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Dr.Web CureIt! is a FREE anti-virus and anti-spyware utility based on Dr.Web Anti-virus scanner, which will help you quickly scan and cure, if necessary, a computer operated by MS Windows 95OSR2/ 98/Me/NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003/2008/Vista/7 without installation of the Dr.Web Anti-virus.

Dr.Web CureIt! automatically detects the language of the OS it is installed to and sets the scanner interface accordingly (if the local language is not supported, English is enabled). The utility supports the following 37 languages: Russian, Arabic, Armenian, Azeri, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simpl.), Chinese (Trad.), Czech, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Persian (Farsi), Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese.

The utility contains the most up-to-date add-ons to the Dr.Web virus databases going up to twice per hour frequency at periods of high malware submissions.

Dr.Web CureIt! detects and removes:
* Rootkits * Mass-mailing worms * E-mail viruses * Peer-to-peer viruses * Internet worms * File viruses * Trojans * Stealth viruses* Polymorphic viruses * Bodiless viruses * Macro viruses * MS Office viruses * Script viruses * Spyware * Spybots * Password stealers * Keyloggers* Paid Dialers * Adware * Riskware* Hacktools * Backdoors * Joke programs * Malicious scripts * Other malware*

Note: Free for non-commercial use. Does not include real-time protection.

Program does not include incremental updates. Users must download the entire program for each update.

Homepage: http://www.drweb.ru/
Download: cureit.exe
File Size: 28MB

doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create searchable PDF files by selecting the “Print” command from virtually any application. With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files.

doPDF installs itself as a virtual printer driver so after a successful installation will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. To createPDF files , you just have to print your documents to the doPDF pdf converter. Open a document (with Microsoft Word, WordPad, NotePad or any other software), choose Print and select doPDF. It will ask you where to save the PDF file and when finished, the PDF file will be automatically opened in your default PDF viewer.

Features:

* No Ghostscript – doesn’t require 3rd party programs to create PDF files (like Ghostscript)
* Customizable resolution – choose any resolution from 72 dpi to 2400 dpi
* Predefined/custom page sizes – choose a default page size (like Letter, Legal, A4, A5, A6, …) or define your own
* Searchable PDFs – you can search for text within the generated PDF file (and search engines will also index the text from the PDF)
* Multilanguage support – choose a language for the user interface

What’s New in version 7.1.325:

* New: doPDF can now be installed silently (list of parameters supported is in the help file)
* Fix: Corrected duplicated fonts problem (virtual memory)
* Fix: Solved a problem when printing images from Adobe Viewer
* Fix: Registry handle leak

Homepage: http://www.dopdf.com/
Download: dopdf.exe
File Size: 3.73MB

Update AVIRA Desktop for Windows with latest virus definitions and scan engine.

Manual Update of AntiVir

Please go through the following steps to update your AntiVir Personal Edition Classic / Premium on a PC without internet access.

* Download the latest virus definition file (IVDF) on a PC with internet access.
* Copy the downloaded file to a portable media storage such as an USB Stick or a CD-ROM for transferring it to the PC without internet access. Note: Extracting of the ZIP file is not necessary.
* Insert the media storage into the PC without internet access.
* Start AntiVir Personal Edition Classic / Premium and go the menu „Update“ and select „Manual Update“.
* Select the downloaded IVDF file from your media storage and click „open“.Your AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic / Premium is now up to date. /ul>

Homepage: http://www.avira.com/
Download: ivdf_fusebundle_nt_en.zip
File Size: 28.09MB

Simple Ping is a small program to help keep an eye on your current internet ping. I made this program because I have a wireless internet provider. My ping times like to go all over the place. Well while playing a online game, I would lag every now and then. The game itself had no way to show me my ping. So I decided to make a program that could tell me

A few examples of people who would find this program helpful.

Example #1:
I have a dual monitor setup. While playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 the game never shows me what my ping is. It just shows a little bar. So when my ping is bad i have no way to tell just how bad it is. So now I have Simple Ping running on my 2nd monitor. Now as I play I can keep an eye on my ping at all times.

Example #2:
While playing on the net with your Wii, PS3 or Xbox you may need to keep an eye on your ping. You can have this tool running on your computer while you game. Some users have their computers or laptops close by. When the game starts to lag you can keep an eye on the ping.

Example #3:
While online you notice some pages are loading slow, you have other people in the house using the net as well. You see the ping is rather bad. You realize someone else is tapping the net to its fullest. You go check and find your brother/sister/mother/father/kids ect. are downloading a huge movie off Netflix or something. Since the net is being fully used up the net goes slow for you. You promptly beat them with your shoe and tell them to get off.

Homepage: http://www.pcwintech.com/
Download: simple_ping_v1.0.2.zip
File Size: 179.9KB

GraphicsMagick is the swiss army knife of image processing. Comprised of 259K physical lines (according to David A. Wheeler´s SLOCCount) of source code in the base package (or 900K including 3rd party libraries) it provides a robust and efficient collection of tools and libraries which support reading, writing, and manipulating an image in over 88 major formats including important formats like DPX, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, PDF, PNM, and TIFF.

Features:

* Convert an image from one format to another (e.g. TIFF to JPEG)
* Resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image
* Create a montage of image thumbnails
* Create a transparent image suitable for use on the Web
* Turn a group of images into a GIF animation sequence
* Create a composite image by combining several separate images
* Draw shapes or text on an image
* Decorate an image with a border or frame
* Describe the format and characteristics of an image

Homepage: http://www.graphicsmagick.org/
Download: GraphicsMagick-1.3.8-Q8-windows-dll.exe
File Size: 4.80MB

Each time that you run an application in your system, a Prefetch file which contains information about the files loaded by the application is created by Windows operating system. The information in the Prefetch file is used for optimizing the loading time of the application in the next time that you run it. WinPrefetchView is a small utility that reads the Prefetch files stored in your system and displays the information stored in them. By looking in these files, you can learn which files every application is using, and which files are loaded on Windows boot.

System Requirements:

This utility works on any version of Windows, starting from Windows XP, and up to Windows 7. Earlier versions of Windows are irrelevant for this utility, because the don´t use Prefetch files.

What’s New in version 1.05:

* Added ‘Run Counter’ and ‘Last Run Time’ columns.

Homepage: http://www.nirsoft.net/
Download: winprefetchview.zip
File Size: 42.7KB

Data Crow is a music (audio CD´s and mp3, ogg, flac, ape, .. files), book, software and movie cataloguer. It is platform independent and easy to install. Data Crow uses internet services like amazon.com, imdb.com and freedb.org to retrieve information. It´s platform-independent and is easy to use..

Data Crow is an open source project developed by Robert Jan van der Waals. The project began in 2002 under the name “CD Library”. After further development, CD Library was deemed to be an obsolete name because it no longer reflected the program´s functionality and the project was renamed Data Crow.

For those who like to collect software, books, movies and or music, Data Crow can help! The program needs only a little input from you to register your collection. For example, registering a piece ofsoftware is as easy as inputting the software´s name or publisher and Data Crow retrieves the rest of the information from Amazon. For audio files, it´s even simpler! Just browse to the directory that contains the audio files and Data Crow reads and imports the embedded tag information (artist, album name, track name, and so on).

Features:

* A User Manual
* Internal help system (activated by the F1 key)
* Nice-looking and easy-to-use interface
* Platform-independent (including the database)
* Software registration
* Audio CD registration
* Music files registration
* Movie registration
* Book registration
* Reporting (new)
* amazon.com support (http://www.amazon.com)
* imdb support (http://www.imdb.com)
* freedb support (http://www.freedb.org)
* Imports information from CD or your hard disk
* Extracts information from music files (including the tag content of OGG, FLAC, APE and MP3 files)
* Supports parsing for DivX, Xvid, ASF, MKV, OGM, RIFF, MOV, IFO, VOB and Mpeg video
* Hide fields, Update All values, etc
* SQL query tool, for expert users
* Highly customizable!
* No frills HSQL database, no need for ODBC-JDBC bridge drivers

Homepage: http://www.datacrow.net/
Download: datacrow_3_8_10_windows_installer.zip
File Size: 38.70MB

TwistedBrush Open Studio is a free digital paint and photo editing Windows software package built from the powerful and easy to use TwistedBrush Pro Studio platform. TwistedBrush Open Studio is released as free software that will not expire and is not crippled.

Based off of TwistedBrush Pro Studio, most all the features of the Pro Studio version are included in Open Studio with the exception of features that allow for modification of brushes.

Some of the features included are layers, masks, tablet support, scanner support, over 100 filters, Lua scripting support, a full range im image formats are supported, drawing guides, image warping tools, text support, gradients, tracing paper, reference images, recording to video files and many other standard image editing features.

What’s New in version 16.15:

* Added – Support for Adobe Photoshop ™ compatible filters (8bf) has been added!
* Added – A group of 11 Chromatic Aberration reduction solutions are added to the Image Enhancement category.
* Added – Two new filters added. Glow Inner and Glow Outer. Found in the Filter > Stylize menu.
* Added – Added option in Mask menu to Create Mask from Image Visual Luminance.
* Added – Four Drawn Style Solutions added to the Artist category.
* Added – A Special Effects Solution category added with three Neon Style Solutions.
* Added – Five Hyper Image solutions added to the Special Effects category.
* Added – Added a Sketch Style 01 solution to the Artists category.
* Added – Added Glow Style 01 solution to the Special Effects category.
* Fixed – Gaussian Blur was not working in some cases.
* Fixed – The Duotone filter was not making full use of the color range.
* Fixed – When moving the layers either up and down from the background the resulting image on layer 2 would not properly allow for the alpha channel to be changed when a mask was active.

Homepage: http://www.pixarra.com/
Download: tbrusha_open_studio.exe
File Size: 13.16MB

Use the Nokia Software Updater application to help you update your Nokia device software. Nokia Software Updater is compatible with most Nokia devices.

Features:

* Allows you to download and install the latest Nokia device software.
* Only needs to be downloaded once to your PC.

System Requirements:

* 1GHz, or higher, Pentium-compatible processor
* At least 256 MB of RAM (memory)
* Windows XP, or Windows Vista
* Administrator rights to install
* High-speed internet connection

Connection Requirements:

* Compatible Nokia device
* Compatible Nokia USB connection cable
* Compatible USB port on your PC

Homepage: http://www.nokia.co.uk/
Download: NokiaSoftwareUpdaterSetup_2.4.5EN.exe
File Size: 33.03MB

CrystalDiskInfo is an HDD utility which allows you to view details about your hard disk drive.

Features:

* Supports S.M.A.R.T.
* Show HDD Information such as temp, disk size, transfer mode, buffer size, more.
* Easy-to-understand user interface
* Monitor health status and temperature
* Graph of S.M.A.R.T information

What’s New in version 3.5.0:

* Improved SandForce’s SSD Controller support
* Added Auto Detection for Advanced Users (Default : Disabled)
* Improved Health Status Setting
* Fixed Bugs
* Updated language files

Homepage: http://crystalmark.info/
Download: CrystalDiskInfo3_5_0-en.exe
File Size: 1.10MB