Best Freeware Programs

ActivePresenter

2012-01-24T06:29:00.000-08:00

Create high quality screencasts for FREE in 3 simple steps:

Record your computer screen along with audio narration:

Record full motion video with crystal clear quality and high fps (depends on your computer speed)

Capture screenshots automatically with mouse clicks or key presses

Automatically generate appropriate annotations for each action

NO WATERMARK AND NO TIME LIMIT!

Improve your screencasts quality by adding/editing:

Attractive callouts/annotations for explaining each action

Changing mouse cursor path

Remove/change unneeded parts

Add more video overlays

Sync audio, video and overlays

Closed Captioning

Export your screencasts to various video formats: AVI, MP4, WMV or WebM (supported by Youtube)

Easily share or upload to video sharing sites

Pack as SCORM packages and publish to any SCORM-compliant LMS

http://atomisystems.com/activepresenter/free-edition/

iStunt 2 HD - Insane Hills - free Iphone game

2012-01-24T06:25:00.001-08:00

Escape deadly buzz saws, keep you balance through gravity shifts and speed boosts, grind your way to victory in this fast paced and insanely addictive snowboarding game!
REVIEWS
"The sense of being just enough in control is cool, and adds to the overall thrill ride element of iStunt 2." - IGN
"Pulling off a twisting move, a couple of grabs, and tilting just right, and just in time, for a perfect landing is what makes iStunt 2 a blast." - PocketGamer
"iStunt 2 is full of clever and surprising levels that remain exhilerating all the way through. iStunt 2 is a stunner." - SlideToPlay

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/istunt-2-hd-insane-hills/id429431260?mt=8

Frisbee® Forever - Free Iphone game

2012-01-24T06:24:00.001-08:00

Go wild in the worlds of Frisbee® Forever! An Universal App for iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad with super crisp HD

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/frisbee-forever/id431855391?mt=8

My Horse - free game for Iphone

2012-01-24T06:23:00.000-08:00

Live the dream of owning and looking after a realistic horse, and share the experience with your friends!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-horse/id421167112?mt=8

The Sims™ FreePlay - free game for Iphone

2012-01-24T06:21:00.000-08:00

LIVE FREE! From the creators of The Sims™ 3 series of best-selling iPhone games, comes an ALL-NEW Sims

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-sims-freeplay/id466965151?mt=8

Stanza Desktop - Reader for eBooks and digital publications

2012-01-20T07:28:00.000-08:00

There's no doubt that eBooks are the future and one day, there could be reader wars in much the same way as the browser wars that take place on the Internet. Stanza is an early entrant into this market, featuring a clean, well-organized interface that's designed for reading all kinds of digital publications, including electronic books, newspapers, PDFs, and general web content. It's elegant because it's been designed specifically for the Mac, and puts an emphasis on highlighting hyphenation, columns, automatic text scrolling and user-friendly page and chapter navigation.

http://stanza-desktop.en.softonic.com/

The Ice Cream Sandwich Desktop For Windows

2012-01-20T06:08:00.001-08:00

If you want the same look for your Windows system, here are the components you'll need:

The Ice Cream Sandwich wallpaper from WallBase
The APPOWS2010 theme for Windows 7 from DeviantArt to tweak the taskbar
RocketDock with a blank theme to create the dock on the left side
The Ice Cream Sandwich Icon Pack from DroidPirate
The Rainmeter system monitor and configuration tool for Windows
The Minimal Bar skin for Rainmeter to display the time and date
The Lexis skin for Rainmeter to display the weather
Simplesentencethree for Rainmeter for the currently playing music display in the lower-right corner
The Google Search Bar for Rainmeter
The Roboto Font (specifically Roboto Light)

The list of components for this one is pretty hefty, but you can see the results are worth it. Plus, with the base elements you can tweak the desktop to only include the components you like - you can build your own Ice Cream Sandwidh desktop with just the wallpaper, RocketDock, and the icon pack, and leave the rest off if you so choose. Still, if you have trouble getting everything set up the way you like, check our our tutorial to getting started with Rainmeter, or drop by David's Flikr page to compliment him and ask how he managed to make everything work.

full article on http://lifehacker.com/5877460/the-ice-cream-sandwich-desktop

Game Booster

2012-01-18T07:29:00.000-08:00

Game Booster 3 is capable of delivering the best gaming experience to you even if you have an old PC. One-click to boost PC performance is not enough, Game Booster 3 also allows you to tweak your system for top PC performance. By temporarily shutting background processes and unnecessary Windows services, cleaning RAM, and intensifying processor performance, Game Booster 3 concentrates every little system resource for gaming only.

http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html

Freemake Music Box

2012-01-17T06:05:00.000-08:00

Image via CrunchBase

Freemake Music Box - Search for free online music. Listen to millions of online songs. Organize your music collection in a simplest way. In one place, absolutely free, no region restriction.

http://www.freemake.com/free_music_box/

Foobar 2000

2012-01-09T06:09:00.000-08:00

Image by janlue via Flickr

Foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats. Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND... and more with additional components. Gapless playback. Full unicode support. Easily customizable user interface layout. Advanced tagging capabilities. Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component. Full ReplayGain support. Customizable keyboard shortcuts. Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player.

http://www.foobar2000.org/

Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition

2011-12-22T08:03:00.000-08:00

Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition este o soluție antivirus gratuită ce utilizează cele mai avansate tehnologii, oferind siguranţă maximă, minim de resurse consumate, zero configurări şi zero întreruperi.
Bitdefender se bazează pe un sistem de detecție bazat pe tehnologii comportamentale, studiate in mediu virtualizat, și pe servicii de tip cloud, pentru a opri amenințarile informatice in timp real.

http://www.bitdefender.ro/solutions/free.html

PiTiVi

2011-11-24T07:17:00.001-08:00

PiTiVi is a free, intuitive and featureful movie editor for the Linux desktop. As long as it is supported by the GStreamer Multimedia Framework, PiTiVi will handle any format you throw at it. Easy to learn: usability counts. There is no eternal newbie. PiTiVi's user interface is carefully designed to suit both the newcomer and the professional, to be efficient and intuitive. We have some highly trained designer monkeys that work towards that goal, and can even recite the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines in their sleep, backwards, all for you. Free and Open Source. PiTiVi will not ask you for licensing fees or lock you out of your data with DRM, and will keep improving with each new release. PiTiVi is distributed under the LGPL. http://www.pitivi.org/?

Ubutu

2011-11-24T07:09:00.001-08:00

"I use Ubuntu because I need a system that is easy to set up and maintain for the family, that allows them to do what they need and want easily, quickly and without a lot of input." Super-fast, easy to use and free, the Ubuntu operating system powers millions of desktops, netbooks and servers around the world. Ubuntu does everything you need it to. It'll work with your existing PC files, printers, cameras and MP3 players. And it comes with thousands of free apps. http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu

Stickies

2011-11-16T06:32:00.001-08:00

Stickies is a PC utility I wrote to try to cut down on the number of yellow notes I was leaving stuck to my monitor. It is a computerised version of those notes.
The design goal behind Stickies is that the program is small and simple. Stickies will not mess with your system files, or write to the registry. Stickies stores information in a single text-based ini file.
Stickies will never support animated dancing figures, or play "Greensleeves". They are instead yellow rectangular windows onto which you can put some text notes. Once created, they will stay on screen until you take them away. Just like a real sticky piece of paper.

http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/

Main features:

Once on screen, stickies will remain where placed until closed, even through reboots
Stickies appearance can be customised; fonts, colours and buttons may be changed, and styles saved. Stickies can be resized.
Stickies can store text or images
Stickies can snap to each other and to the sides of the screen to keep them neatly lined up
Stickies can be attached to a web site, document or folder so they only show when it's on screen
Stickies can be transferred from one machine to another either over a TCP/IP network connection, or by using an SMTP mail server or MAPI client:
- Hierarchical friends list, which may be automatically transferred from other friends
- Play a sound file on receive
- Signature for transmitted or emailed stickies
- Favourite friends, and custom lists can be made
Stickies can be hidden for a certain period, until a specified date and time, or to wake every day, week or month, to act as reminders.
Stickies can have alarms set to ensure you notice them at a point you choose
International language, Unicode and RTL text support
Stickies works with Windows Vista and Windows 7
Stickies is small and simple, it writes to a single text file, and does not alter the registry
AD network administrators can use Group Policy to control settings
API to allow integration with other applications
...and Stickies is completely free!

Undelete 360 - restore files accidentally deleted from your Computer, Recycle Bin, digital camera, flash drive.

2011-11-16T06:28:00.001-08:00

Undelete 360 is one of the best programs to use for restoring accidentally or unintentionally deleted files from your computer, regardless of storage medium. Built on a very fast and efficient algorithm, the program will browse, search, and recover files that have been deleted as a result of an accident, a virus, or software and computer failures. Undelete 360 can recover files deleted from computer hard drives, USB/thumb drives and memory sticks, the memory cards used in cameras, smart phones, and other devices, pen drives, and more. The program supports both file recovery and folder recovery. Best of all, Undelete 360 is 100% freeware: No ads, no beg screens, no time or feature limits. It is completely free for you to use and enjoy.

http://www.undelete360.com/

Ticno Multibar

2011-11-10T08:07:00.001-08:00

Multibar helps you organize your programs, files and folders. It allows you to find the information you need in a blink of an eye either over the internet or on your PC. It arranges all commonly used files and programs in a convenient and easy-to-use way. Multibar is smart, secure and upgraded with new perks every week! It has a great To-Do list to keep your tasks organized, dynamic folders and an amazing interface developed in the galaxy not so far away. Sleek, eye-catching and very gentle

ImageGlass

2011-10-19T01:23:00.000-07:00

ImageGlass is a handy, easy to use image viewer designed to offer you support for most of the common picture formats. You can view GIF, PNG format very well, and also extract frames from GIF files. Try for fun!
Here are some key features of "ImageGlass":

· Speed up load files in the directory, now capable of loading files very fast;
· ImageGlass also improve the quality of the file icon view;
· Not the perfect view GIF images, you can extract frames in GIF image via context menu;
· Support see some basic information of the image;
· The new version offers you many new choices for photos. Apart from pressing the button drag and drop to open files, in this version you can see photos from the context menu of any one file. Especially with the keys "versatile" Ctrl + V, you can see photos by copying the file or link or a picture from being fixed or screenshots with the Print Screen key; Added feature to update the files in the directory;
· View the full size or fit mode;
· Presence in this version can not not mention the zoom feature. You can zoom in by rolling the mouse or by keyboard shortcuts; Many people see the images as a slideshow, now you can customize images while watching time move slideshow;
· A small improvement but it is also ImageGlass or displays a picture message if corrupted image files so not to interrupt your viewing time;
· The new version added a context menu of Windows commands to be able to quickly see photos ImageGlass;
· You can also set ImageGlass as the default viewer in Windows, support for 14 popular formats;
· Integrated with the familiar keyboard shortcuts, close the Windows image viewer

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Viewers/ImageGlass.shtml

Atomic Player

2011-10-19T01:20:00.000-07:00

Make Music on Windows a Pleasure Again with AtomicPlayer

Ever wonder why Windows music players seem to be designed for everything except actually listening to music? Does your music player make it easy to sit back, relax, and really enjoy your music? Or does it distract you with unnecessary complexity and chores?

Nothing Standing Between You and Your Music

Now there's a Windows audio player that is designed to make the important part of all of music – the listening experience – a pleasure instead of an afterthought. You can get to the music you want to hear quickly and easily, even with libraries of 100,000 tracks or more. All with outstanding sound quality using the newest Windows audio technologies. And without unnecessary stuff like skins, add-ons, on-line stores, limited formats, and marketing gimmicks that compromise the listening experience. AtomicPlayer is simple enough to get started right away, but when you're ready it will support you with a rich feature set and pristine fidelity.

http://www.quuxsoftware.com/index.php

PC Tools™ Firewall Plus 7

2011-10-19T01:17:00.001-07:00

PC Tools Firewall Plus is a powerful free personal firewall for Windows® that protects your computer by preventing unauthorized users from gaining access to your computer through the Internet or a network. By monitoring applications that connect to the network Firewall Plus can stop Trojans, backdoors, keyloggers and other malware from damaging your computer and stealing your private information.
PC Tools Firewall Plus is advanced technology designed especially for people, not just experts. Powerful prevention against attacks and known exploits is activated by default while experienced users can optionally create their own advanced packet filtering rules, including IPv6 support, to customize the network defenses. All you need to do is install it for immediate and automatic ongoing protection.

http://www.pctools.com/firewall/

Glary Utilities

2011-10-19T01:09:00.000-07:00

One Click A Day For PC Maintenance, Keeps Any PC Problems Away. With millions of worldwide users, the first-rank & free Glary Utilities is an INDISPENSABLE friend for your PC, with its 100% safe, thorough & quick cleaning and worry-free restoration.
Glary Utilities is a freeware with registry and disk cleaning, privacy protection, performance accelerator and amazing multifunctional tools. It can fix dogged registry errors, wipe off clutters, optimize internet speed, safeguard confidential files and maintain maximum performance.
It is designed for both novice and professionals. User-friendly interface shows clear & detailed directions. For novice, all work can be done with just 1 or 2 clicks, while for professionals, abundant options are available.
To call Glary Utilities helpful would drastically understate the situation. It hopes to become your INDISPENSABLE friend with its one-stop-shop utilities for optimizing and maintaining your PC for best performance. My friend, welcome to have a try for Glary Utilities and have your say!

http://www.glarysoft.com/products/utilities/glary-utilities/

Facebook for iPad

2011-10-12T08:13:00.000-07:00

Facebook for iPad With high-res photos, games, chat and more, now you can get the best of Facebook—on your iPad.

PotPlayer x86/x64 (aka "KMPlayer Reloaded")

2011-10-04T07:34:00.000-07:00

It works w/ madVR/HR/EVR and Reclock of course...it's a much improved/faster version of KMP, including ffdshow and some other stuff to connect to a Korean-only video/chat network. It supports seamless playback(up to 1000 -one thousand- AVI/WMV/MKV/MPG files at once, mixed containers are allowed), auto-resume on the last 200 opened files, has fully configurable XML skin files and also a D3D exclusive mode You can always get the latest english translated x86 beta here(thank you so much to the translators, without whom none of this would be happening ) and the latest english translated x64 stable build there(they don't release x64 betas). Older english translated betas are available here(registration required, but you can also subscribe to their thread for instant software update email notifications ) The latest x86 Korean-only beta is always available here. The latest changelog in english can always be found there. There's also a localized version in French available here. There's a big pack of skins available here and another one there(thanks zegames). There's also a pack of russian translated skins right here.

http://potplayer.en.softonic.com/ http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Video-Players/PotPlayer.shtml

Hotmail for Android

2011-10-04T07:15:00.000-07:00

The only official Microsoft mobile app for Hotmail that gives you easy access to Hotmail so you never miss an email. Key features include: - With push email get messages on your phone without delay - Synced calendar and contacts - View your folders in Hotmail, including sub folders - Send pictures from your phone using Hotmail - Supports multiple Hotmail accounts - Send, receive and view attachments android market

Blogger Dynamic Views

2011-09-28T01:49:00.001-07:00

Yoono Desktop

2011-09-12T09:30:00.000-07:00

Yoono is an easy to use application that allows you to connect to all your social networks and instant messaging services - in one place. Get all your friend updates, update your own status, and easily share stuff with your friends.

http://www.yoono.com/index.html