Yue Pik Kong's Net Goodies: February 2010

Saturday, February 20, 2010

VideoCacheView v1.53

After watching a video in a Web site, you may want to save the video file into your local disk for playing it offline in the future. If the video file is stored in your browser's cache, this utility can help you to extract the video file from the cache and save it for watching it in the future.

It automatically scans the entire cache of Internet Explorer and Mozilla-based Web browsers (Including Firefox) and finds all video files that are currently stored in it. It allows you to easily copy the cached video files into another folder for playing/watching them in the future. If you have a movie player that is configured to play flv files, it also allows you to play the video directly from your browser's cache.

VideoCacheView v1.53 is downloadable from http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/video_cache_view.html.

Monday, February 8, 2010

FairStars CD Ripper 1.3

FairStars CD Ripper is a free powerful software for ripping audio CD tracks to WMA, MP3, OGG, VQF, FLAC, APE and WAV formats files on-the-fly. Free CDDB is supported(Querying & Submiting). It supports normalization when ripping, and also support ID3 tag. FairStars CD Ripper also supports playback with its built-in player. The official website of FairStars CD Rippler 1.3 is at http://www.fairstars.com/cdripper/index.htm.

Scarab Darkroom

Scarab Darkroom is a new digital camera raw file converter that supports most DSLR-s from Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, and Sony. It's easy to use, lean, and super fast. It is still under development and currently in Beta version. The official website of Scarab Darkroom is at http://www.scarablabs.com/scarab-darkroom.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Microsoft Security Essentials

Are you aware of Windows Defender? Have you heard of Windows Live OneCare? Microsoft actually had provided several security tools but not people seem to be using them for whatever reasons. Now, Microsoft provides Microsoft Security Essentials, which is more powerful than Windows Live OneCare.

Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. It is a free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple.

Of course, the main advantage of Microsoft Security Essentials is that it runs quietly and efficiently in the background so that you are free to use your Windows-based PC the way you want—without interruptions or long computer wait times.

Microsoft Security Essentials is available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/. Note that when you install Microsoft Security Essentials, you system has to pass the Microsoft Genuine Validation test.

Friday, February 5, 2010

Adobe DNG Converter 5.6

The Adobe DNG Converter, a free utility that converts files from more than 275 cameras to DNG, enables you to easily convert camera-specific raw files to a more universal DNG raw file. Visit the Camera Raw page for a complete list of supported cameras. Adobe DNG Converter 5.6 is downloadable from http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4620.

Rumie 1.25

Rumie 1.25 is a handy tool to delete a file beyond recovery. Rumie 1.25 can be downloaded from http://softwaredownloadmirror.com/freeware/rumie-1.25/103661349/.

VaioSoft Recovery Manager 1.5

Recovery Manager can backup, duplicate, recover files, & format cards from many types of flash media that have been lost due to system or battery failure, format or deletion or corruption caused by hardware or software malfunction. Recovery Manager software can recover data from Digital film cards such as CompactFlash, SmartMedia, Memory Stick, MultiMediaCard (MMC), Secure Digital card (SD), IBM Microdrive, ATA PC card, Hard drives, ZIP, & Jazz drives. Digital Image Recovery.

VaioSoft Recovery Manager 1.5 can be downloaded from http://download.cnet.com/VaioSoft-Recovery-Manager/3000-2094_4-10286449.html.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Horodruin 2.3

A program that synchronizes multiple folders. It is downloadable at http://stefanobordoni.interfree.it/Stefano/files/horodruin.zip.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Dictionary .NET 2.0.3594

Dictionary .NET 2.0.3594 is a small but multi-functional dictionary and translator. It supports 59 languages. Dictionary .NET is available for download at http://fishcodelib.com/files/DictionaryNet.zip.

电脑医生万年历2.03

A multi-purpose calendar that supports Chinese and Muslim calendar. Available for download at http://www.xun6.com/file/c5551fb45/dnyswnl.rar.html. In order to run this program in English version of Windows, you need Microsoft Applocale Utility which can be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/apploc.mspx.

Sqirlz Water Reflections 2.6

A program that lets you add in water reflections, ripples, rains and snow effect into your picture. The program is available for download at http://www.xiberpix.net/SqirlzReflect.html.

Appetizer

This an application launcher for removable drives (although it can also be used as a normal application). Rather than organizing the apps as a list like the Windows Start menu, they are organized in a tool bar a bit similar to the Mac OSX dock bar. Appetizer is available for download at http://sourceforge.net/projects/appetizer/.

PasteCopy.NET 0.9.6.2

PasteCopy.NET is a free portable Windows Clipboard Manager with multilingual support. It's fully automated and has a (auto-) resizable preview pane.

PrtScr

A wonderful screen capture tool that let you capture any irregular shape area of your screen. The official website of PrtScr is http://www.fiastarta.com.

ZuluPad

ZuluPad is a notepad on crack. It's a place to jot down class notes, appointments, to-do lists, favorite websites, pretty much anything you can think of. The great thing about ZuluPad is that it combines the best parts of a notepad with the best parts of a wiki, a concept made popular by Wikipedia. ZuluPad is available for download at http://zulupad.gersic.com/download.html.

TomPad

TomPad is a little windows program that lets you jot down notes. It lives in the system tray, and can be called up at the click of an icon. TomPad is available at http://www.gersic.com.

FreeCommander

Remember Norton Commander in DOS days. FreeCommander is a file manager that looks like Norton Commander. FreeCommander is an easy-to-use alternative to the standard windows file manager. The program helps you with daily work in Windows. Here you can find all the necessary functions to manage your data stock. You can take FreeCommander anywhere - just copy the installation directory on a CD or USB-Stick - and you can even work with this program on a foreign computer.

The official website of freecommander is at http://www.freecommander.com.

NexusFile 5.1.3

NexusFile is a file manager for Windows. You can manage many files very fast and easily. NexusFile will increase your computing performance. In addition, it also comes with Batch Rename, Dual Panes, Unicode, FTP Client, Archives, Skin, Join/Split, Shred Files, Disk Cleanup, Compare Folders, Smart Address Bar, Tabs, Multi-Language support, ... NexusFile is available for download at http://xiles.net/programs/.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier

Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier recovers files from disks with physical damage. It allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made useable even if some parts of the file were not recoverable in the end.

The program can be downloaded at http://www.roadkil.net/program.php?ProgramID=29.

VueMinder Calendar

Its official website says VueMinder Calendar Pro is the most powerful calendar and reminder program. You can always download the free edition. The URL of the website is http://www.vuesoftsite.com.

PDFTools 1.3

PDFTools is a PDF management application. It can encrypt, decrypt, join, split, stamp, create and rearrange a PDF file. The program is available at its official website http://sheelapps.com/index.php?p=PDFTools.HomePage&action=view.

Pixa

Pixa is a FREE image and flash hosting service that allows everyone to upload their own images. The URL of PIXA is http://www.pixa.us/.

Watermarklib

A free program for you to add watermark on your photograph. You can download the software at http://www.watermarklib.com.

Nero 9 Lite

Do you know that there is lite version of Nero 9.4 that is free. You can download it at http://www.nero.com/eng/downloads-nero9-free.php.

Super F4

You might have encountered a game that hung because of some stupid bug, then your computer gets all slow and you just can't get out of the game since it's fullscreen and nothing happens when you press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to bring up the task manager. You eventually give up and reboot the computer by pressing the power button. :(

What SuperF4 basically does, is kill the process of the foreground window when you press Ctrl+Alt+F4. You might think, doesn't Alt+F4 do this? Well, it's a bit different. When you press Alt+F4, the program can refuse to quit. Windows essentially only asks the program to quit, and lets it decide for itself what to do (it almost always behaves just as if you would have pressed the × in the upper-right corner).

The official website of SuperF4 is located at http://code.google.com/p/superf4/.

MobaPhoto

A freeware from France that allows you to create some web photo galleries, crop, correct red eyes or rotate your photos and batch-resize and batch-rename your pictures.

The freeware can be downloaded from http://mobaphoto.mobatek.net/en/.

Screen Capture + Print

This is one of the better screen capture program that I have seen. I have using SRip32.exe, but the program sometimes cannot start properly. Screen Capture + Print is a good alternative.

The program can be downloaded from http://www.infonautics.ch/screencaptureprint/.

Evernote

Evernote is a program that lets you capture all of your thoughts, ideas, and inspirations, into a single place. Access everything whenever you need it from your PC, even when offline. You create notes containing text, webclips, snapshots, to-dos, PDFs, and more. In addition, Evernote works across the computers and phones you use daily, allowing you to capture something in one place and then access it from another.

The official website of Evernote is at http://www.evernote.com.

iDrive

2 GB online storage FREE!

OpenOffice Plug-ins

Do you use OpenOffice? If you do, the following are some useful plug-ins.

1. Sun PDF Import Extension - The PDF Import Extension allows you to import and modify PDF documents.

2. Professional Template Pack II - English - This extension has more than 120 templates for OpenOffice.org Writer, Calc and Impress that includes business correpondence templates, budget and project plan templates, event posters template, invoices, notes, minutes, press release templates, presentation templates, formal and personal letter templates, business card templates.

3. OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs - This extension allows you to import, export and update your documents to and from Google Docs, Zoho and WebDAV servers.

4. Compose Special Characters - This extension lets you type two or three characters and use a keyboard shortcut to convert them into a single accented or special character.

5. Writer's Tools - Writer's Tools is a set of utilities designed to help OpenOffice.org users perform a wide range of tasks. Using Writer's Tools, you can back up documents, look up and translate words and phrases, manage text snippets, and keep tabs on document statistics.

6. Language Tool - LanguageTool is an Open Source language checker for English, German, Polish, Dutch, and other languages.

7. DataForm - This extension generates a data input form for tables in calc, reproducing the Data - Form feature of Microsoft Office Excel.

8. Modern Impress Templates - Modern Impress presentation templates based on open-source art.

Monday, February 1, 2010

BumpTop 3D Desktop

Interested to make your desktop 3D? BumpTop is a free software that creates a 3D desktop for your PC.

Aviary Online Applications

Aviary.com is a website that offers many useful online media applications. Its image editor is quite powerful and spots a Adobe lookalike interface.

Word 2007 Document .docx Converter

Although Microsoft Office 2010 beta is available for download, some people are still using Office 2003. If you are one of them, you will not be able to open Office 2007 Word documents with .docx file extension. One of the website the offers free conversion service is http://docx.converter.com.