Download Accelerator Plus

download manager

Our Rating: (Very Good!)

Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) is a full featured download manager that can help you organize and speed-up your file downloads. It integrates with popular browser and automatically replaces the standard download dialog. The program can resume broken downloads, find mirror locations and pick the fastest server, preview media files as they are downloaded and more. Other features include support for dial-up connections, scheduled downloads, customizable download categories and more. The program displays banner ads, which can be removed by purchasing the Pro version.

Free (Ad-supported) Download Accelerator Plus does not contain any adware or spyware.

Publisher	Speedbit Ltd.
File Size	11810 kb
Version	9.4.0.6 (history)
Last updated	Mar 10, 2010
License	Free (Ad-supported)
Windows	Win (All)

Skype

make Internet phone calls

Our Rating: (Excellent)

Skype is a user friendly P2P software, that allows you to make free Internet phone and video calls to any Skype user, anywhere in the world. The sound quality is as good or even better than regular phones, and requires no additional equipment, besides a normal PC microphone or headset. The Skype interface is similar to popular instant messenger clients and allows you to create a profile, with optional picture, that will be displayed when you call other Skype users or receive incoming call. The program is very easy to use, and works with firewalls and NAT without any additional configuration changes. Basically, all you have to do is download, select a Skype username and you are ready to make or receive calls.

This program automatically installs the Google toolbar unless you opt-out.

Freeware

Publisher	Skype Limited
File Size	1643 kb
Version	4.2.0.155 (history)
Last updated	Mar 10, 2010
License	Freeware
Windows	2000/XP/Vista

JAlbum

create and share image galleries

Our Rating: (Excellent)

JAlbum allows you to create nice looking photo galleries for the web. You can simply select or drop drag/drop folders containing images or movie files onto JAlbum and it will create thumbnails and HTML pages to publish your images as a gallery or picture slideshow. JAlbum also includes a small web server that enables you to share images directly from your PC, without the need to upload any files to a web host. The galleries are based on various template designs and appearance can be further customized by advanced users. Additional features include support for EXIF data, URL encoding of file names, style sheets, lossless image manipulation, optional Shutterfly integration, (built in FTP client, UPnP support, and more.

Freeware
JAlbum does not contain any adware or spyware.

Download 64-bit version

Publisher	Datadosen
File Size	13445 kb
Version	8.7 (history)
Last updated	Mar 10, 2010
License	Freeware
Windows	Win (All)
Requirements	Java

AutoIt

automation tool

Our Rating: (Excellent)

AutoIt is a simple tool that can simulate key presses, mouse movements and window commands (maximize, minimize, wait for, etc.) in order to automate any windows based task (or even windowed DOS tasks). It was primarily designed to assist in automatically installing software that cannot be automatically installed by other means. This is most useful during a PC rollout where hundreds or thousands of client machines need to be automatically installed. However, AutoIt is not limited to software installation and can be used to automate many simple or complex windows tasks like executing programs,sending keystrokes and mouse clicks, text clipboard functions, registry functions and more.

Freeware
AutoIt does not contain any adware or spyware.

Publisher	Autoit Team
File Size	8208 kb
Version	3.3.6.0 (history)
Last updated	Mar 08, 2010
License	Freeware

PretonSaver Home

save 50% or more on ink and toner

Our Rating: (Very Good)

PretonSaver Home optimizes your printer toner and ink consumption, enabling you to save 50% or more on each cartridge. The program achieves this by identifying and deleting pixels that are not necessary to maintain a good quality level of printing, thereby reducing ink consumption while maintaining reasonable print quality. You can adjust the default settings based on how much ink you want to save and also fine-tune the settings to use different quality factors for text, graphics and images. The program also allows you to bypass optimization for applications (e.g Photoshop) that you want use for high quality printing jobs. If you want to know how much money you have saved, PretonSaver can generate a detailed reports that chart your saving statistics over time.

Free Trial, $59.99 for up to 3 PCs
PretonSaver Home does not contain any adware or spyware.

Publisher	Preton Ltd
File Size	11650 kb
Version	1.0.1.4 (history)
Last updated	Mar 09, 2010
License	Free Trial, $59.99 for up to 3 PCs
Windows	XP/Vista/7
Requirements	.NET Framework 2.0
Trial Limitations	15 day trial. Fully functional.

CamStudio 2.0

Fully comprehensive screen shot app

CamStudio is an excellent free screen capture tool merging the best of screen capturing apps with video editing packages into one very impressive program.

Languages:

English

OS requirements for CamStudio:

• OS: Win98/98SE/Me/2000/XP

Softonic rating:

Very good

8/10

License:

Free (GPL)

Added:

December 15, 2005

Updated:

March 5, 2010

Publisher:

CamStudio.org

File size:

3.7 MB

Downloads:

124,886

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xVideoServiceThief 2.3.5

Download and convert online videos in one click

With xVideoServiceThief you can easily download and convert online videos from pretty much every video sharing site you know.

Languages:

English

Recent changes in xVideoServiceThief:

• Added "No results found" message for searchs with no results
• Added the time remaining for videos with "no-size" (RTMP protocol)
• Improved time remaining calculation (RTMP and HTTP protocols)
• Improved video previews in search functions
• Improved session, when a new video is added the session is saved
• Added one new plug-in: TV3 a la Carta
• Changed several plug-ins

OS requirements for xVideoServiceThief:

• OS: Win98/98SE/Me/2000/XP

Pros

• Works with many video sites
• Downloader and converter, all in one
• Fast and easy to use
• Handy drag-and-drop window

Cons

• Not directly embedded with browser

Softonic rating:

Excellent

9/10

License:

Free

Added:

September 23, 2008

Updated:

March 4, 2010

Publisher:

Website

File size:

7.3 MB

Downloads:

5,683

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HyperSnap

capture applications and games

Our Rating: (Very Good!)

HyperSnap is a screen capture application that comes with a complete set of image editing tools. It captures screens from standard desktop programs as well as those hard-to-grab DirectX, Direct3D, 3dfx Glide mode games. It even snags frames from many software DVD players and video editing software. HyperSnap can auto-scroll and capture long web pages and other documents, even capturing more than is visible on the screen. The program tightly integrates with the Windows clipboard, and features a variety of painting and editing tools including an option to add shadow effects or frames to your screen captures. Also included comes an FTP upload tool.

Free Trial, $39.95

HyperSnap does not contain any adware or spyware.

Publisher	Hyperionics Technology, LLC
File Size	5407 kb
Version	6.70.02 (history)
Last updated	Mar 04, 2010
License	Free Trial, $39.95
Windows	98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista
Trial Limitations 20 day trial

Videocharge Studio

video processing tools

Our Rating: (Very Good)

Videocharge Studio enables you to edit, process and convert your video and audio files. You can extract frames from videos, add watermarks, split videos into small clips, create video galleries with thumbnails, remove scenes, join multiple video files and more. The program can also convert to and from various video and audio formats, extract video from DVDs and includes a basic video editor.

Free Trial, $99.95 to buy
Videocharge Studio does not contain any adware or spyware.

Publisher	Videocharge
File Size	28877 kb
Version	2.4 (history)
Last updated	Mar 04, 2010
License	Free Trial, $99.95 to buy
Windows	2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
Trial Limitations	15 day trial. Fully functional.

WinX Free iPhone Video Converter

convert viedeo files to iPod formats

Our Rating: (Good!)

WinX Free iPhone Video Converter enables you to convert most popular video formats to iPhone, iPod + touch and Apple TV video formats. It offers pre-configured conversion profiles to choose from and also allows you to customize various conversion parameters. You can process the entire video file or select a segment that you want to convert.

Freeware WinX Free iPhone Video Converter does not contain any adware or spyware.

Publisher	Digiarty Software
File Size	7362 kb
Version	3.3.8 (history)
Last updated	Mar 04, 2010
License	Freeware
Windows	2000/XP/2003/Vista