Archive for October 28, 2007

Portable Firefox 2.0.0.8

Firefox is a fast, full-featured web browser that’s easy to use. It has lots of great features including popup-blocking, tabbed-browsing, integrated search, improved privacy features, automatic updating and more.

Homepage – Portable Firefox

Size: 6.1 MB

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System Information for Windows 1.71

This program perform computer configuration analysis and diagnostics. It gives detailed information about your computer properties and settings, detailed specs for CPU, motherboard, chipset, BIOS, CPU, PCI/AGP, USB and ISA/PnP devices, memory, monitor, video card, disk drives, CD/DVD devices, SCSI devices, S.M.A.R.T., ports, network cards, printers, operating system, installed programs and hotfixes, processes, services, serial numbers (CD keys), users, open files, system uptime, network, network shares, as well as real-time monitors for CPU, memory, page file usage and network traffic. It displays currently active network connections, passwords hidden behind asterisks, installed codecs, and more. This program also creates a report file, and is able to run in batch mode.

Release Highlights:
* Added Tools –> Monitor Test module
* Updated XML Report (mode XSLT/XPath friendly)
* Updated Video module
* Updated Audio and Video Codecs module
* Updated CPU module
* Updated PCI module
* Bugfixes

Homepage – SIW

Size: 1.32 MB

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FastStone Image Viewer 3.3

A fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touch the four edges of the screen. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more.

Release Highlights:
* Added “Enhance Colors” (press Ctrl+E), which makes it easy to adjust brightness, gamma, contrast and saturation of the image
* Enhanced “Sharpen/Blur”
* Added “Obscure (Blur)” under “Edit” menu, which can be used to obscure sensitive information in the image
* Added new option “Remind me to save changes” to the Settings. Uncheck this option if you do not want the popup message “Do you want to save the changes you have made to this image?”
* Allowed image tagging in slide show
* Added “Slide Show Builder” (under “Create” menu), which allows you to save a slide show, including image and music files, into a single exe file that can be played in other computers without FastStone Image Viewer
* Enhanced the “Download Photos” tool. Now it is possible to get photos from both cameras and card readers via USB
* Enhanced the “Change Timestamp” under Tools menu. Now it allows you to change/adjust the date time when photos were taken
* Added “Remove JPEG Metadata” to Tools menu. It allows you to remove metadata such as EXIF, IPTC, embedded thumbnails etc from jpeg files
* Added Show Histogram option to the image comparison tool
* Enhanced the RAW library. Now it is recommended to view RAW files using the embedded preview image for faster performance (see RAW tab in the Settings)
* In the image comparison tool, now it is possible to pan around with arrow keys
* Other small improvements in the user interface
* Fixed some bugs

Homepage – Faststone

Size: 4 MB

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