Best Free Software
30 5 - 18 February 2020
If you need to create professional-looking
illustrative projects, such as cards and flyers,
then DrawPad is a great solution. It can
produce quality designs with vector graphics
that scale perfectly, and it comes with a good
selection of templates to get you started, so
you don’t need any great artistic ability to
produce something that looks good. The
program offers a number of advanced
features, such as non-destructive and
layer-based editing, and the latest version
adds several new tools and improvements.
The link above takes you to the DrawPad
website, but you can download the free
version directly from bit.ly/drawfree494.If you still buy and rip CDs and download songs
to keep, rather than streaming them, then a
music organiser-cum-player such as Dopamine
can come in handy. It looks stylish and can
handle all the major audio formats, including
MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WMA, WAV and M4A/
AAC. Getting started is very straightforward
as the program guides you through the process
of adding new content.
Dopamine 2 has been in development for
over a year and a half, but is finally ready for
release and gains a new design, smart playlists,
folder view and more. Performance has been
improved and the program uses fewer
resources now, too.
The latest free portable tool from the prolific
software developer NirSoft lets you view and
manage downloads across all your installed
browsers. Run the software and it will display
a list of everything you’ve downloaded,
including the filename, download URL, web
page URL, size, status and the browser used.
BrowserDownloadsView can generate a
hash of the saved file, so you can compare
this with the hash on the website (if available)
to ensure the download is genuine. It can
also check that the file is safe via Google’s
VirusTotal service, and move the file from one
location to another. There are 32- and 64-bit
versions available.
DOWNLOAD MANAGER
BrowserDownloadsView
http://www.nirsoft.net
Min requirements: Windows 7/8/ 1 0
File size: 269KB
DRAWING PROGRAM
DrawPad 6
bit .ly/draw494
Min requirements: Windows 7/8/ 1 0
File size: 5.3MBMUSIC PLAYER
Dopamine 2
bit.ly/dopa494
Min requirements: Windows 7/8/ 1 0
File size: 4.4MB