Mike Dhani

1.SoftCAT Plus

SoftCAT is a database program designed to help you organize your software. Not only will SoftCAT help you know what you have and where it is, but it will also help you keep track of important information like serial number, registration name, and other registration information. You never know when you NEED this information!
More than 30 data fields will help you track information like program title, version, publisher, platform, type (commercial, freeware, shareware, etc.), category (Desktop Enhancements, Games, Utilities, etc.), price, installation date, installation folder, product homepage, serial number, and registration name.

You can password protect your database to prevent unwanted users from opening your database. Use the backup function to make backup copies of your valuable data. SoftCAT uses pop-up menus for quick access and navigation. SoftCAT comes with a sample database to get you started and a comprehensive context-sensitive on-line help system.

SoftCAT is intuitive and easy-to-use, and you will soon find that SoftCAT is all you ever need to keep track of your software.

SoftCAT v2 is available in two different editions: SoftCAT (standard) and SoftCAT Plus. The standard version is freeware.
SoftCAT Plus has these additional features:

Form Designer: Lets you change the field layout in all data entry windows. Screenshot.
Report Designer: Lets you create professional looking reports with exactly the layout you want. Screenshot.
Search menu: Simple Search, Advanced Search, Summary Search, Global Search and Search and Replace. Screenshot.
Import/Export: Import from Text File, Export to Text File and Export to XML.
Screenshots field (lets you store up to 9 screenshots). Screenshot.
Auto catalog function: Will search your computer for installed programs and auto-catalog these programs (title, version, publisher, icon, installation folder, installation date and program file).

SoftCAT Plus is available from …
http://www16.fixdown.com/en/402eb95777bf3496.asp as ethscp2d-2005-01-31.rar
The program is a ‘cracked’ version. Just search for SoftCAT on Fixdown and you’ll find it

I’m reasonably sure that it doesn’t need installation; it will write to the local folder which is no problem on a USB drive.

2. WinStress(W.S.T.)

WinStress(W.S.T.) is a Windows based utility for exercising and measuring the stability of a system’s overall performance. The program can be run directly from a CD. No installation is required.
W.S.T. performs a variety of functions including, Stress Loading, System Performance, and System Inventory. In Stress Loading mode, W.S.T. will simultaneously exercise all major components of the system including: CPU, FPU, MMX, RAM, Hard Disks, CD ROMs/DVD/CDR, Floppy disk, 2D and 3D graphics, Sound card, Printers, COM ports and Network adapters.
In this mode, W.S.T. will allow you to set stress levels to monitor system performance and stability. For example, you can set a very high CPU stress level to see if Windows will crash or CPU overclocking will have adverse reactions to normal operation. Stress levels for all devices can be set at one time giving you a quick report on your system’s health.
When performing System Inventory, W.S.T. will generate a complete report of the system. The list will include data on: Display, Devices, Drivers, Network configurations, APM, Media, Workstation, Operating System, CPU, Memory, Database Engines, and Printers. This information is ideal for keeping track of your systems and all installed devices. This detailed information can be used by tech support staff for problem resolutions.
With Ultra-X’s extensive experience of over 15 years in producing high quality PC diagnostic hardware and software tools, W.S.T. brings a much needed Windows based utility to computer manufacturers and service professionals for evaluating systems and performing uncompromising burn-in, inventory and performance stress testing.

W.S.T. is designed for use by service technicians as well as end users. If you are a service technician, use W.S.T.’s features to isolate system problems, generate system reports and perform benchmarking. If you are an end-user, use W.S.T. as a maintenance and performance utility or burn-in to ensure that you are getting the most out of your system.
W.S.T. works on the following Windows systems: Win9xME/2000/XP/Pro

3. FontRenamer
http://www.neuber.com/free/fontrenamer/
freeware
FontRenamer renames truetype font files (*.ttf) to the real name of the typefaces. Simply select a folder of font files and click Rename button.

4. Typograf V4.8f
http://www.neuber.com/typograph/
It is not freeware; A keygen is available but did not work for me; however a serial also floats around the Boards and this works.
This application does not need installation BUT I think it does write to the Registry.
It is a superb Font Management utility with the following features ..
+View and preview fonts.
+Display all OpenType, TrueType and Type 1 fonts on hard disks, DVD, CD, opticals, floppies or particular folders including all sub folders. Sorts viewed fonts by name, file, family, copyright, width, date, size.
+Typograf displays following font types:
OpenType and TrueType fonts (preview, installed, loaded by Typograf)
PostScript Type 1 fonts (preview, installed, loaded by Typograf) - free ATM Light required
Printer fonts
Raster or bitmap fonts (system fonts)

+Display all font properties
font information: full name, family name, creator, version, copyright, trademark, …
file data: size, date, file location path.
typeface classification by PANOSE system, IBM Font Classes or the Windows internal metric structure
character set
keyboard layout
zoom view for details
edit font information

+Compare fonts
+Find similar fonts according to the typeface classifications
+Compare several fonts tabularly according to important font features, file data, character width, number of kerning pairs, …
+Finds font duplicates on disk, DVD, CD, …
+Print fonts
+Print 1, 6, 20, 40 or 80 fonts on a A4 page.
Two kind of sample page of a font including character set.
+Print character set, keyboard layout
+Font file management functions
Copy, move, delete font files.
Load or unload fonts
Install or uninstall fonts

+Manage fonts in database and font groups
+Keep your TrueType and PostScript fonts in order using the font database and font groups.
+Catalog all your fonts with the database. Thus you alway know on which DVD, CD-ROM or folder your fonts are.
+Organize your fonts in font groups to load them as needed.

+Information about typefaces and typography
TrueType and Type 1 Reference
Typeface Classifications
Mixing & Matching Typefaces
Choosing an appropriate Type
Typesetting

5.Image Grab
http://paul.glagla.free.fr/imagegrab_en.htm
ImageGrab is a nice utility aimed at extracting images from all kind of videos, also from Video CDs or SVCDs, and even from live video streams which are delivered to the computer by a webcam, a camcorder or an analog video capture card. It includes a multimedia player able to play the video even in full screen, to seek precisely in the video, frame by frame, to catch pictures from the video either in bmp or jpeg format. The image may be easily corrected, in order to respect an aspect ratio of 4x3 or 16x9. ImageGrab is able to catch automatically a series of images at a scheduled interval.

6.ImagePrinz 2.0
http://paul.glagla.free.fr/imageprinz_en.htm

“Did you never get head aches when printing digital photos on a paper? The format of the paper is never standard, so it is difficult to center the photo, to find the good margin, and orientation of the photo. Perhaps I am an idiot, but I have wasted a ton of expensive photo papers, bottles of ink, and my time, before I have created ImagePrinz. ImagePrinz has only one function: to print comfortably a photo or a picture on a paper sheet of any size. Only one photo per sheet, and only centered.”

6.Filmerit
http://paul.glagla.free.fr/filmerit_en.htm
Filmerit is a freeware application for cleaning and managing the DirectShow filters.
Filmerit is in fact the Rolls-Royce of directshow filter management, with powerful functions:
- display the list of all directshow filters registered in your system, with all their properties, and the version information of the associated server file. Filters are displayed in alphabetical order, grouped by filter categories. The program tests the integrity of the filters and colors in red the lines with errors.
- save this list in a LOG file with all its informations, in order to archive the informations for a future comparison, or to send it to someone by mail for an analysis…
- display in a second panel, the data from a saved LOG file, in order to see the differences with the current system. Two log files may also be compared. This is very useful when installing an application or a pack of codecs: you take a snapshot before and after installation and see exactly what changes have been made.
- modify the Merits of one or several filters. Merits are numeric values attached to filters, which define their priority level in multimedia applications. Modify them if you want to fine tune your applications. Often some new added filters have a too high Merit, hiding better filters which can no more operate. Decrease their Merit with Filmerit is sometimes a good solution, better then to snipe them.
- save and load “Merit configurations”. If you have modified some Merits on your system in order to fine tune a multimedia application, you may save them in a log file, and then restore the original system. Filmerit can later load the saved merits again and assign them to your filters when your mutimedia application needs it. So you may create temporarly configurations, or various configurations for your various applications, and resolve by this way even the most inextricable conflicts
- delete erroneous filters. Filmerit deletes carefully all obsolete, erroneous filters, but without deleting useful files or data, for instance data that is necessary for other filters or for a future reinstallation of filters. When Filmerit deletes values or keys, you may be sure that it is unusable data, or data which will create confusion in your registry. Filmerit never deletes files, but only keys and values in the registry.
- reinstall correctly filters which were deleted when the corresponding server file is still available. The server files are files (often with extension .ax) which contain the filter code. Usually to install a filter when a server file is known you call something like “regsvr32.exe server.ax”. Filmerit launches automatically this command for the filters which are selected for beeing repaired.
- finally, Filmerit has a “magic button” . If you click on it, all erroneous records of filters are deleted from the registry, and the corresponding server files are reinstalled. It is the simplest way to maintain a clean and healthy system!.

7. CDI - Portable Full Screen Photo Viewer
http://www.xuebrothers.net/cdi/cdi.htm
CDI is absolutely portable — The single executable file is only 390 K and no installation is required. When licensed, you can copy CDI to removable media shch as Flash disk or CD, and run it on any other computers.
CDI supports print and print preview, CD auto-run, thumbnail list, background picture & music, slide show, thumbnails for web pages…
View Photos
Select a folder, click a thumbnail to enlarge or set the slide show speed, go! Background Picture and Music
Each photo folder can has its own background picture and music…
Print & Print Preview
Print the thumbnail list or a single Image…
Copy, Move, Delete
Copy or move photos from one folder to another…
Photo CD and Removable Media
With CDI on your photo CD or removable media such as Flash disks, you can view and print photos anywhere without running another program…
Thumbnails for Web Page
Create small-size GIF-format thumbnails for pictures in a folder, as well as an index web page that display the thumbnails and link them to the original pictures.

8. HD Tune Version 2.10
http://www.hdtune.com/
Hard disk utility which reports drive info, health, and benchmarks.

9. A-spy v.0.09
http://vipmeister.com/dl/aspy/aspy.html
Analyze startup programs
This program shows all known ways to start some application during Windows startup process and logging. It’s possible to add/delete/edit entries, move them from one place to another. Access rights are considered at NT/2000 platforms. Supports all Windows platforms. 17 ways how to detect possible trojans, hiding in the startup entries.

10. Maven Player
Free extensible wave player for your 5.1 Surround Sound PC.
http://www.maven3d.com/en/index.asp
Play multi-channel wav files for true Surround Sound. Maven Player supports 1, 2, 4 and 5.1 channel wav and extensible wav files. If you don’t have a multi-channel extensible wav file, you can create them with Maven3D Professional, or download some at http://maven3d.com. The player is very light at a mere 244kb. Just click the notes to load a file and play. No installation or uninstallation is necessary - just download and run.

11. Lalim DVD Player (Freeware) 1.0.0
http://www.geocities.com/lalimdvdplayer/index.html

Lalim DVD Player is a player, designed to play DVDs. You can simply click a button to play the chapter that responds to it. You can also set the volume The program is simple and small, just download and run, no installation required..

12. MP3CD — A Light-Weight And Fast MP3 Player
http://www.xuebrothers.net/mp3cd/mp3cd.htm
Portable, Plays Anywhere
Built-in MP3 decoder, small in size (only 300K), and no setup routine — simply place the program file anywhere you have MP3 files, and run it form there — MP3CD starts with all the neighbour MP3 files ready to play.

Run From Removable Media
MP3CD can be run directrly from removable media such as CDs or Flash disks. If the removable media has a single folder, MP3CD works in single-view mode. If there are more than one folders, MP3CD works in 3-view mode.

You can have a “CD Cover”, a starting picture you choose and displays before the MP3CD window appears. Also you can have greeting message, which scrolls across the status bar right after the MP3CD window appears. This is beautiful if the CD is a gift to your loved ones.
Scrolling Lyrics, More Than Lyrics
MP3CD features two types of scrolling text, greeting text and scrolling lyrics for individual MP3s. The former appears right after MP3CD is started, and the latter scrolls while a MP3 is being played. The scrolling speed can be changed using the mouse wheel or by clicing the speed control bar.

13. MyPic
http://www.xuebrothers.net/mypic/mypic.htm
Full-screen, Thumbnails, Background Music, Background Picture
MyPic is image viewer. It support all the popular picture formats, such as JPG, GIF, Bitmap as well as many others. You can view pictures in full-screen mode one by one, or by clicking thumbnails. Background music and background picture can be customized according to your taste.
Easy To Use
MyPic has a very straightforward user interface. People with little computer experience can handle it very easily without any help.
MyPic can be run from any removable media, such ac CD or Flash disks. It supports “CD Autorun”, and you can replace the Software Logo with a “Title Picture” that best describes the contents of your CD. The photo CD created with MyPic can be viewed on any other PC without extra software.