CudaText 1.4.8

CudaText 1.4.8

CudaText is a cross-platform text editor that provides an array of plugins to support features such as code snippets, color picker, and macros. The app even comes with a simple module to help in the development of new plugins as well.

Key Features include:

Support for Syntax highlighting for languages C, C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, Python, and XML.
Code folding.
Code tree structure.
Multi-carets.
Multi-selections.
Find/Replace with regex.
Plugins in Python language. Plugins can do lot of things.
Configs in JSON. Lexer specific configs.
Tabbed UI.
Split each tab.
Split view for 2/3/4/6 files.
Simple auto-completion (fixed list) for some Lexers.
Command palette (ST3 style).
Minimap (ST3 style).
Micromap.
Show unprinted whitespace.
Support for many encodings.
Customizable hotkeys.
CudaText has some great features for developers, such as syntax highlighting and HTML/ CSS support, with autocompletion, HTML color codes underline, picture viewing, code folding, and code tree structure etc.

In conclusion, CudaText is a solid Notepad replacement app that has some powerful functions tucked away. It is lightweight and easy to learn and use.

KMPlayer 4.1.3.3

KMPlayer 4.1.3.3

The KMPlayer is a versatile media player which can cover various types of container format such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime among others. It handles a wide range of subtitles and allows you to capture audio, video, and screenshots in many ways.

The player provides both internal and external filters with a fully controlled environment in terms of connections to other splitters, decoders, audio/video transform filters and renderers without grappling with the DirectShow merit system. Internal filters are not registered to user's system to keep it from being messed up with system filters.

In December 2008 KMPlayer was bought by Pandora.tv, and continues to be made available as freeware.

GridinSoft Anti-Malware

GridinSoft Anti-Malware 3.0.58

GridinSoft Anti-Malware (formerly Trojan Killer) is a specialised app that is designed to target numerous different types of malware, including PUPs, spyware, adware, trojans and worms etc.

Key Features include:

Intuitive interface
Comprehensive reporting
Deep scan mode
GridinSoft Anti-Malware’s full-system scan is both rapid and comprehensive. It compiles a comprehensive report after scanning your system, and provides data on total memory items, registry items and scanned files, together with detected Trojan infections. The system log details show the name, virus type and targeted file path for each infected item. Reports are automatically saved to a plain text document.

Overall, GridinSoft Anti-Malware is an effective method of protection against various types of malware. That being said, it does demand a large amount of system resources and older operating systems may become unstable under the strain.

*15 day trial period allows you to test the software. Please be aware, that trial version can find threats, but cannot remove them if there were more than two threats found.

Wise Care 365 Free

Wise Care 365 Free 4.27.415

Wise Care 365 is a PC performance enhancement* application, which consists of five key elements: PC Checkup, System Cleaner, System Tune-up, Privacy Protector and System Monitoring.

The PC Checkup element can check the whole running condition of your PC, grade its health status, and, if necessary, provide you with quick-fix solutions.

The System Cleaner element will help you scan and clean invalid registry entries, useless files, junk from browsers and redundant Windows components.

The System Tuneup element optimizes your system, network, defragment disk and registry; manage startup & services and context menu.

Privacy Protector will erase your browsing history, including viewed pictures, watched movies/videos, accessed files and visited pages. It can also prevent files or data from being recovered by specialised recovery software, and it can generate passwords for you.

System monitoring allows you to overview system processes and hardware information such as temperature and memory usage, etc.

As well as the above tools, Wise Care 365 also includes a restoring and scheduler function as well. Overall, Wise Care 365 has a simple and intuitive interface that both novice and expert will be able to use. That coupled with some a well rounded out tool-kit makes Wise Care 365 a useful applicaiton to have.

*Note, some features are only available in the registered version of Wise Care 365.