1. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.176 – Protect your computer from viruses and malicious programs.
2. Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition 8.0 – Protect your personal home computer from malware attacks.
3. Avira AntiVir Personal – Free Antivirus 8.2.0.334 – Detect and remove more than viruses from your computer.
4. LimeWire 4.18 – Share files online.
5. Avast Home Edition 4.8.1296.90115 – Scan your computer for viruses, worms, and Trojan horses.
6. Orbit Downloader 2.8.1 – Manage and accelerate file downloads.
7. Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware 1.33 – Detect and remove malware from your computer.
8. FrostWire 4.17.2 – Download and share files on Gnutella and Bittorrent network.
9. Advanced SystemCare Free 3.1.2 – Protect, repair, optimize, and clean your computer in one click.
10. Spybot – Search & Destroy 1.6 – Search your hard disk and Registry for threats to your security and privacy.
11. Download Accelerator Plus 9.0.0.7 – Improve download speeds, resume broken downloads, and find mirror sites.
12. youtube-downloader/”>YouTube Downloader 2.1.7 – Download YouTube videos and convert them to various formats.
13. Smart Defrag 1.10 – Defrag your hard drive in the background automatically.
14. IrfanView 4.2 – View and edit most graphics formats in a fast and simple way.
15. GOM Media Player 2.1.14.4525 – Play back video files in most of the popular video formats.
16. BitComet 1.05 – Share and download files from BitTorrent and chat with your friends.
17. FLV Player 2.0.25 – Play Flash video files on your PC.
18. PhotoScape 3.3 – View, edit, print, or add frames to your photos.
19. Adobe Reader 9 – Read Adobe PDF files on your desktop or on the Web.
20. RealPlayer 11 – Download and watch Web videos with a media player and jukebox from RealNetworks.
21. VLC Media Player 0.9.8a – Play audio and video files with in real-time and streaming modes.
22. PrimoPDF 4.1 – Print to PDF from Windows applications and optimize the PDF output.
23. Flash Player 10.0.12.36 – View Flash multimedia content through your browser.
24. Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 – Surf the Web, block pop-ups, and keep spyware at bay with this lean and fast open-source browser.
25. Windows Live Messenger 14.0.8050.1202 – Connect and share instantly on the worlds most popular IM network.

1. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.176 – Protect your computer from viruses and malicious programs.
2. Avira AntiVir Personal – Free Antivirus 8.2.0.334 – Detect and remove more than viruses from your computer.
3. LimeWire 4.18 – Share files online.
4. Ad-Aware 2008 7.1.0.11 – Protect your personal home computer from malware attacks.
5. Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware 1.33 – Detect and remove malware from your computer.
6. Avast Home Edition 4.8.1296.90115 – Scan your computer for viruses, worms, and Trojan horses.
7. FrostWire 4.17.2 – Download and share files on Gnutella and Bittorrent network.
8. Advanced SystemCare Free 3.1.2 – Protect, repair, optimize, and clean your computer in one click.
9. youtube-downloader/”>YouTube Downloader 2.1.7 – Download YouTube videos and convert them to various formats.
10. PhotoScape 3.3 – View, edit, print, or add frames to your photos.
11. Download Accelerator Plus 9.0.0.7 – Improve download speeds, resume broken downloads, and find mirror sites.
12. Spybot – Search & Destroy 1.6 – Search your hard disk and Registry for threats to your security and privacy.
13. IrfanView 4.2 – View and edit most graphics formats in a fast and simple way.
14. GOM Media Player 2.1.14.4525 – Play back video files in most of the popular video formats.
15. Orbit Downloader 2.8.1 – Manage and accelerate file downloads.
16. BitComet 1.05 – Share and download files from BitTorrent and chat with your friends.
17. FLV Player 2.0.25 – Play Flash video files on your PC.
18. VLC Media Player 0.9.8a – Play audio and video files with in real-time and streaming modes.
19. RealPlayer 11 – Download and watch Web videos with a media player and jukebox from RealNetworks.
20. Adobe Reader 9 – Read Adobe PDF files on your desktop or on the Web.
21. PrimoPDF 4.1 – Print to PDF from Windows applications and optimize the PDF output.
22. Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 – Surf the Web, block pop-ups, and keep spyware at bay with this lean and fast open-source browser.
23. Flash Player 10.0.12.36 – View Flash multimedia content through your browser.
24. Smart Defrag 1.10 – Defrag your hard drive in the background automatically.
25. DivX for Windows with DivX Player 7.0 – Create and watch videos in the DivX video format.

Features

Interface

Major revisions to Reader’s interface were made on September 28, 2006. In an interview with Robert Scoble, product manager Nick Baum stated that the redesign is a movement toward making news aggregation something for the general public to enjoy.

Here are some of the features that are now included within Google Reader:

• A front page that lets you see new items at a glance
• Import and export subscription lists as an OPML file
• Keyboard shortcuts for main functions
• Choice between list view or expanded view for item viewing (showing either just the story title or with a description, respectively)
• Automatic marking of items as read as they are scrolled past (expanded view only)
• Search in all feeds, across all updates from subscriptions
• An easter egg that allows a special “Ninja!” skin to be accessed if the user inputs the Konami Code.

Organization

Users can subscribe to feeds using either Google Reader’s search function, or by entering in the exact URL of the RSS or Atom feed. New posts from those feeds are then shown on the left-hand side of the screen. One can then order that list by date or relevance. Items can also be organized with labels, as well as being able to create “Starred Items” for easy access.

Sharing

Items in Google Reader can be shared with other Web users. Previously this was done by sending a link through e-mail, directing the user to the shared article; or by creating a basic webpage that includes all shared items from a user’s account. In December 2007, Google changed the sharing policy so that items the user marked as shared were automatically visible to their Google Talk contacts. Users criticized this change because there is no way to opt out. The URL for a user’s page of shared items contains a random string, and Google originally advertised this as a way to limit sharing to only those people to whom you give the address.

Offline access

Google Reader was the first application to make use of Google Gears, a browser extension that lets online applications work offline. Users who have installed the extension can download up to 2000 items to be read offline. After coming back online, Google Reader updates the feeds.

Mobile access

A mobile interface was released on May 18, 2006. It now can be used by devices that support XHTML or WAP 2.0. On May 12, 2008, Google announced a version of Google Reader targeted at iPhone users. It can be found here.[7]

iGoogle

On May 4, 2006, Google released a new feature[8] which enables feeds from Reader to be displayed on iGoogle (formerly Google Personalized Homepage).

Firefox integration

Google Reader is included within Mozilla Firefox’s feed recognition (in version 2.0 and higher), which can automatically redirect users to Google Reader’s Add Subscription screen.

Wii version

On May 8, 2007, Google created a version of Google Reader specifically formatted for the Wii web browser.

More Information

• Developed by Google
• Platform Web browsers
• Type RSS feed reader
• Website google.com/reader

1. Firefox 3 – Firefox remains the most-recommended web browser for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux users. Reviews say Firefox 3 and (and its 3.1 beta) are even better, using less memory than earlier versions and incorporating other… improvements as well. It’s by far the most customizable web browser, with thousands of add-ons available. For speed, Firefox rivals the new Google Chrome browser.
2. Flock 2 – Reviews recommend Flock 2 for people who ‘live on the web’ since it has all the speed, security and options of Firefox 3, but builds in a blog editor, photo-up-loader and big sidebar to keep current with social networking… friends, RSS feeds and photo-sharing sites.
3. Google Chrome Beta – The new Google Chrome browser is stripped down for fast browsing, with superb built-in search features, private browsing and a task manager to help prevent crashes. Chrome also makes it possible to use Google desktop… applications offline. However, it’s still a work in progress with few add-ons available, and since it’s so new, some sites won’t display properly. Chrome is Windows-only.
4. Opera 9.5 – Reviews and tests recommend the free Opera web browser as fast and lean, especially for older or underpowered PC and Mac computers apt to bog down on more resource-hungry browsers. Despite its small file size, Opera beats… the other browsers in compliance with web standards, and builds in loads of convenient features. It runs on Windows, Mac or Linux, and excels in synchronization. Reviews also praise its mobile version.
5. Internet Explorer 8 – Reviews say that if you don’t want to switch from Internet Explorer, upgrading to version 8 over version 7 is a good choice. Although IE8 is now more resistant to crashes and offers private browsing, it’s still much… slower and uses more resources than Firefox, Chrome and Opera. But reviewers do agree that Internet Explorer 8 is a big improvement over version 7.

Source

Flash Player provides a more secure, lightweight, robust runtime environment for rich media and enterprise-ready rich internet applications.

Flash Player 9 achieves up to 10 times faster performance through ActionScript 3.0 and a new ActionScript Virtual Machine, which features a Just In Time compiler that translates ActionScript bytecode to native machine code for maximum execution speed.

Installed on over 600 million internet-connected PCs and mobile devices worldwide, Flash Player provides consistent and predictable application runtime capabilities across browsers, desktops and other devices.

Flash Player and Adobe Reader provide client runtime capabilities for the Adobe Engagement Platform, which delivers a programming model, tools, components and services that enable designers and developers to create and deliver rich, vibrant, branded content and applications to mass audiences in virtually every medium.

Other Information

• License: Free
• Type: freeware
• Platform : Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista
• Manufacturer: Adobe
• Size: 1.4MB
• System Requirements: Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape or Opera web browser

This version is for Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Netscape web browsers. A version for Internet Explorer is also available.

The latest version is a preview release and now supports H.264 video, so you can play non-DRM iTunes videos, podcasts and embed HD video on your website, playable via Flash player.

Download Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124

Features

• License: Free
• Requirements: Internet Explorer 5.5, Netscape, Mozilla Firefox
• Limitations: No limitations
• Date Added: Date unavailable

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1. AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0.175 – Impressive and free antivirus package
2. Spybot Search and Destroy 1.6 – Protect your PC from the latest spyware
3. LimeWire 4.18.6 – Clear, reliable and free file sharing software
4. ZoneAlarm Free 8 – Major update to the world-famous firewall
5. Apple iTunes 8.01 – Major upgrade to the media player
6. DirectX 9.0c – The latest update to this driver
7. WinRar 3.80 – Create your own RAR archives
8. Avast! Home 4.8.1282 – Free Vista-compatible anti-virus client
9. Winamp 5.541 – Popular and extensive audio player
10. Windows Live Messenger 8.5 – Chat with MSN and Yahoo buddies
11. OpenOffice 2.4.1 – Comprehensive free office suite
12. Adobe Reader 9 – Latest version of the PDF viewer
13. Microsoft Windows Media Player 10 – The all-singing, all-dancing player from Microsoft
14. MusicMatch Jukebox 9.0 – An audio player with more features than most (discontinued)
15. eraser-586a/”>Eraser 5.86a – Permanently erase important files
16. Microsoft Windows Defender 7 – Update to the anti-spyware tool
17. AVG Anti-Spyware Free Edition 7.5.1.43 – Basic protection from online threats
18. SiSoft Sandra Lite 2009 v15.42 – Benchmark & diagnose your system
19. Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124 – Latest version of the Flash player
20. CCleaner 2.13.720 – System cleansing & optimisation tool
21. Download Accelerator Plus 8.7.0.0 Beta – Give your downloads a kick start
22. Post-it Software Notes- Create quick notes on the Windows Desktop
23. Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.18 – Minor update to the web browser
24. 100 Sudoku Puzzles – 100 different free Sudoku puzzles in five degrees of difficulty
25. Audacity 1.3.6 Beta – Powerful audio editor

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flock

Bloggers are a target audience for Flock, which is based on the Mozilla Firefox, because it has been designed to keep people up to date with news, blogs and when friends appear online.

Favourite websites can be kept up to date with other computers that a user may have access to by using the del.icio.us and shadows services. These websites can then be shared with other users,

Flock organises news from RSS feeds in a pane rather than as bookmarks. Each feed is checked for new stories hourly. Flock shows an incon in the address bar to show that a feed is available from that page. Simply click on that icon to sign up.

Flock can automatically add photos and snippets of other webpages to blogs written with Blogger, LiveJournal, Typepad and WordPress. A special web snippets bar has been added to store quotes from other websites. Users simply drag pictures onto the Photo icon to upload, or drag and drop images which are automatically stored on to a Flickr or PhotoBucket account.

Search with Flock is slightly different from other browsers because as text is typed in, Flock will start searching from the web as well as a user’s favourites and history. These initial results are shown in a drop down menu.

Note that this is the major release of v2 based on Firefox 3.

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Flock Browser – The Social Web Browser