FrostWire

FrostWire, a BitTorrent client (formerly a Gnutella client), is a collaborative effort from many Open Source and freelance developers located from all around the world.

Using the most recent version of FrostWire allows users to enjoy the best program functionality. Bugs reported in older versions have been fixed for the latest version. Any users with FrostWire 2.5 or earlier MUST update.

Frostwire's features include:

1. Completely Free & Open Source!
2. Faster Download Speeds
3. No Spyware. No Adware. Guaranteed.
4. iTunesâ„¢ Compatible!
5. Faster Torrent Speeds
6. Friendly Online Chat Rooms
7. Bittorrent Support!
8. Even More Connections

New & Improved Skins

eMule is a filesharing client which is based on the eDonkey2000 network but offers more features than the standard client.

1. Clients use several networks to create one reliable network. (ED2K, Source Exchange, Kad) Kad is now in an open testphase.
2. eMule's Queue and Credit system helps to ensure that everyone will get the file he wants by promoting those that upload back to the network.
3. eMule is completely free. eMule is also completely free of any Adware, Spyware, and ect. We do this for fun and knowledge, not for money.
4. Each file checked for corruptions while downloading to ensure an error free file.
5. The eMules Intelligent Corruption Control helps to speed up the correction of corrupted parts.
6. Auto priorities and Source management allows you to start many downloads without having to monitor them.
7. The Preview function allows you to look at your Videos and Archives before they are completed. For video previewing, we recommend the Video Lan Client.
8. The eMule features webservices and a webserver that allows you to have quick access to and from the internet.
9. You can create categories for your download to organize them.
10. To find the file you want, eMule offers a wide range of search possibilities which include: Servers (Local, and Global), web based (Jigle, and Filedonkey), and Kad (Still in Alpha).
11. eMule also allows you to use very complex Boolean searches that make the searches much more flexible.
12. With the messaging and friend system, you can send messages to other Clients and add them as friends. In your friend list, you can always see if a friend is online.
13. With the build in IRC client, you can chat with other downloaders and chatters around the globe.

PowerArchiver

PowerArchiver offers hundreds of features, yet remains easy to use, small and fast. Novice users will find a familiar interface complete with tutorial and detailed help, while more experienced users can take advantage of full Explorer integration, multiple encryption methods and advanced compression algorithms.

Here is a brief list of some of the key features found in PowerArchiver:

1. Preview Window
2. Full Windows Vista Support
3. Superior ZIP Support
4. 7-Zip Compression
5. Multiple Formats Support Including ISO
6. New Queue System (Add/Extract/Backup) and PowerArchiver Starter
7. Unmatched Security
8. Automated Backups
9. Guaranteed Compatibility and Explorer Integration
10. Compression Profiles
11. Useful Tools

Comodo Internet Security

Comodo claim that their firewall is unique in that it passes all known leak tests to ensure the integrity of data entering and exiting your system. Comodo has put firewall through all kinds of sophisticated tests to ensure its firewall powerful enough to ward off these attacks with default settings. No other firewall has had to work this hard.

• PC Magazine Online's Editor's Choice
• Secures against internal and external attacks
• Blocks internet access to malicious Trojan programs
• Safeguards your Personal data against theft
• Delivers total end-point security for Personal Computers and Networks

Songbird Player

Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development.

It is integrated with these Web 2.0 services: mashTape, SHOUTcast Radio, Last.fm Scrobbling, and Songkick concert tickets. You can enhance Songbird with community-contributed plugins like Media Flow.

Features include:

• GStreamer
• Smart Playlists
• Built-In Web Browser
• Multi-language Support
• Automatic Updates
• Setup Assistant
• Custom User Interface
• Library Management
• Developer Support

Beta features include portable device support, metadata management, album artwork, and subscriptions.

Hotspot Shield

Hotspot Shield is a versatile internet security and privacy solution. In addition to protecting you from dangerous online threats, it also protects your privacy and enables you to access any blocked websites and content.

Hotspot Shield creates a virtual private network (VPN) between your device and its Internet gateway. This impenetrable tunnel prevents snoopers, hackers, and ISP‘s from spying on your web browsing activities, instant messages, downloads, credit card information or anything else you send over the network.

Features:

• Unblock any websites – Can’t access YouTube or Facebook at school or work? By using Hotspot Shield VPN software you can unblock YouTube, unblock Facebook or unblock any sites from anywhere.
• Protect your IP address – VPN software enables you to protect your IP address so you can enjoy private browsing and prevent hackers and spammers from monitoring your online activities.
• Surf the Web anonymously – By creating an encrypted tunnel between your computer and Hotspot Shield servers, Hotspot Shield enables you to surf the Web anonymously without being tracked or spied on.
• Protect yourself from snoopers and hackers at WiFi hotspots, hotels, airports and corporate offices with the Hotspot Shield WiFi security feature.
• Secure your web session – Secure your data, online shopping, and personal information online with HTTPS encryption.
• Protect your devices from malware attacks – The latest version of our software now offers complete malware protection!

AVG Free Edition

• AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is trusted antivirus and antispyware protection for Windows available to download for free. In addition, the new included LinkScanner® Active Surf-Shield checks web pages for threats at the only time that matters - when you're about to click that link.
  AVG Anti-Virus Free has these following features:
• Award-winning antivirus and antispyware
• Real-time safe internet surfing and searching
• Quality proven by 80 million of users
• Easy to download, install and use
• Protection against viruses and spyware
• Compatible with Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP

Maxthon Internet Browser

Maxthon Internet Browser software is a powerful tabbed browser with a highly customizable interface. It is based on the Internet Explorer browser engine (your most likely current web browser) which means that what works in the IE browser will work the same in Maxthon tabbed browser but with many additional efficient features:

The Ultimate Out-of-box Experience

• Easy to use and powerful straight out of the box
• Download now for free, forever!

Maxthon Works the Way You Want It To

• Swap, add, move, remove, and change Maxthon's tool bars, icons, menus, colors, skins, and layouts until it looks the way you would have designed it.
• Don't like menus? Use hot keys, word aliases, toolbars, or mouse gestures - it's all up to you.
• Pick from more than 1,400 plug-ins that make Maxthon the do-all of browsers.
• Remote conferencing, screen capture, electronic passports, and automatic password inlcuded, free.

Security.

• Maxthon is 100% free of viruses, spyware, adware and any kind of malware.
• The built-in Ad Hunter blocks harmful, or just irritating ads, images and pages.
• Filter packs screen out offensive and irritating Web pages.

NVIDIA Forceware

NVIDIA ForceWare software unleashes the full power and features in NVIDIA's desktop, gaming, platform, workstation, laptop, multimedia, and mobile products. Delivering a proven record of compatibility, reliability, and stability with the widest range of games and applications, ForceWare software ensures the best experience with your NVIDIA hardware.

1. Incredible 3D and video performance for all of your applications.
2. Rock-solid system stability, greater compatibility, and reliability with NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA).
3. Industry-leading features for graphics, audio, video, communications, storage, and security.
4. Robust product support for over ten unique operating systems.
5. Continual product performance and feature updates for the life of your NVIDIA hardware                                            

                                         

Winamp

Winamp is a skinnable, multi-format media player.

Winamp supports a wide variety of contemporary and specialized music file formats, including MIDI, MOD, MPEG-1 audio layers 1 and 2, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WAV, OGG Vorbis, and Windows Media Audio. It supports gapless playback for MP3 and AAC, and Replay Gain for volume leveling across tracks. In addition, Winamp can play and import music from audio CDs, optionally with CD-Text, and can also burn music to CDs. Winamp supports playback of Windows Media Video and Nullsoft Streaming Video, as well as most of the video formats supported by Windows Media Player. 5.1 Surround sound is supported where formats and decoders allow.

Winamp supports many types of streaming media: Internet radio, Internet telelvision, XM Satellite Radio, AOL video, Singingfish content, podcasts, and RSS media feeds. It also has extendable support for portable media players, and users can access their media libraries anywhere via internet connections.

You can extend Winamp's functionality through the use of plug-ins, which are available on the Winamp site.

iTunes

iTunes is a free application for Mac and PC. It plays all your digital music and video. It syncs content to your iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV. And it's an entertainment superstore that stays open 24/7.

1. Organize your music into playlists
2. Edit file information
3. Record compact discs
4. Copy files to an iPod or other digital audio player
5. Purchase music and videos on the Internet through the built-in iTunes store
6. Run a visualizer to display graphical effects in time to the music
7. Encode music into a number of different audio formats.

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. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! :)

Cleans the following:

1. Internet Explorer
2. Firefox
3. Google Chrome
4. Opera
5. Safari
6. Windows - Recycle Bin, Recent Documents, Temporary files and Log files.
7. Registry cleaner
8. Third-party applications
9. 100% Spyware FREE

U Torrent

µTorrent is a small and incredibly popular BitTorrent client.

Micro-Sized Yet Feature Filled

Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification (compatible with Azureus 2.4.0.0 and above, BitComet 0.63 and above) and peer exchange.

Resource-Friendly

µTorrent was written with efficiency in mind. Unlike many torrent clients, it does not hog valuable system resources - typically using less than 6MB of memory, allowing you to use the computer as if it weren't there at all. Additionally, the program itself is contained within a single executable less than 1 MB in size.

Skinnable and Localized

Various icon, toolbar graphic and status icon replacements are available, and creating your own is very simple. µTorrent also has support for localization, and with a language file present, will automatically switch to your system language. If your language isn't available, you can easily add your own, or edit other existing translations to improve them!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

                                                                             

BitTorrent

BitTorrent is a torrent client for sharing data via the BitTorrent protocol. The software enables users to share, search, download and upload application, music, video, document, picture and other files. BitTorrent supports download of multiple files in parallel from different peers. For every download or upload the interface shows download and upload speed, file size, file name, progress, seeds, peers etc. Overall usage can be monitored in tabular and graphical views. New torrent or magnet files (compatible with Azureus) can be added through torrent sites or from within BitTorrent.

Some of its advanced features include:

1. Bandwidth limiter
2. Data transfer quota limiter
3. Download scheduler
4. IP Blocklist
5. Magnet URI
6. Data transfer quota limiter
7. Proxy support
8. Web Interface
9. Multiple languages                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

K-Lite Codec Pack

The K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of DirectShow filters, VFW/ACM codecs, and tools. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding audio and video formats. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your audio and movie files.                                          

1. It is updated frequently. So it is always up-to-date with the newest and/or best components.
2. All components have been carefully selected for specific purposes. It is not just a random bunch of stuff thrown together.
3. It is very user-friendly and easy to use.
4. The installation is fully customizable, meaning that you are able to install just those components that you really want.
5. The customization abilities even go beyond the component level. Some components are able to handle multiple formats. You can specify exactly which components should handle which formats. The pack can thus be fully tweaked to your own specific needs and preferences.
6. Uninstallation removes everything that was installed by the pack. Including all registry keys.
7. It is extremely easy to make a fully customized unattended installation with the integrated wizard.
8. It does not contain any bad, buggy or unstable codecs.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Netscape

AOL stopped development of the Netscape browser in February 2008 so is no longer officially supported.

Netscape Browser provides more security options, streamlines more standard browsing tasks and arms internet users with more timesaving solutions to their browsing needs.

Security Center

Quickly view the status of security protection provided by the Netscape Browser. The browser will automatically let you know when there is a problem.

Spyware & Adware Protection

The Netscape Browser provides real time Spyware scanning when you download files from the web. You may also run memory and disk scans for Spyware protection and prevention.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Google Toolbar

Keep the power of Google search close at hand. Google Toolbar puts a search box in your browser, making it easier than ever to find anything you want on the Web.

New and improved features:

1. Suggestions for navigation errors
2. AutoLink
3. Web History
4. Bookmarks
5. Send To
6. Translate
7. SpellCheck
8. PageRank Display
9. Highlight Search Terms
10. Open with Google Docs
11. Send with Gmail
12. Custom Layouts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Adobe Reader

Adobe Reader software is the global standard for electronic document sharing. It is the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all PDF documents. Use Adobe Reader to view, search, digitally sign, verify, print, and collaborate on Adobe PDF files.

1. View, print, and search PDF files, including PDF Portfolios and PDF maps
2. Author, store, and share documents, and share your screen, using Acrobat.com services
3. Experience richer content and greater interactivity with native support for Adobe Flash technology
4. Review documents using familiar commenting tools such as sticky notes, highlighting, lines, shapes, and stamps (When enabled by Acrobat Pro or Acrobat Pro Extended)
5. Digitally sign PDF documents (When enabled by Acrobat Pro or Acrobat Pro Extended)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
      

ALL Player

ALLPlayer is one of the most popular programs for watching movies with matching subtitles. It plays all known media formats, RAR files, and futhermore has an implemented LiveUpdate function to update the latest codecs if there is a problem with opening a movie file.

Main features:

1. Most popular formats such as DivX, XviD, MP3, and AVI, FLV, MP4, 3GP, MKV, M2TS, MPG, MPEG, RMVB, WMV, QuickTime, MOV, FLAC, APE, and many more less known formats can be played thanks to codecs downloaded by the program (only ALLPlayer needs to be installed).
2. DVD support.
3. Two monitors or monitor and TV support.
4. Support for Dolby Surround, SPDIF and 3D audio.
5. Intelligent subtitles - the program checks the length of the subtitles and sets the time duration.
6. Subtitles editor.
7. LiveUpdate - an option for detecting missing codecs needed to open a file.
8. AVI Doctor - repairs damaged avi files. This function allows you to watch a movie which is damaged, or a movie which is downloading.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                                    

Any Video Converter

Any Video Converter is an All-in-One video converting tool with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed and excellent video quality. It allows you to effortlessly convert video files between every format! It can convert almost all video formats including DivX, XviD, MOV, rm, rmvb, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, AVI to MPEG-4 movie format for iPod/PSP or other portable video device, MP4 player or smart phone. It also supports any user defined video file formats as the output. Any Video Converter makes it easy for anyone to enjoy the any format video with your iPod, PSP, mobile phone or MP4 player.

1. User-friendly interface that is easy to use.
2. Converts all video formats to Apple iPod Video, Sony PSP and more
3. Batch convert any video formats including avi, wmv, asf, mpg, mp4, etc.
4. Support DivX and Xvid avi format as importing and exporting video
5. Support default video/audio settings or user customized parameters for video and audio.
6. Has the option to preview the video in real-time before conversion .
7. World's fastest video conversion speed with stunning video and audio quality.
8. Supports adjust many video/audio options for MP4 files. For example, video/audio sample rate, bit rate, video size...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

QuickTime Player

QuickTime Player from Apple allows the playback of quicktime movies (.mov) and many other formats.

The new QuickTime Player not only delivers startling quality, but it's easier to use than ever. It requires no set up for content that streams over the network. Instead, QuickTime Player automatically determines your system's connection speed and chooses the highest quality stream for the amount of bandwidth you have available. And if you ever lose a connection while watching streaming video, QuickTime Player automatically reconnects. Now, thats convenience.

1. Playback of 3GPP and 3GPP2 files
2. Playback of MPEG-4 video, H.274, AAC audio & Instant-On media
3. Easy-to-use controls
4. Enhanced interface
5. Bass and treble controls
6. Balance control
7. Streaming media support
8. Ability to save movie favorites
9. Ability to view VR & interactive content
10. H.264 video
11. Multichannel audio playback
12. Live resize
13. New playback capabilities
14. Zero config streaming                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          http://filehippo.com/download_quicktime_player/download/b8cb01efa3548888cdfb2d9101054072/
      

                                                         

TeamViewer is the All-In-One Solution for Remote Access and Support over the Internet.

TeamViewer connects to any PC or server around the world within a few seconds. You can remote control your partner's PC as if you were sitting right in front of it.

Features:

1. control computers remotely via the internet,
2. record your session and covert it to AVI,
3. online meetings,
4. Drag & Drop files,
5. Multi-Monitor support.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                        

Picasa

Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips. And Picasa makes it a snap to share your pictures, you can email, print photos home, make gift CDs, instantly share your images and albums, and even post pictures on your own blog.Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized.

The latest version includes Web Albums (along with other improvements), but requires that you request an account from Google.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

 

Yahoo! Messenger

                                                                               

Keep friends at your fingertips with the new Yahoo! Messenger:

• Easier ways to stay up to date - See more updates from your friends in the detailed Messenger list
• Show off your status - Easily add links and emoticons to your status messages
• Watch videos together - Share videos from popular sites and watch them with friends right in your IM window

Other features include:

1. Instant message with one friend, or conference in a bunch
2. Send text messages (SMS) to friends' mobile phones
3. Join a chat room to meet new friends while you discuss your favorite topics
4. Make free PC-to-PC calls and PC-to-phone calls for as low as 1¢ a minute (plus free voicemail!)
5. Use the built-in media player to watch web videos and view photos with friends
6. Show your style with emoticons, Avatars, audibles and IMVironments
7. Share securely with automatic file scanning for users of Norton AntiVirus or Internet Security                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                

Opera Mini

A full-featured Internet browser, Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat. And because we know that our users have different needs, you can customize the look and content of your Opera browser with a few clicks of the mouse.

1. Speed Dial: Your favorite sites are just one click away at all times.
2. Search Shortcuts: Faster search - type your queries directly into the address bar.
3. Trash Can: Instantly reopen recently closed tabs.
4. Mouse Gestures: With Opera you can navigate the Web with your mouse.
5. Opera Link: Synchronize data of your choice online, or among different computers and devices.
6. Quick Find: Opera remembers not only the titles and addresses, but also the actual content of the Web pages you visit.
7. Feed Preview: Preview a Feed by clicking on the feed icon, and you will see it in clean and efficient multiple-column layout.
8. Quick and customizable Web search: Get quick access to Google, eBay, Amazon and more with the search field in the upper right corner.