ve stored all the shortcuts you can access your most frequently used features and files in a matter of seconds. Have everything you need close by with FCorp - My Quick Launch.

Musical Palette

Ilya Schepikhin

Musical Palette is software designed to help any user create melodies by using a built-in base of musical theory and models to construct songs that follow composition theory and harmony theory. The program does all the work, while you just have to take care of the theory behind it by choosing which options to enable from those offered by Musical Palette. This tool will represent your melodies with a simple and effective algorithm that will then be applied to your compositions. Musical Palette includes many methods of development, such as variation, inversion, repetition, and sequence. The program proposes a "theoretically correct" algorithm to create the melody, and the user's originality or idea is developed with each suggestion. In each step this tool will only propose those solutions that are adequate for the song's current progression. The application comes equipped with demo-scripts, demonstrations that will teach you how to use the program and the form in which the melodies are composed. Once your song is finished, Musical Palette can export it as a MIDI file made up of three tracks: melody, harmony, and bass.

SSuite Office Blade Runner

Van Loo Software™

SSuite Office Blade Runner is an application for Windows where you can manage different features and run some processes that will help you increase productivity when using your computer. Among other interesting features, SSuite Office Blade Runner lets you access the file explorer, open your default internet browser with a single button, and enter into the network interface to make any changes in your connections quickly and easily. One of the keys to SSuite Office Blade Runner is that it's a program that doesn't require installation. This means you can keep it on a hard drive or external memory to run it on any computer instantly. The interface lets you make use of different tools with the SSuite Office seal like its PDF reader, notes, calendar, or a wallet for controlling your spending. If you want to have access to multiple tools from a single program, SSuite Office Blade Runner is the all-purpose program that you need on your PC.

DeduplicationWizard

Thomas Hainke Dipl. Inform. Univ.

When saving important information, sometimes you may create several copies and save them in different locations for fear of losing it them. But when you do this excessively, you might forget where you saved those duplicated files, or you might not even remember they exist. To avoid filling up your hard drive with dozens of duplicate files, you can use DeduplicationWizard, a tool that can find identical entries in your contact lists. DeduplicationWizard is a backup program that only saves one version of the duplicate files and replaces all its copies with shortcuts to those copies in Excel. It's a great way to save space and access those entries more quickly. In order to get rid of the duplicates, you can search using a phone number, email, or mailing address. The program includes a list of incorrect addresses to let you check which ones are incomplete, letting you know if messages can't be sent to a specific address. Although this program is designed to work with all versions of Excel, it also works with other databases like VistaDB (vdb5), dBase (dbf), CSV files, and text files. It also supports database servers like MS SQL-Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, and ORACLE.

Musicnotes Suite

N/A

Musicnotes Suite is a very useful tool for users who want to learn to play some of the greatest songs in music history, whether on piano, guitar, woodwinds, or any other instrument played with the sheet music found in this application. The tool simulates a teacher who will slowly guide you through the song, so you don't miss anything and learn to play it accurately. It displays each note, and you can play the audio to hear out exactly which chord or note to strike. You can also adjust the tempo and view at a glance all the steps for each of the instruments that form the melody. Finally, with Musicnotes you can add any song you want to the program, on top of those found in the initial package. You just have to download them from the software website. Learn all the best pieces from the world's most famous composers in a truly simple way with Musicnotes Suite.

grepWin

Stefan Küng

GrepWin is a useful tool designed to search, find, and replace text in multiple files simultaneously, a feature that makes it incredibly easy to correct more than one file at once. The program is very easy to use and has a clean and simple interface. You can access all its features from the main window. Just specify your search parameters, such as the folder to search, the text to find, and the replacement text you want. GrepWin also lets you filter your searches in other ways, like using case-sensitive mode, including the size of files, or excluding certain directories. You can also include certain elements like hidden objects and subfolders.

CronoMania

Erick Sianquiz Flores

Remember all those times when you needed the most basic or simple tool or object but just couldn't find it at home? Well, CronoMania is a simple application to get you out of that kind of pinch. This little tool is basically an ordinary stopwatch. With it, you can time things when you don't have a proper stopwatch on hand and need to replace a physical timer. The appeal of CronoMania is that it's very easy to use; just press the 'Start' button and it starts to run. When you want to stop it, just press 'Stop'. Also, if you need to restart it, you don't have to stop and start the timer again. Instead, you can click the 'Delete' button and the timer starts over from the beginning.

Click-N-Type

Lake Software

Click-N-Type is a virtual keyboard which is shown on screen where you can type the letters just clicking on them with the mouse. It is specially focussed on those people who can’t use the keyboard due to any reason. Now if you can’t type on an usual keyboard you can use this one and you will be able to use your computer as always. You will be able to control your typing with a mouse, scroll or any other input device, fast and easily thanks to its intuitive interface. It supports macros, so you can write full sentences with just one click, predictive text writing, multilingual options,...

Sim Card Data Recovery Software

Pro Data Doctor Pvt. Ltd.

Sim Card Data Recovery Software is a utility that allows you to recover the information you had stored on a SIM card, and that you may have lost for whatever reason. If you accidentally erased a message, or you can't find a certain contact's phone number, you can get it back with Sim Card Data Recovery. The program can recover the following information: Contacts, sent/received/deleted messages, etcetera. Also, it can show you the ICC ID (a 20-digit code that phone providers use to identify SIM cards). Note In order to read the content on the SIM card, you will have to have hardware especially designed to do so.

Free File Shredder

Safe365

Sometimes you need to get rid of certain files from your computer and you want to make sure these don’t leave a single trace behind. Free File Shredder is a Windows program that lets you destroy any element that you don’t want in your hard drive. Using Free File Shredder is pretty simple and you just have to tell the program which folders and areas of your computer contain the files you want to get rid of. After that, the tool gets rid of the files without leaving a single trace. One of the key aspects of Free File Shredder is that all the files that have been eliminated cannot be restored. Much unlike what happens when you send different elements to the trashcan. If you want to get rid of hundreds of elements from your computer and you want to make sure it’s for good, Free File Shredder is a Windows program that’ll help you do it in a basic and efficient way.

Cut And Paste Logger

Markus Larsson

FCorp - Name Dictionary

Fahmy Corporation

If you are having a baby and don’t know what to name him or her, then let FCorp - Name Dictionary make that important decision a lot easier for you. This tool can help you pick the perfect name for that bundle of joy that’s on his/her way. FCorp - Name Dictionary tells you the origin of each name which could help you decide between your top options. This tool tells you the exact place, or places, that the name comes from. In some cases, it also includes a short description of the name that includes more concrete information. Also, FCorp - Name Dictionary helps you look for names depending on the letter that you want the name to include. This way, you can create a beautiful name with the letters that you like the most and know their origin with just a click. One of the best features of FCorp - Name Dictionary is that it lets you choose between boy or girl, so, if you know the gender of your baby you can apply a filter which will make your search a lot more specific. Find the names of your future children with FCorp - Name Dictionary and make that important decision a lot easier for yourself.

BrightExplorer

Brightnewworlds

BrightExplorer integrates into Windows' file explorer to create tabs when you open several windows at the same time, similarly to a tabbed Internet browser. With this tool you can open two or more windows on the explorer with different folder locations, overlapping each other instead of having them spread all over the desktop and piled up on your taskbar. BrightExplorer has a panel on the interface where you can mark your favorite folders and file paths. Moving through the explorer is pretty easy, with the only visual difference being the small bar on top of the window where you can manage the tabs and your favorites.

FCorp - My Suite

Fahmy Corporation

FCorp - My Suite is a software launcher that gives you easy access to all the applications installed on your machine so you can open them without having to waste time looking for them. The appeal of this tool is that you can create large categories of programs and group lots of programs together: games, work tools, or study tools, for example, all in separate blocks. FCorp - My Suite helps you locate whatever you’re looking for without having a bunch of folders or icons on your Start screen. FCorp - My Suite also lets you customize your menu and keep your most frequently used features handy. This means you can open the control panel or the software uninstall system with just one click. Forget about having to go through the menu and wasting time locating whatever you’re looking for. Easily manage and locate your apps with FCorp - My Suite.

TaskLayout

SystemGoods

TaskLayout is a convenient tool that works in the background to help you manage your folders quickly and effectively by navigating to any directory you need with just a click. With this tool, you can create a shortcut to multiple destinations or programs on your computer. To do so, just click the 'Save Layout' button, and a window will automatically appear with all the applications and folders you have open at that moment. Just check the box for any application or directory you want to save and a shortcut will be created. You can name this shortcut anything you want, and save as many windows to it as you like. That way, when you use it, all the tabs and sites you've saved will open at once. You can also assign each shortcut a specific hotkey. Then, by pressing any of your previously saved hotkeys, you can open a folder or application without having to open the TaskLayout menu.

InstallPad

Phil Crosby

PStart

PEGTOP Software

Turbo Demo

N/A

Notebook BatteryInfo

Thomas Michel

Usually, when the notebook’s battery level indicator says that your battery is next to dye, it is very difficult to know exactly when the computer is going to be shut off. Notebook BatteryInfo is a lite application which powers up the features offered by your notebook. It will show a bar more clear, exact and accurate. Throughout a tabbed interface Notebook BatteryInfo shows us different information about our battery and its performance (temperature, capacity, serial number,...) Now you can know everything about your battery and you’ll know how long your notebook is going to be on.

Whois

Nsasoft LLC

Whois is an ideal application for professionals who work on the Internet and have to gather information about different domains. You just need to read the name of the application to understand what Whois does. This tiny program can instantly give you all the registry data of any domain you ask for. Whois searches through different databases that collect this type of information such as Network Solutions, Arsys, GoDaddy, etc. Along with getting information about domains, you can also use Whois to find out more about a specific IP address.

Toolbar Uninstaller

Decomputeur.nl

One of the strange ways how adware or publicity software manifests is through all kinds of toolbars that are installed in the browser without authorization, be it Firefox or Internet Explorer. Some of these toolbars, apart from having dozens of useless options, can kidnap the browser and redirect it to other completely unknown URLs as well as modify the results of the search engines. For now, Toolbar Uninstaller detects and eliminates up to 58 toolbars of different types: some of them harmful and others not so much. It is believed that there are currently some 10,000 circulating on the internet. The author of the program issues a call from his website to the different internet users to identify the toolbars and communicate them to him so that he can increase the number of supported toolbars.

Never10

Gibson Research Corporation

Never10 is a very lightweight program with a very specific purpose: to keep people using older versions of Windows from accidentally upgrading to Windows 10. It's no secret that Windows Updater can get really insistent, and even annoying, in its effort to get you to upgrade to Windows 10. From time to time a pop-up window tells you about the many advantages of the new operating system and asks when you want to install it. What Never10 does is modify a couple of passwords in your Windows registry so that Windows Updater can't update your operating system. The program won't install anything on your computer and using this program is actually as simple as opening the .exe file and pressing a button. Never10 is a very interesting program for users who don't want to update to Windows 10 and are tired of the Windows Updater pop-ups' many options for upgrading to a new operating system.

File-Extensions.org Search

N/A

File-Extensions.org Search will solve all your problems if you need to figure out the format of your files and the program you must to open them. This tool has been designed to help provide you with all the information regarding the extension for any given file. You just have to type the file format into the search bar of the program and File-Extensions.org Search will take you to a website that displays all of the applications that can be used for that particular file extension, a description about them, and the programs that can be used to open, play, or start them. What is the extension? Basically they are the letters that appear at the end of any file name and identify the format and programs with which they are compatible. Normally, the extension is two or three characters that come after the dot that is placed at the end of all file names. File-Extensions.org Search has a huge database with several different file extensions that will show you the type of file, a detailed description, and a list of programs that can be used to open, view, edit, convert, and play that file type.

ZoneOS ZoneScreen

Vasily Tarasov

PicoConverter

Picofactory

For sure that more than once you have had troubles when converting between feet, inches, meters and any other kind of measure. How many minutes are there in a day? How many feet are 5 meters? Those question are really annoying, because you are not used to convert between those units. If you install PicoConverter in your computer and you have it at hand, it will take only seconds to guess it. Just write the figures you want to convert and the input and output unit and let PicoConverter the rest.