ZoneAlarm ForceField was designed to help you surf safer and without a trace.

No web history and no information is shared anymore with other users, so nothing will be stored on your computer anymore.

With numerous protection layers, Forcefield will shield your computer from the Internet against phishing, spyware and other treats.

Forcefield features and advantages :

• Browse anywhere without a care
• Surf safely on any PC – even public ones
• Secure online transactions
• Bank and shop security
• Private browser
• Dangerous download detector  
• Dodge all evil, uninvited downloads
• Walk away from any machine without a trace
• Advance anti-phishing, anti-keylogger and anti-screengrabber technology.

Be aware that Forcefield is in beta.

If you do decide to install it before the final version arrives, don’t forget to make a restore point.

Platform Windows XP, Windows Vista

Freeware

From Frantic Industries - 5 Things Every Geek Must Do Before Going to a Vacation.

Need for speed? CyberNotes has an article on how to speed up file transfers.

Ccleaner 2.0 beta – New interface, faster analyzing and cleaning, loads of tweaks, and Portable.

Vista compatible

Glary Utilities – a all-in-one utility

• Optimize, clean and boost the speed of your Windows.
• Protect your privacy and security.
• Block spyware, trojans, adware, etc.

Vista compatible

Microsoft Office Outlook Connector 3 beta – use Outlook 2003 and 2007 to access and manage your Windows Live Hotmail or Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages and contacts.

Vista compatible

Google Pack – Star office – Google is offering StarOffice for free.

Choose custom installation and pick StarOffice.

Mc ScreenCapture – Screen capture utility

Capture the screen and documents, record video fragments of software in-process

and use screenshots to create report for the support service.

Vista compatible

PidGin Portable – multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once.Supports gTalk, AOL/ICQ, IRC, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo and more .

Technorati Tags: Freeware, Today’s freeware, Vista Freeware, Windows Freeware, Free StarOffice, ScreenCapture utility, Google Pack, All-in-one utility, Ccleaner, Office outlook connector

Download link – Ashampoo Photo Commander 4 – Multimedia viewer

• Capable of viewing, managing and editing your photos.
• Screenshot capture tool
• Play your your video files, create video playlists, and extract screenshots from any of them.
• Play and organize your audio tracks and create playlists

How to get the key:

Install the software and follow the instructions.

Mark “get full version key”. The key will be sent to your e-mail address.

When installation is done, open the software and check on your toolbar “Internet” and click on “Switch to full version for free. On the following screen you’ll be able to enter the code you received.

Platform: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista

Technorati Tags: Vista software, Image editors, Image organizers, Software

Avira Unerase Personal 1.2

Just because a file is gone doesn’t mean that you can’t recover it.This little software does a great job in getting your lost files back.

System : Windows 2000 and XP.

PC Inspector File Recovery

Finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged and recovers files with the original time and date stamp

System : 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP

Wise Disk Cleaner

Free up disk space by deleting junk files that are no longer used by any software on your system.

System: 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista

BackUp Maker 5.1 SE

BackUp Maker offers different types of backups increasing your flexibility:
· Single Backup – Creates a backup of all your data at one time.
· Instant Backup – Instant and time oriented backup creation of all your defined data.
· Restore – Restore your data without the need of other software.

SyncBack Freeware 3.2

Helps you easily backup and synchronise
your files to: the same drive; a different drive or medium (CDRW, CompactFlash,
etc); an FTP server; a Network; or a Zip archive.

Technorati Tags: Blogging, Freeware, Software, Tech Blogs, Technology, Hard disk tools, Hard disk freeware, Backup freeware, Disk cleaner freeware, Vista, Windows

Adobe Digital Editions - Read and manage your eBooks and other digital publications.

Fresh Feed Reader - Ajax rss reader running on Adobe AIR. There are lots of other .air apps on the Fresh reader download page.

Vispa – Tweak your Windows Vista for better privacy, security and performance.

Spybot Search and Destroy 1.5 beta- keep the spyware and adware off your system.

iQ-Notes – Sticky notes app for Windows XP and Vista

Vocabula – Improve your vocabulary skills .

A bit help for this software. After installing it, choose a user name to enter,then visit the web site to download the Definition files. Save the file to your disk. Open Vocabula and from File choose Import, and install your definition file.

You’re done!

Final Burner free – Burning software for Windows 2000, XP and Vista.

KompZer - A modified version of NVU html editor.Working on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X

EssentialPIM Free 1.95 – Keep all your data in one place and stay organized. There is also a portable version of EssentialPim free to download.

Technorati Tags: Blogging, Education, Freeware, General, Internet, OpenSource, Software, Tech Blogs, Technology, Today’s freeware, Vista, Windows

Update :

For the Belgian and Dutch readers, the Dutch-English and English-Dutch dictionaries are ready for download. 

This is one great freeware!

Let me tell you that i have been trying many dictionaries so far, paid and free, but this one is very promising.

Lingoes is equipped with some great of features:

• Is able to translate and look-up words in over 60 languages (bi-directional)
• Text translation in over 15 languages
• It can pronounce the words using Microsoft Agent technology
• Clipboard translation
• Online look-up
• Free dictionaries and thesauruses
• Online dictionaries and Wikipedia

My favorite feature is the Cursor Translation Mode.

Let’s say you are on a web page ( and not only) and you don’t understand a word, you can then use your mouse plus one additional key and you’ll have that word’s definition and the translation in the languages you’ve chosen to download and use.

As you can see, it’s interface is nice and easy to use.

You can install it on : Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista

Have fun using it!

Technorati Tags: Blogging, Education, Languages, Free dictionaries, Free translators, Freeware, Tech Blogs, Windows Vista, Technology, Windows

But don’t download it yet, because is more Alfa than Beta.

After i installed it, i ran into problems and it kept shutting down on me, when i was trying to import my bookmarks, for example.

Web pages are also not being correctly displayed as you can see on the shot below.

According to Digital Inspiration, Safari is also having issues displaying fonts.

I am really exited about having this browser, but at the moment is very buggy, so won’t be using it until they release a patch.

Technorati Tags: Blogging, Browsers, Freeware, General, Software, Tech Blogs, Vista, Safari, Windows

To spare yourself this pain, you should always back them up to a safe location, like a cd-rom or an external hard drive.

DriveMax is one of those freeware that does a pretty good job in identifying your drivers, back them up and easily reinstall them, when you need them.

Although is a freeware, a registration key is required.

Go ahead and try it!

OS supported : Windows XP and Vista only

Direct download – Innovative-Sol Servers

Technorati Tags: HowTo, Vista, Windows, Drivers, Vista Drivers, Drivers backup

It’s a great one and I am simply amazed.

Post2Blog is a blog editor software, like Windows LiveWriter or Qumana, except, this one is special.

It comes with lots of features….

From a very rich WYSIWYG editor to IE and Firefox extensions, even a Microsoft Word extension as well, to a build in live spell checker

It also lets you insert tags into your posts with Technorati, Del.icio.us, Flickr, …etc and Your photos will automatically be uploaded into your blog.

Other features :

• auto add Technorati tags
• auto ping known services (lots of them)
• add emoticon icons into your posts
• insert link to web services (Answers.com, Wikipedia, Google, and others), Amazon

There’s much more to it, so go ahead and visit Bytescout.com and try it yourself.

Technorati Tags: Blogging, Freebies, Freeware, Software, Tech Blogs, Today’s freeware, Windows, Free blog editors