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Cataloger PDF Explorer
(Freeware)
OS:
Languages:
Description: Meant for management of libraries of PDF files. But the key feature is the Automatic extraction of all the images contained in a pdf for better manipulation or export, using an internal viewer.
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://planeta.clix.pt/rtt
(desc. rev.: x)Visual CD
(Donationware)
OS: Windows 9x/Me/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Visual CD is a disk cataloging tool to index CD/DVDs, floppy disks, hard disks, and even folders. You can then explore the disk catalogs, search files and folders, create MP3 playlist file without having the physical disks in the drive. Upon insertion of the corresponding disk, you can open files, split files into smaller pieces, extract ZIP, RAR, and CAB archive, and more. Visual CD Features: Fast recording, loading and searching; Very small catalog file; Tight integration with Windows Explorer; Ability to save directory structure to Text Document; Ability to export catalog to HTML Document, Microsoft Excel File, Rich Text Format and Text Document; Moving, copying, renaming, and deleting catalog without leaving Visual CD; Support Windows XP Visual Style; Support ZIP, RAR and CAB archive format; Support MP3 ID3 Tag; Advanced Search; Favorites Manager; MP3 Playlist Generator; Advanced Rename; Duplicated Files Finder; File Splitter; NFO Reader; And more..
Author: Budy Setiawan Kusumah Company: BooZet
Home Page:
http://boozet.xepher.net/
Download v1.6 (October 2003) (2.26 MB)
http://boozet.xepher.net/download/viscd160.exe
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-01)
Cataloger: Disk Space DirGraph
(Freeware)
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Languages:
Description: DirGraph provides a graphical view of the space used by files and directories. It allows you to navigate around this view - zooming in to see greater detail and zooming out to see the bigger picture. It also supports colour coding by file dates, to see at a glance how much of the space used is occupied by files that haven't been access for some time [and that should therefore be committed to back-up storage].
Author: David James Spillett Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.spillett.net/dirgraph
Download v 2.0
http://www.spillett.net/~dirgraph/
Download Link: v 1.3.4 (release date) (size)
(desc. rev.: x)Scanner
(Freeware)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish
Description: Scanner is a visualization tool that displays how your drive is being used. It depicts the drive as an extended pie chart with concentric rings. You can zoom in and inspect sub directories, delete files, uninstall programs and more. All media types, fixed, removable and network, are supported.
Author: Steffen Gerlach Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/
Download v 2.6 (2002-04-13) (scn2.zip) (162 KB):
http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/scn2.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-05)
Cataloger: Media JBCat
(??? ware)
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Description: JBCat is a disk catalog program. It creates snapshot files of drives or directories that are stored in a text file catalog. Files in the catalogs can be searched using an advanced search algorithme: It uses regular expressions.
Author: Jan van den Borst Company: --
Home Page:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/jbsoft/jbcat.html
Download v 1.0.0.25 (2001-05-17)
http://home.wanadoo.nl/jbsoft/jbcat/jbcat.zip
(desc. rev.: x)NgDiskCat
(Freeware)
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Languages:
Description: It's very fast. A very useful feature is that it also catalogs zip and rar file contents and MP3 tags. So you can also search on them
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://ngdiskcat.nickgeorgakis.cjb.net/
(desc. rev.: x)The GodFather
(Freeware)
OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English, Greek, German, French, Polish, Spanish, Norwegian
Description: The GodFather is here to put order to chaos and put you in control.No more strange file names and endless search for "that song"!.Rename,update Tags,restructure files on hard disk, create/merge play lists,encode-decode with LAME/Ogg Vorbis/MpcEnc, export/import to/from file, play, use freedb.org and allmusic.com... with ease of use and perfect results every time.
Author: Dimitris Touzozoglou Company: --
Home Page:
http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/
Download v0.58 (2003-11-23) (2502 KB) (tgf_full.zip)
http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/tgf_full.zip
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-01)
Cataloger: System Display Partition Information (partinfo)
(Freeware)
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Languages:
Description: Display Partition Information This DOS or NT/2K/XP utility will display the partition information in the MBR and EMBR. The output can be redirected to a file and sent for review if needed. A.K.A. "partinfo" NOTES: not to be confused with similar partinfo tool by Powerquest (which I belive only offers a DOS version).
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/
(desc. rev.: x)SiSoftware Sandra
(Liteware)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/2000/XP
Languages:
Description: (S.A.N.D.R.A) System ANalyser Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant is a Windows 32/64 information/diagnostic utility. COMMENTS: some useful benchmark comparison utils and more.. that I cant find in other freeware, 48 working modules, 15 disabled modules in current version...
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.sisoftware.net/sandra/
(desc. rev.: x)
Organizer: Diary iDailyDiary
(Freeware)
OS:
Languages:
Description: description?
Author: -- Company: Splinterware Software Solutions
Home Page:
http://www.splinterware.com
(desc. rev.: x)
Organizer: PIM Borderline address book
(Abandonware)
OS:
Languages:
Description: Full search capabilities; A single click starts an Email; A single click sends Postal Address to the Windows clipboard; Telephone Dialler; Simple Calendar; Simple Alarm; User can change 7 of the field names; Optional hierarchical view of records; View (and Print) formatted lists; Defragment and repair address database; Sounds (optional); Import databases (CSV); Export database (to: CSV, Excel, Word, RTF, HTML, etc.) Set for automatic or manual backup of your address database
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.borderline.freeserve.co.uk/
Download (5.95Mb)
(desc. rev.: x)Xdesk95
(Freeware) (last available Freeware version)
OS:
Languages: English
Description: A very easy and friendly organizer and PIM, with complete time and data management features. It remains active in the system tray with a display of the current date. It provides a combined schedular displayed as a Calendar, a Diary and an Alarm Clock. Anniversaries, cancelled events and completed events are supported. The alarms are (optionally) audible with a post-it style note on the desktop. The program also has a Hierarchial Notes Tree that is similar to a directory structure. Each "page" can either be normal text or a sortable data table. Automated Phone Dialing is supported. IT can be your address books, to-do lists, project information; or to handy any data in any format you prefer. The program comes with a Scientific/Engineering Calculator that provides trignometric and logarithmics functions; factorial, hexadecimal, engineering multipliers and with a display of 8 level stack. NOTES: Buzzy's review http://www.buzzys.net/Xdesk.html
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page: ($ware)
http://appliedmicros.com.au
Download v 2.11.0.0 (582KB)
http://digilander.libero.it/rareware/XDesk95S.zip
Alternate download link v 2.11.0.0 (582KB)
http://woundedmoon.org/win32/xdesk95s.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-03)
Notes And Reminders ClickTray Calendar
(Donationware)
OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: ClickTray Calendar is a user-friendly calendar, address, and reminder program that can be accessed quickly from the Windows system tray. You can create almost unlimited notes, enter repetitive tasks, create To Do lists, and set alarms. It also has a practical fiscal week or month picture display. Other handy features: Year Overview window; Moon phases display; Date calculation feature; Search function; Calendar printer; Address book; Free color and font selection; Detailed help file.
Author: -- Company: WASEO
Home Page:
http://www.waseo.de/
Program description:
http://www.waseo.de/en/Products/Freeware1/DateTimeSoftware/ClickTray1/clicktray1.html
Download v2.58h (2.58 MB)
http://www.waseo.de/Freeware/Progs/ClickTray/ClkTrayE.exe
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-01)
Reminders Micro Egg Timer
(Freeware)
OS: Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: This unique little timer can help you not to forget the world around you while sitting at the PC. It has a simple and friendly user interface and can be set with just a couple of mouse clicks or keystrokes. For example, to set the timer to eight minutes and start it, just type 8 <Enter> <Enter>. You can always see the remaining time in the taskbar. It supports built-in speaker as well as sound card, no alarm can be missed. The state of the timer (idle / running / alarm) is color-coded. It also allows multiple instances, to be started and set to different periods of time, up to 999 minutes each. It has just one small .exe file, no installation procedure necessary.
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://mic-ro.com/eggtimer/
Download v.1.0. (mr-egg-z.zip) (116 KB)
http://mic-ro.com/eggtimer/mr-egg-z.zip
Download v.1.0. (mr-egg-z.exe) (135 KB)
http://mic-ro.com/eggtimer/mr-egg-z.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-03)WakeUp
(Freeware)
OS:
Languages:
Description: description?
Author: -- Company: --
Program Description:
Download:
http://www.softlookup.com/preview/dis8810.html
(desc. rev.: x)
Reminders; Scheduler Kana Reminder
(Freeware)
OS: Windows 9x/NT/XP
Languages: English
Description: Kana Reminder is a reminder program run in the background in the systray. It can also be used to run another program or launch a preseted file with its default program at a specified time. It can set alarm on hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or annually basis, with an option of "remind again" within specified time. It has built in shutdown, reboot, and log off routine to be used to schedule a shutdown, reboot, or log off. The triggered reminder window can be set to pop up automatically, to auto dismiss within specified time interval, and to always on top; the sound of the reminder is also configurable (e.g., set to be repeated, or set to use PC speaker). The reminder data can be password protected. The program can be activated from the systray using hotkey.
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.kanasolution.cjb.net/
Download v 1.5.0.61(Reminder.zip) (548 KB) (with setup)
http://www.kana.homeip.net/downcount.php?file=Reminder&site=main
Download v 1.5.0.61(Remzip.zip) (294 KB) (without setup)
http://www.kana.homeip.net/downcount.php?file=RemZip&site=main
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-02)
Calendar Desktop Calendar
(Freeware)
OS:
Languages: English, Japanese, Polish
Description: description?
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/shinonon/deskcal_eng.html
Download (419kB)
http://www.kt.sakura.ne.jp/~shinoda/cgi-bin/lime.cgi?down=http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/shinonon/dkcal152.zip&name=DesktopCalendar_1.52&hp=http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/shinonon/deskcal_eng.html
(desc. rev.: x)
Clock PTB Sync
(Freeware)
OS: Windows 95B/98SE/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English, German
Description: -Atomic Clock Synchronization: Adjusting the clock invisible in the background or with a hint. Date and time are fetched from an Atomic clock via the internet. Adjusting the clock between once per hour up to once per month. Adjusts the PC clock with an accuracy of 1/50 second! 156 Time servers (NTP) worldwide selectable from a list! Highly precise Windows clock by drift compensation. Analysis of clock deviations by detailed observation of the Windows clock. On Windows NT / 2000 / XP PTBSync can run as service, which also adjusts the clock if no user is logged on. Additional display of the international UTC time. The deviation when adjusting the clock can be written to a logfile. -Trayclock: Replacement for the Windows Trayclock. The taskbar clock may display the time with seconds and the date and weekday. Completely customizable. Tooltip with the detailed date. Weekday display in all languages (Unicode support). On Windows 2000 and XP the taskbar can be switched to transparent mode. Display of Islam, Jewish, Iran, Coptic Calendar. Display of Moon state. -Organizer / Scheduler: Multiple hints before an event and reminders afterwards. On a multi-user PC every user has his own events. Events can be saved to an HTML file. Repetition interval at special days of week possible. Automatic calculation of the age at birthdays / anniversaries. A sound may be played with an alarm. Scheduler / Alarm Clock: Starting a file or shutting down at a certain time. Automatic calculation of all Holidays of any year and for any country. Creation of a HTML calendar for printing. Calendar calculator for Islamic, jewish, Iran and coptic Calendars, Moon Calendar. Coloured display of different types of holidays: - Desktop Calendar: You can put it anywhere on the desktop. Transparent Desktop Icon Text.
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.netcult.ch/elmue/ElmueSoft-en.htm
Download (English):v 4.3b (350kb)
http://www.netcult.ch/elmue/AtomicClockSynchronization.zip
Download (German) v 4.3b (350kb)
http://www.netcult.ch/elmue/AtomuhrSynchronisation.zip
(desc. rev.: 2003-11-28)Sun Clock
(Freeware)
OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: A PC application and a useful screen saver. It can display the sun clock, the night sky, and a large format clock. When used as a screen saver it supports Windows screen saver passwords. It displays the sky as it appears from your location, or any other chosen location. The sun, moon, and major planets are displayed against the stars. It shows the distance to each planet and their speed with respect to the earth, as well as the celestial coordinates and the elevation and bearing as measured from the specified location. A large format analogue clock can give a display big enough to be read across the room. It lists the times in the cities that you have selected. Other features include sun path diagrams for any date or location, and a printable perpetual calender with the phases of the moon. Sun Clock shows time zones around the world a well as the time at locations of your choice. The state of the sun and the moon is shown both as shadows on the map and as views as seen from your present location. Observe both solar and lunar eclipses. The times for today's sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset are shown for your chosen location. Also, as an option you can choose to display the compass direction to Mecca from your location. For astronomers, the "Julian date" is updated each second.
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.mapmaker.com/sunclock.asp
Download v 5 (2003-12-22) (999 594 bytes)
http://www.mapmaker.com/downloads/sunzip.exe
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-29)
Clock Customizer; Reminders TClock
(Freeware)
OS: Windows 9x/NT4.0.
Languages: English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, German, Dutch, French, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Polish, Czech
Description: TClock is a program that can change color, background color, and font of the clock. The systray clock can be set to show year, month, day, hour, minute, second, and day. The program also serve as an alarm; it has a time signal feature, and a timer. It can also synchronize the internal clock with internet time servers. Besides the clock feature, it is also a start button modifier: it can modify the icon and letters on the Start button.
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclock/
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/tclock.html
Download (English) v 2.2.8 (1999-09-20) (173KB)
http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclock/TCL228E.zip
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-29)
Time Synchronizer AtomTime95
(Freeware) (last available Freeware version)
OS: Windows 9x
Languages: English
Description: AtomTime95 is a 32-bit Win95 Internet (Winsock) application which will connect to the Atomic Clock time server in Boulder, CO and fetch the current atomic clock time value. It compares this value to your PC time and displays the difference. You then have the option of updating your PC clock to match the atomic clock value. There is also a command line option to have AtomTime automatically set the clock and exit.
Author: Bruce Adelsman Company: --
Home Page ($ware):
http://www.visi.com/~badelsman/Software/
Download v 1.4b (104kb)
ftp://ftp1.fkkt.uni-lj.si/atmtm14b.zip
Alternate Download v 1.4b (104kb)
ftp://ftp.glasnet.ru/pub/Internet/windows95/atmtm14b.zip
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-29)Dimension 4
(Freeware)
OS: Windows 95/NT4
Languages: English
Description: DIMENSION 4 synchronizes your computer's clock to your choice of Internet- based chronometers to within 0.05 second. Innovative and custom- configurable, DIMENSION 4 can be set to run hidden so that it resets your PC's clock each time you connect to the World Wide Web with a dial-up PPP connection. If you prefer, you can configure it to initiate a dial-up connection, reset the clock, and exit. If you have a PC that resides on a network with a TCP/IP Internet link, you can configure DIMENSION 4 to reset the clock periodically--every 24 hours, for example. DIMENSION 4 comes with a large number of SNTP (simple network time protocol) servers for you to connect to, from the Naval Observatory to the Center for Seismology; you can add additional ones.
Author: Rob Chambers Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.thinkman.com/dimension4/index.html
Download v 4 4.3 (292 KB)
http://www.thinkman.com/dimension4/d4time43.exe
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-29)NetTime
(Donationware)
OS:
Languages:
Description: description?
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://nettime.sourceforge.net/
(desc. rev.: x)