Freewares and Free Softwares August

Printee

Printee, an Internet Explorer extension, is designed to remove
extraneous elements of a webpage to create a printable page - without
ads or extra information (e.g sidebars, unrelated images. Features:
Reduce any web page down to just the content you want, save paper and
ink; What You See Is What You Get; Support Ecofont; Improve
Readability, and more. After installation add the "Printee" icon to
your IE toolbar, to edit a page manually - right click and drag the
mouse over the page elements to start selecting; or double click
CTRL, then left click on page elements to start selecting them, or
click on the Printee button in the IE toolbar, then left click
elements to select. After selection, just right click to browse a
useful context menu which can help refine your selection. You may
also like to try CTRL+G, a single-click wizard, for an automated and
quick stripping of all the text and images.

The 45 KB Printee, v1.5.3 (09/08/2009), for Windows 2000, 2003, XP,
Vista, can be downloaded at http://www.irido.com/download/printee.exe
Requires Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8.

Firefox users may like to try Aardvark, a firefox extension, which can
be downloaded at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4111

Maxthon Browser

Using Internet Explorer's rendering engine, Maxthon has a rich set of
features to improve one's surfing experience. Lots of features, and
among them are: Tabbed Browsing, Mouse Gestures - to go back forward,
refresh or close tabs, or set up your own; boost browsing speed of
frequently visited websites; built-in Feed Reader to subscribe and
read RSS 0.9/1.0/2.0 and Atom 0.3/1.0 Feeds; URL Aliases - name your
favorite website, and visit them by simply typing it in the address
bar; Ad Hunter; Web Sniffer to find the actual urls of FLV video
files; Super Proxy; Screen Capture; Undo List - Back/Forward History
also saved in the Undo List, no worry if a tab is closed by mistake;
split-screen browsing; Magic Fill to fill all the forms with just
click; Super Drag & Drop- type the keywords in Address Bar to perform
a search, or simply drag & drop a keyword with your mouse;
preinstalled plugins, Anti-Freeze, Security Updates, Trusted Website
Check, Online Favorites Service, Web Bar, Filter Packs to remove ads
or implement a special feature; uses less memory and CPU than others,
and much much more.

Developed in China, Maxthon v2.5.4 can be downloaded at http://dl.maxthon.cn/mx2/mx_2.5.4.159.exe

At the time of writing this column, Maxthon, chosen as one of the
top 6 international products of 2008, has been downloaded a whopping
244,133,789 times.

doPDF

doPDF can convert documents to searchable PDF files. doPDFIt installs
as a printer driver and helps to generate PDF files by simply
selecting the "print" command from any application like Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, AutoCad drawings. The PDF files can be viewed on any
computer with a PDF viewer (reader) installed. Features of DoPDF
include: modify the paper size, modify the resolution (from 72 to 2400
dpi), change page orientation (portrait, landscape), change the
quality settings and lots more.

The 1.72 MB doPDF, v6.3.308 (12-August-2009) for Windows 2003,
Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows
7 can be downloaded at http://www.dopdf.com/download/setup/dopdf.exe
This version lets you choose the PDF reader, uses local time instead
of system time for PDF creation date and time. Please note doPDF is a
free PDF converter, not a PDF viewer. To view PDF files you could use
the free Adobe Reader.

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Can you suggest a YouTube to MP3 Converter?

You could try the Free YouTube to MP3 Converter v.3.2.1.58,
for Windows XP or Vista, which can be downloaded at
http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-YouTube-to-MP3-Converter.htm

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