Freemake Video Downloader

Type: Video Downloader

OS: Windows

Package: Installer (8.62 MB)

   It's a new video downloader that can satisfy all your need. This freeware brought to you by freemake.com. It's totally free, without trial or ads. And when I tried to use it to donwload a video from youtube, it just need a couple of seconds to done it. As easy as copying the video's URL and paste it to the program.

   Before installing it, make sure you have enough space in your hard disk or it will took a long time to load. And also make sure you have Microsoft . NET Framework 4 client installed in your computer, or else the program will downloading it first and makes the time to installing it  longer. Beside those all, it's a worth enough program that easy to use with user-friendly interface.

   Before you download a video, after pasting an URL the program will offers you to choose what quality you want (with the file's weight estimation ) and action you want to do (only downloading, extracting the original audio, or also converting it). The next thing is locating where you want  to put your downloaded video. After that, just press the download button. Depending to your connection speed, it took some short time to do the task until it finished.

   According to the official site, this program supporting more than 40 sites. So you can download almost all videos in all video-sharing sites (including Veoh, MTV, MTV Music, Megavideo, and Metacafe). Well, I just try in it Youtube but I satisfied enough with the result I got. So if you want to use it, go ahead, I recommend it as one of the user-friendly video downloader. And don't forget, IT'S FREE!

FreeEraser

Type: Eraser

OS: Windows

Package: Installer (about 2 MB)

  Free Eraser is an eraser tools from Coddyssey. It's a freeware and it's light (less than 3 MB for full program). You can download this program's installer from softonic or from its official site. If you download it from softonic, then you'll get an installer that will redirect you to download the full program from the official site. It's light, only about 2.86 KB. The softonic installer is just like a compressed pack of installer that need to be open to use, and it need an internet connection to do that. If you download it from the official site, then you'll get 1.94 MB installer. I suggest you to take from the official site, since softonic installer offers you to take their toolbar (you can choose to take that or not). If you not sure about it, then you have to choose from the official site.

 
   FreeEraser has two options of installation mode: Standard and Portable. If yoant to keep this program in your portable media, choose the second option. But if you want to use it in your PC or laptop, use the Standard Option. Both of them is great.

   So how to use this eraser? When you installing it, the program will create an icon your toolbar near volume icon. Just click on it and you'll see a transparent symbol just like in a picture in this article. Open your windows explorer and drag in an unwanted file to the symbol. You'll see a warning to delete it completely (with no chance to able to recover anymore) or to cancel it. If you want to delete it, just click the continue button, wait until the icon turn from red back to blue. And your file(s) have been deleted perfectly.

  It's great it's so useful, easy to use an yet, it's free! The current version is version 1.0.0.23. Hopefully it will keep continue and become greater time after time. Please support them for the next version by donating it.

P. S.: I've tried to delete one document file (*.docx) using this program and recover it again using Recover Files program from UndeleteUnerase.com (trial version, portable type). The file is recovered, but its content is not recovered back. It's just a blank document.

Cleaning System With Secure Eraser

 It's a wise to delete your unuse files in hard disk, but sometime it still can recovered back and a hacker could steal it from you. If you want to delete it, you should use an cleaner software to completely erase your files. A good cleaner will erase all the files without let the trace behind, even the hidden one.

Secure Eraser is a software from ASCOMP, a software company from Germany. It's one of the cleaner software that has a freeware license. The freeware license is for a personal use. If you want to use it for commercial use you have to buy the commercial (Professional) license. 

Secure Eraser allows you to clean and delete a directories or files. It has four tabs. The first tab is "File Deletion" which is so easy to use, just choose your unuse file(s) and then click the "Start deletion" button in the bottom right of the program window. The second tab is "Space Deletion", don't use this unless you want to clean your local disk or any drive in your computer. The third tab is "System Cleaning". You can clean every files in your recycle bin, and also your temporary files and privacy cookies. The last tab is "Registry Cleaning". It will erase all registry that have not been used anymore.

Even though it's free, just like other free softwares, it will offer to you an advertise to upgrade your software to Professional version when you run it. But it's OK, just wait 10 seconds and you can continue. 

To download this program, please go to this link. The current version is 3.202 with size (instalation file) approx. 2.9 MB. OS that can use this software is Windows only (2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista/ 2008/ 7).

SunlitGreen BatchBlitz

Image sample of the BatchBlitz.

Need a photo editor freeware? Need the light-weight one? Then try BatchBlitz from SunlitGreen. It's a batch photo editor. And it's very light! The instalation file size is just about 1.91 MB, while the actual size (after instalation) is about 4.72 MB.

 As claimed by the official site, it's a "free, powerful and easy-to-use photo categorizer, file filter and batch editor" (SunlitGreen.com). The folder consists of two major programs, BatchBlitz and PhotoEdit. These offer you to decide whether to edit your photos with PhotoEdit (the easy one) or BatchBlitz (a little bit difficult than PhotoEdit). I prefer choose the PhotoEdit for editing, since I only need this. But it doesn't mean that the BatchBlitz is useless. If you want to learn about it, please go to the tutorial link.

The recent version of BatchBlitz is BatchBlitz 3.1. To know the newest version, please go to the official site.

Links:
Official site: http://sunlitgreen.com/batchblitz.html
Tutorial of BatchBlitz: http://sunlitgreen.com/batchblitz-tutorials-and-tips.html
Download: http://sunlitgreen.com/downloads.html

OpenOffice Writer: A Slight Review

OpenOffice Writer is a free version of office softwares similar like Microsoft Office. If you usually use Microsoft Office Word, then you'll familiar with OpenOffice write. It has similar interface with slight differences. Only a slight, it doesn't require you to learn it hard. You only need a couple of minutes to learn and adapting yourself with the interface. The rest is same with MS Word.

OpenOffice Writer was created by Java, so it works based on JRE. The current version is 3.2.1. You can install this software suite in any well known OS like Windows and Mac. I tried to download it and the size is about 148 MB.

The most interesting feature in Writer is a PDF publisher. You can publish your document as PDF, something hard to find in other office software. If you planned to make some ezines or e-books, then this is a good choice.

The default file format on OpenOffice Writer is .odt, but you can change it into .doc just like MS Word default file format.  You can also edit your .doc file in Writer and save it in the same format.

More information in the official site. 

AdventureMaker, The Free Adventure Maker

 The screenshot of the program.

Type: Game Creator
OS:  Windows 98, XP, Vista
Package: Installer (approx. 16 MB)

AdventureMaker is a game creator from The Adventure Maker Team. As they say in their website, it's a freeware (there's also the full edition that requires you to purchase it).You don't have to pay anything to download the free edition. You can create point-and-click game and software that runs on PSP, iPhone, and Windows. It's a free complete game creator ever I found in internet. The package contains all you need to create a game: Icon Editor, Music Composer, Drawing Program, and Batch Resizing Program. All in one package. 

You can add some plugins into this program to make other effects or to add some functions you need. The official site gives you a link that contains all plugin you need to enhance your AdventureMaker program.

The free edition have some limited features that the full edition have. In the free edition you can't dceate and modify the plugins. You also can't put modification on your project using VB. And the project must be for non-commercial use. But this doesn't make the free version isn't good at all. You can still use some standard features that enough to create a simple and good game. 

This program is not only for making a game. It also can make presentations, interactive magazines, or educational softwares. These are the standard projects that can you make with this program. Of course there are some extras for the full version

For other informations, please go to this link and try it yourself!

Notepad++

Type: Editor

OS: Windows.

Package: Installer (3.3 MB)

Notepad ++ is a free text editor (also source code editor) that runs in Windows OS. It's suitable for HTML programmers and other language programmers. Notepad ++ offers some extra menus comparing with the old Notepad. The extra menus offered by Notepad ++  are Search, Encoding, Language, Setting, Macro, Run, TextFX, Plugins, and Window. There are two menus from the old Notepad that in Notepad ++ has been deleted. The menus are Format and Help (in Notepad ++ Help menu changed to ? menu, the very right menu).

The most interesting menu from Notepad ++ is the Language menu. It contains about 65 languages (and some of them are very popular like HTML, C, C ++, Pascal, Python, PHP, even VB!). It makes this program become multi-language editor; you can edit or make whatever programs you want with only one editor! And it's also free.

The Run menu allows you to run your script in the proper program. If you make a web page, you can see what you've done by choosing one of the four browsers that offered in this menu.

The latest version of Notepad ++ is Notepad 5.6.8 (size 3.3 MB). Stay connect with the internet, because occasionally there are also some updates for this program.The official site of Notepad ++ is:

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

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