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Winamp Lite

2013-01-19T23:59:00.001+02:00

It is free audio player for all Windows and Mac operating systems that can play all popular audio formats. It is the most popular audio player for a long time ago. Here we are talking about the lite version (which majorly plays audio files) because people usually use a professional video player to run their video files……

Winamp Lite supports a wide variety of music file formats, including midi, mod, mpeg-1 audio layers 1 and 2, aac, m4a, flac, wav, ogg, Windows Media Audio (wma) and may other formats. The program includes an equalizer with presets so you can customize how you want to listen to your music and the ability to disable its effect. You will be able to make playlists, add/remove files and save these playlist. You can also edit tags and file information.

It also supports drag and drop media directly into a playlist from windows explorer, jump directly to an item within the list by double clicking it, auto repeat, and shuffle, easily open and save playlists, integration with context menu (system shell). The program has many settings to adjust so it can work as you like (Interface, skins, visualization and system associations). It is very lite with low memory usage that can run in the background without you notice.

Home page: www.winamp.com

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Freemake Video Converter

2013-01-04T17:45:00.000+02:00

It is free software for all Windows that can convert video files into many different video formats. The program has a lot of features. It can be used to convert between video formats, rip DVDs, burn DVDs and Blu-ray Discs, create photo slideshows and music visualizations, and upload files to YouTube. You can convert videos free to AVI, MP4, WMV, MKV, 3GP, DVD, MP3, iPad, iPhone, PSP, Android phones, also convert videos to MP3…….

Freemake Video Converter is designed without any limitations and hidden costs. This is freeware of new level, which offers a quality alternative to paid products. The program can input any video files: AVI, MP4, MKV, WMV, MPG, 3GP, 3G2, SWF, FLV, TOD, AVCHD, MOV, DV, RM, QT, TS, MTS, import music (MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV), and photos (JPG, BMP, PNG,GIF) to turn them into video. Note there are many unmentioned formats. The program can convert all these to AVI, WMV, MP4, MPEG, MKV, FLV, SWF, 3GP, FLV, SWF, OGG, H264.

It also contains presets so you can automatically adjust the targeted video format options in an easy way. You can customize the targeted video format to be adapted to your iPhone, iPad, PSP, Android phones and control the quality of the video. Of course you can manually adjust the video and the audio format options as you like but these presets make the life easier.

There is no any video conversion with such capabilities. It can also convert your movies to video Blu-ray format and burn high-quality BDs for free. Create Blu-ray discs out of any input content: video, audio, photos, burn multiple Blu-ray copies and save the resulted Blu-ray video to HDD as an ISO image or Blu-ray folder. You can upload videos, photo slideshows, MP3. You can cut video parts from your file, flip or rotate video, join several videos into one file, add transitions between parts, fit the output file size to any limit, adjust to aspect ratio: add black bars, stretch, zoom, auto-adjust.

The program has an easy to use interface, fast conversion speed. The worst thing is that the start up of the program takes some time. However once it started it is very lite.

Home page: www.freemake.com

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VLC Media Player

2012-06-22T14:08:00.000+02:00

It is free multi-format player that is available for all operating systems (All Windows, MAC and Linux). It can play a large number of media formats using its built-in codecs, so you won't need to install separate codecs for most videos. It is one of the best media players you can find nowadays.......

VLC media player offers robust support for a wide range of video and audio formats, including ogg, mp2, mp3, mp4, divX, HD codecs like aes3, raw dirac, and even support for playing back zipped files. This is in addition to mpg, avi, asf, mov, flv and much more. It also can do media conversion and streaming.

The program supports subtitles, it can show subtitles of any languages giving you control for subtitle timing. Also it give you control on audio and video channels timing, you can synchronize the audio and video if there was a delay between then in the original file.

It is easy to use application with a simple interface. It is also very light-weight player that does not take much memory and opens and closes quickly. It supports many languages and offers large number of skins to customize its interface. VLC is the most popular media player out there.

Home page: www.videolan.org

You can download it from the home page.

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Glary Undelete

2012-05-08T12:51:00.000+02:00

It is free file recovery software for all Windows. It can recover files that have been deleted from your hard disk, USB drive or memory card. Unfortunately, if you've formatted a drive, it can no longer find your files on it. Glary Undelete is easy-to-use software with simple and friendly user interface.

The program can restore your deleted files from many supported file systems: FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, and NTFS5. The program is supported with built-in filter so you can choose only the file you are looking for, you can filter by name, file type, size, date and chance of recovery (state). You can also change the view of deleted files to make it a list of files types or folders tree (navigate with folders). You can also check box to see a preview of the deleted file.

According to the official website, the program can run under Win95 /98 /ME /NT /2000 /XP /2003 /Vista operating systems. However I tested it on Win7. The program has not portable version, you will have to install it. It is available in English only.

Home page: www.glarysoft.com

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Bullzip PDF Printer

2012-05-05T14:07:00.002+02:00

It is free PDF printer that allows you to create PDF files from all applications that offer a print option. The program sets up a virtual printer in Windows in order to create PDF files. This way, it allows any application to create PDF files using just the print menu. In other words, you can create PDF files from any thing you can print. The program is available only for Windows (all versions)…….

The program presents many options when printing any file. You can choose the output format (PDF, BMP, EPS, JPEG, PCX, PNG, PS, TIFF), adding file properties (author, title, subject, keywords), adding watermark, concatenate to other PDF files, adding PDF password, specify the file default name, append if output exists, confirm overwrite, control PDF quality as well as remember last folder and last file name. You can also save you options set.

During installation, it offers to download and install Ghostscript Lite, a third-party program that BullZip PDF Printer needs in order to properly function. You shouldn’t uncheck this option when installing, it may cause some problems.

The program is great, with easy to use user interface. It is also available in more than 40 languages. There is an excel file with all the languages available in the download page. If you want another language other than English, you should download this excel file and export your language from it.

Home page: www.bullzip.com

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PeaZip

2011-12-03T20:53:00.003+02:00

It is free file archive that is available for all Windows and Linux operating systems. It is a powerful archiving program that supports a large number of archive formats. The program can extract more than 130 archive formats and can compress files into many file formats. The program also can merge and split archives and create encrypted archives and self-extracting file (sfx)…….

The program can compress files into many formats: 7z, gzip, wim, arc, pea, xz, bzip2, blaz, tar, zip, upz and paq. It also extracts 134 archive formats: ace, arj, cab, dmg, iso, lha, rar, udf, zipx and much more. The program integrates with the Windows shell allowing you to handle all your archives with the right-click.

The program can create encrypted archives with password and also self extracting file (sfx), the compression method in the sfx file can be 7z or arc. The program supports drag and drop to compress and extract files and multi process operation.

The program has a portable version which can be run from any USB flash drive. It has all features even it can be integrated into the Windows shell. It is very simple program with easy to use interface and supports more than 25 languages.

Home page: www.peazip.org

You can download it from the home page.

Foxit Reader

2011-11-11T20:39:00.000+02:00

It is free PDF (Portable Document Format) reader that is available for all Windows and Linux (added recently). The program lets you view, edit (limited edit) and print all PDF files like documents, presentations (slides). The program is compatible with all types of PDF forms and contents and it also has so many features that make it a very strong competitor to Adobe Reader. Also the program offers you to change its basic color to user defined color like theme.......

Foxit Reader is a great PDF reader. The program has more features that make it stronger than Adobe Reader. It has the ability to add attachment to PDFs, insert text, replace text, format text (underlined and strikeout), highlight text and add some notes on the PDF files. You can also insert image or multimedia files and draw shapes on any space in the PDF. The program has a simple interface with little options in the toolbar. Off course you can customize the toolbar with simple right click on it and add or remove any tool you want.

The program has many tools that help you to interact with the PDF file such as rotating the page, the page display (read mode, full screen mode and text only mode which you can show only text by using it), zooming tools (beside the normal zooming options; there are loupe tool which enable you to zoom any area of the page in a side window without affecting the overall view and a magnifier tool that magnify the under area only of the PDF file. It also has a plug-in to view PDF files in you web browser.

There is one last magnificent tool in this software is to make it read the PDF file for you. If you don’t want to read the file or you are not in the mood, just activate the read out loud option. The program is light, very easy to use with simple interface to navigate the PDF file with their thumbnails or with bookmarks if they are available in the PDF file. You can open any attachments in the PDF file with their corresponding programs. It is available in more than 35 languages.

Home page: www.foxitsoftware.com

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Opera

2011-11-06T22:39:00.000+02:00

It is free web browser that is available for all Windows, Mac and Linux. It is the second oldest browser that is still in use (Lynx was the first oldest browser but it was text only browser). It is not only a browser but it also offers sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, chatting, downloading files through torrent and reading web feeds. Opera almost handles common Internet related tasks…….

The browser is very interesting. It supports (like any browser) tabbed browsing, integrated search, bookmarking, keyboard shortcuts, private browsing, download manager, password manager, speed dial, drag and drop for links, proxy settings independent of Windows (not like Chrome), a tab grouping mechanism similar in function to that firstly introduced in Firefox 4 … etc. the program is also supported with many add-ons that make it a wonderful browser; themes to customize its look to suite your taste and widgets to offer more functionality to the browser.

The programs also has a lot of configurations that concern every single detail on how the browser acts, some people find this annoying but it is very useful tool to customize the browser actions during browsing. It has also integrated mail client. It's a reasonable alternative to Outlook express or thunderbird, offering many similar features. Opera also introduce a new function that is not available in any browser. It is Opera Turbo which you can enable it on weak web access networks. You can load web pages faster than other browsers. When Opera Turbo is enabled, web pages are compressed when passed through Opera's servers so you can load them faster and don't worry about privacy, even while using Opera Turbo, secured connections do not go through Opera's servers.

Finally, the browser is light (doesn't consume much memory), fast in starting and loading web pages. The interface is simple and you can customize it the way you like. Overall the browser is powerful and there are many people that can't browse the web without it. The browser supports almost all languages.

Home page: www.opera.com

You can download it from the home page.

ImgBurn

2011-10-15T20:42:00.000+02:00

It is free CD/DVD burning software for all Windows versions. The program provides all the options that user will look for in such software. It divided these options in only five modes the program will run in; each mode has its job so the combination of them gives this interesting program.......

The first mode is “Read” which allows you to read data from CD/DVD to create image on your hard disk, this image can be ISO, BIN or IMG. The second mode is "Build" which enables you to create an image file from files on your compute or you can write the files directly to a disc. The third mode is "Write" which writes an image file to a disc, this image can be BIN, CCD, CDI, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI.

The fourth and fifth modes "Verify" and "Discovery" enables you to check your burned CD/DVDs and their qualities, the program can create audio CDs and DVD video discs including HD DVDs and also Blu-ray video discs. The program also lets you choose the burning speed. The program supports queuing the tasks, you can apply more than one task and the program will execute them in their order on one DVD driver or more if you have extra DVD drivers, also the program can burn multilayer DVDs.

All the instructions for using this software are placed in the supporting forum in the official website. The program is light on your system with easy to use interface and has many advanced options which you can configure if you are experienced user. The program supports is available in many languages which you can download them from the official website.

Home Page: www.imgburn.com

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Adobe Reader

2011-04-22T17:10:00.002+02:00

It is free PDF (Portable Document Format) reader that is available for all operating systems (Windows, Linux and MAC). The program lets you view and print all PDF files like documents, presentations (slides) and also a variety of embedded multimedia content, such as QuickTime, Macromedia Flash, Windows Media formats, Real and MP3 files. The program is equipped with a search tool and is compatible with all types of PDF forms and contents.......

Adobe Reader X is the new version of this great PDF reader but it is not available except for windows. This version has added new features to the reader ability such as the ability to highlight text and add some notes on the PDF file. The program has a simple interface with little options in the toolbar. Off course you can customize the toolbar with simple right click on it and add or remove any tool you want.

The program has many tools that help you to interact with the PDF file such as rotating the page, the page display (full screen or wide), zooming tools which has very interesting upgrades; beside the normal zooming options, there are loupe tool which enable you to zoom any area of the page without affecting the overall view and pan tool that makes the whole computer screen as a magnifier to view certain portion of the page.

There is one last magnificent tool in this software is to make it read the PDF file for you. If you don’t want to read the file or you are not in the mood, just activate the read out loud option. The program is very easy to use with simple interface to navigate the PDF file with their thumbnails or with bookmarks if they are available in the PDF file or you can open any attachments in the PDF file with their corresponding programs. It is available in more than 33 languages.

Home page: www.adobe.com

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Google Chrome

2011-04-15T13:24:00.002+02:00

It is free web browser from Google that is available for all Windows, Mac (10.5 or later) and Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/OpenSUSE). However it is new, it made a good reputation and became very popular in a short time. Some people think it is the fastest web browser nowadays. Google has made very precious effort to make it compatible with almost all web pages.......

Google Chrome has many adds-on that make it a popular and competitive browser (There are a lot of various free adds-on which can be integrated into it). These adds-on are growing day after day and every single add-on will add to you browser capability. You will feel some of them buggy, so you will take some time to decide which your favorites adds-on are.

On the other hand, the browser (like any browser nowadays) supports tabbed browsing, download manager, integrated search powered by Google, powerful find on web pages, drag and drop, which allows you to drag text or a link from anywhere on a web page and put it directly into your search bar, password manager and auto-fill that helps you to keep you usernames and password and any other data filled in their forms and full screen browsing.

You will lose nothing when you begin to use it as it is easy to import your favorites, usernames and passwords from Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. Finally, the interface is very simple and the settings are kept minimum size. This neglects a lot of powerful options that powerful users only may notice like to change the proxy settings independently from operating system, tabbing browsing options, find text options and other options. Some people see these options are essential to optimize the browser with their own usage. The browser supports almost all languages.

Home page: http://www.google.com/chrome

You can download it from the home page.

Defraggler

2011-04-08T17:03:00.003+02:00

It is free hard disk defragmentation software for all Windows that is used to organize files on your hard drive so that your files can be read and accessed at a faster rate. Unlike most defragmentation tools that allow you to defragment an entire drive, Defraggler lets you specify one or more files, folders, or the whole drive to defragment. It is good tool that can optimize the performance of your system, make your system faster.......

When you use Windows for a long time, you notice it is going slower by the time. This is because every thing you make: browsing the internet, installing and uninstalling programs and updating your antivirus or any program you use, downloading or deleting files, all these files take random and scattered distribution on your hard drive making your hard disk rotates more (take more time) to collect the file you want to access. This results in a slow computer. Defragmentation seeks out all these matching fragments and groups them, making work easier and faster for the computer.

Defraggler analyzes your hard drive for fragmented (scattered) files and can selectively defragment the ones you choose. You can see how fragmented your hard drive is. Defraggler shows you blocks that are empty, not fragmented, or needing defragmentation. I would recommend that you choose to defragment the whole hard drive, the program will organize you hard drive and empty disk space to further prevent fragmentation or you can schedule it to automatically run regularly. The program is very safe as it reads and writes files in same techniques that Windows uses.

The program is very fast and easy-to-use. The graphical interface is like the standard Windows defragmentation tool. It is very lite and does the job in an efficient and time saving technique. You will find the difference in you computer performance after using it. The program is available in more than 37 languages.

Home page:www.piriform.com

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HJSplit

2010-12-18T15:42:00.003+02:00

It is free software for all Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. This popular tiny freeware is used to split and recombine files. Sharing large files has always been a problem, but HJSplit helps solve this problem, letting you easily split files into smaller files.......

It is a simple and easy-to-use tiny program which can split any file you like into parts of a predefined size, so that sharing them or storing them is made easier. It can also join split files back together and compare parts to see if they're the same. You can also use it for backing up large files and spate them on discrete storage media.

This freeware doesn’t need to be installed; it works as a portable program on all platforms. It consists only of an .exe file, so it can be run from a USB storage media or CD-ROM. The program lets you choose the size of the parts you wish to separate the big file into, this is a good option to suit you storage of these parts.

The parts generated has the extensions: 001, 002 … and when you want to recombine the parts you only chose the first part and the job is done (this is if the parts are in the same place: folder, if not you will have to guide the program to each part). Overall, the application is tiny, portable and easy-to –use with no complexity; and it does the job perfectly.

Home page: www.hjsplit.org

You can download it for all platforms from the home page.

PhotoScape

2010-10-01T19:40:00.001+02:00

It is free photo editor for all Windows. There's no way to describe the wide range of tools and features this one has. It is one of the most amazing and complete photo editing suites that includes image browsing/viewing, photo editing, slide show creator, animated GIF creator, batch editor, picture page printing, screen capture, photo resizing, renaming, combining multiple photos and even RAW conversion to JPG.......

The viewer has very easy and friendly interface, it shows your photos in thumbnail view while you can navigate your folders from side bars, and it also supports navigation of photos in full screen mode. The editor has the most jobs you can do in PhotoScape, you can apply a multitude of adjustments and effects to your photos. There is everything from resizing, auto-levels and contrast and a lot of filters that you can apply to fix your photo or make it in the mode you like.

There are a lot of frames and many objects that you can add to you photo. You can add texts, shapes or speech balloons. There is a wide variety of clip art objects that can be stamped onto your working image, and you can also add any other photo or an image from the clipboard. The program also includes tools for red-eye removal, mole removal and to clone any part of the photo.

There is a rich text tool for adding formatted text letting you to choose fonts and colors of this text. Once these objects are in your image, they can be resized, moved, and rotated. There is also flexible crop tool with a circular crop option with the ability to undo changes of course. The batch editor is almost like the editor but you make the changes to multiple files at once. That includes frames, objects, text, color and tone adjustments, sharpening, resizing, and many of the effects.

The program has other features like animated GIF creator, color picker, screen capture, Raw converter to JPG, splitter cut your photo into multiple images and combine multiple photo into one vertically or horizontally photo. The program supports more than 30 languages.

Home page: www.photoscape.org

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µTorrent

2010-09-16T13:48:00.001+03:00

It is one of the most popular torrent clients that is available for Windows and Mac OS. It is very small P2P (peer-to-peer) application as it is seen in its name; the prefix ‘µ’ means ‘micro’ referring to the program small size. The program is very fast, very efficient and very lite on the system. Although it is very small, it has almost all you would want in complete torrent downloader......

The program is designed to use minimal computer resources while offering functionality comparable to larger torrent clients. When it comes to the OS, it is the most lite torrent client you can find that doesn’t consume large memory to keep your computer functioning while downloading all file you want. However, the program is stable and doesn’t crash or accidently stops.

On the other hand, it doesn’t throttle you internet connection, you can notice that when there are more than one application is using your network. The program detects network congestion and slows down the torrent until the traffic jam has dissipated. It has of course almost all of the features you can find in any other torrent downloader: detailed statics, support for RSS feeds, automatic shutdown, download scheduler, pause and resume, speed control (download or upload) and more but it doesn’t contain built-in player to preview your video downloads.

µtorrent is fast, reliable and easy to use. It supports more than 50 languages (you can download the languages pack form the download page). It offers also a huge number of skins so you can customize how the program toolbar looks like or even the program icons. The program is easy to install and self configurable by speed test that will be run after installation.

Home page: www.utorrent.com

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Virtual CloneDrive

2010-09-12T14:01:00.003+03:00

It is free software for all Windows that can emulate a virtual CD/DVD drive so you can run CD/DVD images from your HD. It works like Daemon tools in managing images. The program lets you make up to fifteen virtual drives to handle as many images as you want in the same time. You can mount images using the system tray icon or just go to the image you want to mount and double click it; you should make association to the images you want to mount this way.......

The program supports images of formats: ccd, dvd, iso, img, udf and bin (popular images). The program integrates with the system shell allowing you to associate these types of images with the program so you can mount them by double clicking as mentioned earlier.

The program has an easy to use interface and concise options that you can configure in a moment. It is very lite, very simple and available in fourteen languages: Arabic, Czech, Deutsch, Greek, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian. During installation, you would better associate all possible images as you can not fix this in the program settings.

Home page: www.slysoft.com

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Don't forget it is freeware in the download page.

IZArc

2010-09-09T21:42:00.001+02:00

It is free file archive for all Windows. It is one of the best archiving utilities that supports a large number of archive formats. The program can associate more than 40 archive formats which can be extracted and can compress files into many file formats. The program also can manage some images formats and enable you to convert them into iso and also creating encrypted archives and self-extracting file (sfx).......

The program supports compressing/extracting archives of formats: 7z, bh, bza, bzip2 (tar bz2), cab, jar, lha, tar, tar gz, zip, yz1 and extracting (beside the mentioned previously): rar , a, ace, arc, arj, b64, c2d, cdi, cpio, deb, enc, gca, gza, ha, lib, lzh, mbf, mim, pak, pk3, rpm, tbz, uue, war, xxe, z, zoo. The program integrates with the Windows shell allowing you to handle all your archives with the right-click.

The program can create encrypted archives with password and also self extracting file (sfx); they can be created after creating a normal archive or from an existent one by right-click. The program contains a built-in img converter. It can manage iso, bin, mdf, nrg, pdi and can convert bin, mdf, nrg, pdi to the iso image format.

The program can be configured to run your preferred antivirus scanner when you open any archives. It has an easy to use interface and support more than 50 languages. The program has a portable version (IZArc2Go) which can be run from any USB flash drive. It has all features except that it can’t be integrated into the Windows shell and it is not possible to associate any archive file type with it.

Home page: www.izarc.org

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Orbit Downloader

2010-09-07T13:58:00.000+02:00

It is free download manager application for all Windows that makes downloading videos, flash games and any other files very easy. You can handle all your downloading files with one application that is fast and user friendly. The program supports many features that will make downloading easy like the integration with the web browser, file segmentation and multi-connection downloading and download pause and resume.......

The program can integrate with popular browsers like Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Internet Explorer. This integration enable you to download videos and music form YouTube likes sites and social community sites by just hovering on the video/music file and a “GetIt” button will appear or you can use the recorder to play the video/music in you browser and the program will download it.

The program supports downloading from hosting servers (RapidShare likes); a “drop zone” to drag and drop links and monitoring clipboard as other ways to ease downloads. You can also schedule downloads and make Orbit Downloader scan files with your antivirus right after downloading them. It also supports file segmentation and multi connection downloading; this has a great effect on your download speed, the program is provided with speed limitation which you can enable so that your connection is not throttled by the program.

The program has an easy to use interface with limited number of buttons but every thing you need you will find it. It is fast, small size program and very lite on the Windows system and supports more than 38 languages. You should go to the program preferences after installation to adjust it, so the program can function as you want.

Home page: www.orbitdownloader.com

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FileZilla

2010-09-03T20:30:00.000+02:00

It is free FTP client for Windows, Linux and Mac. It is the preferred application to handle FTP transfers for many websites owners and all those who maintain websites. The program lets you download or upload multiple files and directory structures at once between several servers and your machine. You can handle many servers with the built-in site manager that enables you to store all your connection details and logins.......

FileZilla is a fast FTP client that supports resume for both uploads and downloads. You can also enable the speed limits for the upload or the download if you don not want it to dominate your bandwidth. The program supports multiple secure connection options ensure that you can move files without concern or worry (SSL, SFTP, firewall support).

It has an easy to use interface that show the both the contents on your computer and server beside each other with drag & drop support to upload or download files or folders. You can even customize its look; almost every element of the interface can be shown, hidden, resized or moved. It has also huge amount of options and supports many languages including right to left languages.

Home page: filezilla-project.org

You can download it for all OS form the Home page.

AIMP2

2010-09-01T14:05:00.000+02:00

It is free audio player for all Windows that can play all popular audio formats. It has almost everything the user may need. It is mainly audio player but there are extension tools for sound recorder and audio format conversion. There are also plugins and adds-on for many other audio formats. You can also customize its look by supported skins or you can make your own. It is the audio player that can be the real competitor to Winamp.......

The program includes an 18-band equalizer with presets so you can customize how you want to listen to your music and the ability to disable its effect. You will be able to make playlists, add/remove files and save these playlist. The program can handle more than one playlist in the same time. You can also edit tags and file information.

There are extension tools contain audio recorder and audio converter. The audio converter can convert all supported audio formats to wav, wma, mp3, flac, faac and ogg with the ability to set tags for the converted files. The audio recorder enables you to choose the recorded sound source and adjust the volume automatically so you do not have to test the sound volume for good quality.

The program has many settings to adjust so it can work as you like (playlist handling, interface, skins and system associations).The program and the tools are easy to use with simple interface. They are very lite with low memory usage. They also support almost all languages. It is my favorite audio player.

Home page: www.aimp2.us

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ZoneAlarm

2010-08-29T15:16:00.000+02:00

It is free firewall for all Windows. It is currently the number one firewall product in firewall rank. The program is to be used side by side with your antivirus whatever it was; it does not conflict with the antivirus. If you are using a free antivirus (most of us do), then your antivirus protects you against viruses and spyware but it does not protect you against hackers and unauthorized access to your computer through network or the internet; here comes the importance of using a firewall.......

ZoneAlarm monitors computer and network activities, catches any unusual access between your computer and network or the internet. This includes unknown programs or spywares that can steel your private information; a pop-up window will show to ask you for permission for this application. These pop-up windows will not annoy you as they appear only when unknown application is trying to access the internet or unknown network is detected.

The program is lite on the system, it will not slow your computer and has easy to configure interface. You can adjust how you want to deal with the network of you computer form sharing resources or prevent other computer on the network to access you computer. You can also manage the permissions for your programs in the program interface to allow or block any application to access the network or access the internet.

Home page: www.zonealarm.com

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Mozilla Firefox

2010-08-26T14:30:00.000+02:00

It is free web browser from Mozilla that is available for all Windows, Mac and Linux. It is independent from Internet Explorer or other Windows components; however it is easy to import your favorites and settings from IE after installation. It is the best and most popular web browser nowadays. Although there are faster web browsers like Opera and Google Chrome, it is the most compatible browser with web pages. This means that web pages will be displayed properly with reasonable speed (other browsers may not display the page well, especially if the page contains non-English languages).......

Mozilla Firefox has many features and adds-on that make it a complete browser. (all you can imagine of free adds-on can be integrated into it with any function you want). These features are represented in the well displayed web pages, supporting for high quality video and audio, improved JavaScript support. These are the features that govern the performance (Displaying web pages and how fast web pages load).

On the other hand, the browser supports popup controls to prevent unwanted advertising, tabbed browsing, download manager, integrated search powered by Google, powerful find test on web pages, password manager that helps you to keep you usernames and password filled in their forms, spell checking, RSS feed, streamlined and full screen modes that shows you more of the page than any other browser.

Finally, the settings are easy to be configured and there is large variety of free themes called personas that help you personalize the look of its look. The browser supports almost all languages.

Home page: www.mozilla.com

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DAEMON Tools Lite

2010-08-24T12:54:00.001+02:00

It is free virtual CD/DVD emulator software for all Windows. It is the most popular product that offers easy tools for making simple disc image files and emulating virtual CD/DVD-ROM /HD DVD and Blu-ray drives. The Lite (free) version allows you to make up to 4 virtual drivers. The program enables you to mount a lot of supported image extensions.......

The supported image extensions that you can mount are: mdx, mds, mdf, iso, b5t, b6t, bwt, ccd, cdi, cue, nrg, pdi, isz. It also integrates with the Windows shell and makes associations with the supported image extension. By this, you can mount your images by more than method.

You can go to the image you want to mount, right click, open with, DAEMON Tools Lite or you can mount them by interfacing system tray icon or by opening the driver manager. The driver manager stores the images you have previously mounted so you can manage these images with the allowed 4 virtual CD/DVD drivers in an easy way even if they are many.

You can also create images and store them on your HD in three file extensions (iso, mdx, mds) with the ability to compress data in the created images or add an access password; these two options are available when creating mds or mdx extensions. The program has an easy to use interface, easy to configure its preferences and supports more than 35 languages.

Home page: www.daemon-tools.cc

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CDBurnerXP

2010-08-19T16:29:00.012+02:00

It is free CD/DVD burning software for all Windows (Don’t panic as its name contains XP, it works on Windows 2000 /XP /2003 Server /Vista /2008 /Win7 (x86 /x64)). The program has almost everything Windows users need to create CDs and DVDs. It has five options you can work in, when the program starts, it asks you to choose what option you want to work in.......

The first option is “Data disc” which allows you to burn data CD/DVD or to create ISO image from files on your HD, you can also convert images from NRG or BIN extensions to an ISO image. The second option is “Audio disc” which allows you to create audio CD/DVD from your music files, the program has an internal audio player your music files and how they will look on your audio CD/DVD player (their titles and artists), and you can also change them so they are burned with the new titles and artists. In the previous two options you can of course select the burning speed as well as printing cover from an image or you can make you own.

The third option is “Burn ISO image”, in which you can burn ISO or MDS images to disc. You can also choose the burning speed and the burning method. The forth option is “Copy disc”, in which you can copy all kind of discs to another disc or save this image on your hard disc in ISO or MDS extension. The fifth option is “Erase disc”, in which you can erase data from a rewritable CD/DVD.

You can choose not to select any option from those mentioned above and click “open” to restore previously saved project. The program is small size and supports more than 30 languages.

Tip: When you choose the first option and click ”Burn” a pop-up message will appear, select “Let me choose advanced settings” so you can adjust the burning speed.

Home page: cdburnerxp.se

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Avast Free

2010-08-17T23:04:00.007+02:00

It is free antivirus for all Windows. It is a package of applications that aim to protect the normal user from possible virus infections or other malware threats. It had a very good reputation last few months that make it the best free antivirus protection currently available. As we mentioned earlier it is a package of application (you will sense that by using it), so it protects your computer against virus, spyware and malware with multiple guards or shields as its official website calls them.......

By using these shields the program is able to provide the maximum protection, as every shield is responsible for its job. For example, the behavior shield monitors activities on your computer (file system and registry) and reports/blocks any suspicious behavior. The web shield scans all visited web pages and checks all files, pages and java scripts downloaded from the internet. There are also shield to protect against network-based viruses, incoming mails and pear-to-pear applications like torrent or file sharing programs.

Although there are all these shields the program is lite on the computer system, you will not notice any difference on the computer speed. And the updates are automated; just a pop-up notification window will appear to inform you that the update was successfully completed. You can enable the silent mode to disable these notifications or you can just disable the sound accompanying these notifications.

The program has easy-to-use interface that you can configure its settings easily and fast scanning capability. But all this is for 30 days only and you have to register to get your fully free version, the registration is of course free (it is the free antivirus) and quickly done but it is bothering some users sometimes.

Home page: www.avast.com

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