eMule 49b

eMule is one of the biggest and most reliable peer-to-peer file sharing clients around the world. Many developers contribute to the project, so the network gets more and more efficient with every new version.

eMule 0.49b (1st August 2008) improves speed and robustness in downloads, thanks to the development of the Kad protocol (obfuscation, NAT, protections) and immunity against new attacks. It is also continuously upgrading its interface for Windows Vista and introducing new improvements.

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SmartClose

SmartClose will automatically close all running programs, disable the screen saver, and halt all other processes that can interrupt without asking. Before SmartClose closes or disables anything, it will first save the current state of the system (running programs and screen saver) to a system snapshot, which can be opened and restored again by SmartClose.

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Laptop Alarm (exe)

Did you ever hesitate to leave your laptop for a few minutes in a public space like a library? Afraid that someone will take your laptop? Now there is a simple and free solution to this problem! Laptop Alarm will ring a loud alarm if someone will try to steal your laptop! When the laptop is disconnected from AC-power (someone pulls the AC adapter plug out) or someone removes or moves the USB mouse the alarm will go off. Version 1.2 adds Mouse movement detection.

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MP3 Gain

If you listen to MP3 files on your computer, iPod, or MP3/media player then there's a good chance that you've had to adjust the volume between tracks because of varying loudness. If a track is too loud then 'clipping' can occur (due to overload) which distorts the sound. If a track is too quiet, you'll normally need to increase the volume; audio detail can also be lost. By using audio normalization you can adjust all your MP3 files so that they all play at the same volume.

Use a freeware program for the PC, called MP3Gain, to normalize your MP3 files without losing audio quality. This lossless technique (called Replay Gain) uses the ID3 metadata tag to adjust the 'loudness' of the track during playback rather than resampling each file which some programs do; resampling typically decreases sound quality.

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IrfanView (exe)

IrfanView is a fast and compact image viewer/converter. It is simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. Many supported file formats and features.

Features include: multi-language support, Thumbnail option, Painting, slideshow, toolbar skins, fast directory browsing, batch conversion/editing, multipage editing, file search, change color depth, scanning, cut/crop, IPTC edit, capturing, lossless JPG operations, effects, ICC support, EXE/SCR creating, many hotkeys, command line options and plugins.

Version 4.2 adds Basic Unicode support and new options.

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RegToy

RegToy is a free collection of useful utilities : tweaking, window manager, shell context menu, registry cleaner, file renamer, screen capture, memory cleaner, disk cleaner, services manager, shutdown scheduler, and wallpaper changer. It also is available in some languages. Version 0.7.2.1 features: improvements, bugfixes, Romanian localization.

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Recover Files

Recover Files is an award winning program that can undelete / recover deleted files after they have been deleted. 

Recover Files is a professional file recovery software that allows it's user to recover accidentally deleted files. 

Even files removed from the Recycle Bin, network drive, compact flash card, portable devices, in a DOS window, or from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down. Recover Files is a small, fast, useful, practical and powerful. 

It has a clean, simple interface. Recover Files will work with Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista operating systems. 

It can be used to recover deleted files from all NTFS and FAT partitions. 

The program supports all Windows file systems for hard and floppy drives including FAT12/16/32, NTFS/NTFS5 and image recovery from CompactFlash, SmartMedia, MultiMedia and Secure Digital cards. Recover Files quickly and effectively restore all those files that you may have deleted by mistake.

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Spyware Terminator

Spyware Terminator includes Real-Time Protection, HIPS, and antivirus. Effectively remove spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, home page hijackers, and malware threats even dangerous threats like Look2Me, BetterInternet, VX2, and CWS. 

Spyware Terminator is easy-to-use, requires minimal PC resources, and performs ultra fast scans. 

Protect your computer with powerful real-time protection shield, advanced system scanning and safe quarantine for found spyware. 

Scan your computer manually or schedule full system sweeps. Perform in-depth scans of your computer's hard drives, memory, process, registry and cookies to seek out and remove all known spyware threats. 

Includes optional Web Security Guard which displays website reviews and threat level to help identify potentially dangerous Web sites. Version 2.3.0.487 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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EncryptOnClick

EncryptOnClick is a very simple to use program that lets you securely encrypt and decrypt files.

 EncryptOnClick is like hiring your own highly experienced data security guard who ensures the files you want to keep safe and out of view from others stay that way. 

The program is very simple to use and features military grade 256-bit AES encryption that is fully compatible with WinZip 9. Not only are your files encrypted, but they are also compressed. This reduces the size of the file, which is very useful if you are emailing and transmitting your encrypted files. 

The encrypted files can also be decrypted with WinZip 9. A comprehensive help file is included, although you won't need to read it.

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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.

Thumbnails of your top sites let you access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.

Desktop shortcuts allow you to launch your favorite Web apps straight from your desktop.

Note: The Download Now link will take you to the Google Chrome Web site, where you must accept the end-user license agreement before downloading.

Also, the 474K downloadable file is only a stub installer. You must remain connected to the Internet during installation to complete the full download of Google Chrome.

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JAlbum (exe)

JAlbum allows you to create nice-looking photo galleries for the Web. You simply select or drag and drop folders containing images or movie files onto JAlbum, and it creates thumbnails and HTML pages to publish your images as a gallery or as a picture slide show. The galleries are based on various templates, and their appearance can be further customized by advanced users. The application's additional features include support for IPTC/EXIF data, style sheets, lossless image manipulation, plugable image filters, a built-in FTP/SFTP client and a built-in web server that allows anyone to share Web albums straight from their own computers. Version 8.0.9 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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Rainbow Folders (zip)

Easy to use and yet very powerful program which allows you to change color of the icon representing chosen folder to any color you like. This can dramatically increase your computer usage speed. You can also protect folders from being deleted by mistake, unshare them and even add a custom hint.

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One Click App Killer (exe)

With this very small utility you can kill you freezed programs with one click.

For example you double-click on it's icon, the target-like cursor show-up, then on the next program you click, it's terminated.
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Google SketchUp

Google SketchUp is a free, easy-to-learn 3D-modeling program with a few simple tools to let you create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects, and even space ships.

You can add details, textures, and glass to your models, and design with dimensional accuracy.

You can place your finished models in Google Earth, share them with others by posting them to the 3D Warehouse, or print hard copies.

Google SketchUp is a great way to discover if 3D modeling is right for you.

Google SketchUp is free for personal use. No registration is required.

For more information, watch a CNET video tour.Version 6 adds the ability to create a 3D model from ap photo and "Sketchy Effects," among other new features.

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JetAudio Basic (exe)

JetAudio is integrated multimedia software made up of a single compact rack. Not only does it play various music and video files, it also has features such as CD burning, recording, and conversion to other file formats. You can create your own Internet broadcast by using JetCast, provided with JetAudio, and you can play all major file formats, including WAV, MP3, MP3Pro, OGG, WMA, MPEG, AVI, WMV, MIDI, RM, and video and audio CD tracks. Convert among audio file formats, and record analog audio to various formats tag editing for MP3, OGG, and WMA files; sound effects including wide, reverb, and x-bass; multichannel sound output; speed control of audio playback; cross-fading for a smooth transition between two songs; a skinnable user interface; and synchronized lyrics display (karaoke) for MIDI and MP3 files.supports for video conversion for iAUDIO U3, supports ts,tp file extension, and includes video format converter to AVI. Version 7.1.1.3101 fixes Messenger & Balloon display, adds WavPack writer plugin in Setup.

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Avidemux (4)

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities. Avidemux is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows under the GNU GPL license.

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Age Calculator (zip)

Age Calculator is an application used to calculate the age between two dates. The age is displayed in several ways: Combination of years, months and Days. Total Years. Total Months. Total Days. Use to calculate the number of days to retirement or the age of your child in months.

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nCleaner (exe)

nCleaner has the best cleaning ration on the market due to an advance detection algorithm, also providing security and stability. With nCleaner you can free up to 2 GB of unnecessary disk space. nCleaner supports and handles all major Internet browsers including Microsoft Internet Explorer (and all derived browsers like Avast), Mozilla Firefox, Netscape and Opera. It also supports and handles all major Instant Messaging applications. Version 2.3.4 fixed a critical bug and applied many small improvements.

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Ashampoo StartUp Tuner (exe)

Lots of programs saved in your computer do exactly as they please. Many applications consider themselves to be so important that they trigger an auto-start command in the system without being requested. That means that every time the computer is booted up, they are started together with Windows, which isn't always the user's intention. As a result of this, the start sequence becomes considerably longer and manually shutting down most of the unwanted windows immediately afterwards because they simply aren't needed, certainly isn't fun. The Ashampoo StartUp Tuner lists all auto-start entries and allows them to be individually deleted or to be deactivated. If the user proceeds with caution in this area, and at least deactivates all of the unnecessary entries, then they will be able to enjoy a clearly faster start to Windows.

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Morpheus (exe)

New Morpheus with BitTorrent support adds podcast searching and publishing to its popular P2P file-sharing and search application.

Morpheus makes it easy to burn CDs or transfer audio and video files to your iPod or MP3 player.

Morpheus' set of features makes it simple to search, discover, download, and play all types of media files including MP3 audio, music, movies, videos, games, photos, and documents.

Search multiple P2P networks including the Neo Network, Gnutella and BitTorrent to find rare and unique content you can't find elsewhere.

Version 5.5.1 includes new dialog warning for sharing My Documents folder; controls updated; title bar stretches full width now in UI and Docked Player.

Note: The Download Now link will download a small installer file to your desktop. Remain online and double-click the installer to proceed with the actual download.

Registration is required.

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Ad-Aware 2007 (exe)

With the ability to scan your RAM, Registry, hard drives, and external storage devices for known data-mining, advertising, and tracking components, Ad-Aware 2007 easily can clean your system, allowing you to maintain a higher degree of privacy while you surf the Web.Ad-Aware 2007 includes a redesigned engine, improved code sequence identification, incremental definition updates, one-click Web-history cleanup, multiple browser support, and other new features.

It is freeware, but requires registration.

Free Tube Finder (exe)

Search and download movies from YouTube, DailyMotion, Google, Yahoo, Metacafe, iFilm, SevenLoad.

This free software will let you search videos without opening your browser and you can even watch the videos using the built-in video player.

This software can convert the videos to Avi, Ipod, iphone, 3GP or Psp format (MPEG4 and H.264).

Supported website links: YouTube, DailyMotion, Google Videos, Metacafe, Spike, iFilm, Veoh, Yahoo, Crackle, Broadcaster, ZippyVideos, MySpace, Revver, LiveLeak, EyeSpot, CollegeHumor, SevenLoad, Break, CrunchyRoll, Blip.tv, lulu.tv, archive.org, TinyPic, EbaumsWorld, Uncut AOL.

Note: This software comes with a Dealio toolbar for Internet Explorer, that can be installed or uninstalled at the user's choice.

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Wise Registry Cleaner (exe)

Wise Registry Cleaner is one of the safest Registry cleaning tools available in the market today. Its scanning engine is thorough, safe and fast.

It is so easy to use, even the least experienced user can easily repair registry with this tool.

It scans the Windows registry and finds incorrect or obsolete information in the registry. By fixing these obsolete information in Windows registry, your system will can work better and more quickly.

Version 3.2 build 110 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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Free Audio Editor 2008 (exe)

Free Audio Editor is a multi-functional audio editor that allows you to perform various operations with your audio files, such as filtering, adding effects.

The program includes more than 20 sound effects and filters.

You can record new audio from your microphone or any other input source, insert noise or silence.

It displays a waveform image of the audio files and allows you to visually edit it (Cut, Copy, Delete Silence, Paste, Paste From File, Mix, Mix From File).

Version 3.8 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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Winrar 3.71

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From RARLAB:

WinRAR is a 32-bit Windows version of RAR Archiver, an archiver and archive manager.

RAR files can usually compress content by 8 percent to 15 percent more than ZIP files can.

WinRAR's main features include strong general and multimedia compression, the ability to process non-RAR archive formats, ZIP compression and decompression, support for long filenames, programmable self-extracting archives (SFX), repair of damaged archives, authenticity verification, embedded file comments, and encryption. Unicode is supported in archive filenames, allowing non-English filenames to be handled painlessly.

You can manipulate the parameters of many archives at once and view a volume sequence as a single archive. WinRAR can convert other archive formats to RAR and search for specified text and files in archives.
Version 3.71 corrects several bugs and improves processing of corrupt RAR archives.

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WinZip 11.1

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From WinZip Computing:
WinZip is the original and most popular of all Windows ZIP file utilities. Wizard/Classic interfaces accommodate both first-time and experienced users.

With WinZip you can quickly and easily compress and decompress files, folders, and entire folder trees to save storage space and reduce e-mail-transmission time, as well as encrypt and decrypt your sensitive documents.

Features include tight integration with Windows Explorer, support for most Internet file formats, and one-click zipping and e-mail.

WinZip 11.1 offers a thumbnail image view and automatic compression selection, plus improved compression for audio files (.WAV), the ability to open .BZ2 and .RAR files.

Note: WinZip is now bundled with Registry Booster by Uniblue Systems and offers the option to receive a free registry scan.

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WordFlashReader (99)

Want an efficient way to do on-screen reading of web-pages, email, and other electronic texts? Try WordFlashReader -- it's a Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) program that makes on-screen reading easy.

This program works best with text files and html files, but can open pdf files as well.

WordFlashReader works by flashing each word of the text or book sequentially on the screen (pausing for punctuation).

Not only is this way of reading off of a computer screen less straining on the eyes than the normal method, but also after a little practice you may discover that you can read at multiple times the speed you normally do.

You have to register to download.

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TileMage Image Splitter (exe)

TileMage Image Splitter is a freeware utility designed to offer a simple solution for those who seek to slice a single image into a given number of columns and rows.

TileMage Image Splitter offers a friendly Graphical User Interface, dedicated to the sole purpose for which this utility was built.

Version 2 offers a few bug fixes and enhancements, but mainly adds the Batch Mode feature to process multiple images at once.

You have to register to download.

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EAV Antivirus Suite Free Edition (exe)

EAV Antivirus Suite can detect and eliminate spyware, Trojans, key loggers, adware programs, browser hijackers, cookies, spy bots, trackware, and other malware, even new and unknown ones, on your PC.

EAV Antivirus Suite will scan all running processes, local files in real time automatically once you run the software.

Once spyware or other malware appears, even if it hides in other programs, EAV Antivirus Suite will display a signal for warning and will eliminate it consequently.

Meanwhile, this software will clear all spyware-system-linked files as well as relative registry files.

EAV Antivirus Suite can recover all damages with Internet Explorer caused by JavaScript and ActiveX viruses. And it can also help you to fulfill anti-hacker Windows settings.

Version 5.61 includes virus-definition updates.

You have to register to download.

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Ultra Defragmenter

UltraDefrag is powerful Open Source defragmentation tool for Windows NT. It's engine is very fast, because it is created as kernel-mode driver.

They are three interfaces to them: graphical, console and native.

First is very useful, because it use cluster map visualization. Console is good for task scheduler, and native tool - for advanced users and programmers. Version 1.3.3 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

You have to register to download though it is freeware:

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AstroBurn: Free CD/DVD burner

AstroBurn is another program for burning and mastering data CD, DVD, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD format.

It supports CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, BD-R/RE, HD-DVD-R/RW and DVD-RAM media. It also lets you to create and burn ISO images.

The program runs smooth and fast and the interface is clean and attractive. A good small burner to have handy.

It is freeware.

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Ashampoo Startup Tuner

Lots of programs saved in your computer do exactly as they please.

Many applications consider themselves to be so important that they trigger an auto-start command in the system without being requested. That means that every time the computer is booted up, they are started together with Windows, which isn't always the user's intention.

As a result of this, the start sequence becomes considerably longer and manually shutting down most of the unwanted windows immediately afterwards because they simply aren't needed, certainly isn't fun.

The Ashampoo StartUp Tuner lists all auto-start entries and allows them to be individually deleted or to be deactivated.

If the user proceeds with caution in this area, and at least deactivates all of the unnecessary entries, then they will be able to enjoy a clearly faster start to Windows.

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Advanced WindowsCare Personal

Slow down, freeze, crash and security threats are over.

Advanced WindowsCare Personal is a comprehensive PC care utility that takes an one-click approach to help protect, repair and optimize your computer.

It provides an all-in-one and super convenient solution for PC maintenance and protection. All work will be done with 1 click and 1 minute. OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista.

Go to download page (registration is required).