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Google Pack Software
Google Pack is:
Software specifically selected by Google
Always free - no trial versions or spyware
Ready to use in just a few clicks
- FREE: http://pack.google.com/
System Profiler
Belarc Advisor - Free Personal PC Audit (Version 7.2t)
The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, CIS (Center for Internet Security) benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server.
- FREE: http://www.belarc.com/
McAfee SiteAdvisor for IE
McAfee SiteAdvisor for Internet Explorer
McAfee SiteAdvisor helps protect you from all kinds of Web-based security threats including spyware, adware, spam, viruses, browser exploits, and online scams. Our automated testers continually patrol the Web to browse sites, download files, and sign-up for things with e-mail addresses. As you search, browse, download, or register online, SiteAdvisor's safety ratings help you stay safe and in control.
Anti - Virus
AVG Anti-Spyware Free Edition
AVG Anti-Spyware Free Edition is a popular free antispyware
solution available at no cost to home users and provides
a high level of detection capability.
Easy to use
Daily database updates
Heuristics to detect unknown threats
Automatic cleaning engine
AVG Anti-Spyware Free is only available for single computer use
for home and non commercial use.
Anti - Spyware
Clean your PC with a-squared Free: Remove infections of Trojans, Spyware, Adware, Worms, Keyloggers, Rootkits, Dialers and other malicious programs.
4 million users world wide rely on a-squared to clean their PC from Malware.
Remarkable easy to use and completely free or charge.
Firewall
ZoneAlarm is designed to protect your DSL- or cable-connected PC from hackers.
This program includes four interlocking security services: a firewall, an application control, an Internet lock, and Zones. The firewall controls the door to your computer and allows only traffic you understand and initiate.
The Internet lock blocks Internet traffic while your computer is unattended or while you're not using the Internet, and it can be activated automatically with your computer's screensaver or after a set period of inactivity. Zones monitor all activity on your computer and alert you when a new application attempts to access the Internet. Version 7.0.362 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
Note: ZoneAlarm is free for individual and not-for-profit charitable entity use (excluding governmental entities and educational institutions). Advanced features are available.
Firewall Plus
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.
That's how PC Tools Firewall Plus provides world-leading protection, backed by regular Smart Updates, real-time protection and comprehensive network shielding to ensure your PC remains safe and hacker free. PC Tools products are trusted and used by millions of people every day to protect their home and business computers against online threats.
We recommend you use PC Tools Firewall Plus in combination with Spyware Doctor for comprehensive system protection against spyware, adware and other threats.
We recommend you use PC Tools Firewall Plus in combination with Spyware Doctor for comprehensive system protection against spyware, adware and other threats.
System Cleaner
Over 90 million downloads!!!
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy 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. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! :)
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy 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. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! :)
Memory Cleaner
Free RAM Optimizer XP
automatic memory cleaner
automatic memory cleaner
Free RAM Optimizer XP is a small utility that runs in the system tray and monitors your memory usage. If the available memory drops below a certain level, it will automatically attempt to free a specified amount of RAM, making it available to other applications. The tray icon indicates your current memory usage and you can also perform manual free-ups in 6mb increments.
Registry Cleaner
Abexo Registry Cleaner
Make your computer run faster with Abexo Registry Cleaner, Back up, clean up and defragment Windows registry the easy way.
Windows Vista compatible!
File Encryption
T r u e C r y p t
Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux
Main Features:
Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
Encrypts an entire hard disk partition or a storage device such as USB flash drive.
Disc Space Analyzer
Analyze the content of your hard drive
WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for
Microsoft Windows (all current variants).
LCD Maintenance
This program helps to locate and fix LCD screens dead pixels.
You can fix the stuck pixels by calling them to do rapid changes.
You need to run this program for a couple of hours.
There is no warranty on the result, but you don't really
have anything to lose trying it out. Good luck.
- FREE: http:udpix.free.fr
YouTube Video Converter
Online FLV Converter
About this service:
This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube's videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online.
It is using a compressed domain transcoder technology. It converts FLV to MPEG4 faster and less lossy than a typical transcoder.
When you submit an url, it will download and convert to the video format. Then you can download the converted file.
- FREE: http://vixy.net/ [or] http://www.flvix.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7MrpiN4boI
Resize Images Online
Shrink Pictures
This website was created out of frustration of users asking questions like How do I resize images? How do I make images smaller? and How do I shrink this picture for an avatar?. So, we created the Shrink Pictures tools that are no more difficult than posting in a Forum and now anyone can Resize Images and Digital Pictures.
Firefox Web Browser
FIREFOX 2
Firefox 2 delivers helpful new features to make your online experience more productive.
Firefox continues to lead the way in online security, and now includes active protection from online scams to keep you safer.
Choose from over a thousand useful add-ons that enhance Firefox. It’s easy to personalize Firefox to make it your own.
Picasa Web Album
PICASA - Fast and easy photo sharing from Google
Post photos and videos online in seconds
Share photos with friends and familyShare albums exclusively with friends and family, or make your albums public and share with the Picasa community.
View and save your friends' photosKeep track of your favorite people and see when they add something new. Download friends' albums too.
Enjoy photos at their bestSee big photos, scroll through them quickly, rotate and zoom.
Have fun with captions and comments.
- FREE: www.picasa.google.com/
DivX Player
Download free DivX software and get everything you need to create, play,
manage and burn your DivX videos, including…
DivX Community Codec
Great quality and compression
DivX Player
Play any DivX file
DivX Web Player
Play DivX videos in your browser
Stage6 Content Uploader
Upload and share videos
DivX Community Codec
Great quality and compression
DivX Player
Play any DivX file
DivX Web Player
Play DivX videos in your browser
Stage6 Content Uploader
Upload and share videos
Real Player Beta
The new RealPlayer BETA lets you:
Download Internet videos with one click
Build your own video playlist
Burn your favorite videos to CD or DVD
RealPlayer enables consumers to buy and download music that plays on more than 100 portable devices, including the Apple iPod. RealPlayer is the only digital-media player you need for finding and downloading new music, playing and managing audio and video clips, and taking your digital entertainment with you.
RealPlayer offers a streamlined interface that allows you to keep your media library close at hand. Keep all your digital-media clips organized in one place; save CD tracks with one click; pause and rewind live streams; transfer music to CDs and portable devices effortlessly; and enjoy clear, smooth video playback and multichannel, surround-sound support. Version 11 incorporates Real's new Harmony technology that lets consumers buy and play music from the Real store on more than 100 portable devices.
Winamp Media Player
Winamp is a free multimedia player made by Nullsoft. It supports numerous audio and video formats. It also plays streamed video and audio content, both live and recorded, authored worldwide. It has an extremely customizable media library, and allows you to rip and burn your favorite music CDs. Winamp has thousands of skins and plug-ins that allow you to change the look-and-feel of the player, as well as add new features. The player also has access to thousands of free songs, videos and online radio stations from SHOUTcast Radio and AOL Radio with XM.
Winamp 5.5, the 10th Anniversary Edition, adds a host of new features, including a new integrated user interface (Bento skin), support for album art, improved syncing with portable music players, new dynamic playlists, and an integrated browser for playing MP3 files from the Web.
- FREE: http://www.winamp.com/
Online Storage
Free online storage
Upload, access, share your music, video, photos
Upload, access, share your music, video, photos
This free service provides 500MB of storage and lets you upload an unlimited number of files (though no single file can exceed 25MB in size). All of the folders you place on 4shared.com's servers are permission-based, so you can easily make some folders available to anybody while restricting access to others. You can also password-protect your folders, which adds another layer of security. Visitors access the folders through an e-mail link.
- FREE: http://www.4shared.com/
Sound Editor
Cross-Platform Sound Editor
About Audacity
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
You can use Audacity to:
Record live audio.
Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
And more!
CD Ripper
Express Rip CD Ripper
Extract audio from CDs in perfect digital quality
Extract audio from CDs in perfect digital quality
Express Rip is a free program for Windows that lets you extract digital audio tracks directly from audio CDs to wav and mp3 audio files on your hard drive.
By using direct digital extraction, pure audio quality is maintained and the process is very fast.
Express Rip is free. It is also the fastest CD ripper in the world using proprietary optimizing systems.
Express Rip is free. It is also the fastest CD ripper in the world using proprietary optimizing systems.
Data Management
Viewers for Word
View, print and copy Microsoft Word documents,
even if you don't have Microsoft Word installed.
Adobe Reader [PDF]
PDF?
PDF (Portable Document Format) is a file format created by Adobe Systems Inc to enhance document exchange.
Documents in PDF are independent from device and display resolution and can be read on any operating system (Windows, Macintosh, Linux).
These files are a combination of vector graphics, text, and raster graphics. They support links (internal and external), forms, javascript and 3D objects. PDF documents may have different levels of encryption (view, print, select…) and even DRM.
Since the 90’s, Adobe’s PDF has become the standard file format for document exchange.
New Adobe Reader 8
Work smarter - a clean new look, custom toolbars and an RSS reader
Work faster - 2D acceleration (requires video card support, Win only)
Work together - new online conferencing with Acrobat Connect
The ONLY Reader that can open and view all PDF files with full functionality
- FREE: http://www.adobe.com/
File Conversion
Conversion Types
Zamzar supports conversion between a wide variety of different file formats.
- Document formats
- Image formats
- Music formats
- Video formats
- Compressed formats
- FREE: http://www.zamzar.com/
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