Freeware Directory
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This is a collection of freewares available for our daily use.
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PSPad – freeware programmer’s editor
Posted on May 1st, 2009 3 commentsPSPad is a freeware programmer’s editor for Microsoft Windows operating systems, useful for people who:
- work with various programming environments
- like highlighted syntax in their source code
- need a small tool with simple controls and the capabilities of a mighty code editor
- are looking for a tool that handles plain text
- want to save time – PSPad offers rich text formating functions
- need tool what offer user extension capabilities
- want to save money and still have the functionality of professional products because PSPad is free for commercial and government purposes too
List of changes, history and bug corrections is available here
If you have a problem or question, you can visit the PSPad discussion forum. After registration you can receive messages for chosen topics via e-mail.
PSPad beta versions are published in the discussion forum. You can download them without any restrictions, test new program functions and have bugs corrected before the full release is available.
The latest build published in the forum is 4.5.4 (2349)
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Recuva – Free File Recovery
Posted on April 30th, 2009 2 comments
Recuva – File Recovery
Recuva (pronounced “recover”) is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!
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Recuva is free to download. If you have ideas and suggestions to improve Recuva then visit our forum.
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Open Paint – The cross-platform open source alternative to MS Paint
Posted on April 29th, 2009 3 commentsAbout
Open Paint is an open source image editor for all major operating systems. The goal of this application is to create a simple to use image editor that has all the functionality an average computer user would need. This leaves GIMP and Paint.NET for professional users and allows the project to focus on ease of use and intuitive interface over feature completeness.
Features
- Familiar layout
- Multiple tabs for each image
- Support for most major image types (BMP, PNG, JPEG, GIF, PCX, PNM, TIF, IFF, XPM, ICO, CUR, ANI)
- Tools like pencil, paintbrush, fill, text, eye dropper, eraser, magnify, selection, shapes and more…
- Image options for resize, scale, rotating, flipping and more…
- Filters for invert, blur, pixelize, grayscale, monotone and more…
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Requirements
- Windows All:
- This program uses libraries that man not be on your system.
If you get an error like:
“This application failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem”
You should install this:
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package
- This program uses libraries that man not be on your system.
- Windows 2000:
- This program uses GDI+ which became standard on XP and Vista.
If you are using Windows 2000 you will need to install GDI+ from this link.
Platform SDK Redistributable: GDI+
- This program uses GDI+ which became standard on XP and Vista.
- Linux and OS X:
- These ports have been built but need to be packaged and tested before they will be available.