PRICELESSWARE 2002
REVIEW

BUSINESS

CATEGORY	PROGRAM NAME	DESCRIPTION	HOME PAGE OR DOWNLOAD LINK	PLEASE NOTE:
Diagram and Chart Drawing Tool	(S) Dia	Diagram/FlowCharts/Networks/Circuits	Home Page
Diagram and Chart Drawing Tool	(S) GRIDS	Diagram and Chart tool	Home Page
Diagram and Chart Drawing Tool	TeeChart Office	Create charts and plots	Home Page
Office Suite	(S) StarOffice	Office Suite	Home Page
Project Managers	STG MonthPlan	Create calendars by picking daily items from a hierarchy	Home Page
Reference - Dictionaries	(S) WordWeb	Dictionary	Home Page
Reference - Spell Checkers	(S) AllPurpose Spellcheck	Spellchecker	Program Description	Home Page N/A

DESKTOP

CATEGORY	PROGRAM NAME	DESCRIPTION	HOME PAGE OR DOWNLOAD LINK	PLEASE NOTE:
Astronomy	SkyCharts	Draw sky charts	Home Page
Astronomy	(S) StarCalc	Star mapping program	Home Page
Bible Study Tools	(S) e-Sword	Bible Software / Bible study tool	Home Page
Calculators	(S) GraphCalc	Calculator with advanced Graph drawing and converter	Home Page	Just returned to Freeware again
Calculators	(S) ShowCalc	Calculator	Download	Home Page N/A
Calculators	Steffen's Calculator	Scientific calculator with a "Tape" display .	Home Page
Clock Tools - Alarms	Banshee Screamer	Banshee Screamer is an alarm clock	Home Page
Clock Tools - Clock Enhancer	(S) Chimer	See and hear time through antique Chimer	Home Page
Clock Tools - Clock Enhancers	(S) TClock	Customize the clock on the taskbar of Windows	Home Page
Clock Tools - Clock Enhancers	(S) TClockEx	Extended clock in tray	Home Page
Clock Tools - Time Synchronizer	AboutTime	Superior source of time for your computer	Home Page
Clock Tools - Time Synchronizer	(S) Atomic Clock Sync	Very simple quick clock synchroniser	Home Page
Clock Tools - Time Synchronizer	Atomic TimeSync	Set your clock using the time server closest to you.	Home Page
Clock Tools - Time Synchronizer	(S) Dimension 4	Computer Clock Synchronizer	Home Page
Clock Tools - Timers	(S) Multi Timer	Ten independent Timers in one program, to count down to zero or up to max. 100 hours, with 1 second accuracy	Home Page
Clock Tools - World Time	(S) Clockrack	Virtual array of clocks displayed on your computer's desktop.	Home Page
Clock Tools - World Time	(S) World Time	Rack clock with multiple time zone configurations.	Home Page
Conversion Tools	(S) Convert	Unit conversion program	Home Page
Desktop Manager	Desktop Changer	Change Start UP, Wait and Shutdown logos, Screen Savers and Wallpaper, start up and shutdown sounds automatically or at will.	Home Page
Desktop Tools - Appearance	FreshIcons	Refresh icons displayed on the Desktop and in Windows Explorer	Home Page
Desktop Tools - Appearance	Hide'em	Hide desktop icons	Home Page
Desktop Tools - Appearance	(S) Invisible!	Turn desktop icon text backgrounds transparent	Home Page
Desktop Tools - Appearance	Internet Explorer 5 Toolbar Wallpaper	Turn the Internet Explorer toolbar into a work of art	Home Page
Desktop Tools - Appearance	(S) Transparent	Turn desktop icon text backgrounds transparent	Home Page
Desktop Tools - Appearance	(S) Window Maximizer	Open second window to maximum size in IE	Home Page
Desktop Tools - Desktop Manager	DeskMenu	Full access to your desktop in the form of a cascading menu	Home Page	crippleware
Desktop Tools - Desktop Manager	(S) Free Shade	Double-click on a window's caption and the window rolls itself up so that only its caption (or title bar) is visible.	Home Page
Desktop Tools - Desktop Manager	SendToBack	Send any window to the back of the pile of windows on your desktop.	Home Page
Desktop Tools - Resolution	(S) MultiRes	Quickly changes screen resolutions and refresh rates.	Home Page
Genealogy	(S) Personal Ancestral File	Organize family history records.	Home Page
Icon Tools	ActivIcons	Change properties for various icons on your Windows desktop and in Explorer	Home Page
Icon Tools	Icon Layout	Copy an URL to clipboard (several formats)	Download	Home Page N/A
Icon Tools	IconPhile	Customizing Windows's system icons	Home Page
News Compilers	(S) Amphetadesk	Brings together newsfeeds from many different websites	Home Page
Screen Capture	(S) PrintKey	System tray-based screen-capture program	Download	Program is Shareware. Download links to last Freeware version.
Screen Capture	ScreenSeize	Capture and save any part of your screen	Download
Screen Saver Makers	Saver Wiz	Creates REAL screensavers (*.scr) out of a bunch of pictures.	Home Page
Screen Saver Manager	Screen Saver Changer	This allows chosen screen savers to be changed randomly or sequentially after a user defined time period or every time.	Home Page
Theme Managers	(S) Desktop Architect	Preview, install, customize, and create Windows desktop themes	Download	Home Page N/A
Tickers	CoolTick	Insert stock symbols and see current highs and lows in small running 'ticker' box.	Home Page
Wallpaper Managers	(S) Wallpaper Changer	change your background images on every startup, once a day or at regular intervals	Home Page
Weather Updaters	Weather Watcher	Desktop weather station	Home Page

FILE UTILITIES

CATEGORY	PROGRAM NAME	DESCRIPTION	HOME PAGE OR DOWNLOAD LINK	PLEASE NOTE:
Archive Utility	(S) FilZip	Archiver	Home Page
Archive Utility	FreeZip	Utility for compression and decompression of files and directories	Home Page
Archive Utility	(S) Keep-It	File version manager	Home Page
Archive Utility	(S) Ultimate Zip	Zip Manager	Home Page
Archive Utility	(S) UPX Shell	Compressor designed specifically for executable files	Home Page
Archive Utility	(S) Winimp	Zip Manager	Home Page
Back-Up Tools	(S) BASK	Easy way to backup or synchronize files	Home Page
Back-Up Tools	Mehul's Backup	Make disk-based backup copies of your data	Home Page	Freeware. However, if you continue to use it, author requests that you register the copy (which is also FREE).
Back-Up Tools	(S) My Own Backup	Backup program	Home Page
DLL Utilities	(S) Clean System Directory	Clean unused dlls	Home Page
DLL Utilities	(S) DLL Archive	Click search and let it do it's thing - once done, you'll be presented with a list of all the DLL's that don't have references in the system!	Home Page
Duplicate File Remover	(S) Dupeless	Find duplicate files for removal from your hard disk	Home Page
Duplicate File Remover	(S) EasyCleaner	Clean registry, duplicate files, ...	Home Page
Duplicate File Remover	System Icon Cleaner	Removes duplicate items from the system icon cache	Home Page
File Dependency	(S) Dependency Walker	Shows what files are needed by a particular program, dll etc	Home Page
File Management Tools - Asociation	(S) Freedom of Association	Manage your file associations	Home Page
File Management Tools - Cleaners	CleanUp!	Remove evidence of Internet surfing	Home Page
File Management Tools - Cleaners	(S) Empty Temp Folders	Searches for and deletes temp files and folders	Home Page
File Management Tools - Cleaners	FindOrphans	Locate and safely remove orphaned files	Home Page
File Management Tools - Cleaners	(S) HD Valet	Clear any file, file type or folder	Home Page
File Management Tools - Cleaners	(S) Spider	File cleaner including index.dat	Home Page
File Management Tools - Compare	(S) AsciiDiff	File comparison with editing capabilities	Home Page
File Management Tools - Compare	(S) CS-Diff	Advanced file difference analysis tool	Home Page
File Management Tools - Compare	(S) ExamDiff	File comparison, can create "diff" files	Home Page
File Management Tools - DOS	Long FileNames in DOS (LFN-Tools)	Display directories with long file names like in a DOS-Box	Home Page
File Management Tools - Renamers	(S) 1-4a Rename	File renamer, incl some special MP3/ID3 functions	Home Page
File Management Tools - Renamers	(S) Flash Renamer	Batch renaming of files and directories	Home Page
File Management Tools - Renamers	Renamer	Renames files in various ways with one click	Home Page
File Management Tools - Renamers	(S) THE Rename	Power-users file renamer	Home Page
File Management Tools - Searchers	(S) Agent Ransack	Find files on harddisk with regular expression in one or more subdirectories	Home Page
File Managers	(S) 2xExplorer	File manager	Home Page
File Managers	Gyula's Windows Navigator	Norton Commander type file manager	Home Page
File Managers	(S) PowerDesk	File Manager	Home Page
File Managers	(S) Servant Salamander	File Manager	Home Page	1.52 last Freeware version
File Managers	(S) Turbo Navigator	Norton Commander type file manager	Home Page
File Monitors	(S) FileMon	Monitor file access, filtering and logging capabilities	Home Page
File Splitters	(S) Chainsaw	Split files into smaller ones.	Home Page
File Viewers	Archive Peek	Look for files inside ZIP, RAR, LZH, ARJ, ZOO, ARC, TAR, PAK, SQZ, HYP, WAD, GRP, CAB and ACE files in hard disks, CD-ROMs, floppies, networks, etc.	Home Page
File Viewers	Zip Indexator	Index zip archives by seaching file descriptions	Home Page
File Viewers	(S) Zip Peeker	Discover the contents of zip files without the inconvenience of double-clicking each file and then looking for readme (or other) files.	Home Page
File Viewers	(S) ZipScan	Perform a fast file searches, including inside archive files, such as Zip files.	Home Page
Undelete	(S) Drive Rescue	Hard disk recovery tool.	Home Page

GRAPHICS

CATEGORY	PROGRAM NAME	DESCRIPTION	HOME PAGE OR DOWNLOAD LINK	PLEASE NOTE:
3D Graphics	(S) Blender	fully integrated 3D creation suite	Home Page
3D Text	(S) Font Magic	Create 3D text logos	Home Page
Banner Maker	3D Gif Designer	Produce animated high-quality 3D pictures, titles, banner ads and buttons.	Download	Last Freeware version; Home Page links to Shareware Version
Button Makers	(S) BtnMaker	Create simple buttons (non animated) buttons for websites (or anything else).	Home Page
Button Makers	(S) Buttonz! and Tilez!	The package includes 2 applications, "Buttonz!", which creates buttons of various shapes, and "Tilez!", which renders seamless textures.	Download
Button Makers	(S) DeKnop	A very easy to use full-featured button maker	Home Page	cardware
Button Makers	(S) ZPaint	Create 3D-looking elements for websites and software interfaces	Home Page
Color Pickers	(S) AI-software SmartColor	Ultimate color picker for windows	Home Page
Color Pickers	ColorCop	Convert RGB decimal values to RGB Hexadecimal Triplets	Home Page
Color Pickers	(S) EyeDropper	Color Picker / Screen Capture	Home Page
Converters	(S) Irfanview	Image viewer/editor/converter	Home Page
Converters	wmfapmf	convert vector graphics to placeable Windows Metafile (.WMF) format	Download	Home Page N/A
Diagram and Chart Drawing Tool	(S) Dia	Diagram/FlowCharts/Networks/Circuits	Home Page
Diagram and Chart Drawing Tool	(S) GRIDS	Diagram and Chart tool	Home Page
Diagram and Chart Drawing Tool	TeeChart Office	Create charts and plots	Home Page
Editors - Animators	(S) Ulead Gif Animator	Everything you need to start making those adorable little animated gif files...	Download	former Shareware version available as Freeware
Editors - ASCII	JavE	Java ASCII Versatile Editor	Home Page
Editors - Fractals	(S) Fractal Explorer	Generate fractal images and animations.	Home Page
Editors - Fractals	(S) Iterations et Flarium	Generates Mandlbrot and Newton variations. Plots trajectories of XY orbits. Creates fractal movie AVI files.	Home Page
Editors - Fractals	Xaos	Real-time interactive fractal zoomer.	Home Page
Editors - Icon	Icon Studio	Icon design and extract program	Home Page	nagware, requires free registration
Editors - Icon	(S) IconEdit32	Icon Editor	Home Page
Editors - Morph	BitMorph	Create image morphing sequences (generation of up to 15 intermediate frames).	Home Page
Editors - Paint	(S) Embellish	Graphics Editor / Paint / Animated GIF Editor	Home Page	former Shareware - released as Freeware - not supported
Editors - Paint	ImageForge	Powerful tools for painting and editing images	Home Page
Editors - Paint	(S) Pixia	Paint program	Home Page
Editors - Photo	(S) imageN	Advanced Photo Editor (JPG, BMP, PNG only), thumbnail browser, database, web server	Home Page
Editors - Photo	(S) Satori PhotoXL	Pro-level photo-editing, paint and illustration for the studio, home and office.	Download	CD/Site offer; non-intuitive interface; no .gif files
Editors - Photo	(S) The Gimp	Graphic Editor	Home Page
Editors - Vector	(S) Zoner3	Vector Graphics Editor	Home Page	Registerware
Font Viewers	(S) The Font Thing	Manage TrueType fonts.	Home Page
Icon Extractors	(S) Icon Snatcher	extract icon files from any .exe, .dll	Home Page
Icon Extractors	(S) IconXTractor	Extracts icons - supports scanning entire hard drive	Home Page
Icon Managers	IconShop	Manage ICL icon libraries	Home Page
Optimizers	(S) Digital Camera Enhancer	Noise reducing and automatic balance control.	Home Page
Optimizers	(S) Gif Optimizer	Remove the unused colors from GIF image pallets reducing the image size.	Home Page
Optimizers	(S) JPEG Cleaner	Clean anything that is not picture data from JPG files.	Home Page
Optimizers	(S) The Jpeg Wizard	Shrink and/or edit your JPEG images without the damage of uncompression and recompression.	Home Page
Photo Printer	(S) Iomega photo printer	Resize and print multiple photos and/ or multiple copies or print thumbprints - jpg or bmp formats only.	Download	Description
Rulers	Cool Ruler	Very flexible computer ruler for alignment, positioning and measuring functions.	Home Page
Rulers	(S) Graphic Protactor	Graphics Ruler	Home Page
Rulers	Screen Calipers	Measure inside and outside objects just like a real set of calipers.	Home Page
Scenery Generators	(S) Terragen	Fully integrated 3D creation suite	Home Page	Newer version available here
Thumbnail Makers	(S) EasyThumb	Make thumbnails and convert images to different formats!	Home Page
Thumbnail Makers	(S) Irfanview	Image viewer/editor/converter	Home Page
Tile Makers	(S) Harm's Tile	Create seamless tiles.	Home Page
Tile Makers	(S) Reptile	Produce any combination of wavy, bubbly, organic, big, small, wide, narrow, rough or smooth textures.	Home Page
Title Makers	(S) DDTitle	Fast and efficient design of high-quality images with titles.	Home Page
Viewers	Image Navigator	Efficiently browse and organize images on your computer.	Home Page
Viewers	(S) Irfanview	Image viewer/editor/converter	Home Page
Viewers	(S) SlowView	Graphic viewer and converter	Home Page
Viewers	(S) XnView	Graphic viewer and converter	Home Page

INTERNET

CATEGORY	PROGRAM NAME	DESCRIPTION	HOME PAGE OR DOWNLOAD LINK	PLEASE NOTE:
Anti-Spam Tools	Spam Punisher	Find out address of spammer's Internet Service Provider, generate and send complaints.	Home Page
Bookmark/Favorite Organizers	(S) Columbine Bookmark Merge	Bookmark Manager (IE, Netscape, Opera, Mosaic)	Home Page
Bookmark/Favorite Organizers	(S) FavOrg	Link (Favorites) checker, also collects FavIcons	Home Page
Browsers	HotJava Browser	??	Home Page
Browsers	K-meleon	??	Home Page
Browsers	Mozilla	Open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability	Home Page
Browsers	Off by One	Small and fast web browser	Home Page
Chat Clients	(S) Miranda ICQ	Chat client	Home Page
Chat Clients	(S) Trillian	Chat suite	Home Page
Connection Tools	AC-Plug	Connection Keep-Alive program for people. Simple to use.	Home Page
Connection Tools	HangUp	Drop any open dial-up connection.	Home Page
Connection Tools	(S) NetStat Live	Easy to use TCP/IP protocol monitor	Home Page
Connection Tools - Bandwidth Checkers	(S) Dipstick	Ping utility to check which is the quickest mirror site.	Home Page
Connection Tools (DSL)	(S) DoctorPing	Compare your latency to others on your ISP	Home Page	DoctorPing facility is disabled currently for improvements. Please check back.
Connection Tools (DSL)	(S) DoctorTCP	tcp/ip tweaking utility	Download
Connection Tools - Speed Checkers	(S) NetPerSec	NetPerSec measures the real-time speed of your Internet connection.	Home Page
Cookie Blockers	(S) CookieCopPlus	Block unwanted Websites, or block just the graphics on a site.	Home Page
Cookie Managers	Cookie Jar	Sort cookies into Allowed and Banned (or Undecided) jars	Home Page
Cookie Managers	Cookie Viewer	View web browser cookies with delete option.	Home Page
Cookie Managers	Cookie Viewer (PC MAGAZINE)		Need Home Page or Download
Cookie Managers	(S) CookieWall	Quickly and easily decide which cookies can stay on your system, and which cookies should go.	Home Page
Download Managers	(S) Download Express	Download manager	Home Page	** registerware to obtain key
Download Managers	(S) DLExpert	Download manager	Home Page
Download Managers	(S) Fresh Download	Download manager	Home Page	** registerware
Download Managers	(S) Octopus	Multi-threaded download manager	Home Page
DUN Managers	Dunce	Connect, redial and auto-reconnect.	Home Page
DUN Managers	NetLaunch	Starts and stops other applications when internet connection is opened or closed	Home Page	** registerware
DUN Monitors	(S) Dial-Up Networking Monitor	Throughput on Windows 95/98 Dial-Up Networking and Windows NT RAS connections	Home Page	** registerware
DUN Monitors	(S) Tick	Logs all dial up networking calls including length and cost of call and the amount of data transferred	Home Page
e-Commerce Tools	Mals-E	Commercial functionality for your website	Home Page
e-mail Client	(S) Calypso	E-mail client	Home Page	Has been shareware - now unsupported freeware
e-mail Client	(S) ePrompter	email retrieval and notification utility that automatically checks up to eight password protected email accounts - all at the same time.	Home Page
e-mail Client	(S) FoxMail	Powerful email client software that is small, fast, easy, and supports all Internet mail standards.	Home Page
e-mail Client	(S) Pegasus Mail	Email Client	Home Page
e-mail Notification	(S) ePrompter	email retrieval and notification utility that automatically checks up to eight password protected email accounts - all at the same time.	Home Page
e-mail Notification	EzPop	Checks email accounts in the background	Home Page
e-mail Notification	(S) LetterBox	e-mail 'catcher/spam stopper'	Home Page
e-mail Notification	(S) Mail Magic	POP3 compliant e-mail notifier for Windows	Home Page
e-mail Notification	T-Mail	Checks periodically mailbox for new e-mails.	Home Page
e-mail Previewer	(S) Pop3 ScanMail	Preview your email without downloading from your account	Home Page
e-mail Previewer	PopCorn	Client/server application, reading mail "directly" from POP3 servers	Home Page
File Transfer	WinSCP	Safe copying of files between local and remote computer	Home Page
FTP Client	3CDaemon	TFTP/FTP/Syslog server & TFTP Client	Download	Home Page N/A
FTP Client	(S) LeechFTP	FTP Client	Home Page
FTP Client	(S) SmartFTP	Drag & Drop FTP Client	Home Page
FTP Client	(S) WS_FTP LE	FTP client for Windows	Home Page
Internet Look-Up	(S) Sam Spade	Integrated network query tool	Home Page
Internet Look-Up	(S) TJPing	IP suite ping trace lookup etc	Home Page
Link Checkers	(S) AM-DeadLink	Link (Favorites) checker	Home Page
Link Checkers	(S) CIP500	Help keep your local "HOSTS" file up to date	Home Page	CIP is part of Radsoft's Extreme Net Tools, a Shareware program. Download link is for standalone version of CIP.
Link Checkers	(S) Xenu's Link Sleuth	Web site link checker	Home Page
Log File Analyser	(S) Analog	Shows you the usage patterns on your web server.	Home Page
Log File Analyser	Webalizer	Highly detailed, easily configurable usage reports.	Home Page
Network Computing	(S) VNC	View a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.	Home Page Tight version	Both share the bulk off the code and tight-vnc is fully compatible with the "standard", but offers a extra compression method.
News Readers	(S) Gravity	Newsreader.	Home Page
News Readers	(S) Free Agent	Newsreader.	Home Page
News Readers	(S) Xnews	Newsreader.	Home Page
News Readers Tools	AGO Agent Group Order	Rearrange the order of your subscribed news groups	Home Page
Packet Sniffer	(S) Analyzer	Configurable network analyzer program.	Home Page
Packet Sniffer	(S) Ethereal	Packet Sniffer.	Home Page
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing	(S) AudioGalaxy	The stock version on the AG site contains spyware, but the client is open source and there are several spyware-free versions.	Non-Spyware version
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing	(S) WinMX	File sharing. No ads. No spyware and fast.	Home Page
Servers	(S) Hamster	A local news- and mail-server to collect news and mails from different servers.	Home Page	German Page
Servers	Jana	Internet access via a single modem, ISDN or DSL connection for any or a group of LAN users.	Home Page
Servers	SimpleServer:WWW	Simple to use yet powerful server.	Home Page	German Page
Signature Managers	KookieJar	Signature randomizer and generator for email and news clients.	Home Page	German Page
TelNet Client	Putty	Telnet and SSH for Win32 platforms	Home Page
TelNet Client	Tera Term Pro	Telnet & Serial connections.	Home Page
Web Page Content Filter	AIM Adjuster	Block ads and the search panel from AOL Instant Messenger	Home Page
Web Page Content Filter	Hostess	Maintain your Hosts file.	Home Page
Web Page Content Filter	(S) Hosts File	Used to block unwanted sites or servers.	Home Page	IMPORTANT, please read the information on the Web Site before using these hosts files.
Web Page Content Filter	eDexter	Dexter is a good dog. Puts images into your browser if website is blocked by hosts file.	Home Page
Web Page Content Filter	OE hotmail ad killer	Remove the ad window when you visit hotmail accounts	Home Page