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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Mozilla has released the first beta version of Firefox 3.6 and is available to download. This new version of Firefox comes with several new features such as ability to personalize appearance with a single click.

It is built on the Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering engine, containing many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers, and users.

New Features in Firefox 3.6 Beta 1:

• Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas.
• Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.
• Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames.
• Support for the WOFF font format.
• Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.
• Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.

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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.

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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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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TimeLeft is very useful software for you if you care about your time. It is very sophisticated time management software and it is a combination of Sticker, Scheduler, Clock, Timer, Stopwatch, Countdown, and Reminder into one handy tool.

In addition, it can create beautiful stickers, reminders, clocks in many themes on desktop so that you are always keeping up with your schedule. It also changes the system tray clock to be prettier.

The options provided to edit or add a new widget are extensive. A click on any of the buttons in the quick task window will open the application’s main window that contains the various widgets that can be created on the left side and the existing widgets of the active category on the right.

A click on the add or edit button will open a properties window for the selected widget type that contains many options to choose from including titles, layout, formats, skins and visual effects like transparency and borders.

The active widgets can be moved around on the computer desktop easily. They are set to stay on top of other windows so that they are always visible. This among many other settings can be changed in the main program options.

TimeLeft supports all 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows operating systems. I tested it on Windows 7 and it works perfectly.

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We are downloading new programs and applications very often. And most of these applications are in trial version which are expired after a specified time period. After expiration, you can’t use that software or it not allow you to use full functionality.

Time Stopper is a freeware application. By using it you can use trial software or application like original (full) version. Time Stopper tell trial version of the software to not count days or do not bother about time. You do not have to change your system clock. This little software does it all.

When you stop the time of a try-out version using this Time Stopper it works via this Time Stopper. Real time and date run normally on your system. You can use any number of try-out version softwares with this software.

How it Works?

1. Open Time Stopper.
2. Browse and select .exe of trial software that you want to use forever.
3. Choose the new date (Any date which occurs in between your trial software time period before expiration, suggestion: set it to two days before trial software expiration date).
4. Type a name for your trial version software and click on Create Desktop Shortcut button to create desktop shortcut.
5. That’s it. Now you use your trial version software as a full version.

Time Stopper is compatible with all versions of Windows operating system (both 32-bit and 64-bit). I tested it on Windows 7 and it works properly.

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Mozilla has released the final version of Firefox 3.5 and is available to download. The Mozilla website reported that the Firefox 3.5 is more than twice as fast as Firefox 3, and ten times as fast as Firefox 2. If you have been using the release candidate of Firefox 3.5, you might have already noticed that Firefox 3.5 comes with many new features such as private browsing and forget this site.

The new Firefox 3.5 includes the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which gives the browser dramatically better performance than ever before.

Features of Firefox 3.5:

• Improved awesome bar
• One-click bookmarking
• Private browsing
• High speed
• Improved anti-phishing and anti-malware

If you want to know more about Firefox 3.5 features, go here.

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Poladroid is a free and light-weight application which allows you to turn your snaps or photos into Polaroid style photos.

When you start a Poladroid application, it loads on your desktop. All you need to do is to drag and drop pictures to the Polaroid, it will start the processing automatically. A rotating dotted circle shows the image file is processing. At the initial stage the Polaroid image is darker and it becomes brighter as the time goes. When it finishes the processing, a cross mark is added to the Polaroid image and it makes a beep sound. It will take a minute or two to complete the process.

Following image shows some of the samples that I made using Poladroid.

Features:

• Easy to use
• Drag & Drop
• Generate High-resolution pictures (400 dpi)
• Ready-to-print with a Polaroid design
• Random and realistic Polaroid-like colors variation
• and more…

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NTFS Undelete is a free and open source application which allows you to recover or undelete deleted files easily from your NTFS partitions.

All you need to do is to select a drive or folder where you need to search for deleted files. After some times it will show you a list of deleted files with cross mark. By selecting the particular files in the list you can recover your deleted files from your NTFS drive.

After selecting deleted files and folders, go to the Recover marked files tab, select the destination folder for storing the recovered data and click on Recover button. That’s it….

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