VideoLAN VLC media player

VLC is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

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OpenOffice.org

Equivalent to MS Office, OpenOffice.org includes powerful applications for making text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, diagrams, and databases, as well as HTML and XML documents. Not only does it let you edit basic documents, such as letters and faxes, it also handles equations and complex and multipart documents with bibliographies, reference tables, and indexes.

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Avira AntiVir Personal Edition

Avira’s AntiVir is one of the best freeware security solutions around the world. Its scans are flexible, allowing users to fully scan both internal and external hard drives, run a preloaded scan or customize a scan.

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Notepad++

Notepad is a Notepad replacement with an eye toward programmers, although it should also appeal to the casual user who wants a cross between Notepad and WordPad. Notepad has some noticeable differences from WordPad. Support for tabs is a key, letting users manage different documents simultaneously.

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K-Lite Mega Codec Pack

With the K-Lite Codec Pack you can play all the popular movie formats and even some rare formats. This package is mainly for power users and people who do their own encodings.

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ImgBurn

ImgBurn is a lightweight CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray burning application that has several modes, each for performing a different task: Read; Build; Write; Verify; and Discovery. ‘Advanced’ input mode to build mode where you have total control over the layout of the disc and can add new folders, change names etc. and Optional logging when hidden or system files/folders are skipped in Build mode due to the current settings.

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Adobe Flash Player

Adobe Flash Player software is a cross-platform browser plug-in that delivers breakthrough web experiences and is installed on more than 98% of Internet-connected desktops. Flash Player 10 introduces 3D effects, custom filters and effects, advanced text support, and more.

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FileZilla

FileZilla is a free & open-source FTP application, is handy if you are looking for a solid tool to handle FTP transfers and don’t want to part with your bucks.

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Firefox

The Firefox Web Browser is the faster, more secure, and fully customizable way to surf the web. Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser. Firefox includes pop-up blocking, tab-browsing, integrated Google search, simplified privacy controls, a streamlined browser window that shows you more of the page than any other browser and a number of additional features that work with you to help you get the most out of your time online.

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Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the Web faster, safer, and easier. Use one box for everything–type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and Web pages.

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Foxit Reader

To put it gently, Adobe Reader is a real pain in the hindquarters. It’s monstrously large, slow to load, and includes many features most users will hardly ever need. Foxit PDF Reader 3.0 kills the bloat and throws in some useful features, such as multimedia support and content-sharing options, while still allowing you to quickly access your PDFs.

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Universal Extractor

Universal Extractor is a program do to exactly what it says: extract files from any type of archive, whether it’s a simple zip/rar file, an installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package.

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Unlocker

Ever had such an annoying message given by Windows: Cannot delete file: Access is denied. There has been a sharing violation. The source or destination file may be in use or the file is in use by another program or user. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use. Unlocker is the solution.

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Sub Menu Pack

Do you get bored of having to open file options every time you show hidden files or show file extensions. Now you can do it and many option by one click from your mouse by this small tiny tool SubMenu Pack.

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Revo Uninstaller

Revo Uninstaller is a freeware innovative uninstall utility much faster than Windows Add/Remove applet. With its advanced and fast algorithm, Revo Uninstaller scans before and after you uninstall an application. After the program’s regular uninstaller runs, you can remove additional unnecessary files, folders and registry keys that are usually left over on your computer.

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Flash Get

Flash Get is specifically designed to address two of the biggest problems when downloading files: Speed and management of downloaded files.

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DAEMON Tools Lite

DAEMON Tools is an advanced application for Microsoft Windows which provides one of the best optical media emulation in the industry. With DAEMON Tools you can back up your physical CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray discs into “virtual discs” or so called “disc image” files, which run directly on your hard drive. You can also work with images created by other burning programs! DAEMON Tools supports variety of image types.

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Comodo Firewall

Comodo has merged its antivirus program with Firewall Pro, creating a free security program that aims to be more to more people. Although this may frustrate some users who want only one program or the other, the installer does let you opt out of either of the components.

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CCleaner

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner.

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Everything Search Engine

This small software application bypasses Windows search with a lightning quick interface and real-time results for all of the files and folders in your local hard drive or any subsection of it. The software doesn’t do much more than search, but its efficiency, effectiveness, stability, and low system resource usage make it a keeper utility.

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Comodo Backup is an automatic file backup and recovery software. It is a straightforward and powerful utility that allows users to quickly and easily create backup copies of critical files.

Its features include complete file and folder duplication to local/ network drives and FTP servers, intelligent incremental backups, e-mail reporting, extensive report logs, real time backups with ‘synchronization’ mode, advanced rule-based filtering, flexible scheduling of backups, space-saving archiving capabilities, and more.

In addition to the default computer location; you can choose network, FTP or Comodo online storage as your backup destination. Likewise you can also opt for FTP, network or Comodo online storage as your restore paths. You can also password protect the files by entering a password under settings.

Features of Comodo Backup:

• Backup files or folders to anywhere on your computer, network or FTP server
• Quickly restore data with a few clicks
• Fully featured scheduler allows you to run backups at a time that suits you
• Security features include password protection and data encryption
• Send e-mail notifications to one or more users about the status of a backup job
• Save disk space with multiple compression option

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How to create custom sound scheme?

1. Select your sounds.
2. How should they be made: using iFX sound recorder, using audacity, downloading sound from “free sound” site, using other programs/sites, or using available sounds.
3. Convert the files to wave format: using FreeRip (recommended), using Google Audio Converter, or using files already in .wav format.
4. Browse to the files location.
5. Re-name the files.
6. Open Control Panel and open Sounds properties. Browse for your sounds then click Save As and type in your sound scheme name.

Key Features of iFX Seven Sound Creator:

• Uses new V4 base for more automatic sound creation
• Uses new Notification Ares in the Taskbar for Alert, Messages, and Updates
• Added a Check for Update option
• Uses Windows Media Player 12 for sound testing
• Better performance
• Easy to Install With Install shield
• You can use it on windows XP and/or Vista if you don’t have Windows 7

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SecureZIP Express is a freeware Zip utility developed by PKWare, the inventor of .Zip format. It allows you to ZIP and UNZIP files to save storage space up to 90%. It can also Encrypt and Decrypt files to protect the files you store or send.It is free for non-commercial use only.

Features of SecureZIP Express:

• Protect your important documents
• Save space on a thumb drive, CD/DVD, or hard drive
• Protect email attachments
• Save storage space on your computer
• Secure your photos

SecureZIP Express does not support email or office integration as featured in paid version, so SecureZIP Express should not be installed over an existing version of SecureZIP or PKZIP.

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Click on Download Now button and enter your email address. You will then receive the download link to get your free software.

You can also direct download setup installer from here.

Ninite.com is a free online service that allows you create a single installer file for multiple free applications. For example, you can create a single installer file for your Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Windows Live Messenger, VLC player, Picasa, and Microsoft Security Essentials, etc.

Applications/Software available at Ninite.com:

• Web Browsers – Google Chrome, Safari, Opera and Firefox
• Messaging – Skype, Messenger, Digsby, Google Talk, Pidgin and Thunderbird
• Media – VLC player, iTunes, Audacity, Hulu Desktop, AIMP, KMPlayer, & Spotify
• Imaging – Paint.net, Picasa, IrfanView, XnView, & GIMP
• Documents – Office 2007 Standard (trial), OpenOffice, CutePDF, Foxit Reader and Adobe Reader
• Anti-virus – Microsoft Security Essentials, Avast and AVG
• Runtimes – Flash, .NET, Flash, Silverlight and Java
• File Sharing – uTorrent and eMule
• Other – Dropbox, Evernote, BumpTop, & Google Earth
• Utilities – ImgBurn, CCleaner, Launchy, Revo Uninstaller, Defraggler, RealVNC, CDBurnerXP, & Recuva
• Compression – WinRAR & 7-Zip

To create a single installer file for multiple applications you need to follow the below procedure:

1. Go to the Ninite.com website.
2. Select the applications that you want to pack into a single installer file.
3. Click on the Get Installer button to start downloading the installer file.
4. Run the downloaded installer file to start downloading procedure. After the completion of download, it will automatically install applications. If the selected application is already installed on your PC, it will simply skip the application.
5. Depending on the number of sleeted software, size of applications, and your Internet connection speed; it might take several minutes to hours to complete the procedure.

It will runs on Windows XP/Vista/7 and works in the background 100% hands-free.

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PC Tools Internet Security 2010 is an all in one Protection tool. It combines the award-winning security technologies from PC Tools, including Spyware Doctor AntiSpyware, AntiVirus, Firewall Plus and Spam protection, to provide complete integrated protection for your PC.

PC Tools Internet Security 2010 costs $42.99 or Rs.1890 for up to 3 computers license, but you don’t need to spend single penny just follow below procedure and claim your free product.

1. Go to this Australian Proxy Website.
2. Copy the below URL and paste it into the URL box and click on Go button. http://www.pctools.com/wbc/

   

3. Fill up form with proper details (First name, Last name, Email address & Password) & Click on Submit.
4. A verification email will be sent to your email address, check your inbox and click on activation link.
5. Once you click on Activation link a webpage with PC Tools Internet Security License Code will be displayed. Copy License Code and save it. (You will also receive email with Pc Tools Internet Security 2010 License code).
6. Now Download PC Tools Internet Security 2010 from here and use above license Code to activate for 12 month.

Your system registry is the most vital componant on your PC. It is consulted by the Windows operating system every time an instruction is asked of by the user or by an application or program. This could mean when an application is initialized or a webpage is browsed or when a file is cut and pasted from one location to another. Absolutely everything that is ever executed on your computer is stored into the system registry so as time goes by you can imagine how much information is filed away.

The more data that is stored then the longer it will take for the registry to find the files that the operating system has requested. This is how your PC starts to show signs of declining speed and performance. This is one example of how registry problems occur. Other system registry errors result from wrong file extensions, old and invalid paths (where programs have been uninstalled incorrectly), corrupt and missing registry entries and viruses or spyware are a big contributor to registry issues. If left too long your PC will slowly deteriorate resulting in applications freezing, blue screening and also your system may not even bootup.

So picking out the best registry fix is a dead cert for a reliable and smooth running PC. When researching you must be sure that the registry cleaner has the following critia:

1. A backup and restore utility.
Before the registry cleaning software begins it’s work it should backup the existing registry to a file. This is just in case that any unanticipated problems occur during the process, such as a power loss. In this scenerio the backup of the registry could be restored enabling your computer to still be operable.

2. Price.
Free does not mean value. As a trend (as with most consumable items) the cheaper it is, the less you get for your money. This does not mean that you have to pay for the most expensive registry cleaning software though. The best registry cleaners come packaged with a free scan with certain limited features so you can assess it first before purchasing.

3. Ease of use.
Too complex and you will not utilize all of the features that it has onboard. You are the consumer so shop around and buy what is best suited for yourself.

Remember, your Windows system registry is at the very heart of your system and without it your computer would cease to operate. It is as simple as that. Look after and maintain your registry and your computer will run alot more efficiently and smoother.

For further advice and information please visit www.ComputerResurrection.com/registrycleaners.html

ZoneAlarm Pro Firewall 2010 is a latest commercial edition that includes more features that the freeware ZoneAlarm firewall. ZoneAlarm Pro offers the standard two-way firewall to protect computer against malicious attacks from web and local network.

Later today CheckPoint Software is expected to make its next 24 hour promotion live and allow users to get a copy of ZoneAlarm Pro Firewall 2010 completely free.

The security software that usually costs $39.95 for a one year, three PC license offers the following:

• Advanced Download Protection
• Free Credit Bureau Monitoring
• Automatic Program Control
• OS Firewall
• Anti-phishing and Site Status
• Two-way Firewall
• SmartDefense Service

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Now downloading any flash video from any website is just a click away and you don’t need to go to a third party website or add any bookmarks or anything like that.

Real Player SP provides you the best way to download all the flash embedded videos from almost any website.

All you have to do is install the Real Player SP and enable the “Download This Video” option while installing it. After the installation is complete you can visit any video site and hover mouse over the video and you will see a “Download This Video” button as shown in the above snapshot which simply downloads the video as you click it and it will be saved in the “My Videos” folder which is the default folder. You can also change the destination folder from settings if you want to.

After the completion of download, you can convert the downloaded video to any of the portable device format as shown in the below snapshot or you can directly copy the downloaded video to the device.

Download RealPlayer SP (from home page, 14 days trial version)

Download RealPlayer SP Plus (Fully activated version from rapid share)

Device Doctor is a free Windows Device Driver Manager that scans your computer hardware and checks to see if there are new driver updates available for devices.

It also locates drivers for “unidentified devices” in the Windows Device Manager and find suitable driver to install. Device Doctor provides drivers for every major computer hardware and device manufacturer.

Device Doctor is very easy to use. All you need to do is to click on Begin Scan button. Once it finishes scanning your computer for driver updates, it will display driver information and download links in a report at the end of the scan. After that click on Download Update button to get the latest driver installer for the particular device.

Device Doctor supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7. I tested it on Windows 7 and it works perfectly.

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