Good Freeware

Image Viewer

Irfan View32 3.61:
    Features:
         Thumbnails, Preview, Drag & Drop Support, fast Directory View (fast moving through
         directory), Print Support, Scan (TWAIN) Support, Slideshow, Batch conversion, change
         the color depth, audio CD player, Capturing, Cut/Crop, Effects (Blur, Sharpen etc.) and
         many many more ...
         Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware Messages like "I Agree" ...
        (Also generate HTML page.)
    Information:
        http://irfanview.tuwien.ac.at/english.htm
        http://www.tucows.com/mmedia/adnload/194967_75076.html
    Download:
        http://irfanview.tuwien.ac.at/iview361.zip
        http://irfanview.tuwien.ac.at/iview361.exe (self-extract)

Ulead Photo Explorer 6.0 (Like ACDSee):
    http://www.ulead.com/pex/download.htm (6456KB)
 

Editor

frhed 1.0.156 (Free hex editor):
    Features:

Frhed is a free 32-bit hex editor for working with binary files. This fine hex editor includes not only online help, but full source code as well. It allows you to directly enter hex values or text in the main window. You can use it to open very large files either partially or in their entirety. You can also use it to compare two binary files. Features include bit manipulation, search support, export as hexdump to file or Clipboard, bookmarking, and more. You can set the font size, character set (ANSI or OEM), font color, and background color to your liking.

beav 1.40.7 (Various Unix platforms):
    Features:
        Binary Editor And Viewer, a full featured binary file editor.
    Information:

BEAV (Binary Editor And Viewer), is a full featured binary file
editor.   Just about any operation that you could want to do to a binary
file is possible with BEAV.   You can insert or delete in the middle of
a file thereby changing it's size.   You can edit multiple files in
multiple windows and cut and paste between them.   You can display and
edit data in hex, octal, decimal, binary, ascii, or ebcdic formats.   You
can display data in byte, word, or long word formats in either Intel or
Motorola byte ordering.   You can send the formatted display mode to a
file or printer.

Notetab Light 4.86 (Powerful text editor):
    Features:

An excellent replacement for Notepad, has multiple file support, is fast and tiny and very configurable. The program also features the ability to transfer documents to your web browser and the "clipbook". The clipbook is a user-definable list of text items (HTML tags, glossaries, etc.) stored in a template-based system that can be pasted into documents by double-clicking on their header or through drag-and-drop. There is a filter to remove all HTML tags, hyperlink recognition, and the ability to convert special characters automatically to HTML syntax.

Utility

MouseImp 1.0.3.6 (Implement scroll mouse):
    Features:
        MouseImp is a handy tool that helps you to use your conventional mouse more efficiently. The
        AutoShrink feature increases your available workspace by removing toolbars from the screen
        so that only caption bars remain. To access a toolbar, just point to its caption, and it will be
        restored immediately. The Direct Scroll feature makes it easier to scroll through windows.
        Instead of using a scroll bar, you can activate MouseImp and scroll by moving the mouse up
        or down anywhere in the window.
    Information:
        http://www.tv4studios.com/mouseimp/index.html
        http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10106-100-1534846.html?tag=st.dl.10001-103-1.lst-7-1.1534846
    Download:
        http://www.tv4studios.com/downloads/mouseimp.zip (388KB)

Info-ZIP (Free zip/unzip utilities in various plaforms, compatible with PKZIP):
    Features:
        http://www.info-zip.org/
    Information/Download:
        unzip (5.42)  http://www.info-zip.org/UNZIP.HTML
        zip (2.3) http://www.info-zip.org/ZIP.HTML

GZip 1.2.4 (Free zip/unzip utilities in various plaforms, replace compress in Unix):
    Features:
        http://www.gzip.org/
    Information/Download:
        http://www.gzip.org/gzip124xN.exe (for Windows)

FreeZip 1.4.9:
    Features:
        FreeZip is a small, fast and efficient Zip utility for
        compression and decompression of files and directories in Windows 95/98/NT. FreeZip
        integrates with Windows Explorer and uses file associations and context menus to zip or
        unzip files, including long file names and subdirectories.
    Information:
        http://www.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/
    Download:
        http://www.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freezip.exe (253KB)
        http://tucows.hkstar.com/files3/freezip.exe

Top Split 1.27
    Features:
        Top Split includes large disk support and file splitting so that large files will fit onto a minimum number of floppy disks.
        (Also create restore batch file.)
    Information:
        http://www.geocities.com/topsplit/
        http://tucows.hkstar.com/preview/6473.html
    Download:
        http://tucows.hkstar.com/files5/topsplit.zip (238.4KB)
 

(Last update: 2 Jan 2002)