Latest FreeBies

Privacy and security

SnoopFree Privacy Shield 1.0.7

URL: www.snoopfree.com/download.htm

Size: 343 KB

SnoopFree Privacy Shield tells you if your computer is being spied upon. It’s efficient and effective. It alerts users as soon as it discovers spyware or tracking modules and provides options to manually allow or disallow the errant ware. It will also tell you the specific workings of the programs it finds spying on your system.

SpywareBlaster 4.1

URL: www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Size: 2.74 MB

SpywareBlaster prevents the installation of spyware, adware, browser hijackers, dialers, malicious ActiveX objects and other potential malware. It also blocks spyware, tracking, and advertiser cookies in browsers and is especially useful for Internet Explorer users.

Kaspersky Online Virus Scanner

URL: www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner

Size: 35.3 MB

Kaspersky Online Virus Scanner allows users to scan their system for viruses at no cost and without having to uninstall their existing antivirus application or install a new one. It requires Internet Explorer 6 (or higher) and an internet connection.

ThreatFire AntiVirus 3.5

URL: www.threatfire.com/download

Size: 21.2 MB

Unlike traditional antivirus software that rely on virus definitions and signature databases, ThreatFire protects against zero day and emerging threats as they happen, and prevents your system from being infected by both known and unknown viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits, spyware, adware, and other malware. It provides real-time protection without slowing down the system and allows users to specify trusted processes, create rules for detection, and specify system restore points.

IT Management tools

Spiceworks IT Desktop 3.1.25624

URL: www.spiceworks.com

Size: 12.11 MB

Spiceworks IT Desktop is a network inventory, monitoring and help desk application. With a user-friendly, browser-base interface, it combines typical features needed to manage a network (including patches, antivirus updates, licenses, low disk space, unwanted software, and asset management) in a small or medium-sized business environment.

Advanced IP Scanner 1.5

URL: www.radmin.com/radmin/utility/ pscanner.php

Size: 297.09 KB

Advanced IP Scanner is an efficient, detailed and user-friendly local area network (LAN) scanner for Windows. It collects and presents all sorts of information about the network your system is connected to and other computers and networks connected to it. It also includes remote administration.

WinSock XP Fix

URL: www.soft32.com/download_200624.html

Size: 1.41 MB

This small application is meant to fix problems with network connections after being corrupted by components of adware or spyware removal or improper uninstall of firewall applications or other tools that make changes to the Windows network connection and Winsock settings. It also creates a registry backup of current settings before making any changes, so users can always revert their changes.

Digital graphics

GIMP 2.4.7

URL: www.gimp.org/downloads

Size: 14.2 MB

GNU Image Manipulation Program is rapidly becoming an open source alternative for Adobe Photoshop. It is suitable for photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring.

Microsoft Photosynth

URL: photosynth.net

Size: 8.17 MB

This Microsoft webware project allows users to take a bunch of photographs and stitch them together to take panoramic views to a whole new level. It requires a Windows Live ID, a broadband connection and works on most major browsers.

FxFoto 6.0.070

URL: www.onlinedown.com/detail/3571.htm

Size: 2.43 MB

A single tool for automatically organising, editing, enhancing, annotating, e-mailing, printing, uploading, and archiving digital photographs as image thumbnails.

File Transfer

WinSCP 4.1.6

URL: winscp.net

Size: 2.25 MB

A quick and simple software to securely copy files over a network. It supports File Transfer Protocol (FTP), SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), and secure copy protocol (SCP) for Windows and is great for transferring files to your iPhone/iPod touch over Wi-Fi.

BitComet Ultra Accelerator 2.9.1

URL: www.onlinedown.com/detail/14622.htm

Size: 2.27 MB

This accelerator won’t increase your download bandwidth, but it does make BitComet downloads much more efficient by finding more download sources and trackers for a torrent, revealing more seeds than just the ones reported by the torrent host and allow users to prioritise acceleration.

Media and storage

Video DVD Maker 3.7.0.15

URL: www.vadino.com/utilities/video/video-dvd-maker-free.html

Size: 8.02 MB

A lean application that allows you to carry out complex, professional video DVD authoring. Users can capture video from different video input devices – including DV cameras, web cameras and TV tuner devices – import movies from various formats (AVI, DIVX, XVID, MP4, MPG, WMV, ASF, MOV), and burn output productions onto any type of media, including recordable CDs.

ADrive beta

URL: www.adrive.com

Free 50-gigabyte storage on the internet. It doesn’t get better than this. After a free registration, users can upload any file from anywhere and access them at will. The website will carry out a one-time installation of their software which can be used through any major browser.

YouConvertIt

URL: www.youconvertit.com/convertfiles.aspx

A complete file conversion, file storage and units conversion one-stop website. It can convert audio, video, images and various documents into an array of formats and will also e-mail them to you.