| Freeware | Description | Homepage | Presenter | Date | Notes |
| Vicman Photo toolkit | Powerful image-editing software | Vicman Software | Guy Dewar | 3/10/2007 | |
| BoldFinger | Simple ALL CAPS prevention | BoldFinger | Guy Dewar | 3/10/2007 | |
| MP3Gain | Set all your MP3's to the same volume level | MP3Gain | Guy Dewar | 3/10/2007 | |
| PDF-XChange Viewer | PDF Viewer and Annotator | Tracker Software Products | Guy Dewar | 3/10/2007 | |
| USB View | See technical information on your systems USB drivers | FTDI Utilities | Guy Dewar | 3/10/2007 | |
| ZoomIt v1.52 | A screen zoom and annotation tool for presentations. | ZoomIt v1.52 | Martin Voges | 1/08/2007 | |
| Synctoy | Free Microsoft utility to help you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers. | Download details: SyncToy v1.4 | Mike Robertson | 2/05/2007 | For Windows XP or later, requires Microsoft's .NET framework 2.0. |
| Ultimate Boot CD for Windows (Mirrors) | Boot to Windows from CD with recovery tools. | UBCD for Windows | Guy Dewar | 2/05/2007 | Requires Windows installation files to build CD. |
| FastStone Capture 5.3 | Flexible screencapture utility with postprocessing | http://www.faststone.org/index.htm | Martin Voges | 7/03/2007 | |
| TitleBarClock | Display date, time, memory on title bar | http://www.quickersoft.com/index.html * | Ted Phillips | 7/03/2007 | * V. 1.4 appears to be last freeware version, commercial on homepage |
| AVG 7.5 | Anti-Virus Free Edition | http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php | Mike Robertson | 7/02/2007 | |
| Irfanview | Powerful, popular image viewer | http://www.irfanview.com/ |
Guy Dewar Ted Phillips |
1/11/2006 6/09/2006 |
Programme & plugins separate downloads - select mirrors from homepage |
| SharePod | Windows programme to copy songs between IPod and PC & more | SharePod | Guy Dewar | 5/07/2006 | |
| Yankee Clipper III | Powerful Windows clipboard extender | inteleXual { Products | YC3 } | Mike Robertson | 5/04/2006 | Download link (1st col.) requests email info. Direct download alternative. |
| 2006 Pricelessware CD | The best of the best in Freeware | Pricelessware | Guy Dewar | 1/03/2006 | |
| Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery | Data file recovery | Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery | Ted Phillips | 2/11/2005 | Original freeware utility included as free part in trial Dec. 2005. Unknown if it expires. See bottom of homepage. |
| Skype | Free internet telephony | Skype | Mike Robertson | 7/09/2005 | |
| Autoruns | Monitor all items auto-starting during PC startup | Sysinternals Freeware | Mike Robertson | 3/08/2005 | |
| Deep Paint 2.0 | Realistic painting & artistic photo-cloning | Download.com | Guy Dewar | 6/07/2005 | Discontinued |
| Winmerge | Visual comparison (and merging) of directories and files | http://winmerge.org/ | Martin Voges | 1/06/2005 | |
| Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP | Mount ISO CD images | What are ISO image files and how do I use them? | Guy Dewar | 4/05/2005 | Unsupported |
| Everest Home Edition | System information, system diagnostics and benchmarking utility | http://www.lavalys.com/products.php?lang=en | Guy Dewar | 6/04/2005 | |
| AVG v.7 | Anti-Virus Free Edition | http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php | Guy Dewar | 2/02/2005 | Requires free registration. |
| Audacity | Multitrack sound editor and recorder | http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ | Pete Moss | 1/09/2004 | Manual, Zip version, etc. from download page |
| dirhtml | Flexible HTML index generator | http://home.pacbell.net/nitzsche/dirhtml.html | Martin Voges | 7/07/2004 | |
| TreeSize | Directory size display utility | http://www.jam-software.com/ | Martin Voges | 5/05/2004 | |
| PrimoPDF | Free PDF Creator | http://www.primopdf.com/ | Guy Dewar | 7/04/2004 | Works with an included Ghostscript |
| IZArc | File compression & archiving | http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/ | Guy Dewar | 4/02/2004 | |
| Star Downloader | Download accelerator & manager | http://www.stardownloader.com/ | Ted Phillips | 1/10/2003 | Pro version (1.51) is shareware, v1.42 remains free |
| ExamDiff | Text file comparison utility | ExamDiff | Martin Voges | 3/09/2003 | |
This page lists the freeware mentioned in the Pietermaritzburg Computer Club's Freeware Highlights demonstration series. The selections are simply those which a presenter finds useful and do not mean that there are not also other, similar programmes which you might find to be useful. Links were correct at the time a programme was listed, but may become outdated. The homepage URL is provided as a more stable alternative to the direct link to the current programme version.