IncrediMail is very easy to setup and fun to use.
Unfortunately Your Home page will be changed and 2 internet shortcuts placed on Your desktop when You install IncrediMail.
IncrediMail lacks some productivity features if you have to deal with large amounts of mail.
Mozilla Thunderbird is a fully featured, secure and very functional email client.
Thunderbird manages multiple POP and IMAP email accounts and reads RSS feeds.Thats if You can workout how to get it setup.
When it comes to drive emulation, DAEMON Tools is pretty much the standard. It's free for personal use, easy to use, light on resources and does exactly what it says on the tin.
Dolphin is the first Gamecube emulator able to run commercial games! Even at its early stage some games manage to load and run but not perfectly. Please remember that Dolphin is an experimental GameCube emulator so many games might not run and for the ones that do run you will need a strong PC.
Kega Fusion emulates all of the Sega consoles with varying levels of success, You can expect good results with Roms for earlier systems such as the MegaDrive/Genesis or Master System.
PCSX2 is still in development, support for commercial PS2 games is still patchy to say the least and where it does exist, can often require a small supercomputer to achive playable framerates but will run many PS1 games fairly well on a moderate machine.
Project 64 is the best Nintendo 64 emulator around, works well with many commercial games.The only issue is in setting up a controller You need to look in Options,"Configure Controller Plugin" And then you have to press the button on the controller For whatever buttons you want them to be.
VBA is the best and most popular Gameboy Advance emulator around. Emulates GBA, GBC, SGB, GBA roms! Supports ZIP-ed roms, so that after downloading files from the net you don't even have to un-zip them.
Did you always want to design computer games? And you don't want to spend a lot of time learning to become a programmer? Then you came to the right place. Game Maker is a program that allows you to make exciting computer games without the need to write a single line of code. Using easy to learn drag-and-drop actions you can make professional looking games in little time. Games with backgrounds, animated graphics, music and sound effects.
Platinum Arts Sandbox Free 3D Game Maker is an open source game design program for kids and adults. Through the ingame and cooperative editing and focus on ease of use the program is easy enough for kids to use but powerful enough for full game projects. Sandbox includes Save The Princess Gameplay, an RPG Maker, a Sidescoller maker, a Movie Maker aka Machinima, Save The Banana Base Capture, and more! Sandbox is already being used in many schools and colleges throughout the world.
Generate a ASCII graphic from a word or text. More than 130 fonts. For on the fly ASCII text. Simply set a width, Choose a font and type your text.
Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own custom image created on the fly. Available image formats include JPG,GIF,PNG,PSD,XCF .Some of the graphics on this site were made with help from the Cool Text.
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
This website converts your picture to ASCII text art - a jumble of letters, numbers and symbols that do not appear to have any significance until you step back and look at the whole picture. It has no practical purpose, other than the cool factor.
Why not personalize the look of the folders on Your PC with Your own icon's. Simply make a icon with Ico FX then right click a folder that You want to change the look of go to properties/customize/change icon and select your new icon.This should help You to navigate Your folders more easily as well as making them look cool.
All Free Sound Recorder is a powerful audio recording tool that allows the users to directly record audio into MP3, WMA or WAV format..It produces the high quality recording. With professional recording features, it enables you to accomplish all kinds of recording
Link credit...Chris Ingram - cheltenham
Watch enough different kinds of videos in Windows and eventually you are bound to run into a codec problem. Codecs encode and decode digital data, and popular media viewers like Windows Media Player don't always have the codecs needed to view all types of videos.The ALShow Codecs Included Movie Player plays any video for you without searching for codecs. Online Codecs Center downloads video codecs and audio codecs automatically when needed.
TVersity Media Server is a software package that allows a pc to stream content to UPnP devices, such as the Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii, regardless of the limitations of the device.For example, the Xbox 360 does not support certain codecs or Internet videos such as YouTube. TVersity Media Server transcodes the video on the PC into a compatible codec and then streams it to the device.
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats.Evan playing incomplete or fragmentized files giving You a chance to check out the quality, of a file before it is fully downloaded.It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
Winamp has all the usual feachers that You would expect from a media player but we think the best thing about it is its visualization plug-ins that provide some of the best sound activated graphics around.
Winamp installs quickly and is mercifully quiet about nagging for registration and upgrades.
Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places and share with others.
Use your webcam with multiple programs simultaneously.
- View Your desktop in Your video window.
- Take snap shots of Your video window.
- Add cool animations to your video window.
- Show your local day and date in your video window.
- Add live CGI graphics like fire and water effects.
Open Office is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
Get technical information and tags of a lot of multimedia files.
Supported formats :
Video : AVI/OGM/MKV/MPG/VOB/MP4/3GP/...
Audio :
MP3/OGG/MKA/MP4/AAC/...
7-Zip unpacks a host of archive formats, including ZIP, RAR,TAR, GZ, and its own 7z format. Unlike WinZip, though, it can create TAR and GZ archives, which are commonly used on Unix and Linux systems.7-Zip is fine for casual users with a bit of computer savvy, but it's especially well-suited for developers and anyone else who moves between the Windows and Linux/Unix worlds.
One of the first applications built to find and remove adware and spyware, Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition's excellent reputation is well justified.
Free antivirus software with spyware protection. Avast say "Simply install and forget." and boste to haveing "Daily automatic updates that ensure continuous data protection against all types of malware and spyware." But remember since no single antispyware program can detect and kill all spyware,Avast should be just one piece of your security arsenal.
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition delivers good basic anti virus and antispyware protection for Windows. But can sometimes be to restrictive.Limited features, no support, for private and non-commercial use only.
CCleaner 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.
warning We would not advise the use of the registry cleaner to anyone that is not using a 100% genuine windows operating system.
System monitor application for Windows that detects the central processing unit, RAM, motherboard chipset, and other hardware features of a modern pc, and presents the information in one window.It has an unusual ability to directly detect hardware.It's ability to document clock speed makes it an useful tool for motherboard overclockers.
Easy to use and effective game boost allows you to shut down and restart unnecessary system processes with just one click. It will improve your computers perfomance when gaming allowing games to start and run faster. Although game boost is intended for use while gaming it can improve the speed of your pc for general use as well.
If your having trouble playing an audio or video file the most likely problem is that you do not have the right codec. GSpot tells you what codecs the file needs to works so that you can download them.
K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs, DirectShow filters and tools.Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video formats.The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play all the popular audio and video formats.
A useful tool for fixing invalid paths and other registry issues that can slow down your pc. Annoyingly Registry Repair puts an automatic startup entry in your pc's registry every time that it ts used
warning We would not advise the use of windows registry repair to anyone that is not using a 100% genuine windows operating system.
Speed Fan monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware, monitor chips. It is able to change fan speeds according to system temperatures.
warning This program can be a useful tool for overclocking but we recommend it only for experienced users playing around with computers fan settings can be detrimental to your system.
Another Bittorrent client is quite plain looking. But don't let the appearance fool you: this product is solid, and offers good functionality. You can easily configure the display to show stats/seeds/trackers. You can easily pause and queue any torrent at any time. You can also set timers on your upload options (very nice for serious P2P users). And the product is written in the lean Python/wxPython code languages.
Bit Torrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data. Bit Torrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files
We would highly recommend that You use a IP blocker such as peer guardian 2 whist using bit torrent.
Linux and OS X people: rejoice! Here is a software that is very friendly towards your operating systems, and many About.com readers say good things about this product. It has a clean metallic-but-soft interface design, and most any statistic and metric you might ever want to see about your uploads and downloads. Like most torrent clients, the product is free, and built/supported by programming enthusiasts who truly believe in file sharing.
Protect Your computer from prying eyes with Peer Guardian 2.
Phoenix Labs’ premier IP blocker for Windows. Peer Guardian 2 integrates support for multiple lists, list editing, automatic updates, and blocking all of IPv4 (TCP, UDP, ICMP, etc), making it the safest and easiest way to protect your privacy on P2P.
Known as both "u-torrent" and "micro torrent", this is the most popular torrent tool today. uTorrent has all the functions a torrent downloader will ever need, and it only requires 1 MB of hard drive space and memory. uTorrent has all the downloading and seeding performance of its competitors, but with minimal impact to the rest of your computer's speed.
You can call it 'bloatware', or you can call it 'the Lexus of torrent software': Vuze is a large software product that offers a smorgasbord of features (most of which you may never use). You can play any media in Vuze, including HD videos. You can play music, and run most any media in this product. Apparently, you can also use Vuze to run media on your iPhone, Xbox, or PSP. Vuze is very popular, and you'll want to give Vuze a try for a couple days and decide for yourself if this powerful product fits your style of downloading and viewing media.
AST,Inc's Ace ExplorerA is identical to AST,Inc's
Enigma browser.However with features including e-mail,Web page editing,font changes,zooming,and browsing via proxy server.It makes for a good browser choice what ever the name is.
A web Browser for Windows that allows user to surf multiple Web sites within one browser window. It also includes many advanced features such as Mouse Gestures, built-in syntax highlighted HTML source viewer, powerful built-in Web page analyzer.
Advanced Browser is a Internet Explorer-based (tabbed) browser made by "AST, Inc". It is fast, stable and user-friendly. It is feature packed providing auto-refresh options as well as options to block the download of Macromedia Flash, pictures, videos, sounds, and ActiveX components. Disappointingly not featuring private browsing and loses a star for being IE based.
Avant Browser's user-friendly interface brings a new level of clarity and efficiency to your browsing experience, and frequent upgrades have steadily improved its reliability.
This browser's slogan is “Mozilla power, Mac style.” Designed to bring Mozilla's technology into harmony with Mac OS X, Camino integrates seamlessly in a way that Firefox hasn't yet managed. Camino is faster than Firefox
The first impressions of CometBird are that it loads up a lot faster than Firefox.The next impression about CometBird is that it looks very clean - an interface that is so like Firefox, yet a little different...
Comodo Dragon is made from the Chromium Browser used by Google Chrome.However,Comodo Dragon is a little safer than Google Chrome in that It does not transmit errors to websites that you visit like Google Chrome does. This helps protect you because websites that are trying to attack your computer will use error information for the attack.
This web browser for Windows has a unique feeture that lets You surf the web with a transparent browser.You can click through the browser to your open applications and work seemlessly.Ideal for viewing video or TV and browsing the web simultaneously.
Epiphany is designed for simplicity and speed. An offshoot of Galeon, it is the default web browser or the GNOME desktop. ( Epiphany will also run under other desktops.)
With excellent security, advanced features and amazing customisation options, Firefox is one of the best Cross-Platform browsers around. This is without doubt the best browser around, if there is a feature missing or something you done like there will be a plugin to address it. If your not sure which browser to get then get this one. Oddball Links is designed for Firefox.
Fast and reliable web browser for Windows loaded with features such as form filler, popup blocker, login management and privacy protection.
A Cross-Platform Browser that gets the most out of Facebook & Twitter.Flock is fast but has its flaws like it can't use the Ral Player plug in to downlaod video.
Galeon's slogan is “The web. Only the web.” It was one of the first projects to take Mozilla's rendering engine and focus on its original goal: web browsing. Galeon focuses on web features for power users. Built for GNOME, Galeon will also run under other desktop environments.
Where previous versions of IE have fallen short, the newest version is a vast improvement. Windows Only - but you knew that. If you are running IE7 or less, get the upgrade....... or a different browser. Browsers based on IE are more likely to display sites incorrectly.
A hybrid engine browser made of the 3 best engines out there, Gecko, Trident and WebKit. Users can switch to any of the specified engines within Lunascape with just few clicks. Also the user can associate any of the 3 engines to a specified website swtiching automatically,another good feature is that it can use both Internet Explorer and Firefox plugins. Misses out on 5 Stars because it buries commonly used browser features too deep in the options for most users.
A powerful and easy-to-use Cross-Platform Browser.Try the only browser with Opera Turbo technology, and speed up your Internet connection.
As a way of avoiding spyware and pop-ups, Torpark successfully allows you to surf the Web anonymously, unfortunately xB Browser is very slow making it impractical for every day use.
This Internet Explorer add-on automatically refreshes Internet Explorer browser windows for you.It is very lightweight and intergrates tightly with IE takeing up very little resources.You can set an interval for each individual browser window.
AddThis helps website publishers and bloggers spread their content across the web by making it easy for visitors to bookmark and share content to their favorite social destinations. AddThis is fast, powerful and easy to install. Even better, it's free and offers sophisticated analytics to help users understand how and where their content is being shared.
FileZilla is an Open Source FTP client that basically lets you connect to a server which has FTP access enabled. Once connected, it lets you upload and download files and directory structures. It can also perform basic actions like changing the file attributes.
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page...
Get a free hit counter for your web site from FreeLogs.com You can choose Your counter from a large selection of styles and decide whether to count every hit or just unique ip addresses.
IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and JavaScript engines of IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. This is the tool of choose for those coding by hand. This project is mature. However, there may be still some bugs and missing features that are being worked on.
The Webalizer is a fast, free web server log file analysis program. It produces highly detailed, easily configurable usage reports in HTML format, for viewing with a standard web browser.
