The Smiling Pirate

Snap Backup is The One-Click Backup Utility for safeguarding your important computer files.  Snap Backup is free and runs on just about any computer — Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, Unix, and Windows.
Oh yeah, make sure you have the latest version of Java installed.

 


Download Snap Backup here

• Audiograbber is a beautiful piece of software that grabs digital audio from cd’s.
• Audiograbber can automatically normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and encode them to a variety of formats including MP3.
• Audiograbber can download and upload disc info from freedb, an Internet compact disc database.
• You can even record your vinyl LP’s or cassette tapes with Audiograbber and make wav’s or MP3’s of them.

There are a lot more functions in Audiograbber, but to put it simply: Audiograbber has the most features one can wish from such a program!

Download AudioGrabber here

• Mount ISO, BIN, CUE, NRG files to a virtual CD-ROM drive
• Mount VHD files, used with Microsoft Virtual PC
• Mount password protected images to a virtual hard drive
• Encrypt HD images using a passphrase
• Protect vital files from hackers using encrypted HD images
• Mount IMG files to a virtual drive
• Mount and unmount files from the Windows Shell
• Mount and unmount files from the command line
• Support for compression and sparse HD images

**Gizmo Drive is unrestricted Freeware.

Download Gizmo Drive here

Use Defraggler to defrag your entire hard drive, or individual files – unique in the industry. This compact and portable Windows application supports NTFS and FAT32 file systems.

Download Defraggler here

AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. It uses a combination of simulated keystrokes, mouse movement and window/control manipulation in order to automate tasks in a way not possible or reliable with other languages (e.g. VBScript and SendKeys). AutoIt is also very small, self-contained and will run on all versions of Windows out-of-the-box with no annoying “runtimes” required!

AutoIt was initially designed for PC “roll out” situations to reliably automate and configure thousands of PCs. Over time it has become a powerful language that supports complex expressions, user functions, loops and everything else that veteran scripters would expect.

Download AutoIT here

Duplicate Cleaner is a useful program to help you organize the contents of your home hard drive or corporate network.

• The fastest free way to find duplicate files
• Award Winning
• Deep scan music tags – includes MP3, iTunes types and more.
• Delete, move or hard link duplicate files. Save disc space!
• Multiple language support.
• For Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.
• This Duplicate File Cleaner is Freeware!

Click here for more features.

Download Dupilcate Cleaner here

MagicDisc is a virtual CD/DVD drive simulator that allows you to mount iso files or other CD/DVD image files as a virtual CD/DVD-ROM drive. This has very significant benefits: you could install software or listen to music without having to insert the CD/DVD disk into CD/DVD-ROM drive, and the read speed of a Virtual CD/DVD drive is much faster than a physical drive.

MagicDisc supports Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista/ 2003 / 2008 / 2000 / 9X. It has x86 & x64 versions for Windows 7.

Download MagicDisc here

IcoFX is an award winning freeware icon editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing.  It is designed to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Macintosh icons supporting transparency.

Download IcoFX here

Regarded as one of the most popular anti virus software products, Avast Free Antivirus is the minimum protection you should have on your computer to combat viruses and spyware. Although we have recommended AVG and Avira as other good antivirus alternatives in the past, Avast has inched ahead of both to be our new favorite “Free” anti virus software.

Avast Free AntiVirus is free for personal and non commercial use.

Download Avast Free AntiVirus here

Go to Start > Run > and type in eudcedit – this will open up a font editor – allowing you to design your own custom fonts and characters to be used in things like MS Word.

Go to Start > Run > and type in iexpress – a program used for creating self-extracting files

Go to Start > Run > and type in mplayer2 – a simple media player